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Speaker 1: This one Bill's Live presented by Callida Health.

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome into a Buffalo victory Monday. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 2: Steve Tasker with you, and if you've tuned in and

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Speaker 2: hope to hear the game, rewind. We will get it

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Speaker 2: to you in short order. Just had some technical difficulties

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Speaker 2: this morning, So for those of you eagerly anticipating that

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Speaker 2: we will get it to you at some point during

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Speaker 2: our three hour Buffalo Victory Monday today, apologies. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the Bills are your AFC East champions for a fifth

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Speaker 2: straight season, an unprecedented run in Bill's history. They have

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Speaker 2: never done that before. So congratulations to the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four edition of the Bills for making it five consecutive

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Speaker 2: division titles. And they did it in convincing fashion last time.

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Speaker 3: Forget me for just doing the golf clap in a studio,

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Speaker 3: but we're an uncharted territory now. They clinched the division

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Speaker 3: in a year where they were picked to go third

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Speaker 3: by a lot of people. They did it faster and

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Speaker 3: more convincingly than any team in history.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are the fourth team to have done it

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Speaker 2: with five games to play, first team to do it

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Speaker 2: with five games to play since the two thousand and

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Speaker 2: nine Indianapolis Colts, one of eight teams to ever do it.

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Speaker 2: It's all, as we said, also the first time the

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Speaker 2: Bills have ever won five Division crowns in a row.

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Speaker 2: This win also gives the Bills their sixth consecutive ten

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Speaker 2: win season. It's the sixth longest streak in NFL history,

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Speaker 2: six straight seasons of at least ten victories. It's also

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Speaker 2: their tenth consecutive win coming off a bye week eight

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Speaker 2: under Sean McDermott. They also did it the two previous seasons,

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Speaker 2: so that goes all the way back to twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Winning off the by the Bills have scored thirty points

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Speaker 2: or more in six straight games nine total games this season.

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Speaker 2: That is the most in the NFL. They have now

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Speaker 2: tied the franchise record of nine games in one season

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Speaker 2: scoring thirty points or more, tying the nineteen seventy five

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Speaker 2: oh J. Simpson led Bills, the nineteen ninety one Bills,

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty Bills, and the twenty twenty one Bill.

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Speaker 2: So there are five teams in Bill's history that have

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Speaker 2: scored thirty points per game thirty points in a game

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Speaker 2: nine times three of them are under Sean McDermott, and

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Speaker 2: this year's addition still has five games to play. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're gonna get the record.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this seed this twenty four, they'll be by themselves. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: this twenty twenty four edition of the Buffalo Bill's are

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Speaker 3: really good at football. They are. There's so many there

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Speaker 3: because of the circumstances of the way the season started

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Speaker 3: with all the new faces, the trade for Amari Cooper,

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Speaker 3: the way Mac Hollins has had to step up, the

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Speaker 3: way Khalil Shakers continued his development, Dawson Knox filling in

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Speaker 3: now for Kincaid who has been out for a couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks, and now Keon Coleman who is just about

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Speaker 3: to step up to the plate and started doing some

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Speaker 3: great things before his wrist injury.

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Speaker 2: Ray Davis James Cook games breaking back.

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Speaker 3: There have been reasons and opportunities for so many players

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Speaker 3: on the offensive side of the football to to have

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Speaker 3: to have to come through for the team in order

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Speaker 3: to win football games, and they have all done it.

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Speaker 3: They have. You'd be hard pressed to find somebody who

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Speaker 3: has not stepped up to the plate for this team

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Speaker 3: offensively and helped them win games. Mac Hollins, case in point,

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Speaker 3: James Cook, Ray David. I mean, you go down the list,

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Speaker 3: and that's with guys in and out for injuries. Don't

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Speaker 3: forget Amari Cooper and and Keon Coleman were out a

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago at.

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Speaker 2: The same time, and Kin cad Or Coleman yesterday.

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Speaker 3: So this team looks different than other iterations of the Bills,

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Speaker 3: and they clinched the division faster mainly because they're hard

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Speaker 3: to match up with offensively and defensively. Last night was

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Speaker 3: no exception. They're a timely, playmaking defense. Now, they're not

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Speaker 3: a suffocating thing like some of these other teams. They're

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Speaker 3: And I'll say this too, kudos to Bobby Babbage for

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Speaker 3: the way he has coordinated this defense, particularly in game. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot clicking for the Bills in Buffalo on

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Speaker 3: It's been a fun year. I mean, let's face it,

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Speaker 3: it's been an absolutely fun fun year now. And I

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Speaker 3: got to ask Sean McDermott about this, Well, what do

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Speaker 3: you do? How hard do you chase that one seed, No,

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Speaker 3: and there's only one team you're gonna go on the

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Speaker 3: a chance to get like fifty three guys as healthy

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Speaker 3: you know, at different times during this next six game streak.

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Speaker 3: Your problem now is staying sharp because you can sit.

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Speaker 3: I mean you're in. Not only are you in, you

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Speaker 3: stomped the AFC East, well, you stomped them.

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Speaker 2: They haven't even played New England yet. Let's not forget that.

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Speaker 2: So there was a cool and I'll mention this the

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Speaker 2: cool statistic from opti stats on Twitter. So I am

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Speaker 2: just parroting it here. I'm not taking any credit for this,

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Speaker 2: but it's worth mentioning. The Bills, as we know, don't

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Speaker 2: play the Patriots until Week sixteen and have already clinched

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Speaker 2: their division title. No other team in NFL history has

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Speaker 2: clinched their division more than one week prior to playing

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Speaker 2: one of their division rivals. For the first time, the

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Speaker 2: Bills have done it three weeks clear of even lining

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Speaker 2: up against the New England Patriots. Not that we ever

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Speaker 2: thought the Patriots had a chance to win the division

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Speaker 2: this year. But can you imagine what it's like in

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Speaker 2: New England. They're like, son of a gun. We haven't

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Speaker 2: even played those jokers yet and they've already won the division.

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Speaker 2: What the hell? Yeah, they can't even I didn't even

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Speaker 3: They're not there. Yeah, they're not even.

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Speaker 2: Everybody in the division lost yesterday or lost this past week.

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Speaker 2: By the way, it's crazy Dolphin's on Thanksgiving. And then

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Speaker 2: the Jets. We'll get to the Jets in just a second,

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Speaker 2: but we've got a lot to discuss about the Bills first.

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Speaker 2: Among the other details, Bills were the second team to

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Speaker 2: clinch a playoff berth in twenty twenty four. Chiefs did

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Speaker 2: it on Friday in the Black Friday Game, as their

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Speaker 2: opponent again threw away another opportunity to beat them. Raiders

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Speaker 2: in position, looks like they're setting up a game winning

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Speaker 2: field goal attempt and Aidan O'Connell messes up the snap count.

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Speaker 2: Jackson powers Johnson, the center snaps the ball. O'Connell's not

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Speaker 2: by the Chiefs. Chiefs win nineteen seventeen. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: am convinced. I am one hundred percent convinced. You cannot

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Speaker 2: convince me otherwise that Andy Reid has made a deal

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Speaker 2: with the devil. He is absolutely they made a deal

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Speaker 2: with the devil. Joby Dbiassi on the morning show on

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Speaker 2: WGR when I was on with him and Jeremy this morning, said,

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Speaker 2: the Bills are are using fun magic to win football games.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs are using dark magic. They have a deal

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Speaker 2: now at eleven and one, because the way in which

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Speaker 2: they are winning these football games is uncanny, like you

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Speaker 2: can't invent. Just when you think you can't invent any

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Speaker 2: more ways for the Chiefs to pull a game out

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Speaker 2: of their dairy air, they go ahead.

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Speaker 3: And do it. Yeah, they And there was you can

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Speaker 3: imagine given the calm and logical and sedate nature of

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Speaker 3: social media what people were saying about the way the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs won that game with the officials coming in.

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Speaker 2: Oh illegal shift, Yeah, it really was.

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Speaker 3: The play was a atrocity from the word go.

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Speaker 2: The Raiders screwed it up.

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Speaker 3: The Raiders. The Raiders screwed it up four different ways

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Speaker 3: from Sunday, but they came in that the officials came in.

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Speaker 3: One was inadvertently because the clock was stopped and it

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Speaker 2: I was too busy falling to my knees shouting no,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. I literally I'm in my living room

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Speaker 3: And the officials come off looking like it came off

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Speaker 2: We know that narrative. That really wasn't.

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Speaker 3: That's really not what happened. But man, ohman, it was

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Speaker 3: to the casual fan. They were they were like looking

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Speaker 2: So it was the work of Satan, that's what happened.

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Speaker 3: So the Chiefs. So the Chiefs come out, They're still

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Speaker 3: up anyway, and that's where it's going to stand until

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Speaker 3: you know, some team doesn't let them, you know, gets

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Speaker 2: Right. Five of the previous six teams to clinch their

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Speaker 2: season made the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The only team to actually go on and win the

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Speaker 3: The problem with that is there's so there's two months

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen became the first quarterback in NFL history to

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Speaker 2: one receiving touchdown in the win over the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 2: The list of games of players with zero receptions and

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Speaker 2: first time this has come up. So Jamiir Gibbs and

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Speaker 2: But I did a little bit of digging and I

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Speaker 2: the four times this has happened for a quarterback. Brad

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Speaker 2: Johnson did it for the Minnesota Vikings off a tip pass,

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Speaker 2: Josh did, and he may have done it in even

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Speaker 2: more impressive fashion. La Rams quarterback Frank Ryan October thirtieth

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Speaker 2: for some reason, just like Josh followed the play, his

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Speaker 2: to thirty five victory over the Detroit Lions. Nineteen sixty

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Speaker 2: So I got unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Is it me or do? And I think most Bills

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Speaker 2: He's ticked because he thought he's going in.

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Speaker 2: It's I talked to forty nine Ers radio play by

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Speaker 2: It should have been four takeaways for the Bills.

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Speaker 3: to have that gene. Obviously, the Chiefs seem to have

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Speaker 3: that gene. There are teams that when they get in

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Speaker 3: these type games, they find a way. The Minnesota Vikings,

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Speaker 3: same thing. They're you know, they seem to have something

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Speaker 3: up there that you know, they they thrive in those moments.

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Speaker 3: Baltimore does not. They'll beat you by fifteen a lot, yep,

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Speaker 3: but when it gets to be close, they seem to

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Speaker 3: crumble in those moments.

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Speaker 2: So let's go around the NFL here quickly, and we'll

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Speaker 2: get to phone calls in short order. Here at eight

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Speaker 2: h three zero five fifty one eighty eight five fifty

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Speaker 2: two five fifty But around the NFL presented by Kalida Healthy,

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Speaker 2: Official Healthcare System of the Buffalo Bills DFC Conference race

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Speaker 2: is beginning to show a bit of separation. And while

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Speaker 2: the Bills are still looking up at the Chiefs after

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Speaker 2: the Raiders blew a chance to beat them an arrowhead

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Speaker 2: last Friday, there are teams on Buffalo's heels now. The

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Speaker 2: Steelers are rounding into form. As we said, they are

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Speaker 2: now nine to three forty four to thirty eight win

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Speaker 2: over Cincinnati takeaways a part of that victory. Chargers bounce

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Speaker 2: back from their loss to Baltimore last week. They beat

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Speaker 2: the Falcons on the road seventeen thirteen to quietly improve

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Speaker 2: to eight and four on the season. Nobody's looking at

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Speaker 2: the Chargers because they're not at the top of their division.

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Speaker 2: With the Chiefs ahead of them, look out for that team.

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Speaker 2: They play the Chiefs on the road on Sunday Night

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Speaker 2: Football this week, and then there's another AFC West team

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Speaker 2: to worry about. The seven and five Broncos play tonight

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Speaker 2: as they host the Browns at Mile High. Steve and

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Speaker 2: I talked about this before coming on the air. As

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Speaker 2: you look at the AFC race, we know the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: are still the top dog, but after the Bills the

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Speaker 2: teams to worry about, in my opinion, Steelers, Chargers, Broncos,

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Speaker 2: they are all cresting right now as we come down

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Speaker 2: the stretch here at the end of the season. The

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Speaker 2: Ravens are still a part of that conversation, but they

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Speaker 2: got two main problems right now, giving up leads in

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter and their kicking game. The Ravens continue

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Speaker 2: to express confidence in Justin Tucker after the worst game

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Speaker 2: of the seven time Pro Bowl kickers career. Missed two

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Speaker 2: field goals and an extra point. As we said, it

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Speaker 2: was the difference in a five point loss to the

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles. It marked the first time in Tucker's career

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Speaker 2: in his thirteen seasons, that he missed three kicks in

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Speaker 2: a game. In a matter of three months, Tucker has

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Speaker 2: gone from being the most accurate kicker in NFL history

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Speaker 2: to having his job questioned. I mean he said it himself.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I cost us this one, but it

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Speaker 2: doesn't really do anybody any good to dwell on it.

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Speaker 2: So through thirteen weeks this season, Steve Tucker now ranks

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Speaker 2: thirty third in the NFL with a kicking success rate

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Speaker 2: of seventy point four percent. He has made ten kicks

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Speaker 2: in twelve games, eight field goals, two extra points. It

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Speaker 2: leads the NFL. This is a seismic problem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and Harball was asked, and they seem to

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Speaker 3: be gonna They're gonna stick with him. Going into the

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Speaker 3: game where he missed three kicks, he had already missed

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Speaker 3: seven kicks in the season, where that matched his career

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Speaker 3: high of missed kicks in an entire season. And they're

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Speaker 3: like just over halfway through. He's struggling. He's struggling, and

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Speaker 3: for a team like Baltimore in a race like they're in.

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Speaker 3: He was right. It cost him yesterday. It cost him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a costly loss in a very tight

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Speaker 2: AFC North race. We get a little more facetious Now,

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Speaker 2: Steve I saved this for you. Happy birthday to Jets

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Speaker 2: quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who turns forty one today and his

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Speaker 2: biggest birthday present was at his interim head coach Jeff

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Speaker 2: Ulbrick said he will continue as the Jets starting quarterback.

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Speaker 2: The Jets had a twenty one to seven lead in

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Speaker 2: the first half in playing the Seattle Seahawks at home

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Speaker 2: after a ninety nine yard kick return for a touchdown,

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Speaker 2: But in typical Jets fashion, they collapse and the Seahawks

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Speaker 2: score nineteen unanswered points to win twenty six to twenty one.

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Speaker 2: So to put the space time continuum that the Jets

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Speaker 2: live in, let me just.

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Speaker 3: Paint the picture.

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Speaker 2: The Jets play the Seahawks yesterday. They're facing a former

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Speaker 2: second round pick of THEIRS in quarterback Geno Smith. A

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Speaker 2: former first round pick at quarterback Mark Sanchez is doing

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Speaker 2: the broadcast for Fox. Their former GM Mike Tannenbaum is

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Speaker 2: in the midst of a search for the next GM

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Speaker 2: and head coach, as he's part of a search committee

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Speaker 2: hired by Woody Johnson, the owner. And here's the best part.

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Speaker 2: Tannembaum hired as GM fifteen years Ago is being lobbied

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Speaker 2: by Rex Ryan, who he hired fifteen years ago for

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Speaker 2: the job now as head coach. And to cap it

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Speaker 2: all off, what started the nineteen unanswered point swing by

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Speaker 2: the Seahawks was former Jets' first round pick defensive end

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Speaker 2: Leonard Williams, who went ninety two yards on an interception

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Speaker 2: return for a touchdown. The former Jets first round pick

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Speaker 2: for the Seahawks finishes with two sacks, three tackles for loss,

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Speaker 2: and a pick six. You cannot you cannot be any

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Speaker 2: more jetsy than that.

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Speaker 3: The Jets were awash in bad karma. They were neck

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Speaker 3: deep in it by all the guys they picked and

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Speaker 3: were part of their absolute frustrations over the last fifteen years.

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Speaker 3: All of them are circling and just kicking them in

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Speaker 3: the teeth.

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Speaker 2: This is a defensive end that went ninety two yards.

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Speaker 3: Leonard Williams picking that off, dropping back in the coverage,

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Speaker 3: catching the tip pass and just going the distance is

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Speaker 3: just I mean, if I'm a if you're a Jets fan,

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Speaker 3: you almost want to stick your finger down your throat.

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Speaker 3: I mean, just you just you gotta get it out.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you've gotta be sick. Just sick over the

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Speaker 3: way that game went yesterday and all the former Jets

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Speaker 3: and all the stuff going on. Aaron Rodgers turns forty one,

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Speaker 3: he may as well turn seventy one today. They look

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Speaker 3: they are so dysfunctional. It is just awful.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you right it.

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Speaker 3: The Seahawks looked, they looked like they were struggling, they

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Speaker 3: had all kinds of problems going on the first half.

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Speaker 3: They come back and score all those points. And let

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Speaker 3: me just tell you something, how good does Geno Smith feel?

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Speaker 3: And the end of that game?

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Speaker 2: How good does Leonard Williams feel? All players who were

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Speaker 2: cast off and they're actually good players.

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Speaker 3: The Jets can actually draft good players. They just don't

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Speaker 3: know how to develop. And I'll say this too. You

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Speaker 3: gotta sitting up there And I didn't listen to the game,

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Speaker 3: so I don't know what he said. But Mark Sanchez

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Speaker 3: sitting up in the booth fifth pick, He's got to

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Speaker 3: be sitting there going, yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 2: I've seen this movie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I played that. I played that role better than

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers played it.

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Speaker 2: Anybody remember the Butterfly I was?

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Speaker 3: I was? I was better at this than Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: I was a better character.

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Speaker 2: I went to the AFC title game two years in

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Speaker 2: a row with this team. How great am I?

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's all Meanwhile, up this little voice from

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Speaker 3: the top rows Rex Ryan going, I can fix it.

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Speaker 3: I can fix it. I can fix it.

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Speaker 2: I know how to handle it.

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Speaker 3: I can do this. Dude, it is bad. I would

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Speaker 3: so bad. I would welcome Oh are you kidding me? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're not gonna hire Recks there.

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Speaker 2: Are you sure about that? Are you sure about I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna say.

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Speaker 3: Yes, save this show.

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Speaker 2: Gonna say save this show.

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Speaker 3: They will not hire Rex Ryan to coach be the

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Speaker 3: head coach of the Jets. I will say yes, they

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Speaker 3: will not will There's no way. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I'm tentatively saying that because I because you just don't know. Listen,

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Speaker 3: you know, you know me, I'm I'm kind of I've

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Speaker 3: got to try to keep an even keila up here.

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Speaker 3: And I'm you know, I'm most of these teams deserve

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Speaker 3: the benefit because they're trying to do the right thing

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Speaker 3: for these reasons. And but listen what we have witnessed

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Speaker 3: from think about where we were, Brownie. We were at

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Speaker 3: a spot with this Jets team we were, we were looking.

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Speaker 3: I was going, man, they're.

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Speaker 2: Oh, they actually put some to the class draft classes together,

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Speaker 2: like they're actually drafting line of scrimmage players in the draft.

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Speaker 5: Amazing.

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Speaker 3: I made the joke that we missed a holiday because

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Speaker 3: we can't. You couldn't make fun of the Jets draft

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Speaker 3: like we usually do.

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Speaker 2: And dude, we're right back in that same place.

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Speaker 3: They didn't just light it on fire. They hit it

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Speaker 3: with a flamethrower. There's like a YouTube video.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then brought in a case of TNT and

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Speaker 2: hit the plunger at the same time.

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Speaker 3: What are they doing?

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Speaker 2: What are they doing? Indeed, we gotta take a break.

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Speaker 2: We will get to your phone calls though, when we return.

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Speaker 2: So if you're holding at eight h three oh five

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Speaker 2: fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty

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Speaker 2: stay where we are. We will get to you as

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Speaker 2: we are taking your phone calls. We want your biggest

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Speaker 2: takeaways from yesterday's twenty five point victory on Sunday Night

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Speaker 2: Football over the defending NFC champions Back in a flash.

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Speaker 2: Here on a Buffalo victory Monday on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 2: presented by Colide Help, It's Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 6: Radio takes a snap quick hitter thrown behind but somehow

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Speaker 6: caught and now lateral to Alan and reaching for the pylon.

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: It's a touchdown? Unbelievable.

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Speaker 6: A catch by Amari Cooper, a lateral to Josh Allen

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Speaker 6: and he runs the remaining five yards for the score.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen that one before?

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Speaker 2: This week's Player of the Game is quarterback Josh Allen's

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Speaker 2: surprise surprise thirteen to seventeen passing fo one hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty eight yards, two touchdowns, a rushing touchdown, and a

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Speaker 2: receiving touchdown. The Player of the Game presented by Wegmans,

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Speaker 2: the official tailgate headquarters of the Buffalo Bills. Get your

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Speaker 2: including mild Wing, Hot Wing, and the new flavor this year,

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Speaker 2: Sweet and Spicy Barbecue Sauce. Pretty straightforward, There no argument

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Speaker 2: for me. He was ridunculous as you usual and may

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Speaker 2: have vaulted himself into the MVP winner.

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Speaker 3: He's this week's He's this week's favorite, right, I mean yeah?

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Speaker 3: And that's after coming off the bye week where he

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Speaker 3: went into the bye week as the favorite after the

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Speaker 3: twenty six yard fourth and two against the Chiefs, and

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Speaker 3: that's he just keeps doing it. He's done it weekend,

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Speaker 3: week out all year, and that's where he belongs. We will,

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Speaker 3: you know, Bills fans will tell you that's he's been

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Speaker 3: the MVP years before this as well. But you never

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Speaker 3: know until the till the votes are cast. So certainly

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Speaker 3: Bills fans aren't trading Josh Allen for anybody right now.

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Speaker 2: I saw in Good Morning Football they were comparing which

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Speaker 2: one is the play of the year, Josh Allen's run

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Speaker 2: to the pylon off a lateral or the Saquon Barkley

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Speaker 2: reverse hop over a player. Those are the two images they.

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Speaker 3: Were Snowstorm adds something to Josh's well and he actually

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Speaker 3: scored on the play, and he scored on the play.

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Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley did not. It's a twelve yard run. The

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Speaker 2: most spectacular twelve yard run.

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Speaker 3: I'm not taking anyth away from Saquon was it was

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Speaker 3: nobody's ever done for the moment and being creative and

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Speaker 3: having being that kind of guy in that moment. That'll

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Speaker 3: give you an idea of where these guys heads are.

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Speaker 3: They're just they're just doing. They're just coming up with

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Speaker 3: stuff backyard football. Yeah, they are doing in the moment

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Speaker 3: something that not very many people are built or equipped

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00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 3: to do, or have the confidence or ability to do

653
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 3: the knowledge of their own abilities to do. It's pretty fun.

654
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's pretty fun. Fun with a capital Fuh.

655
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones though, at eight oh three

656
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 2: five fifty eight five fifty two, five fifty to see

657
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: what's your biggest takeaways from the game were, And we

658
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 2: lead off with Tom on the west side. What do

659
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 2: you got first?

660
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 7: Tom, Hey, Brownie, and Steve Oh. First off, Amari Cooper

661
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 7: should get in a fifth stole that touchdown. He didn't

662
00:36:53,840 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 7: get any credit for it. Uh, I'm wondering they were

663
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 7: they able to pull off that drone show at halftime?

664
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: And now I got scraped.

665
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, they got grounded. Okay, I got to a quick story.

666
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 7: I gotta tell you. I was downtown Saturday morning running

667
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 7: an errand, and I know the Niners got in on Friday.

668
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 7: So I'm in this local coffee shop downtown and I

669
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 7: ordered my food and I ran my errand, and when

670
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 7: I came back to pick up my food, there's this big,

671
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 7: tall guy. I'm six foot, and he was wearing a

672
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 7: Niners jacket. It didn't have anything on the back of it.

673
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 7: It was a real nice jacket, but it didn't. I

674
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 7: just knew he was the Niners. So I walk up

675
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 7: to him. I say, excuse me so I can get

676
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 7: by him, and I go, are you in town for

677
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 7: the game? And he's like yeah. So I'm sizing him

678
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 7: up and down, and because I swear to God, I'm

679
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 7: six foot and he had to be ahead higher on me.

680
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 7: And I'm thinking, who was this guy who wasn't kittled

681
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 7: because the town wasn't long enough. So I look at

682
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 7: his jacket and I go, you might want a warmer jacket.

683
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 7: I go they sell him at the bills store and

684
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 7: he goes, do they have him in red? And I

685
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 7: look around, I go red, white, and blue. And then

686
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 7: when I was leaving, I look back up but and

687
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 7: I go gold builds and I'm just psychful he didn't

688
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 7: punch me in the back of the head.

689
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Speaker 2: Yeah all right, Tom, wait to stick up for your crew, though,

690
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 2: uh job well done. You probably uh had a lineman

691
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 2: there if he's a head taller than you. I mean,

692
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 2: as we say all the time, they're the one percenters,

693
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: and you don't really realize until you're standing next to

694
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 2: one in a coffee shop and going, oh, okay, he's

695
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 2: pretty big.

696
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 3: Yeah. Plus he could probably outrun you. Tom. I'm just

697
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 3: saying so you don't want it's just.

698
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 2: A guess, but an educated one by Steve. Yeah, be

699
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: careful out there. Uh, let's go to Kevin and Hamburg next.

700
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 2: What's up Kevin?

701
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, you thanks for taking my holiday.

702
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you too.

703
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 8: It was awesome the way we played. I mean, we

704
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 8: looked like world beaters out there. However, the only thing

705
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 8: I'm scared about, and I'm sure you're gonna hear it

706
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 8: from other Bills fans the rest of the week is

707
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 8: our run defense, and I'm sure you're gonna hear it

708
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 8: again because you've probably heard it. I'm worried because Christian McCaffery,

709
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 8: before he got hurt, was gashing us pretty bad. And

710
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 8: if we played a running back who's not injured getting

711
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 8: off an injury. I don't know who the Rams running

712
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 8: back is next week, but I know David Montgomery comes

713
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 8: up in two weeks, and I do not like the

714
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 8: thought of him gashing us for some big runs if

715
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 8: he don't get hurt and then the week against the

716
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 8: Packers because he looks like he'd be a scary running

717
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 8: back if we can stop McCaffery and he's injured.

718
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you got a factor in the weather

719
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: a little bit here, Kevin. I understand the concern. You know,

720
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, the Niners average five

721
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: point seven and carry not for nothing. The Bill's average

722
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 2: five point eight and had about eighty yards more than

723
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 2: the Niners did in this one. And yes they were

724
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 2: shorthanded defensively due to injuries and stuff. But here's the problem,

725
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 2: and Eric Wood pointed this out on the broadcast. When

726
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 2: you're coming downhill with a running game coming straight at you,

727
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: the angle of entry for the safeties and the linebackers

728
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 2: is narrow, and to change direction with footing like that

729
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 2: and shift your body to change your alignment and angle

730
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: of entry in a gap is very hard. So what

731
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:36,439
Speaker 2: happens You end up reaching with arm tackles, and most

732
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,720
Speaker 2: backs in this league are big enough and strong enough

733
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 2: and powerful enough to power through most arm tackles in

734
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 2: the league, especially arm tackles from two hundred pound safeties,

735
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 2: so it becomes advantage offense. They know where they are going.

736
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Speaker 2: Defenders have to react to the decisions of those players,

737
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 2: and with footing like that, it is supremely difficult.

738
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to plant harder to react than you do.

739
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 2: And sometimes slow down too. Right, So now you're slower.

740
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 3: But I'll say this about you know, the players left

741
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 3: on the Bill schedule. You're you're worried about the running

742
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 3: back in Detroit.

743
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 2: You're you know Tyrone Williams.

744
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've also got You've also got the Rams and

745
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 3: Matt so Stafford is Matt Stafford, the whole crew, Puka

746
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 3: and Nakua Cooper Cup. Every team you play coming in,

747
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 3: I don't care if it's the Jets and the Patriots

748
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 3: at the end of the season, they've all got great players. Ye. Yeah,

749
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 3: the Bills have a plan for those guys, and yeah

750
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 3: they're gonna You're gonna give up some plays there. You're

751
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 3: playing against a really good competition. Don't be afraid of

752
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 3: playing against great players. And don't think that just because

753
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 3: they're great players that we you know, we have no

754
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 3: plan and have no way to match up with them.

755
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 3: That's what coaches are for, That's what great players on

756
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 3: your team are for. Look forward to those matchups the

757
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 3: Bills do, and it's that's why this is such a

758
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 3: fun season. The Bills have got a plan for all

759
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 3: those guys and they took it. They got punched in

760
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 3: the mouth by the Baltimore Ravens, But that game seems

761
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 3: like light years away from now. The only other game

762
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 3: they dropped was the Houston game the next week, and

763
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 3: you got walk And I said again, you walk out

764
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 3: of that Houston Texans game going, how do you.

765
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 2: Lose that game to those guys?

766
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 3: And the Texans have faltered?

767
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 2: All I want to point out the Bills played the

768
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 2: Ravens without Taron Johnson and Terrel Bernard on defense, right

769
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 2: that that's not nothing.

770
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 3: And I'll say this too. You think the Bills are

771
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 3: sitting there worried about the guys and the and the

772
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 3: Detroit Lions are really good, don't kid yourself. They got

773
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 3: some The Bills have got some teams on their schedule

774
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 3: that are really good. What do you think those teams

775
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 3: are looking at the Bills like like you think they're

776
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 3: not sitting there going, their fans aren't sitting there going.

777
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do with that?

778
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 5: So?

779
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's good teams on the schedule, the Rams, Lions,

780
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 3: and then you got the Patriots, Jets, Patriots, And there's

781
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 3: no love loss in there for those teams from the

782
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 3: Bills fans. But but, man, oh man, what do you

783
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 3: think those teams are sitting there thinking looking at this team. Yeah,

784
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 3: they got Josh Allen, but they also got James Cook,

785
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 3: they got oh my gosh, they got Amari Cooper and

786
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 3: they got Yeah, so.

787
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,240
Speaker 2: Lead the league and turnover differential. They have a plus

788
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: one thirty one points differential, second in the league to

789
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 2: only Detroit.

790
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, believe me, you got guys you can depend on,

791
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 3: So we'll see. That's why it's a fun sport.

792
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, break time for us, more of your phone calls

793
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 2: when we come back here on one Bills Live on

794
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 2: a Buffalo victory Monday. Stay with us. The numbers Didn't

795
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Speaker 2: Gambling problem called one eight seven seven eight. Hope and

799
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 2: why Josh Allen is the first quarterback in NFL history

800
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 2: with a passing rushing receiving touchdown. In the same game,

801
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 2: Allan passed Hall of Famer Jim Kelly for most total

802
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 2: touchdowns in franchise history with his touchdown throw to Matt

803
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 2: Collins to give him number two forty five. He accomplished

804
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,720
Speaker 2: it in just one hundred and six regular season games,

805
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:19,959
Speaker 2: compared to Kelly, who needed one hundred and sixty. Let's

806
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 2: get back to the phones for your biggest takeaways from

807
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 2: Buffalo's thirty five to ten throttling of the Niners in

808
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: Sunday Night Football. And next up is Cindy in Niagara Falls.

809
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 2: What's up, Cindy.

810
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 9: Hi guys, hippie holidays. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

811
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Speaker 9: I first off, wanted to say that congratulations to Josh

812
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 9: Allen on his engagement because he's got a sparkle in

813
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,760
Speaker 9: his eye that I haven't seen in a couple of years.

814
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 2: Oh really, this is I think this takes a woman's intuition,

815
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 2: Steve to see the sparkle, you know what I mean.

816
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 9: And the second thing is I see a freedom and Josh,

817
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 9: you know, I love the mantra that the Bills have.

818
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,240
Speaker 9: Now everybody eats. When I went to my nana's house,

819
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 9: everybody had to eat. You couldn't leave without eating, and

820
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 9: that's what the bills are going for now. And I

821
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 9: think that that Josh knows that he's got a good

822
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 9: backup all around, and he's not pressed to throw in

823
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 9: a nutsan who he's not pressed to use one player.

824
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 9: So I just I love it. We were so excited

825
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 9: by the game last night.

826
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Speaker 10: It was a good show.

827
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 4: So it's it all right.

828
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Speaker 2: Thanks Indy and tremendous analogies from you today, from the

829
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:55,479
Speaker 2: sparkling Josh's Eye to analogies to dinner at Nana's house.

830
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 2: Love them all. Congrats also, by the way, to Alec Anderson,

831
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 2: who also got engaged during the bye week. It wasn't

832
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 2: just Josh, but when you have a quarterback whose personality

833
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 2: and persona blocks out the sun, it's kind of hard

834
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: to see somebody else that god engaged the same week.

835
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: Alex probably like, seriously, Josh, you're gonna get engaged the

836
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 2: same week as me? But se lobby in any event,

837
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 2: both said yes, so good on you guys.

838
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 3: There's got a lot going on on a bye week,

839
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 3: got to get it in, so there you go. But yes,

840
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 3: it is done.

841
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 2: We've said this from the jump in the summertime that

842
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 2: it was going to be a much more democratic approach

843
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,720
Speaker 2: to the passing game this year. And you can argue,

844
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 2: and probably effectively so, that the Bills do not have

845
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 2: perhaps the same elite talent proven elite talent in their

846
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 2: receiving corps this year than they did last year. But

847
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 2: I would argue it's a better overall group and a

848
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 2: group with more upside. This group hasn't even hit their

849
00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 2: ceiling yet in terms of what they can do in

850
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 2: the passing game because of the youth and athleticism on

851
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 2: that roster. Keon Coleman hasn't played in a month.

852
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, plus yeah, plus the injuries that they've had to

853
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 3: sustain with Dalton k k hasn't played in We've seen

854
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 3: what Cooper and Keon Coleman on the field for one

855
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 3: game together. Yeah, So it's they've got a lot in

856
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 3: the tank that we'd like to see. And I'm certainly

857
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 3: and there's certainly they've gotten now with five games of

858
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 3: playing already in the playoffs, they got a chance to

859
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 3: experiment and do some things and find out about some

860
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 3: things as they head into the tournament without having to

861
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 3: worry so much about wrecking their season.

862
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 2: Yep, let's go to Jason and Rhode Island next. What's

863
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 2: up Jason, Hey, Christal Steve.

864
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 8: Good to be on with you.

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Speaker 11: I hope you guys had a great holiday as well.

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Speaker 11: To my biggest take thank you. My biggest takeaway, not

867
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 11: just from this game, but from the season, is what

868
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 11: a joy it is to root for a team that's

869
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 11: actually a well run organization. And I was happy to

870
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 11: see coach McDermott give mister a game ball because how

871
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 11: many of these owners let their egos get in the

872
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 11: way of allowing the football people to run, you know,

873
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 11: the football team. Jerry Jones, Woody Johnson looking right at

874
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 11: you guys, And to address the one of the callers

875
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 11: comments about the run game, I'm intrigued to see. I

876
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 11: love tarn Johnson, but I'm intrigued to see how Dorian Williams,

877
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 11: Matt Mulano, and Terrelle Bernard might share on the field,

878
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 11: at least against teams that like to run it light

879
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 11: up the middle. I think with the experience Strian Williams

880
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 11: has gotten this year, he's a little more reliable in

881
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 11: the past team, so you know, you could leave him

882
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 11: out there a little bit more just a little wrinkle

883
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 11: that teams haven't seen Yetcause those guys haven't been on

884
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 11: the field together. Yeah, thanks you for taking my call.

885
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 2: Go Bill's it's a valid point. You're right, that's something

886
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 2: to your point about experimentation that you.

887
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 3: Can can find her with. They can find out some

888
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 3: stuff about this crew without having it wrecked their season,

889
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 3: like I just said, and it's it'll be interesting Secene now. Also,

890
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 3: I mean they're going to chase the one seed pretty hard,

891
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 3: no question about it. And they should and absolutely they

892
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 3: should the coming think about it coming off of bye.

893
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 3: They're pretty good coming off a bye, and they would

894
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 3: get one and then you get it, So it's it's

895
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 3: worth chasing. But there's also gonna be some space to

896
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 3: find out how other teams view their roster with everybody healthy,

897
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 3: with Cooper on the field, with Keon, Coleman on the

898
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 3: field and Shakir on the field, or King Kaid on

899
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 3: the field and Cooper on the field, or Kinkaid and

900
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 3: Coleman on the field with Shakir. I mean, there's a

901
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 3: lot of combinations. And this season has really been a

902
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 3: revelation for Bills fans and the media at large. Nationally.

903
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 3: We've we've had a lot of fun dunking on the

904
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 3: people who counted the Bills out. It's been great. But

905
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 3: there were a lot of question marks coming into this

906
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 3: season about guys we didn't know about. Well, actually, you

907
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 3: know now we do know about them. We know Mac

908
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 3: Collins can contribute, we know Amari Cooper can play, we

909
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 3: know Keon Coleman now can play. Samuel Khalis Shakir is

910
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:05,439
Speaker 3: an accepted really a force for the Bills, James Cook

911
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 3: and Ray Davis, Dalton Knox last night catching a thirty

912
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 3: nine yard or out of their own end zone, Dawson

913
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 3: Knox uh coming coming out of the end zone. They

914
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 3: got a ton of dudes who can really play at

915
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 3: this level. And now you can do some things with

916
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 3: personnel mixtures, with shifts and motions that will tell you

917
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 3: what other teams see in your team. They got to

918
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 3: match up with all these guys. How are they gonna

919
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 3: do it? Oh, you're gonna do that? Well, what are

920
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 3: you gonna do? If we do this? Then you know

921
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 3: there's a lot of that going on, you know, with

922
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 3: with these two coordinators, with Bobby Babbage and of course

923
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:45,720
Speaker 3: Joe Brady. So there's a lot of stuff Joe Brady

924
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 3: can throw at defenses now that is gonna force their hand.

925
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 3: And when you get teams kind of trying to over

926
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 3: commit towards something they're vulnerable, and that's and the Bills

927
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,959
Speaker 3: now have whatever they need to take advantage of wherever

928
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:01,959
Speaker 3: they're vulnerable. That's pretty fun.

929
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Speaker 2: Break time for us here. When we come back to

930
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 2: begin our number two here on a Buffalo Football Monday,

931
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 2: we will be joined by my broadcast partner on the

932
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Speaker 2: Bills Radio Network, Eric Wood, to get his take on

933
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 2: last night's performance by the Bills in their twenty five

934
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 2: point victory over the forty nine Ers. And if you

935
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 2: were waiting last hour to hear the game rewind, we

936
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Speaker 2: will have that for you to begin our number two.

937
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Speaker 2: So if you're waiting patiently for that, we'll have it

938
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Speaker 2: for you next here on One Bill's Live.

939
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Speaker 1: The One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health in Bag

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Speaker 1: like DEVINV.

941
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 2: Welcome to Buffalo's fifth primetime game of the regular season,

942
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:11,879
Speaker 2: Bill's Mafia, as we are coming to you live from

943
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,479
Speaker 2: Orchard Park, New York, here at a wintery high Mark

944
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 2: Stadium for this Week thirteen matchup is the nine and

945
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 2: two Buffalo Bills play host to the five and six

946
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: San Francisco forty nine ers. Handoff goes to Davis, gonna

947
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 2: pounce it outside, race to the pylon, and he dives

948
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 2: into the end zone for a five yard touchdown.

949
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 6: Run Ray Davis with clear sailing to the end zone

950
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,959
Speaker 6: as Buffalo is on the board with the leaves. Here's

951
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 6: the handoff to Cook through a hole and away and

952
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 6: into the secondary.

953
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 5: Forty thirty twenty.

954
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 2: They're not gonna get up James Cook and go sixty

955
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 2: five yards for a touchdown. Is unbelievable.

956
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 6: Back to pass has time, looks, fires to the right

957
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 6: corner to back Hollins who pulls it in for the

958
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 6: seven yard touchdown. Reception barefoot is beautiful. They give it

959
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 6: to the upback, use check through a hole, the balls loose,

960
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 6: it's fumbled at the five and it's picked up and

961
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 6: coming the other way. Is Christian Fenford forty five fifteen

962
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,760
Speaker 6: and he's fourth out of bounds. You know, takes a snap,

963
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 6: quick hitter thrown behind, but somehow fought and now lateral

964
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 6: to Alan and reaching for the pylon.

965
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

966
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 6: It's a touchdown unbelievable.

967
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 5: To my house.

968
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 2: Don't be quiet.

969
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 6: Here's the snap Alan back to pass as time steps

970
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 6: up in the pocket, wots the tucket and run on

971
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 6: his feet to the five and into the end zone.

972
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 2: The beast does it again. Josh Allen, with his second

973
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 2: rushing touchdown of the games.

974
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Speaker 12: Bill's in convincing fashion beat the San Francisco forty nine

975
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 12: Ers thirty five to ten, and with that victory, they

976
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 12: have flinched their fifth consecutive Afcast Crown.

977
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 2: Five Division titles in a row. For your Buffalo Bills

978
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Speaker 2: and to talk about it with us now, we welcome

979
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Speaker 2: in my broadcast partner on the Bills Radio Network, Eric Wood,

980
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 2: who joins us now after I don't know, I mean,

981
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 2: these last two games, it'd be pretty hard to stack

982
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 2: back to back on the fun meter any better than this.

983
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 2: I mean, I talked about it on the morning show

984
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 2: with the guys on gr You know you hear the

985
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 2: hardball is always saying who's got it better than us,

986
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 2: who's had more fun than us in the last three weeks?

987
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 5: Seriously, no, I agree? Can you throw the bye weekend

988
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 5: there as well? And hopefully you guys had some fun

989
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 5: on the bye week too, but not with you. Chris.

990
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 5: After the Kansas City game at home, I said, that

991
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 5: might have been the most fun I've ever had on

992
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 5: a broadcast. It was just big boy football. It wasn't

993
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 5: a blowout. Both teams were making plays. You saw some

994
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 5: vintage Mahomes types plays, Gosh made plays. There was turnout.

995
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 5: I mean, it was just an exciting competitive game to call.

996
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 5: And then last night obviously not quite as competitive, but

997
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 5: with the snow falling and people slipping and falling and

998
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 5: then some nice run game on both sides, Josh to

999
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 5: put on a performance like he did, it was it

1000
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 5: was another special night, that's for sure.

1001
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 3: As we get into it a little bit of the

1002
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 3: big picture. We came into these last couple of games

1003
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 3: before the bye the chief You had the Chiefs, Niners, Rams, Lions.

1004
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 3: Four games that looked like, wow, I don't know, you know,

1005
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 3: we gotta you really got to get ready to play

1006
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 3: it now. The way the Bills have won these first

1007
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 3: two games going into La, no doubt they may be

1008
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 3: a road favorite against the La Rams going in there.

1009
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 3: That this sets up, and think about it. If the

1010
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 3: Bills beat the Rams, find a way to beat the Rams,

1011
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 3: and the Chargers step up to beat the Chiefs in

1012
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 3: two weeks. The Detroit Lions is the one seed in

1013
00:55:58,280 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 3: the NFC and the Bills is the one in the

1014
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 3: AC That shapes up to be an absolute marquee matchup.

1015
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 3: In the big picture, the Bills are really I don't

1016
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 3: know if you could ask for them. Even if they're

1017
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 3: the one seed right now, you couldn't ask for a

1018
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 3: better spot for them to be in, particularly the way

1019
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 3: their roster's shaping up.

1020
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're exactly right. They're getting healthy at the right

1021
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 5: time right now. And then the way those final three

1022
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 5: games of the season sit with teams that are eliminated

1023
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 5: from the playoffs, how you know how much fight are

1024
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 5: those teams gonna have in them? Who are they even

1025
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 5: going to be play as Aaron Robbs, You're gonna play

1026
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 5: for the Jets at that point, that's all to be determined.

1027
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:36,720
Speaker 5: And so you got to go take care of business

1028
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 5: these next two weeks and then hope that Kansas City

1029
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 5: can drop one along the way. But you're right, that

1030
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 5: is going to be a big boy matchup in Detroit

1031
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,800
Speaker 5: in a couple of weeks against two of the league's

1032
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 5: you know teams that that everyone wants to root for.

1033
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 13: You know this.

1034
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,720
Speaker 5: Everyone loves Dan Campbell and the lines and their story

1035
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 5: and how much heart they play with. And people love

1036
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 5: watching Josh Allen and this Bills team. They're just so likable,

1037
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 5: the personalities, the style of play with both teams. It

1038
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 5: may it has a shot to break that Chiefs record

1039
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 5: or the Chiefs number that the Bills Chiefs Games put

1040
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 5: up a couple weeks ago, biggest audience on television since

1041
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 5: two thousand and seven in a Brady Manning matchup. It

1042
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 5: is a chance to break that one if both teams

1043
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 5: I'll just say this, not if, especially if both teams

1044
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 5: handle their business this weekend. So the Bill's got to

1045
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 5: go across the country to LA. It's a familiar trip

1046
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 5: for them, and most of the guys on the roster

1047
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 5: had made that trip out there these last couple of years.

1048
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 5: They obviously beat the Rams two years ago, and then

1049
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 5: they traveled all the way out there last year in

1050
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:47,919
Speaker 5: a head coaching change, Gift Smith inspired Charger team able

1051
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 5: to get the win when they absolutely had two playoff

1052
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 5: playoffs were completely on the line, but they got it

1053
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 5: done these last couple of years. Going out to La.

1054
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk about the point scoring prowess of this

1055
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 2: Bills team in a minute, but I want to give

1056
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 2: the defense and special teams a little bit of credit here.

1057
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 2: We knew the Bills had at least one takeaway in

1058
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 2: each of their first eleven games, and they get three

1059
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 2: takeaways via fumbles, two of them forced, one on special

1060
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 2: teams on a shot by Cole Bishop that coughs the

1061
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 2: ball loose from Deebo Samuel. The other obviously a humongous

1062
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 2: play by Taylor Rap Kyle Yuschak's going in for a

1063
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 2: touchdown from the five yard line and he punches it

1064
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 2: out with yet another peanut punch. He also had a

1065
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 2: touchdown saving tackle on Christian McCaffrey before that in the

1066
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 2: first quarter, actually leads to Christian McCaffrey's injury. But just

1067
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 2: the job by Taylor Rap and company here all season

1068
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 2: long in getting extra possessions for this Bill's offense.

1069
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you're a defense that can take the football away,

1070
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 5: you can really put your offense, obviously in a position

1071
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 5: to be able to score more points. This is a

1072
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 5: Bills team, and some of it's just the way that

1073
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 5: the Bills had blown teams out, so they haven't had

1074
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 5: to keep their foot on the gas the entire game.

1075
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 5: And you know, you have a couple offensively lacklesser performances

1076
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 5: in those early two losses in the season. But you know,

1077
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 5: when you look at the yardage and all of that

1078
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 5: from this Bills offense, it doesn't necessarily equate to what

1079
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 5: you see when you look at the points per game.

1080
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 5: The Bills went into last night top three in the

1081
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 5: NFL in points per game. But the couple of reasons

1082
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 5: for that is one, they're getting a ton of turnovers

1083
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 5: defensively for the Bills, that put them in good positions.

1084
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 5: And then also when you look at the red zone

1085
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 5: scoring percentage, they went four for four scoring touchdowns in

1086
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 5: the red zone last night. They came into that game

1087
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 5: six in the NFL. I expect them to jump now

1088
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 5: into the top five. And so when you're able to

1089
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 5: take the football away from the other team, play pretty

1090
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 5: sound on special teams, and you're able to score touchdowns

1091
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 5: in the red zone, well now that's going to give

1092
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 5: you that top three scoring offense in the league.

1093
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as you look look back that the Bills

1094
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 3: now are fifty They were fifty percent again last night

1095
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 3: on third down and one hundred on fourth down. They're

1096
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 3: climbing the rankings after struggling out of the gate when

1097
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 3: they're finding more and more, finding out more and more

1098
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 3: about the guys on their team. There. I said this

1099
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 3: to Brownie, and I've been making this point for a

1100
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 3: couple of weeks now. They got so many guys at

1101
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 3: the skill positions on this team that have come through

1102
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 3: and contributed to wins and become dependable parts of the offense.

1103
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 3: Defenses are really gonna have a full menu of guys

1104
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 3: they've got to match up with. It's a real problem

1105
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 3: for this offense. It's like it's like we thought it

1106
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 3: might be if you spun everything positive at the beginning

1107
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 3: of the year with all the if all these question

1108
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 3: marks turn out to be the answers. Yes, well that's

1109
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 3: where they are. That's where they are right now. And

1110
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 3: as you said, they're getting healthy. What are defense is

1111
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 3: going to be up against when a Cooper is healthy,

1112
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 3: fully healthy, when Keon Coleman's back on the field, can

1113
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 3: Caag's back on the field, and you got all these

1114
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 3: other guys that have been winning games anyway, Well, you.

1115
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 5: Said it correctly, Steve. This is what we hope the

1116
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 5: offense will gonna look like and it's turned out to

1117
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 5: be true where you have everybody contributing and everybody that

1118
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 5: you'd hope to make steps. You know, Keon Coleman's made

1119
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 5: some plays as a rookie. Well, Lamar Cooper wasn't there

1120
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 5: in the preseason. You got and get a you know,

1121
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 5: guy to established number one receiver throughout his career. You

1122
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 5: missed Dalton Kincaid these last two weeks. You know, at

1123
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 5: the beginning of the season, we're gonna say we would

1124
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 5: have said that was our number one thread in the

1125
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 5: passing game. That's the guy we can't lose. And we

1126
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 5: see Dawson Knock step up and do what he always does,

1127
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 5: especially late in the season. I made that point of

1128
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 5: the broadcast I last night, Chris. It's like, as the

1129
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 5: season goes on, it gets later and colder. Man, I'm

1130
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 5: throwing it to Dawson Knox in those snowy, windy games.

1131
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 5: You know, it's almost like at times he will use

1132
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 5: more body and arms just to like secure the football,

1133
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 5: not worry as much about the yards after the catch.

1134
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 5: But that guy shows up in playoff games in Orchard Park,

1135
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 5: these December games but it's gonna be tough. It's it's

1136
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 5: this Bill's offense. It's tough to prepare for. And to me,

1137
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 5: and I'm not just saying this because I'm a former center,

1138
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 5: it starts with the guys up front. When you're great

1139
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 5: in pass protection and you're great in the run game,

1140
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 5: you become very tough to prepare for as a team because, yes,

1141
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 5: the Bills have weapons all over the field, and likely

1142
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 5: the Bill the NFL's MVP at quarterback. But when you

1143
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 5: go into a game and you have an offensive line

1144
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 5: that can road grade you, and they're also hard to

1145
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 5: penetrate with just a four man rush, so you can't

1146
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 5: really get to the quarterback. They're gonna make enough holes

1147
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 5: in the run game. Well now it's like, okay, yes,

1148
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 5: I got all these weapons, but we don't have a weakness.

1149
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 5: There's no weakness. I mean, you looked at that San

1150
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 5: Francisco offense last night, and even without you cannot out there,

1151
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 5: and you know, McCaffrey's kind of hobbled heading into the game.

1152
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 5: Their offensive line was weak enough that we weren't that

1153
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 5: worried about then. And so to me, this Bill's offensive

1154
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 5: line is an X factor on that side of the ball.

1155
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 2: Let's talk about Matt Mulano's return to the lineup. He

1156
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 2: gets thirty seven snaps last night out of the forty

1157
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 2: eight that the defense was on the field. That's seventy

1158
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 2: seven percent of the snaps. We saw him come off

1159
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 2: the field during the dime package downs, mostly on third downs,

1160
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 2: probably shaking off some rust, as you would expect after

1161
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 2: missing almost fourteen months of regular season football. But what

1162
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 2: did you see from him through the course of the

1163
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 2: game last night.

1164
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, to me, the second level defenders last night were

1165
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 5: I mean, it was tough. None of them have footing.

1166
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 5: You saw what the Bills were able to do in

1167
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 5: the run game to the forty nine ers, and at

1168
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 5: times the forty nine ers were able to gash some runs.

1169
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 5: When you don't have footing and you have to react

1170
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 5: to what the offense is doing, it could be difficult,

1171
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,480
Speaker 5: especially when it's your first action in fourteen months. But

1172
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 5: to me, I'm just excited about him being able to

1173
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 5: get back in the flow of the game. You know,

1174
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 5: they didn't have a huge snap count defensively, and they

1175
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 5: took him off for a few you know, don plays

1176
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 5: here and there, and then you know backups in maybe

1177
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 5: towards the end of the game, but at a few

1178
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 5: different spots. But to me, it's awesome to see him

1179
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 5: back out there. It was great to me to even

1180
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 5: see him not necessarily even be on a every other

1181
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 5: series rotation, which would maybe allude to him not being

1182
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 5: in game shape. I know he's I played with Mavlano

1183
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 5: for one season. I know what his work ethic looks like.

1184
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 5: You can tell by the way his physique is how

1185
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 5: hard he works. And so to me it was a

1186
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 5: great sign that, hey, this isn't a guy that we

1187
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 5: had to work back into playing shape. You know, Yes,

1188
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 5: we're gonna keep our Din package the same for now.

1189
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 5: I would expect that moving forward there would be a

1190
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 5: lot of times where we played the Din package similar

1191
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 5: to Kansas City, where take a defensive tackle off the

1192
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 5: field and leave Mavelano and Treil Bernard out there. But

1193
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 5: Matt's as good as it gets. The media doesn't get

1194
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 5: to see a ton for Matt because he's so quiet,

1195
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 5: but a great person, great player.

1196
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 14: I was.

1197
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 5: It was heartwarming to see the ovation he got when

1198
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 5: he ran out of the tunnel last night.

1199
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's no question too the type of player

1200
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:52,760
Speaker 3: he is and the way we've come to know him

1201
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 3: is perfect for what this defense seems to be about

1202
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 3: this year, and defense and good defenses within the NFL

1203
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 3: at long large, they're playmaking. It's hard to be a

1204
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 3: defense that stifles the run and you can't get a

1205
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 3: pass off on them because because of the limitations of

1206
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 3: what it takes to play defense in the league in

1207
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 3: this day and age, you kind of have to be

1208
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 3: to be a really good defense. You gotta be playing.

1209
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 3: You gotta make things happen. You gotta tip passes, you

1210
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 3: gotta pick passes off, you gotta punch the ball out

1211
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 3: on the goal line, all that stuff, and that is

1212
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 3: that's how we came to know and love Matt mlonald.

1213
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 3: That's exactly what he does. Now you've got Terrell Bernard,

1214
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 3: that's what he does, Uh, Taryn John. It seems to

1215
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:38,160
Speaker 3: be the exact right type of player to raise this

1216
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 3: the whole level of this defense. We saw it last night.

1217
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 3: They had they should have had four turnovers. They got

1218
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 3: the three fumble recoveries, and then you know, uh, Damar

1219
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 3: Hamlin's interception got called back. We were rolling our eyes like,

1220
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 3: I hope this isn't gonna be one of those kind

1221
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 3: of games. But you could have choked up four turnovers

1222
01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 3: last night. That's exactly what it takes to be a

1223
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 3: difference making defense in this day and age of the NFL.

1224
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 3: And that's what Matt mlonald fits exactly into.

1225
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he's got ten career interceptions, He's forced

1226
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 5: a ton of fumbles. He's always heading to the football,

1227
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 5: so he gets a lot of fumble recoveries. To me,

1228
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 5: he gets a lot of tackles for loss. So those

1229
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 5: are those are drive stoppers. Okay, No, you can't go

1230
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 5: into a game and just get the ball ran down

1231
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 5: your throat like you did at Baltimore. Obviously that we

1232
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 5: all know that's the case. But if the teams aren't

1233
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 5: able to chunk you on the ground as soon as

1234
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 5: you go get one of those tackles for loss as

1235
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 5: you stop him for three yards. Think back to last

1236
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 5: night San Francisco's drive and they tried this like q

1237
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:41,800
Speaker 5: little draw in the backfield. They stop him for a

1238
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 5: five yard loss. Now they're at second and fifteen, they

1239
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 5: might have call him four yard loss, second and fourteen.

1240
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 5: Drive stops, missed field goal. Bill's get the ball back

1241
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 5: it's those linebackers can make those plays in the backfield.

1242
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 5: Those are the guys that when we headed into the week,

1243
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 5: we'd say, Okay, this guy over here, he's a jag,

1244
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 5: just a guy. These guys they play downhill. They can

1245
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 5: make the plays that you know are gonna end drives

1246
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 5: for us, not sit back and make plays at five

1247
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 5: and six yards over and over. These are the guys

1248
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 5: that make plays in the backfield. Bills have two of

1249
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 5: them at interrel Bernard and Matt Mlano. They're also both

1250
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 5: great and pass coverage, which they have two of those

1251
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 5: guys on the second level of your defense is extremely valuable.

1252
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 2: All right, So let's take a brief look at how

1253
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 2: the AFC Conference looks now eric and the Bills plays

1254
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 2: in it. We know they're still behind the Chiefs who

1255
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 2: pull out yet Another one is that I'm convinced they've

1256
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 2: made a deal with Satan as to how to use

1257
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 2: dark magic to win football games. But that being said,

1258
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 2: you've got other teams that are right on Buffalo's heels.

1259
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh's offense looks like it's raised itself to the level

1260
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:49,560
Speaker 2: of their defense, and they look like a complete football

1261
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 2: team right now. As a matter of fact, they're the

1262
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 2: only team in the league with more takeaways than the Bills,

1263
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 2: with twenty five in twelve games, and they are nine

1264
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,120
Speaker 2: to three. They do have some tough games left on

1265
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 2: their schedule, but they're right there. Chargers are very quietly

1266
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 2: sneaking into this conversation, and I think the only reason

1267
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 2: people haven't looked at them longer is because the Chiefs

1268
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 2: are still ahead of them in their division, and Baltimore

1269
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 2: has a kicker problem and a fourth quarter points allowed problem.

1270
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 2: That is one of the reasons why they have slipped

1271
01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 2: to eight and five. And then you have an upstart

1272
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 2: Denver team who can move to eight and five and

1273
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 2: pull even with the Ravens if they can win on

1274
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 2: Monday Night Football tonight. Who do you look at as

1275
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 2: teams that are cresting similar to the Bills right now

1276
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 2: that people should keep an eye on here down the stretch.

1277
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say mainly it would be Pittsburgh. Obviously

1278
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 5: we're chasing Kansas City. I think that there is certainly

1279
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 5: losses that could be had out there for the Chiefs.

1280
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,680
Speaker 5: I mean, you play the Raiders and the Panthers these

1281
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 5: last two weeks and fortunate to squeak both of those

1282
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 5: ones out. I mean, they're completely playing with fire. You

1283
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 5: talk about making a deal with the devil. Well, ever

1284
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:04,280
Speaker 5: since Usin Tucker messed with Travis Kelcey and Patrick Mahomes

1285
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:07,719
Speaker 5: before the game, he's had his struggle, so that that curse.

1286
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 5: That's like, yes, they can win them games, but they

1287
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 5: can also put that curse on you and make you

1288
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 5: make your career go away. Justin Tucker, who prior to

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Speaker 5: that looked like the best kicker maybe in NFL history.

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Speaker 5: All that being said, Pittsburgh to me, just based upon

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Speaker 5: the fact that the AFC North isn't quite what we

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Speaker 5: thought it would be from a competitive standpoint, they get

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Speaker 5: that win last week against the Bengals offenses, rolling defense

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Speaker 5: is still healthy and it's a playmaking defense as well.

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Speaker 5: They got I mean, Cincinnati still able to put up

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Speaker 5: a ton of points on them, I believe thirty eight

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Speaker 5: points yesterday. But that Bengals defense is awful right now.

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Speaker 5: The biggest threat to me, obviously for the one seed

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Speaker 5: is Kansas City because you got to go chase them

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Speaker 5: and then for someone to potentially come up and take

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Speaker 5: the two seed from us. The Steelers to me seem like,

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Speaker 5: like you mentioned it, very complete team, very tough remaining schedule.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate, guys. I appreciate you guys putting up that graphic.

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Speaker 5: Me and christ we're talking about it yesterday, but I

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Speaker 5: couldn't remember exactly their remaining schedule. But you have that

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Speaker 5: Billy game, the Baltimore game, and Kansas City game still

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Speaker 5: left for the Steelers. But to me to find rest

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Speaker 5: of the way, to me, it's it's yes, it's great

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Speaker 5: that the Bills were able to close out the AFC,

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Speaker 5: you know, week thirteen, But to me, with that one

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Speaker 5: seed still very much in play, that makes it very

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Speaker 5: easy for Sean McDermott to say, look, we got five

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Speaker 5: weeks left. We got to get better every single week

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Speaker 5: and then we'll worry about you know, our bye week

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Speaker 5: will be first week of the playoffs, and I believe

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Speaker 5: that's what the message will be, you know, throughout these

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Speaker 5: you know, remaining five weeks.

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Speaker 2: All right, Eric, well, we appreciate the time. As always.

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Speaker 2: We'll see out la way at the end of the week.

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Speaker 5: All right, be good, yep, sounds good looking forward to

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Speaker 5: you guys.

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Speaker 2: All right, Eric would radio color analyst on the Bills

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Speaker 2: radio network, joining US as he does every Monday after

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Speaker 2: Bills games on Sundays, and uh yeah, the race is

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Speaker 2: shaping up and it is on and you know, the

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Speaker 2: Bills obviously have the one seed in mind in terms

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Speaker 2: of chasing down the Chiefs, but there are some other teams.

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Speaker 2: I think the Chargers looking at the fact that they

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Speaker 2: have a head to head game against Kansas City this

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Speaker 2: Sunday night on Sunday Night football, you win if the

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Speaker 2: If the Chargers win that game, suddenly they are two

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Speaker 2: games back in the lost column and they've gone even

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Speaker 2: in the head to head with four games to play,

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Speaker 2: and you could argue that the Chargers might have a

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Speaker 2: little bit easier schedule than even the Chiefs at that point. Well,

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Speaker 2: if they're playing a third place schedule, Chiefs are playing

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Speaker 2: a first place.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna then they got Tampa Bay, New England and

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Speaker 3: the Raiders and three the toughest game Denver would be

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Speaker 3: their toughest game left, and they got them at home

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Speaker 3: in LA. That's the Chargers are intriguing.

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Speaker 2: Don't sleep on those guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 2: The history Charging it's a thing, it's an adjective.

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Speaker 3: And they got me going. Now, Yeah, you're right, I

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Speaker 3: mean they're gonna turn into the New York Jets in

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Speaker 3: the last I don't know, not under Harrball they should

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Speaker 3: under Yeah, Jim Harbaugh's is a different cat. He'll he'll

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Speaker 3: have them playing well and you're, like you said, you're

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Speaker 3: calling it. They're cresting. Yeah, and that's big. That does

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Speaker 3: make a difference. You know, that win yesterday gets a

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Speaker 3: good Falcons team. I got four interceptions and still only

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Speaker 3: one by three or four. You got to play like that.

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Speaker 3: You gotta play like that. So there's something. They're not

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Speaker 3: a complete team at this moment. I wouldn't say, but

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Speaker 3: they're finding ways to win, and that's that's big at

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Speaker 3: this time of year.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a couple of phone calls here while we

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Speaker 2: have a couple of minutes, people waiting patiently give us

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Speaker 2: their takeaways from yesterday's twenty five point win over the

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers. To Stephen in Florida, what do you

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Speaker 2: got for a Steven Hey.

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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, guys. Yeah, I'll tell you what that win

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Speaker 4: yesterday from my point of view, you know, the one

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Speaker 4: against Case a couple of weeks ago, that was really sweet,

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Speaker 4: you know, with Josh running the longest run for a

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Speaker 4: touchdown twenty six yards and then take you know, picking

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Speaker 4: off Mahomes in the beginning and the end of the game.

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Speaker 4: But this one was definitely the sweetest because you know,

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Speaker 4: first of all, it's what I called the Snow Bowl,

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Speaker 4: so snow just never quit coming down, and of course

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Speaker 4: the Bills are used to that. But you know, everything

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Speaker 4: from you know, Cook's longest run for a TD, Josh

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Speaker 4: Allen stellar performance, all the you know, different records, and

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Speaker 4: you know, I was, of course AFC Champs fifth season

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Speaker 4: in a row, and I was looking this up. I

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Speaker 4: looked down their stat mus. Okay, the most points Buffalo

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Speaker 4: scored in the season was twenty twenty so this is

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Speaker 4: under Josh five hundred and one points. And then three

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Speaker 4: of the next other four seasons are also with Josh

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, twenty two, and twenty twenty three. So

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Speaker 4: they're on course to break that if they keep getting

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Speaker 4: thirty points a game or more. I know, they got

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Speaker 4: you know, a tough run with Detroit, UH, and you know,

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Speaker 4: a lot of people are saying that may be a

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Speaker 4: preview of a Super Bowl. Of course I was thinking too,

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Speaker 4: it might be really cool if you know, Buffalo ends

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Speaker 4: up back in the Big One against another team that's

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Speaker 4: been to the Super Bowl multiple times and has never won,

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Speaker 4: which is Minnesota. I think that would be pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I got to say all overall, the

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Speaker 4: the offense, the defense, the return of Matt Mulano, just

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Speaker 4: overall the way the Buffalo Bills put it to the

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Speaker 4: San Francisco forty nine ers and basically shut them down.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And I gotta say this too, Buffalo has beat back

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Speaker 4: to back the two teams that were in the Super

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Speaker 4: Bowl last year. So you know, I'm just ecstatic. This

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Speaker 4: is a great Monday, you know, victory celebration. And so

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm expecting the Bills to go all the

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Speaker 4: way this year. They've definitely got the potential to do that.

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Speaker 4: And you know, like Joe and Jeremy were saying this morning,

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Speaker 4: when you look throughout the NFL, there's very few teams

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01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:24,719
Speaker 4: out there now that have the same caliber of play

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01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 4: at the as the Bills, and I think they are

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Speaker 4: the team to beat.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: All right, Steven, thanks for the phone call. I'll leave

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Speaker 2: you with this before we go to break. I posted

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Speaker 2: this on my Twitter handle. I do it kind of

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Speaker 2: every week just because it's a league stat playoff percentages

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Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety based on how a team starts their season,

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Speaker 2: and I updated every week based on the outcome of

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Speaker 2: the Bills game. Now ten and two to start the season,

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the team since nineteen ninety to

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Speaker 2: start ten and two made the playoffs. The Bills have

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Speaker 2: already clinched a playoff berth as we know, having won

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Speaker 2: their division. Ninety percent of teams win their division when

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Speaker 2: they start the year ten and two, and twenty one

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Speaker 2: point six percent of teams that start the year ten

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Speaker 2: and two win the Super Bowl. Eleven of the last

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Speaker 2: fifty one teams to start ten and two have gone

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Speaker 2: on to win the Super Bowl. Just something to chew

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Speaker 2: on for you got to take a break here, more

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Speaker 2: of your phone calls when we return on a Buffalo

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Speaker 2: victory Monday on one Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. This week's Efficient Drive of the

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Speaker 2: game is presented by National Grid, a proud partner of

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01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills. Efficient Drive of the game came in

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Speaker 2: the second quarter, nine plays, ninety seven yards, taking just

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Speaker 2: two point fifty off the clock, and finished with Josh

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Speaker 2: Allen finding Mac Collins in the front right corner of

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Speaker 2: the end zone for ad touchdown reception to make it

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Speaker 2: twenty one to three. And that's how it was when

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Speaker 2: it went to the half. Did you see how he

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Speaker 2: walked into the stadium, Matt.

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Speaker 3: Commons, Yeah, he's dressed like a mad.

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01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,240
Speaker 2: Mad scientist. For those that don't follow him on Instagram,

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01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:19,680
Speaker 2: he did thirty days of science experiments. He has a

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01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:23,720
Speaker 2: monthly challenge and he dressed as a mad scientist for

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01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 2: thirty days and had a little experiment like a test

1442
01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 2: two kind of stuff. He made slime one day. He's

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Speaker 2: a renaissance man.

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Speaker 3: You can call him that.

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01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one word.

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01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:41,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's here's the thing. And there's a lot

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01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 3: going on in this building now. Obviously when you're ten

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01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 3: and two and you just clinched the division earlier than

1449
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:51,639
Speaker 3: any team ever, so you've got a lot of stuff

1450
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 3: is clicking for you. But there's there's certain subtleties about

1451
01:17:55,720 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 3: this team that seemed different and seem little bit unique.

1452
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 3: I'll say it. I said this on the postgame Live

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01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:09,559
Speaker 3: last night that you know, talk about think about Amari Cooper.

1454
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 3: He's never done this lateral play that he caught and

1455
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:15,759
Speaker 3: it was you know all this to be a player

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01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:23,600
Speaker 3: in an important game and make this lateral to a

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01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 3: court you've only been here a month, and to have

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Speaker 3: a quarterback that you think that about that say you

1459
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:34,960
Speaker 3: know what, he'll do it, let's get it says something

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Speaker 3: about not only how Amari Cooper has assimilated to the

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Speaker 3: culture and the attitude and the play and the atmosphere

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01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 3: and the locker room, all that stuff he's assimilated to

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Speaker 3: that you got to have some trust in the guy

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01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:52,599
Speaker 3: you're throwing that to. In that spot, there are three

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Speaker 3: guys hanging on AMRII. He said, I'm gonna throw it

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Speaker 3: to my guy. To have an attitude about your team

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Speaker 3: and a culture that allows guys to come in and

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Speaker 3: acclimate and kind of thrive, that quickly says something about him.

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Speaker 3: Mccollins is an example of that. He's like the Gabe

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Speaker 3: Davis we wish we had. Right he took gave Davis's role.

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Speaker 3: He's not a number one receiver, but he plays more

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Speaker 3: probably reps than any other guy. He blocks and you

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01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 3: see him away from the play, like signaling for the

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Speaker 3: touchdown when Josh is still twenty yards away on a

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Speaker 3: twenty six yard run. You'll see him running guys off

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01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 3: deep in patterns and signaling through the first down when

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Speaker 3: he had no chance of getting the ball but his

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01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 3: teammate did because of the route. Mccolland's rant. He does

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Speaker 3: this stuff. He's kind of a workhorse and loves doing it.

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Speaker 2: And now James Cook for the sixty five yeard touchdown.

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Speaker 3: He got all this stuff going on in this locker

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01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 3: room where every guy out there has really could say

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01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 3: he had a really big contribution in one of their

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Speaker 3: wins this year, maybe two, maybe four, maybe five of

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Speaker 3: their wins where we made a significant play, not just

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01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 3: mac collins, but all these other guys. There seems to

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Speaker 3: be this or we've BROWNI and I have been watching

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Speaker 3: this team for you know, all these years. It's unique.

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Speaker 3: And you know you can say, yes, Sean mcdermot's culture

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Speaker 3: and Brandon Bean and they bring you chemistry. It's uh,

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Speaker 3: it seems to be headed in the right direction all

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Speaker 3: the time. And there's some stuff that's going on, like

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Speaker 3: this lateral play last night. You can't chalk that up

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Speaker 3: to anything except.

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Speaker 2: Culture because it's completely improvised.

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's one hundred percent culture.

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Speaker 2: And it's trust between two guys who just got on

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Speaker 2: the same roster together four weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: And that speaks to the atmosphere that it's it's pretty

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Speaker 3: cool and a lot of people have been commenting. I

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01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:56,720
Speaker 3: mentioned Chris collins were saying something about it last night

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01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:58,439
Speaker 3: to me and I.

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01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 2: Unfortunately doesn't say it on the air though very much.

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01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:02,599
Speaker 3: Well, the Chiefs have that going too, you know, because

1505
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 3: Pat mahomes.

1506
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 2: And man, I mean, he can't help him.

1507
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:09,760
Speaker 3: He's getting hammered for it. So I yeah, I say

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01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:13,120
Speaker 3: that facetiously because that's you know, what collins Worth's been doing.

1509
01:21:13,320 --> 01:21:17,800
Speaker 3: It's it's a real thing. I the you know, the

1510
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:20,160
Speaker 3: there's a bomb there and I we talk about a

1511
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 3: little bit on the show. I you know, we still talk.

1512
01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 3: I got that five Presidents thing, that text loop with

1513
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:26,519
Speaker 3: all the guys I played with back there's a special

1514
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:28,599
Speaker 3: group that went to the super Bowl four straight times,

1515
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:34,240
Speaker 3: very special group. And you know that that elevated guys

1516
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:36,000
Speaker 3: at the bottom, like guys like me at the bottom

1517
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:41,560
Speaker 3: of the roster, special teams guys. It's cool to see.

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01:21:41,720 --> 01:21:43,360
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know what's going to mean

1519
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:44,560
Speaker 3: I don't know if in the end it's going to

1520
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 3: be the thing. Who knows, but it's there. It's there

1521
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 3: with his team.

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01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phones and to Ryan in Toronto.

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01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:53,040
Speaker 2: What do you got for us?

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01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:57,959
Speaker 15: Ryan, Rid Steve Love the show, Happy victory Monday. Honestly,

1525
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:01,000
Speaker 15: I know the Bills have won the She's the worst

1526
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 15: that will happen to them is finished fourth.

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01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 16: In the AFC.

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01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 15: But to be honest, they cannot take the foot of

1529
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:09,879
Speaker 15: the gas pedal. They need to keep going and they

1530
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 15: need to go for the number one seed. The reason

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01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:15,439
Speaker 15: why I say that we are the top five teams

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01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:20,400
Speaker 15: the AFC right now, Casey, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Houston, and Baltimore.

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01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:26,280
Speaker 15: Right all these teams, Casey beat Baltimore in Casey, Baltimore

1534
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:31,000
Speaker 15: beat the Bills in Baltimore, Houston beat the Bills in Houston,

1535
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:36,639
Speaker 15: and Bills be the Casey in Buffalo, and Pittsburgh beat

1536
01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:37,840
Speaker 15: Baltimore at home.

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01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 16: It's key how home team is huge. Every single one

1538
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 16: of these teams who played each other at home, they

1539
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 16: beat each other and the home team actually won. So

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01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:50,320
Speaker 16: number one seed is key, I think for the Bills

1541
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:52,760
Speaker 16: and whoever it is in the AFC can'n't take my

1542
01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:54,599
Speaker 16: call your thought right.

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01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:57,400
Speaker 3: Let me just say I applaud you for that because

1544
01:22:57,439 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 3: you are right on the money. In my opinion, we

1545
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 3: get caught up in being the one seed because the

1546
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 3: bye week is important, and it is, there's no question

1547
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 3: about it. But when you get to be a really

1548
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:11,679
Speaker 3: good team and these other really good teams are right there,

1549
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:13,680
Speaker 3: the difference between the best teams in the league and

1550
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 3: the worst teams in the league, this is a Marv levyism.

1551
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 3: The best teams in the league and the worst teams

1552
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:24,080
Speaker 3: in the league. There's a two percent difference in everything

1553
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,720
Speaker 3: that they do and everything you do. Everything that they

1554
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:29,280
Speaker 3: do is a thirty second ranked team, and everything you

1555
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:31,960
Speaker 3: do is a top five ranked team. There's a two

1556
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:36,000
Speaker 3: percent difference in all the things you do. Home Field

1557
01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:39,280
Speaker 3: makes a difference when you get there, because that's something

1558
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 3: that you can't quantify until you experience it. You're right,

1559
01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 3: all these teams at the top of the conferences, they're

1560
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,920
Speaker 3: winning games at home against really good opponents. That's what

1561
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:51,919
Speaker 3: the playoffs are now. The bye week is important, certainly,

1562
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 3: but playing at home is huge in the playoffs. It's

1563
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 3: absolutely huge. It's a difference in atmosphere is a difference

1564
01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:05,559
Speaker 3: in what you can do offensively when the volume is

1565
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 3: turned up. And I think it's a really good observation

1566
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:11,719
Speaker 3: that the teams at the top of these rankings Kansas City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Houston,

1567
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 3: they all win home games. They all won home games

1568
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 3: against those top teams right there on that list this year. Yes,

1569
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 3: I would agree. You cannot take your foot off the

1570
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:28,439
Speaker 3: gas if you're the Buffalo Bills. If there is a

1571
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 3: whisper of a chance to get the one seed, you

1572
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 3: got to go for it.

1573
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:36,479
Speaker 2: Let's move along to Judy and Buffalo next. What's up,

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01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 2: Judy yep?

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01:24:39,479 --> 01:24:42,679
Speaker 17: I want to give some kuros to the Buffalos offensive line.

1576
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:45,599
Speaker 17: I'm glad to see Pencer Brown is back.

1577
01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 16: I love him.

1578
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 17: Dan Dawkins, I think is a stellar player, as stellar

1579
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 17: human being. But it amazes me that no matter what happens,

1580
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 17: they have five or six players they can put on

1581
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 17: that line and nothing, nothing goes wrong.

1582
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:04,639
Speaker 2: This is the.

1583
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:08,719
Speaker 17: Line that makes the running game goal, that gives Josh

1584
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 17: Allen the time to make his decisions. It amazes me.

1585
01:25:14,520 --> 01:25:18,640
Speaker 17: And they're all young players. It amazes me that we

1586
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:21,360
Speaker 17: haven't given them more credit than they deserve.

1587
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 3: All Right, that's a good point. They have played extremely well,

1588
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 3: and they have for two years. They've had one game

1589
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:32,640
Speaker 3: where Spencer Brown came out because of his ankle and

1590
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,640
Speaker 3: he missed the Chiefs. He missed the Chiefs game and

1591
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 3: the Bills won it anyway, And that's the only game

1592
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 3: lost to injury in two years. They've been remarkably They've

1593
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,719
Speaker 3: been remarkably healthy. But when guys have had spot duty,

1594
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:53,839
Speaker 3: they have played extremely well. Vandermark came in, Alec Anderson

1595
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 3: continues to come in as a sixth offensive lineman. They

1596
01:25:57,000 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 3: went thirty eight plus percent six o linemen. Last night

1597
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:07,960
Speaker 3: against against the Niners, they rushed for two hundred and

1598
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:10,800
Speaker 3: twenty yards. Yeah, you gotta give you gotta tip your

1599
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:12,719
Speaker 3: hat to the offensive If you're rushing for two hundred

1600
01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:16,040
Speaker 3: and twenty yards in an NFL game, you gotta tip

1601
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 3: your hat to the offensive line. And you're right the question.

1602
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 3: When they moved Connor McGovern down inside, everybody had some

1603
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 3: trepidation because we all had so much love and respect

1604
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:28,599
Speaker 3: for Mitch Morse. Seems like they got better.

1605
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, break time for us here, more of your phone

1606
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 2: calls when we come back on a Buffalo Victory Monday.

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Speaker 2: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid of Health,

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01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:52,120
Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to a Buffalo Victory

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01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:54,719
Speaker 2: Monday edition of One Bill's Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker

1610
01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:58,200
Speaker 2: with you and asking you for your biggest takeaways from

1611
01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:02,760
Speaker 2: sunday nights victory over the defending NFC champion San Francisco

1612
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 2: forty nine ers. Back to the phone as we go,

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01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 2: and Mark and West Seneca leads us off. What do

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01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 2: you got for us? Mark?

1615
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 10: Hi, guys, real quick, A few observations. Nice to see

1616
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 10: the offensive line is getting the flowers that they're getting.

1617
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:21,520
Speaker 10: That's what I originally called about. I believe that they've

1618
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 10: sort of been taken for granted this year with two

1619
01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 10: significant moves. I mean, when you have to plug a

1620
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 10: new guy in and move somebody to a new position

1621
01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 10: and you lose your intellectual leader off the line, to me,

1622
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 10: that's a big deal. And the transition has been seamless,

1623
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 10: has absolutely been seamless, and they seem to be getting

1624
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 10: better week to week to week. That's the first thing. Secondly,

1625
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:48,799
Speaker 10: has JaMarcus Ingram officially supplanted Elam is the third corner

1626
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 10: on this team and if he has wondering if Elam's

1627
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:55,120
Speaker 10: career in Buffalo may be over, and that would be

1628
01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:58,839
Speaker 10: sad if it is, because I think he's a talented guy. Lastly,

1629
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 10: I heard on this morning's gr did you guys see

1630
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:08,160
Speaker 10: on Josh's run that Hollins reached out and pulled the

1631
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:12,880
Speaker 10: linebacker's hair as Josh ran by him. They caught that

1632
01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:15,479
Speaker 10: on film. I don't know if you guys have seen

1633
01:28:15,479 --> 01:28:17,120
Speaker 10: that or if anybody has mentioned that.

1634
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 2: I've seen a freeze frame still photo of it. He

1635
01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:25,559
Speaker 2: is unquestionably pulling Devondre Campbell's hair on Josh's rushing touchdown

1636
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 2: at the end of the game.

1637
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:31,479
Speaker 10: Could have been a holding call, so I was just curious.

1638
01:28:31,520 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 10: I thought it was a little bit funny, but right

1639
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:37,760
Speaker 10: up Matt's Ali, I guess. And then lastly, I thought

1640
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:41,880
Speaker 10: it was awesome to finally see Sean McDermott show a

1641
01:28:41,880 --> 01:28:44,479
Speaker 10: little bit of his personality by doing snow angels at

1642
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:46,519
Speaker 10: the end of the game. It was great to see

1643
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:50,240
Speaker 10: him enjoying it, having fun with the players, and giving

1644
01:28:50,360 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 10: a little bit of a glimpse of who he really is.

1645
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:53,839
Speaker 10: So that was awesome.

1646
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does he is not a guy that is

1647
01:28:56,360 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 2: known for breaking character. Much as Eric, my broadcast partner

1648
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:03,360
Speaker 2: on the Bills Radio Network, has said multiple times, he

1649
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 2: is the most consistent coach he's ever been around in

1650
01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 2: terms of what his demeanor is after a twenty five

1651
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:12,599
Speaker 2: point win, what it might be after a ten point loss.

1652
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:14,840
Speaker 2: He is the same guy every week, and I think

1653
01:29:14,880 --> 01:29:18,720
Speaker 2: he realizes there is value and importance to that as

1654
01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:21,680
Speaker 2: a leader of a football team, and so he embodies

1655
01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:24,000
Speaker 2: that as best as he can. But when this team

1656
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,639
Speaker 2: achieves something like they did last night, which was their

1657
01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:31,639
Speaker 2: fifth consecutive Afseast title, you can let your personality show

1658
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:33,640
Speaker 2: a little bit. And he did that by making an

1659
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:36,920
Speaker 2: impromptu request to his quarterback to do snow angels in

1660
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:40,559
Speaker 2: the middle of an interview that he was conducting with

1661
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 2: Scott Van Pelt on ESPN's Sports Center after the game.

1662
01:29:44,600 --> 01:29:46,759
Speaker 2: I mean, he still has the microphone in his hand

1663
01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:49,640
Speaker 2: and he's doing snow angels with his quarterback in the

1664
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:54,120
Speaker 2: end zone. So yes, it is good to see. But yes,

1665
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:56,800
Speaker 2: to your point about the offensive line, they have been

1666
01:29:56,880 --> 01:29:59,559
Speaker 2: lights out. You have to tip your hat to offensive

1667
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:04,639
Speaker 2: line code coach Aaron Kromer and his assistant Austin Gunn.

1668
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:07,400
Speaker 2: They have done a fabulous job with a much younger

1669
01:30:07,400 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 2: group than they've had in recent years. I mean, their

1670
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:15,000
Speaker 2: swing tackle was a rookie, Tylan Grable, who is hopefully

1671
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:17,280
Speaker 2: coming off ir soon in the next week or so.

1672
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:21,040
Speaker 2: Ryan Vandermark is a player they've developed, you know, and

1673
01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 2: has stepped up to the play when called upon and

1674
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:27,360
Speaker 2: performed admirably. And even Alec Anderson taking over the sixth

1675
01:30:27,360 --> 01:30:30,960
Speaker 2: offensive lineman role this year in place of David Edwards

1676
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 2: who's now in the starting lineup. I mean, anybody that's

1677
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,200
Speaker 2: had to step up and into a larger role than

1678
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:38,600
Speaker 2: the one they had last year has come through with

1679
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:43,599
Speaker 2: flying colors. And you'll hear Joe Brady very quickly give

1680
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 2: credit to Aaron Kromer for his influence in the run

1681
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 2: game game plan design, in the pass pro game plan design.

1682
01:30:53,200 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 2: He is a big part of all of that, having

1683
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:56,719
Speaker 2: been a former coordinator himself.

1684
01:30:57,240 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot in it, no question. It takes

1685
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 3: a little it takes a coaching staff that it's on

1686
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:05,880
Speaker 3: it and you have to and we've heard a little

1687
01:31:05,880 --> 01:31:07,400
Speaker 3: bit of this a couple of weeks ago, and then

1688
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:10,439
Speaker 3: you got to pour into the guys who are not starting,

1689
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:14,120
Speaker 3: you got to try and get them better. A lot

1690
01:31:14,120 --> 01:31:16,559
Speaker 3: of coaches, you know, they coach the best guys and

1691
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 3: they you know, they get them right and they're trying

1692
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:20,200
Speaker 3: to get and then the backups say, well, it was

1693
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:22,519
Speaker 3: a backup. You know it's not my They pour into

1694
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:25,719
Speaker 3: the backups and get them ready to play. That's why

1695
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:27,880
Speaker 3: you saw a guy like Mike White get elevated. The

1696
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 3: guy's been playing lights out in practice. He's been doing

1697
01:31:30,360 --> 01:31:31,960
Speaker 3: everything they've asked him to and doing it at a

1698
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:32,559
Speaker 3: high level.

1699
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:34,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, so his reward is a game check for being

1700
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:36,800
Speaker 2: on the fifties tran roster even though he wasn't even

1701
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:37,400
Speaker 2: active for the game.

1702
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:40,840
Speaker 3: That's right, you get elevated. It is a reward for

1703
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:43,800
Speaker 3: guys who are helping the team win games, whether we

1704
01:31:43,840 --> 01:31:47,680
Speaker 3: see it or not. And they do that by elevating

1705
01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 3: guys by letting them get active for games, by giving

1706
01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 3: them opportunities. You know, you saw Zach Davidson active again

1707
01:31:56,280 --> 01:32:00,720
Speaker 3: this week, active again this week, and he gets off opportunities.

1708
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:06,040
Speaker 3: I thought Josh missed him once, had him early on

1709
01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 3: a play that you know that he could have had

1710
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:13,599
Speaker 3: a touchdown on. But that's it's it's a concerted effort

1711
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:16,000
Speaker 3: by the top guys in the organization, on the top

1712
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:20,160
Speaker 3: guys on the staff to reward players for working hard

1713
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:26,000
Speaker 3: when nobody's watching. And it goes a long way toward

1714
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:28,000
Speaker 3: getting the best out of everybody on the roster. And

1715
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 3: that's another thing we've talked about, the subtleties that you

1716
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:32,280
Speaker 3: see in the culture in this building.

1717
01:32:33,080 --> 01:32:35,479
Speaker 2: Let's go to John in Detroit here before the break.

1718
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:36,400
Speaker 2: What do you got for us? John?

1719
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 14: Hey, Christy, thanks for taking my call as always my

1720
01:32:40,920 --> 01:32:44,439
Speaker 14: way back to Detroit from Bill's game, and thank you

1721
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:46,360
Speaker 14: guys for always helping me get.

1722
01:32:46,240 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 5: Through three hours of the Happy to do it.

1723
01:32:51,600 --> 01:32:53,960
Speaker 14: A couple of kays before my take quick take on

1724
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:58,720
Speaker 14: the game is, uh, First of all, the take congratulations

1725
01:32:58,880 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 14: to the offensive line again, Judy. I'm glad you got

1726
01:33:02,360 --> 01:33:05,559
Speaker 14: off of the receiving corps and started throwing some other

1727
01:33:05,600 --> 01:33:08,960
Speaker 14: bouquets out there. I love you, Judy, Don't worry it's

1728
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 14: out of criticism. Two. I think the analogy that I

1729
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:15,519
Speaker 14: take from that game is we were playing like the

1730
01:33:15,640 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 14: road Runner and the forty nine ers were wiley coyote

1731
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:22,880
Speaker 14: who could not figure out why we had traction and

1732
01:33:23,200 --> 01:33:24,720
Speaker 14: although he need to get a sack out of the play,

1733
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:28,640
Speaker 14: I thought with Aj Fanessa Chase brock Purty that he

1734
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:31,800
Speaker 14: had fear in his eyes and it was not a sack.

1735
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:34,759
Speaker 14: He should have gotten funting for that. But Aj really

1736
01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:38,360
Speaker 14: put on the speed and I think it started taking

1737
01:33:38,360 --> 01:33:41,800
Speaker 14: confidence not only a party but the other guys. And

1738
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:45,800
Speaker 14: then the other great road Runner plays where those shoe

1739
01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:49,400
Speaker 14: string tackles we kept coming up with. The deep backs

1740
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:52,400
Speaker 14: were just amazing on those. I mean, we could have

1741
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:55,599
Speaker 14: getten damaged by the McCaffrey a couple of times. And

1742
01:33:55,640 --> 01:33:58,880
Speaker 14: then of course the sixty five yard touchdown. I don't

1743
01:33:58,920 --> 01:34:00,599
Speaker 14: know what kind of shoes we had, but we certainly

1744
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 14: had an advantage on that snow. So gentlemen, that's my take.

1745
01:34:04,880 --> 01:34:06,960
Speaker 14: I'll be home in about two hours, and thanks for

1746
01:34:07,000 --> 01:34:09,120
Speaker 14: you again for always getting me to these drives.

1747
01:34:09,280 --> 01:34:12,479
Speaker 2: All right, Drive safely, John, and glad you enjoyed the

1748
01:34:12,479 --> 01:34:15,479
Speaker 2: game here last night. That's a five hour roadie on

1749
01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:16,719
Speaker 2: the way back through Canada.

1750
01:34:16,800 --> 01:34:19,960
Speaker 3: Good effort, and yeah, we're happy to be on board

1751
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:20,200
Speaker 3: with you.

1752
01:34:20,320 --> 01:34:23,880
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the offensive line, yes it's been said, we

1753
01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:26,400
Speaker 2: won't say it again. And there were a lot of

1754
01:34:26,439 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 2: things to be happy about last night. For the second

1755
01:34:29,120 --> 01:34:32,880
Speaker 2: straight home game. It was a boatload of fun. I

1756
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:34,240
Speaker 2: don't know if you could have had more fun in

1757
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:36,240
Speaker 2: a football game if you're at either of these last

1758
01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:39,479
Speaker 2: two the past couple of weeks, and hopefully it continues

1759
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:41,080
Speaker 2: on the road, which is where the Bills will be

1760
01:34:41,439 --> 01:34:44,320
Speaker 2: for the next couple of weeks. In fact, in John's

1761
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:48,200
Speaker 2: current place of residence, Detroit, Michigan, in two weeks. LA

1762
01:34:48,360 --> 01:34:50,800
Speaker 2: this coming week got to take a break here. Our

1763
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:54,400
Speaker 2: number three will begin with our Bills team reporter Maddi

1764
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:57,240
Speaker 2: lab You know what happens after victories. It's time to

1765
01:34:57,760 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 2: dish out some Maddie Awards and she will do that

1766
01:34:59,840 --> 01:35:01,920
Speaker 2: with us next here in studio on One Bill's Live

1767
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:02,920
Speaker 2: presented by Colida Health.

1768
01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 13: It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1769
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 1: This this One Bill's Live presented by Callida Health.

1770
01:35:46,400 --> 01:35:48,400
Speaker 2: All right, here we are our number three on a

1771
01:35:48,400 --> 01:35:51,360
Speaker 2: Buffalo victory Monday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and

1772
01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:56,439
Speaker 2: with seven consecutive victories, we welcome in for the seventh

1773
01:35:56,640 --> 01:36:01,679
Speaker 2: consecutive time, our Bill's team reporter Mattic For what else

1774
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:05,280
Speaker 2: The Maddie Awards presented by Energy Mark, the official Energy

1775
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:10,200
Speaker 2: supplier to the Buffalo Bills. It's another week to hand

1776
01:36:10,240 --> 01:36:13,160
Speaker 2: out the hardware, and deservedly so after a twenty five

1777
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:14,360
Speaker 2: point victory, a.

1778
01:36:14,320 --> 01:36:16,400
Speaker 18: Lot of hardware to hand out in this one. It

1779
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:20,679
Speaker 18: was a fun win, a fun team AFC East champs again.

1780
01:36:20,800 --> 01:36:23,759
Speaker 18: Let's run it back five straight years in a row,

1781
01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:25,760
Speaker 18: so let's hand out some fun awards.

1782
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:29,679
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll get started. You gotta start with the MVP guy.

1783
01:36:29,960 --> 01:36:32,040
Speaker 19: Okay, MVP, it's Josh Allen.

1784
01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:35,439
Speaker 18: I'm gonna continue to bang the drum on why Alan

1785
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 18: deserves to be this year's MVP.

1786
01:36:37,840 --> 01:36:40,000
Speaker 19: He continues to prove why he's worthy.

1787
01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:42,320
Speaker 18: It's not like we're just sitting up here being like, yeah,

1788
01:36:42,400 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 18: Josh has had an okay season, he deserves to be

1789
01:36:44,360 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 18: the MVP. No, he's been proving it every single game.

1790
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:50,680
Speaker 18: He does so against the forty nine ers in the

1791
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:54,360
Speaker 18: third quarter, we know what happened. Alan tosses it to

1792
01:36:54,439 --> 01:36:58,120
Speaker 18: Cooper for a loss of two yards. Cooper's about to

1793
01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:01,240
Speaker 18: be brought down to the ground. He sees Alan laterals

1794
01:37:01,280 --> 01:37:03,280
Speaker 18: it to him, and then Alan decides to take it

1795
01:37:03,400 --> 01:37:06,840
Speaker 18: nine yards into the end zone dives through the snow

1796
01:37:06,960 --> 01:37:10,480
Speaker 18: to score. It's a receiving touchdown and a passing touchdown

1797
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:14,880
Speaker 18: for the QB. The athleticism alone on that play was incredible,

1798
01:37:14,880 --> 01:37:17,400
Speaker 18: but what was even better is the fact that Amari

1799
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:19,960
Speaker 18: Cooper has been here for just a month and a

1800
01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:23,000
Speaker 18: half and he has the trust in his quarterback to

1801
01:37:23,880 --> 01:37:27,439
Speaker 18: lateral the ball back to him. Why would Allan follow

1802
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:30,599
Speaker 18: that play? What quarterback would do that? Josh Allen would

1803
01:37:30,640 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 18: do that because he never wants a play to be over.

1804
01:37:33,560 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 18: That's that he's in charge of, so he follows the

1805
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 18: ball and is there to grab it and then run

1806
01:37:40,280 --> 01:37:43,840
Speaker 18: it into the end zone. He's the only quarterback to

1807
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 18: record a passing touchdown or receiving touchdown and a rushing

1808
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:52,120
Speaker 18: touchdown in the same game. Just absolutely amazing and continuing

1809
01:37:52,360 --> 01:37:54,720
Speaker 18: to make the case why he deserves to be this

1810
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:55,559
Speaker 18: year's MVP.

1811
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:58,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you do that in the nationally televised game,

1812
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:00,960
Speaker 2: it only helps raise the profile. That people don't know

1813
01:38:00,960 --> 01:38:02,680
Speaker 2: who Josh Allen is at this point in time, but

1814
01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:05,120
Speaker 2: when he does, when they see things like that, they

1815
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:06,640
Speaker 2: are like, oh, geez, I guess he is.

1816
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:09,519
Speaker 3: It cements that opinion in everybody's mind. When they get

1817
01:38:09,560 --> 01:38:10,439
Speaker 3: they get knowing, yeah.

1818
01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:12,040
Speaker 2: He's he is playing.

1819
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:14,880
Speaker 3: He is playing well. They can't say well, I don't know.

1820
01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 3: I didn't see him do anything special in that game,

1821
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:19,200
Speaker 3: but in this game is like, wow, do you see that? Yeah,

1822
01:38:19,240 --> 01:38:20,320
Speaker 3: once again he does.

1823
01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:22,639
Speaker 2: It all right. Next up the fire Starter Award.

1824
01:38:22,840 --> 01:38:25,840
Speaker 18: The Bills needed a fire starter early in this game.

1825
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:29,320
Speaker 18: If you recall the first offensive drive, it went three

1826
01:38:29,520 --> 01:38:33,000
Speaker 18: and out. San Francisco gets on the field on offense

1827
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:35,000
Speaker 18: and they start to move the ball. They get on

1828
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:37,719
Speaker 18: the board first with the field goal, and you needed

1829
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:40,639
Speaker 18: a spark from the offense. He needed something to happen

1830
01:38:41,120 --> 01:38:44,040
Speaker 18: ru and the rushing offense did exactly that. On their

1831
01:38:44,120 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 18: second drive, Ty Johnson picks up eight yards and Josh

1832
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:49,519
Speaker 18: Allen has seven yards on the ground. Ray Davis has

1833
01:38:49,560 --> 01:38:52,120
Speaker 18: thirteen yards on the ground and it finishes in a

1834
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:56,240
Speaker 18: five yard rushing touchdown by ray Davis. Two hundred and

1835
01:38:56,320 --> 01:38:59,519
Speaker 18: twenty rushing yards is what the Bills had in the

1836
01:38:59,640 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 18: entire game. That's the most rushing yards this offense has

1837
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:07,280
Speaker 18: had this season. You have no Donkin Kaid, no Keyon Coleman.

1838
01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:09,840
Speaker 18: A snow game where you thought the snow was going

1839
01:39:09,880 --> 01:39:12,679
Speaker 18: to stop at some point, it didn't let up at all.

1840
01:39:12,720 --> 01:39:15,599
Speaker 18: So your your plans change of what you can do,

1841
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:17,519
Speaker 18: of what you want to do, of what you're going

1842
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:21,599
Speaker 18: to find success doing, and the rushing offense came alive.

1843
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:24,280
Speaker 18: It's what they leaned on throughout the entire game. And

1844
01:39:25,120 --> 01:39:27,200
Speaker 18: to go into a game like that where hey, you

1845
01:39:27,240 --> 01:39:29,639
Speaker 18: may think one thing's gonna work, but another thing works.

1846
01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:32,640
Speaker 18: Kudos to Joe Brady, to the offensive staff, and to

1847
01:39:32,680 --> 01:39:35,720
Speaker 18: the players for sticking with what was working. That's the

1848
01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:37,800
Speaker 18: signs of a really good team when you can lean

1849
01:39:37,840 --> 01:39:42,080
Speaker 18: on one different facet in every single game. This offense

1850
01:39:42,200 --> 01:39:45,680
Speaker 18: is mantra is everybody eats and the rushing offense ate

1851
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:46,320
Speaker 18: last night.

1852
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:51,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, primarily because James was cooking. When he cooks, everybody

1853
01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:54,479
Speaker 2: eats too. So yeah, the run game huge last night,

1854
01:39:54,520 --> 01:39:57,200
Speaker 2: and a game where throwing the ball on a consistent

1855
01:39:57,240 --> 01:40:01,040
Speaker 2: basis might have proved difficult or treacherous in light of

1856
01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:04,200
Speaker 2: the conditions last night, which we haven't mentioned yet today.

1857
01:40:04,240 --> 01:40:08,479
Speaker 2: By the way, do you remember the original forecast was

1858
01:40:08,640 --> 01:40:11,120
Speaker 2: the snow is supposed to be supposed to be dry

1859
01:40:12,400 --> 01:40:15,280
Speaker 2: and maybe a burst of snow like a snow squall

1860
01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:17,640
Speaker 2: for fifteen minutes. That was the forecast. It was not

1861
01:40:17,680 --> 01:40:20,559
Speaker 2: so much they flipped the coin, and they set up

1862
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:21,840
Speaker 2: for the kickoff. It starts snow and.

1863
01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:24,879
Speaker 3: It did not stop. It got bad for a minute,

1864
01:40:25,240 --> 01:40:26,120
Speaker 3: it got really bad.

1865
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:27,720
Speaker 2: There was some talk, and I don't know if there's

1866
01:40:27,800 --> 01:40:31,600
Speaker 2: validity to this about how the snow squall and the

1867
01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:34,600
Speaker 2: lake effect was coming off of Lake Huron that's like

1868
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 2: three hundred miles away. It wasn't coming from Huron. What

1869
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:39,720
Speaker 2: are these cockamami excuses?

1870
01:40:40,520 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 3: What happened with the weather? I saw the thing. It

1871
01:40:42,960 --> 01:40:47,240
Speaker 3: was off whatever it comes west to east as we

1872
01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:54,880
Speaker 3: all know, Yes, was coming hard north west down southeast,

1873
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:58,160
Speaker 3: so it was coming from the northwest, and the radar

1874
01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:00,479
Speaker 3: showed ye, yeah it was.

1875
01:41:01,600 --> 01:41:03,200
Speaker 2: I didn't even know it could do that. How does

1876
01:41:03,240 --> 01:41:05,960
Speaker 2: it travel over that much land before falling?

1877
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:06,840
Speaker 3: It's not that much.

1878
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 18: But yeah, and that's your weather report by Steve Task.

1879
01:41:10,400 --> 01:41:12,600
Speaker 3: That was we were looking at it. We had the

1880
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 3: stuff up on radar that are like because we were

1881
01:41:15,040 --> 01:41:17,639
Speaker 3: the same as you were, like, what is the deal?

1882
01:41:18,040 --> 01:41:21,160
Speaker 3: You know, because usually they get it right. And it

1883
01:41:21,280 --> 01:41:24,280
Speaker 3: shifted and it was going from hard north east west

1884
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:25,879
Speaker 3: down to southeast and it was coming.

1885
01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:27,880
Speaker 2: From the north. I've lived here long enough to know

1886
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:29,800
Speaker 2: the Western New York weather can change in a minute.

1887
01:41:29,840 --> 01:41:30,439
Speaker 2: It can't.

1888
01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:33,880
Speaker 18: But that was you guys didn't see the snow machines

1889
01:41:33,960 --> 01:41:34,920
Speaker 18: right outside the stadium.

1890
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:37,600
Speaker 19: It was snow machines. Turn them on.

1891
01:41:38,120 --> 01:41:41,840
Speaker 2: It was a severe, severe curveball. We all got thrown

1892
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:42,640
Speaker 2: last night, all right.

1893
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:44,679
Speaker 3: So it's the Best Supporting Actor award.

1894
01:41:44,880 --> 01:41:48,400
Speaker 18: Best Supporting Actor going to our offensive line and those

1895
01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:52,400
Speaker 18: who helped block last night. The rushing offense shined. They

1896
01:41:52,439 --> 01:41:54,559
Speaker 18: deserved an award like we just talked about. But this

1897
01:41:54,600 --> 01:41:57,840
Speaker 18: wouldn't have been possible without the help of the offensive

1898
01:41:57,840 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 18: line and the wide receivers who blocked. They did heck

1899
01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:03,360
Speaker 18: of a job blocking in the snow. It's not easy

1900
01:42:03,479 --> 01:42:05,800
Speaker 18: with your footing, with your vision. The snow was coming

1901
01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:09,559
Speaker 18: down hard throughout the entire game. You have two really

1902
01:42:09,640 --> 01:42:12,360
Speaker 18: solid seasons now out of the offensive line, looking back

1903
01:42:12,360 --> 01:42:15,240
Speaker 18: to this year, looking back to last year, and this year.

1904
01:42:15,439 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 18: That completely changes what an offense can do when you have.

1905
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:21,720
Speaker 19: Five guys that are great blockers for you.

1906
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:24,360
Speaker 18: They used Alec Anderson a lot last night as a

1907
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:27,719
Speaker 18: sixth offensive lineman that has worked for them all season.

1908
01:42:27,760 --> 01:42:30,599
Speaker 18: I would think it continues as the weather gets colder

1909
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:33,439
Speaker 18: and they continue to run the ball more They're such

1910
01:42:33,479 --> 01:42:37,800
Speaker 18: an important group that just allows this offense to completely rip.

1911
01:42:38,120 --> 01:42:40,920
Speaker 18: They rank second in the NFL right now, averaging twenty

1912
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:43,160
Speaker 18: nine point five eight points per game. A lot of

1913
01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:44,800
Speaker 18: that is because of the offensive line.

1914
01:42:44,960 --> 01:42:47,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, and thirty points or more in the last six

1915
01:42:47,600 --> 01:42:49,880
Speaker 2: in a row. It's just it's crazy what they're doing,

1916
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:51,160
Speaker 2: just turning out points, all right.

1917
01:42:51,200 --> 01:42:55,280
Speaker 18: The dominator award the Dominator it's going to defensive end,

1918
01:42:55,479 --> 01:42:59,640
Speaker 18: Greg Russo. Greg Russo had a dominant performance against the

1919
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:03,040
Speaker 18: forty eight a sack, three tackles for loss, and one

1920
01:43:03,240 --> 01:43:07,160
Speaker 18: fumble recovery. He's got an eighty three inch wingspan. It

1921
01:43:07,280 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 18: is so long, and he showcased that length on his sack,

1922
01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:14,559
Speaker 18: being able to pull Rock Purty down by his feet.

1923
01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:17,000
Speaker 19: He was physical, he was aggressive.

1924
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:20,000
Speaker 18: In last night's game, the defensive line got after the

1925
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:23,559
Speaker 18: forty nine ers and really stifled that run game. They

1926
01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:27,360
Speaker 18: weren't able to get that run game going. Christian McCaffrey

1927
01:43:27,400 --> 01:43:31,120
Speaker 18: obviously gets hurt, goes down and they had trouble running

1928
01:43:31,120 --> 01:43:34,000
Speaker 18: the ball after that. And part of that is due

1929
01:43:34,160 --> 01:43:36,840
Speaker 18: to the defensive line and the pressure they were putting

1930
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:41,519
Speaker 18: on the quarterback and those up front. Gregorusso now has

1931
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:44,960
Speaker 18: fifteen tackles for loss so far this season. It ties

1932
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:47,760
Speaker 18: for the second most in the NFL. He's making a

1933
01:43:47,800 --> 01:43:50,720
Speaker 18: case for why he deserves a contract extension.

1934
01:43:50,840 --> 01:43:53,479
Speaker 3: You had no question about it, Rob contract. Yeah, yeah,

1935
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:55,920
Speaker 3: kroble Nod as well, he had no question about it.

1936
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:59,040
Speaker 3: He is. He's been a he's been a steady force.

1937
01:43:59,880 --> 01:44:03,880
Speaker 3: He's been as consistent a draft pick as the Bills

1938
01:44:03,880 --> 01:44:06,519
Speaker 3: have had under Brandon, you know, even with Josh I mean, yeah.

1939
01:44:06,400 --> 01:44:09,760
Speaker 2: But he's gone from good to outstanding. Yes, he really has,

1940
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:10,840
Speaker 2: really has leveled up.

1941
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:15,240
Speaker 3: He has. He has been so dependable since his first

1942
01:44:15,320 --> 01:44:17,559
Speaker 3: year and now he's he's been here from it and

1943
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:19,920
Speaker 3: now he's just you know, he's winning the Dominator Awards.

1944
01:44:19,960 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 3: So it's it's pretty cool to see. Now let's get

1945
01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:25,920
Speaker 3: to the fun stuff. The Best Selly the Best Selly

1946
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:28,519
Speaker 3: Alec Anderson and Sean McDermott CO winners. Listen.

1947
01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:30,439
Speaker 18: Yeah, I couldn't give it to one and not give

1948
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:34,240
Speaker 18: it to the other because the celebrations last night throughout

1949
01:44:34,280 --> 01:44:38,759
Speaker 18: the game, after the game were downright amazing. Alec Anderson

1950
01:44:38,920 --> 01:44:42,120
Speaker 18: after the Bills score, I can't remember what touchdown it was,

1951
01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:45,680
Speaker 18: but Alec Anderson is partying with his teammates in the

1952
01:44:45,760 --> 01:44:48,680
Speaker 18: end zone, he lifts up his shirt and gives the.

1953
01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:51,080
Speaker 19: Crowd his belllet.

1954
01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:54,200
Speaker 2: It was so funny.

1955
01:44:54,320 --> 01:44:57,200
Speaker 18: Look at my belly, he listened her up and down

1956
01:44:57,240 --> 01:45:01,840
Speaker 18: and up and down and running right past Alec as

1957
01:45:01,920 --> 01:45:05,240
Speaker 18: Alec is doing this is Spencer Brown with the beer

1958
01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 18: that he's pouring on himself.

1959
01:45:08,040 --> 01:45:10,320
Speaker 19: Just total offensive lineman things.

1960
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:15,400
Speaker 18: I did a podcast interview with Alec Anderson last week.

1961
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:17,519
Speaker 19: It's now on Buffalo Bills dot com.

1962
01:45:18,160 --> 01:45:20,720
Speaker 18: If you want to know more about his personality, just

1963
01:45:20,800 --> 01:45:24,400
Speaker 18: his overall vibe, please go watch the podcast or listen

1964
01:45:24,439 --> 01:45:24,760
Speaker 18: to it.

1965
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:26,360
Speaker 19: It is so funny.

1966
01:45:26,400 --> 01:45:29,360
Speaker 18: He details what it's like to be the sixth offensive lineman,

1967
01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:33,599
Speaker 18: going in and going out, and just why. Matthew Smiley,

1968
01:45:33,640 --> 01:45:36,599
Speaker 18: our special teams coordinator, calls him the nicest mean guy

1969
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:40,679
Speaker 18: you'll ever meet. And then we got to give kudos

1970
01:45:40,720 --> 01:45:45,760
Speaker 18: to Sean McDermott for that celebration doing snow angels alongside

1971
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:49,639
Speaker 18: his quarterback Josh Allen after the Bills win the game

1972
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 18: and clinch the AFC East. Sean McDermott is a coach

1973
01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:57,360
Speaker 18: that we love, that we know, but Sean is by

1974
01:45:57,400 --> 01:46:00,920
Speaker 18: the book. He's not gonna He's not a run around

1975
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:04,280
Speaker 18: and you know, show off this big personality, big type

1976
01:46:04,320 --> 01:46:04,920
Speaker 18: of energy.

1977
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:06,760
Speaker 19: He's a coach. He's locked in.

1978
01:46:07,439 --> 01:46:10,519
Speaker 18: He wants to be, you know, the same level all

1979
01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:12,840
Speaker 18: the time for his players, and that's why he's such

1980
01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:15,879
Speaker 18: a great coach. So when you see him doing snow

1981
01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:20,160
Speaker 18: angels on the field after a game, you got everybody's

1982
01:46:20,200 --> 01:46:23,080
Speaker 18: looking at and being like, WHOA, this man is having

1983
01:46:23,120 --> 01:46:25,719
Speaker 18: some fun and I loved to see it. This team

1984
01:46:25,760 --> 01:46:26,680
Speaker 18: is so easy to cheer for.

1985
01:46:26,720 --> 01:46:26,760
Speaker 1: You.

1986
01:46:26,840 --> 01:46:28,479
Speaker 2: I did it in the middle of a national interview

1987
01:46:28,520 --> 01:46:31,120
Speaker 2: with Scott Van Pelt. I mean they're on national television

1988
01:46:31,120 --> 01:46:34,519
Speaker 2: on ESPN and he stops Josh and says, hey, come on,

1989
01:46:34,640 --> 01:46:36,800
Speaker 2: let's do snow angels. I mean the interview is not

1990
01:46:36,880 --> 01:46:38,960
Speaker 2: over yet. He still has the microphone in his hand.

1991
01:46:39,160 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 3: Oh was that big? And then Josh Trey's hats with him.

1992
01:46:41,360 --> 01:46:43,200
Speaker 3: He gives him the AFC East Champion. In fact, that

1993
01:46:43,280 --> 01:46:46,639
Speaker 3: leads us to the next award, fifth straight title AFC East.

1994
01:46:47,040 --> 01:46:51,120
Speaker 18: Take it in five straight AFC East titles for this team.

1995
01:46:51,280 --> 01:46:53,960
Speaker 18: I want you guys to take it in to savor

1996
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:58,000
Speaker 18: it and don't forget this. Back in twenty seventeen, when

1997
01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:02,440
Speaker 18: Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean walked through these doors. McDermott

1998
01:47:02,479 --> 01:47:04,840
Speaker 18: was a first time head coach, Bean was a first

1999
01:47:04,840 --> 01:47:08,120
Speaker 18: time GM. They're young guys with a hope to turn

2000
01:47:08,120 --> 01:47:11,599
Speaker 18: a franchise around who had a seventeen year playoff drought going.

2001
01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:16,160
Speaker 18: Bean drafts the right guys who fit the culture. McDermott

2002
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:18,880
Speaker 18: gets the most out of his players, and what that

2003
01:47:18,960 --> 01:47:23,439
Speaker 18: turns into is seven playoff appearances in the eight years

2004
01:47:23,479 --> 01:47:27,160
Speaker 18: that they've been here, five straight AFC East titles. They

2005
01:47:27,240 --> 01:47:31,000
Speaker 18: clinched the division in week third team with five weeks

2006
01:47:31,040 --> 01:47:33,960
Speaker 18: to play. It's the first time doing so since two

2007
01:47:33,960 --> 01:47:37,599
Speaker 18: thousand and nine, first time in fifteen years. No other

2008
01:47:37,680 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 18: team in NFL history has clinched the division more than

2009
01:47:40,960 --> 01:47:44,280
Speaker 18: one week prior to playing one of their division rivals

2010
01:47:44,320 --> 01:47:45,360
Speaker 18: for the first time.

2011
01:47:45,520 --> 01:47:48,599
Speaker 19: This is via OPTA stats. I was looking for the stat.

2012
01:47:48,680 --> 01:47:51,559
Speaker 18: I was like, when is the last time a team

2013
01:47:51,640 --> 01:47:55,520
Speaker 18: has clinched the division without playing one of their division opponents?

2014
01:47:55,560 --> 01:47:58,920
Speaker 18: Once and there it is the first time in NFL history.

2015
01:48:00,320 --> 01:48:03,720
Speaker 18: This team this week, that's more than one week. Yeah,

2016
01:48:03,760 --> 01:48:08,000
Speaker 18: this team, this franchise, these players, what's happened here since

2017
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:11,800
Speaker 18: twenty seventeen. I got to walk into this place as

2018
01:48:11,800 --> 01:48:14,240
Speaker 18: a winning team in twenty nineteen when I took the job,

2019
01:48:14,560 --> 01:48:17,400
Speaker 18: and since then it's been it's been so consistent, and

2020
01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:19,840
Speaker 18: it doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon.

2021
01:48:20,040 --> 01:48:22,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, sixth straight season of at least ten wins as well,

2022
01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:26,760
Speaker 2: which is the sixth longest streak in NFL history. All Right,

2023
01:48:26,760 --> 01:48:29,040
Speaker 2: we wrap it up with the Welcome Back Award. I

2024
01:48:29,080 --> 01:48:30,960
Speaker 2: feel like we should play the welcome beck cover Well.

2025
01:48:30,840 --> 01:48:35,280
Speaker 19: Come back, welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back. Matt Mulano.

2026
01:48:35,560 --> 01:48:38,080
Speaker 18: It was his first game back since that left bicep tear,

2027
01:48:38,280 --> 01:48:41,800
Speaker 18: and his first game back in thirteen months. You would think, Okay,

2028
01:48:41,800 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 18: this guy hasn't played in thirteen months.

2029
01:48:44,320 --> 01:48:46,040
Speaker 19: Maybe he's going to be on a pitch count.

2030
01:48:46,080 --> 01:48:48,360
Speaker 18: He might just play, you know, a couple snaps here,

2031
01:48:48,439 --> 01:48:51,040
Speaker 18: a couple snaps there. Well, he finishes with five total

2032
01:48:51,080 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 18: tackles and played in seventy seven percent of the game,

2033
01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:59,599
Speaker 18: and it shows just how ready he was for that moment,

2034
01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:03,080
Speaker 18: just how much the coaching staff trusted him to go

2035
01:49:03,120 --> 01:49:05,759
Speaker 18: out there and play in way more than.

2036
01:49:05,640 --> 01:49:06,280
Speaker 19: Half of the game.

2037
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:09,760
Speaker 18: He may not have had the biggest impact if you

2038
01:49:09,800 --> 01:49:12,439
Speaker 18: look on the stat sheet, but that's coming.

2039
01:49:12,520 --> 01:49:14,479
Speaker 19: We know what Matt Mlano is capable of.

2040
01:49:14,920 --> 01:49:19,200
Speaker 18: We know the accolades that he's gotten, the force, the physicality,

2041
01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:23,439
Speaker 18: the monster from within. It's gonna awaken soon enough, and

2042
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:25,800
Speaker 18: right on time for the end of the season in

2043
01:49:25,840 --> 01:49:26,400
Speaker 18: the playoffs.

2044
01:49:26,439 --> 01:49:29,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, amen to Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, it's huge you

2045
01:49:29,360 --> 01:49:33,160
Speaker 3: get him back. And you could tell it right before

2046
01:49:33,200 --> 01:49:35,679
Speaker 3: the first snap. He and Terro Bernard had a little

2047
01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:38,439
Speaker 3: moment there where before the ball was snapped. After he

2048
01:49:38,479 --> 01:49:40,880
Speaker 3: got back and they were happy to be back in

2049
01:49:40,960 --> 01:49:41,719
Speaker 3: the saddle together.

2050
01:49:41,800 --> 01:49:43,840
Speaker 2: And what an ovation that he got when he got interroested.

2051
01:49:43,920 --> 01:49:46,519
Speaker 2: I was, sir starting lineups. I mean, the crowd was

2052
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:49,479
Speaker 2: pumped to see fifty eight back on the field, as

2053
01:49:49,600 --> 01:49:51,759
Speaker 2: all of us were as well. It was really cool

2054
01:49:52,120 --> 01:49:54,040
Speaker 2: to see that, knowing what he's gone through to get

2055
01:49:54,080 --> 01:49:57,280
Speaker 2: back on the field, going a year plus with two injuries,

2056
01:49:57,439 --> 01:50:00,280
Speaker 2: not one to get back. So happy to see him back,

2057
01:50:00,360 --> 01:50:02,679
Speaker 2: and I think you know, his play will only ascend

2058
01:50:02,760 --> 01:50:05,120
Speaker 2: as we keep going here. He's probably knocking a lot

2059
01:50:05,120 --> 01:50:07,600
Speaker 2: of rust off last night and getting used to the

2060
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:10,200
Speaker 2: looks and the speed and doing it with poor footing

2061
01:50:10,280 --> 01:50:13,240
Speaker 2: last night in the story conditions so awesome. Yeah, I

2062
01:50:13,280 --> 01:50:15,400
Speaker 2: think we can only expect him to get better.

2063
01:50:15,400 --> 01:50:15,680
Speaker 3: All right.

2064
01:50:15,720 --> 01:50:18,240
Speaker 2: Those are the Mattie Awards, presented by Energy Mark, the

2065
01:50:18,240 --> 01:50:21,120
Speaker 2: official energy supplier to the Buffalo Bills. We will take

2066
01:50:21,120 --> 01:50:22,880
Speaker 2: a break here, be back with more of your phone

2067
01:50:22,880 --> 01:50:25,280
Speaker 2: calls in a moment on One Bill's Live, presented by

2068
01:50:25,280 --> 01:50:43,240
Speaker 2: Colid of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right back

2069
01:50:43,240 --> 01:50:46,200
Speaker 2: here on a Buffalo Victory Monday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

2070
01:50:46,240 --> 01:50:48,040
Speaker 2: review One Bill's Live. Thanks for making us a part

2071
01:50:48,040 --> 01:50:51,280
Speaker 2: of your afternoon, taking your phone call. Still at eight

2072
01:50:51,360 --> 01:50:53,439
Speaker 2: oh three oh five point fifty one, eight and eight

2073
01:50:53,479 --> 01:50:55,680
Speaker 2: five fifty two, five fifteen the numbers to get on board.

2074
01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:57,439
Speaker 2: Cut open lines for you right now for your biggest

2075
01:50:57,439 --> 01:51:02,439
Speaker 2: takeaways from yesterday's resounding victor over the defending NFC champion

2076
01:51:02,520 --> 01:51:05,800
Speaker 2: forty nine ers, we go to Rob in Connecticut. Next.

2077
01:51:05,840 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 3: What's up? Rob?

2078
01:51:07,640 --> 01:51:07,960
Speaker 5: Hello?

2079
01:51:08,080 --> 01:51:08,519
Speaker 2: Chris?

2080
01:51:08,640 --> 01:51:11,000
Speaker 20: Hello, Steve? How's how's it going?

2081
01:51:11,479 --> 01:51:12,599
Speaker 2: Pretty darn good?

2082
01:51:13,880 --> 01:51:16,599
Speaker 20: No, you know, you know we're doing very well after

2083
01:51:17,040 --> 01:51:20,120
Speaker 20: after a game like that last night. It was wonderful.

2084
01:51:20,160 --> 01:51:24,280
Speaker 20: It was beautiful. Everything just seemed to go our way.

2085
01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:24,720
Speaker 2: It was.

2086
01:51:24,880 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 20: It was just wonderful. One of my takeaways was I've noticed,

2087
01:51:30,040 --> 01:51:33,120
Speaker 20: go go back two weeks ago. You know, our defense

2088
01:51:33,880 --> 01:51:38,200
Speaker 20: has been containing the tight ends, the two top tight ends, Kelsey,

2089
01:51:38,360 --> 01:51:41,040
Speaker 20: and then last night we did a great job with Kittle.

2090
01:51:41,080 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 20: I know the weather played a factor, but going into

2091
01:51:44,080 --> 01:51:46,519
Speaker 20: this game, I was a little bit concerned on how

2092
01:51:46,560 --> 01:51:50,000
Speaker 20: we were gonna contain Kittle, and I think we did

2093
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:53,800
Speaker 20: an exceptional job at that. Of Course, you know, the

2094
01:51:53,880 --> 01:51:58,000
Speaker 20: running game, the defense, of course we're gonna have problems

2095
01:51:58,040 --> 01:51:59,760
Speaker 20: because of the footing. I mean, you got to take

2096
01:51:59,800 --> 01:52:03,000
Speaker 20: that in consideration. I'm not worried about our run defense

2097
01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:09,719
Speaker 20: moving forward. So with the other tight ends coming to play,

2098
01:52:10,000 --> 01:52:12,840
Speaker 20: you know we've got we've got reported to put a

2099
01:52:12,880 --> 01:52:15,920
Speaker 20: lock on. And as far as the Rams, you know,

2100
01:52:16,920 --> 01:52:20,519
Speaker 20: Pooka and the Cup, I think we're.

2101
01:52:20,360 --> 01:52:21,040
Speaker 2: Gonna be fine.

2102
01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:23,559
Speaker 20: And one of my questions to you, Steve is and

2103
01:52:23,560 --> 01:52:27,479
Speaker 20: and you know, as a Bills fan from way back

2104
01:52:27,560 --> 01:52:31,760
Speaker 20: and going through the experiences of you know, nineties, the

2105
01:52:31,840 --> 01:52:34,160
Speaker 20: early nineties with you on the team and going to

2106
01:52:34,200 --> 01:52:36,679
Speaker 20: the Super Bowls, you know, I'm getting that same kind

2107
01:52:36,720 --> 01:52:40,920
Speaker 20: of feeling as a fan and experiencing that this year

2108
01:52:41,439 --> 01:52:44,479
Speaker 20: more than you know, the past few years. This year

2109
01:52:44,640 --> 01:52:49,439
Speaker 20: just feels like what you guys did. It's almost like

2110
01:52:49,560 --> 01:52:52,280
Speaker 20: deja voo. And I was wondering, do you do you

2111
01:52:52,360 --> 01:52:56,760
Speaker 20: get that feeling as well like deja vouish, Like it's

2112
01:52:56,840 --> 01:52:58,599
Speaker 20: almost that same kind of feeling.

2113
01:52:58,840 --> 01:53:00,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say there's a lot of things about

2114
01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:02,519
Speaker 3: this team that I like in the same way I

2115
01:53:02,640 --> 01:53:05,519
Speaker 3: like that team in the nineties. Deja vu may not

2116
01:53:05,920 --> 01:53:09,240
Speaker 3: describe it quite well enough, but yeah, this seems like

2117
01:53:09,320 --> 01:53:12,160
Speaker 3: a special group. It seems like a special group off

2118
01:53:12,240 --> 01:53:14,639
Speaker 3: the field as well as on and that was something

2119
01:53:14,640 --> 01:53:18,120
Speaker 3: that the nineties group was, So yeah, they're a different

2120
01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:20,080
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a different game, it's a different era,

2121
01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:23,280
Speaker 3: all of that stuff. But yeah, there is something this

2122
01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:25,640
Speaker 3: team does have a kind of a special vibe like

2123
01:53:25,680 --> 01:53:30,720
Speaker 3: that team back then did. But yeah, they're playing extremely

2124
01:53:30,720 --> 01:53:34,080
Speaker 3: well right now and it's fun to see and.

2125
01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:37,320
Speaker 2: Other people are noticing it too, because Collinsworth asked him

2126
01:53:37,320 --> 01:53:40,120
Speaker 2: in the hallway yesterday, is there something different about this

2127
01:53:40,200 --> 01:53:40,760
Speaker 2: team this year?

2128
01:53:40,800 --> 01:53:43,200
Speaker 3: And Steve said yeah, he said it felt like it

2129
01:53:43,320 --> 01:53:46,800
Speaker 3: was even himself. So yeah, and I'll say this to

2130
01:53:47,640 --> 01:53:51,240
Speaker 3: a lot of this it's a fifth straight division title.

2131
01:53:51,479 --> 01:53:55,800
Speaker 3: I get all that, you don't. I'm laughing, because you

2132
01:53:55,840 --> 01:53:58,439
Speaker 3: don't ever win the division this early in the season

2133
01:53:58,479 --> 01:54:00,920
Speaker 3: without it being a team effort to thank the Dolphins

2134
01:54:00,920 --> 01:54:03,720
Speaker 3: and the Jets for stinking so bad, because that's, you know,

2135
01:54:03,840 --> 01:54:05,040
Speaker 3: was one of the reasons they're out of it. They

2136
01:54:05,080 --> 01:54:07,599
Speaker 3: can't they can't catch the Bills because they're they're struggling

2137
01:54:07,640 --> 01:54:10,680
Speaker 3: so much. That's part of it. This is kind of

2138
01:54:10,720 --> 01:54:13,200
Speaker 3: why that, you know, we have such scar tissue from

2139
01:54:13,200 --> 01:54:15,599
Speaker 3: the New England Patriots and of the Brady Belichick era.

2140
01:54:16,960 --> 01:54:19,040
Speaker 3: The rest of the division just couldn't catch those guys

2141
01:54:19,040 --> 01:54:26,479
Speaker 3: and they'd win the division early. But this team is

2142
01:54:26,479 --> 01:54:29,120
Speaker 3: is different. It does seem special, and I think it's

2143
01:54:29,160 --> 01:54:32,040
Speaker 3: really cool because it was in a year when they

2144
01:54:32,080 --> 01:54:36,080
Speaker 3: came a little bit finger course from nowhere. People had

2145
01:54:36,080 --> 01:54:39,880
Speaker 3: written them off, and that's that makes it extra delicious.

2146
01:54:40,480 --> 01:54:43,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, So let us know your biggest takeaways at eight

2147
01:54:43,240 --> 01:54:45,680
Speaker 2: oh three zero five fifty one eight eight eight five

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01:54:45,840 --> 01:54:48,120
Speaker 2: fifty two fifty and a crack open the tweet sheet

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01:54:48,160 --> 01:54:51,880
Speaker 2: here presented by Corygan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

2150
01:54:51,880 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 2: company of the Buffalo Bills, where Rick says it was

2151
01:54:55,080 --> 01:54:59,400
Speaker 2: a glorious game in the snow. Josh Allen scoring by passing, running,

2152
01:54:59,440 --> 01:55:02,080
Speaker 2: and receiving. James Cook running for about one hundred and

2153
01:55:02,120 --> 01:55:05,480
Speaker 2: twenty yards and scoring a long touchdown run. Dawson Knox

2154
01:55:05,480 --> 01:55:07,520
Speaker 2: stepping up big in this game. He had two clutch

2155
01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:12,640
Speaker 2: grabs for fifty six yards that were crucial on Bill's drives. Yeah,

2156
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:17,040
Speaker 2: and I think you're listing of contributors there kind of

2157
01:55:17,480 --> 01:55:20,320
Speaker 2: puts the exclamation point on it. It was a total

2158
01:55:20,480 --> 01:55:23,080
Speaker 2: team effort. And while the offense gets a lot of

2159
01:55:23,080 --> 01:55:27,120
Speaker 2: the accolades, the defense gets two takeaways, Special teams gets

2160
01:55:27,160 --> 01:55:30,760
Speaker 2: another one on a kick return, and look, was it

2161
01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:33,040
Speaker 2: not for another penalty, special teams would have had a

2162
01:55:33,120 --> 01:55:36,320
Speaker 2: kick return for a touchdown of seventy five yards. So

2163
01:55:37,440 --> 01:55:41,360
Speaker 2: every phase of the game is contributing to the outcome

2164
01:55:41,920 --> 01:55:44,720
Speaker 2: in some way, shape or form. And we see the

2165
01:55:44,760 --> 01:55:46,720
Speaker 2: offense get the headlines all the time. We know the

2166
01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:51,080
Speaker 2: polarizing figure and talent that Josh is, But there's a

2167
01:55:51,160 --> 01:55:53,320
Speaker 2: defense that's getting some stuff done here week in and

2168
01:55:53,360 --> 01:55:55,880
Speaker 2: week out. And there's a special teams unit that's coming

2169
01:55:55,920 --> 01:55:56,400
Speaker 2: around too.

2170
01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:59,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, No special teams. The kick coverage and he knows this.

2171
01:56:00,160 --> 01:56:01,760
Speaker 3: Last night they had to cover a couple of kicks.

2172
01:56:01,840 --> 01:56:03,160
Speaker 3: They almost got out of the gate on them.

2173
01:56:03,240 --> 01:56:04,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were a couple of long ones, and that's

2174
01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:07,400
Speaker 2: because that's the first two kicks I can It's a

2175
01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 2: week twelve, and I've like, that's the only kicks they've

2176
01:56:09,760 --> 01:56:12,320
Speaker 2: had to cover. Yeah, there haven't been many.

2177
01:56:12,400 --> 01:56:15,800
Speaker 3: There have not been many kickoffs to cover, and last

2178
01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:18,280
Speaker 3: night in a slippery game stuff. They're a little bit

2179
01:56:18,320 --> 01:56:20,840
Speaker 3: out of their elements. So that'll help them going forward

2180
01:56:20,920 --> 01:56:23,040
Speaker 3: the more those they get. But yeah, that was a

2181
01:56:23,520 --> 01:56:27,720
Speaker 3: problem last night and their kickoff coverage.

2182
01:56:27,800 --> 01:56:30,520
Speaker 2: Their opponents have seventeen kick returns on the season.

2183
01:56:30,720 --> 01:56:34,640
Speaker 3: Right, that's not very many and barely more than one game.

2184
01:56:34,760 --> 01:56:39,520
Speaker 3: And I'll say this the special teams that Codrington deserved

2185
01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:42,360
Speaker 3: that last night. He's been doing an extremely good job

2186
01:56:42,520 --> 01:56:45,200
Speaker 3: during this season. It's nice to see him get one

2187
01:56:45,280 --> 01:56:46,960
Speaker 3: like that. Although it didn't count. We'll see if he

2188
01:56:46,960 --> 01:56:49,640
Speaker 3: can get another one soon. But yeah, it's nice to

2189
01:56:49,640 --> 01:56:51,720
Speaker 3: see him get rewarded for how well he's been playing.

2190
01:56:51,840 --> 01:56:55,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bills are now outscoring their opponents one hundred and

2191
01:56:55,640 --> 01:57:00,320
Speaker 2: seventy seven to eighty six in the second half.

2192
01:57:01,600 --> 01:57:02,600
Speaker 3: Something's going on with that?

2193
01:57:04,080 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 2: You think that is bananas? Joseph on the tweet sheet says,

2194
01:57:08,960 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 2: just a fun game to watch. Can't pick apart too

2195
01:57:11,080 --> 01:57:13,400
Speaker 2: much because of the field conditions, but for Josh to

2196
01:57:13,440 --> 01:57:15,520
Speaker 2: make some of the throes he did was outstanding. Plus

2197
01:57:15,520 --> 01:57:18,560
Speaker 2: bast and miss in nasty weather, So kudos to him.

2198
01:57:18,800 --> 01:57:20,400
Speaker 2: Now finished strong and get the one seat. He did

2199
01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:23,400
Speaker 2: have a fifty yarder that he hooked wide to the left.

2200
01:57:23,400 --> 01:57:25,560
Speaker 3: Just missed it. It had enough leg on it, but yeah,

2201
01:57:25,600 --> 01:57:26,120
Speaker 3: that's uh.

2202
01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:28,520
Speaker 2: In a driving snowstorm, I think you have to show

2203
01:57:28,560 --> 01:57:29,720
Speaker 2: a little grace for your kicker.

2204
01:57:29,840 --> 01:57:33,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, but nevertheless, he had the distance on it and

2205
01:57:33,440 --> 01:57:36,240
Speaker 3: he didn't miss it by much. And you know, conditions

2206
01:57:36,280 --> 01:57:38,160
Speaker 3: being what they were, it's like, what are you gonna

2207
01:57:38,200 --> 01:57:43,120
Speaker 3: do fifty yards? Yeah, that's the special Teams did have

2208
01:57:43,200 --> 01:57:44,160
Speaker 3: their moments last night.

2209
01:57:44,200 --> 01:57:46,600
Speaker 2: It was good to see c D on the tweet

2210
01:57:46,640 --> 01:57:48,720
Speaker 2: sheet says, the Bills offense is now so good it

2211
01:57:48,720 --> 01:57:51,440
Speaker 2: will overcome some deficiencies in the run defense. Super Bowl

2212
01:57:51,440 --> 01:57:54,240
Speaker 2: caliber team. You find it interesting that people keep knocking

2213
01:57:54,240 --> 01:57:56,720
Speaker 2: the run defense on a game like last night with

2214
01:57:56,760 --> 01:57:58,919
Speaker 2: the field conditions like footing was horrible.

2215
01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:02,280
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, the one time this team has looked vulnerable

2216
01:58:02,360 --> 01:58:05,520
Speaker 3: was in a game against Baltimore where they figured out.

2217
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:08,160
Speaker 3: They couldn't do it. They just it looked hopeless.

2218
01:58:09,360 --> 01:58:11,800
Speaker 2: And don't you just consider that a bad night, not

2219
01:58:11,880 --> 01:58:13,120
Speaker 2: an epidemic problem.

2220
01:58:13,360 --> 01:58:16,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, when you've got Mulano's out, Bernard's out, and

2221
01:58:16,600 --> 01:58:17,760
Speaker 3: Taron Johnson are out.

2222
01:58:18,080 --> 01:58:21,040
Speaker 2: It's entire second level, you're gonna be a bad night. Yeah.

2223
01:58:21,200 --> 01:58:24,040
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, we'll see, they're gonna they may get

2224
01:58:24,040 --> 01:58:25,120
Speaker 3: another shot at those guys.

2225
01:58:25,440 --> 01:58:29,040
Speaker 2: They might tie. On the tweets sheet says the Bills

2226
01:58:29,120 --> 01:58:32,280
Speaker 2: are peaking at the best possible time. Extend mac Collins.

2227
01:58:32,360 --> 01:58:35,480
Speaker 2: He does so much. Coach McDermott is more relaxed this year,

2228
01:58:35,600 --> 01:58:38,920
Speaker 2: especially last night. He's maintaining his consistency, but he's letting

2229
01:58:38,960 --> 01:58:41,320
Speaker 2: people see how much he loves what he does. He's

2230
01:58:41,560 --> 01:58:46,400
Speaker 2: just getting better. Look, he's a head coach that practice

2231
01:58:46,600 --> 01:58:50,040
Speaker 2: practices what he preaches. You know. He preaches being the

2232
01:58:50,040 --> 01:58:53,000
Speaker 2: best version of yourself. Every day you come in the building.

2233
01:58:53,000 --> 01:58:54,640
Speaker 2: The next day, you try to be one percent better

2234
01:58:54,720 --> 01:58:58,080
Speaker 2: than you were the day before. He lives by that himself.

2235
01:58:58,480 --> 01:59:01,720
Speaker 2: I remember his second after his second season, here Bill's

2236
01:59:01,720 --> 01:59:03,440
Speaker 2: goes six and ten. It's the only year they have

2237
01:59:03,520 --> 01:59:07,240
Speaker 2: not made the playoffs on his watch. And you have

2238
01:59:07,360 --> 01:59:11,520
Speaker 2: normal exit interviews with your players before they go home

2239
01:59:11,520 --> 01:59:13,880
Speaker 2: for the off season, where you kind of go over

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01:59:13,960 --> 01:59:16,560
Speaker 2: some things, whether it's a position coach that does that

2241
01:59:16,720 --> 01:59:20,560
Speaker 2: or a coordinator, and they kind of outline what your

2242
01:59:20,560 --> 01:59:23,240
Speaker 2: season was like. They ask you for feedback, and then

2243
01:59:23,280 --> 01:59:25,200
Speaker 2: they give them suggestions. Hey, you know, I think you

2244
01:59:25,200 --> 01:59:28,080
Speaker 2: should work on this in the off season, or I

2245
01:59:28,080 --> 01:59:29,880
Speaker 2: think you could be a better player if you add

2246
01:59:29,920 --> 01:59:32,160
Speaker 2: five to six pounds a lean muscle mass so you

2247
01:59:32,240 --> 01:59:36,400
Speaker 2: hold up better in this area. On defense, Sean McDermott

2248
01:59:36,440 --> 01:59:40,000
Speaker 2: turned the tables on that he gave players the opportunity

2249
01:59:40,280 --> 01:59:43,480
Speaker 2: to critique the coaches and where they could get better.

2250
01:59:43,520 --> 01:59:45,920
Speaker 2: I had never heard that in my twenty plus years

2251
01:59:45,920 --> 01:59:48,240
Speaker 2: of cover in the NFL, and I was like, holy cow,

2252
01:59:48,280 --> 01:59:50,600
Speaker 2: this guy really does practice what he preaches. He's trying

2253
01:59:50,600 --> 01:59:54,200
Speaker 2: to get better by seeking out player input for him

2254
01:59:54,240 --> 01:59:55,400
Speaker 2: and his entire staff.

2255
01:59:56,160 --> 01:59:58,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's big.

2256
01:59:58,720 --> 01:59:59,640
Speaker 2: Mean the coaches are doing that.

2257
02:00:00,560 --> 02:00:03,040
Speaker 3: Maybe there are some that we don't hear about, sure,

2258
02:00:03,200 --> 02:00:05,880
Speaker 3: but it hasn't happened in this building too much. I

2259
02:00:05,920 --> 02:00:10,440
Speaker 3: know that. Yeah. And McDermott has this that growth mindset

2260
02:00:10,680 --> 02:00:14,160
Speaker 3: mentality that he lives by and it's served him, well,

2261
02:00:14,480 --> 02:00:16,080
Speaker 3: he is a better coach now than he was eight

2262
02:00:16,160 --> 02:00:18,880
Speaker 3: years ago, and he gets he's gotten significantly better. And

2263
02:00:18,960 --> 02:00:21,760
Speaker 3: let's face it, we all everybody loves dunking on him

2264
02:00:21,760 --> 02:00:23,840
Speaker 3: about the thirteen second game and all the stuff that

2265
02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:27,280
Speaker 3: and all the time. You know, I told Brownie this,

2266
02:00:27,360 --> 02:00:29,800
Speaker 3: You go back and look at how good this team

2267
02:00:29,880 --> 02:00:32,400
Speaker 3: has become. Certainly has to do with the talent and

2268
02:00:32,400 --> 02:00:34,800
Speaker 3: the quarterback they've got in the offensive coordinators, but he's

2269
02:00:34,800 --> 02:00:38,520
Speaker 3: done it with different offensive coordinators. They're maybe the best

2270
02:00:38,520 --> 02:00:41,480
Speaker 3: team in the league at just before the half. They

2271
02:00:41,680 --> 02:00:44,360
Speaker 3: proved again last night where they squeezed the life out

2272
02:00:44,360 --> 02:00:46,000
Speaker 3: of the clock and scored with less than a minute

2273
02:00:46,080 --> 02:00:48,760
Speaker 3: left in the half and left the Niners with nothing

2274
02:00:48,800 --> 02:00:51,480
Speaker 3: to work with in a snowstorm so that they didn't

2275
02:00:51,480 --> 02:00:54,440
Speaker 3: get a chance to double dip. They do that consistently,

2276
02:00:54,520 --> 02:00:57,600
Speaker 3: and particularly when they're gonna double dip, they're very good

2277
02:00:57,640 --> 02:01:01,640
Speaker 3: at it. They've been very good at that. And he

2278
02:01:01,760 --> 02:01:04,480
Speaker 3: has just gotten better at every facet of being a

2279
02:01:04,480 --> 02:01:06,800
Speaker 3: head coach. And you know, you go back to the

2280
02:01:06,880 --> 02:01:08,440
Speaker 3: hit piece that was written on him a couple of

2281
02:01:08,480 --> 02:01:12,200
Speaker 3: years ago he had last year, he had a conversation

2282
02:01:12,480 --> 02:01:14,680
Speaker 3: with the guy who was said and and and you

2283
02:01:15,280 --> 02:01:18,520
Speaker 3: listen look at him at the ugly portrayal of himself

2284
02:01:18,680 --> 02:01:21,920
Speaker 3: by somebody else, and said, how much of it is true?

2285
02:01:22,000 --> 02:01:27,360
Speaker 3: Let me look at it. You know, that's that's pretty courageous.

2286
02:01:27,800 --> 02:01:35,880
Speaker 3: It's it's very unselfish. And that's why he's better now

2287
02:01:35,920 --> 02:01:38,480
Speaker 3: and as getting better than than he has ever been.

2288
02:01:38,520 --> 02:01:41,560
Speaker 3: And uh, I think that it speaks to the culture

2289
02:01:41,640 --> 02:01:47,120
Speaker 3: and how easy it is for players, wherever they come from,

2290
02:01:47,240 --> 02:01:50,560
Speaker 3: or however long they're here, whatever time they spend here,

2291
02:01:50,600 --> 02:01:51,120
Speaker 3: they thrive.

2292
02:01:52,760 --> 02:01:54,320
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones. At eight oh three

2293
02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:56,680
Speaker 2: oh five fifty, we go to gym down in Pennsylvania.

2294
02:01:56,680 --> 02:01:59,280
Speaker 2: What he got first, Jim, I'm.

2295
02:01:59,160 --> 02:02:02,520
Speaker 21: Just wondering, now that the Bills have won the AFCs,

2296
02:02:03,120 --> 02:02:09,080
Speaker 21: do you rest your players or do you make them

2297
02:02:09,080 --> 02:02:11,680
Speaker 21: play to get that number one seed?

2298
02:02:11,920 --> 02:02:14,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's value in the number one seed.

2299
02:02:14,360 --> 02:02:17,760
Speaker 2: I would anticipate he's gonna continue to play players. Let's

2300
02:02:17,800 --> 02:02:20,560
Speaker 2: just say hypothetically the number one seed wasn't out there

2301
02:02:20,600 --> 02:02:23,160
Speaker 2: for them to get anymore. I think he'd still play

2302
02:02:23,200 --> 02:02:27,360
Speaker 2: him because you can't start resting guys five weeks before

2303
02:02:27,440 --> 02:02:30,720
Speaker 2: the playoffs. You know how rusty and unprepared they would

2304
02:02:30,720 --> 02:02:33,560
Speaker 2: be for a playoff game to like not really play

2305
02:02:33,640 --> 02:02:35,800
Speaker 2: much over the last month of a season and say,

2306
02:02:35,840 --> 02:02:37,840
Speaker 2: all right, guys, let's ramp it up. Now play some

2307
02:02:37,880 --> 02:02:39,000
Speaker 2: of the best teams in the league.

2308
02:02:39,320 --> 02:02:41,280
Speaker 3: I'll say this though, it's hard to work that way.

2309
02:02:41,440 --> 02:02:43,520
Speaker 3: I'll say this though, Jim and Bills fans out there

2310
02:02:43,560 --> 02:02:47,120
Speaker 3: who were it's not nothing. You gotta manage it. And

2311
02:02:47,120 --> 02:02:49,040
Speaker 3: there's no question about it. You don't want. I mean,

2312
02:02:49,040 --> 02:02:50,760
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do if you're gonna go hard,

2313
02:02:50,800 --> 02:02:52,400
Speaker 3: crying get the one seed and all of a sudden

2314
02:02:52,440 --> 02:02:55,120
Speaker 3: you get the wrong player with a busted ankle a

2315
02:02:55,160 --> 02:02:58,800
Speaker 3: week before the season's over. You know that's what you're

2316
02:02:58,840 --> 02:03:02,320
Speaker 3: kind of up against, right, So you want them to

2317
02:03:02,320 --> 02:03:06,280
Speaker 3: be sharp and healthy going into the playoffs and rested.

2318
02:03:08,000 --> 02:03:10,680
Speaker 2: Well, if you keep lumping up teams like they did yesterday,

2319
02:03:10,760 --> 02:03:12,200
Speaker 2: they're gonna be able to do that.

2320
02:03:13,000 --> 02:03:14,680
Speaker 3: They may be playing three quarters a game.

2321
02:03:14,720 --> 02:03:16,560
Speaker 2: We were talking about it on the broadcast. You know,

2322
02:03:16,600 --> 02:03:19,760
Speaker 2: you've got the longest trip of the season coming up

2323
02:03:20,280 --> 02:03:23,080
Speaker 2: this Sunday. It's late in the year. Granted you just

2324
02:03:23,120 --> 02:03:27,040
Speaker 2: had to buy so guys are relatively fresh, But do

2325
02:03:27,080 --> 02:03:29,200
Speaker 2: you know how enormous it is for you for a

2326
02:03:29,560 --> 02:03:33,879
Speaker 2: bulk of your starters to have only played three quarters

2327
02:03:33,880 --> 02:03:36,840
Speaker 2: and a little bit and sit the fourth quarter out

2328
02:03:37,040 --> 02:03:40,560
Speaker 2: and miss about twenty snaps like that's a big deal.

2329
02:03:40,640 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 2: Bodies recover faster when you take the load off like that,

2330
02:03:44,360 --> 02:03:47,560
Speaker 2: and it'll make them better this week in Los Angeles

2331
02:03:47,600 --> 02:03:48,120
Speaker 2: because of it.

2332
02:03:48,200 --> 02:03:50,600
Speaker 3: But let's face it, though, you got to push hard

2333
02:03:50,680 --> 02:03:52,600
Speaker 3: enough to give yourself a chance at the one seed,

2334
02:03:53,840 --> 02:03:56,440
Speaker 3: knowing that you're already going to be in the tournament.

2335
02:03:57,080 --> 02:03:59,200
Speaker 3: But you got to give yourself a chance to get

2336
02:03:59,240 --> 02:04:02,400
Speaker 3: another week off and get guys health in stay sharp.

2337
02:04:05,320 --> 02:04:08,040
Speaker 3: It is something you gotta consider. I think I don't

2338
02:04:08,080 --> 02:04:09,880
Speaker 3: know how much consideration you're geting. You're gonna play. You're

2339
02:04:09,920 --> 02:04:12,600
Speaker 3: gonna play to win every game. You're not gonna play.

2340
02:04:12,640 --> 02:04:15,160
Speaker 3: You're not gonna sit star players who were healthy.

2341
02:04:16,040 --> 02:04:18,680
Speaker 2: I think if someone's nicked, they have a minor ailment,

2342
02:04:19,200 --> 02:04:20,920
Speaker 2: they don't want to make it worse. I could see

2343
02:04:20,920 --> 02:04:27,240
Speaker 2: somebody sitting there. Maybe your your standard for what it's

2344
02:04:27,240 --> 02:04:30,839
Speaker 2: gonna take to miss a game. Obviously, with player athletic

2345
02:04:30,880 --> 02:04:34,200
Speaker 2: training and medical team input, maybe with some guys nicked,

2346
02:04:34,240 --> 02:04:36,240
Speaker 2: that isn't quite right. Well, I could play if you

2347
02:04:36,320 --> 02:04:39,280
Speaker 2: need me. I think those guys are gonna sit for

2348
02:04:39,320 --> 02:04:40,840
Speaker 2: a week, yeah, to get them right.

2349
02:04:40,920 --> 02:04:42,960
Speaker 3: But think about it though, that's they do that these

2350
02:04:43,040 --> 02:04:45,440
Speaker 3: days anyway. I mean that's the way they're thinking.

2351
02:04:45,520 --> 02:04:47,880
Speaker 2: They might do it, even to a greater degree.

2352
02:04:47,680 --> 02:04:54,000
Speaker 3: Maybe, And but it's a question that you know, it's

2353
02:04:54,040 --> 02:04:57,440
Speaker 3: a good problem to have, yes, but it is an

2354
02:04:57,480 --> 02:04:59,920
Speaker 3: issue that you got to deal with, and it's imp

2355
02:05:01,240 --> 02:05:03,560
Speaker 3: It's important because there's risk involved.

2356
02:05:04,480 --> 02:05:07,840
Speaker 2: Back to the tweetsheet where ha Roadie says Josh is

2357
02:05:07,840 --> 02:05:10,360
Speaker 2: playing as good as he ever has and at an

2358
02:05:10,360 --> 02:05:14,360
Speaker 2: elite level. The team is deep feeding everyone with opportunities

2359
02:05:14,400 --> 02:05:17,360
Speaker 2: and it's working. We're healthy. Knock on wood man. The

2360
02:05:17,400 --> 02:05:21,280
Speaker 2: Bills are fun to watch, Yeah they are. They're entertaining,

2361
02:05:21,720 --> 02:05:23,480
Speaker 2: There's no question about it. That's what I was saying,

2362
02:05:23,560 --> 02:05:26,200
Speaker 2: Like these last two games, you'd be hard pressed to

2363
02:05:26,240 --> 02:05:28,160
Speaker 2: be more entertained by this team than you have been

2364
02:05:28,240 --> 02:05:31,680
Speaker 2: these past two games and two very different games. You know,

2365
02:05:32,920 --> 02:05:38,040
Speaker 2: the atmosphere of last night was it was unprecedent. I mean,

2366
02:05:38,040 --> 02:05:41,080
Speaker 2: we've been a part of snow games before, but seeing

2367
02:05:41,120 --> 02:05:46,320
Speaker 2: the Bills dominate a team in adverse conditions and granted,

2368
02:05:46,520 --> 02:05:48,080
Speaker 2: you know, the forty nine ers came in here a

2369
02:05:48,080 --> 02:05:50,520
Speaker 2: wounded animal. I mean, let's just be honest about that.

2370
02:05:50,800 --> 02:05:52,400
Speaker 2: They were not the forty nine ers that were in

2371
02:05:52,400 --> 02:05:54,920
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl last year in terms of personnel and

2372
02:05:55,000 --> 02:06:02,120
Speaker 2: player availability, but condition wise, atmosphere, national television audience, and

2373
02:06:02,400 --> 02:06:05,839
Speaker 2: you do that, you know, to the defending NFC champs.

2374
02:06:06,520 --> 02:06:10,520
Speaker 2: That has entertainment value. Now, I don't think it was

2375
02:06:10,640 --> 02:06:15,120
Speaker 2: as palpably electric as it was two weeks ago against

2376
02:06:15,120 --> 02:06:18,440
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, where everybody across the country was watching that

2377
02:06:18,480 --> 02:06:21,840
Speaker 2: thing front to back, and it was a tight game

2378
02:06:21,920 --> 02:06:24,640
Speaker 2: for the most part, so you can understand why people

2379
02:06:24,680 --> 02:06:26,960
Speaker 2: were glued. What was it over? Thirty one million people

2380
02:06:27,000 --> 02:06:27,600
Speaker 2: watch that games?

2381
02:06:27,760 --> 02:06:30,160
Speaker 3: Thirty one million people, thirty two million people. They yeah,

2382
02:06:30,160 --> 02:06:34,920
Speaker 3: it was the most watched games regular season game since

2383
02:06:35,120 --> 02:06:37,160
Speaker 3: Brady Manning. Manning.

2384
02:06:37,240 --> 02:06:40,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean these last two who if you're

2385
02:06:40,920 --> 02:06:44,240
Speaker 2: a Bills fan, you're pinching yourself for what you've been

2386
02:06:44,280 --> 02:06:47,280
Speaker 2: able to witness the last couple of games. Corey on

2387
02:06:47,320 --> 02:06:49,640
Speaker 2: the tweets sheets says, need to figure out the first

2388
02:06:49,800 --> 02:06:53,080
Speaker 2: drive got to start scoring points heading into the playoffs.

2389
02:06:53,200 --> 02:06:56,240
Speaker 2: Rundy needs to tighten up if Bills draw Ravens in

2390
02:06:56,280 --> 02:06:58,960
Speaker 2: the wild card, Henry will run all over them again.

2391
02:07:00,360 --> 02:07:03,000
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm ready to buy that yet,

2392
02:07:03,160 --> 02:07:05,080
Speaker 2: because I think the Bills will have a different game

2393
02:07:05,120 --> 02:07:07,800
Speaker 2: plan for the second meeting with the Ravens if it

2394
02:07:07,840 --> 02:07:10,960
Speaker 2: comes to pass in the postseason. And look, I understand

2395
02:07:11,360 --> 02:07:13,960
Speaker 2: that they're having trouble on their opening possession of games

2396
02:07:14,000 --> 02:07:16,520
Speaker 2: at times, but look up at the scoreboard at the

2397
02:07:16,640 --> 02:07:19,760
Speaker 2: end of the night. I mean they need to start

2398
02:07:19,880 --> 02:07:23,520
Speaker 2: scoring points heading into the playoffs. They've scored thirty points

2399
02:07:23,600 --> 02:07:26,440
Speaker 2: or more in each of their last six games. Are

2400
02:07:26,440 --> 02:07:29,720
Speaker 2: you high? Are you seriously saying they need to score

2401
02:07:29,760 --> 02:07:32,880
Speaker 2: more points? They're the second highest scoring team in football.

2402
02:07:33,400 --> 02:07:35,360
Speaker 2: What do you mean they need to score more points?

2403
02:07:35,440 --> 02:07:37,320
Speaker 2: Are you looking at the scoreboard at the end of

2404
02:07:37,320 --> 02:07:38,360
Speaker 2: the game seriously?

2405
02:07:38,640 --> 02:07:38,880
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2406
02:07:40,320 --> 02:07:41,120
Speaker 2: Come on with that.

2407
02:07:41,320 --> 02:07:43,960
Speaker 3: They're scoring plenty of points. I get it. You wanted

2408
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:47,760
Speaker 3: to start fast, have a strong middle, and then finish

2409
02:07:47,880 --> 02:07:50,240
Speaker 3: with a sprint. I get it. But you know they're

2410
02:07:50,280 --> 02:07:53,000
Speaker 3: not playing in a vacuum. And listen, you'd rather have

2411
02:07:53,040 --> 02:07:55,480
Speaker 3: it the way it is now than any other way.

2412
02:07:55,680 --> 02:07:57,680
Speaker 3: If you can't have it, if you can't have perfection,

2413
02:07:57,760 --> 02:08:00,600
Speaker 3: and nobody does so, Yeah, don't.

2414
02:08:01,040 --> 02:08:03,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I'm sorry.

2415
02:08:03,520 --> 02:08:06,480
Speaker 3: That's like saying they're going to turn their That's like

2416
02:08:06,520 --> 02:08:09,000
Speaker 3: the calls we got when they were eight and two,

2417
02:08:09,880 --> 02:08:11,960
Speaker 3: somebody said they were going to turn their season around.

2418
02:08:12,160 --> 02:08:14,480
Speaker 2: Like that, They're on a pace to be the highest

2419
02:08:14,480 --> 02:08:17,720
Speaker 2: scoring team in Bill's history, score more points. You're out

2420
02:08:17,720 --> 02:08:19,120
Speaker 2: of your gourd. I'm sorry.

2421
02:08:19,320 --> 02:08:19,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2422
02:08:20,600 --> 02:08:23,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've already tied the record for most thirty point

2423
02:08:23,320 --> 02:08:25,280
Speaker 2: games in a season. They've got five to play.

2424
02:08:25,480 --> 02:08:28,160
Speaker 3: I don't know what your point you were trying to

2425
02:08:28,160 --> 02:08:30,640
Speaker 3: make is, but I'm sure it wasn't about scoring points.

2426
02:08:30,640 --> 02:08:35,320
Speaker 2: Holy cow, I don't know, Gary says, to quote Ray Lewis,

2427
02:08:35,760 --> 02:08:37,320
Speaker 2: the Bills passed the eye test.

2428
02:08:37,680 --> 02:08:37,880
Speaker 3: Yes.

2429
02:08:38,040 --> 02:08:40,400
Speaker 2: Talented and well coached, the Bills are unified and play

2430
02:08:40,440 --> 02:08:45,360
Speaker 2: with belief most important, but most important intangible in life.

2431
02:08:45,920 --> 02:08:49,360
Speaker 2: To quote seven, we knew we were going to win.

2432
02:08:50,040 --> 02:08:52,760
Speaker 2: They knew we were going to win. They knew. We

2433
02:08:52,840 --> 02:08:55,360
Speaker 2: knew that's a keeper, man.

2434
02:08:55,800 --> 02:08:57,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

2435
02:08:57,640 --> 02:08:59,320
Speaker 2: Not only do you we should put that one on

2436
02:08:59,320 --> 02:09:00,920
Speaker 2: your tombstone when all is said and done.

2437
02:09:01,120 --> 02:09:03,360
Speaker 3: Not only do you know that's a good one you're

2438
02:09:03,360 --> 02:09:06,400
Speaker 3: gonna win, they know it too, And they know you

2439
02:09:06,480 --> 02:09:13,640
Speaker 3: know yeah, uh, yeah, that's an old timer, but that's yeah.

2440
02:09:13,720 --> 02:09:16,640
Speaker 3: They do pass the eye test. This team is finding

2441
02:09:16,840 --> 02:09:19,320
Speaker 3: multiple ways to win their scoring points from all over

2442
02:09:19,360 --> 02:09:24,280
Speaker 3: their roster. Their defense is playmaking, opportunistic and can do

2443
02:09:24,360 --> 02:09:27,280
Speaker 3: it in every facet of the game, from tackling from sacks,

2444
02:09:27,520 --> 02:09:33,120
Speaker 3: tackles for loss, turnovers, interceptions. They can do it. They

2445
02:09:33,240 --> 02:09:35,560
Speaker 3: do it all and do it all very well. One

2446
02:09:35,600 --> 02:09:37,520
Speaker 3: of the reasons people get caught up in the run

2447
02:09:37,600 --> 02:09:40,160
Speaker 3: defense is this year it's that Baltimore game that they

2448
02:09:40,320 --> 02:09:43,000
Speaker 3: gave up. They got beat badly and gave up a

2449
02:09:43,040 --> 02:09:49,920
Speaker 3: ton of yards rushing. I would challenge that notion that

2450
02:09:49,920 --> 02:09:54,840
Speaker 3: that's who this team is. They were missing a ton

2451
02:09:54,880 --> 02:10:01,160
Speaker 3: of starters and a second shot at that team. I'd

2452
02:10:01,240 --> 02:10:01,840
Speaker 3: take this one.

2453
02:10:02,120 --> 02:10:07,240
Speaker 2: Yep, I would too, and not even hesitate. Lewis on

2454
02:10:07,280 --> 02:10:10,040
Speaker 2: the tweet sheet says, game felt close and I looked

2455
02:10:10,080 --> 02:10:12,280
Speaker 2: up and it was twenty one to three. I don't

2456
02:10:12,280 --> 02:10:14,960
Speaker 2: think we've played our best yet, which is scary. Steve

2457
02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:16,720
Speaker 2: and I have talked about this for the last month.

2458
02:10:17,240 --> 02:10:22,680
Speaker 2: I mean, this team is winning games, sometimes bludgeoning opponents,

2459
02:10:23,280 --> 02:10:25,080
Speaker 2: and Steve and I are talking before we come on

2460
02:10:25,120 --> 02:10:27,720
Speaker 2: the air. It's like, I don't even know if they've

2461
02:10:27,800 --> 02:10:30,320
Speaker 2: hit their ceiling yet. Yeah, I think they could be

2462
02:10:30,360 --> 02:10:31,160
Speaker 2: even better than this.

2463
02:10:31,560 --> 02:10:33,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how they

2464
02:10:33,720 --> 02:10:39,360
Speaker 3: exploit the roster when it's fully healthy. Certainly, they have

2465
02:10:39,480 --> 02:10:42,640
Speaker 3: played like they're fully healthy every week. No matter who's

2466
02:10:42,680 --> 02:10:46,040
Speaker 3: been in there, they've done exactly what they were asked

2467
02:10:46,040 --> 02:10:49,920
Speaker 3: to do. They've done it at a high level. And

2468
02:10:49,960 --> 02:10:52,000
Speaker 3: it's been guys who we didn't know if they could

2469
02:10:52,040 --> 02:10:54,520
Speaker 3: even make the roster when training camp kicked off.

2470
02:10:54,600 --> 02:10:57,320
Speaker 2: Their average margin of victory on this seven game winning

2471
02:10:57,360 --> 02:11:01,480
Speaker 2: streak is over fifteen points a game. That is hard

2472
02:11:01,520 --> 02:11:04,360
Speaker 2: to do in this league on a consistent basis for

2473
02:11:04,400 --> 02:11:08,040
Speaker 2: almost two months, and on the season, they're number two

2474
02:11:08,080 --> 02:11:10,840
Speaker 2: in the league, number one in the AFC. In point differential,

2475
02:11:10,880 --> 02:11:13,360
Speaker 2: they are a plus one p thirty one right now.

2476
02:11:14,200 --> 02:11:16,280
Speaker 2: The only team that's better are the Lions at plus

2477
02:11:16,360 --> 02:11:20,480
Speaker 2: one eighty. So nobody else is within sniffing distance of

2478
02:11:20,520 --> 02:11:23,960
Speaker 2: those two teams right now. Gotta take a break. Final

2479
02:11:23,960 --> 02:11:26,240
Speaker 2: thoughts on the tweet sheet and the phones when we

2480
02:11:26,280 --> 02:11:28,640
Speaker 2: return here on a Buffalo victory Monday on One Bill's Live,

2481
02:11:28,680 --> 02:11:43,600
Speaker 2: presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

2482
02:11:43,640 --> 02:11:46,360
Speaker 2: so final thoughts from the tweetsheets here on a Buffalo

2483
02:11:46,400 --> 02:11:49,080
Speaker 2: victory Monday, One Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with You,

2484
02:11:49,880 --> 02:11:53,800
Speaker 2: and Sella says this is the best team in five

2485
02:11:53,880 --> 02:11:57,600
Speaker 2: plus years of successful Buffalo Bills football. McDermott has created

2486
02:11:57,600 --> 02:12:00,600
Speaker 2: a great program meshed perfectly with Beam and of course

2487
02:12:01,000 --> 02:12:03,600
Speaker 2: Terry and Kim Pigula. As a kid in the seventies,

2488
02:12:04,000 --> 02:12:07,960
Speaker 2: I am thrilled that this young generation witnessed McDermott trust

2489
02:12:08,680 --> 02:12:10,240
Speaker 2: the process.

2490
02:12:12,600 --> 02:12:16,520
Speaker 3: We told you so. I mean, we knew that at

2491
02:12:16,560 --> 02:12:18,480
Speaker 3: the beginning of the it was going to take a minute,

2492
02:12:19,920 --> 02:12:22,920
Speaker 3: and it looked like they stumbled, no question in the

2493
02:12:23,000 --> 02:12:25,920
Speaker 3: two game losing streak with between Baltimore and Houston Ortho.

2494
02:12:26,040 --> 02:12:27,520
Speaker 3: You know, the Houston game was what it was and

2495
02:12:27,560 --> 02:12:29,640
Speaker 3: the Baltimore game was what it was, and we thought, okay,

2496
02:12:29,640 --> 02:12:34,080
Speaker 3: it's going to be an uphill battle. This has a

2497
02:12:34,200 --> 02:12:36,760
Speaker 3: chance to be the best team Sean mcdermot's ever fielded.

2498
02:12:37,680 --> 02:12:39,520
Speaker 3: We've gotten some feedback today that makes you think a

2499
02:12:39,520 --> 02:12:41,720
Speaker 3: lot of people think it already is the best team

2500
02:12:41,720 --> 02:12:44,400
Speaker 3: they've ever fielded. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Maybe

2501
02:12:44,440 --> 02:12:46,360
Speaker 3: they'll go further. Maybe they won't, we don't know, but

2502
02:12:46,440 --> 02:12:51,440
Speaker 3: it certainly looks sustainable what they're doing here in Buffalo,

2503
02:12:51,880 --> 02:12:57,120
Speaker 3: and that's taking more shots at getting a chance to

2504
02:12:57,160 --> 02:12:59,320
Speaker 3: get a world championship. Is what it's all about. You

2505
02:12:59,360 --> 02:13:02,680
Speaker 3: need to go year after year after year. You you go,

2506
02:13:02,800 --> 02:13:05,720
Speaker 3: and they are they're gonna have another shot out of

2507
02:13:05,800 --> 02:13:08,840
Speaker 3: this year. How they're gonna be six weeks from now

2508
02:13:08,840 --> 02:13:12,880
Speaker 3: when the playoffs start, we don't know, but they're in it. Yeah,

2509
02:13:12,920 --> 02:13:15,160
Speaker 3: and there's no turning back now. They're they're in it.

2510
02:13:15,240 --> 02:13:20,520
Speaker 3: And however these next five or six weeks go, they're

2511
02:13:20,560 --> 02:13:25,480
Speaker 3: gonna they're still gonna be in a position to continue

2512
02:13:25,520 --> 02:13:28,800
Speaker 3: with it going forward a year after this. There's no

2513
02:13:29,600 --> 02:13:32,400
Speaker 3: this is this is a really good football team, and

2514
02:13:32,760 --> 02:13:35,120
Speaker 3: we were right. This may be the best team Sean

2515
02:13:35,160 --> 02:13:39,640
Speaker 3: mcdermot's ever fielded. There are no guarantees about what that means, but.

2516
02:13:39,560 --> 02:13:42,240
Speaker 2: The truth is the truth from sloth No's ball. Say

2517
02:13:42,280 --> 02:13:44,040
Speaker 2: what you want about this Bills team and their strength

2518
02:13:44,040 --> 02:13:45,960
Speaker 2: of schedule and how injured the Niners were and all that,

2519
02:13:46,040 --> 02:13:48,080
Speaker 2: I don't care. It's all irrelevant. The energy and the

2520
02:13:48,160 --> 02:13:50,600
Speaker 2: vibes on the Bills team is just different. There's a

2521
02:13:50,600 --> 02:13:53,200
Speaker 2: special team with all the right championship ingredients, and it's

2522
02:13:53,200 --> 02:13:55,440
Speaker 2: a team that knows how to close Steve. They are

2523
02:13:55,480 --> 02:13:59,520
Speaker 2: now twenty and two in December and January regular season

2524
02:13:59,520 --> 02:14:04,080
Speaker 2: games twenty twenty and eleven, and oh since twenty twenty two.

2525
02:14:04,480 --> 02:14:06,920
Speaker 2: They know how to close out a regular season.

2526
02:14:07,000 --> 02:14:08,440
Speaker 3: They got a chance to close it over the next

2527
02:14:08,480 --> 02:14:09,520
Speaker 3: few years. We'll see.

2528
02:14:09,600 --> 02:14:12,080
Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock with Dan Orlovsky

2529
02:14:12,120 --> 02:14:16,280
Speaker 2: from ESPN. We'll see you then,