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Speaker 1: Could you hear me a? Yes? We can? Yeah, They

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Speaker 1: That's obvious. And thanks for the call. I will tell you.

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Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had the tenth most penalties in

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Speaker 1: football last year they won the Super Bowl. The year before,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs were fourth in the league and most penalties

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Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. Teams that get called for penalties

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Speaker 1: still find ways to win, and I think at the

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Speaker 1: core yesterday it was an execution issue. For the passing game.

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Speaker 1: Josh had time to throw, miss some targets, receiving targets,

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Speaker 1: dropped the football. I counted four yesterday. There were issues

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Speaker 1: in the offensive execution. Yes, penalties are bad. They certainly

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Speaker 1: don't make it easier, but I think it's only a

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Speaker 1: part of the way in which the Bills find ways

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Speaker 1: to beat themselves. And lack of execution on offense yesterday,

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Speaker 1: particularly in the passing game, I would put ahead of

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Speaker 1: the penalties yesterday. You want to make an argument for

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Speaker 1: all the penalties they committed in the Jacksonville game attributing

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Speaker 1: to the loss, I'll jump on board with that one.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's every game that penalties are the

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Speaker 1: number one reason you lose, and I don't think it

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Speaker 1: was yesterday. It didn't help, Certainly, it didn't help. They

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Speaker 1: had the defense had a chance to get off the

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Speaker 1: field a few times on third downs after getting stops.

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Speaker 1: You know Colt's third drive of the game, third and nine,

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Speaker 1: they get a stop, Mario Addison's called for roughing the passer.

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Speaker 1: Got blocked into the quarterback. I thought it was kind

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Speaker 1: of a crumbing call. But Aj Klein also got a

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Speaker 1: called for defensive passing interference on the same play, fresh

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Speaker 1: set of downs. The next third and ten, they get

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Speaker 1: to third and ten, Mario Addison has Carson Wentz dead

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Speaker 1: to rights on a sack. He ducks out of it.

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Speaker 1: He runs for eighteen on the scramble. Missed opportunity, poor

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Speaker 1: execution on that same drive that finished in points for

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Speaker 1: the Colts. I think it was the field goal drive

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Speaker 1: that they had. Penalties played a part, but so did

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Speaker 1: lack of execution. Two opportunities one one was sacrificed by

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Speaker 1: a penalty, one was sacrificed by just not making the play.

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Speaker 1: So it goes deeper than penalties as far as I'm concerned. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're averaging about nine penalties a game in their losses.

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Speaker 1: The big one they haven't had seven and against Indianapolis yesterday,

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Speaker 1: eight against Tennessee, eight against Pittsburgh. But then the Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: game had twelve for a buck eighteen that that was

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Speaker 1: the one and so yeah, and it seemed and I'm

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Speaker 1: surprised they were that low the penalties. I know that

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville was a big one, but consistently and some of

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Speaker 1: those games have some of those that are you know,

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Speaker 1: I remember one game in particular where the Bills had

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Speaker 1: three penalties called against him on the same play. I'm well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll take it a step further to prove

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Speaker 1: that penalties don't aren't the number one reason that cost

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Speaker 1: good teams football games. It's lack of execution. Last year,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can count dozens of time tis where

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Speaker 1: the offense put themselves in third and long second in twenties, first,

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Speaker 1: in fifteens, and they overcame it. Why because they were

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Speaker 1: good enough and could execute on a consistent basis to

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Speaker 1: overcome long down in distant situations. This year, they are

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Speaker 1: not able to do that on a consistent basis, So

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Speaker 1: the penalties hurt more, and they're exacerbated by the fact

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Speaker 1: that you can't overcome them with consistent execution. That's what

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Speaker 1: makes them seem worse this year than even last year,

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Speaker 1: when a lot of the same things were happening. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back to the phones, Tom and West Seneca. You're

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Speaker 1: on next. What do you have for us, Tom? Yeah, Chris, Steve,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me on the ESPN

488
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: over the weekend, they had the Bills. Vegas had the

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Speaker 1: Bills at five to two to win the AFC Championship.

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Speaker 1: I think those obs have changed since yesterday. But I've

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Speaker 1: got a comment to him. Don't mean to be nasty,

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Speaker 1: but the defense, who was totally useless yesterday, they did

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Speaker 1: not help one iota. And that being said, we better

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Speaker 1: get back to that drawing board in aniti hurry. I

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00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: still have faith that the Bills could do it, but

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00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: yesterday was It was quite upsetting. Guys. It's all he

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Speaker 1: got to say, have a great day and thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me right, thanks for the call. App Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Micah Hyde said the same thing when he was

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Speaker 1: a post game um. He said, we didn't do anything today,

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Speaker 1: but you know, think about it. They were over for

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00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: two on field goals and coughed it up and caught

503
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: and gave Indianapolis a touchdown or a two yard field

504
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: special teams one special teams did not hold their end

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Speaker 1: up either. So yeah, the defense wasn't good. Neither were

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Speaker 1: the special teams and offensively, I mean, let's face it,

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Speaker 1: they And this was pointed out last night by Tony

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Speaker 1: Dungee on Football night in America. He said, listen, they

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Speaker 1: ran the ball eight times to their running backs the

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Speaker 1: entire game, um, you know, in a game, and he

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Speaker 1: mentioned it. And I don't know if I buy into

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Speaker 1: this completely. I think it's too stereotypical, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's overused that in Buffalo in the weather, or in

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Speaker 1: Green Bay and the weather, in Chicago and the weather,

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Speaker 1: or whatever town you want to Cleveland, New England, you

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Speaker 1: got to run the football in late in the year

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Speaker 1: because the weather turns bad. The Bills didn't do that

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Speaker 1: last year and they were plowing people. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I buy that. But they only ran it

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Speaker 1: eight times yesterday. That says something. It does beg this question, though, Steve,

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Speaker 1: because the last couple of years, the teams that have

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Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl have not really cared about having

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Speaker 1: a running game, right Chiefs Tampa they didn't care to

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Speaker 1: run it. Bills didn't care to run it either. Got

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Speaker 1: to the final four, and I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people thought, wow, we don't need to put a priority

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Speaker 1: on the run game. You just throw it all over

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Speaker 1: the yard and if your quarterback is good enough, you'll

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Speaker 1: win that way. As long as you have a decent defense,

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Speaker 1: and the logic is sound. But the way this year

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Speaker 1: is unfolded, it's hard not to believe that what wins

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Speaker 1: consistently in the NFL hasn't changed just a little bit

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Speaker 1: now because you look at the teams that are tops

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Speaker 1: in the conference right now. Tennessee, even without Derrick Henry,

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Speaker 1: has a running game, Baltimore has a running game. New

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Speaker 1: England has a running game. Arizona in the NFC has

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Speaker 1: a running game tops in the NFC. There is something

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Speaker 1: to be said for having that to lean on when

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Speaker 1: you need it. I don't know, yeah, maybe I'd like

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Speaker 1: I'd like to carve up those numbers, because here's why

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Speaker 1: the Bills crushed the New York Jets. They threw at

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Speaker 1: twenty eight times, they ran at twenty four, they ran

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Speaker 1: at twenty four times, because their twenty eight passes put

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Speaker 1: the game out of each of the Jets. The Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's the reason they're running the ball. Well, he

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Speaker 1: throws it and they score points. And that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, Kyler Murray gives him the league.

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Speaker 1: James Connor can do what he wants. After that, UM,

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Speaker 1: that stat to me, is the answer to a riddle.

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Speaker 1: It's not predictive. The riddle is how are the you know,

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Speaker 1: why are what is? What are the Cardinals? Or the

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Speaker 1: who is the other team? You just said, who are

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals? What do these teams do? What are these

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Speaker 1: teams do to allow them to run? Well they get

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Speaker 1: a lead? You know? So I get it. Um. I

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00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: sat here and watched this team, this Bill's team last year,

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Speaker 1: roll through the whole conference and through one of the

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Speaker 1: toughest schedules of anybody in the league last year doing

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. So I get this running game and

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00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: how that's and I get the problem is the physicality upfront.

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Speaker 1: Because here's the thing. If you can't run it, you're

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Speaker 1: not physical enough to run, okay, whatever, but you've got

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Speaker 1: to be physical enough to protect the guy that's throwing it.

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Speaker 1: To me, that's more important than having the ability to

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Speaker 1: run four yards off tackle once in a while on

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Speaker 1: first down. Because this it's a throwing league. You can

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Speaker 1: throw up your hands and say, because you know you

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00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: gotta be you gotta be physical, yes, but you gotta

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Speaker 1: be physical when you pass protect you gotta give yourself

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Speaker 1: a chance to have your guy stand back that did

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Speaker 1: you watch the the Charger game last night? Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: the guy's five come from behind victories. That guy was

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Speaker 1: untouched last night. They also ran for eighty yards. He

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Speaker 1: sat back there and had space, not just time, but space,

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Speaker 1: and when he didn't, he was snapping off the you know,

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00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: they were trying to play man against him. He made

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Speaker 1: him pay for that a couple of times. But he

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Speaker 1: carved him up because they were physical enough upfront to

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Speaker 1: hold those guys out. I mean, you can be physical

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Speaker 1: as an offensive line and not have to fire out

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Speaker 1: and knock people down all the time. Just don't let

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Speaker 1: him get near your guy. And I think these running

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Speaker 1: stats and I get it everybody, you know, Derek Kent,

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Speaker 1: that's a different animal. Lamar Jackson, they've been a different animal,

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Speaker 1: and they're moving away from what they were two years

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Speaker 1: ago as well. Lamar Jackson's now throwing the football a

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Speaker 1: lot more that you get teams like that that are aberrations.

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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you right now, the game in the

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00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: NFL is won from the pocket. But you gotta be

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Speaker 1: physical all the time, whether you're throwing it or running it,

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00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: you gotta be physical, right And I'm not here to

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00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: say the Bills should change their identity. They're a passing

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00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: team unequivocally. I just think the burden is so heavy

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Speaker 1: on Chalon right now, where unless he plays at an

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00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: all pro level, this team struggles to move the ball

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Speaker 1: and score points. So if he is not on, you

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00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: got problems. Yeah, you got problems. All your eggs are

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00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: in that basket right now. And why Look, I believe

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00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: in Josh as much as the next guy. That's there's

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00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: no margin for error and there's nothing else for you

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00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: to rely upon or turn to to carry you through

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00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: a football game offensively. So that's the troubling thing for me.

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Speaker 1: We gotta take a break, but we got more phone

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00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: calls to get to, so hang tight. If you're waiting

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Speaker 1: at eight oh three, five fifty, we'll get to you

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Speaker 1: in the next segment here coming up next year. On

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalaida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right back here on a Buffalo Football Monday, one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Task, you're right back to

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Speaker 1: the phones. We go, and we lead off with Chris

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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. Chris, what do you have for us? You're

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. Hey, guys, how are you appreciate

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Speaker 1: you having me on? About as much as I love

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Speaker 1: telling my buddies who are Jets and Giants fans that

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Speaker 1: I was to New York's only football team. The two

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Speaker 1: takeaways are one, the Bills are getting absolutely toasted in

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Speaker 1: the trenches and it shows, and in fact, I think

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen is actually keenly aware of the limitations of

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Speaker 1: his offensive line. I think it's actually affecting his decision making.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I think is, I agree that the

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Speaker 1: penalties aren't the only issue, but you cannot expect to

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Speaker 1: gift first downs to a team like the Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 1: and expect them not to capitalize on those situations. And

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Speaker 1: they did it in spades on multiple times yesterday. And

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Speaker 1: then the one question I have for you, Steve, is

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Speaker 1: you know, being on a team he had guys who

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Speaker 1: are you know, compleantly say things like I'm loyal to

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Speaker 1: my team. I want to sacrifice to do whatever it

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Speaker 1: takes for my team to win. But we have guys

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Speaker 1: in key positions who we've come to find out, or

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Speaker 1: least suspect, have chosen not to take What is that?

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00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: What is considered by multiple scientists to be an effective

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00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: and safe vaccine, and I think it's starting to cost

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00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: the Bills, particularly on the offensive line. And I wonder

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Speaker 1: at what point, if any, does this start to become

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Speaker 1: an issue in the locker room, because one of the

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Speaker 1: things I am concerned about in the long term is

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Speaker 1: the morale sort of given the way the Bills have

639
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: played as of late. So that's all I got for you.

640
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time, love the show. I'll hang up and

641
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: listen to what you got. Yeah, it's a good call, Chris,

642
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: and you're right. I do think I'm with you. And

643
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: we talked about it a little bit, not at length,

644
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: but a little bit about how Josh is doing some

645
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: different things, making some different decisions on occasion because he

646
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: feels like he's got to do it himself, or he's

647
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: making different decisions because he doesn't think he's going to

648
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: have time to stand in there and make the throw,

649
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: or he breaks contain a little bit quicker because or

650
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: he's having to break contain a little bit more. So, Yeah,

651
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. And we talked at length,

652
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: just like you, about the physicality upfront and what's missing

653
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: up there. I think it's at this point it's a

654
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 1: personnel thing. I think when Spencer Brown gets back, John

655
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: Feliciano gets back, things will change. But even so, right

656
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: when they get back, they may have some you know,

657
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: some acclamation to get back in Feliciano has been out

658
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 1: a month. Spencer Brown may not feel one hundred percent

659
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: even though he's clear to the COVID protocols. So yes,

660
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I think most of the

661
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: Bills fans that we've talked to say, you know, it's

662
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 1: about the offensive and defensive line particularly. I mean, given

663
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: the success of the run game of the Colts yesterday. Yesterday,

664
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: though Josh did have time to throw it on more,

665
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean I can count more than a half dozen

666
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: times he had time to survey the field. He either

667
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: missed a target or the intended target did not come

668
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: up with the football, or there was just a good

669
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: defensive play. But execution was an issue yesterday in the

670
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: passing game at both ends. So and also and it

671
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: got you know, when you're a throwing team and you're

672
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: playing in a rainstorm, and the Bills have done it

673
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 1: like four or five times this year, I think three

674
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: times or four times in rainstorms and in the other

675
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: time was a windstorm here in Buffalo. So um. And

676
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: there's been some stuff on social media about people plyining

677
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: about not winning. I don't want to say complaining that

678
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: like that's why we need to we need a roof.

679
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 1: I don't get caught up in that. But the other

680
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: thing you said about penalties, you're right. I I was

681
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 1: just telling Brownie this. The Bills average in their wins,

682
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: they get seven penalties for fifty seven yards. In their losses,

683
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: they've had nine penalties for eighty yards. Slide uptick in

684
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: a couple of their games this year this year, like

685
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: most notably the Jet game, but also in the Kansas

686
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: City game where they won, where they had you know,

687
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: in the Jet game. In the Chiefs game they had

688
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: ten penalties for one hundred and three yards. Not the

689
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: only reason you win or a losing game, right, it

690
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: doesn't help you win. I'll say this. The timing of

691
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: the Bills penalties seems to be the thing that really

692
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: is the gut punch third and long, you know, fourth

693
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: and short or fourth and long and the team's going

694
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: for it, or were the ones you miss out on

695
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: on the you know you miss a sack and then

696
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: it's a holding penalty in the secondary like yesterday. The

697
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: timing of them and I think the Colts got four

698
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: first downs yesterday by penalty. Plus we know also the

699
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: misplay like the sack that Addison had that he missed

700
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: that would have gotten him off the field. It would

701
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: have been a fourth and very long. They would have

702
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: no choice but to punt it, and they ended up,

703
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: you know, they going down for points. That kind of thing.

704
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,959
Speaker 1: Those are the gut punches. And I'll tell you this too.

705
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: That's what other teams who are really good, particularly like

706
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots, they have always been good on crucial downs.

707
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans are good on crucial downs. They do

708
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,720
Speaker 1: that thing where you know, on a fourth and short

709
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: or whatever, they wait till the court cadence comes and

710
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: they shift sideways to try and get the offensive line

711
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: to move um. Stuff like that on crucial downs. Other

712
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: teams have used against the Buffalo Bills that have caused

713
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: them to get penalties and put them out of fourth

714
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: and short or third or put them into a third

715
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: and even longer. So it's something you can use to

716
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: your advantage. The Bills have not done that this year

717
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: and you know, penalties are the thing that's maddening because

718
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: you know so many of them are subjective, and you

719
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: see you like the thing with Mark with fa o

720
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: body that's roughing the passer call yesterday and folboda, I mean,

721
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: come on, um, And the one that came in on

722
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: I guess it was Addison who got blocked in low

723
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: on on Carson, I can't remember which one. They went

724
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: low and Carson wins he got blocked in, got knocked into. Um.

725
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: You know, all that stuff happens, So it's pretty frustrating.

726
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: But I'm with Brownie. Penalties are on the list of

727
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: reasons why you lose in this game. I don't think

728
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: it's the I don't think it's in the top two

729
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 1: or three. Back to the phones into Todd and Buffalo Todd,

730
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,399
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one, Bill's Live, Todd?

731
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,280
Speaker 1: Are you there? All right? I'll put that on hold

732
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: and we'll move along. We'll go to Pete in p

733
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Speaker 1: A Pete, what do you have for us? Hey, guys,

734
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: how are you today? Good? Good? Um? I just have

735
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: a few questions shared, hopefully give me the time to

736
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,479
Speaker 1: say ask them. Um is just concerning that every time

737
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: this team takes any university, which is you know, like

738
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: the game script, the game script does not go our way,

739
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:42,240
Speaker 1: or you know, we can execute and we end up folding.

740
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: And it's sort of concerning with the talent we have

741
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: on both sides of the field that we cannot make

742
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: the adjustment in game. You know, as mc guest, we

743
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: couldn't stop the run. And I'm starting to think it's

744
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: not just a player at fault here. I think the

745
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: coaching staff you know, has shown before that, you know,

746
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: when opposing team has a good game plan and run

747
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: the ball, like the Saints a few years ago, the Eagles, casey,

748
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: we get gashed, we can't stop it. And then I

749
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: think that puts our offense in a predictament where they know, hey,

750
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: they're going from maybe eight or non possessions to six

751
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: or seven possessions and depressing and depression hired, and then

752
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: they cannot execute their game plan. And I think it

753
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: all starts with the defense. To be honest with you,

754
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: you know, I think they should, you know, start really

755
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: looking at you know, I know that the defensive philosophy

756
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: has stop the pass, which is great in this league,

757
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: but at the same time, if you can't stop the

758
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: run that that goes that goes down the wash, right,

759
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: And I'd like to hear what you think about the thing. Yeah,

760
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: I get that, And in this game yesterday, all that

761
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: may or may not be true about the adjustments and

762
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: all that, But let's not forget where they were going

763
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: into that game yesterday. Their number one team in the

764
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: league defensively, they were third against the run. Yeah they were. Yeah,

765
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: they were third in the league against run. Yeah. I mean,

766
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: maybe they had a rough day yesterday, maybe the coaches too.

767
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, and I've said it in this

768
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: show already. When you've got players shuffling in and out,

769
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: and you've got certain players that go in there, and

770
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: by this time, these coach the coaching staff knows exactly

771
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: what they can expect from certain guys, and they know

772
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: what they cannot do with certain guys on the field.

773
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: So whatever adjustments they might have made with the different

774
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: guys on the field, they won't make, or can't make,

775
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: or aren't comfortable making with who's playing now. And I

776
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: think that affects where they're at. Plus they may make

777
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: all that, it could be this too. Sometimes they'll make

778
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: the exact ajustments they need to and the players blow it.

779
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: And then there's probably times when they're got you the offensive,

780
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: the offense has just got you, you've got the wrong

781
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: the defensive call on and you play right into their hands.

782
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: Once I get that that happens in every game. But

783
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: we've we've heard from in the postgame comments from yesterday,

784
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: the Colts decided they were gonna run the after it

785
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: was twenty four to seven. The Colts said, we are

786
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: running it on first and second down for the rest

787
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: of the game, not only to shorten the game, but

788
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: because it was getting four and five yards every time.

789
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: Bills didn't have the bodies to hold up against it.

790
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: That may be concerning for a lot of people, and

791
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, it's got to be concerning for the coaching

792
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: staff as well, because here's what it comes down to.

793
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: Either when they get healthy, they'll be able to hold up,

794
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: or they're gonna have to do it a different way,

795
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 1: meaning they're gonna have to do something egregious to stop

796
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: their like throw nine guys in the box and invite

797
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: the team to pass, or they're gonna have to get

798
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,760
Speaker 1: help from an offense that's gonna be efficient and score

799
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: on all of their or most of their possessions that

800
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: will force that team out of their run game. I

801
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: think they're gonna have to play. They're gonna have play

802
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: complimentary football. One of those two things or both are

803
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: gonna have to happen if if it's not fixable with personnel.

804
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: And I think that was their grand and that's their

805
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: grand formula. We have an offense that puts points on people.

806
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: They up on teams early. The opponent, whether they are

807
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: a running team or not. We'll be behind and we'll

808
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: have to throw. And we're a defense designed to stop

809
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: the pass. That's how we win football games. Problem is,

810
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: when your offense doesn't execute and doesn't get you an

811
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 1: early lead and the other team can run the football,

812
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna run into issues with the way this team

813
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: is currently constructed and that and for the most we

814
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: saw that to a tea yesterday. For the most part,

815
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: the teams, you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers opening Day, when

816
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: they came out and spent the whole off season revamping

817
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: their offensive line and drafting Naji Harris, they ran the

818
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: ball well, plus they got after Josh Allen. Our offensive

819
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: line was a little bit overwhelmed by their pass rush.

820
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 1: That's that's a bad recipe. They beat us with a

821
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: block punt. We're still good enough to hang in there

822
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: with that team Tennessee. The run game wasn't. We couldn't

823
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: get their run game off. And plus Derrick Henry on

824
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: three separate runs really put the game away, a long

825
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 1: seventy six yarder. That kind of stuff happened to him.

826
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 1: And then of course the Jacksonville game, when the offense

827
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: couldn't get it going in the defense held him to

828
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: nine points. You think, wow, that's good enough. It wasn't.

829
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: So all of the you know, there's a story, there's

830
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: a story, and all the losses that the Bills have

831
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: suffered this year. The problem is none of us want

832
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: to hear it, you know what I mean. So it's

833
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: a hard truth to except it's our truth. He's right, though.

834
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: The coaching staff is doing all they can, jumping through

835
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: hoops mentally and through their entire playlists, trying to make

836
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: adjustments in their calls and with their personnel to stand

837
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,439
Speaker 1: up against a running attack like the Colts can put

838
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: out there, and quite frankly, they need if they're going

839
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 1: to do that, they need the game to go differently

840
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,240
Speaker 1: for the Bills offense. And I you know, the teams

841
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 1: that have given the Bills problems are the ones where

842
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: Bill's offense hasn't has struggled, and you know, and the

843
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 1: running game of the other team hasn't been able to

844
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: do that. Break time here, We're back with more of

845
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,279
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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. John Fast time to one. Do

847
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: you want to see fires into the names? Got a man?

848
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: There is fun in the end. Mutchdown Buffalo, Stepon takes

849
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:28,680
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Speaker 1: Football Monday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and back

853
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Speaker 1: to the phones we go, waiting patiently. There is Jay

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00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: and Elma Jay. What do you have for us? You're

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. All right, good afternoon, gentlemen, and

856
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking my call on the last caller.

857
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 1: Pete there. I think actually covered my first point about

858
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: the run game pretty well, so I'm not gonna go there.

859
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: Don't want to beat a dead horse, you know, I

860
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: think we all know exactly how we feel about the

861
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: running game. But I guess my second point is a

862
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: little bit of the decision making by McDermott. Now, I'm

863
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 1: not going to say fire everybody or trade everybody, because look,

864
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: this roster and staff went to the AFC Championship last year,

865
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: and I think very highly of McDermott. I really respect

866
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 1: everything he's done and what he's brought to the club.

867
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: But I think some of particularly the fourth down decision making,

868
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: is a little conservative. Now, look, I get it, it

869
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: was the right decision against Tennessee to go for it

870
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: on fourth down there, so he did make a gutsy decision.

871
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,439
Speaker 1: But I'll go back to the AFC Championship game a bit,

872
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: kicking field goals at the end and not going for

873
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: it at the end of the half. You know, field

874
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: goals don't win you games. And then the fourth and

875
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: five yesterday when they were driving a little bit there

876
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 1: installed out I'll throw John hardball for example. I think

877
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: a coach like him maybe goals for that every time. Now,

878
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: not to say it would have made a difference or

879
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: matter with the way the Bills are playing, I mean

880
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have mattered anyway. But I guess the point

881
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 1: is is, you know, give yourself a chance. If you're

882
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: saying you've got, you know, an MVP caliber quarterback and

883
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: great receivers, I mean, you're taking the ball out of

884
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: their hands. So you know, again, I think highly of McDermott,

885
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,919
Speaker 1: but I think sometimes decision making and taking the ball

886
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: of your playmaker's hands a little bit conservative. But that's

887
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: all I've got. I'm going to hang up and listen,

888
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: and I hope you guys have a great holiday and

889
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. Yeah it is conservative, but a fourth and

890
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: five is a little easier for me to swallow than

891
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: a fourth and one. I mean, I mean remember when

892
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: we were I mean, yeah, it was outrageous when Marone

893
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: was punting from the other teams thirty six yard line

894
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: on a fourth and one. I mean, I get it,

895
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: but it's not This is not that, And you're right

896
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: that has been brought up to me as well by

897
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: people that you know, this is kind of the same thing.

898
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott kind of looked at himself after the FC

899
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: Championship game and said, I wish I'd have had that back,

900
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: you know, the fourth and five or the fourth and

901
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: two down and their end where you kick the field

902
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: goal instead of going for it in a game that's

903
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: you know that you're struggling to get up into. Um. Yeah,

904
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: I mean I see that, and you can equate it

905
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: to that pattern of Sean McDermott going a little bit

906
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: conservative when his team's on the ropes a little bit

907
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: and he and maybe it does speak to maybe he

908
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 1: thinks his team is a little fragile like that, where

909
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: if they get nothing out of it, if they go

910
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,959
Speaker 1: for it on fourth and don't get it, they can't.

911
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: But I think when you got a defense, particularly this year,

912
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 1: not last year, but this year, this is a defense

913
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: you should have more faith in now. Certainly yesterday they

914
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: didn't do anything to warrant that faith. And maybe he

915
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: was thinking that as well. Yeah, you know, but you know,

916
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: I get fourth and five is a big one to

917
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: go for. And I'll just say this, coach McDermott doesn't

918
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:53,879
Speaker 1: just evaluate his players and coaches. He evaluates himself, you know, tirelessly,

919
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: and the decisions that he makes, he evaluates it, He

920
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: reviews it. He evaluates himself as much as any other

921
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: thing that he evaluates in this building. Yeah, he does

922
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: that first and foremost, he doesn't take any prisoners, even himself.

923
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 1: He puts himself from them. That's number one spotlight as

924
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: well number two. As he explained in the post game yesterday,

925
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: Tyler Bass had just hit a fifty seven yard attempt

926
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: off the right, upright, that would have been good from

927
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 1: sixty and I believe the kick was what forty nine

928
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: was at the distance on the kick, I want to

929
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Speaker 1: say forty nine the one that they didn't take or

930
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: the one that he did make. He went wide left, Yeah,

931
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: wide left, that was forty nine something like that. Yeah.

932
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: So after watching a guy hit fifty seven with room

933
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: to spare, I understand why he thought Tyler could go

934
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: out there and hit a forty nine yard or make

935
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: it a two score game. And then there's this. The

936
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: Bills are three for ten on fourth down this season,

937
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: three for ten. So you're watching the offense performed the

938
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Speaker 1: way it is yesterday. Are you feeling good about getting

939
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: a fourth and five? Yeah, I'm just being Devil's advocate here,

940
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: plus giving the plus giving the Colts the ball right

941
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,720
Speaker 1: there with your defense playing the way it was yesterday,

942
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: I mean that's a double edged sword. Yeah, I mean

943
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: you're three for ten on fourth down this year, in

944
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: case you didn't know, and the way that offense was

945
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: playing yesterday with a lack of execution, and you got

946
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: one of the best kickers in football to make it

947
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 1: a two score. There's logic there. That's the thing, not unfounded.

948
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: The best player on your something, you could say, the

949
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: most productive player on your team is Tyler Bass has

950
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: been the most dependable and he just missed one. So

951
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: you think the odds he's not gonna miss two in

952
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: a row from eight yards closer, closer, So you think, okay,

953
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,919
Speaker 1: there's the that's the sure thing you got to be thinking.

954
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: Although it didn't work out that way. And I get

955
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: all of that, and I think he went with the

956
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,479
Speaker 1: percentages there quite frankly. And there's a lot of things

957
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,439
Speaker 1: in these games, and we talked about that. I said

958
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: this earlier when marve us to say, if it didn't work,

959
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: you should have done the other thing. I get it.

960
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,320
Speaker 1: And there's a little bit of that in this where

961
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: the game was so horrific at the end of it

962
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: that everything should have been different. Now leading up to it,

963
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:00,479
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls coming your way. We gotta

964
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: take a break here, but We will get right back

965
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: to the phones at eight oh three, five fifty, So

966
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 1: stay where we are. We'll get to you next. Here

967
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: on this Buffalo Football Monday one Bills Live presented by

968
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: Kalaida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve Tasker

969
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

970
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Stave,

971
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratoere of normalcy.

972
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: All right here for hour number two of your therapy

973
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: session called Buffalo Football Monday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

974
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: After a forty one to fifteen humbling at the hands

975
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: of the Indianapolis Colts, who have now won what is it,

976
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: five of their last six, six of their last eight,

977
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: and they are motoring into contention. I don't know if

978
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 1: they're going to catch the Titans, who they got swept

979
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: by this year, but they are firmly in the wild

980
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: card conversation going for We were talking about how things

981
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: are different and over the last whatever four weeks. I

982
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: guess to go back to the Dolphins win when they

983
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: kind of showed up and sleep walk slept walk through

984
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: the first half and ended up beating them by two touchdowns.

985
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,439
Speaker 1: The first six games of the season where the Bills

986
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 1: were four and two, Bills scored thirty eight thirty four

987
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: points a game. The Bills scored thirty four points a game,

988
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 1: gave up sixteen yea and the four games since they've

989
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: scored an average of twenty three points and given up

990
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: nineteen and a half. That's that's where you're at. Then

991
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: the end, it's just and I don't know what we're having.

992
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: It was a heated debate in the during the break

993
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: between JJ Turrito and me and Brownie. We're all talking

994
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: about where we think this team is and how we

995
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: you know, what we think the story is. Is this

996
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: team good enough to turn it on and turn it

997
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: off like it seems like they had. They're so up

998
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: and down, and this game yesterday, you knew it was

999
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: way more important to the Colts than it was to

1000
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: the Bills. Even in the standings, as the Bills going

1001
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: from the two down to the seven, just in the playoffs,

1002
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: you still knew the Colts had way more to lose.

1003
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: If they lose that game yesterday, they are done. Stick

1004
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: a fork in them. And the Bills, you know now

1005
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 1: they're the last wildcard team. But they're still in the playoffs.

1006
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: And that's what it feels like, and I've said it

1007
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: for a ton it feels like, that's what let's go.

1008
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 1: Let's get in the playoffs so we have something real

1009
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 1: to play for. You gotta get there first, but you

1010
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,439
Speaker 1: gotta get there and then it is a horse race

1011
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 1: all over the conference, all over the conference. Yeah, which

1012
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: is another subject that worries me, which we can get

1013
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: into when we have some time. But we got to

1014
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: get to the phones and to Jack in Cheek da Waga, Jack,

1015
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:55,760
Speaker 1: what do you have for us here on one Bill's life? Hello,

1016
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: Jack Bick twenty five years. I'm gonna put Steve Bick

1017
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: twenty five years and them in the locker room. Let's

1018
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: look at the eight hundred pound gorilla or the two

1019
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: three hundred pound gorillas that were not available to play

1020
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: on Sunday because of their non vaccinated COVID status. Now, ability,

1021
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: your best ability is your availability? Well, okay, they made

1022
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: conscious choices that left them sitting in the locker room

1023
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: or not or sitting outside the locker room. Now, as

1024
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 1: a season ticket holder, I know that that bothers me

1025
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 1: because I make an investment in my season tickets, and

1026
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: I make an investment in getting down into the game,

1027
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,879
Speaker 1: and I'm a Bills fan. I'm going to cheer for them,

1028
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: But it just really ticks me off that the best

1029
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: the lynchpin in our offensive line is not there, the

1030
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: best run stopper, and our defensive line is not there,

1031
00:55:54,640 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 1: and they're not there because of anti vaccination choices. And

1032
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, from a player's perspective, how long do

1033
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: the players sit there in the locker room and put

1034
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: up the company line and postgame interviews if they're ask

1035
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: those kinds of questions, what are they feeling about not

1036
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: putting their best line up out there when we've got,

1037
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: you know, let's say the home stretch coming here. We

1038
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: want to be a playoff team. We want to be

1039
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: a number of one. See if we can at the

1040
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: at the other end, from a player's point of view,

1041
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and there there are weeks to be

1042
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: played here and maybe other people to miss games. If

1043
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: we go by public perception of who is or isn't vaccinated.

1044
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: What happens if Okay, I got I got you Jack,

1045
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: somebody really important goes out, I got you Jack, and

1046
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 1: you're right, Um, it is an issue. I don't I

1047
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: do not believe it's divisive for the players in the

1048
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: locker room. Now, you know, fans, it's divisive for them

1049
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: because you know it's been politicized and you got to

1050
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: deal with that baggage when you have to talk about

1051
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: this to a regular person, even your friends or you know,

1052
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: any You know, if you interact with people on social media,

1053
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 1: that it always becomes political then and then, and it's

1054
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: not about that for players. You can politicize it all

1055
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: you want, but it's not about that. It's these guys

1056
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: in their personalities and what they believe and what they've

1057
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 1: always believed in the locker room. I will say this,

1058
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: in the locker room, it will never be an issue

1059
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: until years down the line. You know, they come back,

1060
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,439
Speaker 1: maybe at the end of this season, if they get

1061
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: to a point where it makes a difference and then

1062
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: somebody's out and somebody who's unvaccinated is out, then maybe

1063
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: it'll come up. But right now, these guys got more

1064
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: important things to think about. They just considered an injury,

1065
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: you know, like Spencer Brown, Starlotulae and whoever else comes up.

1066
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: Even the guys like Kumero, all these guys, they're just

1067
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: considered injured for the players in the locker room because

1068
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: all these conversations we're having about vaccines and stuff. They've had,

1069
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: these guys in the locker room. They were probably shouting

1070
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: at each other in the locker room, you know, having arguments,

1071
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: good natured arguments, because that's what you do and nothing's

1072
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: off limits in the locker room. So they've hashed through

1073
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 1: this already, and now it's happened. And the guys who

1074
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: are aren't vaccinated, you know, they got to live with

1075
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: it and look their teammates in the eye or just say, listen,

1076
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: we knew this might happen. Let's go now. Having said that,

1077
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: there's a lot of football to be played. And if

1078
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: you've got these guys that have had COVID, now they're

1079
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: not gonna get it again. And you know, between here,

1080
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: I don't think you'd say, okay, now they're done for

1081
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: the season, so you won't lose them again for that reason.

1082
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: But now your margin, you know, your margin of error,

1083
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: and losing this game or that game becomes much much

1084
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: more precarious. When you're talking about the playoffs. Now it

1085
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: is an issue, but it's the same issue for the

1086
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: players in the locker room as a twisted ankle or

1087
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: broken ribs are. Yeah, I wonder if it is. Yeah.

1088
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: N reason I say that is because injuries are a

1089
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: part of football. You can't control them. They come up.

1090
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: Here's something that can be controlled. Here's where you can

1091
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: improve your availability to be there for your teammates. And

1092
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: they chose not to. Look, everybody's got their choice. I

1093
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: get it. I'm just wondering how that's received in the

1094
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 1: locker room. You missed the playoffs, you missed the playoffs

1095
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: on a tiebreaker because of one AFC conference loss, right,

1096
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: and it's this one yesterday. Ah, well, it's tough for

1097
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: me to swallow as a teammate or yeah, yeah, I

1098
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: get it's tough. But is this game yesterday gonna be

1099
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: one because two guys show up? And then what about

1100
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 1: the one two weeks ago where you get beat six

1101
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: to nine by the worst team. I mean, that's you

1102
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: can't pin it on two guys, right, So, and plus

1103
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: these conversations for the players, I would and I'm I'm

1104
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure, which means you know, I don't

1105
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. But they had these conversations

1106
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: in training camp. I'm not gonna do it. This house

1107
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 1: gonna be and I may, but we gotta be ready

1108
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: for that. So you got you got it in the

1109
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: back of your mind that these guys and what is

1110
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: there six, seven, eight guys that aren't vaccinated, but that's

1111
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 1: the percent, that's what the numbers point out too, right,

1112
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: So you think there's like less than ten guys that

1113
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: aren't vaccinated, and apparently two of them have got it

1114
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna so you got less than that

1115
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: now that you have to worry about. So, yeah, you

1116
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: got your mind around that. When the season begins and

1117
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 1: maybe you're sitting there with a little bit of a

1118
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: you're holding your breath hoping nobody gets it. But you

1119
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna happen, or it probably would happen,

1120
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: or it could happen. So now when it does, yeah,

1121
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: it stinks, but you're ready for it because these conversations

1122
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: were had two months ago by these guys. So it

1123
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 1: comes back around and they're still looking at each and

1124
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:47,479
Speaker 1: they'll probably be some you know, dude, you kind of things,

1125
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be the level of, you know,

1126
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: the outrage that fans feel like you you cost us

1127
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: a You did this, You did that, you did that.

1128
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: You think Spencer Brown had more to do sitting on

1129
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: the bench than Isam McKenzie coughing up the ball and kickoff,

1130
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: or or Mario Addison whiffing on the sack that could

1131
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: have made the difference, or consistently not being able to

1132
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 1: hold yourself. I mean you gotta look at the guys

1133
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: that were backing these guys up too, and say what

1134
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: about it? Where were you? Yeah? I mean, why I

1135
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: wish you'd got in covid instead of the other guy.

1136
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you're talking about. I mean, why

1137
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 1: can't you know you gotta play man. We got It's

1138
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: not like they had to go out there and suit

1139
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 1: up ten guys. You guys actually had something to say

1140
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 1: about this game. Forget the guys that were out for

1141
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: whatever reason. John Feliciano sitting on the sideline. They're not

1142
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: you know, calf injury. Yeah, yeah, you got. They've got

1143
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: they got the players, and they got their minds around

1144
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 1: this a long time ago, all right. And they and

1145
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 1: I'll say this too, they know and I know this

1146
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 1: guy as I'm talking about this and getting wound up

1147
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: about it. I remember what it was like to be

1148
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: in there. You put this to bed a long time ago.

1149
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: You haven't got time to think about that anymore. You

1150
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: got a game in two days, three days, Fine, whatever,

1151
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: If he's ready, we'll be ready, we'll be better. Fine, okay,

1152
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna do my thing to get ready. You

1153
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: can't the man, the train is chugging down the tracks,

1154
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: and you don't want to run out of track. So

1155
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: I've got you got to get your stuff ready. So

1156
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: these guys aren't. They don't have time to argue about

1157
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 1: the politics of healthcare. They got football to play. So

1158
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: I think I don't think this is gonna be devisive

1159
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: at all. They probably had these and I know it.

1160
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: We heard rumors about it. They were they were having

1161
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: these conversations back in training camp. That's all put to bed.

1162
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 1: This is just something they knew may happen, and now

1163
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,440
Speaker 1: it has. So they kind of have a mental pathway

1164
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 1: for each of these guys, all of these guys to

1165
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: get through and say, all right, we just gotta go.

1166
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 1: We can't wait on them. So you're right now, fans,

1167
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 1: And you know, with a game like yesterday, man, you're

1168
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 1: just steaming about everything, and these guys something we could

1169
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: have avoided maybe would have helped all this stuff. The

1170
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 1: players and coaches are light years out ahead of that.

1171
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 1: They're onto New Orleans. Yeah, all right, back to the

1172
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: phones into Tom and Cheeks. Waga Tom, what do you

1173
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: have for us your on one? Bill's Live. Okay, I

1174
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: won't sugarcoat it. You know, it was one of the

1175
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: worst games they played yesterday. They stunk And I've been

1176
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: watching games since inn eineteen sixty. But the thing of

1177
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 1: it is, okay, good news and bad news. They played charable,

1178
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: but there's still seven games left. Now. I agree with

1179
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: the other guy about the COVID thing, but I won't

1180
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: get into that. So I figure they're going to have

1181
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: to win at least five games, and you don't want

1182
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 1: to lose a game. And on sportsman like conduct or taunting.

1183
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: Now I watched New England. They never have a tonning penalty.

1184
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:47,480
Speaker 1: If if they do that, I'll check a son of

1185
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: Mccleveland you know, but you have to be a disciplined team.

1186
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: And again, like mc dermott, you listen to the fans,

1187
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: like Amara Believe used to say, then you'll be sitting

1188
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: with the fans pretty soon. If the media says they're

1189
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 1: such a great team, they're going to have to prove it.

1190
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: If they got to win at least five out of

1191
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 1: the seven games, and I think if I hope they

1192
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: don't play the Colts again, unless I hope someone beats

1193
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,439
Speaker 1: them if they get in the PLAYFF, because no matter

1194
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: what land they have, they can't stop a good runner's

1195
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 1: there's no way. So I'm hoping they turn around. They

1196
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: got seven games. They could on paper they could win

1197
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 1: five of them, but if they're a good team. If

1198
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 1: they're not, then they don't. Sorry, Tom, I didn't mean

1199
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: to cut you off there. My fingers slipped. Sorry about that,

1200
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: but I think we got the gist of what you

1201
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 1: were saying. Yeah, they probably have to go at least

1202
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: five and two the rest of the way here. They

1203
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 1: had two against New England where the color last week

1204
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 1: she said six and two or you're not gonna make

1205
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 1: it now, you gotta go five. I'm telling you it's

1206
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 1: jumbled and you better win all three you're remaining conference

1207
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 1: games because you're raining in the conferences five and four.

1208
01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: You better be eight and four at the end of

1209
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: the year if you want to win any type breakers

1210
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: if you don't win your division, right, because it is

1211
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 1: a jumbled mess as we know in the AFC, so

1212
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: an you better put yourself in the best position possible

1213
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,479
Speaker 1: if you're not taking those wild card spots are gonna

1214
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: be there may be five teams with identical records at

1215
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 1: the end of this, you know what I mean, and

1216
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: it's all gonna be tie breakers. And you don't have

1217
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: the head to head on the Colts, right, So that's

1218
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: that's first. Head to head comes first, then conference record

1219
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: unless it is a division A team in your own division,

1220
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 1: and then head to head gets a little bit different, right. Yeah,

1221
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 1: So let's let's go back to the phones. Though. We

1222
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: go to Kevin and Hamburg next, Kevin, what do you

1223
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: have for us? Thanks for taking my car? Sure the

1224
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: thing that sets me. I'm sure you will hear it

1225
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 1: from other fans about this tobacco. Yesterday is the last

1226
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: three games. Even before yesterday, we were punching the mouth

1227
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 1: by three different opponents on different sides of the ball.

1228
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh mostly the events plus the block pun Tennessee mostly offense,

1229
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 1: Bill Dubitely defense, and yesterday's debacle was both. And it

1230
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: looks to me and I don't like to compare sports.

1231
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: Football is different than boxing, but we look like a

1232
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: fighter that's not used to fight someone who's willing to

1233
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: get in the ring and punch it out with us

1234
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: and Mets and yesterday was basically would have been a knockout.

1235
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:22,200
Speaker 1: And that's been it. You've been We've been knocked out. Its.

1236
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 1: We're not gooding basically physically punching opponents. It seems like

1237
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 1: in the trenches and every other way we just can't.

1238
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: We can beat anybody out, for somebody who punches it

1239
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 1: with us, we just go like that. Yeah, yeah, I

1240
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 1: get it, thanks Kevin, And I said it a minute ago. Yeah,

1241
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: it's gotten that way since the Tennessee game. Since the

1242
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 1: bye week. Actually, they came back and played the Dolphins,

1243
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, the Jets, and the Colts, and they're two

1244
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: and two. In those four games, they've dropped down to

1245
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: scoring twenty three points a game and allowing almost twenty

1246
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: points a game. So they've been very close games. And

1247
01:06:57,080 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 1: that's with the Bills scoring forty five points in one

1248
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: of the those games, and they gave up forty one

1249
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: points yesterday. There's not that much difference in the on

1250
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 1: the scoreboard between the wins and losses for the Bills,

1251
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 1: they're scoring twenty three, given up nineteen and a half.

1252
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,919
Speaker 1: They have really come out and started to sleep walk

1253
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: down the stretch here, thinking that being four and two

1254
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 1: in the first six games was going to carry him

1255
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: through someplace, and it just it's not going to the

1256
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: They really really have to. They can't go five hundred

1257
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. Oh my gosh, No, and

1258
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: hope and hope to get in. You know, going four

1259
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 1: and three, that'll put him at ten and seven. It's

1260
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: probably not going to get him in. The Bills, Cleveland

1261
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: and Kansas City are the only teams with four losses

1262
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 1: in the AFC Conference, And I realized some of these

1263
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: teams have more conference games to play than the Bills.

1264
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 1: But the Bills have three remaining, two against the Patriots,

1265
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: one against the Jets. They gotta win off three of

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Speaker 1: those if if they want to win the division number one,

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Speaker 1: and they have to win all three of those if

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Speaker 1: they want to be in a good stead in the

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Speaker 1: wild card race if they don't win the division. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are the only AFC games they have left or

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01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 1: to the games, because then they play the Bucks Panthers

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Speaker 1: and Falcons and the Saints. Yeah, they got four NFC

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01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: games left, three AFC games, and all three of those

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Speaker 1: AFC games obviously are division games. It's it's pretty clear

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna have to do to get in. They

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Speaker 1: got a man. It's it's a man they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to go. Do you think they can split with New England?

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Speaker 1: I think they can split with New England and maybe

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01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. But now you're talking seven and five

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01:08:46,320 --> 01:08:48,719
Speaker 1: in the conference. I don't know how many type ras splits.

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01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 1: If they split with New England, you're not winning the division, right,

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01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: You're not. So now at best, assuming you beat the

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01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:00,720
Speaker 1: Jets week week seven, week eighteen, now you're seven and

1284
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: five in the conference, how many tiebreakers you win in there? Right,

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, I don't know. I'll say this, however,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Division might be your best path, your

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01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:11,760
Speaker 1: most secure path to the play it might be their

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Speaker 1: only path. I'll say this though, that the Patriots play

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01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: the Titans this week, then they play the Bills, of course,

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Speaker 1: then they play the Colts, and then they play the

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01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: Bills again, and then both those the rough stretch for

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01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:27,560
Speaker 1: them too. Yeah, I'm not gonna deny the both the

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01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: Bills and the Patriots. I mean, the Patriots end up

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01:09:32,280 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: with the Jaguars and the Dolphins on the last week

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01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: of the season, the Dolphins Jaguars Dolphins in weeks seventeen

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01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:39,480
Speaker 1: and week eighteen, and the Bills end up with Atlanta

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01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: and the Jets on the last week of the season.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's up to these next four or five

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01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:51,160
Speaker 1: games to decide who's going to win the division, who's

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01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 1: going to be, you know, in the in the driver's seat.

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01:09:56,520 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 1: The one seed is completely off the table, even with

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01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans losing yesterday, lost the head to head um,

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01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 1: so you're you're not getting past them, right unless they

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01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:10,640
Speaker 1: go completely in the tank. Well, and you know, and

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01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:13,879
Speaker 1: I was, I was checking that out too, that the Titans,

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01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 1: they've got the Patriots this week, but they also have

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01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 1: the Steelers and the Niners on their schedule coming down

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01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:23,760
Speaker 1: the stretch. But they play you know, they played Jacksonville,

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01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 1: they played Miami, and they play Houston. Now they've already

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01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: lost to Houston. They've lost to the Jets, and they've

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01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: lost the Arizona Cardinals. Those are their three losses there.

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01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 1: But they're seven and oh against playoff teams from last year,

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01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 1: so figure that one out. Yeah, it kind of sounds

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01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: familiar unfortunately. M Yeah, I mean it's crazy all these

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01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:44,560
Speaker 1: teams are. Now. I will say this that the Titans

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01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: winning against the Rams and Saints without Derrick Henry when

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01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 1: everybody thought they were going to fall off the face

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01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 1: of the earth. Now, granted, the Rams spotted them two

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01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: touchdowns and the Saints, you know, kind of they lost

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01:10:54,479 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 1: by one or two tough games, but still that's the

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01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. We're able to do that. The Bills drop

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01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 1: one to the jag Bars. Yeah, that's a little harder

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01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 1: to live with. I get it, I get it. All right,

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01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 1: we gotta take a break here. When we come back,

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01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: we'll try to pass along some post games sound to

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01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: you as we go around the locker room, and then

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Speaker 1: we'll get right back to the phone call. So stay

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Speaker 1: where you are. Eighth three, five fifty Buffalo Football, Monday,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown here with you as your resident therapists.

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Speaker 1: We're back in a flash here on one Bill's Live,

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01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:50,400
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:53,240
Speaker 1: time for a little around the locker room, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by connect Life, your blood and organ donor network,

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01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: and we begin with Micah Hyde, who gave a very

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01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 1: frank description of the issues that the Bill's defense suffered

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01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 1: from in Sunday's loss to the Colts. We can't go

1337
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:11,639
Speaker 1: out like that, you know, I got stopped the run.

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01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 1: Everything starts with stopping the run, UM, affecting their quarterback,

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01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:17,799
Speaker 1: and taking the ball away. We did none today, not

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01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 1: not one thing. UM didn't do on third down, didn't

1341
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: do well on the red zone. Um, like I said,

1342
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:28,480
Speaker 1: didn't take the ball away, didn't put Winston in tough situations,

1343
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: and they were able to run the BALLUM giving too much,

1344
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: too much yards on first and second down, the third down,

1345
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 1: they were getting the third, one third and one third

1346
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 1: and two third and three still able to run the ball.

1347
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:40,599
Speaker 1: They got a good run game, so we were able

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01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:45,000
Speaker 1: to stop it. I mean, that's uh formula for winning

1349
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:49,679
Speaker 1: for them, it's formula for losing for us. Yes, it was, yeah,

1350
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:51,800
Speaker 1: he and you know he took ownership of it. We

1351
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: didn't do one thing. You know, Our defense has got

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01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,600
Speaker 1: to be about stopping the run, affecting the quarterback, and

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01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 1: getting takeaways. They did nothing, none of that, and he's right, Um,

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01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 1: he owned up to it, and that's yeah, that's hard

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01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: to do. That's hard to sit there and say stuff

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01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: like that, but you know, there's no question that you

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01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,240
Speaker 1: can't dodge it. Everybody saw what happened, and he owned

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01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:14,640
Speaker 1: up to it for the entire defense and it was

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01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 1: probably the right thing to do. The question is how

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01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 1: do you respond. We're going to find that out pretty

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01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 1: quickly this week. Bills are now the number two defense

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01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 1: in points allowed in the league. The number one defense

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01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 1: and points allowed is now New England. So that's kind

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01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: of winding up to be a bit of a big

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01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: ball game on Monday night at Yeah, a little bit.

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01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: Uh got in New Orleans first, but yeah, that's shaping

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01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 1: up to be a giant seismic game. Dawson Knox was

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01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 1: asked about whether he can imagine the burden that is

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01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen's shoulders to perform each and every week,

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01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:59,800
Speaker 1: as more and more fans are coming to the realization

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Speaker 1: that if Josh doesn't play lights out on offense, it

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Speaker 1: becomes very very hard for this team to turn to

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01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 1: something else to win football games. Here is Dawson's take

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01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: on that subject, every time he throws me the ball,

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01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 1: I want to be able to catch it. And that

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01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 1: didn't happen today. I think everybody on our offense would

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01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:19,320
Speaker 1: say the same thing, whether it's the old line giving

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01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:22,200
Speaker 1: them time and you know, the tight ends blocking them,

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01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:25,439
Speaker 1: the run game, catching in the pass game. You know, I,

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01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: you know, we played for the love of each other,

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01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 1: and when I have drops like that, there's no excuse

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01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 1: and it definitely puts extra pressure on him. And I

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01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:36,599
Speaker 1: can't even imagine what he has to deal with the

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01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 1: reds he goes through calling the plays, get everyone lined up.

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01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody can understand that unless you're in his shoes.

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01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:46,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, we just there's a lot of corrections for

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01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:49,639
Speaker 1: us to have, especially me, and we'll get that worked out.

1388
01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 1: So that's around the locker room, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: connect Life, your Blood and organ Donor Network. I think

1390
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: the players, his teammates certainly realize what he's got to

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01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: go out there do each and every week, so they're

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01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: certainly trying to make plays for him to ease that burden.

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01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: But it just flat out did not happen in the

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01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 1: passing game yesterday. On all too many plays I mean,

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01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 1: I think I told you earlier I counted four drops,

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01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 1: and then Josh was inaccurate on a handful of throws

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01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, Um, it was a bad day. And

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Speaker 1: I don't want to keep harping on him. We've had this.

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Speaker 1: This season has been rife with poor weather games, and

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Speaker 1: I know that people have been and I said this

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01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:35,160
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, people have been Craig going crazy

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01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: over it. Put a dome on the on the stadium. Um,

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01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: and that's not fix it's not fixing stuff. I agree

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01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 1: with you. Um. The Pittsburgh game was a rainstorm. The

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01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: Dolphins game down there when the Bills thumped him was

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01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 1: was it was it rainy there? I think it rained there.

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01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: The Washington game wasn't too bad. I think it had

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01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 1: thirty five mile an hour wins. Texans game light rain,

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01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 1: light rain. The Kansas City Chiefs game was delayed by rain.

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01:16:06,439 --> 01:16:09,760
Speaker 1: Wasn't it was poor one hour lightning delay. Right then

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01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:14,639
Speaker 1: the Dolphins game here was day not a pretty day.

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01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 1: And then they were in New York. Okay, so in

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01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,640
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game was in good weather yesterday it was

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01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 1: poor and rain in the second half. I mean it

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01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: was you know, it's it's been one of those seasons.

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01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 1: And it hasn't always been in Buffalo. It was in

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01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 1: Kansas City and in Miami as well that they had

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01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 1: I think they had bad weather. So, um, well, what

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01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 1: are you gonna that's the way it goes. You got

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01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,439
Speaker 1: to you gotta overcome that, and you gotta be able

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01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 1: to do it. Your play your game, no matter what

1422
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:45,840
Speaker 1: the conditions are. And he's just thinking, if the Patriots

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01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 1: and the Bills sit there, Patriots at seven and four,

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01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 1: Bills at six and four, with the two games again,

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01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 1: if either one of those teams sweeps the other, the

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01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:58,799
Speaker 1: best that other team can do is tenant six eleven

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01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: and six or tenants seven. I don't know what am

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01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 1: I saying? No, they sweep, they're both season they're doing.

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01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, that's right. Eleven and six. Yeah, Um,

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01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:14,560
Speaker 1: that's you know, in a normal weird it's hard to

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01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 1: get your mind around the seventeen game scheduled, like I

1432
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 1: just like I just displayed by missing the count, eleven

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01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:23,040
Speaker 1: wins is usually hey, let's go. We're in the playoffs

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01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: and you're gonna roll in. There may be eaten ten

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01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:29,640
Speaker 1: teams with eleven wins, which is why. I mean, I

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01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 1: can't go through the crush. That's why I worry about

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01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 1: the tiebreakers. Crush. Yeah, that's not gonna help. All right,

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01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: let's get back to the phones. We go to Jeff

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01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 1: and Tonawanda. Next, Jeff, what do you have for us?

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01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:43,560
Speaker 1: You're on one bills live. Hey, guys, I think this

1441
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 1: is a great week to say thank you for helping

1442
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: us get through another tough game. So thank you. Yeah,

1443
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 1: we're doing what we can here. Thanks, Well, it's appreciated. Um. So,

1444
01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 1: I've been looking at our offense and thinking I'm a

1445
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,439
Speaker 1: I'm a problem solver at least I try, and I'm

1446
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 1: not an offensive coordinator, but I think there's an element

1447
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: of our offense that is missing that would help us.

1448
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 1: In fact, I can't take credit for this, but I

1449
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: was kind of talking in my box saying he brought

1450
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: this up. What I see is a lack of any

1451
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 1: kind of timing plays where there's a quick drop back,

1452
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 1: ball goes out. I do not want us to get

1453
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: to the full forty nine ers offense or Jimmy g

1454
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 1: because I think we have a lot more to offer

1455
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 1: on offense than that. But I think if you're looking

1456
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: at ways to help the running game and help mitigate

1457
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 1: some of the ineffectiveness of our offensive line. I think

1458
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:50,160
Speaker 1: those kind of plays would be effective to keep the

1459
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 1: linebackers guesting and so on and so forth, because right now,

1460
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, when Josh is passing, you know, Rex Ryan

1461
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: today and I always agree with Rex running, but he said,

1462
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:04,160
Speaker 1: everybody knows where he's going to be at all times.

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01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: When he's passing, he's you know, he's taking the ball

1464
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: seven you know, seven yard back, and our offense is

1465
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: predicated on letting things develop. So I think he's quick hitters,

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01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 1: plants outside, a three step drop, getting rid of the

1467
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 1: ball might help mitigate some of this stuff and help us,

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01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, maybe start the game with some real positive plays.

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01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 1: So I don't know what you guys think about that. Yeah,

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01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: it's interesting too, because and I see what you see.

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01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:29,519
Speaker 1: You see guys like well, you know, like, let's face it.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Mac Jones, who's a rookie completing seventy

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01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 1: percent of his passes because he takes two or three

1474
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: steps back, the ball comes out and somebody's there to

1475
01:19:38,240 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 1: be he throws it accurately enough right in there they

1476
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 1: catch it to your game two yard gain or four

1477
01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:45,840
Speaker 1: yard gain or a broken tackle in a seven yard game.

1478
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 1: It's a really it's a great way to protect a

1479
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 1: young quarterback. It simplifies his reads, and every so often

1480
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:56,560
Speaker 1: he'll push the ball up the seam and get a

1481
01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,639
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty yard gain out of it. It seems

1482
01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:02,800
Speaker 1: easy when you see these other teams do it, and

1483
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Sometimes you would be like, just

1484
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 1: get the ball out of Josh's hands and let's take

1485
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 1: what we can we can get. I'd be interested to

1486
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 1: see to ask Brian dayball and get a straight answer,

1487
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:19,400
Speaker 1: if you could. How much of that really is in there?

1488
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:22,599
Speaker 1: And Josh just doesn't want to make it so easy

1489
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 1: that he just takes this easy pass and takes a

1490
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:27,719
Speaker 1: five yard game, let's go. He drops back, trusts himself

1491
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 1: so much he's gonna wait on the deep one to

1492
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:33,679
Speaker 1: come open. I wonder if there's any of that in there.

1493
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:36,640
Speaker 1: You suspect that some kind of kind of fits the

1494
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:39,200
Speaker 1: narrative about what we've seen about him this season, where

1495
01:20:39,240 --> 01:20:41,760
Speaker 1: he wants to try and do too much. I would

1496
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:44,760
Speaker 1: imagine I wonder. I would imagine that the coach the

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01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 1: coaches wrestled with that too, because you don't want to

1498
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 1: take away some of the unique things that Josh brings

1499
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: to the table, which is making spectacular plays at times.

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01:20:57,840 --> 01:21:01,640
Speaker 1: And maybe there is a concern that if you increase

1501
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:05,800
Speaker 1: the rigidity of the passing game by saying this is

1502
01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: the defining read you go here here, you know, take

1503
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 1: off whatever. I think they fear if they put that

1504
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 1: kind of rigid structure in place, they will lose Josh's

1505
01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:21,600
Speaker 1: improvisational skills as a result. I could be off on that,

1506
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 1: but I wonder if that's something that they think about.

1507
01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 1: We hear Brian Dabele every week when we talk to him,

1508
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:32,360
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to him again late this afternoon, you know,

1509
01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:36,960
Speaker 1: as he meets the media most mondays. He always says

1510
01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: I trust Josh. Implicitly, we trust him, and that's great

1511
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 1: that that relationship exists. But there are times where things

1512
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:50,400
Speaker 1: need to be tweaked for the sake of the team.

1513
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: And as much as you trust a quarterback, if there's

1514
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:57,639
Speaker 1: a way that you can steer things ever so slightly

1515
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:01,320
Speaker 1: that would lead to more consistent x acution. I think

1516
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:04,160
Speaker 1: you have to at least open yourself up to looking

1517
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 1: at that. And I'm not saying they haven't they probably

1518
01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:08,720
Speaker 1: have with the way the offense is gone the last

1519
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: three or four weeks. They've turned over every rock and

1520
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: stone they can find that may lead to something better

1521
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:19,600
Speaker 1: than what we've seen. I trust that they're probably doing that.

1522
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,680
Speaker 1: They just haven't seen the results of it, right. It's

1523
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:24,439
Speaker 1: a good question. It's a good point though, and it's

1524
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: you see other teams make it look easy in their

1525
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 1: passing game to get the ball out and the quarterbacks

1526
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: never under dressed because the ball has gone long before

1527
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,679
Speaker 1: anybody can get near him. It's been It has worked

1528
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:38,400
Speaker 1: extremely well in New England for mac Jones. I mean

1529
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 1: they got him off to a little bit, no question,

1530
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 1: a little bit of a slow start, as you would

1531
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: imagine a young quarter of first year quarterback. They were

1532
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 1: two and three though through their first five games and

1533
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 1: two and four, and then they've rattled off six seven

1534
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: straight wins, sixth straight, seven straight wins. That's impressive. But

1535
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 1: they've done it the same way, and I think mac

1536
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:01,840
Speaker 1: Jones is starting to do a little bit more, a

1537
01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:03,280
Speaker 1: little bit more, a little bit more. They were two

1538
01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:05,960
Speaker 1: and four, they they've won five straight, two and four. Five,

1539
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:10,599
Speaker 1: there's seven to four now, right, yes, five straight five stretch. Crap,

1540
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: they've won, They've won six of seven. Yeah, all right,

1541
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 1: back to the phones we go and to Dave and Rochester. Dave,

1542
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills live. Hey, guys,

1543
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:25,200
Speaker 1: how you doing good? Good? Hey? I gotta question. This

1544
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,599
Speaker 1: is a little maybe off the wall, but do our

1545
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 1: guys practice in the rain when we know there's rain coming?

1546
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:35,360
Speaker 1: Because it feels to me, I was Arrow's miserable. They

1547
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:39,200
Speaker 1: looked miserable, But it feels like the cults were more

1548
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 1: comfortable on our field. It looks like our field came

1549
01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 1: back to bite us a lot of slips the you

1550
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:50,559
Speaker 1: know the weather. Yeah, in the rain. They practice outside

1551
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: whenever they can. That's coach McDermott's approach. I think there's

1552
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: the law of diminishing returns and thanks for the call.

1553
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 1: Days when the weather gets so bad that you don't

1554
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:03,799
Speaker 1: feel like your practice can be constructive, that's when coaches

1555
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 1: usually take it inside. Yeah, you practice under the best

1556
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:11,200
Speaker 1: conditions you can, so you can learn to execute under

1557
01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 1: those conditions, and then you make adjustments. When the weather

1558
01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:16,680
Speaker 1: turns bad, you can't. You don't want to go out

1559
01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 1: and practice when it's pouring rain. Even though you expected

1560
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:22,559
Speaker 1: to be pouring rain on game day. Because you don't,

1561
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: you never get it clean run through of what the

1562
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 1: play really should look like. I will say this though,

1563
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: I know that Coach McDermott and the staff when rain

1564
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 1: is in the forecast, whether they're practicing inside or outside,

1565
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:37,040
Speaker 1: they soak the balls down and they make them play

1566
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:39,679
Speaker 1: with wet footballs through the course of practice. And here's

1567
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 1: the thing as well, you don't want to go out

1568
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:48,160
Speaker 1: and practice in them, like on natural grass field in

1569
01:24:48,240 --> 01:24:51,080
Speaker 1: the rain, because you know somebody slips and falls and

1570
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: you know injuries. It's a little bit more dangerous when

1571
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:56,360
Speaker 1: you got guys that are trying to practice hard and

1572
01:24:56,479 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: full speed and they know they're not going to get hit,

1573
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: so they still try and run full speed and whatever.

1574
01:25:02,439 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: And if some guys slip and pull a hammer or

1575
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 1: pull a muscle, pull a groin, or slip and fall

1576
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:11,680
Speaker 1: and slide into your quarterback, all of that stuff and

1577
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: a crisp, clean practice under good conditions is better than

1578
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 1: practicing in the rainstorm just because you think it might

1579
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 1: rain on game day. Better to be ready, yeah, It's

1580
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,320
Speaker 1: better to have your execution ready and honed in and

1581
01:25:31,439 --> 01:25:34,280
Speaker 1: make adjustments on game day to the weather than to

1582
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:37,439
Speaker 1: flop around in practice not being able to run through

1583
01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:41,000
Speaker 1: it and all of that, I get good quality reps, right.

1584
01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:44,439
Speaker 1: I think that's where most teams sit now. The ball

1585
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: handling thing like that Brownie mentioned seems like good, good

1586
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 1: common sense, but you want to give you guys a

1587
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 1: chance to run through it without having to adjust. Let's

1588
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:57,919
Speaker 1: squeeze one more in before the break here, Brian and Alabama,

1589
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Brian, Hey, good afternoon fellas. Um.

1590
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm kind of ready to get onto New Orleans like

1591
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:08,479
Speaker 1: everybody else, I'm quite sure of, um. But one point

1592
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: I do want to kind of point out and make

1593
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like with this defense, I feel

1594
01:26:13,680 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 1: like that they're better on paper than they are and

1595
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:19,040
Speaker 1: than they are on the actual field. And the only

1596
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: reason why I say that is, Chris Brown You've been

1597
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:23,320
Speaker 1: saying that all year. Is that when they play a

1598
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:26,240
Speaker 1: physical team that punches them in the mouth, they don't

1599
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:29,439
Speaker 1: punch back. And this and this is this has been

1600
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 1: an issue I can remember for the past three years,

1601
01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:34,600
Speaker 1: dating back to when New Orleans and Philly went in

1602
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:37,479
Speaker 1: the Buffalo and did the exact same thing. They've had

1603
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 1: the same core of defensive players, and for whatever reason,

1604
01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 1: the toughness is not I don't think that is there. Um.

1605
01:26:45,479 --> 01:26:49,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how. Obviously you can't change the mid season. Um,

1606
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:52,679
Speaker 1: But going into next year and the next offseason, yeah,

1607
01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:55,240
Speaker 1: I really feel like they need to address that however

1608
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:58,880
Speaker 1: that looks. And then also the narrative of Starlar tula

1609
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 1: A being out with hurstis defense. I believe that's completely false.

1610
01:27:03,640 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 1: Even if he's there, they still run the ball down

1611
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 1: the Bill's throats. I mean, Carson Wentz had one hundred

1612
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: and seven yards passing and they won by forty one.

1613
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:14,120
Speaker 1: I mean they put up forty one points. I know

1614
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 1: turnoffs had a big deal with that, but Starlotla Lulay

1615
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:20,479
Speaker 1: does not make a difference in our run defense. It's

1616
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:22,800
Speaker 1: the toughness. And I think they needed to address, need

1617
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 1: to address the ball and for it. So thank you

1618
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:27,240
Speaker 1: for the time and and God Bills. All right, thanks

1619
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:30,840
Speaker 1: for calling. I'll say this, I think a little bit

1620
01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:34,400
Speaker 1: just kind of and I get what you're mean, but

1621
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:37,600
Speaker 1: I would say it's almost just the opposite of the

1622
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 1: way I would describe it. I get what you're saying

1623
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: about you know they're like the number one defense, and

1624
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 1: yet you know you're saying they're not tough enough. I

1625
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 1: would say this they on paper with you look at

1626
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: who they've gotten who they don't have. Like we mentioned,

1627
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 1: they don't have any star players. They don't have any

1628
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:57,160
Speaker 1: guys that are like knocking it out of the park.

1629
01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 1: They don't have a household name. Defensively, they got a

1630
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 1: bunch of guys, and yet they're the number one defense

1631
01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:04,240
Speaker 1: in the league, or were up until this last weekend.

1632
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 1: I think on the why when teams face them, they

1633
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 1: face a really disciplined team that does a lot of

1634
01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:18,880
Speaker 1: things really well, particularly in the secondary, and it's hard.

1635
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:23,040
Speaker 1: They're hard to beat. Now, yesterday you got a team

1636
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 1: that had a has an elite offensive line with a

1637
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:30,000
Speaker 1: really elite running back against a team that turned it

1638
01:28:30,120 --> 01:28:33,639
Speaker 1: over four times and got some penalties at crucial moments

1639
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:36,760
Speaker 1: and fumbled the ball back to him, you know, and

1640
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:38,800
Speaker 1: gave him a point. So it kind of got out

1641
01:28:38,840 --> 01:28:42,880
Speaker 1: of hand quick. But the Bills never forced the Indianapolis

1642
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,960
Speaker 1: Colts to do anything other than what they wanted to do.

1643
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:49,600
Speaker 1: And that's the bottom line defensively for the Bills. And

1644
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 1: you can say what you want. Offensively, they just weren't

1645
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 1: good enough for whatever reason. You might call it a

1646
01:28:55,880 --> 01:29:00,439
Speaker 1: total team loss. I mean everybody had a hand in it, absolutely, defense,

1647
01:29:00,520 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 1: special teams for sure. Break time for us here, we'll

1648
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:05,800
Speaker 1: try to squeeze in a few more phone calls. Coming

1649
01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:08,680
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01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:23,320
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1656
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 1: the phones, we go and to carl in Depew, who's

1657
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 1: been waiting patiently. Carl, what do you have for us? Well,

1658
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:47,320
Speaker 1: what I got is, you know, we all love our Bills,

1659
01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:51,719
Speaker 1: but you know, the bottom line is this, I don't

1660
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:55,360
Speaker 1: really know if they're good enough and if they're certainly

1661
01:29:55,439 --> 01:29:58,720
Speaker 1: not consistent enough to be champions like the Bills of

1662
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:05,679
Speaker 1: the nineties, just they're just not that kind of club. Yeah, okay, Carl,

1663
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:07,760
Speaker 1: the Bills of the nineties, the ones I played for

1664
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:13,040
Speaker 1: weren't champions either. Were we got we got beaten. I

1665
01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:15,559
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if you heard about it. Um,

1666
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:18,880
Speaker 1: we lost a Super Bowl four times. So, uh, this

1667
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:22,200
Speaker 1: is not that team. They in some ways they're gonna

1668
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:26,960
Speaker 1: be better. Um, but it's a different league now. I mean,

1669
01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: Josh has proven he's had He had a record breaking

1670
01:30:30,120 --> 01:30:34,559
Speaker 1: season last year. Um. Statistically it was better than any

1671
01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 1: of the season's Jim had. Um. They got some guys

1672
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:43,920
Speaker 1: and they're really good. And while they are not, haven't

1673
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: been consistent like we've seen other teams be consistent. That

1674
01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:51,040
Speaker 1: seems to be the NFL this season. For whatever. Maybe

1675
01:30:51,080 --> 01:30:53,760
Speaker 1: it's something in the water, maybe it's something in you know,

1676
01:30:54,160 --> 01:30:56,799
Speaker 1: in the air. Maybe it has to do with COVID

1677
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,560
Speaker 1: protocol side effects. I don't know, but nobody in the

1678
01:30:59,720 --> 01:31:03,200
Speaker 1: league gets not every so often getting beat by a

1679
01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:06,000
Speaker 1: team has no business beating them. Bills are no different.

1680
01:31:06,960 --> 01:31:13,480
Speaker 1: Titans got beat by Houston yesterday and Tyrod Taylor figure

1681
01:31:13,560 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 1: that out. The Browns barely beat the Lions, Minnesota beat

1682
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:27,800
Speaker 1: Green Bay. I mean, it's crazy that I said this

1683
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:30,280
Speaker 1: early in the show. Maybe there's this thing in the

1684
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:34,840
Speaker 1: NFL with seventeen games. Now, the season seems so long.

1685
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:38,639
Speaker 1: This regular seat. Teams that feel like real good about themselves,

1686
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:41,920
Speaker 1: which there seems to be a lot of them, they

1687
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: feel so good about themselves, are saying, listen, we're in

1688
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Let's just get to the playoffs and start

1689
01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:49,519
Speaker 1: start this party. It's a little bit like baseball, a

1690
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:51,519
Speaker 1: little bit like you know, the NBA and the NHL.

1691
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 1: They got eighty two games. It's like, you know, let's

1692
01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:55,960
Speaker 1: just get we're in. Let's just get to the playoffs.

1693
01:31:56,040 --> 01:31:58,000
Speaker 1: We know we're good enough to be there. Let's just

1694
01:31:58,120 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 1: get through this and get there. With only one team

1695
01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 1: getting a buy in the playoffs, it's like, oh, you know,

1696
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:09,840
Speaker 1: probably not gonna be able to do that. It's the

1697
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:11,760
Speaker 1: season's too long, and we got you know, we got

1698
01:32:11,800 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 1: guys out with COVID, we got guys on our arm.

1699
01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 1: We're probably all right, So that's probably off the table.

1700
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:17,640
Speaker 1: Let's just get in the playoffs and see what we

1701
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,519
Speaker 1: can do and then we'll turn it on. And there

1702
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:23,400
Speaker 1: seems to be that kind of attitude around the league.

1703
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:25,960
Speaker 1: It's a dangerous game, it really is. You're gonna run

1704
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 1: out of chairs. I said, I said it earlier and

1705
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:34,799
Speaker 1: all say it again. Ten teams have at least six wins.

1706
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:38,559
Speaker 1: Twelve teams have five wins. This is just the AFC,

1707
01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:40,519
Speaker 1: that's the AFC. Ten teams in the a f C

1708
01:32:40,760 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 1: has six wins. That means they're two games away from

1709
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:50,040
Speaker 1: being the one seed. Two and we're deep. We're ten

1710
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: games deep, eleven games For some of these people, it's now,

1711
01:32:56,520 --> 01:33:00,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. Let's let's go to John the truck.

1712
01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 1: See what he asked for us? John, what you got

1713
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:05,040
Speaker 1: for us? You're on one Bill's life. Hey, Brownie, Haysteve, Hey,

1714
01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: I just got a quick question, um or statement, or

1715
01:33:08,479 --> 01:33:12,519
Speaker 1: however you want to call it. I m star lottoolie um.

1716
01:33:13,160 --> 01:33:16,640
Speaker 1: With the whole COVID protocol. That's fine, dandy. It's his

1717
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 1: choice if he wants to be vaccinated. I don't really care.

1718
01:33:19,479 --> 01:33:22,880
Speaker 1: But what I do have an issue is with last

1719
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 1: year he sat and then during the training camp he

1720
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 1: publicly said the reason why he sat out was to

1721
01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:35,599
Speaker 1: protect his family. Great, then why aren't you vaccinated if

1722
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:39,880
Speaker 1: you out? I've heard a lot of people say this, John,

1723
01:33:39,920 --> 01:33:41,600
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of people say this. Here's the

1724
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:44,840
Speaker 1: thing Starlotula has a medical condition that makes him a

1725
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 1: high risk. Why that's why he set out. And then

1726
01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:49,680
Speaker 1: that's also I was unaware of that. Yeah, and then

1727
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:52,639
Speaker 1: that's also the reason he did not get vaccinated as well,

1728
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:57,160
Speaker 1: because he's he's it's it doesn't seem right for him

1729
01:33:57,560 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 1: for that reason. It's I think, and the way I

1730
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:04,400
Speaker 1: understand it was the same malady or ailment or condition

1731
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:10,679
Speaker 1: that he had that made him worried about the virus

1732
01:34:11,360 --> 01:34:13,400
Speaker 1: that he set out last year. It's also the same

1733
01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:15,640
Speaker 1: thing that why he thinks he's a high rid or

1734
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:17,800
Speaker 1: maybe he's been told he's a high risk for the

1735
01:34:17,880 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 1: vaccination as well. So that's the reason he sat out

1736
01:34:21,080 --> 01:34:24,360
Speaker 1: and then did not get vaccinated because he has a precondition,

1737
01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 1: pre existing condition that makes him a different type of candidate.

1738
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:32,080
Speaker 1: That's what I understand. So thanks for the call, John,

1739
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:33,880
Speaker 1: And I've heard people, you know, people were chiming on

1740
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 1: that on on you know, social media too. Well, how

1741
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:38,559
Speaker 1: can you be so worried about it then not take

1742
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 1: the treatment. It's the same reason he sat out. It's

1743
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:44,160
Speaker 1: a pre existing and I don't know what the condition is,

1744
01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:47,479
Speaker 1: but it you know, it kind of does take the

1745
01:34:47,560 --> 01:34:51,000
Speaker 1: teeth out of that argument. As about him getting opting

1746
01:34:51,040 --> 01:34:53,800
Speaker 1: out and then not getting vaccinated. No break time for

1747
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:56,600
Speaker 1: us here, because when we come back, we're going to

1748
01:34:56,680 --> 01:35:00,280
Speaker 1: be joined right one Eric Wood, who took the game

1749
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:02,679
Speaker 1: in on the radio side, color analyst for the Bills

1750
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:05,360
Speaker 1: Radio Network. We'll see what his view of this game

1751
01:35:05,479 --> 01:35:07,640
Speaker 1: from the booth was and what he thinks has to

1752
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:10,880
Speaker 1: happen going forward with Buffalo's next game in just three

1753
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: days time. We'll be back with Eric when we return

1754
01:35:14,080 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health.

1755
01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:38,240
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

1756
01:35:38,320 --> 01:35:40,600
Speaker 1: been all over the field, kind of unique. He was

1757
01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:44,400
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you. Steal Steed

1758
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:50,400
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the stragedyre of normalcy here,

1759
01:35:52,760 --> 01:35:56,080
Speaker 1: all right here, we are our number three Buffalo Football Monday.

1760
01:35:56,200 --> 01:35:59,559
Speaker 1: The therapy continues after the forty one to fifteen humbling

1761
01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:02,240
Speaker 1: at the hand to the Colts for the Bills, and

1762
01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:05,680
Speaker 1: here to comb through the wreckage with us is Eric

1763
01:36:05,800 --> 01:36:09,240
Speaker 1: Wood as he joins us every Monday, color analyst for

1764
01:36:09,320 --> 01:36:11,800
Speaker 1: the Bills Radio Network. And I guess Eric, as we

1765
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:17,080
Speaker 1: comb through the shortcomings of Sunday's game, what sticks out

1766
01:36:17,160 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 1: as your greatest concern going forward for this team. You know,

1767
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:25,320
Speaker 1: I guess the obvious thing with coming out of the

1768
01:36:25,360 --> 01:36:27,559
Speaker 1: game would be the run defense. And when you look

1769
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:30,599
Speaker 1: at two teams that try to establish a run game

1770
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:33,040
Speaker 1: against the Bills, in the Titans and the Colts, they

1771
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:35,599
Speaker 1: were both effective in doing so. And then the Titans

1772
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:37,840
Speaker 1: established the run game and then the play action became

1773
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:40,720
Speaker 1: extremely effective off of it. Against the Colts, they never

1774
01:36:40,800 --> 01:36:43,720
Speaker 1: really had to get to the play action. You know,

1775
01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:47,080
Speaker 1: they hold Carson Wentz to one hundred and six yards

1776
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:49,120
Speaker 1: through the air, but they had never had to get

1777
01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:52,240
Speaker 1: to that. Now you had Starlotulay back to that mix,

1778
01:36:52,360 --> 01:36:55,880
Speaker 1: you had Tremaine Edmonds. That's a different story. But you know,

1779
01:36:56,040 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 1: in a game against the Colts, when you're playing them

1780
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:03,000
Speaker 1: a team that has an advantage, especially with having guys out,

1781
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:05,320
Speaker 1: the Bills need to go into the game yesterday and

1782
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:07,240
Speaker 1: they needed to build a lead. If they were able

1783
01:37:07,280 --> 01:37:09,680
Speaker 1: to get up fourteen and nothing. Obviously they didn't, but

1784
01:37:09,720 --> 01:37:11,800
Speaker 1: if they were able to get up fourteen and nothing,

1785
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 1: that becomes a totally different ball game. But yeah, it's

1786
01:37:15,360 --> 01:37:18,040
Speaker 1: an obvious concern coming out of the game, and likely

1787
01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 1: the biggest concern is that the Bills could not stop

1788
01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:26,760
Speaker 1: that cult rush game. Yeah, and it got to the

1789
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:29,280
Speaker 1: point where it came out after the game where we've

1790
01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 1: been talking about what Frank Reich said. He said, it

1791
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:35,720
Speaker 1: got to beat twenty four to seven, and he said, listen,

1792
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 1: we're going to run it on every first and second

1793
01:37:37,600 --> 01:37:39,840
Speaker 1: down the rest of the animals. Wrote it on his playsheet,

1794
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:41,800
Speaker 1: run it on first and second down for the rest

1795
01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:44,200
Speaker 1: of the way. And also too, and I said this

1796
01:37:44,280 --> 01:37:45,920
Speaker 1: early in the show and noticed this in the game

1797
01:37:46,280 --> 01:37:48,760
Speaker 1: stats coming off the Bills get it to fourteen to

1798
01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:52,599
Speaker 1: seven with a touchdown to Steph Diggs, the offense doesn't

1799
01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:55,679
Speaker 1: come back on the field until it's twenty four to seven,

1800
01:37:56,320 --> 01:37:58,920
Speaker 1: and that it's completely different. Again, they're right back where

1801
01:37:58,920 --> 01:38:01,160
Speaker 1: they were. They were two scores down. Now they're seventeen

1802
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:03,640
Speaker 1: down after just hanging a touchdown on it, and the

1803
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:06,400
Speaker 1: next time they see the fields, they went from seven

1804
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:11,439
Speaker 1: to seventeen. So that was really an issue was when

1805
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:14,519
Speaker 1: it came apart there late in the first half. You

1806
01:38:14,560 --> 01:38:18,559
Speaker 1: know they could never recover from it. Yeah, you're exactly right,

1807
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 1: and you build a deficit like they did yesterday against

1808
01:38:22,560 --> 01:38:25,120
Speaker 1: a team of that caliber, you're you're not going to

1809
01:38:25,200 --> 01:38:27,240
Speaker 1: be able to climb back into that game. And that's

1810
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:30,200
Speaker 1: where teams that run the football well, if you can

1811
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:33,960
Speaker 1: build leads, then you're very tough to catch. I mean,

1812
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:39,160
Speaker 1: the Bills only had three first half offensive possessions and

1813
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:41,000
Speaker 1: one of them was a two minute roll at the

1814
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: end of the half, and one of them would have

1815
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:47,280
Speaker 1: been after that McKenzie fumble. But you know, you were

1816
01:38:47,320 --> 01:38:50,000
Speaker 1: just getting really long drives by the Colts, and that's

1817
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: the m O. When you're playing against the number two

1818
01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:54,479
Speaker 1: scoring offense in the league. If you can keep them

1819
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:57,000
Speaker 1: off the field, you do anything in your power to

1820
01:38:57,120 --> 01:39:00,320
Speaker 1: do it. You know mackenzie's fumble with self and did.

1821
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:01,800
Speaker 1: But the rest of the way, you got to give

1822
01:39:01,800 --> 01:39:03,880
Speaker 1: the Colts credit. They were able to control the pace

1823
01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:07,000
Speaker 1: of the first half. And then you find yourself as

1824
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:09,559
Speaker 1: a quarterback having to press because you feel like, okay,

1825
01:39:09,640 --> 01:39:11,760
Speaker 1: now we have to score. Now we have to make

1826
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:14,599
Speaker 1: plays down the field. And that's where you saw more

1827
01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:18,320
Speaker 1: turnovers mount. Yeah, and with that in mind, Eric, even

1828
01:39:18,360 --> 01:39:23,000
Speaker 1: before you know the turnovers notwithstanding there there were instances

1829
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:25,960
Speaker 1: where Josh had time in the pocket, was a little

1830
01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 1: off on a handful of throws, and there were times

1831
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:32,680
Speaker 1: where receiving targets had drops. I counted four yesterday, so

1832
01:39:33,640 --> 01:39:37,360
Speaker 1: you know the identity of this offense even struggled at

1833
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:43,439
Speaker 1: times yesterday to stay on schedule and finish drives. Yeah,

1834
01:39:43,520 --> 01:39:46,120
Speaker 1: there's a couple that come to mind in particular. One

1835
01:39:46,280 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 1: was a Gabe Davis throw for a first down that

1836
01:39:48,920 --> 01:39:51,160
Speaker 1: was on third down that Josh led him just a

1837
01:39:51,240 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 1: little too much. I'm not sure if it was a misfire.

1838
01:39:54,520 --> 01:39:56,240
Speaker 1: Only Josh will be able to tell us, or maybe

1839
01:39:56,280 --> 01:39:58,280
Speaker 1: Brian Daball will be able to tell you if that

1840
01:39:58,720 --> 01:40:01,640
Speaker 1: was truly a fire by Josh, or if there was

1841
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:04,600
Speaker 1: a miscommunication out there. You know, with the rain in

1842
01:40:04,680 --> 01:40:07,200
Speaker 1: the second half, he through Cole Beasley a pretty hot

1843
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:10,719
Speaker 1: ball on third down that generally Cole catches every time.

1844
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:12,680
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it's the rain or what

1845
01:40:12,960 --> 01:40:16,280
Speaker 1: was affecting that throw and catch, But that was another

1846
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:18,960
Speaker 1: easy first down. Dawson Knox had a couple of drops

1847
01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:21,000
Speaker 1: in the game, and this is a Bills team that

1848
01:40:21,439 --> 01:40:24,320
Speaker 1: you know, hasn't had many drops on the season, and

1849
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:26,760
Speaker 1: they all showed up yesterday. Now we don't we're not

1850
01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:28,320
Speaker 1: sure if it would have been both ways because the

1851
01:40:28,360 --> 01:40:29,920
Speaker 1: Colts didn't even have to throw the ball for the

1852
01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:32,720
Speaker 1: majority of the game, so we couldn't tell if that

1853
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:34,519
Speaker 1: was going to affect it both ways. I know a

1854
01:40:34,600 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 1: ball went off of Michael Pittman's hands in the second

1855
01:40:37,080 --> 01:40:39,120
Speaker 1: half as that rain started going. But playing in the

1856
01:40:39,240 --> 01:40:41,880
Speaker 1: rain is something that this Bill's team isn't unfamiliar with

1857
01:40:42,320 --> 01:40:46,599
Speaker 1: this year. They've played a majority, if not haul their

1858
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:49,679
Speaker 1: home games this year in some type of elements, whether

1859
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:52,519
Speaker 1: extreme wind, a little bit of rain. So that's something

1860
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: that they should be used to. But you know, when

1861
01:40:56,200 --> 01:40:58,679
Speaker 1: you talked about the biggest concern coming out of the game,

1862
01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:01,519
Speaker 1: you know you'd hope that having Tremaine and Starr would

1863
01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:05,599
Speaker 1: play a role against that Colts defense. Maybe your offense

1864
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 1: if you have Feliciano and Brown in there. But I

1865
01:41:10,080 --> 01:41:13,000
Speaker 1: understand that many of the caller's concerns today is that

1866
01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:16,240
Speaker 1: it seemed like the Bills were out physical yesterday, and

1867
01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:18,639
Speaker 1: that can happen when you get down and then you're

1868
01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:21,599
Speaker 1: just getting teed off in the run game. But your biggest,

1869
01:41:21,840 --> 01:41:27,400
Speaker 1: your best physical presence upfront on defense is Starlo Tula,

1870
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:29,840
Speaker 1: and he's out of the game beyond that when you

1871
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:32,639
Speaker 1: look at the Bill's defensive line, you know, Ed Oliver's

1872
01:41:32,640 --> 01:41:34,600
Speaker 1: explosive and he's playing well this year, but he's not

1873
01:41:34,680 --> 01:41:37,880
Speaker 1: this big physical presence. None of their defensive ends are

1874
01:41:38,040 --> 01:41:43,240
Speaker 1: extremely physically imposing. Now Greg Rousseau likely will be when

1875
01:41:43,280 --> 01:41:46,519
Speaker 1: he grows into that frame even more. But you know,

1876
01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 1: Stars your true physical presence on the d line. And

1877
01:41:50,600 --> 01:41:54,000
Speaker 1: then as far as the offensive line goes, Spencer Brown's

1878
01:41:54,120 --> 01:41:56,599
Speaker 1: your biggest physical presence. And I know he's a rookie,

1879
01:41:56,680 --> 01:41:59,040
Speaker 1: but he's six foot eight and he throws people around,

1880
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:02,320
Speaker 1: and he's not in the game. John Feliciano's probably your

1881
01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 1: most tenacious offensive lineman. He's out of the game as well,

1882
01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:07,920
Speaker 1: And I think that comes into a factor when you

1883
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:10,400
Speaker 1: play a team like the Colts that wants to play

1884
01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:13,720
Speaker 1: some smash mouth football. You know, we're I've been thinking too,

1885
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:17,400
Speaker 1: get the feeling, and we've seen this team turn it on.

1886
01:42:17,479 --> 01:42:19,320
Speaker 1: They turned it on against the Jets when they when

1887
01:42:19,320 --> 01:42:22,200
Speaker 1: they got out physical and they Jacksonville. He was an

1888
01:42:22,240 --> 01:42:24,880
Speaker 1: embarrassing loss to a bad team, and they came out

1889
01:42:24,960 --> 01:42:28,519
Speaker 1: and absolutely lumped up the Jets. You know, and then

1890
01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:34,040
Speaker 1: after getting beat beaten by Tennessee, they bounced back and

1891
01:42:34,280 --> 01:42:36,479
Speaker 1: play the Dolphins really tough and beat them. And they

1892
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 1: come back with a bad half of football against the

1893
01:42:38,560 --> 01:42:40,800
Speaker 1: Dolphins and then come back and beat them by fifteen points.

1894
01:42:41,240 --> 01:42:43,439
Speaker 1: So we've seen him turn it on. Of course, the

1895
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 1: Chiefs game, they lumped the Chiefs up. They lumped up

1896
01:42:46,360 --> 01:42:49,120
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans forty to nothing. They lumped up Washington

1897
01:42:49,160 --> 01:42:51,960
Speaker 1: forty three twenty one, the Dolphins thirty five nothing. So

1898
01:42:52,080 --> 01:42:55,559
Speaker 1: they built up this sent air of confidence that listen,

1899
01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:58,960
Speaker 1: when we turn it on, it ain't nobody beating us. Well,

1900
01:42:59,040 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 1: it's a long sea season. And now they're getting to

1901
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,680
Speaker 1: the point where it seems like almost like listen, they're like,

1902
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:06,880
Speaker 1: let's start the playoffs to we want to play for something,

1903
01:43:07,400 --> 01:43:08,920
Speaker 1: you know. Do you think there's a little bit of

1904
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:11,679
Speaker 1: that just marking time until they get in the tournament.

1905
01:43:11,720 --> 01:43:13,320
Speaker 1: And of course now they're in a dog race with

1906
01:43:14,080 --> 01:43:17,280
Speaker 1: ten other teams, But do you feel like and there's

1907
01:43:17,280 --> 01:43:19,080
Speaker 1: other teams that are like that too. We've been mentioned

1908
01:43:19,080 --> 01:43:22,559
Speaker 1: that the Tennessee Titans got beat by Houston last year.

1909
01:43:22,720 --> 01:43:24,960
Speaker 1: Do you think there's an air around the National Football

1910
01:43:25,040 --> 01:43:28,000
Speaker 1: League now around these teams that feel good enough to

1911
01:43:28,080 --> 01:43:30,720
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs that they're just saying, let's just

1912
01:43:30,800 --> 01:43:32,639
Speaker 1: do enough to get there and then see what happens.

1913
01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 1: You know, with this extra added game, that could be

1914
01:43:36,400 --> 01:43:39,680
Speaker 1: a factor, and that might be something that everyone deals with.

1915
01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:41,840
Speaker 1: You know, last year there was no preseason. This year

1916
01:43:41,880 --> 01:43:45,240
Speaker 1: you had three preseason games onto it as well. You know,

1917
01:43:45,640 --> 01:43:48,240
Speaker 1: it could feel like a really long season to these guys,

1918
01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:52,080
Speaker 1: especially after last year where you don't have OTAs, you

1919
01:43:52,200 --> 01:43:54,280
Speaker 1: have a little bit of an extended training camp and

1920
01:43:54,360 --> 01:43:57,280
Speaker 1: then boom or right into the season, so that that

1921
01:43:57,439 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: could be playing into a coming into play. You know.

1922
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 1: I just feel like, especially in these Bills losses, they've

1923
01:44:05,280 --> 01:44:10,360
Speaker 1: besides the Tennessee game, they've hurt themselves so bad with turnovers, sacks,

1924
01:44:10,600 --> 01:44:13,840
Speaker 1: and penalties, and those are just deflating and so where

1925
01:44:14,120 --> 01:44:17,439
Speaker 1: it might not seem like the team is that into it.

1926
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:20,400
Speaker 1: You know, I go back to what Shaquille Griffin said

1927
01:44:20,640 --> 01:44:23,320
Speaker 1: after the Jacksonville game that you know, the Bills weren't

1928
01:44:23,360 --> 01:44:25,280
Speaker 1: into it. And I came on this show the next

1929
01:44:25,400 --> 01:44:27,920
Speaker 1: day and said, look, I was down on the field

1930
01:44:27,960 --> 01:44:30,680
Speaker 1: before the game. It's not like those guys came out

1931
01:44:30,760 --> 01:44:34,000
Speaker 1: flat out of the tunnel. They were energetic, they were entus.

1932
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:36,040
Speaker 1: They were into it's Steve me and you were standing

1933
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:41,040
Speaker 1: their pregame yesterday. The atmosphere, the feeling I got from

1934
01:44:41,120 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 1: being around everybody was completely into it. But man, when

1935
01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:48,799
Speaker 1: everything starts going against you, it's natural, it's human nature

1936
01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:52,720
Speaker 1: to just feel defeated. And I think this team, you know,

1937
01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:55,679
Speaker 1: at this point you've either had lopsided victories or you've

1938
01:44:55,720 --> 01:44:59,000
Speaker 1: had close losses, and this team, you know, every team

1939
01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:01,880
Speaker 1: every year is a different team, and this team is

1940
01:45:02,240 --> 01:45:05,000
Speaker 1: kind of finding his footing to where, okay, if it

1941
01:45:05,160 --> 01:45:07,439
Speaker 1: doesn't go well early, we got to understand that this

1942
01:45:07,600 --> 01:45:11,080
Speaker 1: is a long game. Yes, there's great expectations on us,

1943
01:45:11,400 --> 01:45:13,640
Speaker 1: but it's okay, it's a long game. Let's stay in

1944
01:45:13,760 --> 01:45:15,880
Speaker 1: it and we'll make the plays down the stretch to

1945
01:45:15,960 --> 01:45:20,280
Speaker 1: go win that sucker. We heard coach McDermott two weeks

1946
01:45:20,320 --> 01:45:24,519
Speaker 1: ago say that Matt Brita gave us a spark on

1947
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 1: offense in his two touchdown day against the Jets. He

1948
01:45:28,200 --> 01:45:30,400
Speaker 1: gets a little bit more time on the field this

1949
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:34,200
Speaker 1: week and arguably has some of the bigger plays on

1950
01:45:34,240 --> 01:45:37,559
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. In two weeks, he's

1951
01:45:37,600 --> 01:45:40,160
Speaker 1: touched the ball twelve times for one hundred and seventeen

1952
01:45:40,280 --> 01:45:43,320
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. Have we reached the point where

1953
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:45,400
Speaker 1: he now has to be one of the featured backs

1954
01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:48,960
Speaker 1: in this offense. Yeah, I believe so. In one of

1955
01:45:49,040 --> 01:45:52,559
Speaker 1: the biggest points of emphasis for me in getting him

1956
01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:55,240
Speaker 1: more playing time moving forward, as the Bills left him

1957
01:45:55,240 --> 01:45:57,519
Speaker 1: in on third down and kept him in in pass

1958
01:45:57,600 --> 01:46:01,759
Speaker 1: protection and on the play. When I saw Matt Breda

1959
01:46:01,840 --> 01:46:04,479
Speaker 1: lined up to Josh Allen's left and I saw the

1960
01:46:04,560 --> 01:46:07,360
Speaker 1: Colts about the blitz, I assumed, well, shoot, now the

1961
01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:09,840
Speaker 1: Bills aren't gonna have enough blockers because they're gonna release

1962
01:46:09,920 --> 01:46:13,080
Speaker 1: Matt Breta. Well, he steps up in the hole and

1963
01:46:13,200 --> 01:46:18,840
Speaker 1: throws a great block, and I believe it was on

1964
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:23,360
Speaker 1: Darius Landard, who's a You know, he's hobbled right now

1965
01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:25,479
Speaker 1: with an ankle, but that's a heck of a matchup

1966
01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:27,280
Speaker 1: for him to step up in block. When you do

1967
01:46:27,439 --> 01:46:29,120
Speaker 1: things like that, you show your teammates you can be

1968
01:46:29,200 --> 01:46:33,040
Speaker 1: relied on in all three downs. Now you're one, right, Chris.

1969
01:46:33,320 --> 01:46:35,280
Speaker 1: He's got to play a factor in the run game

1970
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:37,960
Speaker 1: has been an issue. He's averaged so much in new

1971
01:46:38,040 --> 01:46:41,439
Speaker 1: yards per touch that he's got to get the touches now.

1972
01:46:41,520 --> 01:46:44,479
Speaker 1: I know there's concerned with his limited touches, and then

1973
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:47,800
Speaker 1: he had the fumble against the Jets, But man, you

1974
01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:51,240
Speaker 1: got to get that guy going. And with this team,

1975
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was excellent yesterday. They just

1976
01:46:53,479 --> 01:46:56,479
Speaker 1: ran a simple outside zone and Barrita made an excellent cut,

1977
01:46:56,640 --> 01:46:59,040
Speaker 1: gets up the field, gets some eight nine ten yards.

1978
01:46:59,840 --> 01:47:01,800
Speaker 1: That's a guy that you got to get the ball

1979
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:04,120
Speaker 1: in his hands a little bit more moving forward. Is

1980
01:47:04,200 --> 01:47:08,040
Speaker 1: there a possibility and you mentioned it with Spencer brown

1981
01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:09,800
Speaker 1: getting him back on the field because he is that

1982
01:47:09,920 --> 01:47:11,280
Speaker 1: kind of he's got that little bit of grit and

1983
01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:14,120
Speaker 1: he's a strong, big, physical guy. The same thing with Feliciano.

1984
01:47:14,200 --> 01:47:15,960
Speaker 1: One of the things we heard about him two years

1985
01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:19,320
Speaker 1: ago and the reason they liked him where he was

1986
01:47:19,400 --> 01:47:23,360
Speaker 1: just kind of an also ran for other teams, was

1987
01:47:23,400 --> 01:47:26,080
Speaker 1: a fact he brought toughness. And I made the comment,

1988
01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:28,519
Speaker 1: I've made a comment to Brownie on numerous occasions. You

1989
01:47:28,600 --> 01:47:32,479
Speaker 1: need guys on your team that there if there's a scuffle,

1990
01:47:33,080 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 1: that guy's not if he's not in the middle of it,

1991
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:40,280
Speaker 1: he's trying to get there. And Feliciano's that guy that's

1992
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:43,120
Speaker 1: been absent for a month from the Bill's lineup, and

1993
01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:47,400
Speaker 1: along with Spencer Brown, as you know it's forty percent

1994
01:47:47,439 --> 01:47:50,760
Speaker 1: of your offensive line, you're bound to see. I mean,

1995
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:54,320
Speaker 1: what kind of massive John mean, best case scenario, how

1996
01:47:54,400 --> 01:47:56,880
Speaker 1: big a difference could those two guys make getting back

1997
01:47:56,960 --> 01:47:59,840
Speaker 1: on the field and providing that kind of attitude and

1998
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:02,519
Speaker 1: with the run and the pass well, I think when

1999
01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:04,880
Speaker 1: you look back at the Jacksonville Jaguars game and you

2000
01:48:04,960 --> 01:48:07,200
Speaker 1: think of what could have been maybe in the run

2001
01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:10,679
Speaker 1: game or in pass protection, you know they're they're starters

2002
01:48:10,760 --> 01:48:13,559
Speaker 1: for a reason. There's a reason John Feliciano starts over

2003
01:48:13,640 --> 01:48:16,400
Speaker 1: Ike Bucker. There's no that's not a shot at Ike Bucker.

2004
01:48:16,520 --> 01:48:19,400
Speaker 1: John Feliciano is a better player at this point of

2005
01:48:19,439 --> 01:48:22,839
Speaker 1: his career, and so yes he is, and he provides

2006
01:48:22,880 --> 01:48:26,240
Speaker 1: added value when you put Spencer Brown in the game.

2007
01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:28,800
Speaker 1: That puts Daryl Williams at guard. Darrel's played better at

2008
01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:31,240
Speaker 1: guard this year than he has tackle. And Spencer Brown

2009
01:48:31,520 --> 01:48:33,599
Speaker 1: has been the best right tackle on the team this year.

2010
01:48:33,840 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 1: And so when you consider those things, it makes a

2011
01:48:36,400 --> 01:48:40,479
Speaker 1: big difference when those guys are out of the game now. Offensively, yesterday,

2012
01:48:40,520 --> 01:48:42,840
Speaker 1: I didn't think the offensive line was an issue. They

2013
01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:46,479
Speaker 1: ran the ball well at times and the protection wasn't

2014
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:50,160
Speaker 1: breaking down nearly at the clip. It was against the

2015
01:48:50,600 --> 01:48:55,960
Speaker 1: last ANFC South opponent in the Jacksonville Jaguars when they

2016
01:48:56,000 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 1: played them a couple weeks ago, and so you know

2017
01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:02,080
Speaker 1: where nobody is leaving this game without fault. When you

2018
01:49:02,200 --> 01:49:04,600
Speaker 1: get beat the way the Bills did yesterday. You know,

2019
01:49:04,640 --> 01:49:06,960
Speaker 1: I thought the offensive line, you know, held their own

2020
01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:09,439
Speaker 1: against a front that that could be pretty tough. Quity

2021
01:49:09,479 --> 01:49:12,560
Speaker 1: pay has played well this season and especially as of

2022
01:49:12,760 --> 01:49:16,320
Speaker 1: late for the Colts, and then DeForrest Buckner's one of

2023
01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:20,160
Speaker 1: the best interior rushers in the entire NFL. Where do

2024
01:49:20,280 --> 01:49:25,360
Speaker 1: we come down on what is playing Zach Moss? You know,

2025
01:49:25,439 --> 01:49:27,720
Speaker 1: this was a guy who as a rookie was a

2026
01:49:27,760 --> 01:49:30,160
Speaker 1: pretty productive player even at the start of this season,

2027
01:49:30,800 --> 01:49:34,680
Speaker 1: offered some contributions that helped this football team, particularly in

2028
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:38,519
Speaker 1: the red zone. There's times, and yesterday I think we

2029
01:49:38,600 --> 01:49:43,479
Speaker 1: saw it again. He just doesn't look like himself, or

2030
01:49:43,479 --> 01:49:45,519
Speaker 1: at least he looks different than he did his rookie year.

2031
01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 1: I can't quite put my finger on it. Eric, I

2032
01:49:48,120 --> 01:49:50,439
Speaker 1: don't know what's missing there with him, but he just

2033
01:49:50,560 --> 01:49:54,439
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be the same effective back. Yeah, I

2034
01:49:54,479 --> 01:49:56,760
Speaker 1: mean I'm seeing the same things. And he rushes for

2035
01:49:56,840 --> 01:49:59,360
Speaker 1: one point seven yards perk Harry yesterday. And you know

2036
01:49:59,439 --> 01:50:01,960
Speaker 1: a guy that's more physical like Zach Moss. He's probably

2037
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:03,800
Speaker 1: one of those running backs in a system where the

2038
01:50:03,880 --> 01:50:06,479
Speaker 1: more carries you get him, think last year against New

2039
01:50:06,520 --> 01:50:09,120
Speaker 1: England early in the season. The more carries you give

2040
01:50:09,200 --> 01:50:11,519
Speaker 1: him probably the better he gets throughout the game. He's

2041
01:50:11,560 --> 01:50:14,120
Speaker 1: a more punishing runner. Well, this is the Bill's offense.

2042
01:50:14,200 --> 01:50:17,240
Speaker 1: That's not going to give one running back just consistent

2043
01:50:17,360 --> 01:50:20,280
Speaker 1: carries over and over and over, unless maybe there was

2044
01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 1: an injury at the running back position, you were left

2045
01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:25,120
Speaker 1: with just maybe one of those guys in the backfield.

2046
01:50:25,200 --> 01:50:27,680
Speaker 1: This is a primarily a pass base offense, and so

2047
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:29,600
Speaker 1: when those guys get their number called, they got to

2048
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:32,840
Speaker 1: show up. And lately, as of late, Zack Moss has

2049
01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:36,160
Speaker 1: not done it. Devin Singletary has been effective recently, and

2050
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:40,040
Speaker 1: obviously Matt Breed has made a case that he deserves

2051
01:50:40,040 --> 01:50:43,040
Speaker 1: to touch the ball. More give you ever play? And

2052
01:50:43,080 --> 01:50:44,800
Speaker 1: I guess as we wind it down here, did you

2053
01:50:44,840 --> 01:50:50,840
Speaker 1: ever play on Thanksgiving? I never played on Thanksgiving? Ever? No,

2054
01:50:51,520 --> 01:50:54,559
Speaker 1: we played, you know, we played on Thursday night each year,

2055
01:50:54,600 --> 01:50:56,320
Speaker 1: and we never got the Thursday that. We never got

2056
01:50:56,400 --> 01:50:59,639
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving game, and we had very few primetime games

2057
01:50:59,720 --> 01:51:02,879
Speaker 1: through I run with the Bills outside of those mandatory

2058
01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:05,200
Speaker 1: Thursday night games. I got to call the one down

2059
01:51:05,280 --> 01:51:08,440
Speaker 1: in Dallas a couple of years ago, really fun atmosphere.

2060
01:51:09,520 --> 01:51:11,920
Speaker 1: It's always great when you transition out of ball, Steve,

2061
01:51:11,960 --> 01:51:14,559
Speaker 1: you probably relate and then you start working in media,

2062
01:51:15,040 --> 01:51:18,280
Speaker 1: and now I'm missing holidays at more of a clip

2063
01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:22,160
Speaker 1: than when I even played. But everybody understands, and we'll

2064
01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:25,360
Speaker 1: do our We'll do our Thanksgiving on Sunday. And I

2065
01:51:25,520 --> 01:51:27,680
Speaker 1: just tell everybody else, you guys get to double dip,

2066
01:51:27,760 --> 01:51:30,479
Speaker 1: go over somebody else's house on Thursday, and you get

2067
01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:33,880
Speaker 1: our mule Sunday. It's best case scenario. That's the same

2068
01:51:33,920 --> 01:51:36,960
Speaker 1: with me this game. And we've talked about this. If

2069
01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:39,960
Speaker 1: it is true that the Bills need something to give

2070
01:51:40,000 --> 01:51:42,839
Speaker 1: them some juice, some emotion to go into a game prepared,

2071
01:51:43,000 --> 01:51:46,799
Speaker 1: this primetime game on a Thursday night Thanksgiving in New Orleans,

2072
01:51:47,960 --> 01:51:50,840
Speaker 1: it should hit all the hot spots for a Bills

2073
01:51:50,880 --> 01:51:53,000
Speaker 1: team to show up. They're really fired up and ready

2074
01:51:53,040 --> 01:51:57,040
Speaker 1: to play. Do you agree, Yes, and actually I've actually

2075
01:51:57,120 --> 01:51:59,840
Speaker 1: played in New Orleans on a holiday. It was actually

2076
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:04,840
Speaker 1: thank on Halloween one year. And to have the Superbdome

2077
01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:08,920
Speaker 1: with everybody in costume just added just to the atmosphere.

2078
01:52:08,960 --> 01:52:10,960
Speaker 1: And that was when they had breeze and they were rolling.

2079
01:52:11,000 --> 01:52:15,240
Speaker 1: I'm Chris could probably tell you exactly what you're I

2080
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:16,880
Speaker 1: knew you'd know right off the top of your head.

2081
01:52:16,920 --> 01:52:19,240
Speaker 1: It was Doug Morone. So it was either what thirteen

2082
01:52:19,360 --> 01:52:21,880
Speaker 1: or fourteen. I could have used deductive reasoning too. I

2083
01:52:21,960 --> 01:52:24,720
Speaker 1: probably should have make myself seem smarter, but give Chris

2084
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:27,559
Speaker 1: the credit there. But that was a pretty wild game.

2085
01:52:27,600 --> 01:52:29,960
Speaker 1: And I remember we had a play going down in

2086
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:32,200
Speaker 1: the red zone. We ran a screen and I got

2087
01:52:32,320 --> 01:52:34,640
Speaker 1: I got hit pretty good in the head and I

2088
01:52:34,840 --> 01:52:37,280
Speaker 1: was lining up that next snap and we're in the

2089
01:52:37,360 --> 01:52:40,080
Speaker 1: tight red zone, so everybody's right in front of you

2090
01:52:40,920 --> 01:52:43,320
Speaker 1: as far as the fans go, and you're looking around

2091
01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:46,760
Speaker 1: and there's all these different costumes. Um. I guess it's

2092
01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:49,760
Speaker 1: probably not appropriate to speak about now, but I was

2093
01:52:49,800 --> 01:52:52,720
Speaker 1: feeling a little woozy and the atmosphere and there with

2094
01:52:52,760 --> 01:52:56,519
Speaker 1: all the costumes just made it a little bit more dramatic. Yeah,

2095
01:52:56,600 --> 01:52:59,240
Speaker 1: probably thought he had somebody slipped something in the water bottle.

2096
01:52:59,360 --> 01:53:01,720
Speaker 1: A little quick LSD trip there. Yeah, I've been there,

2097
01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:05,479
Speaker 1: last one from me. Eric Coach talked about it right

2098
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Speaker 1: in his postgame press conference. The number one rule for

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Speaker 1: the players right now recovery. So you're ready in four

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Speaker 1: days to play again. I know you've played Thursday night game,

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Speaker 1: so maybe just give us the loose script on what

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Speaker 1: players are doing to recover properly for Thursday. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: you're putting everything you can into recovery. In the later

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01:53:28,479 --> 01:53:30,519
Speaker 1: this game falls and the season, the harder it is

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01:53:30,600 --> 01:53:34,200
Speaker 1: to prepare for just because there's the accumulation of the knicks,

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01:53:34,280 --> 01:53:37,120
Speaker 1: bumps and bruises to this point. So when you normally

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01:53:37,240 --> 01:53:39,360
Speaker 1: get the full week to prepare for the game, it's

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Speaker 1: a lot easier to get some of those things feeling

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Speaker 1: really good by the time game time comes. But this

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Speaker 1: week there's not going to be pads on in practice.

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Speaker 1: A lot of it's going to be in a walkthrough sense. Today.

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Speaker 1: Eric Siano the head strength and condition to coach, assuming

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Speaker 1: he's doing things similar to what I was there and

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01:53:56,120 --> 01:53:58,840
Speaker 1: it was pretty consistent throughout my entire career. He'll get

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01:53:58,880 --> 01:54:01,040
Speaker 1: those guys moving today, they'll do a light lift. They're

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01:54:01,040 --> 01:54:04,360
Speaker 1: gonna get their blood flow going because there's no time

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01:54:04,439 --> 01:54:06,920
Speaker 1: to sit around and try and wait for the recovery

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Speaker 1: to happen. You almost got to force it to happen.

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Speaker 1: They'll be in the hot tubs and the cold tubs

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Speaker 1: and trying to get anything they can do to get

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01:54:13,680 --> 01:54:17,800
Speaker 1: the soreness of yesterday out. And you know, offensively, they

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Speaker 1: weren't on the field that much. The time of possession

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Speaker 1: was twelve thirteen minutes in favor of the Colts, so

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Speaker 1: offensively they should feel a little bit fresher. But defensively,

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01:54:27,560 --> 01:54:30,200
Speaker 1: they were out there a lot and there was a

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01:54:30,280 --> 01:54:32,760
Speaker 1: lot of run game, which is more physical. So those

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01:54:32,800 --> 01:54:37,120
Speaker 1: guys defensively definitely need to need to do everything they

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01:54:37,360 --> 01:54:40,800
Speaker 1: can to recover their best because this becomes, you know,

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Speaker 1: just a vital game, and every game from here on out,

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01:54:43,520 --> 01:54:45,200
Speaker 1: with the position that the Bills are in right now,

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01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:49,560
Speaker 1: becomes extremely vital for playoff scenarios. In a playoff Berth

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01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:53,240
Speaker 1: last time these two teams played in Buffalo forty seven

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01:54:53,360 --> 01:54:57,920
Speaker 1: to ten, when Alvin Kamara, you know, kind of exploded

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Speaker 1: onto the scene in the National Football League. I think

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Speaker 1: there's any carry over for the coaching staff guys that

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01:55:02,520 --> 01:55:07,120
Speaker 1: are left over from that game. Yeah, because there are

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Speaker 1: a number of coaches that are still there. I believe

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Speaker 1: that was my last year in twenty seventeen. That was

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Speaker 1: a part of the worst three game stretch point differential

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01:55:16,560 --> 01:55:20,880
Speaker 1: wise for the Bills in franchise history. And then that's

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Speaker 1: the team that goes on a little streak at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year and ends up making the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and breaking the longest playoff drout in all professional sports

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Speaker 1: at the time. And part of that is because of

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Speaker 1: the leadership of Sean McDermott. And that's part of the

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Speaker 1: reason why I'm not in most are not in panic

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01:55:37,200 --> 01:55:39,600
Speaker 1: mode right now with this Buffalo Bills team that's playing

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01:55:39,640 --> 01:55:43,040
Speaker 1: some me inconsistent football because you understand Shawn's approach and

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01:55:43,240 --> 01:55:46,360
Speaker 1: how it's you know, simply about getting better each and

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01:55:46,440 --> 01:55:49,040
Speaker 1: every day, each and every week. You got to learn, learn, learn,

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01:55:49,320 --> 01:55:54,040
Speaker 1: and constantly improve. And then Sean's whole messages whatever team

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01:55:54,120 --> 01:55:57,320
Speaker 1: can stick together the longest throughout the season and not

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01:55:57,520 --> 01:55:59,880
Speaker 1: let forces pull them apart, or the teams are going

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01:56:00,080 --> 01:56:02,360
Speaker 1: have the best shot at making a run at the

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01:56:02,400 --> 01:56:04,720
Speaker 1: super Bowl at the end of the season. So although

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01:56:05,040 --> 01:56:08,960
Speaker 1: it seems like the sky's falling. I'm sure Sean's pointing

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01:56:08,960 --> 01:56:11,760
Speaker 1: out all the mistakes today because they have to learn

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01:56:11,800 --> 01:56:14,920
Speaker 1: from that game yesterday prior to moving on. But you know,

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Speaker 1: they're I would imagine they're not in panic mode within

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Speaker 1: the building, and I'm not as well. All right, Eric

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Speaker 1: is always thanks for joining us here as you do

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Speaker 1: every Monday. We'll be listening on Thursday night. Happy, have

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Speaker 1: a happy Thanksgiving. Travel safe man. Yep, thanks guys, Happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: So that's Eric Wood joining us here. And I was right.

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Speaker 1: That game was twenty thirteen Bills at Saints. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't on Halloween, but it was Halloween weekend. It was

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Speaker 1: October twenty seventh, and the Bills went into that game

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01:56:46,880 --> 01:56:54,720
Speaker 1: supremely shorthanded. EJ. Manuel injured did not play, so the

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback for that game for the Bills was Thad Lewis.

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Speaker 1: The backup was Jeff tool C. J. Spiller also out injured,

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01:57:04,040 --> 01:57:10,960
Speaker 1: did not play, and so basically Stevie Johnson cut a

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01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:14,160
Speaker 1: touchdown pass from Thad Lewis, Dan Carpenter hit a short

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01:57:14,240 --> 01:57:16,480
Speaker 1: field goal, and Fred Jackson had a touchdown in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but they lost thirty five seventeen. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that stretch when I mentioned the last New Orleans Saints

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Speaker 1: game twenty seventeen, the Bills were on a stretch with

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Speaker 1: the Jets, Saints Chargers. They gave up thirty four to

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Speaker 1: the Jets in a loss, forty seven to the Saints

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Speaker 1: in the loss, and then fifty four to the Chargers

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01:57:32,080 --> 01:57:35,720
Speaker 1: in the loss. Yeah, and then all of a sudden

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01:57:35,760 --> 01:57:37,920
Speaker 1: they turn it around and go four and two down

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01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:40,560
Speaker 1: the stretch, get into the playoffs and Sean mcdermot's first

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01:57:40,600 --> 01:57:44,560
Speaker 1: year and break the drought. It was quite the stretch

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01:57:44,640 --> 01:57:47,680
Speaker 1: run there after that dark day of three straight losses

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01:57:47,680 --> 01:57:49,960
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season weeks nine, ten, and eleven,

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Speaker 1: and they came in and they got in the playoffs. Man,

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Speaker 1: Bills have traded wins and losses each of the last

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Speaker 1: six games. How do they turn that around going forward?

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss and get some of your thoughts off the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet as we take our first look at that.

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Speaker 1: Here on this Buffalo Football Monday. It's One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalaida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we wanted I know your biggest takeaway from the Colts

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Speaker 1: forty one fifteen loss to the Colts. Thanks for all

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Speaker 1: your calls today. We did want to get to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills and

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Speaker 1: Big Multi. Starts us off and says, Jonathan Taylor is

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Speaker 1: still running. I saw him run past my truck on

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01:58:46,760 --> 01:58:49,800
Speaker 1: the way to work this morning. Our defense definitely wasn't

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Speaker 1: with it yesterday, but something's happened to our offense since

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01:58:52,920 --> 01:58:55,560
Speaker 1: last season. Could be that our old line is that

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01:58:55,760 --> 01:59:00,760
Speaker 1: bad man. We haven't seen one trick play. I guess

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01:59:00,800 --> 01:59:03,240
Speaker 1: you make trick plays when you're playing with confidence, right,

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01:59:04,040 --> 01:59:06,480
Speaker 1: when you're when your execution is struggling, you're just trying

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01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:12,520
Speaker 1: to get the basics right. There's no time for trick plays. Umah,

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01:59:12,600 --> 01:59:15,440
Speaker 1: take care of job number one first. I think, I

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01:59:15,520 --> 01:59:17,800
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess if you really are trying to

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Speaker 1: spark your team, maybe trick plays, or when you're not,

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01:59:21,160 --> 01:59:22,960
Speaker 1: or when you're desperate, I think, or when you you

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01:59:23,160 --> 01:59:25,680
Speaker 1: think you're an outmanned you kind of throw the trick

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01:59:25,760 --> 01:59:28,360
Speaker 1: play out trying to catch them and get a free play. Yeah,

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01:59:28,560 --> 01:59:32,720
Speaker 1: that's that's trick plays. Um, you also do that stuff

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01:59:33,520 --> 01:59:35,600
Speaker 1: at times when you feel like you know, it doesn't

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01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:37,320
Speaker 1: matter what you do because your defense ain't gonna let

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01:59:37,360 --> 01:59:43,480
Speaker 1: them score. Um that's you know that. That's another here

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01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:46,400
Speaker 1: nor there. The offense has not been as productive as

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01:59:46,440 --> 01:59:48,280
Speaker 1: it was a year ago. I don't think they've gotten

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01:59:48,320 --> 01:59:50,000
Speaker 1: the play up front that they got a year ago.

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01:59:50,160 --> 01:59:53,560
Speaker 1: I think they shuffled their offensive line from Week three on.

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01:59:54,400 --> 01:59:57,560
Speaker 1: Now they've got injuries and COVID problems and they're not that.

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01:59:57,720 --> 01:59:59,680
Speaker 1: They're not as deep as we thought they were. We

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01:59:59,760 --> 02:00:01,760
Speaker 1: didn't they don't have the depth that we thought they did,

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02:00:01,840 --> 02:00:04,480
Speaker 1: the quality depth. It has not played well enough in

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02:00:04,560 --> 02:00:07,680
Speaker 1: front of Josh, and that has affected Josh. He does

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02:00:07,800 --> 02:00:11,000
Speaker 1: not play like a quarterback who trusts his line when

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02:00:11,040 --> 02:00:15,000
Speaker 1: he drops back. And he did have some time yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Not every player at times, A good number of players

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02:00:17,360 --> 02:00:20,520
Speaker 1: he had time at times. But I also think, as

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Speaker 1: we've seen, this is not a team built to run

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Speaker 1: the ball, and because of that, they have to make

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02:00:29,720 --> 02:00:35,080
Speaker 1: adjustments and they have to use their running game sparingly

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02:00:36,040 --> 02:00:40,760
Speaker 1: because they feel and I think, with some justification, if

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Speaker 1: they don't snap off an eight yard run, it's a

2235
02:00:43,280 --> 02:00:46,960
Speaker 1: wasted down isn't there also, though, the need for a

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Speaker 1: run game to at least keep defensive lineman honest. If

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Speaker 1: they know you're going to drop back and throw it

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02:00:54,080 --> 02:00:57,440
Speaker 1: fifty times a game, and I know if you're effective,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. But I'm just thinking about mindset of

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Speaker 1: a defensive lineman here where there is absolutely zero concern

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Speaker 1: for a run game. The mindset that a defensive lineman

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02:01:12,120 --> 02:01:15,760
Speaker 1: is allowed to have in that situation is, let's go eat,

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02:01:16,000 --> 02:01:19,120
Speaker 1: let's go get the quarterback. What are you worried about

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02:01:19,120 --> 02:01:21,800
Speaker 1: any run game if they can't block you upfront anyway?

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02:01:22,160 --> 02:01:24,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not worried about their run game anyway.

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02:01:24,080 --> 02:01:26,000
Speaker 1: What the problem? The thing that happened and worked really

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02:01:26,040 --> 02:01:29,040
Speaker 1: well against the Jets and worked to some extent yesterday,

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02:01:29,960 --> 02:01:33,760
Speaker 1: was they lined up and they hard run fake. It's

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Speaker 1: not and when they run fake, it's not so much

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Speaker 1: about in the passing game. It's not so much about

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Speaker 1: the defensive line. It's about the linebackers taking a couple

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02:01:41,000 --> 02:01:45,360
Speaker 1: steps up to create some space behind them, you know,

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02:01:45,760 --> 02:01:52,080
Speaker 1: the Bills. Whatever it did, whatever the reason, Josh seems

2254
02:01:52,240 --> 02:01:55,720
Speaker 1: to have more trouble this year finding open guys than

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Speaker 1: he did a year ago, whether their play action, whether

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Speaker 1: it's dropped back, whatever the situation. They don't seem to

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Speaker 1: be getting as much separation this year as they did

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02:02:04,800 --> 02:02:09,520
Speaker 1: last year. It's taking a long time for guys to

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Speaker 1: get separation. And or and I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: reason is. Maybe Josh is constantly passing up the easy completion.

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Speaker 1: That might be a part of it. If that's the case,

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02:02:22,400 --> 02:02:25,000
Speaker 1: then he's going against where he's being coached, because you know,

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Speaker 1: if that was the case, they are hammering him to

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Speaker 1: take the completions because then the big ones open up.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know the rhythm. I mean, they don't

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Speaker 1: even get into rhythm rightly. Yesterday they got they got

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Speaker 1: it together and then you know that you think about

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Speaker 1: the first pick he threw. He was standing there, had

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Speaker 1: lots of time, and then tried to throw it late. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it was you know, they just didn't have any

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02:02:52,280 --> 02:02:54,640
Speaker 1: I don't know who whoever he should have thrown driving

2272
02:02:54,720 --> 02:02:56,640
Speaker 1: gone back and look at the two, the old twenty two.

2273
02:02:57,440 --> 02:03:00,280
Speaker 1: But he threw it into the cover and we got cut.

2274
02:03:00,360 --> 02:03:02,800
Speaker 1: Was Gabe Davis. He was covered and the safety came across.

2275
02:03:03,000 --> 02:03:05,000
Speaker 1: Forget about the corner. The safety came and got it,

2276
02:03:05,120 --> 02:03:08,440
Speaker 1: so there was nowhere to throw the football. So whether

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02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:10,520
Speaker 1: something's in his mind about him not being able to

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02:03:10,560 --> 02:03:12,160
Speaker 1: do the things he did a year ago or what,

2279
02:03:13,440 --> 02:03:16,920
Speaker 1: it does look different. It does look different. His numbers now,

2280
02:03:17,000 --> 02:03:18,840
Speaker 1: he's thrown for more yards than he did a year ago,

2281
02:03:18,960 --> 02:03:20,880
Speaker 1: and he's thrown for the exact name, same number of

2282
02:03:20,960 --> 02:03:25,000
Speaker 1: touchdowns going into this game yesterday, they were almost identical.

2283
02:03:25,880 --> 02:03:30,920
Speaker 1: His completion percentage was down a little bit and his

2284
02:03:31,080 --> 02:03:35,760
Speaker 1: yards attempt were down, but his yards were up, So

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's not like he fell off the

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02:03:38,920 --> 02:03:41,480
Speaker 1: face of the earth and they were. They were scoring

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Speaker 1: thirty plus points a game, so they were you know,

2288
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Speaker 1: I mean, what are we talking about? From let's go ears?

2289
02:03:49,160 --> 02:03:52,040
Speaker 1: You can't give the ball to running backs just eight times.

2290
02:03:52,240 --> 02:03:54,520
Speaker 1: This is on coaching, and for goodness sake, well Alan

2291
02:03:54,560 --> 02:03:57,839
Speaker 1: ever learned to consistently throw the touch pass as it stands,

2292
02:03:58,120 --> 02:04:01,840
Speaker 1: not build for the playoffs. Defense and running win championships,

2293
02:04:02,880 --> 02:04:06,920
Speaker 1: not exactly. Last year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won with

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02:04:07,040 --> 02:04:10,480
Speaker 1: defense and throwing the football. The year before, the Chiefs

2295
02:04:10,560 --> 02:04:14,840
Speaker 1: won by throwing the football and playing decent defense, not

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02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:18,720
Speaker 1: great defense. Yeah, now it could be this season could

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02:04:18,800 --> 02:04:20,760
Speaker 1: end up being different could be for the team who

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02:04:20,800 --> 02:04:23,520
Speaker 1: wins it. I get it, but you can certainly understand why.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of people that have doubts

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Speaker 1: about running and stopping the run being the way to

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Speaker 1: win the championship. And certainly the Bills have taken it

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Speaker 1: on the chin from two teams who really run it well.

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02:04:34,320 --> 02:04:37,680
Speaker 1: And that's you know, people are got their arms up

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Speaker 1: in the area. There's no way we can beat a

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Speaker 1: team like that. We just can't do it well. In actuality,

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02:04:43,080 --> 02:04:45,040
Speaker 1: the Bill should have eaten the Tennessee Titans. Could have

2307
02:04:45,120 --> 02:04:47,360
Speaker 1: eaten the Tennessee Titans, and you know, missed one play.

2308
02:04:48,600 --> 02:04:51,000
Speaker 1: It was a really good football game. And this game yesterday,

2309
02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:54,480
Speaker 1: I mean good grief. You know, you got four starters

2310
02:04:54,520 --> 02:04:57,880
Speaker 1: off the the you know, the middle year defense and

2311
02:04:58,320 --> 02:05:00,960
Speaker 1: your offensive line combined, and the coach didn't have their

2312
02:05:00,960 --> 02:05:03,200
Speaker 1: two starting safeties in the game. We've given up more

2313
02:05:03,240 --> 02:05:05,480
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns than any team in football. And the Bills

2314
02:05:05,720 --> 02:05:09,600
Speaker 1: played cruddy football, you know they didn't. I mean over

2315
02:05:09,720 --> 02:05:13,080
Speaker 1: two and field goals plus a fumble for a subsequent

2316
02:05:13,160 --> 02:05:16,839
Speaker 1: touchdown on special teams. Your defense gives up two hundred

2317
02:05:17,200 --> 02:05:21,480
Speaker 1: and what eighty sixty yards two hundred and sixty four

2318
02:05:21,520 --> 02:05:26,320
Speaker 1: yards rushing, two hundred and sixty four yards rushing, and

2319
02:05:26,520 --> 02:05:30,520
Speaker 1: your offense turns it over four times or three times.

2320
02:05:31,160 --> 02:05:36,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, you that's why I stunk. That's why

2321
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:39,280
Speaker 1: I don't put it on coaching, right, let's go. Ears

2322
02:05:39,320 --> 02:05:43,720
Speaker 1: wants to put it on coaching. The offense, defense, special teams,

2323
02:05:43,880 --> 02:05:45,960
Speaker 1: the lack of execution all had a hand in it.

2324
02:05:46,320 --> 02:05:48,680
Speaker 1: Nick says that game will make or break our season.

2325
02:05:48,960 --> 02:05:50,920
Speaker 1: We'll look back at this game as either the moment

2326
02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:52,880
Speaker 1: we dug deep and went on a run or the

2327
02:05:52,960 --> 02:05:55,480
Speaker 1: moment our season fell apart. Based on the play of

2328
02:05:55,520 --> 02:05:57,800
Speaker 1: our lines, it's looking like the ladder, but we'll see

2329
02:05:57,840 --> 02:06:02,360
Speaker 1: what happens once we're healthier. Mike says inability to stop

2330
02:06:02,440 --> 02:06:05,360
Speaker 1: the run led to overreliance on the passing game on

2331
02:06:05,440 --> 02:06:07,440
Speaker 1: a day where it was far far too tough to

2332
02:06:07,520 --> 02:06:09,960
Speaker 1: throw the ball as much as they did. Rain, wind,

2333
02:06:10,320 --> 02:06:12,560
Speaker 1: and cold not fun to throw or catch in regardless

2334
02:06:12,640 --> 02:06:16,000
Speaker 1: of who your QB is. Also, key players being out hurt.

2335
02:06:16,320 --> 02:06:18,120
Speaker 1: I really think people are making too much of the

2336
02:06:18,160 --> 02:06:21,960
Speaker 1: weather here. I know it's not the rain, but you

2337
02:06:22,040 --> 02:06:24,440
Speaker 1: got the other teams playing in it too. Yeah, but

2338
02:06:24,680 --> 02:06:26,880
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The other team, you don't really worry

2339
02:06:26,920 --> 02:06:28,720
Speaker 1: about the win and rather win you're running the football

2340
02:06:28,720 --> 02:06:30,840
Speaker 1: the way they were, so they had less of a

2341
02:06:30,960 --> 02:06:33,720
Speaker 1: chance of ball handling problems than the Bills did by far.

2342
02:06:34,280 --> 02:06:36,480
Speaker 1: And it showed, I mean the Bills, you know, throwing

2343
02:06:36,480 --> 02:06:38,640
Speaker 1: the interceptions, the Bills laying the ball on the ground

2344
02:06:38,680 --> 02:06:42,600
Speaker 1: and the kicking game, and the Colts never doing either

2345
02:06:42,720 --> 02:06:45,280
Speaker 1: either of those two things. So there's a little bit

2346
02:06:45,320 --> 02:06:48,240
Speaker 1: of that in there, in that the Colts never really

2347
02:06:48,320 --> 02:06:50,040
Speaker 1: had to put the ball at risk, and the Bills

2348
02:06:50,120 --> 02:06:53,200
Speaker 1: did nothing but put the ball at risk and you know,

2349
02:06:53,280 --> 02:06:55,320
Speaker 1: paid the price because of it in the turnover battle.

2350
02:06:55,360 --> 02:06:59,200
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, I'm it's a little bit overblown.

2351
02:07:00,040 --> 02:07:02,400
Speaker 1: But the way that game win, I think it exacerbated

2352
02:07:02,440 --> 02:07:05,680
Speaker 1: the problem because of the strategies and the success that

2353
02:07:06,280 --> 02:07:08,840
Speaker 1: you know, the Colts had in the running game. James said,

2354
02:07:08,880 --> 02:07:10,600
Speaker 1: I sat there and watched him try a forty nine

2355
02:07:10,680 --> 02:07:12,400
Speaker 1: yard field goal in the rain on fourth and five

2356
02:07:12,480 --> 02:07:14,920
Speaker 1: down by seventeen and the third with all those weapons

2357
02:07:14,960 --> 02:07:17,920
Speaker 1: in this scenario you roll the dice. That kickoff fumble

2358
02:07:17,960 --> 02:07:22,200
Speaker 1: crushed them as well, demoralizing I already stated there is

2359
02:07:22,280 --> 02:07:25,160
Speaker 1: a way to make sense of going for the field

2360
02:07:25,200 --> 02:07:28,160
Speaker 1: goal there on fourth and five down by seventeen and

2361
02:07:28,240 --> 02:07:30,760
Speaker 1: the third as coach McDermott pointed out, you have a

2362
02:07:30,840 --> 02:07:33,600
Speaker 1: chance to cut it to a two score game before

2363
02:07:33,680 --> 02:07:38,280
Speaker 1: the third quarters over. Bass had just hit a fifty

2364
02:07:38,320 --> 02:07:41,360
Speaker 1: seven yard attempt, same end and it was ten yards

2365
02:07:41,440 --> 02:07:44,480
Speaker 1: up the right, upright. You're not believing he's missing two

2366
02:07:44,520 --> 02:07:46,880
Speaker 1: in a row when he was on an eighteen consecutive

2367
02:07:47,480 --> 02:07:51,520
Speaker 1: kicking streak for field goals. That's number two and then

2368
02:07:51,600 --> 02:07:55,800
Speaker 1: number three. The offense was not executing with any measure

2369
02:07:55,840 --> 02:07:59,000
Speaker 1: of consistency. And on the season they're three for ten

2370
02:07:59,080 --> 02:08:01,280
Speaker 1: on fourth down, and this wasn't a fourth and one,

2371
02:08:01,800 --> 02:08:03,760
Speaker 1: as you pointed out, it was a fourth and five.

2372
02:08:04,000 --> 02:08:06,000
Speaker 1: I think there is at least an argument to be

2373
02:08:06,120 --> 02:08:08,920
Speaker 1: made to take the field goal there. Well, certainly if

2374
02:08:08,960 --> 02:08:11,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't the field goal doesn't go through and you look,

2375
02:08:11,880 --> 02:08:14,400
Speaker 1: you come away with zero plus the Colts get the

2376
02:08:14,440 --> 02:08:16,839
Speaker 1: ball where you had you know where the ball was spotted.

2377
02:08:16,880 --> 02:08:20,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's huge. You know, who's got to

2378
02:08:20,040 --> 02:08:22,440
Speaker 1: be bitter about the way that game turned out? Tyler Bass?

2379
02:08:22,880 --> 02:08:24,600
Speaker 1: He was I gotta try it fifty seven yard or

2380
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:26,440
Speaker 1: into that into the field in that day and then

2381
02:08:26,520 --> 02:08:28,640
Speaker 1: a forty nine er. He needed one more field goal

2382
02:08:28,720 --> 02:08:31,680
Speaker 1: to set the team records for most consecutive field goals made,

2383
02:08:31,680 --> 02:08:33,120
Speaker 1: and he's got to trot out there for a fifty

2384
02:08:33,200 --> 02:08:35,320
Speaker 1: seven yard's got to be just bitter about and I

2385
02:08:35,440 --> 02:08:38,680
Speaker 1: get it, that's the way the game goes. But you're

2386
02:08:38,680 --> 02:08:40,840
Speaker 1: gonna have to hit that field goal at some point anyway.

2387
02:08:40,840 --> 02:08:42,880
Speaker 1: And it's just like teams do you if you're down,

2388
02:08:43,520 --> 02:08:47,440
Speaker 1: if you're down nine and you need you know, ten

2389
02:08:47,520 --> 02:08:49,280
Speaker 1: points to get back, and you can take the field

2390
02:08:49,280 --> 02:08:51,280
Speaker 1: goal first, and that's what the Bills were gonna do. Certainly,

2391
02:08:51,320 --> 02:08:55,200
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in that scenario looked unlikely, but you gotta

2392
02:08:55,280 --> 02:08:57,440
Speaker 1: come away with something. And on a fourth and five

2393
02:08:58,480 --> 02:09:00,600
Speaker 1: with Tyler Bass, you think, okay, we're gonna get this

2394
02:09:00,640 --> 02:09:02,200
Speaker 1: and let's go back and we get we're down, we're

2395
02:09:02,240 --> 02:09:04,000
Speaker 1: two touchdowns down. We can get a stop here and

2396
02:09:04,040 --> 02:09:06,320
Speaker 1: we'll give us a little something something not to and

2397
02:09:06,480 --> 02:09:08,840
Speaker 1: it wasn't to be. You're still down seventeen. You give

2398
02:09:08,880 --> 02:09:11,400
Speaker 1: them the ball out and outside their forty yard line

2399
02:09:11,400 --> 02:09:14,000
Speaker 1: and it's like there, wet, You know, the game's over.

2400
02:09:15,080 --> 02:09:17,120
Speaker 1: Think about it. At the same scenario, it would have

2401
02:09:17,160 --> 02:09:19,400
Speaker 1: been even more demoralizing. Have you gone forward on fourth

2402
02:09:19,440 --> 02:09:21,240
Speaker 1: and five and not gotten anything? Well, at least we

2403
02:09:21,280 --> 02:09:25,160
Speaker 1: could have come away with three. Yeah, it's arguments for

2404
02:09:25,200 --> 02:09:27,560
Speaker 1: both sides. I've said it's not a one sided thing. No,

2405
02:09:27,680 --> 02:09:30,160
Speaker 1: it's not gonna make any and it's like it. I'll

2406
02:09:30,160 --> 02:09:32,800
Speaker 1: say it again. If it didn't if what they did

2407
02:09:32,840 --> 02:09:37,120
Speaker 1: didn't work, they should have done the other thing. That's lazy. Yeah,

2408
02:09:38,160 --> 02:09:41,080
Speaker 1: Tim says lack of depth on the offensive line is weird.

2409
02:09:41,080 --> 02:09:43,720
Speaker 1: It's ugly. Head. Maybe we should have shared that up

2410
02:09:43,760 --> 02:09:47,000
Speaker 1: before taking two defensive linemen with the first two picks. Well,

2411
02:09:47,120 --> 02:09:49,839
Speaker 1: you took Spencer Brown in the third round who's starting,

2412
02:09:51,000 --> 02:09:53,000
Speaker 1: and you drafted another tackle in the fifth round and

2413
02:09:53,080 --> 02:09:55,320
Speaker 1: Tommy Doyle and might not be ready to play right now,

2414
02:09:55,440 --> 02:09:58,000
Speaker 1: but he took ignored it, and he took Jack Anderson

2415
02:09:58,080 --> 02:10:00,520
Speaker 1: later in the draft. Somebody grabbed him for their Yeah

2416
02:10:00,720 --> 02:10:04,160
Speaker 1: he's on he's on the Jets. I mean that, you

2417
02:10:04,240 --> 02:10:06,680
Speaker 1: know he's got Jets, the one or the other. Um,

2418
02:10:06,800 --> 02:10:11,960
Speaker 1: So it's a green team. I think this right now today,

2419
02:10:12,160 --> 02:10:15,080
Speaker 1: I mean we're you're standing here. I think they draft

2420
02:10:15,160 --> 02:10:18,120
Speaker 1: seven offensive and defensive linemen in the draft, All seven

2421
02:10:18,160 --> 02:10:20,200
Speaker 1: picks are going to be their offensive or defensive lineman

2422
02:10:20,240 --> 02:10:22,720
Speaker 1: next year. Jack Anderson's on the Eagles, right, So there

2423
02:10:22,760 --> 02:10:25,040
Speaker 1: you go. I'm but yeah, that's not gonna happen. But

2424
02:10:25,680 --> 02:10:28,720
Speaker 1: Edwards says, the problem is our line on both sides

2425
02:10:28,760 --> 02:10:31,320
Speaker 1: of the ball. We really need some chunk players and

2426
02:10:31,440 --> 02:10:35,240
Speaker 1: all around nasty players. A chunk players, chunk plays, chunk

2427
02:10:35,320 --> 02:10:38,280
Speaker 1: plays and all around nasty players. We have a bunch

2428
02:10:38,320 --> 02:10:40,920
Speaker 1: of good players that are really nice guys. Steve and

2429
02:10:40,960 --> 02:10:44,880
Speaker 1: I talked about that last week, So I'm I mean

2430
02:10:44,920 --> 02:10:48,760
Speaker 1: you don't. Yeah, I think they've got enough of it

2431
02:10:49,120 --> 02:10:53,000
Speaker 1: when they're healthy. I think, and I think those guys

2432
02:10:53,040 --> 02:10:55,720
Speaker 1: coming back on the field Spencer Brown, Star Latula and

2433
02:10:56,160 --> 02:10:58,120
Speaker 1: and John Feliciana will give him a little bit of

2434
02:10:58,160 --> 02:11:01,680
Speaker 1: an emotional boost. Any Time a guy comes back healthy

2435
02:11:01,680 --> 02:11:03,240
Speaker 1: and you get them back there, everybody feels a little

2436
02:11:03,240 --> 02:11:04,880
Speaker 1: better saying like, yeah, we got our guys back. Not

2437
02:11:04,960 --> 02:11:06,320
Speaker 1: that they don't like the guys they have, but they

2438
02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:08,880
Speaker 1: know how good those players are. So there's gonna be

2439
02:11:08,920 --> 02:11:10,960
Speaker 1: a little litle bit of that. It's a short week.

2440
02:11:11,320 --> 02:11:13,600
Speaker 1: There's no guarantee that any of them will be back

2441
02:11:13,680 --> 02:11:16,720
Speaker 1: this week. None, there's no guarantees, and we haven't heard

2442
02:11:16,720 --> 02:11:19,360
Speaker 1: a thing, so we have no clue as to whether

2443
02:11:19,440 --> 02:11:21,480
Speaker 1: any of these players will be available this week. But

2444
02:11:21,560 --> 02:11:23,720
Speaker 1: I'll say this, if they're not, I don't know why

2445
02:11:23,760 --> 02:11:26,600
Speaker 1: you would think that the New Orleans Saints are going

2446
02:11:26,640 --> 02:11:29,760
Speaker 1: to do anything different than the Colts did with their players.

2447
02:11:29,880 --> 02:11:31,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna come out and try and push the Bills

2448
02:11:31,560 --> 02:11:33,920
Speaker 1: down the field, run the ball, not put it at risk,

2449
02:11:34,360 --> 02:11:36,160
Speaker 1: and force the Bills to throw it all over the

2450
02:11:36,240 --> 02:11:38,080
Speaker 1: yard to try and come back and beat them and

2451
02:11:38,240 --> 02:11:40,000
Speaker 1: get your pass rush turned loose and try and get

2452
02:11:40,080 --> 02:11:42,839
Speaker 1: Josh Allen on the ground. I mean, that's simple formula.

2453
02:11:43,040 --> 02:11:44,680
Speaker 1: And we'll see if that happens in the Saints. If

2454
02:11:44,680 --> 02:11:46,360
Speaker 1: none of these guys are back on the field, why

2455
02:11:46,400 --> 02:11:47,920
Speaker 1: would anybody think the Bills are gonna be able to

2456
02:11:47,960 --> 02:11:51,760
Speaker 1: play differently than they did against the Colts? Fair question?

2457
02:11:52,360 --> 02:11:54,960
Speaker 1: That's the question. Can they played differently with the same

2458
02:11:55,120 --> 02:11:57,720
Speaker 1: lineup as they had against the Innniapolis Colts or do

2459
02:11:57,840 --> 02:12:00,920
Speaker 1: they really need those guys back to step it up

2460
02:12:00,920 --> 02:12:04,120
Speaker 1: a notch. It's a good question either. Like it. Maybe

2461
02:12:04,120 --> 02:12:06,600
Speaker 1: we'll try to answer it tomorrow. We'll have a chance.

2462
02:12:06,720 --> 02:12:08,680
Speaker 1: We'll have a chance break time for us here. Steve

2463
02:12:08,760 --> 02:12:10,560
Speaker 1: and I wrap things up next on One Bill's Live,

2464
02:12:10,600 --> 02:12:26,040
Speaker 1: presented by Claude elf It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, Steve,

2465
02:12:26,120 --> 02:12:28,440
Speaker 1: in the effort to provide a little levity on what

2466
02:12:28,600 --> 02:12:31,080
Speaker 1: was a tough Monday for all Bills fans. Did you

2467
02:12:31,160 --> 02:12:35,400
Speaker 1: see the Detroit Lions offensive lineman that got penalized for

2468
02:12:35,520 --> 02:12:42,400
Speaker 1: insulting Jadeveon Clowney's mother during the game. You didn't see this,

2469
02:12:43,680 --> 02:12:48,120
Speaker 1: So apparently Lions left guard Jonah Jackson was hit with

2470
02:12:48,160 --> 02:12:51,120
Speaker 1: an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty at the end of the third

2471
02:12:51,240 --> 02:12:55,000
Speaker 1: quarter of Sunday's thirteen ten loss to the Browns for

2472
02:12:55,160 --> 02:12:59,320
Speaker 1: a verbal comment he made about brown defensive end Jadeveon

2473
02:12:59,360 --> 02:13:04,320
Speaker 1: Clowney's So the penalty came two series after the Lions

2474
02:13:04,320 --> 02:13:06,720
Speaker 1: scored their only touchdown of the game and with the

2475
02:13:06,840 --> 02:13:10,240
Speaker 1: team driving into Cleveland territory. Instead of a first and

2476
02:13:10,320 --> 02:13:12,920
Speaker 1: ten at the Browns forty two, the Lions came out

2477
02:13:12,960 --> 02:13:15,880
Speaker 1: to start the fourth quarter first in twenty five from

2478
02:13:15,920 --> 02:13:20,680
Speaker 1: their own forty three, punted four plays later, managed just

2479
02:13:20,760 --> 02:13:22,960
Speaker 1: one first down the rest of the game, lost thirteen

2480
02:13:23,000 --> 02:13:26,000
Speaker 1: to ten. Dan Campbell after the game. I don't know

2481
02:13:26,080 --> 02:13:28,240
Speaker 1: what to tell you. It was something that was said.

2482
02:13:28,560 --> 02:13:31,040
Speaker 1: It was something about somebody's mother, okay, and there were

2483
02:13:31,040 --> 02:13:32,400
Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of talking going on

2484
02:13:32,480 --> 02:13:36,840
Speaker 1: around out there. But it was a penalty, so it's

2485
02:13:36,840 --> 02:13:39,160
Speaker 1: something about his mama. Huh, Steve, where are we when

2486
02:13:39,240 --> 02:13:44,000
Speaker 1: refs are now flagging guy's mouth and off? Is that taunting?

2487
02:13:45,160 --> 02:13:48,520
Speaker 1: Mama jokes? Hard? It's hard to officiate an NFL game

2488
02:13:49,520 --> 02:13:52,280
Speaker 1: and they're asking them now, they got to officiate between plays?

2489
02:13:52,640 --> 02:13:57,120
Speaker 1: Where are we going? You can't even tell mama jokes

2490
02:13:57,200 --> 02:13:58,960
Speaker 1: anymore on the field. I don't think it was a joke.

2491
02:13:59,040 --> 02:14:01,640
Speaker 1: I think maybe not, but and I don't think it

2492
02:14:01,720 --> 02:14:05,960
Speaker 1: was a joke. That's remember last thing, Remember when von

2493
02:14:06,040 --> 02:14:08,280
Speaker 1: Miller after a help tyrod off and then took his

2494
02:14:08,360 --> 02:14:11,320
Speaker 1: hand away unsfortunate like penalty. Oh my god, we gotta

2495
02:14:11,640 --> 02:14:14,480
Speaker 1: let's talk, let's unpack this tomorrow. Sure, we'll see it

2496
02:14:14,600 --> 02:14:14,760
Speaker 1: one