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Speaker 1: in the stratgyre of normalcy. Welcome to our last show

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Speaker 1: of the week. So we should be wishing you happy

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Speaker 1: That's kind of exciting to say. There was also some

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Speaker 1: as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that they have

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Speaker 1: reopening New York businesses, especially those that involve large gatherings

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Speaker 1: like a football game. And the Bills will be hosting

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Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred fans at their AFC Wildcard game. And

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Speaker 1: let it be known here and now that Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: But it has kind of been cool. I knew you

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Speaker 1: Knowing that tickets are being allotted in two and four

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Speaker 1: so it's still a scant minority of people that are

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Speaker 1: And then there are hoopsts for them to jump through

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna bother fans. They're just gonna

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Speaker 1: And that you will never see these tickets on public.

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Speaker 1: And I've gotten this too. Listen, I've got But did

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Speaker 1: not your showing it. They're not. They can't go. That's it's.

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Speaker 1: This is not a Buffalo Bill's employee gather ring. They

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Speaker 1: I got no shot. You no shot. I think I'm

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Speaker 1: fans are not going to be safe or not going

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Speaker 1: to do the right thing. We think that this is

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Speaker 1: a great model for our Bills fans to show like

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Speaker 1: they have every time in the past when the chipster down,

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Speaker 1: our fans are there, you know, through thick and thin,

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Speaker 1: and they've been there. Even most recently, you guys saw

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Speaker 1: with with Josh Allen's grandma passing away. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: amazing outpouring of love from our fans. That's what makes

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Speaker 1: our Bills fans the best in the league. And we

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Speaker 1: think they're going to showcase themselves again, you know, at

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Speaker 1: this next home playoff game, and prove to the state

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Speaker 1: and to the fans across the country and to all

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Speaker 1: of us here that we can make this happen, and

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Speaker 1: we can make it happen again, and maybe it means

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Speaker 1: some other things, you know, for other teams as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: so we want to be that model and do a

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Speaker 1: great job. And it's interesting too, is if if the

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Speaker 1: Bills fans that go to this game can hit it

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Speaker 1: out of the park and have you know, no no

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Speaker 1: additional positive tests or anything like that over the two

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Speaker 1: weeks prior that, that puts you in line to have

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Speaker 1: fans again for the divisional round and also perhaps maybe

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Speaker 1: even more fans for an AFC championship that could possibly

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Speaker 1: happen in Buffalo. That kind of right. I mean, as

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Speaker 1: long as we're spinning it positive, always spinning the positive, Steve,

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Speaker 1: always spinning the pot, we have full capacity for the

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Speaker 1: AFC Championship. Oh, I don't know about that. You're come now,

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Speaker 1: you're getting at let's be realistic, Andy. That's awesome about

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Speaker 1: Andy's lifting moving mountains here with his staff over there.

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Speaker 1: You're putting it, don't put full capacity on the point.

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Speaker 1: Good lord, Andy, thanks man, good luck with this. We

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Speaker 1: hope it works out. Can't wait to see the team

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Speaker 1: play and to have some fans there to witness this team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've been watching them and I've seen the

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Speaker 1: home games in the stadium and they're a blast. Man,

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Speaker 1: They're a blast to watch. I can't wait for more

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Speaker 1: people to get a load of these guys. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: are right there with you. I mean, we are going

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Speaker 1: to welcome our Bills mafia back here with open arms

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Speaker 1: and uh with a safe plan, and we're just excited

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Speaker 1: as well as the fans are. So thanks guys for

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Speaker 1: having me on. Really appreciate it and go Bills. Yeah good.

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Speaker 1: You have to you Andy and your crew nicely. I

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Speaker 1: know the fans are happy they'll be able to be

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Speaker 1: there at least in some capacity. They really do need

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Speaker 1: to be congratulated because to Heavy Heavy, they have been

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Speaker 1: working hard and heavy left trying to get this to happen,

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Speaker 1: Make me happen. You're fighting a global pandemic it's like, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, could you see the planning, Like, well, what

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Speaker 1: are we dealing with here? A global pandemic, it's airborne

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Speaker 1: and contagious. Yeah, yeah, and so you know, I it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's amazing, it's amazing. This is uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the state. This is all and all of these

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Speaker 1: regulations and and everything that the bills have to do

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Speaker 1: as an organization has been handed to them by the state. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you want to do this, this is the plan.

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Speaker 1: So then it's on them to execute said plan. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, there will be some assistance, you know from

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Speaker 1: local law enforcement and stuff. Obviously it's not solely a

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Speaker 1: bill as operation, but to a great degree it is.

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Speaker 1: And now there will be more game day staff from

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Speaker 1: our building that will be pressed into action, you know,

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Speaker 1: whether they're ushering people at proper times to and from

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Speaker 1: their seats, on the way in, on the way out, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, checking documentation for negative tests. This is this

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Speaker 1: is a this is a mobilization effort in every way

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Speaker 1: and and the biggest part, the hardest part, is going

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Speaker 1: to be the testing. You hurt him thirty lanes to

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Speaker 1: have cars drive in because they have to test sixty

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Speaker 1: seven hundred people in to day. They got to test

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Speaker 1: more than that, they got to test all the ushers

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Speaker 1: the ticket takeout. I was just talking to fans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's the thing too. If you think about first

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Speaker 1: responders and the medical workers once again for this are

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Speaker 1: going to be called on too, like all right, come on,

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00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: you gotta help us, you know, get this done, and

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Speaker 1: certainly they'll they show up big time like they always.

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Speaker 1: The reason I asked Andy that question at the end

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Speaker 1: was to purposely remind everybody, this is the shock. This

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Speaker 1: is your opportunity to prove this can be done in

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Speaker 1: a safe and effective way if everybody does the right thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be preachy here. I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: to say, hey, let's all do Let's all be smart.

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Speaker 1: Those of you going to this wild card game, be

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Speaker 1: smart so that more so that hopefully another sixty seven

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Speaker 1: hundred fans can go to the divisional round if in fact,

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Speaker 1: the Bills win, Because as I understand it from the FAQ,

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Speaker 1: fans that do that are fortunate enough to go to

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Speaker 1: the wild card game will not be eligible to choose tickets.

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Speaker 1: Should the Bills advance the divisional round, they will then

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Speaker 1: open it up to the next block of season ticket

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Speaker 1: members based on seniority, which is the fair way to

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Speaker 1: do it. I mean, the people they go to the

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Speaker 1: wild Card game shouldn't also be able to go to

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Speaker 1: the divisional round. Know, when there's a slew of people

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Speaker 1: waiting to go that haven't this too. The sixty seven

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Speaker 1: hundred people are gonna be in the stadium, Bills fans

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Speaker 1: everywhere are gonna be charing for you two to do

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Speaker 1: it right so that they know they can go, so

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Speaker 1: they can go. Yeah, and that, and that's the point, Like,

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Speaker 1: it would be a shame that if you had sixty

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Speaker 1: seven hundred fans at the wild Card game, the Bills win,

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Speaker 1: they advance, but there are some people not doing the

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Speaker 1: right things at the wild Card game and it costs

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Speaker 1: them to not have fans at the divisional round the

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Speaker 1: very next week. That would be a shame. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like Andy said, when Bills fans are challenged, they

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Speaker 1: usually rise to the challenge. This is the challenge, and

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm confident they will rise to it. Um. So

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Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully all goes well and it goes off without

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Speaker 1: a hitch. It's going to be really a very interesting weekend,

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Speaker 1: saying goodbye to twenty twenty as we're all ready to

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Speaker 1: do We've been ready to do that four months ago,

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Speaker 1: four months like in March. Yeah right, so uh, saying

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Speaker 1: goodbye to twenty twenty, saying hello to this bill's regime

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Speaker 1: and era, this playoff home playoff game, the division title,

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Speaker 1: and ringing in the new year, and with a lot

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Speaker 1: of it's a lot riding on these games. You know

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting this that's a week from this weekend,

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Speaker 1: so man oh man. But again, if you have any questions,

547
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Speaker 1: just make sure that you do go to Buffalo bills

548
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Speaker 1: dot com slash tickets and you should be able to

549
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Speaker 1: find your way to the FAQ which has all those

550
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: frequently asked questions. Like I said, it's super comprehensive. I

551
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Speaker 1: can almost guarantee that if you have a question, it

552
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: can be answered on that sheet on Buffalo bills dot com.

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Speaker 1: Here's my question, and it might be it's kind of

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Speaker 1: gets down to the heart of it. You said they're

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Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna move down the list to give other

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Speaker 1: people a chance to go to the divisional round if

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Speaker 1: it if it gets that far, and if the state says, oh,

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Speaker 1: you did a good job with the wildcard, now you

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Speaker 1: can do it. What happens if somebody threw no fault

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Speaker 1: to their own no, because of outside of COVID, they

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Speaker 1: couldn't go to the wildcard round and they're like a

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty season ticket holder. Did they come back around

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Speaker 1: to them that? I don't know. That'll be for the

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Speaker 1: ticket office to handle. Um. Yeah, if somebody takes a pass,

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Speaker 1: I would think they put him. I would think they

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Speaker 1: put him at the top of the list that they

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Speaker 1: didn't get to yet. Maybe I would think that it

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Speaker 1: would be the way because they have the seniority right

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Speaker 1: and it could be that, you know it, because it

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Speaker 1: could be somebody's wedding or have you they got to

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Speaker 1: go to. So I got you. That's all. That's what

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Speaker 1: my question. Break time for us. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll get you up to speed on some more bills.

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Speaker 1: News that came down courtesy of coach McDermot who addressed

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Speaker 1: the media this morning, and we will get into the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet as the OBL fan mail bank is open.

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00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: We've got Tasker's Team eight in about a half an hour.

578
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: The latest installment and NFL film senior producer Great Cosell.

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Speaker 1: About an hour from now, don't go anywhere. Steve and

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Speaker 1: I back in a moment here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, One Bills Live, our last show of the

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Speaker 1: week before the new year, and that was very informative,

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Speaker 1: Andy Major joining us to kind of answer some of

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Speaker 1: the questions regarding the sixty seven hundred fans who will

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Speaker 1: be allowed into the Wildcard game a week from this

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Speaker 1: weekend and the massive undertaking that that will be from

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Speaker 1: a testing standpoint, maybe more than anything else. And we

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Speaker 1: wanted to get to some of the more on the

590
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Speaker 1: field news regarding the Bills. And we do remind you

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00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: that the OBL fan mail bag is also open. We

592
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: are doing it a day early because we will not

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Speaker 1: have a show tomorrow. Steve and I'll be back with

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Speaker 1: you on Monday as we are all for the New

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Speaker 1: Year's holiday. And the first part involves a comment from

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott this morning when he was addressing the media.

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Speaker 1: He was asked about the reports of free agent wide

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Speaker 1: receiver Kenny Still's visiting with the Bills. He didn't really

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Speaker 1: give any indication as to whether or not a signing

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Speaker 1: was imminent, but here was his response to the possibility

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Speaker 1: of the team signing Kenny Stills. Two separate conversations as

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Speaker 1: relates to Cole and Kenny, and so, Kenny, he's a

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Speaker 1: player that Brandon's had his eye on for some time now.

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Speaker 1: Nothing's official to this point, but yeah, two separate conversations.

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Speaker 1: So he was saying, two separate conversations because people see

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Speaker 1: the Bills have an interest in Kenny Stills, and immediately

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Speaker 1: there's a concern, Oh my gosh, Cole Beasley might be

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Speaker 1: out for a long period of time if they're looking

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Speaker 1: to pick up a veteran receiver. That is not the case.

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Speaker 1: As you heard coach say, they are two separate conversations.

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Speaker 1: One is not related to the other, which is why

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Speaker 1: he stated that Stills is a player who's been on

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Speaker 1: the GM's radar for quite some time, long before Cole

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Speaker 1: Beasley popped up with an injury in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: of the Monday night game. Right, two separate conversations, and

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Speaker 1: Stills is he's a good player. He's strowning eight. He

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Speaker 1: struggled in Houston, but he had injuries, and once DeAndre

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00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: Hopkins left, things got tough all over in Houston. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a good player and he's going to help the Bills,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. Gives him some depth. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they're gonna sign him, or if they're gonna

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Speaker 1: sign him like to finish this year or maybe to

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Speaker 1: a this year in another year. I don't know. But

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Speaker 1: the simple fact of the matter is Kenny Stills is

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Speaker 1: a really good player that the Bills should have some

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Speaker 1: interest in as well. It would be it would serve

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Speaker 1: as intriguing depth for this team. I mean, you want

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Speaker 1: to talk about an embarrassment of riches, Hey, Kenny Stills,

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Speaker 1: I mean, my word, you got not who is now

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Speaker 1: an MVP candidate quarterback with another weapon, right? So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that would be crazy. Yeah, And if that happened. To

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Speaker 1: think about this as well, And I'm not looking ahead.

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Speaker 1: We don't know where the salary CAP's gonna be, And

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Speaker 1: it may be that guys that you had no intention,

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Speaker 1: no desire to release may have to be released because

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Speaker 1: you just don't have any money to pay them, and

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Speaker 1: that that may be you may release a really good

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Speaker 1: guy that you want to keep in order to keep

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Speaker 1: two other guys that you really want to keep. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So maybe keeping two guys

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Speaker 1: instead of just keeping one and releasing two. So it's

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00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: you may have some tough decisions like that. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how what the cap is gonna look like in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, but obviously it's it's probably gonna drop significantly.

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00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: And maybe this, you know, when you look out ahead,

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Speaker 1: maybe this is a sign where if you can get

647
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: deep as you can and get guys tied up, then

648
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: you can pick and choose who you really gotta have

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Speaker 1: him the next year and get them sooner rather than

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Speaker 1: later when when the numbers come out. I hear you.

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00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: But also this too, Brownie. Even when I say that

652
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Speaker 1: every team there's gonna be some teams that have fire sales,

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00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some really really good yes way, And

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00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: I mean like Saints are one of them, Saints are

655
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: believe the Cowboys or another they're in deep trouble. Yeah,

656
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: they're gonna there's some gonna be some talented, be some

657
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: roster guttings. Yeah, they're gonna have to kick him to

658
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: the herb. So you'll be able to maybe sign some

659
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: guys at bargain prices if you have room to do it.

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00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: So we want to get to the obl fan mail

661
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Speaker 1: bag because we moved our Friday fan mail bag up

662
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 1: to today knowing we won't have a show tomorrow to

663
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Speaker 1: answer any and all questions you have about the bills,

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Speaker 1: the rosters, the league in general, YadA, YadA, YadA, take

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Speaker 1: your pick. So we lead off with Steph, who says,

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Speaker 1: will Steve Tasker where the swammy hat? Since he predicted

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00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: fans in the stands for playoffs at the beginning of

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00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:38,439
Speaker 1: the season. I'm considering it. Okay, there it is, I'm

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00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: considering it. He was a soothsayer on that one. I'll

670
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: give it to him all day long. I'll give you

671
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: that one. Man. That was good. I don't know that

672
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: I would have felt as confident in predicting that because

673
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 1: and the reason why was nobody knew the path that

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00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: this virus was going to take. And you know second Wave,

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00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: who knew what was going to happen with that most

676
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: people couldn't see. I obviously I could, right, we gotta

677
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: get you the old Johnny Carson envelope to hold up

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00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: to your head. Also, do the you know the amazing

679
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: Kreskin exactly, the Carnac, Great Carnac, That's who it was.

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Speaker 1: I'm confusing Letterman and and Carson from Nick ob l

681
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: fan mail bag. In previous years, the two seed would

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00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: give us a week off anyway, and we'd be celebrating that.

683
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,479
Speaker 1: So we can't treat this weekend as our first round

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Speaker 1: by and rest our starters if we had earned the

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00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: one seed, I don't think anybody would be worried about

686
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: the starters not playing for a week. I'm not really

687
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: sure what he's getting at here. Um, he's saying they

688
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: would get a week off if they were the two

689
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 1: seed anyway in years past, and we'd be celebrating that.

690
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: So why can't we treat this as our first round by?

691
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: So treat this game as our first round by and restipe.

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00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: I guess that's what he's saying. I'll just say it

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Speaker 1: one more time. Well, yeah, another time, not my last time.

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00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: Probably you're not resting anybody, You're just keeping them from

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00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: getting injured. Yeah, rest is a misnomer. Nobody's getting rest.

696
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: You're just keeping him from getting hurt. That's it. Let's

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00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones where we do have a

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00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: question waiting there, and I think this one is best

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Speaker 1: suited for Steve to answer. We go to Jeremy in Boise, Idaho.

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Speaker 1: We're going up to the Potato State. Man, how are you, Jeremy.

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Speaker 1: I am doing great, Chris, Steve, thanks for taking the call.

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00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: I have been in such a good mood for the

703
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Speaker 1: last month or so that it inspired me to call

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Speaker 1: into a talk radio show for the first time in

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Speaker 1: my life. Well, we're glad you did it. What you are?

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Speaker 1: Happy your first Yeah. I have two quick shoutouts, and

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Speaker 1: then I have a special teams question for Steve, since

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00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: I understand he knows a thing or two about that.

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Speaker 1: First shout out goes out to one Maddie glab who

710
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Speaker 1: is a fellow graduate of the University of Missouri School

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Speaker 1: of Journalism. So you have the Missoo Mafia and the

712
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: Bills Mafia all in one person. That's a killer combination.

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Speaker 1: I was so excited to find out that two was

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Speaker 1: a Missoo grad that I actually tweeted at her. And

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Speaker 1: I don't tweet. Now was you don't call radio shows

716
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: and you don't tweet. But we've done both. Good for you,

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00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: I know, I know. The second shot out goes out

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Speaker 1: to one Chris Brown. Chris, I have listened to this

719
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: show pretty consistently for the last five or six years.

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00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: I always loved your reports from the sideline or the

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Speaker 1: practice field or whatever it was. And when I found

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00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: out that you became a permanent host of One Bill's Live,

723
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Speaker 1: I had high expectations, and man, you have delivered well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that that you bring to the show.

725
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 1: How you get fired up about issues bait and small.

726
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: There was a show about three weeks ago. You're getting

727
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: fired up about gingerbread men. That's right, get what the

728
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: context was. But I was walking down the street with

729
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: my headphones and you were getting right up about gingerbread men,

730
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,479
Speaker 1: and they just they cracked me up. Yeah. My wife

731
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: thinks I'm a complete fool, but I'm a passionate person.

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00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: So yeah, thank thank you for that. I appreciate those

733
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,479
Speaker 1: kind words. That's very nice you to say. Yeah, so, Steve,

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Speaker 1: the question that I had for you has to do

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Speaker 1: with Corey Bojorkeez and I have been He has always

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00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: had a special place in my heart from day one,

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Speaker 1: and I realized that up until a couple of months ago,

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Speaker 1: I was probably the only one, but the reason being

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00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: is because he's a left footed kicker, and I myself

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00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: and left footed, and you know, we lefties have to

741
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: stick together. And my question has to do with covering

742
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Speaker 1: punts and returning punts from a left footed punter. In

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Speaker 1: terms of punt coverage. Are the personnel groupings lined up differently?

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00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: Do the gunners run different lines down the field? Does

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00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: the long snapper have to hit a different spot when

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00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 1: you're psych in to the punter and then for punt

747
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: cover punt return? I mean, I know the big difference

748
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: there is that the ball is spinning in the opposite

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Speaker 1: direction than it normally does. But I'm just wondering if

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Speaker 1: you could talk about any of the nuances and whatever

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Speaker 1: you want to say, the differences, pros and cons of

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00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:17,280
Speaker 1: dealing with a left footed punder. Well, in the NFL, Okay,

753
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: nobody outside, no nobody on the coverage team, on his

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00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: own team, cares whether he's right foot or left footed.

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00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: It means absolutely nothing to them. It may mean something

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00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: in some regard indirectly because because he's a left footed punter,

757
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: your opponent may choose to rush him differently from the

758
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: other side of the formation rather than the right side.

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00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: Other than the you know, the left side rather than

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00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: the right side of your formation, and they may choose

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Speaker 1: to do that at different times, so that would be

762
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: a difference. But that's pretty subtle. Because you can rush

763
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: the punter from either side you want to coverage. It

764
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: means absolutely nothing because if Corey an NFL punter, unless

765
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: they choose not to, they'll tell the punter or say,

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Speaker 1: on it to the left side. We want to We

767
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: don't want to keep him pinned outside the numbers on

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Speaker 1: the left or the right, or kick it as far

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Speaker 1: as you can, and that doesn't matter. All those directionals

770
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: don't matter to anybody but the punter. Um. Everybody's got

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00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: to chase the kick no matter where it goes. And sometimes,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've noticed, sometimes the punt doesn't

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00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 1: go where they think it's gonna go. So about the returner, though, Steve,

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00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 1: it's the different turner the returner, it's different. Um. It's

775
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: because the ball moves a lot when it's dropping out

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00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: of the sky, and if it's spinning, if it's spinning

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00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: tight and it turns over, it's and it moves one

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00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: in one particular way. If it's if it's got the

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00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: nose up and it's spinning tight, it moves a different way.

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00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: And if it's wobbling and it doesn't turn over it,

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00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: it moves a different way. Also when when you're returning it,

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00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 1: if for a left kicker on the right sideline, it'll

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00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: look like the ball is going to head out of bounds,

784
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: but because of the spin, it'll pull back in and

785
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: land baby bounds. Yeah, it'll well because it hooks. Yeah,

786
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: a left foot one hundred if you've spent, it spends

787
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: counter clockwise as it comes off his foot, and it'll

788
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: curve away from the left hand sideline. So if you

789
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: think it's going to go out of bounds on the

790
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: when you're returning it, don't assume it. Now it's just

791
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 1: the opposite on the left hand on the other side right,

792
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: and that's just the opposite for a right footed kicker.

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00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: But m punts are hard to catch no matter what

794
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: you do, So those things are the only things you

795
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: might have to think about as a returner, So there's

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00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:33,919
Speaker 1: not much difference. I've heard that Bill Belichick always wants

797
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: a left footed putter. That's why Corey Burchas was with them.

798
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: But for me, I don't know. Aside from the uniqueness

799
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Speaker 1: of it. Well, what the difference is? Well, Jeremy, that's

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00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: about as thorough an answer as you could get. So

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00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: I thought you made the right call. And I am

802
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 1: left footed as well, So good on you. All right, well, great,

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00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: all right, take care of Jeremy and I have a

804
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,240
Speaker 1: happy New Year. Thanks for the call. That's why Steve's

805
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: here the OBIL fan Mail Bad. We've got answers for you,

806
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: and that's about as comprehensive an answer you're gonna get

807
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: on a left footed punter, maybe ever. So good on you,

808
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: Steve for informing all people. But yeah, there you go.

809
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: There's many, there's not many dropping the bucket. There you go,

810
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: break time for us. We'll be back with more of

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Speaker 1: your questions and phone calls at eight oh three, five fifty.

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Speaker 1: It's the Obil fan mail Bag. Don't forget. We've got

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Speaker 1: the latest edition of Tasker's Teammate coming up just after

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Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Stay with us here up

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819
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Speaker 1: for more information. Speaking of information, there is some information

820
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: out of Dolphins practice today. Do do do Do do? Dude.

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00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is not at Dolphins practice for an undisclosed reason.

822
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: Now I don't I wouldn't surmise that this is COVID

823
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: related because they usually announced those right away. So hopefully

824
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: there's not any personal issues with his family that he's

825
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: got to worry about and that's why he's not a practice.

826
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: We don't know. But the interesting development is Jake Rudock,

827
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: a former sixth round draft choice of the Detroit Lions

828
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen who bounced around the league as a

829
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: backup for a little and is currently a free agent

830
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: and hails from South Florida, is at the practice, but

831
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: the team has not announced any kind of signing. But

832
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: no fits and a former NFL backup quarterback who's still

833
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: a young guy watching practice. Interesting means nothing, intriguing, It

834
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: means nothing. Nothing. You're not biting at that apple, Absolutely

835
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: not Fitz. They're probably having another baby. You don't know, Steve,

836
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: you can't make me laugh, killing men. Fitz is probably

837
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: getting his beard trimmed. It's gotta be something like that.

838
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: They are not doing anything at the end of the season. Maybe,

839
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: but Fitz ain't going anywhere I know. But I'm wondering

840
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: if a circumstance has come up here where well, like

841
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: he twisted his ankle and the show. I don't know.

842
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: I'm not saying an injury. I'm not saying I mean,

843
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know. I mean, you saw it happened

844
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,240
Speaker 1: to Dalvin Cook the other day. He had to his dad,

845
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: his dad tragically passed away. He had to leave the

846
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: test and he's out for weeks seventeen. You hope it's

847
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: you hope it's I'm just hoping it's not anything bad, right,

848
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: you hope it's nothing like that, obviously, But it means

849
00:47:56,320 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: in football, in the football world, it means absolutely nothing. Nothing. Yeah, nothing. Well,

850
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: they're they're blowing it up down in South Florida. The

851
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: reporters are going bananas. Aren't social media? So idiots come

852
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: on there like Ryan like they're gonna say, yeah, you

853
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: know what we want. Jake Route, what's his name. I'm

854
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: not saying I'm wondering if something has come up that

855
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: could potentially keep fits from making the trip up here.

856
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: And necessitating them to have a backup to two of

857
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: this week. No, I don't know. Now this and here

858
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: fits this may be a better question forget about this weekend.

859
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:37,280
Speaker 1: Fitz is gonna play. Is he gonna be a Dolphin

860
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: next year? Yeah? No, no, No, you think somebody, Yeah,

861
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: I think he'll be in demand. Yeah, you know where

862
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,359
Speaker 1: I'd say, you know where i'd go. Here's the thing,

863
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: here's what's gonna happen. Fitz is gonna get his seventeenth

864
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,479
Speaker 1: year in the league, and it's gonna be in San

865
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: Diego behind I won't be in San Diego. There's no La.

866
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: It's gonna be in La behind Justin Herbert and I'll

867
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: bet you somebody like Brian Dable or Eric b Enemy

868
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: is going to be his head coach. That's what's gonna happen.

869
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: Way to drop that anvil, Steve, that's listen. I'm the

870
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: guy who called for the fans in the stands at

871
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: Dago and you're milking it. Now. Let me just tell you.

872
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: Let me just go out on a huge limb. I'm

873
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: gonna go out on a huge limb. I'm gonna turn

874
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: back towards the trunk of the tree and begin to

875
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 1: saw that limb. You keep it, you keep hacking away

876
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: at it, I'm gonna chop them right off that I'm

877
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: standing on. I'm gonna chop another limb, which is Tasker's teammate,

878
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: which is gonna be coming your way. When we returned

879
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: from the break, the latest installment where we see if Steve,

880
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: through a series of vague and cryptic clues, can figure

881
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,919
Speaker 1: out what former teammate we are describing John Fena's It's

882
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: not John Fena, but I'll get to that next. You're

883
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Collid to help. This

884
00:49:50,719 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello, Bill's Radio Network Sports your

885
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: sports update for One Bill's Drive. Sean McDermott still mom

886
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 1: on whether he plans to sit starters in the team's

887
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: regular season finale against the Dolphins on Sunday. After meeting

888
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 1: with the media earlier this morning, McDermott did mention that

889
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: the only player could be ruled out for this weekend's

890
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: game is tight end Reggie Gilliam. They also hope to

891
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: get an update on wide receiver Cole Beasley and offensive

892
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:28,399
Speaker 1: lineman John Feliciano. Bulfin's practice on Wednesday, Free agent. Wide

893
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 1: receiver Kenny Stills is reported to be visiting the Bills,

894
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: and there's optimism at the veteran we'll sign with the club,

895
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: potentially giving the team another valuable weapon on offense. Sean

896
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: McDermott did say that the possible signing is not related

897
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: to Cole Beasley being injured, and that GM Brandon Bean

898
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: has been eyeing Stills for a while. The Cleveland Browns

899
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: continue to deal with COVID nineteen issues ahead of Sunday's

900
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 1: pivotal match up against the Steelers. Two more Browns players

901
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID today, forcing the team to work

902
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,280
Speaker 1: remotely for a second straight day. A win Sunday against

903
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh would get the Browns to the playoffs for the

904
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: first time since two thousand and two. Meanwhile, the Atlanta

905
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: Falcons announced they will conduct business virtually today after one

906
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 1: positive COVID test from a member of the team. Damon

907
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: Snax Harrison is sticking around in the NFC, but with

908
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 1: a new team. The veteran defensive tackle, who was clipped

909
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: by Seattle earlier this week, has been claimed by the

910
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Harrison was released by the Seahawks on Monday.

911
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: He recorded nine tackles and forced to fumble in six

912
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: games with the Seahawks before he was released and Lebron

913
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: James celebrated his thirty sixth birthday by breaking an NBA record.

914
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,280
Speaker 1: James scored his tenth point in the second quarter against

915
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs last night, making James the first

916
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: player in NBA history to score at least ten points

917
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: in one thousand consecutive regular season games. That is your

918
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: sports update, Steve Tasker Chris Brown here with you for

919
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: our number two of one bills live broadcasting from the

920
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: Seneca Studios in Orchard Park. And it is time, ladies

921
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: and gentlemen for the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate and

922
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate as always, is brought to you by Wigman's

923
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:21,760
Speaker 1: Meals to Go Delicious Meals delivered download the Wegman's app today. Steve,

924
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: are you ready to play? I am so ready. You

925
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: would think my ability to prognosticate as I can? That's right.

926
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: Being the soothsayer you are, you should just give me

927
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: your answer. I should like, but we'll string it along

928
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: for the benefit of our listening audience. Clue number one,

929
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: I was not recruited as a high school player and

930
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: wound up going to a small Division two school to

931
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: play my college ball. Don Beebe, It is not Don Beebe.

932
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: That's a good guess. Clue number two. By the time

933
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: I graduated, I was chosen as an ECAC Division two

934
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: College Player of the Years. Andre Reid. It is not

935
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:13,720
Speaker 1: Andre Reid. That's a very good guess. Clue Number three.

936
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: That notoriety helped me become a ninth round draft choice

937
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Come on, mate, it's amazing how

938
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: many late round draft choices were on those teams that

939
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: you played on. There were a lot of them. Mindful,

940
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: it was gosh, oh, I can't remember, all right, Go

941
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: I passed. There we go. Give me another clue. Number four.

942
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 1: There was good depth at my position my first few

943
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: years with the Bills, so I was relegated to back

944
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: up duty. I also battled injuries my first few years

945
00:53:54,680 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: in the league before Steve arrived in Buffalo. Jim haslit not.

946
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: Jim haslet not a bad guess Blue Number five. Steve's

947
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: first year with the Bills proved to be my most

948
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: productive season in a Buffalo uniform. I also had a

949
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 1: part time role on special teams. Rob Riddick ding Ding

950
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:28,240
Speaker 1: ding ring the bell Steve Tasker has gotten Tasker's teammate

951
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: this week. It is one Rob Riddick. Rob Riddick, what hey,

952
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: how you doing? Man? I'm doing great. It's good to

953
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: see you. Look at you. You look the same. Oh.

954
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: I've aged a little bit over the last couple of years,

955
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: but I feel pretty good. How did twenty twenty three? You? Okay? Everybody? Everybody, okay?

956
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: Are you staying healthy? You're safe. I've been staying at home,

957
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: staying away from anybody else that could possibly infect me,

958
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: and I feel great. Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad. You

959
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: look good. Man. What listen, I got here? Wait where

960
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: did you go to school? What division? School did you

961
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: go to? What division? I went to Millersville? The same

962
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 1: division is Andrea Reid. Yeah, okay, all right, that's right,

963
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: that's right. Those were good guesses. Yeah. I was on

964
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: the money. I was kind of in the ballpark. Yeah

965
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, you you did. You were? I remember

966
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: coming in and I had no I did not know

967
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 1: who you were, and then I saw you. You know

968
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 1: what I mean? I because I was a rookie in

969
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: my second I was a second year player coming to

970
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo and I get here, I go, who is this guy?

971
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 1: Because you were that was your year, right, I mean

972
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: eighty six you got some Yeah, you got some, he

973
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 1: got some run, you got it going on? Right? Well,

974
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah, very nice. Yeah, that was that was

975
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 1: a good year. I think I think I'm Greg left

976
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,800
Speaker 1: or Greg got hurt. So I ended up starting. Ronnie

977
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: Harmon was a number one pick that year, so there

978
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: wasn't at that time, there wasn't a lot of really

979
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: big death. I mean it was me, Ronnie, I think

980
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: Ricky Porter, right, and so that's about it. Yeah, I

981
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: got some player time in yeah, I used to have

982
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: and l Byrom was there as a running back, so

983
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: that was kind of the right. Yes, all right, that's

984
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: back when everybody had a full back or two, so

985
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: they didn't really have room for like five. They didn't

986
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: have room for like four or five running backs. It

987
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,879
Speaker 1: was all it had to be three running backs, two

988
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:18,479
Speaker 1: fullbacks or a tight end right correct, Yes, and then Rob.

989
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: When I when I was researching to come up with

990
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: these clues to try to stump Steve here, I found

991
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 1: it interesting, like the history behind you know, you were

992
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: a short yardage back like your last couple of years here,

993
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: you know, down around the goal line and stuff like that.

994
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: And I hadn't realized this that you were a pretty

995
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:40,720
Speaker 1: accomplished track athlete in high school, like triple jump, pole vaulter,

996
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 1: all that. So I was like, well, that makes sense.

997
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: That's a guy to put in to leap over the

998
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: pile at the goal line. Yes, um, well, Paul Bollman

999
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: was my main event. I started doing that when I

1000
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: was twelve years old, and I pole volted all through

1001
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,240
Speaker 1: middle school, high school, you know, four years of college,

1002
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: and my number one dream really was the eighty Olympics,

1003
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: no kidding, you know. Unfortunately I got hurt the year

1004
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:11,399
Speaker 1: before that and then we boycotted. Right, that's right. Yet,

1005
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: here's what I remember, Rob. There's a couple of times

1006
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: and he said, you you played some special teams. I

1007
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: remember it because there's been a couple of times when

1008
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: you and I did some pretty cool stuff together. We

1009
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: played the Denver Broncos in the ralph and they had

1010
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: they had a flaw in their protection and they put

1011
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: you in Bruce to Haven, put you and I side

1012
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: by side. We rushed and the first time they blocked

1013
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: me you went through and blocked a blocked a punt

1014
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: the second time they blocked you. Then I blocked a punt.

1015
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: And then later on that same year, we played Pittsburgh

1016
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: in the in the building, I blocked a punt and

1017
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: you caught it on the bounce and walked it into

1018
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: the end zone. So I remember that. We were Yeah,

1019
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: we were money man. That was great. Two punts in

1020
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: one game, you guys, Ba Denver, Am I right? Ye, yep,

1021
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: I remember the one I the one I blocked. I

1022
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: was trying to chase it down and I knocked it

1023
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: out of the back of the end. I was so mad.

1024
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: I was so Tim and I did the same thing.

1025
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: Ricky Carter and I were chasing it and I knocked

1026
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: it out of it it and I thought, I'm not going

1027
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 1: to do that, and I did it. You know, that's amazing. Yeah,

1028
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: that's good stuff. Fancy Many. Another thing that maybe some

1029
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: people don't realize is, you know, he had pretty much

1030
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: an entire family in the NFL. I mean he had

1031
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: his cousins, right the lewis Is or your cousins Tim

1032
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: and Will. Yeah, Tim and Will Lewis. Uh. Tim, I

1033
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: think had one of the longest careers. Right, he was

1034
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: with Pittsburgh. Um do I have that Tim? Actually Tim

1035
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: was the shortest. He played three and he coached. He's

1036
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: a coach, that's what it is. Coached in Pittsburgh. While

1037
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 1: his brother will play for a couple of years. And

1038
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: then my younger brother Lewis played, who was now doing

1039
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: GM ESPN. Right, we just had him on the other day.

1040
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, it's funny because we had Lewis on

1041
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: to talk about the Monday night game this week. Um,

1042
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: because the Bills were playing, obviously, and it was funny.

1043
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: This is an example of Bills fans Rob. Somebody's tweet

1044
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: tweets at us while we have your brother on, and

1045
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,439
Speaker 1: they said, could you please ask Lewis how his brother

1046
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: Rob's doing us? Bills fans wanted to see what was

1047
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: up with him? So how about that? You got a

1048
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: Bills fans still asking about you? Man. Oh, I appreciate him.

1049
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: I guess somehow, mother I left a good mark somewhere. Yeah. Yeah.

1050
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: And Lewis is like, oh, yeah, he's down in Georgia.

1051
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: He's fine, he's you know right exactly. Yeah, Yeah, things

1052
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: are going well. I really don't have any complaints with life.

1053
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm I'm living. I'm surviving. I'm working

1054
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: now as a fitness instructor, So I go to people's

1055
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: houses and brain them and you know, kind of giving back. Awesome, awesome.

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00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: What have you been able to keep track of this edition?

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00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: This twenty twenty edition of the Buffalo Bills? Oh? Yes,

1058
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: I mean I watched them all the time. People are like,

1059
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: why are you a Bills fan? They're not that good.

1060
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, just watch this is the Bills year to

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01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. Yeah. When did you start saying that? Oh?

1062
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: Probably after their fifth win? Yeah, I just figured it

1063
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: was gonna be. My prediction is the Bills in Green Bay.

1064
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: Oh they're okay, all right, Well you're look at that.

1065
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: We get them on a test in that five minutest.

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01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: Let me just go back to the locker room for

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01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: a minute. And it's like, yeah, it's easy enough to

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01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: say that now. You can say that now, Rob, What

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01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: were you saying three months ago? Yeah? But that's but

1070
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: you're right. I got to agree with you that. Right now,

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01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: this is a team that is playing well enough as

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01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: well as you need to to go deep into the

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01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: playoffs and give yourself a chance at the at the

1074
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: rough question. They're roughing people up. Yeah, yes, Um, you

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01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: know I always felt the offense was good. Um, they

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01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: could score some points and the defense started off a

1077
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: little slow. When you look at him last year and

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01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: how well they played last year, they weren't the same

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01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: defense this year. Now, I think they're starting to gel

1080
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,919
Speaker 1: and they're getting things together. They're gonna start shutting people down,

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01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: and of course offense is gonna score some points. Why

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01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: don't why don't we get a running backs perspective before

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01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: we let you go, Rob, just your thoughts on the

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01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: two young kids, Singletary and Moss. What do you what

1085
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,760
Speaker 1: do you like about those guys because they're not quite

1086
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: the same type of back Um, I mean they both

1087
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: bring something different. Um. I think Devon is, you know,

1088
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: a more elusive runner. Um. He's a great pass receiver,

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01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: which I think really helps to him. Moss. I think

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01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: it's just a bull. He's a tough guy that you know,

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01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: he'll take it between the tackles and he also has

1092
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: some speed to get it around the end too, so

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01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: they have a lot of good depth there. Also. Yeah,

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01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: I agree with you. That's that's that's spot on. You're right.

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01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: I Uh, Moss is a guy they put in and

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01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 1: I tell you they made a point of it. Now

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01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: they gave him the ball. Uh in the I think

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01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: leave the San Francisco game where he coughed it up,

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01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: or was the Pittsburgh game It was in Arizona. The

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01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: game was in Arizona, but I think it was San Francisco.

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01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: That's right, it's the San Francisco game in Arizona and

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01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 1: he fumbled it inside the five. But in subsequent games,

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01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: they when they get down deep in their own and

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01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: want to run it, they give it to Moss. Moss

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01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: is on the field and his ability to finish runs

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01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 1: in a physical way, and plus he's also a guy

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01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: that laid in the game when like in Pittsburgh when

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01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 1: they ran off the last seven minutes of eleven seconds

1109
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 1: of the game, and even against the Patriots that he's

1110
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: on the field carrying it because he's such a physically

1111
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: punishing runner to finish out games and drain the clock.

1112
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:43,800
Speaker 1: So that's that's been something that that that's been his role,

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01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:46,919
Speaker 1: I think more so than Singletary. So it's they both

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01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: have a they're both contributing really well. Rob Listen, thanks

1115
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 1: so much for the time. We're glad you were able

1116
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: to play along with us. I'm also glad that Steve

1117
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: guessed you and that we didn't string it along too

1118
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,439
Speaker 1: far there. Good good job by Steve, and good job

1119
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: by you were. Lad you're doing well. Stay safe out there, Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you very much. It's been a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Bills running back the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate. How

1122
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: about that two Riddicks in one week and Horst Riddick

1123
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 1: on Monday, Rob Riddick on Thursday. We try to stump you, Steve.

1124
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: We you know, we don't want guys that have been

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01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: with you your whole career. And he was only your

1126
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: teammate for three seasons eighty six, seven and eight. Yeah,

1127
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: but eight years in Buffalo eighty one to eighty eight.

1128
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: You gotta you want to talk about a tough competitive position.

1129
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: At that time, we're talking Joe Cribbs when he got here. Yeah,

1130
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 1: you know in eighty one, Joe Cribbs is tearing it up.

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01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: Then you've got Greg Bell, right, Terry Miller, Um, Yeah,

1132
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: they had some guys and then they draft Ronnie Harmon, Yeah, yeah,

1133
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: as their top pick. That's even before throning got here

1134
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: in eighty eight, which was his last year. There's not

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01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: too many people out there that can remember this, and

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01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: maybe you know I remember his name or whatever. Let

1137
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 1: me tell you about it. Remember the Hall of Famer

1138
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 1: Marcus Allen had a reputation for being, you know, a

1139
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: goal line back. He had a Rob was better. Rob

1140
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: was a better goal line back than than Marcus was

1141
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 1: h He It's almost like they turned. It's like you

1142
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 1: see them go into a pile, Marcus Allen, Rob, you

1143
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: see those guys going to a pilot. It's like they

1144
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 1: turned into a snake crawling through the rocks. They just

1145
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 1: disappear in the pile and they and somehow they end

1146
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: up on the other side. Um, it's a real gift

1147
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:31,240
Speaker 1: and it takes a lot of courage and toughness, obviously,

1148
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:35,920
Speaker 1: but it also takes some some poise and some vision

1149
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 1: and unbelievable coordination and and and just presence of mind

1150
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 1: just to be right in that moment to be able

1151
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: to make those decisions and move. Rob was an outstanding

1152
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: goal line back, a short yardage back because he wouldn't

1153
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: power guys, although he could. It was like the just

1154
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: the knack of finding the weakest point in a sea

1155
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 1: of bodies and getting through it was really good. If

1156
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 1: finding cracks increases like that, yeah too. He was really

1157
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: good with that. Steve, you were wrong about Ryan Fitzpatrick.

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01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: He is out for Sunday's game really COVID positive, oh,

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01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: COVID positive test and Tom Pellicero of NFL Network is

1160
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 1: reporting he will be out for Sunday's game against the Bills.

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Speaker 1: How about them Apples? It is tua or bust on? Baby? Wow,

1162
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 1: let's watch that line. You know. I got to tell

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01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 1: you I love that Ryan Fitzpatrick. I really love that

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01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 1: for the Bills. Um wow, that's amaze. That's I feel

1165
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: bad for him. I do too. Could you know here's

1166
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:55,520
Speaker 1: and here's an EXEA you know, and there's a here's

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01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 1: an extra layer to it. The extra layer is this.

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01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 1: Jane Gailey met with the media down in Miami earlier

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01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: this week, as the coordinators always do, and he was

1170
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 1: asked about the game here in twenty fifteen when the

1171
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: Jets came to town. He was the offensive coordinator with

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01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: the Jets, fits was the quarterback they were in a

1173
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: win an in situation against Rex Ryan's Bills team here

1174
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: in week seventeen win you go to the playoffs, lose,

1175
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 1: you go home. Fits through three picks in that game

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01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 1: and they lost twenty two to seventeen. And Gailey was

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01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: asked about that game and he said, that one still

1178
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 1: sticks in my craw. I mean, that's almost six years

1179
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 1: in the rear view mirror and it still bothers Jan

1180
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 1: Gailey to this day. You know, he wanted to come

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01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 1: back up here with his bearded rifleman. Yeah, I could

1182
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: see that, and I get it. I've had there's a

1183
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 1: lot of games like that that still do that for

1184
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: me as well. And you got to think deep down,

1185
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 1: Fits and Chan we're talking to each other about getting

1186
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 1: you know what I mean about Fits getting in the

1187
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: game and doing something that's a that's a crusher for

1188
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 1: him and his family because listen, for a guy like Fitzpatrick,

1189
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: you think it probably like if he wants to play

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01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: somewhere this next year and be a backup, somebody will

1191
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 1: sign that guy, no question about everything, right, but still,

1192
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's another year gone, you know for him.

1193
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 1: And he said, you know, there's another chance to play

1194
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,479
Speaker 1: and all the good things. And here's the worst part.

1195
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 1: You know, he's never played in the postseason. Oh and

1196
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 1: this was his chance to try to make a difference

1197
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: to help this team get there. Well, if they can

1198
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 1: get there, If they can get there, he might come

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Speaker 1: out of COVID and be able to help, but you

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01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 1: gotta get there first. And that task I think got

1201
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,800
Speaker 1: a lot harder for this Dolphins team without him to

1202
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 1: turn to as a relief pitcher if necessary. And now

1203
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: think about this if and I think I know the

1204
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: I know the answer to this the way I would

1205
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 1: see it needing to be And I don't know, but

1206
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if to his this way of two

1207
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: a Taga Voloa, he's gotta you gotta be feeling the

1208
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: heat now, but also you've got to be feeling okay.

1209
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 1: It's kind of empowering now says listen, there's no safety

1210
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: nets me and me only let's go. And I think

1211
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:17,479
Speaker 1: that's kind of a good place for him to be.

1212
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: I think it's probably a positive for them going forward.

1213
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:22,599
Speaker 1: I think it's too knowing the kind of guy I've

1214
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:25,640
Speaker 1: heard that he is will probably be saying, you know,

1215
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 1: let's go. I'm up for this. Yeah, So very very

1216
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: interesting development, it really is. And you know, there you go.

1217
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: I mean, I it's probably the most seismic thing that's

1218
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 1: ever happened with a backup quarterback ever. Right, Well, they're

1219
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: in the middle of a they're in the middle of

1220
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 1: a caress, you know, back and forth. They're both playing

1221
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 1: in every game. It seems like it seems that way,

1222
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: but is they're not. But if it does seem like

1223
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: they're playing in every game, and Fits is always he's

1224
01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 1: always hanging around and all of a sudden, ads, Ryan Fitzpatrick.

1225
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:02,679
Speaker 1: Here he comes. He's in the game. Now it's gone.

1226
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:08,040
Speaker 1: So that's seismic news for this weekend. Another storyline no

1227
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:11,679
Speaker 1: fits to this week for wow, that is just dolphins

1228
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you and we'll talk about this

1229
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: because we have to get to break Um later in

1230
01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 1: the show. But this is the thing that terrifies me

1231
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: the most about Buffalo's playoff run. Something like this happened. Yeah,

1232
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:29,719
Speaker 1: it terrifies me. It's absolutely terrifying because you're saying to yourself,

1233
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:31,640
Speaker 1: who the hell is stopping this Bill's team? But the

1234
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: way they're playing, the only thing that's going to stop

1235
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,600
Speaker 1: him is COVID Right now. It terrifies this though, you

1236
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 1: know what, you know what terrifies Brian Flores, right now

1237
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:44,560
Speaker 1: Fits is in the quarterback room with Tua right, what

1238
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:47,640
Speaker 1: is There's still a realistic possibility he could turn up

1239
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:51,639
Speaker 1: positive in a day or two. Yeah, that's that's why

1240
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:56,080
Speaker 1: Jake Ruddock's at practice. Remember you're right, Oh, I might

1241
01:09:56,120 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: be right this time. Look at that. You might be right.

1242
01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: Brownie mark that Jay mark that down. I'll take Jake Rudoc.

1243
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 1: Brownie might be right. It's not it's not even close

1244
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 1: to the playoff. Fans of the stads that you had.

1245
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: Brownie might be right. I'll take it. Brownie might be right.

1246
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: Take whatever I can get. All right, break down for

1247
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 1: us because we have to get to NFL Films senior

1248
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,719
Speaker 1: producer Greg co Sell, who's probably gonna have some interesting

1249
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: things to say about this matchup now that there is

1250
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 1: no Ryan Fitzpatrick. We'll join him next when we return

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Collid to Health. It's

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01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Chris Brown Steve Casker One Bills Live

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01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: Thursday edition and joining us now as he does every week,

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01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: is one senior producer from NFL Films, also the co

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01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 1: host on the ESPN NFL Matchup show. It has one

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01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:56,599
Speaker 1: Greg co Sell. Greg I'm sorry we're a little late here,

1257
01:10:56,600 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: but we had breaking news no Ryan Fitzpatrick for this game.

1258
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: Now we knew he wasn't starting, but my god, I

1259
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: think people were expecting that Toa would get a quick

1260
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:09,360
Speaker 1: hook if he wasn't effective. Now they're talking about signing

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Speaker 1: Jake Rudock. Of all people, they did sign him. I

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01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: just saw that before we started. There you go, So

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01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 1: he'll be the backup quarterback. So I guess two is

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01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 1: going to have to go four quarters. Now. It's been

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01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: fascinating that they've talked about him, and hey, they know

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01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 1: more about Tah and I'm not questioning Brian Flores, but

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01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 1: in two games this year in which TWA clearly struggled,

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01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: and we can talk about that momentarily, but in two

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01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: games this year in which he struggled, as you're so

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01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 1: called franchise quarterback, they pulled him. And I'm not saying

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01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: what's right or what's wrong here because they know him

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01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 1: better than I do, certainly, but I just find that fascinating. Yeah,

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01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,680
Speaker 1: I think it puts him in a position and if

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01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:50,800
Speaker 1: I'm Tah and I know and I just said this

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01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 1: in the last segment as we closed out that if

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01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:55,759
Speaker 1: you know this young pitt kids and how they're wired.

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01:11:56,479 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 1: He understands exactly what this means. So I think he'll

1278
01:12:01,479 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 1: be empowered to say, listen, I'm you gotta be ready

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01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,680
Speaker 1: for this. I think he'll I think he'll do his

1280
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: best to rise up to the occasion rather than say, wow,

1281
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 1: all these pressures. I hope I don't mess it up. Yeah,

1282
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 1: I've been around him. He's a great, great kid. But

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01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, it's really

1284
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,600
Speaker 1: interesting if we start talking a little from a football perspective,

1285
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:24,640
Speaker 1: is their offense with two of their pass game is

1286
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 1: somewhat condensed. It's very basic. I know a lot of

1287
01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 1: people I see on social media say, why don't they

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01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: let him turn it loose like he did at Alabama? Well,

1289
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:35,960
Speaker 1: they know him better than we do, and if they

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01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 1: choose to play this kind of pass game with Tua,

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01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 1: that means they believe that this is what he can

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01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 1: do at this point and that he can't do much

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01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,879
Speaker 1: more than that. Now, that's I'm not making a judgment,

1294
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 1: nor are they about what he is a year from now,

1295
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:53,799
Speaker 1: two years from now. But at this point in time,

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01:12:54,080 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 1: they clearly see him as purely a timing rhythm thrower

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01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:02,120
Speaker 1: in which everything has to be basically short, intermediate to short.

1298
01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: And that's that's essentially what their past game is with

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01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: two At this point, I'm gonna I know you often study,

1300
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 1: you know, the quarterbacks in each and every draft class

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01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 1: and put together reports on them. Um with respect to Tah, Greg,

1302
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:21,479
Speaker 1: you know this is we've seen smaller statured quarterbacks succeed

1303
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:23,960
Speaker 1: in this league. You know, Russell Wilson is a six

1304
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: feet tall Drew Brees is another example, you know, and

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01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: Ta probably fits into that category. Not elite stature, not

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01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:38,760
Speaker 1: elite arm strength. I guess my question, Greg is when

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01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 1: you put your report together on Tah, were there any

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01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 1: traits of his that qualified as elite? Uh? Not from

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01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:55,560
Speaker 1: a physical perspective. And it's funny you mentioned two quarterbacks

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01:13:55,640 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: Chris in my report, and I saw that Nick Saban

1311
01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: actually said the same thing, which made me feel like

1312
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:07,040
Speaker 1: maybe I got one right. I thought that he would

1313
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 1: have to be like Drew Brees to play at a

1314
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: high level in the NFL. To me, he's not Russell Wilson.

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01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 1: He does not have that kind of movement. He's not

1316
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: a statue, and he does have some mobility, but He's

1317
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:24,200
Speaker 1: not the same kind of mover Russell Wilson is. I

1318
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 1: saw two as a timing rhythm player in which the

1319
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 1: scheme needed to present throws for him. And if that

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01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 1: was the case, he could be a very efficient player.

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01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say, and I watched two

1322
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:44,680
Speaker 1: eighteen tape and two and nineteen tape at Alabama, and

1323
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: I'll say this from watching him this year with the Dolphins. Guys,

1324
01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 1: he's had some pretty significant lower body injuries. He had

1325
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: the hip injury, which not many people have had. The

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01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:56,680
Speaker 1: I guess Bo Jackson's the only one I know of

1327
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,839
Speaker 1: that I can recall. Anyway, He's had the two ankle injuries,

1328
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 1: pretty significant ankle injuries. I don't think he throws the

1329
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:07,799
Speaker 1: ball with the same velocity as he did before these injuries,

1330
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:11,080
Speaker 1: and he was never a true velocity thrower to begin with.

1331
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes as he continues. But no,

1332
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 1: he to me, would have to play like Drew Brees

1333
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 1: to be a great NFL quarterback, right And that's and

1334
01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: that's why, and the reason I threw that question at you,

1335
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:27,320
Speaker 1: Greg was because if you're drafting somebody fifth overall, I

1336
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:30,360
Speaker 1: have to believe somewhere in your report you believe they

1337
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: are elite in something. I mean, that's a high value pick.

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01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 1: You've got to be picking a player that you see

1339
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 1: elite in some way, shape or form. And I don't know.

1340
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just believing that it's too much of a

1341
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:48,400
Speaker 1: big man's game. Maybe I'm being blind to you know,

1342
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:51,599
Speaker 1: the exceptions, but I don't know. I'm having a tough

1343
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: time seeing anything that is truly elite about to his game.

1344
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,960
Speaker 1: And that's why I asked you that question. It's a

1345
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:02,320
Speaker 1: great point, Chris. Ultimately, what you're saying when you draft

1346
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 1: two is you believe, based on what you can do

1347
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 1: with him, that he will become elite in execution. And

1348
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 1: maybe that's the thing you're looking for. But you're right.

1349
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 1: In terms of physical traits, he's not elite. I mean,

1350
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 1: look someone like Justin Herbert. Obviously there were concerns with

1351
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 1: him coming out that everybody saw. But when you look

1352
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 1: at the fact that he's six six two forty with

1353
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 1: a big arm and can move, you look at the traits. Hey,

1354
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:32,599
Speaker 1: look at Josh Allen when he came at Waomi. There

1355
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 1: were concerns. Okay, people now act like oh, people didn't

1356
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: like Josh Allen. Hey, there were legitimate concerns about Josh Allen.

1357
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: You guys know that. But the fact is you're dealing

1358
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 1: with a kid that's six five six six, two hundred

1359
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: forty pounds with a rocket arm, great movement. You see

1360
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:51,640
Speaker 1: traits that jump off the film with two of the

1361
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: traits are ideally consistency of execution, and that's different than

1362
01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:00,439
Speaker 1: just pure physical traits. Let's switch it around. You saw

1363
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 1: you've been watching the Bills like we have absolutely steamroll

1364
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: people the last three or four games. I mean, they've

1365
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 1: really been on a roll, their defenses playing. They held

1366
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots to single digits on the scoreboard. They they

1367
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 1: ran up to score thirty eight nothing. And that's just

1368
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,040
Speaker 1: been one of a bunch of games that they've done.

1369
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: They've you know, they've scored forty eight, thirty eight, twenty six,

1370
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 1: thirty four, twenty seven and their last five wins and

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01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:26,800
Speaker 1: their defense is stepped up. What do you see? I mean,

1372
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:30,600
Speaker 1: I've said this, I keep waiting for him to you know,

1373
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: hopefully they can stay sharp. And not only do they

1374
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:35,680
Speaker 1: stay sharp, they seem to be improving on another with

1375
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:38,840
Speaker 1: another great performance. I mean, where's the top end here

1376
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 1: for Josh, what another step can they make or is

1377
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:47,719
Speaker 1: it just more of the same. Well, that's a great question.

1378
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:50,639
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful segue two based on what we just said,

1379
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 1: because Josh Allen think about this, okay, and it all

1380
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: comes down to consistency. Obviously. You know, no one's gonna

1381
01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: sit here and say Josh will never have a bad

1382
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:01,080
Speaker 1: game or never make a bad throw. That's not the point,

1383
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:03,719
Speaker 1: you know, Steve, you know that's the way it works, guys.

1384
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:05,719
Speaker 1: It's the NFL. Guys are going to have bad games,

1385
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 1: have bad moments. But we're talking about a really highly

1386
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: talented guy. I just actually did a national radio show

1387
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 1: not too long ago, and I made the point, and

1388
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:18,920
Speaker 1: of course I'm sure I'm going to get ripped for

1389
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:20,600
Speaker 1: it big time on Twitter, but I won't be the

1390
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 1: first time. Josh Allen's more talent than Trevor Lawrence. And

1391
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, of course, is a generational talent. So I

1392
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: don't know what that makes Josh Allen, but he's got

1393
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 1: more talent than Trevor Lawrence. So you know, you're dealing

1394
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: with a guy that is at the highest end of talent.

1395
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:38,560
Speaker 1: And when you see him playing now with the precision

1396
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 1: that was definitely a question when he came out, as

1397
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:44,839
Speaker 1: you guys know, but the precision with which he's playing

1398
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 1: and his much better understanding now of what kinds of

1399
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:51,799
Speaker 1: throws are required. You know, when he throws that firm

1400
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:55,880
Speaker 1: touchball to Dawson Knox this past week, you know, right

1401
01:18:55,960 --> 01:18:58,599
Speaker 1: over the underneath coverage, that's not a throw he would

1402
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 1: have made. I'm sure you guys agree his rookie year

1403
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: or even the first ten games last year. You know

1404
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: that throw against the Niners to Gabriel Davis where he

1405
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: threw it just over I think it was Fred Warner's

1406
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: He would never have made that throw a year ago.

1407
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 1: So now you're dealing with a guy who's much better

1408
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: in the details and nuances of the position. Instead of

1409
01:19:18,240 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: being a thrower, he's developing into a passer, and so

1410
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 1: you're dealing with it. It's really really high level talent, now, Steve,

1411
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:27,439
Speaker 1: you know, in this league, no one scores forty every week.

1412
01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 1: That's not going to happen. But I don't think Josh

1413
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 1: at this point is going to go down. He's not

1414
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: going to descend. And I think the command that he's

1415
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:39,519
Speaker 1: now playing with That's the thing you can see on TV.

1416
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: There's a command to his game that he clearly didn't

1417
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:44,920
Speaker 1: have a year ago, and certainly not as a rookie.

1418
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 1: Flipping it over to the defensive side, you know, another

1419
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:50,639
Speaker 1: side of the football that's been playing much improved over

1420
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,800
Speaker 1: the last few weeks for Buffalo as well. And I'm

1421
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 1: sure when you put on the tape you saw this immediately,

1422
01:19:56,280 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 1: but Matt Milano looks like the old Matt Milano again. Guy, Yeah,

1423
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:02,880
Speaker 1: I know, I know. That's why I'm asking. I know

1424
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:05,479
Speaker 1: you like him, Yeah, I know you like him, But

1425
01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:11,560
Speaker 1: I mean I was so he was so readily noticeable

1426
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: on the field Monday night. I actually had to tweet it.

1427
01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: I said, this is the old Matt Milano that we're

1428
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 1: used to seeing. What does him playing at that level

1429
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: do for this defense going into the postseason. Now that

1430
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 1: you've seen the emergence of the way in which they

1431
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 1: can use Klein in certain spots, but if Milano can

1432
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 1: play wire to wire in a game, what can that

1433
01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: do for this defense headed into the postseason? And by

1434
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: the way, the aj Clin signing was a phenomenal signing,

1435
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:44,000
Speaker 1: and obviously Sean and Brandon b knew him from Carolina

1436
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: and he played at a really high level the more

1437
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: he played. But Milano was just a better athlete, which

1438
01:20:49,439 --> 01:20:51,479
Speaker 1: takes nothing away from aj Clein. Milano is just a

1439
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:55,200
Speaker 1: better athlete, and he's more multidimensional in the kinds of

1440
01:20:55,280 --> 01:20:58,559
Speaker 1: responsibilities he can be given because not only can he

1441
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: play linebacker in a strict instant and work in the

1442
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 1: box and be effective in the run game, but he

1443
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:06,960
Speaker 1: is an explosive athlete who can play outside the box.

1444
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,040
Speaker 1: He can match up to tight ends, he can play

1445
01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline. You know, people don't talk about him

1446
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 1: that way, and I don't know why. Maybe maybe it's

1447
01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:17,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo thing. I can't answer that. I'm just watching

1448
01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:19,920
Speaker 1: tape and for two years I've seen a kid who

1449
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:23,240
Speaker 1: was highly athletic. He's an explosive athlete. He can do

1450
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:27,320
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. And I think he and Edmonds,

1451
01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:30,599
Speaker 1: who's obviously a much bigger man but also an explosive mover.

1452
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: When those guys are on the field, as they're nickel

1453
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:36,320
Speaker 1: linebackers and there and they're a nickel, their sub defense

1454
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:39,800
Speaker 1: is nickel. They don't play dime hardly. Ever, those two

1455
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: guys when they're at their best. Are as good a

1456
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,920
Speaker 1: pair of nickeo linebackers are as there are in the league.

1457
01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:48,679
Speaker 1: Let's let's dive into this game that means so much

1458
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills if under

1459
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:55,799
Speaker 1: normal circumstances, and you can tell us the Miami defense

1460
01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:57,880
Speaker 1: has been the engine that has carried their team. Am

1461
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: I right? For the most part? Yes? And why are

1462
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: they so good? We've been looking at these statistics and numbers.

1463
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 1: Why are they so good on third down? They're the

1464
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 1: best team in the league and they're number one in

1465
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 1: points allowed? Yeah. Well, first of all, they play a

1466
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:15,120
Speaker 1: lot of man coverage and they're very good with their

1467
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 1: pressure schemes. Brian Flores, you know, comes kind of a

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Speaker 1: little bit from the Belichick school, obviously. This is a

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01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: team that will line up and play cover zero, where

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01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,599
Speaker 1: they'll just go all out blitz and play man across

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01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:30,639
Speaker 1: the board. They're proactive, they're aggressive, they don't play scared.

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Speaker 1: They attack offenses, they make you react to them, you know,

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01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:37,760
Speaker 1: and that's they're really really good at that. I mean,

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01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:40,639
Speaker 1: I remember an earlier game this season against the Rams,

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01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:43,719
Speaker 1: and clearly Jared Goff and Josh Allen are are totally

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01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: different players, but for pocket quarterbacks they present a lot

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01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 1: of problems. So yes, that is the engine that kind

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01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:53,760
Speaker 1: of drives them. We know that their offense has been

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01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:57,400
Speaker 1: very up and down, and certainly now with two likely

1480
01:22:57,439 --> 01:22:59,760
Speaker 1: playing the entire game, I doubt Jake Ruddick's getting on

1481
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 1: the field. It'll be very interesting to see. But we

1482
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: just don't know who the Bills are going to play,

1483
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:06,760
Speaker 1: so that that's a tough question to answer. But but

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01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 1: TWA has struggled. Two does not see things particularly clearly

1485
01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:15,639
Speaker 1: right now. He leaves a lot of routine, easy route

1486
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: concept throws on the field. To me watching the tape

1487
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 1: last week, that's why he was benched, not solely because

1488
01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:25,519
Speaker 1: the production and scoring wasn't there, but when you dial

1489
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: up basic concepts like slam flat, which is a routine

1490
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:31,559
Speaker 1: throw in this league, and he's not turning it loose

1491
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: to the right guy, and he's he's just not seeing it.

1492
01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 1: Greg looking at their running game, each of the last

1493
01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 1: two weeks, it's been more productive than it had been

1494
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:43,879
Speaker 1: earlier in the year, when it's been basically a disaster.

1495
01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 1: Do you see these last two weeks the performance of

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01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 1: the Dolphins running game as a sign that things are

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01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:57,000
Speaker 1: getting better or do you see it as an anomaly? Um.

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01:23:57,320 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 1: I see it as a sign that they know that

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01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 1: they have to rub the ball and obviously they have

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01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 1: to try to run it as well as they can. Obviously,

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01:24:05,360 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: two weeks ago it was Akmed. This past week it

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01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 1: was Gaskins, who I think they believe is their number

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01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: one guy, and he's when he's played, he's played well.

1504
01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 1: So I think you will see them run the ball. Now,

1505
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 1: whether they run it successfully, that remains to be seen.

1506
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me as well to see them These

1507
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: are no longer trick plays in the NFL, but it

1508
01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:28,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me to see them with jet motion, orbit motion,

1509
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:32,639
Speaker 1: the kinds of things that potentially can create some explosive plays,

1510
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: because quite honestly, with two in there the last number

1511
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 1: of weeks, they've not created very many explosive pass plays

1512
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 1: getting over the Buffalo side of the football. Steph Diggs

1513
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,880
Speaker 1: named AFC Offensive Player of the Week, and the Bills

1514
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:47,559
Speaker 1: just signed another wide receiver for even more depth when

1515
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 1: they get healthy that John Brown, Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley,

1516
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis. And now it looks like they may sign

1517
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:57,599
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills. What can you tell us about about Houston

1518
01:24:57,840 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 1: and this wide receiver? They released him just after week

1519
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:02,559
Speaker 1: eleven when he came down with a quad injury, and

1520
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:06,960
Speaker 1: now looks like he's talking seriously with the Buffalo Bills. Yeah.

1521
01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 1: I mean to me, I always like Kenny Stills. I mean,

1522
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:11,439
Speaker 1: I think when you talk about him as a third

1523
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 1: or fourth receiver, he's really that's what fits him because

1524
01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:17,840
Speaker 1: he actually has vertical ability as we're seeing here. He

1525
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 1: can get down the field, he could always run, you know.

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01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 1: For some reason, I always thought he'd developed into a

1527
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 1: little more than he became. But there's no question he

1528
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,680
Speaker 1: has vertical ability. And this is clearly a team with

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01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: vertical route concepts. So who knows what that means if

1530
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 1: he does sign, if he does have to play, But

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01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: I think he kind of fits the approach that Brian

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01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:43,240
Speaker 1: Dable on this Bill's passing game has. And so when

1533
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:45,680
Speaker 1: you have these games like this and I know that

1534
01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: you were featuring at least I think you guys are

1535
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: featuring Bill's Dolphins in your matchup show or he did, yes, Yeah,

1536
01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:55,360
Speaker 1: so how are you guys pulling this one off? Not

1537
01:25:55,479 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: knowing what's going on here with the Bills. Yeah, that's why. Yeah,

1538
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:02,200
Speaker 1: I got in touch with the other night, mister Brown,

1539
01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:05,640
Speaker 1: because Matt Bowen, you know, he wanted to do a

1540
01:26:05,680 --> 01:26:08,040
Speaker 1: piece on Josh and we ended up doing it anyway,

1541
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, it's still gonna

1542
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:12,040
Speaker 1: play really well on social media when we put it

1543
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 1: out because it's Josh Allen. But you know, we were

1544
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:16,679
Speaker 1: trying to figure out these games are hard week seventeen

1545
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: unless the team comes out and announces it like the Steelers,

1546
01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:23,439
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs. You know, Sean's keeping it close to

1547
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 1: the best, which is certainly his prerogative. I mean, he

1548
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:28,640
Speaker 1: doesn't have to say anything at all, and he may not,

1549
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:31,800
Speaker 1: but you know, we ended up Man ended up doing

1550
01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 1: the piece and it's a great piece. It's actually a

1551
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: breakdown and you guys are very familiar with it. But

1552
01:26:36,240 --> 01:26:38,560
Speaker 1: you know, maybe all of Americas and the breakdown of

1553
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 1: the touchdown to Digs the fifty yard or which was

1554
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:43,800
Speaker 1: And the reason Matt did it is because it came

1555
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: against man coverage and they're likely to see an awful

1556
01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 1: lot of man coverage from Miami. Yeah, Steph Diggs even

1557
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: talked about that play. I had a chance to talk

1558
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:54,360
Speaker 1: to him after the game, and he said, I wasn't

1559
01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: here last year to see Josh last year. I only

1560
01:26:56,760 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: know this year, but my teammates are telling me last year,

1561
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 1: he's probably waiting for the post route and not looking

1562
01:27:04,920 --> 01:27:08,920
Speaker 1: at the underneath crosser last year, but this year he is.

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01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:11,960
Speaker 1: And he said the safety did take a couple of

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01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:14,920
Speaker 1: steps towards the Diggs over route and then retreated back

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01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 1: to cover the deep route. I'm kind of wondering from

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01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:21,759
Speaker 1: a defensive back perspective, he's doing that because he's afraid

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01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 1: of Josh's arm, maybe more than anything else. Well, here's

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01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 1: the way I saw it, and I think that speaks

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01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 1: to the command and growth of Josh Allen. When Josh

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01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:33,400
Speaker 1: dropped back, he initially pumped Diggs, and he pumped Diggs

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01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:37,479
Speaker 1: because he wanted mccordy to jump Diggs. Okay, now mccordy's

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01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: are veteran safety, so mccordy, you know, didn't jump him

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01:27:40,439 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: very much. He only took a couple of steps because

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01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: he wanted Davis on the post. That's what he wanted

1575
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 1: to throw. But when he pumped you can see him.

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01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: He pumped Diggs and then he saw that mccordy was

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01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 1: not going to give him what he wanted, so he

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01:27:55,520 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 1: came back to Diggs. Theoretically on the second window. We

1579
01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 1: normally don't use the word window on versus man coverage,

1580
01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:05,559
Speaker 1: but he it digs across the opposite hash and that's

1581
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:09,559
Speaker 1: because he had a weight. But he really wanted it

1582
01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 1: was Davis. I believe, Yeah, he really wanted Davis. And

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01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:14,840
Speaker 1: you're right, Chris, it's very possible. A year ago he

1584
01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:18,599
Speaker 1: throws that anyway, but no, this time he absolutely did

1585
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:21,639
Speaker 1: the right thing. Yeah, yeah, Greg, thanks for the time.

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01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: We'll look for you on the Matchup Show and tell

1587
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:27,120
Speaker 1: Matt Bowen we're sorry we couldn't help him. All right, guys,

1588
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:30,200
Speaker 1: have a great New Year year. All right. That's Greg

1589
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:33,680
Speaker 1: co Sale from NFL Films, senior producer, also going to

1590
01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:35,760
Speaker 1: do a feature Matt Boonen is on the Matchup Show

1591
01:28:35,800 --> 01:28:39,000
Speaker 1: before we go to break. When I mentioned Kenny Steals,

1592
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:40,800
Speaker 1: his obvious he hadn't heard that the Bills might sign

1593
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills. And you know what he said, Wow, Yeah,

1594
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:46,559
Speaker 1: that's yeah, good good, that would be a heck of

1595
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 1: a gain. Let me rub my hands together, drink, drink

1596
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 1: some more of that in break time for us, but

1597
01:28:53,040 --> 01:28:55,400
Speaker 1: more of your questions from the obil fan mailbag and

1598
01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: on the phones at eight three five fifty. Nick and

1599
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 1: Williams will hang tight. We'll get to you when we return.

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Speaker 1: You're on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

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01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Jasper, One Bills Live.

1602
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:22,240
Speaker 1: Second hour of the program is closing up fast, but

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01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:24,599
Speaker 1: we do want to get to the phones where Nick

1604
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:29,000
Speaker 1: and Williamsville has a question for us, and we'll get

1605
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,040
Speaker 1: to Nick right now. Nick, you're on one Bills Live.

1606
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:34,080
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Sir? Are you doing guys?

1607
01:29:34,520 --> 01:29:37,160
Speaker 1: First off, the day we faced the Broncos with literally

1608
01:29:37,160 --> 01:29:38,840
Speaker 1: one of the best says my life, the Bills on

1609
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:42,040
Speaker 1: the East and I got engaged. It was amazing. So

1610
01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 1: it's a really bizarre year. Also, yeah, I feel bad

1611
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:48,559
Speaker 1: really for Fitzee. I wan't really want to see him

1612
01:29:48,560 --> 01:29:52,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The man is a legend of Buffalo. But yeah,

1613
01:29:52,200 --> 01:29:53,640
Speaker 1: we're having a great year. I just don't want to

1614
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:56,000
Speaker 1: damper the mood. But I just want to point out

1615
01:29:56,000 --> 01:30:00,519
Speaker 1: a little criticism about Thoughts and Knoxes inconsistencies. It just

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01:30:00,520 --> 01:30:03,719
Speaker 1: seems like in huge moments, he simply just makes big drops.

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01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: It hasn't like costs out of his games this year. Yeah,

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01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:09,240
Speaker 1: like versus Patriots versus four nine ers, he had a

1619
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:11,960
Speaker 1: drop in a bumble and even seven from last year.

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01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:14,759
Speaker 1: So it's not just like a couple in my opinion,

1621
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:16,719
Speaker 1: like here and there, it's like a pattern the kinds

1622
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 1: of fine him as a player. So like I feel

1623
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:20,680
Speaker 1: like in the playoffs that like this is going to

1624
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:24,200
Speaker 1: be a huge problem and it's probably hopefully not maybe

1625
01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: like bite us big time because like we can't make

1626
01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:30,599
Speaker 1: those mistakes against like good defenses and the playoffs and mudnot.

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01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:32,639
Speaker 1: So I was wondering what your thoughts were about Knox

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01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:35,400
Speaker 1: as a player and like his progression throughout his career

1629
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:37,599
Speaker 1: and like what do you think our future plans are

1630
01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 1: tight on? Because I'm just having nightmares that like this

1631
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:43,400
Speaker 1: is similar to like a Zay Jones, like this cost

1632
01:30:43,520 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: him his career in Buffalo from his inconstitutency's dropping passes. Yeah,

1633
01:30:47,479 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 1: it's good. It's a good point. I like the way

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01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: you put it. It's an inconsistencies and that's what you're

1635
01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:53,880
Speaker 1: looking for because we've seen him play really well at times.

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01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:56,759
Speaker 1: In fact, just before this last game when he dropped

1637
01:30:57,120 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass, he had caught a touchdown in what

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01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:02,519
Speaker 1: three straight games, so he has had some moments where

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01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:06,400
Speaker 1: he's helped. He also made two really enormous catches in

1640
01:31:06,400 --> 01:31:08,599
Speaker 1: this last game in New England as well with along

1641
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:12,000
Speaker 1: with the drop touchdown, so he's doing his best. You're right,

1642
01:31:12,479 --> 01:31:16,639
Speaker 1: Inconsistency is a crusher for a pass catcher, and I've

1643
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:19,639
Speaker 1: seen him too, not so much this year, maybe early

1644
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 1: in the year this year, but not so much lately.

1645
01:31:22,439 --> 01:31:28,559
Speaker 1: He struggled in pass pro as well. But inconsistency is

1646
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:33,000
Speaker 1: something that coaches can attack and try and get away from.

1647
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 1: When you see a guy play at a level coaches

1648
01:31:36,520 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 1: feel it's their responsibility a lot of times, along with

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01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 1: the player's hard work and commitment. But you can weed

1650
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:45,720
Speaker 1: that out and you can play at a more consistent

1651
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:49,360
Speaker 1: level and a consistently higher level. And that's what they

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01:31:49,400 --> 01:31:53,600
Speaker 1: see in Dawson Knox. Obviously, this is a team that

1653
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:56,160
Speaker 1: makes you earn it, and whatever they see in this

1654
01:31:56,160 --> 01:32:00,120
Speaker 1: guy in practice, it calls him to deactivate ty or

1655
01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 1: Croft consistently and so I for me, I'll give Sean

1656
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:08,519
Speaker 1: McDermott and the offensive coaching staff the benefit of the doubt, saying, listen,

1657
01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:09,920
Speaker 1: this is the guy that gives us the best chance,

1658
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: and certainly he's open. He's given Josh Allen some targets,

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01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: and when he plays his best, he's great. He's not

1660
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 1: just a good tight end, he's great. He's a great

1661
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:23,719
Speaker 1: receiving tight end. He's a good runner after the catch,

1662
01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:27,120
Speaker 1: he gets open, he gets separation, he's in the end zone, open,

1663
01:32:27,160 --> 01:32:29,160
Speaker 1: in the red zone. He's a great red zone target.

1664
01:32:29,600 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: He's caught a number of touchdown passes this year. But

1665
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:35,120
Speaker 1: in the bad is when he drops. That's his problem.

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01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 1: He drops it, and I've seen two and like I

1667
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 1: said earlier in the year, he was struggling in pass

1668
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:42,839
Speaker 1: pro as well. It's up to coaches and Dawson himself

1669
01:32:42,880 --> 01:32:45,120
Speaker 1: to weed the inconsistency's out and get him to play

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01:32:45,120 --> 01:32:47,720
Speaker 1: at the highest level that we've seen him play at

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01:32:47,920 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 1: in just you know, too short a stints for all

1672
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:52,120
Speaker 1: of us. So I see, I hear what you're saying.

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01:32:52,640 --> 01:32:54,840
Speaker 1: But as long as he's there, when he's at his

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01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:56,840
Speaker 1: best and he gives him the best option, they're going

1675
01:32:56,880 --> 01:32:58,760
Speaker 1: to continue to work on his consistency. And I like

1676
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:02,000
Speaker 1: the way you put it, that's his problem. It's inconsistency.

1677
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:04,479
Speaker 1: It's not that he's not good enough, it's that he's

1678
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: not good enough all the time. And that's and that

1679
01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 1: to me is what NFL coaches thrive on, and it's

1680
01:33:14,160 --> 01:33:17,640
Speaker 1: what they get their players to work on. And I

1681
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:20,120
Speaker 1: think it's been unfortunate. He went through COVID, he went

1682
01:33:20,160 --> 01:33:23,120
Speaker 1: through what was what was his injury? Uh, do you

1683
01:33:23,120 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 1: have a head injury? Do you have half injury? Calf injury?

1684
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:28,200
Speaker 1: So he's been injured, and he's had COVID, and he's

1685
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:29,800
Speaker 1: been in and out of lineup and it's it's and

1686
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 1: that's has been as inconsistent as everything his ability to play.

1687
01:33:33,040 --> 01:33:34,680
Speaker 1: But over the last month he's caught a lot of

1688
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:38,360
Speaker 1: touchdown passes and some key and some key passes as well. Um,

1689
01:33:38,400 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 1: And it's easy to focus on the drops, but when

1690
01:33:41,479 --> 01:33:44,439
Speaker 1: he plays great, you gotta have him on the field.

1691
01:33:44,880 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 1: And I know that the coaching staff is that's exactly

1692
01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 1: the word they use. He's got to get a consistence

1693
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:55,639
Speaker 1: and athletic mismatch at bottom line. Um, there might be

1694
01:33:57,280 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 1: a handful of defensive players that match up well against

1695
01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:07,280
Speaker 1: him in terms of size, and speed. Even the safeties

1696
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:10,639
Speaker 1: that play today are too small to match up well

1697
01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:14,000
Speaker 1: with him. So now you say, all right, well we

1698
01:34:14,040 --> 01:34:16,400
Speaker 1: gotta get bigger. Do we have an athletic linebacker? Yeah?

1699
01:34:16,439 --> 01:34:20,040
Speaker 1: Does he run as fast as Knox? And no, not

1700
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:23,639
Speaker 1: a good matchup. So it's very hard for opponents to

1701
01:34:23,680 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 1: find good matchups for a talent like Knox. Does he

1702
01:34:28,479 --> 01:34:31,519
Speaker 1: have drops? Yeah, you might be surprised to know he's

1703
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:34,720
Speaker 1: got four total drops on the season. Now, he's only

1704
01:34:34,760 --> 01:34:37,720
Speaker 1: been targeted thirty six times, so that's one out of

1705
01:34:37,720 --> 01:34:40,400
Speaker 1: every nine passes he's dropping, and that percentage is too

1706
01:34:40,520 --> 01:34:43,639
Speaker 1: high for the limited number of targets that he's received.

1707
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:48,360
Speaker 1: But he's made some pretty damn good plays. The touchdown

1708
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:51,280
Speaker 1: in Denver, getting the toes down before rolling out of

1709
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:53,160
Speaker 1: bounds on the side of the end zone. That's a

1710
01:34:53,240 --> 01:34:56,800
Speaker 1: hell of a play for a six five human. Also

1711
01:34:56,840 --> 01:34:59,160
Speaker 1: the catch on the sidelines that Bill Belichick ended up

1712
01:34:59,160 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 1: smashing the phone on, dragging the feet half his body

1713
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:04,680
Speaker 1: is already at a bound. That catch, along with the

1714
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:06,800
Speaker 1: seam route that Josh Allen got so much credit for,

1715
01:35:06,920 --> 01:35:08,919
Speaker 1: that was a tough catch, and there was another crossing

1716
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:12,439
Speaker 1: route where it looked like it got tipped and then

1717
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:15,720
Speaker 1: mccordy got his hand around it and just missswiping it

1718
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:17,559
Speaker 1: right in front of his face. He pulled that one

1719
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 1: in as well, over the top he made as bad

1720
01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:23,600
Speaker 1: as easy as the touchdown catch that he dropped was

1721
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:28,959
Speaker 1: this last Monday night. He made three really difficult catches

1722
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:32,840
Speaker 1: in that game. That's what Stefan Digg said. He told

1723
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:36,960
Speaker 1: Knox on the sideline, you always a touchdown, but it's

1724
01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:40,479
Speaker 1: okay because you make the hard ones. Yeah, you know,

1725
01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:42,920
Speaker 1: he makes the hard catches more than the easy ones. Yeah,

1726
01:35:42,960 --> 01:35:46,160
Speaker 1: that's that. And that's that's between your ears right there. Man.

1727
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:48,000
Speaker 1: And I'm and I'm not going to be an apologist

1728
01:35:48,000 --> 01:35:50,760
Speaker 1: for Dawson Knox, but I think it does. It is

1729
01:35:50,840 --> 01:35:54,360
Speaker 1: notable to mention this. This guy is still very young

1730
01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:57,760
Speaker 1: at this position. He was a high school quarterback and

1731
01:35:57,840 --> 01:36:00,640
Speaker 1: when he went to Ole Miss, he barely got on

1732
01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:06,680
Speaker 1: the field and he had fifteen total receptions in his

1733
01:36:06,800 --> 01:36:10,240
Speaker 1: college career. He was barely targeted in his college career,

1734
01:36:10,479 --> 01:36:13,920
Speaker 1: fifteen catches in college, but he was a third round

1735
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:18,240
Speaker 1: draft choice. Why because, much like Josh Allen, he is

1736
01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:23,280
Speaker 1: physically elite. So if you trust your player development on

1737
01:36:23,320 --> 01:36:25,720
Speaker 1: your coaching staff, which I know they do, and Rob

1738
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:29,160
Speaker 1: boris the tight ends coach. By next year, this guy

1739
01:36:29,200 --> 01:36:31,679
Speaker 1: could take maybe a similar leap in his third year

1740
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: to what we saw from Josh Allen. And if they do,

1741
01:36:34,479 --> 01:36:37,280
Speaker 1: if he does, look out right, this offense is going

1742
01:36:37,320 --> 01:36:40,000
Speaker 1: to be unstoppable. I think you're right. Here's the thing

1743
01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:42,680
Speaker 1: as well. Think about what happens when he got t

1744
01:36:43,040 --> 01:36:45,840
Speaker 1: like Lee Smith. I'm gonna exaggerate and say, yeah, Lee

1745
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:48,320
Speaker 1: Smith on the field or Dawson Knox. Now, the defense

1746
01:36:48,400 --> 01:36:51,719
Speaker 1: is going to defend them thinking they're at their best.

1747
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:54,080
Speaker 1: They're not gonna the defense will never count on Dawson

1748
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:56,280
Speaker 1: Knox getting a drop in the back of the end

1749
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:58,960
Speaker 1: zone standing by himself. They're gonna try and cover the guy,

1750
01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:00,760
Speaker 1: and they know they're gonna have to match up with

1751
01:37:00,840 --> 01:37:03,320
Speaker 1: him physically, So having him on the field, whether he's

1752
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 1: been playing consistently or not, they're gonna defend him at

1753
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:08,400
Speaker 1: his best and they're gonna get the matchup they think

1754
01:37:08,479 --> 01:37:10,479
Speaker 1: at his best. So they're gonna have to put a

1755
01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:12,920
Speaker 1: guy on there that can run, which make which changes

1756
01:37:12,920 --> 01:37:14,880
Speaker 1: the defense in a certain way that lets the offense

1757
01:37:15,280 --> 01:37:18,800
Speaker 1: uh predict what the defense will do, And I'm I'm

1758
01:37:18,800 --> 01:37:22,840
Speaker 1: all about that too, Brownie. I he's young and he's

1759
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:25,400
Speaker 1: gonna get better. And this coaching staff and young at

1760
01:37:25,439 --> 01:37:30,920
Speaker 1: the position, right, And it's only in his inconsistency has

1761
01:37:30,960 --> 01:37:33,599
Speaker 1: he been a concern. And I was surprised he's had

1762
01:37:33,640 --> 01:37:40,440
Speaker 1: four drops this year, um, but only thirty six targets.

1763
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:42,320
Speaker 1: He's he's I gotta say it's better than he was

1764
01:37:42,400 --> 01:37:46,360
Speaker 1: last year. It is, it is, I guess, as as

1765
01:37:46,400 --> 01:37:48,519
Speaker 1: maddening as it is, and just gotta keep taking step.

1766
01:37:48,600 --> 01:37:50,439
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this too. This offense is playing

1767
01:37:50,479 --> 01:37:54,760
Speaker 1: so well right now. Any aberration of that nature stands out.

1768
01:37:55,320 --> 01:37:59,479
Speaker 1: There's nobody dropping passes in this in this team, right,

1769
01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:06,880
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones right, the Kyle Brandt prediction and Knox dropped it.

1770
01:38:07,120 --> 01:38:09,720
Speaker 1: Those things stand that they jump out, as you know.

1771
01:38:10,600 --> 01:38:14,960
Speaker 1: So I'm with you. He's been inconsistent, but when he's

1772
01:38:15,000 --> 01:38:19,000
Speaker 1: on man, he is money. So I think they're gonna

1773
01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:21,280
Speaker 1: I think they can be as good as they are now.

1774
01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:24,680
Speaker 1: Here's what I think. I think they're gonna stick with

1775
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:29,880
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox thick and thin because they know where he's headed,

1776
01:38:30,080 --> 01:38:32,160
Speaker 1: just like they stuck with Josh Hoping, it reached his

1777
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,600
Speaker 1: critical mass just like they just like they were with

1778
01:38:34,720 --> 01:38:36,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, They're gonna stick with him through thick and thin,

1779
01:38:36,960 --> 01:38:39,559
Speaker 1: knowing it might be some rough spots with Dawson Knox

1780
01:38:39,840 --> 01:38:41,400
Speaker 1: the margin of aaras a bunch because they don't have

1781
01:38:41,439 --> 01:38:43,479
Speaker 1: to throw the ball, but having him out there written

1782
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 1: him through, getting him more comfortable and acclimated and where

1783
01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:48,000
Speaker 1: he's got the right mindset. That dropping the back of

1784
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:51,320
Speaker 1: the end zone, that is that's between his ears. That's

1785
01:38:51,360 --> 01:38:54,600
Speaker 1: not physical, that's between his ears, and that's something you

1786
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:58,519
Speaker 1: can fix easily. All right, break time, not easily. When

1787
01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:01,800
Speaker 1: we return in the third hour the program, it is

1788
01:39:01,840 --> 01:39:04,439
Speaker 1: time to play that game we all know and love.

1789
01:39:04,960 --> 01:39:08,160
Speaker 1: Where you the Bills fan, try to guess the tweet

1790
01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:11,640
Speaker 1: we're talking about and whether it's a Doll fan, a

1791
01:39:11,760 --> 01:39:15,720
Speaker 1: Jets fan, or a Pats fan who can identify the

1792
01:39:15,880 --> 01:39:18,880
Speaker 1: fans around the division. The best get on the line

1793
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:21,200
Speaker 1: at eight oh three, five fifty and you'll have a

1794
01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:23,639
Speaker 1: chance to win the Fan Box t shirt of the week,

1795
01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:26,720
Speaker 1: which is Cole Beasley's, which we will unveil when we

1796
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:29,680
Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health.

1797
01:39:29,720 --> 01:39:49,400
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

1798
01:39:49,439 --> 01:39:51,760
Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

1799
01:39:51,800 --> 01:39:55,519
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve

1800
01:39:56,960 --> 01:40:00,640
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strategy ye of

1801
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:06,679
Speaker 1: normalcy man. Welcome back to one Bills Live, our number

1802
01:40:06,720 --> 01:40:09,439
Speaker 1: three of the program. As I'm shifting through my paperwork

1803
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:13,000
Speaker 1: trying to madly search for our clues that we have

1804
01:40:13,320 --> 01:40:16,519
Speaker 1: for the Bills fans already online on hold at eight

1805
01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:20,080
Speaker 1: o three five fifty one eight eight five fifty two

1806
01:40:20,240 --> 01:40:23,360
Speaker 1: five fifty as we are set to play the game

1807
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:29,200
Speaker 1: we all know and love called dolphan Jets fan Pats fan. Basically,

1808
01:40:29,240 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 1: the way this game works is you, the fan, are

1809
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:36,480
Speaker 1: given a clue. Steve and I will read a tweet

1810
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:40,200
Speaker 1: from a social media account of a player from the

1811
01:40:40,240 --> 01:40:43,760
Speaker 1: Bills Division, a fan of a of a team from

1812
01:40:43,800 --> 01:40:47,600
Speaker 1: the Bills Division, and we determine. We read off the

1813
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:50,439
Speaker 1: tweet to you and you determine if that is a

1814
01:40:50,439 --> 01:40:53,479
Speaker 1: tweet from a Jets fan, a Pats fan, or a

1815
01:40:53,560 --> 01:40:55,760
Speaker 1: Doll fan. And I will warn you up front they

1816
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:58,280
Speaker 1: are pretty cryptic. And that's done on purpose because we

1817
01:40:58,320 --> 01:40:59,840
Speaker 1: don't want to make it too easy for you. Right

1818
01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 1: off the bat, you have a one in three chance,

1819
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:05,280
Speaker 1: a yes and right. But the prize on the line

1820
01:41:05,439 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 1: is once again the Bill's Fan Box Shirt of the week,

1821
01:41:10,160 --> 01:41:12,880
Speaker 1: and this is the final edition of the season. It

1822
01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:17,720
Speaker 1: is Cole Beasley's edition of the shirt. And uh, if

1823
01:41:17,760 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 1: you can't see it, our TV viewers says, catch the beat,

1824
01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:24,240
Speaker 1: catch the ball, the ball, drop the beat, drop the beat,

1825
01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:27,439
Speaker 1: and it's it's a caricature of a microphone with a

1826
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:30,639
Speaker 1: helmet on, running with a football and a Bill's flag.

1827
01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:35,120
Speaker 1: It's a red tie die model UM as our MSG viewers,

1828
01:41:35,160 --> 01:41:37,960
Speaker 1: we're seeing Cole Beasley posing with said shirt. Of course

1829
01:41:37,960 --> 01:41:40,080
Speaker 1: I've got this on under my sweat over my sweatshirt.

1830
01:41:40,120 --> 01:41:42,479
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just a plane. It's great though.

1831
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:45,240
Speaker 1: It's cool shirt. It's one of the brighter and the reason,

1832
01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:49,080
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Cole chose the microphone is because you

1833
01:41:49,120 --> 01:41:53,160
Speaker 1: know he is a a rapper on the side, a musician.

1834
01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:57,160
Speaker 1: UM and portions of the proceeds from the sales of

1835
01:41:57,240 --> 01:42:00,479
Speaker 1: this Bill's Fanbox we'll go to the Boys and Girls

1836
01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:04,840
Speaker 1: Club as the players choose their charity of choice for

1837
01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 1: where the proceeds do go. So with that in mind.

1838
01:42:09,160 --> 01:42:11,759
Speaker 1: We begin the contest now because we've got five callers

1839
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:15,240
Speaker 1: waiting on hold at eighth fifty. We do remind you

1840
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:19,240
Speaker 1: to read all the rules at Buffalo Bills dot com

1841
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:24,080
Speaker 1: slash ob L contest. Okay, so we will bring up

1842
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:27,880
Speaker 1: our first contestant for dolphan Jets fan Pats fan, and

1843
01:42:28,200 --> 01:42:31,800
Speaker 1: we open it up with Steve, who is all the

1844
01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 1: way out and hold on, my cursor's not working. I

1845
01:42:34,200 --> 01:42:36,719
Speaker 1: can't get over to the well. There we go, Steve

1846
01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:40,680
Speaker 1: and Iowa who is ready to play? Steve? Do you

1847
01:42:40,720 --> 01:42:44,320
Speaker 1: understand the rules of the game? I do, all right,

1848
01:42:44,400 --> 01:42:48,960
Speaker 1: So I will give you clue number one. This is

1849
01:42:48,960 --> 01:42:53,759
Speaker 1: a guy named rich to Jake and he tweets nothing

1850
01:42:53,840 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 1: like the old line giving up on him and just

1851
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:59,400
Speaker 1: standing around watching him carry that offense on his back.

1852
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:03,599
Speaker 1: Is that a Doll fan, a Jets fan or a

1853
01:43:03,640 --> 01:43:07,400
Speaker 1: Pats fan? Do you think, Steve? I believe that's a

1854
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:10,280
Speaker 1: Pats fan. Tell me why you think it's a Pats fan?

1855
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:16,439
Speaker 1: Because of the carrying the offense on his back, Cam

1856
01:43:16,439 --> 01:43:19,759
Speaker 1: Newton's proficiency in running the ball, That's why I assume

1857
01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:23,160
Speaker 1: that's Pats fan. Well, Steve, I am happy to report

1858
01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:26,840
Speaker 1: you are one hundred percent correct. Wow, right out of

1859
01:43:26,880 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 1: the gate. Steve got it. So Steve, hang on the line,

1860
01:43:30,320 --> 01:43:33,200
Speaker 1: good sir, so they can get your information and get

1861
01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:36,960
Speaker 1: that fan box out to you. Congratulations Steve, you are

1862
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:40,040
Speaker 1: the winner of this week's Well are we making this

1863
01:43:40,080 --> 01:43:44,160
Speaker 1: too easy? I don't know. I'm trying to find cryptic Harris.

1864
01:43:44,360 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: That was pretty good. He got it, but he nailed it.

1865
01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:48,479
Speaker 1: He was right one and three shot at it. Anyway,

1866
01:43:48,479 --> 01:43:51,560
Speaker 1: Pere's the thing too, because now they've started to separate themselves,

1867
01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:58,080
Speaker 1: particularly with Tua playing in Miami and cam still playing

1868
01:43:58,080 --> 01:44:01,280
Speaker 1: in New England, and with the Jets being as futrid

1869
01:44:01,320 --> 01:44:03,880
Speaker 1: as they've been. They're kind of stuff because for a

1870
01:44:03,880 --> 01:44:05,920
Speaker 1: long time stretch of the season, all three of those

1871
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:12,280
Speaker 1: teams kind of had the same crappy problems, so it

1872
01:44:12,360 --> 01:44:14,439
Speaker 1: was easy to get them mixed up. Now they're starting

1873
01:44:14,439 --> 01:44:17,000
Speaker 1: to separate themselves. Yeah, it does make it harder. My

1874
01:44:17,080 --> 01:44:19,679
Speaker 1: favorite tweet that I uncovered for the contest, I'm really

1875
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:21,760
Speaker 1: mad we didn't get to this one. It was from

1876
01:44:21,800 --> 01:44:26,320
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Larry Zanka, who, while watching the Dolphins game,

1877
01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:29,000
Speaker 1: was getting sick and tired of the dink and dung

1878
01:44:29,120 --> 01:44:33,479
Speaker 1: passing of Tuah and he says, he tweeted this, I'm

1879
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 1: getting too old for this. We need to run over

1880
01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:43,479
Speaker 1: someone's face hashtag fins up. I was, I'm really bad

1881
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:45,519
Speaker 1: if you get to use that one. Yeah, that was

1882
01:44:45,560 --> 01:44:48,479
Speaker 1: a goodie. The other one was kind of cruel. This

1883
01:44:48,600 --> 01:44:51,360
Speaker 1: one that I found from Manny Montana three oh five,

1884
01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:56,280
Speaker 1: send Grandpa back home. That was a shot at Chan Gailey.

1885
01:44:56,960 --> 01:44:59,559
Speaker 1: He was not happy with the play calling of Chan Gailey.

1886
01:45:00,240 --> 01:45:03,320
Speaker 1: He said, send Grandpa back home, and he actually had

1887
01:45:03,360 --> 01:45:07,280
Speaker 1: a picture he put Chan's face on a guy being

1888
01:45:07,360 --> 01:45:10,600
Speaker 1: wheeled back into a room in a wheelchair. I was like,

1889
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:15,320
Speaker 1: this is outright cruel. People can get nasty on social media.

1890
01:45:15,400 --> 01:45:19,960
Speaker 1: I am telling you, Um, there's a ton of really

1891
01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 1: kind of different. This one is from from a guy

1892
01:45:23,560 --> 01:45:28,639
Speaker 1: named Matt, he says, And Matt obviously, well, I'll get

1893
01:45:28,640 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: to that in a minute. Calling on our team to

1894
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:35,000
Speaker 1: sign Haskins and develop him into a decent quarterback. That's

1895
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:39,880
Speaker 1: a Jet fan talking. Wow, if you want Haskins over Darnold,

1896
01:45:39,920 --> 01:45:41,320
Speaker 1: you got a problem. And do you think they're going

1897
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 1: to develop anybody? Yeah, they haven't developed anyone in forty years.

1898
01:45:45,120 --> 01:45:48,760
Speaker 1: They couldn't develhh, the good one for me, which may

1899
01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:50,559
Speaker 1: have thrown some people off. Maybe I should have gone

1900
01:45:50,560 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 1: to this one first. This one was from Stephanie, and

1901
01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:58,040
Speaker 1: this is after the second consecutive Jets victory. She treats,

1902
01:45:58,520 --> 01:46:00,880
Speaker 1: where the heck is this play halling been all year?

1903
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:06,400
Speaker 1: How incredibly awesome? Oh I'm so glad we're not there?

1904
01:46:07,080 --> 01:46:11,599
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Yeah, I gotta tell you you, really, as

1905
01:46:11,640 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 1: a Bills fan, you should do yourself a favor and

1906
01:46:14,439 --> 01:46:16,759
Speaker 1: just go to some of these hashtags. For the Dolphins,

1907
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:21,240
Speaker 1: it's hashtag fins Up. For the Jets, it's hashtag take flight.

1908
01:46:21,920 --> 01:46:25,400
Speaker 1: And for the Patriots it's just hashtag go Pats. You

1909
01:46:25,439 --> 01:46:28,240
Speaker 1: want to, you wanna amuse yourself on a night where

1910
01:46:28,240 --> 01:46:31,240
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot to do, dive into the

1911
01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:35,720
Speaker 1: social media wormhole of one of these other fan you know,

1912
01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 1: listings or hashtags for one of the other teams in

1913
01:46:39,439 --> 01:46:42,640
Speaker 1: the division. You'll laugh yourself to sleep. It's it's a

1914
01:46:42,680 --> 01:46:46,840
Speaker 1: lot of fun. It's this one from from Sahing. He says,

1915
01:46:46,920 --> 01:46:51,320
Speaker 1: nowt now breathe. A breath of fresh air just came

1916
01:46:51,320 --> 01:46:54,479
Speaker 1: into my lungs seconds ago. Fellow fans, the pain is over.

1917
01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:59,200
Speaker 1: We can now turn the page. Hats from a Jet fan. Well,

1918
01:46:59,240 --> 01:47:01,519
Speaker 1: that was after the reports broke that Adam Gase had

1919
01:47:01,560 --> 01:47:04,080
Speaker 1: already been told that he would be let go after

1920
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:07,640
Speaker 1: the year ended. It looks like that was erroneously It

1921
01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:12,640
Speaker 1: looks like it was erroneously reported because when Gas was

1922
01:47:12,680 --> 01:47:15,280
Speaker 1: asked about it at his press conference later that day, said,

1923
01:47:15,360 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 1: nobody told me that. Yeah, the Jets the way that

1924
01:47:18,080 --> 01:47:20,240
Speaker 1: it will happen for the Jets from you know, for

1925
01:47:20,320 --> 01:47:22,200
Speaker 1: all of us poking fun at him, and I you know,

1926
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:24,400
Speaker 1: I don't because you know, I've been the punchline of

1927
01:47:24,560 --> 01:47:28,160
Speaker 1: my sheriff jokes as well. But um, you just think

1928
01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 1: that the Jets are gonna play just well enough so

1929
01:47:29,920 --> 01:47:32,840
Speaker 1: that Adam Gase will not get fired at the end.

1930
01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:34,600
Speaker 1: Here are They're gonna win three in a row and

1931
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:37,200
Speaker 1: the ownership will think, ah, well, you know what, maybe

1932
01:47:37,240 --> 01:47:42,280
Speaker 1: they're getting it together. Maybe we just needed some time. Yeah,

1933
01:47:42,320 --> 01:47:44,960
Speaker 1: that would be the Jets hist thing. Ever, well, there's

1934
01:47:44,960 --> 01:47:47,519
Speaker 1: a lot of jetsiest things that have happened which makes

1935
01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:50,640
Speaker 1: him the Jets. Yeah. But let's get back to the

1936
01:47:50,680 --> 01:47:54,720
Speaker 1: olbl mailbag fan mail bag today as we answer your

1937
01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 1: questions from Rachel. She says the run game has been

1938
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:02,400
Speaker 1: doing a little better, and the weather might be chilly

1939
01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:06,120
Speaker 1: in quotation marks in the playoffs, So should we try

1940
01:48:06,160 --> 01:48:08,280
Speaker 1: to lean more on the run game, or we do

1941
01:48:08,400 --> 01:48:11,720
Speaker 1: we just stick to our air attack. What do you

1942
01:48:11,720 --> 01:48:17,120
Speaker 1: think of that one? I would you know, they run

1943
01:48:17,160 --> 01:48:20,720
Speaker 1: the ball effectively enough, but they are what they are now.

1944
01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:24,639
Speaker 1: I suppose if the weather becomes so extreme that your

1945
01:48:24,680 --> 01:48:30,040
Speaker 1: normal air attack is grounded, for lack of a better term,

1946
01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:36,040
Speaker 1: like fifty mile an hour wins driving snow like a

1947
01:48:36,160 --> 01:48:39,400
Speaker 1: mini like an Indianapolis game from the snow game. Yeah,

1948
01:48:39,479 --> 01:48:42,120
Speaker 1: then maybe, okay, you lean on your run game. Here's

1949
01:48:42,120 --> 01:48:44,840
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But until then you ride with

1950
01:48:44,840 --> 01:48:47,200
Speaker 1: what got you there. You call the players you want

1951
01:48:47,200 --> 01:48:52,719
Speaker 1: to call. Here's why. Whatever you're doing offensively, the defense

1952
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:55,040
Speaker 1: has got to defend it, and they're going to defend

1953
01:48:55,080 --> 01:48:57,280
Speaker 1: it with the same exits and those they would have

1954
01:48:57,280 --> 01:49:00,720
Speaker 1: defended had the weather been perfect. They're operating under the

1955
01:49:00,720 --> 01:49:03,559
Speaker 1: same problems you are. If you've got problems, they got

1956
01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:08,800
Speaker 1: even bigger problems. So don't worry about how the conditions

1957
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:11,080
Speaker 1: affect you. You got a quarterback that can throw it,

1958
01:49:11,280 --> 01:49:13,280
Speaker 1: you got guys that can catch it. Surely it's harder

1959
01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:15,840
Speaker 1: to do both, but it's also harder to defend because

1960
01:49:15,960 --> 01:49:20,479
Speaker 1: defenders notoriously always plant and cut harder than offensive players.

1961
01:49:20,479 --> 01:49:23,360
Speaker 1: So if it's slippery, the offense has the advantage by

1962
01:49:23,360 --> 01:49:27,519
Speaker 1: far in that regard, and they give up the advantage

1963
01:49:27,560 --> 01:49:29,559
Speaker 1: because they have to handle the ball and be secure

1964
01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:31,240
Speaker 1: about it, and it's harder to do when it's slippery.

1965
01:49:31,280 --> 01:49:34,719
Speaker 1: So all of that stuff evens out. You run your offense.

1966
01:49:35,120 --> 01:49:37,000
Speaker 1: You throw the ball when you want to, You run

1967
01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:38,600
Speaker 1: it when you need to, or run it whenever you

1968
01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:41,600
Speaker 1: want to. You don't think about the conditions being a

1969
01:49:41,680 --> 01:49:44,800
Speaker 1: part of that. Each player, Like when Josh takes the

1970
01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:47,799
Speaker 1: snap and he's handed off, they're thinking in that moment

1971
01:49:48,240 --> 01:49:51,840
Speaker 1: about being sure with the ball. You don't call plays

1972
01:49:51,880 --> 01:49:55,240
Speaker 1: helping them be sure. You know what I'm saying, So

1973
01:49:56,840 --> 01:49:59,080
Speaker 1: don't worry about and all this stuff. And I get it,

1974
01:49:59,200 --> 01:50:02,679
Speaker 1: and I under Dan's and it's because it seems easy

1975
01:50:03,360 --> 01:50:05,479
Speaker 1: if it's cold weather and blustery and all that. Just

1976
01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:09,760
Speaker 1: run the ball. Well, no, run your offense. Yeah, run

1977
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:12,120
Speaker 1: your offense. Yeah, if everybody could you do that all

1978
01:50:12,160 --> 01:50:15,439
Speaker 1: the time, because you'd never turn it over. You gotta

1979
01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:19,080
Speaker 1: run your offense. So I understand, and it will cause

1980
01:50:19,160 --> 01:50:21,360
Speaker 1: some problems. But for as many as many problems as

1981
01:50:21,400 --> 01:50:24,400
Speaker 1: it causes you, it is exactly the same number of

1982
01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:26,719
Speaker 1: problems it causes your opponent. And they've said for years

1983
01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:30,280
Speaker 1: that the offense is at an inherent advantage. All those

1984
01:50:30,280 --> 01:50:33,120
Speaker 1: receivers know where they're going, that's right. The defenders do not.

1985
01:50:33,360 --> 01:50:36,320
Speaker 1: They have to react, and that's that means they plant harder,

1986
01:50:36,479 --> 01:50:39,880
Speaker 1: they cut sharper, They react in a more jerky way,

1987
01:50:39,920 --> 01:50:42,280
Speaker 1: which leaves them on the ground too many times. Yeah,

1988
01:50:42,360 --> 01:50:44,599
Speaker 1: especially if the fields nations are poor. Once you get

1989
01:50:44,640 --> 01:50:46,080
Speaker 1: out of that and you got a lot of separation,

1990
01:50:46,160 --> 01:50:48,479
Speaker 1: there's a ball coming in. You're still all bundled up

1991
01:50:48,479 --> 01:50:51,200
Speaker 1: and you have all this stuff on it. Sometimes it's slippery.

1992
01:50:52,200 --> 01:50:55,720
Speaker 1: That's your disadvantage. So call it what you make. You

1993
01:50:55,840 --> 01:50:58,360
Speaker 1: run your offense. Don't worry about the wind and weather.

1994
01:50:58,439 --> 01:51:00,800
Speaker 1: You got to run your plays man Um Jeff on

1995
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:04,000
Speaker 1: the OBL fan mail bag, What is the cigar of choice?

1996
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:09,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker will have to welcome twenty twenty one. Is

1997
01:51:09,160 --> 01:51:11,280
Speaker 1: this a long and hard decision or is this an

1998
01:51:11,280 --> 01:51:13,880
Speaker 1: easy decision? Well, I actually go to the human door

1999
01:51:13,920 --> 01:51:18,479
Speaker 1: and I look in and there's some parameters that I

2000
01:51:18,520 --> 01:51:22,000
Speaker 1: go to. First of all, am I, I'll always be

2001
01:51:22,040 --> 01:51:28,280
Speaker 1: with I rarely, if ever, smoke a cigar alone. Um,

2002
01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:30,599
Speaker 1: So it depends on who I'm with and how long

2003
01:51:30,600 --> 01:51:35,080
Speaker 1: we have to do it. So if you have more time,

2004
01:51:35,200 --> 01:51:37,920
Speaker 1: are you using a more expensive cigar because you don't

2005
01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:40,680
Speaker 1: want to puff one that's really nice down to the

2006
01:51:40,800 --> 01:51:43,240
Speaker 1: nub quickly? Now that that has more to do with

2007
01:51:43,280 --> 01:51:46,320
Speaker 1: the with the occasion. The good ones come out on

2008
01:51:46,360 --> 01:51:49,080
Speaker 1: the on the special one. But it does have to

2009
01:51:49,120 --> 01:51:51,160
Speaker 1: do like I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna I'm gonna

2010
01:51:51,160 --> 01:51:54,000
Speaker 1: smoke a forty five minute cigar if we got time

2011
01:51:54,040 --> 01:51:56,639
Speaker 1: to do it. If not, I'm gonna smoke a fifteen

2012
01:51:56,680 --> 01:51:59,720
Speaker 1: to twenty minutes ago. And I don't buy cigars that

2013
01:51:59,720 --> 01:52:03,880
Speaker 1: I don't like. Oh I why bother? So okay, fair

2014
01:52:03,960 --> 01:52:07,920
Speaker 1: enough from go bonus? How big an impact is there

2015
01:52:07,960 --> 01:52:10,920
Speaker 1: to adding a second quality wide receiver with deep speed,

2016
01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:13,240
Speaker 1: great passing games like The Greatest Show on Earth and

2017
01:52:13,280 --> 01:52:16,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs today have that second burner to open up

2018
01:52:16,080 --> 01:52:19,240
Speaker 1: the field. Ladies and gentlemen, Mike and Q Kenny Stills,

2019
01:52:20,479 --> 01:52:23,160
Speaker 1: why second quality wide receive? What do you mean? Second quality?

2020
01:52:23,160 --> 01:52:24,760
Speaker 1: We got me and they already have John Brown. We

2021
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:27,720
Speaker 1: got three. We got Cole Beasley, John Brown, and they're

2022
01:52:27,720 --> 01:52:30,439
Speaker 1: saying with deep speed, I mean Diggs and Brown are

2023
01:52:30,520 --> 01:52:33,280
Speaker 1: that Yeah? And if you add Kenny Stills, I mean,

2024
01:52:33,320 --> 01:52:35,840
Speaker 1: holy sure, then you turn into a team a little

2025
01:52:35,880 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 1: bit like the Chiefs, although you don't have that top guy.

2026
01:52:38,600 --> 01:52:41,880
Speaker 1: Say this though, I'll say this for everything that Trek

2027
01:52:41,960 --> 01:52:44,559
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill brings to the Chiefs, that just blazing speed.

2028
01:52:45,760 --> 01:52:50,240
Speaker 1: He's He's no Steff Diggs. He can't runs um. That's

2029
01:52:50,240 --> 01:52:56,479
Speaker 1: a difference. And Sammy Watkins and John Brown pretty even,

2030
01:52:56,520 --> 01:53:00,240
Speaker 1: pretty even Cole Beasley. And I used Cole Beasley like

2031
01:53:00,240 --> 01:53:05,559
Speaker 1: he used Travis Kelsey. Yeah, and now you throw Gabe

2032
01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:09,759
Speaker 1: Davis out there, and they've got like Hardman, Nick Nicole Hardman.

2033
01:53:10,880 --> 01:53:15,320
Speaker 1: You're matching up with him, ye offensively. Now kelsey's the

2034
01:53:15,360 --> 01:53:18,519
Speaker 1: wild card. And he put Cole Beasley with him. Who

2035
01:53:18,560 --> 01:53:21,559
Speaker 1: if they got that's gonna come up with with Knox

2036
01:53:21,680 --> 01:53:24,160
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And I like, and they do

2037
01:53:24,320 --> 01:53:29,160
Speaker 1: have their guy Edwards Hilaire. When is he going to

2038
01:53:29,240 --> 01:53:33,320
Speaker 1: be ready? Though? Listen, we match up with him offensively

2039
01:53:33,360 --> 01:53:35,280
Speaker 1: guy for a guy. Yeah, I mean they've got some

2040
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:37,120
Speaker 1: top end guys, and certainly we don't have anybody like

2041
01:53:37,160 --> 01:53:39,040
Speaker 1: Tyree Hill, but we got guys that make up that

2042
01:53:39,080 --> 01:53:43,880
Speaker 1: are pretty close in their own way. So fascinating. Yeah,

2043
01:53:44,320 --> 01:53:47,960
Speaker 1: a mobile quarterback that's playing at the top of his game.

2044
01:53:49,040 --> 01:53:51,120
Speaker 1: I want gosh, I want to see that game so bad.

2045
01:53:52,479 --> 01:53:54,439
Speaker 1: I want to see that Daves I say, I want

2046
01:53:54,439 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 1: to see the Chiefs and Bills. I don't care if

2047
01:53:56,320 --> 01:53:57,800
Speaker 1: it's there or here. I'd love to see it here,

2048
01:53:57,840 --> 01:54:00,479
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna happen. I'd love to see that game.

2049
01:54:00,720 --> 01:54:04,920
Speaker 1: Love to see that game. From Grateful Dad. What position

2050
01:54:05,080 --> 01:54:09,240
Speaker 1: should the Bills target in the twenty twenty one draft.

2051
01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:13,000
Speaker 1: I will tell you that right now, the Bills, if

2052
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:16,800
Speaker 1: the season ended today, would be picking thirty first in

2053
01:54:16,920 --> 01:54:22,200
Speaker 1: Round one. Thirty first. I haven't said that in a while.

2054
01:54:22,280 --> 01:54:25,160
Speaker 1: That's kind of nice. I would pick a big defensive tackle.

2055
01:54:26,760 --> 01:54:28,800
Speaker 1: You don't know what's going on with Star. Does he

2056
01:54:28,920 --> 01:54:31,679
Speaker 1: come back and does it? You know, can the Bills

2057
01:54:31,680 --> 01:54:35,360
Speaker 1: afford his price tag knowing what's going on with the cap, Well,

2058
01:54:35,400 --> 01:54:38,160
Speaker 1: he comes back at a three hundred and fifty thousand

2059
01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:47,080
Speaker 1: dollars cap discount and his cap his number is well,

2060
01:54:47,080 --> 01:54:50,240
Speaker 1: because you're getting Trent Edwards off the books, Trent Murphy,

2061
01:54:50,240 --> 01:54:53,720
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy, tent Murder. Yeah, Trent Edwards off the books too,

2062
01:54:53,840 --> 01:54:56,160
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy off, Trent Murphy off the books, and a

2063
01:54:56,160 --> 01:54:58,040
Speaker 1: lot of one year guys are off the book, so

2064
01:54:58,120 --> 01:55:00,440
Speaker 1: you might you'll be able to work it to be interest.

2065
01:55:00,440 --> 01:55:03,200
Speaker 1: They'll have room for Star under the cap, and believe me,

2066
01:55:03,240 --> 01:55:04,800
Speaker 1: the way this season has gone with the run defense,

2067
01:55:04,880 --> 01:55:06,800
Speaker 1: they'll want him back. And I think you'd go and

2068
01:55:06,840 --> 01:55:11,160
Speaker 1: get a big bodied defensive ye. Two starting offensive linemen

2069
01:55:11,160 --> 01:55:14,520
Speaker 1: who are up, I'm Feliciano and Darryl Williams the right

2070
01:55:14,560 --> 01:55:17,480
Speaker 1: side of your offensive line. Both of those guys contracts

2071
01:55:17,480 --> 01:55:19,720
Speaker 1: are up. So is Tying to Ski Tie and Secky

2072
01:55:19,800 --> 01:55:23,480
Speaker 1: as well. Yes, so yeah, I mind's gonna have to

2073
01:55:23,520 --> 01:55:27,160
Speaker 1: be addressed there. And my my focus for this draft

2074
01:55:27,640 --> 01:55:29,560
Speaker 1: is all the big guys up front on both sides

2075
01:55:29,560 --> 01:55:32,800
Speaker 1: of the ball. Really you got all you gotta bend

2076
01:55:32,800 --> 01:55:36,440
Speaker 1: the edge pass rusher because you really don't have that. No,

2077
01:55:36,520 --> 01:55:39,680
Speaker 1: I don't know now if I'd take a corner before

2078
01:55:39,680 --> 01:55:42,080
Speaker 1: I'd take one of those guys. I've been wanting a

2079
01:55:42,120 --> 01:55:44,960
Speaker 1: corner for two years, but now I do like what

2080
01:55:45,080 --> 01:55:47,200
Speaker 1: we've seen from Dane Jackson. I think that's a guy

2081
01:55:47,240 --> 01:55:50,000
Speaker 1: that assumes next year. Yeah, you could be pushing for

2082
01:55:50,040 --> 01:55:52,600
Speaker 1: a starting job. I'm I'm all about the big bodies

2083
01:55:52,680 --> 01:55:54,960
Speaker 1: up front on both sides of the ball, all about

2084
01:55:55,000 --> 01:55:58,240
Speaker 1: him on the defensive side, big man's game, and the

2085
01:55:58,320 --> 01:56:00,520
Speaker 1: offensive side as well to bolster those They were very

2086
01:56:00,520 --> 01:56:02,320
Speaker 1: good this year. The offensive line was very good. But

2087
01:56:02,360 --> 01:56:04,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna be you know, they got some They got

2088
01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:07,920
Speaker 1: to sign some guys from Steve. Orchard Park has not

2089
01:56:08,040 --> 01:56:10,240
Speaker 1: had a game in January for a very long time.

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Speaker 1: With the forecast saying it will be chilly, snow and

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01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:16,600
Speaker 1: a snow rain mix. Do you think it's at all

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01:56:16,680 --> 01:56:19,000
Speaker 1: important for the players to get a few reps in

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01:56:19,040 --> 01:56:24,200
Speaker 1: this kind of weather. That's a good question. A game, game,

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01:56:24,240 --> 01:56:26,920
Speaker 1: reps in bad weather, where you're gonna be playing in

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01:56:27,160 --> 01:56:29,200
Speaker 1: another week, you're gonna be right back in the same building.

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01:56:31,920 --> 01:56:38,320
Speaker 1: That might help. I seem to remember there was a

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01:56:38,400 --> 01:56:41,800
Speaker 1: head coach somewhere in the league that used to dunk

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01:56:41,840 --> 01:56:45,280
Speaker 1: footballs in oh yeah, water, buckets of water. Yeah that's

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01:56:45,320 --> 01:56:47,880
Speaker 1: and then put them in practice. Yes, they do that.

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Speaker 1: That's common. I've seen. I've heard about a number of

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Speaker 1: guys doing that, but I in the weather, get dressed up.

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Speaker 1: I could see that being a little bit helpful. But

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01:56:59,280 --> 01:57:02,200
Speaker 1: I also think that you don't need to play live

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01:57:02,240 --> 01:57:06,880
Speaker 1: reps to do that. And like I've said before, the

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01:57:07,000 --> 01:57:10,600
Speaker 1: guys who live here, the Buffalo Bills, the players who

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01:57:10,680 --> 01:57:12,880
Speaker 1: live here and come to work and drive through it,

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01:57:13,160 --> 01:57:15,160
Speaker 1: get out of their car and walk into the locker

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01:57:15,240 --> 01:57:17,760
Speaker 1: room in it, and go outside and practice in it,

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01:57:18,040 --> 01:57:20,360
Speaker 1: and come back and go back to their car in it,

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01:57:20,440 --> 01:57:22,040
Speaker 1: and go home and get out and walk from their

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01:57:22,040 --> 01:57:25,400
Speaker 1: car to the house in it. And it's never a

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Speaker 1: new thing for them when they have to play in it.

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01:57:28,720 --> 01:57:30,960
Speaker 1: It's a whole different story when a team like a

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01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:34,600
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins come up here in January get off the

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01:57:34,640 --> 01:57:37,960
Speaker 1: plane and it's like, oh, I don't have a time,

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01:57:37,960 --> 01:57:39,480
Speaker 1: I don't even have it. I don't even own a

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01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:42,520
Speaker 1: top coat, right, I don't even own a winter coat.

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01:57:43,880 --> 01:57:45,600
Speaker 1: That's a shock that they have to deal with. But

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01:57:45,720 --> 01:57:52,560
Speaker 1: taking reps, you'd come Maybe that's a good question. That's

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01:57:52,560 --> 01:57:55,520
Speaker 1: a really really good point. Getting used to throwing a

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01:57:55,560 --> 01:57:57,680
Speaker 1: ball in the snowstorm and the rain. Now, they did

2122
01:57:57,720 --> 01:57:59,880
Speaker 1: have a rainy game against the Kansas City Chiefs here.

2123
01:58:00,040 --> 01:58:02,680
Speaker 1: They did. You know, they've had some bad weather games

2124
01:58:02,680 --> 01:58:05,400
Speaker 1: already this year. But that's a really good point about

2125
01:58:05,440 --> 01:58:10,640
Speaker 1: getting a little bit acclimated playing live reps in active weather.

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01:58:12,440 --> 01:58:16,840
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting because the forecast is for snow and

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01:58:17,040 --> 01:58:21,960
Speaker 1: perhaps some mixed precipitation thirty seven degrees for the high Now.

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01:58:22,560 --> 01:58:25,960
Speaker 1: I do know that Ta was asked about playing in snow.

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01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:29,200
Speaker 1: He has never played in snow. He said he has

2130
01:58:29,520 --> 01:58:33,600
Speaker 1: seen snow. It actually snows in Alabama apparently once every

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01:58:33,600 --> 01:58:36,360
Speaker 1: four years, and he was down there his freshman year

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01:58:36,400 --> 01:58:39,960
Speaker 1: when it did actually snow. And I'm thinking of myself,

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01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:45,320
Speaker 1: Alabama snow, Like you could tell me you saw white

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01:58:45,320 --> 01:58:50,800
Speaker 1: flakes flying down in the sky. Yeah, like snow. This

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01:58:50,880 --> 01:58:52,360
Speaker 1: is gonna be a little bit of a nice shut

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01:58:52,400 --> 01:58:55,040
Speaker 1: that state down when there's a chance of snow. Yeah,

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01:58:55,040 --> 01:58:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, it's you don't know what's snow. I was.

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01:58:57,600 --> 01:58:59,760
Speaker 1: I was fortunate to see snow. And now about I'm

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01:58:59,760 --> 01:59:03,120
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, see it, bros Lee, what are you

2140
01:59:03,240 --> 01:59:08,040
Speaker 1: talking about? You're gonna see it? Oh bro oh yeah. Yeah.

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01:59:08,080 --> 01:59:11,240
Speaker 1: So so there's that. I've seen guys come into this

2142
01:59:11,320 --> 01:59:15,600
Speaker 1: building when I played the coldest game in the history

2143
01:59:15,280 --> 01:59:19,280
Speaker 1: of the team against the against the La Raid the

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01:59:19,360 --> 01:59:22,640
Speaker 1: Raiders in ninety two or three. It wasn't the fifty

2145
01:59:22,640 --> 01:59:26,120
Speaker 1: one to three. It was two years after that, and uh,

2146
01:59:26,240 --> 01:59:30,920
Speaker 1: it was bright sunny day and it was bitter and

2147
01:59:30,960 --> 01:59:33,280
Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of the guy. There was

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01:59:33,320 --> 01:59:38,480
Speaker 1: a Raider player who did not get off the bench

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01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:43,120
Speaker 1: for the entire game and could not move. He was

2150
01:59:43,200 --> 01:59:49,600
Speaker 1: absolutely completely drowsy on the bench and they piled blankets

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01:59:49,640 --> 01:59:53,240
Speaker 1: on him because he was so cold. He couldn't he

2152
01:59:53,360 --> 01:59:58,560
Speaker 1: absolutely couldn't function, did not get off the bench. That's hilarious.

2153
01:59:59,720 --> 02:00:02,760
Speaker 1: He NFL football player, an NFL football player, and he

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02:00:02,800 --> 02:00:05,680
Speaker 1: was sitting there and his eyes were This was related

2155
02:00:05,720 --> 02:00:07,800
Speaker 1: to me by a guy on their sidelines. He was

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02:00:07,840 --> 02:00:11,600
Speaker 1: sitting there underneath a pile of the parkas completely covered

2157
02:00:11,640 --> 02:00:14,839
Speaker 1: on a heated bench, and his eyes were almost shut

2158
02:00:15,920 --> 02:00:18,080
Speaker 1: and he was and he was like he was trying

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Speaker 1: to go to sleep. This is the game, yeah, and

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02:00:21,200 --> 02:00:23,680
Speaker 1: that we're seeing the man. Oh yeah, that's this is

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Speaker 1: the one where I almost got in. I actually tweeted

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Speaker 1: a picture of this last night. Somebody said, tweeted me

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02:00:28,680 --> 02:00:30,880
Speaker 1: a picture of you in the stadium. So everybody's tweeting,

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02:00:30,920 --> 02:00:31,960
Speaker 1: you know, with him in the stands and stuff. So

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Speaker 1: I tweeted that nice. Yeah it was. It was good. So,

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Speaker 1: but what's that ninety four? It was ninety two nine,

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Speaker 1: maybe ninety three. Uh, it was not the It had

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Speaker 1: to be ninety ninety one. No, no, ninety two. It

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Speaker 1: was ninety two because it was it was not the

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Speaker 1: year of the comeback game, which was Super Bowl twenty eight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that'd be ninety I mean January of ninety two, right,

2172
02:01:05,920 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: not the ninety two season, ninety three season. I think

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Speaker 1: this is January ninety four. I want to say, is

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Speaker 1: it this going into the last Oh this is before

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Speaker 1: we played the Chiefs in the championship game. Yes, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I can't. I'm an old man. Wow. When you're playing

2177
02:01:21,720 --> 02:01:23,960
Speaker 1: that many playoff games, they kind of run together, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? There's that? Yeah, quick with the buzzer.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's listening to all right, every break time for us

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Speaker 1: when we come back. More of your questions on the

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Speaker 1: obl fan mail bag and on the phone lines at

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Speaker 1: eight O three oh five fifty Randy and Denver. Hang tight,

2183
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Speaker 1: we'll get to you when we return here on one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

2185
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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Task your final half hour of the program,

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02:02:00,200 --> 02:02:04,520
Speaker 1: the last one of the twenty twenty calendar year. I

2187
02:02:04,520 --> 02:02:08,080
Speaker 1: can't believe we've made it. Wow. You know, we were

2188
02:02:08,920 --> 02:02:11,720
Speaker 1: doing the show from the house for five months this year.

2189
02:02:11,800 --> 02:02:16,840
Speaker 1: We were from March March ninth through August tenth. We

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02:02:16,840 --> 02:02:21,960
Speaker 1: were at home. Steven is expert connectivity in that East

2191
02:02:21,960 --> 02:02:25,720
Speaker 1: Aurora compound. What a nightmare I got that I finally

2192
02:02:25,720 --> 02:02:27,560
Speaker 1: got it fixed, by the way, you know now that

2193
02:02:27,600 --> 02:02:29,520
Speaker 1: it's too late. I gotta tell you. I don't know

2194
02:02:29,560 --> 02:02:33,920
Speaker 1: if I've ever laughed so hard the day that you're

2195
02:02:33,960 --> 02:02:37,440
Speaker 1: talking into the microphone and all of a sudden you

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02:02:37,600 --> 02:02:41,280
Speaker 1: turn into the disguised voices on those exposa shows that

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Speaker 1: the networks run. You went to thirty three rpm. Too bad.

2198
02:02:46,160 --> 02:02:48,920
Speaker 1: You couldn't hear it because you're just speaking normal in

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Speaker 1: your kitchen, but it's coming through. Like I was on

2200
02:02:54,600 --> 02:02:57,800
Speaker 1: a rant too, Oh my god, ild you about it,

2201
02:02:57,840 --> 02:03:01,120
Speaker 1: like Barry White, whoever you and whoever else it was,

2202
02:03:01,160 --> 02:03:03,520
Speaker 1: to shut up because it's something I was important to say.

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02:03:03,880 --> 02:03:08,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, it's been a fun, memorable year to

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Speaker 1: say the least, to say the least, and we're all

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02:03:11,320 --> 02:03:13,760
Speaker 1: happy it's over and hopefully bigger and better things in

2206
02:03:13,760 --> 02:03:16,160
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. We just got to stick it out

2207
02:03:16,160 --> 02:03:18,960
Speaker 1: with this COVID a little bit longer, hopefully, and keep

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02:03:19,000 --> 02:03:21,000
Speaker 1: doing the right thing and we'll be done with it.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing when you see New Zealand and the people

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02:03:25,800 --> 02:03:28,520
Speaker 1: that you know, they've all banded together and all done

2211
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:30,520
Speaker 1: the right thing and they're celebrating New Year's Eve like

2212
02:03:30,520 --> 02:03:33,000
Speaker 1: a regular New Year's Eve. There's ten of them. I mean, well, yeah,

2213
02:03:33,040 --> 02:03:35,160
Speaker 1: there's only four million people in there, an island nation.

2214
02:03:35,520 --> 02:03:38,440
Speaker 1: There's more sheep than people. It helps, it certainly helps.

2215
02:03:38,440 --> 02:03:40,360
Speaker 1: Does help when the entire family comes over and it's

2216
02:03:40,360 --> 02:03:45,000
Speaker 1: half the entire population of the country. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

2217
02:03:45,080 --> 02:03:46,840
Speaker 1: but I get it. I mean, good for them. I'm

2218
02:03:46,880 --> 02:03:49,200
Speaker 1: happy for me. They got They got pluses and minuses

2219
02:03:49,240 --> 02:03:52,879
Speaker 1: just like we do. But we are still answering your questions.

2220
02:03:52,960 --> 02:03:56,000
Speaker 1: We do not rest until the questions are answered. And

2221
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Speaker 1: Randy and Denver has a question and concerns Sunday's game. Randy,

2222
02:04:02,280 --> 02:04:04,000
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live.

2223
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Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't hear Randy's open phone line. Are

2224
02:04:09,160 --> 02:04:14,440
Speaker 1: you there, Randy? Yes, Okay, what do you got for us, sir? Oh?

2225
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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the college? Sure, Tom, I might see

2226
02:04:17,160 --> 02:04:21,280
Speaker 1: my question. Um. After the Denver game, McDermott said right out,

2227
02:04:22,120 --> 02:04:24,880
Speaker 1: you always want to have the highest seed. And then

2228
02:04:24,880 --> 02:04:27,400
Speaker 1: he's a man of routine. And even if the Bills

2229
02:04:27,400 --> 02:04:30,760
Speaker 1: stay at a hotel at at home, it's still their hotel,

2230
02:04:30,880 --> 02:04:35,040
Speaker 1: their routine. And I know Steve says that this team

2231
02:04:35,080 --> 02:04:38,760
Speaker 1: isn't afraid of anybody anywhere, but I know the ninety

2232
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Speaker 1: ninety one teams weren't afraid of anyone anywhere. And they

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Speaker 1: have also got it done, you know, in the two

2234
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Speaker 1: road games after the ninety two season. But I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they would have rather been at home. And this is

2236
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Speaker 1: a different game in nineteen ninety one and also twenty

2237
02:04:54,880 --> 02:04:58,720
Speaker 1: seventeen when they rested players there was nothing to play for.

2238
02:04:59,440 --> 02:05:04,640
Speaker 1: So now my question is what's changed the Bills Back then?

2239
02:05:05,000 --> 02:05:06,840
Speaker 1: You couldn't tell me, Steve that you and the guys

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have wanted to play hard in this game to

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Speaker 1: get home field. So is it because of COVID and

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02:05:11,720 --> 02:05:14,560
Speaker 1: there's no fans in the stands, or is it because

2243
02:05:14,560 --> 02:05:17,720
Speaker 1: of the new format that there's only one by otherwise

2244
02:05:17,760 --> 02:05:21,440
Speaker 1: I can't believe why I'm in such a minority about

2245
02:05:21,840 --> 02:05:25,520
Speaker 1: you play this game until you know Pittsburgh lost. Well,

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02:05:25,560 --> 02:05:31,440
Speaker 1: here's here's why I'll give you. I was reminded by

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Speaker 1: this by one of the former coaches that were on

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02:05:33,040 --> 02:05:35,600
Speaker 1: the staff with me and when I was playing is

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Speaker 1: Chuck Lester, and he quoted Marv and we had this

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Speaker 1: same dilemma. And it was brought up to Marv that listen,

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Speaker 1: we got a chance to go fourteen and two. Here,

2252
02:05:47,920 --> 02:05:50,840
Speaker 1: let's you know, and let's go. You know, we got

2253
02:05:50,880 --> 02:05:54,880
Speaker 1: a chance to do this. And Marv said this, he

2254
02:05:54,920 --> 02:05:58,120
Speaker 1: goes because our responsibilities not to go fourteen and two.

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Speaker 1: It is to get our team as ready as we

2256
02:06:01,720 --> 02:06:05,160
Speaker 1: can to go to the super Bowl and win it.

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02:06:06,520 --> 02:06:09,240
Speaker 1: That is what we're about. We're not about getting the

2258
02:06:09,280 --> 02:06:11,440
Speaker 1: one seed, the four seed, the sixth seed. We are

2259
02:06:11,440 --> 02:06:14,920
Speaker 1: about getting our team as ready as we can to

2260
02:06:15,120 --> 02:06:17,400
Speaker 1: go to the super Bowl and win it. And that's

2261
02:06:17,440 --> 02:06:21,040
Speaker 1: different things for different teams. Every team's different. Like if

2262
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Speaker 1: you got a young team, maybe you are playing them

2263
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Speaker 1: all in week seventeen to keep them on schedule, keep

2264
02:06:26,400 --> 02:06:28,920
Speaker 1: them on task. If you got a veteran team, like

2265
02:06:28,920 --> 02:06:31,360
Speaker 1: when your team got a little bit older. Marv was

2266
02:06:31,400 --> 02:06:33,920
Speaker 1: sitting people every left and right, said, I was playing

2267
02:06:33,960 --> 02:06:38,920
Speaker 1: wide receiver against Detroit that year. So yeah, I get it.

2268
02:06:40,400 --> 02:06:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm not caught up in the two three seed thing

2269
02:06:42,880 --> 02:06:46,000
Speaker 1: at all. What if you get the two seed, you

2270
02:06:46,040 --> 02:06:48,160
Speaker 1: get Baltimore and you get the or you get the

2271
02:06:48,160 --> 02:06:52,400
Speaker 1: three seed and you get Miami again, I mean that's

2272
02:06:52,800 --> 02:06:54,640
Speaker 1: you don't and you may get the three seed and

2273
02:06:54,640 --> 02:06:58,080
Speaker 1: get Baltimore and the two seed and get Miami. There's

2274
02:06:58,120 --> 02:07:00,760
Speaker 1: no guarantees about anything. All you know is is you

2275
02:07:00,800 --> 02:07:03,120
Speaker 1: want to show up on that day as ready as

2276
02:07:03,160 --> 02:07:05,640
Speaker 1: you can show up because there's too much out of

2277
02:07:05,680 --> 02:07:08,320
Speaker 1: your control to you don't even know who you're gonna plays,

2278
02:07:08,360 --> 02:07:09,760
Speaker 1: the two or the three seed. You might have a

2279
02:07:09,760 --> 02:07:12,200
Speaker 1: better matchup as the three rather than the two. Yeah,

2280
02:07:12,400 --> 02:07:14,080
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you this, if we're the three, that

2281
02:07:14,120 --> 02:07:17,320
Speaker 1: means Pittsburgh is the two. And you've got just as

2282
02:07:17,400 --> 02:07:19,200
Speaker 1: much a chance in this day and this point in

2283
02:07:19,280 --> 02:07:21,520
Speaker 1: history for the Steelers not to get to the divisional

2284
02:07:21,600 --> 02:07:24,920
Speaker 1: round as you do. And if that happens, you are

2285
02:07:25,040 --> 02:07:27,400
Speaker 1: the second highest seed and you still play at home.

2286
02:07:28,720 --> 02:07:34,800
Speaker 1: So the two three seed to me, Okay, I don't care.

2287
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:36,840
Speaker 1: You heard it here. First, there's too much you can't

2288
02:07:36,880 --> 02:07:38,640
Speaker 1: control and too much you don't know. You don't know

2289
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Speaker 1: that you're gonna get a better path to the super

2290
02:07:40,960 --> 02:07:44,000
Speaker 1: Bowl if you're the two seed, right, you don't know.

2291
02:07:44,360 --> 02:07:46,560
Speaker 1: I just love how you really try to break that

2292
02:07:46,600 --> 02:07:51,720
Speaker 1: down intelligently. And then your bottom line was that was

2293
02:07:51,880 --> 02:07:55,200
Speaker 1: that was poetic. That's that's communication skills right there. Pet

2294
02:07:55,320 --> 02:07:57,200
Speaker 1: Let me tell you that was poetic. We go to

2295
02:07:57,320 --> 02:07:59,560
Speaker 1: Rob in Rochester. Rob, what do you have for us?

2296
02:07:59,560 --> 02:08:02,120
Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's life kind of guys, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing? Good? Happy New Year to you as well.

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Speaker 1: I was just I was just calling because I actually

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Speaker 1: had a top or a little conversation with my wife,

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Speaker 1: like when they got their first when the Bills got

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Speaker 1: their first three wins, I'm like, you know, with all

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Speaker 1: the COVID and stuff going on, I'm like, watch, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, this will be the one year the Bills

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Speaker 1: make it to the super Bowl and it'll end up

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Speaker 1: having an asterisks next to it because everybody will find

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Speaker 1: an excuse like, oh, it's because this person wasn't playing,

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Speaker 1: or that person wasn't playing or blah blah blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: and they'll forget about the fact that the Bills were

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Speaker 1: faced with the same dilemma that everybody else was. But

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Speaker 1: the haters are gonna hate. They're gonna find an excuse.

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Speaker 1: And I was just curious about your take on that

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Speaker 1: there won't be any asteris on this. There were two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six regular season games. They all took place,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills were, just like you said, in the

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Speaker 1: same boat as everybody else. They had two games moved around.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and haters are gonna hate whether you have

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Speaker 1: COVID or not, So don't worry about that. You that

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Speaker 1: COVID is just one extra layer of the onion. They're

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Speaker 1: still gonna hate you. They're all gonna and every and

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Speaker 1: they'll go and teams like the Indianapolis Colts and the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens if and when they don't get there, or

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Speaker 1: they do get there, they'll say, we just had one

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Speaker 1: bad break. If we would have gotten in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: we would have done some damage. Everybody will say the

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Speaker 1: same thing. Haters are gonna hate whether they have COVID

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Speaker 1: in the air or the Cuman yeah. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's just like every other year. And when you look

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Speaker 1: back on it, um, this season is gonna have two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six games that are gonna be completed.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a seven team playoff. If you want

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Speaker 1: to put an asterix on it. Yeah, there's more. There's

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Speaker 1: a crowded, more crowded field in the playoffs this year

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Speaker 1: than it's ever been. The Bills ended up being the

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Speaker 1: two seed. They would have got to buy in any

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Speaker 1: other year and the playoff format and they're not getting

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Speaker 1: that this year. They got to play a game to

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Speaker 1: get there. It's there's two sides of that argument. And

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Speaker 1: there will be no asterix on a championship even I

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Speaker 1: don't care who wins it. I mean the Chiefs got

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Speaker 1: to play the Patriots without Cam Newton, So I mean

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Speaker 1: that's right. There's a bunch of you can you can

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Speaker 1: spin this and slice this a thousand different ways, right,

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Speaker 1: they had the opportunity to play them. They got lucky.

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Speaker 1: They got lucky. They got lucky. That was a good thing,

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Speaker 1: or no, actually they was it a bad It was

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Speaker 1: a bad thing. They actually got to play a better

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Speaker 1: Patriots team. There you go. Jars. Take your pick. Yeah,

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

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Speaker 1: this thing up with what have we learned? Maybe for

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Speaker 1: the whole entire year, some lessons there for sure. Back

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Speaker 1: in a moment here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. What have we learned?

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. The Thursday injury report just

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Speaker 1: came out for the Bills, and we learned that there

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Speaker 1: are no changes. Cole Beasley did not practice, John Feliciano

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Speaker 1: with an illness, did not practice, Jake from limited as

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Speaker 1: he's been all year, and Reggie Gilliam did not practice.

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Speaker 1: Not expected to play on Sunday either. We also learned

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Speaker 1: of some sad news here at the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, the play by play voice of the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: his brother Paul passed away after a courageous battle with cancer,

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Speaker 1: and he just passed away this past Sunday, the day

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Speaker 1: before the Bills game. And Steve, you've kind of got

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Speaker 1: a story around that well that he, as you might imagine,

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Speaker 1: Murph comes from a large family and They were all

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Speaker 1: around Paul when he passed, and they as family was

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Speaker 1: concerned that John. You know, John had worked to do.

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Speaker 1: He's going to do the game and the next day

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Speaker 1: and John said listening and they all knew it. Paul

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Speaker 1: would have been the one saying, of course you're gonna

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Speaker 1: do the game. It's the Patriots, right Paul. John's brother.

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Speaker 1: Paul used to send extended texts to the entire family,

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Speaker 1: and John used to read him to the guys in

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Speaker 1: the booth, large hilarious contextual texts about what the game

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Speaker 1: meant and ripen it was. They were humorous and coming

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Speaker 1: from a true Buffalo guy, and Murph courageously he did

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Speaker 1: the game on Monday, and you never would have known.

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Speaker 1: We had a small moment at the end of the

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Speaker 1: broadcast where John acknowledged his brother was a true Bills

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Speaker 1: fan of great Buffalo guys. Grow the Paul Murphy, some

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Speaker 1: of you out there might remember he ran the Convention

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Speaker 1: Center here in Buffalo as part of John's family and

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Speaker 1: lost his battle with cancer on Sunday. So as we

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Speaker 1: end our our week here and say goodbye to twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: we'll say goodbye and say don't come back. We're done

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Speaker 1: with you twenty twenty. It's been a rough year. We've

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Speaker 1: lost an enormous amount of wonderful people around the world

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Speaker 1: for a member of the family, for John Murphy and us,

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Speaker 1: it's just one more so goodbye. Yes. So, in an

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Speaker 1: effort to turn a sad event into a positive, the

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Speaker 1: Murphy family has set up the Paul Murphy Scholarship Fund

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Speaker 1: care of Visit Buffalo Niagara Foundation, and there is an

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Speaker 1: address of four h three Main Street, Suite thirty, Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: New York, one four two zero three, So we will

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Speaker 1: we will tweet that out on our one Bill's live

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Speaker 1: handle for anyone interested in making a donation in Paul

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Speaker 1: Murphy's name the Paul Murphy Scholarship Fund, so feel free

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Speaker 1: to donate to that as a tip of the hat

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Speaker 1: to Murph's brother. So yeah, unfortunate, but hopefully the new

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Speaker 1: year brings new things and God speed to Paul and

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Speaker 1: our compares to the Murphy family and our condoles is

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Speaker 1: the entire Murphy family. We love you, John and I

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Speaker 1: will see you on Sunday meeting, that's right, and we

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Speaker 1: will see all of you on Sunday for an exciting week.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen game with a lot of twists and turns. Steve

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Speaker 1: and I'll be back here Monday to talk to you

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Speaker 1: about it as we get ready in the new year,

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Speaker 1: year for playoff football. We'll see you then