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Speaker 1: Oh a good time of my Steve Tasker, fu down,

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Speaker 1: touch down, text Tato time. Welcome to the show One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. Steve Tasker along with

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Speaker 1: John Murphy. Murph is here today, but we're sprinting to

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Speaker 1: the finish of our preparatory, of our exhaustive preparation for

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Speaker 1: our show here One Bills Live. It's I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: here too with you until three o'clock today in one

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Speaker 1: build in the studio. And that's a great shot at

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Speaker 1: the camera for people on MSG can see the stadium.

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Speaker 1: They're looking for shovelers and they need them. The stadiums.

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Speaker 1: The stadium has got snow in it. The field doesn't,

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Speaker 1: but the stands do. So that's been a constant issue.

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Speaker 1: We have a that's part of a is that part

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Speaker 1: of our It's not part of our twitter pool today.

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Speaker 1: But one of the great que we have today is

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Speaker 1: what are the best What is the best thing about

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Speaker 1: having three home games in December? And for those of

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Speaker 1: you who haven't realized this, Murph does the exhaustive research

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Speaker 1: on this. Hosting four years in a row, the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills have had three home games in December. Isn't that crazy.

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Speaker 1: That just kind of stray. I knew it was two

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Speaker 1: straight years, four straight years the Buffalo Bills have hosted

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Speaker 1: three games in December. It seems like a lot. I

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Speaker 1: know that. Look, we're gonna get to our Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: in the second. I just mentioned that to Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 1: You know what he said? Good. I like that and

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Speaker 1: it kind of was reminiscent of your group with Marv

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Speaker 1: right for us. I think Sehn wants to adopt that

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Speaker 1: philosophy too. But it's a lot. It's a lot to

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Speaker 1: ask if fans and our Twitter poll today we want

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Speaker 1: the fans our listeners to respond to that question. So

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Speaker 1: four straight years the Bills have had three home games,

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Speaker 1: and this is the start of the three game stretch

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Speaker 1: coming up this Sunday, the Bills and the New York Jets.

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Speaker 1: What do you think what's the best part of the

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Speaker 1: Bills having the three home games in December. I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about this hard over the last few days. A

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Speaker 1: couple of things are good. First of all, when they

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Speaker 1: play well, it is a home field advantage, right, And Steve,

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Speaker 1: it's just right for us. Okay, that's Marv being mar

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Speaker 1: But it also has some meaning, right. It meant something

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Speaker 1: back when you guys were rolling along. You weren't winning

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Speaker 1: because it was your home in December, but it certainly helped, right,

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Speaker 1: It's yeah. I mean it's a plus when you got

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Speaker 1: Plus when you're playing at home, and whether that stinks,

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Speaker 1: it's a plus because you know it doesn't bother you

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Speaker 1: so much. I know this, um, And we talked about

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Speaker 1: this last year right after the Indianapolis game and that

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Speaker 1: that epic game where there's a foot of snow on

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Speaker 1: the ground. The Bills were all in red and the

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Speaker 1: Colts were all in white. I'll tell you and I

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Speaker 1: you know, for me, let me just put my tinfoil

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Speaker 1: hat on to begin the show, my my tinfoil hat

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Speaker 1: with antennas to keep the conspiracy the man from talking

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Speaker 1: in December. They love it, and they hope they get

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Speaker 1: three games exactly like the one they got against Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: last year. Because when the moment that came on, and

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Speaker 1: this weekend here in town when when the Jets come

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Speaker 1: it looks different, it looks unbelievable. People want to see

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Speaker 1: players at the highest level struggle through at conditions. It's

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Speaker 1: like watching the Open Championship in golf in Great Britain.

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Speaker 1: You want to see him in sixty degree weather with

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Speaker 1: exactly the reason why in the last four years Buffalo

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Speaker 1: forecast that the guys are gonna be cloudy, maybe mixture

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Speaker 1: It'll look very similar to every other NFL games, including

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Speaker 1: making that maybe they get a game like it, Well,

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Speaker 1: you can't. Yeah, you're not gonna get one of those

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Speaker 1: and they schedule three through the last four years, last year,

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Speaker 1: two years. It's interesting, but there is something to be

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you've got three home games in December,

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Speaker 1: have one home game in December and they'll be racing

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Speaker 1: everybody will be complaining. Right, but what do you think

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Speaker 1: what's never goes our way? Right? They're out to get us.

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Speaker 1: What's the best part of December home games? What do

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Speaker 1: it the fact that you got a chance for a

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Speaker 1: year ago this weekend when the Bills won that game

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Speaker 1: it was a close game, the entire thirteen to seven, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that folks might like, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Not that they're I don't know if they're better fans

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Speaker 1: It is forty nine Ers, Raiders, Jaguars, and Jets. The Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: They wanted absolutely no part of Derrick Henry and it

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Speaker 1: Of course, and that eliminated the Jaguars from playoffs. There

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Speaker 1: and for some of those it's you know, it's fiery

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's no fun when you got, even

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Speaker 1: I get it, and I think it's well, we here

428
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Speaker 1: in Buffalo we know better than anybody. It is what

429
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,160
Speaker 1: you make of it, you know. So there are those

430
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 1: who are watchers, and then there are those who are participants.

431
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,399
Speaker 1: I think the participants are the ones who kind of

432
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,159
Speaker 1: love that stuff, you know, and the people who are

433
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,080
Speaker 1: kind of observers, for lack of a better way to

434
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Speaker 1: describe it, are the I say, you know, I'd I'd

435
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 1: rather be comfortable, you know. And I get that. Yeah,

436
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,680
Speaker 1: I just listen. It's not like going outside and shovel

437
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: on the walk for fifteen minutes. It's three hours plus

438
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,120
Speaker 1: all the travel and tailgating and all that, and it's

439
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: and it is. It is coal. It's a bit, but

440
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 1: you and you know, you gotta gear up for it.

441
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this, believe it or not, last

442
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 1: Sunday in Miami. And you've been to hard Rock Stadium

443
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 1: and they put you know, you see it on TV.

444
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 1: If you haven't been there, they have covered over the

445
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 1: seating areas. The field is the only area in hard

446
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium that is open to the elements. Now. Now,

447
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,879
Speaker 1: the elements like last week were eighty five degrees and

448
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 1: they had one thermometer that said one hundred ten degrees

449
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 1: on the field last week. It certainly was not that hot.

450
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,159
Speaker 1: But it's hot and it's human and those are the

451
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 1: elements down there, and they have made a construction move

452
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 1: to protect those fans, I'm sure, in an effort to

453
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,440
Speaker 1: get more sell more season tickets. People don't want to

454
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 1: sit and bake in the sun all season long watching

455
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 1: Dolphins football. Now, Dolphins football has something to do with

456
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 1: that too, the way they play. But I was thinking

457
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 1: about this, it's the same thing here in Buffalo. There

458
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: are there's a certain element of the fan base that

459
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: likes outdoor football maybe but doesn't want to sit in it.

460
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,679
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I've looked at this at this

461
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 1: place to my amateur appraisal, Could you ever cover, you know,

462
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,399
Speaker 1: put a cover over some of the seats here in

463
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: Orchard Park? Is it feasible? This is kind of a

464
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: wide open, expansive place. Miami is much a little bit

465
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 1: more I think up and down, you know, a little

466
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 1: steep more steeply built. I don't know if you could

467
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,400
Speaker 1: make a Buffalo is a bowl? Yeah, dug out and

468
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 1: Miami's they can't dig in the Florida or they'll hit seawater.

469
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: So everything's above grounds. So much taller stadium, yeah, there's

470
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 1: no question, much taller. But could that work here? I

471
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 1: don't know if it could. I don't know if that's

472
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 1: what people want? Would you want to be covered? Listen?

473
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 1: And here's another question for a later date. If the

474
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Speaker 1: Bills were like back in then, if they were fighting

475
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Speaker 1: for home field advantage, would that make a difference on

476
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Speaker 1: how you feel about December home games? It's got to, right,

477
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: it's got to Yeah, that totally changes your perspective. If

478
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: you're a Bills fan, you think, yeah, that's perfect. We

479
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: do want you know that those last three out of

480
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 1: four games at home. That's difference. And then you know

481
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 1: if they're not, well, maybe not so much. What do

482
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: you think? Silver linings for December home games three again

483
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 1: this year? The first one coming up Sunday against the Jets.

484
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Speaker 1: Do you like it? Do you not like it? Eighth

485
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Speaker 1: three fifty twenty three, one eight eight five fifty two

486
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 1: five fifty I'd also like to see if people if

487
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 1: you chime, if you're gonna call us, I'd love to

488
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: have you call and or if you're gonna tweet at us.

489
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,719
Speaker 1: Is there something you like the most about December home

490
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: games when the weather's bad? Is there something extra you

491
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: do at their tailgate? Is there a different kind of

492
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 1: dish that you make? Is they're a different kind of

493
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: because we all have to gear up. I mean we

494
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: all have warm clothes up here. I'm a different brand

495
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,680
Speaker 1: exactly right. There is there a different hot toddy that

496
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,239
Speaker 1: you use when it's bad out than it is when

497
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: it's and listen, I'd and like you, and like most

498
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 1: of us, I would much rather have it snowing and

499
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: fluffy and white like it was last year for the

500
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: for the for the Occult game, than to have it

501
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: thirty six and side ways raining. You know, I'd rather

502
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 1: be extreme, really cold and white and have it snowing

503
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 1: than have it a little bit warmer and raining sideways.

504
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: What do you think? That's that's my six and phone

505
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: calls John and West Seneca. Go ahead, John, you're in

506
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: the ear. Hello John, last call for John. Let's go

507
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 1: to Stephen and go on to Stephen. Are you there, Yes,

508
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: I am, How are you good? Thanks? Steve. Hey. I

509
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: remember my first December home game like it was yesterday.

510
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 1: It was twenty eleven. They played Tennessee. Unfortunately it was

511
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: when Buffalo was in the midst of that seven games kids.

512
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,479
Speaker 1: Then it was snow and it was blowing. My buddies

513
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: convinced me to spend twenty bucks on a ticket. We

514
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: sat up in the rock pile, and I remember my

515
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: dad was a season ticket holder for twenty five years

516
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: and hearing the stories back in the nineties of when

517
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: the when the guys were making the runs, and it

518
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: just it brought back a lot of memories then and

519
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: the tailgate. We're playing football in the parking lot, and

520
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: it just I really really enjoyed it. And unfortunately I

521
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: don't get to go to too many more games like that,

522
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: but I love the December home games when I can

523
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 1: make Yet, there is there is a difference, And thanks

524
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: for calling, Steve. That's you're right, there's gonna be. I

525
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: think those December games, like the ones we're gonna have

526
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: here this next month, they give you a lot more

527
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: opportunity for memories outside the football game. You know, those

528
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: are the ones you remember about how you feel and

529
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: how much you know how hard it was and the

530
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 1: sacrifice you make for going out to watch your team

531
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: in a snowstorm or in a rainstorm or wind or

532
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: in the cold weather. You kind of have if you

533
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: have to sacrifice for it, you kind of remember it more.

534
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: Just like you know, Steve from Gowana just said, there

535
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: is a little something extra in it for the fans.

536
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: I think. You know, it's a little bit, a little

537
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: bit of a commitment. Yes, a hash mark on your

538
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: on your resume. It's like, hey, I was at that game. Yeah,

539
00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: you know, I was there and I was gonna go

540
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: with whether it was a good day or a bad day,

541
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: and we had some great memory You have some great

542
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: memories because of the conditions, even the walk into the

543
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: stadium or the walk out or the tailgate, because of

544
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: how how blustery it is. It's and it's there's something

545
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: to that, I think, and it's something that adds to it.

546
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: What do you think we're just getting started with this.

547
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: What's the best part of December home games? They've got

548
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: three this year, the last each of the last four seasons,

549
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: they've had three December home games. Do you like it?

550
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: Do you not like it? If you like it, what's

551
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: the best part? What do you like the most? Give

552
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: us a call eighth three fifty toll free one eight

553
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Talk about the

554
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: Bills Jets matchup. Two. We'll do some of that. We

555
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: come back. We'll take a few phone calls, and we're

556
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 1: also going to talk about what we need to see,

557
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: what we'd like to see for a Buffalo victory on

558
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Jets. Show's kids just kicked off the

559
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: Bills coming up against the Jets on Sunday. Steve Tasker,

560
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: John Murphy, One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health from

561
00:26:49,440 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

562
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: to the show, General Steve Tasker, Why are you looking

563
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: to be funny? You know I'm not paying attention. I'm

564
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: multitasking during the breaks. Well, I'm glad you can because me,

565
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm I can't do two things at once. It's a

566
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: little scrambling here on Fridays. Everything's a little bit staying

567
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: a home game. I gotta tell you, why is that

568
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: the place starts to buzz? Yeah, you know, and they

569
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: got we got construction going on here. They got the

570
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: shovelers are coming in tomorrow probably and yeah, it's just

571
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: a we got stuff going on. We need shovelers. Because

572
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: it's December. Football three home games in December this year

573
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: again the fourth consecutive year. What do you think about that?

574
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: What's the best part of December home games? Let's uh,

575
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: let's rock it through some of these calls. Steve, you're

576
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: up for this. You ready to go? All right? Bob

577
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 1: and Buffalo Hi, Bob, go ahead? What do you think?

578
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 1: I love the winner football? Uh in Buffalo? Um? Obviously

579
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 1: last year. I know it's only a short time ago.

580
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 1: Or believably one shady head that running overtime yea an

581
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: inches of snow. Yeah, just exhilarating, even though you know

582
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: at the time we didn't know him ment anything. Um,

583
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: but I remember back if you think when Peerless Price

584
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: cut the long cut that touchdown pass against Miami and

585
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: it was snowing, and then when he crossed the goal line,

586
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: you realize Jim Kelly was standing on the back line

587
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: of the goal line in you know Parka, yeah, and applauding,

588
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: you know the touchdown, which I might have been one

589
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 1: of the like a winning touchdown. But the weather when

590
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: when it started snowing, people started cheering because we were

591
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: playing Miami. Yeah, and uh, it was just it was

592
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: it was like just impulsive. It started snowing and the

593
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: crowd started cheering, and you know that's winner football and Buffalo. Yeah,

594
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: I think. And I don't know if I have never

595
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: plotted it out Steve to see. You know, the Bill's

596
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: home record in a snow game, that could be done.

597
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: I probably won't do it, I'll admit, but I think

598
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: there's a sense among Bills fans that hey, when it

599
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: starts snowing, we have the advantage. We live here, we

600
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: play here, we are fans here, these guys practice here,

601
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: and so when it snows, especially against the Miami or

602
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: a Jacksonville or really anybody, then the Bills get the advantage.

603
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: That's on our side. The snow is on our side.

604
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: Don't you think people feel that way? I think they do. Yeah,

605
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: And I know the players, We as players did it.

606
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: It's not a bother to play when you live here.

607
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: It's it's not even extra consideration. You just do it.

608
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: You just go out and you know it's a it's

609
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: not a distraction and for guys coming in here from

610
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: other places like Miami, like New Orleans, like San Diego

611
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: or LA or you name it, Houston, it's an enormous

612
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: concern for them that kind of override and gets in there.

613
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: It's in the back of their mind all the time.

614
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: They don't know if they are they you know, you

615
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: question everything, and as a competitor, you can people can

616
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: relate to this. I mean, you want to give yourself

617
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: every edge. You're really worried about doing everything you can,

618
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: and if you think the other team may have a

619
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: real edge, it bothers you big time. If if you

620
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: come out and think, well, wonder how those guys, how

621
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: those guys that live here, how are they doing it?

622
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: How are they you know, how are they dressed? And

623
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: I remember one time when when we were going back

624
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: in the nineties, we had a game like this or

625
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: like a bad weather game. It was going to be

626
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: very cold, and I think it might have been a

627
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: playoff game like against the Raiders, where our offensive linemen

628
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: came out for the for the pregame warm up sleeveless

629
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: and it was bitter cold, I mean really cold, and

630
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: they came out sleeveless and the Raiders guys came out,

631
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: they were bundled up, and they and they looked over

632
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: and they saw all our guys were sleeveless for the game,

633
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: and they thought, oh, I get it. So they know

634
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: that they can stay warm enough on the field, and

635
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: then between series you go over and sit on the

636
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: heated benches. You can stay warm. So it's better to

637
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: go sleep. And everybody thinks it's better to go sleeveless

638
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: because there's nothing to grab onto and it, you know,

639
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: it's it's a better way to play. It's more competitive.

640
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: So after pregame warmups, the Raiders leave the field, we

641
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: leave the field. The Raiders guys take their sleeves off,

642
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: and our guys put theirs on. Right, So we were

643
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: we you know, and we won the game. But there's gamesmanship. Yeah,

644
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: And it gets in your mind as a visiting team

645
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: as to whether you think, Wow, I wonder, I hope

646
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm dressed right, I hope I'm giving myself the best chance.

647
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: And you don't really know. In Buffalo, if you live here,

648
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: you work here, think yeah, I got it. Yeah not

649
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: so don't you think when you live here, I've never

650
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: played in the NFL stadium here but if you live

651
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: here and work here, oh wow, it's cold today, I'm cold.

652
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: You're always in the mac of your mind, think I'll

653
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: be warm later today, I'll be fine, right do you think?

654
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: I mean, as a matter how cold it gets out there,

655
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: you know, there's a warm locker room waiting for you

656
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: at halftime and again post game. Right, and there's a

657
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: warm home and maybe some some warm beverages. The players know.

658
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: The players know too, And listen some of these teams

659
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: they never they don't, you know, they use heated benches.

660
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: They don't need them. I mean, what do they do for? Right?

661
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: They keep you warm? I mean the player, the players

662
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: on the sidelines in the game, they got it better

663
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: than the fans in the stands. I mean they got

664
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: a heated seats that those big white benches that you

665
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: people would come, you know, the fans see when you

666
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: come to the games, they're they're blowing a big turbo

667
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: heat or inside there they're hollow and they have slots

668
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: where you can slip your fingers in and your your

669
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: feet will kick back inside that thing and you're fine.

670
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: You're yeah, I mean you're fine. So they got it

671
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: better than anybody. But if you don't know that. If

672
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 1: you come in you're thinking, man, I'm gonna be freezing,

673
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: and you don't know that. Going out on the field

674
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: as a visiting team, you worry, you know what I mean.

675
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: You saw it. You were here for the Thurman Thomas

676
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: number of retirement ceremony the bills on the Patriots October

677
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,719
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, And it was a chilly night and they

678
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: had the radiant heating on above the club seats and

679
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: it was kind of an orange glow over all those seats.

680
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, and I have seats are

681
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: I've never sat in them for a game, but people

682
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,479
Speaker 1: tell me when you sit there on a cold day

683
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: and those radiant there comes a commercial for club seats.

684
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: It's really warm. It does your warm those seats. It

685
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: looks great too. Yeah, it looked great and the fantastic

686
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: on it really keeps your warm, they say the people

687
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: who have seats there. Yeah, and it was a great look.

688
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: And I didn't realize. I didn't even realize it was there.

689
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know that happened, you know, I didn't know

690
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: that was a thing. But they spent any time in

691
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: the stadium, you know, I'm always doing another game somewhere else,

692
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: and sure enough, you know that that lights on. I

693
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: go oh. I thought, well, that's cool that they had

694
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: those colored lights there. And then I go then I

695
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: go water. I was looking at it like you could

696
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: see they were the heaters. I was like they were

697
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: eight yeah, yeah, Well that was a big selling point

698
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: way back in the day that we have heated seats now,

699
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: and the heated seats never worked, right, Those radiant heaters

700
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: were those heated seats. If one seat went out, it

701
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: was like a Christmas lights. If one seat went out,

702
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: the whole row was out right. What that sounds vaguely familiar?

703
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: Bob and cheek Waga, Hello Bob, welcome to the show.

704
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: December games. What do you think, hi guys? Well, first

705
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: of all, we got to play Miami in December. That's

706
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: the best game to have in December. Got it December thirtieth.

707
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: This year, having three games home games in December is

708
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: not good. I would rather have one of those earlier

709
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: in the year, like it's Timber or October, because the

710
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: women in my life don't like the cold weather. And

711
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: I do take a special drink with me to the games.

712
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: What is it, right? I used to I changed it

713
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: up this last week. Anytime, Well, I used to take

714
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: hot tea with lemon and honey and a couple shots

715
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 1: the brandy, right, but last game I changed the brandy.

716
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: I put two shots of Johnny Walker gold and some Crupnik,

717
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: which is a Polish honey liquor. Was delicious, was it? Well? Listen,

718
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: if how the team do that game the day you

719
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: change the drink up, they won? Well, there you go.

720
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: That's your drink from now on, right, you got it.

721
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: That's the way it's got to work. I mean, thanks, thanks,

722
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: good idea. And I'll tell you that's true too. There's

723
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: got every If you got a group that goes, they

724
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: kind of all got to be in yeah, you know,

725
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: and we've had people chime into the Bills have a

726
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: big footprint here in this region. So there's some people

727
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: that drive three four hour to get to the game.

728
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: And if it's gonna be a game like it was

729
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, you gotta make sure you get home. You know,

730
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: they gotta work the next day, don't we all? So

731
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: you know that's a consideration too. These these bad weather games,

732
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 1: I don't know, if you can't be sure that you're

733
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: gonna get home. You gotta have a plan B for

734
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: work the next day. And plus you know, so it's

735
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: all that stuff like we said, like like he said,

736
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: all the ladies in his life, none of them like

737
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: the cold weather. So now you gotta find something to

738
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: do with them. And you got to If you've got

739
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: a group that goes to the games and nobody wants

740
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: to go into a cold weather game, that's stinks, you know, right,

741
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: And you can't whine. You can't go and wine. You

742
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: gotta go. You gotta go and be in or you

743
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: gotta stay home and wine. But you can't go and wine. Mean,

744
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: it's probably okay to see now I'm a little chilly today,

745
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: but don't whine it's cold or wow, I should have

746
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: brought the other pair of socks. I should have worn

747
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: the other booster. You can say that, but you can't go. Yeah,

748
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: why are we here? Exactly? Know? Whining? David and Wheatfield.

749
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: Hello David, Welcome to the show. Thanks guys. Um. I

750
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: know I'm probably in the minority here, but my perspective

751
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: has changed as I've gotten older. I had season tickets

752
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: for twenty five years, and when I was in my

753
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: thirties and forties, I didn't mind the December Games so much,

754
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: but now that I'm in my sixties, UM, I'd kind

755
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 1: of like to see a dome stadium. UM. The other

756
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: the other reason that I'm not a real big fan

757
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: of the December Games is I paid my money to

758
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: go to the Games to see the best athletes in

759
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: the world performing at their highest level. And when you

760
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: when the weather's probably you don't get that. I mean,

761
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: I know I'm older, but I appreciate good defense, but

762
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: I love great offense, and usually don't get great offense

763
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: when the weather's really bad. And I don't you know,

764
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: I don't want to see a game one or loss

765
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: because somebody slipped on a patch of ice or hit

766
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: some slush or something. I want to see these guys

767
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: performing at they're very bad. That's pretty good, I can see.

768
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: I can understand that. I mean, there's some there's something

769
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 1: to be said for that, and I kind of mentioned

770
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: that earlier too. But you know a lot of people,

771
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: and you're right, David, some people do feel like you

772
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: do the word. You know, it takes what you do.

773
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes what you do best away, or it's

774
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: one more obstacle your team has to overcome or makes

775
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: it worse on you, and you don't get to see

776
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: these guys play their best when the conditions are bad.

777
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: And there is other people like I mentioned a Monago

778
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: in this in a different sport in golf, where they

779
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: want to see the best guys overcome stuff that we

780
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: all have to overcome. Um, in golf, that's a little

781
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: different because everybody can play golf on the same course

782
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: as the pros, but everybody's playing basically against the courts,

783
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: not against each right. In this case, I can see

784
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: the point where you know, you want to see these

785
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: guys play. You want to see if your how your

786
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: team measures up. You don't want to see how your

787
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: if your team handles the elements better. You want to

788
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,959
Speaker 1: see them if they play football better. And there's something

789
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: to be said for that. So I can I can

790
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: acknowledge that stick another call in this segment, let's go

791
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,439
Speaker 1: to Joe and Ton of Joe. Welcome to the show.

792
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: Hi guys, Hi again. UM, I was thinking, uh, maybe

793
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: we should have a Dome team because there's there's eight

794
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: Dome teams and six of them are in the NFC,

795
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: so you know, maybe we should get one even at

796
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 1: out a little and at how did Josh dou How

797
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: did he do in the cold and Wyoming? Is the

798
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: weather like similar there? I don't know. I don't know

799
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: if they have the exact sent kind of weather. I

800
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: know they get cold. I don't know I have any

801
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 1: numbers at my fingertips. How he did in cold weather games.

802
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: I don't remember. There used to be a stat like

803
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: that about was Peyton Manning and under thirty degrees? I

804
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: always thought that was a stupid stat it was. I

805
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: don't know if it's Peyton Manning or Drew Brees the Saints,

806
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: remember they went up and beat the Packers up there

807
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: to go to their Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I don't

808
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: know that those numbers mean anything. It's a team game.

809
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: And I don't know that Peyton Manning was not good

810
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: in cold weather and he's pretty good every day, I think,

811
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: And to look at I guess we could do some

812
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: research find out what Josh's record was and the cold

813
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: weather games at Wyoming. I'm sure they had some rough

814
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 1: weather games up yeah right, and then oh yeah, yeah,

815
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: that's yeah in Wyoming. Yeah yeah. I grew up in

816
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: that part of the country out south of there, but

817
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: seven hundred miles south of the Yeah, it's bad. I

818
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: was amazing about people who grew up It's yeah. I

819
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: grew up near there. It's about about ten hour drive away.

820
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: I was right next door. We go up there for now.

821
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: You know, for all the people that go out and

822
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: watch the games, there's a bunch of people who work.

823
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,760
Speaker 1: Bill whipper At, the Bill's photographer, He says, he tweeted

824
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: at us, the best part of it is getting a

825
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: chance to make football photos in the snow for MSG people.

826
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: You can watch some of the photos he texted to us.

827
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: He's got a ton of them. And if you get

828
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: a chance to go online, to go on Twitter and

829
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: look at some of the photos that Bill Whippert had.

830
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: He and I were talking that day. I was the

831
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: sideline reporter for the day. Uh. The Colts played here

832
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: in Buffalo last year and they were an all in

833
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: red with white helmets, and the Colts were all in

834
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: white with white helmets, and well, it was a spectacular day. Visually,

835
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: that may be that that will be other than the

836
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: Bill's winning and Lashawn McCoy's run into the end zone.

837
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: It was an overtime game and all that. That game

838
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: was absolutely spectacularly beautiful. Yeah, and I was in a

839
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 1: lot of respects. I was really proud of the fan base,

840
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: the city, the stadium, mostly the fans, and the way

841
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: the way they come poured out, and the way the

842
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: team played and the way the game looked. But it

843
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: was just it was a once in a lifetime game.

844
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: And I think there in fact, I said this a

845
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: little earlier, I don't think there's any doubt that the

846
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: TV networks are banking on one of those games again.

847
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: They want teams like Buffalo and Green Bay in New England,

848
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: these outdoor states to have a game like that once,

849
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: like Chicago. They want them to have a game like

850
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: this once in a while and it just looks spectacular

851
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: on television and then they can't get enough of it.

852
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: So they're going to give themselves every chance to recreate

853
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: how beautiful that game was. Bill Whipper took some phenomenal

854
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: photos of that game, and and it's it's fun to

855
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: go back and think about it and look at it.

856
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: But for all the people who have to go out

857
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: there and suffer through just to watch, and there's like you, Murphy,

858
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: you have to go suffer through the radio booth and

859
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: sit there and oh, it's not suffering. Yeah, I know

860
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: it's not suffering. I love it. I was being totally snarky.

861
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: Were that's suffering? Yeah, it's a lot of everybody's working there,

862
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: the security guys, everybody's they're out in it. It's it's

863
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: a buffalo thing. Man. Let's go, you know, let's strap

864
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: it on and go. They're not likely to get that

865
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 1: kind of a weather day this Sunday. The latest forecast

866
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: from the National Weather Service. Sunday's forecast for Orchard Park

867
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: partly cloudy skies, the high thirty two, the low twenty four,

868
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: Partly cloudy, high thirty two, the wind southwest ten to

869
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: fifteen miles per hour, and very little chance of any

870
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: precipitation that wins out of the southwest at eleven miles

871
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,439
Speaker 1: per hour. More coming up on this December home games.

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00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: What do you think? You like them? Not like them?

873
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: What's the best part? Give us a call, we'll talk

874
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: about it. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving. This

875
00:41:49,239 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. If you see task here we're

876
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: in One Goes Live or one of those drivers where

877
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: we're at. You can see the shovelers out there in

878
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: the stadium as we speak. Good for them. It's not

879
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: a pleasant task, but it's gotta be done, Seve, gotta

880
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: be done, Gotta have that seats shoveled out as much

881
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: as they can't. I remember the old guy, the director

882
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: of stadium operations back in the day, George, and I

883
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: can't remember. George's the last name. He's the guy that

884
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: had figured out if they cut slice those covert, those

885
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: plastic coverts and ran them up the side of the things,

886
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: they could just dump snow in with shovels and it

887
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: would slide all the way down and they could haul

888
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: it out. Genius. It was a stroke of genius. That's great,

889
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: and they still doing it today. Then they cart it

890
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: out by a truck it out, truck it out. Trying

891
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: to look there was, um, where do we get there?

892
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: I can't find anything anymore. They want shovelers and I

893
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: can't find the release. Do you have? No, I don't have.

894
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't read things that the team puts out.

895
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: Did you read this? Mike McCarthy, fired Sunday night as

896
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: head coach of the Green Bay Packers, came back to

897
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: the Packers for a day and spoke to the team.

898
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: They mark Murphy and the Packers, I'm sure if Philbin

899
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: coach Philbin, the interim coach, was in on this as well.

900
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: Allowed him to come back and address the team. Pretty amazing.

901
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: See if I've never heard of that a fired coach,

902
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: Usually they can't get that guy out of the building

903
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: quick enough, right A score them out. Yeah, it's a

904
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: weird move, and I kind of like it. Oh, I

905
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: like it a lot. I think it's a very classy move.

906
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: I applaud the Packers for being secure enough and intelligent enough,

907
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: and that full of grace and that appreciative of a

908
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,479
Speaker 1: guy who contributed so much to that organization, of doing

909
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: their best to bring the relationship to a close in

910
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: the right way. And certainly it was uncomfortable having to

911
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: coming to the point where they fired him mid season

912
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. I think giving him a chance to

913
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: come back and address the team is a totally class move,

914
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: and I'm it's so unusual. I was shocked when I

915
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: heard that they did it. Yeah, just like wow, who wow?

916
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: Who thought of that? You know, it seems natural when

917
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: you see it. Well, they let him come back and

918
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: say goodbye to the team and address him and bring

919
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: his time to a close right, and I think it

920
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: was I think it was really really a great move

921
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: by them, and I applaud them. According to ESPN, they

922
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: allowed McCarthy to come back Tuesday and Wednesday. Came back

923
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: and talked to the staff on Tuesday, and at that

924
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: point he wanted an opportunity to speak with the team.

925
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: Joe Philbin, the interim coach who was hired by McCarthy,

926
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Speaker 1: said it was one in support of that. Philbin said

927
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: he did a fantastic job. They said that he got

928
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 1: a standing innovation. After he spoke to the Packers players

929
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Clay Matthews talked about it, a long time

930
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: veteran linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, talked about how

931
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: good it was to have fired head coach Mike McCarthy

932
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: back to talk to the team a couple of days ago,

933
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 1: for him to invest the past thirteen years in this

934
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: team has given us heart and soul to us, and

935
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, to have that kind of closure, I think

936
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: it was. It was great at the organization, Joe Um, Goody, Mark,

937
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: everybody who allowed him to come in and kind of,

938
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: you know, say his piece. So I know, we really

939
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I'm sure he did from a closure standpoint,

940
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: and obviously we gave him the respect he deserved. Kind

941
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: Of sending him off with with some final words, Randall

942
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: said that you guys gave him a standing ovation when

943
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: he came in and when he left. Me what does

944
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: that say about what he meant to this organization for

945
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: so long? I mean, well, you look at the ten

946
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: uere of coaches around the league, and they don't last

947
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: that long unless you've had some deal of success. So

948
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: everythink that just speaks to them the success in which

949
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: we've had for the past you know, thirteen years, ten

950
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: years since I've been here, Super Bowl, multiple NFC Championships, playoffs,

951
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: records up and down the board, and then furthermore, you

952
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: look at the relationships that were built, Um, you know

953
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: over the past hard many years people haven't been here,

954
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: and obviously it's a position that you know, was involved

955
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 1: in day to day operations, so you have a lot

956
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: of communication with you know, your head coach. So I

957
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: think you know, it was warranted, it was deserved just

958
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: because of um, you know, everything he really put in.

959
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: Because you know, I don't I don't envy coaches around

960
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: the league. I mean we already have a hard enough

961
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: job as it is, but coaches and you know what

962
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: they do for us as players is um. You know,

963
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: I don't think many people look up to their uh,

964
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: the hours in which they put it in more souther

965
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: than the job itself. Matthews, Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews,

966
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: what do you think of that? It's amazing, you know,

967
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: as he went in and about the accomplishments that Mike

968
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: McCarthy had, the Super Bowl victory with Aaron Rodgers, the

969
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: multiple NFC championship games on the cusp of going to

970
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, don't forget this is a team that

971
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: was one play away, three separate times, very close to

972
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: NFC Championship games, of go advancing in the playoffs, advancing

973
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. There was a couple of games

974
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: where it was a hair's breadth from multiple Super Bowls.

975
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: And the records and the Packer franchise that he said,

976
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: and the thirteen years that he was there, and as

977
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews alluded to, it's hard to be a head

978
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: coach in the National Football League, let alone for thirteen years.

979
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: And then when he starts to talk about that, you

980
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: kind of forget that, you know what, it probably was

981
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: time for him to move on. They have had a

982
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: lot of success in the past, they have reached a

983
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: point where his leadership seems to have gotten stagnant for

984
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, and that, but that by

985
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: the same token, that doesn't negate all the good things

986
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: that they did while he was a headed coach of

987
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 1: the Packers. It doesn't negate the relationships that he formed,

988
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: like with guys like Clay Matthews for ten years who

989
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: played hard for that guy and wanted to win for him,

990
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: and that guy who wanted to coach as hard as

991
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: he could and put him in a position to win.

992
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: It's a great reminder of both sides of the sword.

993
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: No question, it's a hard business decision to do it.

994
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, you make friends and relationships

995
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: that go far beyond the sidelines, and it was great

996
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: to see and be reminded of that. Yeah, I just

997
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: I think along the same lines. I'm just thinking, and

998
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: it's it's a reminder of the human element of the game,

999
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, the Yeah, this guy, Okay, maybe

1000
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy wasn't up to par what they needed, they

1001
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: felt they needed as a head coach. Maybe he and

1002
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers had a couple of you know, set twos

1003
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: going at it back and forth. But there's a human

1004
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: element too of the relationship that McCarthy would have had

1005
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: with the players in that locker room. And I think

1006
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: it's really cool that the Packers acknowledge that let them

1007
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: come in and talk. I think sometimes it's overstated the

1008
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: relationship between coaches and or the disagreements are overstated sometimes

1009
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: where they you know, it gets out that Aaron Rodgers

1010
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: did not like the game plan going in against whatever

1011
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: team is Detroit Lions of Green Bay Packers, or I

1012
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: mean the Minnesota Vikings of the Chicago Bears, or whatever

1013
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: team that they happen to play. If word gets out

1014
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: that they had a real bad disagreement about the game plan,

1015
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: if they had an argument about this pass route or

1016
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: this person on the those conflicts are normal, natural, they

1017
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: happen on every team, and football players and coaches have

1018
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: a real ability to shrug it off the next day.

1019
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, let's go. You know, we're good, and

1020
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect the relationship. In fact, it makes the

1021
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: production of that relationship even better because they're willing to

1022
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,919
Speaker 1: disagree and still be friends. Hey, we want to reminder

1023
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 1: you we're gonna talk more about December football. The Bills

1024
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: with three home games this month, fourth straight year they've

1025
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: had three home games in the month of December. We'll

1026
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: get back onto that and take your calls in your

1027
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: tweetch We got some interesting response already. We got Mark

1028
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: Kelso coming up after the top of the hour, color

1029
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: analyst on the Bills Radio Network. You got great co

1030
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: sell next hour as well. I want to remind you

1031
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: too about this weekend this Sunday, a special edition, a

1032
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: digital edition of Bills Tonight. That's the show that Fred

1033
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: Jackson co hosts with Mike Catalana from Rochester this Sunday,

1034
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: ten minutes after the Bill's Jets game wraps up. They'll

1035
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 1: go on the air on Bill's Twitter and on Facebook,

1036
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot Com and the Bill's mobile app.

1037
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: Bills Tonight highlights from the game, postgame press conference, coach McDermott,

1038
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, locker room interviews, in depth analysis. It is

1039
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: Mike Catalina, Fred Jackson, Chris Brown does some reporting, I

1040
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: do some interviews. It's coming up this Sunday digitally right

1041
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: after the game ten minutes after the game on the

1042
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: various platforms Bill's Twitter, Facebook pages, Buffalo Bills dot Com,

1043
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: and The Bill's mobile app. Tune in for that trying

1044
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 1: it this week. Bill's Tonight digitally This Sunday special digital

1045
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: edition back with more One goes live from One Bill's

1046
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio, Bill's Radio network

1047
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,760
Speaker 1: Sports Update Uptick comes from One Bill's Drive. The Buffalo

1048
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: Bill's hard at work as we speak on the other

1049
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: side of the wall over there, practicing, getting set for

1050
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday against the New York Jets, going

1051
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: for the sweep against the Jets this year. The Bill's

1052
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: injury report coming out later today, but it looks like

1053
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: well Karen Johnson will not play. He has ruled out

1054
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: of the game. He's officially day to day. According to

1055
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,359
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott. Bills are gonna keep an eye

1056
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: on Zaie McKenzie, who yesterday's practice early with a toe injury.

1057
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: Limited yesterday, limited today, we'll see if he's able to go.

1058
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: The Bill's wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie and return man. It

1059
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 1: does look like guard John Miller is going to be

1060
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: ready to go limited in practice on Wednesday full yesterday,

1061
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: and it looks like he will be ready to go.

1062
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: Bill's looking to allow one under thirty yards or less

1063
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: of passing this Sunday for the fifth consecutive game. That

1064
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,919
Speaker 1: would be the NFL's longest streak since the Buffalo Bills

1065
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 1: did it back in two thousand and four. Former Bills

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00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 1: wide receiver Calvin Benjamin, just released on Tuesday, signed a

1067
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: one year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs. Benjamin waved

1068
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: by the Bills Tuesday when unclaimed on waivers. Wednesday, visited

1069
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and then signed with Kansas City late yesterday.

1070
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: Looks like he's gonna get some playing time on a

1071
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: Chiefs team that is certainly headed for the postseason. Redskins

1072
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: quarterback Alex Smith dealing with an infection caused by complications

1073
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: from multiple surgeries on his broken leg. There's concerned that

1074
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: Smith is dealing with a career ending injury. He broke

1075
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,280
Speaker 1: two bones in his right leg in a week eleven

1076
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: loss to Houston. The Chicago Bears, on Track Day, have

1077
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: starting quarterback Mitchell Trubisky back to sweek. He had the

1078
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: shoulder and dream put in a full practice yesterday for

1079
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: the second consecutive day and a schedule to start. Sunday

1080
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: night's game against the Los Angeles Rams should be a

1081
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 1: pretty good game on the NFL schedule and the Buffalo

1082
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 1: Sabers getting back ready for action tomorrow. Savers play tomorrow

1083
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: afternoon a one o'clock face off at key Bank Center

1084
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: against the Philadelphia Flyers. Maintenance stays yesterday for goaltender Carter

1085
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: Hunt and Zach with Gojane and Jack Uncle. They did

1086
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: not practice as the bill trying to take advantage of

1087
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: a three day break between games that ends tomorrow with

1088
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: Savers Flyers one o'clock at Keybank Center. That is the

1089
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: ump date from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy Steve Tasker

1090
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: in our one Buffalo Studio. You're not going to hockey.

1091
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: You're gonna miss the hockey tomorrow, the home game. You're

1092
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: on your way to Houston. Houston. Yeah, break your heart,

1093
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: doesn't it? Yeah? You like those matinees. I do? Why

1094
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: you plenty of times aft the night, Yeah, plenty of

1095
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 1: time left of the day to do something else after

1096
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: the game. We're gonna miss one tomorrow. I know. Hey,

1097
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: we got Bill, Bill, We're gonna talk more about Steve's game.

1098
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: You gotta be a good games. By the way, in

1099
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: the schedule, I just talked about the Bears at home

1100
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: against the Rams. Um you got your game is a

1101
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: pretty good one with the Chiefs playing again. The chief

1102
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: Chiefs are playing somewhere Baltimore. That's a good game. And

1103
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: you got a good game Indie Houston game in that division. Yeah,

1104
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,439
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, We're stoked about that game. It's gonna be good. Yeah.

1105
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: Of less import is the game here in Buffalo, but

1106
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:25,760
Speaker 1: it still should be fun. The Bills and the Jets.

1107
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: The they're getting set to play the three and nine

1108
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: Jets and the four and eight Buffalo Bills. We'll have

1109
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: the game on the radio on our flagship in Buffalo,

1110
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: w g R Sports Radio five fifteen, up and down

1111
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: the twenty station Bills Radio Network. I'll be calling played

1112
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: by a play calling the color analysis. Our next guest

1113
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: joining us on the subway Fresh Stake hotline. Happy to

1114
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: have our buddy Mark Counsel on the line with us. Mark,

1115
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: how are you are you back in town yet? I am.

1116
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: I'm in on the other side of the States of

1117
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: the Guardia, Okay, waiting for a plane. Gonna get home.

1118
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: Gonna be here for the game Sunday, whether it shouldn't

1119
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: be a factor. Hey, Mark, we've been talking about decent

1120
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: home games. Did you know is that your flight they

1121
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: call in your flight marks, not my flight. Don't leave

1122
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,879
Speaker 1: any out attended bags around either, No one attended bags? Okay,

1123
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 1: sitting right beside them. Okay, people, let's focus. I'm sorry

1124
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: Steve's calling us. Hey, did you know that Sunday's game

1125
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: is start? You didn't know? This the start of three

1126
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 1: home games in the month of December for the Bills.

1127
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 1: This is the fourth consecutive season the Bills have had

1128
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: three home games in the month of December. How do

1129
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: you feel about that? And what are the good things

1130
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: about December home games at any Yeah, like it, and

1131
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 1: hopefully it'll afford them a weather advantage, but not not

1132
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: so sure, just depending on what the practice regiment is.

1133
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: But you know, I know when when we play, when

1134
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 1: Steve and I were playing, I mean, we weren't outside

1135
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: very often unless the only time we were outside is

1136
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: if the field conditions were such that it was slippery

1137
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: when when you were going to practice, But it had

1138
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: no bearing on how cold it was outside. But you

1139
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: certainly enjoy an advantage when when teams come from I

1140
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: mean not so much New York, but certainly when teams

1141
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,040
Speaker 1: come from the South of like like last week. I

1142
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: think the Bills were a little bit of disadvantage when

1143
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,320
Speaker 1: they played down in Miami and the weather was was

1144
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: quite hotter than and then they typically practice him. But

1145
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: when when you're used to the field conditions, you're used

1146
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: to the weather conditions, it certainly gives you an advantage.

1147
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm really happy if the Bills have three home games

1148
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: here in December. Mark, what do you think at this

1149
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: point of the season, Josh Allen has been back in

1150
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: the in the lineup. Give us a quick thing now,

1151
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: where you see his development, how it's going, what do

1152
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: you think it means? And plus you know everything has

1153
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: to be categorized because he doesn't play in a vacuum.

1154
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: He's got a supporting cast that may or may not

1155
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: be up to the up to the task. What's your

1156
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,399
Speaker 1: thoughts on his development? Yeah, I really think he made

1157
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: some big strides in the last couple of weeks. Quite frankly,

1158
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: he learned a lot when he was nursing the elbow injury.

1159
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: I think I think he benefits from having Derek Anderson

1160
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: in that quarterback room, and so, I mean, I think

1161
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: there's some really good things that happened. I think he

1162
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: threw some really good balls. He threw some balls into

1163
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: some tight windows. He extended down but then was the

1164
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: to throw the ball down field in certain situations and

1165
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: then when he could run and wasn't going to put

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00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: himself in harm's way because he I mean, he ran

1167
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: away from a lot of guys last week in that

1168
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: linebacker for him, and I think he just could not

1169
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: keep up with him in the open field. So I

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00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: thought he learned some things there as well. The throw

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00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 1: to there's a couple of trolls that were really impressive.

1172
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: I mean the throw to day Jones in the back

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00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,280
Speaker 1: of the end zone office scramble to the right side

1174
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 1: on the run on target on the end line was

1175
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: just it was a beautiful throw. The throw to Patrick DeMarco,

1176
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: the little floater down the sideline, I think was another

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00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 1: one where you say, hey, he's open, I'm just going

1178
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: to float it out there and let him run to it.

1179
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: And that was well executed by Josh. And the one

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00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 1: that he missed that Za Jones not sure they would

1181
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: maybe have been a miscommunication on that situation if he

1182
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: wanted to Zay to stop there at the back of

1183
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 1: the end zone or wanted to keep going across the

1184
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: end line. But certainly thought he made a lot of improvement.

1185
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 1: And John, you're exactly right with the fluctuation and offensive line.

1186
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: The fact that the Bills really didn't have a vertical

1187
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: component to their path us game until they infused it

1188
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:06,439
Speaker 1: with some speed and in McKenzie and Foster and those

1189
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 1: guys have have had some really profitable downs and have

1190
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: given the Bills an opportunity to extend teams vertically, and

1191
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: that that has helped Josh Ellen as well. Teams that

1192
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: are playing man defense have got to be really aware

1193
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: of what his ability is to hurt you with his legs.

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00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: And Mark, I want to ask you about the other

1195
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback or is the great Hank Buller would say

1196
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: his common part, his counterpart? I mean right, Hank would

1197
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: say that go round up for common parts. He would

1198
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,439
Speaker 1: see said that one. What have you seen on tape

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00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: from Sam Darnholt as he returns to the lineup this

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00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: week for the Jets. Yeah, I mean they tend to

1201
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: keep things a little bit simpler or short intermediate game.

1202
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: I mean he's upside down with with touchdowns interceptions with

1203
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: typically young players are quite frankly, Josh Ellen's upside down

1204
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: as well. But h but seen a little bit more

1205
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: growth from Josh and but certainly saw a lot of

1206
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:01,439
Speaker 1: promise from Sam Darner early in the season. And let's

1207
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: see what happened to him when he was able to

1208
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: sit back and watch mcgallan play. I mean, I thought

1209
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 1: Josh actually started to play really well against The game

1210
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 1: against the Bill certainly was not his best game, and

1211
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: it was the first game he was inserted into the

1212
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: lineup because of the Sam Donald injury, and he was

1213
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: playing much better. But but Donald is it just a

1214
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: little over fifty percent completion rate. But I think they'll

1215
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: try to keep it a little simpler, play action on

1216
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: first down, and I think they're going to try to

1217
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 1: make sure they get a healthy running game going against

1218
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 1: the Bill's here at a new air of field, So

1219
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see because I don't know if

1220
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: Corol is going to be available, you know, if he's playing.

1221
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 1: Oh he's missed practice the last two days. We haven't

1222
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: any any report today from the Jets of practice. He

1223
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: might not be in there. Yeah, I mean that's a

1224
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: problem because they've got a really good two backpackage with

1225
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: him and the rookie out of Virginia State, Trent and Cannon,

1226
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: and those guys are in the game. They can run

1227
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: a speed option, they run, they run an outside zone play,

1228
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: they'll they'll run a bootleg off of that play as well.

1229
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things that they can do

1230
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: when they have both those backs in the game at

1231
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: the same time, and then they can execute a screen game.

1232
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: And Crowell, I mean he's got really good contact balance,

1233
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: kind of an inside to edge runner. I wouldn't say

1234
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: he's an outside runner, but sometimes if you leave the

1235
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: outside unattended, I mean he's going to get to the outside.

1236
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: And they tend to use their tight ends a lot

1237
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: as well, and Germaine Curses has had some recent success

1238
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 1: also getting down the field. So it'll be interesting to see.

1239
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: But I mean, I suspect it they'll want to get

1240
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: a good running game going and perhaps a screen game

1241
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: and then try to max protect a little bit and

1242
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: see if they can get those guys Robbie Anderson or

1243
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: Curse down the field and get a big play on

1244
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: that build secondary Mark I just just checked and found

1245
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: an update. Isaiah Crozell no practice Wednesday, Thursday, limited practice today.

1246
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 1: His official status for Sunday is questionable. Rich Samini, who

1247
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 1: covers the Jets for ESPN, says Crowell and Robbie Anderson

1248
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: should be good to go. That's his opinion. He's questionable

1249
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 1: officially for the game. Yeah, Mark, I'm one of the

1250
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: things I want to ask you about. Earlier in the week,

1251
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: the Bills let go to of their veteran wide receivers,

1252
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: Andre Holmes and of course Calvin Benjamin. How does that

1253
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: change things if you're a defender looking at the Bills,

1254
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: Does that add more question marks or more answers? Well, actually,

1255
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: I think it simplifies things for the secondary, for the opposition,

1256
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: because you know what's going to happen. I mean, they're

1257
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: gonna try to get fostered deep at times, and Isaiah

1258
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: Crowell is really quick in the short and intermediate spaces,

1259
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: and there's some things that you can do. You know,

1260
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: one of the things that the teams do a lot

1261
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: when they're playing a lot of man defense, which this

1262
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 1: Jet defensive unit does. I mean they're gonna play man,

1263
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna play some quarters, some Tampa two, but an

1264
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: awful lot of man. And when you line up with

1265
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: trips on one side, and typically what happens is the

1266
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: cornerback is playing to the outside because he's got inside help.

1267
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: But if you get that number three receiver, the one

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Speaker 1: that is closest to the offensive tackle all the way

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Speaker 1: across to the other side of the field on the

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Speaker 1: far hands, the cornerbacks usually on the wrong side, and

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Speaker 1: the safety is typically not much help in that area. Actually,

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Speaker 1: the young man who's been playing safety here, I guess,

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Speaker 1: I mean Marcus may must be out too, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And he went to a ye, yeah, because Daryl Roberts

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Speaker 1: has been playing the fourth year play out of Marshall

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Speaker 1: and a very good player, a good athlete, but distribution wise,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's he's got a few issues on the

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Speaker 1: back end, and I think there's some opportunity to attack

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Speaker 1: on that back end as well. So you get those again,

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Speaker 1: the corners are playing outside shakers. They think they have

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Speaker 1: inside help, but then that receiver gets all the way

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Speaker 1: to the other side of the field and they have

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Speaker 1: their inside so he's got the outside leverage and if

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Speaker 1: he can extend it down in that situation, eve An

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Speaker 1: opportunity to find a big play down the field. I

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Speaker 1: also think that against against those safeties and they'll play

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Speaker 1: him and cover two, but they're they're app to jump

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Speaker 1: that crossing route and then they'll leave somebody in behind.

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Speaker 1: So if you have two receivers on one side and

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Speaker 1: they both run post routes or one of them breaks

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Speaker 1: off into that that fifteen yard big route, now the

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Speaker 1: post behind can be a really good play and Bills

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Speaker 1: might be able to find something down the field because

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Speaker 1: those safeties are going to jump those routes in front

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Speaker 1: of them, and then now the corners on the outside

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Speaker 1: and he's got to come make that play on that

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Speaker 1: receiver that's behind the safety. So it'll be interesting to see.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills have an opportunity to extend this

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Speaker 1: jest defensive unit down the field is as long as

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Speaker 1: they make sure they protect against Jenkins rush and sometimes

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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams if he's down in the box. How would

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Speaker 1: you we just had time for like one more question mark,

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Speaker 1: how would you characterize Jamal Adams? I know the Bills

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01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: were and this they were a month ago, they are

1305
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 1: this week very concerned about where this guy lines up.

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Speaker 1: Is he a box safety. Can he played deep? Is

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Speaker 1: he a liability against the past? What makes him so

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01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: tough to figure out? What do you think of him? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got a liability. He's disruptive and he's exceptionally athletic

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Speaker 1: and instinctive. So, I mean, they got everything advertised when

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Speaker 1: they drafted him in the first round and he comes

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Speaker 1: off the edge. He's got great instincts. He is better suited.

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01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: His skill set is better suited for the box, there's

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01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: no question about that. And when he gets in the

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Speaker 1: back end, he doesn't tend to back that on any plays.

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01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: He wants to keep everything in front of him. But

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Speaker 1: he's I mean, he's got some he really has some

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Speaker 1: elite tellent. It'll be really interesting to see how his

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Speaker 1: career progresses. But he's got instinctiveness. He flies around to

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Speaker 1: the football. He's always around the football. And and I

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01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 1: thought earlier in the year they were playing him a

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Speaker 1: little bit on the back end, and it was obvious

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Speaker 1: that that he didn't do that very much in college.

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Speaker 1: And he again is much stronger when he's playing from

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Speaker 1: ten yards than towards the line of scrimmage as opposed

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Speaker 1: to behind that. But he can make plays down the field,

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Speaker 1: There's no question about that. And he'll be he likes

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Speaker 1: to be near the line of scrimmage, and he'll be disruptive.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's going to come with pressure a lot.

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01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: I think sometimes he has a green light to come

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01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 1: and and pressure if he feels like he can be disruptive,

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Speaker 1: and oftentimes he is. So it'll be interesting to see.

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Speaker 1: But Bills may be able to take advantage of that,

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Speaker 1: particularly on first down when those linebackers are really aggressive,

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01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,919
Speaker 1: may find some opportunity is in that intermediate area. Mark.

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Speaker 1: If the Bills win this game, what's it gonna look like?

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Speaker 1: And conversely, what will happen if they don't? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what's it gonna look like if they don't. If the

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Speaker 1: Jets play their game, what will that game look like?

1340
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 1: And if the Bills are on top of the Jets,

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01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 1: what's it going to look like? Well, I think the

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Speaker 1: formula that they've seen the Bills has become a really

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01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 1: good formulas extending teams deep down the field and keep

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01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 1: an extra blockers in and being able to get vertical

1345
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 1: a little bit and then have an opportunity for some

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Speaker 1: running game and if you if it's probably going to

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01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: require Josh Hellen to run a little bit, because they're

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Speaker 1: going to be in a lot of man defense with

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01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 1: bringing one of those safeties down and playing in that

1350
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 1: robber situation where they try to take a shell of

1351
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: cross So I would think it's going to be Bill

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01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: extending the football down the field and then taking opportunities

1353
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: off of that with the play action pass to execute

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01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: a running game. And I would think with all the

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01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: man covers that the Jets play, that the Bills would

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01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 1: be one to get in some cluster formations or stack

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01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:05,400
Speaker 1: formations or motion across things that are that are going

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01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: to make them move and make cornerbacks change before the

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01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: snap and and kind of diminish their effectiveness in man coverage.

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01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: And then from from the other side of the field,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's going to be a control game,

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01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 1: a screen game, a running game for the Jet. If

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Speaker 1: they're going to be successful against the Bills defensively, they're

1364
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: gonna have to sustain some drives and I don't think

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01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: they'll be They'll be able to get deep in certain situations.

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01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 1: I think the Bill's pass rush can be effective against

1367
01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: Sam Donald. So they're going to have to execute and

1368
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: sustain drives if they're gonna want to come out victorious.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mark Kelsel on the line with us from LaGuardia. Mark,

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Speaker 1: I hear in the background they're they're calling your name.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna offer you, they want to bump you. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna offer you free drinks. But hold out for the

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Speaker 1: coupon for the scene. All right, don't go the first offer.

1374
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 1: You gotta just don't. Just don't miss the game. Okay. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: make sure you're here too. That's part of the day.

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01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: I could get a car and drive right now so

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Speaker 1: that I'm going good right now, Thanks Mark. Mark Kelso

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Speaker 1: color analys on the Bills Radio Network Long Time Bills

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Speaker 1: Safety with thirty career interceptions. That's a great number, right,

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Speaker 1: nice even number thirty. Yeah. Mark joined us on the

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Speaker 1: Subway Fresh Day Hotline presented by Subway Restaurants probably be

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Speaker 1: locally owned and operated. Coming up next, Great co sell

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Speaker 1: from NFL Matchup on ESPN. Longtime producer, Senior producer at

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Speaker 1: NFL Films. He goes with us every Friday and talk

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Speaker 1: about the Bills and all the matchups in the league.

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Speaker 1: He's coming up next. Come on Back. One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Collat the health from One Bill's Drive. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Goes Live.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker going through our regular Friday session

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Speaker 1: year This Friday's I told you this when you started.

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Speaker 1: Friday's during the season are the best day of the week,

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Speaker 1: don't you think? Come on, well, when's it gonna start?

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Speaker 1: I mean, because today has been kind of like it's

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Speaker 1: like every other day. It's wrong with you? No, man,

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Speaker 1: this's great. Seriously, this is a good show. We got

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Speaker 1: good guests. It is in our next one. It is

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Speaker 1: a good that is true. We do everywhere Kelso, we

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Speaker 1: got Lorenzo Alexander coming on later and now Greg Cosell,

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Speaker 1: executive producer and analyst NFL matchup on ESPN, senior producer

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Speaker 1: in NFL films for decades, joins us right now on

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Speaker 1: the line. Hi, Greg, It's John Murphy and Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: Steve obviously not real excited about todays show, but I

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01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: am it's getting better now that you're on. Greig, I'll

1404
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 1: just say that you know that that was a good comeback. Steve.

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01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. But it's always good to be

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01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 1: with you guys. We love talking to you. We love

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01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:32,920
Speaker 1: talking about your view of the progress that Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: is making. What did you see against the Dolphins? What

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01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: do you think? Well, I'll start just with kind of

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01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: an overview, okay, and then we can talk a little

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01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: more specifically. I clearly thought that the game was a

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Speaker 1: step forward. He made some excellent throws from the pocket.

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Speaker 1: He generally looked a little more poised overall, so that

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01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: was a positive. The big questions that this can theoretically

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01:07:56,680 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 1: be learned is I still think he doesn't see things

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01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 1: really well. He's a little too scatter shot, but I

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01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: think everybody knew that with some routine throws. But I

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01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: thought overall the performance was better. You cannot discount his

1419
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: second reaction running ability. You know, people would talk about

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01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: that with other quarterbacks all the time. It doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: to be talked about with Josh Allen as if it's

1422
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Speaker 1: a positive trade, where for instance, it was always viewed

1423
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: as a positive trade for Russell Wilson. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen is fighting the fact that for

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01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,560
Speaker 1: some people the narrative has already been written, which is

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01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: a little silly to me. But you know, I think

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01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 1: he's fighting that. Yeah, and it comes down to a

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01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 1: lot of times we've taken calls on our show. His

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01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: stat line looks a lot like other quarterbacks who have

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Speaker 1: not been successful well for instance, like last year's Tyrod

1431
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: Taylor and other guys who have not been so successful.

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Speaker 1: His stat line doesn't really jump. But then again, if

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Speaker 1: he watched the game, guysh it looked like he had

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Speaker 1: that team on his back at times, oh for sure.

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Speaker 1: And he made some throws in that game. If they

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Speaker 1: were made by let's say Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rodgers,

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01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: people would be hyperventilating, particularly the first touchdown to Zay Jones,

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01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 1: which was pretty big time. But because it's Josh Allen

1439
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:13,720
Speaker 1: and the Bills are obviously not in the running for

1440
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 1: any playoff, And as I said, the narrative for many

1441
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:22,200
Speaker 1: people has already been written about Josh Allen even when

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01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 1: he came out of Wyoming. That a play like that,

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Speaker 1: in addition to the play he where he threw it

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01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:29,759
Speaker 1: out of the end zone running to his left, also

1445
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:32,639
Speaker 1: to Zay Jones in the third quarter, a big, big

1446
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 1: time NFL throw. Those plays get lost in translation because

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Speaker 1: he's Josh Allen, but those but he made some big

1448
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,599
Speaker 1: time plays in that game. Yea, Greg, get it struck

1449
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 1: me this week. There is a ton of analysis out

1450
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Speaker 1: there about Josh Allen and you just alluded to it

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01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: as well. About the Josh Allen narrative. I had a

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01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 1: brief conversation with Sean McDermot this morning and basically I

1453
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:56,760
Speaker 1: just asked that we discussed about how, on some level

1454
01:09:56,800 --> 01:09:58,720
Speaker 1: you just gotta let Josh Allen play and play for

1455
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and not breakdown every play now

1456
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 1: where as guilty as anyone, and you do it for

1457
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: a living also, but do you think there's any truth

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Speaker 1: to that, Like, let's just let it grow, let's see

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Speaker 1: where it winds up here in a couple of weeks. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I agree with that he needs to

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Speaker 1: take every snap, which he will for the rest of

1462
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Speaker 1: the season. There's four games to go. He's going to play,

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Speaker 1: barring injury, every snap going forward, and you have to

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01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 1: coach him, there's no question, and you have to try

1465
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Speaker 1: to present define throws for him within the context of

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Speaker 1: the offense. But part of that is also, you know,

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Speaker 1: allowing him to do some of the things he does well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was very, very pleased to see that

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Speaker 1: touchdown to a Jones, the second one, not the first one.

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Speaker 1: The first one was just the athleticism and the pure

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Speaker 1: physical traits, but the second one, yeah, I mean it

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Speaker 1: was it was a dagger. You know, Steve knows what

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01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:54,640
Speaker 1: that is. It was a go and a dig underneath it,

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Speaker 1: and he had to sort of weight in the pocket

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Speaker 1: and he did not break down, and he was able

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Speaker 1: to to sit on his back foot, which is a

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01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: definite trait in the NFL to be able to sit

1478
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: on that back foot with bodies around you. And he

1479
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 1: drove that football with velocity and precise ball placement. That

1480
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: was another big time NFL throw. So those yeah, and

1481
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: I guess the key to his development as we watched

1482
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 1: going forward is this more of that stuff and less

1483
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 1: of the other stuff where you know, his throws are

1484
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: a little bit off target or a little bit too

1485
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, too much pepper on him in certain spots.

1486
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 1: And I wanted to see too that we're here in Buffalo,

1487
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,639
Speaker 1: and of course New York Jet fan base, we're gonna

1488
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: see Sam Darnald and Josh Allen play for the first time,

1489
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 1: and what both fan bases hope is fifteen straight years.

1490
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: What do you see and what can we expect from

1491
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: Sam darn He's coming back off a foot injury. Haven't

1492
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 1: seen him playing in a month. This there's a good

1493
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: possibility because we saw it here with Josh Allen that

1494
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:52,479
Speaker 1: layoff could have helped Sam Darnald quite a bit rather

1495
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:55,600
Speaker 1: than just playing through it. Yeah, you never know that,

1496
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 1: of course, but uh, you know, Donald's a big kid.

1497
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 1: You know, I think that he's he throws it pretty well.

1498
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:07,720
Speaker 1: He also has some movement skill. There's always an unsettled

1499
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 1: nature to the way he plays. Now that may be

1500
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:13,679
Speaker 1: just his natural state because he tends to move around

1501
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 1: a lot, and he at times looks hurried, looks a

1502
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 1: little chaotic and frenzied. But like I said, that may

1503
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: be just the way he plays, and maybe that's not

1504
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: ultimately going to be a negative in his game. But

1505
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:32,679
Speaker 1: I think Donald showed some positives. He also showed some struggles,

1506
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:35,639
Speaker 1: as you would expect with a rookie quarterback. But see, see,

1507
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 1: it's so interesting guys and Murph. I know you've been

1508
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:39,880
Speaker 1: doing this a long time, so you've seen a lot

1509
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:43,679
Speaker 1: of things. But it's interesting how the narrative gets gets written.

1510
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: You know, Sam Donald came in, had that really good

1511
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: opening night game when when the Jets team played really

1512
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 1: well and they killed Detroit, and all of a sudden,

1513
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 1: Sam Donald became And this is nothing against Sam Donald.

1514
01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 1: This is just the way he's perceived by people. Came

1515
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:01,960
Speaker 1: kind of the chosen one, like, Okay, he's going to

1516
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,840
Speaker 1: be a great quarterback. And you know there's ups and

1517
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 1: downs for young quarterbacks. He's been through those ups and downs. Greg,

1518
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: you did obviously extensive pre draft analysis of all of

1519
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks. Helped me out with this. I'm watching a

1520
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,600
Speaker 1: couple of darn Old games on tape this week and

1521
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: I just noticed it. I didn't notice it pre draft.

1522
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: I'll confess he's got a really quick release. The ball

1523
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:24,599
Speaker 1: gets out in a hurry when he's ready to throw. Yeah.

1524
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 1: I think that some people were concerned earlier in his career,

1525
01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:32,120
Speaker 1: particularly at USC about the length of his delivery, because

1526
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:36,280
Speaker 1: there were definite concerns about that. But I think he

1527
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 1: throws it with pretty good quickness in the context of

1528
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 1: his delivery. You know, it's not compact in the way

1529
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 1: you might look at and Aaron Rodgers, let's say, but

1530
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 1: I don't think that his at times longer, emotion ends

1531
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 1: up being that much slower, and I don't think it's

1532
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 1: a problem. I wanted to ask you about this game

1533
01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 1: coming up between the Bears and the Rams. It seems

1534
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: to be the marquee game the weekend, and you know

1535
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 1: with Khalil Mack and the Bears playing against the Rams

1536
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:07,519
Speaker 1: and Aaron Donald, you've got Mitched Trubisky and Jared Goff.

1537
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:10,759
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of layers to this onion

1538
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: of a game. I mean, I think it's going to

1539
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. Are what are the most

1540
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 1: intriguing aspects of it for you? Two things that Steve

1541
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 1: I think, first of all, Vic Fangier's defense is I

1542
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 1: love watching his defense and sometimes I can watch plays

1543
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,639
Speaker 1: ten times trying to figure out exactly what the coverage

1544
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 1: is because he does such a good job of blurring

1545
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: the lines. There's a lot of a lot of zone,

1546
01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 1: but there's match principles, there's man principles, pattern matching. He

1547
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 1: does a lot of that makes it difficult for quarterbacks.

1548
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: One thing that he does pretty consistently is he does

1549
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:50,439
Speaker 1: not let receivers run the seams cleanly. They carry and

1550
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 1: lock the seams, so you don't get those seam throws,

1551
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 1: so and they can rush the quarterbacks. So if you

1552
01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 1: can make the quarterback hesitate for just a beat because

1553
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:01,920
Speaker 1: of the uncertain with what the coverage is and where

1554
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:05,000
Speaker 1: to go with the football, then you've got Khalil Mack.

1555
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: Then you've got a Keem Hicks. Then you've got Floyd

1556
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 1: who's coming on a little bit. And they're good with

1557
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: the stunt game as well. So that's one part. The

1558
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: other part is Drew Bisky's back this week. I think

1559
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie's background is such that this is not going

1560
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 1: to be a hey, let's run the ball short in

1561
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 1: the game deal. He's going to be aggressive, attacking, and

1562
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see him. Oh, Greg's are

1563
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: you still there? Greg is ahead? Greg? I think we

1564
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 1: got your back. Oh yeah, So I think you're going

1565
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:38,560
Speaker 1: to see um. You're going to see Matt nagy be

1566
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 1: really aggressive. I don't think he's going to look to

1567
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:43,560
Speaker 1: shorten the game and try to play that way. So

1568
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: I think those two things really fascinate me about this game.

1569
01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:48,560
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack on Sunday night. I think back to the

1570
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:51,760
Speaker 1: Packers game early early in the season. Can he have

1571
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 1: the type of game like that again on Sunday night

1572
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:57,280
Speaker 1: against this team, against the Rams. Yeah, I think he can.

1573
01:15:57,520 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're a really good pass rush team.

1574
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: But it's not only Mac. They've got a Keem Hicks

1575
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: inside Leonard Floyd's on the other side. There's a lot

1576
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: of stunts and games involved in their pressure concepts. They

1577
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,680
Speaker 1: don't blitz a ton. But but Mac is he's a

1578
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:13,960
Speaker 1: load now. He uses his hands so so well. So

1579
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: yeah he can. He can have a big game any week.

1580
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:18,640
Speaker 1: I want to ask you what you thought about the

1581
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers making the move with Mike McCarthy. He

1582
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,280
Speaker 1: came back and addressed the team. We both thought it

1583
01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 1: was a great idea and it was something very packerish

1584
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: to do. You got to tip your hat to him.

1585
01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: But do you think we'll see a difference in Aaron

1586
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: Rodgers without Mike McCarthy, You mean, just the player himself.

1587
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:39,639
Speaker 1: Be obviously the scheme won't dramatically change in one week.

1588
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:42,640
Speaker 1: You never know. I mean a lot of people have

1589
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: written about Rodgers that he looks disinterested and he's not

1590
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 1: playing with a lot of energy. I don't know about you, Steve.

1591
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I can't comment on that kind

1592
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:52,639
Speaker 1: of stuff because I don't know what's in a guy's

1593
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:56,719
Speaker 1: head when he's playing. And I would never say, unless

1594
01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:59,120
Speaker 1: it's blatantly obvious on tape that a guy's not giving

1595
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, because is that As a professional athlete,

1596
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: you know that that's a total rip of a player,

1597
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 1: and that's not something you just say flippingly, Oh, he's

1598
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:09,800
Speaker 1: not playing hard. So I don't know the answer to that.

1599
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 1: I mean, we know the guy's really talented. Is he rejuvenated,

1600
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he could come out and

1601
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: have a great, great game. He's certainly capable of it. Well,

1602
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: he's always made it look easy, so looking disinterested is

1603
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 1: only tiny step away. But I mean the guy, you know,

1604
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,960
Speaker 1: I mean, even when he's playing his hardest, he looks nonchalant,

1605
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:29,760
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, so why do you see that?

1606
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:33,519
Speaker 1: Because years and years ago, this goes back over twenty years.

1607
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: I interviewed Steve Young and he said the absolute best

1608
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: compliment he could ever receive was that you make it

1609
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,600
Speaker 1: look easy, because he said, it's so hard. So if

1610
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 1: people think making it look easy, then I must be

1611
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 1: doing something. Okay, I agree, I completely agree with great

1612
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 1: go sal executive producer analysts of NFL Matchup. You can

1613
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: see it this weekend on ESPN. Senior producer NFL Films.

1614
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:56,840
Speaker 1: One of the other good games this week Sunday, one o'clock,

1615
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:00,919
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Erahead Stadium. The Ravens and the Chiefs. Baltimore

1616
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: plays good defense. Do they play good enough defense to

1617
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:06,960
Speaker 1: slow down this Kansas City offense? Well, we're gonna find out.

1618
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: They're They're statistically really really good on defense, and they're

1619
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,519
Speaker 1: good at all three levels. So you know, I don't

1620
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: think it's funny to see this because they put up forty.

1621
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:19,320
Speaker 1: But I don't think Patrick Mahomes played particularly well last week.

1622
01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: I thought he got away with some things. I don't

1623
01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 1: think he played particularly disciplined. I don't think he saw

1624
01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 1: some things particularly well. But then they put up forty,

1625
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:29,040
Speaker 1: So what do you say? The other side of the

1626
01:18:29,080 --> 01:18:31,400
Speaker 1: ball is what intrigues me because the Chiefs play a

1627
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 1: lot of man coverage, and I'm not sure you can

1628
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:37,479
Speaker 1: do that against Lamar Jackson because with him in the

1629
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 1: run game now and the stress that that puts on

1630
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: defenses to play man coverage, that's going to cause an issue.

1631
01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 1: So I think Bob Sutton. Their defensive coordinator is going

1632
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 1: to have to selectively play more zone because otherwise it's

1633
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 1: I just think it's too tough. Yeah, all right, Greg

1634
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: helped me out here. I've got I'm on the sidelines

1635
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 1: on Sunday for the Indianapolis Colts at the Houston Texans.

1636
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:02,600
Speaker 1: The Texans an enormous wind streak. They're really difficult to

1637
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 1: be and the Colts have really salvaged a chance to

1638
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 1: make something to their season. How do you see the

1639
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:11,240
Speaker 1: Colts going into Houston? How's that game come about? Boy?

1640
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 1: That's as you know, Steve. They've Texans at one nine

1641
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: in a row. That's tough to do in the NFL.

1642
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:19,679
Speaker 1: And I think their defense has played really well of late.

1643
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: They give offense, there's a lot of problems with their

1644
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:25,800
Speaker 1: front looks. They've essentially made your Daveon Clowney kind of

1645
01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:30,679
Speaker 1: a matchup player, a movement player. He's very often lines

1646
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:33,719
Speaker 1: up inside because he's a much better pass rusher inside

1647
01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: versus guards than he is on the outside because he's

1648
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 1: not a bender. And they still have J. J. Watton

1649
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: Whitney merciless, so they can give offensive lines problems. You know,

1650
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:48,799
Speaker 1: I think one of the things about that the Colts

1651
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: is they've tried to run the ball and they've had

1652
01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 1: some success over the last six seven weeks, but there's

1653
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:56,680
Speaker 1: no consistency to that, so they end up throwing the

1654
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:58,479
Speaker 1: ball a lot. And when you throw the ball a

1655
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 1: lot against the Texans, boy, does that put a premium

1656
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 1: on your pass protection? Sunday afternoon late game, Greg, the

1657
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Cowboys, what do you make of that matchup?

1658
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: And that's again, even though you know we might look

1659
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:11,880
Speaker 1: at those records and say, huh, oh hum, those are

1660
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:15,280
Speaker 1: both contenders in the NFCS, aren't they? No question? And

1661
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:17,840
Speaker 1: when you look back at what the Cowboys did to

1662
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:21,400
Speaker 1: the Saints, how aggressive they were with their man coverage concepts,

1663
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:25,559
Speaker 1: challenging receivers, rushing the quarterback. That was a really strong

1664
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: defensive performance. And I know this is sometimes hard for

1665
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:31,639
Speaker 1: people to understand, Murph, because the Eagles won the Super Bowl.

1666
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 1: But Eagles don't have a lot of weapons. They've got

1667
01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 1: a really good tight end in Zach Ertz who's very

1668
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,679
Speaker 1: good in the short intermediate areas, and they really don't

1669
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,560
Speaker 1: have much else. They don't have a vertical dimension and

1670
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 1: that has hurt them this year. How has Amari Cooper

1671
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 1: changed things for Dak Prescott in Dallas. Well, I think

1672
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 1: he's changed. It's Steve because they run a lot of

1673
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:53,640
Speaker 1: what we call individual isolation routes where they expect their

1674
01:20:53,720 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 1: receivers to win one on one, and Cooper can win

1675
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: one on one. He's a great route runner and because

1676
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:02,080
Speaker 1: of that, he can get vertical as well, So that

1677
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:04,840
Speaker 1: I think is critical for that team. And one more

1678
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 1: Eagles question for you that I have, Greg, And I'm

1679
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:08,559
Speaker 1: intrigued when you say the Eagles don't have a lot

1680
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 1: of weapons. What happened to them? And look, I'm not

1681
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:13,200
Speaker 1: looking for a post mortum here. They're still very much alive.

1682
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: But what do you think went on there? They're making

1683
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: such a different year for them. Well, I think, you know,

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01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 1: some of the players are the same, but I think

1685
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey is essentially you know, he's another sort of

1686
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: short intermediate receiver. He's not a vertical receiver at this

1687
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:32,120
Speaker 1: point in his career. You know, I think they're trying

1688
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: to get back to what they wore a little bit

1689
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 1: last year running the football. Don't forget last year they

1690
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:39,599
Speaker 1: had Jay Giant and Garett Blunt going down the stretch

1691
01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: two quality NFL backs this year. They lost both guys

1692
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 1: a giant injury much earlier this season, and they've sort

1693
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 1: of been trying to figure out who can run the ball,

1694
01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:52,720
Speaker 1: because they ran the ball really, really well a year ago.

1695
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: And so the last two weeks Josh Adams, a rookie

1696
01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: free agent from Notre Dame, has carried twenty plus times,

1697
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 1: and they're trying to have some balance in their offense

1698
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 1: because they really do not have that explosive big playability

1699
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 1: unless it kind of comes off second reaction movement improvisational

1700
01:22:11,040 --> 01:22:14,160
Speaker 1: plays by Carson Wentz. Last thing for me, Greg, I

1701
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:15,920
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about the flavor of the day

1702
01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry two hundred and thirty eight yards last night,

1703
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:21,280
Speaker 1: a ninety nine and two third yard touchdown round, a

1704
01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:24,599
Speaker 1: fifty four yard touchdown round, a fourteen yard touchdown run,

1705
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:28,559
Speaker 1: and another touchdown run to cap the night. I mean,

1706
01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: for him, seriously speaking, I'm not that's his career to

1707
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:35,640
Speaker 1: this point, He's done and just back. Yeah. I mean

1708
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 1: he has not done anything near that in a year,

1709
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: in any full season. I mean, that was a game

1710
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 1: of a lifetime for him. Two questions, I guess why

1711
01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:49,880
Speaker 1: is it the only time we've seen him be successful

1712
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: and can they sustain that going forward? I think they're

1713
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 1: going to try because I think, quite frankly, they have

1714
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: to play almost like the Cowboys, with a run game

1715
01:22:58,439 --> 01:23:01,959
Speaker 1: foundation and really good defense in your quarterback being a compliment.

1716
01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:03,960
Speaker 1: I think that's the way they almost have to play.

1717
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he can sustain that, Steve. I mean,

1718
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:09,880
Speaker 1: he's a long legged guy. There's not a lot of

1719
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 1: lateral agility and quickness. He's a downhill guy. I mean,

1720
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 1: if he gets through the first second level, he's got

1721
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 1: great straight line speed obviously, but there's just done a

1722
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:23,560
Speaker 1: lot of lateral agility to him, and you know, you

1723
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 1: know those long legged guys. That's tough. So we'll see,

1724
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:28,679
Speaker 1: but I think they're going to try to go that route.

1725
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:31,680
Speaker 1: I guess my ultimate sense of him is he's a

1726
01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:34,960
Speaker 1: back who needs volume, but may not be good enough

1727
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:38,280
Speaker 1: to be a volume runner in the NFL. Oh okay, hey, Greg,

1728
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 1: this is great. Thanks for taking us around the league.

1729
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: Looking forward to this Sunday's games. Looking forward to talking

1730
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:45,559
Speaker 1: to you again next Friday. Thank you very much, appreciate it, guys,

1731
01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. Thank you, Greg, Greg go Seal. He

1732
01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 1: is executive producer and analyst of NFL Matchup this weekend

1733
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: on ESPN. You'd see it tomorrow and again on Sunday Morning,

1734
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:57,520
Speaker 1: senior producer in NFL Films and a regular Friday contributor

1735
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: to our show. We're happy to have him on the line.

1736
01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:01,760
Speaker 1: Always good stuff, interesting comments about Josh. You know that

1737
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 1: what he sees from Josh, Yeah, there's some steps forward,

1738
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: and I think too. I'm not trying to posture for

1739
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:09,679
Speaker 1: a new Twitter poll or anything like that, but it's

1740
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:11,680
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see how there's got to be

1741
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: because we've seen growth in Josh. We did it in

1742
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 1: the first part of the season. But then when he

1743
01:24:16,439 --> 01:24:18,600
Speaker 1: got got a chance to step back and watch for

1744
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: a month and then get back in the game, we

1745
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:22,599
Speaker 1: saw him take a big step forward in the win

1746
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:25,599
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars, and then another step forward against Miami.

1747
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:29,680
Speaker 1: And yeah, let's just do another Twitter poll and sabotage

1748
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:31,840
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But you know, you gotta get that, Yeah,

1749
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:33,559
Speaker 1: how big a dip? You know. I think you gotta

1750
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 1: gotta be ready for him to take a step back,

1751
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: going right, because if he keeps going forward and forward

1752
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 1: and forward and all of a sudden, you know, hey,

1753
01:24:41,479 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: we look like we took the right guy. Yeah, you

1754
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: know that can't happen, right, I asked Greig this, and

1755
01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:50,680
Speaker 1: it's a funny take, but I had the experience this

1756
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:53,080
Speaker 1: morning of waking up writing an article for the website.

1757
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:55,080
Speaker 1: It's up on the website right now, and a kind

1758
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 1: of a review of some of the analysis we've had.

1759
01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 1: Part of it was some of the analysis we've had

1760
01:24:59,439 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 1: on this show from Dan Orlovski a week ago, from

1761
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:05,600
Speaker 1: Chad Pennington, earlier this week, from Brian Baldinger. Yesterday, we

1762
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: just got some more from Greg Coselle about Josh Allen,

1763
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:10,920
Speaker 1: and the thought occurred to me, Man, there's so much

1764
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:14,040
Speaker 1: analysis about Josh Allen. And I asked Sean this question

1765
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:15,920
Speaker 1: this point, how about they just let him play, Just

1766
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:17,639
Speaker 1: let him go for a couple of weeks. Right. You can't,

1767
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 1: like you said, because there is going to be ups

1768
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: and downs. You can't just sit back and expect it

1769
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:24,000
Speaker 1: every single time he takes a snap. It's got to

1770
01:25:24,040 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 1: be chewed up anallies and over examined. Right, something that

1771
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:29,760
Speaker 1: going on. We saw it from a distance with Sam

1772
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: Darneld that opening night Monday Night, game where he came

1773
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:33,599
Speaker 1: out and lit him up and they scored a bunch

1774
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,120
Speaker 1: of points. The team played great, he looked great, and

1775
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:37,640
Speaker 1: then he's you know, from that point he kind of

1776
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:39,559
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit. And of course, Josh Allen, we're

1777
01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:42,240
Speaker 1: all enamored with the way he played. And then to

1778
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:44,759
Speaker 1: be a very he played in a loss. He played

1779
01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:48,240
Speaker 1: much better in a loss this last week's seventeen points only,

1780
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:50,679
Speaker 1: but everybody was really enamored with the way he played.

1781
01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: At some point, you're gonna expect both Sam Darnald and

1782
01:25:57,400 --> 01:26:00,800
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield, you know, Lamar Jackson, all these

1783
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:02,920
Speaker 1: yard they're gonna have to start play and look like

1784
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback. Right now, they all have moments and

1785
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:09,280
Speaker 1: they're all doing kind of cool things, and especially Josh

1786
01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 1: Allen is doing some cool things in the running game.

1787
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 1: That's all fun and dandy, but at some point you

1788
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: wanted to look like an NFL quarterback all the time,

1789
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:17,320
Speaker 1: right and that we're not there yet, do you know.

1790
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 1: And I wrote this in the story. It's up on

1791
01:26:19,160 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: the website now. Seven things to look at this week Sunday,

1792
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:26,720
Speaker 1: Alan versus m Darnold. Two things. First of all. It's

1793
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:28,719
Speaker 1: the second I think I told you this yesterday. Second

1794
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:33,040
Speaker 1: youngest matchup of opposing quarterbacks in NFL history, Jamis Winston

1795
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 1: and Marcus Martochus Mariota a couple of years ago was

1796
01:26:36,120 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: the youngest. But the other thing, this is the first

1797
01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:40,680
Speaker 1: time I liked this whole class of twenty eighteen, this

1798
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 1: five first round quarterback class. That's the first time two

1799
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:46,759
Speaker 1: of them have started against each other. Now, Baker Mayfield

1800
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:50,720
Speaker 1: played against Darnold in Week three, Darnald or Mayfield came

1801
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:52,680
Speaker 1: out in relief of Tyrod. Tyrod took a knock to

1802
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:54,600
Speaker 1: the head that game. This first time the two of

1803
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:56,880
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, of these five have gone head to head.

1804
01:26:57,439 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 1: That's I think, that's obviously that's the main story. Sudd

1805
01:27:00,640 --> 01:27:01,880
Speaker 1: I think so too, And I think it's going to

1806
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: be fun for both fan bases. I think I think

1807
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:06,720
Speaker 1: everybody is really settling in. And I've set it up

1808
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:08,479
Speaker 1: a couple of times on the show. Again, you know,

1809
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:12,760
Speaker 1: I think secretly, prettily, guys are like our vintage you know, guys,

1810
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 1: you know at our age, we'd love to see another

1811
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:20,120
Speaker 1: Marino Kelly rivalry in the AFC East, and without having

1812
01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 1: Tom Brady looking over their shoulder all you know, I

1813
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:26,040
Speaker 1: mean right, we're at that point, right, guys, if they could,

1814
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:28,760
Speaker 1: if both these guys could play for fifteen seventeen years,

1815
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:31,280
Speaker 1: I think both fan bases would would jump all over

1816
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 1: and love it. All. Right, a break here, We're back

1817
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 1: with more. I'd love to hear from you. What do

1818
01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:36,840
Speaker 1: you think about December football in Orchard Park? Bills have

1819
01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 1: three December games this year. They've done that. This will

1820
01:27:39,080 --> 01:27:41,560
Speaker 1: be the fourth consecutive season. Give us your thoughts on that.

1821
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: We'll be back to talk about that. One Bills Live

1822
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:58,840
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. I'll

1823
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:01,000
Speaker 1: come back to One Goes Live on Reurpee Steve Cancer

1824
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:03,640
Speaker 1: on a busy Friday. We're just kind of hanging on, right,

1825
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 1: don't you feel like they're We're just hanging on Steve

1826
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: right from the start of the show, shows moving along.

1827
01:28:07,600 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 1: If we're gonna be part of it, we just gotta

1828
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:11,320
Speaker 1: hang on a little bit. One analogy, I was thinking

1829
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:15,280
Speaker 1: more like sprinting to the finish. Hey, speaking of well,

1830
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 1: nothing but Thurman Thomas. There's a special Football Life show

1831
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 1: coming up next week a week from today at airs

1832
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 1: on NFL Network, Friday, December fourteenth, eight pm A Football

1833
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:26,639
Speaker 1: Life with Thurman Thomas. Do you get a sneak preview

1834
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,000
Speaker 1: a special viewing party coming up next Wednesday seven o'clock

1835
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:32,639
Speaker 1: at seven one six Food in Sports in downtown Buffalo.

1836
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 1: You can reserve a table for the event at seven

1837
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:36,800
Speaker 1: one six Food and Sports dot com therm. It will

1838
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 1: be there next Wednesday seven o'clock. You get a pre

1839
01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:41,720
Speaker 1: screening of A Football Life with Thurman Thomas. I know

1840
01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 1: Thurman's gonna be there. The question is are you and

1841
01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:45,960
Speaker 1: me gonna be there? Can we wait and make we

1842
01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:47,599
Speaker 1: have to make We have to wait because I can't.

1843
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't have the juice to make that call in

1844
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:54,800
Speaker 1: my own life to wait sad, right, I have. I

1845
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: have to get the you know, the green light for

1846
01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 1: a decision like that Wednesday night, midweek and when late

1847
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:03,600
Speaker 1: in this season the twelfth right, Yeah, because you know

1848
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 1: what I mean, I can do it, because you can't.

1849
01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:09,160
Speaker 1: I kind of you kind of guard your evening permission. Yeah,

1850
01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:14,799
Speaker 1: you're sitting there texting, um you know. Yeah, I've noticed

1851
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 1: since I started this gig with you, you kind of

1852
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: have to really guard your evenings during the week. For me,

1853
01:29:19,400 --> 01:29:22,280
Speaker 1: especially because I I'm out of town every weekend. I

1854
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:24,280
Speaker 1: got work to do. I do work most week nights. Right,

1855
01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 1: I look at the video, so right, you have to

1856
01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 1: guard it, yeah, because you know, because you gotta turnt

1857
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:32,439
Speaker 1: that many to go around. He Yeah, Lorenzo Alexander to

1858
01:29:32,479 --> 01:29:34,360
Speaker 1: anybody to join us in a minute or to Lorenzo

1859
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 1: did a special piece that's up on Buffalo bills dot

1860
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:39,800
Speaker 1: com Chilling with the Bills. This week, he sat down

1861
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 1: with his defensive teammate Jerry Hughes. Check this out, Lorenzo

1862
01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 1: Alexander with Jerry Hughes Chilling with the Bills. Hey, what's

1863
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 1: going on with the Renzo Alexander the Buffalo Bills on

1864
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:51,360
Speaker 1: Chill with the Bills And I got my man here,

1865
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:56,120
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes defensive n been killing this year. Let's start first.

1866
01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:00,560
Speaker 1: You know, I got here in two thousand sixteen, and

1867
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:02,320
Speaker 1: one of the things that I've noticed over the last

1868
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:05,200
Speaker 1: three years is just how committed you are to the community.

1869
01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:07,880
Speaker 1: And I think it goes kind of underappreciated and unknown.

1870
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:09,599
Speaker 1: I know that's something that you like, but what's what's

1871
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:12,519
Speaker 1: kind of the motivation behind why you serve? Oh, you know,

1872
01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:15,680
Speaker 1: just wanting to help out do my part as not

1873
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:20,120
Speaker 1: only a humanitarian, but just as a fellow American. You know,

1874
01:30:20,200 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 1: we always talk about lending a help enhancer our brothers

1875
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:26,720
Speaker 1: and sisters in need, and doesn't really necessarily have to

1876
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:28,640
Speaker 1: be someone looks like you, you know, just want to

1877
01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 1: go out and help whoever you can. You want to

1878
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 1: tell I love the way you play this game, the

1879
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: way you live your life. Man, lets eat to day week.

1880
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 1: I know this week obviously we got the Jets coming up,

1881
01:30:36,920 --> 01:30:39,839
Speaker 1: and with this game, we got my cause, my cleats,

1882
01:30:40,280 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 1: and so so what are you repping this weekend? I

1883
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:44,080
Speaker 1: know you've got a lot of organizations that you help out.

1884
01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:46,840
Speaker 1: What's near dear to your heart, near there to my

1885
01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:50,200
Speaker 1: heart is the veterans. One cause I really wanted to

1886
01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:54,360
Speaker 1: help our veterans, you know, people who the men and

1887
01:30:54,439 --> 01:30:57,280
Speaker 1: women who have served you know, tremendously, and our armed forces,

1888
01:30:57,320 --> 01:30:59,240
Speaker 1: whether it be you know, the Air Force, to Army,

1889
01:30:59,320 --> 01:31:03,000
Speaker 1: the Marines, the Navy. You know, it doesn't matter. Coast Guard,

1890
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:07,120
Speaker 1: whatever you're doing to protect our simple liberties, our freedoms,

1891
01:31:07,200 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 1: you know, cross born waters or even here you know,

1892
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 1: home grown. You know, if whatever you're doing to make

1893
01:31:15,240 --> 01:31:17,640
Speaker 1: our lives as American is easy. Do you actually have

1894
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 1: a personal connection and members of your family after he

1895
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:21,800
Speaker 1: served in the military. Yeah, I do. Actually I have

1896
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:24,439
Speaker 1: my father in law. He drove tanks for a couple

1897
01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:27,000
Speaker 1: of a couple of years. Yeah I know. Yeah, Okay,

1898
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 1: he really got into which is really great to see

1899
01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 1: some of the photos, so that that was really cool

1900
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:34,320
Speaker 1: to see my grandfather he was another guy. I've had

1901
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:37,479
Speaker 1: some aunts, some uncles, you know. I've had an uncle

1902
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 1: of mine who served who's actually worked for NATO, and

1903
01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:43,720
Speaker 1: we actually got to visit him in Belgium, which is

1904
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:46,120
Speaker 1: really cool. So, I mean, the least I could do

1905
01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:49,760
Speaker 1: is you know, my cause my plice. You know, it's

1906
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:52,320
Speaker 1: something where I could donate money to really help them

1907
01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:54,800
Speaker 1: out and help out the other men and women who

1908
01:31:54,840 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: are pretty much in their shoes too. So let's check

1909
01:31:57,160 --> 01:31:58,640
Speaker 1: these bad boys out. You know. I got a lot

1910
01:31:58,680 --> 01:32:01,760
Speaker 1: of squag on game day, you know, Okay, I try.

1911
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: I try to come correctly the swag because you know,

1912
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:06,320
Speaker 1: you guys do do such a great job. So I

1913
01:32:06,400 --> 01:32:09,320
Speaker 1: really wanted to hit home with the different branches of

1914
01:32:09,479 --> 01:32:12,600
Speaker 1: the military on both cleats as you can see, and

1915
01:32:12,760 --> 01:32:15,760
Speaker 1: really hit there. Get the detail of how great and

1916
01:32:15,880 --> 01:32:18,160
Speaker 1: how awesome their service is. As we got the people

1917
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:22,240
Speaker 1: parachuting down from the helicopters. Yeah, well I love these.

1918
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:23,960
Speaker 1: I definitely know you're gonna be out there balling. Oh

1919
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:25,680
Speaker 1: can't but help with balling. You got the top of

1920
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:30,280
Speaker 1: swagging the military this weekend, so I appreciate you sharing

1921
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Speaker 1: with us. And that's our segment on Chill with the Bill.

1922
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:34,840
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me Chill with the Bills. Lorenzo's gonna

1923
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:36,000
Speaker 1: be with us in a minute or two. He's with

1924
01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:37,920
Speaker 1: Jerry Hugh's there. You can see the entire segment on

1925
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:40,680
Speaker 1: the Sean McDermot Show, which comes up this weekend on

1926
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,880
Speaker 1: many of these same stations. That's Lorenzo's He's a natural.

1927
01:32:44,200 --> 01:32:46,479
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just as you were. You can tell. You

1928
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 1: can tell he comes in and talks to us every

1929
01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:50,400
Speaker 1: week that he's just real. Nat feels comfortable doing it.

1930
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 1: He's got he's sharp or taking all that stuff, and

1931
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:56,200
Speaker 1: you know what he is, he's authentic. Yeah, what you see,

1932
01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm here in the setting in a couple of minutes

1933
01:32:58,160 --> 01:33:01,719
Speaker 1: is exactly where Lorenzo is. Yeah, that's very good. Lorenzo,

1934
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:04,160
Speaker 1: by the way, is being honored. It was honored this week.

1935
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 1: He won the Bills nomination for the Walter Payton NFL

1936
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:09,200
Speaker 1: Man of the Year Award. We will talk with him

1937
01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 1: when he joins us in a moment. Got a trophy

1938
01:33:11,200 --> 01:33:13,879
Speaker 1: for being the Bills nominee, Lorenzo Alectander, the Bills nominee

1939
01:33:13,920 --> 01:33:16,320
Speaker 1: one of thirty two around the league for recognition of

1940
01:33:16,400 --> 01:33:18,880
Speaker 1: off field work the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.

1941
01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:20,360
Speaker 1: He's got a chance to win it all league. Why

1942
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 1: we'll talk with Lorenzo about that. One more hour ago

1943
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:25,439
Speaker 1: one goes live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

1944
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:40,479
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Hello, Hills Radio Network. Sports Update. The update

1945
01:33:40,560 --> 01:33:42,639
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The Bills have wrapped up their

1946
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:44,519
Speaker 1: practice week for the most part, as they get set

1947
01:33:44,560 --> 01:33:46,960
Speaker 1: to host the New York Jets on Sunday one o'clock

1948
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:49,240
Speaker 1: kick off here at newer Afield. The injury report is

1949
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:52,679
Speaker 1: out for the Bills. The games status Derek Anderson limited

1950
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:55,040
Speaker 1: all week, still in concussion protocol. He has been ruled

1951
01:33:55,080 --> 01:33:58,080
Speaker 1: out of Sunday's game. Also ruled out his cornerback Karen

1952
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:00,840
Speaker 1: Johnson with a shoulder injury. He is he may wind

1953
01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:03,519
Speaker 1: up an injury reserve before too long doubtful for the game,

1954
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 1: tight end Jason Croom, who hasn't practiced all week with

1955
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:10,000
Speaker 1: the growing issue, and questionable as wide receiver Returned specialist

1956
01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:12,840
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie came up with a toe injury yesterday and

1957
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:14,800
Speaker 1: he has been limited in practice for a couple of days.

1958
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:17,360
Speaker 1: For the Jets, the big news on their injury report

1959
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:21,280
Speaker 1: deals with the running back who is now listed as

1960
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:25,320
Speaker 1: questionable for the game, Isaiah Crowell, who didn't practice Wednesday

1961
01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:28,160
Speaker 1: and Thursday limited today, now listed US questionable, as is

1962
01:34:28,200 --> 01:34:31,280
Speaker 1: wide receiver Robbie Anderson, who's got an ankle history to

1963
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 1: ankle issue. Two other players listed US questionable tight end

1964
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:38,519
Speaker 1: Jordan Leggett and defensive back Buster Screen Bills Jet Sunday,

1965
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:40,800
Speaker 1: one o'clock at New Era of Field. You can catch

1966
01:34:40,880 --> 01:34:43,080
Speaker 1: the game right here on our flagship station, w g

1967
01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:46,799
Speaker 1: R Sports Radio five fifty. Some NFL news. Calvin Benjamin,

1968
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: former Bills receiver released just Tuesday this week, silently yesterday

1969
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:52,800
Speaker 1: with the Kansas City Chiefs. Waived by the Bills, went

1970
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:56,040
Speaker 1: unclaimed on waivers before visiting the Chiefs on Thursday, and

1971
01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:59,080
Speaker 1: then signed with the Chiefs late yesterday. The Bills got

1972
01:34:59,160 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 1: him for a third and seven my round pick at

1973
01:35:01,080 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 1: last season's trade deadline. Former number one draft pick, first

1974
01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 1: round draft pick anyway, Calvin Benjamin now with the Kansas

1975
01:35:06,400 --> 01:35:10,000
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Mitchell Trubisky scheduled to start for the Bears

1976
01:35:10,040 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 1: against the Rams on Sunday night. Football had a right

1977
01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. Put in a full practice yesterday for a

1978
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:18,479
Speaker 1: second consecutive day as he played since Week eleven. The

1979
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:21,679
Speaker 1: Bears went one and one in his absence. Derrick Henry

1980
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 1: enjoyed the best game of his career last night. He

1981
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:27,160
Speaker 1: set a new Tennessee Titans franchise record two hundred thirty

1982
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:30,200
Speaker 1: eight rushing yards four touchdowns in Tennessee's thirty to nine

1983
01:35:30,240 --> 01:35:33,080
Speaker 1: win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. And the Savers home tomorrow

1984
01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:36,320
Speaker 1: afternoon one o'clock face off against the Philadelphia Pliers. Buffalo

1985
01:35:36,439 --> 01:35:38,600
Speaker 1: trying to snap a four game losing streak. That's the

1986
01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:41,599
Speaker 1: update from One Bill Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker ready

1987
01:35:41,640 --> 01:36:01,280
Speaker 1: to welcome in Lorenzo Alexander. Hello, down with Lorenzo Alexander

1988
01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:05,320
Speaker 1: and Lorenzo. I notice you're admiring my notes for the sportscast.

1989
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:07,640
Speaker 1: For the update, I just did some mess isn't it

1990
01:36:08,160 --> 01:36:12,320
Speaker 1: always always have a paper GA show a paper game.

1991
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:15,439
Speaker 1: Yeah about that. Welcome to the show, Lorenzo. We are

1992
01:36:16,200 --> 01:36:20,240
Speaker 1: Murph and I alone or deeply involved in the global warming.

1993
01:36:20,280 --> 01:36:22,760
Speaker 1: With the paper we go through doing our part. Yeah.

1994
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:25,040
Speaker 1: I like having underwater as soon as we can. I

1995
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:28,400
Speaker 1: like we have the intro to the lowdown when he comes.

1996
01:36:28,600 --> 01:36:31,679
Speaker 1: He's got this highlight film. My I played thirteen years,

1997
01:36:31,840 --> 01:36:36,040
Speaker 1: my entire career highlight films like twenty seconds and it's

1998
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:40,200
Speaker 1: like three plays. Lorenzo's got three plays every game. I mean,

1999
01:36:40,280 --> 01:36:42,679
Speaker 1: you got like your highlight reel. Now you've just since

2000
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:45,320
Speaker 1: you've been in Buffalo, it's like fifteen minutes long, a

2001
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:48,519
Speaker 1: play after play after play. I was I was reading

2002
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:51,400
Speaker 1: an article today about you about in congratulations on the

2003
01:36:51,600 --> 01:36:53,559
Speaker 1: on the Walter Payton Man of the Year. It's awesome,

2004
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:55,519
Speaker 1: appreciate it really is a big deal. And I was

2005
01:36:55,560 --> 01:36:57,280
Speaker 1: reading an article I had to do with that, and

2006
01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:04,280
Speaker 1: your career took off when you reached thirty basically right essentially.

2007
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean what was I when I was thirty? Was

2008
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:08,559
Speaker 1: that five years ago? So yeah about that? I mean

2009
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:11,679
Speaker 1: I got just came off um my list, Frank injury

2010
01:37:11,680 --> 01:37:13,839
Speaker 1: because I had went signed up DC deal in Arizona.

2011
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 1: Fourteen it didn't play well and then so fifteen went

2012
01:37:17,120 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 1: to Oakland and uh, play really good on special teams,

2013
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:21,559
Speaker 1: and it had a chance to come here to play

2014
01:37:21,600 --> 01:37:24,679
Speaker 1: special teams. And then obviously everybody kind of knows the story.

2015
01:37:24,880 --> 01:37:27,120
Speaker 1: Some guys went down, We released a couple of guys,

2016
01:37:27,240 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 1: and it gave me a chance to be a four

2017
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:31,680
Speaker 1: time starter. And really ever since then, it's just been

2018
01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 1: been able to be out there making plays, flying around

2019
01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:36,639
Speaker 1: my teammates. I'll say this too, when when that happened,

2020
01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:38,800
Speaker 1: you were brought in a special teams captain and they

2021
01:37:39,040 --> 01:37:40,680
Speaker 1: figured that's where your slop was going to be. And

2022
01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:42,840
Speaker 1: then they had those injuries, and there was you know,

2023
01:37:43,120 --> 01:37:44,800
Speaker 1: it was a training camp, so there's still you have

2024
01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:47,200
Speaker 1: some injuries. There's still eight guys they could plug into

2025
01:37:47,240 --> 01:37:51,360
Speaker 1: the spot rights sixties zillion. Yeah, And I remember talking

2026
01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:54,240
Speaker 1: to it was Rex, yeah, and rexod I go, he goes,

2027
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:56,000
Speaker 1: he goes. I think he was. I think we're just

2028
01:37:56,160 --> 01:37:59,439
Speaker 1: put Lorenzo in there because he knows what he's doing.

2029
01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:01,400
Speaker 1: He knows the play, you know, he knows what we're

2030
01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:03,160
Speaker 1: to line up, he knows what he's supposed to be doing.

2031
01:38:03,360 --> 01:38:05,840
Speaker 1: You know, we trust him. Ye, and that's half of

2032
01:38:05,880 --> 01:38:08,160
Speaker 1: it right there. From that moment on, all of a sudden,

2033
01:38:08,160 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 1: you're in the Pro Bowl, right. Yeah, the Rex was

2034
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:12,519
Speaker 1: my guy. I mean, Rex wanted me when I went

2035
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:14,479
Speaker 1: to Arizona instead of going to the Jets, so he

2036
01:38:14,600 --> 01:38:16,559
Speaker 1: knew that I was capable of playing at a high level.

2037
01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:18,679
Speaker 1: Um knew that I could fit in this scheme because

2038
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 1: you have to be have a pretty high football IQ

2039
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 1: to operate because there's a lot of little intricacies about

2040
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:25,800
Speaker 1: his defense and stuff, and if you know how to

2041
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:27,960
Speaker 1: do it and can communicate well, you can go out

2042
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:29,400
Speaker 1: there and ball out. Yeah, there was a lot of

2043
01:38:29,479 --> 01:38:31,880
Speaker 1: moving parts in Rex's defense. But I thought it was

2044
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:35,920
Speaker 1: really interesting that your career just because you were the

2045
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:38,599
Speaker 1: guy that knew where to line up and knew the plays.

2046
01:38:38,840 --> 01:38:41,839
Speaker 1: You just knew the mental as forget the physical aspect,

2047
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:45,120
Speaker 1: just knew what to do. I mean, And like you said,

2048
01:38:45,120 --> 01:38:47,599
Speaker 1: that's if you know what you have to do and playing,

2049
01:38:47,640 --> 01:38:49,320
Speaker 1: you know your assignment, then you can worry about all

2050
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:51,040
Speaker 1: the other stuff. You know, what does that guy like

2051
01:38:51,160 --> 01:38:52,400
Speaker 1: to do? You know, how can I be him? How

2052
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:54,479
Speaker 1: can I use my skill set? And then if you

2053
01:38:54,600 --> 01:38:57,439
Speaker 1: have to just flying around playing faster than everybody hustling

2054
01:38:57,960 --> 01:38:59,920
Speaker 1: plays just happened to you know, they just falling your

2055
01:39:00,040 --> 01:39:01,840
Speaker 1: lap because now you're not worried about it and being

2056
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:04,160
Speaker 1: real robotic out there, Murphy might be that might be

2057
01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:06,320
Speaker 1: an order. Fall in your lap might be an overstatement.

2058
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:09,160
Speaker 1: Here's the thing you you were fitting in rexa scheme.

2059
01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:11,320
Speaker 1: You were fitting this scheme too. How did you manage that?

2060
01:39:12,120 --> 01:39:14,000
Speaker 1: I'd like to just fancy myself as a good old

2061
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:16,519
Speaker 1: football player. You know, I grew up, you know, playing

2062
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:19,920
Speaker 1: um football at Saint Mary's High School, and we had

2063
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:23,360
Speaker 1: sixteen guys on the team, and really probably eleven of

2064
01:39:23,439 --> 01:39:25,320
Speaker 1: us could really play. So he had to play both ways.

2065
01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:27,320
Speaker 1: So at an early age I had to play, you know,

2066
01:39:27,439 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 1: both ways, play all over the place. So I've been

2067
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:32,040
Speaker 1: this accustomed to just playing football. And you know, my

2068
01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:34,400
Speaker 1: uncle always you know, seaball get ball, and you know,

2069
01:39:34,439 --> 01:39:36,200
Speaker 1: so this put me out to give me an opportunity,

2070
01:39:36,320 --> 01:39:38,800
Speaker 1: and I'll figure out how to play what you asked

2071
01:39:38,840 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 1: me to within the scheme. St Mary's High School it's

2072
01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:44,679
Speaker 1: in Berkeley, California. What's the neighboring city to Oakland? Okay?

2073
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:46,880
Speaker 1: We actually have a little piece of video we want

2074
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:48,400
Speaker 1: to show you and people can listen to it on

2075
01:39:48,439 --> 01:39:52,080
Speaker 1: the radio side. Alexander from his Saint Mary's in Berkeley

2076
01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:55,000
Speaker 1: days playing high school football being the interview a little bit. Yeah, oh,

2077
01:39:55,040 --> 01:39:57,840
Speaker 1: the interview. Tell me about getting into football if it

2078
01:39:57,840 --> 01:39:59,840
Speaker 1: always been kind of a big kid and you always

2079
01:39:59,840 --> 01:40:02,519
Speaker 1: wan Yeah. Yeah. Since I was very little, about eight,

2080
01:40:02,560 --> 01:40:04,479
Speaker 1: I always wanted to get in. My cousins got to play,

2081
01:40:04,560 --> 01:40:06,200
Speaker 1: but I was always the kid that was too big

2082
01:40:06,240 --> 01:40:08,519
Speaker 1: because of the wait limit. So I always had to

2083
01:40:08,560 --> 01:40:10,639
Speaker 1: help hold it in, hold on my aggression in until

2084
01:40:10,640 --> 01:40:12,120
Speaker 1: I got to high school where I really got to

2085
01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:14,719
Speaker 1: really let it out and show what I have and football,

2086
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:18,720
Speaker 1: because I really mostly played football, I mean basketball and baseball.

2087
01:40:19,160 --> 01:40:20,760
Speaker 1: Have you been on the varsity here Saint Mary since

2088
01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:23,439
Speaker 1: your freshman year? No, I was too young that rule

2089
01:40:23,560 --> 01:40:25,160
Speaker 1: or you got to be fifteen or something like that.

2090
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:28,599
Speaker 1: But sophomore I started junior and then this year too.

2091
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:31,639
Speaker 1: There you go, it sounds you sound exactly the same.

2092
01:40:31,720 --> 01:40:33,320
Speaker 1: It's a young la. I don't even look like me.

2093
01:40:33,360 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 1: I like, who was that kid right seventeen years ago.

2094
01:40:37,280 --> 01:40:40,760
Speaker 1: It's a long time. It's a long time. It's awesome. Yeah. Yeah,

2095
01:40:40,960 --> 01:40:42,840
Speaker 1: I'm actually have to get some highlights. I actually found

2096
01:40:42,840 --> 01:40:44,800
Speaker 1: a highlight tape, so hopefully next week I'm a post

2097
01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:46,000
Speaker 1: it because I have a friend that played on that

2098
01:40:46,080 --> 01:40:49,160
Speaker 1: team with me. He was an all world sprinter, jumper,

2099
01:40:49,320 --> 01:40:51,880
Speaker 1: track guy, and this is play. It's a bad play

2100
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Speaker 1: for our defense. But we were running to the ball

2101
01:40:53,880 --> 01:40:56,639
Speaker 1: and I actually was running past him or with him.

2102
01:40:57,200 --> 01:40:59,680
Speaker 1: So I'll be posting that probably later to day or

2103
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 1: the mar So hopefully we had that next week and

2104
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:05,080
Speaker 1: we can talk about it. Yeah. So it's funny because

2105
01:41:05,120 --> 01:41:07,479
Speaker 1: he denied, denied, denied it until I found his tape.

2106
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 1: I have a friend gave me to tape, so now

2107
01:41:09,479 --> 01:41:11,439
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you had a head start, so you

2108
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:13,559
Speaker 1: had a hand start. So I can't wait to post.

2109
01:41:13,720 --> 01:41:19,560
Speaker 1: I love it. Bills Mafia Friday lowdown with us. We

2110
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 1: got to talk about that. Walter Payton Man of the Year.

2111
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:24,519
Speaker 1: You are Buffalo's nominee, one of thirty two nominees from

2112
01:41:24,520 --> 01:41:27,040
Speaker 1: around the NFL. This is the fourth time you've been nominated.

2113
01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:29,000
Speaker 1: That says something too, right, Yeah, I mean it's a

2114
01:41:29,080 --> 01:41:30,800
Speaker 1: huge honor. You know, we talk about consistent on the

2115
01:41:30,840 --> 01:41:33,360
Speaker 1: football field. I try to live a consistent life off

2116
01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:35,800
Speaker 1: the field as well as far as it's using my platform.

2117
01:41:36,240 --> 01:41:38,240
Speaker 1: You know, I started my foundation back in two thousand

2118
01:41:38,240 --> 01:41:40,320
Speaker 1: and eight with my mom and my wife and just

2119
01:41:40,479 --> 01:41:44,120
Speaker 1: really serving the communities that have really supported me coming up,

2120
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:47,000
Speaker 1: you know, whether it was Oakland, California, you know, Washington Redskins,

2121
01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:50,840
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, obviously with the Buffalo Bills. Just really trying

2122
01:41:50,840 --> 01:41:53,280
Speaker 1: to give back because I understand that there's so many

2123
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:56,720
Speaker 1: people that have impacted my life that I would not

2124
01:41:56,760 --> 01:41:59,320
Speaker 1: be sitting in this seat today without them. And with

2125
01:41:59,520 --> 01:42:01,320
Speaker 1: that said, we have a lot of other guys in

2126
01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:04,040
Speaker 1: our locker room that could easily be of the recipient,

2127
01:42:04,120 --> 01:42:06,200
Speaker 1: from Jerry Hughes to Micah High. You know, I think

2128
01:42:06,200 --> 01:42:08,400
Speaker 1: about John Miller. There are a lot of guys in

2129
01:42:08,520 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 1: that room that give back, and really people don't even

2130
01:42:11,160 --> 01:42:12,720
Speaker 1: have a clue of what they're doing. We just had

2131
01:42:12,760 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 1: a little snippet from your Chill with the Bill's interview. Oh,

2132
01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:18,920
Speaker 1: Jerry might cause Mike cleats. You're you have your own

2133
01:42:19,240 --> 01:42:21,920
Speaker 1: set of cleats you're gonna wear for your what is

2134
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:24,000
Speaker 1: your cause? You go ahead and give a plug for

2135
01:42:24,040 --> 01:42:25,760
Speaker 1: your cleats there. Yeah, Well mine is going to be

2136
01:42:25,800 --> 01:42:29,120
Speaker 1: representing the Lorenzo Alexander Ace's Foundation, which is my organization.

2137
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:32,439
Speaker 1: And then through one of my my initiative access, We've

2138
01:42:32,520 --> 01:42:34,400
Speaker 1: partnered with South Park High School that I've done a

2139
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:37,080
Speaker 1: lot of work with and also the Bell Center. So yeah,

2140
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:39,240
Speaker 1: those of him, Um Tom did a great job with

2141
01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:41,439
Speaker 1: those cleats. So some just real cool to be able

2142
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:44,080
Speaker 1: to raise money, you know, have some swag on Sunday

2143
01:42:44,200 --> 01:42:46,120
Speaker 1: playing in them, and then people get bid on my

2144
01:42:46,240 --> 01:42:48,920
Speaker 1: own NFL dot com their their charity web page. Players

2145
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:51,120
Speaker 1: like that might cause my cleats program don't think Yeah

2146
01:42:51,120 --> 01:42:53,080
Speaker 1: it's great. I mean it's obviously a great way to work,

2147
01:42:53,560 --> 01:42:55,720
Speaker 1: raise awareness to things that are near doing to your heart,

2148
01:42:55,800 --> 01:42:57,400
Speaker 1: and then it puts us in a different light. You

2149
01:42:57,479 --> 01:42:58,840
Speaker 1: get a chance to chill with the Bills, and you

2150
01:42:58,920 --> 01:43:00,840
Speaker 1: see Jerry and see what he does what he does

2151
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,120
Speaker 1: and other guys around the league. You know, read ferguson

2152
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:05,759
Speaker 1: having a connection with diabetes. He's gonna be wearing American

2153
01:43:05,800 --> 01:43:09,080
Speaker 1: Diabetes cleats. So I think it humanizes in a lot

2154
01:43:09,160 --> 01:43:11,640
Speaker 1: of ways and brings people into our world and that

2155
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:13,439
Speaker 1: and lets them know that we can relate on a

2156
01:43:13,479 --> 01:43:18,160
Speaker 1: lot of different levels. Every child aces, every child is

2157
01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:21,080
Speaker 1: a diamond. Oh um, yeah, you know, obviously diamonds are

2158
01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:22,720
Speaker 1: created under a lot of pressure. You know, I come

2159
01:43:22,800 --> 01:43:24,160
Speaker 1: up in the inner City, a lot of pressure, a

2160
01:43:24,200 --> 01:43:25,960
Speaker 1: lot of challenges. But if you're able to make it

2161
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:28,640
Speaker 1: through that and have great support, which I try to

2162
01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:30,960
Speaker 1: provide through the Aces Foundation, then you can obviously be

2163
01:43:31,040 --> 01:43:32,880
Speaker 1: successful like a diamond. One of the fun things that

2164
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:35,920
Speaker 1: about that is it it also becomes a kind of

2165
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:39,160
Speaker 1: a bonding thing for teammates because for every charitable thing

2166
01:43:39,280 --> 01:43:42,120
Speaker 1: that you do and everything, you guys come out with you. Yeah,

2167
01:43:42,160 --> 01:43:44,800
Speaker 1: and you reciprocate with them, right, yeah, you can. You

2168
01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:46,639
Speaker 1: go to see their stuff and go to their events

2169
01:43:46,680 --> 01:43:49,400
Speaker 1: as well. It's it's really a it's a team builder,

2170
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:52,120
Speaker 1: it is. I mean on Monday night, we had probably

2171
01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:54,799
Speaker 1: fifteen guys over at David Busters hanging out with families

2172
01:43:54,840 --> 01:43:57,560
Speaker 1: with with diabetes that are dealing with that issue. And

2173
01:43:57,600 --> 01:44:00,760
Speaker 1: then Micah, you know, serving us giving dinner and you

2174
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:03,559
Speaker 1: have another fifteen guys. You know, John Miller does something,

2175
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:06,120
Speaker 1: you have another ten guys over there. So it's really

2176
01:44:06,160 --> 01:44:08,400
Speaker 1: become like our weekly dinners in a sense. Because we

2177
01:44:08,479 --> 01:44:10,679
Speaker 1: have so many guys doing things, we kind of bond

2178
01:44:10,800 --> 01:44:12,880
Speaker 1: over just hanging out and serving the community together. This

2179
01:44:12,960 --> 01:44:15,799
Speaker 1: is your third year in Buffalo, right, Yes, it's amazing

2180
01:44:15,840 --> 01:44:17,679
Speaker 1: to me. And here you're nominated for the Water Payton

2181
01:44:17,720 --> 01:44:20,519
Speaker 1: Man of the Year award. Guys come through here sometimes

2182
01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: and you've been around the league a lot. You don't

2183
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:25,479
Speaker 1: necessarily have to dig into the community the way you have.

2184
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:28,360
Speaker 1: That's impressive to me, right, some guy, you know? Right? Yeah,

2185
01:44:28,360 --> 01:44:30,400
Speaker 1: I made you. Oh now I'm playing Buffalo okay, whatever,

2186
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:32,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to practice and play harden exactly. You haven't

2187
01:44:32,960 --> 01:44:35,000
Speaker 1: done that? Yeah? Well, I mean serving has always been

2188
01:44:35,120 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 1: a passion of mine. I think it's really my call

2189
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:40,000
Speaker 1: and my calling in life anyway. You know, playing football

2190
01:44:40,080 --> 01:44:42,120
Speaker 1: is a great platform. But even my first year here,

2191
01:44:42,120 --> 01:44:44,120
Speaker 1: I didn't really do too much to my foundation. It

2192
01:44:44,280 --> 01:44:46,240
Speaker 1: was more just through what the Bills organization does, and

2193
01:44:46,280 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 1: they do a great job kind of getting my feet

2194
01:44:48,360 --> 01:44:51,040
Speaker 1: went seeing what areas that I could really attach myself with,

2195
01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:53,479
Speaker 1: and that's how I found South Park High School and

2196
01:44:53,560 --> 01:44:56,040
Speaker 1: the Bell Center. And so year two, when I signed

2197
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 1: a two year dedo, I knew it's gonna be here

2198
01:44:57,320 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 1: a little bit more long term. I knew I could

2199
01:44:59,560 --> 01:45:01,960
Speaker 1: go in and and really build more relationships versus just

2200
01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:04,599
Speaker 1: starting something and then leaving. So that so it's really

2201
01:45:04,680 --> 01:45:06,719
Speaker 1: been cool to be able to build on and that's perfect.

2202
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:08,800
Speaker 1: Those kids at South Park now for a couple of years,

2203
01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:11,360
Speaker 1: they know you, and you'll you'll have those connections from

2204
01:45:11,439 --> 01:45:13,360
Speaker 1: your lifetime for lifetime, you know, to be able to

2205
01:45:13,400 --> 01:45:15,320
Speaker 1: go over there and hang out with them and talk

2206
01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 1: through some things and maybe inspire them or help them

2207
01:45:18,880 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 1: make a smarter decision because they're not thinking about the

2208
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:23,600
Speaker 1: big picture. Um, it's what I'm all about, you know.

2209
01:45:23,640 --> 01:45:25,519
Speaker 1: And even if that's just one one kid, that you

2210
01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 1: can change their trajectory, you know, that's always a positive. Yeah,

2211
01:45:29,479 --> 01:45:32,400
Speaker 1: it's been. It's always was fun for me to go

2212
01:45:32,520 --> 01:45:34,639
Speaker 1: out and see how other guys and what what gives

2213
01:45:34,680 --> 01:45:37,400
Speaker 1: them interest in, what keeps them interested, why they get

2214
01:45:37,479 --> 01:45:39,720
Speaker 1: involved with stuff. Usually it's a family member or something

2215
01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 1: that happened in their own life, and it gives you

2216
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:42,519
Speaker 1: a chance to get to know them a little better,

2217
01:45:42,520 --> 01:45:46,519
Speaker 1: and it and it the relationship goes deeper. Yeah, and

2218
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:49,080
Speaker 1: it translates onto the field. It's the team plays better,

2219
01:45:49,120 --> 01:45:50,640
Speaker 1: you feel good about you know. I mean, it's just

2220
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:53,679
Speaker 1: it's definitely a bonding factory. I mean, and it's something

2221
01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:56,360
Speaker 1: that it's something too. You know, people talk about culture

2222
01:45:56,400 --> 01:45:59,599
Speaker 1: and chemistry and you know, and does it really exist.

2223
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:01,679
Speaker 1: It's a really matter in my mind, it does because

2224
01:46:01,680 --> 01:46:03,400
Speaker 1: when I'm out there, I'm looking at Michael or looking

2225
01:46:03,439 --> 01:46:06,840
Speaker 1: at Kyle, or looking at Tremaine. You have such a

2226
01:46:06,920 --> 01:46:09,080
Speaker 1: bond together that I want to go to extra mile.

2227
01:46:09,120 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 1: I don't want to let them down. I think that

2228
01:46:10,600 --> 01:46:14,840
Speaker 1: definitely transitions into playing better as a unit and a team,

2229
01:46:14,880 --> 01:46:18,479
Speaker 1: and eventually want that to start helping us win games,

2230
01:46:18,520 --> 01:46:20,160
Speaker 1: which it will. And I think we're right there on

2231
01:46:20,200 --> 01:46:23,120
Speaker 1: the cusp of really going in a direction that we

2232
01:46:23,200 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 1: want to go. You're taking us right into football where

2233
01:46:25,160 --> 01:46:26,800
Speaker 1: we want to be. Lorenzo Alexander with us for a

2234
01:46:26,840 --> 01:46:29,160
Speaker 1: few more minutes. Let's talk about this game. Let's talk

2235
01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:32,040
Speaker 1: about your game. And this stat came up from ESPN's

2236
01:46:32,160 --> 01:46:34,720
Speaker 1: NFL matchup. He tweeted it out today. I've never heard

2237
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:36,360
Speaker 1: of it before, but it makes a lot of sense.

2238
01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:39,800
Speaker 1: You know. It really disrupted dropbacks. They call it the

2239
01:46:39,880 --> 01:46:44,000
Speaker 1: percentage of passing downs with the sack, interception, pass batted

2240
01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:47,879
Speaker 1: down or defended. It's a defensive stat, a stat disrupted dropbacks.

2241
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:51,320
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald leads the league with the three point six percent. Yeah,

2242
01:46:51,479 --> 01:46:53,720
Speaker 1: you're right behind him, though three point one percent of

2243
01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:59,120
Speaker 1: pass attempts you managed to disrupt now three point one percent.

2244
01:46:59,600 --> 01:47:01,200
Speaker 1: Look at the list, I mean you're up there with

2245
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:06,200
Speaker 1: some of the most prominent and bigness of the highest. Yeah.

2246
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:10,120
Speaker 1: I definitely have the best value on that list. Value

2247
01:47:10,200 --> 01:47:15,840
Speaker 1: I thought about you are You are a bargain baby. Yeah.

2248
01:47:16,960 --> 01:47:18,880
Speaker 1: But it's all good, you know, It's it's all about

2249
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:21,640
Speaker 1: just you know, playing within the scheme. Obviously this year

2250
01:47:21,640 --> 01:47:24,799
Speaker 1: I've gotten my hands on a lot more balls, especially

2251
01:47:25,160 --> 01:47:27,400
Speaker 1: at the linebacker position, and I think that's just having

2252
01:47:27,560 --> 01:47:29,600
Speaker 1: another year of my belt playing off the line of

2253
01:47:29,640 --> 01:47:31,960
Speaker 1: scrimmage and being in good position. We have a great

2254
01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:34,120
Speaker 1: coach and Bob Babbitt who's helped me out a lot

2255
01:47:34,200 --> 01:47:37,519
Speaker 1: in that transition period. And uh yeah, so just making

2256
01:47:37,560 --> 01:47:39,360
Speaker 1: plays and when you have guys like the front, getting

2257
01:47:39,400 --> 01:47:41,160
Speaker 1: after guys is easy to make plays on the long Well,

2258
01:47:41,160 --> 01:47:42,680
Speaker 1: the guy you're gonna get after this week is the

2259
01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:45,400
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks. It looks like he's gonna play, So you're

2260
01:47:45,400 --> 01:47:47,160
Speaker 1: gonna go back look at the film when he plays

2261
01:47:47,640 --> 01:47:49,840
Speaker 1: the scheme trying to extrapolate what do you think they're

2262
01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:52,080
Speaker 1: gonna see? And you, guys, now they've seen you once, right,

2263
01:47:52,200 --> 01:47:54,040
Speaker 1: And that's always hard, especially when you have a young

2264
01:47:54,120 --> 01:47:56,599
Speaker 1: guy that has talent like Sam, but you really haven't

2265
01:47:56,600 --> 01:47:58,080
Speaker 1: got a chance to see him a lot. And I

2266
01:47:58,160 --> 01:48:00,360
Speaker 1: think Josh has done that to some people. He's he

2267
01:48:00,520 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: was hurt for three or four weeks and here he

2268
01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:04,960
Speaker 1: comes again and he's like, Okay, what does he do? Well?

2269
01:48:05,040 --> 01:48:07,200
Speaker 1: How can we attack him? You don't quite know, and

2270
01:48:07,240 --> 01:48:08,960
Speaker 1: then you get give up some play. So we really

2271
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:11,600
Speaker 1: have to make sure that we're detailed in our assignments

2272
01:48:11,640 --> 01:48:14,360
Speaker 1: first and especially winning on first and second down, because

2273
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:15,920
Speaker 1: I really think they're gonna want to run the ball,

2274
01:48:16,560 --> 01:48:18,160
Speaker 1: and the time that they beat us last year, they

2275
01:48:18,200 --> 01:48:19,680
Speaker 1: were just able to run all over. So if we

2276
01:48:19,760 --> 01:48:22,320
Speaker 1: can really dominate the line of scrimmage, win on first

2277
01:48:22,360 --> 01:48:25,439
Speaker 1: and second down, and then put him in and distances

2278
01:48:25,479 --> 01:48:29,080
Speaker 1: a third and seven plus where where I know Treue,

2279
01:48:29,160 --> 01:48:31,360
Speaker 1: Davis and Levi are gonna take him off his first read.

2280
01:48:31,680 --> 01:48:33,360
Speaker 1: That's gonna give us time to get after me because

2281
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:36,360
Speaker 1: he's really a little bit helter skelter with his feet,

2282
01:48:36,360 --> 01:48:37,920
Speaker 1: and I think that's just not playing a lot and

2283
01:48:38,240 --> 01:48:39,880
Speaker 1: being a rookie in the league. All right, we move

2284
01:48:39,920 --> 01:48:41,840
Speaker 1: into the lowdown for this game. The builds on the

2285
01:48:41,960 --> 01:48:44,799
Speaker 1: Jets and were talking about this last week, the importance

2286
01:48:44,840 --> 01:48:47,519
Speaker 1: of the importance of fast starts. And it's a simple staff.

2287
01:48:47,520 --> 01:48:49,080
Speaker 1: But when the Bills score first, the Bills are for.

2288
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:51,720
Speaker 1: When the opponent's score first, the Bills are on and eight.

2289
01:48:51,800 --> 01:48:54,320
Speaker 1: So it behooves them. Obviously you get off to a

2290
01:48:54,360 --> 01:48:56,120
Speaker 1: good start in the Yeah, we gotta set the tone

2291
01:48:56,160 --> 01:48:58,760
Speaker 1: and the intensity early in this game, not only with

2292
01:48:58,880 --> 01:49:01,200
Speaker 1: the statue you're talking about, but also you know, you

2293
01:49:01,479 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 1: hear a guy like Jamal Adams, and I'm not really

2294
01:49:03,520 --> 01:49:04,720
Speaker 1: in that locker room, so I don't know if that's

2295
01:49:04,720 --> 01:49:07,200
Speaker 1: just him talking or if that he's a great voice

2296
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:11,120
Speaker 1: of their locker room. But obviously last year they smacked

2297
01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:13,280
Speaker 1: us there and then we went there and dominated them.

2298
01:49:13,360 --> 01:49:15,439
Speaker 1: And so there's a little bit of animosity there, a

2299
01:49:15,479 --> 01:49:18,160
Speaker 1: little back and forth chopping at the bit. So I

2300
01:49:18,280 --> 01:49:20,320
Speaker 1: know they're gonna come in here like, Okay, we gotta

2301
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:23,439
Speaker 1: get these boys back and and and show them all right,

2302
01:49:23,600 --> 01:49:25,920
Speaker 1: So so we need to come out and really set

2303
01:49:25,960 --> 01:49:27,880
Speaker 1: the intensity early and let them know, hey, this is

2304
01:49:27,920 --> 01:49:30,840
Speaker 1: our house. We're defending our dirt and and last time

2305
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:33,840
Speaker 1: was in the fluke because their defensive players, well obviously

2306
01:49:34,040 --> 01:49:35,840
Speaker 1: gonna have a chip on their shoulder with Todd Bowls

2307
01:49:35,880 --> 01:49:38,960
Speaker 1: and he's a defensive guy. They've played fairly well majority

2308
01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:40,920
Speaker 1: of the season I think up until that point. And

2309
01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:44,479
Speaker 1: then obviously for us, it's coming out defensively and really

2310
01:49:44,520 --> 01:49:46,479
Speaker 1: setting the tone and getting after the quarterback and stopping

2311
01:49:46,479 --> 01:49:48,479
Speaker 1: that run early as well. So you want to establish

2312
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:50,760
Speaker 1: a tone in the intensity very early in the game.

2313
01:49:50,760 --> 01:49:53,040
Speaker 1: And your second one is respecting the ball. What do

2314
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:54,760
Speaker 1: you mean respecting the ball? You know, we just threw

2315
01:49:54,760 --> 01:49:58,080
Speaker 1: out a stat talking about scoring first. We also have

2316
01:49:58,160 --> 01:50:00,559
Speaker 1: a stat that Sho showed us early this week when

2317
01:50:00,600 --> 01:50:04,639
Speaker 1: we've turned the ball over one one time or less,

2318
01:50:04,880 --> 01:50:06,720
Speaker 1: we I think we're falling four and on as well.

2319
01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:08,680
Speaker 1: And it's in the same games and as well as

2320
01:50:08,720 --> 01:50:10,599
Speaker 1: taking the ball away from them, I think we've taken

2321
01:50:10,600 --> 01:50:14,840
Speaker 1: away two times. It's well in those games we're undefeated.

2322
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:17,800
Speaker 1: So we have to have respect for the football, taking away,

2323
01:50:18,280 --> 01:50:21,160
Speaker 1: turn it over, protecting it, and that's offense and special teams.

2324
01:50:21,560 --> 01:50:23,320
Speaker 1: Because I think the last couple of games we've had

2325
01:50:23,360 --> 01:50:25,720
Speaker 1: some some muff punts or some some things not go

2326
01:50:25,840 --> 01:50:28,439
Speaker 1: quite as white and balls on the ground giving the

2327
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:31,320
Speaker 1: opposing team an extra possession. Take away seemed to be

2328
01:50:31,360 --> 01:50:33,760
Speaker 1: coming along. I think the Bills have six interceptions in

2329
01:50:33,800 --> 01:50:36,320
Speaker 1: the last four games. There were some good defensive games

2330
01:50:36,360 --> 01:50:39,000
Speaker 1: earlier this season where you lost and I can you

2331
01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:40,960
Speaker 1: set it over and over in the locker room post game,

2332
01:50:41,040 --> 01:50:43,439
Speaker 1: we gotta take the ball away, no man playing, Yeah, exactly,

2333
01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:46,560
Speaker 1: and especially with a young quarterback in an offense that

2334
01:50:46,760 --> 01:50:51,560
Speaker 1: that was, you know, struggling earlier on. You have to

2335
01:50:51,600 --> 01:50:53,680
Speaker 1: give them short fields to get their confidence going. Get

2336
01:50:53,760 --> 01:50:56,559
Speaker 1: some easy points, whether it's three points, you know, or seven,

2337
01:50:56,720 --> 01:50:58,800
Speaker 1: It gets their confidence. Okay, we put points on. Here

2338
01:50:58,840 --> 01:51:01,360
Speaker 1: we go. We're getting a good rhythm, and that's what

2339
01:51:01,479 --> 01:51:02,880
Speaker 1: we have to do. We have to be the leaders

2340
01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:05,920
Speaker 1: in that standpoint. And one thing that I was disappointed

2341
01:51:05,920 --> 01:51:08,120
Speaker 1: at last week was again our red his own defense

2342
01:51:08,640 --> 01:51:10,800
Speaker 1: and then giving up that drive at the end, which

2343
01:51:11,080 --> 01:51:16,120
Speaker 1: you know, some controversy there with some penalties. Yeah, yeah,

2344
01:51:16,320 --> 01:51:19,160
Speaker 1: but we have Yeah, we have to continue being leaders

2345
01:51:19,200 --> 01:51:21,640
Speaker 1: there as far as standing up and be able to

2346
01:51:21,680 --> 01:51:23,920
Speaker 1: shut the team out when we have the game and control.

2347
01:51:24,040 --> 01:51:26,880
Speaker 1: You brought it up past interference. We can argue about Yeah,

2348
01:51:27,040 --> 01:51:29,320
Speaker 1: but is that really a taunt when and I know

2349
01:51:29,520 --> 01:51:32,479
Speaker 1: the background with Phillips and the dolphins, but boy, I

2350
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:34,320
Speaker 1: don't even know if he knew the guy's foot was there,

2351
01:51:34,439 --> 01:51:36,120
Speaker 1: you know, he just kind of waved his hand. Yeah,

2352
01:51:36,160 --> 01:51:38,639
Speaker 1: and then's all of a sudden, that's a taunt fifteen yard. Yeah,

2353
01:51:39,360 --> 01:51:41,800
Speaker 1: it all has to do with who you are in

2354
01:51:42,160 --> 01:51:44,960
Speaker 1: the history there, because if Kyle Williams does that, they

2355
01:51:45,040 --> 01:51:46,479
Speaker 1: probably don't throw it. You know, if I do it,

2356
01:51:46,520 --> 01:51:48,280
Speaker 1: they probably don't throw it. So a lot of it

2357
01:51:48,360 --> 01:51:52,639
Speaker 1: there is a bias from the referees as far as that, Yeah,

2358
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:54,920
Speaker 1: who you are, you know, watch fifty five. He gets

2359
01:51:54,960 --> 01:51:56,920
Speaker 1: the same type of treatment and they don't get they

2360
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:59,240
Speaker 1: don't give him the benefit of the doubt when they

2361
01:51:59,320 --> 01:52:03,519
Speaker 1: are just elebrating and something, you know, something small like

2362
01:52:03,600 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 1: that happens where it's not even about the guy's foot, right. Yeah.

2363
01:52:10,000 --> 01:52:12,599
Speaker 1: Third thing, yeah, shut down the run and that if

2364
01:52:12,680 --> 01:52:14,439
Speaker 1: you can make them, do we do We didn't do

2365
01:52:14,520 --> 01:52:16,200
Speaker 1: that yet. Well I kind of alluded to the earlier,

2366
01:52:16,240 --> 01:52:18,719
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, if you can get when you're playing

2367
01:52:18,720 --> 01:52:20,800
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback who's coming in off an injuries, you know,

2368
01:52:20,880 --> 01:52:23,000
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the spot where you'd love to

2369
01:52:23,080 --> 01:52:25,400
Speaker 1: have him try and put the team on his back exactly.

2370
01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:27,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I know all the Russians would love that.

2371
01:52:28,040 --> 01:52:29,679
Speaker 1: But for us to be able to get to that point,

2372
01:52:30,160 --> 01:52:31,559
Speaker 1: we have to snuff out the run like we did

2373
01:52:31,720 --> 01:52:34,559
Speaker 1: last time on first and second down. So I definitely

2374
01:52:34,600 --> 01:52:36,160
Speaker 1: see him trying to start to run the ball early,

2375
01:52:36,280 --> 01:52:38,400
Speaker 1: maybe moving the pocket a little bit, some boot game

2376
01:52:38,600 --> 01:52:40,519
Speaker 1: getting us there, you know, getting the ball on the

2377
01:52:40,600 --> 01:52:42,760
Speaker 1: out on the outside, trying to get us moving ladder

2378
01:52:42,840 --> 01:52:45,200
Speaker 1: or not in that attack mode. But if we're able

2379
01:52:45,200 --> 01:52:46,720
Speaker 1: to just snuff that run out and put them in

2380
01:52:46,840 --> 01:52:50,519
Speaker 1: third and long situations, I don't feel like they can

2381
01:52:50,600 --> 01:52:53,559
Speaker 1: hold up, you know, for four quarters versus our guys.

2382
01:52:55,080 --> 01:52:57,759
Speaker 1: You know, talented guy. He's really the only known factor

2383
01:52:57,840 --> 01:53:00,720
Speaker 1: I would think in that running check can practice first

2384
01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:03,519
Speaker 1: two days practice on a limited basis. Today questionable for

2385
01:53:03,600 --> 01:53:05,840
Speaker 1: the game. Is he a difference maker? Is he got

2386
01:53:06,040 --> 01:53:08,040
Speaker 1: he has been? I mean in preseason he ran all

2387
01:53:08,080 --> 01:53:09,760
Speaker 1: over us as well too when he's in Cleveland. So

2388
01:53:10,360 --> 01:53:12,880
Speaker 1: I'm not looking past anybody because I remember going in

2389
01:53:12,960 --> 01:53:15,160
Speaker 1: there on Thursday night last year like a you know,

2390
01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:17,960
Speaker 1: Forte is a little old. I think, but al power

2391
01:53:18,080 --> 01:53:21,720
Speaker 1: was still there. He's not quite that guy. And it

2392
01:53:21,800 --> 01:53:23,800
Speaker 1: seemed like both of those guys had two hundred yards

2393
01:53:23,880 --> 01:53:27,400
Speaker 1: rushing on us. You know. So I'm not gonna look

2394
01:53:27,439 --> 01:53:30,720
Speaker 1: at a guy not practicing, you know, as saying that

2395
01:53:30,760 --> 01:53:32,800
Speaker 1: he's not ready. I'm expecting one hundred percent from him.

2396
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:35,439
Speaker 1: And that's how I'm attacking when I'm out there, uh,

2397
01:53:35,600 --> 01:53:37,160
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get him down the ground, right,

2398
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:39,160
Speaker 1: So that's the little down. You can set the intensity

2399
01:53:39,240 --> 01:53:41,439
Speaker 1: and get some turnovers and shut down there run. I

2400
01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:43,960
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta ask you about something from last night's game.

2401
01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:47,559
Speaker 1: You you saw, right, Derrick Henry run for ninety nine

2402
01:53:47,680 --> 01:53:49,519
Speaker 1: yards and had to. He had a great game, no

2403
01:53:49,680 --> 01:53:52,760
Speaker 1: question about it. He under twenty carries two hundred and

2404
01:53:52,760 --> 01:53:55,120
Speaker 1: thirty eight. I mean the guy that says more about

2405
01:53:55,680 --> 01:53:58,160
Speaker 1: the state of mind of where Jacksonville because there's no

2406
01:53:58,360 --> 01:54:00,800
Speaker 1: way with that defense and the and the personnel they

2407
01:54:00,880 --> 01:54:04,760
Speaker 1: have over there that should happen. Ever, Ever, here's what

2408
01:54:05,160 --> 01:54:07,880
Speaker 1: now today on social media because everybody's always about you know,

2409
01:54:07,960 --> 01:54:09,920
Speaker 1: what have you done here and all of that yigity act.

2410
01:54:10,160 --> 01:54:12,360
Speaker 1: Everybody's comparing this angry and it was a great run

2411
01:54:12,479 --> 01:54:14,160
Speaker 1: by Derrick Henry, no question, but they're saying it was

2412
01:54:14,200 --> 01:54:16,200
Speaker 1: a really angry run. He threw off a couple of guys,

2413
01:54:16,240 --> 01:54:18,760
Speaker 1: stiff armed three guys down the sidelines, and they're kind

2414
01:54:18,800 --> 01:54:21,920
Speaker 1: of comparing it to Marshawn Lynch when he was when

2415
01:54:21,960 --> 01:54:24,800
Speaker 1: he was with Seattle playing against New Orleans, And I'm

2416
01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:28,720
Speaker 1: kind of with you. Marshawn Lynch's run. That was a

2417
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:31,120
Speaker 1: nice run, no question, a great run history because of

2418
01:54:31,160 --> 01:54:34,680
Speaker 1: its length. Marshawn's run was an epic run of all

2419
01:54:34,840 --> 01:54:37,960
Speaker 1: time and it was in the playoffs. Yeah versus uh,

2420
01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:41,920
Speaker 1: I think on eleven and five, twelve and fourth and

2421
01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:44,680
Speaker 1: New Orleans was really trying to tackle. Yeah, they're trying

2422
01:54:44,680 --> 01:54:47,520
Speaker 1: to win this. They were shying away from anything. They

2423
01:54:47,560 --> 01:54:51,880
Speaker 1: didn't shy away from anything, and man oh man, Marshawn, Yeah,

2424
01:54:52,000 --> 01:54:54,240
Speaker 1: this just the moment and when that happened and how

2425
01:54:54,320 --> 01:54:57,000
Speaker 1: it happened was I thought, I thought a much more

2426
01:54:57,080 --> 01:54:59,760
Speaker 1: impactful running. Obviously I'm biased too because Money's my guys,

2427
01:55:00,480 --> 01:55:03,760
Speaker 1: as in Marshawn Lynch, but I thought it was much right. Yeah,

2428
01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:06,360
Speaker 1: he's an open guy, cow guy too, and uh, you know, also,

2429
01:55:06,440 --> 01:55:08,640
Speaker 1: I think I'm a little biased with the Henry Rock.

2430
01:55:08,680 --> 01:55:12,200
Speaker 1: I mean, can can we not get a personal file

2431
01:55:12,280 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 1: with a stiff arm and grab with a face man

2432
01:55:14,800 --> 01:55:18,360
Speaker 1: running back they pushed pool and I mean, come on now,

2433
01:55:18,480 --> 01:55:22,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not an ability they need to I

2434
01:55:23,040 --> 01:55:24,960
Speaker 1: want to well, when I go to the competition community

2435
01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:27,280
Speaker 1: this year, I'm gonna ask him why isn't that out

2436
01:55:27,360 --> 01:55:29,640
Speaker 1: being called? It'll be cold, you know what. I don't

2437
01:55:29,640 --> 01:55:30,960
Speaker 1: want to put it like this, but as soon as

2438
01:55:30,960 --> 01:55:34,080
Speaker 1: somebody gets injured, they can't wait for that. They can't

2439
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:36,600
Speaker 1: wait for that. That's what happened. Pull the face mask

2440
01:55:36,640 --> 01:55:39,240
Speaker 1: for it. I mean, you get a competitive advantage, just

2441
01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:41,080
Speaker 1: like throwing the guy down with a handle on. Yeah,

2442
01:55:41,080 --> 01:55:43,200
Speaker 1: it's a competitive avantage, especially when you don't allow wide

2443
01:55:43,240 --> 01:55:46,240
Speaker 1: receivers to cut a guy off right on one on

2444
01:55:46,280 --> 01:55:48,280
Speaker 1: one coverage. But you're gonna allow a running back to

2445
01:55:48,400 --> 01:55:52,200
Speaker 1: pool and tug a face mask to get, you know, outside.

2446
01:55:52,240 --> 01:55:54,360
Speaker 1: They don't call louren the helmet against running backs either.

2447
01:55:54,760 --> 01:55:57,040
Speaker 1: They were supposed to. They won't. They won't call that.

2448
01:55:57,280 --> 01:55:59,040
Speaker 1: That's a little bit easier to call. That's an easier

2449
01:55:59,120 --> 01:56:01,680
Speaker 1: call to make. Hey, um, we want to ask you

2450
01:56:01,720 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: about one our Twitter poll. Um. It's Sunday is the

2451
01:56:04,720 --> 01:56:07,160
Speaker 1: first of three home games in the month of December

2452
01:56:07,200 --> 01:56:09,320
Speaker 1: this year. It's the fourth consecutive year the Bills have

2453
01:56:09,440 --> 01:56:12,200
Speaker 1: had three home games in December. We gotta it's not

2454
01:56:12,280 --> 01:56:13,920
Speaker 1: a poll, but we've been asking our fans, you know,

2455
01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:16,280
Speaker 1: what's the best part of December home games? Do you

2456
01:56:16,320 --> 01:56:18,000
Speaker 1: hate them? Do you like them? And if you like them,

2457
01:56:18,000 --> 01:56:19,839
Speaker 1: what do you like about playing at home in December

2458
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:22,640
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. The best part of the fans because

2459
01:56:22,680 --> 01:56:24,960
Speaker 1: they're out there regardless of what the weather is. Yeah,

2460
01:56:25,240 --> 01:56:27,800
Speaker 1: the worst part is the weather. If I'm a California

2461
01:56:27,840 --> 01:56:30,360
Speaker 1: I just I can't get used to playing in twenty

2462
01:56:30,400 --> 01:56:33,840
Speaker 1: degree twenty five degree weather with a winch you'll whipping

2463
01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:36,880
Speaker 1: across you. I just I just can't. I'll get up,

2464
01:56:36,920 --> 01:56:38,600
Speaker 1: I'll be mentally out there. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna

2465
01:56:38,600 --> 01:56:40,880
Speaker 1: get through it and play hard. But I just it's

2466
01:56:40,920 --> 01:56:45,320
Speaker 1: just an extra on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I'm a

2467
01:56:45,400 --> 01:56:48,040
Speaker 1: feeling on that turf, I'm anna feel it. It's just

2468
01:56:48,160 --> 01:56:51,520
Speaker 1: it's just extra rust of your body different. Steve and

2469
01:56:51,560 --> 01:56:53,080
Speaker 1: I were saying, those of us who live here for

2470
01:56:53,120 --> 01:56:55,560
Speaker 1: a while, both of us a long time, no matter

2471
01:56:55,600 --> 01:56:56,920
Speaker 1: how cold it is. In the back of your mind,

2472
01:56:57,000 --> 01:56:58,880
Speaker 1: it's like, well, I'm gonna be warm later today, I'll

2473
01:56:58,880 --> 01:57:00,960
Speaker 1: be I'll warm up, right, you have that? Were you

2474
01:57:01,080 --> 01:57:05,280
Speaker 1: in the booth, right? Yeah? The windows, the windows open.

2475
01:57:05,600 --> 01:57:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I've also made co Yeah. All the amenities

2476
01:57:12,160 --> 01:57:14,800
Speaker 1: they've got there, Yeah, they're they're ye, it's like being

2477
01:57:14,840 --> 01:57:20,720
Speaker 1: in a hot windows are open. Yeah, yeah. Great. The

2478
01:57:20,840 --> 01:57:22,440
Speaker 1: thing about it is, I've always said this too. Now,

2479
01:57:22,520 --> 01:57:24,600
Speaker 1: the players, apart from the fact the players can go

2480
01:57:24,640 --> 01:57:26,920
Speaker 1: over they get a heated benches, they get those space heaters.

2481
01:57:26,960 --> 01:57:31,160
Speaker 1: So between series, the players are fine, and when you're

2482
01:57:31,240 --> 01:57:34,880
Speaker 1: on the field, you're kind of you kind of lose

2483
01:57:35,880 --> 01:57:37,640
Speaker 1: standing on the sideline when you're up and you're not

2484
01:57:37,760 --> 01:57:40,840
Speaker 1: in the game, right, that can't when you Yeah, because

2485
01:57:40,960 --> 01:57:42,720
Speaker 1: also too, and I always felt like this, when you're

2486
01:57:42,760 --> 01:57:44,520
Speaker 1: over there trying to get warm at the heaters, you

2487
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:47,240
Speaker 1: feel disengaged from the game. You fee almost feel guilty

2488
01:57:47,280 --> 01:57:51,160
Speaker 1: about like not caring enough, you know, because you're because

2489
01:57:51,200 --> 01:57:52,960
Speaker 1: your boys are out there playing and they're playing hard

2490
01:57:52,960 --> 01:57:56,120
Speaker 1: and they're and you're back here like you you got it,

2491
01:57:57,000 --> 01:58:00,240
Speaker 1: you got it. Go ahead, Okay, I'm not up, Okay,

2492
01:58:00,280 --> 01:58:04,680
Speaker 1: I'm good. Truthfully speaking, the players have got better than

2493
01:58:04,680 --> 01:58:07,080
Speaker 1: a lot of the fans do because you know, at

2494
01:58:07,120 --> 01:58:08,640
Speaker 1: least the ones not in the club seats and all

2495
01:58:08,640 --> 01:58:10,680
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. You have heaters and stuff, and

2496
01:58:10,800 --> 01:58:12,880
Speaker 1: I'm focused on the game. The hard part, like you said,

2497
01:58:13,080 --> 01:58:16,240
Speaker 1: is standing on the sideline when you are like defenses

2498
01:58:16,320 --> 01:58:18,360
Speaker 1: up in your own defense, but you're not in the game.

2499
01:58:18,600 --> 01:58:22,760
Speaker 1: And that's it's amazing too. The minute you jog on

2500
01:58:22,840 --> 01:58:27,000
Speaker 1: the field, all the it all goes away, right because

2501
01:58:27,000 --> 01:58:29,080
Speaker 1: you're like, let's go, you know, because it's on. You know,

2502
01:58:29,160 --> 01:58:31,320
Speaker 1: you forget about the cold or you heat. You're you're

2503
01:58:31,520 --> 01:58:34,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna compete. And that's amazing. That's an amazing mental

2504
01:58:34,720 --> 01:58:36,920
Speaker 1: gymnastic that you kind of go through. No matter how

2505
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:39,960
Speaker 1: uncomfortable you are on the sidelines, you're in the game

2506
01:58:40,360 --> 01:58:42,200
Speaker 1: before you get in. You can run on the fields

2507
01:58:42,200 --> 01:58:45,800
Speaker 1: of the huddle. You're yeah, the body is crazy, Like

2508
01:58:45,840 --> 01:58:47,880
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I'm the same way. Like if like if

2509
01:58:47,920 --> 01:58:49,840
Speaker 1: I'm like tight kind on the sideline, I really have

2510
01:58:49,920 --> 01:58:51,760
Speaker 1: but our jog out there, I can go run one

2511
01:58:51,800 --> 01:58:54,160
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour. Like the body just knows when

2512
01:58:54,200 --> 01:58:56,080
Speaker 1: it's time to turn it on. It turns it on

2513
01:58:56,160 --> 01:58:57,560
Speaker 1: and you forget about everything. Now you can do that

2514
01:58:57,600 --> 01:59:02,240
Speaker 1: when you're thirty five. That goes away. Lorenzo, thanks for this.

2515
01:59:02,640 --> 01:59:07,440
Speaker 1: Congratulations again on the nomination, Walter, I appreciate that. Guys, well,

2516
01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:10,640
Speaker 1: thanks very much. Lorenzo Janitor joining us in studio. Steve

2517
01:59:10,680 --> 01:59:12,280
Speaker 1: and I back with morn A moment. One goes Live

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01:59:12,360 --> 01:59:32,440
Speaker 1: from One Goals Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

2519
01:59:32,440 --> 01:59:34,120
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live from One Deals Drive. See, we

2520
01:59:34,120 --> 01:59:36,000
Speaker 1: got a lot of ground to cover and not a

2521
01:59:36,040 --> 01:59:38,720
Speaker 1: whole time to do it. Are you ready? We got

2522
01:59:38,800 --> 01:59:41,120
Speaker 1: a long way to go in a short time. This

2523
01:59:41,200 --> 01:59:43,800
Speaker 1: is gonna be a good, bad last half hour of

2524
01:59:43,840 --> 01:59:46,280
Speaker 1: the show. Watching band, all right? How about this Kelvin

2525
01:59:46,320 --> 01:59:50,160
Speaker 1: Benjamin brand new Kansas City Chiefs. Um, he's at practice today.

2526
01:59:50,280 --> 01:59:52,480
Speaker 1: They got a big game they they're probably gonna have

2527
01:59:52,480 --> 01:59:55,440
Speaker 1: to use Kelvin Benjamin. And Kelvin Benjamin was out there

2528
01:59:55,480 --> 01:59:57,400
Speaker 1: at practice with the Chiefs today. They got a little

2529
01:59:57,440 --> 02:00:00,360
Speaker 1: snow in Kansas City as well. Chiefs getting set to

2530
02:00:00,480 --> 02:00:03,720
Speaker 1: a host Baltimore on Sunday. That's the one o'clock game,

2531
02:00:03,760 --> 02:00:05,760
Speaker 1: I believe. Let me do number eighty one for the

2532
02:00:06,040 --> 02:00:08,840
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. I bet they're excited in Kansas City

2533
02:00:08,840 --> 02:00:11,120
Speaker 1: about having Calvin Benjamin added to that offense right there,

2534
02:00:11,120 --> 02:00:13,240
Speaker 1: where the guy who's going to deliver the ball to him. Yeah, look,

2535
02:00:13,280 --> 02:00:16,000
Speaker 1: and we do this too. You acquire a guy and

2536
02:00:16,040 --> 02:00:19,200
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's what we needed, that's what we needed.

2537
02:00:19,240 --> 02:00:21,600
Speaker 1: We needed that guy. He's a red zone target, he's

2538
02:00:22,080 --> 02:00:24,720
Speaker 1: he's had a nice career, former first round draft pick.

2539
02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:27,400
Speaker 1: That's exactly what we needed right there. And who knows.

2540
02:00:27,520 --> 02:00:30,200
Speaker 1: Maybe they're right here and in their mind they're they're

2541
02:00:30,280 --> 02:00:34,640
Speaker 1: blaming Josh Allen the Buffalo Bills for not using him right, Yeah,

2542
02:00:34,640 --> 02:00:36,440
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that all that kind of stuff.

2543
02:00:36,440 --> 02:00:38,520
Speaker 1: That's what happens. And who knows what he'll say about

2544
02:00:38,560 --> 02:00:40,520
Speaker 1: his experience here in Buffalo, by the way, who cares

2545
02:00:40,560 --> 02:00:42,920
Speaker 1: what he says? So you know what he'll say something though, Yeah,

2546
02:00:42,960 --> 02:00:45,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna get asked after practice. I would imagine what

2547
02:00:45,120 --> 02:00:47,480
Speaker 1: went wrong in Buffalo? Yeah, what happened? Why? Whatever? You know,

2548
02:00:47,800 --> 02:00:52,240
Speaker 1: that's absolutely and it'll be interesting to hear what he says. Lorenzo,

2549
02:00:52,480 --> 02:00:53,920
Speaker 1: shall we take Should I give me a guess of

2550
02:00:54,000 --> 02:00:57,680
Speaker 1: what he's going He's not he's gonna you know what

2551
02:00:57,760 --> 02:01:01,120
Speaker 1: he did is cam Newton when he left there? Yeah,

2552
02:01:01,280 --> 02:01:03,080
Speaker 1: what do you think he's gonna do about what happened?

2553
02:01:03,160 --> 02:01:04,720
Speaker 1: He'll be all right. I don't think does he really

2554
02:01:04,760 --> 02:01:07,080
Speaker 1: have hard feelings about Buffalo? Who know, we're gonna find out.

2555
02:01:07,240 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: Who cares? I don't care what he says. I kind

2556
02:01:09,840 --> 02:01:11,120
Speaker 1: of do. I don't want to the guy to walk

2557
02:01:11,160 --> 02:01:13,120
Speaker 1: off like it, you know, like I don't care what

2558
02:01:13,200 --> 02:01:16,200
Speaker 1: he says. You know, I don't. I don't. I have

2559
02:01:16,320 --> 02:01:18,480
Speaker 1: no consideration what he says or what he doesn't say.

2560
02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:21,880
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't, Hey, um, I don't. I

2561
02:01:21,960 --> 02:01:24,040
Speaker 1: just who cares what happened? You know? Would be's the

2562
02:01:24,120 --> 02:01:26,120
Speaker 1: shocking thing if he came out and said, you know what,

2563
02:01:26,400 --> 02:01:28,480
Speaker 1: it was my bad. I didn't. Wasn't it right fit

2564
02:01:28,600 --> 02:01:30,880
Speaker 1: for me? That the guys were great? The team was great.

2565
02:01:30,880 --> 02:01:32,760
Speaker 1: I love the city. It just didn't work out. Yeah,

2566
02:01:33,240 --> 02:01:35,040
Speaker 1: that would I would be shocked, but I would that

2567
02:01:35,080 --> 02:01:36,960
Speaker 1: would be great. It would be moved him up on

2568
02:01:37,080 --> 02:01:39,360
Speaker 1: my would mean to he said something like that. All right,

2569
02:01:39,600 --> 02:01:41,320
Speaker 1: trying to cover a lot of territory here, I want

2570
02:01:41,360 --> 02:01:43,880
Speaker 1: to talk about all the bills Jets and Lorenzo made

2571
02:01:43,920 --> 02:01:47,720
Speaker 1: mention of this. Jamal Adams. They're really talented safety for

2572
02:01:47,800 --> 02:01:50,400
Speaker 1: the Jets. Had some interesting thoughts in the Jets locker

2573
02:01:50,520 --> 02:01:52,360
Speaker 1: room about this matchup with the Bills. A lot of

2574
02:01:52,400 --> 02:01:54,240
Speaker 1: it related to the forty one to ten beat down

2575
02:01:54,320 --> 02:01:56,560
Speaker 1: four weeks ago. Jamal Adams here, let's hear what he

2576
02:01:56,640 --> 02:02:01,120
Speaker 1: says about the Bills in this matchup on Sunday. Man, just,

2577
02:02:01,240 --> 02:02:03,600
Speaker 1: I mean cut to the chase. Man, it's personal. I mean,

2578
02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:05,680
Speaker 1: they came in and they whipped us. Man. They don't

2579
02:02:05,720 --> 02:02:07,880
Speaker 1: like us, We don't like them. So it's gonna be

2580
02:02:07,880 --> 02:02:10,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough, uh, you know battle as

2581
02:02:10,400 --> 02:02:12,480
Speaker 1: a defense worth what's the biggest thing you guys are

2582
02:02:12,520 --> 02:02:14,560
Speaker 1: looking to do differently, it's time around against the Bills.

2583
02:02:15,920 --> 02:02:19,600
Speaker 1: Just continue you know, to you know, communicate, um, hitting

2584
02:02:19,600 --> 02:02:21,760
Speaker 1: the right gaps, um, not you know, letting the ball

2585
02:02:21,800 --> 02:02:24,040
Speaker 1: go over our head and just being smart man, and

2586
02:02:24,240 --> 02:02:25,760
Speaker 1: and playing as a team. That's what we got to

2587
02:02:25,760 --> 02:02:28,760
Speaker 1: focus on. He said. It's a personal you guys don't

2588
02:02:28,800 --> 02:02:30,879
Speaker 1: like the other. It seems like in kind of today's

2589
02:02:31,000 --> 02:02:33,600
Speaker 1: professional sports, that's rare. I mean, is that the case?

2590
02:02:33,720 --> 02:02:36,080
Speaker 1: This is kind of a rare scenario. Like treatise like

2591
02:02:36,200 --> 02:02:39,839
Speaker 1: on both sides I mean it's it's a divisional opponent.

2592
02:02:40,000 --> 02:02:42,600
Speaker 1: So you know, again, man, we we just go at

2593
02:02:42,640 --> 02:02:45,440
Speaker 1: it each each time we see each other. And um,

2594
02:02:45,880 --> 02:02:48,040
Speaker 1: you know again it was personal. You know, they came

2595
02:02:48,120 --> 02:02:50,560
Speaker 1: in and they put up about like thirty forty points

2596
02:02:50,640 --> 02:02:53,080
Speaker 1: on us. So as a defense, we're we gotta come

2597
02:02:53,120 --> 02:02:55,600
Speaker 1: out there and do the right thing so that doesn't

2598
02:02:55,600 --> 02:02:58,760
Speaker 1: happen again. Jamal Adams, what do you think of that?

2599
02:02:59,280 --> 02:03:02,480
Speaker 1: Listen for Bills fans who don't know, I know you've

2600
02:03:02,520 --> 02:03:05,640
Speaker 1: heard people maybe talk about Jamal Adams. He is a

2601
02:03:06,480 --> 02:03:08,840
Speaker 1: very good safety and a really good player. He's a

2602
02:03:08,920 --> 02:03:11,360
Speaker 1: top draft pick last year, not this year, but last year.

2603
02:03:11,880 --> 02:03:15,920
Speaker 1: He's a fantastically respected player by every team who plays

2604
02:03:15,960 --> 02:03:18,240
Speaker 1: against the Jets. He is the guy who sets the

2605
02:03:18,320 --> 02:03:22,160
Speaker 1: tone for their team defensively. And um as he's as

2606
02:03:22,200 --> 02:03:25,360
Speaker 1: you heard Mark Kelso say, he's a guy, a safety,

2607
02:03:25,360 --> 02:03:27,480
Speaker 1: he likes to play up in the box. He is

2608
02:03:28,320 --> 02:03:30,800
Speaker 1: um he he is a beast. I mean this guy

2609
02:03:30,880 --> 02:03:33,760
Speaker 1: can really go folks, and um he and the words

2610
02:03:33,800 --> 02:03:36,400
Speaker 1: he said there in that interview about how personally got

2611
02:03:36,440 --> 02:03:38,240
Speaker 1: with the Bills. The Bills came in and whooped up

2612
02:03:38,280 --> 02:03:41,200
Speaker 1: on him. Um, you can bet he's relating that to

2613
02:03:41,240 --> 02:03:45,720
Speaker 1: the rest of his teammates, and hey, that's they'll step

2614
02:03:45,840 --> 02:03:47,720
Speaker 1: up to that's the kind But I'll say this Mervy

2615
02:03:47,760 --> 02:03:49,440
Speaker 1: and laugh at him, but I'm laughing at it. That

2616
02:03:49,680 --> 02:03:53,240
Speaker 1: team will step up behind that guy. And that's why

2617
02:03:53,360 --> 02:03:55,760
Speaker 1: that that's why his games into it to do that.

2618
02:03:55,920 --> 02:03:58,440
Speaker 1: He's been playing well all year, Yes he has, Yes

2619
02:03:58,520 --> 02:04:01,120
Speaker 1: he has, but they where they've been. Yeah, you're right. Hey,

2620
02:04:01,160 --> 02:04:03,040
Speaker 1: I'm not saying. I'm not saying they're going to turn

2621
02:04:03,120 --> 02:04:05,440
Speaker 1: into you know, super Bowl team. I'll tell you this, though,

2622
02:04:05,440 --> 02:04:08,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna get their best effort. You're gonna get their

2623
02:04:08,280 --> 02:04:10,800
Speaker 1: best effort Sunday. You know what I immediately thought of

2624
02:04:10,880 --> 02:04:13,240
Speaker 1: what he said that about. It's it's uh, it's personal.

2625
02:04:14,320 --> 02:04:18,200
Speaker 1: Michael Corleoni, the godfather strictly business, it's not personal. Right

2626
02:04:20,240 --> 02:04:22,960
Speaker 1: when Sonny accused mis and I was taking it personally,

2627
02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:26,360
Speaker 1: You're gonna go shoot the cop and uh lots because

2628
02:04:26,480 --> 02:04:29,840
Speaker 1: it's because a personal Michael's not really goes strictly business.

2629
02:04:29,920 --> 02:04:31,720
Speaker 1: It's not personal. So I got and then later than

2630
02:04:31,960 --> 02:04:34,080
Speaker 1: just so we started. So we started this me singing

2631
02:04:34,360 --> 02:04:36,760
Speaker 1: from band Smoking the Bandit and you're now talking about

2632
02:04:36,760 --> 02:04:41,040
Speaker 1: the Godfather. Yeah, this shows where our movie turning turning South.

2633
02:04:42,120 --> 02:04:43,920
Speaker 1: I like that. No, all right, what else we gotta

2634
02:04:43,960 --> 02:04:47,040
Speaker 1: cover here? What I'm closing, Let's revisit if do we

2635
02:04:47,080 --> 02:04:49,200
Speaker 1: have any calls, Let's revisit what we started the show with,

2636
02:04:49,320 --> 02:04:53,040
Speaker 1: and that's December football. How do you feel about December football?

2637
02:04:53,080 --> 02:04:56,240
Speaker 1: Are you in? The Bills have three December games this year?

2638
02:04:56,480 --> 02:04:58,880
Speaker 1: They had three last year. It's the fourth consecutive year

2639
02:04:59,080 --> 02:05:01,680
Speaker 1: where the Bills that play three December games. What do

2640
02:05:01,760 --> 02:05:03,760
Speaker 1: you think about that? Give us a call? Eight three

2641
02:05:04,000 --> 02:05:07,400
Speaker 1: fifty the number toll free from outside Buffalo one eight

2642
02:05:07,520 --> 02:05:10,840
Speaker 1: eight by fifty two five fifty. Lorenzo doesn't like it.

2643
02:05:10,920 --> 02:05:13,920
Speaker 1: He made that pretty clear. See no, he's uh, he's

2644
02:05:13,960 --> 02:05:16,960
Speaker 1: a California guy, and uh, let's face it. The players

2645
02:05:17,000 --> 02:05:19,360
Speaker 1: want to play in the best conditions, you know, because

2646
02:05:19,440 --> 02:05:21,720
Speaker 1: that's what they practiced for. And they want to practice

2647
02:05:21,760 --> 02:05:24,120
Speaker 1: to play their best, not you know, having one hand

2648
02:05:24,200 --> 02:05:26,760
Speaker 1: tied behind the back, or shoes that don't stick, or

2649
02:05:27,320 --> 02:05:29,320
Speaker 1: clothes that don't keep you warm. I mean, they want

2650
02:05:29,320 --> 02:05:31,800
Speaker 1: to play football, not worry about the elements. And I

2651
02:05:31,880 --> 02:05:34,200
Speaker 1: get that. When you played for Marv Levi's Bills, you

2652
02:05:34,240 --> 02:05:36,720
Speaker 1: had plenty of California guys, Southern guys. How did Marv

2653
02:05:36,840 --> 02:05:38,960
Speaker 1: sell you guys on that concept when it's too cold

2654
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:40,600
Speaker 1: for them, it's just right for us. When it's too

2655
02:05:40,680 --> 02:05:43,480
Speaker 1: tough for them, it's just right for us. Yeah. I mean, listen,

2656
02:05:43,960 --> 02:05:46,240
Speaker 1: he was a big one at that. Marv was a

2657
02:05:46,280 --> 02:05:49,080
Speaker 1: big one when he called. First of all, he earned

2658
02:05:49,120 --> 02:05:52,080
Speaker 1: our respect. You know, he was an honest, hard working guy,

2659
02:05:52,160 --> 02:05:56,200
Speaker 1: full of integrity, intelligent, great communicate, a great teacher, and

2660
02:05:56,280 --> 02:05:59,080
Speaker 1: he treated our guys with a lot of respect and

2661
02:06:00,200 --> 02:06:01,800
Speaker 1: and held us to a high standard. We you know,

2662
02:06:01,880 --> 02:06:03,800
Speaker 1: we respected him. So once you got to the point

2663
02:06:03,880 --> 02:06:06,080
Speaker 1: where you really had this relationship with his head coach,

2664
02:06:06,920 --> 02:06:08,800
Speaker 1: you wanted to, you know, want to be one of

2665
02:06:08,880 --> 02:06:11,360
Speaker 1: his guys. And when he would label us, we would

2666
02:06:11,400 --> 02:06:13,960
Speaker 1: work hard to be that label. When he said, listen,

2667
02:06:14,080 --> 02:06:17,280
Speaker 1: we're going to be a tough physical football team. That

2668
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:19,040
Speaker 1: that thought that then go down the line. So you

2669
02:06:19,080 --> 02:06:21,440
Speaker 1: wanted to be a tough, physical foot You want to

2670
02:06:21,480 --> 02:06:23,320
Speaker 1: act like a tough physical football team. You want to

2671
02:06:23,360 --> 02:06:25,640
Speaker 1: play like that. And when he would come out with

2672
02:06:25,880 --> 02:06:29,240
Speaker 1: some slogan like when it's too tough for them, it's

2673
02:06:29,360 --> 02:06:32,240
Speaker 1: just right for us, all of a sudden. We were

2674
02:06:32,240 --> 02:06:34,120
Speaker 1: a team that said, yeah, bring it on, let's go.

2675
02:06:34,240 --> 02:06:36,520
Speaker 1: We want to play in the worst possible weather, so

2676
02:06:37,080 --> 02:06:41,760
Speaker 1: let's go eat it up. Pretty much, and that's it.

2677
02:06:42,240 --> 02:06:44,280
Speaker 1: He had what can I say, he had his eating

2678
02:06:44,600 --> 02:06:47,440
Speaker 1: eating out of his hands, and yeah, he was good

2679
02:06:47,480 --> 02:06:49,680
Speaker 1: at it. A couple of calls on December football. Cannon

2680
02:06:49,720 --> 02:06:51,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo has been waiting a while, Ken, what do you

2681
02:06:51,280 --> 02:06:55,600
Speaker 1: think December football games? What's the best part? Oh, it's

2682
02:06:55,720 --> 02:07:01,440
Speaker 1: one phrase, It's like going home again. I missed those

2683
02:07:01,600 --> 02:07:04,640
Speaker 1: old days. I don't like people trying to change in

2684
02:07:04,720 --> 02:07:08,000
Speaker 1: the perfect weather. I missed the old days. In the afternoon,

2685
02:07:08,560 --> 02:07:12,840
Speaker 1: either have the Bills games or you get the Packers

2686
02:07:12,920 --> 02:07:16,160
Speaker 1: and the Vikings and snow. And then the four o'clock

2687
02:07:16,280 --> 02:07:19,440
Speaker 1: game was the night game in Denver with the snow falling.

2688
02:07:20,360 --> 02:07:25,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's everyone wants to change and get into

2689
02:07:25,160 --> 02:07:29,320
Speaker 1: a perfect scenario. Heck, you know, when the Bills game

2690
02:07:29,400 --> 02:07:32,080
Speaker 1: was done, we went out, we played in the snow.

2691
02:07:33,120 --> 02:07:35,800
Speaker 1: There you go, that's right, old time, old time football.

2692
02:07:35,960 --> 02:07:39,720
Speaker 1: And you're right, I mean we for those of us

2693
02:07:39,720 --> 02:07:43,520
Speaker 1: who are parly our age and older. The dome phenomenon

2694
02:07:43,640 --> 02:07:45,920
Speaker 1: really didn't come in until really in our lifetime, right

2695
02:07:45,960 --> 02:07:50,320
Speaker 1: and right, and that was really the only one, and

2696
02:07:50,400 --> 02:07:53,000
Speaker 1: it was a novelty. And then I couldn't even tell

2697
02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:54,680
Speaker 1: you who the second Dome was or any of that

2698
02:07:54,880 --> 02:07:56,920
Speaker 1: it was, you know, so maybe it was the RCA

2699
02:07:57,000 --> 02:07:59,120
Speaker 1: Dome in Indianapolis. I don't know, one of the old

2700
02:07:59,440 --> 02:08:03,760
Speaker 1: Carrier dome, balloon, the carrier domes, the blow up roofs,

2701
02:08:03,800 --> 02:08:07,160
Speaker 1: you know, with so it was. Yeah, I remember what

2702
02:08:07,240 --> 02:08:09,800
Speaker 1: it was like when you were a kid. Remember, hey, listen,

2703
02:08:09,840 --> 02:08:13,000
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings used to play outside up there, and

2704
02:08:13,200 --> 02:08:15,400
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how cold it was up there,

2705
02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:19,520
Speaker 1: I mean, right, yeah, So yeah, I get it the

2706
02:08:19,560 --> 02:08:22,320
Speaker 1: old time nostalgic feel of, you know, being a kid

2707
02:08:22,440 --> 02:08:24,520
Speaker 1: going out and playing in the snow and playing football.

2708
02:08:24,600 --> 02:08:26,840
Speaker 1: So yeah, I see a little bit of that. But

2709
02:08:28,080 --> 02:08:32,440
Speaker 1: then again, I don't know, I don't know. I like,

2710
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:35,120
Speaker 1: I like football played its best, but I also I

2711
02:08:35,200 --> 02:08:36,840
Speaker 1: can't I can't get over the fact that I was

2712
02:08:36,920 --> 02:08:38,640
Speaker 1: part of that game last year in the snow. And

2713
02:08:39,200 --> 02:08:41,280
Speaker 1: those games are unique as well. One more called Bob

2714
02:08:41,400 --> 02:08:43,280
Speaker 1: and West Seneca. Go ahead, Bob, you're in the air.

2715
02:08:43,720 --> 02:08:47,080
Speaker 1: He Hey guys, good afternoons and hey, look, yeah, going

2716
02:08:47,120 --> 02:08:48,840
Speaker 1: to the Bill Skins was great. I mean the snow

2717
02:08:48,960 --> 02:08:51,800
Speaker 1: coming down, we're warming up the stuff at the ky

2718
02:08:51,840 --> 02:08:53,680
Speaker 1: I remember that. I forget the game against I think

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Speaker 1: it was the Jets. Are the Dolphins playoff here and

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Speaker 1: back in the nineties with Jim and you guys, we

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Speaker 1: had to put a beer in the fire to keep

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Speaker 1: it from freezing fire brood about it going to those games.

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Speaker 1: Our boys beating up on somebody and coming over the

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Speaker 1: PA system is who Dean Martin? Let it snow? Let

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Speaker 1: it yeah, let it. Hey, you guys, have a good

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Speaker 1: weekend and Sunday circle the way. Agon's boys. Thanks, thanks

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Speaker 1: for your calling Bob a good one. All right, we

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Speaker 1: got a little bit more ground to cover. I want

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Speaker 1: to remind you about the digital edition of Bills Tonight.

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Speaker 1: It's coming up this Sunday. We're gonna try it this week.

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Speaker 1: It's Bills Tonight is the postgame show with Fred Jackson

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Speaker 1: and Mike Catalana, and it airs on MSG. Will air

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Speaker 1: on MSG this Sunday at eleven thirty, but if you

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Speaker 1: need it before that, ten minutes after the end of

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Speaker 1: the game, check it out. Bills Tonight with Fred and

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Speaker 1: and uh Mike Catalana. It is gonna come on ten

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Speaker 1: minutes after the Jets Bills game. You can catch it

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Speaker 1: on the Bills Twitter and Facebook pages, Buffalo Bills dot com,

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Speaker 1: and on the Bills Mobile app. Highlights from the game,

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Speaker 1: postgame comments, locker room interviews, Sean mcdermot's podium interview, all

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Speaker 1: of that coming up on Bills Tonight, the digital version.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna try it this week ten minutes after the

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Speaker 1: end of the Bills and Jets. Steve and I coming

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Speaker 1: back at a moment One Bal's Lide from One Bals

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Speaker 1: Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio Now SAT for what do

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Speaker 1: provider of the Buffalo Bills. Good Show Today, Really good show.

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Speaker 1: Mark Kelso joined his first hour color analysts on the

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network. You talk about how the Jets need

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02:10:36,200 --> 02:10:38,400
Speaker 1: to play to win this game against the Bills on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a control game, a

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Speaker 1: screen game, a running game for the Jet if they're

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Speaker 1: going to be successful. Against the Bills. Defensively, they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to sustain some drives and I don't think

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Speaker 1: they they'll be able to get deep in certain situations.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bill's fash rush can be effective against

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald. So they're going to have to execute it

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Speaker 1: to stay gride that they're gonna want to come out Victoria,

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Speaker 1: so Markelso said about the game. Greg to Sell joined

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Speaker 1: us in the one o'clock our executive producer analysts of

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Speaker 1: NFL matchup on ESPN. He continued to analyze Josh Allen's

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Speaker 1: performance last week against Miami Dolphins. There's what he said,

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Speaker 1: The game was a step forward. He made some excellent

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Speaker 1: throws from the pocket. He generally looked a little more

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Speaker 1: poised overall, so that was a positive. I still think

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Speaker 1: he doesn't see things really well. He's a little too

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Speaker 1: scatter shot, but I think everybody knew that with some

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Speaker 1: routine throws. But I thought overall the performance was better.

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Speaker 1: You cannot discount his second reaction running ability. You know,

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Speaker 1: people would talk about that with other quarterbacks all the time.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be talked about with Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: as if it's a positive trade. Where for instance, it

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Speaker 1: was always viewed as a positive trade for Russell Wilson. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think Josh Allen is fighting the fact

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Speaker 1: that for some people the narratives already been written, which

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Speaker 1: is a little silly to me, But you know, I

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Speaker 1: think he's fighting that well agreed truer words have not

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Speaker 1: been uttered by Greg ko Sell. There's just almost too

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Speaker 1: much talk about Josh Helen where guilty as anybody, but

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to hyper analyze everything he does. Let's let

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Speaker 1: him play, including this Sunday. And I think that's why

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Speaker 1: everybody anticipates every start he makes. They want to see it,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's fun to it's fun to watch. We

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Speaker 1: have you have Colts and Texans one o'clock Sunday and

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Speaker 1: NRG Stadium in Houston. I think that's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: heck of a game, Steve. A couple of real playoff

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Speaker 1: contenders still, the Colt six and six huh yeah. And

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans of one nine in a row started

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Speaker 1: over three one nine straight and the and the cults

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Speaker 1: are going to go in there and try and beat him.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and the Colts got shut out by the

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. That's not gonna fly with them. They do

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Speaker 1: have the ability. They match up really well. I think

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Speaker 1: with the Texans offensively, because they've got an offensive line

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Speaker 1: that has a chance against Jadeveon Clowney and JJ Watt

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Speaker 1: to keep Andrew Luck upright and give him a chance

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Speaker 1: to win that game. But their defense against Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: is a question mark. I think it would be a

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Speaker 1: great one. I don't think we got a definitive answer

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Speaker 1: today whether our listeners fans, Bills fans like December football.

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Speaker 1: We'll find outween you love it and hated it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, Thanks Steve, have a great weekend, have a

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Speaker 1: great trip. We'll see you here. We're back on Monday.

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Speaker 1: We will recap the Bills game against the Jets on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Our production assistant George Blast, Jeff Colteneck Thomas, honald Or,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Turito, Kevin Cargis, James Robot, our producer

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris. We're back Monday at noon, and have a

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Speaker 1: great weekend. We'll see the Bills game on Sunday. We're

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Speaker 1: back here Monday at noon with One Bills Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills radio