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Speaker 1: This is one Bill's Live presented by called Light of Health.

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Speaker 1: All right here, we'll be on a Wednesday. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker back in the studio, back on both radio

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Speaker 1: and television today. So good to be back in the

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Speaker 1: fold after we had to operate remotely here after all

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Speaker 1: the snow we got over the holiday weekend in the

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Speaker 1: blizzard that will probably live in infamy for a long time.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be right up there with the blizzard of

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Speaker 1: seventy seven. Not as much snowfall, higher winds, but higher winds.

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Speaker 1: We were up near Cat one hurricane stuff many in

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Speaker 1: terms of windspeed. Yeah, it was bananas. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: this bad week at the National Guard downtown and digging

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Speaker 1: people out and also we had people pass Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: and it's it's bad. And you get into situations where

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Speaker 1: until we got into work today. We got the other one.

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Speaker 1: George George, four am Christmas morning, Boom, the pipe busts.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was bad, folks, was bad for

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Speaker 1: like three days. Man, it's real. I feel bad. It's real.

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Speaker 1: It's real. So you know, people, and I get it.

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Speaker 1: People make fun of people who live and you know,

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Speaker 1: why don't you live someplace warm? Well, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of benefits living here, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: You take what you get weather wise, and of any

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Speaker 1: people control to have hurricanes. People in California have earthquakes

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Speaker 1: and mud slides. Yeah, it's people in the neck of

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Speaker 1: the woods where you grew up have tornadoes. That's right.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, mother nature is seems like

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Speaker 1: she's dealing with a toxic boyfriend, you know. So I

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Speaker 1: don't want an analogy, right, Um, Yeah, there you go. Uh,

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Speaker 1: We've got other stuff to discuss. And I think the

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Speaker 1: closer we get to this Steve, the bigger and bigger

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Speaker 1: this game feels. I think, without question, it is the

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Speaker 1: biggest game of the season. And I know in your

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Speaker 1: coach speak here, of course, it's the biggest game of

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Speaker 1: the season. It's the next one. But in terms of

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Speaker 1: for Cincinnati for that matter, I know we suffer from

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Speaker 1: Bills myopia here all the time because of what we

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Speaker 1: do and what our job description is. But there's just

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Speaker 1: as much on the line this week, maybe not more,

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Speaker 1: but almost as much for the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bills,

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Speaker 1: as we know, clinch their division title last week with

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Speaker 1: the win over the Bears, and you know, the Miami

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Speaker 1: Laws certainly helped as well to the Packers. But the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: with a win against the Bills on Monday night, coupled

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Speaker 1: with a loss by the Baltimore Ravens this week, would

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Speaker 1: give them the AFC North title, as they are still

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Speaker 1: in a nip and tuck race with the Ravens, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, beat the Bengals earlier this season. They

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Speaker 1: will meet again in Week eighteen. But you have to

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Speaker 1: believe the Bengals are hoping to get a win this

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Speaker 1: week to enhance their chances at a division title and

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Speaker 1: come the end of the regular season, and it's not

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Speaker 1: It is a big game and we've had you've had

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Speaker 1: big games before, but this one, I mean this came

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Speaker 1: out from NFL Total Access and they ask how good

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Speaker 1: of a Monday night football game with the Bill's Bengals

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Speaker 1: clash in week seventeen b How good will it be? Steve?

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Speaker 1: How about the best? Ever? Not only are Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: Joe burrows sixty six passing touchdowns and seventy seventy eight

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Speaker 1: any Monday night football matchup, but their teams twenty three

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Speaker 1: Monday night football game in NFL history. The previous matchup

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Speaker 1: took place in Week sixteen of nineteen ninety seven between

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Speaker 1: the Niners and the Broncos. Now, the Niners won that game,

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Speaker 1: but the Broncos won the war. They took home the

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Speaker 1: as many outside observers are concerned, there are some injury

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Speaker 1: So something just to keep an eye on there from

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Speaker 1: statistically and where these teams are ranked. This is as

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Speaker 1: Eighteen point seven is their average points allowed over the

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. They're They're a really good team.

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Speaker 1: And so are the Bills. Yeah, let's go around the NFL,

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Speaker 1: which is brought to you, as always by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: the official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills. There was

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Speaker 1: some quarterback news. First and foremost, Joe Burrow, who the

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Speaker 1: yards and three tuddies against the Patriots, who admittedly did

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Speaker 1: The Patriots looked like the Patriots of the playoff game

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Speaker 1: maddeningly inevitable if you're a Patriots fan to watch that game.

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Speaker 1: Maddeningly inevitable the outcome of that game. They had. They

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Speaker 1: know if you've heard this before. Steve to a Tonga

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Speaker 1: Voloa is in concussion protocol and he is likely to

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Speaker 1: And there is a second part of the story Steve.

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Speaker 1: According to a source, Tom Pellicero of NFL Network is

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Speaker 1: Dolphin quarterback to a Tonga Filoa's second stint in concussion protocol.

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Speaker 1: They're being investigated a second time whatever for improperly hand

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Speaker 1: to say they're they're just that's just to say they're

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Speaker 1: doing it. That's who cares. So that's for optics, you

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Speaker 1: believe more than anything. Yes, what are they gonna do?

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Speaker 1: open line for you there, or you can hit us

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Speaker 1: up on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live. There's

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Speaker 1: a few concerns here with this Bengals team. As I

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Speaker 1: was talking about earlier this week, I think if there's

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Speaker 1: one thing that Burrow has settled in and become as

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Speaker 1: a quarterback in this league, it's a guy that'll just

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Speaker 1: take the layups. He I'm not I mentioned Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned him in the same breath as Tom Brad.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's going to be a seven time

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion. I'm not saying he's gonna have all

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Speaker 1: the records that Brady has. But his playing style is

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Speaker 1: somewhat similar to Brady. You know, he'll he'll nickel and

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Speaker 1: dime you all the way down the field, death by

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Speaker 1: a thousand cuts, you know, right as soon as a

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Speaker 1: guy comes open for a free six yards, he'll take it.

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Speaker 1: He played, you know, I'm not afraid he plays like

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady played, He throws it from the pocket. He

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Speaker 1: rarely ever escapes. He buys a little bit of time.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if he's as good as Brady,

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Speaker 1: as you know, being his fluid in the pocket is

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Speaker 1: stepping away from pressure. He gets sacked a lot, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's the one thing that sets him apart

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Speaker 1: from guys like Alan and Mahomes when Herbert he gets sacked.

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Speaker 1: But man, oh man, I'm telling you right, you watch

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Speaker 1: those guys play. The ball is out and it is

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Speaker 1: on target, he can sling it. He has got an

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Speaker 1: accurate arm and he makes all the throws. And I

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Speaker 1: watched the Patriot game that the Bengals had last weekend

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Speaker 1: in Foxborough, and I'm telling you what, if you're a

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Speaker 1: Patriot fan, it was just maddeningly inevitable that you had

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Speaker 1: no shot in that game. They only lost by four

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Speaker 1: points and it was not even close. The Bengals, I

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Speaker 1: mean they turned it over three times, gave up a

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Speaker 1: pick six all, and it was just it was I mean,

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Speaker 1: they the Bengals are like the Chiefs in that game.

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Speaker 1: They were just playing with their food. They were totally

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Speaker 1: they were at that at the end of it. They

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Speaker 1: were just yawning, unbelievable game. They are really really good offensively,

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Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow for it. To his credit, you said

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Speaker 1: it bright. He started off like twelve or twelve in

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Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, and he never threw any an. He

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Speaker 1: threw a couple, you know, fifteen yard passes, but most

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Speaker 1: of them were like that in the flat, right on

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Speaker 1: the money, right over the middle, over the ball, right

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Speaker 1: on the money, the back on an angle route out

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Speaker 1: of the backfield, right on the money. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots were giving it to him, but he was

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Speaker 1: just taking it. And man, they they just had no answer.

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Speaker 1: They sprinkle in some runs too, but man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: they're they're really good. This is going to be a

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Speaker 1: really fantastic game. It'll be fun to watch Leslie Frazier

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Speaker 1: and the crew with the Bills try and defend these

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Speaker 1: guys because they are really really good. Right, trio of

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Speaker 1: receivers that might be the best one, two and three

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Speaker 1: talent wise in the league on one roster. You have

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Speaker 1: a tough time finding a top three better than that group.

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Speaker 1: With Chase, Higgins and Boyd all three of them are

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Speaker 1: in the top twenty five in the AFC and receiving yards,

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Speaker 1: all three of them. Yeah, I mean, any one of

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Speaker 1: those guys can be the lead dog in a given

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Speaker 1: game for them. Proof of that. Jamar Chase goes out

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Speaker 1: for a month with a hip injury and Higgins boy

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Speaker 1: just kind of pick up the slack and then I'll

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Speaker 1: miss a beat. Yeah, And that's why they've won seven

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Speaker 1: in a row. The Bills have won six in a row,

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Speaker 1: two teams on red hot winning streaks coming into this

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Speaker 1: game on Monday Night, we do have to step aside

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Speaker 1: and take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll have more, including your thoughts on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: As the topic of discussion is today, what do you

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Speaker 1: see as the biggest challenge with this Bengals team for

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Speaker 1: the Bills on Monday Night? Eight O three five fifty

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Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty the number

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Speaker 1: to get on board. Steve and I back in a

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Speaker 1: moment here on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, I wanted to remind

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Speaker 1: you that this week's game sponsor is the BFLO Store.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you. Wanted to get over to the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on what you believe is the

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Speaker 1: biggest challenge with the Bengals in Monday Night's game. Twee

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Speaker 1: chet brought to you, as always by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Jeremy

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Speaker 1: leads us off and Jeremy says, keeping up with their offense.

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Speaker 1: This seems to be the biggest test of the season.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll come down to the last possession to

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Speaker 1: win this game. And Steve, you just pointed out a

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Speaker 1: stat about what the Bills defense has had to face

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Speaker 1: through the course of the season in terms of quality

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Speaker 1: offenses on the other side of the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: If there's ten offenses that are total dev away, that

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Speaker 1: means over average vale value, over average, defensive value over

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Speaker 1: average they've played. They've played six of the they will

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Speaker 1: have played six after Cincinnati, but they've played five of

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Speaker 1: the other nine offenses in the league that are playing

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Speaker 1: at a high level. They beat Kansas City, they split

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Speaker 1: with Miami, they beat Detroit, they beat Baltimore, and they

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Speaker 1: beat Green Bay, Cincinnati's right in that mix. The Bills

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Speaker 1: have played five of the top nine offenses in the

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Speaker 1: league and beating them all defense with or at least

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Speaker 1: the team is beating them all the build. Like I

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Speaker 1: keep saying, the Bills have played a rough, rough schedule

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Speaker 1: and they've held up to it for the number one

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Speaker 1: seed so far. So they got Cincinnati this week and

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Speaker 1: that falls right into it. It's just one more game

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Speaker 1: against a really good offense, right, And you know, you

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Speaker 1: look at Joe Burrow and Burrow leads the league in

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter quarterback rating. He's got eleven touchdowns and two

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Speaker 1: picks in the fourth quarter, and people in Cincinnati call

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Speaker 1: him Joe Cool. I know, it was another guy before

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Speaker 1: that that they used to call Joe Cool. His last

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Speaker 1: name was Montana and he played for the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: But Burrow has it just seems to be unflappable. Even

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Speaker 1: his teammates say as much. So, Yeah, I mean that's what.

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Speaker 1: He's a clutch player, much like Josh is a clutch player.

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Speaker 1: It's a marquee quarterback matchup. I mean, there's no question

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Speaker 1: about it, and it makes come down very well, dude,

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Speaker 1: who has the ball last in this one very much. So. Um,

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Speaker 1: we've seen Josh time and again rise up in these

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Speaker 1: big these night games, these primetime games, Thanksgiving games, Christmas

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Speaker 1: Eve games, um, the you know Monday night games to

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Speaker 1: start the season, the Thursday night games. Josh kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, shows up big in those, and so do

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Speaker 1: some of the other teams players on the Bills team. Um,

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Speaker 1: we gotta I think if you look ahead, the weather

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati is gonna be in the mid to high fifties. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's gonna feel like a day at the beach

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Speaker 1: compared to the games these guys have been playing in. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a high of sixty six on that day,

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Speaker 1: at least that's the forecast now, eight several weeks away,

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Speaker 1: a week away. Yeah, think about it though, sixty five

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Speaker 1: during the day, Oh my goodness, it's gonna feel like

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Speaker 1: a day at the beach for the Bills. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and we know it's supposed to get warm here later

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Speaker 1: in the week's so whether it's not going to be

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Speaker 1: a factor, these offenses is going to be able to

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Speaker 1: braid in whatever form they see fit, and it should

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Speaker 1: be a great games. It's big, it's important for both clubs.

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Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean, you start looking at the quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. You go back and watch the games these

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Speaker 1: guys have played, these teams have played. They are really

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Speaker 1: good passing offense. They are a really good passing offense.

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Speaker 1: And it's not like they've got some you know, schlub

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Speaker 1: at running back either. Joe Mixon is pretty darn good

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna have a featured running back. Now, the

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Speaker 1: interesting thing is they don't run the ball particularly well.

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Speaker 1: I know Mixon miss some time with an injury a

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Speaker 1: few weeks back. Right. It is a little surprising, though,

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Speaker 1: to see that the Bengals are twenty sixth then the

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Speaker 1: league in rushing. That one surprised me a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I thought they'd be a little bit better than that.

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Speaker 1: They're a top five passing team, but twenty six then rushing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: p Ryan is pretty good too. They got two backs

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Speaker 1: that they trust, Mixon and p Ryan. They're gonna catch

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Speaker 1: in the ball, yeah, and there they do it all.

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Speaker 1: They're both those guys are really really good. But their

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Speaker 1: production rushing the football has been a bit of an issue.

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Speaker 1: Rushing rushing per game. They're twenty sixth in the league, right,

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Speaker 1: which is what I was just getting at. And even

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Speaker 1: yards per carry, they're a very pedestrian three point nine,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a little peculiar. I mean mixing himself

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Speaker 1: four point o per carry, p Ryan four point two

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Speaker 1: per carry. He's kind of the change of pace guy.

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Speaker 1: And obviously Burrow doesn't do running the way Josh Allen does,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't expect him to. I mean, he can

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Speaker 1: move around a little bit, but is he any faster

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Speaker 1: than mac Jones? I don't know. Yeah, I think he's

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Speaker 1: a better athlete maybe a little bit. But his style.

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Speaker 1: His style is to throw it and you'll see a

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Speaker 1: lot of the incompletions he had. You said he was

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Speaker 1: what forty one forty two of fifty or forty two

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Speaker 1: of fifty two or something in this left he was

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Speaker 1: offensive player of the Yeah, he has no problem throwing

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Speaker 1: that thing into the strow of the stands. He throws

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Speaker 1: it away in other instead of taking a sack. He's

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Speaker 1: a really smart quarterback. He does that a lot, and

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Speaker 1: he does it even in the red zone. He does

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Speaker 1: it a lot. So he is going to win this game.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals are gonna beat the Bills. If they're gonna

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Speaker 1: beat the Bills, it's gonna be with Joe Burrow throwing

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Speaker 1: the ball from the pocket. That's how they're gonna beat you.

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Speaker 1: That's the way they do it. Their run game is okay,

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Speaker 1: it's good. They got a couple of good running backs,

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Speaker 1: but they're good in the passing game. Like Brownie said,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals win games with Joe Burrow in the pocket.

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Speaker 1: They got to a super Bowl last year and they're

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Speaker 1: eleven and four right now doing that. That's what's gonna

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Speaker 1: look like. Let's go to the phones at eight oh three,

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

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Speaker 1: leaving us off today is Bob in Hamburg. What do

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Speaker 1: you got for his? Bob? You're on one Bills live? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't have snaw Boby right now? Some in a

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Speaker 1: good shape. I really think that m The way the

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Speaker 1: Bills are and the way they've been playing, the university

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Speaker 1: had been through the last six or seven weeks, it

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Speaker 1: just says a lot about this team. And to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, I think we walk into Cincinnati and

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Speaker 1: smoke them. That's just my feeling. Okay, you don't even

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a game. Wow, Bob said his piece,

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Speaker 1: and he's out. I don't know. I want to say yes.

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Speaker 1: But Cincinnati's won seven in a row. Buffalo has won

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Speaker 1: six in a row, one nine of their last ten. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they got off to a slow start and

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Speaker 1: they've just been rolling since then. Yeah, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: think both these clubs are too good to run off

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Speaker 1: and leave now. Certainly, the last loss the Bengals took

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Speaker 1: it was like a thirty two to fourteen whooping by

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. I don't know what happened in that game.

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Speaker 1: It might go back and look, but they lost big

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Speaker 1: to the Browns. But that they haven't done that in

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Speaker 1: like I said, ten games, it's been nine of ten.

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00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: They've won their last seven in a row. So we'll see,

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Speaker 1: including a win over the Chiefs. I don't yeah this,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. If I can't. I can't get my

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00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 1: mind around either one of these teams running off and

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Speaker 1: leaving the other. So we'll see. Now, there is a chance,

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00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 1: when Thomas Hollander brought it to our attention, there is

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Speaker 1: a chance that there's going to be some rain on

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Speaker 1: Monday night. But the terror field, but the turf is

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Speaker 1: I mean the but the temperature is not going to

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Speaker 1: be zero and sub zero like it has been. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: fifties our forecast for the low, which is probably what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna see since the game is obviously night at night.

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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the tweet sheet though, before we

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Speaker 1: take some more phone calls and Sharon on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet when asked what she thinks the biggest challenge is

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Speaker 1: with the Bengals for Buffalo on Monday night, the defense

655
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: now playing more ben don't break d lately. They make

656
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: it easy for their opponent to score on their first possession.

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00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: We can't spot since the seven points, I feel like

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00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 1: it's thirteen seconds again, we need to go down fighting.

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Speaker 1: I respect the concern, Sharon, and you're right there are

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Speaker 1: instances where the opponent comes down and scores an early

661
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Speaker 1: one on this Bill's defense. That yeah, I mean, it

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Speaker 1: does happen. Yeah, your margin for I think your argument

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00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: is correct, Sharon, that your margin for error is less

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Speaker 1: against a team with the scoring power of the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: So you'd like to get off to a fast start

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Speaker 1: and send them three and out at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the game. All that being said, I will say that

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Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser and his defensive staff are fantastic at making

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Speaker 1: the adjustments if in fact, they are scored upon on

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Speaker 1: their first on the opening possession, and then they put

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Speaker 1: it on lockdown. We saw that just last week. Bears

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Speaker 1: come right down the field, score a touchdown, stick it

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Speaker 1: in the end zone, and after that it's a done deal. Lucille,

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, they finished with thirteen points. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I'd sign up for that too. I realize that's probably

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Speaker 1: unlikely to happen against a Bengals team that's got enormous firepower,

677
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Speaker 1: but yeah, that it's easier said than done sometimes, I guess,

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Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm certainly nobody's going into

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Speaker 1: the into the game thinking that, you know, the Bills

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00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: are gonna, you know, give up. You know they're not

681
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Speaker 1: doing it deliberately, But you're right, that is the that

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Speaker 1: is It's been that way for the last three years.

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00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: Teams have their greatest offensive success against the Bills early on,

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Speaker 1: and then Leslie Fraser and his crew start to get

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Speaker 1: a handle on what they're doing and are out ahead

686
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Speaker 1: of them in adjustments. So it's it happened in Green

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Speaker 1: in Chicago and uh, it's happened to mull games before this,

688
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Speaker 1: and I think that's a testament to how good the

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Speaker 1: staff is once they get a handle on it and

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Speaker 1: what the other team sees in their defense. And they've

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Speaker 1: been very good at it. But I'm with you, it'd

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Speaker 1: be great to go out there and get you know,

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Speaker 1: start to have them start the game with four three

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Speaker 1: and outs. I'll sign up for that, right So we'll see,

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Speaker 1: because if your offense is doing what they're supposed to do,

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Speaker 1: your way ahead on the scoreboard and then they're playing catchup.

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Speaker 1: We gotta take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: more of your phone calls at eight five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty c J and Buffalo

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Speaker 1: will lead us off in the next segment as we're

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Speaker 1: asking you what do you see as the biggest challenge

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Speaker 1: with the Bengals for the Bills. On Monday Night, It's

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: to the phones at eight oh three five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty the number to

711
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Speaker 1: get on board. What do you see is the biggest

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Speaker 1: challenge with the Bengals for the Bills on Monday Night?

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Speaker 1: Leading us off as promised here in this segment is

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Speaker 1: CJ in Buffalo, What do you got for us? Hold

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Speaker 1: on a second here, what do you got for us?

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Speaker 1: C J R? One Bills Live. Hey Chrismas Steve, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing? Good? Good? Many? So what I've seen

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Speaker 1: a lot from last week from watching the Bengals play

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. I didn't notice they remind me of like

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00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: they got linebackers that remind me of Kiko Landlo. They're

721
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: not really fast, with super athletic, and Josh Allen always

722
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: made a joke of Kiko by running past them. I

723
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: don't think they're that fat, but I do think they're

724
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Speaker 1: good at athletics. I think the Bills have an advantage

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Speaker 1: with Cole Beasley and John Brown being back and US

726
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Speaker 1: not utilizing them soon like once they got back. We've

727
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: seen them with big day ball. We have never seen

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Speaker 1: how these pieces will be used with Ken Dorsey. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: you have a running back and James Cook, who leads

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Speaker 1: the league per per running I'm not mistaken yards per

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Speaker 1: carry if I'm not mistaken, and that's that's you can't

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Speaker 1: spread out. You can't spread the corners in your defense

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Speaker 1: out to try to stop our wide receivers brown digs,

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Speaker 1: Beasley and Davis try to stop Cook and Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: if they go four, ye go running back in the

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Speaker 1: backfield and say okay, let's hut we spy Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: as well. Secondly, they got to beat up b line

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Speaker 1: that you don't want to chase Josh Shallen around. And

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Speaker 1: the last point is they always had trouble with defensive

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Speaker 1: ents that play the right side of Burrow, which is

741
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 1: a left TJ. Watt has two interceptions the two times

742
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Speaker 1: they played Russo I guarantee is going to have a

743
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Speaker 1: big day if he keeps trying to throw short to

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Speaker 1: the right. That is his love spot right there. Just

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Speaker 1: sut it out there, all right. Thanks, that's an interesting

746
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: scouting report, a lot to unpact. Thanks for the call. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Cook is an exciting development here over these

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00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: last few weeks. It's no longer a situation where he's

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Speaker 1: just flashing. He's he's showing that he could be a

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Speaker 1: game breaker for you in the right situation, in the

751
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: right play call, in the right down in distance at

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Speaker 1: certain times in the football game. And much like last year,

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Speaker 1: I think the running game is is picking up steam

754
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Speaker 1: at the right time. I mentioned it on the show yesterday.

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Speaker 1: You know, over the last four weeks of the season

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Speaker 1: last year, the Bills were second in the league and

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Speaker 1: rushing over that span. I haven't looked at where they

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00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: might be now, but that two hundred and fifty four

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Speaker 1: yard rushing day last week certainly helps. That helps the average,

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Speaker 1: and I think the best thing part about it was

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Speaker 1: its over two hundred yards, only forty of it was

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Speaker 1: from Josh right and right now Cook is averaging five

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Speaker 1: point eight per carry. That doesn't lead the league. There

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Speaker 1: are some quarterbacks that are higher. If you want to

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Speaker 1: go strictly running backs, he would be at the top.

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Speaker 1: The problem is he doesn't have enough carries in some

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00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: statistical services to qualify, so we'd have to kind of

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Speaker 1: amend it. See where we'd come down. I can try to.

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Speaker 1: He's actually he's through the numbers, but he's got to

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Speaker 1: be productive. He's got a good number there. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: and yeah, if no, I think the Bengals linebackers are good,

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Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah fast, Okay, maybe not. But man, they're

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Speaker 1: playing really well both in coverage and in the run stopping.

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Speaker 1: So you'll have to keep your keep your eye on it.

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Speaker 1: If it's interesting to see how Dorsey sees it. To

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00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: think about it, is he gonna use Cook and Singletary.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna try and come out and run the football

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Speaker 1: like they did against the Bears. I kind of doubt that,

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Speaker 1: although you know, we'll see that with the Betters defensive

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Speaker 1: line nicked up like it is, like CJ pointed out,

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00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: we'll see it's got to be hard for a guy

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Speaker 1: like Hendrickson to maybe take on blockers in the run

783
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 1: game with a busted wrist. All of that stuff goes

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Speaker 1: into the mix. It's interesting the Bills have shown their

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Speaker 1: willingness to spread it around though run pass. Ten different

786
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Speaker 1: guys getting pass catches last week. You know, they're a handful,

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Speaker 1: as you would expect in a game like this. Both

788
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: these clubs have got a lot going on, and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be whoever it executes better. I think. Also, the

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00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: turnover battle is huge. The Bills are almost unbeatable if

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Speaker 1: they don't turn it over right, and they're still pretty

792
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: darn good even when they do, because they turned it

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Speaker 1: over three granted against the substandards Chicago team that turned

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Speaker 1: it over three times one by twenty two. You can't

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Speaker 1: do that this week against the Cincinnati team because they'll

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00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: make you pay with their scoring ability. But yeah, if

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Speaker 1: they play a clean game. They are seventeen and four

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Speaker 1: in their last twenty one games. Yeah, they're hard to

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Speaker 1: be and that's with twenty twenty one turnovers this year.

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Speaker 1: They're twelve and three with twenty one turnovers this year alone.

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Speaker 1: Think about that, you know what I mean. So they

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00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: have a way. They're good enough to even overcome their

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00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: own mistakes most of the time. So yeah, I look,

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Speaker 1: I got all the respect in the world for the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I think I think what's gonna help Buffalo in this matchup,

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Speaker 1: maybe more than anything, is their defense, because I think

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Speaker 1: top to bottom their defense is better than Cincinnati's, and

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Speaker 1: I think they might be more successful in holding Cincinnati's

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Speaker 1: offense and check, and Cincinnati's defense will be in holding

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense and check or offense and check. So that's

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Speaker 1: just my personal opinion on it. But I guess we'll

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Speaker 1: have to wait and see how it all plays out.

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Speaker 1: On Monday night, We're gonna take a break here because

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Speaker 1: when we come back, we're gonna talk more Bengals as

815
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Speaker 1: we get more of the four one one on just

816
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 1: what that team has been doing. We know they've won

817
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Speaker 1: seven in a row, we know Burrow has been productive,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna dig a little bit deeper, and to

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Speaker 1: help us do that, will be radio broadcaster for the

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Speaker 1: Bengals one Solomon Wilcott's coming up next year On One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio,

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Speaker 1: The One Bill's Live presented by called light A Health.

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Speaker 1: Kicking it here on a Wednesday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you our number two And we didn't mention this

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Speaker 1: at the top of the show, and it probably is

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Speaker 1: worth mentioning. Bills are not back on the practice field today.

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Speaker 1: They will begin their installation of the game plan on

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Speaker 1: the practice field starting tomorrow with the extra day with

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Speaker 1: it being a Monday night game. They are going to

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Speaker 1: start practicing on Thursday this week, and you know this

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Speaker 1: time of year, week seventeen. Given the bodies, an extra

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Speaker 1: day arrest can sometimes be even more beneficial than getting

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Speaker 1: more practice time in on a week where you have

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Speaker 1: extra time. Yeah, they're treating today Wednesday like it was

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday, which is traditionally the player's day off. But

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Speaker 1: we were walking around here going to get coffee and

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Speaker 1: and there's a ton of guys in the building. You got.

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Speaker 1: I made the joke that you know, these guys go

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Speaker 1: home with their wives and families, and it was a

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Speaker 1: it was a rough travel weekend for them. And you know,

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Speaker 1: right about now though, after two full days of family

842
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Speaker 1: time and getting caught up, the body clocks of these

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Speaker 1: guys start to go off in a big way. They're like, man,

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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get in workout, I gotta get

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Speaker 1: in what's going on at the stadium. I gotta get

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Speaker 1: back in and see the guys. I mean, what's going

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Speaker 1: on with a game plan? I want to you know,

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00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: And I made the wives are like pushing these guys

849
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: out the door. I says, go to work, just go

850
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 1: go out go, go work out, just get out of

851
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: the house. Um, they start to get antsy for well

852
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: plus people and be cooped up in their homes. So

853
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: there was a ton of guys in today on on

854
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: their traditional day off, working the kinks out and getting

855
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,720
Speaker 1: ready to start practice of what would be a Wednesday tomorrow.

856
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 1: They yeah, eight oh three, five fifty one fifty two,

857
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: five fifty the number to get on board. We're waiting

858
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: to make contact with Salomon Wilcot's radio broadcaster for the

859
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals and former player for that matter. In the meantime,

860
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: we will go back to the phones where we've been

861
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,720
Speaker 1: asking you all day today what is the biggest challenge

862
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: that the Bengals present in your mind for the Bills

863
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: on Monday night? And leading us off in this segment

864
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: is Jeff in Buffalo. What do you got for us? Jeff,

865
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: you're on one Bills Live. Oh hi guys, Uh yeah,

866
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: My question is about the Bengals with the problem that

867
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: you guys brought up. You know, Joe Burrow hits a

868
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: lot of these underneath guys, and we have been not

869
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: very good at getting that first tackle, making contact on

870
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: that first tackle. I mean, I'm not saying that you

871
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: have to bring the guy down as soon as he

872
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: catches the ball. I under saying that that's not the

873
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,439
Speaker 1: easiest thing in the world to do, but you got

874
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: to slow them down a little bit, uh, and try

875
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: to not get as many yards after they catch as

876
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:14,760
Speaker 1: what they've been giving up. Um. And because of Burrough's

877
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: tendency to throw underneath like that and the talent that

878
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: they have on the ends, I think that's going to

879
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: be a problem unless they you know, unless they fix that. UM.

880
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,320
Speaker 1: So that's that's what I That's what I had, Jeff.

881
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: I mean, even Matt Milano, Yeah, I would agree with you, Jeff.

882
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: They need they need to they need to tackle well

883
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: in this game, because you're right, if they're going to

884
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: force like like last week, is what the That's what

885
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots tried to get the Bengals to do,

886
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:43,919
Speaker 1: settle for the short routes. If you're going to do that,

887
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: you've got to come up and tackle well. And and

888
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: we said it a ton. The best defenses in the

889
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:54,760
Speaker 1: NFL are the ones that when one defender, the first

890
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: defender gets to the ball and he gets there quickly,

891
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: the ball is stopped. It's a tackle, the first guy

892
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: to the ball makes the tackle. The best defenses are

893
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: always like that, and the Bills have gone through stretches

894
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: where they didn't tackle well at all. Luckily some of

895
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 1: those games they won, but yeah, it's been frustrating, and

896
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,479
Speaker 1: that's going to be important in this game. You can't

897
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: let these guys, particularly these gifted receivers of the Bengals,

898
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: catch a five yard pass and goes sixty. Yes, I

899
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 1: think the Bills are coming off a good tackle game

900
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: last week against the Bears. They had a really strong,

901
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: fundamentally sound tackling game this past week. Hopefully that carries

902
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: into this week because the concerns are valid. Cincinnati is

903
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: fourth in the league in yards after catch this season

904
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: with two thousand and sixty. The only offenses that have

905
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: more yards after the catch this season Tampa Bay, the Chargers,

906
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs. Bengals ranked fourth in the league in

907
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: yards after the catch this season, so it's a valid concern.

908
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: So you do bring up a good point, and yeah,

909
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: tackling well is going to be of paramount importance this

910
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: week if you want to force them to have to

911
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: have fifteen sixteen play scoring drives instead of five or

912
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: six play scoring drives, and even if you are the

913
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: first guy on the scene and you can't get the

914
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: guy on the ground, at least hang on to allow

915
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: everybody else to rally to the football and help you out,

916
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 1: which the Bills I think are very good at, you know,

917
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: gang tackling, flying, you know, flowing to the ball, rallying

918
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: to the football, you know, two three guys at a time.

919
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: I think they're good at that. I'm you know, I

920
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: feel like we've addressed it a ton. One of the

921
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: things that one of the reasons it's hard to tackle

922
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL these days is, you know, if you

923
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: do it like we do it when I played, you

924
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: get ejected from the game. And they are putting such

925
00:54:55,560 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: a priority on turnovers. Defensively in the NFL, guys are

926
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: preoccupied with the ball. They're trying to tackle the ball

927
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 1: and grab the ball away rather than getting the guy

928
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: or the runner, the receiver, whoever, off their feet, and

929
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: it ends up where you after you make contact and

930
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: you're grabbing at the ball and stuff, the guy's spinning

931
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: away and he's still moving up the field gaining yards

932
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: while you're still messing around trying to grab the football.

933
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: It's frustrating for football fans to see this guy getting

934
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: all these free yards. But the simple fact of the

935
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 1: matter is the ball's more important in today's NFL, and

936
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: it leads to a lot of teams, and it's not

937
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: just the Bills, a lot of teams doing the exact

938
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: same thing. You tackle the ball, try and get the

939
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 1: ball away and then get him off his feet rather

940
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: than get him off his feet and then hopefully the

941
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: ball pop out later. Yeah, but that's nothing to sneeze at.

942
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: Top five ranking in yards after catch. They know how

943
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 1: to do it, and Burrow knows how to be an

944
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:56,760
Speaker 1: anticipatory thrower to give his receivers opportunities to get yards

945
00:55:56,800 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: after the catch. So the Bills historic have not, at

946
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: least during the Josh Allen era, have not been great

947
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: in that category. So yeah, I mean it's right now.

948
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: This season they're better than they were last year, but

949
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: they ranked twenty fourth in yards after the catch just

950
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: over fifteen hundred yards. This season they're about they're pacing

951
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: about five hundred yards behind Cincinnati. So if there is

952
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: a difference in the way each of these two passing

953
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: games get it done, that's one area where the Bengals

954
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: excel and the Bills rely on other things to make

955
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:36,280
Speaker 1: their passing game productive, like Josh chucking it down the field.

956
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: I did find it interesting that Burrow is not his

957
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: yards per attempt is down this year, his air yards

958
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: per attempt or down this year. As I was saying

959
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: earlier this week, he's kind of taken the layups more

960
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: often to keep them in manageable down in distance. And

961
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: maybe they're twenty sixth ranked rushing attack is a reason

962
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: for it. Almost using the short passing game is in

963
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 1: a extension of a running game that's been virtually non

964
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: existent for them, or at least not very productive in

965
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: comparison to last year for the Bengals, right, And some

966
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: of it, I mean they're like the Bills. I mean

967
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: they're a good offense. So some of it was dictating

968
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: what we've watched. Some of it will be dictated by

969
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: the defense and how they're playing them. The the New

970
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: England Patriots were dropping guys into deep zone coverage or

971
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: just and they were they were giving them the underneath

972
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: receptions both in the to the backs of the tight

973
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: ends and to the wide receivers who didn't you know,

974
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: blow off down the and and explode down the field.

975
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: They were giving them all kinds of underneath pass completions.

976
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: Then we've seen the Patriots just do that once, so

977
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: that was their game plan. Joe Burrow chopped him up,

978
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: I mean absolutely chopped him up. Their first drive was clinical.

979
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: He was five for five or seven for seven or

980
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: six for six, whatever it was on them. He didn't

981
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: have an incomplete pass, he didn't hit the ground. They

982
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: ran it a couple of times and it was just

983
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: they were in the end zone, opening possession of the game.

984
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: Just it was a statement. And you know that stadium

985
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: in Foxborough was dead silent. There was nothing they could do.

986
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: It was disheartening for the home crowd. Yeah, let's go

987
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: back to the tweet cheat to get some more of

988
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: your thoughts on what you believe to be the biggest

989
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: challenge for the Bengals in this Monday biggest challenge with

990
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: the Bengals for the Bills on Monday night, and Butch

991
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: is drinking the Steve Tasker kool aid. The biggest challenge

992
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 1: going into this game and thinking too much is thinking

993
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: too much and not believing that you are dominant over

994
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 1: any other team in the NFL. Just go out and

995
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,479
Speaker 1: play your game. No one can beat the twenty twenty

996
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: two Buffalo Bills but themselves. Don't blink all caps. This

997
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: is one of those games where you say, oh my gosh,

998
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna go in We're gonna play this team. They've

999
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: got all these weapons offensively, their defensive playing good, they

1000
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: can run the ball, their quarterbacks Joe cool. It's you know,

1001
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: the team that's going in there to play them is

1002
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: pretty good too. Yeah, they got to play us, is

1003
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: the kind of the thing, right right, Yeah, we're meeting

1004
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: a good team, so are they. Let's go. Bills don't

1005
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,439
Speaker 1: have any reason to flinch at this game. They're gonna

1006
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: be able. They're gonna come in there and play well.

1007
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: And they've got a guy who's a bigger weapon offensively

1008
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: at quarterback then bigger all around weapon for sure, right so,

1009
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: and they've got their own guys, so it'll be it's

1010
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun game. I was amazed. I was

1011
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: looking up and down the week seventeen schedule. This is

1012
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: the only game on the entire schedule this week with

1013
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: two teams that have winning records. Every other game this week,

1014
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: there isn't more than one team with a winning record

1015
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: in any of the other matchups. It's bizarre. I mean,

1016
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. ESPN people are pretty happy about

1017
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: this one being on Monday Night, and there are other

1018
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:05,439
Speaker 1: games with playoff implications, certainly because if Lord knows, you've

1019
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,919
Speaker 1: got a host of teams that are a game under

1020
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: five hundred this year that are right in the playoff mix,

1021
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: both in the NFC and the AFC. But this is

1022
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: the only game with both teams with winning records. It's crazy. Yeah,

1023
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 1: you got a punch of games with six and nine Panthers,

1024
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 1: seven and eight Buccaneers, seven and eight Jets, seven and

1025
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: eight Seahawks, you know, six and nine Browns against the seven,

1026
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: seven and one Commanders, and then you got the Chiefs

1027
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: against the Broncos Vikings Packers. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a

1028
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: random anomaly kind of thing, but it's interesting nonetheless. Yeah,

1029
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: most the most wins between two teams in Monday night

1030
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: football matchup since what ninety seven they said, nineteen ninety

1031
01:00:55,240 --> 01:01:01,959
Speaker 1: seven Denver San Francisco eleven wins versus twelve wins. That's

1032
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: that's a good game, man, not too shabby. Mark on

1033
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. When answering the question what is the

1034
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: biggest challenge with the Bengals for the Bills on Monday Night,

1035
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 1: the biggest challenge going into this Nope, sorry I read

1036
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: that one. Mark says their offense. We haven't faced anyone

1037
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: who could keep up with our offense since Kansas City.

1038
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: That's probably true. Yeah, although Minnesota did a pretty good

1039
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: job of it. Yeah, it was, so did so did

1040
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: the Lions. You know, yeah, you're right, Lions were playing

1041
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: really good offense at the time the Bills. The Bills

1042
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: met them, and and there's been some some games where

1043
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: they've met some teams that were, at least at that moment,

1044
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: we're playing well. I do get the sense that Bills

1045
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: fans on the whole recognize the Bengals offense as a

1046
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: proven productive offense. Nobody's like, yeah, you know, sloughughing them

1047
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: off and how can you when they won seven in

1048
01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: a row. We thought we were gonna you know, we

1049
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: played the world champions right after they won the Super

1050
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: Bowl too, the Rams. You thought the Rams were going

1051
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: to be a really good offense too. It turned out,

1052
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't. Yeah, they only scored ten points

1053
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: against you. But you know, the Miami offense the first

1054
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 1: time around was, you know, highly touted. They went on

1055
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: a big streak right after they managed to win that

1056
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 1: game against the Buffalo the first matchup. But yeah, this

1057
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: is this is the one that's got the most tracker.

1058
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: They were in the Super Bowl last year and they're

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Speaker 1: eleven and four right now and they got it going on.

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Speaker 1: Sean on the tweet sheet says, the biggest challenges easily

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Speaker 1: our defensive backs versus Chase and Higgins. We've been terrible

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Speaker 1: at contesting jump balls and have gotten killed by good

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Speaker 1: wide receivers killed. Yeah, Justin Jefferson had a big day

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01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 1: against you. I'm trying to think of some of the

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01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: other number ones that they faked. Garrett Wilson kind of

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01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: had his way with this defense. There have been a couple.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to run my head through all the

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Speaker 1: games this season. Cleveland Amari Cooper had a nice day

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Speaker 1: in a loss, and I mean Tyreek. Yeah, Jalen Wattle

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Speaker 1: the chief like Juju Smith Schuster had five for one

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Speaker 1: thirteen against the Bills. Kelsey had eight for one hundred

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Speaker 1: and eight in that game as well. So Chiefs made

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01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: some Hande's right. I mean, top wide receivers have had

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Speaker 1: productive days. In many cases, it hasn't been enough to

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Speaker 1: lift that opponent to victory over the Bills. But yeah,

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01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 1: it's cropped up as an issue. That's what happens. I'm wondering.

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Speaker 1: So Steve, let's let's talk about this while we're talking

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Speaker 1: DBS here for a second. Tradevious White five games played

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Speaker 1: for the Bills has five pass breakups in those five games,

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01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: came tantalizingly close to his first interception a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago here in the home game. The Bears passing

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01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: game didn't do a whole lot last week, although Trey

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01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: did get beat on him one deep ball in the

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Speaker 1: second half. And Kayer Elam, I think, continues to impress

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Speaker 1: as he continues to be rotated in in a platoon

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01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 1: situation with Dane Jackson at the CB two position, Knowing

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01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: as Sean points out that te Higgins in particular is

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Speaker 1: outstanding in contested ball situations. Do you go with the taller,

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01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 1: physically stronger kayre Elam this week than Dane Jackson in

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Speaker 1: terms of playing time. I'm not saying Dane Jackson doesn't play,

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01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: but does kayre Elam maybe play more of the snaps

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01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: because of the physical guy you're matching up with. In

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Speaker 1: te Higgins, it's possible. You know, Higgins is six four

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Speaker 1: two nineteen. I mean he's a big dude, Kayer six

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01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 1: one two ten something like that, I think. And he's

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01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: long limbed. Yeah, he's he's long, but he's also fast.

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01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's there isn't There aren't corners who match

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01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: up well with six four wide outs because there's not

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01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 1: that many six four wide out guys around who can

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Speaker 1: really run. Yeah, otherwise, if you get if he gets

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Speaker 1: behind you, they don't get behind you that one. Higgins

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Speaker 1: and these guys get behind you and they're six four. Yeah,

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01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: that's an issue. So yeah, I could see the logic

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Speaker 1: about putting Kayer elam in on a bigger wide out

1105
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 1: and letting him run. But I don't think you really

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01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: leave leave guys unhelped, you know, with no help on

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01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: the back end anyway. But you can't you can't double everybody.

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Speaker 1: Tee Higgins ranks fourth in the NFL this season with

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Speaker 1: sixteen contested catches. We'll take a break here because when

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Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna catch up with Salomon Wilcott's

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Speaker 1: Bengals radio broadcaster next here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you. Please to be joined now by a series

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Speaker 1: X NFL radio analyst, former NFL safety and co host

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Speaker 1: of the Believe In Bengals podcast. It is one Salomon

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Speaker 1: Wilcots joining us on the line. Solomon, how you doing?

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Speaker 1: Happy holidays? How fired up are you for this one?

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01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 1: This is the marquee matchup of the week, and it's

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Speaker 1: not even close. Yeah, first of all, Chris is Steve,

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Speaker 1: Happy holidays to you guys, and yeah, we're doing great.

1122
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 1: And look, everyone's excited about this game. You get two

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Speaker 1: great young quarterbacks going at it. I could see this, uh,

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01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen Joe Burrow, Bills Bengals sort of

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01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 1: developing into a long time rivalry because these two guys

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01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 1: are fun to watch. Yeah they are, and you know,

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Speaker 1: two different guys as well. Josh is this big, you know,

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Speaker 1: ultimate weapon guy, run it, throw it power, run, can

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01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 1: throw it all over the field. And Joe Burrow he

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01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:04,439
Speaker 1: wins every week standing there in the pocket. He'll he'll

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01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 1: take the sack, he'll make the throwaway, but ultimately with

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01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 1: those three guys on the outside, there's always somebody for

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01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: him to deliver the vall too. And he beats all

1134
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 1: these teams right from the pocket. Yeah, you're right, and

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01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 1: he'll he'll get out of there, but there's no design

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Speaker 1: to growing through with Joe Burrow, like what you see

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01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 1: with Josh Out, he's like a throwback and a combination

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01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:30,960
Speaker 1: of a heady sort of a student of the game,

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01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that's gonna come up with the

1140
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: answers like what Peyton Manning used to do. He's gonna

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01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 1: figure you out sooner or later. And then he's got

1142
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: that competitiveness of a Tom Brady, this methodical nature of

1143
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 1: just continuing to stalk you. And in the fourth quarter,

1144
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:50,200
Speaker 1: on that last and final drive, he's gonna find a

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01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: way to get his team into the end zone. And

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01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 1: you're right, he's surrounded by a lot of talented weapons,

1147
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: not just the wide receiving corps we know about chasing

1148
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: Boyd and and Higgins, but to tie it end, you know,

1149
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,439
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst and the two running backs some r JP

1150
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 1: Ryan and Joe Mixon. There is good catching the ball

1151
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: out of the backfields they are running it with power.

1152
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, there there are a lot of weapons here

1153
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: and Joe Burrows not shy about using them. What have

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01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 1: you seen, Solomon over the course of this season in

1155
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: terms of how defenses have tried to approach this Bengals

1156
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: offense a lot of two high safety looks. I'm guessing yeah, well,

1157
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised, and I think last year Joe Burrow

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01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,439
Speaker 1: kind of proved it. He's the last guy you want

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01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: to blitz. Like, when you blitz him, he's shrenched. Now.

1160
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 1: Teams have had some sacks early in the season because

1161
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:51,080
Speaker 1: the offensive line was pretty much new. Four of the

1162
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 1: new of the five guys were new to this team.

1163
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:57,599
Speaker 1: But then once they started to jail, he got back

1164
01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 1: to doing some of the things we saw last year.

1165
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:02,560
Speaker 1: Special he when teams decide they're gonna just load it

1166
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 1: up and come after him, he tends to figure you

1167
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:10,440
Speaker 1: out pretty quickly, and he'll make you pay for blitzing them.

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Speaker 1: And so I think you're starting to see now, even

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Speaker 1: with Belichick last week when he played the Patriots, Yeah,

1170
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 1: they want to play too high safety, try to force

1171
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: him to find the seams in the holes, and he's

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Speaker 1: proven that he could do that right now. He's PFF's

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01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: highest rated quarterback and that's because he's effective against single

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Speaker 1: high man, the man versus the blitz or dissecting the

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Speaker 1: zones as well. So he's a very heavy player. One

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Speaker 1: of the things we've talked about with the Bills and

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Speaker 1: now I witnessed two in the last game they played

1178
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Speaker 1: in New England. Once in a while, you get in

1179
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: these games. The Bills did it against Green Bay, they

1180
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: did it against the first matchup with with the Packers.

1181
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 1: They did it with Packer Green Bay, they did it

1182
01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:56,640
Speaker 1: with and they did it with New England in the

1183
01:09:56,680 --> 01:10:00,080
Speaker 1: first matchup with New England. The game moves on and

1184
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: it just the opponent that they're playing. It just seems

1185
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: like an inevitability that they're just gonna squeeze the life

1186
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 1: out of them. They just run out of time, they

1187
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: run out of opportunity. That's exactly what the Bengals did

1188
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 1: to the Patriots last week. They come out early and

1189
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: there was that game was never in doubt, even was

1190
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 1: a four point win. Of course, it was a one

1191
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:24,600
Speaker 1: score game, but man oh man, they just the inevitability

1192
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: of that win was evident early on. Both these teams

1193
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 1: seem to do that. Why do you think that is?

1194
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, I think both coaches, you

1195
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 1: know these you know, I have got a ton of

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Speaker 1: respect for Sean McDermott and the way that he sees

1197
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: the game from a defensive standpoint, but the way that

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01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: he also brings the offense to compliment the defense, and

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Speaker 1: the defense compliments It's it's what we call that complimentary

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01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:57,679
Speaker 1: style of play where the defense is gonna get some turnovers,

1201
01:10:57,680 --> 01:10:59,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna put the offense on the short field, and

1202
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:04,200
Speaker 1: the offense knows that scoring quickly is not always necessarily

1203
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 1: the style of play, particularly when you're going up against

1204
01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback like a Joe Burrow who can come back

1205
01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:13,360
Speaker 1: and bring his team back in just a few plays. Bam,

1206
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Speaker 1: you're putting points on the scoreboard. Now. I think McDermott

1207
01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 1: learned that from that divisional game last year against the Chiefs.

1208
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,800
Speaker 1: It's clear that Zach Taylor understands that. And I've often

1209
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 1: seen where Joe Burrow will get the ball. He understands it.

1210
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: Four minutes left on the clock, we already got him.

1211
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: Even if we have a three point lead, We're not

1212
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:35,599
Speaker 1: giving them the ball back. We don't have to chase points.

1213
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 1: We've got the three point lead. If we don't turn

1214
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: the ball back over and we keep it and we

1215
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 1: run out the clock, we get out of here with

1216
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: a win. You and I both know there are a

1217
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:49,560
Speaker 1: lot of coaches hey score, score, score, But I think McDermott,

1218
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor with both quarterbacks, I think they play a

1219
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: much more heady game and it's a very unique way

1220
01:11:57,240 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: of getting it done. Salomoeen know that you know this

1221
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:05,240
Speaker 1: Bengals offense is you know, top ten in scoring. They

1222
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: could put points on the board in a hurry if

1223
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 1: you're not careful. They're also sixth in the league in

1224
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: the red zone. They'll score touchdowns about two thirds of

1225
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: the time sixty six point seven percent on the season.

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01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 1: In the last month, though, Buffalo's defense has rocketed up

1227
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:24,200
Speaker 1: the board in red zone defense. They're now holding the

1228
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 1: top spot in the league in red zone defense. Is

1229
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:34,200
Speaker 1: Cincinnati you know an offense good enough to kind of

1230
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:36,920
Speaker 1: challenge that, you know through the course of this game,

1231
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 1: or is are they going to run into a buzz

1232
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 1: saw here with this Buffalo defense? You know that it's

1233
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 1: very interesting because that's why this is such a unique

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01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:51,720
Speaker 1: and interesting matchup. I think these two teams match up

1235
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:55,679
Speaker 1: so very well. The way that lou Ana Romo plays

1236
01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 1: on defense is from the back to front right. The

1237
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: secondaries are the most vocal, important part of the way

1238
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,280
Speaker 1: that they sort of eliminate the big plays and don't

1239
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 1: allow you to throw the ball over their heads. The

1240
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:11,599
Speaker 1: Bills are designed and cut the same way, with Les

1241
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 1: Frasier their defensive coordinator Sean McDermott being schooled in the

1242
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 1: art of defending the pass first, then we get to

1243
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And so that's why you see both defenses

1244
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 1: ranking in a way when it comes to eliminating scoring,

1245
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 1: they rank top ten and scoring defense, the red zone, coverage,

1246
01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 1: and then what they're gonna give you in the second half,

1247
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,639
Speaker 1: they're gonna give you a different look than what they

1248
01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:37,800
Speaker 1: give you earlier in the game. That's why you have

1249
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: to play these games out. I wish I could tell

1250
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: you what was going to happen, how things are going

1251
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: to break situationally right, But I do know the Bengals

1252
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: can spread you out. They can understy can dictate where

1253
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: that one on one coverage is going to be, and

1254
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: then Joe makes his mind up where he think the

1255
01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:02,559
Speaker 1: advantage is it's often Treigins with that great pass catching radius.

1256
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:05,839
Speaker 1: It's often a Jamar Chase who can separate from anyone

1257
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:10,200
Speaker 1: if he has enough room to operate. And then Hayden

1258
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:13,000
Speaker 1: Hurst is a big body guy. And then this slot

1259
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 1: receiver Trenton Irwin is a guy that's come on big

1260
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 1: time for the Cincinnati Bengals. They've had different players with

1261
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 1: the injuries that they've had, They've had different guys step

1262
01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 1: up and come up big time. Even over the four

1263
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 1: weeks when Jamar Chase was out, a lot of these

1264
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 1: guys kept saying, hey, Joe, it's my turn, and he

1265
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:33,680
Speaker 1: didn't hesitate the throw it to him. One of the

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Speaker 1: things about this team this year that's a little different.

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01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:37,599
Speaker 1: They've spent a lot of time and money, a lot

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01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:40,719
Speaker 1: of effort rebuilding the offensive line around Joe Burrow because

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01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: last year, I mean, ultimately it's the one thing that

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01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 1: gave up on him in the Super Bowl. But Lyle

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01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 1: Collins now struggling within injury. He's out, and you know,

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01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: they're off and I was getting beat up and now

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01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 1: they're kind of reverting back to where they were before

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01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 1: all of that happened. It's just with five different guys.

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01:14:56,320 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 1: How's their offensive line holding up now that with Collins

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01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:03,559
Speaker 1: out and the other guys that are in there, what's

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01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 1: their offensive line look like as opposed to where it

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01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 1: was a year ago. Yeah, I gotta tell you, man,

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01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss has been phenomenal on the interior part of

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01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 1: this offense. Alex Kappa, these guys have been phenomenal. Joe

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01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 1: Burrow takes a much shorter drop because he trust. It's

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01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:23,639
Speaker 1: like what Brady used to do. He can trust the two,

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01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: the guards and the center. It's the tackles that are

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01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:30,880
Speaker 1: really kind of you know, they have the soft spots there,

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01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:34,240
Speaker 1: and that's why Joe won't hesitate to climb the pocket,

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01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 1: press the line of scrimmage, take a shorter drop, get

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01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: rid of it quick, or press the line of scrimmage

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01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:42,439
Speaker 1: and get out of there. He's not gonna try to skate,

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01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: try to break containment outside unless you know that somebody

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01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:50,679
Speaker 1: loses contained. But that's where I think our soft spot

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01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:53,679
Speaker 1: at left tackle. And Jonah Williams he can be better,

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01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: there's no doubt. But he's the he's the guy that's

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01:15:56,240 --> 01:15:59,439
Speaker 1: been here. He's the former first round pick out of

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01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 1: Alabama and then with Loud Collins going down a Ki

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01:16:03,160 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 1: mcdenna jay, he's gonna get the start. And he's been

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01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 1: rotating in. He's been playing a lot, whether it's at

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01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: the guard position the tackle. He's a guy that's it's

1298
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:15,760
Speaker 1: got multiple skill set to play at the tackle or

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01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:20,840
Speaker 1: guard position. So look, we'll see how it works out.

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01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 1: We all know the Bill's pass rush has gotten so

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01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: much better, and I think that Vaughon Miller what he's

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01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:30,520
Speaker 1: given those young guys. We've seen the growth and development

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01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 1: take place in twenty twenty two that wasn't there a

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01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 1: year ago, and now that Vaughan's out, these guys are

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01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: like kind of fully grown up big brother big brothers

1306
01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:43,000
Speaker 1: taught the young pups of things to two. Yeah, speaking

1307
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 1: of the pass rush, Cincinnati's pass rush is trying to

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01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: get back to full health. I know that head coach

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01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor said Hubbard is no longer week to week

1310
01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 1: but day to day trying to come back from that

1311
01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:58,360
Speaker 1: calf injury. I know Hendrickson is playing through a broken wrist.

1312
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: How has the pass rush looked knowing they've been without

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01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: Hubbard and that Henderson is not because Anna Ruma doesn't

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01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: blitz a whole lot. No, he doesn't. And last week

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01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 1: I thought the pass rusher was was was pretty good

1316
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:20,680
Speaker 1: without without those guys, you know, and then obviously you

1317
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,960
Speaker 1: know when you have a broken wrist, it's gonna be

1318
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: tough to be able to get to the quarterback. But

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01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:29,960
Speaker 1: I thought Trey was okay. I didn't think he was

1320
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 1: at on top of this game, and obviously Sam was out. Um.

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01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 1: But you know these two guys are They're different than

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01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: most pass rushings. They're energy guys. These guys are just

1323
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 1: gonna outwork you. They're not gonna overwhelm you with speed,

1324
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 1: they're not gonna overwhelm you with power. Typically, you guys

1325
01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 1: know this. The real best pass rushers are guys that

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01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 1: usually have one or two and the multiple moves. But

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01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 1: these guys are just energy guys. And that's why you'll

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01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: see great pass rushers. They look great at the beginning

1329
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,760
Speaker 1: of games and find it tough to close it out

1330
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:10,759
Speaker 1: because they're usually wiped out and they're tired. These guys

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01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: are like energizer bunnies. I'm just telling you, flat out,

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01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 1: and it spreads through the rest of the guys. In

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01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 1: terms of the interior pass rushers, you wouldn't think a

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01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:23,080
Speaker 1: DJ Reader would be a good pass rusher, But this

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01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:26,719
Speaker 1: guy recks your double teams on the inside. He gets

1336
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 1: a great push in the pocket and that's what allows

1337
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 1: these guys to use the energy they have coming off

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01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:36,160
Speaker 1: the edge. And so the Bengals have multiple players and

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01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: multiple skill sets. Whether it's Joseph Osai and whether it's

1340
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:45,720
Speaker 1: Cam Sample, they have other guys that lend themselves to

1341
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 1: having really good pass rush, not great, but just good.

1342
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 1: They have more hits on the quarterback according to PFF

1343
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:56,720
Speaker 1: than any other defensive front, even though they may be

1344
01:18:56,880 --> 01:19:00,839
Speaker 1: down in sacks, they get to the quarterback VI pressure

1345
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:04,599
Speaker 1: at a at a high ratio. Last one I've got

1346
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 1: for us watching the New England Patriots hosting the Bengals

1347
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:13,880
Speaker 1: game last week, and your boy Evan McPherson is struggling

1348
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 1: a little bit. Is that an ongoing issue? Or he

1349
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 1: comes in and just blows two extra points right off

1350
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: the map to start the game. Is that an issue

1351
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:29,360
Speaker 1: or has it been? It's become one, And I think

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01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: it's it's good to point out because this was a

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01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:35,800
Speaker 1: guy that around here in Cincinnati they started to call

1354
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 1: any money Mac. You know, he was a guy that

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01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 1: was that was money ever since his rookie season one

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01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: year ago. Very confident young man. And it started out

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01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:48,640
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. Remember we lost the

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01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 1: holder in that Week one game against Pittsburgh and holding

1359
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 1: wasn't krighte right throughout his timing. So he misses an

1360
01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:58,760
Speaker 1: extra point Week one that could have won them the

1361
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:02,880
Speaker 1: game against the Pittsburgh Steelers end up going in overtime,

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01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:04,920
Speaker 1: and then we end up losing that game. And then

1363
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: he would miss another one here there, And it was

1364
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 1: mostly on these extra points that end up impacting and

1365
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:14,320
Speaker 1: now is causing even miss field goals. And some people

1366
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 1: were pointing to the wind that was at Gillette Stadium,

1367
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: and the special team's coaches come out and said, no,

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01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 1: it's got nothing to do with the win. So so

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01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 1: you know, you pointing it out, I think is very good.

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01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:28,680
Speaker 1: I think it's pertinent. There's no doubt Steve, you and

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01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:31,320
Speaker 1: I both know how kickers can be. One minute they're

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01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 1: locked in. I mean, I just saw Justin Tucker from

1373
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 1: the Ravens miss one a week or two ago, and

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01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:39,759
Speaker 1: that never happens. Next thing, you know, he misses another,

1375
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: and you know, the ego and the confidence. It can

1376
01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: be fragile for kickers. It's good when it's good, but

1377
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: when it's not good, Man, you and I both know

1378
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 1: we can go downhill in a hurry. So we just

1379
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:54,720
Speaker 1: have to wait and see and in a game that

1380
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:56,840
Speaker 1: may come down to who has the ball, as that

1381
01:20:56,880 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: could loom very large in deciding this game. Solomon, thanks

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01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:02,760
Speaker 1: very much for the time. We appreciate it. We'll catch

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01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 1: up with you down the line. Have a happy New Year,

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01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 1: all right, guys, take care, Happy new year. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's Solomon Wilcott's joining us here Sirius XM NFL radio host,

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01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: former Bengals defensive back and also the co host of

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01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 1: the Believe In Bengals podcast network. We want to get

1388
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,559
Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet to get some more of

1389
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:26,799
Speaker 1: your thoughts on what you feel is the biggest challenge

1390
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:30,839
Speaker 1: the Bengals present to the Bills for this upcoming Monday

1391
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: night game, and BJ says stopping the Bengals run game.

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01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 1: If Buffalo can make them one dimensional, it can get

1393
01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:40,400
Speaker 1: pressure on Burrow. I like their chances. I almost would

1394
01:21:40,479 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 1: rather have them run the ball. Yeah, stop throwing us right,

1395
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 1: that's a little old school. I'm yeah. You gotta if yeah,

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01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: you want Joe Burrow to hand it off somebody else better,

1397
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:55,400
Speaker 1: it'll that'll last about two plays at most in a row,

1398
01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,519
Speaker 1: because then there'll be third and ten or third and eight,

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01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 1: and you're right back to where you started. That's what's

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01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 1: the way it is in the league. Even if they

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01:22:04,479 --> 01:22:06,840
Speaker 1: get four yards on a first down run and no

1402
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:10,719
Speaker 1: yards on the second down run, you're here's still third

1403
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 1: and six and you're still you're still pass covering these guys.

1404
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you can do it, if you can

1405
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 1: stop the running, yeah you almost want to line up

1406
01:22:19,439 --> 01:22:21,640
Speaker 1: pre snap and just invite them to run and then

1407
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: dive in maybe and stop it. But man, oh man,

1408
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:28,639
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make them one dimensional. I don't think.

1409
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:32,760
Speaker 1: Shane on the tweet sheet says, not beating ourselves. Play

1410
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 1: tight defense like we have been, no turnovers, no drive

1411
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: killing or drive extending penalties. We show up in all

1412
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: aspects and no one can hang with us. This is

1413
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:44,200
Speaker 1: true for the Bengals, casey the Eagles. Doesn't matter. Now

1414
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 1: is the time to flip the switch. There's something in that.

1415
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 1: You gotta play playoff football now. Yeah, this is what

1416
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:56,680
Speaker 1: we're saying. A really important game. This game says a

1417
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: lot about how easy or hard it's going to be

1418
01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 1: to get to the super Bowl. You win this game,

1419
01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: and you know, there's no I know that they play

1420
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: the Patriots in Week eighteen, but they win this game

1421
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 1: and get the number one seed. Think of the dynamic

1422
01:23:12,080 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 1: change in just you as us as casual fans watching

1423
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 1: this game. Think of how our expectations shift if everybody's

1424
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: got to come to Buffalo and they come in here

1425
01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: with the Bills on two weeks rest, how the expectations

1426
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:28,560
Speaker 1: and what you would think about that game, how it

1427
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:32,679
Speaker 1: would change in that moment. That's that's a big, big swing,

1428
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: and that's what this game means. So yeah, if you

1429
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 1: want to if you've got to flip to switch a

1430
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: switch to flip, start flipping it right. And the other

1431
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: thing is if you're the one seed, that means the

1432
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 1: Bengals and the Chiefs are presumably the two in the

1433
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 1: three and you won't meet them until you're probably you're

1434
01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:56,640
Speaker 1: probably and you're yeah, which means you're only meeting one

1435
01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:58,719
Speaker 1: of them. Right. If you're the two of the three seeds,

1436
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 1: you're probably playing both of them. That's correct to get

1437
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 1: to where you want to get. So that's the other

1438
01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:06,520
Speaker 1: part of the equation that I don't know if everybody considers.

1439
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:08,640
Speaker 1: When you say, oh, what's the difference between the one

1440
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 1: and where you got three game? Then you got three

1441
01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:12,720
Speaker 1: games to play the extra game. Yeah, one of them

1442
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:15,800
Speaker 1: probably would be in Buffalo, no question, you get a

1443
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: wild card game in Buffalo, but you end up playing,

1444
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:24,639
Speaker 1: you know, one of those teams, like you, if you're

1445
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:28,719
Speaker 1: the three seed, you end up playing right now, would

1446
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 1: be the Chargers at nine and six. Yeah, you know,

1447
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 1: and then you'd be playing him in Buffalo. That's how

1448
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 1: about take a week off and let somebody else play

1449
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, I'd be all for that. Yeah, sign

1450
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:52,240
Speaker 1: me up. Like Cincinnati or or Kansas City would be

1451
01:24:52,240 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 1: playing those teams. Yeah. Bonnockt on the tweet sheet says

1452
01:24:56,479 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: Burrow is battle tested and cool under fire. Also their

1453
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,200
Speaker 1: ability to stry quick with the deep Paul. Yeah, he's

1454
01:25:02,240 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 1: not throwing the deep Paul quite as much, but they

1455
01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:06,479
Speaker 1: certainly have that capability anytime they want to dial one up.

1456
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot you got to defend the

1457
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:13,120
Speaker 1: whole field with this team, not so much because of

1458
01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 1: Burrow's arm strength, but because of all of the weapons

1459
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:16,880
Speaker 1: that they can put out out on the field. And

1460
01:25:17,040 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: as Salomon Wilcot's pointed out, it's not just Higgins, Chase

1461
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:23,800
Speaker 1: and Boyd. You got Hayden Hurts the tight end and

1462
01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 1: the Irwin kid that's you know, coming alive here yea.

1463
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:30,880
Speaker 1: So it's it's a handful for Buffalo's defense for sure.

1464
01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 1: We got to take a break here because we're up

1465
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:34,320
Speaker 1: against the clock, but Steve and I will be back

1466
01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:36,040
Speaker 1: to close things up with some final thoughts on the

1467
01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 1: tweet sheet next here on one Bills Live. Stay tuned,

1468
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:51,280
Speaker 1: Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Chasker

1469
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 1: with you here on a Wednesday, and we want to

1470
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: get some final thoughts from the tweet sheet passed along

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01:25:56,360 --> 01:26:00,720
Speaker 1: to you and Jim on the tweet sheet says, this

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01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:05,639
Speaker 1: is the game where Vaughan could have had a huge impact. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean these were the games and the reason and

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01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 1: the impetus for them going out and signing von Miller

1475
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: in free agency. We remember the kind of impact he

1476
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 1: had back in Week six in the Chiefs game, had

1477
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: a big third down sack in the red zone the

1478
01:26:19,360 --> 01:26:20,760
Speaker 1: end of the game. It was big at the end

1479
01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:23,680
Speaker 1: of the game. He forced the interception on he you know,

1480
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: helped with pressure with pressure. Yeah, that's that's big And

1481
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: I was thinking the exact same thing. This is the

1482
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:32,040
Speaker 1: exact kind of game where you'd look for a guy

1483
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:36,600
Speaker 1: to come in and close it. Not that Rousseau, Epanessa

1484
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 1: bash him, Um couldn't or won't. But this is you know,

1485
01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:46,240
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson as well. This is where those guys show up,

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01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, and it'll be fun to see if they

1487
01:26:48,920 --> 01:26:52,240
Speaker 1: can get it done that. They have been playing well,

1488
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,599
Speaker 1: the young the young guys. Jack's had a nice season two.

1489
01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:58,880
Speaker 1: They picked it up, no question about it. Tom on

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01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:02,760
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says it's probably the Bengals defense. They

1491
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 1: are ranked close to the Bills and points per game allowed.

1492
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:07,839
Speaker 1: I will say if the Bills limit mistakes on offense,

1493
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:10,439
Speaker 1: they should be Okay, Josh needs to take with the

1494
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:12,880
Speaker 1: defense will give him. Sounds like a broken record, I know,

1495
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:16,400
Speaker 1: but this game is vitally important. Yeah, there's no really

1496
01:27:16,479 --> 01:27:19,559
Speaker 1: like take a page out of Burrows book in this one, right,

1497
01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:22,680
Speaker 1: don't force There's no reason to force anything unless you're

1498
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 1: way down on the scoreboard. Yeah. Defensively, the Bengals are

1499
01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:30,080
Speaker 1: number nine and points allowed per game, and the Bills

1500
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:32,200
Speaker 1: are number two, so there's a little bit of a

1501
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:38,600
Speaker 1: discrepancy there. But yeah, if you don't turn if the

1502
01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 1: Bills don't turn it over, they're gonna be hard to beat.

1503
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:46,040
Speaker 1: Their defense is a step up from where the Patriots

1504
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:51,479
Speaker 1: defense is. And that's who you know, the Bengals kind

1505
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: of lumped up last week. I just I just think

1506
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:57,040
Speaker 1: that the Bill. Yeah, the Bills are a really good team.

1507
01:27:57,080 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 1: The problem is, and we all know because we see

1508
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 1: it now, the angles are two. That's why this is

1509
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 1: such a huge game both these teams at the end

1510
01:28:03,800 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 1: of the season or head of the playoffs, and it's

1511
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:07,840
Speaker 1: gonna be who has the better road to the super Bowl.

1512
01:28:07,880 --> 01:28:10,360
Speaker 1: And this game is gonna tell them who. Yeah, you

1513
01:28:10,439 --> 01:28:12,639
Speaker 1: need it, you need this game. This is this It's

1514
01:28:12,680 --> 01:28:14,759
Speaker 1: been a while since the Bills had a needed game,

1515
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,000
Speaker 1: except for the fact that been the Chiefs have been

1516
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: chasing them pretty close to the whole season, so nipping

1517
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 1: at their heels ever since they beat him in Week six. Right,

1518
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:26,639
Speaker 1: So yeah, and that's why the race remains tight. And

1519
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,200
Speaker 1: that's why the magnitude of this game is what it is.

1520
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 1: And we had to wait the whole weekend before before

1521
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:37,880
Speaker 1: they even play it, and all night. I will say this,

1522
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 1: we do know. We will know obviously by Monday what

1523
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:43,720
Speaker 1: the Chiefs did or did not do in their game

1524
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:47,679
Speaker 1: against Denver. I think everybody's expecting them to win that game,

1525
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:51,920
Speaker 1: but still that's why they play them. Sure is it'll

1526
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 1: be fun to watch. It's gonna be Listen, this is

1527
01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:56,160
Speaker 1: gonna be a long week for all of It's gonna

1528
01:28:56,160 --> 01:28:58,160
Speaker 1: be a long weekend waiting for the Bills to play.

1529
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 1: It is the Apps loot by far best matchup on

1530
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:07,080
Speaker 1: the slate this weekend, and that the enormity of the outcome,

1531
01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:12,000
Speaker 1: it's almost just makes you crazy. Big show for you tomorrow,

1532
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:15,559
Speaker 1: including ESPN's Field Yates, the Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas.

1533
01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:17,519
Speaker 1: I'll be out tomorrow, but Christoph Pass who win this

1534
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:23,640
Speaker 1: seat with Steve, they'll see you at one