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Speaker 1: Uh it started this morning. See if I actually sat

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. We got a lot to talk

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Speaker 1: great event, by the way to the Epic Heroes reception

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Speaker 1: by his crew. Yeah, there's no question that the tight

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Speaker 1: tip your hat to him. He has been the guy

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Speaker 1: has been a fantastic player this early in his career.

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Speaker 1: Let's face he's not. I mean, he just turned twenty

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Speaker 1: a couple of months ago and he has played extremely

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Speaker 1: well in the middle of the Bill's defense. And that

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Speaker 1: and let's face it, you've got a twenty year old

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Speaker 1: quarterbacking a defense that's the top three in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty good spot to be in. You got

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Speaker 1: there a second year corner who's one of the best

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. One of your backup corners or one

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Speaker 1: of your rookie corners is playing at a high level

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Speaker 1: compared to the other rookie corners in the league. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a defense that has really played extremely well,

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Speaker 1: and it's getting overlooked because the attention we're paying to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and the injuries there to that position. But

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Speaker 1: this defense is for real, and they've given up some

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Speaker 1: big numbers this year because you know, the other side

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Speaker 1: of the ball can't is not helping them at all.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's hurting them. The offense gave up more

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Speaker 1: points last week than they were able to score. That's

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Speaker 1: hard to win football games, you know. I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about this morning about about Tremine Edmonds and hoping that

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Speaker 1: he returns to the lineup. Just like Josh Edmonds needs raps,

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Speaker 1: he needs to play and he needs to get better

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Speaker 1: and this is what got me thinking about a Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Focus. You know who they are, the analytics people.

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Speaker 1: They do grades for every week, every game, and when

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Speaker 1: they put out a good grade for a Buffalo Bills player,

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Speaker 1: we always mentioned it. In fact, I've had this all week.

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Speaker 1: We haven't mentioned it. Steve lockdown corners from Pro Football Focus.

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Speaker 1: They've got Tredavious White as the second ranked lockdown corner

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Speaker 1: the National Football League, right behind Richard Sherman. They have

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Speaker 1: metrics that they measure this by. It goes lockdown corners.

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Speaker 1: Richard Sherman number one, they grade him out of thirty

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Speaker 1: point two, Tradevious White number two twenty three point eight,

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Speaker 1: Stephan Gilmour number three at nineteen point nine, and then

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Speaker 1: it's Byron Jones of the Cowboys and Casey Hayward of

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Speaker 1: the Rams. But that's significant that Tradevious White is the

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Speaker 1: second ranked lockdown corner in Pro Football Focus grades. But

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Speaker 1: that's not why I brought that up. They also today

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus early this morning ranked the top graded

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Speaker 1: rookie linebackers in the league, and not appearing on their

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Speaker 1: list at all. Among the top six is Tremaine Edmonds.

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Speaker 1: They had Darius Leonard of the Colts as their number

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Speaker 1: one top graded rookie linebacker. We saw him, I liked him.

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Speaker 1: He ran all over the field. Layton vander esh second

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Speaker 1: from the Cowboys. Jerome Baker of the Dolphins, the guy

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Speaker 1: who scored the pick six touchdown the other day, ranked third,

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Speaker 1: Josie Jewell of the Broncos, followed by Kaiser White of

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Speaker 1: the Chargers, and fo Foy sade Ohluka. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know how to pronounce his name, o the woken of

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Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Falcons. Nowhere on the top six according

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Speaker 1: to Pro Football Focus grades. Is Tremaine Edmonds? Now easy

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Speaker 1: to say, well, what do they know? Well, if you

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Speaker 1: like what they say about the tradevious White, then you'd

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Speaker 1: have to say to yourself, where's Tremaine Edmonds on that list?

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Speaker 1: We were doing grade yesterday for the rookies, and I

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Speaker 1: think I gave a Tremaine a B and I'll stay

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Speaker 1: with that. But I do think there's more to come

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Speaker 1: from him and and a lot more to come. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't help when he missed this pass game, but I

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Speaker 1: think I think he's trending towards playing this week, and

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Speaker 1: I hope he does because he needs to get better.

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Speaker 1: He needs to do more, Steve, and he doesn't. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't show up on the top six rookie linebackers, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I get it. I get it, but I also think, listen,

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Speaker 1: this is a defense that you know, there isn't anybody

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Speaker 1: on this defense that is standing out, not because they're

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Speaker 1: not playing well, because they all are playing well. I

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Speaker 1: think Jerry Hughes has been a standout. Jerry Hughes has

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Speaker 1: played really well. And there's been some times where you've

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Speaker 1: seen guys flash. In fact, this last game, going over

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Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet we just read a minute ago,

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Speaker 1: I thought Harrison Phillips had maybe his best game of

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Speaker 1: the year this last week in a blow out loss.

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Speaker 1: There's been games like that around. Uh, Lorenzo Alexander played

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Speaker 1: extremely well the week before. You've got guys flashing every

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Speaker 1: so often. Of course, Tradevious White continues to be great.

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Speaker 1: By his absence on the stat sheet, they don't still

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Speaker 1: throw at him. He's covering his guy up. He hasn't

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Speaker 1: had much of a chance to make an impact. He

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Speaker 1: got the one interception. I think there was an overthrow

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Speaker 1: on a guy. But you know, this is a team,

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Speaker 1: a defense that's playing as a group very well, and

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Speaker 1: I think because they don't have anybody who's jumping off

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Speaker 1: the page statistically or like with twenty sacks or something

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Speaker 1: like that. I think it's hard to pick out a

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Speaker 1: guy and say he's playing good or bad. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's nobody just playing horrible. Now. They did. They did

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Speaker 1: make the change at corner. See make a case that

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Speaker 1: you know, Philip Gaines was a guy they didn't like

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Speaker 1: the way he was playing. Obviously the guy league this defense,

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Speaker 1: it's hard for me to give anybody on the defense

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Speaker 1: less than a bee. When they're in the top three

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Speaker 1: defense in the National Football League. They're playing, they're really

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Speaker 1: playing well, especially lately, that's for sure. A couple more

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Speaker 1: tweets on the tweet sheet and we ask the question

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Speaker 1: which Bill's player will have a breakout second half of

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Speaker 1: the season. Scott pola Chet says Zay Jones. He's improved

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Speaker 1: from last year. I expect if he gets a couple

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Speaker 1: of good catches who really take off. I hope you're right, Scott,

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Speaker 1: I hope you're right. And Carl Gerhardt the third tweets

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Speaker 1: in I went with Josh Allen because I think Tremine

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Speaker 1: Edmonds has had a fantastic year, he writes, especially as

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Speaker 1: a rookie already this year, hoping for growth from this

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Speaker 1: team for next year and beyond. Yeah, we all are

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Speaker 1: and you know this year. Yeah, that's the thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know what the record is. You know, all the

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Speaker 1: Bills have struggled with their two win seven losses. But

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Speaker 1: there's still a lot of football to play and a

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Speaker 1: lot of ground to be made up and time to

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Speaker 1: make it up. That's the thing. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of some people, at least verbally, will say I'm out,

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Speaker 1: I'm done the Bill, I'm not going anywhere. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I get that too, But there's fifty three guys over

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Speaker 1: here and coaches, some of us who work here who

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Speaker 1: we don't have that luxury, and we don't want that luxury,

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Speaker 1: you know. I want to see improvement as the season

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Speaker 1: moved along. I'm not ready to throw up my hands

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Speaker 1: and say bring on the draft. Well. No, there's seven

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Speaker 1: games left here and opportunities for Tremine, Edmunds, Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: virtually everybody on the roster to get better, and it's

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Speaker 1: important time for them to get better, starting this Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Jets. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: activity in this building that's really worthwhile and I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people would find interesting about how this

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Speaker 1: team's trying to get better. And let's face it, at

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Speaker 1: this point of the sea, two and eight, this is

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Speaker 1: a this is these are the dark days, right, two

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Speaker 1: and seven? Yeah, so we're two and seven him, all right,

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Speaker 1: I don't even get worse than it is. These are

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Speaker 1: the dark days. I mean, this is the This is

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Speaker 1: you know, deep into a season where you're finding out

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Speaker 1: about some people where you've got some things in place

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Speaker 1: that are really working well. But it's but on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the football, on the offensive side, it's

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Speaker 1: not at all. And you've had some key injuries to

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Speaker 1: some guys you really wanted to watch play. You've had

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Speaker 1: a group of guys in the offensive line hasn't played

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Speaker 1: up to their potential. You've got one wide receiver in

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Speaker 1: j Zay Jones, who, despite the fact that he's not

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Speaker 1: having that great year, is playing much better than he

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Speaker 1: did a year ago. And then you've got Kelvin Benjamin

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Speaker 1: who has been widely criticized for the way he's played

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Speaker 1: this season. This is a tough, a really rough patch

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Speaker 1: for this autum to say it's a rough patches an understatement.

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Speaker 1: This is an offense that's struggling from top to bottom

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Speaker 1: and injuries having hurt helped uh, And it's it's I

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Speaker 1: think the sad part of it is it's kept us

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Speaker 1: from seeing what we even have in Josh Allen. You know,

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Speaker 1: you want to see him. You want to see him

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Speaker 1: throw the football. You want to see him throw some

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Speaker 1: guys that can get some separation. That's been the bad

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Speaker 1: part of it. But there's no dark These are the

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Speaker 1: dark times, you know. This is the tough part of

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Speaker 1: the season and the and this where this team is headed.

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Speaker 1: They're not there yet and this is part of the

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Speaker 1: you know, part of the mud. You got to get

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Speaker 1: dragged through to get there, I guess. But man, these

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Speaker 1: are these are tough weeks. Yeah, they are tough weeks.

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Speaker 1: One more tweet Bran Cook. We asked the question which

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Speaker 1: Bill's player I have a breakout second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: Bran Cook tweets in, I have no idea we'll have

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Speaker 1: a breakout second half of the season. What I do know,

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Speaker 1: he writes, is Friday shows are the best and great

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Speaker 1: co Sell is the highlight of my week. He is

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Speaker 1: always playoff caliber. No offense to Stephen Murth No offense taken. Ryan.

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Speaker 1: We're glad you're listening on Friday's trying Monday through Thursday

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Speaker 1: as well. We're here. We're here every day, although we

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Speaker 1: got some time coming up coming up. Next week goes

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Speaker 1: bye week, Bye week. We're gonna take advantage of A

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Speaker 1: two a couple of days. We'll get more into that

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Speaker 1: next week. Come on back. Mark Kelso is going to

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Speaker 1: join us color analysts on the Bills Radio Network Little

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Speaker 1: preview of Bills and Jets on Sunday. Love to hear

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Speaker 1: from you. Which Bills player will have a breakout second

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Speaker 1: half of the season. Eight oh three five fifty toll

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

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Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker one goes live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back. The show is

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. We come here from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker. I'm a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: snowy day in Orchard Park. That'll be music to the

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Speaker 1: ears of our next guests. Long time Western New York

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Speaker 1: resident on his way back home from his job in Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Happy to have Colorman on the Bills Radio network. Mark

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Speaker 1: Keunsel on the Subway Fresh Tack Hotline with us, Mark,

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Speaker 1: are you home yet? You're on your way? What? What's this?

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Speaker 1: What's your travel status? Please update? Still still sitting in

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Speaker 1: the Charlotte Airport, but ready to depart soon. Here so

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Speaker 1: the beautiful confines of Western New York. You know there's

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Speaker 1: a little snow in the air too early? What yeah,

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Speaker 1: little early. I'm wearing my I'm wearing my my buffalo foodie.

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Speaker 1: So you're wuffalo. I'm prepared for buffalo hoodie. Come on,

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Speaker 1: I gotta show us some buffalo. Okay, all right, all right,

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Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing that. I get compliments on

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Speaker 1: all over the Well. We need some Buffalo. We need

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Speaker 1: a Buffalo touchdown. Mark, What are the prospects for the

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Speaker 1: Bill scoring in any touchdowns against his Jets team? Difficult?

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've got some really good personnel, but I

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Speaker 1: mean there's there's some opportunity unities here. There's you know,

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Speaker 1: they they're aggressive bunch. I mean they've got some really

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Speaker 1: young good players at safety corps that they have and

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Speaker 1: in uh with with Jamal Adams, I mean he's a

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Speaker 1: really good player. Marcus may is equally capable. He's more

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Speaker 1: a deep safety, and Jamal Adams is down in the

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Speaker 1: box quite a bit and rush in the passer and

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Speaker 1: can put some serious pressure on the pastor They defend

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Speaker 1: the run well. But I mean, I think there's some

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Speaker 1: opportunities against this team. I think there's some opportunities to

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Speaker 1: throw some deep balls if you can extend it down

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Speaker 1: because I think they're the safeties are more downhill guys

636
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: instead of set of backpeddaling and putting themselves into mission

637
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Speaker 1: to the position to make plays down field. So I

638
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: mean there's opportunities. A very good defensive club. Like I said,

639
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: a lot of youth. Um they're They've got some good

640
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Speaker 1: pass rushers. Jenkins is one of them on the outside,

641
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: and I mean he can really bring it. I kind

642
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: of when the kid from Fort Hay State. Where Ford

643
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: Hay State, it's in Western Kansas. I grew up there

644
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: Western Kansas, so you know it, and you know what

645
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: they're You know what their head coach's name is, do

646
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: not Chris Brown, not our Chris Brown, but is his name.

647
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: He's been there for about nine years. But I was

648
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: really impressed with that young kid. He's made some plays,

649
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: and of course McLendon and Williams inside are really difficult

650
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: to run on, use their hands well and get off

651
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,959
Speaker 1: blockers and get down the line of scrimmage. Copeland's been

652
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: great too. I mean defensively, they're they're really set. They

653
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: got a lot of youth. I mean, all those players

654
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: they got are the guys at the corners, and those

655
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: guys still play pretty well also and can cover. They

656
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: can cover man, and then they play a heavy dose

657
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: of Cover two as well with those two safeties between

658
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Speaker 1: the hash and the number mark. Let me ask you this,

659
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Speaker 1: and it came up in our you know, our little

660
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Speaker 1: group here in our studio, some pretty good football fans,

661
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Speaker 1: and we were talking about who's got the better young

662
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Speaker 1: defensive cords, the Bills or the Jets. Early in the week,

663
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Speaker 1: I said, well, the Bills do right. And then as

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Speaker 1: the weeks moved along and I've watched more video and

665
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: looked into some of these players. The Jets have good

666
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: young defensive players. You just mentioned a bunch of their names,

667
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: a lot of first round picks in the last few

668
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: years on the defensive side the ball for New York

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00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: they're pretty good. Yeah, no question and really disruptive. I

670
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Speaker 1: mean there was a time when when Williams was a

671
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: rookie and they had him and Richardson and Mohammed Wilkerson,

672
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: and those two guys leave the fold because they come

673
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Speaker 1: up in free agency and they don't want to they

674
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: don't want to absorb those big contracts. And you think, well,

675
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: how can they retool from that? Because they had the

676
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: best front seven in football in my opinion for several

677
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: years and particularly when Leonard Williams was a rookie in

678
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: his fourth year now out of USC But but they've

679
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: sprinkled in guys extremely well. I mean they play the

680
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: fifty defense, so they've got the two linebackers up on

681
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage on the outside, and they have

682
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: good speed from the outside. I mean they manage it well.

683
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: The guys inside don't rush the passer particularly well, although

684
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Speaker 1: mcclennon and then they've got the get out of Colorado

685
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: State Pueblo that penel that can really rush inside has

686
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: a good inside move as well. So they I mean

687
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: there's they've got some talent here and the future looks

688
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: real bright on the defensive side of the ball. And

689
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Speaker 1: much like the build. The offensive side of the ball

690
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: is still a work in progress for the Jets. How

691
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: much alike are these two teams? Well, let's start on

692
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. Third down, the Jets

693
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: are thirtieth with thirty one percent conversion and the Bills

694
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: are or thirty first at twenty nine percent in the

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Speaker 1: red area. That Bills aren't too bad actually, that convert

696
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Speaker 1: fifty percent, They just can't get to the red area

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Speaker 1: very often, and the Jets are occupy the last spot

698
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: there at thirty second and completion percentage, the Jets are

699
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Speaker 1: last and the Bills are next to last, So I

700
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: mean they're really similar. I think the one thing that

701
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: the Jets seemed like they've been doing with Darnold Steve

702
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: is that they've been really kind of keeping things close

703
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: to the vest and a lot of stop routes, a

704
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: lot of all hook routes. So they'll run five guys

705
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: out there on a pattern, but they're all running hooks.

706
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: So he can find the open guy. He tends to

707
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: look to his primary receiver first and really kind of

708
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: focuses in on that he's got that stare going, So

709
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: that makes it a little bit easier on defender to

710
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Speaker 1: get in position and make a play. But Josh mccowan's

711
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: going to play and Sam Donald is not. I suspect

712
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: the offense will be very similar. Although McCown completed what

713
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: almost seventy percent of his passed his last year and

714
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: had eighteen fees eighteen touchdowns when when he was at

715
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Speaker 1: the at the quarterback position last year for the Jets,

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Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see. I think they'll they'll

717
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to run some more play actually passed,

718
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: and maybe extend the ball down the field. But this

719
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: is a different offensive unit when when Quincy and them

720
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: was available than when he is not. So if he's

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00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: going to be available, they may be a little bit

722
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: more wide open than they typically have been. Mark. The

723
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: Jets injury report just came out. Anne One is questionable

724
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: for Sunday's game, Steve McClendon questionable, left guard, James Carpenter questionable.

725
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 1: They're all limited to practice today. Steve had a give

726
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: him your take on McCown in for Darnold, Steve Mark

727
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: what he thinks I was going to ask you this?

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00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: For both teams, McCown probably will be able to run

729
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: the offense a little more efficiently than Dar Arnold will,

730
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Speaker 1: don't you I mean, do you agree with that? I

731
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Speaker 1: mean I think I almost as a Bills fan going

732
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: in there, you'd rather see Sam Donald in there than

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Speaker 1: Josh McCown. Yeah, I can't agree with that. And I

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Speaker 1: mean a guy that has a breadth of experience. I mean,

735
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: he's got almost one hundred TVs in his career and

736
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Speaker 1: has played some really meaningful downs. The thing that I

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00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: wonder is is it going to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: not quite like Derek Anderson, Because Josh McCown has been

739
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: on the ross of the whole time and been throwing

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Speaker 1: balls around and probably facilitating a scout team quarterback situation.

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Speaker 1: So he's got to be pretty sharp, so it'll be

742
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Speaker 1: interesting to see though he won't be he won't be

743
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Speaker 1: as tuned into the game speed that you need to be,

744
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: you need to be aware of and cognizant of as

745
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: Sam Darnald is because he hasn't been playing enough, so

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00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: the game speed will get to him a little bit.

747
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: But it will just be interesting to see if if

748
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: it clicks for him in a second quarter or a

749
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: third quarter, it takes him the whole game to kind

750
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: of get up the speed. So I would think that

751
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: Bills need to be a little aggressive at the line

752
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: of scream because if they follow the same pattern that

753
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: they have fall it here as the season has unfolded.

754
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna throw those hook patterns. They're going

755
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: to bring guys back towards the line of scrimmage, so

756
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: he has open guys and that becomes a route that's

757
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: very difficult to cover. And and if there's a good

758
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: window to throw, he's going to get rid of the

759
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: ball pretty quickly. But I mean it'll be fun to see.

760
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Speaker 1: I think I do some of the things I would

761
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: do with Sam Darnold because McCollen hasn't hasn't seen the

762
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: pass rush, you know, the ferocious pass rush here and

763
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: and this season yet, So bring bring a little bit

764
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: of pressure and give the Bills an opportunity to cover

765
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: those guys in the back end. Well, if the Jets

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Speaker 1: have two young safety Jamal Adams Marcus May, I mean,

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00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: how does Josh Allen change the way the Jets defense

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00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: would approach this game? If you know, if there's if

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen does manage to get in the game and

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00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna play him, how's that you know, how's that

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00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: change things for the Bills in their favor or otherwise. Well,

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00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: I mean it changes them in the bills savor. It's

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Speaker 1: in fact, they can extend it down, but it's going

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00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,479
Speaker 1: to be hard to do it against those guys because

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00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna bring in They're gonna bringing Jenkins and Jamal

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00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: ends when they run their their blitz package and what

777
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: I would call fifty one backer. So you're playing man

778
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: coverage on the back end, you have a free safety

779
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: as you've got six defenders on the back end, so

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00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: even if everybody comes out, you're still have an extra defender.

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00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: And then Jamal Adams becomes a linebacker, and they put

782
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: their other linebackers in coverage, and Williamson and Darren Lee.

783
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: I mean they'll put both those guys in coverage on

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Speaker 1: the tight end or the number three receiver and the

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00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: running back. And then Adams, I mean he is extremely

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00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: effective coming off the edge. He can get up inside

787
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: on some twist stunts as well and soaking Jenkins and Copeland.

788
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: But I would think if if if Josh Allen's in

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00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: the game as a fall as any other scenario, I

790
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: would think they bring pressure, uh and I would think

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00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: that they run a bunch of twist stunts. They don't

792
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: seem like they want to expose themselves completely by going

793
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 1: with the zero blitz and not having a free player somewhere.

794
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: And then a lot of times they'll play that robber

795
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: covers that we talk about, but Jamal Adams will focus

796
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 1: on a particular player, not a particular spot on the field.

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00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 1: If you can extend it down and you can get

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00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: guys down field and you can run some deep combination

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00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: roundes with a post and a fly or a post

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00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 1: and a flag or something of that nature, I think

801
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: you can have some really good things happen offensively against

802
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: these safeties. Mark one more question for you, and it's

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Speaker 1: kind of our question of the day, the Twitter poll question.

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Speaker 1: As you look at to the second half of the

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00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill season, who do you think is the best

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00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: candidate to have a breakout second half of the season

807
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: seven games remaining? What do you think is the best

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00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: candidate to maybe you know, break out and really play

809
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: well for the second half of the year. A good question. Yeah,

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00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: you're welcome. Well, i'd say Matt Milano, except I think

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00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 1: he's kind of already broken out. I agree, and I

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00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: want to see him be it developed a consistency, which

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00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 1: he's he's demonstrated a really high level of play at times.

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00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: In just a couple of times he's he said, just

815
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 1: a couple of plays that he'd like to have back.

816
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: But I just want to see him have real consistency.

817
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: But you know, I guess the other guy that I

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00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: think has has been really healthy. And I'm talking on

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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, because right now, on

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00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: the offensive side, I mean, I don't see that many

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00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 1: breakout opportunities save Josh Allen. But on the defensive side

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00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: of the ball, I think Harrison Phillips says has been

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00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: just fantastic and he's really starting to make plays, and

824
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: I think he can be a guy that that teams

825
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: really have to pay attention to and say, how are

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Speaker 1: we going to block this guy? Because he's gonna disrupt

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00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: everything inside and that just makes everybody better when you

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00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: can eat up more blockers. So I would think he's

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Speaker 1: the guy's Harrison Phillips. Every time I say Harrison, I

830
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: want to say Harrison Rhoades. Who's the NASCAR driver? Like,

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Speaker 1: all right, we would excuse that although we look at

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00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: each other and say what I know that's gonna appreciate

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00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: it because I'm like Harrison Phillips. I hope that's the

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Speaker 1: right day. But yeah, but these that's all good. Look

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Speaker 1: I gotta get on the plane, all right. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: miss it. Get home. Thanks Mark, Thanks guys from Charlotte

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Speaker 1: where he works for his NASCAR team and on his

838
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: way back to Buffalo. He'll be on the charter with

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Speaker 1: us tomorrow going to going to the New Jersey medal ends.

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Speaker 1: Mark joined us on the Subway Fresh Day count line,

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00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: presented by Subway Restaurants, probably locally owned and operated. We

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Speaker 1: have the Jets entire injury list and we'll read that

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Speaker 1: to you when we come back. Plus more. Come on back,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One Goes Live from One Goes

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Speaker 1: Drive And this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Goes Live from One Goes Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: Here until three o'clock today. Little snow in the air

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Speaker 1: in Orchard Park today, and if you're watching on the

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Speaker 1: MSG feed, you see that the surface of newer Field

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Speaker 1: is tarped down. Maybe they expect a little more snow

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Speaker 1: than we think I saw in the forecast. Three to

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Speaker 1: four inches maybe tomorrow. Tonight and tomorrow we had It's

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Speaker 1: like they expected it. Yeah, negligible snow today. I think

854
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Speaker 1: it's all. I don't think anything. It's stuck. But maybe

855
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Speaker 1: a way out where you live on the hinter lands,

856
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Speaker 1: you think they're snow in the ground, or you think

857
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: there was this it was. You know, it looked like

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Speaker 1: powdered sugar. You know you could still see the ground,

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Speaker 1: but it was sticking. Are you still there? Yeah, I

860
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Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't think so. Jet's injury list

861
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Speaker 1: is a long one, and it's interesting out for the Jets.

862
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Speaker 1: Tight End Neil Sterling with a concussion, doubtful for the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Here's where it gets really interesting. Sam Donald doubtful with

864
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Speaker 1: the foot, Todd Bowle said yesterday. Donald will not stop start,

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Speaker 1: but he would not rule them out as a player.

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Speaker 1: We'll see about that. Wide receiver Robbie Anderson another starter,

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Speaker 1: doubtful with an ankle. Center Spencer Long another starter doubtful

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Speaker 1: with finger injury and a knee injury. Those three, Donald, Anderson,

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Speaker 1: and Long none of them practice this week. You'd think

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Speaker 1: it's unlikely any the guy and Mark Kelso said this

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Speaker 1: earlier the guy is Quincy and Noonwall. I mean Robbie

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Speaker 1: Anderson and Quincy and noon Wall are their go to

873
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Speaker 1: guys offensively, and Quincy on noon Wall. I said this

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Speaker 1: when I did the Jets early in the season, and

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Speaker 1: we were talking about it earlier in the week as well.

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Speaker 1: This guy is a running back inside a tight ends

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Speaker 1: body and he plays wide receiver. He's a beast yep

878
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Speaker 1: and that is that's an enormous break for the Bill's defense.

879
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 1: If Quincy and noon Wa is out with his ankle injury.

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Speaker 1: He did not practice the last either of the last

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Speaker 1: two days. He is officially questionable with his ankle. That's

882
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Speaker 1: big defensive lineman Steve McClendon questionable with his ankle, and

883
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: left guard James Carpenter another starter, questionable with a shoulder.

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Speaker 1: They got a long injury list the Bills haven't. We

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Speaker 1: haven't seen their injury list participation today or forecast for

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Speaker 1: a Sunday yet, but that should be coming out shortly

887
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Speaker 1: this afternoon. There's going to be long and interesting as well,

888
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: meaning significant. It's not it's it's it's the down part.

889
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're deep into the season, but

890
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Speaker 1: you don't like to go into games when none of

891
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: the starters, are very few starters or even a couple

892
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: of stars are out. First of all, you have a

893
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: hard time getting a handle on who these teams are

894
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 1: now right, they don't have Quincy and Nani the Jets,

895
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Speaker 1: which he's questionable, and they don't have a Robbie Anderson

896
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Speaker 1: who was doubtful. Who are talking about who's catching passes

897
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Speaker 1: for the Jets? You want some names, I'll give you

898
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 1: names of the receivers. One of them is Richard Matthews,

899
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Speaker 1: who just signed a couple of weeks ago. Um The

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Speaker 1: Bills reportedly took a look at him. But receivers, I mean,

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Speaker 1: who are they gonna go with? Um, Deonte Burnett, a

902
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:31,959
Speaker 1: free agent, undrafted free agent, rookie m Andre Roberts, Sharone Peak,

903
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: these names they acquired in the trade obviously, but you

904
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, It just it takes a lot

905
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Speaker 1: of the start shout of the game when you don't

906
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Speaker 1: have the regulars in there, and the Bills when their

907
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: injury report comes out, we'll have the same situation. You know. Yeah, well,

908
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: you're right when you start getting injuries into it. I mean,

909
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: this game, it could have been nobody and just two

910
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Speaker 1: guys on the field, Sam Darnold and Josh Shall That's

911
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Speaker 1: who we all want to see. We want to see

912
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Speaker 1: those everybody else can take the day off. I just

913
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Speaker 1: want to see those guys go out and have a competition.

914
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Speaker 1: Who can throw it through the tire, who can throw

915
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Speaker 1: it in the garbage can in the back of the

916
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: end zone. Who can throw it? That's what everybody wanted

917
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Speaker 1: to see, right And now Darnold's out, well we can

918
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Speaker 1: hope we get Now. They only have to wait four

919
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Speaker 1: weeks for these two Titans to match up again, the

920
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Speaker 1: Bills and Jets, so maybe we get that matchup. It's

921
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Speaker 1: just unfortunate that they don't get to play against each

922
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Speaker 1: other this time. I mean, they're close. They had the

923
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Speaker 1: same tutor, the same mentor right in the pre draft

924
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Speaker 1: run up in the Jordan Palmer. It's just unfortunate that

925
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Speaker 1: they didn't get a chance again. They won't get a

926
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Speaker 1: chance again on the field against each other this week.

927
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Speaker 1: An extra degree of consideration in this is that both

928
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Speaker 1: these teams, as well as the Dolphins and the Patriots,

929
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Speaker 1: they all get the week off next week, so you

930
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Speaker 1: can see that the run up to this, if you

931
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Speaker 1: want Quincy and Noonwall and Robbie Anderson and these guys

932
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Speaker 1: back in the lineup for sure after the buy, you know,

933
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Speaker 1: kind of give them a week off before the buy

934
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Speaker 1: a lot like we've been lobbying or well not we.

935
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Speaker 1: You have been lobbying for Josh Allen to get an

936
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Speaker 1: extra week off for his elbow. The Jets and the

937
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: and the doll and the Patriots too, they're all in

938
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Speaker 1: the same boat. They all have a week off this

939
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Speaker 1: next week. So they've got that kind of that vacation

940
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Speaker 1: coming up where they could get a lot of guys

941
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Speaker 1: really really healthy for the stretch run. And that's in

942
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Speaker 1: their frame of mind too. So you think about a

943
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: guy as important is the Noon Wise to them, Robbie

944
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: Anderson is to the Jets. Maybe they are thinking against

945
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 1: an offense like the Bills have even when the Wheels

946
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: offense was healthy, and you gotta think, well, okay, you

947
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: know what, maybe these guys do deserve an extra week off.

948
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: Maybe we can't get him some extra help. Yeah, I

949
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: mean the Bears thought that last week. You know, I

950
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Speaker 1: was teaching my counterpart on the Bears broadcast team, Jeff Joni,

951
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday morning before kickoff because they weren't playing anybody, right,

952
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Speaker 1: I mean Khalil Mack and others not playing. I said,

953
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Speaker 1: what do you guys think you're playing the JV here today? Huh?

954
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: It turns out they almost were. Well yeah, yeah, it

955
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,439
Speaker 1: was a thirty two point win. Yeah, I mean they didn't,

956
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't need to. And so they can,

957
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, look at themselves say okay, I get it now.

958
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: You know the Jets are looking at it like that.

959
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: So I and the Jets. Jets have a coach who

960
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: needs to win. Right. The Jets have lost three in

961
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Speaker 1: a row. They're only a game ahead of the Bills.

962
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Speaker 1: And the Jets have a coach, Todd Bowles whose future

963
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: has to be a little bit in question. He's gonna

964
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Speaker 1: need to win, if not this week, then very soon.

965
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Speaker 1: We've spoken about it all week that at different times,

966
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Speaker 1: guys have written articles about it. Listen, if if Sam

967
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: Darnold takes a turn for the worst, or this team

968
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: looks worse, or their defense goes south, Todd Bowles may

969
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: not survive it. He's a fourth year head coach, not

970
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: a second year head coach like Sean McDermot. You look

971
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: for the differences in how these teams are looking at

972
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: this game and what it means for their future. I

973
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: think the future, the Jets future is much more expected

974
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: to be now than the Bills, is I mean right?

975
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: I mean they got a head coach has been there

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00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: four years, they got their their their starting quarterback, they've

977
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: got their new quarterback. Their defense seems to be okay.

978
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: But you know, they've got a head coach that's had

979
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 1: four years to get it done and with a couple

980
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,879
Speaker 1: of with a handful now of franchise quarterbacks that came

981
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,919
Speaker 1: out since he's been head coach running the draft. You know, Yeah,

982
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: it goes all the way back to Carson Wentz, Jared

983
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: Goff and Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, all right, breakcare. We're back

984
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: with more One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on

985
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio Buffalo Hills Radio Network. Sports Update. The

986
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills had wrapped up

987
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: there Friday practice, getting set to play the Jets on Sunday.

988
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: No practice today for tighten Charles Clay still dealing with

989
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. No practice today for quarterback Derrick Anderson

990
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: with his concussion, and no practice today for defensive end

991
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy with his knee. Limited work today for quarterback

992
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: Josh Allen as he recovers from that elbow injury suffered

993
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, and limited work for life backer Tremaine

994
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: Edmunds still in concussion protocol ads of the start of

995
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: the day. The Jets have a long injury list as well,

996
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: and includes wide receiver Quincy and Nanwa who is questioned

997
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: one with an ankle. Also left guard James Carpenter, a

998
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: starter questionable with a shoulder injury. They ruled out tight

999
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: end Neil Smith and doubtful three key players wide receiver

1000
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, center Spencer Long and quarterback Sam Darnel. Bell's

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Speaker 1: Jets Sunday at the Metal Ends in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: We've got to call of the game right here on

1003
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Speaker 1: our flagship station in Buffalo, WGR Sports Radio five fifty

1004
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: one o'clock. Keeck off myself and Mark kelso you can

1005
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: hear the game in our flagship WGR Sports Radio five fifty.

1006
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: Panther's free safety Eric Reed was ejected in the third

1007
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: quarter and last night's Thursday Night game for a hit

1008
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Speaker 1: to the head of a sliding Ben Roethlisberger that left

1009
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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger Steelers teammates defending their quarterback Read flagged for the

1010
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: third quarter play and then ejected as officials ruled there

1011
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: was unnecessary roughness due to forcible contact to the head.

1012
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 1: As Brian says, he'll leave it up to sea On

1013
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: Peyton whether he plays this Sunday, but the Saints new

1014
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,359
Speaker 1: receiver said, that's what we're working towards. Bryan turned thirty

1015
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: years old last Sunday, has been working out getting his

1016
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: body in mind right all season. How ready to go

1017
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,919
Speaker 1: with the New Orleans Saints. The Rams Marcus Peter says

1018
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,879
Speaker 1: he's not happy with Sean Payton's post game remarks and said,

1019
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: let's play him again. He said, we like that matchup,

1020
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go back and get it and hope

1021
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,479
Speaker 1: they get a chance to do it again. We're gonna

1022
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna see him soon, you feel me, Peter said.

1023
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: He said he caught some sideline flak from the Ram

1024
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: from the Saints coach as well. Sabers won a wild six,

1025
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: five overtime game in Montreal yesterday, getting set for their

1026
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: next game one o'clock tomorrow when they host the Vancouver Canucks.

1027
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: Are a little shockwave Steve sent through the NBA Golden

1028
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 1: State Warriors All Star guard Stefan Curry left last night's

1029
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: game in the third quarter. Edon did not return because

1030
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: of an aductor strain in his left leg. MRI schedule today. Curry,

1031
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: of course the man in the NBA and had to

1032
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: leave the game. That'll shake up a little bit, Yeah,

1033
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Speaker 1: will they? Yeah, that's a big It could be big

1034
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Speaker 1: that he's one of the guys that he's not one

1035
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: of those big physical presence guys, but they're better with

1036
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: him statistically everything. His ability to shoot the outside shot

1037
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Speaker 1: changes everything in that game. And he's like one of

1038
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: the only guys it's that way. I mean, doesn't take

1039
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Speaker 1: it to the whole very much. He doesn't go to

1040
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: the basket very much, but changes everything. He missed a

1041
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: lot of time last year with an injury. I'm sure

1042
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: they don't want to go through that again. On Twitter today,

1043
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: our little pole, our little question for you deals with

1044
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: the second half of the bill season. I want to

1045
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: know what you think the Buffalo Bills. Who would be

1046
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: that your candidate, your best candidate for a breakout performer

1047
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 1: in the second half of the Bills schedule we're already

1048
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: into the second half, but what do you think? Give

1049
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: us a call eight fifty toll free one eight eight

1050
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,720
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Best candidate for a breakout

1051
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: performer for the Buffalo Bills in the second half of

1052
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: the season. We got it up in poule form right now.

1053
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Speaker 1: Forty eight percent of you say it's quarterback Josh Allen,

1054
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Speaker 1: twenty nine percent say it's linebacker three Maine Edmonds, twelve

1055
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Speaker 1: percent say it'll be wide receiver Torell Prior, eleven percent

1056
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Speaker 1: have somebody else in mind. Give us a call, Let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think. Eight three 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: Call on the line from Tom and Rochester. Go ahead, Tom,

1060
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: you're on the air, Hi, guys, um. I just heard

1061
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 1: Steve mentioned that M Todd Bowles had four years in

1062
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: and hadn't really done anything with the Jets, and it

1063
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: got me to thinking, what a great question I could

1064
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: ask Steve today because I'll just give you my opinion,

1065
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:34,839
Speaker 1: but it's basically a two part question. I question how

1066
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: much influence a head coach has on them, you know,

1067
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: the wins and losses of the team, and I think,

1068
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: I think I want to ask Steve how much influence

1069
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: did he think Marv Levey had on them winning a

1070
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 1: and does he think it had more more influenced than

1071
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: Bill Polian b And then the third day is I think,

1072
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 1: and this is going to sound really brash, but I

1073
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: think there's a bunch of US fans sitting here that

1074
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: say I could have coached that team and they would

1075
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 1: have went to the playoffs. I'm thinking here, and I'm

1076
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: actually thinking here, I wonder if if Todd Bowles coached

1077
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: that team, they probably could have went to the playoffs

1078
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: for sure. So I really like to know what Steve's opinion.

1079
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: And I don't want him to beat up on Marv

1080
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: Levy or anything, but I just want to know what

1081
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 1: Steve his opinion on a head coach or the head

1082
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: coaches influence on when lots of versus at GM, A

1083
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: head coach has just as much influence on one loss

1084
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: as any good quarterback does. Really how leadership. I'll give

1085
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: you an example that I walk into a team that

1086
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: was one and eight when I got picked yesterday was

1087
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: in the thirty second anniversary. So I walk into the

1088
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: room Jim Kelly, Bruce with and Andre Readers sitting in

1089
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,720
Speaker 1: the room already, they're one and eight with another different

1090
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: head coach. The next year, well, the next year was

1091
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: a strike, yere, so that's but two years later that

1092
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 1: team goes twelve and four and they pick up Thurman.

1093
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: Thomas jumps on board as well in that year and

1094
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: in the strike here Conisman. So they got a couple

1095
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: of good players. And there's no question that a good

1096
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: GM makes a big difference. But it's the relationship. Take

1097
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and too, Tom, and you're right there.

1098
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: Different guys play different roles, and some of them are

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00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: prominent and some of them are less prominent. But it

1100
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: takes a lot of people in the building doing the

1101
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: right thing the right way to win football games. Takes

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00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: a good GM, and it takes a good GYM with

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00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: a good relationship or at least an effective relationship with

1104
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: his head coach. Takes a head coach who can lead

1105
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: players and get them motivated. It takes a good coaching

1106
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: staff to put implement an offense and a defense. So

1107
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: to say, a head coach wins like a quarterback or

1108
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: a GM can make up for a bad head coach

1109
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: coach or a good head coach can make up for

1110
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: a bad GM. Listen, everybody, and it's hard to win.

1111
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows that better than Bills fans. They've

1112
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: seen so many different combinations coming here and try to

1113
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: win games on the long term basis and can't get

1114
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: it done. It takes a lot of people in the

1115
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: building doing the right things the right way, and the

1116
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: head coach is the focal point of the football end

1117
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: of it, and the general manager works in concert with

1118
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 1: a head coach to bring in good players. And you

1119
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: can only win. And every coach will tell you he

1120
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: can't win without good players. So all that stuff has

1121
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: to be in the mix. You can't just say, hey,

1122
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: you know, Todd Bull's stinks as a head coach because

1123
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,959
Speaker 1: they didn't win enough games. Well, you know, they didn't

1124
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 1: have enough good players. And you can say, hey, they

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00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: had all the good players in the world and they

1126
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: didn't have a good head coach, or you know, it

1127
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: all has to work. It's not just your It's not

1128
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Speaker 1: just having Aaron Rodgers. It's having a play caller in

1129
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: an offense, not just having you know, Ben Roethlisberg. It's

1130
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: also having that defense in a run game. It's not

1131
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: just having and even it's not just having Bill Belichick,

1132
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: it's also having Tom Brady and everything and the organization

1133
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: behind him and a great owner. All of that stuff

1134
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: gets into the mix. So you can't. You can divvy

1135
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 1: it up, sure, and you can pick which guy you

1136
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: like in each organization you think has the most prominent role,

1137
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: whether it's the head coach or the GM or the quarterback,

1138
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: but they all have to work. In the NFL, you

1139
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: can't do it. You can't put Lebron James in the

1140
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: NFL expect to win a ring. Jud doesn't work like that.

1141
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: Oh go ahead, Tom, real question, real, real cool question. Then,

1142
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: so well, what do you what? Then? What would you

1143
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:50,399
Speaker 1: say the chief reason why we've been struggling so long?

1144
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 1: Is it a singular reason? Is it a talent issue?

1145
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: Or is it just a organizational issue? How come it?

1146
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: How come it took the Bill seventeen years to get

1147
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: back playoffs? Or is it a multi layered answer? It's

1148
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: a lot. It's a yeah, obviously obviously, I geah, it

1149
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: is a multi layered answer. And different coaches came in

1150
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: and had different issues with the team, and there was

1151
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: some guy and yeah, there's a lot of issues can

1152
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: I tell you what my number one issue was. They

1153
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 1: kept changing coaches and GM too much. There was too much,

1154
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: too much turnover. Waite Phillips was a pretty good coach.

1155
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: I think Mike Mularkey could have been a pretty good coach.

1156
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: John Butler was an outstanding general manager. And they kept

1157
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: cycling through these people every two or three years, and

1158
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: you can't get anything going. I think you didn't ask me,

1159
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you what I think. Anyway, Well, that

1160
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 1: is the reason why they had a seventeen year playoff droute,

1161
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: that constant churn of coaches and general managers through here.

1162
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: All right, listen, I owe this organization a lot, but

1163
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,439
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. It's the only organization you'll find

1164
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: that had a GM who left voluntarily and two head

1165
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: coaches that left voluntarily. Right, And what is okay? Well,

1166
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: what is signified? Well, guy, I love Ralph Wilson. He's

1167
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 1: a great guy. He's I owe him a lot, but

1168
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: he was a hard guy to work for. He was

1169
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 1: a hard guy to work for, and it was hard

1170
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,839
Speaker 1: for and I know this for a fact too. Ralph

1171
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: wanted to hire guys like the top flight guys you

1172
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: can name. He gave at that time the president Russ Brandon,

1173
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: he gave him watching or you can hire anybody to

1174
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: get to say yes, I'll pay him. And it's hard

1175
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: to get Mike Shanahan to pay say yes, Brian Billick

1176
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: to say yes, Tony Dungee to say yes, John Gruden

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00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: to say yes, Bill Cower to say yes, all of

1178
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: whom were contacted by this organization. One of those coaches

1179
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: who left UM left after mister Wilson had departed. That's right.

1180
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: He can't pin then on him. And he had an

1181
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: out to do that to still get paid, because that's

1182
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: the only way him as a college coach could make

1183
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: that demand on the on the organization to get him

1184
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: to say yes. And what does that tell you? I'm

1185
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: just trying to say to tell you the same thing.

1186
00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: Ralph's a hard guy to work for. He had a

1187
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: high standard and he was he was an owner that

1188
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: was very involved and a lot of coaches didn't like

1189
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: that scenario. Then ask your question, Tom, awesome, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Let's call here from Ben and Tonawan to Hello, Ben,

1191
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air. Thank you. This is

1192
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: Ben from Benny from Tonawando ahead, Benny, just man, you

1193
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: gotta talk to us, don't listen to the radio or television,

1194
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: and if you can't do it, we're gonna have to

1195
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: cut you off. Benny. Are you there, Benny, Yes, I am.

1196
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you're on the air this week. I wish

1197
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: I was on the game in New York when I

1198
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: can't be, so I have to say, like I called

1199
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: you the last time when they played the Monday night

1200
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: game at New England. They played here kind they did

1201
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: a real good first half. I thought the question was

1202
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: which Bill's player is going to add the most to

1203
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: this game. I personally think it'll be Josh Allen and

1204
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if he's going to be the quarterback,

1205
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: like to know if he is so and I we

1206
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: don't know for sure, Benny, but they haven't announced it yet.

1207
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: Thanks for your call. Here's Nancy in Buffalo. Hello Nancy. Hi, guys,

1208
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,919
Speaker 1: I just say that I think Tremine, Esmonds and mant

1209
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: Milana will have a breakout second half season. Tell me why, Hi, No,

1210
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: tell me why why? Yes? Play with hurt and they

1211
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: don't give up. Okay. I think they've shown a lot

1212
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: in the field that they've taken so far. Okay, Kelso

1213
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: wondered if thank you. Nancy Kelso wondered if Milano qualifies

1214
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: as a potential breakout guy because he's had a decent

1215
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: first half of the season. What do you think I'm

1216
00:59:55,840 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: with you. I mean, everybody on that defense is listen, Yeah,

1217
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: nobody's flying under the radar on the defensive side of

1218
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: the football. Tremaine Edmonds least of all, Harrison Phillips least

1219
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: of all. I mean, Jerry Hughes. You've got some guys

1220
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:11,439
Speaker 1: playing really well over there, a bunch of them. They're

1221
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 1: the number three defense in the National Football League. I

1222
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: don't know how you break out. I mean, they're the

1223
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: whole teams. That whole defense is busted out this year.

1224
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: They're they're really playing well and there's room for improvement.

1225
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: Oh sure, you'd love to see these You'd love to

1226
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,439
Speaker 1: see these guys scoop up some of the loose balls

1227
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: they've They forced fifteen fumbles and got like what two

1228
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: of them? Yeah, I mean that's amazing. So if that changed,

1229
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: you know, heaving to the whole season might have changed. Yep.

1230
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a break the weather for

1231
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: did I tell you the weather already for East Rutherford Sunday.

1232
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: The high is gonna be forty seven degrees. Looks like

1233
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: some Sunnay skies For the game, the wins thirteen miles

1234
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 1: per hour. The windo always swirls around there. We're gonna

1235
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: be there for the Bills and the Jets one o'clock

1236
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: on Sunday. When we come back after this break, Greg

1237
01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: Cosal from NFL Matchup on ESPN, longtime senior producer at

1238
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: NFL Films, he'll help us break down the Bills and

1239
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: the Jets as well when we return. They were at

1240
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:08,439
Speaker 1: One Bills Live with One Bills. We're at One Bill's

1241
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,959
Speaker 1: Drive with One Bills Live. This is Buffalo Bills Radio,

1242
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,439
Speaker 1: John Murphy see trash tasker or Trasker. One Bills Drive

1243
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: is our scene. One Bills Live is our show. We're

1244
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: here until three o'clock today, and as usual, one of

1245
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: the best parts of the Friday show is our usual

1246
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: discussion with Greg Cosell, Analysts, executive producer of NFL Matchup

1247
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 1: on ESPN, longtime senior producer at NFL Films. Greg, we

1248
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: had somebody text our show earlier today and said your

1249
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: appearance on our show on Friday makes his day best

1250
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: part of his week. In fact, he said, thank you

1251
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: for doing that for us, Greg. Wow, Yeah, that's impressive.

1252
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. I would imagine he probably needs

1253
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 1: to find a few more hobbies, but I really appreciate it.

1254
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: Was the bedside. The guy who texted in his name

1255
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 1: was Terry Pagoula. He's firing Steve and I and you're

1256
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: good to go. Yeah, just kidding this, kidding it wasn't

1257
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: that funny. Hey, So here we go with this weird

1258
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 1: Bill's Jets game with Josh McCown scheduled to start for

1259
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: the New York Jets on Sunday. What should we expect

1260
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 1: from him? He hasn't played all year? What do you think? No,

1261
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: he hasn't really played all year. But it's funny because

1262
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 1: even through last season, he actually has played well. Later

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Speaker 1: in his career and uh, you know, he sort of

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Speaker 1: became a little bit more of a rhythm timing player.

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Speaker 1: He's always had the ability to sort of make plays

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Speaker 1: outside of outside of the pocket. I kind of always

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Speaker 1: liked him later in his career. I thought that he

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01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: was actually a quality starting quarterback who had a number

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Speaker 1: of good games. Yeah, he's almost the Jet fans I

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01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: think they almost would raise their expectations for the offense

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Speaker 1: this week, thinking McCown would at least be a little

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Speaker 1: more efficient in running it. I would think so, given

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Speaker 1: that Sam Donald over the last number of weeks has

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Speaker 1: not played particularly well. Now I understand that I think

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01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson is doubtful, so the Jets will have a

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01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: depleted receiving corps. But I think McCown will probably run

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Speaker 1: the offense more within structure and with a little more

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01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 1: efficiency than Donald has the last couple of weeks. But

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Speaker 1: I think the key for them, and I think they

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01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 1: would say the same thing Steve, is that they're going

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01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 1: to need to try to run the ball. Hey what, Greg,

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Speaker 1: how does one and you do matchups? You do it

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01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: for your show obviously every week. How do you affect

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01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: her in like the rush factor for a guy like

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01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 1: Josh McCown hasn't played all year, thirty nine years old.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you think there'll be a slow starter. How

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01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 1: do you affect her the into these matchups? You know,

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01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: in all honesty, Murph, you can and you don't. I mean,

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01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: all you can do is look at his skill set.

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01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: We've seen guys come out and play exceptionally well in

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01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: when they haven't played in a while, like Nick Mullins

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01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers, for instance, a week ago

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Speaker 1: a Thursday night. So it's almost impossible to do that.

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01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,360
Speaker 1: It's pure speculation. So we really don't get into those

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Speaker 1: kinds of things. We've talked all week about how these

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Speaker 1: two teams are almost mirror images of each other, both

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Speaker 1: with a rookie quarterback that they've got high hopes for

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01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 1: and a defense that's got some young parts and some

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Speaker 1: promising parts that are both playing extremely well. What you know,

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01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: can you differentiate between these two teams? What are the

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01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: glaring differences between the two teams? And I mean we've

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01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: seen the how similar they are. Yeah, I mean, you know,

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01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 1: I think obviously with Josh Allen not being able to

1304
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: play due to injury, it's it's a little tougher to

1305
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 1: get a feel for where the Bills thought they might

1306
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 1: be if he'd been able to play the last number

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Speaker 1: of weeks. I guess he's what missed three games now,

1308
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 1: is at it? Right? Yeah? So I mean again, not

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01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 1: that he'd all of a sudden be a top level quarterback,

1310
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 1: but he'd have three more games of reps and Ideally

1311
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: that gives him more experience and you could see improvement.

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Speaker 1: That's been unfortunate. Donald on the other hand, for the Jets.

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01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: You know, he started off, had some decent games. I

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01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 1: always felt like he was a very up and down player,

1315
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: which I expected, very erratic and inconsistent, and the last

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01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: number of weeks he sort of showed the inconsistency part

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01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: more than the good part. So they're similar in the

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01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: sense of the rookie quarterback. Now Donald's from what I

1319
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: read anyway, he's going to be out for quite a while,

1320
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: so he's going to lose that opportunity. For Bills fans,

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01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: you really just want to see Josh Allen get reps

1322
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: at this point. You know that to me is the

1323
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 1: most important thing. He needs to be out there playing

1324
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: seeing things, even if he makes mistakes, but he needs

1325
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 1: to be out there seeing things around the line. With

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Speaker 1: the Greg Cosal Analysts, executive producer of NFL Matchup on ESPN,

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01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: looking at the Bills Jets man, it's up, Grega. We

1328
01:05:56,240 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 1: had a conversation with your former protege jj Ter here

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01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: this week about which, oh you don't you don't accept

1330
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: him as a protege because he he calls you his mentor. Oh, well, god,

1331
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 1: a good day. A fan, I make his day, JJ

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01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:13,919
Speaker 1: calls me as his mentor. Yeah, I don't know where

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01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 1: to go with all this. Well, here's the issue. We

1334
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 1: had a discussion we had. We were debating who had

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01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: the better young defense, The Bills are the Jets. I

1336
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 1: think the Bills are pretty well set up with some

1337
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: of the young defenders. But then as the week went

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01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: along and I took a deeper look at the Jets.

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01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:31,040
Speaker 1: I mean, their defensive lineups dotted with really talented recent

1340
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: first rounders. They're pretty well set up on the defensive

1341
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Well, I think, you know, let's

1342
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: look at each defense quickly. I think when one thing

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01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:42,439
Speaker 1: the Jets really lack now is they lack an age

1344
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: pass rusher. That's the one area that they're truly missing.

1345
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 1: I think they've got there. They're strong at safety when

1346
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 1: when both are healthy. Jamal Adams is very good, Marcus

1347
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: May's a good player. Um, I think Darren Lee's a

1348
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 1: really solid linebacker. I think Avery Williamson's had a nice

1349
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 1: year for them inside with Darren Lee. But they and

1350
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams is a very very solid player. But I

1351
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: think they're lacking any kind of pass rush and they've

1352
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,800
Speaker 1: been searching. I mean, you've probably looked at their roster

1353
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: this week preparing for the game. Some of those names

1354
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: you probably didn't even know. They're searching to find a

1355
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: pass rusher on the edge. If you look at the Bills,

1356
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 1: you know. I think they've got some good young players

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01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 1: as well that they feel good about. I would expect

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01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: them to think that Edmunds and Milano are going to

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01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: be really good as they go forward. Edmunds has had

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01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 1: some struggles and obviously is he back this week. By

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01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: the way, no official injury report out yet. He's been

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01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 1: limited in practice all week. Yeah, I mean, obviously you

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01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 1: want him to get reps too. I think he's improved

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01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 1: at times. I think that in the game in which

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01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 1: he got hurt, I thought he played really well in

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01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: the run game for the first half. But you know,

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01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: he needs to be out there and he'll get back

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01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 1: with that injury. I think Milano is a good player.

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01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 1: I think they have a really good d tackle rotation. Obviously,

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01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams is closer to the end than the beginning

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01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 1: of his career, but I think they have four guys

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Speaker 1: who can play, and it's a really good de tackle rotation.

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01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: Jerry Us is still their only true edge rusher. I'm

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01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 1: sure they'd like another one since it's a predominant four

1375
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,799
Speaker 1: D line pass rush defense under Sean and Leslie Frasier.

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01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: Tredavious White was one of my favorite corners coming out

1377
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 1: of LSU. I think he's a really good pro. I

1378
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,680
Speaker 1: think they're very solid at safety and they'd probably like

1379
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 1: to get another corner on the outside that they field

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01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: goes with White. So I think both teams have a

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01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,560
Speaker 1: lot of good young players and a few areas that

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01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: they need to address. Is Josh McCown the tipping point

1383
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: of this game? Is his play going to be the difference? Well,

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01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: the way I'd answer that, Steve. Unfortunately, because the Bills

1385
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 1: have not been able to score many points, I don't

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01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 1: know if the Jets would need to score a lot

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01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 1: of points theoretically to win the game. So, you know,

1388
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 1: does Josh McCown do the Jets want him to play

1389
01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 1: at least efficiently? Yes, of course every coach wants that

1390
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: and not turn it over. But I don't think Josh

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01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 1: McCowen has to put up you know, twenty eight points

1392
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 1: probably to win the game, right exactly. We want to

1393
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 1: move on and ask you a little bit about last

1394
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:15,880
Speaker 1: night's game with Ben Roethlisberger. I mean, he gives twenty

1395
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: two of twenty five for three hundred and twenty some

1396
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 1: yards and five touchdowns I think to five different guys

1397
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 1: the Steelers. I was surprised at how well they handled

1398
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 1: the Panthers last night because I thought the Panthers had

1399
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:34,519
Speaker 1: a defense. But they hung fifty two points I know

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01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:39,720
Speaker 1: on Carolina. That's amazing. Yeah, they were really good on

1401
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: third down. They obviously hit big plays, starting with their

1402
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 1: the first play that they ran, which was clearly a

1403
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 1: game plan play. What was interesting watching that tape, and

1404
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:54,679
Speaker 1: I actually watched it first thing this morning, that side

1405
01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 1: of the ball was the Panthers have been a pretty

1406
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: high percentage blitz team this year, which might surprise people.

1407
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 1: But last night they chose not to. Now, maybe they

1408
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: chose not to because they were concerned about the matchups

1409
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 1: on the outside. There's any number of reasons they chose

1410
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 1: not to. But they matched up their rookie Dante Jackson

1411
01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 1: against Antonio Brown. He beat him one time where they

1412
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:21,560
Speaker 1: were clearly comfortable. The Panthers with Jackson on Brown and

1413
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:25,240
Speaker 1: he ran by him for a touchdown. So it was

1414
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:28,560
Speaker 1: it was one of those games where they chose a

1415
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: specific way to play, which has been a little different

1416
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: than the way they had played this year, and it

1417
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 1: did not work. I got a question for you about

1418
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:38,639
Speaker 1: that game and about the Steelers, Greg, and it's about

1419
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:40,760
Speaker 1: James Connor. Now, he left the game with the knock

1420
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:43,360
Speaker 1: to the head, but he's got ten touchdowns already this year.

1421
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: And I don't care about the contract issue with Lebion Bell.

1422
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,680
Speaker 1: But do you think the Steelers are prepared to move

1423
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: through the future, including I guess, the rest of this year,

1424
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: and not worry about Lebion Bell. I mean, do they

1425
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,800
Speaker 1: have enough with James Connor and the others there to

1426
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:58,560
Speaker 1: just kind of move on without Lebion Bell. What do

1427
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 1: you think? Well, I think from a football standpoint, yes,

1428
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: And then from the business standpoint, Murphy comes down to

1429
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:07,640
Speaker 1: allocation of resources. I don't think that, based on what

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01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 1: James Conner has done, that they're going to allocate a

1431
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 1: lot of resources to Levion Bell. Because if Levion Bell

1432
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:16,200
Speaker 1: wants to get let's say, Todd Gurley money or that

1433
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 1: kind of money, I don't think they're going to do that.

1434
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 1: I don't think they would see that as the best

1435
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: way to spend their money right now, given what James

1436
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: Connor has done, which is a different conversation than their

1437
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 1: traits and attributes. And we can certainly debate that. I'm

1438
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,560
Speaker 1: sure there are many who believe that Levion Bell is

1439
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 1: a better back than James Connor, and that's fine, But

1440
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: the point is it's about production, and they're getting tremendous

1441
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: production from that position. Well they've still got and you

1442
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: can speak to this better than I can. Their offensive

1443
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:49,599
Speaker 1: line has been as good as any of the National

1444
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 1: Football League, and I think Levion Bell is and maybe

1445
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:55,960
Speaker 1: Connor is finding that out as well. I mean, it's

1446
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: kind of nice to be a running back in Pittsburgh

1447
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: with those guys up front. Yeah, And I mean, and

1448
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: say what you want about Connor, like I said, we

1449
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: can people can have that debate and people can agree disagree.

1450
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: But James Connor is a good back. I mean, he

1451
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: has patients vision, he's got burst, he's got finishing power,

1452
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 1: he catches the ball. He lost weight since he's been

1453
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 1: in the NFL, so he's clicker than he was in college.

1454
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:22,719
Speaker 1: He's a good NFL back with Great Cosal from ESPN's

1455
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 1: NFL Matchup, senior producer at NFL Films. As we take

1456
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:27,599
Speaker 1: a look at some of the other games around the league,

1457
01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: I wonder what you think what impact that the New

1458
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints might get out of their new wide receiver

1459
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,719
Speaker 1: des Bryant. They've already they're already full of offensive talent

1460
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: right with Kamara and Michael Thomason, of course Drew Brees.

1461
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 1: How would Dez Bryant fit into that picture? And how

1462
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,760
Speaker 1: much better can the Saints play than they have played lately? Well,

1463
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:48,719
Speaker 1: I've been given that a lot of thought, Murph, because

1464
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 1: obviously a lot of people thought des Bryan was washed

1465
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:53,640
Speaker 1: up last year. And here's how I'd answer that. I

1466
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: think Dallas their tendency offensively under Scott Lenahan is they

1467
01:12:58,479 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 1: run a lot of what I call individual isolation routes

1468
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 1: where they ask their receivers on the perimeter to win

1469
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: one on one versus man coverage. I don't think that's

1470
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 1: des Brian's strength right now, and it may not be

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Speaker 1: a strength again as he's getting older, and I think

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Speaker 1: he struggled a bit last year with that. I think

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Speaker 1: New Orleans is a whole different animal. I think they

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01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 1: are a schemed offense, and I think that Dez Bryan

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01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 1: fits that much much better. Now. I don't know how

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01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 1: they plan to use them, but when I started to

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01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: think about it, I started to think a little bit

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01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:29,160
Speaker 1: about Marcus Colston when he was there, and how they

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01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 1: used Marcus. Colston often lined up in the inside slot

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01:13:32,439 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 1: to the trip side of the field, almost like a

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01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:38,599
Speaker 1: flex tight end in many ways, and work routes against

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01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 1: linebackers and safeties. I wonder if they might see Dez

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01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: Bryan that way at this point in his career. So

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01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 1: they're much more of a schemed offense where they sort

1485
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 1: of put their players in positions to work in favorable matchups.

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01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: Then asking guys to just win one on one. Well,

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01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 1: there's no question the guy pulled on the trigger if

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01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: we'll get it to him if he can get open.

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Speaker 1: And I agree with you, Greg, I think that New

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01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 1: Orleans schemes guys open as well as anybody in the league.

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01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,839
Speaker 1: And of course with Drew Brees, I mean, he delivers

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01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: it on time and makes quick decisions like really like

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01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 1: no other quarterback in the league. In might mean, hey,

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01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: just a very quick point look at Jimmy Graham since

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01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:19,720
Speaker 1: he's left New Orleans, and no one questions the fact

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01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 1: that he's a big, talented guy with good speed and

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01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,479
Speaker 1: all that, but he certainly hasn't had the production since

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01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:26,680
Speaker 1: he left New Orleans, the same that he had with

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Speaker 1: the Saints. That's right. One more thing I want to

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Speaker 1: ask you about young Marcus Mariota going in taking on

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01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I just smell a bad day for the

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01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:44,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee offense. Well, he made some good throws last week,

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01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: which compensated for the fact that to me, Mariota still

1504
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: misses some throws. He doesn't turn it loose when there

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01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:53,719
Speaker 1: are some throws that are there. He's not as accurate

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01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 1: if he'd like him to be. But he compensated last

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01:14:56,640 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: week with some very very good throws. And you know

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01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: they don't have a ton of weapons. Corey Davis is

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01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: in his second year. He hasn't quite become the player

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01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: maybe they hoped, but that could be any number of

1511
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 1: reasons why I think Dion Lewis becomes critical in this game.

1512
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:15,280
Speaker 1: He played more snaps last week than in any game

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01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:17,640
Speaker 1: this year, and I think he needs to be the

1514
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 1: back as opposed to Derrick Henry. But I could easily

1515
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: see that, Steve. I mean that's very possible. Mariota has

1516
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: certainly not been consistent this year. He's been very weak

1517
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 1: to week. What are Derrick Henry's limitations. I mean, he's

1518
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: a big fast back, but he does seem to miss

1519
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:36,639
Speaker 1: something in his game. What do you think it is? Well?

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01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 1: I think that he's very straight line. I don't think

1521
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,720
Speaker 1: he has very good lateral agility at all. I think

1522
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 1: he's a roadmap runner. You need to define where he's running.

1523
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:48,720
Speaker 1: I don't think he can change direction very well. He's

1524
01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:53,560
Speaker 1: very long legged. I think that he's powerful when he

1525
01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:57,759
Speaker 1: gets momentum, but he's not powerful in a small area,

1526
01:15:57,880 --> 01:16:00,719
Speaker 1: and that's a big difference. Some guys are just naturally

1527
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 1: powerful in small space and can gain extra yards. I

1528
01:16:06,439 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: don't see him that way based on tape study. I

1529
01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: think he needs downhill momentum to get powerful. All right, now,

1530
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 1: I got a selfish question to ask you. I'm doing

1531
01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 1: the Dolphins Packers game. Oh boy, yeah, what does that mean?

1532
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to say anything. I'll just leave it

1533
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 1: to you. How ugly could this be? You mean, the

1534
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 1: assumption being that the Packers will beat them? Badly. Yes,

1535
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:38,160
Speaker 1: I do. And the game's in Lambeau, right, that's correct? Yeah, yeah, Well,

1536
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: you know it's funny about the Packers. They're three three,

1537
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 1: four and one, I believe, so their record is not

1538
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: very good. I think the way I've looked at the

1539
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 1: Packers the last number of weeks and much of the

1540
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: season is I think they ask Rogers to drop back

1541
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 1: far too much. I think he's averaging over forty five

1542
01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 1: drop backs a game, which, no matter how good you

1543
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 1: think Aaron Rodgers is, I think that's too many. I

1544
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 1: actually think they have two pretty solid backs. I know

1545
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: Jones fumbled last week, but I think he's actually a

1546
01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: very good back. I think Jamal Williams would be a

1547
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 1: real nice number two. I'd like to see them be

1548
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:14,040
Speaker 1: a little more balanced in their offense. The player I

1549
01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:17,680
Speaker 1: really do like is the rookie Valdez Scandling, who you know,

1550
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 1: is a long, fast athlete who I think can get

1551
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 1: on top of defenders, and I think that he can

1552
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: also run those crossers, you know, those routes from outside

1553
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:29,760
Speaker 1: in where he can run away from people. I would

1554
01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:32,000
Speaker 1: expect him Steve to have a big game because I

1555
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:34,640
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see Zavian Howard on Davante Adams, So

1556
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have a tough time with Valdez Scaning.

1557
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:40,880
Speaker 1: I got a game to ask you about. As you know, Houston,

1558
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:43,680
Speaker 1: it seems in position anyway to run away with the

1559
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 1: AFC South Jacksonville in the Lucas Hill Stadium. Both teams.

1560
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 1: Each team three wins and five losses. Can the Colts

1561
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 1: put up points against what once was regarded as one

1562
01:17:54,120 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 1: of the best NFL defenses out there, the Jacksonville Jaguars.

1563
01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 1: The Colts have been a fast, anating team to watch.

1564
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:04,160
Speaker 1: Murph Frank reichs done a really good job. I don't

1565
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:07,160
Speaker 1: believe Andrew Luck's been sacked in three games. There's a

1566
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 1: lot of click game to what they do. Three step drop, quick,

1567
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,439
Speaker 1: five step drop. When you watch their tape, you don't

1568
01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:14,560
Speaker 1: see Andrew Luck running around the way he used to do.

1569
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 1: The ball's getting out of his hand, and they don't

1570
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:19,960
Speaker 1: have much on the outside other than t Y Hilton.

1571
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: It's very much a tight end based offense. They play

1572
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: four of them, they've all they all contribute, So can

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01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: they move the ball? I think they can. They've developed

1574
01:18:31,240 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: a little bit of a run game. The last couple

1575
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 1: of weeks with Marlon Mack, this defense has not played

1576
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: as well. You know, I don't know how Steve feels,

1577
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 1: but this was a defense that made it created a

1578
01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:43,479
Speaker 1: ton of turnovers last year. I don't think that's something

1579
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 1: you can count on on an annual basis. You know,

1580
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 1: I don't think you can say, hey, we're gonna be

1581
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 1: good because we're gonna get turnovers. Now. I'm not saying

1582
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 1: they don't have good talent, but they've also had a

1583
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 1: number of injuries this year, and some of them have

1584
01:18:55,960 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 1: been problematic for them. Now that brings us to Will

1585
01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 1: Mullins of the forty nine ers who emerged last week

1586
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:09,559
Speaker 1: and kind of splashed onto I'm sorry, not Will Mullins,

1587
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 1: Nate Mullins, Nick nixt Where that guy is that? See

1588
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: if you got to get your Nick Mollins T shirt, Man,

1589
01:19:18,240 --> 01:19:20,400
Speaker 1: I know I need more than a T shirt, believe me.

1590
01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 1: Tell us about it. Is this going to be sustainable?

1591
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 1: And how much credit does shout Kyle Shanahan deserve for

1592
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 1: putting a game plan together that can be executed by

1593
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:34,640
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins as good as it was. Well, again, you

1594
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,519
Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to be sustainable. But I'll

1595
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:39,800
Speaker 1: say this, I think that that Shanahan does a really

1596
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:45,839
Speaker 1: good job in giving his quarterbacks define reads, define throws,

1597
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:50,679
Speaker 1: and he helps them tremendously. Whether Nick Mollins is going

1598
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:54,200
Speaker 1: to be down the road a quality NFL starting quarterback

1599
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 1: for someone that's that's impossible to answer. But I think

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01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:02,160
Speaker 1: Kyle does a really good job with that, and that

1601
01:20:02,360 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: was evident right from the start. But I think he

1602
01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:07,760
Speaker 1: also made a couple of really good throws. And as

1603
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 1: I said, whether that's sustainable, who knows. It's not a

1604
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:14,759
Speaker 1: team that has a ton of talent at the skill position,

1605
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:17,960
Speaker 1: so you know, we don't know that. I have one

1606
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 1: more question for you, Greg, and it's it's softball ten games,

1607
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: you know, or in the week ten now? Who's the

1608
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:26,559
Speaker 1: best team who's playing the best in the NFL right now?

1609
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 1: And you know their usual suspects would be Rams and

1610
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 1: Saints and Patriots and and uh, you know, I wonder

1611
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 1: who do you think is playing in best in the

1612
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: NFL right now? Um? You know, I think the Chiefs

1613
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 1: offense is a really difficult offense to defend. With its

1614
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: combination of scheme and talent. No one's really stopped them.

1615
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:51,439
Speaker 1: I mean, there have been possessions where you know, a

1616
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:54,560
Speaker 1: defense has done a good job, but they're very talented

1617
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:57,360
Speaker 1: and and I think Andy Reid does a great job,

1618
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:02,599
Speaker 1: you know. I like the Saints, you know, I think

1619
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 1: their defense, though, has some questions that you know, any

1620
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: given week, and I think we'll learn a lot after

1621
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 1: this week. Philly and New Orleans play not this week

1622
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: but next weekend, and I think that's going to be

1623
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: a game that tells us a lot about two teams

1624
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:22,040
Speaker 1: that are pretty good. I mean, Eagles are still defending

1625
01:21:22,040 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions. Yeah, and and the Rams and the

1626
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:30,479
Speaker 1: Chiefs played next weekend too, right, Yeah, that's the Monday nineteen, correct,

1627
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:32,719
Speaker 1: that'll tell us a lot too. Yeah, yeah, that games

1628
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 1: that's the Mexico City game. Yeah, I'm setting some time

1629
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 1: aside to watch that out of his busy scot all

1630
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:44,920
Speaker 1: the after you watch, you know, Nate, Nick, Joe Mullins, Mullins,

1631
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:49,840
Speaker 1: Will Mullins. It's Will Mullins. I'm I'm calling him Will today. Hey, great,

1632
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: thanks for this. We always enjoyed talking to us. Some

1633
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: of our listeners think it makes their week, so we

1634
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you very much for being with us today.

1635
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. Thanks a lot. Thanks great great

1636
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1642
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1643
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Speaker 1: really good. Are you directing traffic away from our show?

1644
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1646
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1647
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1648
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1649
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1650
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1651
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1652
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Speaker 1: should get on the show sometime, former Bill Safety. He

1653
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Speaker 1: was always a great guest on our show and now

1654
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Speaker 1: he's an important part of that show as well. So

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1657
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 1: to pick the brain of guys who study a lot

1658
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1659
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Speaker 1: as fun as it is, you get guys who've done

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1662
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1663
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Speaker 1: in there, because you know, let's face it, you get

1664
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Speaker 1: scouts who think they look at these guys and think

1665
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna be great players, and they stink. It's the

1666
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Speaker 1: same with film study. Some guys get different ideas about

1667
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Speaker 1: when they look at teams on film, and it's it's

1668
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Speaker 1: interesting to talk to guys. Hey, we're gonna talk to

1669
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Speaker 1: you when we come back a little bit about the

1670
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: Bills and who do you think it's going to be

1671
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 1: a breakout player in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: Live for One Bills Drive. We thank our man Great

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Speaker 1: Kosel for joining us as he does every Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: You know who else comes by every Friday. Lorenzo Alexander

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Speaker 1: The Lowdown coming up a little bit after two o'clock,

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Speaker 1: just about ten or twelve minutes away. John Murphy, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker here until three. Please join us on our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll and our discussion about the Bills in the second

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Speaker 1: half of the season. What do you think who's going

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Speaker 1: to be the breakout player second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call to let us know. Eight three

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

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Speaker 1: Here is Jerry in Webster, New York. Go ahead, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Hey, John H. Steve am.

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Speaker 1: I give another vote for Steve for the Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame for me, Please one more vote for Steve for

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. Please. There it is. I can't help.

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Speaker 1: I can't help our lookout. I didn't think of will

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Speaker 1: Sean McCoy. What do you mean, well, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: a breakout for the second half of the year. That's

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Speaker 1: the question. Of the day, right, that's right, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: And he has not broken out? Yeahs no, he's not. Also,

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Speaker 1: what's that, guys to do with? Looking outside? It just

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Speaker 1: seems like he does better and bad weather, yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd be right there. All right. Look, I'll take anything,

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Speaker 1: bad weather, good weather, temper weather. I don't care. He

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Speaker 1: needs to He needs to break out, there's no question

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Speaker 1: about that. And I guess maybe we should have put

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Speaker 1: him up as a choice on our Twitter poll. I

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Speaker 1: am not giving up on him. There's plenty of time

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Speaker 1: for him to come around. But and Steve and I

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Speaker 1: want to hear you on this two, Jerry. I also

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Speaker 1: think the problem I don't think lies with Lashawn McCoy.

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Speaker 1: And so when we look for him to break out,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, there's about five other guys in front

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Speaker 1: of him who need to break out first before Lashawan

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Speaker 1: McCoy can hope to break out. I don't think Lashawan

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Speaker 1: McCoy is is injured or in trouble or really not

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Speaker 1: even not playing well. I just think he's gotten no

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Speaker 1: help nowhere to go as far as getting a nice

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Speaker 1: block to spring something. Looking about how hard it is

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Speaker 1: when the offensive line is having trouble. Winning the line

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Speaker 1: is scrimmage and you got and you're playing with a

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback or as his case, you know, a quarterback

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Speaker 1: that was just off the street in Derek a street

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Speaker 1: in Derek Anderson or Nathan Peterman, who is you know,

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Speaker 1: making his fourth or fifth start of his career. I mean,

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Speaker 1: LaShaun McCoy is the only thing that defense is fear.

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Speaker 1: And he's the only one that they had they give

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Speaker 1: any credibility to, so rushing or whatever he has, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's yeah, they know he's a weapon, and

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Speaker 1: that's what they focus on. They say, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna beat us, let this rookie quarterback beat us.

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Speaker 1: And they're not. It's not going to happen. So he

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Speaker 1: is he isn't you know, you know, by himself a

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Speaker 1: little bit uh at times in the offense. And now

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Speaker 1: you've seen two and he got a little criticism and

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Speaker 1: and he probably sees it as well. He's trying to

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Speaker 1: do too much. He's trying to make up for the

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Speaker 1: slow start of the offense. He's trying to carry the

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Speaker 1: offense on his shoulders when the defense, um, you know,

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01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:00,600
Speaker 1: is not letting him do it. Um that that's a

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01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:02,639
Speaker 1: tough spot for him to be in. There's no question

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Speaker 1: about it. So yeah, it'd be great if he could

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Speaker 1: break out, because, like anything, if anything went right for

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01:27:09,120 --> 01:27:11,439
Speaker 1: this offense, it would at least have some ripple effected

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Speaker 1: to other parts of it. But nothing has been able

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Speaker 1: to get going. He's calling from Anthony and Niagara Falls.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, and Anthony, welcome to the show. Oh I

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01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:22,559
Speaker 1: gotta punch him up first. Hello, Anthony, you're on the air.

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Speaker 1: Lit Go ahead him, Murph, big fan. Thank you, Anthony.

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01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 1: I was actually at training camp last year. You're doing

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01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:33,519
Speaker 1: a good job. Oh thanks, That seems like so long ago.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I was just questioning a comment for you guys.

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01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:39,759
Speaker 1: Go ahead. So how do you guys think Josh Allen's

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01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:42,400
Speaker 1: going to do when he comes back. Probably a lot

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01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:47,080
Speaker 1: like he did before he left, except hopefully for me, Anthony.

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01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:49,599
Speaker 1: I want to see him take away the bad play

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01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:53,519
Speaker 1: and then just make the easy plays look easy. I'm

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01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:57,400
Speaker 1: not looking for him to throw for four ninety five touchdowns,

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01:27:57,479 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 1: like to have a game like Ben roethls Burger did

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01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: last night where he went twenty two of twenty five

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Speaker 1: for three twenty eight five tds. No interceptions. It would

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01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 1: be nice, but I don't expect that. I just want

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Speaker 1: him to come back and be a little bit more efficient.

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Speaker 1: Don't turn it over, get the ball out of his

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Speaker 1: hands on time, look away from his receiver being before

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Speaker 1: he comes back and throws it accurately. I would be awesome.

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Speaker 1: I just want to see steps that are tangible, not

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01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: only on maybe on the stat sheet, but certainly on

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Speaker 1: the scoreboard. And I see this team stay on the

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Speaker 1: field and get some points. I agree with I mean,

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Speaker 1: you said, Steve. I also, when he comes back whenever

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Speaker 1: it is, I want to hear from him what he

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Speaker 1: got from the experience of standing down the sidelines with

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Speaker 1: the play sheet on his wristband, listening to the plays

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Speaker 1: going in charting plays. I'm really curious about what he

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Speaker 1: got out of that, what he saw, what he thought

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Speaker 1: when the plays went in. You know, he looked at

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Speaker 1: his wristband as if he was going to call the

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Speaker 1: play what he was charting. When he comes back whenever

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Speaker 1: it is, let's get him back on the show. I

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Speaker 1: really want to know the answer to that. I want

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Speaker 1: to know what it changed for him sitting down when

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Speaker 1: he came back and said, oh, I see this. I

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Speaker 1: see this. Here's I'm gonna do different when I get

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Speaker 1: the ball in my hands. Yeah, I agree with you, Murph.

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Speaker 1: What else, Anthony? He has gone? Okay, I think yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's gone. Here's Joe and Tone the Hello Joe, Hi, guys.

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Speaker 1: I got three things. The third thing I want to debate.

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Speaker 1: The first thing, I think Edmonds. I hope he has

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Speaker 1: such a great year. I just think he's such a

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01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:24,320
Speaker 1: physical specimen with that wingspan. I just hope he's great

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Speaker 1: for us for years. Yeah. The second thing is I'm

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Speaker 1: like in Pittsburgh because I think they have a better

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Speaker 1: defense than the other four powerhouse teams. So I'm looking

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Speaker 1: for them to do something. Now. This third thing I

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01:29:39,920 --> 01:29:45,599
Speaker 1: want to debate is, UH, on the extra point last week,

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01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:49,960
Speaker 1: there was twelve men on the field, so they we

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01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 1: had the choice of going for two from the one

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Speaker 1: yard line. Why doesn't every team do that on the

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Speaker 1: first touchdown? Like sucker you in the going for two?

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01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 1: You know, just because it's the first score, right? No,

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Speaker 1: I want to debat this as a strategy. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: go ahead. Yeah, I just think I'm surprised, Uh cheating

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Speaker 1: New England. Hasn't that every week? If they get scored

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Speaker 1: on first. You mean you're saying, put twelve guys on

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Speaker 1: the field and invite a two point try. Yeah, and

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01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:30,320
Speaker 1: then you know then they're going to change their rule

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01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:32,720
Speaker 1: because you know everyone way want to try it, you know,

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01:30:32,920 --> 01:30:37,320
Speaker 1: so I'm wondering about that if you know, why doesn't

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01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:41,120
Speaker 1: why doesn't everybody try it? You know, it's just well,

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Speaker 1: you mean instead of well, here's the thing. It's a

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Speaker 1: two point conversion. You can try it anytime you want,

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Speaker 1: and you get it on the two yard line. But

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Speaker 1: the reason they got a penalty, then it puts it

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01:30:49,439 --> 01:30:51,880
Speaker 1: on the one yard line, half the distance, and now

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01:30:51,960 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 1: it's a one yard play, and that changes the percentages

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01:30:55,479 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 1: for a team like the Bills who want to give

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01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 1: it a shot. So what you gonna do if they

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01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:02,640
Speaker 1: coach you into going for a two point thing and

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Speaker 1: you don't get it and they stop you and then

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01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 1: they get a one point Now they've got a lead

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01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:08,519
Speaker 1: with the same you know. I mean, that's that's what

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Speaker 1: you're asking for, Joe. I mean, it's all percentages. What

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Speaker 1: do you think the chance? Why do you think it's

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01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: so unlikely that a team won't get a two point

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Speaker 1: conversion from the one yard line. Yeah, he's gone as well.

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Speaker 1: We gotta move on, buddy. All right, let's get to

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey and Buffalo before we get to the top of

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Speaker 1: the hour. Hello Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, turn your radio down. Jeffrey,

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01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 1: you're running out of time for you. Jeffrey, how are

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01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 1: you doing great? Turn your radio down? Is this all right?

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01:31:40,120 --> 01:31:42,479
Speaker 1: Saw him? I don't even have it all a matter

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01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:44,479
Speaker 1: of fact, I got show on speakerphone and talking to

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01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 1: you on through speaker phone. There's a fine to pay.

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Speaker 1: You got you're gonna build on the mail. Go ahead, Jeffrey,

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01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:52,880
Speaker 1: what's going on? Man? Pull over right now, Murph, pull

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01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:56,559
Speaker 1: pull over. You can talk to us like that. That's

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01:31:56,880 --> 01:31:59,560
Speaker 1: signal first. Signal first, and bring the car to a

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01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:02,080
Speaker 1: complete and full stop and set the break. Where's your guy?

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01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:05,760
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jeffrey. What I got a question for you, guys?

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01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:08,360
Speaker 1: Why do buff Why don't Buffalo want ballers on the team.

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01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:10,599
Speaker 1: It seemed like every time we get ballers, we get

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01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:14,839
Speaker 1: rid of them and replace them with these no names players.

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01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:16,600
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been going on for I've been a

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01:32:16,640 --> 01:32:19,040
Speaker 1: fan of the Buffalo Battle Sister Rock pile of days.

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01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:21,360
Speaker 1: It seemed like every time we build a bunch of ballers.

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01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:22,880
Speaker 1: If you know what I mean when I say ballers,

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01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:27,519
Speaker 1: I don't really I don't who you're referring to. I'm ballers.

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01:32:27,600 --> 01:32:30,920
Speaker 1: Guys a flash heat, guys that you know, dance in

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01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:32,640
Speaker 1: the end, don't make a lot of noise, but they

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01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 1: get the job done. It seemed like we don't want

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Speaker 1: those kind of guys on our team, but those are

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01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:39,760
Speaker 1: kind of guys that win the championships. The Yorker guys

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01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:41,760
Speaker 1: is not just doing it for us. Man, did you

1852
01:32:41,880 --> 01:32:44,160
Speaker 1: say we had every time we get some on our team,

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01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 1: we get rid of them. Like who if we had

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01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:47,800
Speaker 1: on our team that was like that that you like that,

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01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:52,559
Speaker 1: you know, give us a list we trade them of Robie.

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01:32:53,120 --> 01:32:55,760
Speaker 1: Um last, I see every player. I seemed like every

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01:32:55,800 --> 01:33:00,120
Speaker 1: player that leaves me Woods for example. Um while, why

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01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:02,719
Speaker 1: the few players out here this balling? They came from Buffalo,

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01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:04,920
Speaker 1: but I think when they get here they don't want

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01:33:04,920 --> 01:33:06,599
Speaker 1: to do enough, and it's like they don't believe they

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Speaker 1: have a complete team or something. M Yeah, I don't know, Jeffrey.

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01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,320
Speaker 1: I don't know Jeffrey for balling, listen, I'm all for

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01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:14,640
Speaker 1: guys getting in the end. Zone and dancing. I believe me.

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01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:18,559
Speaker 1: I mean we would love that. But more balling, more dancing,

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01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:22,000
Speaker 1: more balling more, Jeffrey, get back to driving. Pay attention man,

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01:33:22,160 --> 01:33:24,080
Speaker 1: what you're doing. We got the lowdown coming up with

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander when we returned, John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio Network story update update from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have wrapped up their Friday practice. The bulk

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Speaker 1: of the practice work this week is finished for the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Not practicing today quarterback Derek Anderson in concussion protocol,

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01:33:58,080 --> 01:34:01,040
Speaker 1: tighten Charles Clay with a hamstring, defensive end Trent Murphy

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01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:03,920
Speaker 1: with his knee limited work today for quarterback Josh Allen

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01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:07,759
Speaker 1: with his elbow, Linebacker Tremaine Edmunds limited in concussion protocol,

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01:34:07,800 --> 01:34:10,479
Speaker 1: and running back Chris Ivory limited as well with the

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01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. The Jets have an interesting and long injury

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01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:16,519
Speaker 1: list that includes ten and Neil Stanton. He is out

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01:34:16,800 --> 01:34:20,679
Speaker 1: with concussion, doubtful quarterback Sam Darnald, wide receiver Robbie Anderson,

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01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:23,080
Speaker 1: and Sentator Spencer along all three of those doubtful wide

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01:34:23,120 --> 01:34:26,519
Speaker 1: receiver Quincy Anna is questionable with his ankle injury. Bills

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01:34:26,560 --> 01:34:29,320
Speaker 1: and Jets Sunday, one o'clock at MetLife Stadium in the

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Speaker 1: New Jersey Metal Ends. We got the game right here

1884
01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:34,240
Speaker 1: on our flagship radio station in Buffalo, w g R

1885
01:34:34,479 --> 01:34:36,880
Speaker 1: Sports Radio five fifty. Myself and Mark Kelsel have the

1886
01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:38,720
Speaker 1: call of the game the Bills and the New York

1887
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:42,240
Speaker 1: Jets on Sunday. Carolina Panthers free safety Eric Reid was

1888
01:34:42,320 --> 01:34:44,439
Speaker 1: ejected in the third quarter last night for a hit

1889
01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:47,280
Speaker 1: to the head of a sliding Ben Roethlisberger that left

1890
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:51,400
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger's Steelers teammates defending their quarterback. Read lowered his head

1891
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:54,800
Speaker 1: with Roethlisberger already into his slide and delivered shoulder to

1892
01:34:54,920 --> 01:34:57,880
Speaker 1: helmet contact at the end of a seventeen yard scramble.

1893
01:34:57,960 --> 01:35:00,439
Speaker 1: Reid was flagged for the play and then ejected. Officials

1894
01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:03,680
Speaker 1: ruler was unnecessary roughness due to forcible contact of the

1895
01:35:03,760 --> 01:35:06,320
Speaker 1: head and neck of a sliding quarterback. As Bryant says,

1896
01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:08,160
Speaker 1: he'll live it up to Sean Payton as to whether

1897
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:10,719
Speaker 1: he'll play on Sunday, but the New Orleans Saints receiver

1898
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:13,400
Speaker 1: says that's what he is working on. Bryant turned thirty

1899
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 1: last Sunday. He's been working out, getting his body and

1900
01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:18,280
Speaker 1: mind right all season. Ready to come back to the NFL,

1901
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:21,760
Speaker 1: Ready to work with the New Orleans Saints. Savers won

1902
01:35:21,800 --> 01:35:24,760
Speaker 1: a crazy game last night in Montreal. Rasmus Rista Linon

1903
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:27,519
Speaker 1: scored the overtime game winner a six five win over

1904
01:35:27,600 --> 01:35:30,560
Speaker 1: the Canadians in Montreal. Rista Linon leads all defensemen in

1905
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:35,040
Speaker 1: Savers history with four career overtime goals. Buffalo got two

1906
01:35:35,120 --> 01:35:37,760
Speaker 1: goals from Jeff Skinner yesterday. He's got eleven goals in

1907
01:35:37,880 --> 01:35:40,720
Speaker 1: sixteen games so far this year. Sabers home tomorrow one

1908
01:35:40,720 --> 01:35:43,120
Speaker 1: o'clock when they host the Vancouver Canucks. It's the annual

1909
01:35:43,200 --> 01:36:03,240
Speaker 1: Military Appreciation game at the Key Bank Center. That's what

1910
01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:05,000
Speaker 1: we do, It's how we do it. On Friday afternoons

1911
01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:08,160
Speaker 1: at two, we bring in Lorenzo Alexander for the lowdown.

1912
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:11,000
Speaker 1: Bill's a veteran. Lorenzo Alexander in studio with us, with

1913
01:36:11,160 --> 01:36:13,800
Speaker 1: me with Steve Tasker, ready to talk about the Bills game,

1914
01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:15,960
Speaker 1: giving some of his keys for a Buffalo victory on

1915
01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 1: Sunday against the New York Jets. Welcome to the Lowdown. Lorenzo, Hey,

1916
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:20,760
Speaker 1: what was going on? So good with this? You still

1917
01:36:20,840 --> 01:36:22,599
Speaker 1: like the Lowdown? Or is it kind of run its course?

1918
01:36:22,600 --> 01:36:23,960
Speaker 1: What do you know? What do you mean running his course?

1919
01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:28,400
Speaker 1: I hope I want music the whole thing. No. I

1920
01:36:28,520 --> 01:36:30,320
Speaker 1: enjoy coming on here every Friday, hanging out with you

1921
01:36:30,360 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 1: guys a little bit. You know, obviously this is something

1922
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:33,640
Speaker 1: I want to do, so I can't get tired of

1923
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 1: it before my cream and get started. Just checking and

1924
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:40,680
Speaker 1: the music would you like to see? The music is good?

1925
01:36:40,760 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: You know. Jay hit me the other week and was

1926
01:36:42,120 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 1: trying to put this um remixed version of The Lowdown

1927
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:50,880
Speaker 1: on I just I gave a hard no. No, this

1928
01:36:51,240 --> 01:36:52,920
Speaker 1: this is actually, you know, kind of grown on me

1929
01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:55,000
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, that was my idea of that music. Yeah,

1930
01:36:55,040 --> 01:36:58,000
Speaker 1: you know that. Well, great job. Hey, before we get

1931
01:36:58,040 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: to bill stuff, I want to ask you, Stephen. I

1932
01:36:59,439 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 1: talked about the early in the show. Did you watch

1933
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:03,800
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football last night? Steele's Panthers? No? All right?

1934
01:37:03,880 --> 01:37:05,960
Speaker 1: Did you have you seen the Eric Reid hit one?

1935
01:37:06,600 --> 01:37:09,560
Speaker 1: I have seen the hit? What do you think is it?

1936
01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: I would not worthy? No, I wouldn't. I mean it's

1937
01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 1: a flagworthy. I mean, he's going low, he's sliding. Obviously,

1938
01:37:15,160 --> 01:37:19,479
Speaker 1: just naturally the way things work, that's gonna happen at times.

1939
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 1: But it didn't seem like it was egregious at all

1940
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:22,960
Speaker 1: to me. He was just trying to go down low

1941
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:24,720
Speaker 1: and maybe hit him low. He slid, and that's where

1942
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:27,360
Speaker 1: it happens at throw the flag and move on. I

1943
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:29,280
Speaker 1: think some of it had to do who it was

1944
01:37:29,439 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: as well. Why did every thrown him out? Because I

1945
01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:33,920
Speaker 1: know there's been some other hits similar to that, and

1946
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:36,160
Speaker 1: obviously from crew to crew it it varies as far

1947
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: as their reaction to certain plays. But at the end

1948
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:40,800
Speaker 1: of the day, I know Eric. Eric is not a

1949
01:37:40,880 --> 01:37:44,439
Speaker 1: dirty player. You here in this position, I'm sure you

1950
01:37:44,479 --> 01:37:46,880
Speaker 1: know every couple of weeks or so when you want

1951
01:37:46,920 --> 01:37:50,040
Speaker 1: to protect quarterbacks, I want to as well. But roethlisberger

1952
01:37:50,080 --> 01:37:52,479
Speaker 1: slide was fast. It was fast, and I and I

1953
01:37:52,560 --> 01:37:54,759
Speaker 1: had this opportunity I think a couple of years VERSU. J. Cutler,

1954
01:37:54,760 --> 01:37:56,360
Speaker 1: and it comes up from time to time. You know,

1955
01:37:56,920 --> 01:37:59,320
Speaker 1: My saving grace is that I'm not as athletic or

1956
01:37:59,360 --> 01:38:00,960
Speaker 1: fast as air read, so I have a like a

1957
01:38:01,120 --> 01:38:03,640
Speaker 1: hair quicker to get there to jump out of the

1958
01:38:03,720 --> 01:38:05,920
Speaker 1: way or do something to react. You know, when these

1959
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:08,879
Speaker 1: guys are flying these you know DB's some of these linebackers.

1960
01:38:08,880 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 1: I mean they run four three four four. I mean

1961
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:14,280
Speaker 1: that's I mean they're moving. So, you know, it's hard sometimes,

1962
01:38:14,439 --> 01:38:16,719
Speaker 1: especially when you're you're taught to be a physical player

1963
01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:19,360
Speaker 1: into playing the physical mentality, especially when a guy like

1964
01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:23,439
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger he may not slide. You're trying to go

1965
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:24,560
Speaker 1: down and hit him. You got to give it to

1966
01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:25,840
Speaker 1: him because he's a big guy, and you know, I

1967
01:38:26,120 --> 01:38:27,840
Speaker 1: can't just tackle him, so you know, it's it's a

1968
01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:29,760
Speaker 1: hard spot that defenders on him. It was something we

1969
01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:31,320
Speaker 1: have to do. There's another place, inef you broke to

1970
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:34,000
Speaker 1: my attention to what hit on Kim Newton. T J

1971
01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:35,799
Speaker 1: wat hit. I thought that was gonna be a penalty.

1972
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:39,280
Speaker 1: He's just helmet on his side. Yeah, he was low.

1973
01:38:39,360 --> 01:38:41,400
Speaker 1: I mean it was below his shoulder, at his shoulder.

1974
01:38:41,479 --> 01:38:44,439
Speaker 1: It looked as if he lowered his helmet to initiate contact,

1975
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:47,400
Speaker 1: which is exactly what they want. And people on Ima

1976
01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:50,000
Speaker 1: yearwashing and he hits him with the top of his helmet.

1977
01:38:50,160 --> 01:38:51,720
Speaker 1: I mean you have to see it from a different angle.

1978
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:54,680
Speaker 1: That angle didn't look bad, you know, now, Yeah, it's not.

1979
01:38:54,760 --> 01:38:56,400
Speaker 1: I mean, none of these are y. Yeah, I just

1980
01:38:56,560 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about in the same context

1981
01:38:58,120 --> 01:38:59,800
Speaker 1: of the game, Like, how can you call that one

1982
01:38:59,840 --> 01:39:04,639
Speaker 1: in out this one? Yeah, he dropped and there was nothing.

1983
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:07,280
Speaker 1: There wasn't a flag nothing. Look at that boom like

1984
01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:12,840
Speaker 1: he lowered his head to initiate contact. Clearly. Yeah, I'm

1985
01:39:12,840 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 1: not I'm happy they didn't call it. Yeah, I mean

1986
01:39:16,200 --> 01:39:19,880
Speaker 1: I don't know that I thought, but but look, that's

1987
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:22,040
Speaker 1: to me, that's a penalty. I mean it is by

1988
01:39:22,080 --> 01:39:23,840
Speaker 1: the rules, and especially after I don't know if this

1989
01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:26,880
Speaker 1: happened before after aired Reid's hit, but if you call that,

1990
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:28,960
Speaker 1: and especially hitting a quarterback like that, I mean you

1991
01:39:29,040 --> 01:39:30,719
Speaker 1: got to call it. And it doesn't really it shouldn't

1992
01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:33,080
Speaker 1: matter who the quarterback is, but that always comes into

1993
01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:35,360
Speaker 1: play when they decide they want to throw a flag.

1994
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:39,040
Speaker 1: I just thought that the officials were all over the

1995
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:42,200
Speaker 1: map last night at times, and that cruise and it

1996
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: got and that and you know this too, games go

1997
01:39:45,680 --> 01:39:49,640
Speaker 1: sideways like it did last night for the Panthers. That

1998
01:39:50,680 --> 01:39:53,800
Speaker 1: helps the snowball effect. Yeah quick, I mean both those

1999
01:39:53,840 --> 01:39:57,479
Speaker 1: plays we're talking about both went in favor of the Steelers.

2000
01:39:57,720 --> 01:39:59,840
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that they got this agenda, because

2001
01:39:59,880 --> 01:40:02,559
Speaker 1: they don't. They just they're just bad. And it happens

2002
01:40:02,560 --> 01:40:04,200
Speaker 1: to be for one team, you know, in a couple

2003
01:40:04,240 --> 01:40:06,479
Speaker 1: of plays. But that's what I thought it was. I

2004
01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:08,680
Speaker 1: thought they were just bad and that that adds to

2005
01:40:09,320 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: an embarrassing loss for the Panthers, right, And that's always

2006
01:40:11,920 --> 01:40:14,800
Speaker 1: the frustrating thing as players. It's just the inconsistencies you

2007
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:16,720
Speaker 1: can get from crew to crew and then even within

2008
01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:19,320
Speaker 1: the crew. And you know, I'd rather have it all

2009
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:21,439
Speaker 1: bad or all good, but don't give me one great

2010
01:40:21,520 --> 01:40:23,120
Speaker 1: one and one bad one. And so that's you know

2011
01:40:23,360 --> 01:40:26,400
Speaker 1: that they want to continue to probably work on. That's

2012
01:40:26,439 --> 01:40:27,960
Speaker 1: why you know they're always asking like, what do you

2013
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,439
Speaker 1: think of the rules? Well, you know, the players don't care.

2014
01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:34,040
Speaker 1: Just call the rules right and call the same you can.

2015
01:40:34,240 --> 01:40:36,880
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I've told people that, you could say, listen,

2016
01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:40,320
Speaker 1: it's legal now for everybody to carry a baseball bat. Fine,

2017
01:40:40,320 --> 01:40:42,960
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna carry Louisville slugger, that's fine. Just call the

2018
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:46,800
Speaker 1: penalty with somebody. You know. They don't care. They don't care.

2019
01:40:46,840 --> 01:40:48,800
Speaker 1: They really don't. Now we're all gonna play like with

2020
01:40:49,040 --> 01:40:50,960
Speaker 1: just pants and we're all gonna play without shirts and

2021
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:54,040
Speaker 1: no helmets. Okay, that's fine. Just call the penalty. You know,

2022
01:40:54,160 --> 01:40:57,240
Speaker 1: they don't care what the rules are. Just call them

2023
01:40:57,280 --> 01:40:59,120
Speaker 1: the same. And I know you're changing and the game's

2024
01:40:59,160 --> 01:41:01,920
Speaker 1: evolving away from the way we grew up playing, right

2025
01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:05,840
Speaker 1: for the most part. Listen, you you're the check clears. Yeah,

2026
01:41:06,160 --> 01:41:08,360
Speaker 1: you know, just make sure you call the rule right. Yeah,

2027
01:41:08,400 --> 01:41:09,800
Speaker 1: I'm right with you. And that's the That's the most

2028
01:41:09,840 --> 01:41:12,639
Speaker 1: frustrating thing for me on any given Sunday, And while

2029
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:15,759
Speaker 1: ever get riled up, is when they just miss blatant

2030
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:18,960
Speaker 1: stuff or call stuff that's just last week, the three

2031
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:20,760
Speaker 1: of them. This week we had four worse and none

2032
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:24,599
Speaker 1: of them right right right. It drives you crazy. Yeah,

2033
01:41:24,600 --> 01:41:27,160
Speaker 1: and it happens every single week. So how much attention

2034
01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:29,759
Speaker 1: do you or do the bills pay to who who's

2035
01:41:29,760 --> 01:41:31,719
Speaker 1: going to be the official? Ran Turbert is the official

2036
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:34,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday? Is that something that's discussed during the week. Yeah,

2037
01:41:34,400 --> 01:41:36,320
Speaker 1: we normal to go through it um at least you

2038
01:41:36,680 --> 01:41:41,600
Speaker 1: especially if there's something glaring about that particular staff. So

2039
01:41:41,760 --> 01:41:43,880
Speaker 1: if they have a lot of you know, DPIs or

2040
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:47,320
Speaker 1: opis or holding calls. Um, you definitely kind of have

2041
01:41:47,479 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 1: that note in the back of your head because then

2042
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 1: you know, if you can play a little bit more

2043
01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:53,479
Speaker 1: aggressive or this week you maybe play a little bit

2044
01:41:53,520 --> 01:41:56,360
Speaker 1: looser knowing that they're gonna, you know, throw a flag

2045
01:41:56,960 --> 01:41:58,840
Speaker 1: if you, you know, even tub just a little bit,

2046
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:01,160
Speaker 1: you know, far as being a defensive player. All right,

2047
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:03,439
Speaker 1: we're with Lorenzel Alexander the lowdowns coming up as he

2048
01:42:03,479 --> 01:42:05,160
Speaker 1: takes us through his keys for the game to Bill's

2049
01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:08,519
Speaker 1: injury report is out. A couple of players listed as out.

2050
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:12,680
Speaker 1: Quarterback Derek Anderson is out, tight end Charles Clay defensive end.

2051
01:42:12,880 --> 01:42:15,400
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy is out, and I think it'll be Trent's

2052
01:42:15,600 --> 01:42:18,200
Speaker 1: third consecutive game out. You miss him, don't you? A

2053
01:42:18,240 --> 01:42:20,000
Speaker 1: little bit? On defense? Right? He said, yeah, I mean

2054
01:42:21,120 --> 01:42:22,800
Speaker 1: the gamer and he was starting to get into his

2055
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:25,599
Speaker 1: groove and obviously you get something, you know, somebody rolls

2056
01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:27,320
Speaker 1: up into him at the end of the game versus

2057
01:42:27,360 --> 01:42:30,960
Speaker 1: the Colts, and now he's set back another month. So yeah,

2058
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:32,880
Speaker 1: it's been hard, you know. Obviously I've had to fill

2059
01:42:32,920 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: in that gap a little bit, you know, on first

2060
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:37,680
Speaker 1: second down playing some defensive end and then playing linebacker.

2061
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:40,160
Speaker 1: So it has been a little bit of a strain

2062
01:42:40,280 --> 01:42:42,320
Speaker 1: on us in that regards because you're losing a baller

2063
01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 1: and then you know, I have to carry a little

2064
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:48,400
Speaker 1: bit of extra load. But hey, it's always next man up.

2065
01:42:48,439 --> 01:42:50,120
Speaker 1: Obviously he'll get back when he can, and we just

2066
01:42:50,160 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 1: got to continue to push forward. Your defense is still

2067
01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:54,760
Speaker 1: playing your number three in the NFL. I mean, you're

2068
01:42:54,800 --> 01:42:57,200
Speaker 1: playing really well on that side of the ball, and

2069
01:42:57,680 --> 01:42:59,920
Speaker 1: like we were talking earlier, a lot of bad breaks.

2070
01:43:00,200 --> 01:43:02,040
Speaker 1: You got fifteen fumbles, you only got two of them,

2071
01:43:02,600 --> 01:43:05,920
Speaker 1: right right, I mean that and that's that's just the bounce.

2072
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:07,760
Speaker 1: I mean, basically, some of that stuff is hard to

2073
01:43:07,800 --> 01:43:10,160
Speaker 1: get to. I mean you have strips, guys knocking the

2074
01:43:10,200 --> 01:43:12,920
Speaker 1: ball out, guys running to the ball, and I mean

2075
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:16,400
Speaker 1: it seems easy to pick up a ball and Scooper score,

2076
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:18,080
Speaker 1: but as you know, I mean, that thing is all

2077
01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:19,920
Speaker 1: over the place and bounces right into their hands a

2078
01:43:19,920 --> 01:43:23,439
Speaker 1: lot of times. So I coached foot youth football, and

2079
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:26,200
Speaker 1: sometimes in youth football you tell kids do something different

2080
01:43:26,240 --> 01:43:27,920
Speaker 1: than you would tell them if it was an NFL player.

2081
01:43:28,120 --> 01:43:30,639
Speaker 1: If youth football, the balls just cover it, yeah, because

2082
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:32,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL, it's like you make the play that's

2083
01:43:32,760 --> 01:43:34,880
Speaker 1: there to be made. You scoop that thing. You got room,

2084
01:43:35,160 --> 01:43:37,559
Speaker 1: you scoop it, and you score. That's the pro play

2085
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:40,600
Speaker 1: to make you make the best play. Yeah, you know,

2086
01:43:40,760 --> 01:43:42,960
Speaker 1: and youth football you say, just fall on, fall on me.

2087
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:45,800
Speaker 1: But but that's you know, it's getting to the point

2088
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:49,480
Speaker 1: now where you know those you think about the thirteen

2089
01:43:49,640 --> 01:43:54,280
Speaker 1: times where the ball was available. Yeah, and it's different

2090
01:43:54,320 --> 01:43:56,040
Speaker 1: when you watch it. It's like, oh, we could have

2091
01:43:56,080 --> 01:43:57,920
Speaker 1: just followed. I mean, like the Houston one sticks out

2092
01:43:57,960 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: of my mind. That's by the harshest one. The minding

2093
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:03,960
Speaker 1: Night one in the red zone, Brady fumbles on down there.

2094
01:44:04,040 --> 01:44:05,800
Speaker 1: You know, you take points off the board. I mean,

2095
01:44:05,880 --> 01:44:08,320
Speaker 1: so it's probably what I really ad that just jump

2096
01:44:08,360 --> 01:44:11,040
Speaker 1: out at you where it would have probably changed the

2097
01:44:11,160 --> 01:44:13,160
Speaker 1: dynamic of how the outcome of the game ended up.

2098
01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:15,320
Speaker 1: During Troy Alex Gender with us gonna talk about the

2099
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:16,479
Speaker 1: lowdown for the game, I want to talk to you

2100
01:44:16,479 --> 01:44:18,360
Speaker 1: about a little bit about last week's game and the

2101
01:44:18,479 --> 01:44:20,720
Speaker 1: game you got from Julian Stanford, who had to play

2102
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:24,400
Speaker 1: when Tremine Edvands was out in concussion protocol. Um, I

2103
01:44:24,520 --> 01:44:26,200
Speaker 1: think you know he would probably I think he told

2104
01:44:26,280 --> 01:44:28,160
Speaker 1: us he was playing out of position Stanford was, but

2105
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:29,760
Speaker 1: he I thought he held up his end of the

2106
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:31,760
Speaker 1: bargain pretty well. What do you think. Yeah, I mean,

2107
01:44:31,840 --> 01:44:33,960
Speaker 1: obviously he did a great week of having a prepper

2108
01:44:34,400 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: preparing last week, and then like I said, it's always

2109
01:44:37,120 --> 01:44:40,880
Speaker 1: next man up. And as linebackers, really through OTAs and

2110
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:42,439
Speaker 1: training camp, a lot of us have kind of been

2111
01:44:42,479 --> 01:44:44,840
Speaker 1: shuffled around. So when things like this come up during

2112
01:44:44,880 --> 01:44:47,439
Speaker 1: the season, you you at least have a familiarity with

2113
01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:49,840
Speaker 1: the position and the calls that you're going to have

2114
01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:52,280
Speaker 1: to go out there and make. And Julian did a

2115
01:44:52,320 --> 01:44:54,600
Speaker 1: great job. Obviously had a you know another he had

2116
01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:56,519
Speaker 1: a sack a strip fumble that we weren't able to

2117
01:44:56,600 --> 01:44:58,680
Speaker 1: get to again early in that game. That would have

2118
01:44:58,760 --> 01:45:01,519
Speaker 1: changed it changed. He's a dynamic of that game as well.

2119
01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:05,160
Speaker 1: And uh, he's he's he's a smart um instinct the

2120
01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:07,840
Speaker 1: football player, obviously a great special teams guy as well,

2121
01:45:07,960 --> 01:45:10,439
Speaker 1: and Um stood in the gap. And so hopefully we

2122
01:45:10,520 --> 01:45:13,120
Speaker 1: get train Tremaine back this week. We don't know quite yet,

2123
01:45:13,200 --> 01:45:16,760
Speaker 1: but I mean questionable right, So it'd be it'd be

2124
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:18,600
Speaker 1: great to have him back and then Julian can go

2125
01:45:18,680 --> 01:45:21,679
Speaker 1: back into his role. But right now he's been doing

2126
01:45:21,680 --> 01:45:23,400
Speaker 1: a good job of just getting ready for this week.

2127
01:45:23,520 --> 01:45:24,920
Speaker 1: So you're going in and play the Jets on the

2128
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:28,280
Speaker 1: road Division game and it looks and well, it comes

2129
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:32,439
Speaker 1: out Josh McCown's going to be the quarterback, right. I've

2130
01:45:32,439 --> 01:45:35,960
Speaker 1: been saying, you'd almost rather see Sam Darner if you're yeah,

2131
01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:37,320
Speaker 1: I mean when you see when you want to look

2132
01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:39,800
Speaker 1: at the film. I mean, obviously Sam was their high pick,

2133
01:45:39,920 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 1: but he throws the ball to the other team quite often.

2134
01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:46,040
Speaker 1: A lot of guys have last night. Yeah, so it

2135
01:45:46,120 --> 01:45:48,360
Speaker 1: definitely would have gave us a big time opportunity to

2136
01:45:49,200 --> 01:45:51,880
Speaker 1: have some opportunities to intercept the ball and hopefully maybe

2137
01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:53,439
Speaker 1: and get up maybe a pick six or a couple

2138
01:45:53,479 --> 01:45:55,040
Speaker 1: of picks six out of it to help our offense

2139
01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:57,599
Speaker 1: put some points on the board, which would have been awesome. UM.

2140
01:45:57,720 --> 01:45:59,560
Speaker 1: But you know, obviously with McCown, he'll he'll throw you

2141
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:01,519
Speaker 1: the ball to I think we had two last year

2142
01:46:01,920 --> 01:46:04,439
Speaker 1: in the first game, probably should have had three. UM.

2143
01:46:04,760 --> 01:46:06,240
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it's all about just

2144
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:09,720
Speaker 1: just rupping him and obviously making him uncomfortable. Obviously, it's

2145
01:46:09,720 --> 01:46:11,720
Speaker 1: a little bit more skilled, a little bit more experienced,

2146
01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:13,320
Speaker 1: so they may have a little bit more of their

2147
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:17,600
Speaker 1: playbook I think, ready to maybe attack us because he

2148
01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:20,120
Speaker 1: can handle a little bit more than than a rookie quarterback.

2149
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:22,040
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I mean, I

2150
01:46:22,160 --> 01:46:23,920
Speaker 1: think I have great confidence in our front four and

2151
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:27,240
Speaker 1: get him off the spot. Yeah. Get Sam Darnold through

2152
01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:30,600
Speaker 1: four interceptions last week he's also sacked four times. Is

2153
01:46:30,640 --> 01:46:33,560
Speaker 1: there some opportunities up front for you to win some

2154
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:35,600
Speaker 1: matchups against their offensive line? I mean, what do their

2155
01:46:35,680 --> 01:46:37,479
Speaker 1: guys look like? Yeah, I think each and every single

2156
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:40,080
Speaker 1: week we have a great, great opportunity. Obviously, they their

2157
01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:42,280
Speaker 1: center is going to be out right, and a couple

2158
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:44,040
Speaker 1: of their other guys have kind of are nicked up

2159
01:46:44,080 --> 01:46:47,200
Speaker 1: on the inter report Carpenter and I think Beacham, who's

2160
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:48,760
Speaker 1: the left tackle, their left side of the line is

2161
01:46:48,760 --> 01:46:52,240
Speaker 1: a little nicked up. Um. You know, they're big, big

2162
01:46:52,360 --> 01:46:54,360
Speaker 1: guys in the middle, like the heavy set, you know,

2163
01:46:54,520 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 1: jump set guys. So just trying to use some of

2164
01:46:56,600 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 1: our speed and athleticism to our advantage to maybe get

2165
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:01,960
Speaker 1: those guys, especially their ars, maybe in some space and

2166
01:47:02,040 --> 01:47:04,000
Speaker 1: make them work their feet in their hands, something that

2167
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:07,400
Speaker 1: they're maybe not accustomed to facing, you know, a couple

2168
01:47:07,400 --> 01:47:09,280
Speaker 1: of weeks they have been facing smaller guys like you know,

2169
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:13,360
Speaker 1: me or Shack or even Jerry, and then outside just

2170
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:15,439
Speaker 1: you know, just just continue to take advantage of being

2171
01:47:15,439 --> 01:47:17,960
Speaker 1: able to turn the corner. I know Cam watching Cameron Wake,

2172
01:47:18,520 --> 01:47:20,960
Speaker 1: he was really able to turn the corner on Shell

2173
01:47:21,040 --> 01:47:23,240
Speaker 1: a couple of times. So that they're giving up some pressures.

2174
01:47:23,520 --> 01:47:25,120
Speaker 1: They do a lot of things to try to combat that,

2175
01:47:25,240 --> 01:47:27,240
Speaker 1: going empty and getting the ball out, a lot of

2176
01:47:27,320 --> 01:47:30,840
Speaker 1: max protections, keeping keeping two tight ends in going a

2177
01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:32,920
Speaker 1: lot of old two person they're meaning no backs too

2178
01:47:32,920 --> 01:47:34,599
Speaker 1: tight ends because I don't think they have great confidence

2179
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:36,400
Speaker 1: in their backs and protection, so they get them out

2180
01:47:36,439 --> 01:47:39,040
Speaker 1: of the game. So they're trying to find ways to

2181
01:47:39,479 --> 01:47:41,559
Speaker 1: nullify the rush. And that's when our back end has

2182
01:47:41,600 --> 01:47:44,559
Speaker 1: to you know, do their job and obviously hold up

2183
01:47:44,600 --> 01:47:46,080
Speaker 1: a little bit longer to allow us to get there.

2184
01:47:46,200 --> 01:47:48,720
Speaker 1: And one more holdover from the Bears game five days later,

2185
01:47:49,000 --> 01:47:51,800
Speaker 1: the numbers just didn't that up. You guys gave up

2186
01:47:51,800 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 1: a total of one hundred and eighty yards and there

2187
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:56,639
Speaker 1: they are with forty one points. Obviously turnovers make the difference,

2188
01:47:56,680 --> 01:47:59,680
Speaker 1: but I mean one hundred eighty yards, it's hard to

2189
01:48:00,280 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: to not win that game when you're playing that kind

2190
01:48:02,360 --> 01:48:04,360
Speaker 1: of and they're not doing anything that offense. It didn't

2191
01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:06,280
Speaker 1: do anything really on offense. Yeah, I mean it's frustrating.

2192
01:48:06,479 --> 01:48:08,679
Speaker 1: All comes down to field position. I mean, they don't

2193
01:48:08,720 --> 01:48:11,560
Speaker 1: have to go very far to score in most offenses

2194
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:13,759
Speaker 1: in this league. I mean, if you give them short fields,

2195
01:48:13,760 --> 01:48:15,240
Speaker 1: they can they can score points. They only got to

2196
01:48:15,240 --> 01:48:17,240
Speaker 1: get maybe a first down or two and then they're

2197
01:48:17,240 --> 01:48:18,960
Speaker 1: in the end zone or at least getting the field

2198
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:21,240
Speaker 1: goal out of it. You know, if you're playing backed up,

2199
01:48:21,400 --> 01:48:23,880
Speaker 1: you know, they starting drives on the twenty five thirty

2200
01:48:23,920 --> 01:48:27,080
Speaker 1: yard line. They're putting most of the day, especially the

2201
01:48:27,160 --> 01:48:28,880
Speaker 1: way we were handing them last week and getting them

2202
01:48:28,920 --> 01:48:30,120
Speaker 1: off the field when we did put them in some

2203
01:48:30,200 --> 01:48:33,720
Speaker 1: third down situations. So that's the frustrating part because you

2204
01:48:33,800 --> 01:48:36,240
Speaker 1: almost we almost get taken out of the game in

2205
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:39,080
Speaker 1: a sense because of where they're starting their drives at.

2206
01:48:39,520 --> 01:48:41,200
Speaker 1: And so obviously that's something that we have to do

2207
01:48:41,280 --> 01:48:43,559
Speaker 1: better as a team as far as playing complimentary football,

2208
01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: and that's not just on the offenses, on the special

2209
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:47,680
Speaker 1: teams as well as far as setting that up as well.

2210
01:48:47,720 --> 01:48:49,240
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, is there a fix that you

2211
01:48:49,280 --> 01:48:52,920
Speaker 1: can have on special teams. I mean eight kickoffs. You

2212
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:54,720
Speaker 1: got eight kickoffs last year. Not one of them came

2213
01:48:54,720 --> 01:48:56,320
Speaker 1: out of the end zone. And they know the new

2214
01:48:56,600 --> 01:48:58,639
Speaker 1: rules play a big role in this, but you gotta

2215
01:48:58,640 --> 01:49:02,080
Speaker 1: get better field position, right Well, yeah, And it really

2216
01:49:02,160 --> 01:49:05,680
Speaker 1: wasn't even so much the kickoffs. It was obviously the

2217
01:49:05,760 --> 01:49:10,599
Speaker 1: big punt return because I can't he's he's he's an elite.

2218
01:49:10,640 --> 01:49:12,360
Speaker 1: I mean, he's young in his league, but if he

2219
01:49:12,400 --> 01:49:14,800
Speaker 1: can teams on the pace, I mean, it's I would

2220
01:49:14,880 --> 01:49:17,599
Speaker 1: put him. He's like maybe a step down just because

2221
01:49:17,640 --> 01:49:19,479
Speaker 1: he hasn't done it as long as Tyreek Hill. Just

2222
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:22,439
Speaker 1: his shiftiness, load of the ground, but still runs pretty

2223
01:49:22,479 --> 01:49:26,680
Speaker 1: physical for how big he is. Um. So he had

2224
01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:30,120
Speaker 1: that big return, and then we chanked the punt um

2225
01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:32,439
Speaker 1: So there's I mean, so a couple of things that

2226
01:49:32,479 --> 01:49:34,320
Speaker 1: went on to give him short of field short you know,

2227
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:36,320
Speaker 1: I mean, so all that adds up, and then some

2228
01:49:36,400 --> 01:49:38,320
Speaker 1: a penalties we get get him out of bands and

2229
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:40,639
Speaker 1: we had on special teams and have a fifteen yarder,

2230
01:49:41,080 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 1: so you add that on and then they're already in

2231
01:49:42,960 --> 01:49:45,200
Speaker 1: the fring. Jerry one first down, you kick a field goal.

2232
01:49:45,240 --> 01:49:49,080
Speaker 1: I mean so we're not playing smart, complimentary football right now.

2233
01:49:49,160 --> 01:49:50,920
Speaker 1: And uh so that's why everything is kind of just

2234
01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:53,160
Speaker 1: piling up, even even though it looks like the defense

2235
01:49:53,280 --> 01:49:55,320
Speaker 1: is playing really well. So let's move on. Let's let's

2236
01:49:55,360 --> 01:49:58,200
Speaker 1: get the load down on what you think a couple

2237
01:49:58,240 --> 01:50:00,280
Speaker 1: of things that three things that you think the Bills

2238
01:50:00,360 --> 01:50:03,360
Speaker 1: need to do to win this game against the Jets. Yeah, well,

2239
01:50:03,400 --> 01:50:05,320
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing, you know, obviously Sam is

2240
01:50:05,320 --> 01:50:08,439
Speaker 1: not playing this week, but creating turnovers, I mean catching

2241
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:10,080
Speaker 1: the balls that he's going to throw to us. I think,

2242
01:50:10,360 --> 01:50:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, obviously McCall, I'm coming off the bench, it's

2243
01:50:12,240 --> 01:50:13,840
Speaker 1: going to be a little rusty as well, so he'll

2244
01:50:13,880 --> 01:50:15,439
Speaker 1: probably throw some balls to us as well. We have

2245
01:50:15,520 --> 01:50:18,680
Speaker 1: to catch those and ultimately this week to you know,

2246
01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:20,800
Speaker 1: every people been asking you, I think we're in the

2247
01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:23,839
Speaker 1: league defense, and I say no, because we haven't scored,

2248
01:50:23,960 --> 01:50:25,560
Speaker 1: you know, taking the game in our own hands and

2249
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:27,560
Speaker 1: really changing the outcome of them. So we have to

2250
01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:29,040
Speaker 1: figure out a way how to do that as well,

2251
01:50:29,479 --> 01:50:31,800
Speaker 1: especially when we've been struggling to put points on the board.

2252
01:50:31,840 --> 01:50:34,080
Speaker 1: So that's always gonna give us some momentum and then

2253
01:50:34,160 --> 01:50:36,639
Speaker 1: obviously put us you know, in a situation and where

2254
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:38,920
Speaker 1: maybe we're starting the game off leading the game. We

2255
01:50:39,040 --> 01:50:42,280
Speaker 1: had to Drell prior on yesterday and you kind of

2256
01:50:42,360 --> 01:50:44,519
Speaker 1: alluded to this and what you just said about getting

2257
01:50:44,560 --> 01:50:47,559
Speaker 1: turnovers and scoring it, and we asked him and what's

2258
01:50:47,600 --> 01:50:51,120
Speaker 1: it take for this offense to get on track? And

2259
01:50:51,320 --> 01:50:54,840
Speaker 1: his contention was listening, just one big play, right, you

2260
01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:56,960
Speaker 1: just get one big play where you think, okay, a

2261
01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,800
Speaker 1: little success and because I can't imagine how much energy

2262
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:03,720
Speaker 1: it would give you as a defense to austen and

2263
01:51:03,760 --> 01:51:09,000
Speaker 1: take the field. You gotta lead, yeah, because its game changing.

2264
01:51:09,080 --> 01:51:11,719
Speaker 1: To add on to that, we have to have smart,

2265
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:14,600
Speaker 1: consistent football, because we've had big plays and then we

2266
01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:19,240
Speaker 1: somehow message squandering with you know, a couple of negative

2267
01:51:19,240 --> 01:51:21,439
Speaker 1: plays in a role, whether it's jumping off sides or

2268
01:51:21,720 --> 01:51:24,680
Speaker 1: you know, just not executing, and then then we kind

2269
01:51:24,720 --> 01:51:27,160
Speaker 1: of push ourselves maybe out of field goal range. So

2270
01:51:27,400 --> 01:51:29,400
Speaker 1: we need big plays. But then I just think we

2271
01:51:29,520 --> 01:51:32,519
Speaker 1: just need to execute our assignment the small things that's

2272
01:51:32,560 --> 01:51:34,960
Speaker 1: going to allow us offensively obviously to continue to drive

2273
01:51:35,120 --> 01:51:38,439
Speaker 1: keep drives going. All right, So the first thing, create

2274
01:51:38,560 --> 01:51:41,720
Speaker 1: multiple turnovers, maybe even score. What's your second thing? What

2275
01:51:41,880 --> 01:51:44,360
Speaker 1: a second on my listen. You know he got I

2276
01:51:44,479 --> 01:51:46,439
Speaker 1: taped this earlier. Yeah, run the ball early and off

2277
01:51:46,479 --> 01:51:48,439
Speaker 1: and there we go. We gotta create some run game.

2278
01:51:48,520 --> 01:51:51,240
Speaker 1: Obviously we don't know what our quarterback situation is going

2279
01:51:51,280 --> 01:51:53,799
Speaker 1: to look like, but we gotta dominate the line of scrimmage.

2280
01:51:54,040 --> 01:51:55,599
Speaker 1: This is a good defense that we're going to play.

2281
01:51:56,160 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 1: And obviously I played for tie balls. I know it's

2282
01:51:58,160 --> 01:52:00,280
Speaker 1: gonna be really aggressive, but we have to dominate that

2283
01:52:00,320 --> 01:52:02,760
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Knocked those guys back, get shady, going,

2284
01:52:02,880 --> 01:52:05,760
Speaker 1: be consistent so that we have third and manageable for

2285
01:52:05,880 --> 01:52:08,720
Speaker 1: whoever's back there playing quarterback, so they don't have to

2286
01:52:08,760 --> 01:52:10,400
Speaker 1: feel like they got to get the world back when

2287
01:52:10,439 --> 01:52:13,439
Speaker 1: it's third and ten and then end up forcing something

2288
01:52:13,479 --> 01:52:16,080
Speaker 1: that turns into an interception. Where if it's third and

2289
01:52:16,560 --> 01:52:19,599
Speaker 1: four to two to four, maybe maybe we running again

2290
01:52:19,640 --> 01:52:21,960
Speaker 1: and get it. Maybe we throw a quick screen, maybe

2291
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:23,920
Speaker 1: we throw some pass the games so the defense now

2292
01:52:24,120 --> 01:52:27,320
Speaker 1: is playing a lot of things versus just pinning their

2293
01:52:27,360 --> 01:52:30,000
Speaker 1: ears back and less tack because it's it's third in

2294
01:52:30,120 --> 01:52:32,400
Speaker 1: eight and third and twelve when we know the offense

2295
01:52:32,439 --> 01:52:33,960
Speaker 1: has to pass the ball to get this first dat

2296
01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:35,680
Speaker 1: Where did you play for Town bows in Arizona in

2297
01:52:35,720 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 1: Arizona and what kind of a coach esse, What can

2298
01:52:37,880 --> 01:52:41,599
Speaker 1: you tell us about him? He is? He has similar

2299
01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:45,559
Speaker 1: personality to Leslie Fraser in the sense, very low key,

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01:52:45,800 --> 01:52:47,920
Speaker 1: reserved as far he's not a yell or a screamer

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01:52:47,960 --> 01:52:51,439
Speaker 1: or less something. It's going really bad, but but it

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01:52:51,520 --> 01:52:53,519
Speaker 1: doesn't match up to how we cause games. He's very

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01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:56,200
Speaker 1: aggressive in nature as far as how he gets after

2304
01:52:56,240 --> 01:52:58,519
Speaker 1: a lot of blitzes, exotic blitzes, plays a lot of

2305
01:52:58,600 --> 01:53:02,400
Speaker 1: man on the outside, and especially if he has corners,

2306
01:53:02,439 --> 01:53:07,920
Speaker 1: he makes you make passes under pressure. And you know,

2307
01:53:08,040 --> 01:53:11,000
Speaker 1: obviously having some young guys or guys who haven't been

2308
01:53:11,040 --> 01:53:12,840
Speaker 1: here that long back here, and that's what I would

2309
01:53:12,880 --> 01:53:15,759
Speaker 1: anticipate him doing, just dialing things up and really getting

2310
01:53:15,760 --> 01:53:18,559
Speaker 1: after us and making guys forcing them to make a mistake.

2311
01:53:18,640 --> 01:53:20,880
Speaker 1: It's going to be his mentality. So that's why my

2312
01:53:21,000 --> 01:53:23,160
Speaker 1: third thing is that we have to win on the outside,

2313
01:53:23,320 --> 01:53:26,040
Speaker 1: you know, creating some space, hit some balls, some jump balls,

2314
01:53:26,040 --> 01:53:28,200
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be some opportunities there's for those guys

2315
01:53:28,240 --> 01:53:30,760
Speaker 1: to win some some matchups and some sticky coverage. But

2316
01:53:30,880 --> 01:53:32,519
Speaker 1: we got to make a play for our quarterback and

2317
01:53:32,840 --> 01:53:35,439
Speaker 1: in order to extend some Steve mentioned that we had

2318
01:53:35,479 --> 01:53:38,800
Speaker 1: the prior to our prior and here yesterday, um and

2319
01:53:38,960 --> 01:53:40,840
Speaker 1: you know he was in the lineup last Sunday, but

2320
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:43,880
Speaker 1: he was only what three practices before that. He seems

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01:53:43,920 --> 01:53:45,439
Speaker 1: like he might be the type of guy who can

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01:53:45,520 --> 01:53:47,559
Speaker 1: win some of those outside matchups, not because he's got

2323
01:53:47,640 --> 01:53:52,680
Speaker 1: blazing speed, but great size, a lot of experience, athletic experienced.

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01:53:52,760 --> 01:53:54,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he has all those those those tools. Obviously,

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01:53:54,960 --> 01:53:57,439
Speaker 1: he has to get comfortable, because then you can do

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01:53:57,520 --> 01:53:59,240
Speaker 1: those extra things when you know where you need to be,

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01:53:59,360 --> 01:54:01,400
Speaker 1: when you need to be. I think right now, he's

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01:54:01,439 --> 01:54:04,000
Speaker 1: probably still thinking, Okay, what do I have on whatever

2329
01:54:04,080 --> 01:54:06,560
Speaker 1: the play may be? Okay, I gotta run this. So

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01:54:06,720 --> 01:54:08,720
Speaker 1: once he gets really comfortable, you know, that's when you

2331
01:54:08,720 --> 01:54:11,800
Speaker 1: can start using some of those fittering tricks of the

2332
01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:15,040
Speaker 1: trade to get a little bit more UM space on

2333
01:54:15,120 --> 01:54:17,320
Speaker 1: the outside or to get open or to win it down.

2334
01:54:17,800 --> 01:54:19,840
Speaker 1: But until his mind kind of clears up, I don't

2335
01:54:19,840 --> 01:54:21,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to be able to

2336
01:54:21,040 --> 01:54:22,880
Speaker 1: do that, but hopefully this week is that week for him.

2337
01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:27,080
Speaker 1: So late for the bye week, and I'm glad it's here.

2338
01:54:27,600 --> 01:54:28,960
Speaker 1: Are you going to say to you every feel like,

2339
01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:31,640
Speaker 1: you know what, forget it. Let's just keep no no, no,

2340
01:54:32,080 --> 01:54:34,440
Speaker 1: not not not me, I mean not at thirty five

2341
01:54:34,520 --> 01:54:36,280
Speaker 1: and the way I'm feeling, you know, so it's it's

2342
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:38,720
Speaker 1: actually you know me. And Steve was saying, every is

2343
01:54:39,240 --> 01:54:41,160
Speaker 1: any week year off is a great week, especially just

2344
01:54:41,240 --> 01:54:43,120
Speaker 1: to way this game is played in such a physical

2345
01:54:43,920 --> 01:54:47,320
Speaker 1: um taxing on your body that when it comes up,

2346
01:54:47,400 --> 01:54:51,200
Speaker 1: it's good to have a little, you know, a little breath.

2347
01:54:51,280 --> 01:54:53,120
Speaker 1: I don't have to stress out, a little get away

2348
01:54:53,200 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 1: for a little bit, hang out with your family, and

2349
01:54:55,080 --> 01:54:58,840
Speaker 1: then come back renewed and refreshed and finish off strong.

2350
01:54:59,160 --> 01:55:02,440
Speaker 1: Seven games, like five of them against division opponents, which

2351
01:55:02,600 --> 01:55:05,160
Speaker 1: is weird, but you know, you could make up some ground,

2352
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:06,680
Speaker 1: right and see what's going on, and yeah, we can

2353
01:55:06,720 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 1: definitely finish the season strong. Right now, we're just fighting

2354
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:11,080
Speaker 1: to get one. I'm not even thinking about playoffs. What if?

2355
01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:13,160
Speaker 1: What if this happens? All that, Let's get a win,

2356
01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:16,320
Speaker 1: get some you know, good vibe going around here, and

2357
01:55:16,360 --> 01:55:19,400
Speaker 1: then try to ride that and to stack another win

2358
01:55:19,480 --> 01:55:21,520
Speaker 1: on top of that. So hopefully we can do that

2359
01:55:21,600 --> 01:55:24,240
Speaker 1: this week, and obviously that allows us to enjoy our

2360
01:55:24,560 --> 01:55:27,720
Speaker 1: buy week, our off week, even more so getting that win,

2361
01:55:27,880 --> 01:55:30,680
Speaker 1: especially versus a division opponent. It's tough to carry a

2362
01:55:30,720 --> 01:55:34,240
Speaker 1: loss through the bike week, isn't it. I mean it's like, yeah,

2363
01:55:34,320 --> 01:55:36,680
Speaker 1: I mean then you got to wear for two whole weeks.

2364
01:55:41,000 --> 01:55:43,000
Speaker 1: You're feeling okay everything. Yeah, I'm good. I'm mean, you know,

2365
01:55:43,040 --> 01:55:45,040
Speaker 1: I'm always mentally and I mean I've been through I've

2366
01:55:45,040 --> 01:55:47,120
Speaker 1: been on teams that have had these type of struggles,

2367
01:55:47,200 --> 01:55:50,000
Speaker 1: so I know how to fight through and what it's

2368
01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:51,920
Speaker 1: on the other side of it. Yeah. Um, And so

2369
01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:54,800
Speaker 1: just trying to be a positive bright light for everybody,

2370
01:55:54,880 --> 01:55:57,520
Speaker 1: not have woe with me, so people can follow, get

2371
01:55:57,600 --> 01:55:59,080
Speaker 1: on that same page and go ahead and get a win.

2372
01:55:59,160 --> 01:56:00,840
Speaker 1: That's great man. If you thank you very much. I

2373
01:56:00,960 --> 01:56:03,360
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Runs to Alexander the Lowdown. He joined us

2374
01:56:03,360 --> 01:56:05,400
Speaker 1: every Friday at two o'clock. Steve and I coming back

2375
01:56:05,480 --> 01:56:08,400
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

2376
01:56:08,480 --> 01:56:37,240
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. John Murphy's

2377
01:56:37,240 --> 01:56:41,480
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio. The control room

2378
01:56:41,560 --> 01:56:44,440
Speaker 1: still loaded with Halloween candy. Such a good time. You

2379
01:56:44,600 --> 01:56:47,960
Speaker 1: have a tutsie pop. It's pregnant in my mouth. That's awesome.

2380
01:56:48,120 --> 01:56:49,920
Speaker 1: What do you got? You got, Candy Emo? I used

2381
01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:53,760
Speaker 1: to have a breath mint. I'm not trying. I'm not

2382
01:56:53,840 --> 01:56:56,360
Speaker 1: trying to tell you anything. I'm just we're gonna get

2383
01:56:56,400 --> 01:56:58,680
Speaker 1: through this segment even with the tutsie pop. Hey. Um.

2384
01:57:00,360 --> 01:57:03,520
Speaker 1: So practice is over and Josh Allen is listed officially

2385
01:57:03,560 --> 01:57:07,920
Speaker 1: as questionable. Sean McDermot talked about the quarterback situation before

2386
01:57:07,960 --> 01:57:10,680
Speaker 1: practice today and as up today, still I would think

2387
01:57:10,720 --> 01:57:13,880
Speaker 1: there is no decision on who starts at quarterback on Sunday.

2388
01:57:13,920 --> 01:57:18,440
Speaker 1: Here's what McDermot said before practice today. Yeah, still working

2389
01:57:18,480 --> 01:57:21,520
Speaker 1: through that one day at a time. Here, Josh is

2390
01:57:21,840 --> 01:57:25,880
Speaker 1: he's progressing well. Obviously it's his first week back of practice,

2391
01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:31,400
Speaker 1: but the main priority was and remains his health as

2392
01:57:31,480 --> 01:57:34,120
Speaker 1: we move forward. Here does his speak, Does Josh is

2393
01:57:34,160 --> 01:57:40,400
Speaker 1: being limited making difficulty to lean in the rush of

2394
01:57:40,560 --> 01:57:43,160
Speaker 1: him playing or do you just keep that as white

2395
01:57:43,160 --> 01:57:46,640
Speaker 1: often as possible He's next whatever? For Yeah, I meant,

2396
01:57:46,800 --> 01:57:48,400
Speaker 1: you know, Vick, it's you've been around the league a

2397
01:57:48,440 --> 01:57:51,400
Speaker 1: long time. It's it's not ideal from a rep in

2398
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:54,400
Speaker 1: building the continuity, and that's that's you know, some of

2399
01:57:54,440 --> 01:57:57,800
Speaker 1: the challenges we've had of just continuity being brought up

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01:57:58,440 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 1: the last time I was up here, and when you

2401
01:58:00,560 --> 01:58:04,920
Speaker 1: when you, when guys are not full practice that that's

2402
01:58:05,280 --> 01:58:09,400
Speaker 1: can feed into or affect the certainly the continuity, the

2403
01:58:09,480 --> 01:58:11,840
Speaker 1: timing and the passing game, some of those things, um,

2404
01:58:12,560 --> 01:58:14,880
Speaker 1: you know. But at the end of the day, we're

2405
01:58:14,920 --> 01:58:16,480
Speaker 1: gonna continue to take it one day to time. Here.

2406
01:58:16,800 --> 01:58:19,080
Speaker 1: It's a good name for the book about the Bills

2407
01:58:19,320 --> 01:58:25,280
Speaker 1: offensive situation this year. It's not ideal, not but we

2408
01:58:25,360 --> 01:58:26,960
Speaker 1: want to know from you as the Bills move into

2409
01:58:27,000 --> 01:58:28,720
Speaker 1: the second half of the season and they're a game

2410
01:58:28,800 --> 01:58:31,200
Speaker 1: into it now, who's gonna be who's poise for a

2411
01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:33,040
Speaker 1: breakout second half of the season. What do you think?

2412
01:58:33,080 --> 01:58:35,440
Speaker 1: Give us a call. Mine's open eight o three five

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01:58:35,520 --> 01:58:38,440
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

2414
01:58:38,520 --> 01:58:40,800
Speaker 1: five fifty, or you can do it on Twitter at

2415
01:58:40,840 --> 01:58:42,920
Speaker 1: one Bill Sive. Let's take a quick phone call here,

2416
01:58:43,160 --> 01:58:44,880
Speaker 1: Tom on the West side of Buffalo. Go ahead, Tom,

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01:58:44,920 --> 01:58:49,120
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Thanks guys. Sure I think Peterman

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01:58:49,200 --> 01:58:51,640
Speaker 1: could be a breakout player because the more he plays,

2419
01:58:51,680 --> 01:58:54,280
Speaker 1: a better he's gonna get. He's had a lot of

2420
01:58:54,400 --> 01:58:56,920
Speaker 1: bad breaks and sooner away to the ball is going

2421
01:58:57,000 --> 01:58:59,560
Speaker 1: to go his way. Yeah, I don't know if I

2422
01:58:59,640 --> 01:59:01,920
Speaker 1: want to for an oh and sixteen season to finish

2423
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:03,960
Speaker 1: before he gets good enough to win one game, you know.

2424
01:59:04,040 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it looks like. I mean, it's

2425
01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:09,640
Speaker 1: hard to put a quarterback out there who has the

2426
01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:12,840
Speaker 1: propensity of turning it over. And for all the good

2427
01:59:12,880 --> 01:59:15,480
Speaker 1: things Nate Peterman does and all the improvement he has

2428
01:59:15,600 --> 01:59:19,200
Speaker 1: made aside from that that's still in there and that

2429
01:59:19,920 --> 01:59:22,960
Speaker 1: he just can't win turning the football over. So m

2430
01:59:23,840 --> 01:59:26,640
Speaker 1: until they see evidence I think of him fixing that,

2431
01:59:27,160 --> 01:59:28,560
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if they want him to

2432
01:59:28,560 --> 01:59:30,640
Speaker 1: get back in now. He may go back in this week.

2433
01:59:31,400 --> 01:59:35,760
Speaker 1: If Josh Allen's not healthy, If if Derek Anderson's not healthy,

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01:59:36,600 --> 01:59:40,240
Speaker 1: Petermen may be the guy they go to. Uh for good,

2435
01:59:40,440 --> 01:59:45,720
Speaker 1: for good, go ahead, Anderson say it again, I would

2436
01:59:45,760 --> 01:59:48,560
Speaker 1: start Peterman ahead of Anderson. Well, they may have no

2437
01:59:48,680 --> 01:59:50,920
Speaker 1: choice but to do that because Anderson doesn't look like

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01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:52,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna be healthy. Then he got Matt Barkley on

2439
01:59:53,000 --> 01:59:55,040
Speaker 1: the on the roster as well, and he's been here

2440
01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:57,800
Speaker 1: probably two weeks. Well, let's face it, he's been here

2441
01:59:57,840 --> 02:00:00,400
Speaker 1: probably as long as Derek Anderson was before he started.

2442
02:00:00,480 --> 02:00:03,920
Speaker 1: So there's that. I mean, so there's four guys. Yeah,

2443
02:00:04,120 --> 02:00:07,000
Speaker 1: we didn't improve one Anderson one end of the game. No,

2444
02:00:07,400 --> 02:00:14,400
Speaker 1: but here's the thing. They were healthy. But it was healthy, Okay, stealemate,

2445
02:00:14,480 --> 02:00:18,280
Speaker 1: We got a discussion, steal mate, nobody. Thanks for your call, though, Tom,

2446
02:00:18,320 --> 02:00:20,160
Speaker 1: We appreciate it, and we got time for a few

2447
02:00:20,200 --> 02:00:21,960
Speaker 1: more calls here. As we moved through the rest of

2448
02:00:22,000 --> 02:00:24,600
Speaker 1: the show and read some of the from the tweet sheet,

2449
02:00:24,600 --> 02:00:27,320
Speaker 1: which Bill's player have a breakout second half of the season,

2450
02:00:27,400 --> 02:00:31,520
Speaker 1: Tiffany Daniels writes in Shack Lawson has had a career

2451
02:00:31,640 --> 02:00:34,200
Speaker 1: year and I see it continuing moving forward. He's been

2452
02:00:34,240 --> 02:00:36,880
Speaker 1: a difference maker on a solid defense and could be

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02:00:37,000 --> 02:00:39,680
Speaker 1: a foundational player moving into the second half of the

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02:00:39,680 --> 02:00:42,040
Speaker 1: season and beyond. Yeah, there's some truth to that, Tiffany's

2455
02:00:42,520 --> 02:00:44,600
Speaker 1: He certainly played better than he's played in his previous

2456
02:00:44,640 --> 02:00:46,800
Speaker 1: couple of years. Here a lot of room to grow,

2457
02:00:46,840 --> 02:00:49,280
Speaker 1: I think for Shack Lawson, and I get the sense

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02:00:49,320 --> 02:00:51,800
Speaker 1: from the coaching staff that they need him to take

2459
02:00:51,840 --> 02:00:53,920
Speaker 1: those next steps, but I think they like what they've

2460
02:00:53,920 --> 02:00:59,120
Speaker 1: seen so far. Yeah, I agree, Shack came into this year,

2461
02:00:59,480 --> 02:01:03,840
Speaker 1: highly motivated. He changed some things about his offseason preparation.

2462
02:01:04,400 --> 02:01:06,520
Speaker 1: He stepped it up a notch. And I know that

2463
02:01:06,680 --> 02:01:09,080
Speaker 1: when every time you say that, somebody's always there to say, well,

2464
02:01:09,120 --> 02:01:11,480
Speaker 1: what was he doing before? Well, he wasn't doing enough.

2465
02:01:11,520 --> 02:01:12,880
Speaker 1: And I think we all saw the results of it,

2466
02:01:12,880 --> 02:01:14,880
Speaker 1: and I think he did too, for the first time.

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02:01:15,240 --> 02:01:16,760
Speaker 1: Some of these times, some of these guys come out

2468
02:01:16,800 --> 02:01:18,600
Speaker 1: of college. They never had to step it up to

2469
02:01:18,680 --> 02:01:21,920
Speaker 1: be great. They never had to put in extra film work,

2470
02:01:21,960 --> 02:01:23,760
Speaker 1: they never had to put in extra workouts, They never

2471
02:01:23,840 --> 02:01:26,240
Speaker 1: had to change their diet to be better than everybody

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02:01:26,280 --> 02:01:28,560
Speaker 1: else on the team. Shack Lawson would fit into that.

2473
02:01:29,040 --> 02:01:31,040
Speaker 1: He comes into the NFL and he sees all these

2474
02:01:31,080 --> 02:01:33,760
Speaker 1: guys and he's not getting it done like he wants

2475
02:01:33,840 --> 02:01:36,720
Speaker 1: to or as he used to. And he decides, you

2476
02:01:36,760 --> 02:01:39,760
Speaker 1: know what, it's me and rightfully, so you gotta start

2477
02:01:40,440 --> 02:01:43,560
Speaker 1: working hard at every aspect of your craft to get better.

2478
02:01:43,560 --> 02:01:46,240
Speaker 1: And I think that kind of went off for Shack Lawson.

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02:01:46,320 --> 02:01:49,480
Speaker 1: And like Tiffany Daniel said in her tweet, I think

2480
02:01:50,640 --> 02:01:53,040
Speaker 1: you can see the results. Yeah, you gotta work hard, man,

2481
02:01:53,120 --> 02:01:54,720
Speaker 1: You gotta work hard in the NFL. I don't care

2482
02:01:54,760 --> 02:01:56,280
Speaker 1: who you are. I don't care how good you are,

2483
02:01:56,360 --> 02:01:58,840
Speaker 1: how good you were in college. It is a league

2484
02:01:58,920 --> 02:02:01,720
Speaker 1: full of hard working guys and the ones who don't.

2485
02:02:01,920 --> 02:02:05,160
Speaker 1: It shows a tweet from the tweet sheet on this

2486
02:02:05,320 --> 02:02:08,040
Speaker 1: question which Bills player I have a breakout second half

2487
02:02:08,040 --> 02:02:10,720
Speaker 1: of the season, Tom Keyhote sends in this, I think

2488
02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:13,080
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin will finally figure out that if he wants

2489
02:02:13,160 --> 02:02:16,960
Speaker 1: to play next year, you'd better start performing aka catching.

2490
02:02:17,360 --> 02:02:19,120
Speaker 1: If he gets a few more targets, he may start

2491
02:02:19,280 --> 02:02:22,080
Speaker 1: lighting it up. Not sure about anyone else on this roster.

2492
02:02:23,320 --> 02:02:26,240
Speaker 1: If I were looking to identify one receiver who may

2493
02:02:26,360 --> 02:02:29,280
Speaker 1: break out and help the mess that is the Buffalo

2494
02:02:29,320 --> 02:02:31,680
Speaker 1: Bill's passing game, it would not be Kelvin Benjamin right

2495
02:02:31,880 --> 02:02:34,680
Speaker 1: right now. Quite frankly, it would beat Terrell Pryor. I

2496
02:02:34,800 --> 02:02:39,040
Speaker 1: think he presents to me the greatest potential for making

2497
02:02:39,080 --> 02:02:41,520
Speaker 1: a difference in that receiving court. Not Kelvin benjam He's

2498
02:02:42,320 --> 02:02:44,320
Speaker 1: he's got the physical I'm talking about Terrell Pryor. He's

2499
02:02:44,360 --> 02:02:49,280
Speaker 1: got the physical ability and the experience. And the next

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Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet, the next one down, William Connelly says,

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02:02:51,840 --> 02:02:53,600
Speaker 1: I think Zay Jones will have a better second half

2502
02:02:53,640 --> 02:02:55,840
Speaker 1: of the season. With the addition of prior it allow

2503
02:02:55,960 --> 02:02:57,840
Speaker 1: him to move into the slot where he should be playing.

2504
02:02:57,880 --> 02:03:02,920
Speaker 1: There's no question. If there's position group who is right

2505
02:03:03,360 --> 02:03:07,560
Speaker 1: for somebody to do something, it is the wide receiver crew.

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02:03:08,880 --> 02:03:13,440
Speaker 1: They've they've shuffled it. They've brought guys in Ray, Ray McLeod,

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Speaker 1: Robert Foster, Zay Jones, Kelvin Benjamin. Andre Holmes has been

2508
02:03:19,320 --> 02:03:21,240
Speaker 1: a guy that's been out there all the time for

2509
02:03:21,320 --> 02:03:24,480
Speaker 1: this season. Isaia McKenzie on the Isaia McKenzie, they just

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02:03:24,680 --> 02:03:27,240
Speaker 1: picked up probably he'll you'll probably see him returning kicks

2511
02:03:27,240 --> 02:03:29,680
Speaker 1: a little bit this week, so they you know, and

2512
02:03:29,800 --> 02:03:32,480
Speaker 1: like we've said earlier this week, they have left no

2513
02:03:32,640 --> 02:03:35,240
Speaker 1: stone unturned trying to get something to click on that

2514
02:03:35,320 --> 02:03:38,160
Speaker 1: side of the football, and as of yet, they're still searching.

2515
02:03:38,440 --> 02:03:41,400
Speaker 1: This from Jacob Wishoff on the tweet sheet, we asked

2516
02:03:41,400 --> 02:03:43,560
Speaker 1: the question which Bill's player will have a breakout second

2517
02:03:43,600 --> 02:03:46,240
Speaker 1: half of the season. Jacob Wishoff, I have complete hope,

2518
02:03:47,040 --> 02:03:50,000
Speaker 1: but this is only the beginning for Josh Allen, He writes,

2519
02:03:50,040 --> 02:03:52,760
Speaker 1: I remember watching Peyton Manning struggle in his rookie season.

2520
02:03:53,000 --> 02:03:55,520
Speaker 1: In no way am I comparing the two. But with time,

2521
02:03:55,640 --> 02:03:58,640
Speaker 1: which we have now Alan Ken developed and mature. Confidently,

2522
02:03:59,000 --> 02:04:02,120
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think there is time left

2523
02:04:02,160 --> 02:04:05,600
Speaker 1: this season. I've read something. You read so much stuff.

2524
02:04:06,120 --> 02:04:09,760
Speaker 1: Some national writers said, well, obviously Josh Allen's rookie season

2525
02:04:10,360 --> 02:04:12,360
Speaker 1: is a complete waste because of the injury. And I thought,

2526
02:04:13,160 --> 02:04:15,280
Speaker 1: where are we mid December. Here, we're in mid November.

2527
02:04:15,360 --> 02:04:19,520
Speaker 1: There's seven games left, He's got five starts, potentially seven

2528
02:04:19,600 --> 02:04:21,920
Speaker 1: more somewhere in that neighbor he'll wind up with twelve starts,

2529
02:04:21,960 --> 02:04:24,120
Speaker 1: you know, And this is actually thought it through very

2530
02:04:24,160 --> 02:04:26,000
Speaker 1: early in the morning. So I'm just remembering now, you know,

2531
02:04:26,120 --> 02:04:29,120
Speaker 1: at twelve starts last year and benefited from it. Mitchell Trubisky,

2532
02:04:29,400 --> 02:04:31,720
Speaker 1: you got a lot of his twelve starts. Josh Allen

2533
02:04:31,800 --> 02:04:34,320
Speaker 1: has a chance to get twelve starts this year. So no,

2534
02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:37,160
Speaker 1: this season is not a lost cause yet for Josh Allen,

2535
02:04:37,200 --> 02:04:38,880
Speaker 1: and I doubt that it ever will be. I think

2536
02:04:38,920 --> 02:04:41,560
Speaker 1: he's right, Jacob Wischkoff. It's only the beginning for Josh Allen.

2537
02:04:41,640 --> 02:04:43,720
Speaker 1: I agree, But I do think he's got to get

2538
02:04:43,760 --> 02:04:46,640
Speaker 1: on the field again. Yep, he's going to And whether

2539
02:04:46,720 --> 02:04:49,960
Speaker 1: it's this week or after the bye, and if he's

2540
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:52,200
Speaker 1: not in this week, I mean, oh my gosh, he's

2541
02:04:52,320 --> 02:04:53,800
Speaker 1: got to get in after the bye, right, he'll be

2542
02:04:53,840 --> 02:04:57,880
Speaker 1: completely ready by then. I mean, I'm not, but I'm

2543
02:04:58,080 --> 02:04:59,800
Speaker 1: you know, you pull for this week is but I

2544
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:03,200
Speaker 1: I agree if he could have gotten on the field yesterday,

2545
02:05:03,680 --> 02:05:05,240
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, if he could have gotten that

2546
02:05:05,320 --> 02:05:07,200
Speaker 1: game last week against Chicago, I still would have liked

2547
02:05:07,200 --> 02:05:10,400
Speaker 1: to see him. He needs to see NFL defenses play

2548
02:05:10,440 --> 02:05:13,560
Speaker 1: in NFL games, have NFL reps. I don't even have

2549
02:05:13,600 --> 02:05:15,760
Speaker 1: a problem if they have to drop back and throw

2550
02:05:15,840 --> 02:05:17,800
Speaker 1: it fifty times a game with him in there, He'll

2551
02:05:17,880 --> 02:05:20,720
Speaker 1: learn faster doing that. Just get him on the field

2552
02:05:20,760 --> 02:05:22,840
Speaker 1: if he can. One more I'm from the tweet sheet

2553
02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:25,800
Speaker 1: Huggy Bear. Which player would have a breakout second half

2554
02:05:25,840 --> 02:05:28,400
Speaker 1: of the season, he says Josh Allen, He says, I

2555
02:05:28,440 --> 02:05:30,360
Speaker 1: think the time off will help him. He is serious

2556
02:05:30,360 --> 02:05:32,360
Speaker 1: to allent, but we need to be patient looking to

2557
02:05:32,360 --> 02:05:35,000
Speaker 1: see if Zay Jones and Prior can get some chemistry

2558
02:05:35,000 --> 02:05:36,560
Speaker 1: with our quarterback. That's a good thing to look for.

2559
02:05:37,480 --> 02:05:38,880
Speaker 1: I think we're all kind of on the same page,

2560
02:05:38,960 --> 02:05:41,120
Speaker 1: you knowing where the need for improvement is. It's the

2561
02:05:41,200 --> 02:05:43,800
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, knowing what the issues have

2562
02:05:43,960 --> 02:05:47,440
Speaker 1: been and how much they would how many rewards they

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02:05:47,480 --> 02:05:50,120
Speaker 1: would reap from good solid quarterback play, which they have

2564
02:05:50,240 --> 02:05:52,960
Speaker 1: not received yet this season. And if you're gonna have

2565
02:05:53,120 --> 02:05:55,560
Speaker 1: shaky quarterback play, let's have it from the rookie. Is

2566
02:05:55,600 --> 02:05:57,720
Speaker 1: the first round pick, is he learns his way on

2567
02:05:57,880 --> 02:06:00,640
Speaker 1: how to play, I think that's what everybody's hoping for, Steve. Yeah.

2568
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:04,240
Speaker 1: I there's so much room for improvement on the offensive

2569
02:06:04,240 --> 02:06:05,880
Speaker 1: side of the football, But there's also a lot of

2570
02:06:05,920 --> 02:06:08,320
Speaker 1: hope over there. I mean, you got a lot of

2571
02:06:08,360 --> 02:06:10,760
Speaker 1: hope in this young quarterback that you want to see play.

2572
02:06:11,280 --> 02:06:13,720
Speaker 1: And you've got also and I don't know, some people

2573
02:06:13,760 --> 02:06:15,600
Speaker 1: may not agree with this, I think you see a

2574
02:06:15,680 --> 02:06:18,480
Speaker 1: lot of help too coming because it's a team that

2575
02:06:19,000 --> 02:06:22,280
Speaker 1: got their defenses, the defensive side of the football together

2576
02:06:22,440 --> 02:06:26,040
Speaker 1: at one in one year, and there they've got the

2577
02:06:26,200 --> 02:06:28,760
Speaker 1: assets like they did last year to fix the other

2578
02:06:28,840 --> 02:06:31,400
Speaker 1: side of the football in the coming months. So and

2579
02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:34,080
Speaker 1: they're not and that's not to say they're not working

2580
02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:36,760
Speaker 1: hard at it right now. I just think there's a

2581
02:06:36,840 --> 02:06:38,960
Speaker 1: lot of reason for hope that Josh Owen's gonna get

2582
02:06:39,000 --> 02:06:41,280
Speaker 1: some help they keep switching things up on the outside.

2583
02:06:41,440 --> 02:06:43,680
Speaker 1: They're switching up and shuffling the offensive line a little

2584
02:06:43,680 --> 02:06:46,360
Speaker 1: bit this week, and like everybody else, I'm anxious to

2585
02:06:46,360 --> 02:06:49,800
Speaker 1: see if it's helping. All Right, let's get to NFL

2586
02:06:49,880 --> 02:06:52,080
Speaker 1: True or False brought to you by Yancy's Fancy New

2587
02:06:52,200 --> 02:06:53,760
Speaker 1: York's artist and Cheese, a look at some of the

2588
02:06:53,800 --> 02:06:56,400
Speaker 1: issues going on around the National Football League. And Steve

2589
02:06:56,440 --> 02:06:58,120
Speaker 1: and I are gonna let you let you know whether

2590
02:06:58,160 --> 02:07:00,400
Speaker 1: we think it's true or false. Kai I'm Mac did

2591
02:07:00,440 --> 02:07:03,480
Speaker 1: not play against the Bills last week as he continues

2592
02:07:03,520 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 1: to recover from his injury. But now you know they

2593
02:07:06,240 --> 02:07:08,160
Speaker 1: said last week they were kind of saving him for

2594
02:07:08,320 --> 02:07:10,840
Speaker 1: this three game stretch. They've got three divisional games the Bears,

2595
02:07:10,880 --> 02:07:13,840
Speaker 1: who in an eleven game span, starting this Sunday against

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02:07:13,840 --> 02:07:17,640
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. So Khalil Mack returns to Torment U

2597
02:07:19,200 --> 02:07:22,360
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Yeah, Matt staff Stafford is the name I'm

2598
02:07:22,400 --> 02:07:25,760
Speaker 1: looking for here. Khalil Mack returns to Torment, Matt Stafford

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02:07:25,800 --> 02:07:28,160
Speaker 1: and the Detroit Lions. True false. I say true. I

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02:07:28,200 --> 02:07:29,840
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be ready to go. He looked like

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02:07:29,920 --> 02:07:31,600
Speaker 1: he was ready to play last week, standing out in

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02:07:31,640 --> 02:07:34,080
Speaker 1: the sidelines. I definitely think that's going to happen this week.

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02:07:34,160 --> 02:07:35,640
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think true? I mean, and

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02:07:35,800 --> 02:07:38,839
Speaker 1: he wants to get back Matt. Matthew Stafford got sacked

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02:07:38,960 --> 02:07:44,280
Speaker 1: ten times against the Vikings last week. Yeah, Khalil Mack

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02:07:44,400 --> 02:07:45,760
Speaker 1: is gonna get on the field and try and make

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02:07:45,840 --> 02:07:48,720
Speaker 1: ten sacks himself in one game. I mean that that's

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02:07:48,880 --> 02:07:51,360
Speaker 1: he's Yeah, at week up, they thought he might be

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02:07:51,400 --> 02:07:53,200
Speaker 1: able to play. I think he wanted to play last week,

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02:07:53,280 --> 02:07:57,440
Speaker 1: but they held him out and he should be really ready.

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02:07:57,440 --> 02:07:59,480
Speaker 1: And you're right, three games in eleven days, it is

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02:07:59,480 --> 02:08:02,160
Speaker 1: going to be really difficult for Chicago. But Matt Stafford,

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02:08:02,920 --> 02:08:05,040
Speaker 1: I think Khalil Mack is going to sack him more

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02:08:05,120 --> 02:08:07,680
Speaker 1: than once this weekend. All right, there you go Number

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02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:09,480
Speaker 1: two NFL True or false. We've been talking about this

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02:08:09,520 --> 02:08:11,640
Speaker 1: for a while today. Eric Reid should not have been

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02:08:11,720 --> 02:08:15,440
Speaker 1: ejected for that hit on Roethlisberger. Yeah, I agree, he

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02:08:15,480 --> 02:08:17,840
Speaker 1: should not have been ejected. That is true. He should

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02:08:17,880 --> 02:08:21,480
Speaker 1: have been penalized fifteen yards. But uh, you know, typical

2620
02:08:21,720 --> 02:08:26,120
Speaker 1: Walt Coleman crew work. They overreacted. You know, the went

2621
02:08:26,200 --> 02:08:29,400
Speaker 1: for the fashionable call, which was ejection way out of line.

2622
02:08:29,440 --> 02:08:31,560
Speaker 1: He did not deserve any ejection there when for many

2623
02:08:31,600 --> 02:08:33,960
Speaker 1: of the reasons we've talked about all afternoon longs. Yeah,

2624
02:08:34,000 --> 02:08:36,120
Speaker 1: I agree that it was it was an overreact and

2625
02:08:36,360 --> 02:08:40,280
Speaker 1: he flew over the top of Roethlisberg. He caught Roethlisberger's helmet.

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02:08:40,680 --> 02:08:43,920
Speaker 1: The Steelers reacted as as you would expect them to do.

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02:08:44,320 --> 02:08:46,280
Speaker 1: And I said earlier in the show, maybe the ejection

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02:08:46,400 --> 02:08:48,800
Speaker 1: was a reaction to this scrum that happened after the hit,

2629
02:08:49,360 --> 02:08:51,400
Speaker 1: and there was some you know there. It was like

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02:08:51,480 --> 02:08:53,880
Speaker 1: a hockey fight. They ran the goalie and a fight

2631
02:08:54,000 --> 02:08:57,800
Speaker 1: broke out, and maybe they ejected him to keep control

2632
02:08:57,840 --> 02:08:59,760
Speaker 1: of the game. They thought the emotions might boil over

2633
02:08:59,840 --> 02:09:02,040
Speaker 1: it that point. It was thirty eight to fourteen when

2634
02:09:02,080 --> 02:09:06,720
Speaker 1: it happened, so the Panthers were pretty frustrated. So maybe

2635
02:09:06,760 --> 02:09:09,120
Speaker 1: Walt Coleman and that crew ejected that guy to make

2636
02:09:09,200 --> 02:09:12,240
Speaker 1: sure nobody no more fights broke out. But he did

2637
02:09:12,320 --> 02:09:16,600
Speaker 1: not deserve it. No way rejecting because they don't know

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02:09:16,640 --> 02:09:20,720
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Seriously, don't sugarcoat of murph. I really

2639
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:24,960
Speaker 1: think NFL two or false number three. Will Mullins, Nick Mullins,

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02:09:25,000 --> 02:09:28,520
Speaker 1: Steve Mullins, Jeff Mullins will throw for four touchdowns against

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02:09:28,520 --> 02:09:30,000
Speaker 1: the Giants. He came out of nowhere and had three

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02:09:30,040 --> 02:09:33,040
Speaker 1: touchdowns against the Readers in his previous game. Does he

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02:09:33,160 --> 02:09:36,960
Speaker 1: throw for four against the Giants? Come on, No, that's false. Yeah, no,

2644
02:09:37,160 --> 02:09:39,480
Speaker 1: he's not gonna do that. There's always you know, anything

2645
02:09:39,520 --> 02:09:41,680
Speaker 1: can happen. But no, I don't. I don't think he will.

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02:09:41,760 --> 02:09:43,440
Speaker 1: I think he had a really nice game against a

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02:09:43,760 --> 02:09:47,920
Speaker 1: very poor Oakland defense, and as bad as the Giants defense,

2648
02:09:48,040 --> 02:09:52,920
Speaker 1: maybe it's not Oakland Raider bad NFL two or false.

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02:09:52,960 --> 02:09:55,520
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and

2650
02:09:55,600 --> 02:09:57,600
Speaker 1: Cheese asking you today about the Bills and who might

2651
02:09:57,640 --> 02:09:59,920
Speaker 1: be the breakout player second half of the year. Russ

2652
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:01,400
Speaker 1: and Hamburg on the line with a thought on that

2653
02:10:01,520 --> 02:10:06,080
Speaker 1: Ruscal ahead. Hey, John, I think Wyatt Teller is going

2654
02:10:06,160 --> 02:10:08,800
Speaker 1: to turn some heads. I know he's a rookie. I

2655
02:10:08,960 --> 02:10:11,360
Speaker 1: know he doesn't have a lot of experience, but that

2656
02:10:11,480 --> 02:10:14,400
Speaker 1: guy is a monster. He's probably one of the strongest

2657
02:10:14,480 --> 02:10:16,680
Speaker 1: guys in the league. He I know he bench pressed

2658
02:10:16,720 --> 02:10:19,760
Speaker 1: to sweer plenty five pounds dirty tank. I know he

2659
02:10:19,840 --> 02:10:22,480
Speaker 1: was a specimen, but I watched him during in the preseason,

2660
02:10:22,920 --> 02:10:25,600
Speaker 1: and I know he's probably playing against other reserves, but

2661
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:28,200
Speaker 1: he was putting people on their backsides. I know he's

2662
02:10:28,200 --> 02:10:30,720
Speaker 1: got a lot to learn, but you're going to learn

2663
02:10:30,800 --> 02:10:33,360
Speaker 1: by playing. And one of the things I think he's

2664
02:10:33,480 --> 02:10:38,760
Speaker 1: very strong on is drive blocking. And one thing I've

2665
02:10:38,800 --> 02:10:41,600
Speaker 1: noticed about the offensive line is they just don't get

2666
02:10:41,680 --> 02:10:45,520
Speaker 1: people off the line. I can't really blame Shady for that.

2667
02:10:46,120 --> 02:10:50,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just making people move. And I think

2668
02:10:50,160 --> 02:10:53,240
Speaker 1: a guy with his strength just might be a guy

2669
02:10:53,360 --> 02:10:56,440
Speaker 1: that may find himself on the offensive line starting next year.

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02:10:57,120 --> 02:10:58,880
Speaker 1: I hope you're right. Well, I hope it starts. You know,

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02:10:58,920 --> 02:11:01,400
Speaker 1: he's a good play starts on. That's certainly the path

2672
02:11:01,480 --> 02:11:03,560
Speaker 1: he looks to be on. He's you have to wonder

2673
02:11:03,640 --> 02:11:05,200
Speaker 1: why he hasn't been able to get on the field

2674
02:11:05,240 --> 02:11:09,040
Speaker 1: thus far when this offensive line has been struggling to

2675
02:11:09,200 --> 02:11:11,400
Speaker 1: get there. But he's gonna get his chance this week.

2676
02:11:11,440 --> 02:11:13,400
Speaker 1: It looks like, and maybe you're right, this is a

2677
02:11:13,480 --> 02:11:16,360
Speaker 1: line that's been criticized because it hasn't been athletic enough

2678
02:11:16,400 --> 02:11:18,120
Speaker 1: to get out in front of running back, to get

2679
02:11:18,160 --> 02:11:20,640
Speaker 1: out on the second level of defenses, to end to

2680
02:11:20,760 --> 02:11:23,280
Speaker 1: push guys off the ball in the first place. So

2681
02:11:24,040 --> 02:11:25,520
Speaker 1: if he can come on and do any of those

2682
02:11:25,600 --> 02:11:28,240
Speaker 1: things better than they've been doing, certainly it'll be a plus.

2683
02:11:28,360 --> 02:11:32,840
Speaker 1: But going forward, I think not only does Wyatt Teller

2684
02:11:33,200 --> 02:11:36,080
Speaker 1: have a chance to develop and earn a spot in there,

2685
02:11:36,920 --> 02:11:39,480
Speaker 1: all ten of the offensive lineman on this team have

2686
02:11:39,600 --> 02:11:43,080
Speaker 1: a chance maybe to think, you know, they better get

2687
02:11:43,160 --> 02:11:44,960
Speaker 1: better or they're gonna get replaced. I mean, this is

2688
02:11:44,960 --> 02:11:47,440
Speaker 1: an offensive line that's been on, an offense that has

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02:11:47,440 --> 02:11:50,800
Speaker 1: been epically bad. A breakcare, We're back with more. One

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Speaker 1: Goal's live from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's radio show. All right, welcome back. What have we

2692
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Speaker 1: learned from today's show? Is presented by Advanced Alarm providing

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Speaker 1: theater provider of the Buffalo Bills. We made a good

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Speaker 1: show today, including a couple of great guest appearances, including

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02:12:33,440 --> 02:12:37,560
Speaker 1: from Great Cosell Analysts executive producer of NFL Matchup on ESPN.

2698
02:12:37,840 --> 02:12:40,280
Speaker 1: He talked about the quarterback Josh McCown will get to

2699
02:12:40,280 --> 02:12:42,960
Speaker 1: start against the Bills on Sunday. Here's what Great Cosell

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02:12:43,000 --> 02:12:47,320
Speaker 1: had to say about McCown. No, he hasn't really played

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02:12:47,360 --> 02:12:49,440
Speaker 1: all the year. But it's funny because even through the

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02:12:49,520 --> 02:12:52,280
Speaker 1: last season, he actually has played well. Later in his career,

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02:12:52,760 --> 02:12:55,960
Speaker 1: and you know, he sort of became a little bit

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02:12:56,040 --> 02:12:58,200
Speaker 1: more of a rhythm timing player. He's always had the

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02:12:58,280 --> 02:13:02,080
Speaker 1: ability to sort of make plays out outside of the pocket.

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02:13:02,520 --> 02:13:05,120
Speaker 1: Um I kind of always liked him later in his career.

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02:13:05,200 --> 02:13:08,920
Speaker 1: I thought that he was actually a quality starting quarterback

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02:13:08,960 --> 02:13:12,720
Speaker 1: who had a number of good games. Great Cosell about

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Speaker 1: Josh McCown. Lorenzo Alexander joined the show earlier this hour.

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02:13:16,600 --> 02:13:19,760
Speaker 1: Last week, the bill started Julian Stanford and linebacker in

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02:13:19,800 --> 02:13:22,200
Speaker 1: Police of Tremine Edmonds, and Lorenzo thought he held up

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02:13:22,240 --> 02:13:24,040
Speaker 1: his end of the bargain pretty well. Here's what he said.

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Speaker 1: It's always next man up, and as linebackers, really through

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Speaker 1: OTAs and training camp, a lot of us have kind

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Speaker 1: of been shuffled around. So when things like this come

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Speaker 1: up during the season, you you at least have a

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Speaker 1: familiarity with the physician and the calls that you're going

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Speaker 1: to have to go out there and make. And Julian

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Speaker 1: did a great job obviously had a you know another

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Speaker 1: he had a sack a strip fumble that we weren't

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Speaker 1: able to get to again early in that game. That

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Speaker 1: would have changed it changed the dynamic of that game

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Speaker 1: as well. And uh, he's he's he's a smart um

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Speaker 1: instinct the football player. Obviously a great special teams guy

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Speaker 1: as well, and stood in the gap. There you go. Hey,

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Speaker 1: see one question. You're off to green Bay for the weekend,

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Speaker 1: Miami and green Bay, and both you and Great Kosell

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Speaker 1: thought that the Dolphins are in for a rough time.

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins with a record of five and four, the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers are three four and one. What makes

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Speaker 1: you think it's going to be a one sided win

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Speaker 1: for the Packers in that game? Well, I think the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins are starting brock Oswilder again and then and the

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Speaker 1: green Bay Packers are starting some guy named Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: so it'll start there. And then I think all I'm

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Speaker 1: saying is the Packers that haven't played well this year.

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Speaker 1: Really no, they haven't. But I think I think Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers and his ability to extend plays and keep them

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Speaker 1: on the field is going to be the difference in

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Speaker 1: that game. I think they're gonna be hard to score

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Speaker 1: on because it's gonna be hard to get the ball away.

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Speaker 1: Talk about it next week. Make sure you join us

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