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Speaker 1: Oh, good time. Ute Taskers, Times times do all the time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, the Big Show, the Big Wednesday Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Orchard Park, New York, a new air of

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Speaker 1: field right next door. It's a decent day, a decent

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Speaker 1: late fall day in Orchard Park. Inside what it is

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Speaker 1: a little for boating? Yeah nuts, weatherwise, win did everything.

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Speaker 1: It's calmed down considerably today. Welcome. Hi. I'm John Murphy.

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Speaker 1: This is Team Tasker here until three o'clock this afternoon

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Speaker 1: to talk about the Bills and the NFL, whether you

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Speaker 1: want to or not, just kidding, we want to. We

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Speaker 1: got a couple of good topics today and a couple

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Speaker 1: of good guests to talk to as well today as

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Speaker 1: the Bills hit the practice field as we speak right now,

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Speaker 1: getting set to take on the New York Jets coming

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Speaker 1: up this Sunday at MetLife Stadium in New York. Steve,

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Speaker 1: I got a lot done like night, including watching a

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Speaker 1: little Michigan basketball, watching a little UB football, paying attention

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Speaker 1: to the election, and I got my spotting board done

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Speaker 1: for the New York Jets, and watch the little Jets video.

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Speaker 1: Not impressed with the Jets, I gotta say, Working Overtimer

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Speaker 1: not impressed with the New York Jets. Oh baby, they

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Speaker 1: you know, they got a lot of the same issues

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Speaker 1: that the Buffalo Bills have right offensive line issues. They're

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Speaker 1: trying to work in a ricky quarterback. As you said,

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Speaker 1: they can't do much offensively. They're they're starting center Spencer

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Speaker 1: Long had no fewer than fifteen bad snaps last week

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Speaker 1: the Jets are scratching ahead. They've lost three and a roll.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have lost pour in a row. Something's gotta give.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday at Metlifestyeah, and if you look, if you're

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Speaker 1: asking and we were looking at all this stuff going

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Speaker 1: in the their structure, their financials are just about equal.

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Speaker 1: They've got about twice the cap space right now that

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Speaker 1: the Jets have got nineteen, so they've got quite a

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Speaker 1: space they have almost They've got twenty four million, which

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Speaker 1: is nothing. The Bills, of course, are in one of

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Speaker 1: a big offseason this year coming up. They both have

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Speaker 1: drafted high quarterbacks, Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen, their buddies. They're

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Speaker 1: if Josh will be on the field. Sam Darnold absolutely

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Speaker 1: will be on the field. Yeah. Their their defense in

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Speaker 1: New York seems to be playing a lot better than

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of parill talk about those parallels and

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Speaker 1: forward into the future as this show rolls along. But

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills practice today, practice, we're talking practice,

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Speaker 1: and our man, Chris Brown, joins us right now live

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Speaker 1: from inside the ed Pro Sports Training Center where the

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Speaker 1: Bills Wednesday practice is just underway. Hello there, Chris Brown, Brownie,

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Speaker 1: how are you today? I'm doing okay. Music is pumping

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Speaker 1: and guys are getting stretched out here. So some new faces.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie, the return man, slash y receiver, kind of

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Speaker 1: thought coach had some interesting comments to say about him.

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Speaker 1: He said the thing that he likes most about him

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see how quickly he can

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Speaker 1: That's one less first down that your offense has to get. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the exact nature of the injury to his right elbow.

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Speaker 1: tell you what, if he's healthy, and I mean healthy,

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Speaker 1: He's got a play, right, I mean, we know you

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Speaker 1: have no patience, Murph, We get it. Yeah, let's go

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Speaker 1: for those of you, we're on msg as simulcast with

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Speaker 1: our radio shows, so we're getting some pictures live behind

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. And also we can pan the camera around

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Speaker 1: as long as the camera is zoomed in. We can't

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Speaker 1: show like big, wide ranging, you know, panoramic shots. We

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Speaker 1: can't show guys lining up, where they're lining up, how

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Speaker 1: they're lining up. You know, we can't show where Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen's throwing the ball. All we see is a big

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Speaker 1: picture of him right in the middle of the screen

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Speaker 1: from kind of the waist up, throwing the ball. And

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Speaker 1: what you saw, well, listen, there's no there's no discomfort

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Speaker 1: on his face throwing that ball. Looks just like he

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Speaker 1: always throws the ball. I mean, he's not thinking about it,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not a it's not like I wonder

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Speaker 1: how this is gonna feel kind of look on his

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Speaker 1: face when he lets that ball go. And you can't

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Speaker 1: see how far down the field it's going, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's thrown it ten yards, five

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Speaker 1: yards or fifty yards. We can't tell. But there's no

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Speaker 1: discomfort there. And he does have a substantial sleeve on

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Speaker 1: his shoulder, which, as you would expect, would would give

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Speaker 1: him some support over whatever injury. We're talking about, whether

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Speaker 1: it's ucl or anything else. So and I guess I

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Speaker 1: would have now that I think about it. You know,

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Speaker 1: you would be surprised if there was nothing on that

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Speaker 1: elbow after the injury coming back starting, Yeah, right, so

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Speaker 1: it's got to be with that by the way he

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Speaker 1: has there, Oh yeah, yeah, that looks like a game

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Speaker 1: day apparatus right there. So we'll see. But so, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing now. The big thing, and I believe you

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Speaker 1: take this from a guy who knows the big question

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Speaker 1: mark comes tomorrow when he walks in the facility at

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Speaker 1: five in the morning and they go, how are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: And he says, I feel the same as I did

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Speaker 1: yesterday after throwing a couple of hundred footballs. Today. That's good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's full steam ahead. You know, he'll be well. It'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see what they say tomorrow about the

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Speaker 1: injury report, but it is encouraging to see him throw it.

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Speaker 1: He's thrown it since what last Friday on a fairly

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Speaker 1: regular practice basis, And we'll follow up tomorrow. That's all

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Speaker 1: we can do. The other quarterbacks and just kind of

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Speaker 1: recapping with Brownie, said Derek Anderson. Not at practice as afternoon.

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Speaker 1: In that view, they're still in concussion protocol does not

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Speaker 1: bode well for him. Nathan Peterman obviously is standing by

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Speaker 1: if needed. He'll be ready to go, and he may

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Speaker 1: be needed still depending on what happens with John Shallen.

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott met with the media just about one hour

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Speaker 1: ago and talked about all of it, including johnh. Allen

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Speaker 1: says they're gonna have to see as the week moves

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Speaker 1: along whether Josh Allen is ready to play this week

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Speaker 1: against the Jets. Just taking it one day at a time. UM,

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Speaker 1: I want to see how he does today. Um, we'll

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Speaker 1: know more a little bit more after practice, but one play,

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Speaker 1: one day at a time right now. Is there are

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Speaker 1: points though during the week where you have a time

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Speaker 1: of ade a decision while ron Josh and he's going

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Speaker 1: to be hoping to do it. Yeah, there there There

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Speaker 1: needs to be and that's the case with every injury

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Speaker 1: just because of practice, reps, playtime, continuity. UM so yes,

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Speaker 1: answer that is yes, of course. There is McDermott also,

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Speaker 1: And here's the point that I know and Sean listen,

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Speaker 1: Sean doesn't need our help, my help, your help, anybody's help.

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Speaker 1: He knows what how he's progressing here. But I'm glad

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Speaker 1: to hear this answer coming up where he acknowledges that

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Speaker 1: there is a potential benefit to maybe not pushing Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen to play this week. Look, I want him to

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Speaker 1: play when he's ready one hundred percent healthy, as I

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Speaker 1: said yesterday the day before, but there is a bet

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Speaker 1: and if they keep him out a little bit, it

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Speaker 1: would be six weeks from the day of the injury

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Speaker 1: Houston and to his next game, which would be January

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Speaker 1: or November twenty fifth against the Jacksonville Jaguars. So it's

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Speaker 1: a different between four weeks between injury and return or

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Speaker 1: six weeks. There's something there. Here's what McDermot said about

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Speaker 1: it today. Steve has a thought about this, but here's

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Speaker 1: what Sean McDermot said about it today. The possibility that

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Speaker 1: maybe they should consider giving them a little extra time.

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Speaker 1: Here's what McDermott said. That's certainly something that we've discussed.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about that. At the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, our docks give us the really whether that

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Speaker 1: would help or not. So that's that's one of the

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Speaker 1: factors that that we've talked about. They're to say the

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Speaker 1: announcing whether they give them more rest of the docks

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Speaker 1: give than Okay, what are the benefits to getting Josh

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Speaker 1: into this game Sunday? Well, and we haven't gotten that

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Speaker 1: far yet because as I mentioned or day to day here, um,

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Speaker 1: the benefits, if given the green light, would be um naturally,

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Speaker 1: the time on task, the reps, and the experience that

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Speaker 1: comes from the reps. And that's no different with Josh

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Speaker 1: than it is with any of these other young players

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Speaker 1: that have played and gotten some good some good experience

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Speaker 1: for us. I want to hope and I do think

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Speaker 1: there are benefits on both sides. See. Look, I hope

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Speaker 1: he plays. I hope he's healthy enough to play. That's

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Speaker 1: what I'm rooting for you. As I said, you're ready

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Speaker 1: to go. Let's line up tomorrow. Play you want to

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Speaker 1: play tomorrow, Jack Steady, It's the same benefit of giving

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Speaker 1: him the rest of the season off. Yeah, okay, he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be playing pro football. Well benefit Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: he might get a twisted ankle too? I mean, who

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Speaker 1: he's coming background an elbow? D just be blunt. Let

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Speaker 1: me be blunt. Who cares if the guy is at

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Speaker 1: risk for twisting an ankle or anything else? He's healthy

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Speaker 1: enough for three or four if he's healthy enough to play,

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Speaker 1: plug the guy in and play. He's gonna play. You

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Speaker 1: think it's black and white, healthier not. I'm saying it's

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Speaker 1: not black and white. There's some gray area. If you're

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Speaker 1: worried about gray area, you got fifty three guys out

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Speaker 1: there who live in it every day, every week. Quarterback

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Speaker 1: who is at elbow injury, I would want to make

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Speaker 1: sure that he is healthy. Welcome to the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's hurts now. Every single guy out there is dragging

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Speaker 1: luggage around that they hurt, and everybody is. It's not

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Speaker 1: gonna change for Josh Allen even if he doesn't play.

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Speaker 1: I speak now. Everybody is not your first round quarterback,

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Speaker 1: seventh overall? Who is? You have invested the future of

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Speaker 1: your franchise in the difference. The issue is if he's

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Speaker 1: close to being ready, if there's gray area, Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: could play, but he'd be better in two weeks. I say,

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Speaker 1: you look at that a little bit. I don't say

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Speaker 1: you rule him out, but you look at it. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'd be better, sir, to give him another couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: because he is the most important player of the fifty three.

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Speaker 1: They're not all created equal. Out there. Well, you say,

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Speaker 1: you look at it. I get it. You look at it,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna say play him. If he's gonna

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Speaker 1: say listen, if he throws one ball over fifty yards,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna snap. Well, okay, you don't play. You got

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Speaker 1: to go to the extreme. Man. Well that's I'm exaggerating

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Speaker 1: to make a point. The point is these guys, these guys,

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Speaker 1: these coaches, these players, the training staff, that is all

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Speaker 1: they do all day in regards to getting guys and

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Speaker 1: keeping guys healthy. On the NFL level, they go through

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Speaker 1: this scenario with every single player in the Rose. When

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Speaker 1: you can say Josh Allen's more important, and certainly is

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Speaker 1: in the big scheme of things, a guy that plays

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Speaker 1: his position, who who they invested all this capital in

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Speaker 1: getting in those ways, he's more important. That doesn't make

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Speaker 1: him different. The physicality of the game is the same,

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Speaker 1: the position is the same, the level of tolerance is

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Speaker 1: the same. What if it was a linebacker and he

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Speaker 1: was in the same risk. Certainly he's not going to

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Speaker 1: be throwing the football. But it's the same risk for

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Speaker 1: every player out there. It's the gray area they all

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Speaker 1: live in, and they're gonna be able to manage it. Now.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't have to be one hundred percent, but he

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Speaker 1: should be more than eighty. He should, you know. And

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Speaker 1: there's the gray area you're looking at. If if he

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Speaker 1: goes out there and he's thrown it and they put

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Speaker 1: him through, say, for instance, he comes through to this

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Speaker 1: practice today and he throws one hundred and fifty balls

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Speaker 1: at whatever distance you name, long ones, short ones, hard ones,

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Speaker 1: touch passes, bad releases, changes the launch point, tries all

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Speaker 1: that stuff off a one leg, you know, off balance,

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Speaker 1: moving around. He does everything you want him to do,

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Speaker 1: and he comes back to morrow and says, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I feel great. There you go. If it's somewhere he says, no,

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Speaker 1: I feel good. I started if I got a little pain.

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Speaker 1: It was stiff this morning, but once I warmed it up,

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Speaker 1: it felt exactly like it did yesterday. Well, then now

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Speaker 1: you're back into where you're you're you know, you have

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Speaker 1: to make a decision. But here's the thing. They do

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Speaker 1: this all the time. They go through this scenario all

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Speaker 1: the time, and with the quarterback's throwing arm, there's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: You gotta be really careful. Yeah, that's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: And if they're really careful and they still think, you

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Speaker 1: know what, he's gonna be fine. Throw him out there.

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Speaker 1: If they're careful and they think he's gonna be fine

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Speaker 1: and listen, yeah, you don't have to tell him to play. Look,

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Speaker 1: he's what we have left in this season, Josh Allen. Right,

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody really hurt play I got happening. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's what we have left to look forward. It's the single,

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Speaker 1: it's the focal point of the development, is his development

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. And I get it.

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Speaker 1: So don't think Sean McDermott, Brandon Bean Cully, Brian Dable

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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen himself, don't think they're not smart enough

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Speaker 1: to say, listen, you know, let's do this right. If

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Speaker 1: he can go, well, hey, it's time to get You

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Speaker 1: want him in there as much as you can get

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Speaker 1: him in there, no question, and that even the one

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Speaker 1: of the media guys asked him. No, you want him

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Speaker 1: to play every single play forget the game. Even if

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Speaker 1: you want to give him a half or a series,

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Speaker 1: let him try it and pull him out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just get him every single snap you can possibly get

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Speaker 1: him if he's good enough to go. The four quarters.

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Speaker 1: Send him in if he wants to go in, and

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Speaker 1: just get him some rips to hand off the football.

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Speaker 1: Do it, just to get him in and out of

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Speaker 1: the huddle, looking at the defense making some adjustments even

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Speaker 1: in the run game. Throw him out there and then

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Speaker 1: pull him off and let him sit the rest of

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Speaker 1: the day and let whoever else is in there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you got to get him on the field every single

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Speaker 1: opportunity you can. That's my point. All right, we want

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Speaker 1: to talk about the Sunday's game, Bill's Jets, and I've

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Speaker 1: to be considered one of the lesser games on the

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Speaker 1: NFL schedule. Bills It Jets Sunday, one o'clock. We're calling it,

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Speaker 1: by the way, on the radio station here on our

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Speaker 1: flagship in Buffalo, wg OUR Sports Radio five fifty, and

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Speaker 1: it's going to be on CBS Bills Jets Sunday. Simple

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Speaker 1: question today on the Twitter poll and you can ring something,

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Speaker 1: let us know what you think, or you can tweet

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Speaker 1: it into us. Which team Buffalo or the New York

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Speaker 1: Jets closer to contention right now? You can interpret that

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Speaker 1: anyway you want. And you can look at it anyway

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Speaker 1: you want. Bills versus Jet Sunday. Which team is closer

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Speaker 1: to contention? However you define contention. Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: Or you can send it in on Twitter at One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Vote on our Twitter poll. Send it in,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. Which team Bills and Jets Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Which team is closer to contention? Talk about that when

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Speaker 1: we come back one does Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker, and our

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Speaker 1: one Buffalo Studio Bills on the practice field inside the

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Speaker 1: ad Pro Sports Training Center. We're until three. Let's tell

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Speaker 1: you what we got coming up here. You just had

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown on live from practice. Coming up at one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Rich Samini, who covers the Jets for ESPN New York.

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Speaker 1: He'll be joining us at one. Coming up after practice,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with Bill's linebacker Julian Stanford, who got

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Speaker 1: to start last week, quitted himself pretty well. I thought

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Speaker 1: we have to start this week, you finding on what

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Speaker 1: happens at Tremaine Edmands. We're gonna hear from Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: coming up after practice. That'll be more likely around two

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Speaker 1: o'clock and coffee with the coach Chris Brown with Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermot coming up at two thirty John Murphy, Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: Steve has just wolfed down a couple of beautiful looking

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Speaker 1: sliders and now he gets his water to Washington. I'm

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Speaker 1: gold man, I'm good for the rest of you. Those

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Speaker 1: two small sandwiches in records. I am bummed because now

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Speaker 1: all the all the people on my Twitter Timeliner Ta

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Speaker 1: siding with you because we're fighting about fighting, I know,

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Speaker 1: but we disagree about how to hamm I see. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: think we really disagree? Is I what to break? I thought?

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Speaker 1: I think we're saying the same thing. All I want

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Speaker 1: to do is know that he's good and that there's

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Speaker 1: no I say, I know, there's no risk. You er

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Speaker 1: on the side of caution. Yant, there you go. I

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Speaker 1: want to air on the side of caution. That's how

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Speaker 1: important Josh Allen is to do. There's no let me

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Speaker 1: just take much more important than the outcome of building checks.

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Speaker 1: The way I feel about him, there is no room

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Speaker 1: for error. You get that guy out there absolutely the

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Speaker 1: first second he is ready. Whether it's I don't care

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Speaker 1: if it's the third quarter this Sunday, you get him

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Speaker 1: out there. If that's the first time he's ready, he's

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Speaker 1: got to get out there. Um. I think we're saying

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Speaker 1: the same thing, taking no prisoners about that from nobody,

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Speaker 1: like huh. I mean, I get it. Everybody's treating him

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Speaker 1: with kid gloves. Come on, man, he's he's a big, strong,

682
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Speaker 1: strapping young man, and I get it. I've get all

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Speaker 1: these people, and I get it. Our offensive lines a mess,

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Speaker 1: and he might get hurt again. Come on, you might

685
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Speaker 1: get hurt again. He might want to see him hurt

686
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Speaker 1: that elbow again by coming back to early. That's all

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Speaker 1: I'm saying on Twitter today. Our Twitter poll, our topic

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Speaker 1: for the Phones, Bill's Jets Sunday, which team is closer

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Speaker 1: to contention? We asked that question because I think it's

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Speaker 1: a legitimate question. Steve, the teams are kind of similar

691
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Speaker 1: where they're at, what they're looking at financially for next year,

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Speaker 1: each of them trying to work in a rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 1: This year, each of them taking their lumps this year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Jets offense is not much better than

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's sports fans, They really aren't. The just

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Speaker 1: defense is okay, just like the Bill's defense is much

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Speaker 1: further ahead than the offense right now, they're kind of similar.

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Speaker 1: So whether you want to interpret it is what do

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Speaker 1: you mean five years out or next year? Which team

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Speaker 1: is closer to contention? What we're asking is which team

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Speaker 1: is closer to the Patriots? Really, Bills are Jets? What

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Speaker 1: do you think? Right? I find myself you really worked

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Speaker 1: up right now? Why? Because you gotta beat the Jets.

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Speaker 1: You have got to beat the Jets. And I mean

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Speaker 1: Josh has gotta get in there and beat the Jets.

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Speaker 1: He's gotta beat Sam darneld Our guys gotta beat their guy.

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Speaker 1: That makes that This is and this is how he

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Speaker 1: got this question. This is a big Listen, Sam Darnold

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Speaker 1: and Josh Owen. If they come in and they turn

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Speaker 1: into think about it, this could turn into it could

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Speaker 1: turn into Joe Flacco, Ben Roethlisberger, Kelly Marino, Jim Kelly,

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Speaker 1: Dan Marino. And this is think about that. By way

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Speaker 1: of background, this is how we got to this Twitter

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Speaker 1: question because we're saying what possible storylines for this game?

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Speaker 1: The builds on the Jets? What can anyone want to

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Speaker 1: know about this? These two teams wonving forward, and we

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Speaker 1: got to who's who's set up better? Who's going to

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Speaker 1: be in contention sooner? Builds are Jets, They're very teams. Right.

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Speaker 1: It is a close call, and you want to win

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Speaker 1: because it says something about you and your process, who's

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Speaker 1: processed along? And I'll tell you what that Listen there,

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Speaker 1: head coach is one year in further than ours is.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say there's a difference I think in

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Speaker 1: the coaching and where they're going with coaching. Actually, he's

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Speaker 1: two years ahead of isn't he Todd Bowls two years

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Speaker 1: ahead of Sean? Yeah? There, let's replace Rex. Rex was

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Speaker 1: here two years there. Yeah, here's the thing that's the

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Speaker 1: biggest difference I think between the two. The Jets have

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Speaker 1: a head coach who maybe on you know, the last

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Speaker 1: leg here right, maybe on his last legs in terms

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Speaker 1: of how much longer he gets to turn this thing around.

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Speaker 1: The Bills certainly are not there yet, and I don't

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Speaker 1: see that in the foreseeable future. Other than that. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of similarities here. I was looking it up today.

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Speaker 1: The Jets are on their third offensive coordinator in the

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Speaker 1: last three years. The Bills are on their fifth offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator the last five years. I mean, how about that.

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Speaker 1: A couple of teams that just recycle offensive coaches and

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Speaker 1: offensive systems through. I'm so with it. I will shocked

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Speaker 1: because when we came in and start talking about the

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Speaker 1: show and we're doing all our prep, we're reading articles,

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Speaker 1: we're talking hard topics. Yeah, well, you know, we're doing

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Speaker 1: our thing. And I had no anticipation that I was

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Speaker 1: going to have the lid come off my emotions like

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Speaker 1: they have. I am, you gotta win this game, man,

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Speaker 1: I can come on, man, you gotta really if Josh

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Speaker 1: is ready to get him in and I'm telling you what,

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Speaker 1: and I know they're doing this. They signed Isaiah McKenzie there.

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Speaker 1: And I've said this before. In the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: the team you can see behind the scenes they are churning.

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Speaker 1: I mean they are getting they are looking for anything.

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Speaker 1: They are really doing their due diligence at every level,

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Speaker 1: from scaring the waiver wire, the practice squads, They're churning

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Speaker 1: their own offensive line. They're trying different combinations. They are

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00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: pulling guys. You know, they're trying to upgrade the wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're trying absolutely everything, and and it's I

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00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: gotta tip my hat, I go, you know what, I'm glad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're doing the right things. They're churning it.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to get things better. They're trying to find

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Speaker 1: some combinations that work. They are not standing pat and

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Speaker 1: it would be huge if they took a step forward

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Speaker 1: this week. If Josh got on the field and absolutely

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Speaker 1: actually found a way to get a win, that would

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Speaker 1: be absolutely a great drink of water for a dry

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Speaker 1: spell we've been going only if Josh is on the field.

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Speaker 1: How great would it be if it was Nathan Peterman.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, I don't care, and I don't care.

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Speaker 1: I want to play, but to play. If they beat

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Speaker 1: them without Josh Allen, I'm good with that. Now does

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Speaker 1: that here's one more question? If we were I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I would rather have it be Josh. So it might

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Speaker 1: not have much. If the Bills, the team that wins

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, Bills their jets, are they automatically closer to

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Speaker 1: contention in the future. I don't think so. You want

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Speaker 1: to win, But if the Bills knocker off the Jets,

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Speaker 1: do you immediately put the Bills, Well, we're ahead of

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Speaker 1: the Jets anyway, I mean they'd have the same record,

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Speaker 1: right yeah. And I don't know if anybody I don't

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Speaker 1: know if anybody else puts any stock into this. I

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Speaker 1: pulled up all the cap information about about these two teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, the salary cap. The Bills have got nine

782
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Speaker 1: point four million in dead cap space. The Jets have

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Speaker 1: got nineteen million I'm sorry, in cap space now available.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have nine point four million in cap space.

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Speaker 1: The Jets have got almost twenty million, nineteen point three

786
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Speaker 1: million in cap space that they could go out and

787
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Speaker 1: get better right now, like they signed guys off the street.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that there there are teams out there

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Speaker 1: like the Browns and the Colts and the Niners that

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Speaker 1: have thirty six million plus and six up to fifty

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Speaker 1: five million, they're just nobody out there to sign. These

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Speaker 1: teams aren't going out there and finding all these great players.

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Speaker 1: So if you're worrying why the Bills don't bring guys

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Speaker 1: in bright, other teams are out there with big problems

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Speaker 1: as well, and they're not doing it. There's just not

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Speaker 1: that many guys available. You talk about dead cap space,

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00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: the Jets have twenty four million in twenty four and

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Speaker 1: a half million in dead cap space, and of course

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Speaker 1: everybody knows the Bills are got almost sixty fifty eight

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Speaker 1: million in cap space. Those are the kind of the

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Speaker 1: financial differences between where these teams set. They are both

802
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: positioned to have big off seasons. But I want you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a game. I think if you're looking around

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Speaker 1: that locker room as a Bill, you got it. You

805
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: gotta want this one pretty bad. Whoop. You're right just

806
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 1: because it's because it's that guy, Sam Darnold, and because

807
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Speaker 1: it's your guy, and it's you know, you guys made

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Speaker 1: your pick. Now we made ours, and our guys gonna

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Speaker 1: turn out better than yours. Quarterback's my biggest big this

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Speaker 1: week between these two teams. What do you think? Give

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Speaker 1: us a call? Which check team Bills their Jets closer

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Speaker 1: to contention? And what do you think of the Bills

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Speaker 1: quarterback situation as we stand right now? Eighth three fifty

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

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Speaker 1: fifty DJ and Hamberg, Go ahead, DJ, you're in the air.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing ta gonna like me on this one?

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Speaker 1: But you know, um, if if the Bills beat the Jets,

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Speaker 1: it's not it's not an automatic, but it moves him

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Speaker 1: up ahead of us in the draft. That's not going

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Speaker 1: to help our situation. Um. The only thing. The other

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Speaker 1: thing I don't like about it is if he plays,

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Speaker 1: then he's going to be up for two weeks. I

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Speaker 1: don't see the momentum factor on it. And then not

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Speaker 1: only that, we're not a playoff team and the Jets

825
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: are beatable. I think me Peterman can beat him. I

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Speaker 1: think he played an okay game last week. And what

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Speaker 1: if he gets hit by a helmet on the album,

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Speaker 1: gets the Donald injury, then he's out for a year.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it just not to me. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: make sense. It waste two weeks away for him. It

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Speaker 1: does make sense because he's got to get he's got

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Speaker 1: to play in the games to get better, and the

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Speaker 1: two weeks later he can spend two weeks scouring the

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Speaker 1: film that he just played against the Jets. And if

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Speaker 1: the Jets do jump ahead of the Bills in the draft,

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Speaker 1: is because they need it worse than the Bills do.

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Speaker 1: If we beat him, we don't need to pick ahead

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Speaker 1: of them. They already picked ahead of us and Straff

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Speaker 1: and we did better. That's the whole point. What do

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Speaker 1: you mean did better? They picked their quarterback before we

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Speaker 1: picked ores, and our quarterback beat him. That's why we

842
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Speaker 1: don't need to pick ahead of them. They can't pick.

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Speaker 1: It all comes down to this game. And actually I

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Speaker 1: don't think he died. That's what he said. Those are

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Speaker 1: all the points he brought up. I'm rebutting all the

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Speaker 1: things that DJ brought And besides this, I don't listen.

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Speaker 1: Let's face, you can get hurt in any game. You

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00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: can't worry about getting hurt like someplace else. Now, certainly

849
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: his elbow is the issue. If you worried about his

850
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,959
Speaker 1: elbow getting hurt, I get that, But listen, that's gonna

851
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 1: be an issue when he comes back in two weeks

852
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: as well. It just won't be as Theoretically, it won't

853
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: even be as big an issue. But this game is

854
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: important for his development. It's a team, the Jets. They're

855
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: gonna play in another few weeks down the road, and

856
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: this game will help him get ready for that one

857
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: because seeing yourself play against the exact same team that

858
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: you're playing this week, You've seen him, you played against

859
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: him a week or a month or two ago. You

860
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 1: can go back and look at that film and that's

861
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: really going to help you in the next matchup against

862
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: the same team. That's huge in division matchups. Every young

863
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: quarterback will tell you it really started to slow down

864
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: for them when they got a chance to look at

865
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: that team twice. And that's what that's what Josh Allen's

866
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: looking at. They'll have the Jets a bye week than

867
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Miami and then the Jets again, and that is

868
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: it's going to be a great study guide for him

869
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: the next time they meet the Jets. And you think

870
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: by then, yeah, he will be healthy by then. What

871
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: do you think which team is closer to contention, the

872
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: Bills or the New York Jets. On the tweet sheet

873
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: from Anthony Demonico says, I think both teams have similar issues.

874
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: Good defense, developing quarterbacks, bad offensive line and wide receivers.

875
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: And one more from Bills and Mets Fan. When we

876
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: ask the question which team is closer to contention, Bills

877
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: and Mets Fan, sweet is we can get this offense

878
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: figured out. It's the Bills because our defense can play

879
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: need lots of help at wide receiver in a line.

880
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 1: But if we address those areas, maybe Josh can take

881
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: a big step forward in year too. If we can't

882
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: fix those areas, we're doomed to mediocrity. Nobody wants to

883
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: be there. But yeah, I mean, the offense is a

884
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: big fix for the Bills, you know, and it's almost

885
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: to the point where it's going to take more than

886
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: one year to fix. I mean, if they're active, which

887
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: we anticipate they would be in free agency and in

888
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: the draft and focus on the offensive side of the ball.

889
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,720
Speaker 1: And most importantly, if Josh Allen develops and take steps forward,

890
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: maybe they can fix it and be better much, you know,

891
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: considerably better next year. But I think that's still in doubt.

892
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: And look, and this goes back to the non argument,

893
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: the discussion we had about when Josh can play. He

894
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: needs to play it, he needs to play, and I

895
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 1: think Steve and I agree on that he needs to play.

896
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: He needs to play as much as he can down

897
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: the stretch here, he really does, and he needs to

898
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: show progress when he plays. You know, I got in

899
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: trouble I think before the Houston game and I told somebody,

900
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 1: the clock is ticking. Like I said on the show

901
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen. What I meant by that was not

902
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: that he's gonna be caught, or they're gonna move on,

903
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: or they're gonna find another quarterback. But it was approaching

904
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: the point at the Houston game, which was his one, two, three,

905
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 1: four or five fifth start in a row. Or I thought, okay,

906
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 1: four starts, here comes start number five. Let's see some steps,

907
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: let's see some progress. And I still, you know, he

908
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: needs to get back in there now. And then Josh

909
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: Allen needs to play play better than he did for

910
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,439
Speaker 1: the first three or four games of his NFL Yeah,

911
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: and you got you think back about it was, oh

912
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: my gosh, how was he playing? I remember he jumped

913
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: over that guy in Minnesota. Yeah, he had a big

914
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: game in Yeah. And the last game, the last shot

915
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: he took in h in Tech in Houston, he made

916
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: a sweet throw on the on the play he got

917
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: injured on. It was a big play and then had

918
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: to come out. It was you know, it was up

919
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: and down. It was up and down. The Green Bay

920
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: game was bad for Josh. It was a bad day

921
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: for Josh Green Bay. It's okay against Tennessee. You know

922
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: they got the win there, um, but you want to

923
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 1: see progress? Yeah, when he plays. I want to see

924
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: him playing, and I want to seeing Yeah, the thing

925
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: he did, the thing that he didn't do that had

926
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 1: really hurt the team. He didn't turn it over all

927
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: that much. Wouldn't that be nice? Yeah? All right, a

928
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: break here. We want to get more from you and

929
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: let us know what you think. Which team closer to contention,

930
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: the Bills or the Jets, And what's your the Bills

931
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: quarterback approach beat this week as they try to figure

932
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: out whether Josh Allen is ready to play. We got

933
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 1: phone lines open eight oh three five fifty or toll

934
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

935
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker One Bill's Live presented by Collada

936
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio,

937
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: One Doll's Live Chamber. Murphy's Steep Tasker just getting a

938
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 1: roll in here. If you're like, we just got underweight

939
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: roumast down one hour, I know, yes, Yeah, that's what

940
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: it's a lively discussion today. Lively discussion role I mentioned

941
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: by the way. I'm right about everything about this thing.

942
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: Which thing? What are you talking about? Josh gotta get

943
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: on the field. If he's healthy, he does. Yeah, I agree, right,

944
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: then he's healthy, he does. We need to treat I'm

945
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: right too, treat a lot of it. Hey, you know what,

946
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 1: I'm right. You need to treat. You don't need to

947
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: treat him like he's the prize cow. Well he is,

948
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: and you know, massage him in his stall every night.

949
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: You get the guy out there. Let him play football.

950
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: Now you're just picking fights. Here's Tom and Rochester because

951
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: I am kind of Here's Tom. How about it? Go ahead, Tom? Hi,

952
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: guys listen. Um. I keep hearing about how Sean mcgerbrick

953
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: keeps talking about wanting to build a team the right way. Yeah,

954
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: just heard you. I heard John. I just heard you

955
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: talk about in the off season. I think it's probably

956
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: prevailing opinion that's in the off season they're going to

957
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: spend some of that cat money on offensive lineman and

958
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I think going through free agency you tend

959
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: to overpay. I think that's sort of a quick fix,

960
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: and I don't see that as building a team the

961
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: right way. So it seems to me that I don't know.

962
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: I did my opinion. I guess My question is what

963
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: is your opinion on what building the team the right

964
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: way means and as and how long that process will take?

965
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: Because I think you got to do it through the draft,

966
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: because I think it generally overpaid in free agency. Yeah,

967
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: I meantime, you always overpaying free agency, right, you know that,

968
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: and sometimes your plug holes that way. It's interesting watching

969
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: the Bears last week and thinking about the Bears all

970
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: last week, I thought that's a pretty good way to

971
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: handle free agency. That they picked up some good pieces

972
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: offensively the tight end, Burton, Alan Robinson, another receiver. I

973
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: thought they added good Taylor Gabriel. They added good pieces

974
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: on offense, but they didn't go out and get splashy guys.

975
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: You know. They didn't go out and say we got

976
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: to get the most sought after wide receiver in this

977
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: group or the best tight end in this group. And

978
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: I think that might be the template. Right. I don't

979
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: want to wait much longer, right, because you know the defense,

980
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: so how long you know you got this defense up here?

981
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: In this offense is is lagging way behind, and that

982
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: will change, right, the Buffalo defense will change and hopefully

983
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: maintain some level of consistency next year. But you don't

984
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: want to say, well, I give it, I'm gonna build

985
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: only through the draft and take four years. No, I

986
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: mean you gotta move judiciously and move intelligently through free agency.

987
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: I liked what the Bears did and when I see

988
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: the pieces they added, including I think a piece or

989
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 1: two on the offensive line as well. But the Bills

990
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: will have the money. I think the Bills to their benefit.

991
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: And people don't like to hear this, but Steve, I

992
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: think the Bills have an approach too of the type

993
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: of player they want. Yes, it's about culture, and it's

994
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: not you know, guys who go to church every week.

995
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: It's about guys who want to come here and go

996
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: to work every week. That is what they're looking for,

997
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: and I think they should maintain that. That approach too,

998
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: is they work their way through picking up pieces in

999
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: the offseason, go ahead. That kind of free agent is

1000
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: the kind of guy you want, because in free agency,

1001
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: you do want to pick up those guys that are

1002
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: you know, got a wife and kids and got a

1003
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: value system in place, because the level of intelligence, a

1004
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: level commitment, a level of discipline, a very quiet, structured,

1005
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: supportive life away from the field lends to the fact

1006
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: that they feel like they're going to have to earn

1007
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,479
Speaker 1: their money. Plus those you get a lot of guys.

1008
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: I think those it's the middle range free agents are

1009
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: the ones that are the best. Guys like Lorenzo Alexander,

1010
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: Micah Hide, Jordan Poor, those kind of guys that come in.

1011
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: I mean, they got a good contract, but they're not

1012
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: They're not one hundred million dollars guaranteed guy. They're not

1013
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: those seventy five. They're guys that are they got a

1014
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: big upgrade from where they were, They got a long

1015
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: term deal, and they're the type of guys that once

1016
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: they get the money, as best as you can tell,

1017
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,919
Speaker 1: and it's hard to tell. This is the biggest heart

1018
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: problem in evaluating free agents. When you hand them that

1019
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: first huge check they get, are they going to be

1020
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,479
Speaker 1: the same guy they were a minute ago. That's hard

1021
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: to know. Micah Hyde was. He came in, he got

1022
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: a big check from the Bills, got a big contract,

1023
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: and he turned into a better guy. Gonna or Jordan

1024
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: Poyer the same thing, Lorenzo Alexander, same thing, Jerry Hughes,

1025
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: same thing. You give those guys that second contractor that

1026
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: big check, and all of a sudden they feel like,

1027
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 1: you know what, with this money, I've got added responsibilities

1028
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,479
Speaker 1: I'm going to live up to. Those are the free

1029
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: agent guys you go out and get, and I don't

1030
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: care what position they are. Hopefully you can find some

1031
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, or you can find some of

1032
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: the positions you need. But that's the kind of guy

1033
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: you look for. You don't have to go out and

1034
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: sign in Dominican Sue for sixty million dollars, or Aaron

1035
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: Donald for that matter, or any of those guys. You

1036
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: need the right type of guy, because then you don't

1037
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: overspend in free agency. At least you've got a better

1038
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 1: chance at not being in that spot of overspending for

1039
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 1: a guy who won't give you the production. And we're

1040
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 1: gonna ask our question of the day to our guests.

1041
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: Coming up in the next hour of the show. Rich

1042
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: Zimini is the ESPN NFL Nation reporter covering the Jets.

1043
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask him who's closer to contention, Buffalo or

1044
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: New York. We'll talk about that when we come back.

1045
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 1: Come on back with us. One Goes Life, presented by

1046
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello,

1047
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Network Sporting sup date the update from One

1048
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bill's practicing here at One Bill's Drive

1049
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: today inside the field house, getting set to play the

1050
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 1: Jets on Sunday. No practice today for back Derek Anderson.

1051
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: He remains in concussion protocol. Also out today running back

1052
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: Chris Ivory with a shoulder, tight end Charles Clay with

1053
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,879
Speaker 1: a hamstring. Defensive end Trent Murphy missing another practice today

1054
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: with his knee. Rest day today for defensive lineman Kyle

1055
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: Williams and linebacker La Runs to Alexander Alexander limited work

1056
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: today for quarterback Josh Allen. He has been throwing the

1057
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: last few days. He's out there at practice today with

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Speaker 1: a sleeve on his throwing arm. His right elbow remains

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Speaker 1: to be seen how much work he will get today

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Speaker 1: or through the rest of the week, but he there's

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Speaker 1: a sponsibility that johnsh Allen could return this coming Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Jets. Linebacker Treema and Edmonds limited him work

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Speaker 1: today as he comes back from a concussion. Bill's made

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Speaker 1: a roster move in their defensive backfield yesterday releasing cornerback

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Speaker 1: Philip Gaines, who returned to the starting lineup the last

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Speaker 1: few weeks. Over the last four games called for a

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Speaker 1: number of past interference calls. Taking his place on the

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Speaker 1: roster undrafted rookie Levi Wallace, a cornerback signed by the

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Speaker 1: Bills back in May after the draft. He has been

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Speaker 1: through the Bills since the spring and summer. Bill's Jets. Sunday,

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Speaker 1: one o'clock at MetLife Stadium, you caneer the game right

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Speaker 1: here in a flagship in Buffalo. WGR Sports Radio five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Dez Bryant finally back in the NFL, seven months after

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Speaker 1: he was cut by the Cowboys. Des Bryant signed with

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Speaker 1: a New Orleans Saints today. According to the NFL Network,

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Speaker 1: Bryant appeared to be on the decline last year in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: but here we are past the midway point of the

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00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: season and now he's with the New Orleans Saints. The

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Speaker 1: chance to play for his hometown team was too much

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Speaker 1: for Bruce Ivan to pass up, so less than a

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Speaker 1: week after he was released by the Raiders, Bruce Irvant

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Speaker 1: signed a one year contract today with the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Former first round pick. He says he got some late

1084
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: an incentivelated contract, even got more money offered from the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and Steelers, but designed to go home to Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers quarterback Nick Mommas is going to get

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Speaker 1: another encore performance in primetime. Mammas has been named the

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00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: starter for Monday night's game for the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: against the New York Giants. Sabers in action tomorrow in Montreal. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: the Rochester Americans come to Buffalo to play a Keybank

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Speaker 1: Center against the Cleveland Monsters. And that's the update from

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Speaker 1: One Bill Strive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our One

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Studio. Welcome to the show, Steve. We didn't talk

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Speaker 1: much about Phillip Gaines released by the Bills yesterday starter

1095
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. So when he came back and

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00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: then after some really tough penalties and some some big

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00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: pass interference penalties, they didn't just bench him, They release

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00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: him and brought up Levi Wallace again. I think we'll

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Speaker 1: talk more. We'll talk more about this. I think indicative

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Speaker 1: of kind of a different approach moving through the final

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Speaker 1: seven games for the Bills. You know, it was we

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Speaker 1: saw Wyatt Teller getting reps with the Ones today after

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Speaker 1: playing a little bit less Sunday. I think so. I

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Speaker 1: think it's signals a change in attitude about what they're

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Speaker 1: going to tolerate and what they're expecting from guys. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think they're really starting to buckle down. There's gonna

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Speaker 1: be some new guys on the field. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some new guys on the field.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the right I think it's prudent and

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00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: the right thing to do. It's logical at this point,

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00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 1: and let's see how the season plays out. All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Bills and ponents the Jets. We've

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00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: been talking about him all day, the Bills and the

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Speaker 1: Jets on the Subway Fresh State Countline with US ESPN,

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Speaker 1: NFL Nation Reporter, Jets Beat reporter covered the Jets for

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00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: more than three decades. Happy to have rich Samini on

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Speaker 1: the line with us, Rich John Murphy seemed to ask

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Speaker 1: her up here in Buffalo, thanks for joining us, Hey,

1119
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: thanks for having me guys. How you doing we're doing okay,

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Speaker 1: We're looking at this game and looking at this matchup.

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Speaker 1: And let me ask you a question, which some find

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00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: this question ridiculous. But we posed a sort of our

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00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: question of the day Bills and Jets Buffalo two and seven,

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00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: Jets three and six rookie quarterbacks on each roster, different issues,

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Speaker 1: but some similar issues. Which team is closer to contention

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Speaker 1: in your belief? Bills are the Jets, And you can

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00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: define contention anyway you want. Oh, wow, that's a tough one.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think they're pretty much in the same ballpark.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're they're rebuilding. The Jets started their rebuilding

1130
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: process maybe a year earlier. You know, they tore down

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00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: their roster last season and started, but they didn't get

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00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: the quarterback till this year, much like the Bills. You know,

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00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 1: maybe the Jets are slightly ahead in that respect because

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Speaker 1: I think their rosters. I think this offseason in Buffalo

1135
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of turnover, you know,

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00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,479
Speaker 1: just a lot of roster overhaul, and I think maybe

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00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:56,959
Speaker 1: the Jets are a little past that stage. But you know, look,

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00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: they're still way far away from the Patriots both. Yeah,

1139
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: that's kind of the question. We didn't want to throw

1140
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,399
Speaker 1: the Patreets in there, but that really is a question. Yeah,

1141
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: everybody's chasing those those that team in Foxborough that you know,

1142
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: you're right, the similarities are there between the Bills and

1143
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: the Jets. The Jets seem to be playing better off

1144
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: on defense than they are on offense, and I is

1145
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: that completely checked off to you know, the rookie quarterback

1146
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: or is it is there are there some personnel issues

1147
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball that lags behind

1148
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: where the defense is. I think a lot of it

1149
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: is the rookie quarterbacks. You know, he's had some really

1150
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: good games, I'd say three really good games and a

1151
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 1: couple of mediocre games, and the last two games have

1152
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 1: been his worst games through four picks last Sunday in Miami.

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Speaker 1: We talked to him on Monday and he said it

1154
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 1: was just and I'm using his words here, he called

1155
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: it stupid football. And I think he's pressing now. He's

1156
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 1: just going through that whole rookie thing, and I think

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00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: a lot of the problems are stemming from that. Offensively,

1158
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,760
Speaker 1: but look, they don't have dynamic players is on offense,

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00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: so you know, no receivers, no tight ends. Really the

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Speaker 1: line is in my opinion, there's just kind of average.

1161
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Speaker 1: But they should be better than what they're doing. And

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Speaker 1: I think if Josh McCarroll were the quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 1: the functioning at a higher level on offense. But he's

1164
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: obviously not in their flip plans in the future, so

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Speaker 1: they're going with going with the rookie. Hey, Rich, you know,

1166
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Speaker 1: there were rumblings after the four interception performance that maybe

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00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: Darnold would take a seat, but there was never serious

1168
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: consideration given to that. Was there this week that Darnold

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Speaker 1: step aside for a while. No, no, I don't think

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Speaker 1: you know. Todd Bowle said it after the game. He

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Speaker 1: said it again Monday. They're gonna stick with Sam. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that means that he has a permanent

1173
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: appointment to the job. If it gets to a point

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00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 1: where he's just not functioning and really hurting the team

1175
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: and more hurting himself, then I think they would take

1176
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Speaker 1: him out. I think it's it's foolish to think that

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Speaker 1: they're just going to leave them in if things get

1178
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: really bad. They're paying, Josh, you know, ten million dollars,

1179
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: they might as well get some use out of them.

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00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, But I mean, if if Sam had a

1181
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: horrendous first half against Buffalo on Sunday, he threw a

1182
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: couple of pinks, and they were just awful on offense.

1183
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: Would it shocked me if Josh came in, No, it

1184
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 1: would not. One of the guys that they've got on

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00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 1: their scort, Jamal Adams, they've gotten in their secondary of

1186
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: their defense. They do have some young guys on defense

1187
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: that are starting to play pretty well. So, you know,

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00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: is there any thought that maybe, you know, there are

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Speaker 1: some pieces that are going to be a New York

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00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: Jet and in that organization for a long long time

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00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 1: to come. Besides Sam Darnel obviously, and maybe some other

1192
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,320
Speaker 1: what are some other guys that you know, it looks

1193
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: like they've hit on well. I think they have about

1194
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: six to eight players that you could say are going

1195
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 1: to be around here for sure, and I think on

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00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: defense for sure. You mentioned you know Jamal, I'd say

1197
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 1: he's probably the leader of the defense right now. And

1198
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: their their MVP. Darren Lee is another player who's young

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Speaker 1: and improving. You know, Leonard Williams another young and improving

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00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: player on the line. You know, Jordan Jenkins is getting better.

1201
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: Marcus May their other safety's a good player, and they

1202
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: just signed Tremaine Johnson to a big contract last offseason,

1203
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: so he's not going anywhere for a couple of years,

1204
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: even though he's been injured for five or six weeks.

1205
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: So you know, they do have some pieces on defense.

1206
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: The offense is gonna will be overhauled this offseason. They

1207
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Speaker 1: have a lot of free agents, and other than Donald,

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Speaker 1: I don't say anyone for sure is coming back, right.

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00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: That's funny. We did a segment on our show yesterday

1210
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Speaker 1: about the Bill's offense, like who do you need to

1211
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: come back? And we had trouble coming up with three

1212
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: other than Josh Shandon. We're in the similar boat, rich

1213
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 1: question for you. And one big difference I see between

1214
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: these two struggling teams is the status of the head coach.

1215
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: Doesn't you know Sean McDermot is solid obviously for now,

1216
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: and I wonder what Todd Bowl's status is and how

1217
00:57:58,080 --> 00:57:59,919
Speaker 1: much heat there will be on him and if he'll

1218
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: get a chance to be around with the Jets, you know,

1219
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: draft well and turn the corner. What do you think? Yeah, well,

1220
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: that's the big question. That'll be the major storyline as

1221
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: they come down the home stress here, it's the ownership

1222
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: has been very supportive. They said before the year that

1223
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: there's no playoff mandate this year. They understand this is

1224
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Speaker 1: a rebuilding project. It's it's kind of a three year plan.

1225
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: They're in year two. They'll make a big push in

1226
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Speaker 1: this offseason coming up. They got one hundred billion dollars

1227
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 1: in cap rooms, so they can really add some players,

1228
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: and if they draft well, they'll obviously have a high

1229
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Speaker 1: pick again. So the question is do you want Hot

1230
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: Bowls to be that guy? Right now? I'd say it's

1231
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: a little bit up in the air. I really do.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's done some good things and

1233
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: he's not working with the greatest roster. But on the

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Speaker 1: other hand, are they getting better? That's the main question,

1235
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Speaker 1: and I think right now it's it's really hard to

1236
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: answer that question. And if we're talking about that the

1237
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 1: same thing in four or five weeks from now, then

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00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: I think he'd be in big trouble. Where do you

1239
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: think the bar is for the rest of the season.

1240
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: I know that the interim owner has said, you know,

1241
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: I just want to see growth, and like you said,

1242
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: they just want to see the team get better. Um,

1243
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: how does where's the bar? Is it a one loss?

1244
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: Is it just the way that rookie quarterback looks? Is it? Um?

1245
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: You know, where where where are they going to draw

1246
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: the you know, the line over success or failure for

1247
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: this season? You just right in that answer, Steve, you

1248
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: just hit the nail on the head. It's the rookie quarterback.

1249
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: I think. I think it's not so much about the

1250
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: wins and the losses, even though of course they would

1251
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: never admit that publicly. It's about the quarterback. Is his

1252
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: arrow pointed up as the season's ending, you know, is

1253
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: he getting better? Is he showing progress? Because if he's not,

1254
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:52,959
Speaker 1: they'll go out and get one of these offensive hot shot,

1255
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, assistant coaches, you know, looking for the next

1256
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. You know, you've seen it all around the league.

1257
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 1: It's a copycat league and everyone looking for that offensive genius.

1258
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: And if this quarterback doesn't get fixed in the next

1259
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 1: six or seven games, you know, the Jets are going

1260
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: to be out there with the rest of the teams

1261
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: looking for an offensive coach. And it's you know, Todd

1262
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with offense. He's a defensive guy.

1263
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: But they have Jeremy Bates as their offensive coordinator and

1264
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Speaker 1: I think he's done him. You know, I think it's

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Speaker 1: been mediocre so far, but there's still a bunch of

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Speaker 1: games to be played, and you know, maybe they can

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Speaker 1: get Donald moving in the right direction, which you said.

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Speaker 1: One more question for you, and that's the status of

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Speaker 1: Donald this week. Was he banged up? Is he okay

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Speaker 1: at practice today? What have you seen or hurt? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm out of practice right now and I'm looking. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking for him. We see here. He did say he

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Speaker 1: was a little banged up after the game, but then

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Speaker 1: on Monday he said he was fine, and I am looking.

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Speaker 1: I actually I do not see him on the practice

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Speaker 1: field now, I could that could be a I see

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Speaker 1: Josh McCown and Dave the web there practice quarterback. I

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01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 1: do not see uh Sam with the quarterbacks right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm sure you'll be on all over that

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Speaker 1: today then and we'll be reading. Thank you very much, Rich,

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Speaker 1: We appreciate your time today. Thank you. Take care of

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Speaker 1: Rich Samini from ESPN ESPN NFL Nation reporter covering the Jets.

1283
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 1: He's been a beat reporter They're coming the Jets for

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Speaker 1: more than three decades. Rich's appearance on the Subway Fresh

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Speaker 1: Day coutline presented by Subway Restaurants Proud to be locally

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Speaker 1: owned and operated it. I hate to put him on

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Speaker 1: the spot, but I got a tweet the that our

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Speaker 1: crew in the other room said from Eric Allen, who

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Speaker 1: said quarterback Sam Donald not suited up for practice as

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Speaker 1: a baseball cap on and black boot on his right foot. Well, well,

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Speaker 1: there you go. That means, I mean, that's that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's breaking news right there. You know you you Jets

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Speaker 1: are a practice and we got the report from the

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Speaker 1: Jet Well it's Twitter, Twitter. Well he's right, he didn't

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Speaker 1: see him out there, I mean, there, there you go. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: thanks to rich for joining us. I'm gonna stop myself

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01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: from saying I find the Jets interesting, and I've never

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01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 1: liked the New York Jets as an organization. They've always

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01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: been my most despised franchise. But I will tell you this, Steve,

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01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: they're worth watching now. And as you pointed out a

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Speaker 1: minute ago, last half hour, the Bills get them twice

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Speaker 1: in the next month, so we're gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: of Jets stock here. I mean, the schedule is so

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01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: screwed up for the Bills to play just one AFC

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01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: East game in the first eight games, that's ridiculous. Now

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01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: I got five AFC East games in the final seven weeks,

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Speaker 1: including the Jets a month apart, and then you got

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins about five weeks apart. But whatever, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to tell you I'm fascinated by the New York Jets,

1310
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: but they bear watching, especially since the Bills get them

1311
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Speaker 1: twice in a four week span, especially with their rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterback just like Buffalo, and especially with their coach whose

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Speaker 1: status is going to be closely followed over the next

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Speaker 1: few weeks. I think I agree with you. It's a

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Speaker 1: shame too because the Bills, as we you know, we

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Speaker 1: talked about it a ton I having six of their

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Speaker 1: first nine or whatever on the road. The Bills, you know,

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Speaker 1: if they were competitive offensively, if they could stay on

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01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: the field, if they could score some points and get

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Speaker 1: some wins and still be in the hunt to have

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01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: all those home games coming in the second half of

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Speaker 1: the of the season with the division still in doubt, yeah,

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Speaker 1: things would change it dramatically. I couldn't do it, though.

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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time in first half of

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Speaker 1: the season telling you how the back half of the

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Speaker 1: season was going to be easier to handle. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter now that it doesn't matter because the Bills can't

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Speaker 1: score a touchdown, can't get in the episode, cares or

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Speaker 1: you're playing, You're not gonna be anybody can not score. Ye.

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Speaker 1: All right, So back to our original question of the day,

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Speaker 1: and I got other questions for you today's too, Steve

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Speaker 1: Um Bills and Jets. Who's closer to contention? What do

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Speaker 1: you think? Much a dismissal of that question on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Much ridicule to that question on Twitter. That's what you

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Speaker 1: do on Twitter. We're okay with that. Give us a

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

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Speaker 1: eight eight fifty two, five fifty. A phone call here

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Speaker 1: from Joe and Vatavia. Joe, go ahead, you're on the air. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks guys for taking my call. I got a question,

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Speaker 1: especially for Steve. I got two questions this one. First

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Speaker 1: one is, first, Steve, the confidence and enthusiasm of the

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01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 1: players and Sean McDermott is starting to wane a little

1343
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 1: bit with all these losses or could it start? I

1344
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 1: mean if they just didn't look good against the Bears?

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01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: And number two? The second question I got is a Jones.

1346
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 1: He's the number one receiver now how much he's how

1347
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: much has he improved? Is he getting off the line better?

1348
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Speaker 1: And stuff like that, And now I'm going to listen

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Speaker 1: to Okay, the first question about the player's confidence. Here's

1350
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 1: the thing. The players have a lot of confidence going

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01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: into every game. They believe they can get some things

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01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: done against every opponent. And certainly, you know, people get

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01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: the idea that somehow the defensive guys are going to

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01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,320
Speaker 1: be mad at the offensive guys. It's not like that.

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Speaker 1: It's a team effort. You're trying to do everything you

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Speaker 1: can to help them be successful. And you know because

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Speaker 1: you see him do it every day and during the games,

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Speaker 1: you see how hard they're trying to help you. Now,

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01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 1: they're not always successful, and this year the offense has

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Speaker 1: not been successful at all, But that doesn't mean you stop,

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01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 1: you know, loving and respecting your family. That's the way

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01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:06,959
Speaker 1: it works. And they know that when they play well,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win games. But they've got to do that

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Speaker 1: and that it means these Again I've said this before

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Speaker 1: on the shows too. You win games in the NFL

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Speaker 1: Monday through Saturday. On Sunday, you just get, you just get.

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Speaker 1: It's the evidence of what you've done during the week.

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Speaker 1: So they're trying to win games today tomorrow. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're trying to put in the hard work and they

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Speaker 1: do that, so they come that preparation, that hard work

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Speaker 1: and the knowledge you have of what you're supposed to

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Speaker 1: do and the confidence you have that you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to do it gives you the belief that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna win. And that's there every week. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's wavered at all. And that's part of why

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott picks the kind of players he picks, because

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a given every week. The second thing

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Speaker 1: about Day Jones, we had this conversation maybe a couple

1379
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, say, Jones has played much differently this

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Speaker 1: year than you did a year ago. He's catching the

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01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 1: ball better, more consistently. You know, everybody's challenged by what's

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01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: going on with the quarterback position. Because I've said this,

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01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: receivers are made by their quarterbacks. So you can imagine

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01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: how tough a year it's been for Kelvin Benjamin and

1385
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 1: Zay Jones and the you know, and Ray, Ray McLeod, you,

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01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: Robert Foster, the whole gang over there is really struggling

1387
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: to get targets, but in the targets that Zay Jone

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01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: has gotten, there's no doubt he's a much different guy

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Speaker 1: this year than he was a year go as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: And I think it comes from repetitions, knowledge, coaching, and

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Speaker 1: just seeing himself compete on film and learning from what

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Speaker 1: he has done in the past. And I think seeing

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Speaker 1: himself go against guys and realizing he can do it

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01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: has given him a lot of confidence. And I think

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01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 1: that's what you see he has. I think he's played

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Speaker 1: better than any receiver on the on the roster. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback situation has made it so that's not saying

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Speaker 1: all that much. Do you think the Jets or anybody

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Speaker 1: lining up against the Bill say we got to really

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Speaker 1: find an answer to Zay Jones. I don't think so.

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01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: I really don't know what they'll say is what they'll

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01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 1: say is that's the guy they throw to. They may

1403
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: not say listen, we're and you know what, they'll just take.

1404
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 1: They'll treat the best guy as if he were a

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Speaker 1: really good guy, whether he's good or bad. If they'll

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01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,440
Speaker 1: look at the whole group and they say, listen, against

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Speaker 1: these guys, we can play man to man, and we're

1408
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: gonna win most places. We're gonna win all the way

1409
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Speaker 1: across the board. So what will happen is that'll give

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Speaker 1: them the confidence to go up and go man to

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Speaker 1: man with zero or with a one free safety or

1412
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Speaker 1: maybe zero coverage with no free safety. Say, we're gonna

1413
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: bring pressure. Whoever's back there, he's gonna have to find

1414
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Speaker 1: somebody open. And I don't think any of your guys

1415
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: can get open one on one on our guys. That

1416
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 1: may happen, and some teams will do that, and then

1417
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 1: we'll do that every play, but they'll do it more

1418
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Speaker 1: in the game against the Bills, and they would if

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Speaker 1: they think that's the case. See, I think part of

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Speaker 1: what we might be on the cusp of here as

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Speaker 1: we follow the Bills is kind of a changeover is

1422
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 1: to who they're leaning to, especially on the offensive side

1423
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Speaker 1: of them all. And Isaiah McKenzie, you know what, Brownie,

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01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: you talked about him at practice today. Just added to

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Speaker 1: the roster a couple of days ago, right Monday, late

1426
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: Monday wide receivers played a little bit in the league,

1427
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,000
Speaker 1: has a little bit of a speed dimension that they

1428
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: have not had. I think a guy like that Bears

1429
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: watching anyway. As a potential playmaker for the Bills. I

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01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: don't and won't get into you know, team's opponents you

1431
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:17,720
Speaker 1: have to look out for him yet. But I do

1432
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,680
Speaker 1: think he might have as much potential as has been

1433
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:23,280
Speaker 1: an important factor in the passing game as Zay Jones

1434
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 1: might have moving forward. I think offensive line. As I

1435
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:29,439
Speaker 1: mentioned Bears watching here. You know, Wyatt Teller seemed to

1436
01:08:29,479 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: be lining up with the ones at the early portions

1437
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 1: of practice today. He played I had the number, what

1438
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: seventeen snaps the other day Sunday against the Chicago Bears.

1439
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: You know, he was in there lining up at left

1440
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:42,640
Speaker 1: guard with the ones today. I mean, maybe he's a

1441
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: guy who has something. He has seventeen snaps against the Bears.

1442
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a guy who has something to say about

1443
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:49,400
Speaker 1: the final seven games. Jeremiah Searles, who's in his fifth

1444
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 1: year in the league. He's not a rookie, big, huge

1445
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, played twenty seven snaps against the Bears. Now

1446
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: he had been getting snaps as a tight end, extra

1447
01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 1: tight end and a blocking guy up front. Maybe he

1448
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, he played for Jordan Mills a lot the

1449
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 1: other day. Twenty seven snaps total. All I'm saying is

1450
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 1: I think things are changing a little bit. I think

1451
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: as we approached the buy, the Bills coaching staff might

1452
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: be Steve reaching the point and Philip Gaines obviously, you know,

1453
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 1: getting not just benched but cut cut. I mean, we

1454
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 1: anticipate that they're ready to they're ready to move on

1455
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 1: and maybe go back to Ryan Lewis at the opposite

1456
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: corner from Tredavious White. My point is, I think we're

1457
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: reaching the part of the season where the Bills coaching

1458
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:32,800
Speaker 1: staff says, looked, this isn't working. We got these other guys,

1459
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:34,679
Speaker 1: we should start taking a look at them, whether they're

1460
01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 1: young prospects. And in most of these cases, there's somebody else,

1461
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:40,360
Speaker 1: a guy like mackenzie coming off the street that might

1462
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 1: be the direction of the season is going. That's what

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01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying. McKenzie came off the practice squad of Denver.

1464
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, they I think, and I think

1465
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 1: it once again, I'll say it. The fact that they're

1466
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:55,080
Speaker 1: even working on the defensive side of the ball, then

1467
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 1: they're leaving no stone unturned, no stone unturned. Nobody is safe.

1468
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 1: Even if you're if, if you're if you're a defensive guy.

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01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 1: You'd think all the guys over there going all right,

1470
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:05,680
Speaker 1: I'm cool, we're gonna play, We're gonna keep playing. Well,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the guy who started the corner

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Speaker 1: is gone. Well, I mean, he had some games in

1473
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:14,680
Speaker 1: a row, get A's interference calls when we're off all

1474
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 1: the last few games. And now I'll tell you what.

1475
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 1: The Patriots came out and just tortured him right right

1476
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: off the get You know they get to go the

1477
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: other day. I mean say it happened to me on occasion,

1478
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 1: not often, but on occasion you sit in the locker

1479
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:28,960
Speaker 1: room and somebody you know goes and hey, you know,

1480
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: like Philip Gaines got cut and you're sitting at your

1481
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 1: locker thinking, wait a minute, he started last week. Wow,

1482
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 1: they are not happy. You know what I'm saying, Like, listen,

1483
01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna strap it on a little

1484
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 1: bit today. You know what I'm that's it's a message,

1485
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:46,400
Speaker 1: that's definitely the mess. It is a shot in the

1486
01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: air that draws attention and uh yeah, and it goes

1487
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 1: right to the other side of the ball that's playing

1488
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 1: really well too. So nobody, I mean, there is nobody

1489
01:10:57,080 --> 01:10:59,720
Speaker 1: in that locker room or on that coaching staff, and

1490
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: thereanization who's like sitting feeling like I'm gonna they'll they'll

1491
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: figure it out. I'm gonna do my thing, They'll figure

1492
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:07,639
Speaker 1: it out. You're in it, let's go, and you're expected

1493
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:12,440
Speaker 1: all hands on deck. It was, I'm that's pretty significant

1494
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 1: to me. I gotta be honest, that's pretty significant to me.

1495
01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 1: And I and I and I gotta say, I like

1496
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: where their heads at. I'm I'm all for that kind

1497
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,719
Speaker 1: of thing too. See a phone call here from Greg

1498
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: in Rochester. Hello, Greg, welcome, go ahead, you'reund the air. Andy.

1499
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: What's going on, guys? Greg Diola here, first time caller. Hey,

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01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 1: back to that that last part, you know, talking about

1501
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: how our receivers are made from quarterbacks. I know that's

1502
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:38,360
Speaker 1: completely you know, accurate in most cases in the in

1503
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: the NFL, But you know, when you got guys like

1504
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 1: Helvin Benjamin, you know, turning down rot practices with Josh

1505
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: Allen saying na, I'm good. I mean, when does it

1506
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:50,040
Speaker 1: come time to you know, start holding people accountable? And

1507
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure the bills are doing that. But well, let

1508
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: me just in a second, Greg, they we just talked

1509
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: about it they cut a starter this week. They're holding

1510
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,719
Speaker 1: people accountable. There. It looks like they're ready to plug

1511
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,719
Speaker 1: some people in on the offensive line and new starters.

1512
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: That's holding people accountable. And one of the problems, too, Greg,

1513
01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 1: is this, you're able to cut Philip Gaines because he

1514
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 1: played a level in a game where you've seen other

1515
01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: guys in your roster play better then, and then that

1516
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 1: gives you the freedom to say, listen, we don't that

1517
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:21,599
Speaker 1: guy isn't as good as this guy over here. We've

1518
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: got somebody better to put in. And it sounds like

1519
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 1: an experiment to us, but that's the belief of the

1520
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 1: coaching staff when they make a move of this nature.

1521
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: There's probably the probably thing is you're talking about a

1522
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,559
Speaker 1: guy like Kelvin Benjamin and or anybody else you want

1523
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 1: to name. If his play drops to below or ability

1524
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 1: drops to below where they think a level they can

1525
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 1: get from somebody else, you can bet somebody else is

1526
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:45,639
Speaker 1: going to be the guy in there. For Kelvin Benjamin,

1527
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 1: he's safe only as long as he's their best option.

1528
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:51,080
Speaker 1: But I mean, by holding people accountable, Greg, what are

1529
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 1: you looking for jail sentences? And no, I know that

1530
01:12:54,479 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 1: you know to be honest, you guys are kind of

1531
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 1: you know him and nail on the head. I mean

1532
01:12:57,560 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: for the season. We can't really keep looking at our

1533
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 1: team and wish that this team is going to get

1534
01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 1: better overnight. I think the fan base wants to hear

1535
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 1: what we're going to be doing, you know, you know,

1536
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: after the buyo week next season, things like that, And

1537
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 1: I think you guys are the best people to kind

1538
01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: of know shed light on what they're thinking, you know,

1539
01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:15,880
Speaker 1: behind the desk and what the players are thinking, because

1540
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,599
Speaker 1: we can only just you know, the morn and hope

1541
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: for the best. So well, it's a good point you make. Overnight, Yeah,

1542
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:25,680
Speaker 1: there probably won't be a transformation of this offense. That

1543
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: they probably won't score thirty eight points in this game

1544
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: against the Jets and you know score on every and

1545
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 1: every drive. But let me tell you something points in

1546
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: the last month. Right. But the thing is they're trying

1547
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,639
Speaker 1: to win this game no matter what. They are really

1548
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 1: throwing all their effort into winning this game. There they

1549
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:45,599
Speaker 1: don't have the luxury or that it's not their job

1550
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 1: to think about next year. Yet it's Brandon Bean's job

1551
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 1: to start thinking about that. The coaches and the players

1552
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: have to be focused solely on beating the New York

1553
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:59,720
Speaker 1: Jets this week and whatever moves and strategies they used

1554
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: to do that, that's what it's focused on. Thanks for

1555
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:04,599
Speaker 1: your call. We're gonna break Steve Tasker, John Murphy coming

1556
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,519
Speaker 1: back at a moment. Julian Stanford, Bill's linebacker who got

1557
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 1: the start last week's going to join us here in

1558
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,080
Speaker 1: a moment as practice wraps up for the Bills on

1559
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 1: this Wednesday afternoon at One Bills Drive, It's One Bills

1560
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalina Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

1561
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 1: back to the show. One goes live from One Bill's Drive,

1562
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,839
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker, Bill's practice has ended for this Wednesday,

1563
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:38,719
Speaker 1: the Bills getting set to play the New York Jets

1564
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:41,439
Speaker 1: and joining us in studio right after practice. The guy

1565
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: who knows a thing or two about the Jets played

1566
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 1: there for a couple of years. Linebacker Julian Stanford. Julian,

1567
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:47,600
Speaker 1: thanks for coming by, Thank you for having me. That

1568
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: was the most time you spend in the NFL, right,

1569
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:52,479
Speaker 1: you're a couple of years? Yeah, Jets? And was Rex

1570
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 1: there when you were there? Orre you? Actually I got

1571
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 1: there after he left. I had both for all my

1572
01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 1: years there. Okay, and what were your impressions? You know,

1573
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: to say it's a a great rivalry might be a stretch.

1574
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:03,800
Speaker 1: But playing the Bills home or away? What are the

1575
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,120
Speaker 1: Jets typically you think about playing the Buffalo? It's always

1576
01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's always a tough game, divisional game. So

1577
01:15:08,479 --> 01:15:10,559
Speaker 1: I mean, it's always gonna be you know, they're gonna

1578
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 1: come with their best shot. It's gonna be a tough,

1579
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: physical game. I always tell people the Jets are the

1580
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: team that I hate the most of the NFL. I

1581
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: don't know why. I don't like the stadium. I don't

1582
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:21,679
Speaker 1: like the fans. I don't like some of their new stadium.

1583
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: You don't like man, Now, I dare you to go

1584
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: down there and figure out how they where. They spent

1585
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: one billion dollars on that place. Pretty it's a pretty

1586
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: big stadi one one point four bill. Yeah, we're gonna

1587
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 1: ask him, and I wasn't gonna ask you. I guess

1588
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 1: we will. You know what was the shock value? I mean,

1589
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 1: because we were a little bit shocked when they, you know,

1590
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 1: released a starter starting corner. Philip Gaines has gone. What

1591
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:45,480
Speaker 1: kind of message is that, and what kind of conversations

1592
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:47,559
Speaker 1: do you guys have about that when when that came

1593
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:50,280
Speaker 1: through the locker room. I mean, you know, it wasn't

1594
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:52,600
Speaker 1: much conversation had about it. I mean obviously it was

1595
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: a shock start again released. Um, but you know, this league,

1596
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 1: it's a tough league, and you know, you gotta what

1597
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 1: have you done for me lately? You know, you gotta

1598
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 1: put in the putting, the time putting, the work day

1599
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 1: in the day out, and you know, continue to put

1600
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 1: your best foot forward, and you know, never get comfortable,

1601
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 1: you know, being comfortable in this league. You know it's

1602
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: not what you want to do. I know you bounced

1603
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:12,679
Speaker 1: around the league a little bit. Did you ever get

1604
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 1: released by your team in the middle of the season

1605
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: like that happened last time? Um? I didn't. Actually I

1606
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:18,719
Speaker 1: did when I was with the Jets something. I started

1607
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:20,800
Speaker 1: on the active rooster and I got bumped down to

1608
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:22,760
Speaker 1: practice squad and then I got brought back up later

1609
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 1: in the year, so kind of similar. It's I mean,

1610
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 1: it's definitely you know, it's definitely tough. Um. It's life

1611
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you know, So it's kind of gott

1612
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 1: to vote with the punches and continue to just get better.

1613
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: What about your old team, You're about ready to go

1614
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,560
Speaker 1: in and play him on your new team, the Bills.

1615
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 1: What's uh what the Jets personality on film? What do

1616
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: they look like offensively with a rookie quarterback? Now they

1617
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: got a young quarterback. Um, it's definitely gonna be a

1618
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 1: good good test for us. Um, you know, be able

1619
01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 1: to mix things up, kind of get after him. You know,

1620
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: it's definitely gonna be good for our defense to have

1621
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: opportunity to get after their young quarterback. They're getting a

1622
01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: lot of work out of a kind of a journeyman

1623
01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:59,599
Speaker 1: type running back Isaiah Crowell, former Cleveland Brown. What's sort

1624
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:01,080
Speaker 1: of a run or is he? How do you would

1625
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 1: you describe his style as a running He's a physical

1626
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:05,760
Speaker 1: running back. Um, he's gonna, you know, run behind his pads. Um,

1627
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: you gotta get hasts to the football and get him

1628
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,760
Speaker 1: down physical. Um, it's gonna be a physical game up front.

1629
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:12,759
Speaker 1: You know, that's where the game is always one upfront.

1630
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:14,600
Speaker 1: So we got to stop the run and forcing to

1631
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: be one dimensional with the Bills. Linebacker Julian Stanford, who

1632
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:21,679
Speaker 1: made his first start for the Bills last Sunday against

1633
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears when Tremine Edmond was out. How did

1634
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: that go? What did you think I think it was?

1635
01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 1: I think I played. I think it was pretty good. Um. Defense,

1636
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of played pretty well for the

1637
01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: most part, up and down. You know, we gave up

1638
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:35,200
Speaker 1: some scores late in the game. UM, it was a

1639
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 1: tough game overall as a for a team. UM, you know,

1640
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 1: obviously we didn't get that the goal was to win

1641
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 1: the game. We didn't do that, so you know it

1642
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough. Um, we got to continue to get better,

1643
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 1: continue to tighten things and um, you know, fix make

1644
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:48,760
Speaker 1: corrections and continue to get better. What were your impressions

1645
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:51,240
Speaker 1: of Tariqu Cohen going side to side the way? He's

1646
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:53,519
Speaker 1: a fast He's a fast, fast guy. Um, you know,

1647
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: small load to the ground, definitely, extremely elusive. UM, good

1648
01:17:57,080 --> 01:17:59,559
Speaker 1: top end, good acceleration. He's a great player. And you

1649
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 1: told me that start Sunday was the first time you

1650
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:04,640
Speaker 1: started ten games prior in your NFL career. But that's

1651
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 1: the first time you started as the mic inside. That's

1652
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: a little bit different at different definitely. I mean I

1653
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: played played Mike in the preseason before, but um, in

1654
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 1: the game, it's a little different, you know, getting a

1655
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 1: call in your headset, being able to communicate the call

1656
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: from the headset to the defense um to to defensive unit, um,

1657
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: getting him lined up, making all the calls and checks

1658
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:24,360
Speaker 1: and adjustments, and then after doing all that, playing your position.

1659
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 1: So it's definitely different than playing the you know, the

1660
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 1: other backup. Let me be the first to tell you

1661
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 1: that this is just coming across the wire, um moniche

1662
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: meta from the Jets and the New York Daily News. Um,

1663
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 1: looks like Sam Darnold has a significant foot sprain and

1664
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play against you guys. Oh wow, that's

1665
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: that just came over. Well, I means you're gonna get

1666
01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: Josh Josh McCown, which is no bargain either. That guy

1667
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: is probably at this point a better quarterback at least

1668
01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 1: more more learned quarterback. Well, he's definitely has more experience

1669
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:55,080
Speaker 1: in the league. Exactly, definitely great. You know, he's a

1670
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: great guy, great locker room guy, great quarterback. Um, it's

1671
01:18:58,040 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: just gonna be you know, next man an up type

1672
01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:01,759
Speaker 1: of talent, and we kind of just got to continue

1673
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: with our game plan and just people prepare to play

1674
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: against him. Yeah, you were talking about getting the calls

1675
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: in your headset and being the guy as the mic

1676
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 1: linebacker to make those calls at any point during the

1677
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: game and maybe after the game. He's like, man, how

1678
01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 1: does Tremaine do that a rookie? I know, I talked

1679
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 1: to him throughout the week and I was like, you know,

1680
01:19:17,439 --> 01:19:20,640
Speaker 1: it's definitely different. It's definitely tough, um, having to do

1681
01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 1: those things, and you know something that you kind of

1682
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:24,639
Speaker 1: got to continue to do, continue to take a website,

1683
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 1: to get more comfortable as the you know, the game

1684
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:29,439
Speaker 1: progressors and things of that nature. Um, it's definitely different.

1685
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:34,120
Speaker 1: What was the biggest surprise? UM, I wasn't saying so

1686
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 1: much surprise, but it was definitely you know, took a

1687
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:37,960
Speaker 1: little bit of time to settle in and kind of

1688
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 1: just get comfortable and just be out there and play,

1689
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 1: you know, just play football. You spend a lot of

1690
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 1: this because I don't I don't know if what you're

1691
01:19:44,120 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: like when you're not you don't have the radio and

1692
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 1: you don't have to talk to everybody on the defense

1693
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: before if we play. But you know, you don't say

1694
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:51,040
Speaker 1: too much. I mean, you say, you know, maybe five

1695
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: words at the top of your lungs. Maybe right, But

1696
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you got this radio, and

1697
01:19:57,200 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now you're like all you do

1698
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: is you're like giving this dissertation of the play and

1699
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 1: the just adjustments and you're talking about you know, that's

1700
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 1: all you do. It seems like right, Well, I mean

1701
01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:08,000
Speaker 1: the defense is the whole communication, um, and that's what

1702
01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:10,000
Speaker 1: helps us to play well, you know, everybody on the

1703
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 1: same page, communicating across the board. Um. But it's definitely

1704
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:16,640
Speaker 1: a different challenge to play the mic backer it is

1705
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:19,600
Speaker 1: to play, you know, the weekendside backer. So definitely, you know,

1706
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,839
Speaker 1: it's definitely a good experience for me. Is it more physical?

1707
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're taking on bigger offensive lineman

1708
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: when you're the mic? No? I mean, you know, the

1709
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:28,160
Speaker 1: game is physical, fun. You know, the front seven is physical.

1710
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 1: You know that's we try to, you know, pride ourselves

1711
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: on being a physical defense and you know, physically stopping

1712
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 1: the run and stuff and you know, establishing the line

1713
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:37,599
Speaker 1: of skirmish. I was watching the game over again Monday

1714
01:20:37,680 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: morning and noticing that early in the game against the Bears,

1715
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 1: with you calling the plays and trying to get people

1716
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:45,120
Speaker 1: lined up, I could see literally see Lorenzo, Alexander and

1717
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:48,200
Speaker 1: Milano and Kyle and others just kind of pointing to

1718
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:50,439
Speaker 1: you and saying it looked like they had your back

1719
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:52,759
Speaker 1: a little bit, right, and you know that, and that's definitely, Um,

1720
01:20:52,840 --> 01:20:55,719
Speaker 1: it's great confidence give you, you know, gives you confidence

1721
01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: knowing that you know the guys are they have your

1722
01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:00,000
Speaker 1: back and you know we're all trying to get lineup

1723
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 1: and played together as a unit, you know. So that's

1724
01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:05,280
Speaker 1: that's definitely great. So you grew up in Connecticut, went

1725
01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: to Wagner, played for the Jets for a couple of years.

1726
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 1: How many tickets you gotta get for this game? It'll

1727
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,280
Speaker 1: be nice to you know, a lot of family will

1728
01:21:12,320 --> 01:21:13,640
Speaker 1: be at the game, and it'd be nice to you know,

1729
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:15,960
Speaker 1: kind of not go home but be closer to home

1730
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:17,760
Speaker 1: and be able to see a lot of my family. Um,

1731
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: that's always good. Home is Connecticut. Those are probably all

1732
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:26,360
Speaker 1: Giants fans, your family actually some Eagle fans. Yeah. Yeah,

1733
01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:29,720
Speaker 1: there's no predicting what fans what people be a fan,

1734
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 1: because you know, you know, Connecticut, the closest team is

1735
01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:34,160
Speaker 1: obviously New England, but you know, some people like New England,

1736
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: some people like the Giants, some people like the Jets,

1737
01:21:36,160 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 1: some people like the Eagles, So it's all a little

1738
01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 1: bit of everything. Hey, Julian, defense has played pretty well

1739
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:44,519
Speaker 1: for a long stretch of the season. The offense has struggled.

1740
01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:47,760
Speaker 1: How many times did you get asked about that over

1741
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 1: the last month or so? You know, it seemed like

1742
01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:52,400
Speaker 1: it was a it's a legitimate question, but people say,

1743
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: are you defense guys on defense getting frustrated the offense

1744
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:57,639
Speaker 1: struggle so bad? I mean, I mean, you know, it's

1745
01:21:57,680 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 1: a team sport, you know, so we gotta pick each

1746
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: other up, and you know it'd be sometimes with offense

1747
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 1: maybe doing better defense maybe lacking this. You know, we

1748
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 1: gotta play complimentary football. You know, offense has to you know,

1749
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 1: defense has to stop stop the offense. You know, especially

1750
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 1: teams help with field position and set the offense something

1751
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:14,879
Speaker 1: to score. You know, you know, we gotta play complimentary football,

1752
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 1: and we got to all work together for a common goal,

1753
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:18,680
Speaker 1: which is to win the game. Yeah, you guys are

1754
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 1: you're playing with the way they rank defense, You're a

1755
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:23,680
Speaker 1: top five defense in the NFL. I mean, you're really

1756
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: kind of hitting on all cylinders. Would I think the

1757
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:28,599
Speaker 1: one thing that you'd like to do is get more sacks,

1758
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: maybe get more pressure on the quarterback. Now that you've

1759
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 1: got Josh McCown and you've had like thirty seconds to

1760
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:36,960
Speaker 1: think about that, you know you played with him and

1761
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 1: you know the kind of savvy veteran he is, right,

1762
01:22:39,600 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: Do you anticipate that kind of gives your defense a

1763
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:45,320
Speaker 1: different mindset going in there against a guy like him

1764
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:49,080
Speaker 1: rather than Darnald. Um, I mean I'm not sure, you know,

1765
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 1: I think that. You know, we still gotta go with

1766
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 1: the game plan, which is always the number one stopped

1767
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 1: to run established line scrimmage, make the offense one dimensional,

1768
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:58,719
Speaker 1: and you know, win the game from there. You mentioned

1769
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 1: a moment ago a special team, and really that was

1770
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 1: your bread and butter up until this past week or two. Um,

1771
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 1: what does this team need to do better on teams?

1772
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: Do you think moving forward? Um? I mean, obviously, you

1773
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:11,000
Speaker 1: know last week we gave up two big pump returns.

1774
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: We got to cover bet on coverage units and do

1775
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:15,000
Speaker 1: everything we can to put the offense in the better

1776
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:17,760
Speaker 1: field position. You know, it's frustrating as a as a fan.

1777
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: I guess to watch a game and the Bills said

1778
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 1: the Bears kicked off eight times and not one return.

1779
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I know they're they're vomited into the end zone,

1780
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 1: but can you do anything? Can you set up anything?

1781
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:30,439
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's tough. It's tough when they kick

1782
01:23:30,439 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: it so deep in the end zone. You know, time

1783
01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: is off, so it's kind of you kind of gotta

1784
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 1: go with what you get. It's no fun to watch.

1785
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 1: It's not it's like what are we doing. It's it's yeah,

1786
01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:42,600
Speaker 1: it's becoming kickoff a little bit. Hum. Yeah, it's like

1787
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 1: the old extra points. Yeah, how well it will change change. Hey,

1788
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on, Thank you, Thank you. Julian Stanford.

1789
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 1: Bill's linebackers started last week as the Bills took on

1790
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 1: the Bears. We'll see what happens this week with Tremaine

1791
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 1: Edmonds trying to come back limited in practice. Today, Steve

1792
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: and I are coming back with more One Bills Live

1793
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:02,719
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1794
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 1: Ob El means One Bills Live. That's our show. We're

1795
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:21,280
Speaker 1: here everyday noon to three. Welcome to the show, John Murphy,

1796
01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker coming to alive from One Bill's Drive. Bill's

1797
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 1: practice is over our thanks to Julian Stanford, Jets are

1798
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 1: in practice, and there's news out of the Jets practice

1799
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. According to Menish Meda from the New York

1800
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:35,639
Speaker 1: Daily News, we had minishe on the other day, right, Yeah,

1801
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold has a significant footspring. He will not play

1802
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: against the Bills at this point. The team is not

1803
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: optimistic that he'll be ready for the Patriots game after

1804
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:46,559
Speaker 1: the week eleven by, but we'll see. That's what benisch

1805
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 1: Meda reports. Sam Donald limped into practice today a boot

1806
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,719
Speaker 1: on his right foot in street clothes at Wednesday's practice.

1807
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:56,559
Speaker 1: The extent of the injury not known. Probably more updates

1808
01:24:56,560 --> 01:24:59,080
Speaker 1: coming out, but Darnold, that appears, is out this week.

1809
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: Josh mccollin likely to be the starter for the Jets.

1810
01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 1: The Bills just went mayte through their practice with Josh

1811
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 1: Allen getting limited work. We'll see how that goes as

1812
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:11,759
Speaker 1: the week goes along. I mean it could be Nathan

1813
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:14,439
Speaker 1: Peterman against Josh mccollin Steve, which will light up the

1814
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:18,479
Speaker 1: television ratings this week. I have been waiting all seasons

1815
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: for that matchup. We'll see, but and it's debatable Darnald

1816
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,559
Speaker 1: does not play, mccollin would have to play better for

1817
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 1: the Bills or worse. I think it might be worse.

1818
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 1: It's like a twitter pulled for tomorrow. Doesn't that does?

1819
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:34,519
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that tell me why. It's that Josh

1820
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: McCown is well versed in NFL defenses. Now, he doesn't

1821
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:40,760
Speaker 1: have the arm strength or whatever that Josh or Sam

1822
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 1: Darnald does. But Josh McCown, you cannot fool him. He's

1823
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna run that offense efficiently. In fact, Rich

1824
01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:49,960
Speaker 1: Samini told us earlier in the show. He says, there's

1825
01:25:49,960 --> 01:25:52,200
Speaker 1: no question the offense would probably run more efficiently if

1826
01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:54,920
Speaker 1: Josh McCown was the quarterback. But they're in the rookie

1827
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: quarterback business. You know, they're getting Sam Darnald ready to

1828
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: play and play well and be a franchise quarterback. So

1829
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:02,679
Speaker 1: h McCown isn't. They don't want him on the field,

1830
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:06,760
Speaker 1: but they even though they might be a little better

1831
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 1: offensively if he was at times. So I think that's

1832
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 1: what the Bills are up against. They're up against a

1833
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna make the right decisions, or more right decisions.

1834
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 1: The only question is is he gonna be able to

1835
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:19,559
Speaker 1: deliver the football on time? And in the right spot.

1836
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 1: He's an old guy. Sometimes those guys struggle. I mean,

1837
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: ask you know, ask Derek Anderson how hard it is

1838
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 1: to bounce up off off of watching for a while

1839
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 1: and get back into it. It's it's not easy here

1840
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 1: at that. But you know, this is all this stuff

1841
01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:36,640
Speaker 1: that's happened. Do you think about this. It's been a

1842
01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:39,040
Speaker 1: big first half of the NFL season. A lot of

1843
01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 1: stuff has happened, a lot of it unexpected, and we

1844
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: still have another half of the season to go. Hey,

1845
01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 1: it was great to talk with Julian Stanford, who did

1846
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:52,439
Speaker 1: start last week against um the Bears. Does he start

1847
01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 1: this week against the Jets. We don't know. Jeremaine Edmonds

1848
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:58,240
Speaker 1: got unlimited work today. We'll follow that if Edmonds is ready.

1849
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: It's funny we debate and some people raise their voices

1850
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:04,800
Speaker 1: debating whether a healthy Josh Allen should start. There's no

1851
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 1: debate about Tremine Edmunds. But whatever, that's another You're looking

1852
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 1: at me like you want to fight about that what

1853
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:15,400
Speaker 1: I've been saying. But Julian Stanford, if he doesn't start,

1854
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:17,559
Speaker 1: would certainly return to his prominent role on the Bill

1855
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:20,840
Speaker 1: special teams. They need help and special teams, of course,

1856
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:23,320
Speaker 1: have changed around the NFL report. They came out today

1857
01:27:23,560 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 1: a mid season review of special teams rules modification initiated

1858
01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:29,519
Speaker 1: for the season, and as you might expect, the NFL

1859
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:32,000
Speaker 1: is patting itself on the back. Many of the space

1860
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:35,600
Speaker 1: and speed concerns have been successfully addressed. You're responsible for

1861
01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 1: some of these changes, Steve, I'm not responsible for any

1862
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:40,720
Speaker 1: of it. I was in the room when they told

1863
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:43,639
Speaker 1: us what they were going to do. The leak says

1864
01:27:43,640 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: overall injuries on the kickoff are down compared to last season,

1865
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 1: concussions are down, and they're talking. I don't know what

1866
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 1: this means. The league patting itself on the back, and

1867
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: this long press release Football Operations Troy Vincent's group put

1868
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: out today block locations and speed, lower speed front wall

1869
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 1: blocks are fifty eight percent and higher speed back wall

1870
01:28:02,680 --> 01:28:04,800
Speaker 1: blocks are down forty three percent. What do they mean there,

1871
01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:07,400
Speaker 1: mister specials. Well, that's what that's where guys were getting hurt.

1872
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:09,439
Speaker 1: You had a bunch of guys getting a running start,

1873
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 1: running forty yards down the field and then having guys

1874
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:15,960
Speaker 1: retreat to take them on, you know, from the front line,

1875
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 1: backing up, backing up, backing up and then turning around

1876
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:21,240
Speaker 1: and engaging those guys in a block and the guys

1877
01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:23,439
Speaker 1: who had a running start and the guys who were

1878
01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: engaging them. Nobody was trying to avoid contact. They were

1879
01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:28,920
Speaker 1: they were taking each other on at full speed. Those

1880
01:28:28,960 --> 01:28:32,360
Speaker 1: are full speed. Those are those are the high speed

1881
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:36,320
Speaker 1: back wall blocks that they have almost taken out of

1882
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 1: the game. They cut them in half almost. This comes

1883
01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:41,679
Speaker 1: from the NFL Today, kickoffs, touchbacks, and returns. The landing

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Speaker 1: receiving location of kickoffs is roughly the same as last season. However,

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Speaker 1: there are slightly more touchbacks and slightly fewer returns than

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, continuing in multi year trending. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of what I was talking to Julian Stanford about, Bills said.

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Speaker 1: Bills received eight kickoffs last Sunday against the Bears and

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Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to return one of them. Right,

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Speaker 1: where's the fun. You're right, You're gonna have to wait

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Speaker 1: for the weather to turn so they can't kick it

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Speaker 1: into the end zone. And the league is promoting this like,

1893
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Speaker 1: oh this is good. Well, no, there they were noting it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of the thing. It's it's it's

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Speaker 1: a something that maybe they'll move to kick back five

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Speaker 1: yards again and then you'll start getting more returns. It's

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Speaker 1: an interesting, Uh, it's an interesting turn of events. But

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Speaker 1: they do say that it's a multi year trend that

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Speaker 1: fewer and fewer kicks are getting returned. All right, And

1900
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Speaker 1: here's the part, and I know, going in as we

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Speaker 1: all kind of speculated in the off season as to

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01:29:33,880 --> 01:29:38,040
Speaker 1: what these rules changes might might create in the NFL

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01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:40,559
Speaker 1: says this today. In May, there was speculation that the

1904
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Speaker 1: kickoff rule changes might lead to increase long returns on kickoffs. However,

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Speaker 1: the league says the number of touchdown returns is on

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Speaker 1: pace with previous years, as our returns thirty five years

1907
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:53,880
Speaker 1: or longer. You were one of those too, And I thought,

1908
01:29:53,880 --> 01:29:55,559
Speaker 1: it's because I still don't think they're doing it right.

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01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:57,679
Speaker 1: What do you mean, I don't think they're I don't

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Speaker 1: think they're coaching the guys up front of the returner

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Speaker 1: the way I would do it. Go ahead and elaborate, Well,

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Speaker 1: the thing is, I think that the special teams coordinators

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01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:11,960
Speaker 1: are a little bit afraid of what would happen. And

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Speaker 1: they're right. It is a risk, there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're I think they're afraid to roll

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Speaker 1: the dice and have their guys on the return team

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Speaker 1: dropped deeper than they're used to dropping, I mean dropping

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Speaker 1: inside the fifteen yard line. They need to drop really

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Speaker 1: deep so that the timing of the return would be

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Speaker 1: set up better for the return guy and when he

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Speaker 1: did bring it out, when he did get a chance

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Speaker 1: to return it, the timing would be more effective for

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Speaker 1: the guy bringing the ball out. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If you have your return guys, your return team dropping

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Speaker 1: back inside the fifteen, if it doesn't go well, your

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01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:44,400
Speaker 1: fuel position is going to be like the twelve. I

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01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:46,680
Speaker 1: mean you're going to be in a hole. And they

1928
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Speaker 1: just don't want to do that. So what they're doing

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Speaker 1: is to be safe. They're not letting their return guy.

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Speaker 1: They're telling them to engage about the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: yard line and hold them up, which gives the return

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Speaker 1: guy a little more space before he starts to engage

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Speaker 1: and while it does get out there a little bit

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Speaker 1: further because he has more room um and there's less

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Speaker 1: of a risk of getting tackled inside the ten. I

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Speaker 1: I do think up you give you give up the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to get the big one. And I think the

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Speaker 1: big one would happen a lot more often if they

1939
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Speaker 1: were if they had the courage to roll the dice

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Speaker 1: and have their guys drop inside the ten or fifth,

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Speaker 1: right inside the fifteen. Look, the leagues all here was

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Speaker 1: to avoid injuries, and they point to this and say

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01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 1: the injury shows that the injuries. There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: They are doing that, and they did that, and good

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Speaker 1: for them. And I think the thing that I the

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Speaker 1: entire process from beginning to end where they started to

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Speaker 1: try and fix it. Um, they've done it the right way.

1948
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Speaker 1: They've kept the play in the game. Sure, they've kept

1949
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Speaker 1: it in the game against the Bears. Eight kickoffs and

1950
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Speaker 1: not one return by the building. Yeah, I get it,

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Speaker 1: But listen, they can fix that with a with a

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Speaker 1: snap of their fingers. They moved the kickoff back five

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Speaker 1: yards and presto Chango. They returning eighty percent of him

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Speaker 1: instead of returning twenty percent of them. Um, that's all

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Speaker 1: it takes. In this press release that pats themselves on

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Speaker 1: the back from Torry Vincent, he almost like they're like

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01:32:06,920 --> 01:32:09,720
Speaker 1: they're bragging. They deserve braggon, they deserve a pat on

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Speaker 1: the back. Has it made the game better, more watchable,

1959
01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:19,479
Speaker 1: more interesting, more exciting? No, no it is not. Is

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Speaker 1: it reduced injuries, Yes it has, but here's just put

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Speaker 1: it more. It is the game more fun with the

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Speaker 1: best players still playing because they're not injured. I would

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Speaker 1: love to see a kick return from time to time.

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Speaker 1: They're on pace with what they've been in last year's

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Speaker 1: Upon conclusion of the season, the league says, we will

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Speaker 1: reconvene to study the data. You'll probably be invited and

1967
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 1: we'll be probably won't be. I talk too much the

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01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:43,720
Speaker 1: last and we'll begin discussing punt and punt return. So

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Speaker 1: now they're gonna run punt returns too. No, they're not

1970
01:32:47,240 --> 01:32:49,920
Speaker 1: gonna ruin them. Listen, you got that all right? What's

1971
01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:56,400
Speaker 1: wrong with punts return? Curmudgeon man? Listen, they this is

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Speaker 1: this is the the k exactly. This is exactly why

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01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:06,600
Speaker 1: the NFL is the eight hundred pound gorilla, because if

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Speaker 1: there is any kind of wrinkle in their armor, they

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Speaker 1: fix it and I'd take it. And I've told you

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Speaker 1: this a million times. Sometimes it takes them forever to

1977
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,439
Speaker 1: get it right, but they get it right. I'm trying

1978
01:33:16,479 --> 01:33:21,200
Speaker 1: to figure out what they've fixed here. Kickoff is still

1979
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:23,800
Speaker 1: in the game. They were gonna get it. They were

1980
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:25,800
Speaker 1: gonna take it out of the game. You were gonna

1981
01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:28,599
Speaker 1: like get the offense takeover at the twenty five forget kickoff.

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Speaker 1: I don't know much, and they saved it. They kept

1983
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:33,040
Speaker 1: the foot in the game. Now they got extra points

1984
01:33:33,040 --> 01:33:35,120
Speaker 1: that are being kicked from the fifteen yard line instead

1985
01:33:35,120 --> 01:33:37,479
Speaker 1: of the two yard line. That's made the game better.

1986
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:41,519
Speaker 1: They're gonna fix it. That's there's no doubt. They're doing

1987
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:43,120
Speaker 1: this the right way. And you know why they're doing

1988
01:33:43,160 --> 01:33:45,439
Speaker 1: it the right way because they didn't overdo it the

1989
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:49,040
Speaker 1: wrong way. Every other kickoff doesn't go for a touchdown.

1990
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Speaker 1: It is exactly the same statistical success they've had in

1991
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Speaker 1: the past. It's not as watchable, not as much fun.

1992
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Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. It's no different than last than

1993
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Speaker 1: it has been, except for the fact they line up

1994
01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: no longer returns. No, they said, the long returns are

1995
01:34:07,960 --> 01:34:11,040
Speaker 1: in line with where they've been in past years. The

1996
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Speaker 1: t D kickoffs here Sunday, listen, listen, here we go.

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Speaker 1: The landing and receiving locations. The kickoffs roughly the same

1998
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Speaker 1: as last year. However, there are slightly more touchbacks and

1999
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:27,960
Speaker 1: slightly less returns. That's the only trend. Slightly. All right,

2000
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Speaker 1: we're breaking, We're coming back. Josh Allen met with the

2001
01:34:30,680 --> 01:34:32,280
Speaker 1: media at the end of practice today. We'll hear what

2002
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:34,400
Speaker 1: he had to say about his chances of playing on Sunday.

2003
01:34:34,479 --> 01:34:37,080
Speaker 1: We know now that the other rookie, Sam Donald is

2004
01:34:37,120 --> 01:34:39,080
Speaker 1: not likely to play. All of this coming up an

2005
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Speaker 1: hour number three plus, we want to know from you

2006
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Speaker 1: our question of the day on Twitter and on the

2007
01:34:42,280 --> 01:34:46,000
Speaker 1: phone lines, who's closer to contention The Bills are the Jets.

2008
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give me a second here to scoff at

2009
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Speaker 1: them ahead. I know that's what you're doing, But give

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Speaker 1: us a call and discuss eighth three fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty We're

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Speaker 1: back to one goes five from One Bill Drive on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, Buffalo Bill's Radio network Sports Day After

2014
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Speaker 1: They comes from One Bill's Drive, where practice has concluded

2015
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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills today, the first practice day of

2016
01:35:21,080 --> 01:35:22,599
Speaker 1: the week, as they get set to play the Jets.

2017
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Speaker 1: The Jets are wrapping up their practice and doing it

2018
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Speaker 1: without rookie quarterback Sam Darnold. The report from New York

2019
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Speaker 1: from anishmana New York Daily News. Donald has a significant footsprain.

2020
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Speaker 1: He will not play against the Bills this week, and

2021
01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: Anni Schmanda says at this point the team is not

2022
01:35:36,040 --> 01:35:38,840
Speaker 1: even optimistic he'd be ready for their game after the bye.

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Speaker 1: The Jets liked the Bills and the Patriots and the Dolphins.

2024
01:35:41,760 --> 01:35:44,720
Speaker 1: I'll have bye weeks next week. So Sam Donald with

2025
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:47,080
Speaker 1: a significant foot sprain, a boot on his right footed,

2026
01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,760
Speaker 1: practice today in street clothes and he will not play

2027
01:35:50,080 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 1: against the Buffalo Bills. That would make it Josh mccollin

2028
01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:55,040
Speaker 1: against the Buffalo Bills, getting to start against a pretty

2029
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Speaker 1: decent Buffalo defense. The Bills wrapped up their practice today.

2030
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:01,040
Speaker 1: They've got quarterback news today. Had work in practice today

2031
01:36:01,080 --> 01:36:03,840
Speaker 1: for quarterback Josh Allen. He has been throwing for the

2032
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:06,200
Speaker 1: last few days and that's a step forward for him

2033
01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:08,640
Speaker 1: today to get in limited work. No practice today for

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Speaker 1: quarterback Derek Anderson. He remains in concussion protocol. Chris Hibury

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Speaker 1: no practice today with his shoulder. Charles Clay no practice

2036
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Speaker 1: today with his hamstring. Trent Murphy not practicing today with

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Speaker 1: his knee. Rest day today for Kyle Williams and the

2038
01:36:20,520 --> 01:36:23,320
Speaker 1: runs of Alexander Tremaine Edmonds was limited today as he

2039
01:36:23,400 --> 01:36:26,799
Speaker 1: works through his concussion, and wide receiver Andre Holmes limited

2040
01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 1: in practice today as well. Bills made a roster move

2041
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:33,960
Speaker 1: late yesterday, releasing cornerback Philip Gaines and signing Levi Wallace,

2042
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Speaker 1: the rookie who'd been signed by the Bills back in

2043
01:36:36,040 --> 01:36:38,240
Speaker 1: May after the draft. He's been around the team through

2044
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Speaker 1: the spring, in the summer, and now Levi Wallace added

2045
01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:43,479
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo roster, with Ryan Lewis expected to move

2046
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:46,000
Speaker 1: into the starting lineup at corners. Bryant back in the

2047
01:36:46,160 --> 01:36:48,760
Speaker 1: NFL seven months after being cut by the Cowboys, he

2048
01:36:48,840 --> 01:36:51,360
Speaker 1: signed on with a New Orleans Saints. Today, the Atlanta

2049
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:54,040
Speaker 1: Falcons signed up Bruce Irvin, the pass rush specialist who

2050
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:56,640
Speaker 1: was released by the Oakland Raiders. Bruce Irvan is now

2051
01:36:56,920 --> 01:36:59,120
Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Falcons, and the Kansas City Chiefs could

2052
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:01,720
Speaker 1: be without wide receiver of Sammy Watkins for their game

2053
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:04,880
Speaker 1: Sunday against Arizona. Watkins dealing with pain and his foot

2054
01:37:05,160 --> 01:37:08,680
Speaker 1: after Sunday's winning Cleveland Sabers not playing tonight, but the

2055
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:11,639
Speaker 1: Rochester Americans will in Buffalo. Key Bank Center, they played

2056
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Monsters. It's a seven or five face off

2057
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:18,080
Speaker 1: to Night's Sabers. Practicing today, they skated at Harbor Center

2058
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Speaker 1: and then they head out to Montreal to play there

2059
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:24,000
Speaker 1: in to morow night. The Cleveland Monsters love it and

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Speaker 1: the Rochester Americans. Would you like to be design that mascot? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's fun. I'm sure there are people who've

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01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:32,639
Speaker 1: made that their life's mission. Let's get the mascot, Let's

2063
01:37:32,640 --> 01:37:35,679
Speaker 1: get the logo designed for the Cleveland Monsters and monsters.

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Speaker 1: I think we're still kind of reacting a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Steve to the Quarterback News today and it started with

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01:37:40,880 --> 01:37:42,800
Speaker 1: the Bill's news. Let's face it. I was surprised that

2067
01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:46,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was as far along as he was, you know,

2068
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:48,800
Speaker 1: getting limited work today, and you know, we'll see if

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Speaker 1: he plays. I think the sciences might be pointed in

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01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:53,479
Speaker 1: that direction. And then an hour ago, in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the show, Sam Darnold's not going to roll out? Yeah,

2072
01:37:56,920 --> 01:37:58,920
Speaker 1: two days ago it was like gonna be Sam Darnald.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be great if we had Josh healthy? Now

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01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:05,679
Speaker 1: now flip Josh is playing and stars in a boot crazy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it does to the game. But

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Speaker 1: our Twitter pull today, our question of the day, we

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Speaker 1: ask you, Bills and Jets, who's further ahead, who's closer

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Speaker 1: to contention? You can interpret contention anyway you'd like. You

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01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:20,640
Speaker 1: can even look at that question to make fun of it,

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Speaker 1: as many people do. Why do you laugh? It's true,

2081
01:38:23,760 --> 01:38:26,120
Speaker 1: people love. There's a whole cottage industry out there making

2082
01:38:26,160 --> 01:38:28,760
Speaker 1: fun of our Twitter questions. That's great. Just react all

2083
01:38:28,800 --> 01:38:34,599
Speaker 1: we care about our clicks and reaction. What do you think, though,

2084
01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:36,799
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Jets? Who is closer to contention?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight three fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty on Twitter? Which

2087
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:45,760
Speaker 1: seem as closer to contention? Bills and Jets? Sixty three

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Speaker 1: percent of you say the Jets. Thirty seven percent of

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01:38:48,360 --> 01:38:51,080
Speaker 1: you say the Bills. Those are Bills fans talking Bills

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01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 1: fans who've seen these last four games where the Bills

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01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:56,240
Speaker 1: have been absolutely smoked by all of their opposition. I

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Speaker 1: guess that's the best way to explain that. I think

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Speaker 1: it's closer than that, Steve. I can make arguments for

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01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:03,000
Speaker 1: either one of those Bills and Jets being you know

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01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 1: on the way somehow are the Jets closer? Why? I

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01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:08,840
Speaker 1: think the reason is because the teams are so similar. Yeah,

2097
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 1: why would people why would two thirds of the people

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01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:13,439
Speaker 1: almost think the Jets are closer to I think our

2099
01:39:13,479 --> 01:39:18,160
Speaker 1: offense has been so so so bad unproductive that they

2100
01:39:18,200 --> 01:39:19,519
Speaker 1: got to think, well, that Jets have got to be

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01:39:19,600 --> 01:39:21,920
Speaker 1: further along than we are. I don't know in the Jets,

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01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:24,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. We're getting and some

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01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:26,880
Speaker 1: feedback from the tweet sheet Marty Rogers. It's hard to see,

2104
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 1: but I have to believe that there are some pieces

2105
01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:33,080
Speaker 1: on offense that we can use with better offensive line

2106
01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:36,760
Speaker 1: talent and quarterback play, the development of Josh's paramount. Our

2107
01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:39,920
Speaker 1: defense is young and talented at most spots. The Jets

2108
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:43,880
Speaker 1: coaching futures in doubt, go get off season offense. That's

2109
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:47,360
Speaker 1: what from Marty Rogers on the on the tweets, and

2110
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:50,760
Speaker 1: I agree with with some of that. Our defense is.

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01:39:51,439 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 1: It's interesting the Bills defense seems to be like on

2112
01:39:54,240 --> 01:39:57,720
Speaker 1: two different levels. You have guys like Kyle Williams and

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01:39:57,880 --> 01:40:00,920
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander, who are the old guys on the team,

2114
01:40:01,640 --> 01:40:05,360
Speaker 1: and then you've got guys like Tremaine Edmonds and Tredavious

2115
01:40:05,439 --> 01:40:09,160
Speaker 1: White and Matt Milano, who you know haven't even played,

2116
01:40:10,479 --> 01:40:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, in games. Yeah, they haven't played any. Milana

2117
01:40:14,040 --> 01:40:15,280
Speaker 1: just became a starter this year and it was a

2118
01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:18,760
Speaker 1: rookie last year. So they have guys on both ends

2119
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:20,519
Speaker 1: of the spectrum. But yeah, they do have some really

2120
01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:23,680
Speaker 1: young players that are contributing in a big way. So

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01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:26,880
Speaker 1: I think the defense is sitting in a really really

2122
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:29,519
Speaker 1: good spot. You know, we get we have a great

2123
01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:32,600
Speaker 1: production crew. I'm not being facetious here, including one of

2124
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:35,080
Speaker 1: our guys, JJ Trito follows the league very closely, and

2125
01:40:35,479 --> 01:40:37,439
Speaker 1: this question. He said, well, of course the Jets are better.

2126
01:40:37,520 --> 01:40:39,200
Speaker 1: And I said, wow, how can you be so sure?

2127
01:40:39,240 --> 01:40:42,160
Speaker 1: And he said, well, the Jets defense has better young people.

2128
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:45,479
Speaker 1: And I thought, wait a minute. Look. I love Leonard Williams,

2129
01:40:45,479 --> 01:40:49,120
Speaker 1: he's an outstanding player. Darren Lee, former first round pick, linebacker,

2130
01:40:49,200 --> 01:40:51,439
Speaker 1: a little bit undersized but a very strong player. Love

2131
01:40:51,520 --> 01:40:54,439
Speaker 1: the safeties, including Jamal Adams, but look at the look

2132
01:40:54,479 --> 01:40:56,680
Speaker 1: at the defense. Right around the corner here Trdavious White,

2133
01:40:56,720 --> 01:41:00,040
Speaker 1: former first round pick, who's an outstanding shutdown corner. I

2134
01:41:00,120 --> 01:41:02,559
Speaker 1: sent you guys something about shutdown corners, and we never

2135
01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:05,439
Speaker 1: j Jay Harris, our producer, never used it, but no,

2136
01:41:05,600 --> 01:41:06,920
Speaker 1: we got to talk about that because that was a

2137
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 1: big Basically had Tavious White the second best shutdown corner

2138
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:13,280
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. But there's other young talent

2139
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:16,240
Speaker 1: on this Buffalo defense, including Tremaine Edmonds who looks like

2140
01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:19,160
Speaker 1: he's headed back, Matt Milano, who you mentioned. The safeties

2141
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 1: are not old, Michael Hyde and Jordan Poyer. Is the

2142
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:24,000
Speaker 1: Jets defense really younger and better than the Bills? No,

2143
01:41:24,200 --> 01:41:27,000
Speaker 1: because I'll tell you why. Listen that the Buffalo Bills

2144
01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:31,080
Speaker 1: defense is number is number three in the NFL, three

2145
01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:34,760
Speaker 1: in yards per game and yards per play, number three.

2146
01:41:35,280 --> 01:41:38,519
Speaker 1: The Jets are fourteenth, tied for fourteenth and number nine

2147
01:41:38,560 --> 01:41:42,519
Speaker 1: in yards per play. They're eighteenth in yards rushing a game.

2148
01:41:42,560 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 1: The Bills are eleventh. The Jets are eleventh in The

2149
01:41:48,439 --> 01:41:51,439
Speaker 1: Jets are eleventh in yards rushing per play, the Bills

2150
01:41:51,479 --> 01:41:55,720
Speaker 1: are number six. The Jets are thirteenth in yards. In

2151
01:41:55,840 --> 01:41:59,200
Speaker 1: passing yards per game, the Bills are third. I mean

2152
01:41:59,240 --> 01:42:02,400
Speaker 1: the Bills are third. Also in yards passing yards per play,

2153
01:42:02,479 --> 01:42:06,440
Speaker 1: the Jets are sixth. I mean the Bills are significantly

2154
01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:10,240
Speaker 1: better than the Jets defensively on the on the stat sheet,

2155
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:16,080
Speaker 1: significantly better. And so if you're gonna say who's further along,

2156
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:20,800
Speaker 1: Bill's got a better defense, that's for sure. Offensively, the

2157
01:42:20,960 --> 01:42:24,720
Speaker 1: Jets are better. They've been more much but yet right,

2158
01:42:24,880 --> 01:42:27,800
Speaker 1: not much the Bill. You don't go through all the numbers,

2159
01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:30,200
Speaker 1: but their numbers. I looked at it last night today.

2160
01:42:30,200 --> 01:42:32,400
Speaker 1: Their numbers are not much better than buffaloes. The Jets

2161
01:42:32,400 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: are twenty ninth overall in the offense. The Bills are

2162
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:38,160
Speaker 1: thirty first. Are they really? It really shouldn't be. Look

2163
01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:40,719
Speaker 1: you want to see, the Jets are closer to contention

2164
01:42:41,040 --> 01:42:42,479
Speaker 1: than the Bills are. That's why we got That's why

2165
01:42:42,520 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 1: we got the question. They're almost the identical teams in

2166
01:42:46,360 --> 01:42:48,400
Speaker 1: the same spot. Make the case. Let's hear you make

2167
01:42:48,439 --> 01:42:51,240
Speaker 1: the case. Eight three fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two fifty. A couple of calls here Dennis

2169
01:42:54,520 --> 01:43:03,200
Speaker 1: from Batavia, Dennis, go ahead, you're on the ear, Hello Dennis, Hello, Hi, okay,

2170
01:43:03,479 --> 01:43:07,479
Speaker 1: go ahead, Dennis, were going well, going well so far? Dennis? Okay.

2171
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:10,719
Speaker 1: So here's here's the thing. I mean, I love Steve Taster,

2172
01:43:11,200 --> 01:43:14,560
Speaker 1: who doesn't, But I know we all do. But he

2173
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:18,320
Speaker 1: should be in the Hall of Fame by now. The

2174
01:43:18,560 --> 01:43:21,640
Speaker 1: changes they're talking about making with the kickoffs and the

2175
01:43:21,760 --> 01:43:24,920
Speaker 1: punts and that is that gonna, you know, make things

2176
01:43:25,400 --> 01:43:28,080
Speaker 1: more difficult for Steve to get into the Hall of Fame.

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01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:35,640
Speaker 1: Um wow, because I mean, we know how awesome he was,

2178
01:43:36,160 --> 01:43:39,760
Speaker 1: you know, but I don't know. It means somebody. It's

2179
01:43:39,760 --> 01:43:42,600
Speaker 1: just somebody. This is a joke. Are you It's just

2180
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: a crank? Are you serious, Dennis? Are you serious? No?

2181
01:43:46,880 --> 01:43:49,639
Speaker 1: I'm dead serious. All right, Well, I appreciate, I appreciate

2182
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:56,000
Speaker 1: the sentiment, but they're doing this is one of your boys,

2183
01:43:56,080 --> 01:43:58,760
Speaker 1: isn't it called it? I wish, I wish my friend

2184
01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:02,960
Speaker 1: And there they have. Yeah, this has nothing to do

2185
01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:05,320
Speaker 1: with me. I mean, whether it helps me or hurts me,

2186
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:09,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Here's the thing, Dennison. There, they have

2187
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:13,040
Speaker 1: a real commitment to keeping the game. You know. It's

2188
01:44:13,120 --> 01:44:15,280
Speaker 1: interesting because the league has always been about changing the

2189
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:16,840
Speaker 1: rules of the game to make it better and give

2190
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:19,360
Speaker 1: the fans more of what they want. But they are

2191
01:44:19,479 --> 01:44:22,040
Speaker 1: committed to making sure all parts of the game are

2192
01:44:22,120 --> 01:44:25,280
Speaker 1: included in the game. They added this new rule changes.

2193
01:44:25,280 --> 01:44:27,719
Speaker 1: In these adjustments to the kickoff because of a response

2194
01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: to the fact that guys were getting dinged. They were

2195
01:44:30,320 --> 01:44:34,120
Speaker 1: getting hurt at a far greater rate on kickoff than

2196
01:44:34,160 --> 01:44:37,080
Speaker 1: they were actually on kickoff return than they were on

2197
01:44:37,120 --> 01:44:39,800
Speaker 1: any other play. So they wanted to adjust that. So

2198
01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:42,400
Speaker 1: those are the reasons they did that. Whether that helps

2199
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:46,559
Speaker 1: anybody's individual thing, you can. It's just like asking whether

2200
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,880
Speaker 1: the new quarterback protection rules will make it so that

2201
01:44:50,360 --> 01:44:52,280
Speaker 1: Tom Brady can play till he's forty five or Drew

2202
01:44:52,320 --> 01:44:54,439
Speaker 1: Brees can play till he's forty two. It's the same.

2203
01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 1: It's the same question. But they're doing that. They're making

2204
01:44:58,040 --> 01:45:00,839
Speaker 1: all these adjustments to keep the game in. The kickoff

2205
01:45:01,120 --> 01:45:02,720
Speaker 1: as a part of the game, and in fact a

2206
01:45:03,120 --> 01:45:07,040
Speaker 1: part of the game that can be very very advantageous

2207
01:45:07,080 --> 01:45:08,760
Speaker 1: for one team or another. That the a team could

2208
01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:10,840
Speaker 1: get an advantage that if they could be good enough

2209
01:45:10,880 --> 01:45:12,680
Speaker 1: at it. So they want to keep the foot in

2210
01:45:12,760 --> 01:45:15,560
Speaker 1: the game. Is basically the way Troy Vincent and the

2211
01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:18,400
Speaker 1: executive vice presidents of the NFL are putting it. They

2212
01:45:18,439 --> 01:45:19,760
Speaker 1: want to keep the foot in the game. Thanks for

2213
01:45:19,800 --> 01:45:22,240
Speaker 1: your call. Here is Jake and lockboard. Jaco ahead, you're

2214
01:45:22,280 --> 01:45:25,200
Speaker 1: on the ear. Hey, guys, Thanks for taking my car.

2215
01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:28,160
Speaker 1: Listen to you guys every day on the way to hockey. Great, awesome.

2216
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:31,920
Speaker 1: Jake just wanted to ask why did the Bills not

2217
01:45:32,120 --> 01:45:36,080
Speaker 1: do more, especially with Lashaw McCoy at the trade deadline,

2218
01:45:36,160 --> 01:45:39,240
Speaker 1: to better our offense or anything that we could have

2219
01:45:39,320 --> 01:45:41,080
Speaker 1: really done well, Jake, I don't know how if you,

2220
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:43,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if trading like Sean McCoy would make

2221
01:45:43,320 --> 01:45:47,840
Speaker 1: you better. Yeah. I like Chris Ivory the way he

2222
01:45:48,080 --> 01:45:51,519
Speaker 1: ran and the game before, and I just thought he

2223
01:45:51,640 --> 01:45:55,000
Speaker 1: could really do something to help the Bills offense. But

2224
01:45:55,479 --> 01:45:59,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, just even Calvin Benjerman. Yeah,

2225
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's yeah, I mean, how does we're

2226
01:46:03,320 --> 01:46:05,519
Speaker 1: gonna help? Yeah, And I don't know what you'd get

2227
01:46:05,560 --> 01:46:07,720
Speaker 1: back in return. I mean that's the thing. And believe me,

2228
01:46:07,760 --> 01:46:09,760
Speaker 1: if with all the moves they've made, the shuffling and

2229
01:46:09,840 --> 01:46:12,280
Speaker 1: even the release of a starter this week on defense,

2230
01:46:13,320 --> 01:46:16,160
Speaker 1: the offensive line shuffling, the way they've moved around people,

2231
01:46:16,160 --> 01:46:19,120
Speaker 1: the way they've incorporated guys like Terrell pryor all of

2232
01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:22,000
Speaker 1: that stuff, they're trying everything. So don't think they didn't

2233
01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:24,800
Speaker 1: know what LaShaun McCoy would bring in a trade or

2234
01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:27,160
Speaker 1: what teams were offering, and they I don't think they

2235
01:46:27,200 --> 01:46:30,479
Speaker 1: were interested. They have not been standing pat since the deadline.

2236
01:46:30,520 --> 01:46:33,599
Speaker 1: The deadline was what eight days ago now. Since then,

2237
01:46:33,680 --> 01:46:36,799
Speaker 1: they've signed Terrell Pryor to a contract. They've claimed Isaiah

2238
01:46:36,880 --> 01:46:40,040
Speaker 1: McKenzie wide receiver off waivers. They signed Levi Wallace from

2239
01:46:40,080 --> 01:46:42,839
Speaker 1: their own practice squad. They've been pretty active. Yes, they've

2240
01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:44,960
Speaker 1: gone being in the trade debt at the trade deadline,

2241
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:47,599
Speaker 1: but they've been making moves. They clearly are not happy

2242
01:46:47,680 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 1: with the roster mix they have and looking to get better,

2243
01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:52,960
Speaker 1: and they're also shuffling out guys. They're trying nude combinations

2244
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:55,400
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. They're getting some young guys sprinkled

2245
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 1: in up there too, So they are not standing pad

2246
01:46:57,439 --> 01:46:59,439
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. It's a team that

2247
01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:02,519
Speaker 1: is a acking it on all fronts, and so that

2248
01:47:02,600 --> 01:47:05,800
Speaker 1: should give you some some comfort in the fact that

2249
01:47:05,920 --> 01:47:07,880
Speaker 1: they're trying to get better. And if they if a

2250
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:10,000
Speaker 1: guys on this team is because they want him on

2251
01:47:10,080 --> 01:47:13,120
Speaker 1: the team, you can bet that at the trade deadline,

2252
01:47:13,120 --> 01:47:14,960
Speaker 1: if there was any interest in any of their good

2253
01:47:15,040 --> 01:47:18,840
Speaker 1: players that would have made them better, they would have

2254
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:20,920
Speaker 1: considered it. Even if they wouldn't have pulled the trigger.

2255
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:22,720
Speaker 1: It was either going to make them better today or

2256
01:47:22,760 --> 01:47:24,519
Speaker 1: make him better for the future, and if they thought

2257
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:27,559
Speaker 1: one outweighed the other. I know that there were teams

2258
01:47:27,600 --> 01:47:30,240
Speaker 1: that called him about Lashawn McCoy because it's obvious the

2259
01:47:30,280 --> 01:47:32,559
Speaker 1: guys still got something left to give. But he's also

2260
01:47:32,640 --> 01:47:35,840
Speaker 1: a very valuable part of their team. So they're not

2261
01:47:35,920 --> 01:47:38,280
Speaker 1: gonna make a trade just to make a trade. They're

2262
01:47:38,280 --> 01:47:40,040
Speaker 1: only going to do it if it's advantageous. Well, here

2263
01:47:40,120 --> 01:47:43,519
Speaker 1: from Frank and Orchard Parko ahead, Frank, welcome to the show. Yes,

2264
01:47:43,960 --> 01:47:46,360
Speaker 1: thanks for getting my call um. The thing is, h

2265
01:47:47,479 --> 01:47:49,240
Speaker 1: I think I got to kind of agree with you

2266
01:47:49,240 --> 01:47:51,160
Speaker 1: in regards to the kickoff returns. I mean, I know

2267
01:47:51,240 --> 01:47:53,479
Speaker 1: the statistics in earthing may be pretty close, but it's

2268
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:56,120
Speaker 1: not nowhere near as exciting as it used to be.

2269
01:47:56,600 --> 01:48:00,160
Speaker 1: It's not it wasn't Listen, it wasn't last week. But

2270
01:48:00,240 --> 01:48:02,160
Speaker 1: now you might have been playing against a team in

2271
01:48:02,240 --> 01:48:04,439
Speaker 1: Chicago that's got a philosophy of saying, listen, we don't

2272
01:48:04,479 --> 01:48:07,200
Speaker 1: want anybody to return a kick against us. Other teams

2273
01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:09,880
Speaker 1: may say, wisten, I want him to return everything. So

2274
01:48:10,000 --> 01:48:13,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna put the ball high and inside the five

2275
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:16,000
Speaker 1: yard line and outside the numbers or were at the numbers.

2276
01:48:16,040 --> 01:48:18,000
Speaker 1: So you know, that might have been a game plan

2277
01:48:18,120 --> 01:48:21,720
Speaker 1: that the Chicago Bears have as part of their philosophy,

2278
01:48:21,800 --> 01:48:24,519
Speaker 1: So that last week, while it was no fun to watch,

2279
01:48:24,680 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 1: might have been part of the plan for the Bears,

2280
01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:29,240
Speaker 1: a special team. What else you got, Frank, Well, getting

2281
01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:32,000
Speaker 1: back to the offense and everything. I mean, I know

2282
01:48:32,080 --> 01:48:35,000
Speaker 1: if the Bills lost, you know, gave up by a

2283
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:38,840
Speaker 1: few wide receivers. I know Sammy Watkins of course was

2284
01:48:39,080 --> 01:48:41,599
Speaker 1: injured a lot and injured again today by the way,

2285
01:48:41,600 --> 01:48:43,640
Speaker 1: do you see that? Yes, you know, he was an

2286
01:48:43,640 --> 01:48:45,920
Speaker 1: injury thrown and they kind of gave up on him.

2287
01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:48,160
Speaker 1: But there was a two other wide receivers out there,

2288
01:48:48,240 --> 01:48:50,479
Speaker 1: like Woods and Hogan. I think that the Bills gave up,

2289
01:48:50,840 --> 01:48:53,439
Speaker 1: gave up too soon on Well, I'm not gonna I'm

2290
01:48:53,439 --> 01:48:56,040
Speaker 1: gonna let you finish, Frank. But Woods clearly wanted out

2291
01:48:56,720 --> 01:48:59,160
Speaker 1: for money, but mostly to go home, and I think

2292
01:48:59,200 --> 01:49:01,040
Speaker 1: he's I don't think there's much the Bills could do

2293
01:49:01,080 --> 01:49:03,000
Speaker 1: to keep Robert Woods around. Kind of a reason. What

2294
01:49:03,320 --> 01:49:05,600
Speaker 1: it was, we really don't know. But at the end

2295
01:49:05,640 --> 01:49:07,000
Speaker 1: of the day, talking to what I thought it was

2296
01:49:07,560 --> 01:49:10,280
Speaker 1: the core of the offensive line is where the main

2297
01:49:10,360 --> 01:49:13,000
Speaker 1: problem is. You can't we can't rush, we can't pass

2298
01:49:13,120 --> 01:49:16,800
Speaker 1: the tech without you know, a good stable offensive line

2299
01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:20,040
Speaker 1: that we're really not going to be evaluate any kind

2300
01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:22,559
Speaker 1: of sale and on our team. You're right, I agree, Yeah,

2301
01:49:22,600 --> 01:49:25,599
Speaker 1: you're right. If if, yeah, if the offensive line doesn't

2302
01:49:25,600 --> 01:49:28,559
Speaker 1: play good enough, your quarterback's not going to look good

2303
01:49:28,680 --> 01:49:30,120
Speaker 1: enough and be as good as he can be. Your

2304
01:49:30,160 --> 01:49:32,040
Speaker 1: running backs certainly aren't going to play well in the

2305
01:49:32,120 --> 01:49:35,280
Speaker 1: running game, and uh everything else is compromised as well.

2306
01:49:35,360 --> 01:49:38,360
Speaker 1: So you're right, Um, you're right, Frank. I mean that's

2307
01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:41,240
Speaker 1: I think it starts a lot with the offensive line,

2308
01:49:41,240 --> 01:49:44,280
Speaker 1: and they certainly haven't dominated any game that they've been in,

2309
01:49:44,400 --> 01:49:49,400
Speaker 1: and uh so they're and they're continuing to tinker with it.

2310
01:49:49,560 --> 01:49:53,240
Speaker 1: So and until that stops, uh, I think we can

2311
01:49:53,280 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 1: all we'll all be able to see why they stopped

2312
01:49:55,040 --> 01:49:57,000
Speaker 1: tinkering with it better start playing better. You know, he's

2313
01:49:57,160 --> 01:49:59,880
Speaker 1: really looking at the offensive line is a quarterback. Josh Allen,

2314
01:49:59,920 --> 01:50:02,000
Speaker 1: the rookie who has been out for a couple of

2315
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:04,719
Speaker 1: games with the elbow injury suffered against the Houston Texans.

2316
01:50:05,160 --> 01:50:07,840
Speaker 1: Back at practice on a limited basis today and just

2317
01:50:07,880 --> 01:50:09,559
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago, we talked to the media here

2318
01:50:09,560 --> 01:50:12,800
Speaker 1: at one Bill's Drive about returning to practice and his prognosis.

2319
01:50:13,160 --> 01:50:16,040
Speaker 1: Josh allon Bill's quarterback answering questions from the media today,

2320
01:50:16,320 --> 01:50:18,400
Speaker 1: starting with the obvious question, how are you feeling? How

2321
01:50:18,439 --> 01:50:23,320
Speaker 1: do you feel feeling good? You know, just trusting the process,

2322
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:27,200
Speaker 1: just trying to get back and you know, feel normal

2323
01:50:27,240 --> 01:50:30,839
Speaker 1: out there again in your time launching the cold control

2324
01:50:30,880 --> 01:50:34,120
Speaker 1: from the well. Obviously got to see how Da operated.

2325
01:50:34,240 --> 01:50:35,920
Speaker 1: You know, that's a true pro right there. He's been

2326
01:50:35,920 --> 01:50:37,479
Speaker 1: around the league for a long time. Just kind of

2327
01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:40,280
Speaker 1: how he controlled walk through, how we talked to guys,

2328
01:50:40,360 --> 01:50:42,720
Speaker 1: how he you know, inspired guys and got them to

2329
01:50:42,800 --> 01:50:46,880
Speaker 1: play you know above you know whatever. It was so

2330
01:50:48,080 --> 01:50:50,120
Speaker 1: really that in that aspect, and just how he kind

2331
01:50:50,120 --> 01:50:52,240
Speaker 1: of saw things on the field, the reads that he made,

2332
01:50:52,280 --> 01:50:54,720
Speaker 1: how quick he was to check down and small things

2333
01:50:54,760 --> 01:51:03,240
Speaker 1: like that, Josh Faun said yesterday, can you elaborate on

2334
01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 1: that and let us sit into what you gain aside

2335
01:51:06,560 --> 01:51:11,599
Speaker 1: from any watching Dad, Well, yeah, obviously getting to experience

2336
01:51:11,720 --> 01:51:17,120
Speaker 1: the Monday night game, um, experiencing primetime football, that type

2337
01:51:17,160 --> 01:51:20,120
Speaker 1: of schedule, you know, and haven't played a night game,

2338
01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:22,639
Speaker 1: so to kind of go through that before I actually

2339
01:51:22,680 --> 01:51:24,439
Speaker 1: get to play that whenever it is the next time

2340
01:51:24,479 --> 01:51:28,040
Speaker 1: we have a primetime game. Um, that was definitely experience

2341
01:51:28,400 --> 01:51:31,280
Speaker 1: that I can take with me. Um. And yeah, I

2342
01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:33,120
Speaker 1: just I mean obviously not playing and sitting on the

2343
01:51:33,160 --> 01:51:37,560
Speaker 1: sideline and chart and plays isn't fun. Um, but it

2344
01:51:37,720 --> 01:51:39,640
Speaker 1: definitely helped me. And I think it's gonna, you know,

2345
01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:44,400
Speaker 1: make me an improved quarterback in long run. Last I

2346
01:51:44,479 --> 01:51:48,800
Speaker 1: mean getting rough and it didn't helped you where your

2347
01:51:48,840 --> 01:51:51,760
Speaker 1: mind said to take a step for sure. You know

2348
01:51:52,560 --> 01:51:54,960
Speaker 1: it's fresh writing not playing, you know, for me, and uh,

2349
01:51:55,560 --> 01:51:57,720
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a competitor. And I'm sure a lot

2350
01:51:57,760 --> 01:52:00,760
Speaker 1: of other people don't get to play because of an injury. Uh,

2351
01:52:00,920 --> 01:52:03,720
Speaker 1: whether it's their pride or their ego, whatever it is,

2352
01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:05,320
Speaker 1: you know, they want to be out in the field.

2353
01:52:05,360 --> 01:52:06,720
Speaker 1: And uh, the reason I want to be on the

2354
01:52:06,760 --> 01:52:09,479
Speaker 1: fields to out my team, you know, whatever which way

2355
01:52:09,560 --> 01:52:12,040
Speaker 1: possible I can, And when I can't do that, it

2356
01:52:12,240 --> 01:52:14,599
Speaker 1: hurts me so to be back out here and um,

2357
01:52:15,120 --> 01:52:17,439
Speaker 1: you know, being with the guys and putting my helmet

2358
01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:20,120
Speaker 1: on and strapping it up, and um, it feels like

2359
01:52:20,160 --> 01:52:23,920
Speaker 1: football again. Today out of the elbow field, how much

2360
01:52:23,960 --> 01:52:29,840
Speaker 1: we're able to and can you what changed you play? Um,

2361
01:52:30,200 --> 01:52:31,800
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure. We're still taking a day

2362
01:52:31,840 --> 01:52:35,120
Speaker 1: to day uh, you know, just just trying to work through,

2363
01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 1: you know, if there's any soreness or stiffness or just

2364
01:52:37,920 --> 01:52:40,120
Speaker 1: trying to get back into the swing of playing football again.

2365
01:52:40,240 --> 01:52:43,600
Speaker 1: So you know, I was limited to practice. UM, but

2366
01:52:43,680 --> 01:52:45,679
Speaker 1: it felt good throwing the ball. You know, it definitely

2367
01:52:45,720 --> 01:52:47,760
Speaker 1: felt good throwing the ball and that's what I love

2368
01:52:47,800 --> 01:52:54,040
Speaker 1: to do. So, UM, I'm happy physically throwing. I mean

2369
01:52:54,240 --> 01:52:57,400
Speaker 1: we're still you know, still taking it, uh, you know, precautiously,

2370
01:52:57,479 --> 01:52:59,640
Speaker 1: I guess you can say, and uh, just trying to

2371
01:52:59,680 --> 01:53:04,080
Speaker 1: limit it any further damage or you know, I'm feeling good.

2372
01:53:04,200 --> 01:53:05,640
Speaker 1: You know, we're we're doing a good job with it.

2373
01:53:05,680 --> 01:53:07,720
Speaker 1: We got a great training staff here and you know,

2374
01:53:07,800 --> 01:53:09,320
Speaker 1: they've been doing a lot of great things with me

2375
01:53:09,439 --> 01:53:11,479
Speaker 1: and UM have allowed me to get back on the

2376
01:53:11,520 --> 01:53:14,560
Speaker 1: field and you know, sooner than UM people thought, or

2377
01:53:14,720 --> 01:53:17,760
Speaker 1: maybe even that I thought. So it's been fun. Just

2378
01:53:17,880 --> 01:53:20,400
Speaker 1: an endurance thing that you're trying to build up now, Josh,

2379
01:53:20,520 --> 01:53:22,320
Speaker 1: just kind of because you're having grown for a little bit,

2380
01:53:22,840 --> 01:53:27,120
Speaker 1: is it about strengthening for sure. Um, it's really about

2381
01:53:27,120 --> 01:53:29,439
Speaker 1: just feeling comfortable thrown again, you know, making sure that

2382
01:53:29,479 --> 01:53:30,960
Speaker 1: I can continue to do the things that I was

2383
01:53:31,040 --> 01:53:33,759
Speaker 1: doing before the injury. Uh, and doing it without thinking

2384
01:53:33,760 --> 01:53:36,680
Speaker 1: about it. You know. So sometimes people have injuries and

2385
01:53:36,960 --> 01:53:39,000
Speaker 1: they might be fully healed to go, but something their

2386
01:53:39,040 --> 01:53:41,639
Speaker 1: minds telling them like I shouldn't shouldn't stress it this much.

2387
01:53:41,720 --> 01:53:44,839
Speaker 1: So we're still just finding, um, you know, the boundaries

2388
01:53:44,880 --> 01:53:47,160
Speaker 1: that we can continue to push through or maybe we

2389
01:53:47,160 --> 01:53:50,000
Speaker 1: should pull back. So um, you know, it's just kind

2390
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:58,120
Speaker 1: of a fill out process right now. But he's still uh.

2391
01:53:58,200 --> 01:54:00,519
Speaker 1: I mean, anytime it's you're you're throwing arm and you're

2392
01:54:00,640 --> 01:54:03,400
Speaker 1: you're throwing shoulder, throwing out whatever it is, Uh, you

2393
01:54:03,479 --> 01:54:05,599
Speaker 1: never want to push it too hard because you don't

2394
01:54:05,640 --> 01:54:08,240
Speaker 1: want to fill any discomfort or pain or whatever it

2395
01:54:08,360 --> 01:54:10,720
Speaker 1: is in there. So um, you know, just taking it

2396
01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:18,400
Speaker 1: day by day, throw by throw really physically, I mean,

2397
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:20,600
Speaker 1: I couldn't give you a percentage, um, but I do

2398
01:54:20,680 --> 01:54:23,519
Speaker 1: feel comfortable, you know throwing the ball. Um. You know,

2399
01:54:23,600 --> 01:54:25,160
Speaker 1: I just want to get back to how I was

2400
01:54:25,200 --> 01:54:27,439
Speaker 1: throwing it before, you know, where I can can throw

2401
01:54:27,479 --> 01:54:30,120
Speaker 1: it and not worry about anything and um, like I said,

2402
01:54:30,200 --> 01:54:32,760
Speaker 1: not feeling any in any discomfort if there is any.

2403
01:54:33,120 --> 01:54:34,800
Speaker 1: So that's that's how we're treating it. Question, do you

2404
01:54:34,840 --> 01:54:38,200
Speaker 1: feel you could have by man do this week? I hope?

2405
01:54:38,200 --> 01:54:42,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, what stands out when? Um, I mean they

2406
01:54:42,880 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 1: take the ball away a lot. You know, their defense

2407
01:54:44,880 --> 01:54:47,400
Speaker 1: is pretty stingy. Uh. They got some really good players

2408
01:54:47,440 --> 01:54:49,400
Speaker 1: on that, you know, their front four, the front three,

2409
01:54:49,440 --> 01:54:52,120
Speaker 1: whatever you wanna call them. Um, listen, big time players.

2410
01:54:52,240 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 1: You know, they're the big dudes that control the run

2411
01:54:55,320 --> 01:54:58,640
Speaker 1: very well. They'll you know, play a man and um,

2412
01:54:59,320 --> 01:55:02,880
Speaker 1: you don't really challenging you to throw the ball in then, so, um,

2413
01:55:03,120 --> 01:55:05,600
Speaker 1: you know, coach Dabel's gonna bake him down and put

2414
01:55:05,680 --> 01:55:08,080
Speaker 1: in a really good game plan. And all guys, when

2415
01:55:08,120 --> 01:55:09,800
Speaker 1: I go out there next to the best of our abilities.

2416
01:55:10,640 --> 01:55:13,360
Speaker 1: Josh Allen some of his comments to the media today.

2417
01:55:13,360 --> 01:55:15,560
Speaker 1: It's funny. It's a big deal whether Josh plays or not. Right,

2418
01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:18,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna follow it all week long. But when you

2419
01:55:18,240 --> 01:55:20,400
Speaker 1: listen to talk about it, saying maybe he'll be ready,

2420
01:55:20,440 --> 01:55:21,600
Speaker 1: maybe he won't. You know what I mean, he is

2421
01:55:21,600 --> 01:55:23,600
Speaker 1: a great come a great way of down play. What

2422
01:55:24,040 --> 01:55:26,720
Speaker 1: you know, what what did he say how it felt

2423
01:55:26,800 --> 01:55:28,920
Speaker 1: to throw the football? Good? It felt good to throw

2424
01:55:28,960 --> 01:55:31,400
Speaker 1: the ball, Yeah, yeah, for sure? What else they're supposed

2425
01:55:31,440 --> 01:55:33,520
Speaker 1: to I don't know. Man, It's bad because we're all

2426
01:55:33,560 --> 01:55:37,920
Speaker 1: hanging on every word. And Toad told you, You told me?

2427
01:55:38,000 --> 01:55:40,240
Speaker 1: What told She's gonna play? Well, we'll see you if

2428
01:55:40,280 --> 01:55:43,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna play. Come on, man, I'm not anti Josh playing.

2429
01:55:43,480 --> 01:55:47,080
Speaker 1: Getting the game baby Coffee with the coach coming up next,

2430
01:55:47,400 --> 01:55:49,320
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and I coming back in a moment. One

2431
01:55:49,360 --> 01:55:51,840
Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

2432
01:56:05,120 --> 01:56:07,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. One Doll's Live from Undill's Drive,

2433
01:56:07,320 --> 01:56:09,760
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo Studio. Ron

2434
01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:13,960
Speaker 1: Turboard is the official for this Sunday's game in New York.

2435
01:56:14,080 --> 01:56:17,040
Speaker 1: Ron Turboard the veteran NFL official. You can't tell what

2436
01:56:17,160 --> 01:56:19,120
Speaker 1: game he had last year, but I was looking at

2437
01:56:19,400 --> 01:56:22,400
Speaker 1: people get a lot of criticism as referees will. I

2438
01:56:22,440 --> 01:56:24,160
Speaker 1: don't know if there might be a call recently that

2439
01:56:24,280 --> 01:56:29,480
Speaker 1: just stuck in somebody's craw. But it'd be tough to

2440
01:56:29,520 --> 01:56:32,520
Speaker 1: be an NFL official, wouldn't it. You could not pay

2441
01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:35,920
Speaker 1: attention to anything being said publicly. If you're an NFL official, Oh,

2442
01:56:36,040 --> 01:56:38,400
Speaker 1: I'd be afraid to read the comics. One of the

2443
01:56:38,520 --> 01:56:42,280
Speaker 1: things that Dean Blandino said as he left the NFL

2444
01:56:42,360 --> 01:56:45,640
Speaker 1: as vice president of Officiating and went to Fox or

2445
01:56:45,760 --> 01:56:48,600
Speaker 1: wherever with he said, I've never been around any place

2446
01:56:48,720 --> 01:56:52,680
Speaker 1: that had so much negativity associated with it. Really is

2447
01:56:52,720 --> 01:56:55,840
Speaker 1: the NFL? Is the NFL officiating department? Wow? Because you

2448
01:56:55,920 --> 01:57:01,520
Speaker 1: know nothing. You never because half even if it's a

2449
01:57:01,560 --> 01:57:04,240
Speaker 1: great call, half of the people involved don't like it. Him,

2450
01:57:04,960 --> 01:57:07,120
Speaker 1: even if you did the right thing, made the right call,

2451
01:57:07,480 --> 01:57:09,840
Speaker 1: half the people involved were not gonna like it. And

2452
01:57:10,400 --> 01:57:14,880
Speaker 1: if it's a bad call, everybody except the people who

2453
01:57:15,000 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 1: benefited are gonna hate hate it. And you know, so

2454
01:57:17,480 --> 01:57:24,240
Speaker 1: it's it's just an incredibly negative, negativity filled environment, you know.

2455
01:57:24,400 --> 01:57:26,760
Speaker 1: And uh he said, you know, he doesn't miss that

2456
01:57:26,880 --> 01:57:30,440
Speaker 1: part of it. That's sad. That's where it goes. So

2457
01:57:30,480 --> 01:57:32,200
Speaker 1: we signed up for it. Listen. They don't do it

2458
01:57:32,240 --> 01:57:34,240
Speaker 1: for free, believe me. So there's a call from Dan

2459
01:57:34,360 --> 01:57:37,320
Speaker 1: in lockboard. Go ahead, Dan, welcome to the show. I'm

2460
01:57:37,920 --> 01:57:42,400
Speaker 1: all right. Uh. I was wondering something I played a

2461
01:57:42,600 --> 01:57:45,440
Speaker 1: few years a few years back, more than a few

2462
01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:51,040
Speaker 1: years spec and Well, what I've noticed is that Alum

2463
01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:56,720
Speaker 1: looks lost out there. Josh, Well, why is everybody trying

2464
01:57:56,760 --> 01:58:00,080
Speaker 1: to get him back in the line up again? The

2465
01:58:00,160 --> 01:58:03,760
Speaker 1: line playing the way that they are, and we're the

2466
01:58:04,040 --> 01:58:06,720
Speaker 1: better chance of him and getting it hurt again because

2467
01:58:06,720 --> 01:58:08,840
Speaker 1: he got to play. He's got to play, Dan, you know,

2468
01:58:09,120 --> 01:58:12,040
Speaker 1: he's a rookie, is the seventh overall pick. He needs reps.

2469
01:58:12,080 --> 01:58:14,480
Speaker 1: He needs to play to get better, and he hasn't

2470
01:58:14,520 --> 01:58:17,440
Speaker 1: been great in his game so far. But the only

2471
01:58:17,480 --> 01:58:19,360
Speaker 1: thing that's going to cure that is playing. Time. Anything

2472
01:58:19,400 --> 01:58:23,200
Speaker 1: to add there, mister tasker. Now, okay, time now for

2473
01:58:23,440 --> 01:58:25,840
Speaker 1: Coffee with a Coach. Chris Brown sits down with Bill's

2474
01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:28,480
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott. Talk a little bit about the

2475
01:58:28,560 --> 01:58:31,080
Speaker 1: Bills and the NFL and the Jets, and neither one

2476
01:58:31,080 --> 01:58:33,400
Speaker 1: of them will even think about taking a sip of

2477
01:58:33,480 --> 01:58:35,840
Speaker 1: the wonderful Tim Horton's coffee on the table in front

2478
01:58:35,840 --> 01:58:39,000
Speaker 1: of him. Coffee of the Coach, presented by Tim Horton's

2479
01:58:39,040 --> 01:58:41,640
Speaker 1: Cafe and Bake Shop, the official Cafe and Bake Shop

2480
01:58:41,680 --> 01:58:45,400
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Hello again, everybody, Welcome to the

2481
01:58:45,440 --> 01:58:48,040
Speaker 1: week ten edition of Coffee with the coach presented by

2482
01:58:48,120 --> 01:58:50,360
Speaker 1: Tim Hortons. I'm Chris Brown, along with Phill's head coach

2483
01:58:50,360 --> 01:58:52,840
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, as the Bills are set to take on

2484
01:58:52,960 --> 01:58:55,720
Speaker 1: the Jets in a division tilt down at Midlife Stadium

2485
01:58:55,760 --> 01:58:58,280
Speaker 1: on Sunday at one o'clock. Coach is always thanks for

2486
01:58:58,360 --> 01:59:00,680
Speaker 1: being with us. So injuries, as you know, take a

2487
01:59:00,760 --> 01:59:03,080
Speaker 1: toll on every team in this league, but when they

2488
01:59:03,200 --> 01:59:06,280
Speaker 1: take place at your quarterback position, do you find that

2489
01:59:06,400 --> 01:59:09,680
Speaker 1: can often be maybe the most disruptive challenge to overcome

2490
01:59:09,760 --> 01:59:13,080
Speaker 1: as an offensive unit? Yeah, you know, continuity is so big, Chris,

2491
01:59:13,240 --> 01:59:16,280
Speaker 1: on offense, really the whole team, but in particular on offense,

2492
01:59:16,320 --> 01:59:18,240
Speaker 1: with the timing of the passing game, the timing of

2493
01:59:18,280 --> 01:59:21,480
Speaker 1: the running game. It creates a challenge, no doubt, but

2494
01:59:21,640 --> 01:59:24,280
Speaker 1: one that we're going to continue to work through. Speaking

2495
01:59:24,360 --> 01:59:26,760
Speaker 1: of your offense, you started to mix and match a

2496
01:59:26,800 --> 01:59:29,960
Speaker 1: little bit on your offensive line this past week. Where

2497
01:59:30,400 --> 01:59:34,800
Speaker 1: in your offensive game do new combinations do you hope

2498
01:59:34,840 --> 01:59:39,000
Speaker 1: those new combinations will help? Well, that remains to be seen.

2499
01:59:39,080 --> 01:59:43,480
Speaker 1: You know, we got some opportunity really for Wyatt Teller

2500
01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:46,840
Speaker 1: and Jeremis Searles on the line last week, and we're

2501
01:59:46,880 --> 01:59:49,320
Speaker 1: going to continue to take a look at opportunities to

2502
01:59:49,440 --> 01:59:52,760
Speaker 1: get some of our other players in the game, whether

2503
01:59:52,840 --> 01:59:57,760
Speaker 1: it's in particular Wyatt or Jeremiah or other players, new players,

2504
01:59:57,840 --> 02:00:01,240
Speaker 1: young players. U. We want to find out about these

2505
02:00:01,280 --> 02:00:03,160
Speaker 1: players as we move forward through the season, so we

2506
02:00:03,320 --> 02:00:05,839
Speaker 1: know what we have. You're talking about other positions besides

2507
02:00:05,840 --> 02:00:09,520
Speaker 1: off Okay, very good. Let's take some inventory on the

2508
02:00:09,600 --> 02:00:11,680
Speaker 1: Jets here. So just a couple of words that come

2509
02:00:11,720 --> 02:00:15,000
Speaker 1: to mind when you think of Leonard Williams. Difference maker.

2510
02:00:15,280 --> 02:00:17,040
Speaker 1: Obviously a guy that we've got a game plan for

2511
02:00:17,280 --> 02:00:20,760
Speaker 1: and know where he is in all situations. Yeah, they've

2512
02:00:20,800 --> 02:00:23,320
Speaker 1: got a player they're trying to develop down there, Sam Darnold,

2513
02:00:23,840 --> 02:00:26,560
Speaker 1: a good quarterback, good young quarterbacks. Similar the hours in

2514
02:00:26,760 --> 02:00:29,160
Speaker 1: terms of a young quarterback that they're trying to develop

2515
02:00:29,240 --> 02:00:33,080
Speaker 1: and very mobile and a guy that throws well in

2516
02:00:33,160 --> 02:00:35,600
Speaker 1: the run. Another guy that went high in the draft

2517
02:00:35,640 --> 02:00:39,040
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago, Jamal Adams. Good player.

2518
02:00:39,320 --> 02:00:41,040
Speaker 1: You know, he can be a tone center for for

2519
02:00:41,120 --> 02:00:42,960
Speaker 1: that defense. And a guy that, again we've got to

2520
02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:46,040
Speaker 1: know where he is and where he's lurking, and a

2521
02:00:46,120 --> 02:00:48,320
Speaker 1: guy that plays well in the run and the path game.

2522
02:00:48,640 --> 02:00:50,960
Speaker 1: All Right, thanks for the feedback on those. Now it's

2523
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:53,600
Speaker 1: time for our Fan Question of the Week, a chance

2524
02:00:53,680 --> 02:00:55,960
Speaker 1: for you the fan to ask coach a question. This

2525
02:00:56,080 --> 02:01:00,600
Speaker 1: week's question comes from Tiderium on Twitter, who adds through

2526
02:01:00,640 --> 02:01:03,320
Speaker 1: the first nine weeks, which one or two players have

2527
02:01:03,400 --> 02:01:06,800
Speaker 1: you seen the most improvement or growth from since training camp? Yeah?

2528
02:01:06,880 --> 02:01:09,480
Speaker 1: Great question. You know, when you look at this season

2529
02:01:09,560 --> 02:01:13,080
Speaker 1: that Matt Milano has put out there, he continues to

2530
02:01:13,200 --> 02:01:15,960
Speaker 1: grow and has had a nice season. You look at

2531
02:01:16,080 --> 02:01:18,560
Speaker 1: from one week to the next, even going back to

2532
02:01:18,680 --> 02:01:23,320
Speaker 1: last year, he's making better plays, more awareness type plays,

2533
02:01:23,840 --> 02:01:26,680
Speaker 1: and more productive in space than he was last season.

2534
02:01:26,760 --> 02:01:28,520
Speaker 1: So that would be one, and then you know, I'd

2535
02:01:28,560 --> 02:01:33,600
Speaker 1: have to say probably another one would be when you

2536
02:01:33,680 --> 02:01:36,600
Speaker 1: look at what our defensive line has been able to

2537
02:01:36,640 --> 02:01:39,080
Speaker 1: do with Shack Lawson. He's a guy that I know

2538
02:01:39,200 --> 02:01:41,080
Speaker 1: a lot of fans have been waiting on him to

2539
02:01:41,960 --> 02:01:46,120
Speaker 1: produce on a consistent basis and that's where he's trending towards.

2540
02:01:46,480 --> 02:01:50,440
Speaker 1: Still not where we want to be, but the progress

2541
02:01:50,480 --> 02:01:52,920
Speaker 1: he's made on and off the field this season, it

2542
02:01:53,040 --> 02:01:56,200
Speaker 1: goes really back to what his habits that he started

2543
02:01:56,240 --> 02:01:58,480
Speaker 1: this spring and all through the summer now into the fall.

2544
02:01:59,160 --> 02:02:02,120
Speaker 1: He's made a he's incredible progress for it. Stacking good weeks.

2545
02:02:02,160 --> 02:02:04,040
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. Coach, Thanks for the time.

2546
02:02:04,080 --> 02:02:06,160
Speaker 1: Good luck getting a big division win on the road

2547
02:02:06,240 --> 02:02:08,320
Speaker 1: this week. Thanks Chris. All Right, that's Bill's head coach,

2548
02:02:08,320 --> 02:02:10,839
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. This has been Coffee with the Coach, presented

2549
02:02:10,840 --> 02:02:13,480
Speaker 1: by Tim Horton's. Thanks for watching. We'll see you after

2550
02:02:13,640 --> 02:02:16,520
Speaker 1: the bye week. All right. Coffee of the Coach, presented

2551
02:02:16,520 --> 02:02:19,400
Speaker 1: by Tim Horton's, the official cafe and bike shop of

2552
02:02:19,480 --> 02:02:22,960
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Steve, you're here right when Sean and

2553
02:02:23,360 --> 02:02:25,760
Speaker 1: Chris sit down and shoot Coffee with the coach, yep?

2554
02:02:26,000 --> 02:02:28,040
Speaker 1: Would you do me a favor? Would you check and

2555
02:02:28,080 --> 02:02:31,000
Speaker 1: see if there's any actual coffee? Listen, I'm gonna know

2556
02:02:31,000 --> 02:02:32,800
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do next time. I'm gonna hand them

2557
02:02:32,880 --> 02:02:34,880
Speaker 1: both the cup to make sure they have it in

2558
02:02:34,920 --> 02:02:37,360
Speaker 1: their hand, you know. So there, I think they're uncomfortable reachings.

2559
02:02:38,360 --> 02:02:41,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna liked here you go, guys, here's your coffee,

2560
02:02:41,480 --> 02:02:43,960
Speaker 1: you know, and make them hold in somna their head.

2561
02:02:44,000 --> 02:02:45,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it. Sit up. I'm gonna make it.

2562
02:02:45,480 --> 02:02:46,800
Speaker 1: If they don't want to drink it. They gotta sit

2563
02:02:46,880 --> 02:02:49,360
Speaker 1: it down, you know, at least they'll know. I really

2564
02:02:49,440 --> 02:02:52,000
Speaker 1: think we're doing some damage with the sponsor there. I

2565
02:02:52,120 --> 02:02:55,360
Speaker 1: don't think so h They won't touch it. They don't

2566
02:02:55,360 --> 02:02:58,920
Speaker 1: even acknowledge that there's a nice medium cup of coffee

2567
02:02:58,920 --> 02:03:00,840
Speaker 1: Tim Horton's coffee sitting the table right in front of them.

2568
02:03:00,840 --> 02:03:03,000
Speaker 1: They don't even It's like it's not even there. It's

2569
02:03:03,000 --> 02:03:07,000
Speaker 1: almost like it's just a product placement. They should do that.

2570
02:03:07,360 --> 02:03:10,320
Speaker 1: Why not put a few, uh, you know, camel cigarette

2571
02:03:10,400 --> 02:03:13,760
Speaker 1: cartons on the table. Yeah, they should a box of donuts.

2572
02:03:13,760 --> 02:03:17,280
Speaker 1: I'll bet they touched those coffee of the coach presented

2573
02:03:17,280 --> 02:03:19,040
Speaker 1: by Tim Hortons, although you'd never know what those two

2574
02:03:19,160 --> 02:03:23,000
Speaker 1: never touched the coffee. Hey, we got that coffee many too.

2575
02:03:24,440 --> 02:03:25,800
Speaker 1: We got a few minutes left here if you'd like

2576
02:03:25,880 --> 02:03:28,240
Speaker 1: to weigh in us. It's been an interesting day with

2577
02:03:28,320 --> 02:03:30,400
Speaker 1: the news from the Jets about Sam Darnold not going

2578
02:03:30,440 --> 02:03:32,280
Speaker 1: to play. He's got a foot injury, he's got his

2579
02:03:32,840 --> 02:03:35,280
Speaker 1: a foot spring and he will not play against the Bills,

2580
02:03:35,320 --> 02:03:37,560
Speaker 1: may miss even more time than that. What are you

2581
02:03:37,640 --> 02:03:39,880
Speaker 1: make of his game? And does this game tell us

2582
02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:42,959
Speaker 1: help tell us who's further ahead. Who's closer to contention

2583
02:03:43,440 --> 02:03:45,760
Speaker 1: in any way you define contention? The Bills are the Jets,

2584
02:03:46,040 --> 02:03:49,280
Speaker 1: who had a couple of different responses on this on Twitter,

2585
02:03:49,640 --> 02:03:53,440
Speaker 1: A couple that I like. Um. Dougie Briggs tweets in,

2586
02:03:53,480 --> 02:03:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Jets for one simple reason. Their

2587
02:03:55,680 --> 02:03:58,800
Speaker 1: offense gives them a shot. They're not prolific by any means,

2588
02:03:58,880 --> 02:04:00,640
Speaker 1: but they have been able to use their weapons at

2589
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:03,400
Speaker 1: times where we really struggle with that. I'm just praying

2590
02:04:03,440 --> 02:04:06,200
Speaker 1: it's not another seventeen years. I have hope. I'm not

2591
02:04:06,320 --> 02:04:09,920
Speaker 1: giving up interesting. I don't know if their offense gives

2592
02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:12,720
Speaker 1: them a shot there, You're right, Doug either not prolific.

2593
02:04:13,040 --> 02:04:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if they've been much better than the

2594
02:04:14,480 --> 02:04:17,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. I guess anybody well not Actually the Bills

2595
02:04:17,400 --> 02:04:19,760
Speaker 1: there are only the second wordst the offensive unit. League.

2596
02:04:19,800 --> 02:04:22,000
Speaker 1: Think about that. I don't want to think about that, right.

2597
02:04:23,560 --> 02:04:25,480
Speaker 1: Sipping the kool Aid tweets in in response to our

2598
02:04:25,520 --> 02:04:28,320
Speaker 1: question which seems closer to contention, Bills or Jets Sipping

2599
02:04:28,320 --> 02:04:30,560
Speaker 1: the kool Aid? I voted Bills. I feel we were

2600
02:04:30,560 --> 02:04:33,720
Speaker 1: pretty set on defense, and they're much more solid than

2601
02:04:33,800 --> 02:04:36,280
Speaker 1: the Jets. Both teams have a lot of camp space

2602
02:04:36,360 --> 02:04:38,880
Speaker 1: next year, but the Bills have far more quality draft

2603
02:04:38,920 --> 02:04:41,960
Speaker 1: picks and a better chance to improve. The Jets may

2604
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:44,520
Speaker 1: also have to whether through a coaching change. We will not.

2605
02:04:44,920 --> 02:04:46,720
Speaker 1: I think that's a good summary of where they're at.

2606
02:04:46,760 --> 02:04:48,480
Speaker 1: You know, the Bills have all those picks, they have

2607
02:04:48,520 --> 02:04:52,040
Speaker 1: all kinds of camp money freeing up next year. They're

2608
02:04:52,080 --> 02:04:54,120
Speaker 1: not gonna have to change coaches. It's gonna be it's

2609
02:04:54,120 --> 02:04:56,720
Speaker 1: gonna be a real wrench into the works in the

2610
02:04:56,760 --> 02:04:59,400
Speaker 1: evaluation process. Now, the Todd Bulls. We had Rich Semine

2611
02:04:59,480 --> 02:05:04,000
Speaker 1: on from the New y Jet. He's a ESPN Nation

2612
02:05:04,080 --> 02:05:06,200
Speaker 1: writer and he covered the Jets for thirty years. He

2613
02:05:06,320 --> 02:05:09,080
Speaker 1: said that, you know, Todd Bowles is being evaluated on

2614
02:05:09,400 --> 02:05:13,280
Speaker 1: how Sam Darnal develops. Sam Darnald maybe out for an

2615
02:05:13,320 --> 02:05:17,000
Speaker 1: extended period for the next month. That's gonna hamper their

2616
02:05:17,040 --> 02:05:19,800
Speaker 1: ability to see how the rest of the team is doing. Now,

2617
02:05:20,400 --> 02:05:22,840
Speaker 1: Josh McCown comes in and plays well and knocks it,

2618
02:05:23,240 --> 02:05:25,120
Speaker 1: knocks it out of the park. Well, maybe that helps

2619
02:05:25,240 --> 02:05:27,640
Speaker 1: Todd Bulls stay there. But if Todd Boles managers just

2620
02:05:27,840 --> 02:05:30,080
Speaker 1: hang in there as head coach, you know, I think

2621
02:05:30,280 --> 02:05:32,760
Speaker 1: they've got to feel inside their building that they're on

2622
02:05:32,800 --> 02:05:34,560
Speaker 1: the right track, and that would put them, i think,

2623
02:05:34,600 --> 02:05:36,440
Speaker 1: ahead of the Bills at this point, just because of

2624
02:05:36,480 --> 02:05:38,720
Speaker 1: the fact that they're a year further down the road. Well, see,

2625
02:05:38,760 --> 02:05:40,280
Speaker 1: I think it's an interesting question. We got a few

2626
02:05:40,280 --> 02:05:42,080
Speaker 1: minutes left to talk about that. I want to talk

2627
02:05:42,080 --> 02:05:44,520
Speaker 1: a little bit about NFL two or False, which we

2628
02:05:44,600 --> 02:05:46,720
Speaker 1: play every day at this time. NFL True and False

2629
02:05:46,760 --> 02:05:49,440
Speaker 1: brought to you by Yancey's fancy New York's artists and

2630
02:05:49,520 --> 02:05:52,400
Speaker 1: cheese stuff that we come across on the wire services.

2631
02:05:52,520 --> 02:05:55,240
Speaker 1: They don't even exist anymore, but news items that are

2632
02:05:55,280 --> 02:05:58,880
Speaker 1: out there. Here's an I'm from sp Nation. Twenty fifteen

2633
02:05:59,040 --> 02:06:02,120
Speaker 1: NFL first rounder have fallen short. Now we're three years

2634
02:06:02,160 --> 02:06:03,920
Speaker 1: removed the who You're probably thinking, who the heck are

2635
02:06:03,960 --> 02:06:06,320
Speaker 1: we talking about talking about the first overall pick, Jamis

2636
02:06:06,360 --> 02:06:09,120
Speaker 1: Winston of the Bucks. Marcus Mariota was the second pick

2637
02:06:09,160 --> 02:06:13,240
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen. Dante Fowler Junior just traded the other

2638
02:06:13,360 --> 02:06:16,280
Speaker 1: day to the Rams right before the deadline. Amari Cooper

2639
02:06:16,400 --> 02:06:19,360
Speaker 1: just traded to the Cowboys. You go down the list.

2640
02:06:19,440 --> 02:06:22,040
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams is one of the best. The Jets defensive lineman.

2641
02:06:22,080 --> 02:06:24,400
Speaker 1: He's he's probably one of the best New Year Jets

2642
02:06:24,440 --> 02:06:26,720
Speaker 1: there is. He's still with the Jets. Starting wide receiver

2643
02:06:26,880 --> 02:06:29,040
Speaker 1: Kevin White saw him a little bit. What we didn't

2644
02:06:29,040 --> 02:06:31,280
Speaker 1: see him he was inactive against the Bills. The first rounder,

2645
02:06:31,320 --> 02:06:35,040
Speaker 1: seventh overall, the West Virginia wide receiver. Who else first rounders?

2646
02:06:35,040 --> 02:06:37,960
Speaker 1: Todd Belly, Todd Gurley is the guy. That guy's probably

2647
02:06:38,040 --> 02:06:39,520
Speaker 1: that he's the cream of the crop. Number ten. He

2648
02:06:39,600 --> 02:06:41,960
Speaker 1: was taking tenth overall that year and the running back

2649
02:06:42,040 --> 02:06:44,040
Speaker 1: was devalued and stuff. But now he's in the conversation

2650
02:06:44,120 --> 02:06:45,960
Speaker 1: for MVP on a team that's knocking it out of

2651
02:06:45,960 --> 02:06:50,120
Speaker 1: the park. So he's probably the exception to the rest

2652
02:06:50,160 --> 02:06:52,240
Speaker 1: of them. You look at the top ten of that draft.

2653
02:06:53,240 --> 02:06:56,200
Speaker 1: So the question first rounders from three years ago falling short?

2654
02:06:56,280 --> 02:06:59,040
Speaker 1: True false? I'm saying true. Oh, I say true as well.

2655
02:07:00,000 --> 02:07:01,600
Speaker 1: I say true as well. There's no question about it.

2656
02:07:01,680 --> 02:07:04,600
Speaker 1: That's been a really disappointing draft at this point. Even

2657
02:07:04,640 --> 02:07:08,560
Speaker 1: though mar Marcus Mariota and the Tennessee Titans are kind

2658
02:07:08,560 --> 02:07:10,080
Speaker 1: of hanging in there with him, he has not been

2659
02:07:10,120 --> 02:07:12,320
Speaker 1: a guy who's carried that franchise. It's been their run

2660
02:07:12,440 --> 02:07:15,000
Speaker 1: game in their defense, and there are times he struggles.

2661
02:07:15,080 --> 02:07:17,840
Speaker 1: So even though he but given the fact that even

2662
02:07:17,840 --> 02:07:19,680
Speaker 1: if he was good, it'd be him and Todd Gurley

2663
02:07:19,720 --> 02:07:21,640
Speaker 1: the rest of him. I mean, Jameis Winston maybe off

2664
02:07:21,760 --> 02:07:24,680
Speaker 1: that team as the first overall pick. So m yeah,

2665
02:07:24,760 --> 02:07:28,320
Speaker 1: I'd say true. NFL true or false. Part two. This

2666
02:07:28,560 --> 02:07:31,240
Speaker 1: is an item that was on ESPN dot Com on

2667
02:07:31,360 --> 02:07:34,840
Speaker 1: the NFL. Right Fitzpatrick is a top three quarterback in

2668
02:07:34,880 --> 02:07:38,200
Speaker 1: the NFL. Right now, Look, I don't like to take

2669
02:07:38,200 --> 02:07:40,680
Speaker 1: a backseat to anyone in my admiration, my respect, my

2670
02:07:40,800 --> 02:07:44,120
Speaker 1: genuine fondness for Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's not in the top

2671
02:07:44,240 --> 02:07:46,320
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks in the NFL. He's not in the top ten.

2672
02:07:46,600 --> 02:07:50,120
Speaker 1: Of course not. That's false. That's false. That's that's somebody

2673
02:07:50,200 --> 02:07:52,720
Speaker 1: trying to get a clickbait. And it worked. It worked,

2674
02:07:52,800 --> 02:07:55,120
Speaker 1: We fell forward and did it. But you know it

2675
02:07:55,280 --> 02:07:58,160
Speaker 1: is true false. It's an easy false. I'm with you.

2676
02:07:59,120 --> 02:08:02,000
Speaker 1: Nobody no better teammate in the league, no greater guy,

2677
02:08:02,080 --> 02:08:04,000
Speaker 1: no more fun guy to cover as a remember the

2678
02:08:04,080 --> 02:08:06,360
Speaker 1: media than Ryan Fitzpatrick. But he is not a top

2679
02:08:06,480 --> 02:08:09,080
Speaker 1: three quarterback in the NFL. And finally, an NFL two

2680
02:08:09,160 --> 02:08:12,160
Speaker 1: or false, The Jacksonville Jaguars have been the NFL's most

2681
02:08:12,200 --> 02:08:16,280
Speaker 1: disappointing team. That contention raised into piece on ESPN. The

2682
02:08:16,320 --> 02:08:19,560
Speaker 1: Jaggarts have been the NFL's most disappointing team. Why does it?

2683
02:08:19,640 --> 02:08:22,120
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a Buffalo thing, but why do I feel like, oh,

2684
02:08:22,200 --> 02:08:24,000
Speaker 1: wait a minute, there's all kinds of candidates for this

2685
02:08:24,400 --> 02:08:26,520
Speaker 1: because we feel are pretty acutely here. We knew where

2686
02:08:26,560 --> 02:08:28,040
Speaker 1: the Bills were. We kind of knew where the Bills

2687
02:08:28,080 --> 02:08:31,760
Speaker 1: were up to this year, but they have disappointed. The

2688
02:08:31,880 --> 02:08:35,840
Speaker 1: Jaguars are most disappointing. She's I don't know, Like I said,

2689
02:08:35,840 --> 02:08:37,600
Speaker 1: it feels like a lot of teams have fallen short.

2690
02:08:37,800 --> 02:08:40,680
Speaker 1: I would say yes, I'd say true, because that's a

2691
02:08:40,720 --> 02:08:42,960
Speaker 1: team that was in the championship game a year ago

2692
02:08:43,080 --> 02:08:45,800
Speaker 1: and look, just take a step forward. They were gonna

2693
02:08:45,840 --> 02:08:47,920
Speaker 1: get better this year. They were gonna, you know, make

2694
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:51,680
Speaker 1: that final push, and it has not gone that way. Now.

2695
02:08:51,920 --> 02:08:54,200
Speaker 1: Some of that is Leonard Fournette having a hamstring. A

2696
02:08:54,320 --> 02:08:57,520
Speaker 1: hamstring has kept him out of six games. I mean,

2697
02:08:58,520 --> 02:09:01,160
Speaker 1: but taking him out of that line hurt them. But

2698
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:07,560
Speaker 1: their defense has not been as as dominant as it

2699
02:09:07,760 --> 02:09:11,080
Speaker 1: was a year ago, and certainly their offense has nothing been,

2700
02:09:11,160 --> 02:09:13,080
Speaker 1: nothing to write home about, as well as you kind

2701
02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:16,080
Speaker 1: of expected. But without Fournet, that offense is really hamstrung,

2702
02:09:16,600 --> 02:09:19,360
Speaker 1: no pun intended. So yeah, i'd say I'd say true,

2703
02:09:19,480 --> 02:09:23,400
Speaker 1: they are the most disappointing team, most disappointed. I'm gonna

2704
02:09:23,440 --> 02:09:27,280
Speaker 1: say false. I've got other candidates. So the Giants disappoint me. Um,

2705
02:09:27,720 --> 02:09:31,120
Speaker 1: the Bills disappoint me. Probably not the most disappointing team. Um,

2706
02:09:32,360 --> 02:09:34,600
Speaker 1: there's there's others. Look, I guess I didn't have that

2707
02:09:34,720 --> 02:09:37,320
Speaker 1: high regard for the Jaguars anyway going in the year.

2708
02:09:37,520 --> 02:09:39,080
Speaker 1: I thought they were kind of a fraud last year.

2709
02:09:39,680 --> 02:09:42,480
Speaker 1: So well, you gotta pick one other than them, though,

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Speaker 1: all right, Giant Giants, Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe I mean the Giants. Maybe I think they'd better

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Speaker 1: than last year than they were top one or two

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Speaker 1: pick last year. Yeah, said they'd play better, you know,

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Speaker 1: not even a record as much as just how they

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Speaker 1: play what they do. All Right, there you go. NFL

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Speaker 1: or the Buffalo Bills Good show today? I thought it

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Speaker 1: was okay. Rich Samini joined us from ESPN NFL Nation covers.

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Speaker 1: The Jets has done it for thirty years. We asked

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Speaker 1: him the question We've asked our listeners all day. Which

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Speaker 1: team is closer to contention? The New York Jets or

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. You know, I think they're pretty much

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Speaker 1: in the same ballpark. You know, they're rebuilding. The Jets

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Speaker 1: started their rebuilding process maybe a year earlier. You know,

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Speaker 1: they tore down their roster last season. It started, they

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Speaker 1: didn't get the quarterback till this year, much like the Bills.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe the Jets are slightly ahead in that

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Speaker 1: respect because I think there are rosters. I think this

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Speaker 1: offseason in Buffalo you're going to see a lot of turnover,

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Speaker 1: you know, just a lot of roster overhaul, and I

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Speaker 1: think maybe the Jets are a little past that stage.

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Speaker 1: But you know, look, you're still way far away from

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, both of you. Yeah, that's the problem, right,

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Speaker 1: They're both way behind the Patriots at least right now.

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Speaker 1: Also on the show today, Bills linebacker Julian Stanford joined

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Speaker 1: us started last week against the Bears and talked about

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Speaker 1: this first start with the Buffalo Bills. I think it

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Speaker 1: was pretty good. Um, defense, you know, we kind of

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Speaker 1: played pretty well for the most part, up and down.

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Speaker 1: You know, we gave us some scores late in the game. Um,

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Speaker 1: it was a tough game overall. As for a team, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously we didn't get that. The goal was

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Speaker 1: to win the game. We didn't do that, So you know,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't good enough. We got to continue to get better, Continua,

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Speaker 1: tighten things and um, you know, fix mid collections and

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Speaker 1: continue get better. Julian Stamford. Good talking with him. So

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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll, we asked it all day long. We

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Speaker 1: took questions about it. Which team is closer to contention,

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills or the New York Jets. And we

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Speaker 1: didn't bother defining contention. You can handle that. And on

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll, Steve and I guess most of the calls,

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Speaker 1: most people thought the Jets were closer to contention. On

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll, sixty three percent said the Jets were

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Speaker 1: closer to contention and thirty seven percent said the Bills.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I think as it stands

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Speaker 1: today that you might you can make that argument pretty

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Speaker 1: easily for both teams. But I think the futility of

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Speaker 1: the Bills ability to score points is the difference. I

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Speaker 1: think the Jets are twentieth in the league or twenty

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Speaker 1: second in the league. It's scoring and of course the

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Speaker 1: Bills are thirty second, so they score points better than

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Speaker 1: the Bills do. And I think at this point, and

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Speaker 1: you're talking about the total picture, that puts the Jets

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Speaker 1: maybe ahead, but it's not by much. And it's not

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Speaker 1: because I think the Bills can. One more offseason will

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Speaker 1: tell the tale. We'll get a chance to see him

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Speaker 1: both in action though this weekend against each other. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a fun game now, except for the

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's out, I think that gives. I think that's

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Speaker 1: better for the Jets, I mean, production wise, I think

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Speaker 1: their offense is going to function better with Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: in it. I mean Josh McCowan in it. Sam Darnold

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Speaker 1: is out foot Spring will not play against the Bills.

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Speaker 1: They're not sure if we'll be ready to play after

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Speaker 1: their bye week. And the Bill's rookie Josh Allen his

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Speaker 1: buddy practice today and a limited basis, and we'll know

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Speaker 1: more tomorrow. Steve said, you think that's critical how he

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Speaker 1: comes back tomorrow after practice today. That's the evaluation process.

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Speaker 1: If he can stand it, and he comes back and

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Speaker 1: he's and he feels good, still feels good, you can

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Speaker 1: bet that he's going to start lobbying to get on

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Speaker 1: the field on someday. All Right, we're talk about that tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you join us tomorrow. Our production assistants George Blast,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Coltonick Thomas Holder, Kelly Rude, j J. Gurito, Kevin Card,

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Speaker 1: James Roebel, Our producer Jay Harris. We're back tomorrow, twelve known.

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