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Speaker 1: These one Bill's Live presented by Called Light of Health.

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Speaker 1: There we are on a Wednesday, players back on the

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Speaker 1: practice field. Game plan installation begins. Let's go as we

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Speaker 1: get ready for Bill's Dolphins Wild Sorry Super wild Card

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Speaker 1: weekend Saturday, one pm. Sunday one pm. Sorry gosh, I

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Speaker 1: gotta get this straight at it. I am so not

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Speaker 1: still discombobulated from the regular season, out of control giant

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Speaker 1: news on two fronts concerning this game. First two is

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Speaker 1: out for Sunday No. Twa Tonga Voloa, and I can't

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Speaker 1: say I'm terribly surprised Steve. I know they claim that

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Speaker 1: he's had two documented concussions this season. As far as

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Speaker 1: It was mislabeled a back injury back in Week three.

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Speaker 1: If you remember, that's three concussions in relatively close proximity.

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Speaker 1: You put him out on the field and he has

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Speaker 1: another one, his career might be over four concussions in

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Speaker 1: one season in close proximity. That that could be career ending. Ye.

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Speaker 1: He needs to rest for the rest of this offseason

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Speaker 1: and hopefully come back in the spring, and you know,

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Speaker 1: give some time between brain injuries for good sake, right,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I know Bill's fan there's no love

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Speaker 1: Bill's fans have got to you know, you know, you

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Speaker 1: want that guy to be okay. Yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I the way it was trending, it didn't seem likely

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Speaker 1: And you know, Mike McDaniel already ruled him out in

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Speaker 1: his press conference today. The other interesting news is he

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Speaker 1: said that they are preparing for this game with Skyler

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Speaker 1: He has appeared in five games so far this season,

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Speaker 1: I believe, and his average passing yardage total in those

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Speaker 1: it is relief duty because he had to come on

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Speaker 1: and relief for Teddy Bridgewater two times and started a game.

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Speaker 1: So the way you look at that, it's certainly horrible

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Speaker 1: timing for the Dolphins, who finally made the playoffs for

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Speaker 1: the first time since twenty sixteen. They would be looking

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Speaker 1: for their first playoff victory Sunday, Steve, are you ready

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Speaker 1: for this since two thousand? There you go. First playoff

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Speaker 1: win since two thousand is what they would be seeking.

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Speaker 1: As for Teddy Bridgewater's availability, Mike McDaniel said, we are

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Speaker 1: hoping he can be available on Sunday. He can't have

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Speaker 1: any setbacks, So it sounds like Teddy Bridgewater is like

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Speaker 1: which is why it makes sense to just move forward

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Speaker 1: with Thompson as your starter because Bridgewater is a little

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Speaker 1: iffy this week. So if Bridgewater is not available, the

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Speaker 1: least Glenn's got an arm. That's where they are. Glennon

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Speaker 1: the most important position on the shocked Teddy Bridgewater isn't

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Speaker 1: ready to play. He dislocated his pinky on his throwing hand.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't seem serious enough to me. Maybe if you

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Speaker 1: can't grip it, maybe it's his grip. But even if

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Speaker 1: That's just the way they do business. You're coming in

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile in at one Bill's Drive, you got guys coming

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Speaker 1: Now there's no guarantees they could come in and lay

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Speaker 1: during the postseason. And that's what coach called it. First

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Speaker 1: of all, Hide and Crowder will not play this Sunday.

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Speaker 1: this with the without your guard up either. Oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta spend some time extra time on

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Speaker 1: because the last thing you want to do is give

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Speaker 1: up a block punt or block field goal and the

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Speaker 1: other They did block a field goal back in week three,

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Speaker 1: if you remember, they blocked Tyler Bass's thirty eight yard attempt.

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba was the one that blocked the kick. Now

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Speaker 1: he's out from the season with an injury. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: he blocked a kick in a game they lose, they

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Speaker 1: win by two, Yeah, so pretty important. Yeah. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot in this game, as you would expect for a

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Speaker 1: division opponent, a lot. There's a lot packed into this.

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Speaker 1: you know what we haven't gone over yet, and it's

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Speaker 1: primarily because our focus is obviously on the postseason. Buffalo's

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Speaker 1: opponents in twenty twenty three. Obviously, with the regular season

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Speaker 1: this year are coming to an end, we now know

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Speaker 1: who Buffalo's opponents will be in twenty twenty three, and

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Speaker 1: basically we know it's the AFC East opponents, and then

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Speaker 1: they're playing the AFC West as their intraconference division, and

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Speaker 1: they're playing the NFC East, so that means at home

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Speaker 1: next year. In addition to the division teams, they'll get Denver,

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas, and then Dallas and the Giants from the

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Speaker 1: NFC East. And then they have the intraconference team that

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Speaker 1: finished in first place in the AFC South and the

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Speaker 1: AFC North. That's Jacksonville who they play at home, Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: who they play on the road. Tampa Bay is the

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Speaker 1: extra NFC game, and that will be at home. And

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Speaker 1: then the away teams for the NFC East opponents Washington

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Speaker 1: in Philly, and then the AFC West opponents on the road.

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Speaker 1: Fans are gonna love this Kansas City and the Chargers

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Speaker 1: to Kansas City again next year. Now here's the other

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Speaker 1: thing that we haven't discussed. The NFL states that at

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Speaker 1: least once every eight years, every NFL club must sacrifice

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Speaker 1: a home game and play overseas. The Bills have an

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Speaker 1: extra home game this year, nine home, eight on the road,

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Speaker 1: and this next season twenty twenty three is the eighth

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Speaker 1: year since they have last traveled. Twenty fifteen, played Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: in London. Jacksonville's on the schedule, Steve, they commonly play

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Speaker 1: games in London, so I think they are a candidate.

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Speaker 1: And I think Dallas, Dallas, Yeah, Dallas, uh yeah, yeah

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Speaker 1: that I could see that. Sure. Tampa just traveled to

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Speaker 1: munich Let this season, so it's probably not them. Could

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Speaker 1: be the Raiders. Denver just traveled overseas, they played in London.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's them, and the Giants played overseas.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders did not, So it's maybe Las Vegas, Dallas

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Speaker 1: or Jacksonville. Is it's gonna be one of them, you

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Speaker 1: don't even know. I don't think it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: division opponem. Is it gonna be a home game or

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Speaker 1: away game? It would be a home game because they

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Speaker 1: have an extra one, right, we have the extra the

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Speaker 1: ninth home game, so we loop they will be traveling

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Speaker 1: overseas somewhere next year because they're at the limit. They've

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Speaker 1: gone to full eight years and you can't go more

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Speaker 1: than eight years without doing one game overseas, so they

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Speaker 1: will lose one of those nine home games. I vote

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Speaker 1: an NFL game in Japan, go to Tokyo. Let's start. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna that's not gonna happen from one time.

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Speaker 1: But I think Munich's on the table, London's on the

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Speaker 1: tablet is going to Frankfort's the other place right where

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Speaker 1: they play in Germany. That's why did that this year?

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Speaker 1: Yes it yeah, I think it was frank Well. Berlin

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Speaker 1: has hosted games in the past. Yeah, Um, there's three.

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Speaker 1: There's three cities in Germany, Frankfort, Berlin, and Munich that

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Speaker 1: are capable and willing London is one, and then that's

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Speaker 1: it isn't it is? Munich and Frankfort host two each

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Speaker 1: next year, two each. Okay, so I think Munich is

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Speaker 1: a unless they're playing the Jaguars, which would undoubtedly be

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Speaker 1: in London. You're looking at Dallas or Las Vegas. I

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Speaker 1: think to play overseas because they played there last year.

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Speaker 1: The Giants played their last year in Tampa. Plays Mexico

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Speaker 1: City countis overseas. I don't know are they gonna have enough.

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Speaker 1: Usually it's a Dallas home game, like Dallas would have

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Speaker 1: to sacrifice one of their home games to play there.

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Speaker 1: But they Jets not happen, but the Cowboys would be

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Speaker 1: overjoyed to do one of their away games in Mexico City. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Are they having a game in Mexico City,

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Speaker 1: ext I don't know. Seem I think so, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Usually they do. But all right, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: one of those home games is probably going to be

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Speaker 1: out of the country. We can say that we have

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Speaker 1: to take a break here. Before we do that, we

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Speaker 1: do want to let you know what our topic of

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Speaker 1: discussion is today. Where do the main threats with the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins lie? With Tua ruled out for Sunday, is there

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Speaker 1: still a lingering concern on your part with the Dolphins?

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Speaker 1: If so, what is it? Let us know at eighth

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

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Speaker 1: fifty or you can hit us up on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet at one Bills Live. It's Chris Brown a Steve

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Speaker 1: Task with you here on a Wednesday, and it's one

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Speaker 1: One of the things I always do. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to get up, we've got time to talk about this

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Speaker 1: or not, but sure we do. I always go over

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Speaker 1: and see how both sides of the ball stack up

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Speaker 1: against each other. Not Bills offense against Miami defense, but

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Speaker 1: Bill's offense, Miami offense, Bills defense against Okay, Miami defense. Fair, Um,

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Speaker 1: what do you got? Well? Defensively, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: talk about their offense because without two at all, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's totally different. But their defense stacking up against the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Points allowed per game, the Bills are ranked second. We

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Speaker 1: know they've had a pretty good year. They're behind San

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Speaker 1: Francisco right as the number one. Miami's twenty fourth total

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Speaker 1: yards per game, the Bills are sixth. Miami's eighteenth yards

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Speaker 1: per play, the Bills are ninth. Miami's fourteen yards rushing

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Speaker 1: per game allowed, Bills are fifth, Miami is fourth. M

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Speaker 1: They've they improved that number greatly over the last three weeks,

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Speaker 1: like the season, and that would go all the way

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Speaker 1: to yards per rush as well. Bills are fourteenth and

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Speaker 1: they are sixth. That's where that's you know, those are

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Speaker 1: the things where they're they're kind of hanging in there

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Speaker 1: with them. But yards allowed, yards passing per game, Bills

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Speaker 1: are fifteenth, they're twenty seventh Miami passing per passes per

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Speaker 1: at tenth, the Bills are fifth, they're twelfth. Interceptions, they're

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Speaker 1: both tied twenty nine apiece. Oh no, I'm sorry, seventeen apiece,

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Speaker 1: tied for um last note, that's right, hold on, that's

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Speaker 1: not right. The Bills are tied for fourth, Miami is

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Speaker 1: twenty ninth. They don't have that many. I had that wrong. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And takeaways, the Bills are tied for fourth, Miami's thirtieth. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I like going down and reading that stuff. They

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Speaker 1: both got forty sacks on the season. They're tied for

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Speaker 1: sixteenth with each other. So serious and streaks for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: It really won their first three, they lost their first three,

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Speaker 1: They won their next five, lost their next five, and

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Speaker 1: then they struggled to beat the Jets eleven to six

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Speaker 1: last week. It was really nine to six and they

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Speaker 1: got a safety at the end on a botched lateral

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Speaker 1: by the Jets. Go figure. Yeah, but they've tightened up

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Speaker 1: on defense the last couple of weeks. Now they've also

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Speaker 1: played Mac Jones in that horrific Patriots offense, and then

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Speaker 1: they played Joe Flacco and the Jets. So take it

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Speaker 1: for what it's worth. They they're a tied for twenty

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Speaker 1: fourth on their third down conversion allowed. Yeah, they can't.

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Speaker 1: The Bills are seventh. That speaks to their past. Yeah

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Speaker 1: that's yeah. I'm red zone efficiency defensively, the Bills are second.

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Speaker 1: They're tough to score on. They're tough score touchdowns on.

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins have the number two red zone defense and

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Speaker 1: football the Bills, Yeah, they do. One team just squeaked

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Speaker 1: ahead of him at the end of the season. They

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Speaker 1: had been first in the league up until last week.

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Speaker 1: So the Bills are, you know, on both sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball. The Bills are statistically better, but rankings that

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Speaker 1: wise and how the league goes, and now that you've

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Speaker 1: played all seventeen games in the schedule, you kind of

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Speaker 1: you kind of know who these teams are. The unknown

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Speaker 1: is you know what happens if you know with Skylar

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Speaker 1: Thompson or Teddy Bridgewater in the in the mix. Certainly

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins aren't gonna tell you who's starting. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you Teddy Bridgewaters on his deathbed, and then he'll

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Speaker 1: start and try and play. Well, I don't know, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's really this is one of those games where after

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Speaker 1: it's over in the building they said, really, you don't

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Speaker 1: really have no excuse for not winning this game with

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Speaker 1: the shape that the Miami Dolphins and their roster are in.

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Speaker 1: Right now, let's go to the phones, though, Steve, because

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Speaker 1: we have to discuss where Bills fans believe the main

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Speaker 1: threats of the Dolphins lie. Now, knowing that Tua is

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Speaker 1: not going to play, are there any other lingering concerns

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Speaker 1: about the Dolphins for you? Eight oh three five fifty

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

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Speaker 1: to get on board. We begin today with Jim in Webster.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Jim? You're on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, So what do you think the chances are

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Speaker 1: we'll see Tarik Hill in either the backfield or in

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Speaker 1: some sort of wildcat formation? And also, on a side note,

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Speaker 1: what are the chances of Murf coming back this year

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Speaker 1: to do any announcing? Take care? Guys? Yeah, thanks Jim,

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Speaker 1: appreciate the call. No update on Murf don't have anything

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Speaker 1: on that. As for Tyreek Hill, I think you got

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Speaker 1: to expect any kind of wrinkle possible, any kind of

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Speaker 1: wrinkle possible, because they're going to be a desperate football

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Speaker 1: team playing their third string rookie cornerback. They got to

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Speaker 1: get the ball into Tyreek's hands with some space. You

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Speaker 1: can bet the and fake punt, fake field goal, surprise

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Speaker 1: on sidekick, right awareness plays where you've got to say, wait, whatnute,

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Speaker 1: where's the ball kind of thing. Um. They will pull

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Speaker 1: out all the stops to try and win this game.

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Speaker 1: They're they're gonna have to it look at least on paper,

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Speaker 1: and when you watch film and you do that, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's only it's only fortifies that belief. But Tyreek's

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Speaker 1: a difference maker. You can bet, yeah, they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: the ball into those guys hands any way, shape or

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Speaker 1: form quick passes out of the backfield, bubble screens, all

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. Tyreek is the guy. And whether you can,

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Speaker 1: you know, keep them from doing that, who knows. Who

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Speaker 1: really knows? Um, But if I'm Mike McDaniel, that's that

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Speaker 1: is job one for this week. Offense. You got to

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Speaker 1: you gotta get the ball to Tyreek all the time

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Speaker 1: and let him outrun people. Yeah, let's go back to

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Speaker 1: the phones and to Brian in Alabama. Ryan, what do

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Speaker 1: you got for us? Year one? Hey, good afternoon fellas.

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Speaker 1: How you guys doing. Yeah, So, first, let me just

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Speaker 1: say this. I truly believe that the Bills will pull

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Speaker 1: off the victory. But to me, the threat still has

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Speaker 1: to remain the same as the Tour was playing, because

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Speaker 1: the softense seems to be designed to get the ball

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Speaker 1: out of Tour's hands or Ridge water or Thompson's hand quick,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like over the past month or so,

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Speaker 1: the secondary has kind of has kind of regressed, and

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Speaker 1: so I do worry about that with the speed of

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Speaker 1: waddle and hill of If you know, if McDaniel draws

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Speaker 1: up the game plan of getting the balls out of

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Speaker 1: the hand out of his hands quick, then you still

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Speaker 1: have to worry about hill and waddle with the threat

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00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: of the deep balls and anything underneath. So to me,

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00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: the threat still remains the same, and just one of

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Speaker 1: the guys, get you guys opinion on it, because I

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00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: don't feel like the drop off is as a significant

638
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: as it would be if we were to lose Allen

639
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: and go to Kingdom, so just want to Yeah, that's

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00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: an interesting point. It's an interesting point, Brian, because you'd think,

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00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, they don't ask or at least from a

642
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo perspective, in relation to how they ask Josh Allen

643
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: to play, they don't ask two it to do that.

644
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,959
Speaker 1: So you would think he'd be easier to replace because

645
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is drop back and sling it

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00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: on time to a spot. Um, that may be the case.

647
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: That may be the case, except that when you bring

648
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: into you know, focus, the fact that you know on

649
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: their the way their schedule has been, they've had a

650
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: chance to do that in these other games. And you

651
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: know they they lost five straight before they beat the

652
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: Jets by scoring eleven points, and the last touchdown they

653
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: scored the six points they scored against the Jets was

654
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: on a fumbled lateral play desperation play at the end

655
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: of the game. So, um, it was a safety that

656
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 1: they're struggling offensively, and and if it was as simple

657
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: to replace Tua as we're making it out, they would

658
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 1: have done it. It's not that simple, But I get

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. If the ball can come out fast,

660
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: why can't it come out fast with teddy Bridgewall? Why

661
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: why or why can't they get the ball out of

662
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson's hands as fast as they do? Too is

663
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: not nobody. He's a really accurate passer and he can

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00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: find tight windows and fit him through. Not everybody can

665
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: do that. So they've got to figure out what Skyler

666
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 1: Thompson can do, and so do the Bills, by the way,

667
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: They got to figure out what Skyler Thompson can do

668
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: well and not let him do that because it'll be

669
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: different than what Tua does well. Yeah, and Mike McDaniel's

670
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: trying to figure that out now. And his two starts.

671
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: One was a lost in Minnesota twenty four to sixteen.

672
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: The other was the win last week over the Jets.

673
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: He was a combined twenty seven for forty four. He

674
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: completed sixty four percent of his passes last week against

675
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 1: a good Jets defense for one hundred and fifty two yards.

676
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: He's averaging four point nine yards an attempt. So everything

677
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: is at the line of scrimmage or not far beyond that.

678
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: They're trying to get the ball out of his hands quickly.

679
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: They're trying to give him defined easy reads on where

680
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: he's going with the football, and yes, that can help

681
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: a young quarterback make an offense functional, But as far

682
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: as making it dynamic, I think that's a whole other story.

683
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: Your point, Brian about the secondary for the Bills is

684
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: well taken. You saw Kayer Elam and Dane Jackson still platooning,

685
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: and due in part to the fact that you know

686
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson missed a couple of assignments, they sat him down,

687
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: they brought Kayer Elam in. Kayer was in good position

688
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: on the touchdown catch by DeVante Parker. He just got

689
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: his head turned the wrong way and couldn't make a

690
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: play on that two yard touchdown catch that Parker made.

691
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: And Parker isn't an athlete with elite physical traits, so

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00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: it's not like he had some slouch catching a touchdown

693
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: on him. I mean, the guy's a good player and

694
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: physically gifted. But yeah, I mean you're down to you.

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00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: I mean, think of it this way, you're down to

696
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: your third safety. I'm not knocking Dean Marlowe, but he's

697
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: not Micah Hyde, and he's not DeMar Hamlet, and he

698
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: didn't start the season with the team, right, So and

699
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 1: you got Jordan Poyer playing on a bum knee, So

700
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,959
Speaker 1: it's far from ideal on the back end for sure,

701
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: especially with a defense that was built from back to

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00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 1: front when it was first assembled. I mean, the secondary

703
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: was the strength of this defense for years. But with

704
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: Hide still not in the lineup this weekend, Poyer playing

705
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: on a bum leg and Dane Jackson and kyer Elam

706
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: still platooning. For a number of reasons, it's Tarren Johnson

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00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: and Tredevious White and only recently as Tredevious started to

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00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: round into form. So you're talking forty percent of what

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00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 1: you used to have back there, which was enormously reliable.

710
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 1: So it's different. Concerns are well founded. Fortunately for the Bills,

711
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: they'll have another week because to me, I just Skyler

712
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: Thompson is not beating this team. He's just not. It

713
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it. Um. But you know, Skyler Thompson

714
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: doesn't have to beat the Bills all Yes, he could

715
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 1: just sit and waiting for the Bills to beat themselves. Um. Yeah,

716
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: because in the year and two of the three losses

717
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: the Bills have suffered this year, they did it to themselves.

718
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: They don't do it. They don't do it very much obviously,

719
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: but their losses, they had a hand in every one

720
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: of their losses. The Jet game is the one where

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00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: I can say, Okay, the Bills, you know, but the

722
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: Jets played, the Jets played their their best game of

723
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: the year. But all of that, but the Minnesota loss,

724
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't believe that one got away.

725
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: And of course the Miami game, the first meeting zie

726
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: beyond frustrating, as is expressed by the meme that Ken

727
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: Dorsey has become after that game when he when he

728
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: trashed the coach's booth. That's how frustrating that loss was.

729
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: So this is a tough team to beat. When you do,

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00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: it's a team that needs to help you do it

731
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: most of the time. Break time for us here when

732
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: we come back, more of your phone calls as we

733
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: are asking you. Your no TUA is out for Sunday,

734
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: So where do the remaining threats lie with the Dolphins

735
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: that give you some measure of concern. We're back with

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00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: your phone calls next year. On One Bill's Life, presented

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Speaker 1: connectlife dot org. Today we have a little bit of

744
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: NFL coaching news. We had heard rumblings out of New

745
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: York that Jets owner Woody Johnson wanted Robert Sala to

746
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: fire offensive coordinator Mike Lafleur, believing that the offensive is broken.

747
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: We were seeing reports that Sala was against making such

748
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: a move, but now there are reports that the Jets

749
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: are in fact parting ways with offensive coordinator Mike Lafleur that,

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00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: according to league sources, NFL reporter Aaron Wilson is reporting this,

751
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: he ran their offense the past two seasons after a

752
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: previous stint as forty nine Ers passing game coordinator. With

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00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: him no longer the OC there, that would probably take

754
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo out of the equation as a possible veteran

755
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: signee and free agency for the Jets, since that would

756
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: have been a relatively easy transition scheme wise, knowing floor

757
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: brought the San Francisco offense to New York with him,

758
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: and this will also compromise the development plan that the

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00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 1: Jets supposedly still have in mind for Zach Wilson, because

760
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: now you're gonna have to teach them a whole new

761
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: offensive system. The Jets are gonna be the Jets. If

762
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: you've got a business that has different entities about it,

763
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 1: like a public relations entity and a business relations entity

764
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 1: and a business develop entity and a football side of

765
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: things and all that, let the experts run each of those.

766
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: Try not to just sit up in a stands and say,

767
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't like our offense. Let's go

768
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: to fire that guy. If you gotta let the football

769
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: people run it. Otherwise, every time you have a bad game,

770
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna be firing somebody, and you never get better.

771
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: You never get better. The Jets, the Jets. The Jets

772
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: were on it. They were on it until they get

773
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: a you know, and they missed on a back in

774
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: the first round. Okay, it happens. Everybody does that, But

775
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: don't don't like blow it up. Go get a guy

776
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 1: that can function and get you know, attack that problem.

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00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: Don't make more problems because you still got the quarterback

778
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: problem now, and you're gonna make it harder to do

779
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: because you gotta teach a new quarter new offense. It's crazy.

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00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: It's crazy. That's why the Jets are gonna be the Jets,

781
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: because they can't find continuity if their life depended on

782
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: this last offseason. We sat right here, I told you,

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00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: I said, listen, we all missed a holiday. We couldn't

784
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: make fun of the Jets draft. They were getting it together.

785
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: They had good draft picks, they got some talented young players.

786
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: Wilson might be the NFL offensive rookie of the just

787
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: They were like, wow, they man, the Jets are The

788
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: Jets got better, and they did, and now you're gonna

789
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: just blow it up, screw it up all over again.

790
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: You're just gonna blow it all up on that side

791
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: of the ball because you still got the problems. You

792
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: really think play calling was what Zach Wilson's problem was

793
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: play calling. I don't what are you drunk? He might

794
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: be who knows good great play calling? You think the

795
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: off the offense it broken because Zach Wilson looks like that. Yeah, no,

796
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson can't play. That's the that's the problem with

797
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:28,479
Speaker 1: your offense. Colle the Jets man, I am so glad.

798
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: I'm not a Jet fan. That's a that's a rough

799
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: life right there. That is a rough life. I got

800
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: two high school buddies who can attest it. They had,

801
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: they got they were getting it. They were getting it

802
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: on track months and months on end. They were like

803
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: signing the right guys. Their defense is scary. Their defense

804
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: is really Legit could argue it's championship Kelly. They are

805
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 1: really good on that side of the ball. Now I'm

806
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: blowing up. Why do they do it? I don't know.

807
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: And Rob and listen, Robert Sali can coach. I like

808
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: the guy. I got a lot of respect proaching higher

809
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: since herm Edward. Yeah yeah, whatever, Yeah, let's watch him.

810
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: They're gonna draft like Cole Strange and I don't know

811
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: if you do that, They're gonna just go They're gonna

812
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,240
Speaker 1: go off the rails. They are gonna go off the rails.

813
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: Now that because there wouldn't be the first time that

814
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: you'd have to go way off the rails, way off

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00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: the rails too. They couldn't have they couldn't have done

816
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: it better last year. I mean, I get it. Zach Wilson,

817
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: if for all of us in okay, if Zach Wilson's

818
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: a complete bust, in which they're saying, no, we've got

819
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: we got a chance, we got it, he's got a chance. Okay, whatever,

820
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: Even so you their quarterbacks out there available now, David Carr,

821
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: you know guys like that, I mean Russ Wilson moved.

822
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: You got a chance at finding somebody with some gas

823
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: in the tank or somebody just that, like, you know

824
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: what this guy's gonna be good for you know what

825
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, I mean Tom Brady's gonna be up

826
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: for grabs. You could trade for Lamar Jackson. I mean, goodness, gracious,

827
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: there's some guys out there you can get better right away?

828
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: Is not the coordinator? Really? Really apparently it's going to happen.

829
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Speaker 1: Oh man. Let's get back to the phones at eight

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00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty five fifty two five fifty and

831
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Speaker 1: we go to Steve and Amherst next. Steve, there you are.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us? You're all one bills

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Speaker 1: live good afternoon, guys. Thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. So I have a couple of things,

835
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 1: you know, one about the game coming up. I feel

836
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 1: like as a Bills fan right now, it's tough. It's

837
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: a tough situation and I don't want to play victim

838
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: at all here, but it's a tough situation to be

839
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: put into because you don't want Two to play because

840
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: he's more dangerous to play against as a quarterback, but

841
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: you also want him to be better off with his health,

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00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: you know, So we're you know, people look like, oh,

843
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: Bills fans are rooting for Two to not play. No,

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Speaker 1: we want him to have a career, honestly, like I

845
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: want him to do well, and I want He's a

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00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: genuine guy, you can tell that very clearly. We just

847
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: wish the best for him. So I think the game

848
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: will be a lot different and a little easier for

849
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: the Bills without too Obviously they'll still have their challenges,

850
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: but you know, I just wish too a well. And

851
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: another thing that I wanted to mention, it's really really

852
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: fun now that the Bills are in the playoffs every

853
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: year because it really helps the Buffalo winter go by

854
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: faster when you have games that you can watch and

855
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: enjoy all the way into late January sometimes February. So

856
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: that's really exciting. And then The last thing I wanted

857
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: to bring up going back to the Damar Hamlin scare,

858
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: which feels like a lifetime ago already, because it's just unbelievable.

859
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: I feel like the whole thing really humanized a lot

860
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: of people. For us as fans that are watching shows,

861
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: that are listening, that are watching players. It humanized players,

862
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: It humanized media. When I when I say that, I

863
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: mean like watching Rex Ryan on ESPN Breakdown, watching Dan

864
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: Orlovsky Prey on TV, watching Josh Allen cry in a

865
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,439
Speaker 1: you know, in a press conference. Um, it's just really

866
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 1: appreciated that you know, we're able to, you know, sometimes

867
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: just listen to you guys and forget that you're human

868
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,760
Speaker 1: too and you're you know, you're feeling everything we're feeling,

869
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: and you know as same with players, and you know,

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00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say how much I appreciate that

871
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: that came out of it, and also now that we

872
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: can actually enjoy football knowing that the great news came

873
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: up today that he went home from the hospital. So

874
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: good news is coming around and I love it and

875
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: it's very exciting, um, you know, to hear about Damar Hamlin.

876
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: And it's also again exciting to see the Bills in

877
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs with the hopefuls of Super Bowl. But guys,

878
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: thank you for everything you do. Um, I appreciate you

879
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: guys more than you can imagine. So have a great

880
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: rest of your day and I will hang up and listen. Guys, thanks, Steve.

881
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Yeah, I mean we're there are times where

882
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: we come on after bad losses and other stuff, and

883
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: sometimes we feel like therapists with some of the phone

884
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: calls we take, and we try to help each other

885
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: through those low times when you know, maybe the Bills

886
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: don't measure up to expectations. That's happened very few and

887
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: far between this season, as we know. And then you

888
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 1: get real humanizing stories that make you remember the fragility

889
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: of life, like we had with Tomorrow Hamlin a little

890
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: over a week ago. But yeah, I like the way

891
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: we kind of work with the listeners and the fan

892
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: base to try to help each other through some of

893
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: this stuff. And I think we were doing a lot

894
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: of that last week, not just us, but you know

895
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: you guys out there as well. I gotta believe there

896
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: are a lot of Bills fans leaning on each other,

897
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: checking in with each other. Hey, you know, what you

898
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: wanting to know, what's going on with tomorrow and all

899
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: that stuff. So it's great that we're all able to

900
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 1: kind of help each other in a way. So yeah,

901
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: good on you Bills Mafia for doing that for each other.

902
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: And if there's some small part we can play too,

903
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: we're happy to do it. Unfortunately, we are up against

904
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: the clock here, so we do have to take a break.

905
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Speaker 1: When we come back. In our number two, we're gonna

906
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Speaker 1: be joined in studio by a man who got one

907
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: of the three interceptions in the last week's game, Tremaine Edmonds,

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00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: set to join us here in our number two on

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Collida Health. It's Buffalo Bills

910
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: Radios one Bills Live presented by collid to Health. All Right,

911
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: welcome you hour number two here on a Wednesday. Chris Brown,

912
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Practice is just about ending. We'll

913
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: have Tremaine Edmunds here in studio in short order after

914
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: his performance last week that included an interception, a quarter

915
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: back hit, seven tackles, and three pass breakups. The condor

916
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 1: man try throwing over that guy, best of luck. Yeah,

917
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:11,760
Speaker 1: we say this all the time, and people talk about

918
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: you know his physical stature, and it's significant in a

919
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: game that's full of guys who are freaks in nature.

920
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: He's a freak in nature among freaks in nature. He's

921
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: really unbelievably law He's like, yeah, he's like that guy

922
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: from the Fantastic Four. Yes, or he's stretched arms. I

923
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: remember seeing at some point during the regular season where

924
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: a quarterback, one of the it was this season the

925
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: Bills were playing a team. I don't know whether he's

926
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Speaker 1: even I can't even remember whether it was on the

927
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Speaker 1: road or at home, and from it was from behind

928
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback, the opposing quarterback, and he's looking down the

929
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Speaker 1: field and Tremaine's running with the receiver like a tight

930
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: end down the field and there's just no way to

931
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: throw it around him to get it there. He doesn't.

932
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Speaker 1: He's not even in perfect position, but there's just no

933
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: way the guy's co just by Tremaine running in the

934
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: area because he's so long and his body, he takes

935
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: up so much space at that position. It really it

936
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: really makes it hard to make those throws when he's

937
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 1: in the area because he's got such a reach. We

938
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Speaker 1: saw it in this game last week and the Patriots

939
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,280
Speaker 1: where he was covering the flat receiver and the quarterback

940
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: tries to throw the slant behind him. He just reached up.

941
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: It's like eight and a half feet the area just

942
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: like almost pulled it in. Um. Yeah, I've got this

943
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 1: written on the white board in our office. The Bill's

944
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: draft traits ye physical and Tremaine is that he is

945
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: a He walks in the room like, man, what sport

946
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,879
Speaker 1: does that guy play? Well, it's Tremaine Edmund's own. Yeah,

947
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 1: there is professional football because there's a you know, he

948
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,760
Speaker 1: looks like a hoops player. He's so big, so long,

949
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: you know, in athletic um. Just you know, he has

950
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: been a guy and Bills. He's been a little polarizing

951
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: for Bills fans. They kind of have expected more of him.

952
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: But I think one of the things you got to remember,

953
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 1: the Bills knew how they were going to ask him

954
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: to play. And it's not the same as a normal

955
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: middle linebacker and other defense like he's not They're ask

956
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: not asking him to play like Mike Singletary or Dick

957
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: Butkus or Les ray Lewis. Even he is, He's got

958
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: a different role in a different defense than those guys played.

959
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: He's in nickel all the time, um, and I think

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00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: the team really loves the way he has played from

961
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,839
Speaker 1: from day one, absolutely day one. They have not been

962
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,839
Speaker 1: polarized on him. They have loved him since day one.

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00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 1: So we'll catch up with Tremaine in due course here

964
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: in just a little bit. In the meantime, we get

965
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 1: back to the phones at eight O three oh five

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00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty, where

967
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: we're asking you, you know two is not playing, but

968
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: there are there any other lingering concerns that you have

969
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: in this matchup with the Dolphins. You can let us know.

970
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: We got an open line for you at eight O

971
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: three five fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we check in with Patrick in Rhode Island.

973
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: What do you got for his Patrick? Here on one

974
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Hey guys, thanks for taking my call. Real quick.

975
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 1: I went to school see with your son, Luke. What

976
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: a stand up dude. So happy to see him doing well,

977
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: So just really quick. You gotta be so proud. I

978
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: just think it comes down to something Steve said a

979
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: little bit earlier about making mistakes herself. So for me,

980
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: it comes down to turnovers and tackling seemed to be

981
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of a problem in both games against

982
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: this team. I'll hang up and listen to hear what

983
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: you have to say. Yeah, tackling was definitely an issue

984
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: in the last game as far as stopping their run game.

985
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: I mean, one hundred and eighty eight yards is what

986
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: they rolled up on the ground. And you know there

987
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: are times there seemed to be a couple of games

988
00:57:55,840 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: each year where the Bills tackling is inconsidered and opponents

989
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:03,959
Speaker 1: can roll up some yards on them. And I'm telling

990
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: you right now, with Skyler Thompson as the four cast starter,

991
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: you better believe they're gonna try to run the football

992
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: to help that kid out, right, Yeah, get them in

993
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: short down and distance on just get to like third

994
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: and two or three and hope the kid can make

995
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: a play. For any time it's third and five or less,

996
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna be feeling good. It's just one quick completion

997
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: on first or second down to get them there and

998
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: not take any negative plays. I mean, that's gonna be

999
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: huge two for them. Give them a chance and punting

1000
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: won't be the worst thing ever. Right, They'll just try

1001
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: and get a stop on the Bills no question about it,

1002
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: and that you're right. We've been down this road a

1003
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: lot talking about the Bills and around the National Football

1004
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 1: League tackling in general. It's my contention that the league

1005
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: has changed so much even since I played, In the

1006
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: twenty five years i've been out, it's changed dramatically a

1007
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: lot of its player safety and rule changes. Players are

1008
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: not allowed to tackle the way they were in my

1009
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 1: day and age. It was always lead with your head,

1010
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: knock them off their feet with the impact rather than

1011
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: wrap them up and all of that. Now it's about

1012
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: tackling the football itself. They're not tackling the guy with

1013
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 1: the ball. They're trying to grab the ball away from

1014
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: the guy who's got it. That leads to a lot

1015
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: of broken tackles, a lot of spinning around, and you know,

1016
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: pushing the pile, keeping the guy on his feet, not

1017
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: getting him off his feet, but keeping him on his

1018
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: feet so you can get the ball away and it's

1019
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: live while you do it. That's how football has changed

1020
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: in the years since I played. It's not so much

1021
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: about the big hits and all of that stuff. It's

1022
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: about getting the ball back, and you do that by

1023
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: grabbing it and when you grab the ball, sometimes you

1024
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: miss the guy who's got it and he breaks the

1025
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: tackle and goes on for more yardage. Teams are not

1026
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: caught up in yards given up as much as they

1027
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: are opportunities to get the ball back being taken advantage of.

1028
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: So that's really what the crux of how the game

1029
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: has changed in the current day and age, and that's

1030
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Speaker 1: why the tackling for old guys like me and some

1031
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: fans out there who see the same thing tackling is

1032
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,439
Speaker 1: like wow, they staying they don't know how to tack Well,

1033
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:13,439
Speaker 1: it's a different game, and they train him differently now

1034
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: than they did when I played. Tackling is about the ball,

1035
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: not about the man or the yards you're given up.

1036
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: We saw that in the New England game last week.

1037
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones comes up and does a peanut punch on

1038
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: peanut punch on Devin's Singletary, forces the ball out. He

1039
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: had no interest in tackling Devin Singletary. He saw him

1040
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: carrying it not up tight on his body and just

1041
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: went in there and punch the football right out of

1042
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: his hands. Turnover. More and more teams are focusing and

1043
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:46,479
Speaker 1: coaching that than sound fundamental tackling. So you're right, and yeah,

1044
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: turnovers are a problem, and that's the way that Buffalo

1045
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: has beaten themselves a couple of times this season. There's

1046
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: no I mean, even the Jets game, which you can

1047
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: make as many arguments as you want that the Jets

1048
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: played well enough and consistently enough to win that game

1049
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: back in Week nine, but you can't forget that the

1050
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Speaker 1: Bills had a turnover in the red zone and they

1051
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: had a turnover inside their own twenty yard line which

1052
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: led to a field goal, and I think they scored

1053
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: a field goal on the other takeaway, and the Jets

1054
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: win by three. Right, So that's what you got. We're

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Speaker 1: going to take a break here because when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we will have one Tremaine Edmonds joining us in studio.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch up with the linebacker next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Line, presented by Collid of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. We'll be joined by

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds momentarily here. In the meantime, we seek out

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Speaker 1: some of your other thoughts on the tweet sheet where

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Speaker 1: we were asking you where do the Dolphins threats lie

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Speaker 1: in this matchup? Knowing two It is out for Sunday's

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Speaker 1: game and Lee us off on the tweet sheet, which

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Speaker 1: is presented by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. Daniel says the threat of

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Speaker 1: Hill and Waddle still remain. If they can manufacture ways

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Speaker 1: to get the ball in their hands, this game is

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Speaker 1: still a great challenge. I agree, they just have to

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Speaker 1: find different ways to get it in their hands. Knowing

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Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson is not going to find them as consistently

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Speaker 1: as two It does. I mean, the bottom line is

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Speaker 1: he's not as efficient a passer as two It is,

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Speaker 1: who led the league in passer rating, by the way,

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Speaker 1: and as good as Mike Gisicki is in the passing game.

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Speaker 1: Mike Gisicki um beaty Tyreek and Jalen Can Yeh. Gassicki

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Speaker 1: is a good player, and he's had some good games

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Speaker 1: against the Bills. But you know Tyreek's a game wrecker

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Speaker 1: well too well, particularly in playoff games. Right, So I

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Speaker 1: agree with him as if Mike McDaniel can manufacture some

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Speaker 1: way to get the ball in their hands, hand it

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Speaker 1: to him for goodness sake. I mean, I think you

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Speaker 1: gotta do it. Well, I think they will. I think

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Speaker 1: there'll be a lot of you know, wide receiver screens,

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Speaker 1: bubble screens, now routes, quick slants, you know, easy half

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Speaker 1: field reads for Skyler Thompson, so he can get the

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Speaker 1: ball in those guys hands, because that's that's the best

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Speaker 1: way for them to not only stay in the game,

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Speaker 1: but even have a sniff of you know, pulling out

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Speaker 1: a win. Here in Buffalo. Incidentally, the Bills under Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott are six and oo at home against the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: Josh plays well against him, yes, and he always has

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason. And even in the game where Dolphins

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01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: came in and the Bills were coasting in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: they lumped him up and put a hunger hung a

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Speaker 1: half a hundred on them. Yes they did. And so yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was one of those kind of situations that we'll see. Um.

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Speaker 1: I still agree they've got game wreckers and they get

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Speaker 1: thinking the ball in their hands, the game could be wrecked. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know you also have to expect desperation. There

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Speaker 1: could be a few extra wrinkles here and there. Look

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Speaker 1: at this, Look at this, he's doing the Chris collins

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Speaker 1: Worth Monday Night Football, sliding here on the chair. Look

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Speaker 1: at that right like the pregame, you got a broadcasting

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Speaker 1: career in your future. We were we were talking earlier

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Speaker 1: in the game. We were Micah Hyde was sitting right

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Speaker 1: where you're at, like three weeks are gonna saying, no,

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Speaker 1: they they're protecting me for myself. They said, no way,

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Speaker 1: I never know. And now he's out there, Steve, Steve's hot,

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Speaker 1: he's hold him practice to me, Yeah, Um, gotta feel

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Speaker 1: good to have him out there though, Oh my god, man,

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Speaker 1: that's that's my guy. And uh, just to see how

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Speaker 1: far he's came, man, just to see the amount of

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Speaker 1: work that he's put in. I know it feels good

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Speaker 1: to him. Definitely feels good for the guys that's on

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Speaker 1: the team, but it has to feel even better for him, man,

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01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: just to know where how far he's came. Um, the

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Speaker 1: dedication that he's putting in, the hard work that he's

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Speaker 1: put in. Um, I know, it's a blessing just to

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Speaker 1: be out there, you know, with his guys. Again, we

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Speaker 1: got Tremaine Edmonds with us, and it's the voice that

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Speaker 1: you're hearing there joining us here live in Studio. Fresh

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Speaker 1: off the Field interview is brought to you by Austin Are,

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Speaker 1: the official clean air provider of the Buffalo Bills Tremaine.

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Speaker 1: The first two times you played Miami two, it was

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Speaker 1: on the field as their quarterback. That is not going

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Speaker 1: to be the case this time around. How much extra

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Speaker 1: study time does that give you because this is an

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Speaker 1: opponent that you guys feel somewhat familiar with because you

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Speaker 1: played them twice, but now the quarterbacks different. Tell me

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Speaker 1: how that changes your preparation this week? You know, I

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01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: think it doesn't really matter how many times you play

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Speaker 1: a team. I think each time you play them, they're gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know, present different challenges. And I think that's the

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Speaker 1: same thing going into this game. We understand and you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously with a new quarterback, it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: little probably be a little bit different, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. But you just got to prepare to your

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01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 1: best way that you can and trust that we do

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Speaker 1: on film. But I think a lot of things go

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01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 1: back to like our fundamental like how good are we fundamentally,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And making sure that we

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Speaker 1: execute at a high level and making sure that we

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01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 1: have a good graph of what we want to get

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01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: down different to talk to like it starts with us

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01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 1: type of thing. For sure, we've talked a lot about

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01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: you know, you've got three losses on the season, and

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01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: you know the Jets played a really good game against you.

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01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: But you look back to the first Miami game where

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Speaker 1: you you just you were waiting. You couldn't get that

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01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: kickoff at the end to win it ran out of time,

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01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: ran out of time. And then the game against Minnesota

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01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 1: where you had two game stoppers. One Josh I also

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01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:25,040
Speaker 1: got to do a quarterback sneak for no game you win,

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01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 1: and then Cam all he has to do is knocked

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Speaker 1: that ball down and you win two games stop. You

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01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 1: couldn't get that. So these the losses you've had, most

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Speaker 1: of them are because you know your team that's is

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Speaker 1: that where you're worried. I mean just it's you guys

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Speaker 1: doing what you're supposed to do, and there's not too

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Speaker 1: many teams that can actually are good enough to beat you.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think the word to use is worry. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, I got extreme confidence in my guys, um,

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Speaker 1: just because I see the work that we put in

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Speaker 1: each and every day. UM playing in sport, I mean

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Speaker 1: some things. Sometimes things are gonna happen, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, and obviously things that we don't plan for.

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Speaker 1: But you just got to keep going. And I think

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Speaker 1: guys did a good job of responding to those challenges, man,

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Speaker 1: because those were times that I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: us want back. Not just those guys, man, but you know,

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Speaker 1: as a collective things, I don't think just one or

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Speaker 1: two plays, you know, determines the outcome of a football game.

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01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: It's a lot of plays into a game, but you know,

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01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 1: it's a couple that probably stand out, but as we

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01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: know players, as people that know the game, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of plays that you know, collectively, you know determines

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Speaker 1: the outcome of games. But you know, nothing in the

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01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: past is gonna dictate what's gonna happen in the future. Man.

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01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 1: So I Adza Ford and you know out, head down

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01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 1: and working, man. We're taking this thing one day at

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01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 1: a time. I know, as focused as you guys are

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01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 1: on Miami now, because that's what's in front of you,

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01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 1: I just need to know. So last week, first half,

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones is completing balls like he's making some plays

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Speaker 1: for them, and they're staying in the football game. Second half,

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Speaker 1: Coach Fraser's kind of mixing things up, commits to coverage

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01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:49,880
Speaker 1: a little bit, throws, you know, a little pressure practices

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Speaker 1: here and there, But in coverage, you guys are getting

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Speaker 1: your hands on balls. I mean, you even got one.

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01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 1: Your coverage assignment isn't even the target on the play

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01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: you're running. You're racing to the flat to cover the

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Speaker 1: guy in the flat and Max's trying to put it

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01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: over you to get it to get out, and you're

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01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:08,960
Speaker 1: just like, oh, all right, I'll get a hand on that, Um,

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Speaker 1: And then you get two tip drills for picks you

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Speaker 1: and Matt Um What changed in the second half there

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Speaker 1: where it just seemed like you were guys were just

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Speaker 1: keyed in on where Mac was going with the ball.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think, Um, you know, any game that

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Speaker 1: you play, and you know, obviously a lot of teams

1202
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: are are scripted to like whether it's first three team

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01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,680
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. And I think it's just

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Speaker 1: about us making sideline adjustments. I think our coaches did

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Speaker 1: a good job with that, and you know, players did

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01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: a good job of understanding what we were trying to

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Speaker 1: get accomplished. And it was really just not not no panic.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, things are gonna happen in

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Speaker 1: the course of the game. Is no, no, no game

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Speaker 1: was gonna be perfect. So it's about you know, looking

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Speaker 1: at what you see out there, making the necessary assignments,

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01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:50,719
Speaker 1: making necessary adjustments, and talking about it on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: You know, no panic button was pushed and guys understood that.

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Speaker 1: You know, hey, thank God has just played. But let's

1215
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Speaker 1: let's rebound and come out the next job and get

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Speaker 1: a stop. How much film I mean, is Skyler Thompson's

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01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: kind of an unknown commodity, but you have got some

1218
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:07,759
Speaker 1: film on them? And is there differences that you notice

1219
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,560
Speaker 1: in what Miami thinks of Skyler Thompson when he's of

1220
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Speaker 1: their offense when he's on the field, rather than Tuah

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Speaker 1: or rather than Teddy Bridgewater. If Skyler Thompson's the guy,

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Speaker 1: even though there's limited film, do they give any kind

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Speaker 1: of philosophical tips as to what they're asking him to

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01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:26,640
Speaker 1: do that they don't want him to do that they

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01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 1: will ask Tuah or they will ask Teddy Bridgewater. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, How can you get an idea

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Speaker 1: of what they're doing offensively with Skyler Thompson that they're saying, well,

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Speaker 1: they don't want him to do this, this or this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's you know, as we continue to gather

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Speaker 1: information throughout the week, you know, I think a lot

1231
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Speaker 1: of those tales will come out obviously, you know, present

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Speaker 1: different challenges, just as far as from quarterback from TOA

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01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:52,719
Speaker 1: Bridgewater and him. Now, you know, each quarterback is different.

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Speaker 1: You know, how they want to attack the defense is

1235
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:57,160
Speaker 1: going to be different. How they want to attack hus

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01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 1: is going to be different, you know. So I think

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, man, a lot of

1238
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 1: it is just gonna come back down to how well

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01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:04,720
Speaker 1: can we execute? You know what I mean. I could

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01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: talk about it all day. I want about you know,

1241
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: the opponent, but a lot of it comes back down

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01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: to us and how will we execute defensively. The Bills

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01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins have met four times in the postseason

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Speaker 1: in their history. This is meeting number five. I don't

1245
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 1: know if you're aware of this. Your dad played in

1246
01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 1: the first one Bills Dolphins nineteen ninety. Here they Bills

1247
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: beat the Dolphins forty four thirty four. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, you guys don't have a whole

1249
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Speaker 1: lot of conversations about football, or maybe you do with

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01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 1: your dad on the phone after each week. Maybe he

1251
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:38,639
Speaker 1: calls every after every game. I don't know for sure,

1252
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 1: but has he ever told you about what that Dolphins,

1253
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: yeah Bills playoff rivalry was like because he played in

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Speaker 1: that first one. Yeah, he definitely, he definitely told me

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01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:49,680
Speaker 1: about it. We definitely ask some conversation. I wish you

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01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:51,400
Speaker 1: asked some footage, man, I want to check him out

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01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:53,559
Speaker 1: and see what he's doing out there. He had three

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Speaker 1: I have the stats right here. He had three catches

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Speaker 1: for twenty one yards in that game. So you can

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Speaker 1: hit him up on that. Yeah, I'm had to. All

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Speaker 1: the months later, he and I were in the Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl together. Yeah, I played with in three Pro Bowls

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01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: with your dad. Okay, yeah for sure. Now we always

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01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: talk about it, and I know, you know, when I

1265
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: first got drafted, that's all they used to talk about

1266
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 1: was how the Robbers used to be back in the day. Yeah,

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01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 1: And so I knew when I got drafted here you

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01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 1: know the the you know, the support and just the

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01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:21,640
Speaker 1: fan base and just the robbery upon Bills Nation and

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01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: Bills Mafia that I was going to be a part of.

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Speaker 1: And Uh. I mean to this day, he still talked

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01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: about he get excited every time we played Miami just

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01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: because of you know, that's that's the team he used

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01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:32,600
Speaker 1: to play on, and he understand how big of a

1275
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 1: game it is. He understands, you know, the robbery of

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01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:36,760
Speaker 1: the game. And you know, it's always a smile as

1277
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 1: always a sparklet of a conversation every time we talk

1278
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:44,520
Speaker 1: about it. Are they getting up here for that? Ye?

1279
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 1: Possibly look for I hope I crossed pass with him.

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01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him since training camp down in Carolina

1281
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 1: when we were down there a couple of years ago.

1282
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:58,160
Speaker 1: This rivalry is different because it's a playoff game and

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01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:00,640
Speaker 1: it's a division opponent. You're familiar. You've been playing You

1284
01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: and Josh, you guys been playing them for your whole careers.

1285
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: You know these guys. I mean, it's no new thing.

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01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:08,080
Speaker 1: Even for when you go down to Miami. It's like

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01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 1: that same locker room, you're kind of familiar with, the hotel,

1288
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. How does that change? How comfortable

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01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: can you get and you can kind of transpose it

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01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:20,559
Speaker 1: and when you go down there and play it, you know,

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01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: a division game, you've done it a bunch it's a

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01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: it's almost like not a home game because of the crowd,

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01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: but it is there is a comfort level, not necessarily

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01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:36,280
Speaker 1: for me. I don't, you know, I don't. I don't

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01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: look at it as how many times you played an opponent,

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01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:40,559
Speaker 1: because this is the NFL. I mean, I'm never gonna

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01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: be comfortable each time I step up on that field

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01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 1: because I understand, you know, games are one, you know

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01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 1: with the small details, you know what I mean, as

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01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 1: a couple of plays here, a couple of players there.

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01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 1: So I would never be the type that say that

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01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable. Man. I'm always on edge, just as far

1303
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 1: as understanding what I gotta get done, not just me,

1304
01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: but understanding what we have to get done as a team.

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01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, time you step on that field, it's

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01:13:01,160 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 1: gonna be a easy, easy chest matage. Man. You got

1307
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,280
Speaker 1: to continue just to ball out, you know, put that

1308
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:08,600
Speaker 1: work in throughout the week, day in day out, and

1309
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 1: how that mindset, man, because it's not easy, you know

1310
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 1: what I mean? And no game is gonna be easy.

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01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: I don't care if we played them five times in

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01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 1: one year. I mean each time it's going to present

1313
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,800
Speaker 1: a new challenge and a challenge that we look forward to.

1314
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: So we just got to have that mindset to come

1315
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 1: out there and continue the ball, man, And no matter

1316
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: how many times we played them, no amount of times,

1317
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:27,880
Speaker 1: how many times I play them since I've been here,

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01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:31,919
Speaker 1: each time is different, and we gotta continue to trust ourselves,

1319
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:34,320
Speaker 1: continue to trust our game plan, and go out there

1320
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: and ball. At the end of the day, last last

1321
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:39,760
Speaker 1: one I got four you, Tremaine, is how you know

1322
01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:45,680
Speaker 1: you always hear that common comment turnovers coming bunches. You

1323
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 1: get three last week, all via interception you, Matt and

1324
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 1: then Trey. First part of the question, how much does

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01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 1: that help as a springboard? There's no guarantees you're gonna

1326
01:13:57,439 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: get takeaways every game, but when you can get a

1327
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: few going into the playoffs, that's got to be a

1328
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: nice springboard, right, And then part two of the question,

1329
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:08,759
Speaker 1: seeing Trade making a play like that, knowing he's trying

1330
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 1: to ramp back up to being the All Pro guy

1331
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: that he is, Yeah, for sure, I think it's definitely

1332
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 1: a confidence booster. I think, you know, just being a competitor.

1333
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:18,719
Speaker 1: You know, like a lot of guys are on the team,

1334
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: like everyone is on the team. I mean, now it's

1335
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:22,879
Speaker 1: like who's gonna be the next one to make a play.

1336
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 1: And for the guys that got picks, I know, including myself,

1337
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: my mind said is now let's go do it again. Right,

1338
01:14:28,439 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 1: We're not comfortable, We're not satisfied with just making one. Now,

1339
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 1: was about let's go see if we can really you

1340
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:34,400
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Let's go see I mean we

1341
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 1: can do this week. So I think that's just a

1342
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:39,640
Speaker 1: talking around the locker room. Now. Guys are hungry, you know,

1343
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 1: to make that play that. Guys are looking at each

1344
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 1: other like who's gonna be that guy? And I mean

1345
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: I was excited to see trade man, yes, because I

1346
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 1: know the work that he's put in, like every time

1347
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:50,640
Speaker 1: that you know, I was in the building and I

1348
01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:53,080
Speaker 1: saw him in there rehabbing. Man, he had a mission

1349
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: on his mind and that was a return out there

1350
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: with his brothers. And just to see him come away

1351
01:14:57,439 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 1: with that, I mean put a smile on my face,

1352
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:01,120
Speaker 1: and I know, put a smile on his face and

1353
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: his family's face, because obviously when you have Andrey like that, man,

1354
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot of mental roller coases you go on.

1355
01:15:06,479 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 1: So just to see that happened, man, I mean I

1356
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 1: felt good for him. And I'm extremely happy for him,

1357
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: and you know he's back to work and I know

1358
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:15,719
Speaker 1: you want to grab another. Yeah, we've been talking about,

1359
01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: you know, this Miami team and a lot of conversation

1360
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 1: about two of being in now he's out Teddy Bridgewater

1361
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:23,320
Speaker 1: and we've been talking about Skylar Thompson, the whole crew.

1362
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:26,160
Speaker 1: But the two guys that are there that are unlike

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01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:30,000
Speaker 1: anybody else and Tyree and Jalen. You've got a lot

1364
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: of experience with ty you know, you've seen the Chiefs

1365
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 1: with Tyreek and you've played him twice, the Dolphins with

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01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: Now with Tyree, he's a game breaker. I mean, he's

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01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:39,760
Speaker 1: a different guy. And Jalen Waddle brings something to unique

1368
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,439
Speaker 1: as well. Those guys you would think and for us

1369
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:44,559
Speaker 1: it seems like, wow, Dolphins got to find a way

1370
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:46,679
Speaker 1: to get those guys the football. How does that change

1371
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 1: your mindset? When the game breakers for a club are

1372
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 1: a guy you could hand it to him or throw

1373
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 1: it to him, but they're not like running back, So

1374
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 1: it's not it's not like Travis Kelsey in Kansas City.

1375
01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:59,320
Speaker 1: It's those guys out wide. How does that change your

1376
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 1: philosophy your mindset? I think it's about having awareness, understanding

1377
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:04,680
Speaker 1: what the players are at all times when you're out

1378
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: there on the field, and understanding threats about formation, you

1379
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:09,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's a lot of intel that

1380
01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 1: you can pick up as you know, where are they

1381
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 1: putting this receiver on this play? Is he? You know

1382
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 1: what I mean? Different different type of tellers that you

1383
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:17,480
Speaker 1: can pick up. And I think those little small details

1384
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:19,880
Speaker 1: are you know, what's gonna help players out of what's

1385
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:22,200
Speaker 1: gonna help our team out when you play against guys

1386
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:24,760
Speaker 1: like that obviously dynamic guys that can make plays with

1387
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 1: the football, and um, you know, I think just those

1388
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: keys and a lot of that stuff comes in without

1389
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: comes with the film, film study you putting in throughout

1390
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 1: the week. Problem is that only prepares you what they

1391
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 1: did before. Now you got to figure out what they're

1392
01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:39,719
Speaker 1: gonna do next exactly. That's a problem, right, That's always

1393
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: that's the holy grail, Right, you're trying to find what

1394
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:45,280
Speaker 1: it's not what they did last week. And that's why

1395
01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 1: that's what I said, as far as it's just picking

1396
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 1: up little tells you can pick up trusting yourself, trusting

1397
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: trusting your instates, trusting what you saw on film, and

1398
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: then like you said, there's gonna be a lot of

1399
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 1: things they give us that we haven't seen. But that

1400
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 1: just goes back down to your fundamentals. Do what we've

1401
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 1: been doing, do what I fundamentals tell as they do,

1402
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 1: and you know, guys would be fun listen. Thanks for

1403
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:05,559
Speaker 1: the time. We appreciate it. We know you got a

1404
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: busy week and a lot on your plates, so thanks

1405
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: for making some time for us and for the fans

1406
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:12,040
Speaker 1: that are listening and watching. Good Luck on Sunday, keep

1407
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: those takeaways coming, all right, thank you and tell your

1408
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,720
Speaker 1: dad three catches twenty one yards. Yeah, I'm on it.

1409
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 1: We we will go from Tremaine to one of his teammates.

1410
01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:26,520
Speaker 1: Who's at the post practice podium. It's Josh Allen addressing

1411
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:32,000
Speaker 1: the media right now. I mean, it's a it's an

1412
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: awesome feeling. Um. You know, we're just hoping that he's

1413
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: getting his rest in his recovery and as a team,

1414
01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 1: we're extremely happy. Not yet, not yet. I know some

1415
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 1: guys were you know, we're chomping hat the bit to

1416
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:49,559
Speaker 1: go see him. Um, but you know, against doctors orders,

1417
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 1: just making sure that he's, like I said, getting his

1418
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:54,759
Speaker 1: rest and recovery and taking it slow and um, obviously

1419
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: just trying to trying to get back to being himself.

1420
01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:59,240
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll take all the time that we need.

1421
01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 1: But um, hope he knows the guys are ready to

1422
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: see him. Josh, can you go back to the twenty

1423
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 1: nineteen remember your firstbowlf game against Houston and where you've

1424
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 1: come to now and is there anything that you've kind

1425
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 1: of learned along the way about the process of this

1426
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: week in this game. Yeah, I mean it's it's one

1427
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: one week season from here on out. It's when I

1428
01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:20,679
Speaker 1: go home. We understand that at the end of the day,

1429
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: you know, come Sunday, it's the only thing that matters.

1430
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: Are scoring more points than the other team. So, um,

1431
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:29,839
Speaker 1: you know, trying to have a good week of practice,

1432
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 1: putting our best foot forward, making sure that we're holding

1433
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 1: ourselves to our own standard, um, you know, and obviously

1434
01:18:36,479 --> 01:18:40,160
Speaker 1: taking a day by day, but um, you know, everything

1435
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:44,719
Speaker 1: that we're doing is is in hopes to win on Sunday.

1436
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 1: They ultimately started more points than the other team as

1437
01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:50,280
Speaker 1: a taking that matters most. When you came into this season,

1438
01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 1: the expectations were so high in terms of preseason Super

1439
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: Bowl favorites and and all of that, And I'm just

1440
01:18:55,320 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 1: wondering was there any sort of impact on the team

1441
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 1: knowing that those expectations were set as high as they were. Now,

1442
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 1: we don't have any feelings from the outside, you know,

1443
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 1: as a team internally, Um, you know, the goals that

1444
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: we wanted to accomplish are still in front of us.

1445
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:14,960
Speaker 1: We have a chance to to do what we set

1446
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 1: out to at the beginning of the year. Um, but

1447
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:21,080
Speaker 1: it all starts Sunday and starts starts this week. So again,

1448
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: just trying to have a good week of practice, trying

1449
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,960
Speaker 1: to stick to our routine. UM. But again, it's it's

1450
01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 1: the biggest game of our season. It's the next one.

1451
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 1: And um, we understand the implications of the playoffs. This

1452
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 1: is everything that we wanted. Obviously, getting into playoffs gives

1453
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:36,519
Speaker 1: us a chance to win the Super Bowl, and that's

1454
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: our that's our main goal. But like I said, right now,

1455
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 1: it's it's Sunday one o'clock. All the emotions out of

1456
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:44,559
Speaker 1: the way, with most of the emotions out of the

1457
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 1: way after Sunday with the barrow home, and I know

1458
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 1: the focus still is on him getting better. But do

1459
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: you feel and having had a few days of a break.

1460
01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: Do you feel it's allowed the team to have an

1461
01:19:56,560 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 1: emotional reset to a certain extent, you could put some

1462
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 1: of that behind you and look forward to now poor Um,

1463
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:08,640
Speaker 1: I think so. UM. You know, coach Coach gave us

1464
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: the last couple of days off and just I think

1465
01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:13,719
Speaker 1: that was good for guys to kind of get away

1466
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 1: and and like you said, mentally reset. Um. At the

1467
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 1: same time, you know, Damar hasn't left our minds and

1468
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:20,559
Speaker 1: we're still praying for him, and you know we want

1469
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: to continue to see him, um get better each and

1470
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:25,720
Speaker 1: every day. UM. But again, this team's got a lot

1471
01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: of love for each other. When we go on that field,

1472
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:29,640
Speaker 1: we play for each other. So we're gonna need to

1473
01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 1: do that comes Sunday, your seventh playoff game, I think.

1474
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: And you've seem to approach these like with a pretty

1475
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:39,760
Speaker 1: common attitude. Same with the primetime games Thanksgiving. You know,

1476
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: what do you think perspective do you have that besides

1477
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:47,639
Speaker 1: maybe throwing up that allows you to have a lettered

1478
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 1: rip attitude? Um, you know we know that it you know,

1479
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: if we don't win, we go home. So UM, just

1480
01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:59,200
Speaker 1: trying to do everything in my power preparation preparation wise,

1481
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 1: and then come game time, doing what's asked of me

1482
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 1: and just trying to put myself and my teammates in

1483
01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 1: good positions to succeed, and trying to be an extension

1484
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: of coach Dorsey and you know, run the plays he

1485
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,840
Speaker 1: calls it and lead this offense to score points. And

1486
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: that's that's all I can That's all I really can do,

1487
01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: is do my job, and you know, everybody on the

1488
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:23,720
Speaker 1: field trust and each other and just trying to trying

1489
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,320
Speaker 1: to lead guys that way as well. All Right, So

1490
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: that's Josh Allen addressing the media after practice. We're going

1491
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 1: to take a break here because when we come back,

1492
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 1: we will have Micah Hyde addressing the media after his

1493
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:40,280
Speaker 1: first practice since next surgery that happened today on the

1494
01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:43,120
Speaker 1: practice field. So Micah Hyde coming your way next here

1495
01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:50,120
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned. All right, welcome back

1496
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 1: to one Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

1497
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:55,080
Speaker 1: We go to the postgame podium now where Micah Hyde

1498
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 1: is addressing the media after having his first practice since

1499
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: undergoing ex surgery back in September. No realized suspect that

1500
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:12,240
Speaker 1: maybe you could be back during this season. Three. Um,

1501
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:16,800
Speaker 1: when did I know? I think waking up from surgery,

1502
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:18,720
Speaker 1: I was, like I told you as before, I was

1503
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:22,000
Speaker 1: in a dark place. Um. I never you know, experienced

1504
01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:24,639
Speaker 1: anything like that. Um. And then right when I got

1505
01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:28,840
Speaker 1: back to to moving around a little bit, um, the

1506
01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: doctor said, I started feeling real good after a couple

1507
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,040
Speaker 1: of weeks, feeling a lot better after a couple of months,

1508
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:38,599
Speaker 1: and then by you know, thirty four months out, I'm

1509
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: gonna feel amazing. And uh, ever since he said that,

1510
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:43,800
Speaker 1: you know, I saw the light at the end of

1511
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 1: the tunel, I figured, Um, I'm gonna give it a shot.

1512
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work every day to try to try to

1513
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: get back because I want to be a part of

1514
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:55,439
Speaker 1: what this team has and um, you know what we're

1515
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:57,280
Speaker 1: about to do so special group. I just want to

1516
01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 1: be a part of it. Do you feel like, if

1517
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:03,599
Speaker 1: you guys win this game, you got a good shot

1518
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: to get out there next week. I gotta be honest

1519
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 1: with you, guys. Is still not on me. Um. You

1520
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:10,800
Speaker 1: know I felt good today. Um, but it's it's it's

1521
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 1: not my decision, um, and so you know it's it's

1522
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:15,680
Speaker 1: my doctors. So I'm gonna continue to do what I

1523
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: can do each and every day to to you know,

1524
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:20,839
Speaker 1: put myself in position to to help this team. And UM,

1525
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 1: when the day comes and I get the okay I'm

1526
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:27,080
Speaker 1: gonna get I'm gonna give it a go. Hurdles. You

1527
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:30,519
Speaker 1: have to cross from a physical standpoint to whatever degree

1528
01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:33,599
Speaker 1: your neckcast to withstand whatever you face it as far

1529
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: as as far as my neck goes in the recovery process,

1530
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's healed. UM. Obviously you know

1531
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: you understand that. UM. You know, time is something that

1532
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:44,760
Speaker 1: you also need, you know, with with with what I

1533
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:47,600
Speaker 1: had and UM, timetable being you know, most of the

1534
01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 1: time six months, I'm obviously that puts me in the march.

1535
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 1: So you know, just the more time the better. But

1536
01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know I'm healed up. I

1537
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:56,640
Speaker 1: feel great. UM. I've I've had goals to throught the

1538
01:23:56,840 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: throught the way that UM I've been reaching for my self.

1539
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 1: And you know, I kudos to to everybody in here,

1540
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:07,879
Speaker 1: from the training staff, especially Denny uh studing staff, how Luther, UM,

1541
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: the whole group in there, Emma, UM, Joe, Mika, Joe Collins, UM.

1542
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 1: Just rehabbing each and every day. Sean you know, being

1543
01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: just constant communication my position, coaches, and UM, there's not

1544
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, I can thank everybody in this building just

1545
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 1: because all the resources were here in front of me that. Um,

1546
01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 1: once I had that, that idea and those goals in place,

1547
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: I hopefully make it back for the playoffs. Um, they

1548
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 1: opened up all the doors for me to do so,

1549
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 1: and so UM here I am. Now it's been a

1550
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 1: it seems like it's been two years. It's you know,

1551
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:41,080
Speaker 1: it's only been a couple of months. But UM, like

1552
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 1: I said, I just want to be a part of

1553
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: what we have and and here we are out there,

1554
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:49,560
Speaker 1: look like, oh my gosh, that's exactly what it was.

1555
01:24:49,560 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep last night. I didn't sleep last night,

1556
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 1: and not because I was like nervous anything. I was

1557
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:55,679
Speaker 1: just too excited. I was too excited. I've been coming,

1558
01:24:55,800 --> 01:25:00,280
Speaker 1: I've been in all the meetings, I've been rehabbing every day. UM.

1559
01:25:00,320 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 1: You know, it's just uh, I've been a part of

1560
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:04,320
Speaker 1: this thing for a while and I just I just

1561
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 1: love these guys. I you know, I think everything happens

1562
01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:09,360
Speaker 1: for a reason. UM. I think my situation was for

1563
01:25:09,439 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 1: a reason and and it's given me. It's given me

1564
01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 1: a different perspective on this game. UM. You know, I'm grateful.

1565
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:18,600
Speaker 1: I'm very, very grateful to be in the position that

1566
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:20,759
Speaker 1: I am right now, and and to see my teammates

1567
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 1: starts this whole season, all the things that we have

1568
01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 1: been through, um, you name it, the weather, the injuries, um,

1569
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:29,559
Speaker 1: you know, Dham situation, just all this stuff. Just seeing

1570
01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: my my boys, my teammates, you know, go out there

1571
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:34,560
Speaker 1: and continue to fight. It wouldn't be you know, I

1572
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 1: have to. I have to make it. You know, I

1573
01:25:36,160 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 1: have to give it a go. Um. I have to.

1574
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,040
Speaker 1: And so UM, this is a special group. I've been

1575
01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:42,840
Speaker 1: saying it all along, and I'm just glad I can

1576
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:47,599
Speaker 1: be a part of it today. I'm a dog ass

1577
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:50,160
Speaker 1: coach now. Uh do I do I want to coach

1578
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:53,040
Speaker 1: in the future. I don't know about that. Um, but

1579
01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:55,479
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I've been I've been giving some guys some

1580
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: nuggets here and there. UM. I wouldn't say our record

1581
01:25:58,360 --> 01:26:01,600
Speaker 1: indicates my coaching, but but but you know, every now

1582
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 1: and then I was I was giving some nuggets and

1583
01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 1: just helping, trying to help out, you know, my teammates

1584
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 1: when I couldn't say what the guys should fill in

1585
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 1: for you obviously, Juquonaman everybody. Yeah, I mean it's um,

1586
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: you know, we we always preach all the time, next

1587
01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:20,639
Speaker 1: man in this in this building, and so guys have been,

1588
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:22,479
Speaker 1: you know, in and out of the lineup, and obviously

1589
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,240
Speaker 1: a guy like Jpoe just going out there h and

1590
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: every week in fighting, fighting through injuries, you know, fighting too.

1591
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: You know, we've we've had so much experience with each other.

1592
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 1: Um Got the last couple of years for him, it's

1593
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:35,760
Speaker 1: been a little more difficult to just having you know,

1594
01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 1: other guys in and out of the role. But they

1595
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 1: did a phenomenal job. Um, you know, d him stepping in, Um,

1596
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:43,080
Speaker 1: you know, doing what he did, doing what he does

1597
01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 1: and just bringing a different element to that position. Um,

1598
01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:49,320
Speaker 1: it was truly amazing. And I can't say enough about

1599
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:51,439
Speaker 1: the guys that have been that have been in obviously

1600
01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:53,679
Speaker 1: Dan in right now and and um you know, trying

1601
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:56,400
Speaker 1: to take the rest away. So UM, I just love

1602
01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 1: these guys. Man. We have a special group, like I said,

1603
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 1: not just uh you know, the team wide, but in

1604
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: our safety room and in our secondary we just we

1605
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: appreciate each other and whoever's out there, it's it's your goal.

1606
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:08,720
Speaker 1: You know the standards, the standard that we you know,

1607
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 1: have set fourth years ago, and you gotta go out there.

1608
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:13,240
Speaker 1: You gotta compete and you gotta you know, make plays.

1609
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 1: Not to say you weren't part of what what what's

1610
01:27:17,880 --> 01:27:20,840
Speaker 1: what transpire over the past week and a half, but

1611
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:25,719
Speaker 1: from not being on the field to see how your

1612
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:32,679
Speaker 1: teammates coaching style, everybody weathered the emotions and then came

1613
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:37,960
Speaker 1: out of this with a win and seemingly a closer bond. Yeah,

1614
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 1: we were a close team, um already, we were a

1615
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 1: really close team already. And you know we've had guys

1616
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,280
Speaker 1: in this in this organization for a while now, going

1617
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 1: on six years at six years, um, five years, so

1618
01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:51,840
Speaker 1: we've been around each other for a long time. So

1619
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: we've already been close. But just you know, what the

1620
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 1: situation happened, um, and since then would him Um? Obviously

1621
01:27:57,400 --> 01:27:59,160
Speaker 1: it was we were all shocked and we didn't know

1622
01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 1: what to what to think, what to do, and it

1623
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 1: was just you know, even sitting here right now is

1624
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:07,559
Speaker 1: I still can't believe, um, what happened. Obviously, you know

1625
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 1: Dhim is recovered and all that, and and just to

1626
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: see the all all my teammates all the coaches, everybody

1627
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:16,559
Speaker 1: just rally around each other, the whole league rally around

1628
01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 1: us to be honest and d him. And so it

1629
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:21,040
Speaker 1: was so cool to see just you know, all the

1630
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:24,400
Speaker 1: love that everyone has been in and now I feel

1631
01:28:24,439 --> 01:28:26,080
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of love already in this locker room.

1632
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:30,519
Speaker 1: It's just made its stronger, all right. That's Micah Hyde

1633
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 1: addressing the media, saying him returning to play is ultimately

1634
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: not his decision. It will be his doctor's decision, and

1635
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:42,679
Speaker 1: when his doctor gives him the okay, that's when he'll

1636
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:44,600
Speaker 1: give it a go. He doesn't know when that is.

1637
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 1: But other players after practice today, commenting on Micah Hyde's

1638
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:53,640
Speaker 1: return to the practice field, Mitch Morris called it infectious.

1639
01:28:54,439 --> 01:28:56,839
Speaker 1: Knowing the leader that Mica is. How big an impact

1640
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:58,560
Speaker 1: can that have even if he's just back on the

1641
01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:01,040
Speaker 1: practice Yeah, tangent. It just pick everybody up. It's like

1642
01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:04,479
Speaker 1: you feel like you're getting better. You've gotten better right away,

1643
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:06,639
Speaker 1: even if Mike has not taken reps kind of thing.

1644
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: It's a great place to be mentally. You feel like

1645
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 1: you're growing instead of just waiting for the playoffs to start.

1646
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:17,439
Speaker 1: It's a great mindset. Awesome stuff. More positive news, including

1647
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:20,800
Speaker 1: tomorrow back home with his family here in Buffalo. We

1648
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:23,040
Speaker 1: will see you tomorrow at one o'clock for more as

1649
01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:28,680
Speaker 1: this team gets ready for playoffs on Sunday