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Speaker 1: Oh, good time, step textome textown text time, Hello there,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a third state. Welcome to one Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Orchard Park, New York and New Airfield. No

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Speaker 1: sign of snow at all. A little bit of snow

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Speaker 1: overnight here in Orchard Park, but nothing on the field.

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Speaker 1: The saddest site you see if you're watching on an

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Speaker 1: MSG and you look at our picture of Newer Field

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Speaker 1: right now is the lack of goalposts. They take the

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Speaker 1: gold posts down to the off season, won right? Didn't

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Speaker 1: they feel that, say, oh, it's gonna be a while.

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Speaker 1: It's a barn, it turns into a storage facility. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a little while. It is. It's beginning to

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Speaker 1: set in on me anyway, Steve that the fact that

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Speaker 1: there are no players here, very few anyway, There are

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Speaker 1: no um, there's no football going on. It's a little

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Speaker 1: bit sad. The end of the season is a little

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Speaker 1: bit sad. Let me just tell you why it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be sad. And I didn't really we didn't rehear wen't

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Speaker 1: kind of figuring out what we're gonna do. What do

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Speaker 1: you mean we don't rehearse. Then this is the perfect segment.

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Speaker 1: This is the perfect well because it's all fresh when

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Speaker 1: we come on here. Right, So, yeah, you know why,

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Speaker 1: you know why people miss the NFL season. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you why. Why tell me forty six of the top

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Speaker 1: telecasts over the last four months in the year, in

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Speaker 1: the calendar year, forty six of the top fifty telecasts.

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Speaker 1: We're all football games. Yeah, everybody watches it. Well, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna four games this week, every NFL game you everage

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Speaker 1: fifteen million people are watching every single game on TV.

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Speaker 1: fIF at least fifteen right, that's all you know, it's

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Speaker 1: part of your life. Well you got yeah, you do it,

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Speaker 1: and it continues for another month. By the way, we

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Speaker 1: have playoffs here. But you've got the numbers in front

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Speaker 1: of you that show that everything what everybody was saying

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Speaker 1: a year and actually almost two years in a row

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Speaker 1: about oh look out on NFL ratings, on the decline,

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Speaker 1: the league is peaked and on the way down. Now

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Speaker 1: not the case at all now when it comes to

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Speaker 1: ton And here's the thing too. Even last year when

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Speaker 1: everybody was down and because of the anthem protests, what

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Speaker 1: it was an anthem protest. But because of the kneeling

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Speaker 1: during the National Anthem for Social Justice and all the

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Speaker 1: stuff that was going on with the protests, and everybody

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Speaker 1: was like down, that's not really the case of why then,

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Speaker 1: I don't think of why the viewership was down. The

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Speaker 1: viewership was down. Now, certainly there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: people upset about it, no question about it. But here's

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Speaker 1: one thing get and this is kind of rehearsed because

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Speaker 1: I did throw this by it. You couldn't guess because

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Speaker 1: you didn't guess high enough. What percentage of the average

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Speaker 1: digital streaming viewership increased across all games? What was the

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Speaker 1: percentage of increased people watching it on something other than

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Speaker 1: their broadcast, like on their phone or their tablet. What

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Speaker 1: was the average increase of percent of people doing that

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Speaker 1: as opposed to watching on TV. Eighty six percent more

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Speaker 1: Eighty six percent more people are doing that now than

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Speaker 1: they were last year. Probably, And yet there's still people

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Speaker 1: more people watching on TV right, probably a small number

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Speaker 1: to begin with and getting bigger. There's more people watch

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Speaker 1: on streaming video. But the TV ratings you can compare,

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Speaker 1: and I think a really meaningful way, right, right, what

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Speaker 1: I do if. Thursday Night Football was up four percent

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Speaker 1: look over satuation, over saturation, too much football, you don't

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Speaker 1: need more people watch that. Then the average than the

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Speaker 1: average from Sunday Night football. They average nineteen million over

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Speaker 1: nineteen million viewers. That's up six percent. Monday Night Football

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Speaker 1: sixteen point five million viewers per game. I mean that

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Speaker 1: care if they get most of the revenue, which they

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Speaker 1: have for decades now, most of the revenue comes from broadcasting.

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Speaker 1: How much revenue do they need from ticket sales? How

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Speaker 1: important is that to them? But what will what will

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Speaker 1: to look We're like the LA Chargers and you know,

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Speaker 1: But I do think there's some interesting things to keep

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Speaker 1: you look at the digital streaming rights, where's your growth opportunity?

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Speaker 1: They'll monetize it in no question they do. But you

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Speaker 1: know what else has happened? And Andrew Brandt mentioned this

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Speaker 1: You can do this like as the game's happening, right,

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Speaker 1: today's show, we got a good one. Boomer assissin from

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Speaker 1: the NFL on CBS, going to join us at one

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Speaker 1: the coaching Vancaci's You know Boomer a little bit, right,

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Speaker 1: he was very close with Frank Reicher. Yeah, Boomer and

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Have Boomer feels about me? Well, first question, right,

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts for the athletic website in Indye. I've written

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Speaker 1: some really good pieces about that team. They're remarkable turnaround

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Speaker 1: this year from what four wins to ten wins this year.

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich's impact, some of the others having a great impact,

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Speaker 1: some of their well coordinators on neither side of the

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Speaker 1: up at two o'clock and our Twitter poll today, and

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Speaker 1: let's get into that. Since the last April's draft, has

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Speaker 1: your opinion on Bill's quarterback Josh Allen changed? Pretty simple?

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Speaker 1: Did you know he was that fast he outruns linebackers

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Speaker 1: and safeties on a consistent basis to the corner and linebackers.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that about him. Did anybody know that.

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Speaker 1: All I'm saying is there was an awful lot of

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Speaker 1: opinions about Josh Allen generated last spring and even after

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Speaker 1: the draft that were just totally uninformed, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's why we got so many people saying, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: my opinion on Josh Allen has changed considerably. Yeah, let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think. Eight h three five fifty

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Speaker 1: the line from Arcade as a thought on this aeron,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air, Hey, Mark, There's just

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Speaker 1: one question about what you just said, because you're a

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Speaker 1: big draft breakdown dot com guy like I am. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: they're not there anymore. He said, you didn't notice at

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Speaker 1: the speed last year? How did you see that in college?

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Speaker 1: That was something that was very evident on tape. I thought, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I watched some games. I didn't think he

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Speaker 1: would run like that in the NFL? Did you he

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Speaker 1: was running, well, he was running against plow horses at Wyoming.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't running against you know, Kiko Alonzo. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, very very true, very true. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: but my back to my original points, my position hasn't

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Speaker 1: changed I think that he's much more accurate than when

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Speaker 1: people said he was gonna be. He had a ton

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Speaker 1: of drops in college. I mean, he misses strows, but

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Speaker 1: so does every other quarterback. And sometimes, you know, you

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Speaker 1: see a lot of the where he thinks the running

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Speaker 1: zone and the running man or vice versa. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I watched every single game at at

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Speaker 1: Wyoming and every every am I Draft Breakdown dot com

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Speaker 1: and unfortunately, yeah, like I said, it's no longer there.

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Speaker 1: But the accuracy that the guys are talking about on

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Speaker 1: ESPN dot com, I think my feeling you just regurgitated

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Speaker 1: because they hear it. Yeah, I agree that happened. You know,

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Speaker 1: the biggest factor in his lack of accuracy, I believe

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Speaker 1: at Wyoming and this year with the Bills and what

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Speaker 1: they say, he's a fifty two fifty three percent complete percentage.

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Speaker 1: It's not his arm, it's the type of passes. For instance,

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Speaker 1: our buddy Greg Coset will talk to him about this

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Speaker 1: tomorrow NFL matchup on ESPM. They generate stats most throws

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Speaker 1: twenty yards of more and downfield. The Green Bay Packers

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Speaker 1: thirty four percent of their completions came twenty yards more

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Speaker 1: downfield Aaron Rodgers. There's number two in the NFL. The

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Twenty seven percent of their completions were more

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Speaker 1: than twenty yards downfield, second in the NFL. Those are

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Speaker 1: the type of passes they're attempting. Those are the type

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Speaker 1: of passes that will not be completed on a high

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Speaker 1: percentage basis. I believe that's why his completion percentage is

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Speaker 1: fifty two, fifty three, whatever it is. And I think

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Speaker 1: some of it also is a young and I see

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Speaker 1: this in him, a young quarterback who doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: take the easy completion. He's just not He feels like

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Speaker 1: he wants to win the play the big way every game,

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Speaker 1: every play. You know, he doesn't. He's not interested in

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Speaker 1: taking the easy complete quote unquote easy completion. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if there is one for him yet,

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Speaker 1: but I think he does push the ball down field

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Speaker 1: because that's that's in his nature to do it. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know how hard it has been or what

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Speaker 1: the conversations have been between the coaches and Josh about hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: just take what's there. This last game, I remember we

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Speaker 1: had him in and I can't remember whether it was

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Speaker 1: and when we had him on or whether I heard

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Speaker 1: him postgame. Uh, list he completed sixty percent of his

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Speaker 1: passes this last week, and he said one of the

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Speaker 1: things they talked about was just getting the completion? Didny

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Speaker 1: Is that what it was on our show? Right? He said,

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get the completions. Well, if that's

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Speaker 1: all it takes to be ever will do that, you know,

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Speaker 1: and they will, I mean they'll be all over him

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Speaker 1: about that. Those they listen, take the completion, stay on

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Speaker 1: the field, get another first down, and you get more

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Speaker 1: chances to push it down the field. Um, this last

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Speaker 1: week he completed sixty percent of his passes, and that's

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Speaker 1: what he said. He says, No, I was just trying

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Speaker 1: to take the get the completion. I was like, who

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Speaker 1: as a right, Yeah, I mean there's so many questions

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Speaker 1: that brings up, right, what the hell? Like, Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: were you doing before that? Dude? Right? That's the object

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Speaker 1: in the you know, So for him, the object is

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Speaker 1: to get a touchdown in every play, not to take

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Speaker 1: the completion. So now that you know, to me, I

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Speaker 1: thought that was really telling. Then he's a sharp guy.

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Speaker 1: And if he starts to take that attitude, you know,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, maybe he does start to complete

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Speaker 1: sixty percent of his past on a regular basis, and

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Speaker 1: then where we gonna be, you know, then we're then

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Speaker 1: what's next? Right, there's a lot a lot to work,

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Speaker 1: finished product. I don't know all right, So let us

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Speaker 1: know what you think. Since last April's drafted, has your

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Speaker 1: opinion on Josh Allen changed? If so, why maybe you'd

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Speaker 1: like to tell us was there a turning point? Was

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Speaker 1: there a point where you thought, Okay, now I see it.

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Speaker 1: Let us know. Give us a call. We got phone

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Speaker 1: lines open. Twitter is open at one, bills live phone

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Speaker 1: lines at eight O three oh five fifty and toll

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

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Speaker 1: A couple of Bills notes today. As far as news

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Speaker 1: wide receivers, coach Terry Robiski reportedly will not come back

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Speaker 1: for a second year to coach with the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: That's according to Sirius XM's Alex Marvez. Robisky, the former

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator of the Titans, came onto the Bills last

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Speaker 1: year replacing Phil McGahan, and he reportedly has gone no

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Speaker 1: confirmation on that from the Bills and first round draft pick.

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds is the NFL defensive Rookie of the Month

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Speaker 1: for the month of December. Forty three tackles, four pass breakups,

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Speaker 1: a sack, and the first two interceptions of his career,

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Speaker 1: which brings up in Steve's behind a very interesting question.

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Speaker 1: So couple of the questions. Tremaine Edmonds is the defensive

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Speaker 1: rookie of the month? Is it AFC or NFL? Let

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Speaker 1: me double check defensive rookie of the month of December.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be the NFL. Yeah, the NFL defensive

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Speaker 1: rookie of the month. And yet somebody else was the

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Speaker 1: defensive player of the month, another rookie. Another was Darius

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Speaker 1: Leonard Cold he was the he was the defensive player

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Speaker 1: of the month for the NFL. He's a rookie, and

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds is the rookie defensive rookie of the month.

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Speaker 1: Who Yeah, Well, they're just trying to spread it around

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Speaker 1: a little bit, I guess now. And the same thing

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Speaker 1: happened offensively, right, Josh Allen's what what is Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: defensive or offensive? Offensive Rookie of the month, Rookie of

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Speaker 1: the month, and the offensive player of the month. Is

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Yeah, what am I I'm missing something? You

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Speaker 1: got a problem? You got you gotta call the league

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Speaker 1: office and say what are you doing here? It's a

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Speaker 1: valid point. I don't know. All right, You're you're getting set.

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Speaker 1: You're headed to the hockey game tonight. We were talking

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Speaker 1: about that yesterday. Savers and the Florida Panthers. No, Jack Eichel,

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Speaker 1: you did not practice today, will not play. I have

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Speaker 1: a question for you, a hockey fan, what is wrong

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Speaker 1: with Jack Eichel And why do we not know? You've

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Speaker 1: got the number one player on a team that has

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Speaker 1: more fan interest, I would think than any team in

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Speaker 1: the NHL, at least in the United States, and everybody's

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Speaker 1: just okay with upper body injury? What is that? Is

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Speaker 1: it a cold soar on his lip? Is it a headache?

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00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: Is it a shotgun wound to his shoulder? What is

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Speaker 1: an upper body injury? And how do people not know?

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Speaker 1: It could be anything in there right above his waist,

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Speaker 1: above his waist, anything goes and we don't know. I

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Speaker 1: think fans deserve to know. He's clearly the most important

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Speaker 1: player on the Buffalo roster, one of the most important

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Speaker 1: players in the game, and All Star now and we're

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Speaker 1: okay with upper body injury. You couldn't get away with

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Speaker 1: that in the NFL. You could not get away with

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Speaker 1: that in the NFL. And if they didn't tell you,

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Speaker 1: people would dig into it and find out what it is.

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Speaker 1: I never understood it about hockey. I want to know

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with Jack Ico? Is he out just a

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Speaker 1: couple more games? He's listed? You know, hous he said,

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Speaker 1: today's day today, okay, not playing tonight? Not playing tonight,

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Speaker 1: and we're all good with that upper body injury? How

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Speaker 1: do we not demand to know you're going you're buying

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Speaker 1: tickets tonight. You have a right to know. You're a fan.

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Speaker 1: How the number one player on your team's not playing?

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Speaker 1: You're okay, but going in here and say, well, something

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Speaker 1: north of his belly button is wrong, so he's not

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Speaker 1: playing tonight. You're okay with that? No good? Why not

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Speaker 1: tell us? You gotta tell us not like he's if

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Speaker 1: he's I mean, I don't know. I don't get why

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Speaker 1: they don't, because listen, it's not like he's gonna get

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Speaker 1: hurt further if you tell us right right, and there's

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Speaker 1: and I know the old time Honey's like well, if

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Speaker 1: he's got like say, for instance, if he's got a

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Speaker 1: bad elbow, the other team could hit him on his elbow,

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Speaker 1: could I'm like, come on, that happens in other sports too.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fan on, I mean yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean yeah, whether it's whether it's a hang nail or

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Speaker 1: like you said, a shaving nick or whatever is wrong

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Speaker 1: with him, or or you know, a next spasm. Who knows.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea, but it's ridiculous to think fans

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Speaker 1: don't deserve to know. Well what's the big secret? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't get it, and I know what's going on people,

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Speaker 1: even the guys in our own control them. Well that's so.

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Speaker 1: Whether they do it in hockey, well that's a stupid

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Speaker 1: thing to do in hockey. Among the things, he's got

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Speaker 1: an upper body injury. Really, most important player on your roster,

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Speaker 1: and and your fans, your season ticket holders, your loyal

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00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: fans like Steve Tasker, don't have a right to know.

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Speaker 1: Just have an idea, get a murph stick up for me.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe to get away with that. I know,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you get away with it. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: letting me. I'm glad you did, all right, If I

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Speaker 1: just did because I'm going tonight. I'm listen, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't know until I got in this morning he wasn't

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Speaker 1: gonna play tonight, And I'm like, I'm com bummed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to see him because I've seen I've seen

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Speaker 1: the difference when you don't have good players on the

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Speaker 1: ice and when you do. It's better when you do.

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Speaker 1: And wouldn't you rather know? Shoulder? Is it a shoulder?

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Speaker 1: Is it a back injury? Is it an elbow? Is it?

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Speaker 1: How am I supposed to worry about him? If I

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Speaker 1: don't know, how I'm gonna worry? Right? How am I

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Speaker 1: supposed to worry about Jack? How can I you know?

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Speaker 1: How can I you know, throw prayers up? Probably don't

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Speaker 1: know what I'm praying for? Right. It's one of those

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Speaker 1: one name guys. He's like Gandhi. You know, you just

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Speaker 1: say one name and everybody knows you're talking about He's

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Speaker 1: an important guy. Two names. Captain Jack, Captain Jack. All right, enough,

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Speaker 1: how you talk? We're coming back to talk about the

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Speaker 1: bills in the NFL. We got Boomer Sizing coming up

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock. We got a look inside the Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: Colts playoff on Indianapolis Colts coming up at two. Plenty

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Speaker 1: of time for you to weigh in. Two on Josh Allen?

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Speaker 1: Has your opinion changed since April when he was drafted

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Speaker 1: by the Bills. Give us a call. Phone lines open

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Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty and toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty, or you

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Speaker 1: can do it on Twitter. At one goes Live, we

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Speaker 1: might read your tweet on the air One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back John mur if

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Speaker 1: he's Steve Tasker here until three. One goes Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bills Drive. We're coming to you live from what

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Speaker 1: your park from our one Buffalo studio. Take a few

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Speaker 1: phone calls here. We're talking a lot about Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Did he has your opinion change since he was drafted

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Speaker 1: back in April? Call on a different topic from Allen? Buffalo. Hello,

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Speaker 1: I'll go ahead. You're on the air, all well, you

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Speaker 1: gotta talk to us. Turn the radio down. Hello, Al,

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Speaker 1: nice to talk to you. Al. I hope you enjoyed

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Speaker 1: your call. Ray what I got If you're on If

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Speaker 1: you're on hold on a radio station. You gotta turn

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Speaker 1: your radio down because it'll you'll be able to hear

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Speaker 1: it over the earpiece of the radio. So is that, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's funny because nobody's really said that in the last

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Speaker 1: forty five years, right, right, you think people are into it?

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Speaker 1: By let's go to a Ray and Buffalo. Ray Are

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Speaker 1: you there? Please be there? Ray? Hello? Right? Ray? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Ray go yes, and I have my radio off,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Ray. Everything's in place? Then, um so yeah,

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Speaker 1: So my opinion on um Josh Allen hasn't changed, It

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Speaker 1: actually increased. I think this guy really has me excited

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Speaker 1: for next year. Like since the Jacksonville game, I think

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Speaker 1: he's just getting better and better and I'm really really

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Speaker 1: excited for next year. I think he has the potential

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Speaker 1: being a top ten quarterback. I really do. Um. I

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Speaker 1: love the stuff I said. I love the poissy as

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Speaker 1: in the pocket. I love the leadership and the toughness

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Speaker 1: that he brings. And his accuracy I think is I

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Speaker 1: don't know if some people are talking about I think

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Speaker 1: he's really accurate as far as what I see. And

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Speaker 1: but here's a question, right, did you feel that strongly

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Speaker 1: about him back in April when they drafted him or

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Speaker 1: right before the draft. Um, you know, I was fine

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Speaker 1: with that. I didn't know too much about him as

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Speaker 1: much as you know some of the other ones. I

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Speaker 1: like looked at him as I just hope this is

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Speaker 1: the right pick. I guess I didn't see too much

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Speaker 1: of the games. Unfortunately it's past year. Yeah, no, I um,

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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled. I'm overjoyed at that pick. Really, And I

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Speaker 1: also have a question to that, like that time, then

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Speaker 1: sure go ahead for Steve. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: know about a lot of the coaching candidates. I kind

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Speaker 1: of like this year. I'd like to see who's out there.

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Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if there's anyone that you think is

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Speaker 1: going to be like a really good coach. And I've

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Speaker 1: always been intrigued by special teams guys, you know, especially

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Speaker 1: since like Marvin All that and a name that I've

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Speaker 1: seen recently that's in circulating. I think he was from

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins staff. He's Darren Rizzy. He's with Cincinnati. These guys.

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Speaker 1: Are you have been input on these candidates? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: like all of them. I spoke to Darren Rizzy was

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Speaker 1: with the Cincinnati Bengals this last year. Or no, maybe

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Speaker 1: that's Darren Simmons. Anyway, Yes, I know these guys. I've

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Speaker 1: spoken with a lot of them, and some of them

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Speaker 1: would make good head coaches, I think. And at this

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Speaker 1: the current point in history of the NFL, certainly you

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Speaker 1: have to know x's and o's on both sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball, or at least one of the sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball, and you have to be you know, at

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Speaker 1: least well versed in the other. But the real thing

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Speaker 1: is aside from that, and there are a ton of

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Speaker 1: guys who were there. I mean, there are a ton

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Speaker 1: of guys who have put in, you know, ten thousand

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Speaker 1: hours of watching film and start and putting together game

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Speaker 1: plans and been on different staffs and that. But what

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Speaker 1: it boils down to is leadership. You have to be

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Speaker 1: a guy to stand in front of a room. And

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Speaker 1: it's not like being a show performer. It's not like

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Speaker 1: being a comedian where you know, you you got to

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Speaker 1: get them to buy in. It's you've got to be

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Speaker 1: real and they've You've got to be somebody who inspires

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Speaker 1: them to go out and be physically uncomfortable and risk

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Speaker 1: physical injury and play hard and compete for you and

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Speaker 1: each other. You have to be a guy that's willing

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Speaker 1: to do that and able to do that. And that's

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Speaker 1: and that's one of the aspects that I think is

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Speaker 1: not exclusive of an offensive coordinator or defensive coordinator or

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Speaker 1: any of these other guys. Special teams guys are that

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Speaker 1: way as well, and they actually learn that well coming

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Speaker 1: up as a special teams guy because they touch all

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Speaker 1: positioned groups of the roster, because they got to get

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Speaker 1: him to play special teams. They got they need defensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: they need defensive backs, they need offensive guys, skill guys

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Speaker 1: off all that stuff. So they know all the guys

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Speaker 1: on the roster usually and have a and learn how

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Speaker 1: to relate to them. Just checking Rizzi is in Miami,

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Speaker 1: in fact, they're going to interview him for their head

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Speaker 1: coaching vacancy, and Simmons is in Cincinnati and he's going

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Speaker 1: to get interviewed to replace Hugh Jackson. Yeah, so that's good,

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Speaker 1: that's positive development. John Arbow was a special team John

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Speaker 1: Harbaugh was a special teams coach. So was Frank Ganz,

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Speaker 1: who is a head coach of the Kansas c Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have as a successful a head coaching career

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Speaker 1: as he did as a special teams coordinator. Frank Ganz

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Speaker 1: Junior is still coaching his son, who was with the

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Speaker 1: Hamilton Tiger Cats this last year. So yeah, there's no question,

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Speaker 1: and it is about the person that you bring and

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Speaker 1: a lot of it now and I'm not really as

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Speaker 1: well versus i'd like to be in how the interview

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Speaker 1: process for head coaches works in the NFL. I know

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Speaker 1: they're extremely extensive. This isn't a fifteen twenty minute internship,

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Speaker 1: you know, where you're going to sit down for fifteen

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes with an HR person you know, looking for

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Speaker 1: an internship. This is an hour after hour grind of

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Speaker 1: offensive philosophy, defensive philosophy, experience, and mostly who or who

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Speaker 1: do you know that's going to come coach with you

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Speaker 1: in this team? Who is going to be on your staff?

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Speaker 1: What coordinator is going to come in, like, for instance,

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Speaker 1: what coordinator is going to come in and make Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen into Aaron Rodgers or Josh Allen into Jim Kelly

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Speaker 1: or Josh Allen whoever you want him to be. Who's

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Speaker 1: gonna do that? Who's gonna do that in Arizona? Who's

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Speaker 1: going to come in and make Josh Rosen, a guy

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Speaker 1: that we have more faith in than we do. After

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Speaker 1: he put together his season, Who's going to come in

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Speaker 1: as our with our Baker Mayfield into Cleveland and continue

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Speaker 1: what he started to put together. Who's going to do

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Speaker 1: that on your staff? And that's critical to what you

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Speaker 1: know comes together as a coaching staff. I can give

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Speaker 1: you one instance too. You think about this, the Colts

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Speaker 1: are in the playoffs. Frank Reich, who as all of

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Speaker 1: you might well know as a friend of mine, was

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Speaker 1: the second choice for the Colts, right, but they had

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Speaker 1: already hired the defensive staff, right, Matt Eberflus was came

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Speaker 1: in from Dallas and I and we had the conversation

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Speaker 1: with Frank Rich when we covered the Colts this year

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Speaker 1: a couple of times, and we said, what's the story?

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Speaker 1: You know, how to go with you and Matt Eberflus,

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Speaker 1: because if you didn't hear Frank Wright used the coordinator

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Speaker 1: for his defense that Josh McDaniels hired before he renigged okay,

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Speaker 1: so you can imagine the awkward situation that was. Right,

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Speaker 1: neither one of these guys knew each other. And Frank

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Speaker 1: Reich told us in our meetings. He said, Listen, I

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Speaker 1: knew ten minutes into our first conversation that was gonna work.

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Speaker 1: And not only has it worked, Eberflus is is on

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Speaker 1: the hot list for being a head coach. Now they're

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Speaker 1: talking to him in Cleveland. Eberflus can get it done.

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Speaker 1: And Frank Reich was smart enough to ask him the

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Speaker 1: right questions. And they're two of a kind. So it worked.

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Speaker 1: But they got I mean, you talk about falling into it.

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Speaker 1: The Colts fell into it. And I don't know who's

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Speaker 1: watching over Jim Er say, the owner of the Colts, somebody,

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Speaker 1: some winged being, some guardian angel is watching over him.

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Speaker 1: So he has it. He inherits Peyton Manning. When he

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Speaker 1: takes over. He's got this guy, Actually he doesn't. Bill

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Speaker 1: Polian picks him right, so because he's got one smart

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Speaker 1: guy in the room, right, Bill Pollian picks Peyton Manning

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Speaker 1: over a guy that looked like Josh Allen. That was yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Leaf, right. Ryan Leaf was Josh Allen, right, except

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Speaker 1: he was a train He turned out to be a

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Speaker 1: train wreck and not the great guy we got. So

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Speaker 1: you got this guy like Jim Ris, so he so

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Speaker 1: he gets Peyton Manning scoots through for thirteen years with

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Speaker 1: this guy, Peyton Manning, who he's on autopilot. Then because

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Speaker 1: of Manning's injury, they have one bad year. He falls

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Speaker 1: into a generational another generational quarterback, and Andrew Luck. Now

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Speaker 1: he's got him. And then Chuck Pocano can't get it

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Speaker 1: done even with Andrew Lux, so they fire him. They

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Speaker 1: make the change. They bring in these new guys, and

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Speaker 1: he falls into Frank Reich, who then falls into Matt Eberflus.

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Speaker 1: And now they're in the playoffs again. Somebody's watching out

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Speaker 1: for somebody's watching out for that franchise like nobody else.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk. That seems to me like dumb luck.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Older is going to join this set that too.

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Speaker 1: He covers the cults for the Athletic dot Com. Gotta

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Speaker 1: stop thinking about I gotta stop thinking about that. That's

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Speaker 1: starting to bother me. That's how do they That's lucky

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Speaker 1: break after lucky break after a lucky break. Now they

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Speaker 1: make some like two smart decisions. Peyton Manning over Ryan

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Speaker 1: Lee Tony Dungee was a great move. But other than that,

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Speaker 1: then they got um, they got Andrew Luck. They made

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Speaker 1: that choice, which was painfully obvious to make. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they get credit for that, but then they

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Speaker 1: make a wrong decision in my opinion picked josh Dan McDaniels.

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Speaker 1: They get a lucky break he ran Niggs, turns out

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Speaker 1: to be what that was and fall into his defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator and their second choice, Frank Roich, and and it

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Speaker 1: turns into serendipit. How does that happen? Luck? You right? Luck?

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Speaker 1: And it's it's a little bit of Andrew luck mixed

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Speaker 1: in there. I'm like, I think of think of all

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have been through over the past fifteen

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Speaker 1: or twenty years. We couldn't catch a break for two o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't catch a break. And the Colts are falling

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Speaker 1: into a time after time after time. Come on, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to get upset about then to talk about

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Speaker 1: the Colts. You can register these complaints with him, are

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Speaker 1: you with? Am I out here? By myself? I think

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Speaker 1: luck plays a role in in the NFL a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways, and that, yeah, they fell into some good thing.

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Speaker 1: Plays a role, Yeah, plays a role. Look at that.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you the Colts are depending on it. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about the pun of having Andrew

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Speaker 1: Luck as their quarterback. They have been as fortunate a franchise,

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Speaker 1: name another one over the last two decades that have

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Speaker 1: been that fortunate. I can't, I can think for a minute.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they get they get jilted by Josh McDaniels,

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Speaker 1: and they fall into a better guy in Frank Reich,

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Speaker 1: and he falls into the coordinator that was that was

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Speaker 1: already hired, and now they're in the playoffs. I I can't,

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Speaker 1: all right, I know, I'm I'm I'm kind of flying

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Speaker 1: away here, but sorry, I think about that for just

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Speaker 1: a minute. And then we're sitting here in Buffalo. We

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Speaker 1: we can't catch we can't catch a break. We couldn't

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Speaker 1: catch a break for fifteen or twenty years. How does

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Speaker 1: that where's the fairness there? Come down? How does the

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Speaker 1: cosmic where's the cosmic balance? Come down? We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: with about the Colts. Obviously, Steve's got some serious thoughts

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Speaker 1: about the Colts. Stephen Holder's gonna he covers the team

846
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: for the Athletic would be with us at two o'clock

847
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: when we're science. Assissin's gonna join us in one. We

848
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: got more to talk about two including Josh Allen. Are

849
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: you surprised by what he've done and did he fulfill

850
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: your expectations? Let's talk about him. We return One Bill's

851
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: Live presented by Allat of Health from One Bill's Drive

852
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio One does Live from One Bill's Drive.

853
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: Cho mur if he's deep cashier here until three o'clock.

854
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: Had a good conversation going aside from the Indianapolis Colts.

855
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: We will it was good. There's a lot of passion there. Hey.

856
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: Somebody pointed out though the Bills have had a little

857
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: bit of good fortune. I mean the the Cincinnati pass

858
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: final play of the game put the Buffalo Bills in

859
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. That's a little bit of luck

860
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: and Buffalo's way last year. Right, Yeah, that's true, That

861
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: is true. You know, That's what I mean. Luck plays

862
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: a role in versus I'll tell you what too. We

863
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: had this conversation, Hon't we got other stuff to talk about,

864
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: but we had this little conversation. It's maybe for a

865
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: new future time. I think the Bills took a big

866
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: step forward this year, but had a losing a worse

867
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: record than they did last year. I would agree with that,

868
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's hard to take as a fan.

869
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: But if you if you sit back and look as yeah,

870
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: it stinks. But I think they're a better football team

871
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: this year than they were last year, and obviously on

872
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: the on the defensive side of the bowl. But yet

873
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: their record didn't reflect it. And I think it is

874
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: because of the turnover. I think the step forwards is

875
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: simply because they have their quarterback in place. Your goot,

876
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: this time the quarterback was not in place. If you

877
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: think this team would have beaten last year's team, ooh yeah,

878
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 1: because last year's team could you could score ten points

879
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: and beat them. Yeah, see that's what this year's team

880
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: by the end of the year was scoring some points. Yeah,

881
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: that's what I think. That's the that's a good question.

882
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: I think that's why I'm you know, it was hard

883
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: to take. It was a worse record, obviously, Yeah, but

884
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,359
Speaker 1: I think I think they're a better football team this year.

885
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: I think so, mostly because the quarterbacks in play. Yeah,

886
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: speaking of Luck twenty six years ago today, what role

887
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 1: did Luck play in the all time game for the franchise?

888
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 1: Twenty six years ago today? Right around this time, right

889
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: across the parking lot, bills in the Houston Oilers in

890
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: the wildcard playoff game and the Bills, down thirty five

891
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: to three, come back to win it forty one to

892
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: thirty eight. The greatest comeback in NFL history. Was Was

893
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: luck a factor in that at all? Steve? Sure, tell

894
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 1: me how and why. There are a number of different occasions.

895
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: I mean it was, you know, guys having interceptions go

896
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: through their hands for the Oilers. How about beating right

897
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: there and the one MSG just showed her that went

898
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: right through the guy's hands and fell in the arms

899
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: of Pete met slars Beebe stepped out of bounds and

900
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: cut back in. That was luck that the official never

901
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: called it. We got a surprise on sidekick. That's a

902
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: lot of that's luck. Yes, what I did on that game,

903
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: I said nothing. I slapped hinies as they were coming on.

904
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: I did. I pulled Steve Christie out of the pile

905
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 1: when he had the ball after the surprise on side

906
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,919
Speaker 1: so nobody would reach it away from him. I pulled

907
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: him out of that and that was I think that

908
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: was the only contribution I can think of. But it was.

909
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: And you know as now as you sit here twenty

910
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: six years later and Frank Reich is a head coach

911
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,439
Speaker 1: headed to the playoffs with the Indianapolis Colts. Um. Yeah,

912
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: it's it's a lifetime ago, right, I mean that's you know,

913
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: Warren Moon's in the Hall of Fame, Jim Kelly's in

914
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, thurm and Andre Bruce Aldom in

915
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. It was quite the game you

916
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: played in four twenty six years ago. Is that the

917
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: most memorable game that the twenty six years ago today,

918
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: even with the four Super Bowls? Or is there something

919
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: else that's one? I you know, it's because that was

920
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: such a storied team here in the Western New York region. Obviously,

921
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: people remember it so fondly and it's getting further and

922
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 1: further and you have to be of you know, older

923
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: and older generation to remember those teams and what it

924
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: was like. There were so many storied games. The fifty

925
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: one to three game might have been one of my

926
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: all time memorable ones. Uh I caught I actually caught

927
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: passing that game, so you know, it was it was

928
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: one of many. I mean that team was special, not

929
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: just because of that comeback game. That comeback game typified

930
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: things about that team people loved, but there were a

931
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: lot of games that that that was that were a blast.

932
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about Josh Allen this last week

933
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: had five touchdowns. Jim Kelly in that season um through

934
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,439
Speaker 1: three interceptions on a Monday night game in the first

935
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: quarter against Cincinnati and came back through through five touchdowns.

936
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: I mean, that's, you know, amazing. It was a lot

937
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: of stories about that team and it was and that

938
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: comeback was certainly one of the twenty six years ago

939
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: today great memory. All right, we'll talk to Boomer Assiason

940
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: about his buddy Frank Wright, Steve's buddy Frank Wright. We'll

941
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: talk to him about the playoffs, about coaching moves, it

942
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: about the Bills. Boomer assiasin from the NFL on CBS

943
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: standing by to join us when we return One Bills

944
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:24,760
Speaker 1: Live from One Bills Drive. And this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello,

945
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Stories update update from One Bill's Drive

946
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: report side of the Bills are not going to bring

947
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: back wide receiving coach Terry Robiski for a second season.

948
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: That's according to Sirius xm Alex Marves. No confirmation to

949
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: that from the Buffalo Bills today. Robiski, who was the

950
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans joined the Bills last year.

951
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: One season with the Bills, Terry Robiski maybe out. That's

952
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: the report. No confirmation. One Cassio, offensive line coach was

953
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: also let go by the Bills at the end of

954
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: the year. More accolades for the Buffalo Bills rookies. Tremaine Edmunds,

955
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: Bills linebacker first round draft pick, has been named the

956
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 1: NFL Defense of Rookie of the Month. Forty three tackles

957
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: in the month of December, four pass breakups, the sack,

958
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: and the first two interceptions of his career. Adam Gas

959
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: on the list of interviewees for the New York Jets

960
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 1: head coaching job. Schedule the interview with the Jets today,

961
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: according to NFL Network, he will first interview with the

962
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals before he meets with the Jets. Steelers coach

963
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin says Antonio Brown was benched Sunday against Cincinnati

964
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: after he failed to show up for work on Saturday,

965
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: and he says the wide receiver has not asked for

966
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: a trade. For the first time, the NFL is partnering

967
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: with a casino at the league level. The league announced

968
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: today a partnership with Caesar's Entertainment that will make the

969
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: Gaming Giant the first ever official casino sponsor of the NFL.

970
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: Sabers Captain Jack Iko will represent his team in the

971
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: NHL All Star Game on January twenty six. It's the

972
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: All Star Weekend twenty fifth and twenty six. Second time

973
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 1: Ichol will participate in the All Star Game. He will

974
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: not participate in tonight's game. Sabers supposed to Florida Panthers

975
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: tonight seven o'clock faceoff at key Bank Center, IKA with

976
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: an upper body injury. College basketball figure it out yourself.

977
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: I guess college basketball Kennasians on the road to begin

978
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: their first game in the Metro Atlantic Atlantic Conference. They

979
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 1: play at Maris College in Poughkeepsie tonight. The Grips three

980
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: and eight. First matt game tonight. And that's the update

981
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: from one Bill's Drive. Why are you laughing because of

982
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 1: our earlier discussion about upper body injuries? Yes, yeah, the

983
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: pregman what is us? Is it a toothache or does

984
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 1: he have like a broken arm? Right? It could be anything.

985
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: We're supposed to guess in the NHL. We won't get

986
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: off on Boomer. Boomer might know Boomers. Boomer Assias in

987
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: former NFL quarterback fourteen seasons with the Bengals, with the

988
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: Jets in Arizona, NFL MVP, four Pro Bowl appearances, of course,

989
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: a successful broadcaster, now a host of NFL Today on CBS,

990
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: also a radio host on w f A n in

991
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: New York. Boomer assiasin on the Subway Fresh Take contline

992
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: with US Boomer, John Murphy and Steve Tasker up here

993
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. What is the deal with the NHL and

994
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: upper body injury? Steve said to ask you can you

995
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: figure that out? I've figured it out that it cheerfully,

996
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: you know, something that has to do with a show

997
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: older or a you know, or an OL ball or

998
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: something like that. But thanks for having me on, John

999
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: and Steve. You know, the NHL has got a lay

1000
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: of describing and I guess hiding injuries better than any

1001
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: of the leaks that we've seen the cover. Yeah, exactly, Well,

1002
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: all right, we'll get let's let's stick to the to

1003
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: the ball that's not round football yet. What do you

1004
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: think now, as I know the season winding down, we

1005
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: wanted to bring in and you played, you were a

1006
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: great quarterback. What do you think of this rookie quarterback class.

1007
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like it's gonna span the gamut

1008
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: and hit all the hints of the spectrum. You've got

1009
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in the playoffs as a running quarterback. You've

1010
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: got Baker Mayfield who was seven times offensive Rookie of

1011
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: the of the of the Week. So, um, it looks

1012
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: like a pretty good class at first glance. What do

1013
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: you think. I think it's a terrific class, Steve. You know,

1014
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 1: they actually outplayed what I thought and expected from all

1015
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: of them, maybe with the exception in Josh Rosen, but

1016
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: he was in a really bad environment. So I hope

1017
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: he hasn't you know, he's not too shocked in to negativity,

1018
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: but he seems to be a pretty good kid personality

1019
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: was she'd be able to handle it. But you know,

1020
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: when I look at Baker Mayfield, he exceeded all expectations.

1021
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: They probably should have started him Week one. Sam Darnold

1022
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: down here in New York really had a good season

1023
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: after he kind of hit the rookie wall midway through

1024
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: the season when he came back from an injury, played

1025
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: well to finish out the season. When you guys saw

1026
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: him up there against the Bills. And of course I

1027
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: love Josh Allen. And I'm not just saying that. I'm

1028
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: with you guys, and you guys are in Buffalo and

1029
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: he plays for the Bills. It was interesting going into

1030
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: not this past college season, but the year before when

1031
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: Josh was at Wyoming. My son Gunner said, Dad, you

1032
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: gotta see this kid at Wyoming, because Gunner watches all

1033
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: these late games. I think Josh was playing a lot

1034
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: of late Thursday night games, late Saturday. Again, Dad, you

1035
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: gotta see Josh Allen. You gotta see Josh Allen. So

1036
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: I went back. I watched some of the some of

1037
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,959
Speaker 1: the tapes of him on YouTube and things of that nature,

1038
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, this kid is unbelievable. And

1039
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: he's playing in Wyoming, not with a lot of support

1040
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: around him, He's playing in bed there, and I'm saying, man,

1041
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: this kid should be number one. Maybe for Cleveland that

1042
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: would be a perfect fit, and maybe Baker Mayfield flight

1043
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 1: to the Jets and then maybe, you know, then maybe

1044
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: Sam donald Leh goes to the Giants, or maybe he

1045
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: goes to the Bills or something of that nature. But

1046
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,479
Speaker 1: run he turned out to be perfect for him. Because

1047
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: I think he represents the fan base. I think his

1048
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: style of play fits the building. I think he was

1049
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: playing with one hand behind his back this year simply

1050
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: because they don't have a lot of offensive talent on

1051
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: that team around him. In plus, Steve, you know this,

1052
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: I know this from playing my rookie year. Rookies really

1053
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: have no idea what they are doing, and that fact

1054
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: alone adversely affects everybody that they play with on the field.

1055
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: There's a lot of uncertainty, there's a lot of indecision,

1056
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of mistakes. I wonder how many formations

1057
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: and personnel groups he got long snapped the ball, dropped back,

1058
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: looked out there, didn't see anything, and then took off

1059
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: and ran. And a credit to his athleticism that he

1060
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: was able to get himself out of trouble. And he'll

1061
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: be a different player next year, and they will be

1062
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: a better offense or much like they will be down

1063
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: here in New York. And I venture to say that

1064
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: all the quarterbacks will be better next year is don't

1065
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: understand now exactly what their role is. Yeah, I agree

1066
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: with you. I think all these guys have a big upside,

1067
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: including Josh Rosen, who as you say, struggled probably on

1068
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: the worst team in football this year. I think the

1069
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: sky's limit for a lot of these guys. The one

1070
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: guy do want to ask you about the guy in

1071
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs, Lamar Jackson. They're doing it in Baltimore different

1072
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: than everybody else, but they're winning games. What do you

1073
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: see as the future Lamar Jackson, and how it's going

1074
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: to play out in Baltimore, not only for these playoffs,

1075
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 1: but for the future of that offense with him there. Yeah,

1076
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't think the offensivey they're running are right now

1077
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 1: is sustainable. You know, ask Andrew Locke and ask him

1078
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: Newton what it means to run in this league and

1079
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: how quickly your career can end or you could be

1080
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: put on the shelf. So running with the football, while

1081
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: it's a novelty right now, and I think it's something

1082
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: that seems have struggled to deal with. And he has

1083
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:02,320
Speaker 1: got cat quickness. It's ridiculous how fast he is and

1084
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: how quick he can turn on a time, and he's

1085
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: making people miss and they're calling plays to ask him

1086
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: to run the football. So it's for me, that's not

1087
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: sustainable in any year in the NFL. You know, maybe

1088
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 1: half year, maybe even in the playoffs, and maybe they

1089
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: went a playoff game here against the Chargers over the weekend.

1090
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: But he's gonna have to learn how to, you know,

1091
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: sit in that pocket, just like Josh Allen's gonna have

1092
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: to learn how to sit in that pocket and deliver

1093
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: the football. And I'll give you two comparisons. One is

1094
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. I think he's second in the league about

1095
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: one hundred, I mean the four hundred and sixty completions

1096
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: from the pocket. He stands behind Ben Roethlisberger in that category.

1097
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: And he was only sacked at believe eighteen times or

1098
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: sixteen times something like that, compared to Deshaun Watson, who's

1099
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: going to be playing. You know, Deshaan got sacked sixty

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00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: two times and most of his completions come from outside

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00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: of the pocket. You know, you can't live that way.

1102
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 1: It's not you can't take sacks. You can't be running

1103
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: around out there and exposing yourself to injury and understand

1104
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: young players, much like Andrew Luck when he was young

1105
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: with rome with the football. So you have to learn

1106
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,919
Speaker 1: how to play quarterback in this league. And the great

1107
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: one will stand in that pocket. They'll be you know,

1108
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: they'll be unfettered by any of the stuff that's going

1109
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: on around them. They'll show poise like I think Patrick

1110
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: Mahomes is doing right now in his second year, and

1111
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: any great quarterback in the history of the NFL will

1112
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: show you that it's out of the pocket where you

1113
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: have to be your most successful and a lot of

1114
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: these guys have to learn that, and I think Lamar

1115
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: Jackson is the one that has to learn the most

1116
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 1: in that regard. On the line with Boomers Sisson, former

1117
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback from right Now with the NFL Today's show,

1118
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: hosts of the NFL Today on CBS want to ask

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00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: you about Darnold the Jets guy Boomer and will he

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00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: benefit from the coaching change, not knowing who's going to replace,

1121
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: you know, the whole coaching staff down there, or will

1122
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: his development be held back a bit having to learn

1123
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: a whole new offense most likely? What do you think, Well,

1124
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: you know, they got to get this one right. This

1125
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: is a huge decision for them, and they have to

1126
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: do kind of like what Chica did and what the

1127
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: LA Ran said. You know, they had young quarterbacks that

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Speaker 1: had played under defensive head coaches, just like Sam did

1129
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Speaker 1: down here. They fired those coaches and they went out

1130
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: and got Sean mcveay and Matt Nigge. So I would

1131
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 1: imagine that the Jet's going to be leaning towards an

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00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,320
Speaker 1: offensive minded coach. I would like to think that a

1133
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy with that kind of resume would be the

1134
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: perfect because this franchise needs stability, it needs a face,

1135
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: and it needs somebody who's been down this road before.

1136
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: I severely doubt that they're going to go the coordinator

1137
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: out again and the defensive coordinator out as well. I mean,

1138
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: this is going to be somebody who has some pelts

1139
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 1: on the wall, somebody who has a resume that the

1140
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: fan based to get behind and also knows how to

1141
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: nurture a young quarterback. And Mike McCarthy fitch that, and

1142
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: he would be the perfect higher. I'm assuming that they're

1143
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: going to be interviewing him relatively soon. I think that

1144
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: McCarthy moved his Cleveland interview the next week. So Sam

1145
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: is a great kid. Known the thing about Sam and Stief,

1146
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: you know this. Sam was a line backer in high school.

1147
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 1: He was converted to quarterback late in his career. There

1148
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: he got a obviously a scholarship to usc the defensive

1149
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: coordinator wanted him to play a linebacker while he waited

1150
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 1: to play quarterbacks. So he's got that mentality. He's got

1151
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: the Jim Jim Kelly mentality, you know, that kind of

1152
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: that kind of player. So he's coachable. He's just not

1153
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: the album now, He's not. He's not a really gregarious personality.

1154
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: They'll have to bring it out in him. But again,

1155
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,320
Speaker 1: he's only twenty one years old. He's played the position

1156
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: and quarterback I think for four years now. So what

1157
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: I saw at the end of the year was really promising.

1158
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: Now they got to build on that, and hopefully they'll

1159
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 1: get the right coach and hear the right offense, and

1160
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 1: they'll get the most out of him, much like Chicago

1161
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: with Trubisky and the chart of the Ram with Golf, Yeah,

1162
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: and Murph and I we watched, you know, a lot

1163
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: of jedg. Gates because they were in the division here,

1164
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: and we watched him play against the Buffalo Bills, and

1165
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: we thought the world of Darnel. We thought he's a

1166
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: really good quarterback with a with a big upside, just

1167
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: like the guy here, Josh Allen. I think it's gonna

1168
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: be a lot like it's going to be two of

1169
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 1: those guys looking at each other for a long time

1170
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: in the division. I think I think you're right. I

1171
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 1: think it's critical for the Jets to get this next

1172
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,760
Speaker 1: higher correct. And we've heard now too that Adam Gases

1173
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: has been interviewed. Do you think that's a fit? I mean,

1174
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: because you talk about a guy he's he worked with

1175
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning and that kind of thing, but you know

1176
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: he struggled in Miami. Do you think he's the kind

1177
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: of guy they're looking for? A guy who's been a

1178
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 1: head coach, whether he's been successful or not. You know, Steve,

1179
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: he may fit the bill for what we were just

1180
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: talking about. You know, it doesn't hurt to interview people,

1181
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: you know. I think the more people you can interview,

1182
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: the more you find out. I know that they went

1183
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: out to Kansas City to interview a former teammate of mine,

1184
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: Eric b Enemy, who's their offensive coordinator out there. And

1185
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: Eric has been coaching now in the league for eighteen years.

1186
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson Patrick Mahomes. People that have been in his

1187
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: past as a coaching from a coaching standpoint, all have

1188
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: said great things about him. As a former teammate of

1189
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: his I would be much like you were probably worth

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00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: Frank Reich. This guy deserves the chance as the guy

1191
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: deserves an opportunity, and hopefully he'll get it. I just

1192
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: hope it's not here in New York. I would hate

1193
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: to see him. Much like when Frank interviewed for New

1194
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: York four years ago, when he and Taught Bolter up

1195
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: to the job. I picked Frank up and I said, man,

1196
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: I hope he don't get this job. Man, they don't

1197
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: have a quarterback to speak up. They are not ready

1198
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: to win yet. And it's been a four years and

1199
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: now he's going to be fired and Frey Frankly he's

1200
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: in the right spot with the same brainiac quarterback that

1201
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: he once was planning for him now. So it's like

1202
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: the perfect fit. And I would think that Eric the

1203
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: Enemy would be the perfect fit for a team like

1204
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. He played there. He knows that that organization.

1205
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: So I think that you know, both to go back

1206
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: to your original question about Adam Gaze, he would fit

1207
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: the Jets. I just don't know with some of the

1208
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: negativity coming out of Miami from the players, how that

1209
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: is going to impact, you know, the decision making of

1210
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: their GM Mike mccagnets, Hey, yeah, Boomer, I know you

1211
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: spend a little time with Frank Frank recently for a

1212
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: CBS feature, and Steve and I talk about him a

1213
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: lot here on the show What former Commas Team eighty years?

1214
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: What do you know about Boomer? What do you know

1215
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: about Frank that allows him to survive a one in

1216
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: five start to his NFL head coaching career and take

1217
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: his team to the playoffs. What is that about Frank

1218
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: that that doesn't seem like that would be all that

1219
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:20,479
Speaker 1: unusual for him? You know, it's amazing, John and Steve

1220
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: you I had dinner the other night with John Kidd,

1221
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: your former teammate, and Hunter. All of us who know

1222
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: Frank and know who Frank is, And this goes for Steve, Jim, Kelly,

1223
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: pet Mexillars, anybody who's ever been around him, and for

1224
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 1: all those guys that played with him at the University

1225
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: of Maryland. You know, we realize that Frank is one

1226
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 1: of the most humble guys that we know. He is

1227
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: not his own hype man. He does not, you know,

1228
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 1: go out there and look for the spotlight. He's a

1229
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: guy that has always supported the coach that he's worked for,

1230
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: from Tony doun j to Jim Calls Well to Ken

1231
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: Wizz and Hunt and of course Mike McCoy Doug Peterson

1232
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: last year and now he's his own man. All of

1233
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: us really really happy for him because we know how

1234
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: comfortable he is in his own skin, how secure he

1235
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: is as a coach and as a human being, as

1236
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: a father and as a husband, and we know that

1237
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: there's a good there's a place in the world for

1238
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: really high character, good people, and that's exactly what Frank is.

1239
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: And he's extremely bright. You know. We took an art

1240
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: history one hundred class one year and there were four

1241
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: segments to the test. You had to know the painting,

1242
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: you know, had to know who the painter was, when

1243
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: it was painted, and the style of painting. And he

1244
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: figured it out after about thirty five minutes. He had

1245
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 1: to totally memorize. I worked on that thing for about

1246
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: twenty months and still hadn't figured it out. So I

1247
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: know the kind of competitor he is, but I also

1248
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: know the humble person that he is, and that when

1249
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: he tells you that he believes in God and that's

1250
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: who is guiding him, then I would tell you that

1251
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: as the God's honest truth. But he doesn't wear that

1252
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: on his sleeve. But when he gets in front of

1253
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: a group of men, they believe in him. And you know,

1254
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: he has a way about him that any sort of

1255
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: thing gets in his way, he'll deal with it, He'll

1256
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: deal with it professionally, and he has a perfect makeup

1257
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: to be an NFL head coach. Yeah, I agree, one

1258
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: hundred percent. It's one of the things. You know, we

1259
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: say that. You hear guys say it a lot of times,

1260
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: whereas I, Hey, this guy'd be a great head coach,

1261
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: that guy, But I have never heard more of his

1262
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: former teammates, more of the guys who coached him say

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Speaker 1: that about a guy than I have Frank Reich. And

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01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: it turns out that it was the truth. Everybody saw

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01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: the same thing in him as a player and of

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01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 1: course as as an assistant coach, and even the guys

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01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: who coached him knew it as well. So now that

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01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 1: he is a head coach, I was going to ask

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01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: you too. You know, there are eight vacancies around the

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01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: NFL boomer which one is the plumb job who who

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01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: is ready to win right now with a new head

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Speaker 1: coach and what's the one job that guys are lining

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01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: up to get. Well, I think Cleveland's number one, the

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01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: Jets are number two, and Green Bay's number three, all

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01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: for different reasons. The first two Cleveland obviously we saw

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01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: it Baker was capable of. We know they have Miles

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01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: Garrett up there, they have Jervis injury, they have Nick

1278
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 1: chob I mean, they got some really good, solid young players,

1279
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: and you feel like that's a team that's willing to

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01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: spend money in free agency and they do have a

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01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: very very large cap number that they can go out

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01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: and spend and do that. And I believe with John

1283
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: Dorsey now kindly is kind of finally, you know, handling

1284
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 1: the owner Jimmy has them that this could be a

1285
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 1: winning place for the next ten years because of the

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01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: quarterback and because of where they are financially. The same

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01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: thing could be said for the New York Jets. The

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01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 1: interesting thing with the New York Jets is, you know,

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01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 1: Christopher Johnson is now running the team because Forty Johnson,

1290
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 1: the original owners, the ambassador of Britain, so this is

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01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: his first four ray into this. So it's a little unstable,

1292
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 1: a little awkward. I think at the top. But nonetheless,

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01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: they too have a lot of money under free agency.

1294
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna go out and spend it. They're gonna spare

1295
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: no expense getting the right coaching here, I believe. So

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01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: those two jobs would be that's the top d The

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01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 1: next one would be obviously Aaron Rodgers at free day.

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01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: But you know, the interesting thing about that from my

1299
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 1: perspective is you've got to be with a moody quarterback,

1300
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: a quarterback that seems so one of the things his way,

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01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 1: Mark Murphy is running their franchise out there. If known

1302
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: Mark a long time, I think he's a tremendous professional,

1303
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: but I also think that he's a very hand on,

1304
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 1: looking over the shoulder type of guys, So that could

1305
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: be an uncomfortable place for a coach. And then after that,

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01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: it's probably Denver, Miami, Tampa Bay, Arizona, then finally Cincinnati,

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01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 1: and I put Cincinnati lascaus. I played there for ten years,

1308
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 1: so I know that that ownership is kind of stuck

1309
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:32,080
Speaker 1: in yesteryear in the nineteen and sixties. They resist free agency.

1310
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: They kind of manipulate the salary cap to make it

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01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 1: look like they're spending more than they really are. And

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01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: that's why I think, you know, Eric the Enemy would

1313
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: be a good fit there because he knows that family,

1314
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 1: he knows how things are run there. But I think

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01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: that's probably the worst of the eight jobs that are

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01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: available right now. Ye last question, I got free Boomer.

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01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,479
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask you who's gonna win the Super Bowl,

1318
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 1: but I wonder who you think is the most interesting

1319
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: playoff team this year? Well, I mean for me and Steve,

1320
01:03:57,240 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: I think it's the Cults, right Steve, have you know

1321
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: big time quarterbacks. They got an awesome offensive line, They're

1322
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: running the ball extremely effectively here late in the season.

1323
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: Their defense is led by who I think will be

1324
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 1: the defensive rookie of the year. That's Darius Leonard. There

1325
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: I had a schedule. I think that they thought that

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01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: they were a good team this year. I don't think

1327
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: that they thought that they were going to be this good.

1328
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: Our buddy Frank Raik is standing on the sidelines, and

1329
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 1: they just loved watching him coach. I loved watching him

1330
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: call plays. And this takes me back to the Super

1331
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: Bowl last year when he was the offensive coordinator for

1332
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I saw him on the field right before

1333
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 1: the game I said, Frankie Jay, how you do it?

1334
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 1: Manig goes Boom. We're gonna win this game. Man, We're

1335
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: gonna win this game, and we're gonna rack up some

1336
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: yards and points. You watch me, You watch me. And

1337
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: after the end of the game, I texted him, I said,

1338
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: you were right. You pulled it off. So I would

1339
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: not be surprised to see them go deep in the playoffs.

1340
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: You know, the hup tough game at Houston, but I

1341
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: think that they match up very well with Houston, and

1342
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 1: I think denshrew Buck is kind of like the secret

1343
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 1: weapon that is not so secret anymore. Hey, Boomer, thanks

1344
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: for this. We'll be watching this weekend and throughout the postseason.

1345
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: Thanks for spending a few minutes with us year today.

1346
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 1: Always my pleasure. Great talking to you all right, Boom.

1347
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: Boomers Science and from the NFL on CBS, host of

1348
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: NFL Today on CBS, joined us on the Subway Fresh

1349
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 1: Day Cortline, presented by Subway Restaurants Probud to be locally

1350
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:21,959
Speaker 1: owned and operated. I've known him for over between twenty

1351
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 1: five and thirty years, maybe thirty years, yeah, probably thirty years.

1352
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: Because of his friendship with Frank Reich and in the

1353
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:32,480
Speaker 1: offseason we'd get together. It just never ceased. It to

1354
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:35,400
Speaker 1: amaze me how long it takes to grow an old friend.

1355
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: You know, I've been working now, I've been working with

1356
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:41,479
Speaker 1: Boomer at CBS for two decades. I've done in Monday

1357
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 1: Night Foot He just left the booth from Monday Night

1358
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 1: Football on radio this last year, and I worked with

1359
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: him a number of times. So he's on it, and

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01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 1: I agree with him one hundred percent about the attractive

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01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 1: ranking of these nflaching head coaching vacancies. I think Cleveland's

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01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,640
Speaker 1: the number one. I think with John Dorsey there, that

1363
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 1: has stabilized that whole organization. And whatever craziness went on

1364
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: with drafting the way they draft with Josh Gordon of

1365
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,320
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel and all the crazy stuff that went on there,

1366
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:12,919
Speaker 1: I think that's gone, and I think that's that's made

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01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 1: that a really attractive spot. I found it interesting too

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01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: that he described you know, I think the Packers were

1369
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 1: third on his list of attractive head coaching vacancies, mostly

1370
01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 1: because Aaron Rodgers is moody. He said, the moody guy, Moody. Listen.

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01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a Huggler I don't think there's

1372
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 1: a feeling of great affection and camaraderie for Aaron Rodgers

1373
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: around his teammates. I think he is the guy who

1374
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 1: runs the show there, and I think they know it,

1375
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: and that's one way to do it right, absolutely, and

1376
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: and that's the way it's been for a lot of

1377
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks over the years. They've run their show the

1378
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:46,960
Speaker 1: way they wanted Aaron. I mean, Peyton Manning did that.

1379
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: He ran the show in Indianapolis and subsequently in Denver. Offensively,

1380
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 1: Dan Fouts was notoriously that way when he was in

1381
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 1: San Diego back in the eighties. There have been other

1382
01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks like that who have who have done that. I

1383
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: think some of the drama in Pittsburgh is due to

1384
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: the fact that they've got a quarterback that likes to

1385
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 1: run things his way and Ben Roethlisberger. But hey, most

1386
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 1: of those guys I just mentioned won a Super Bowl.

1387
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:18,200
Speaker 1: Ben's won two, so you know it's they got it done.

1388
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: And it's hard. And in a league where you and

1389
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 1: I both know it's really hard to win games, you

1390
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: get a guy like that, you let him do it

1391
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 1: because he's been successful doing it, so as hard as

1392
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: it is, you know, it's even harder to do it

1393
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 1: without those guys. On the list of attractive head coaching

1394
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: vagancies Boomers, Sison just now had Cleveland number one and

1395
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 1: the Jets number two, which surprised me a little bit. Look,

1396
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: and I don't know, the quarterback makes a difference, and

1397
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: Darnold is a potentially a difference making quarterback, but they

1398
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 1: don't have much other than him, a couple of players

1399
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 1: on defense. I just don't know if I hold the

1400
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 1: Jets in that high regard. And by the way, I

1401
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: hope they hire Adam Gates because I think that will

1402
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: mean that they're they're they're lost again. And then you

1403
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: know they're interviewing him today reportedly. Yeah, it's funny. We're

1404
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: talking before the show this morning about Adam Gays, who,

1405
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 1: you know, people think can come in and developed. He

1406
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 1: could come into the Jets and helped develop Sam Arnold

1407
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: because he's a quarterback guru type, And I thought, the

1408
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: heck is he ever developed? You know, he had Peyton

1409
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: Manning when Peyton mannings that they was fully Yeah, tail

1410
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 1: end of his career, went to Chicago for one year

1411
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: with Cutler, Right, he was fully developed and not that

1412
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: good I don't know. I think I get it. Adam

1413
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 1: Gaiza had a one playoff here in Miami. He's had

1414
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: three years there. I don't understand how anyone could look

1415
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:34,400
Speaker 1: at him and say, well, m he can develop our

1416
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:37,320
Speaker 1: young quarterback. Really, he's never done it before. To my mind,

1417
01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: I do like the kind of guy he as I

1418
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 1: sat with him in production meetings. He's a he's a

1419
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 1: guy that reaches young players. I think he's perfect as

1420
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:47,040
Speaker 1: a as a coordinator. He's a play caller. Yes, he's

1421
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: a great play caller and a great coordinator. And I

1422
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:51,679
Speaker 1: don't know that it translated as effectively as they thought

1423
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 1: it would, and obviously it didn't in Miami developed into

1424
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:58,840
Speaker 1: his position as a head coach. I think I think

1425
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: the players didn't like. It's coming out now that some

1426
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,799
Speaker 1: of the players didn't like how much he liked Tannehill

1427
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 1: and how much he was willing to stick with Tannehill.

1428
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:10,679
Speaker 1: When a coach doesn't put the guy on the field

1429
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: or doesn't make moves that gives their team the best

1430
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: chance to win, he starts to lose the locker room

1431
01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 1: pretty quickly. And I think that's coming out in Miami,

1432
01:09:18,360 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 1: that that that's what came apart for him that the

1433
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 1: team wasn't and the players weren't a soul on Ryan

1434
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 1: Tannehill as Adam Gaze appeared to be, although I don't

1435
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 1: know if he had any options other than Tannehill. So

1436
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 1: I think he's a play caller, probably always a really

1437
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:34,519
Speaker 1: good play caller, really good coordinator, but it ought to

1438
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: be a head coach and much very much so. And

1439
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 1: I don't know that the rest of that came together

1440
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: for him in Miami. One more thing about Boomer that

1441
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: we should double back hunt. The affection that you and

1442
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:47,400
Speaker 1: Boomer and about three hundred other people I can name,

1443
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: the affection people have for Frank Wreich never ceased to

1444
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: amaze me. Look, you guys know him better than I do.

1445
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 1: I love Frank Wreich too. He is the real deal,

1446
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 1: and he's definitely a guy that you could be proud

1447
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: to root for in the next month here, right, I

1448
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. I mean, if you know, if yeah, people,

1449
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 1: he's I'll tell you, and I don't want to overstate it.

1450
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: The guy's a great example for how to live your life,

1451
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 1: the right way to make decisions, the right way to

1452
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: be disciplined in your personal life, and your professional life,

1453
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: not to compromise your beliefs for what you're for a

1454
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: goal that you're trying to attain. If you're gonna go,

1455
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: if you're gonna attain a goal, do it the way

1456
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 1: you know it should be done. And if it doesn't happen,

1457
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: live with it. Don't compromise your beliefs to make it happen.

1458
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: And Frank didn't do that. He's he's been a great

1459
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:35,840
Speaker 1: example to me in my life and a lot of guys.

1460
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 1: And he's been a great friend. And um, and he's

1461
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 1: he's he's great, and we make it sound like he's

1462
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 1: a great guy. He's fun. He got a great sense

1463
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:46,640
Speaker 1: of humor. Uh, he's a great professionally. And I and

1464
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: the thing I noticed about it when we spoke to

1465
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: him during the run up to the last couple of

1466
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. We had him a couple of times,

1467
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 1: man oh Man and Boomer said, you kind of got

1468
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:57,759
Speaker 1: a feel for it when he talked about the conversation

1469
01:10:57,800 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: he had before last year's Super Bowl when he said,

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Speaker 1: Frank goes Boom, we're gonna win this game. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: score some points. Get a lot of Gus watches. He

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Speaker 1: is neck deep, eyeballs deep in that offense and with

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck in the in the entire Colts organization. He is,

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01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:15,599
Speaker 1: he knows all the numbers, he knows who he's got,

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01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 1: what he's got, what he needs him to do to

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Speaker 1: win games. And it's it's a hard place to get to.

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Speaker 1: It takes a lot of commitment and a lot of

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01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 1: hard work. But Frank seems to be right there, and

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01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: it's it's it's fun to see talk about the Colts

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01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 1: with the Stephen Holder coming up at the two o'clock

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01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: covers that team for the Athletics dot Com and Indy

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01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: Colts open up the playoffs at Houston Saturday, four thirty

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01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 1: five pm on ESPN and ABC, so they get things going.

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01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 1: I'll be rooting for him also, I'm gonna and you

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01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 1: will write that's your sure. I'm also gonna root for

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01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: the Chargers because I like so much too. I want

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01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 1: to see the Los Angeles Chargers do well. Hope they can.

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01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:51,360
Speaker 1: I think they should. Somebody pointed out on the show

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01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:53,720
Speaker 1: yesterday they're they're like the second best team in the

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01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,360
Speaker 1: in the AFC. Probably they got to play Sunday at

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01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:57,920
Speaker 1: one o'clock and they got to play on the road.

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Speaker 1: That's a tough one for them, you know, but they

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01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: away the places should have been the two seed. They

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01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:07,600
Speaker 1: got their time on Sunday. They are tied for the

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01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 1: best record in the conference and they're the five seed. Yeah,

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01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: I mean that stinks because they're in the they happened

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01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:14,559
Speaker 1: to be in the same division as Kansas City. Can

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01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: you imagine if the if the Chiefs would have dropped

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01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 1: one last game and they would have lost the division

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Speaker 1: championship to the Chargers and the Charger would have been

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01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:24,800
Speaker 1: the Charger would have been the one seed at stub

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01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:28,519
Speaker 1: Hub Field, that that would have been fun. Wow. Yeah,

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01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of rooting for the Chargers for I

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01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:32,600
Speaker 1: do like Anthony Lynn just like you do. And I

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01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 1: also like Philip Rivers. I think it's a guy who

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01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,439
Speaker 1: has put together a tremendous career for an organization that

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01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: hasn't really supported him like it should have. So I'm

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01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm for the five and the sixth seed in

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01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 1: the AFC or my favorite teams. Probably not much the

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01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: beginning there, but hey, let's talk a little bills when

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01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,840
Speaker 1: we come back and revert to our Twitter question. Since

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01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:55,639
Speaker 1: last April's draft. Is your opinion on Josh Allen changed?

1513
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,880
Speaker 1: Good or bad? Let us know what you think. Give

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01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 1: us a call and if so, what was a turning point?

1515
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 1: What changed your opinion? Maybe I like them more than

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01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:04,639
Speaker 1: you did before the draft, or right after the draft,

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01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:06,559
Speaker 1: maybe I like them less. Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: three fifty toy three one eight eight eight five fifty

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01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 1: two five fifty or sending a tweet. We might read

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01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:14,960
Speaker 1: it from the tweet sheet since last April? Has your

1521
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: opinion on Josh Allen change? Let us know. One Bill's

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01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 1: Thought I was gonna seize their seat, but I didn't

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01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 1: have to st Let you know, somebody asked me what

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01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:42,439
Speaker 1: you guys always come back from the brakes laughing, not always,

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01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:46,600
Speaker 1: not always, but fairly regularly. Now we're laughing about this.

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01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:50,360
Speaker 1: We do, and we have. Yeah, so we should do

1528
01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 1: a show about our show between the show in the

1529
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: commercial breaks, I'll do a show about a show and

1530
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 1: do a show about a show between the show that

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01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: we do Today's show. That topic we've thrown out there,

1532
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: we'd love to get your response to it. Josh Allen,

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01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 1: what do you think is he better than you thought?

1534
01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: Is he worse than you thought? How much did your

1535
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 1: opinion of Josh Allen change from when the Bills drafted

1536
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 1: him back in April to now? What do you think

1537
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 1: since sasas April's draft, has your opinion on Josh Allen change?

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01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: If so, how why when let's take a few calls

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01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:24,600
Speaker 1: on this? Um? Actually the calls aren't about this at all.

1540
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: You want to take a few calls anyway? Yeah? Yeah,

1541
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:28,680
Speaker 1: people got questions, so let them chime in. Okay, we're

1542
01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: all in it together. We're all together here, Mike and Chaffey,

1543
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:33,759
Speaker 1: New York. Go ahead, Mike, you're on the air, guys,

1544
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:36,719
Speaker 1: can you explain to me the the deferreing the kickoff?

1545
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,679
Speaker 1: It feels like it feels like you're giving the ball away. Yeah,

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01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 1: here's here's how it works, Mike. The reason they do

1547
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:46,800
Speaker 1: that it's analytics that they started doing studies on how

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01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:49,880
Speaker 1: many on average possessions a team gets, and one of

1549
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: the things they found out that if you defer in

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01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: the opening half, what will happen is you'll still get

1551
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: the same number of or around the same number of

1552
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 1: possession in the first half, but you'll also get the

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01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:07,559
Speaker 1: first you'll get two possessions in a row, meaning you'll

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01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 1: get the usually get the last possession of the first half,

1555
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 1: and then get the first possession of the second half.

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01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 1: It happens an inordinate amount of time when you defer. Plus,

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01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: it also gives you the chance that if the conditions

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01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:23,439
Speaker 1: change and if it turns into a nasty weather day,

1559
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:26,600
Speaker 1: or if the score gets out of whack, or for

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01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:28,679
Speaker 1: some other reason, you can pick it into the field

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01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,880
Speaker 1: after halftime rather than taking the ball as well. So um,

1562
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 1: but for the most part, it comes back to the

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01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 1: fact that you'll get two possessions in a row, meaning

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01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 1: the last one of the first half in the first

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01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: one of the second half. I'd answer your question, yeah,

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01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 1: but it fell away. Oh yeah, there's no question you

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01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:50,639
Speaker 1: are Yeah, you're you're you are given the ball away,

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01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 1: no question about it. But by the same token, you know,

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01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,040
Speaker 1: Phil Bill, if you're the Buffalo Bills, Hey, you got

1570
01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 1: the number two defense in the league. Let's see what

1571
01:15:57,800 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: you got. We'll give you three and out. Chan Gailey

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01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 1: used to defer, and I remember talking to about it, Steven.

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01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 1: He said, and all what you say is true, obviously,

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01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:07,519
Speaker 1: But he also said on the road he loved getting

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01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:10,719
Speaker 1: the second half kickhoff because typically after a twelve minute

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01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: a half time, most of the fans were not back

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01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:15,600
Speaker 1: in their seats yet and a hostile opposing crowd, and

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01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 1: you had a chance to run your offense without worrying

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01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: about crowd noise. I thought he had that. That's a

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01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:22,040
Speaker 1: pretty good idea too. Yeah. Thanks, thanks very much for

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01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:25,800
Speaker 1: your call. Let's go to Chris and Myrtle Beach. Chris,

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01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:29,760
Speaker 1: did your opinion on Josh Allen change? Hey, how you

1583
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:31,840
Speaker 1: guys are doing? Happy New Year? Happy New Year? Here

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01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 1: you guys are going. Yeah. I tell you what when

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01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: when we first drafted, When we first drafted Josh, I

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01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: was devastated. I thought this was going to be another

1587
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:46,639
Speaker 1: ej Manuel situation and we were just going to be terrible.

1588
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: It all changed when I seen that beautiful being jump

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01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:56,160
Speaker 1: over that middle line back. For once seen a quarterback

1590
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 1: jump over someone. I never will see it again. And

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01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:01,439
Speaker 1: now I tell you what. I am probably one of

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01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 1: the biggest Josh Adam fans you'll meet. I bought both

1593
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 1: of his jerseys as soon as he jumped over the guy.

1594
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: I will stick up for this guy. He is our quarterback.

1595
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm in love with this dude. So I was completely

1596
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:15,439
Speaker 1: against it, But now I can't get enough of him, Chris,

1597
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,680
Speaker 1: Why were you so against it back in April? Just

1598
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 1: because you know it was it was a typical Bills thing.

1599
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,720
Speaker 1: It was a guy that not many people have heard of,

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01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: and he came out of the woodwork about two weeks

1601
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: before the draft. He had a strong arm and that

1602
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,559
Speaker 1: you know that that was it. I didn't really scout

1603
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 1: too much of him. I didn't know much about him.

1604
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 1: I just it just as a name that got thrown

1605
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 1: out there that I just didn't you know, I didn't

1606
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: really know much about. And I thought it was just

1607
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 1: a guy that people were like, Oh, he's tall, and

1608
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 1: he's got and he's got a strong arm, so he's

1609
01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:46,639
Speaker 1: gonna be good, right that And I got all that stuff.

1610
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 1: I was like, man, this is like the same thing

1611
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 1: with dj M. Right, I get you, Andy, and I

1612
01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:55,920
Speaker 1: get it to the and the one quality everybody pointed

1613
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:58,640
Speaker 1: to with him was not always it was inaccurate, so

1614
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: and that and that did speak like it did to

1615
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:04,760
Speaker 1: EJ as well. So yeah, I mean we got a

1616
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:06,960
Speaker 1: lot of feedback right off the bat as soon as

1617
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: he was drafted. Of course, because there was all this

1618
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 1: conversation about all those guys in this class that we're

1619
01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 1: gonna get drafted and they we're gonna go in this round,

1620
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:15,560
Speaker 1: and they all had their issues and stuff, and you know,

1621
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:17,760
Speaker 1: you had everybody had their favorite, and if they didn't

1622
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:20,840
Speaker 1: pick your favorite, you know, everybody was ticked. Yeah. A

1623
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 1: lot of it was media driven too, I think, you know,

1624
01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: and I think there was a lot of amateur analysis.

1625
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:28,280
Speaker 1: And I'm an amateur as well, but I'm also trying

1626
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 1: not to pretend I'm a scout. And look I watched

1627
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 1: I went to Draft Breakdown and watched every highlight, every play,

1628
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 1: not highlights they do, all the plays of all five

1629
01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: of those quarterbacks. I guess I didn't watch a bunch

1630
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:42,000
Speaker 1: of Lamar Jackson. And there was stuff to like about

1631
01:18:42,040 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, stuff not to like. But for people to react,

1632
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:46,920
Speaker 1: both in the media and now the media like the

1633
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 1: Bills that just committed this horrible gaff, I thought, well,

1634
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:51,600
Speaker 1: who are you did say that? You know, did you

1635
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:53,640
Speaker 1: talk to him, if you talked to him, if you

1636
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,160
Speaker 1: talked to his college coaches and scouts, I don't think so.

1637
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 1: My stance, I remember saying this on the show. I

1638
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: don't know which one. They all had question marks, and

1639
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 1: my thought was, listen, I just want one of those

1640
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 1: top four guys, Josh Rosen, Josh Allen, Baker, Mayfield, Sam Dna.

1641
01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 1: Just get one of them. Just get one, because they

1642
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 1: all have a chance to be good, and they all

1643
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:15,640
Speaker 1: have their issues and let's see what let's see. You know,

1644
01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:17,800
Speaker 1: I just wanted them to get one because there was

1645
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 1: a thought on the drive and they might get jumped over,

1646
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, they might get snapped off and get the

1647
01:19:23,160 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: fourth of the five of the four, you know, the

1648
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 1: fourth of the five. And I didn't think I wanted

1649
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson because I didn't think he was gonna have

1650
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 1: the skill set. But and yet here we are and

1651
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 1: he's the only one of them in the playoffs and

1652
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: he's starting. So you got to tip your hat to

1653
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 1: them for doing that. From mid February until the end

1654
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 1: of April, until draft day, I had been told and

1655
01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: kind of tipped tipped to the fact that the Bills

1656
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: like two guys, Darnald and Allen. When the Jets made

1657
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:52,920
Speaker 1: that move to I think it was the first week

1658
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:55,000
Speaker 1: of March. It was a Saturday, I believe in March.

1659
01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: Early in March made that trade to get up to

1660
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,600
Speaker 1: number three, clearly to get Darnold. It was kind of

1661
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:01,599
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, one, now the bills are all

1662
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:03,679
Speaker 1: in and with Alan right, we all kind of knew

1663
01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 1: that Darnold was the target for the Jets to make

1664
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: that trade and move up to number three, right, So,

1665
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 1: but people still clung to their We'll look at his

1666
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: completion percentage and it's wyoming. And you know, sometimes you

1667
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 1: let the experts do their job. They don't always get

1668
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 1: it right. Sometimes they do, oh yeah, sometimes they do.

1669
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 1: And listen, all those guys may turn out to be great,

1670
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 1: you know. YEA, certainly Mayfield looks great. I mean they

1671
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 1: were six and one over their last seven or six

1672
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: and two over their last eight, something like that. He's

1673
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 1: playing well. Certainly everybody likes what Josh is shown. Certainly

1674
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: needs more work to be done. So does Sam Darnald

1675
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 1: in New York, and they're changing head coaches. I think

1676
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: that's the and so is Arizona with Josh Rosen, and

1677
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: they were. They had a bad roster in Arizona, There's

1678
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:52,360
Speaker 1: no question about it. But yeah, it's still we're still

1679
01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 1: a long way from knowing that where these guys are

1680
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: gonna end right, But I think the arrow is pointing

1681
01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 1: up on most of them, certainly on Lamar Jackson, and

1682
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:05,280
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen is probably the one that's like, Wow, I

1683
01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna be able to recover from

1684
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:08,560
Speaker 1: the kind of season they put together around him. So

1685
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 1: we'll see. Here's a call from Jose, Jose, go ahead,

1686
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:13,599
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Hey, good, a good afternoon.

1687
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:17,240
Speaker 1: Guy's good. Um. I listened when when we were on

1688
01:21:17,320 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 1: the clock last draft and we had Rosen and Josh

1689
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: Allens in there, I thought for sure. I was. I

1690
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 1: thought for sure we were gonna pick Rosen because I

1691
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 1: was like listening to all of them amateur amateur um

1692
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:34,559
Speaker 1: UM draft analysts, thinking that it was Darnald Rosen Allen

1693
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: and then Um and then Lamar. So I was with

1694
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:39,840
Speaker 1: I was on the end of pression that we were

1695
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:42,280
Speaker 1: gonna pick Rosen. So when we picked, when we picked

1696
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I was disappointed, and I started watching him play.

1697
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 1: I started becoming you know, every week was every time

1698
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 1: I seen him play was you know, okay, maybe he's sorry, Okay,

1699
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: maybe he's sorry. But that didn't I didn't become one

1700
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:58,880
Speaker 1: hundred percent invested till one thing. Do you guys remember

1701
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:02,120
Speaker 1: that miked up sits that miked up a segment that

1702
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 1: Josh Allen had. What do you say he said? When

1703
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:08,200
Speaker 1: he was in the Hoddle, he was like, I would

1704
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: he was in the Hoddle, he was like, I would

1705
01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:12,240
Speaker 1: rather be here with with you guys than anywhere else.

1706
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 1: That right there, when he was talking to his teammates

1707
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:18,200
Speaker 1: like that, That right there is what sold me one

1708
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 1: hundred percent on Josh Allen. After that, I was just like,

1709
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: this guy is our man. There's no there's nothing, no more,

1710
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 1: no one else I am. I am proud to say

1711
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:29,080
Speaker 1: that we got to me. I think we got the

1712
01:22:29,160 --> 01:22:32,600
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the draft because of his his his

1713
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:37,200
Speaker 1: the intangibles, the it's factor, the moxie's, the swag. As

1714
01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 1: Donald Jones used to say, Remember I know Murphy, remember

1715
01:22:39,600 --> 01:22:45,920
Speaker 1: that I challenged him, define please, I defined swag is

1716
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen? If you define swag, Josh Allen would be

1717
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:50,800
Speaker 1: in there. If he the way he the way he

1718
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 1: plays the game of football, he had plays it with

1719
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 1: a game with a swag that that you know he

1720
01:22:58,320 --> 01:23:00,559
Speaker 1: wants to win every that that would she kept saying

1721
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,600
Speaker 1: that he wants to win every game. That's swagged to me,

1722
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 1: that swagged everybody else. Okay, there is why I think

1723
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:09,519
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is the best quarterback in this league. And

1724
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:11,519
Speaker 1: I want to give the Bills a big shout out

1725
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: for signing Barkley and DA for them extensions. That was

1726
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:18,559
Speaker 1: probably the best thing they should have done, So thank you, Jose. Yeah.

1727
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:20,640
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of He's won a lot

1728
01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:22,479
Speaker 1: of people over, no question, and he is the kind

1729
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:24,000
Speaker 1: of right kind of guy. But you know, if you're

1730
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 1: talking about guys, that's what Baker Mayfield brings to the

1731
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:29,599
Speaker 1: table too. That's why Cleveland picked Baker Mayfield over all

1732
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:31,840
Speaker 1: of these guys because Baker's kind of got that same thing.

1733
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 1: He's got that leadership quality. And he's taken some heat

1734
01:23:36,200 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 1: from some quarters about how he handled the Hugh Jackson

1735
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: departure and the fact that they played him twice after

1736
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson was fired and took a job with Cincinnati,

1737
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield didn't back down from it, and I

1738
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,679
Speaker 1: applaud him for it. I am all I think Baker

1739
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: has shown a lot of great leadership, just like Josh

1740
01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:55,280
Speaker 1: Allen has no we'd haven't gotten a glimpse of it

1741
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:58,120
Speaker 1: because I'm you know, some of the miked up stuff

1742
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: shows it, but we've seen it firsthand here and Hello,

1743
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:03,120
Speaker 1: I think both those guys show a lot of that

1744
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:07,280
Speaker 1: and Boomers Sisson said, you know, in some case, that's

1745
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:10,400
Speaker 1: not what Sam Darnold is. Yeah, he said, he's not

1746
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 1: an alpham He's not the alpha male. Um, maybe that's

1747
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 1: why the Bills liked Alan and Mayfield or darnld whatever.

1748
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:22,439
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that separated him. Sam Darnold's

1749
01:24:22,439 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: little bit of a flat line compared to Baker Mayfield

1750
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 1: and and and Josh Allen. So maybe it will set

1751
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:30,360
Speaker 1: them apart. We'll see talking about Josh Allen as your

1752
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 1: opinion changed since the Bills plucked him out of the

1753
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 1: draft seventh overall last April. Let us know, coming back

1754
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,240
Speaker 1: with more One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive and

1755
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bill's Radio, One Bill's Live from One

1756
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive, John Murphy's Deep Task around this Thursday afternoon.

1757
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:56,080
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, see, if I got a little

1758
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 1: empty feeling with no Bills game coming up this Sunday.

1759
01:24:58,200 --> 01:24:59,720
Speaker 1: I know I mentioned it earlier. It hits me every

1760
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: once a while, like Thursday night, I should be home

1761
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:04,679
Speaker 1: watching video of the Bills. Upon oh no Bills opponent

1762
01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 1: to no gold posts or gold the benches are gone,

1763
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: it'll hit me. Saturday, I had a can't tell a

1764
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 1: quick story. Okay, you got a minute just to quick anywhere? Yeah,

1765
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:18,600
Speaker 1: when we got an hour and a half lever So

1766
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 1: the late great Van Miller, my predecessor, is the play

1767
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 1: by play voice of the Bills. He would we had

1768
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,639
Speaker 1: a tradition to where on the Saturday of wild Card weekend,

1769
01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: when the Bills are out of the playoffs, which unfortunately

1770
01:25:29,160 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 1: cut a lot, I'd get a call from him in

1771
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: the middle of the actually towards the end of the

1772
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:37,040
Speaker 1: first game, and it was just a it was just

1773
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: a sympathy call, and he was feeling it too, but

1774
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 1: you can always hear like ice cubes in the background,

1775
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:45,680
Speaker 1: and he'd had a couple of cocktails and maybe I

1776
01:25:45,800 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: did too, and we just talking commiserate, and mostly it

1777
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:51,880
Speaker 1: was Van saying, um, shut him on. You know, we

1778
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:53,640
Speaker 1: had that team on the ropes. It was just a

1779
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:57,240
Speaker 1: great tradition. Every every Saturday of wild Card weekend, I'd

1780
01:25:57,280 --> 01:25:59,160
Speaker 1: get that call from Van and I'll miss that too.

1781
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: That that's great week. Yeah, yeah, anyway, it's not coming

1782
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 1: this week. No playoffs with the Bills. It was a

1783
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 1: lot of people that are out in the playoffs. The

1784
01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:09,519
Speaker 1: Steelers aren't in the playoffs. That a lot has come

1785
01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:11,200
Speaker 1: out since they got put out of the playoffs. And

1786
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,479
Speaker 1: they beat Cincinnati to do their part, but then they

1787
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:15,720
Speaker 1: couldn't get the same break that the Bills got last

1788
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,280
Speaker 1: year and have the Baltimore Ravens get beat actually this

1789
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:20,280
Speaker 1: in this case by Cleveland, although it looked like it

1790
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 1: might happen um late. A lot of drama, you were

1791
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: there a lot of drama in the Steelers organization. Yeah,

1792
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:30,880
Speaker 1: and that's not Yeah, and they were. It was a

1793
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:33,639
Speaker 1: drama filled year. I mean they had Levion Bell holdout,

1794
01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 1: which kind of which was first half of the season's drama.

1795
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 1: And then at the end, I guess Antonio Brown threw

1796
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:44,840
Speaker 1: a fit over of some kind and just didn't go

1797
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:47,320
Speaker 1: to practice, didn't go to w And I can't imagine

1798
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: not doing that. I mean, I can't imagine in the

1799
01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: midst of of a shot at the playoffs, a player

1800
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:56,759
Speaker 1: of Antonio Brown's caliber not showing up for a team function.

1801
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:00,120
Speaker 1: On the field. It was like a walkthrough. I mean,

1802
01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 1: this is something that we're doing, like to get ready

1803
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 1: for the game. And then he was bet for doing that.

1804
01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:06,200
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin kept him out of the game and he

1805
01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:07,800
Speaker 1: didn't even stick around for the game. He was like

1806
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:10,679
Speaker 1: gone at halftime. Tomlin met with the media in Pittsburgh

1807
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: yesterday said Brown was bench Sunday again Cincinnati because he

1808
01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:16,720
Speaker 1: failed to show up for work on Saturday, and he

1809
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 1: said he had not asked for a trade. Tomlin, we

1810
01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 1: got some of it his comments supremacity. He just said

1811
01:27:21,479 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 1: it was a lack of communication between Antonio Brown and

1812
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:28,000
Speaker 1: the team. Here's what he had to say. You know,

1813
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 1: the circumstances being what they were and the amount of

1814
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:33,680
Speaker 1: things that we were going through, it wasn't a lot

1815
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:37,400
Speaker 1: of communication there. Obviously, we take his lack of communication

1816
01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:40,320
Speaker 1: and his lack of presence, particularly on Saturday prior to

1817
01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:43,559
Speaker 1: the game, to be something that's very significant. It will

1818
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:48,600
Speaker 1: be handled appropriately. So I'm not going to speculate on

1819
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:53,200
Speaker 1: trades and things of that nature. We haven't formally received

1820
01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:57,080
Speaker 1: a request in that regard, so I'm not going to speculate.

1821
01:27:57,320 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 1: I'm not going to speculate in terms of where the

1822
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:01,640
Speaker 1: disciplin it might go and things of that nature. Just

1823
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 1: know um that it's going to be addressed, and it

1824
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:07,759
Speaker 1: will be address. It needs to be addressed for obvious reasons.

1825
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:11,840
Speaker 1: You know, you can describe it in whatever ways you

1826
01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:13,519
Speaker 1: want to describe it, But there was a lack of

1827
01:28:13,640 --> 01:28:17,120
Speaker 1: communication there that can lead to thoughts and things of

1828
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: that nature that can go in many directions. The bottom

1829
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:24,200
Speaker 1: line is that we're playing a significant game and he

1830
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:26,360
Speaker 1: didn't do a good enough job of communicating or being

1831
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:30,479
Speaker 1: available in the hours leading up to that performance. So

1832
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:33,920
Speaker 1: we needed to make decisions decisions pertinent to getting prepared

1833
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:37,040
Speaker 1: to play in that performance. So I've been really clear

1834
01:28:37,120 --> 01:28:40,920
Speaker 1: about outlining what transpired, the level of communication and things

1835
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:44,600
Speaker 1: of that nature. So obviously there's some things within that

1836
01:28:45,280 --> 01:28:48,800
Speaker 1: that you can infer. Certainly he hung him out to drive. Look,

1837
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: he's asked the question did he quit on the team?

1838
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 1: And Mike Thomlin said, you can describe it anyway you

1839
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: want to describe it. Essentially, Thomlin said, yeah, he quit

1840
01:28:57,360 --> 01:28:59,400
Speaker 1: on the team. He did quit on that team. Yes,

1841
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 1: he did. One of the premier players in the league.

1842
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:04,200
Speaker 1: He left the day before game. He was a wall

1843
01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:06,960
Speaker 1: and certain. And when he says there wasn't a lack

1844
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: of communicator, that means they didn't know why. They didn't

1845
01:29:09,360 --> 01:29:10,880
Speaker 1: know what was gonna happen. He didn't tell him it

1846
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. They didn't know where he was when

1847
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:13,920
Speaker 1: he was supposed to be there he wasn't. And they

1848
01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:17,479
Speaker 1: hadn't heard hiding her hair from him about as to

1849
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:19,760
Speaker 1: why or that it was gonna happen. And that's not

1850
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 1: acceptable in NFL, that's in any profession. So where do

1851
01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 1: they go now? We asked Andrew Brant, you know, a

1852
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:28,720
Speaker 1: pre eminent business extra in the NFL, who said his

1853
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:32,599
Speaker 1: contract really makes him untradeable Antonio Brown. But it's even

1854
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:35,080
Speaker 1: more than a contract issue. Now, how does that guy do?

1855
01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 1: They welcome him back with open arms next August when

1856
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:39,960
Speaker 1: they go to camp. Oh, come on back, Antonio. Yeah,

1857
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: you walked out before our week seventeen game, but you're

1858
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 1: welcome here. Is that really how it works? They don't

1859
01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: have a choice. I think he's untradeable because of the contract. Well,

1860
01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 1: and you say that, and then you know it's it's

1861
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:56,719
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. If somebody wants to throw, you know, twenty

1862
01:29:56,760 --> 01:30:01,800
Speaker 1: million dollars and a couple of draft picks away to

1863
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 1: get him. I mean, yeah, I used to think Marcel

1864
01:30:05,320 --> 01:30:07,800
Speaker 1: Darius was untradable for the Bills too, and so was

1865
01:30:07,880 --> 01:30:10,000
Speaker 1: and they thought brock Osweiler was down, you know when

1866
01:30:10,479 --> 01:30:13,840
Speaker 1: when Denvers signed him to that mega deal and he

1867
01:30:13,960 --> 01:30:16,160
Speaker 1: went from there to Houston to Cleveland. I mean, it

1868
01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:18,120
Speaker 1: was like one thing after another. So he got traded.

1869
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:20,960
Speaker 1: So never say never, but it's really difficult, and a

1870
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:22,680
Speaker 1: team's gonna have to make a huge commitment to do

1871
01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:25,479
Speaker 1: that and invest a lot more than just the money

1872
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:28,679
Speaker 1: it's gonna be draft picks. It's an uncharacteristic years see

1873
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:30,559
Speaker 1: for a team that many people look at as one

1874
01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:33,799
Speaker 1: of the flagship franchises in the NFL, right with Levon

1875
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:37,240
Speaker 1: Bell missing the year, electing to walk out because of money,

1876
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:41,320
Speaker 1: with what happened to Antonio Brown, m you're just not

1877
01:30:41,479 --> 01:30:43,800
Speaker 1: used to seeing that in Pittsburgh. I guess I don't

1878
01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 1: know how they pulled themselves out of it. The two

1879
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:49,000
Speaker 1: pre eminent figures in that organization right now are Ben

1880
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:52,120
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and Mike Tomlin, and quite frankly, Steve I think

1881
01:30:52,160 --> 01:30:54,160
Speaker 1: they both have to take some of the blame for

1882
01:30:54,200 --> 01:30:55,920
Speaker 1: the way that all fell apart this year, don't they

1883
01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:58,840
Speaker 1: a little bit? Maybe some of the blame or Mike

1884
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:01,760
Speaker 1: Tomlin deserves out of the credit for getting that team

1885
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:03,880
Speaker 1: is deep to the chat and a chance to get

1886
01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:05,519
Speaker 1: to the playoffs when they lost to the number one

1887
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:07,880
Speaker 1: running back in the league from a year ago didn't

1888
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:11,559
Speaker 1: show up. They find a guy like a former cancer

1889
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:14,600
Speaker 1: patient to be their running back and he goes to

1890
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:17,160
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl behind the great offensive line. The quarterback

1891
01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:19,800
Speaker 1: gets it together, and quarterback is calling guys out during

1892
01:31:19,880 --> 01:31:23,760
Speaker 1: mid season and saying stuff about his teammates. They got

1893
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:25,880
Speaker 1: all this drama that is out that Mike Tomlin had

1894
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:27,880
Speaker 1: nothing to do with and yet has to handle it

1895
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:29,800
Speaker 1: with the rest of the team. And as you can

1896
01:31:29,840 --> 01:31:31,800
Speaker 1: tell with him at the mic and those remarks we

1897
01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 1: just played, he is a non fluff guy. Yeah, and

1898
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:42,040
Speaker 1: I've said it. I said it here on Monday in

1899
01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:45,760
Speaker 1: my bows sights and sound from the sidelines. The Steelers

1900
01:31:46,360 --> 01:31:48,639
Speaker 1: are in the right hands with Mike Tomlin. They should.

1901
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 1: If he hasn't handled it, if they're not allowing him

1902
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 1: to handle it, they should. He'll handle it the right way.

1903
01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:55,920
Speaker 1: Why do you have so much faith in him? I've

1904
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:58,759
Speaker 1: seen the results of it. I've seen other head coaches

1905
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:01,640
Speaker 1: who are not as good at handling players as he is.

1906
01:32:01,680 --> 01:32:03,360
Speaker 1: And all the drama that's there, a lot of it

1907
01:32:03,439 --> 01:32:05,560
Speaker 1: has to do with the players that were picked to

1908
01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 1: come play there. Antonio Brown certainly is one of them.

1909
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:10,479
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger's another one. Ben thrives on a little bit

1910
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:12,960
Speaker 1: of drama. He thrives on it, and that's and Mike

1911
01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: Tomlin has acknowledged it to us in production meetings. Ben

1912
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:22,160
Speaker 1: needs a little bit of emotional whirlwind going around him

1913
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:25,439
Speaker 1: to be his best and this is kind of the

1914
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 1: result of that. And I think Ben is as much.

1915
01:32:27,880 --> 01:32:29,639
Speaker 1: I think if you're talking looking for somebody to blame,

1916
01:32:29,640 --> 01:32:31,400
Speaker 1: I point the finger at their quarterback more than I

1917
01:32:31,400 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 1: w with their head coach. I want to take one

1918
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Speaker 1: call on this topic before we head to the break

1919
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Speaker 1: time on the West Side. Go ahead, Tim, you're on

1920
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Speaker 1: the air an afternoon, guys. Hi, Hey, listen the Antonio

1921
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:44,360
Speaker 1: Brown thing. Do you think him walking out on the

1922
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 1: Steelers had anything to do with the precedent that the

1923
01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:51,240
Speaker 1: linebacker did the Buffalo when he walked out at halftime

1924
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:56,880
Speaker 1: day Davis, Yeah, it's a precedent. Well, you don't let

1925
01:32:56,920 --> 01:32:59,599
Speaker 1: me just say, if you're comparing to Antonio Brown statues

1926
01:32:59,600 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 1: as a player DeVante Davis, that's way out of whack.

1927
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:05,200
Speaker 1: Vante Davis could barely play when he walked out of Buffalo.

1928
01:33:05,280 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 1: They needed him badly, but he was not going to help.

1929
01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:11,559
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't you mean, like, for instance, Antony,

1930
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 1: what you're asking is tom as if Antonio Brown seeing

1931
01:33:16,600 --> 01:33:19,639
Speaker 1: a guy like Vonte Davis do what he did set

1932
01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 1: the stage for him to say, hey, maybe I can

1933
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:24,080
Speaker 1: do that too. Is that what you're asking? Yeah, I

1934
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:27,240
Speaker 1: don't think so, because I mean Vante did it while

1935
01:33:27,280 --> 01:33:31,200
Speaker 1: he was playing in the game. Antonio Brown missed a

1936
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:34,080
Speaker 1: Saturday walk through and then got benched, so and he left.

1937
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:36,040
Speaker 1: He didn't want to watch the rest of the game whatever.

1938
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:39,000
Speaker 1: He wanted to beat traffic, so he left. Obviously he's

1939
01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 1: upset about something that's going on in the team. Maybe

1940
01:33:41,479 --> 01:33:43,560
Speaker 1: he's upset at the quarterback, Maybe he's upset at the

1941
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:46,360
Speaker 1: head coach. Maybe he's upset ownership. I don't know, but

1942
01:33:46,479 --> 01:33:49,000
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown's not happy. And I don't think it had

1943
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 1: anything to do with a president being said of Vonte Davis.

1944
01:33:52,280 --> 01:33:54,160
Speaker 1: And you know, so I I know I don't think

1945
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 1: that had anything to do with it. Do you see

1946
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 1: the Vonte Davis commercial? Yeah, I saw it. It's ridiculous.

1947
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:04,240
Speaker 1: It's just ridiculous that guy gets paid for as an endorser.

1948
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:06,880
Speaker 1: What was the product? I mean it was, it's fantasy football,

1949
01:34:06,880 --> 01:34:10,040
Speaker 1: fantasy he got he got paid so week it endorsed quitting. Yeah,

1950
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:15,080
Speaker 1: because he can quit his fantasy football league. Excellent, just excellent.

1951
01:34:15,320 --> 01:34:19,040
Speaker 1: That's that's the world we live in, man. It is

1952
01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, it is headed downhill fast in a

1953
01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:24,280
Speaker 1: lot of respects. You're gonna talk about the Indianapolis Colts,

1954
01:34:24,320 --> 01:34:26,880
Speaker 1: our favorite team after the Bills, right, not mine, but

1955
01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:29,720
Speaker 1: maybe yours. It's it's a flavor of the week. Yeah,

1956
01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:33,639
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk and also the Chargers too. I'm gonna

1957
01:34:33,640 --> 01:34:36,200
Speaker 1: like the Chargers. Yeah. We're gonna talk about the Colts

1958
01:34:36,240 --> 01:34:39,479
Speaker 1: with Stephen Holder, who covers them for the Athletic website

1959
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. That's coming up next, a preview of the

1960
01:34:42,120 --> 01:34:44,880
Speaker 1: Colts in the Houston, Texans. It's One Bill's Live presented

1961
01:34:44,880 --> 01:34:47,679
Speaker 1: by Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

1962
01:34:47,760 --> 01:35:00,320
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network Stories Day YEP. From

1963
01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:03,080
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The news from the Buffalo Bills today

1964
01:35:03,160 --> 01:35:07,200
Speaker 1: nothing official, but another report about coaching dismissals came out overnight.

1965
01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:10,760
Speaker 1: The Bills reportedly have said goodbye to wide receivers coach

1966
01:35:10,840 --> 01:35:13,920
Speaker 1: Terry Robiski, who spent one year here, hired just about

1967
01:35:13,960 --> 01:35:17,000
Speaker 1: a year ago. According to Alex marbez If Sirius XM

1968
01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:20,360
Speaker 1: NFL Radio, Robisky has been let go. He joined the

1969
01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:23,200
Speaker 1: Bills when they parted ways with receivers coach Filmgangan. He

1970
01:35:23,360 --> 01:35:26,920
Speaker 1: joins offensive line coach Windcasteo, who has been officially fired

1971
01:35:26,960 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 1: by the Bills. No confirmation of the Robisky move yet

1972
01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:34,960
Speaker 1: from the Buffalo Bills. Bills linebacker Tremaine Edmonds has been

1973
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:37,479
Speaker 1: named the NFL defensive Rookie of the Month with forty

1974
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 1: three tackles, four pass breakups, of sack and a couple

1975
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:43,760
Speaker 1: of interceptions in the month of December. Buffalo's first round

1976
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:46,960
Speaker 1: draft pick Crimeine Edmonds Adam Gays, former Dolphins coach, just

1977
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:49,439
Speaker 1: let go on Monday. He is interviewing today with the

1978
01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:52,040
Speaker 1: New York Jets. According to NFL Network, he will first

1979
01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:55,120
Speaker 1: interview with the Arizona Cardinals. The four meeting with the

1980
01:35:55,240 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 1: Jets a former Packers coach. Mike McCarthy is also scheduled

1981
01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:02,360
Speaker 1: to interview with the New York Jets. Elsewhere in the NFL,

1982
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:04,120
Speaker 1: the league is for the first time, he's going to

1983
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:06,800
Speaker 1: partner with a casino at the league level. The NFL

1984
01:36:06,840 --> 01:36:09,639
Speaker 1: announcing that it has a partnership now with Caesar's Entertainment

1985
01:36:09,680 --> 01:36:12,479
Speaker 1: that will make the Gaming Giant the first ever official

1986
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 1: casino sponsor of the NFL. Multi year deal begins during

1987
01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:19,320
Speaker 1: the two thousand nineteen playoffs. Caesar's has exclusive rights to

1988
01:36:19,439 --> 01:36:23,200
Speaker 1: use NFL trademarks. Tickets getting cheaper for the College Football

1989
01:36:23,320 --> 01:36:27,240
Speaker 1: National Championship playoff game on Monday, the Crimson tied the

1990
01:36:27,920 --> 01:36:30,000
Speaker 1: Tigers of Clemson, playing for the title for the third

1991
01:36:30,080 --> 01:36:32,320
Speaker 1: time in four years, and prices have been plummeting for

1992
01:36:32,439 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: the last couple of days. Jack Iko will miss tonight's

1993
01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:38,240
Speaker 1: Sabers game with an upper body injury. No specific word

1994
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:40,320
Speaker 1: on what that injury is go house and he said

1995
01:36:40,360 --> 01:36:43,519
Speaker 1: today they will evaluate I Call. He is day to day.

1996
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:45,479
Speaker 1: He will not play tonight or the next game. The

1997
01:36:45,560 --> 01:36:47,840
Speaker 1: next game is coming up over the weekend. I Call

1998
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: on his way to the All Star Game at the

1999
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:51,880
Speaker 1: end of January the Sabers captain will represent his team

2000
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:54,759
Speaker 1: second time he's played in that game and college basketball,

2001
01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:57,360
Speaker 1: Kinnesius opens up its Metro Atlantic Conference schedule with the

2002
01:36:57,400 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 1: game at Marist in Pokeepsie tonight. That's the update from

2003
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:03,080
Speaker 1: One Bills Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker and our one

2004
01:37:03,120 --> 01:37:07,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo studio. The playoffs begin on Saturday, with four wildcard

2005
01:37:07,479 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 1: playoff games coming up, and they begin with the Colts

2006
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:13,439
Speaker 1: in the Houston Texans on ABC and ESPN four thirty

2007
01:37:13,479 --> 01:37:16,800
Speaker 1: five pm kickoff on ABC on Saturday. Joining us on

2008
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 1: the subway, fresh Tate cotline guy who knows a lot

2009
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 1: about the Colts. He is the beat reporter for the

2010
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:24,639
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts and senior NFL writer at the Athletic dot

2011
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:27,559
Speaker 1: Com in Indy. To cover the Colts ins twenty thirteen,

2012
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:29,960
Speaker 1: having to have Steven Holder on the line with us

2013
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:32,759
Speaker 1: right now. Stevens, John Murphy and Steve Tasker here in Buffalo,

2014
01:37:32,840 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Hey, thanks

2015
01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:37,639
Speaker 1: for having me looking forward to it. Hey, the Bills

2016
01:37:37,760 --> 01:37:39,960
Speaker 1: went to Indy back in November, I want to say

2017
01:37:40,040 --> 01:37:44,200
Speaker 1: November twenty first, and at that point the Colts were

2018
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:46,800
Speaker 1: just kind of getting their feet underneath them. Look, I'm

2019
01:37:46,840 --> 01:37:48,840
Speaker 1: not asking for you to credit the Bills for bringing

2020
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:51,000
Speaker 1: the Colts around, But right around then is when things

2021
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:54,519
Speaker 1: really started to heat up for the Indianapolis Colts, wasn't it? Yeah?

2022
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:57,560
Speaker 1: I think so. It was the game that started that

2023
01:37:57,760 --> 01:38:01,040
Speaker 1: sort of nine out of ten that they went on

2024
01:38:01,240 --> 01:38:04,240
Speaker 1: to get them into the playoffs. That was the first

2025
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:07,240
Speaker 1: of those wins they had. They had not one since

2026
01:38:07,560 --> 01:38:10,280
Speaker 1: I believe weeks two, so they were one in five

2027
01:38:10,439 --> 01:38:13,880
Speaker 1: going into that game. And what happened there I would

2028
01:38:13,920 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: say this, you're right, obviously, you know. I don't know

2029
01:38:16,960 --> 01:38:18,920
Speaker 1: if I want to give the build too much credit. No,

2030
01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:22,360
Speaker 1: I think what happened is, I would say, is you

2031
01:38:22,479 --> 01:38:26,080
Speaker 1: have a very young team. Although they have veterans like

2032
01:38:26,160 --> 01:38:28,720
Speaker 1: Andrew Lucky, t Y Hilton, they had a very young

2033
01:38:28,840 --> 01:38:32,679
Speaker 1: team that I think really needed to kind of see

2034
01:38:33,520 --> 01:38:36,720
Speaker 1: the product of their work. Right. They had been they

2035
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:39,000
Speaker 1: had been working, they had been buying into the system,

2036
01:38:39,080 --> 01:38:42,680
Speaker 1: into the concepts, but they weren't getting wins out of them.

2037
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 1: And they were very close and they were playing well.

2038
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:48,400
Speaker 1: But at some point all that has to turn into wins,

2039
01:38:48,479 --> 01:38:50,880
Speaker 1: and until it does, I think it's really hard to

2040
01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 1: believe and that was maybe the game that allowed them

2041
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:56,000
Speaker 1: to start believing. Yeah. I was gonna ask you if

2042
01:38:56,200 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: was there anything tangible on the field, like did one

2043
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:00,960
Speaker 1: side of the football start playing better or was there?

2044
01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:03,559
Speaker 1: But from what you're telling me, they were playing about

2045
01:39:03,600 --> 01:39:05,680
Speaker 1: as good as they did before they started winning, and

2046
01:39:05,720 --> 01:39:07,960
Speaker 1: then they just started winning. Is I mean what happened

2047
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:10,080
Speaker 1: on the field and xs and os or maybe with

2048
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:14,360
Speaker 1: personnel that may help them turn the corner. Yeah, I

2049
01:39:14,439 --> 01:39:16,720
Speaker 1: think there were some things. It wasn't just belief. I

2050
01:39:16,760 --> 01:39:18,600
Speaker 1: mean that was a big part of it, probably the

2051
01:39:18,640 --> 01:39:21,760
Speaker 1: biggest part. But they weren't finishing games. I mean, there's

2052
01:39:21,800 --> 01:39:24,880
Speaker 1: no question about that. They there was. There was not

2053
01:39:25,080 --> 01:39:28,400
Speaker 1: enough execution I think at critical moments. And that's sometimes

2054
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:30,280
Speaker 1: what you get with the young team, right, you get

2055
01:39:30,320 --> 01:39:33,840
Speaker 1: a team that can't make the you know, the one

2056
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:36,400
Speaker 1: or two plays that you have to make. I mean,

2057
01:39:36,479 --> 01:39:38,280
Speaker 1: you know all about that, right, I Mean that's really

2058
01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:41,960
Speaker 1: what this league comes down to. And I remember, for example,

2059
01:39:42,040 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 1: Week three at Philadelphia, they had an incredible chance to

2060
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:48,840
Speaker 1: win in that game, but with four tries excuse me,

2061
01:39:48,920 --> 01:39:51,679
Speaker 1: three tries inside the red zone in the second half,

2062
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:55,320
Speaker 1: they couldn't put a touchdown together. I mean, that was

2063
01:39:55,400 --> 01:39:58,200
Speaker 1: really the difference. They lost by four, and so they

2064
01:39:58,320 --> 01:40:01,240
Speaker 1: had multiple opportunities in the zone late in that game.

2065
01:40:01,720 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 1: They had dropped passes in the end zone, they had

2066
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:08,160
Speaker 1: miss blocks where the quarterback gets sacked. I mean, just

2067
01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:12,080
Speaker 1: a real lack of execution at at clutch moments. So

2068
01:40:12,800 --> 01:40:15,280
Speaker 1: I think to win nine out of ten, you have

2069
01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:18,599
Speaker 1: to make a lot of clutch plays. And they started

2070
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:21,760
Speaker 1: making those plays eventually, and that was something that was

2071
01:40:21,880 --> 01:40:24,720
Speaker 1: not happening earlier. Stephen. The pieces weren't in place though,

2072
01:40:24,840 --> 01:40:27,680
Speaker 1: even right right then, and of course they brought those

2073
01:40:27,720 --> 01:40:29,400
Speaker 1: pieces of the game against the Bills with what a

2074
01:40:29,479 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 1: one in five record, But you know, Andrew Luck played

2075
01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:34,519
Speaker 1: well that day, Ibron came into the game playing well

2076
01:40:34,560 --> 01:40:37,559
Speaker 1: and continued that. They started to run the football really

2077
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:40,040
Speaker 1: well at that point with maca one hundred and twenty

2078
01:40:40,080 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: six yards on the ground. The pieces were already in place,

2079
01:40:43,320 --> 01:40:45,360
Speaker 1: and they went up against the Buffalo team that was

2080
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:48,360
Speaker 1: playing the you know, with the I think Derrick Anderson

2081
01:40:48,439 --> 01:40:50,360
Speaker 1: got the start a quarterback right, and it just the

2082
01:40:50,439 --> 01:40:53,280
Speaker 1: Bills were without I don't think McCoy had much to

2083
01:40:53,400 --> 01:40:55,519
Speaker 1: say or he had two carries in that game. It

2084
01:40:55,640 --> 01:40:58,400
Speaker 1: was almost like the right place or the right team

2085
01:40:58,720 --> 01:41:00,400
Speaker 1: to go up against Indy at that point to help

2086
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:03,599
Speaker 1: out the Indianapolis Colts. Would you look back on it, Well, look,

2087
01:41:03,640 --> 01:41:05,240
Speaker 1: the Colts got a lot of breaks that there. There's

2088
01:41:05,280 --> 01:41:08,280
Speaker 1: no question Derek Henderson did start that game. I believe

2089
01:41:08,400 --> 01:41:12,240
Speaker 1: Shady got hurt in a very very early portion of

2090
01:41:12,240 --> 01:41:16,720
Speaker 1: that first played, first offensive play from scrimmage, I think, yeah, yeah,

2091
01:41:16,880 --> 01:41:20,920
Speaker 1: so I had forgotten about that. That was huge, right, Yeah.

2092
01:41:21,200 --> 01:41:23,479
Speaker 1: Now the Colts have had a very good rushis defense

2093
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:25,679
Speaker 1: this year. They're having a lot of one hundred yard rusher.

2094
01:41:25,720 --> 01:41:28,599
Speaker 1: But I mean it's clearly a different game obviously if

2095
01:41:28,640 --> 01:41:31,360
Speaker 1: you have, you know, one of your best players. So look,

2096
01:41:31,600 --> 01:41:34,320
Speaker 1: I think sometimes that happens in this league. You've got

2097
01:41:34,400 --> 01:41:36,840
Speaker 1: to take advantage of situations, and that was one of

2098
01:41:36,880 --> 01:41:40,920
Speaker 1: them that the Colts. They seized that opportunity. And look,

2099
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:43,240
Speaker 1: that's every every good team has to do that. And

2100
01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:46,679
Speaker 1: sometimes that's the difference between you know, being a team

2101
01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:48,439
Speaker 1: it's a team that's there at the end and not

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01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:51,439
Speaker 1: you know, do you take advantage of those opportunities like that?

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01:41:51,760 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 1: You know, I look at a situation where the Colts

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01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:56,439
Speaker 1: went down to Jacksonville later in the season, and it's

2105
01:41:56,439 --> 01:41:59,639
Speaker 1: the one blemish down the stretch and they got shut out,

2106
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:02,720
Speaker 1: and it's one that I just can't explain. I think

2107
01:42:02,760 --> 01:42:05,120
Speaker 1: it's one of those games to throw away the tape. Well,

2108
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:08,799
Speaker 1: my point is there was a Jacksonville team Cody Kessler

2109
01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:11,240
Speaker 1: starting at quarterback. I mean, that's an opportunity. You would

2110
01:42:11,280 --> 01:42:14,040
Speaker 1: think they did not capitalize on that, and they made

2111
01:42:14,080 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 1: things a lot harder on themselves in terms of clinching

2112
01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 1: a playoff spot because of that. But there is no

2113
01:42:19,320 --> 01:42:22,599
Speaker 1: question that they took advantage of the situation that day

2114
01:42:22,600 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: against Buffalo and they put it all together. They also

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01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 1: played the Houston Texans back I think of the recently

2116
01:42:29,520 --> 01:42:33,200
Speaker 1: was Week fourteen, I think at Houston, were they won

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01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:37,920
Speaker 1: twenty four twenty one. I believe what's this matchup looked like.

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01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:40,360
Speaker 1: It's the third time these teams have made I've met,

2119
01:42:41,160 --> 01:42:44,000
Speaker 1: and they've split the series on the season, the Houston

2120
01:42:44,080 --> 01:42:47,800
Speaker 1: Texans winning early in the season, the Colts of course,

2121
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:49,960
Speaker 1: part of that nine game, eight out of nine game

2122
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,360
Speaker 1: winning streak that they've they put together. Here at the

2123
01:42:52,439 --> 01:42:54,920
Speaker 1: end of the season, they were at Houston and they

2124
01:42:55,439 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 1: managed to walk out with a three point win. What's

2125
01:42:57,400 --> 01:43:01,479
Speaker 1: this matchup look like this time around? Well, first of all,

2126
01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 1: it's a really intriguing matchup. I mean when you talk about,

2127
01:43:04,880 --> 01:43:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, the third game between two teams that have

2128
01:43:08,120 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 1: played two three point games, right, So, I mean they've

2129
01:43:10,760 --> 01:43:13,519
Speaker 1: played two field goal games, basically, the first one going

2130
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:17,200
Speaker 1: to overtime, and you know famously Frank Wright going for

2131
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:21,320
Speaker 1: the fourth down in his own territory in overtime and

2132
01:43:21,520 --> 01:43:24,160
Speaker 1: not getting it, coming up short, and the Texans going

2133
01:43:24,200 --> 01:43:27,640
Speaker 1: down and kicking the winning field goal to close it out. So,

2134
01:43:28,080 --> 01:43:32,760
Speaker 1: I mean, they've had some really intriguing games already this

2135
01:43:32,920 --> 01:43:34,920
Speaker 1: year going into this playoff game, So it doesn't get

2136
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:37,040
Speaker 1: any bigger than this. So so I'm just looking forward

2137
01:43:37,080 --> 01:43:39,840
Speaker 1: to this what's next, first of all. And then what

2138
01:43:39,960 --> 01:43:43,760
Speaker 1: I'd say beyond that is, look how many I think

2139
01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:47,000
Speaker 1: the question is going to be who can find that

2140
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:50,240
Speaker 1: one little wrinkle? Maybe that makes a difference, because what

2141
01:43:50,439 --> 01:43:52,640
Speaker 1: can you do right when you've seen that much of

2142
01:43:52,720 --> 01:43:55,519
Speaker 1: each other. You're in the same division. They know your players,

2143
01:43:55,560 --> 01:43:59,400
Speaker 1: you know their players, and granted the Colts have, you know,

2144
01:43:59,640 --> 01:44:04,040
Speaker 1: newer schemes because they have a new coaching staff, but still,

2145
01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:07,000
Speaker 1: I mean they know Andrew Lux, they know t Y Hilton.

2146
01:44:07,040 --> 01:44:08,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, this is not going to be

2147
01:44:09,400 --> 01:44:13,080
Speaker 1: a new territory for Houston either, So who's going to

2148
01:44:13,160 --> 01:44:15,599
Speaker 1: be able to come up with that one little wrinkle

2149
01:44:15,800 --> 01:44:18,800
Speaker 1: that maybe throws someone off? And I would say, so far,

2150
01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:20,920
Speaker 1: I think the Colts have done a good job of that.

2151
01:44:21,160 --> 01:44:23,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I look at what they've done against Deshaun

2152
01:44:23,280 --> 01:44:26,000
Speaker 1: Watson for example. Look, he put up huge numbers in

2153
01:44:26,080 --> 01:44:29,800
Speaker 1: the first game, but they have DeShawn Watson twelve times

2154
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:33,280
Speaker 1: in two games. And I know the Texans have have

2155
01:44:33,439 --> 01:44:35,479
Speaker 1: certainly given up a lot of fact this year. I

2156
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:38,560
Speaker 1: believe they leave the league. But the one thing the

2157
01:44:38,600 --> 01:44:41,519
Speaker 1: Colts have done is really switch up their their tactics

2158
01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:43,760
Speaker 1: in terms of how they've rushed him. And they've been

2159
01:44:43,920 --> 01:44:48,240
Speaker 1: blitz zone, blitzes, four man rush, They've tried a little

2160
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:49,800
Speaker 1: bit of it's gonna be tried it a little bit

2161
01:44:49,840 --> 01:44:52,640
Speaker 1: of everything, and have had success in a lot of

2162
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:55,400
Speaker 1: different ways. So I'm very interested to see what their

2163
01:44:55,439 --> 01:44:58,800
Speaker 1: tactic is against Watson this time around. They've also not

2164
01:44:59,040 --> 01:45:02,240
Speaker 1: really allowed at least in the second game, it didn't

2165
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:05,559
Speaker 1: really allow him to really hurt them in the running

2166
01:45:05,600 --> 01:45:07,920
Speaker 1: game and that's where he can do a lot of damnas.

2167
01:45:07,960 --> 01:45:11,160
Speaker 1: He's been Deshaun Watsonson. I think they're a top rusher

2168
01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:13,560
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, So that's something I

2169
01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:15,640
Speaker 1: think I'll be watching as well. Steven Holder on the

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01:45:15,680 --> 01:45:17,800
Speaker 1: Line with us Cold Speat Reporter covers that team for

2171
01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:20,719
Speaker 1: the Athletic dot Com and Indy he Steven You wrote

2172
01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:22,920
Speaker 1: that this year's coach team is one of the tightest

2173
01:45:23,080 --> 01:45:26,360
Speaker 1: knit teams you've ever covered as a sportswriter twenty more years.

2174
01:45:26,400 --> 01:45:27,880
Speaker 1: What do you see there? What have you noticed there?

2175
01:45:29,200 --> 01:45:31,960
Speaker 1: It's just really interesting. I think it has to do

2176
01:45:32,960 --> 01:45:35,320
Speaker 1: a lot with the fact that they're not a team

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01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:38,920
Speaker 1: that's that's built on household names. Now, that doesn't mean

2178
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:41,639
Speaker 1: you can't win, right with a team full of stars.

2179
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean their own coach, Frank Wright, knows that you

2180
01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:46,280
Speaker 1: can do that right. I mean they did it there

2181
01:45:46,280 --> 01:45:49,760
Speaker 1: in Buffalo certainly for a long time. But I do

2182
01:45:49,960 --> 01:45:52,920
Speaker 1: think that there's there's a couple of things going on.

2183
01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:56,880
Speaker 1: They're not guys who people expected a lot from, you know,

2184
01:45:57,040 --> 01:46:00,599
Speaker 1: not household names. With two exceptions Andrew Luck see why, Hilton,

2185
01:46:00,760 --> 01:46:04,160
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson, and that's you know what else beyond that, right,

2186
01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:07,080
Speaker 1: I mean, not many people are familiar with this roster.

2187
01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:10,280
Speaker 1: And then on a related note, I think they're a

2188
01:46:10,360 --> 01:46:13,400
Speaker 1: team that just wasn't expecting to do very much. And

2189
01:46:14,240 --> 01:46:16,680
Speaker 1: I think they're that kind of brings you together. I mean,

2190
01:46:16,720 --> 01:46:19,400
Speaker 1: you got to rally around yourself when no one else

2191
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:22,599
Speaker 1: is hyping you, so you know who's gonna who's gonna,

2192
01:46:22,960 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 1: you know, be the who's gonna be that person and

2193
01:46:25,280 --> 01:46:28,680
Speaker 1: that that who can carry your flag for you, so

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01:46:28,840 --> 01:46:30,880
Speaker 1: to speak. I mean maybe I'm not explaining it well,

2195
01:46:30,960 --> 01:46:33,880
Speaker 1: but the point is, you know, someone's got to believe

2196
01:46:33,960 --> 01:46:35,600
Speaker 1: in you, I guess, is what I'm getting at. And

2197
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:38,960
Speaker 1: certainly no one outside their building was believing in them.

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01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:41,679
Speaker 1: I certainly wasn't. I figured they'd be eight and eight

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01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:44,400
Speaker 1: at best. I thought they could get there. I thought

2200
01:46:44,479 --> 01:46:46,800
Speaker 1: they were in seven and nine, eight and eight sort

2201
01:46:46,840 --> 01:46:49,640
Speaker 1: of team. And I thought that was a little bit

2202
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:53,000
Speaker 1: of an optimistic viewpoint going into the season. And you

2203
01:46:53,120 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 1: just you didn't know about into lux shoulder. You didn't

2204
01:46:56,560 --> 01:46:59,880
Speaker 1: know about the defense for sure. I mean, no one

2205
01:47:00,080 --> 01:47:02,240
Speaker 1: knew anything about that you. I mean, there was so

2206
01:47:02,439 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 1: much that was unknown that was so important to their

2207
01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:09,400
Speaker 1: success that the expectations were nil, So I just think

2208
01:47:09,479 --> 01:47:12,519
Speaker 1: that really brought them together, and especially when they got

2209
01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:14,720
Speaker 1: to one in five, then they really had to rely

2210
01:47:14,880 --> 01:47:18,439
Speaker 1: on each other because at that point it's you either

2211
01:47:18,479 --> 01:47:21,320
Speaker 1: swim or you drowned, and there was really nowhere to

2212
01:47:21,400 --> 01:47:24,320
Speaker 1: go but up. So they rallied and they really got

2213
01:47:24,360 --> 01:47:26,880
Speaker 1: it done. I just think they have a special sort

2214
01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:30,120
Speaker 1: of chemistry and it's been a big factor in their success. Yeah,

2215
01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:33,400
Speaker 1: I don't no doubt that Frank Reich has a pensiont

2216
01:47:33,439 --> 01:47:35,840
Speaker 1: for putting it together a tightly knit team like that.

2217
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:38,480
Speaker 1: He also had some help from his coordinators Nick Sirianni

2218
01:47:39,200 --> 01:47:42,200
Speaker 1: on offense and also Matt Eberflus, who those two were

2219
01:47:42,280 --> 01:47:48,440
Speaker 1: thrown together in the aftermath of the Josh McDaniels renigging

2220
01:47:48,520 --> 01:47:51,960
Speaker 1: on that contract. But those two guys, Nick Sirianni and

2221
01:47:52,040 --> 01:47:55,320
Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus, the offensive and defensive coordinator respectively, those guys

2222
01:47:55,360 --> 01:47:58,559
Speaker 1: are getting some attention now as head coaching candidates, as

2223
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:01,240
Speaker 1: that been a just gonna be a distraction for this

2224
01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:04,120
Speaker 1: team going forward to I mean, is this gonna slam

2225
01:48:04,240 --> 01:48:06,439
Speaker 1: shut a window that looks like it was just starting

2226
01:48:06,520 --> 01:48:09,640
Speaker 1: to open. I mean, what's the vibe coming out of

2227
01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:14,320
Speaker 1: that coaching staff knowing that they may get pillaged by

2228
01:48:15,200 --> 01:48:19,599
Speaker 1: the head coaching vacancies. Yeah, I mean it's it's a factor, certainly,

2229
01:48:20,520 --> 01:48:22,880
Speaker 1: I would say, though it doesn't look likely right now,

2230
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:26,080
Speaker 1: only because that I, at least as far as I know,

2231
01:48:26,800 --> 01:48:30,080
Speaker 1: only the Cleveland Browns have requested permission now. They requested

2232
01:48:30,120 --> 01:48:33,519
Speaker 1: permission for both those guys, Maddie Reflus, the defensive coordinator,

2233
01:48:33,520 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 1: and Nick Sirianni, who I think Western New York guys too.

2234
01:48:37,280 --> 01:48:40,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, so those two guys that I think have

2235
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:43,679
Speaker 1: done a great job this year. And so he Reflus,

2236
01:48:43,880 --> 01:48:46,320
Speaker 1: for one, he has real autonomy on that defense because

2237
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:49,840
Speaker 1: Frank is basically the offensive coordinator, So he really is

2238
01:48:49,880 --> 01:48:53,559
Speaker 1: the guy that brought that together, installed the scheme. I mean,

2239
01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:56,160
Speaker 1: he's got you know, he gets full credit for the defense,

2240
01:48:56,200 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 1: I think. And then Sirianni, while Frank Reichs calling plays,

2241
01:49:00,840 --> 01:49:04,320
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni, I think has has taken on a similar

2242
01:49:04,439 --> 01:49:08,360
Speaker 1: role that Frank took on with Doug Peterson in Philadelphia.

2243
01:49:08,680 --> 01:49:12,519
Speaker 1: You know, Frank is very big on that collaborative approach,

2244
01:49:12,960 --> 01:49:15,200
Speaker 1: and I think Doug Peterson has done a great job

2245
01:49:15,280 --> 01:49:17,479
Speaker 1: of that. You know with his coaching staff, and it's

2246
01:49:17,520 --> 01:49:19,760
Speaker 1: one of the reasons Frank got the opportunity that he

2247
01:49:19,880 --> 01:49:23,240
Speaker 1: did here, and and Frank is a big believer in that,

2248
01:49:23,400 --> 01:49:26,360
Speaker 1: so he is I think carrying that on in Indianapolis,

2249
01:49:26,680 --> 01:49:29,439
Speaker 1: and Nick Sirianni has benefited from that. So look, you know,

2250
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:31,840
Speaker 1: guys aren't going to be a secret for long. You know,

2251
01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:34,320
Speaker 1: when they've seen, when other teams have seen, you know,

2252
01:49:34,439 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 1: that approach work, they're going to take notice. And I

2253
01:49:37,280 --> 01:49:40,080
Speaker 1: think that's what Nick Siranni's benefiting from here. So we'll

2254
01:49:40,080 --> 01:49:42,320
Speaker 1: see what happens. It's not going to be a factor

2255
01:49:42,400 --> 01:49:44,800
Speaker 1: this week. If they win, though, then there needs to

2256
01:49:44,840 --> 01:49:48,439
Speaker 1: be a decision on whether whether those interviews happen next week,

2257
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:51,759
Speaker 1: because the NFL rules do permit them to interview after

2258
01:49:52,240 --> 01:49:55,320
Speaker 1: the wildcard round. So that's something that's still up in

2259
01:49:55,360 --> 01:49:58,240
Speaker 1: the air, hasn't been decided yet that some people has

2260
01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:00,479
Speaker 1: to kind of stay on top of it. Even last

2261
01:50:00,479 --> 01:50:03,120
Speaker 1: thing I got for you, Frank Reich, by the way,

2262
01:50:03,160 --> 01:50:07,000
Speaker 1: twenty six years ago today, established himself as sort of

2263
01:50:07,040 --> 01:50:10,800
Speaker 1: a transformational figure in Western New York sports history, the

2264
01:50:10,960 --> 01:50:13,800
Speaker 1: quarterback of the Great comeback Game against the Oilers, but

2265
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:16,400
Speaker 1: He's gotten a million friends here. Steve Tasker is one

2266
01:50:16,400 --> 01:50:20,760
Speaker 1: of them, obviously my partner here. As Frank Reich's personality,

2267
01:50:20,800 --> 01:50:22,960
Speaker 1: how much has Frank Reich's personality had to do with

2268
01:50:23,080 --> 01:50:26,040
Speaker 1: that turnaround from a one in five start to the

2269
01:50:26,160 --> 01:50:28,400
Speaker 1: great finish and the chance they have this year? How

2270
01:50:28,520 --> 01:50:31,519
Speaker 1: much is Frank's character and his personality contributed to that.

2271
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:35,960
Speaker 1: I think it's a huge factor. And this was something

2272
01:50:36,160 --> 01:50:38,519
Speaker 1: I tried to articulate in a story a couple of

2273
01:50:38,520 --> 01:50:41,720
Speaker 1: weeks ago. And it's not something you can pick up

2274
01:50:41,800 --> 01:50:43,519
Speaker 1: on just by watching. You have to kind of be

2275
01:50:43,600 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 1: in the locker room and talk to people about him, right,

2276
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:48,479
Speaker 1: and if you know him, you won't be surprised to

2277
01:50:48,560 --> 01:50:51,280
Speaker 1: hear this. But it was just interesting to see how

2278
01:50:51,400 --> 01:50:55,080
Speaker 1: he's created a real culture where guys are all in, right,

2279
01:50:55,240 --> 01:50:59,559
Speaker 1: they are completely bought in, they are invested, but yet

2280
01:51:00,160 --> 01:51:02,840
Speaker 1: not a guy who does it with screaming and yelling.

2281
01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:05,000
Speaker 1: And he doesn't do it with you know, sort of

2282
01:51:05,080 --> 01:51:07,599
Speaker 1: ruling with this iron fist. That's not his approach at all.

2283
01:51:08,040 --> 01:51:12,000
Speaker 1: I just think it's so I think difficult to create

2284
01:51:12,080 --> 01:51:14,040
Speaker 1: that kind of culture, but to do it just by

2285
01:51:14,200 --> 01:51:17,000
Speaker 1: purely being yourself and just kind of being the guy

2286
01:51:17,120 --> 01:51:19,240
Speaker 1: next door, which is what Frank is, you know. And

2287
01:51:20,360 --> 01:51:22,800
Speaker 1: I but I would say the one difference between him

2288
01:51:22,960 --> 01:51:27,440
Speaker 1: and your neighbor is this guy is the ultimate competitor

2289
01:51:27,640 --> 01:51:30,040
Speaker 1: and and that's how he kind of balances it. And

2290
01:51:30,120 --> 01:51:33,880
Speaker 1: I think the players respond to that, not necessarily. You know,

2291
01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:36,080
Speaker 1: the guy who's throwing a fit in the locker room,

2292
01:51:36,120 --> 01:51:37,920
Speaker 1: they don't respond to that because he doesn't do that.

2293
01:51:38,080 --> 01:51:41,479
Speaker 1: They respond to the competitor. And it is funny. I had.

2294
01:51:41,920 --> 01:51:44,080
Speaker 1: I tried a little experiment. I went around the locker

2295
01:51:44,160 --> 01:51:47,000
Speaker 1: room and tried to find guys whoever ever heard him curse?

2296
01:51:47,120 --> 01:51:50,800
Speaker 1: Of course, no one had. And the other thing was

2297
01:51:51,160 --> 01:51:53,040
Speaker 1: I asked guys like, hey, has he ever had to

2298
01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:55,080
Speaker 1: get on you? Has he ever had to kind of

2299
01:51:55,240 --> 01:51:57,240
Speaker 1: you know, have you ever raised his ire? And no one?

2300
01:51:57,840 --> 01:51:59,880
Speaker 1: There was, there was nothing. I couldn't come up with anything,

2301
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:03,000
Speaker 1: and it was so it's just a really interesting approach

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01:52:03,120 --> 01:52:05,960
Speaker 1: that he takes. But you can't knock it because it works,

2303
01:52:06,120 --> 01:52:08,000
Speaker 1: and he is getting the best out of these guys,

2304
01:52:08,080 --> 01:52:09,679
Speaker 1: and I give him a lot of credit. It's working.

2305
01:52:09,760 --> 01:52:11,360
Speaker 1: I hope it continues to where he's got a lot

2306
01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:13,160
Speaker 1: of fans here in Buffalo and Western New York. Stephen,

2307
01:52:13,320 --> 01:52:14,840
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, and I hope you have a

2308
01:52:14,880 --> 01:52:16,800
Speaker 1: good long playoff run to cover. Thank you very much.

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01:52:17,320 --> 01:52:20,360
Speaker 1: All right, guys, thanks for having me here. Stephen Holder

2310
01:52:20,439 --> 01:52:23,559
Speaker 1: covers the Indianapolist, could speat reporter for the Athletic dot

2311
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:26,920
Speaker 1: Com in Indianapolis. Senior NFL writers cover the Colts for

2312
01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:28,560
Speaker 1: the last six years, and he joined us on the

2313
01:52:28,600 --> 01:52:32,320
Speaker 1: Subway Fresh Stake Hotline presented by Subway Restaurants Proud to

2314
01:52:32,360 --> 01:52:37,160
Speaker 1: be locally owned and operated. All right, Steve Tasker, Oh, look,

2315
01:52:37,200 --> 01:52:39,040
Speaker 1: it's been a Frank Wright LoveFest for the last two

2316
01:52:39,040 --> 01:52:41,519
Speaker 1: and a half hours. Give us one thing that you

2317
01:52:41,800 --> 01:52:44,120
Speaker 1: think Frank could do better, one thing that he's not

2318
01:52:44,240 --> 01:52:46,760
Speaker 1: perfect that please? Is there anything you can oh? There is?

2319
01:52:47,080 --> 01:52:50,320
Speaker 1: He needs to he needs to shave the beer. Why

2320
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:54,920
Speaker 1: he needs to shave Why? I think it gives him

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01:52:55,400 --> 01:53:01,840
Speaker 1: gravitis gratis? Yea, yeah, come on, shave the it's lincoln esque. Yeah,

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01:53:01,920 --> 01:53:04,240
Speaker 1: I don't listen. Listen, here's what I think. He needs

2323
01:53:04,280 --> 01:53:06,639
Speaker 1: to shave the beard. But keep that mustache, man, because

2324
01:53:06,640 --> 01:53:09,200
Speaker 1: that is that mustache is world class and he needs

2325
01:53:09,240 --> 01:53:11,680
Speaker 1: to handle bar it all A Raleigh fingers back in

2326
01:53:11,720 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 1: the old seventies with the Pittsburgh Pie. He's yeah, I

2327
01:53:14,080 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 1: would say shave the shave the beard and go with

2328
01:53:17,080 --> 01:53:21,120
Speaker 1: a big handlebar mustache iconic. That's what it would be.

2329
01:53:21,400 --> 01:53:27,160
Speaker 1: That's what I think he could do better. No, that's

2330
01:53:27,200 --> 01:53:28,560
Speaker 1: not who that's not the kind of guy he is.

2331
01:53:28,640 --> 01:53:31,200
Speaker 1: And he and it doesn't surprise me that he has

2332
01:53:31,280 --> 01:53:33,120
Speaker 1: never really had to yell or scream or get after

2333
01:53:33,200 --> 01:53:34,880
Speaker 1: a guy because he wouldn't do that. He would approach

2334
01:53:34,920 --> 01:53:36,760
Speaker 1: the guy and talk to him like a man. That's

2335
01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:38,840
Speaker 1: the way he does business, and that's why guys respond

2336
01:53:38,880 --> 01:53:41,839
Speaker 1: to him. He's a real guy who is a great example.

2337
01:53:41,840 --> 01:53:43,559
Speaker 1: And it's like when he does things, it's like wow,

2338
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:45,439
Speaker 1: that's you know what. He kind of gives you the idea,

2339
01:53:45,439 --> 01:53:47,479
Speaker 1: like wow, everybody should do it that way, right, But

2340
01:53:47,960 --> 01:53:49,920
Speaker 1: we don't all think about it. We don't take a

2341
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:52,000
Speaker 1: minute to think about what the way we're perceived or

2342
01:53:52,040 --> 01:53:54,919
Speaker 1: the way or our actions are going to be received.

2343
01:53:55,520 --> 01:53:57,280
Speaker 1: Frank does have that knack and the ability to know

2344
01:53:57,400 --> 01:53:59,040
Speaker 1: how he's going to be received, and he does it

2345
01:53:59,080 --> 01:54:01,400
Speaker 1: in the best way possible. And um, I think it's

2346
01:54:01,400 --> 01:54:03,720
Speaker 1: served him extremely well. Obviously as a head coach. And

2347
01:54:03,920 --> 01:54:06,240
Speaker 1: he's got the ability to lead guys and get him

2348
01:54:06,280 --> 01:54:08,400
Speaker 1: to rally around him. If I gave you till tomorrow

2349
01:54:08,520 --> 01:54:10,479
Speaker 1: noon to come up with one negative thing about Frank,

2350
01:54:10,520 --> 01:54:12,479
Speaker 1: could you please do that? Like, you know, did he

2351
01:54:12,680 --> 01:54:15,400
Speaker 1: you know, kick his ball out of the rough? I'll

2352
01:54:15,400 --> 01:54:17,719
Speaker 1: tell you that he's Yeah, he's not. He's non athletic

2353
01:54:17,800 --> 01:54:19,439
Speaker 1: in the part. And I'll tell you this too, non

2354
01:54:19,520 --> 01:54:21,640
Speaker 1: athletic in the pocket. I'll tell you this too. On

2355
01:54:21,880 --> 01:54:25,760
Speaker 1: his best day, he could not touch his toes. What's

2356
01:54:25,840 --> 01:54:29,840
Speaker 1: up with that? Right? He couldn't We tease him. He

2357
01:54:30,200 --> 01:54:32,600
Speaker 1: could not touch his toes on his best and he's

2358
01:54:32,600 --> 01:54:35,800
Speaker 1: got short legs for a six four guy. All right,

2359
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:37,800
Speaker 1: he couldn't touch his toes on his best day. Maybe

2360
01:54:37,800 --> 01:54:40,320
Speaker 1: there's something that's true. I can't keep talking about how

2361
01:54:40,360 --> 01:54:46,120
Speaker 1: great he is. Yeah, we'll see, yeah, yeah, you know, listen,

2362
01:54:46,200 --> 01:54:48,160
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys you root for. It's easy

2363
01:54:48,160 --> 01:54:50,240
Speaker 1: to root for him, even guy even you know, and

2364
01:54:50,320 --> 01:54:52,520
Speaker 1: I'm and I get it. I mean, for the time being,

2365
01:54:52,560 --> 01:54:54,240
Speaker 1: we'll say it's okay, you know, we can do it

2366
01:54:54,280 --> 01:54:56,400
Speaker 1: while since the Bills are finished with their season, I can,

2367
01:54:56,720 --> 01:54:58,720
Speaker 1: you know, hope the best for the Colts. But you know,

2368
01:54:59,520 --> 01:55:02,400
Speaker 1: it's he's worked for everything he's had. He's done it

2369
01:55:02,480 --> 01:55:04,920
Speaker 1: the right ways. He's worked long and hard and sacrificed

2370
01:55:04,960 --> 01:55:06,680
Speaker 1: a lot to get to where he's at. I'm glad

2371
01:55:06,680 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 1: we started. I'm glad we started with with Stephen on

2372
01:55:11,120 --> 01:55:13,560
Speaker 1: that Bills game. It was you know, the Bills were

2373
01:55:13,640 --> 01:55:15,640
Speaker 1: in trouble, right, we saw that and Shady, Yeah, I

2374
01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:17,360
Speaker 1: forgot Shady got hurt in the second play, remember the

2375
01:55:17,400 --> 01:55:19,920
Speaker 1: sideline run. He got drilled out of bounds. I think

2376
01:55:19,960 --> 01:55:21,760
Speaker 1: he got knocked in the head and he missed a

2377
01:55:21,840 --> 01:55:24,760
Speaker 1: game after that, Right, but Derek Hannison started a quarterback.

2378
01:55:25,040 --> 01:55:28,960
Speaker 1: Bills weren't really competitive at all, and the Colts weren't

2379
01:55:28,960 --> 01:55:31,040
Speaker 1: that good. The Colts had lost to the Jets going

2380
01:55:31,080 --> 01:55:32,720
Speaker 1: into that game. The Colts had a couple of really

2381
01:55:32,800 --> 01:55:35,840
Speaker 1: bad block They opened their season losing to Cincinnati. They

2382
01:55:35,880 --> 01:55:38,280
Speaker 1: were one in five. They were kind of we'd I

2383
01:55:38,360 --> 01:55:40,480
Speaker 1: remember distinctly this is mid October going in, and that

2384
01:55:40,520 --> 01:55:42,800
Speaker 1: came thinking, Okay, this is a game the Bills might

2385
01:55:42,840 --> 01:55:45,360
Speaker 1: be able to get. Right. No, they didn't get anything

2386
01:55:45,440 --> 01:55:47,640
Speaker 1: close to that game, and the Colts just shots piped

2387
01:55:47,680 --> 01:55:50,520
Speaker 1: together after that, right, it's pretty amazing now season sternly

2388
01:55:50,600 --> 01:55:52,360
Speaker 1: and they got and you know, they were getting great

2389
01:55:52,400 --> 01:55:55,840
Speaker 1: play from their young rookie linebacker Darius Darius Leonard, who

2390
01:55:55,840 --> 01:55:58,600
Speaker 1: has put together as as good a linebacking year as

2391
01:55:58,800 --> 01:56:01,680
Speaker 1: as any rookie in the league and maybe close to

2392
01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:04,280
Speaker 1: the conversation for best ever. It's been that kind of

2393
01:56:04,400 --> 01:56:06,400
Speaker 1: year for him. And as good as Tremaine Edmonds has played,

2394
01:56:06,840 --> 01:56:08,760
Speaker 1: particularly of late at the end of the season, Darius

2395
01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:11,640
Speaker 1: Leonard has done it all all season. He did not

2396
01:56:11,760 --> 01:56:14,000
Speaker 1: get to the Pro Bowl as a result. As you know,

2397
01:56:14,040 --> 01:56:15,640
Speaker 1: a lot of rookies find it difficult to get in

2398
01:56:15,680 --> 01:56:17,160
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl because nobody knows who they are, no

2399
01:56:17,240 --> 01:56:20,000
Speaker 1: matter how good they play, particularly on the defensive side

2400
01:56:20,040 --> 01:56:22,240
Speaker 1: of the football. But Darius Leonard is a guy that's

2401
01:56:22,280 --> 01:56:24,800
Speaker 1: going to be playing for Indianapolis for a decade plus

2402
01:56:24,960 --> 01:56:26,440
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and it was the way it looks

2403
01:56:26,480 --> 01:56:31,760
Speaker 1: now he's really done it. He's the NFL player Defensive

2404
01:56:31,760 --> 01:56:35,720
Speaker 1: Player of the Month. That's how good he's been. So yeah,

2405
01:56:35,760 --> 01:56:37,520
Speaker 1: he's getting some help on both sides of the football.

2406
01:56:37,560 --> 01:56:39,840
Speaker 1: He's got a Bell Cow and Andrew Luck obviously, and

2407
01:56:39,920 --> 01:56:42,360
Speaker 1: he's also got the young Darius Leonard leading the defense

2408
01:56:42,400 --> 01:56:45,120
Speaker 1: as well, so it's they've got some pieces in place

2409
01:56:45,520 --> 01:56:47,960
Speaker 1: and and he's coaching him up. Bill said no answer

2410
01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:50,560
Speaker 1: for Marlon mac that day their their young running back

2411
01:56:50,640 --> 01:56:53,840
Speaker 1: head nineteen carries one hundred and twenty six yards. That

2412
01:56:54,240 --> 01:56:56,040
Speaker 1: that was a bad day. Thirty seven to five. Colt

2413
01:56:56,080 --> 01:56:58,400
Speaker 1: speak to Bills and they just took off. Yeah, and

2414
01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:00,960
Speaker 1: here they are playing in the wildcard. Man. Sometimes it's

2415
01:57:01,000 --> 01:57:05,080
Speaker 1: like everything and we, uh, we had I can't remember

2416
01:57:05,360 --> 01:57:08,720
Speaker 1: the Bills were struggling through some stuff and we uh

2417
01:57:08,800 --> 01:57:11,840
Speaker 1: and I and I remember that, yeah, and we were, oh,

2418
01:57:11,880 --> 01:57:14,040
Speaker 1: I know what it was. It was Terrell Prior, remember

2419
01:57:14,120 --> 01:57:16,320
Speaker 1: he was in the town. We had him on the show,

2420
01:57:16,400 --> 01:57:17,840
Speaker 1: and we said it wasn't gonna take for the Bills

2421
01:57:17,880 --> 01:57:20,320
Speaker 1: to kind of turn the corner. And he said one play, yeah,

2422
01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:21,920
Speaker 1: and you know what they got. That one was that

2423
01:57:22,040 --> 01:57:27,000
Speaker 1: like seventy five yard throw against Jacksonville, right, and uh,

2424
01:57:27,520 --> 01:57:29,320
Speaker 1: from that moment on, it's like wow, everybody kind of

2425
01:57:29,320 --> 01:57:31,440
Speaker 1: sat up and Josh started to play better, and you know,

2426
01:57:31,520 --> 01:57:33,760
Speaker 1: and that was around the time when Josh was going

2427
01:57:33,800 --> 01:57:35,440
Speaker 1: to get back in the game. I'm not sure exactly

2428
01:57:35,480 --> 01:57:39,600
Speaker 1: how the timing of it, but Um, some something happened

2429
01:57:39,640 --> 01:57:42,800
Speaker 1: and there was just one play that jumped out off

2430
01:57:42,880 --> 01:57:45,120
Speaker 1: the off the page that week, and and sure enough

2431
01:57:45,160 --> 01:57:47,440
Speaker 1: the Bills played better offensively. They went four and three

2432
01:57:47,520 --> 01:57:50,240
Speaker 1: in their last seven games. Um, it did turn a

2433
01:57:50,320 --> 01:57:51,520
Speaker 1: little bit of a corner for him, and it just

2434
01:57:51,640 --> 01:57:54,600
Speaker 1: need one play and I think, um, the Colts needed

2435
01:57:54,640 --> 01:57:56,480
Speaker 1: one game and they got it against the Bills. All Right,

2436
01:57:56,480 --> 01:57:58,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna break. We're back with more. We'd like Aaron

2437
01:57:58,280 --> 01:58:00,720
Speaker 1: Moore from you about Josh Allen. What do you think

2438
01:58:00,760 --> 01:58:03,200
Speaker 1: as your opinion of Josh Allen the Bills rookie change

2439
01:58:03,280 --> 01:58:05,960
Speaker 1: from April when they drafted him to now that he's

2440
01:58:06,000 --> 01:58:08,520
Speaker 1: completed the season eleven starts. Let us know what you think.

2441
01:58:08,520 --> 01:58:10,240
Speaker 1: We got phone lines open the eight oh three oh

2442
01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:13,400
Speaker 1: five fifty and toll free from outside Buffalo one eight

2443
01:58:13,600 --> 01:58:16,320
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Come on back

2444
01:58:16,360 --> 01:58:18,480
Speaker 1: for that One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. And

2445
01:58:18,560 --> 01:58:31,400
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, the show is back,

2446
01:58:31,560 --> 01:58:34,560
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive.

2447
01:58:34,760 --> 01:58:36,840
Speaker 1: We got a show coming up tomorrow as well. Greg

2448
01:58:36,920 --> 01:58:40,160
Speaker 1: Cosell will join us tomorrow. Make sure it's Fridays Friday.

2449
01:58:40,880 --> 01:58:42,520
Speaker 1: I know, right, the whole week has been like that.

2450
01:58:42,600 --> 01:58:44,440
Speaker 1: What's what's today? I think every day this week I

2451
01:58:44,560 --> 01:58:47,560
Speaker 1: have awakened to send in my wife, what's today? Yeah?

2452
01:58:47,720 --> 01:58:50,040
Speaker 1: New Year's does it? You know? And plus all the

2453
01:58:50,080 --> 01:58:52,000
Speaker 1: football that's been on the bowl game, you know that

2454
01:58:52,080 --> 01:58:53,800
Speaker 1: throws you. Every time I see a football game on

2455
01:58:53,920 --> 01:58:55,720
Speaker 1: in the evening or whatever, I think, Wow, it's Sunday night.

2456
01:58:55,760 --> 01:58:57,200
Speaker 1: Here we go, you know what I mean, Like it's

2457
01:58:57,240 --> 01:59:01,080
Speaker 1: a Saturday night or Yeah. The weekends are all discombobulated

2458
01:59:01,120 --> 01:59:03,760
Speaker 1: around this time, particularly when the holiday's fall on Tuesdays, right,

2459
01:59:04,080 --> 01:59:05,560
Speaker 1: But I like it. It kind of breaks up the week.

2460
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 1: You have shorter packages of work to deal with. Hey,

2461
01:59:08,680 --> 01:59:10,720
Speaker 1: what do you think, Josh Allen? How much differently do

2462
01:59:10,760 --> 01:59:12,760
Speaker 1: you think about him now than you did back in

2463
01:59:12,800 --> 01:59:14,640
Speaker 1: April when the Bills drafted him. We're talking about that

2464
01:59:14,680 --> 01:59:16,560
Speaker 1: today and whatever you'd like to talk about. Got a

2465
01:59:16,600 --> 01:59:18,880
Speaker 1: call on the line from Bob and Rochester who as

2466
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:22,200
Speaker 1: a topic. Bob, go ahead, you're on the air. Hello Bob,

2467
01:59:22,520 --> 01:59:25,640
Speaker 1: thanks to take them back. Call. Yeah, Hey, I'll this

2468
01:59:25,760 --> 01:59:31,760
Speaker 1: turmoil about the firing coaches, the wide receiver coach, special

2469
01:59:31,840 --> 01:59:35,800
Speaker 1: team coach, UM, I would like to know why doesn't

2470
01:59:36,480 --> 01:59:40,400
Speaker 1: Why doesn't Steve coach the special teams for Buffalo next year?

2471
01:59:41,280 --> 01:59:43,800
Speaker 1: I would I do feel compelled to say that there's

2472
01:59:44,040 --> 01:59:48,080
Speaker 1: there have been reports of coaching firing Sean or rather

2473
01:59:48,160 --> 01:59:51,080
Speaker 1: Brandon being confirmed yesterday that offensive line coach One Castile

2474
01:59:51,160 --> 01:59:55,480
Speaker 1: has been let go, no confirmation of of Terry Robiski,

2475
01:59:55,560 --> 01:59:57,920
Speaker 1: the wide receivers coach, being fired, and really very few

2476
01:59:58,120 --> 02:00:00,360
Speaker 1: reports about the Danny Crossman the special teams. I just

2477
02:00:00,440 --> 02:00:03,280
Speaker 1: wanted to say that, But go ahead, Steve about what

2478
02:00:03,360 --> 02:00:05,840
Speaker 1: about me? Yeah, yeah, I don't want to coach because

2479
02:00:06,480 --> 02:00:10,600
Speaker 1: of weeks like this. I mean, I mean, I'm a

2480
02:00:10,720 --> 02:00:12,000
Speaker 1: a point point in my life where we don't have

2481
02:00:12,040 --> 02:00:13,600
Speaker 1: any kids at home, right, all the kids are out

2482
02:00:13,600 --> 02:00:16,680
Speaker 1: of the house and stuff. But listen, these coaches are

2483
02:00:16,720 --> 02:00:20,200
Speaker 1: at the mercy of the performance of guys that UM

2484
02:00:20,880 --> 02:00:27,480
Speaker 1: are young professional athletes. Terry Bisky was here for a year.

2485
02:00:27,560 --> 02:00:29,600
Speaker 1: He's gonna be someplace else next year. He was someplace

2486
02:00:29,680 --> 02:00:32,560
Speaker 1: before this, someplace before that, someplace before. I've known Terry Robiski,

2487
02:00:32,760 --> 02:00:34,760
Speaker 1: the wide receivers coach of the Buffalo Bills. I've known

2488
02:00:34,840 --> 02:00:37,680
Speaker 1: of him and been acquainted with him. Since the nineteen nineties,

2489
02:00:38,360 --> 02:00:40,720
Speaker 1: the late nineteen eighties, and he has been in a

2490
02:00:40,880 --> 02:00:43,920
Speaker 1: different city every every couple of years. Hey, Bob, let's

2491
02:00:43,960 --> 02:00:46,120
Speaker 1: Steve answer first. I hear you barking in the background.

2492
02:00:46,120 --> 02:00:47,720
Speaker 1: So I don't want to I don't want to coach

2493
02:00:47,760 --> 02:00:50,920
Speaker 1: because I don't want to move every couple of years. Bob,

2494
02:00:52,040 --> 02:00:55,280
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering because you'd be awesome and um and um,

2495
02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:58,320
Speaker 1: Frank Craig is doing awesome with Baltimore, you know. Yeah,

2496
02:00:58,320 --> 02:01:00,400
Speaker 1: I mean, Frank Reich was in Indianapolis, US in two

2497
02:01:00,480 --> 02:01:02,480
Speaker 1: thousand and six for a couple of years. Then he

2498
02:01:02,520 --> 02:01:04,080
Speaker 1: was in Arizona for a year or two, Then he

2499
02:01:04,160 --> 02:01:06,440
Speaker 1: was in San Diego for two or three years, then

2500
02:01:06,480 --> 02:01:09,840
Speaker 1: he was in Philadelphia for one year or two years,

2501
02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:13,000
Speaker 1: and now he's in Indianapolis. So, I mean, I get it.

2502
02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:14,640
Speaker 1: It sounds all great. You know. I had to be

2503
02:01:14,680 --> 02:01:16,680
Speaker 1: fun to live in those cities. But now I don't

2504
02:01:16,680 --> 02:01:19,320
Speaker 1: want to move every two and a half, three four years,

2505
02:01:19,400 --> 02:01:21,320
Speaker 1: five years. You know. I have a lot of friends,

2506
02:01:21,440 --> 02:01:24,480
Speaker 1: as you know, basketball coaches, lifetime guys, and one who

2507
02:01:24,560 --> 02:01:26,080
Speaker 1: retired once they say, why did you get out? You're

2508
02:01:26,120 --> 02:01:28,480
Speaker 1: pretty good? Then he said, you know, why I got

2509
02:01:28,520 --> 02:01:30,520
Speaker 1: tired of watching a bunch of nineteen year olds running

2510
02:01:30,520 --> 02:01:34,000
Speaker 1: around with my paycheck in their mouth. Seriously, you're at

2511
02:01:34,040 --> 02:01:36,320
Speaker 1: the mercy. If they're playing well, you're good. If if

2512
02:01:36,560 --> 02:01:40,240
Speaker 1: they're in college foot college sports are unbelievably like that,

2513
02:01:40,480 --> 02:01:42,720
Speaker 1: and you're trying to recruit. You start recruiting these guys

2514
02:01:42,760 --> 02:01:45,760
Speaker 1: when they're sixteen, seventeen years old, junior seniors in high

2515
02:01:45,760 --> 02:01:49,240
Speaker 1: school and in four years. I mean, and I told

2516
02:01:49,280 --> 02:01:55,680
Speaker 1: you this. A prominent a prominent college basketball coach comes

2517
02:01:55,720 --> 02:01:58,160
Speaker 1: to me. He goes, we're having a conversation about and

2518
02:01:58,280 --> 02:02:00,760
Speaker 1: this is why they're nuts. He goes, listen, I got

2519
02:02:00,840 --> 02:02:03,760
Speaker 1: this kid. We're recruiting him. He's perfect for a program.

2520
02:02:03,840 --> 02:02:05,440
Speaker 1: We got a spot for him. He'll step in and

2521
02:02:05,480 --> 02:02:08,200
Speaker 1: play for us, he'll contribute. We're perfect academically for him.

2522
02:02:08,200 --> 02:02:10,120
Speaker 1: We got the right programs, we've got the right system

2523
02:02:10,200 --> 02:02:13,360
Speaker 1: in place, we got we're the right level where we

2524
02:02:13,520 --> 02:02:16,120
Speaker 1: are everything this kid could ever want. We are. It's

2525
02:02:16,120 --> 02:02:18,320
Speaker 1: a perfect fit for this kid. He comes to me

2526
02:02:18,520 --> 02:02:20,280
Speaker 1: a week before he signed and says, hey, I can't

2527
02:02:20,320 --> 02:02:21,800
Speaker 1: come play for you. He goes, why why not? He goes,

2528
02:02:21,840 --> 02:02:24,880
Speaker 1: because the number I wear is retired at your school.

2529
02:02:25,640 --> 02:02:30,120
Speaker 1: He's like, what you can because you can't wear number

2530
02:02:30,200 --> 02:02:32,800
Speaker 1: six or whatever the number was. You can't wear that number.

2531
02:02:32,840 --> 02:02:34,200
Speaker 1: You're not gonna come to the school and make a

2532
02:02:34,320 --> 02:02:37,080
Speaker 1: life decision that's gonna affect you for the rest of

2533
02:02:37,280 --> 02:02:41,240
Speaker 1: your life because the jersey is hanging from the rafters already.

2534
02:02:41,960 --> 02:02:45,360
Speaker 1: That's the kind of kid that has your paycheck in

2535
02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:48,440
Speaker 1: his that's your yeah in his mouth. That's the kid

2536
02:02:48,640 --> 02:02:52,560
Speaker 1: who decides whether you're gonna get fired or not. It's crazy.

2537
02:02:52,640 --> 02:02:55,760
Speaker 1: It's a couple of calls, mostly about Josh Allen marking

2538
02:02:55,840 --> 02:02:57,400
Speaker 1: all the New York go ahead, mark you around the

2539
02:02:57,440 --> 02:03:00,560
Speaker 1: air of this Day, love the show, A great job,

2540
02:03:00,720 --> 02:03:04,600
Speaker 1: Stephie good to hear on the radio. I just want

2541
02:03:04,640 --> 02:03:07,920
Speaker 1: to see and I wasn't super upper down with Alan.

2542
02:03:07,960 --> 02:03:09,600
Speaker 1: I watched the combine and I thought a lot his

2543
02:03:09,680 --> 02:03:11,920
Speaker 1: kids got a great arm, but sort of lost him.

2544
02:03:11,960 --> 02:03:14,120
Speaker 1: But he didn't hit it between the years. But hopefully

2545
02:03:14,200 --> 02:03:15,840
Speaker 1: this kid's got it between the years, and it looks

2546
02:03:15,880 --> 02:03:18,160
Speaker 1: like he's really picking it up. And I want to

2547
02:03:18,200 --> 02:03:20,600
Speaker 1: build on what Steve said. I remember that Kelly game

2548
02:03:20,640 --> 02:03:23,080
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati were I mean, I think we were down

2549
02:03:23,120 --> 02:03:25,560
Speaker 1: like twenty one nothing, and then Kelly came back and

2550
02:03:25,680 --> 02:03:29,200
Speaker 1: just swapped him in the second half. And I think

2551
02:03:29,280 --> 02:03:31,760
Speaker 1: Sunday was the pivotal way. He threw that pick six.

2552
02:03:32,120 --> 02:03:33,800
Speaker 1: He could have rolled over. It could have game could

2553
02:03:33,800 --> 02:03:35,880
Speaker 1: have been over. But he came back and he he

2554
02:03:35,920 --> 02:03:38,600
Speaker 1: throttled them, and it's great to see. That's that's that's

2555
02:03:38,640 --> 02:03:40,920
Speaker 1: a great progress, if you ask me, that's a good point. Mark.

2556
02:03:40,960 --> 02:03:42,720
Speaker 1: I didn't thought about him throwing the pick six, and

2557
02:03:42,800 --> 02:03:44,760
Speaker 1: he remember too, he kind of dove at the guy.

2558
02:03:44,800 --> 02:03:46,120
Speaker 1: Did he tackle I don't know if he tackled the

2559
02:03:46,160 --> 02:03:49,800
Speaker 1: gout dam but that's a lot of quarterbacks don't chase

2560
02:03:49,920 --> 02:03:52,200
Speaker 1: the guy after they throw it, particularly the great ones,

2561
02:03:52,560 --> 02:03:54,960
Speaker 1: and Jim always did. I saw him break a guy's

2562
02:03:55,040 --> 02:03:57,600
Speaker 1: leg doing it. He was mad when he threw an interception,

2563
02:03:57,680 --> 02:03:59,240
Speaker 1: and I saw the same thing in Josh, and that's

2564
02:03:59,240 --> 02:04:01,040
Speaker 1: a that's a great point too. He did bounce back

2565
02:04:01,080 --> 02:04:05,160
Speaker 1: from that, and I think Josh is like, yeah, okay,

2566
02:04:05,440 --> 02:04:07,680
Speaker 1: I know I shouldn't throw it that pass anymore. Let's

2567
02:04:07,720 --> 02:04:10,080
Speaker 1: move Violet wife. I think that's a great sign. Really,

2568
02:04:10,360 --> 02:04:12,960
Speaker 1: I would totally agree with you, and I'll give you

2569
02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:15,400
Speaker 1: another story about Jim in that game. Against Cincinnati after

2570
02:04:15,480 --> 02:04:17,560
Speaker 1: he threw the three hit first half picks or first

2571
02:04:17,640 --> 02:04:19,800
Speaker 1: quarter picks and we came back and beating him like

2572
02:04:19,840 --> 02:04:23,840
Speaker 1: thirty five twenty one. I remember from that moment on

2573
02:04:24,360 --> 02:04:26,200
Speaker 1: I used to tell Jim used to have this little

2574
02:04:26,240 --> 02:04:28,680
Speaker 1: thing he had. Oh, he was the most superstitious guy ever.

2575
02:04:28,760 --> 02:04:31,000
Speaker 1: So we always kind of walked. I was was the

2576
02:04:31,080 --> 02:04:33,080
Speaker 1: guy that walked out on the field with Jim before

2577
02:04:33,120 --> 02:04:35,880
Speaker 1: the game, and I always after that moment, I always

2578
02:04:35,920 --> 02:04:39,160
Speaker 1: told him, I said, Jim, just keep slinging it, you know,

2579
02:04:39,360 --> 02:04:42,120
Speaker 1: because that's what he did. Yeah, he threw three first

2580
02:04:42,200 --> 02:04:45,720
Speaker 1: quarter interceptions and just kept slinging it, and he ended

2581
02:04:45,760 --> 02:04:47,680
Speaker 1: up with five tds. We win the game, and he's

2582
02:04:47,800 --> 02:04:50,480
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, he's back to being a

2583
02:04:50,560 --> 02:04:53,440
Speaker 1: rock star, right, so and so I just know that

2584
02:04:53,520 --> 02:04:55,720
Speaker 1: was my just keep slinging it. And that's what Josh

2585
02:04:55,760 --> 02:04:57,760
Speaker 1: Allen did this last weekend. That's why I had forgotten.

2586
02:04:57,800 --> 02:04:59,840
Speaker 1: He through the early pick six in the midst of

2587
02:04:59,840 --> 02:05:02,840
Speaker 1: it and end up scoring forty two points and hanging

2588
02:05:02,880 --> 02:05:06,640
Speaker 1: one they want, being up fourteen to nothing to at

2589
02:05:06,680 --> 02:05:09,720
Speaker 1: all in a matter of thirty five seconds, and he

2590
02:05:09,800 --> 02:05:12,640
Speaker 1: bounced back and they end up end up, you know,

2591
02:05:12,680 --> 02:05:14,720
Speaker 1: crushing him pretty good. And he came out and threw

2592
02:05:14,760 --> 02:05:16,480
Speaker 1: it up, threw it up a little a bunch in

2593
02:05:16,520 --> 02:05:18,360
Speaker 1: the second. That's it's great to see. That's a great

2594
02:05:18,400 --> 02:05:20,240
Speaker 1: point by Mark. Good call on the line from Mary

2595
02:05:20,320 --> 02:05:22,960
Speaker 1: Ellen uh Amherst. Hello, you're on the air with this.

2596
02:05:23,560 --> 02:05:28,240
Speaker 1: Hello right, nice to talk to you, guys. I have

2597
02:05:28,480 --> 02:05:33,840
Speaker 1: a year Allen. I love I think that the Bills

2598
02:05:33,840 --> 02:05:37,920
Speaker 1: did a really good job of getting him. I also

2599
02:05:38,000 --> 02:05:42,160
Speaker 1: wanted to ask, did anybody see the Masked Singer last night?

2600
02:05:42,760 --> 02:05:45,600
Speaker 1: Have you ever watched that? I don't usually I just

2601
02:05:45,720 --> 02:05:48,120
Speaker 1: happened to turn the TV on. No, what is it?

2602
02:05:48,520 --> 02:05:50,960
Speaker 1: The Masked Singer? It's a TV program? What about it?

2603
02:05:51,040 --> 02:05:55,160
Speaker 1: Mary Ellen? Who is on uh? Antonio Brown was the

2604
02:05:55,280 --> 02:06:00,800
Speaker 1: one that they unmasked last night? Oh really? So I

2605
02:06:00,880 --> 02:06:03,240
Speaker 1: wonder how much that had to do with how he's

2606
02:06:03,800 --> 02:06:06,760
Speaker 1: messing around and sits well. I'm sure that was filmed

2607
02:06:06,840 --> 02:06:10,280
Speaker 1: sometime probably in July or August. But yeah, you're right,

2608
02:06:10,360 --> 02:06:12,440
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of poignant, right at this moment where

2609
02:06:12,440 --> 02:06:14,480
Speaker 1: you had a couple of conversations about Antonio Brown and

2610
02:06:14,600 --> 02:06:17,919
Speaker 1: him being unhappy with the way things are going with Pittsburgh,

2611
02:06:18,040 --> 02:06:19,920
Speaker 1: that's that's interesting. I didn't know they had. I thought

2612
02:06:19,920 --> 02:06:21,320
Speaker 1: they all had to be singers. I didn't know they

2613
02:06:21,360 --> 02:06:25,000
Speaker 1: had they could be apparently apparently not. I've never seen

2614
02:06:25,080 --> 02:06:28,640
Speaker 1: this show. Thanks, and I appreciate it. Yeah, I don't

2615
02:06:28,680 --> 02:06:30,400
Speaker 1: know if I haven't seen it. I've seen the trailer

2616
02:06:30,440 --> 02:06:32,800
Speaker 1: for the commercial for what happens is a person comes

2617
02:06:32,800 --> 02:06:34,840
Speaker 1: out in costume you can't tell who it is, and

2618
02:06:35,000 --> 02:06:36,680
Speaker 1: they sing and dance, and they have all these backup

2619
02:06:36,760 --> 02:06:38,400
Speaker 1: singers and they do all this and they kind of

2620
02:06:38,520 --> 02:06:41,440
Speaker 1: tried to decide who it is. This panel right, looks

2621
02:06:41,480 --> 02:06:45,080
Speaker 1: like what's my line exactly? Sort of whatever if yeah,

2622
02:06:45,120 --> 02:06:49,240
Speaker 1: if it's nineteen forty, yeah, it's what's my line? Yeah? Right.

2623
02:06:49,320 --> 02:06:51,680
Speaker 1: So that's so that's the premise. That's the way. I've

2624
02:06:51,680 --> 02:06:53,200
Speaker 1: never seen the show, but that's the premise, which I

2625
02:06:53,280 --> 02:06:55,760
Speaker 1: understand how it goes. They a person comes out and

2626
02:06:55,840 --> 02:06:58,960
Speaker 1: performs a song, but they're in some some elaborate costume

2627
02:06:59,000 --> 02:07:01,640
Speaker 1: that you can't tell who it is is, and Antonio

2628
02:07:01,680 --> 02:07:03,920
Speaker 1: Brown was obviously the performer that they Now I must

2629
02:07:03,960 --> 02:07:08,160
Speaker 1: see TV. Greg and Rochester, he Greig, don't get mad

2630
02:07:08,200 --> 02:07:11,280
Speaker 1: at me. You Greg, Hello, you're on the air. You

2631
02:07:11,320 --> 02:07:13,760
Speaker 1: give me a dirty look like I've ruined your best

2632
02:07:14,120 --> 02:07:17,840
Speaker 1: CBS not NBC. Oh it's anc Greg. Go ahead, you're

2633
02:07:17,840 --> 02:07:20,320
Speaker 1: on the air of this. Yeah, just I was gonna

2634
02:07:20,440 --> 02:07:22,840
Speaker 1: make the comment. Mark kind of beat me to the

2635
02:07:22,920 --> 02:07:27,840
Speaker 1: punch there on the pick six. One of the things

2636
02:07:27,920 --> 02:07:30,000
Speaker 1: that you know, I was never you know, either for

2637
02:07:30,200 --> 02:07:33,440
Speaker 1: or against anybody that the Bills picked for quarterback, just

2638
02:07:33,640 --> 02:07:36,880
Speaker 1: because they've had such rotten luck. But uh, you know,

2639
02:07:36,960 --> 02:07:39,440
Speaker 1: to wait and see what he does. But his competitive

2640
02:07:39,600 --> 02:07:42,720
Speaker 1: fire is what I think I like best. It's very

2641
02:07:42,840 --> 02:07:45,440
Speaker 1: Kelly asked in that, you know, he kind of like,

2642
02:07:45,640 --> 02:07:48,840
Speaker 1: you know, Kelly was liked getting hit. It just kind

2643
02:07:48,840 --> 02:07:50,960
Speaker 1: of woke him up and he had fun. And I

2644
02:07:51,080 --> 02:07:54,040
Speaker 1: see a lot of that in uh Josh. But that

2645
02:07:54,680 --> 02:07:57,760
Speaker 1: pick six really stood out to me as one of

2646
02:07:57,800 --> 02:08:02,800
Speaker 1: those missed moments was in how he went after the

2647
02:08:02,920 --> 02:08:06,920
Speaker 1: guy that intercepted, in the nature of the tackle that

2648
02:08:07,040 --> 02:08:10,600
Speaker 1: he laid him out. He gave a tomahawk chop. Yeah,

2649
02:08:10,640 --> 02:08:14,200
Speaker 1: he was chopping at the ball, absolutely textbook. Yeah, yeah,

2650
02:08:14,840 --> 02:08:18,040
Speaker 1: like you had tackled before. Yeah, right, yeah, I agree

2651
02:08:18,080 --> 02:08:19,880
Speaker 1: with you. I had forgotten about that. But I'm glad

2652
02:08:19,960 --> 02:08:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, Mark, the earlier caller and you Greg also

2653
02:08:21,920 --> 02:08:24,360
Speaker 1: saw it as well. It was Um, he threw that

2654
02:08:24,400 --> 02:08:26,840
Speaker 1: pick six. Don't forget. It was right before halftime and

2655
02:08:26,920 --> 02:08:29,160
Speaker 1: they had really manhandled the Dolphins up to that point,

2656
02:08:29,160 --> 02:08:30,920
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you think, wow, this isn't now,

2657
02:08:30,960 --> 02:08:33,760
Speaker 1: it's a whole different game. Um. And it looked like

2658
02:08:33,880 --> 02:08:36,920
Speaker 1: it was gonna be Josh's fault because of the pick six,

2659
02:08:37,120 --> 02:08:39,680
Speaker 1: but in the second half it wasn't. So he came

2660
02:08:39,720 --> 02:08:42,480
Speaker 1: back and put him away. But he was not happy

2661
02:08:42,640 --> 02:08:46,160
Speaker 1: with the pick six. And I think that I like,

2662
02:08:46,320 --> 02:08:48,760
Speaker 1: I love it, you know, don't don't you? Just yeah,

2663
02:08:48,800 --> 02:08:51,680
Speaker 1: you want your quarterback ticked right when he does that.

2664
02:08:51,840 --> 02:08:54,800
Speaker 1: That's great. One more called Jay in Utah. Hello, Jay, welcome,

2665
02:08:54,800 --> 02:08:57,320
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Hey, how's it going?

2666
02:08:57,480 --> 02:09:02,040
Speaker 1: Murph's gone, Steve good Man, Jane good Uh, it's jam

2667
02:09:02,160 --> 02:09:07,080
Speaker 1: by the way anyway. Um, yeah, so I'm not here

2668
02:09:07,120 --> 02:09:09,160
Speaker 1: in Utah. I just wanted to say, real quick, Murph,

2669
02:09:09,240 --> 02:09:12,480
Speaker 1: I listened to your broadcast in the NFL game pass

2670
02:09:12,520 --> 02:09:15,640
Speaker 1: because the Bills are never on TV, right, Um. And

2671
02:09:15,760 --> 02:09:18,880
Speaker 1: I listened to other football games too that aren't on TV. UM,

2672
02:09:19,200 --> 02:09:21,680
Speaker 1: And I gotta say, you guys just are awesome. I

2673
02:09:21,760 --> 02:09:24,560
Speaker 1: really appreciate you and Mark. I feel like I can

2674
02:09:24,640 --> 02:09:26,720
Speaker 1: see the games. I feel like I know what's going on.

2675
02:09:26,920 --> 02:09:29,080
Speaker 1: It's just it's just great. That's great. Thank you, Jam.

2676
02:09:29,120 --> 02:09:31,800
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah, So I was one of

2677
02:09:31,880 --> 02:09:34,280
Speaker 1: those guys who really hated the draft pick. In the

2678
02:09:34,480 --> 02:09:36,920
Speaker 1: moment when you know, I heard the name Josh Allen

2679
02:09:36,920 --> 02:09:39,640
Speaker 1: get called out, I was like, no, but um, I've

2680
02:09:39,800 --> 02:09:42,280
Speaker 1: done a complete one eighty. Um. I was lucky to

2681
02:09:42,360 --> 02:09:44,360
Speaker 1: be enough or lucky enough to be at the game

2682
02:09:44,520 --> 02:09:46,880
Speaker 1: on Sunday and just see him on the bench. I

2683
02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:49,920
Speaker 1: was like two rows back behind the players bench. Uh.

2684
02:09:50,160 --> 02:09:52,960
Speaker 1: We were visiting in town and anyway, he just was

2685
02:09:53,120 --> 02:09:55,720
Speaker 1: firing those guys up, and he was so pumped. And

2686
02:09:55,960 --> 02:09:58,880
Speaker 1: I've just seen you know, his physical abilities are obvious,

2687
02:09:59,040 --> 02:10:01,880
Speaker 1: but his poise and his improvement in his fire had

2688
02:10:01,960 --> 02:10:05,160
Speaker 1: been just outstanding to me. And I really am excited

2689
02:10:05,200 --> 02:10:07,120
Speaker 1: going forward. And that brings the reason I called I

2690
02:10:07,160 --> 02:10:09,640
Speaker 1: have a question for you guys. Are we the happiest

2691
02:10:09,680 --> 02:10:13,240
Speaker 1: fan base of a non playoff might be I mean,

2692
02:10:13,800 --> 02:10:16,320
Speaker 1: maybe maybe the most optimistic. We use that word earlier

2693
02:10:16,360 --> 02:10:18,720
Speaker 1: in the week that it's it's a real optimistic place.

2694
02:10:18,760 --> 02:10:20,320
Speaker 1: That the Bills fans are in right now in the

2695
02:10:20,480 --> 02:10:24,600
Speaker 1: organization headed into the offseason, they got a solid, stable

2696
02:10:24,720 --> 02:10:27,240
Speaker 1: coaching staff, that is that's ready to put it together.

2697
02:10:27,280 --> 02:10:30,440
Speaker 1: Although they're tweaking the staff right now. You know, they

2698
02:10:30,520 --> 02:10:34,040
Speaker 1: got a stable head coach, stable general manager. They got

2699
02:10:34,160 --> 02:10:37,000
Speaker 1: some really key pieces that seemed to be in place

2700
02:10:37,080 --> 02:10:40,640
Speaker 1: and trending upward. And they got a lot of cap room.

2701
02:10:40,720 --> 02:10:42,960
Speaker 1: And they've got some really specific things they need to

2702
02:10:43,040 --> 02:10:45,000
Speaker 1: look for in the off season that people are really

2703
02:10:45,080 --> 02:10:48,520
Speaker 1: familiar with and and they seem able and willing to

2704
02:10:49,360 --> 02:10:52,840
Speaker 1: fill them. So yeah, I think either the happiest non

2705
02:10:52,960 --> 02:10:56,680
Speaker 1: playoff fan base or perhaps the most optimistic, which you

2706
02:10:56,840 --> 02:11:01,760
Speaker 1: take your pick, maybe the smartest. Honestly, don't make a faith. No,

2707
02:11:01,920 --> 02:11:04,520
Speaker 1: I think these fans know what this year. I think

2708
02:11:04,760 --> 02:11:06,280
Speaker 1: not all of them. People you know, six and ten

2709
02:11:06,320 --> 02:11:08,880
Speaker 1: has nothing to celebrate, but as you've said, it feels

2710
02:11:09,000 --> 02:11:11,200
Speaker 1: better than last year. But I think this fan base

2711
02:11:11,280 --> 02:11:14,280
Speaker 1: knows all right. We took some hits this year, went

2712
02:11:14,360 --> 02:11:17,720
Speaker 1: with a rookie quarterback, lost some key offensive lineman, worked

2713
02:11:17,760 --> 02:11:19,160
Speaker 1: a lot of new players in the lineup. But I

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Speaker 1: think these fans are a student enough to say we

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Speaker 1: took our lumps to get better next year. And that's

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Speaker 1: I give them a lot of credit the fans who

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Speaker 1: field I say this, and I still maintain this. I

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Speaker 1: still think this team is better than last year's team,

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Speaker 1: even though the records worse. I think they've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of turnovers last year. That and you can say, hey,

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Speaker 1: the results are what they are, and they say what

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Speaker 1: you are, and I get it. But I'm saying this,

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Speaker 1: and I said it earlier. I think this team, this

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills team, would have beaten last year's Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: team in a game. You know, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And I think they're just a better football team. The

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Speaker 1: results were worse, no question about it. And you're right, Murph,

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Speaker 1: six and ten stinks. You don't want to be there.

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Speaker 1: But I do think this is a team that took

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Speaker 1: a step forward because they found a quarterback that they

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Speaker 1: can win with. They got a defense that is really

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Speaker 1: good and solid. It's not spectacular. It may be as

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Speaker 1: good a defense as any in the league. They just

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Speaker 1: didn't turn the turnovers out like they did a year ago.

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Speaker 1: They weren't spectacularly, you know, they weren't getting a ton

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Speaker 1: of sacks. They weren't. They got enough sacks and some sacks,

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Speaker 1: but they weren't a spectacular defense. But they were really

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Speaker 1: hard to move the football on. They gave their offense

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Speaker 1: a chance if they could just find ways to score points.

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Speaker 1: They were much better defense than they were a year ago.

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Speaker 1: And offensively, you know they the best player on the

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Speaker 1: field is the guy taking snaps every place. So it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, I like where they're headed. All right, a break,

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Speaker 1: We're coming back. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: Running out of time here. See he's been a good show.

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Speaker 1: Great talking with the Boomer Assassin, Great talking with Stephen Holder.

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Speaker 1: Too much Colts suck. If I had one critique of

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Speaker 1: today's show, it would be we spent a little way

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Speaker 1: too much time. Times like this is like a frank

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Speaker 1: Reich family reunions. One Colts Drive. Tomorrow, We'll talk with

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Speaker 1: great Cosal, We'll talk with Joe Viscallia from Channel seven.

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Speaker 1: Join us tomorrow. More Bills Talk tomorrow. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank our production assistant George Blast, Jeff Coltneck, Thomas Honolder,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, J J. Jurito, Kevin Kargiss, James Robolt, Our,

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Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris. See tomorrow re noon One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bills Drive. And this is Buffalo Bill's radio