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Speaker 1: the second half. But it certainly was an encouraging sign

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Speaker 1: from Buffalo's defense on Sunday, and everybody's hoping that continues.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know that we've seen it enough to say, hey,

433
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Speaker 1: the defense is back. Everybody, you know, like, I don't

434
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Speaker 1: know if I don't know if anybody's ready to say that,

435
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: which is why we're asking this question today. If you

436
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 1: have a take on what you think this Bill's identity is,

437
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: let us know. Eight oh three fifty. Back to the

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Speaker 1: phones and we go to Dwayne and Ransomville. Dwayne, what

439
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,400
Speaker 1: do you have for us? Good morning or good afternoon?

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Speaker 1: Keep doing that? How are you doing? Everyone? Good? Dwayne.

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00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 1: I liked the idea of the way mcdermot's bringing in

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Speaker 1: these rookies and and the way Bass came back to

443
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 1: hit that last field goal. He turned to the Jets

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Speaker 1: and there you go. Yeah, I think I think if

445
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: we stay with Bass and these and these naysayers say

446
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 1: this guy can't do it, he get him out of

447
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: the team. I love the way mcdermot's bringing in these

448
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: young guys, given them a chance, showing them what they

449
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Speaker 1: can do. I think it's fantastic. Yeah, I mean, I think, Dwayne,

450
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Speaker 1: you're speaking to player development, which has been very strong

451
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Speaker 1: for this club since McDermott and his coaching staff arrived.

452
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Speaker 1: You see all the young players that have blossomed here

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Speaker 1: over the years, whether it's Jordan Poyer, who was a

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Speaker 1: virtual nobody that not too many teams even wanted as

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Speaker 1: a free agent, and they've turned him into what I

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Speaker 1: feel as a Pro Bowl player. He hasn't been rewarded

457
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 1: with that yet, but one of the most versatile safeties

458
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Speaker 1: you're going to find in the league, and then you

459
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: can run down the list of all their draft choices

460
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Speaker 1: and how they've gotten better for the most part. I mean,

461
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Speaker 1: Matt Milano is a fantastic story. It's a fifth round

462
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Speaker 1: draft who plays at a Pro Bowl level. And so

463
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: you look at the player development that this franchise now

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Speaker 1: has and the way they slowly bring rookies into the fold.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I were talking about this last week, Maddie.

466
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Speaker 1: It's very rare for a rookie on this team to

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Speaker 1: be thrust into a major role right away, even if

468
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Speaker 1: they're a first round pick. Trudavious White is probably the

469
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Speaker 1: only exception a guy that came in right away started

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Speaker 1: from day one, because he just set the world on

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00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 1: fire in training camp in preseason, and they said, we

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Speaker 1: got to get this guy on the field. More often

473
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Speaker 1: than not, this coaching staff grooms rookies slow and steady,

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Speaker 1: developing them, and then when they feel they are responsible

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Speaker 1: enough and consistent enough, they start giving him a little

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Speaker 1: bit more work and a little bit more work. And

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Speaker 1: I think we saw a little bit of that with

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Speaker 1: aj Epinessa yesterday and he made a couple of plays. Yeah,

479
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say that. I think these rookies, like

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Speaker 1: you said, they get a taste here, they get a

481
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Speaker 1: taste there, and then when they're ready, they they let

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Speaker 1: them go for a few more plays and things like that.

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Speaker 1: And I think back to last year a couple of

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Speaker 1: rookies who stood out in my mind as doing more

485
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Speaker 1: than we expected. Darryl Johnson, Tommy Sweeney. They had some catches,

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Speaker 1: some plays, yes, and they showed up when we needed them.

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Speaker 1: You could say the same about Dane Jackson yesterday. An interception,

488
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Speaker 1: two pass breakups. One of those I think came on

489
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Speaker 1: third down, basically in the end zone, and there's your opportunity.

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Speaker 1: We haven't seen Dane Jackson yet. Has he been doing

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Speaker 1: things in practice? Yeah, we've seen him in practice. He's

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Speaker 1: he's had good practices for this team. A seventh round

493
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Speaker 1: pick again, aj Evanessa, somebody who comes out yesterday and

494
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 1: does some things on defense we haven't seen him do yet.

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Speaker 1: Good for him. Tyler Bass eight attempts, makes six of them. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you missed two, but that's got to be a confidence

497
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Speaker 1: builder for a rookie kicker to be able to make

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Speaker 1: six of eight. I think I think he showed people

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Speaker 1: something because when you miss that one from forty five early,

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Speaker 1: it's very The hardest thing I think for a kicker,

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00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: especially a young kicker, to do is to not overcompensate

502
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Speaker 1: for the previous miss, because how many times have we

503
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Speaker 1: seen a kicker will hook one left and then the

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Speaker 1: very next kick they'll push it right. Yes, because they're

505
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Speaker 1: overcompensating for whatever they felt they did wrong with their

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Speaker 1: swing on the next attempt. And I give him a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit for trusting his swing and coming right

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Speaker 1: back and hitting four in a row. Now again, he

509
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: did miss from thirty seven after that before hitting the

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00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 1: last one from forty and I understand the fans frustration

511
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Speaker 1: with this. I think they worry down the line that

512
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Speaker 1: they're going to be in a tight game and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna really need him to make a kick. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think they're ready to trust him yet. And I

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Speaker 1: get it. You know, he's twelve or seventeen on the year. Now,

516
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: that's just over seventy percent. That is not good enough.

517
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: But I think the Bills coaching staff and the front

518
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: office knew what they were signing up for. This is

519
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 1: not uncommon for even the best of rookie kickers. You know,

520
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: Sam Sloman is another kicker in La cooking for the Rams.

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00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: He's only doing slightly better than Tyler Bass right now.

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Speaker 1: And that's a team that thinks they're going places this

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Speaker 1: year in the NFC. So I think you have to

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Speaker 1: have a certain amount of patients with a rookie kicker,

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00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: and provided that he's not costing you games, give him

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Speaker 1: time to kind of figure it out. I think that's

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00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: where they want to go with Tyler Bass. But make

528
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,479
Speaker 1: no mistake, if it gets to a point where, you know,

529
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 1: the seatings for the playoffs start to get tight and

530
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: he has a bad week, I don't think it's out

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00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility that they would at least

532
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: explore other options going forward. I don't know if you

533
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: feel differently, but yeah, when you when you get a

534
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Speaker 1: chance to try and kick eight field goals in a game.

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Speaker 1: He's a rookie. He needs the time to feel it out,

536
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: and I think if he can get it right by

537
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: the end of the season before we're talking playoffs, then

538
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: this is your answer. This is someone they drafted because

539
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: of his long range. I mean, what do we see

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00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: on social media from Tyler Bass when he was first

541
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,239
Speaker 1: brought onto this team was how he can kick some

542
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: super long field goals sixties. I think he said, as

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00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: longest I can't remember it, one step back, with like

544
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: a one step approach. He's kicking from sixty, So this

545
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: is his strength. I think this coaching staff has hammered

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Speaker 1: into his brain. Forty to forty nine is where you

547
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: make your money. That's your bread and butter. That's what

548
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: you need to be good at. And we'll see as

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00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: the season goes forward. He had a lot of chances

550
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: yesterday was able to make six. I believe in him

551
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: going forward until he shows us otherwise. Yeah. The funny

552
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: thing is thirty to thirty nine has been the buggaboo

553
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: distance for him. He's three of six between thirty and

554
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: thirty nine. I think that's what confounds fans so much.

555
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: They're like, how the hecks are easy? Can a guy

556
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: that can bomb sixty yarders have so much trouble with

557
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: thirty to thirty nine yards? But it's hard to explain

558
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: and I don't have an answer to it. Yesterday, his

559
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: first miss was from forty five, but he did miss

560
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: another between thirty and thirty nine from thirty seven yards away.

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00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: So I understand why it's a concern, but it kind

562
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: of is what it is. Let's squeeze in one more

563
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: phone call here, before we have to step aside for

564
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: a break real quick, we go to uh, who is this?

565
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: This is Steve in canton Ing, Pa? Am I right

566
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: with that? Did I get that correct? Steve Contanning, Pa?

567
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: Thank you? I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that town.

568
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Okay, just south to

569
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: east Brady actually okay, Jim Kelly, Yeah, yeah, obviously one

570
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: of the reasons. I am a Bill's fan living just

571
00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: north of Pittsburgh too, and my grandfather to high school

572
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: with Ted Marchabrotus, so forever Bill's fans, so played football

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00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: with Ted actually in Franklin. So, um, here's what I

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00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: got for you today. I just, um, you know, I

575
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: don't want to go all in on you know, we

576
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: got to run the ball. Why aren't we running the ball?

577
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: I get I like Alan, I like Dable, I like

578
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: what Alan's doing, But I just wonder could we not

579
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: try to establish the run a little more to free

580
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: up Alan to do what he can maybe with some

581
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: more play action. That That's where I'm at that's my question. M.

582
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: That's sort of what I'm thinking moving forward in trying

583
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: to loosen up these defenses a little more. Yeah, I

584
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: get it, Steve Um, I understand. You know you're saying, well,

585
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: let's just have a little more balance on offense. I

586
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: get it. As far as your play action question, obviously,

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00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: you do have to run the ball relatively effectively to have,

588
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: you know, defenses respect the play action fake. But truthfully,

589
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: and I've seen this from advanced analytics sites, you don't

590
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: actually have to run the ball really well to get

591
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: people to buy on the play action fake. Linebackers are

592
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: taught from the time they're knee high, you gotta stop

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00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: the run. You gotta stop the run. You gotta stop

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00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: the run, and so that's just been programmed into them

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00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: from age four or five years old. So even when

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00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: they play against a team that maybe doesn't run it

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00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: that well or run it that often, when you still

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00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: execute the play action fake, it still works. And that's

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00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: been proven by a lot of advanced analytics sites like

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00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: you know, Football Outsiders and a whole bunch of others.

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00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: To take it a step further, though, when you have

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00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: these defenses playing way back, you know these umbrella style

603
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: defenses where they're putting everything in front of them and

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00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: not getting beat deep. Your play action game suffers too,

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00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: because they're all already back there. They're not biting on anything,

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00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: even if the linebackers might be. So really, your only

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00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: open areas are between the second and third levels of

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00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: the defense, and that's why we saw Cole Beasley have

609
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: such a busy day yesterday. Mattie, Yeah, I mean, I

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00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: think one positive that we saw from the run game

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00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: yesterday was Zach Moss had seven attempts for forty seven yards.

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00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: He averaged six point seven yards per carry yesterday. That's

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Speaker 1: something we haven't seen from the rookie Zach Moss. Yes,

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00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: he was hurt with that toe injury for a few games,

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00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: so it was good to see him get involved. Allan

616
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: had sixty one yards on the ground. He's not a

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00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: running back, no, but it was good to see Zach

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Speaker 1: Moss break one off for twenty six rushing yards. That's

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Speaker 1: the second longest rushing play we've seen from running back

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00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: so far this season. I would like to see the

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Speaker 1: run game get a little bit more involved in this

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00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: offense because you're gonna need balance going down the road,

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and not only that, I think most

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00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: people would agree. You don't want Josh Allen to be

625
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: you're leading rusher every week. Yeah, and he was again

626
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: yesterday because he had sixty one yards on eleven carries

627
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: and he out gained the other two. So it's still

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Speaker 1: a work in progress, which is why we're asking you

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Speaker 1: what you think the Bill's identity is. They're five and

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00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: two right now. Do you feel like you have a

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00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: handle on what this Bill's team is? Eight oh three

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

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but we'll be back

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Speaker 1: with more of your phone calls when we return Here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Back on one Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Mandy Glab with you here on a victory Monday, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get back to the phones at eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty Twitter poll. The Bills sit at five and

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Speaker 1: two on the season. What is this team's identity? Let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think as we return to the phones,

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Speaker 1: and we will lead off this segment with Kyle in Albany. Kyle,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. What do you have for us? Hey,

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Speaker 1: guys and girl. A few time long, so good Monday

646
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: every time the Bills win, especially if it's raining and

647
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: cold here in Albany. Yeah. So to answer your question

648
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: about the identity that's actually having a call about, I

649
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: think our identity is patriot esque. You know. Davell obviously

650
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: comes from that long line of Belijack Patriot coaches, and

651
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Speaker 1: I think his idea is, I'm gonna pass this fifty times.

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00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna let the pass it up the run, and

653
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: that's how we're gonna run the offense. A few comments

654
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: on that is yesterday seven o eight in the second

655
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: quarter was the first running back called run. I think

656
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: it was fourteen pass plays in a row, right right,

657
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Speaker 1: And I understand you want to pass us up the

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00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: run up, but we're not where the Patriots are. We're

659
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: too young, we're inexperience. And I think he's trying to

660
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: be too cute. I think he's trying to give Alan

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00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: a little more confidence. I think let's back it up

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00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 1: a little bit. When you're inside the ten yard line,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt to call a run. Play on first down. Now,

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Speaker 1: being a Bills fan, my biggest complaint was stop running

665
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Speaker 1: the ball and first down, and they're having both ways

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Speaker 1: Kyle right now in twenty twenty, it's like, okay, can

667
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: we please just mix in one run here? And I

668
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: think that is going to be our identity going forward.

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Speaker 1: It's just I don't think we're there experience and talent wise,

670
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Speaker 1: but how do you get there by doing it? So

671
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: I guess I can't complain that we don't have the experience.

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00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: We shouldn't do it when he's trying to give the

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Speaker 1: team the experience by doing it. So Defensively, that's a

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Speaker 1: whole another issue. I think we saw a whole different

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Speaker 1: monster on defense, and it's different because they were rushing

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00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 1: a fifth or a sixth person. We couldn't do that

677
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Speaker 1: the first few weeks because we were going against experienced

678
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who would get the ball out quick, or because

679
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: they're just a good offense. So we can't throw a

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00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: fifth or a sixth guy and we're banged up. So

681
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: I think the team struggles with that. But we saw, hey,

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Speaker 1: if we get pressure, this defense is gonna make some turnovers.

683
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Speaker 1: Secondary can play even as banged up as they are,

684
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Speaker 1: but we need to get aggressive. But the problem there

685
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: is you can't get aggressive against a Pat Maholmes. Now,

686
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: you can't get aggressive against a golf with all those

687
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: talented weapons he has around him. So until we get

688
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Speaker 1: healthy or until we get some guys on the D line,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how the defense is really going to

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Speaker 1: fix itself because you can't rush five or six. You're

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Speaker 1: not going to have a Sam Donald week in and

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Speaker 1: week out as you're opposing quarterback. I mean, I'd like

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Speaker 1: to hear what you guys think. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you got to get a d tackle out there is

695
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Speaker 1: the way to go, because it's gonna be a rental

696
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Speaker 1: because you do have Star Luta coming back maybe next year.

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Speaker 1: So I don't want to give a bunch of draft

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Speaker 1: picks away for a guy that might be a one

699
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: or two year player or that will get caught because

700
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: he's not as good as a Star Luta next year.

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Speaker 1: So it's rocking a hard spot. I guess. Yeah, good

702
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: call Kyle Maddie had is that there's lots of unpass

703
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: there's let's start with let's start with the defense first. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the defense is a whole different story. I'm

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00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: we've been waiting for this for seven weeks and we

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Speaker 1: just got it in the second half of Week seven.

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Speaker 1: To see this defense that we knew from last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's not many different faces. Yes, the defense

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00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: does have the newest amount of players with the defensive line,

710
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: but dang, you have a really good secondary, you have

711
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: great linebackers, and the fact that they haven't really been

712
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: able to put it together yet. Yes, you can look

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Speaker 1: at the competition and the quarterbacks that they played against,

714
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,959
Speaker 1: like he said, but still you got to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: This is Week eight that you're going into. And what

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Speaker 1: did the Bill's defense want to do this year? They

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00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to affect the quarterback rushing four only.

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Speaker 1: That is something we heard time and time again from

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier. We want to do it with fort. We

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Speaker 1: want to do it with fort, We want to do

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Speaker 1: it with four. Is the answer being able to send

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Speaker 1: an extra guy every game? You're not going to be

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Speaker 1: able to do that. Yeah, I think you got your spot,

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00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: and I thought they did well to pick their spots

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00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: in this game. But as Kyle pointed out, the threat

726
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: of getting burned was a lot less this week exactly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jamison Crowder, their leading receiver, was not playing

728
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: in this game, and he, you know, torched the Bills

729
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: each of the last two times he's played against them. Granted,

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00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: he got one big play in the Week one game

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Speaker 1: off a mistackle. Denzel Mims was playing in his first

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Speaker 1: NFL game, you know, and Chris Herndon, who is a

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Speaker 1: very talented tight end, is a guy that for some

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Speaker 1: reason they don't call plays for so and Breshad Perriman

735
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: was just coming back from a two week absence for injury.

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Speaker 1: So I think Leslie Frasier felt more comfortable saying I'm

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Speaker 1: going to send some dbs here, you know, guys with

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Speaker 1: speed that can get in the backfield quickly, and we're

739
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: just gonna overwhelm them with numbers and hopefully that you know,

740
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: gets to Darnold is effective Hurry's throws or you know,

741
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Speaker 1: God God willing get him on the ground. And they

742
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: did that six times in the game. And the thing

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Speaker 1: that I liked the most was how if you remember,

744
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: on the first two scoring drives, they were running a

745
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: good number of bootlegs and design rollouts for Darnold to

746
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: kind of roll away from any pressure and get him

747
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: out of the pocket to make plays on the run,

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Speaker 1: which he is good at. And yet in the second

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00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,479
Speaker 1: half they completely shut that down by sending some extra

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00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: guys on wider approach angles, and it kept Darnald hemmed

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00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: in the pocket. And then from there, you know, the

752
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: big uglies for the Bills just kind of collapse things,

753
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: and they just squeezed it down on him and he

754
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: had nowhere to go, nowhere to step up into the

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00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: pocket to escape the pressure. And I think that's why

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00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: it works so effectively, and I think we all hope

757
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: we see more of that. But it's one game, right

758
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: Like there is there convincing evidence. I mean, you want

759
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: to say, well, yeah, this is the top five defense

760
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: the last two years, but the first six weeks of

761
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: the season didn't look like that at all. I mean,

762
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Speaker 1: only when we removed from them giving up two hundred

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00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: and forty five riding yards, yes, you know, to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's cautious optimism because of what we've

765
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Speaker 1: seen earlier this season, just a couple of weeks ago.

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00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: I think this defensive line is still trying to figure

767
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: it out. I think I underestimated how much chemistry you

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Speaker 1: need on defensive line. I think we hear how much

769
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: chemistry you need on an offensive line, and that was

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Speaker 1: the narrative the last two years, especially last season with

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Speaker 1: a really new offensive line and getting that chemistry at

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and each other. And I didn't think this

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Speaker 1: year we would need that chemistry with the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: I kind of just thought, Oh, we've got these great players,

775
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to put it together right away.

776
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: Well maybe they didn't, and maybe they still need to

777
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: figure that out. And Leslie Fraser in the beginning of

778
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: the season talked about how they want to mix and

779
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: match and pair and send a bunch of people in

780
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: and rotate quite a bit. Maybe that's not the answer.

781
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: So I think this defensive line truly is still trying

782
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: to figure out that identity that might be the glue

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00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: that this defense needs. I will say I think the

784
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: defense showed a lot of charity yesterday and being able

785
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: to make those halftime adjustments and have them come out

786
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 1: looking like an entirely different defense in the second half.

787
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: It couldn't have looked any better. It really couldn't. I mean,

788
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: four yards is all you need to say. Four yards

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Speaker 1: sixteen plays four yards. Thanks for coming. We have to

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Speaker 1: take a break, but when we come back, we'll get

791
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Speaker 1: to more of your phone calls. But we also have,

792
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Speaker 1: in the spirit of Halloween, some spooky stats to bring

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Speaker 1: your way. We will do that when we return. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Mandy Glab with you here on a Victory Monday one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're racing through our number one of the Victory Monday

797
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Maddy Glab with you,

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Speaker 1: and we did want to, in the spirit of Halloween,

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Speaker 1: get to what we like to call this week anyway,

800
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: some spooky that's spooky, yes, so, um, hey, Halloween's on Saturday.

801
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: We have every right to do this. Yeah, whatever the

802
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: heck we want. It's our show. Um, so yeah, we

803
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: wanted to bring some statistics to your attention that came

804
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: out of this game. And Maddie, why don't you lead

805
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: us off with what we have here on the Spooky

806
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: stat rundown. So some spooky stats, some things we don't

807
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: see often in football games. We had a lot of

808
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: those things yesterday. Some things that make you scratch your

809
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: head and go huh, how how did this happen? How

810
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: did the Bills win the game even though this didn't happened.

811
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Speaker 1: One of those things was we had zero punts in

812
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Speaker 1: this game. The Bills have punted the ball once in

813
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 1: the last two games. What like, Yeah, that that does

814
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: not happen often. Zero punts. Corey Bojorquez were on the

815
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Speaker 1: sline yesterday, Buddy, he said, like two buye weeks. He said,

816
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: to kick the ball one time in the last two weeks.

817
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: I mean, that's like a buye and a half. The

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Speaker 1: thing that the thing that the reason that catches me

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Speaker 1: by s P so much is because you look at

820
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: the final score eighteen to ten, and I think you

821
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: just automatically assume in your head, well they had to

822
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: punk three or four times, you only scored eighteen points,

823
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: and that was just not the case. So that one, Yeah,

824
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: that struck me as strange as well. The other one

825
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: another spooky stat. The Bills had four hundred twenty two

826
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Speaker 1: total yards of offense and as we know, zero touchdowns

827
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: and over five in the red zone. The big reason

828
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: for that. Taking that four hundred twenty two yards of

829
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Speaker 1: total offense a step further, Maddie the Jets, as we know,

830
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: had almost no yards in the second half. They finished

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Speaker 1: with one hundred and ninety in the game, so the

832
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: total net yardage differential was two hundred and thirty two yards.

833
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: The Bills had two hundred thirty two more yards than

834
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Speaker 1: the Jets did in this game, and only one by eight.

835
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Speaker 1: But the last time the Bills had like a net

836
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 1: yardage differential this large was Week twelve last season against

837
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: the Broncos when they had the backup quarterback in that

838
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: game if I remember right, and they had they outgained

839
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: him by two hundred and ninety yards. So first time

840
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: since Week twelve the last year they had such a

841
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Speaker 1: yardage differential. So crazy. Another spooky stats something we haven't

842
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: really seen from this Bill's offense and something that you're like, hmm,

843
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty two total yards of offense. Yes,

844
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: we've covered that, But would you think they only converted

845
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Speaker 1: three of eleven third downs if they had four or

846
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Speaker 1: twenty two total yards of offense? I mean not that

847
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: probably a little bit tough to do. And the reason

848
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Speaker 1: why I'm saying three out of eleven and focusing on

849
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: third down conversion here is because the Bills are Going

850
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 1: into this game, they were ranked first in the NFL

851
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: converting third downs fifty six point two percent of the time.

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Speaker 1: They had the second most third down conversions with forty one.

853
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: Not so much here in this game. You you wish

854
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: they could have gotten a few more third down conversions,

855
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: but alas, they still win the game. Yeah, they're now

856
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: second in the league and third down conversions after last

857
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: week's after Sunday's game. Yeah, and you see four and

858
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: twenty two yards and you say to yourself, Okay, the

859
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: reason they were three of eleven on third downs, it's

860
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: because they must have had some giant plays that went

861
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: for big time, you know, like a ninety yard touchdown

862
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: or something like that. That's how they got to four

863
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: twenty two, only converting three times. But no, it was

864
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: like Nickel and Diamond their way down the field the

865
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: whole game. That's what made the stats so weird or spooky.

866
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: In this case. This is a number we've already heard.

867
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: The four yards of total offense in the second half

868
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: by the Jets. That was the fewest I remember reading

869
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: a New York paper this morning. The fewest yards in

870
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: the second half by the Jets in over forty years.

871
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: As bad as the Jets have been over the years,

872
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: to say that is that's something special. So so good

873
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 1: on them. But I'm gonna leave the best one for you, Mandy,

874
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: because this was kind of a cool one. We're going

875
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: back to like World War two era for this very spooky.

876
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: The Bills are the first NFL team since when nineteen

877
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: forty to win a game without a punt or a touchdown.

878
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, that's uh. That would seem to be hard

879
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: to do. No touch It's hard to win when you

880
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: don't score touchdowns in the NFL. But I guess if

881
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: the other teams having just as tough a time, it

882
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: makes it possible. And what did what did they say?

883
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,720
Speaker 1: It was the fourth game in Francise history the Bills

884
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: did not punt, and the last time they did not

885
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: punt was nineteen ninety two against the forty nine. That's

886
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: a rather famous game because you know, the Niners were

887
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: still a Super Bowl contender and the Bills had already

888
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: gone to two Super Bowls, and that was I want

889
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: to say, it was a Sunday night game and that

890
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: was super entertaining. The Bills won that game. I honestly,

891
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: it was like thirty four thirty one or something, and

892
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: neither team punted. It was Jim Kelly and I think

893
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: it was Steve Young at that point in time because

894
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: Montana had moved on to Kansas City and it was

895
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: just it was electric. It was just going back and

896
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: forth and it was not eighteen to ten. Let's just

897
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: say that, Okay, last one, last spooky stat. The Bills

898
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:12,280
Speaker 1: had three defensive backs participate in sacks yesterday. Jordan Poyer

899
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,760
Speaker 1: all by himself, and then Tredevious White and Dean Marlowe

900
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: each had a half sack in the game yesterday, kind

901
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: of demonstrating how effective those defensive back blitz plays were

902
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: for Buffalo yesterday because a lot of those guys were

903
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: the ones that ended up getting to the quarterback and

904
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: they mixed and match guys, so it was very effective

905
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: tactic by coach Fraser and the defensive staff, and those

906
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: guys came through, so good on them. I think it's

907
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: the first time in quite some time that they had

908
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: three dbs in the same game participate in a sack.

909
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have that in front of

910
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: me anywhere here. I saw the year, but of course

911
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: I cannot remember it. But good on them to also

912
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: do that without your two starting corners. Yes, you had

913
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,919
Speaker 1: Tredavious Widen, but you had Dane Jackson and we're we're

914
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: not super strong. On the other side of the ball.

915
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: Leevy wall is still on IR. Josh Norman did not

916
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: play because he got banged up in practice last week,

917
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: so it was nice to see the Dbs had a

918
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: good game statistically, being able to dial up sacks like

919
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: that gets some passes defended. So yeah, I found it.

920
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: So this is only the second time since sacks became

921
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: an official stat in eighty two that the Bills had

922
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: three defensive backs with at least a half sack each.

923
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: The only other time that happened in Bill's history was

924
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: on November twenty first, two thousand and four against Saint

925
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: Louis the Saint Louis Rams, where Lawyer Malloy, Terence McGee,

926
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: and Jabari Greer all had sacks, and all three of

927
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: those were defensive backs. So it's been a minute. We

928
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: have to take a break, but when we come back,

929
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: we'll get to more of your phone calls. We also

930
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: have Eric Wood coming up in about an hour and

931
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: he will be with us for the entire final hour

932
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: of this victory. Monday edition of One Bill's Live, presented

933
00:48:54,360 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello, Bill's

934
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:14,439
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

935
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 1: The Bills improved to five and two on the season

936
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: behind yesterday's eighteen ten win over the Jets, Tyler Bass

937
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 1: knocking six field goals up and through as the defense

938
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,320
Speaker 1: came alive in the second half, limiting the Jets to

939
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: just four total net yards in the second half. Next

940
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: up to Patriots coming this Sunday here at Bill's Stadium.

941
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: Bill's had a number of Bills starters missing yesterday's game.

942
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: We'll get an update from head coach Sean McDermot when

943
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 1: he meets with the media later this afternoon. The Patriots, meanwhile,

944
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: we're dealt another loss at thirty three to six thumping

945
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 1: at the hands of the forty nine ers. Cam Newton

946
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 1: threw three interceptions, benched in favor of Jarrett Stidham. After

947
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: the game, New England head coach Bill Belichick said Newton

948
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: was absolutely still the starter. Patriots fault to two and

949
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 1: four on the season. Bill sit alone atop the AFC

950
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: East following Week seven with a two game lead over

951
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: the three and three Dolphins, who were on their bye week.

952
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are hosting the Jets on Sunday in a

953
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: game that matches the defending Super Bowl champs against the

954
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: league's only winless team People. The point spread is huge.

955
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are favored by twenty one and a half points.

956
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: Good Lord injury news from around the NFL. Brown's wide

957
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: receiver Odell Beckham Junior has a torn acl and will

958
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: miss the rest of the twenty twenty season. It's a

959
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 1: devastating blow for Cleveland, who improved to five and two

960
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: on the season Sunday with a win over Cincinnati. Cowboys.

961
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: Qb Andy Dalton suffered a concussion in the third quarter

962
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 1: on a hit by Washington's John Bostick, who was ejected

963
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: from the game afterwards. Reports Monday say Bostik is not

964
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: expected to be suspended for the hit. Dalton was making

965
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: a second start in place of injured start at Dak Prescott.

966
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: The Cowboys lost the game twenty five to three. Finally,

967
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: the Dodgers moved within a game of capturing the World

968
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,399
Speaker 1: Series title after last night's four two win over the Rays.

969
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,760
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw held the race to two runs while striking

970
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 1: out six, running his postseason career strikeout total at two

971
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 1: o seven. LA now leads the series three games to

972
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: two games. Six is Tuesday night, and that is your

973
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive hour number two of

974
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: One Bills Live as Chris Brown Mandy Glab broadcasting live

975
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studios here in Orchard Park. And we

976
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: do want to get back to your phone calls, as

977
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: we do have some people waiting patiently, so we will

978
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: do that now, and we'll hit around the locker room

979
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: in due course here in the one o'clock hour. But

980
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: we begin with Charles in cheek to waga. Charles, what

981
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: do you have for us? Welcome to One Bills Live. Hi,

982
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I just wanted to remind you

983
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: that you're up. The identity of the boat always been

984
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: a book college team that shows up. That's what it

985
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: has to do. And thanks. Good business. As my movie

986
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: used to say, why would you rather be this here? Okay,

987
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: fair enough, blue collar team that just does what it

988
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: has to do to get the job done. I guess

989
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: that's fair. They've won five out of seven, so and

990
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 1: I understand they've done it in some some very different

991
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: ways with yesterday being the latest way to win games.

992
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: And you know we heard Josh Allen in the locker

993
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: room afterwards, you know, on the victory huddle video that

994
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: we have on Buffalo bills dot com. You know, he said,

995
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: the good teams win the ugly ones too. I don't

996
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: know if i'd call yesterday ugly. I think it was

997
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,839
Speaker 1: different more than anything else. I don't know if i'd

998
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: call it ugly. I mean, they moved the ball without

999
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: a problem. I wouldn't say it was the prettiest win, right.

1000
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: It wasn't ugly, But it wasn't like, wow, dang, who

1001
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: are these Buffalo Bills. It was like, oh, you kicked

1002
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: six field goals to win the game. Okay, I mean, yeah,

1003
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: you got the job done. It wasn't ugly in the

1004
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: second half for the defense. In the first half it

1005
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: was ugly for the defense. So yeah, they get the

1006
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: job done. But what about the week before when they

1007
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: could have gotten the job done and they were down

1008
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: by one score and had them in a third and

1009
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,439
Speaker 1: twelve situation against the Chiefs and couldn't get the job done.

1010
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: So I don't agree with that part. I think there

1011
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: are times where they could have gotten the job done

1012
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: and haven't yet. Going forward, We'll see if they can

1013
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: build off of getting a win yesterday when it wasn't

1014
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: the best looking when when you look at how the

1015
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: game was put together and how they were able to

1016
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: string those points together. But yeah, blue collar, I mean,

1017
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: that's what this team has been the last few years.

1018
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: It's a reflection of their head coach. Because the head

1019
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: coach is blue collar through and through. I don't think

1020
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: there's any question about that. But I think because of

1021
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: the different ways that they have won games this year,

1022
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: I think it's hard for just about everybody to peg

1023
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: or put a label on this team as to what

1024
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: they are. I mean, you look at the Chiefs. I

1025
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: think people know what they are there, Pat Rahomes in

1026
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: a high flying passing game. Their defense is pretty good.

1027
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: It's not great, but it's pretty good. Baltimore, it's Lamar

1028
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 1: Jackson and running the hell out of the ball. They're

1029
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: having trouble now because their passing game isn't balancing their

1030
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: offense out quite enough. Steelers. You know, it's a high

1031
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: octane offense that can run the ball and throw the

1032
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: ball and a top five defense, So you know that's

1033
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: their identity. Titans are a smash mouth football team that

1034
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,439
Speaker 1: suddenly can throw the ball all over the yard, so

1035
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: with play action more than anything else. Those are defined

1036
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 1: identities and you see it from those teams pretty much

1037
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: every single week. And since we haven't seen a formula

1038
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: for winning that's been consistent with the Bills, even though

1039
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 1: they're five and two and they're in great position division wise,

1040
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: I think trying to identify just what they are has

1041
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,359
Speaker 1: proven difficult because of the different ways in which they've

1042
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: won games, with yesterday being probably the latest example of that,

1043
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: because it's a very different way than some of the

1044
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 1: other wins that they've had so far this season. Let's

1045
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: go back to the phones and we go to who

1046
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: do we have here? Luke north of the border in Brandon, Ontario. Luke,

1047
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live. Hey,

1048
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 1: Chris say, Mattie, how are you doing? Maddie. Nice to

1049
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: hear you on the air. M Yeah, listen, I think.

1050
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 1: And it's funny, Chris, you just talked about all the teams.

1051
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: He took the words right out of my mouth. As

1052
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 1: far as with their identities are, I mean, you've got

1053
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: a lot of Bill Bills fans here north of the border.

1054
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 1: I'll just give a quick shout out to the bdgu group.

1055
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: There's only one guy in our group that's a Niners fan,

1056
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 1: But that's okay. We're on in the year anyway. But

1057
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: all I gotta say for the Bills right now, for us,

1058
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:44,880
Speaker 1: I would call them resilient. And why I say that is,

1059
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:46,760
Speaker 1: I mean the last number of years with the Bills

1060
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: and with drafting Allen and I love him. I think

1061
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: he's he's done a great job. And you guys have

1062
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: said it yourself. He's progressing, he's he's making smarter plays.

1063
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 1: But in the lot sumber of years, we had a defense,

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00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: and when that defense came out of the field, it

1065
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: was just like, you know, shut down city, and we

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00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: could we could have some time to try and figure

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00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 1: out our offense now flow and behold, this year, Alan

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00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: starts to figure it out early in the first four

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00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,720
Speaker 1: games and everybody's pumping their arms, and then our defense

1070
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 1: looks a little off. To be honest, I'm not too

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00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: worried about that. I think again, our team is resilient.

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00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: I think they're on any given Sunday, as long as

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00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: we keep it close, we can win. I liked the

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00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,320
Speaker 1: game plan against Kansas City. I watched the postgame reports,

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00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: I watched mcdermot's press conference. I liked the style. I

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00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: like what they set up. Honestly, that game was completely winnable.

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00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: In the fourth we almost almost had a strip for

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00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: a fumble that kind of got called back as a

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00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: guy as knee was down, unfortunately, but I mean, if

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00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:51,760
Speaker 1: we made that stop on third and twelve, I honestly

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00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: am at a point where I kind of feel good

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00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: with Alan having the ball at the end of the game.

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00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: I really do. I think he can win it. I

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00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: think if we keep it close. We saw it against

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00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: U the Rams, I mean, like everything came falling apart

1086
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,280
Speaker 1: and then we get the ball back he scores a touchdown.

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00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: Like I mean, we are resilient if we keep it close,

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00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: and I think teams will probably know that coming against

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00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: the Bills, a little bit of struggle on defense. I

1090
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: think everybody's aware of that right now. I think if

1091
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: we work hard, harder than anybody else, we can correct that.

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00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: I think we got the guys. We're all united. But

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00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: if the games are close and it's winnable, that's my

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00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: take on the Bills. Honestly, and I mean I'm pumped

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00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,959
Speaker 1: for every Sunday. Got my wife and my son wearing

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00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: their jerseys. Now me and my buddies are watching it

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00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: every Sunday and we're pumped. But let me tell you,

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00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: I mean that game yesterday against the Jets, we had

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00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: to win. That I would have liked a more convincing win,

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00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: I mean a ws a W. But I looked ahead

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00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: at the schedule coming up, and I mean, we got Arizona,

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00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: we got Pittsburgh, we got Seattle, New England's should be

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00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: on paper at gimme. But you know, I mean we

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00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: need to win that game. That these are really good teams,

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00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: and again we need to take that resilience to the

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00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: next step. We need to fix the defense and bring

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00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: it back to a top ten like he used to be,

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00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: and continue progressing on offense. And I think, honestly, we're

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00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: going to be in a good spot. I mean, I'm

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00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:28,919
Speaker 1: hoping for a home playoff game. I'm hoping for a win,

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00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: and then anything above and beyond that this year is

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00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: a bonus in my opinion. I don't know, I like

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00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: your guys take on it, but that's right. I think,

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00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: all right, Luke, good call. We appreciate it, you know, Maddie.

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00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: The thing that he said about Josh is what sticks

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00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: with me because you look at his numbers in the

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00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. This is a guy who's leading the AFC

1118
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: in fourth quarter passer rating with a mark of one thirty.

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00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: We've got five touchdowns and one pick in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter this season. I think he's complete and almost seventy

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00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: five percent of his passes. I kind of agree with Luke.

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00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: If this team keeps it close late in the game

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00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: and then you put the ball in Josh's hands at

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00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: the end, more often than not, he's going to deliver

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00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 1: for you. Because he might not be the most consistent

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00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: quarterback in the universe, but he's a clutch quarterback. I

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00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 1: think we can say that. And I like the word

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00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: resilient that was used. I think Josh Allen is a

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00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: resilient quarterback in the way that he's never going to

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00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: give up for his team. Yes, some of those decisions

1131
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: late in the game when the game is on the

1132
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: line maybe a little bit questionable when you get hero

1133
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: ball Josh Allen that has showed up one or two

1134
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: times this season, but that's him trying to do everything

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00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: he can for his team to get a win. I

1136
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: think he's gotten better about it this season. I think

1137
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 1: those decisions that he made yesterday showed huge progress in

1138
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,959
Speaker 1: taking what the defense gives him and not going for

1139
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: maybe those deep ball passes that he wanted to throw

1140
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: to string some points on the scoreboard a little bit

1141
00:59:56,520 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: more yesterday than just field goals. But yeah, is resilient.

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01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: I think one thing that we're getting from a lot

1143
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: of these callers is that this team is a work

1144
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: in progress. Maybe their identity isn't set yet and we're

1145
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 1: waiting for their identity to hopefully be set by the playoffs. Yeah,

1146
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: and a lot of teams, you know, they say, hey,

1147
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: we're not worried about peaking in September and October. You know,

1148
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: talk to us in November and December, somewhere between Thanksgiving

1149
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: and Christmas. That's when you want to be kind of

1150
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: peeking and really showing the type of team that you

1151
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: are and playing your most consistent football. And if they're

1152
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 1: on the way to doing that, well, then I'm all

1153
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 1: for it. I just think people are wondering, well, just

1154
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: what they're five and two? That's great? What the what

1155
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: is this team? Yeah? I think I think a lot

1156
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: of Bills fans are waking up this morning still scratching

1157
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: their heads to try to figure out just what they are.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Johnny and Niagara Wheatfield. Johnny, what do

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01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: you have for us? Welcome to the one Bills Live. Hey,

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01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my phone call. On second but leaving

1161
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: Viola's picking up some stuffs for the staff. Oh well, yeah,

1162
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: you got some for us? Yeah, send them down. So

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Speaker 1: I've been coaching for almost twenty years now, and when

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01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: I first started coaching, I realized that when you have

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01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: to run and stop the run. What's that said? I

1166
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: would like to ask you guys, would you agree that

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01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is our the best player on our football team,

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01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: if not one of the top three. Yeah, I mean

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01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: I would say he's the most physically gifted, certainly on

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01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. I mean, Stefan Diggs

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01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: is right there. You know, John Brown's pretty special. I

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01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 1: don't think Dawson Knox has realized his full potential as

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01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 1: a football player, but man, he's a heck of an athlete. Yes,

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01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: but yes, I would say Josh is probably your best

1175
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: athlete on the offensive side of the ball. Sure, yeah,

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01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: definitely I think Josh Allen is one of the best

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Speaker 1: players for sure. I'm coaching j V at Nigre week Field,

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01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: so I usually try to try to get extract most

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01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: value out of my good players. So I'll let him

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Speaker 1: play both sides of the ball. And with our defensive

1181
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: line struggling, do you think there's a chance that we

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01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: made but Josh Allen is like a defensive linement or

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01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 1: that's a no. It's a no. But I mean, I

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01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: will say this. I asked Josh we were doing an

1185
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,440
Speaker 1: interview earlier in the season, and I asked him, if

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01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: you had to play any other position, what would it be,

1187
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 1: And he said defensive end. But he said that's never

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01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: ever going to happen. Like in high school, you can

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01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: do that. You have two way players all the time,

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01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: and you want to maximize your best players because at

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01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 1: the high school level you don't have forty really good players.

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01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: You may only have five, you know, like top end kids,

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01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:40,919
Speaker 1: you may only have five. Well, you're going to play

1194
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: those guys like crazy on the field whenever you can.

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01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: In the NFL, everybody's good. You got a plethora good players,

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01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 1: so you don't have to go to those lengths. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in another life, I really would like to see Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen play a couple snaps at outside linebacker or defensive end,

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Speaker 1: just to see what he would be able to do

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01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: against an offense. But you're going to terrify people if

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01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: you do that. Yeah, it's going to terrify fans if

1202
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: they see him out. There's not going not going to happen,

1203
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: all right. We do have to get to some of

1204
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: our comments from around the locker room after yesterday's eighteen

1205
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Speaker 1: to ten victory, which is brought to you by Connect Life,

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01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: the Blood and organ Donor Network, and we want to

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01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 1: begin with coach McDermott. Obviously, this was his take on

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01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: the eight point victory over the Jets. That was a

1209
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 1: character when it was a tough week, I get another

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01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 1: short week. It'll be good to be on a normal

1211
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 1: schedule this week for the first time in a few

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Speaker 1: weeks here. But you know, guys, just we knew it

1213
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: was gonna be like this. You come, you know, you

1214
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: plan in the NFL every weeks like this, and you

1215
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: got to find a way to win. And again I

1216
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: thought it was a character win and the guys show

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01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,920
Speaker 1: their character through this game. We got down early we

1218
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: chipped away. I thought Josh did a good of it

1219
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 1: being patient and in trusting the guys around with him,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we moved the ball. Like I said,

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01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: we just gotta gotta be able to convert convert those

1222
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: into seven. So another great lesson for our football team, Uh,

1223
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Speaker 1: you know, and we'll go back to the drawing board

1224
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:19,919
Speaker 1: this week. Then a win is a win is a win.

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01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 1: And we saw him in the post game too, Maddie

1226
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: where he was just telling his guys, hey, just keep

1227
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: finding a way, keep finding a way. We you don't

1228
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: get style points. All you get is an extra number

1229
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: in the win column. And they were able to do that. So. Um.

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01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen also with his take on the victory and

1231
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: more specifically the offensive performance, I think we did a

1232
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 1: good job of moving the ball. Um. Obviously the stat's

1233
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 1: going to speak for it itself. Um, we gotta find

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01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 1: ways to finish in the end zone. It's gonna be

1235
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: better on my part. Um, you know, couple couple penalties

1236
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: pushed us back and put us in a bad position. Uh.

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01:04:57,960 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 1: And shout out to to t Bass for you know,

1238
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: obviously making making those field goals and getting us to win.

1239
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 1: So Um, you know, we'll take a good look at it.

1240
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 1: And Jets did a good job of, you know, kind

1241
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: of allowing everything underneath and rolling to the ball and

1242
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 1: not letting anything over the top. But there's still certain

1243
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: situations where I could have put the ball in better

1244
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: spots where we could have given ourselves a chance in

1245
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: the end zone. So I know that. Again, it's a

1246
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 1: division win. You know, we're gonna take these and we

1247
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 1: can get it. Weren't take all the wins we can

1248
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: get them. You know, wins aren't easy in the NFL.

1249
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 1: So again, it's a win. He doesn't sound all that satisfied,

1250
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: doesn't he It's a win. We move on to the

1251
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: next one. Not that satisfied, but hey, it's a win.

1252
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 1: He had his fourth three hundred yard game yesterday, and

1253
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:43,480
Speaker 1: the last time someone did that was Drew Blood So

1254
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two, and Eric Wood brought up

1255
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: this great point. He was like, we were all like

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01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 1: so pumped about his first three hundred yard game and

1257
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 1: then his second three hundred yard game. Now he is

1258
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 1: his fourth, and we're like, oh whatever, they could have

1259
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: blid better on off once well, and he got it

1260
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 1: in a very different way. We actually had a feature

1261
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Speaker 1: story by our colleague Jordan Lebarbera on Buffalo Hills dot

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01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: Com outlining how yesterday's three hundred game was achieved in

1263
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: a very different way than what we saw the first

1264
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 1: few weeks of the season, when he was just chucking

1265
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: footballs all over the place. I mean, it was almost

1266
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: all underneath. The longest play in the game was the

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01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft passed down the sideline, which could have gone

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01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 1: for more yardage. And my god, how fast did Daniel

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01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: Jones tweets pop up on poor Tyler Croft. My goodness.

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01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: I mean, give the guy a break. He's a new dad.

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Speaker 1: He makes a big play, he might have a lot

1272
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 1: of sleep the night. That's right, Yes, very good point, Maddie.

1273
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 1: But that was the longest play from scrimmage. And then

1274
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:40,320
Speaker 1: the next one after that was the Cole Beasley catch

1275
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 1: that went for twenty three yards I think on the

1276
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,919
Speaker 1: first possession of the game. So to get to three

1277
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 1: hundred with not a lot of long balls, I mean

1278
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: that that took some doing. So defensively, we don't want

1279
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 1: to go without recognition for the defense in yesterday's game.

1280
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer, who had a sack in the game, was

1281
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 1: of this opinion on the defensive performance against the Jets.

1282
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: You know, obviously we haven't been playing well the past

1283
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 1: few weeks, and so to come out here and you know,

1284
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 1: hold a team to ten points. Um, you know, you know,

1285
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 1: you never want to say you're satisfied. Obviously there's some

1286
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 1: things out there that, um, we could have done better.

1287
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: But you know, in the end, you know, wins the

1288
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: win us. It's we'll have some good tape to learn from,

1289
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 1: some good moments situational football. I'll be able to learn from.

1290
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,400
Speaker 1: You know, they had that Um you know, I think

1291
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: it's third and twenty. Uh, you know, going towards their tunnel.

1292
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 1: Just plays like that. You know we shouldn't be giving

1293
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: up Um, you know, third and long plays like that.

1294
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 1: So I said, you know, nowhere you're perfect, but uh,

1295
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, we got to win, and uh, you know,

1296
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 1: we're excited. We're excited about it. I gotta believe it

1297
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 1: had to feel good for this defense to finally turn

1298
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: in a point allowed performance like that yesterday. I know

1299
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: it's the Jets and people are gonna knock it, but

1300
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 1: just for their own psyche, don't you think that that's

1301
01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: gonna go that that game may not register as much

1302
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: with fans, but the psyche of that defense, I think

1303
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,720
Speaker 1: it's going to go a long way. And one thing

1304
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: that I want to point out from the defense that

1305
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: we haven't really talked about yet is the fact that

1306
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: the Jets only converted two of eight third downs. The

1307
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: defense going into yesterday's game was ranked thirtieth against third down,

1308
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 1: allowing offenses to complete or to convert fifty three point

1309
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 1: five percent of third downs. The last two games they

1310
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:27,440
Speaker 1: gave up sixty percent and then sixty four percent yesterday,

1311
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 1: two of eight for the Jets converting third downs, So

1312
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 1: they've got to feel good about that too. Yeah, and

1313
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: that's a great segue, Mannie, because next up we have

1314
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes from around the locker room, and what a game.

1315
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:40,639
Speaker 1: He had. Tied for the team lead with six tackles,

1316
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: had two sacks, also had a couple of quarterback hits

1317
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: and the interception as well as the forced fumble which

1318
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: didn't result in a turnover. But still at all you

1319
01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:50,760
Speaker 1: want to talk about a lot of crooked numbers and

1320
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 1: a lot of defensive stack categories, Jerry Hughes had him

1321
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:56,080
Speaker 1: in spades yesterday. But here is his take on what

1322
01:08:56,320 --> 01:09:00,720
Speaker 1: made the defense so successful. Definitely to come out here

1323
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 1: and set the tone. I think that was just all

1324
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: of us on the Devens the side of the ball.

1325
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: We understood this challenge was a division game. It was

1326
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 1: another chance for us to beat the Jets at their

1327
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: home field, and so he wanted to come up there

1328
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: and do so. And then also I spoke about us

1329
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:17,639
Speaker 1: getting up the field on third downs, putting our office

1330
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 1: in positions to get the ball at score, and that

1331
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 1: was another challenge that coach brought up to us this week,

1332
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 1: and we were able to go out there and do it.

1333
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: So whenever we get fast the challenge, it looks like that,

1334
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:29,679
Speaker 1: we'll come out and answer room. We just got to

1335
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 1: figure out a way to finish these games off like

1336
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 1: we're doing now and just keep playing hard. It's the NFL.

1337
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: They're going to have teams that are coming and they're

1338
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 1: gonna fight you for sixty minutes, so there's no easy winning.

1339
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: I'm happy we came out here and took care of

1340
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 1: business on the road. They did that and got the

1341
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: steps on third down. As Maddie pointed out, well what

1342
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: would around the locker room be without the guy that

1343
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 1: provided all the points. On Sunday one, Tyler Bass on

1344
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:59,600
Speaker 1: his performance, especially after missing that first kick of his

1345
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:04,639
Speaker 1: hated tempts yesterday. Here's Tyler. Yeah, you know, coach always

1346
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,759
Speaker 1: talks about character um. You know, it's really not about

1347
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: how many you make. It's about what you do after

1348
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:12,720
Speaker 1: you after a miss, after something goes wrong. Anyone can

1349
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 1: handle stuff when things are easy. It's just about when

1350
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 1: something goes wrong. She's about how do you handle that.

1351
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: You know, you don't let it define you, and you

1352
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:21,720
Speaker 1: just do and you just trust everything that you've done

1353
01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: in practice that week, and you just put it in

1354
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 1: the show, put it to show. So it was I

1355
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 1: think it was the most encouraging thing was that he

1356
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 1: came back from that and hit four in a row.

1357
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 1: That was certainly an encouraging sign. Where it goes from here,

1358
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:39,160
Speaker 1: we'll just have to wait until his next attempt. Unfortunately,

1359
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 1: this is a very cutthroat what have you done for

1360
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,280
Speaker 1: me lately? League, So he's going to have to be

1361
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,840
Speaker 1: right back at it this week and what is going

1362
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:49,759
Speaker 1: to be a very big division game. I'm really happy

1363
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: that I'm not a kicker in the NFL because that

1364
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: would be so nerve wracking, especially to miss one and

1365
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:57,880
Speaker 1: then to go back out on the field and have

1366
01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:02,200
Speaker 1: another opportunity to make a field goal. He had eight chances,

1367
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 1: was able to make six of those eight. But man,

1368
01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 1: after a missed kick, I would be like, oh, row

1369
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: line in a basketball game. Everybody's watching you and the

1370
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 1: play is stopped and it's on you to deliver. Yeah.

1371
01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:22,680
Speaker 1: So good that he came back from it, um, you know,

1372
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: and hopefully has a good week of practice and can

1373
01:11:24,439 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 1: get right back on the ball this week. And as

1374
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,719
Speaker 1: what we said is going to be a very important

1375
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: division game against the Patriots, as the Bills are trying

1376
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: to vanquish the demons and finally beat this team during

1377
01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:38,880
Speaker 1: the Sean McDermott era, it has not happened to this point.

1378
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: I know Bills fans will be hoping that it finally

1379
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 1: comes to pass on Sunday. So that is your connect

1380
01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:47,799
Speaker 1: life around the locker room, your blood and organ donor network.

1381
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 1: We do want to get in a couple of more

1382
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 1: phone calls before we have to take a break here

1383
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: because we do have the Maddie Awards coming up after

1384
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: the break, so we'll be getting to those shortly. But

1385
01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 1: we go to Mark in Missouri, mark out in the

1386
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 1: middle of the country. What do you have for us?

1387
01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 1: Well in the one Bills Live. Actually it's Jersey City,

1388
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: but that's okay, Jersey City, Okay, people can't hear It's

1389
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 1: all good. Um, good luck today with the Spurs, Chris,

1390
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:18,440
Speaker 1: thank you there Um yesterday. It was it was frustrating,

1391
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:20,680
Speaker 1: but it was also gratifying to see Allen. You know,

1392
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: he got the three, but it was the most like

1393
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even game And I just think that speaks

1394
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 1: to his development, his willingness to take what the des

1395
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 1: give him any for the kill shot when he had

1396
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: a chance. I mean the one know what the penalty

1397
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 1: was on Davis because they never replay hit for lining

1398
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 1: up and costing them a touchdown. Um, the he waited

1399
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 1: for him to clear the safety before he threw it.

1400
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 1: Otherwise he would have thrown it towards the middle of

1401
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: the field. He would take a funny angle. Um. It

1402
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 1: was frustrating though, to watch them continuously do these I

1403
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: don't know, these gimmicky jet sweeps. A jet sweep motion

1404
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:03,680
Speaker 1: I think kills the rhythm and one big loss they

1405
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,280
Speaker 1: had eleven yards that really knocked them back. I just

1406
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 1: would like to see some more meat and potatoes runs,

1407
01:13:08,439 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 1: especially with Moss getting his legs under him, and just

1408
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: work in some basic runs. Just run the ball, let

1409
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 1: the offensive line work on its combo blocking, and just

1410
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: get himself lathered up. But even though the kicker to

1411
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 1: digress to another point, had his rough day, I thought

1412
01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 1: the blast kick was huge for him. Just the way

1413
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 1: he reacted. I think we're going to see a different

1414
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:33,799
Speaker 1: kicker going forward. And as it relates to the defense,

1415
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: people say, oh it was the Jets. Maybe that need

1416
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: one game, get some three and ounce, get some turnovers

1417
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:41,840
Speaker 1: to just turn the page and move on, get some

1418
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 1: injured guys back. Yeah, no question about it. Yeah, I mean,

1419
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 1: I you look at this one, Maddie, and yeah, I

1420
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 1: mean there were some good decisions made by Josh in

1421
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 1: the red zone because outside of that force ball early

1422
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: that we talked about to gave Davis, he really didn't

1423
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,839
Speaker 1: force anything. He threw it away when he had to,

1424
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: which is all positive. Yes, you'd like to see scoring plays,

1425
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:06,920
Speaker 1: and Mark's absolutely right, and we appreciate the call. Mark's

1426
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 1: absolutely right. They got a touchdown taken off the board

1427
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 1: on an illegal formation call. We've seen that go both ways,

1428
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: because I remember in the Raiders game, the Raiders got

1429
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: a touchdown taken off the board on an illegal formation

1430
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: call too, so you know there could have been a

1431
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 1: touchdown in that game. I don't know, Like I thought,

1432
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 1: Josh for the most part made really good decisions. I

1433
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: think there were only a couple of instances, as we said,

1434
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:32,760
Speaker 1: where he may have waited too long to make the

1435
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 1: bigger play instead of taking the check down. But I

1436
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 1: think that's just his competitive nature sometimes. And that's exactly

1437
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: what I was going to say, And I think Sean

1438
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: McDermott and Brandon Bean no that that's just what you're

1439
01:14:44,520 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 1: gonna get with Josh Allen. There's gonna be a couple times,

1440
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:51,639
Speaker 1: maybe in a game here game there, where there's some

1441
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: questionable decisions made by him, and that's just because it's

1442
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:58,760
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and he is as competitive as can be.

1443
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: And even he understands that and knows that, and in

1444
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: press conferences when he's done things that maybe he shouldn't

1445
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:08,360
Speaker 1: have done, his answer is, well, I'm just going to

1446
01:15:08,439 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 1: do everything I can to put my team in a

1447
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 1: place to be able to win a game. Yeah, And

1448
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:18,720
Speaker 1: the Tyler Bass comment was interesting too. Could this be

1449
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:23,880
Speaker 1: a defining moment type game for him? Yes, there were

1450
01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 1: two misses in there, but to come back from those

1451
01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:30,360
Speaker 1: misses and hit important kicks afterwards, maybe it is a

1452
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 1: defining moment for him. He certainly didn't. He wasn't shy

1453
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:36,960
Speaker 1: about showing some swagger after that last kick yesterday. I

1454
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:39,840
Speaker 1: mean he's talking to the Jets sideline. I'm like, holy cow, rookie,

1455
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: he's doing this and he's missed too today. I mean,

1456
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: that was pretty bold. I don't know if it was

1457
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was well timed. I don't

1458
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 1: know if a rookie should be strutting around like that,

1459
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:53,759
Speaker 1: but hey, if it's gonna make you a more consistent

1460
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 1: kicker than go on son. So it'll be interesting to

1461
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 1: see and watch him from this point going forward, Addie,

1462
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 1: to see, is this guy straight as an arrow now

1463
01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: going forward after having some adversity within a game and

1464
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 1: coming back from it within the same game, that'll be

1465
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:13,960
Speaker 1: the telling thing. Yeah, kicker swag is a thing. I

1466
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: believe our kicker, Tyler Bass has that kicker swag. You

1467
01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 1: saw the one eye black that he's been doing. Yeah,

1468
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: it's not a tribute to Nelly. He was asked about

1469
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: it and he said that he had done that a

1470
01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:27,519
Speaker 1: couple games before and that's something he just likes to do.

1471
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: It gives them a little bit of confidence. So you

1472
01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 1: know what, if you want to put that one eye

1473
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,679
Speaker 1: black under one of your eyes, go do it. Rock

1474
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: the world with that. All right, we have to take

1475
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,640
Speaker 1: a break, but when we return, it's time as we

1476
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:43,200
Speaker 1: do every Monday after victories for the Maddie Awards, and

1477
01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:45,679
Speaker 1: she'll actually be able to present them in studio today

1478
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,559
Speaker 1: she's been remotely because of our rules here in the studio,

1479
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:50,640
Speaker 1: but Steve is not here, so Maddie will be with

1480
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Speaker 1: the Maddie Awards next Here on One Bills Live, presented

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01:16:53,800 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 1: by Kalidah Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Jack and

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01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,280
Speaker 1: half of the show under way on a victory Monday.

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01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Mattie glab with you here on One Bills Live,

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01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 1: and it is that time in the show and a

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01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:17,760
Speaker 1: chance to do this for a couple of weeks because

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01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: of the losses. But after the eighteen ten win yesterday,

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01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:26,599
Speaker 1: Maddie is ready to present her Maddie Awards and you know,

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01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: doing a fifteen fifteen pound curls, because that is one

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01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: heavy trophy my workout in God. All right, so let's begin,

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Speaker 1: and we start obviously with the offensive MVP. I think

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01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:43,880
Speaker 1: there's a pretty easy one though, right, I think it

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01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:47,760
Speaker 1: is a pretty easy one. My offensive MVP is Cole Beasley,

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01:17:47,920 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: and I feel like he's been an MVP in a

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01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 1: lot of different ways this season. In the way that

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01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 1: the Bills and Josh Allen specifically have been able to

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01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: rely on him. He was targeted twelve times yesterday, I

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01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 1: had eleven catch for one hundred and twelve receiving yards.

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01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:04,840
Speaker 1: I really think this was the game for him in

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01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: the way that the Jets defense played him. We've talked

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01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 1: about it already. The Jets were able to give some

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01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 1: room there and those underneath routes, those short routes, and

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01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 1: that's Cole Beasley's bread and butter. He is very tough

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01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: to guard because of the way he runs routes, because

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01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 1: of his size. He's the security blanket for Josh Allen.

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01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: His role with the Bills is really working out for

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01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 1: both parties. I mean, you come to the Buffalo Bills

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01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 1: after maybe not feeling like you were playing as big

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01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: of a role as you wanted to play on the Cowboys,

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01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 1: and here you are with the team who is putting

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01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 1: you in a role to succeed every single game. And

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01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 1: he talked about what Brian day ball does for him,

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01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: it does for the offense, and he says, you know,

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01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: he dials up these game plans that make us receivers

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01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 1: look really well. Yeah. And I think also what he

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01:18:57,479 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 1: genuinely appreciates is the fact that Dabele takes input from

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01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 1: the players and from him. And I think Brian Dable

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01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:08,599
Speaker 1: knows Beasley's history. I mean, he's the son of a coach.

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01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:11,960
Speaker 1: He actually played quarterback in high school, so he knows

1519
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 1: all of the details of routes and play concepts, and

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01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 1: so he lends an ear. When Cole Beasley has an

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01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: idea that he thinks will work, he lends an ear.

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01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 1: And not only that, he's put plays that Cole likes

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01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,680
Speaker 1: into the playbook so we can take advantage of it.

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01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 1: And we saw some of that yesterday. Okay, defensive MVP.

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01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:33,519
Speaker 1: There's a lot of choices here after that second half yesterday,

1526
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 1: I could have gone a couple of different ways. You

1527
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: may say the favorite is Jerry Hughes because he had

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01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 1: a great game, but I'm going to give it to

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01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: the rookie Dane Jackson, seventh rounder, first NFL game, and

1530
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,559
Speaker 1: I'm given it to him because who thought that Dane

1531
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:51,720
Speaker 1: Jackson was going to have an interceptions two pass breakups yesterday?

1532
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,559
Speaker 1: I'm raising my hand. I didn't think that was going

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01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: to happen, but he showed up when his name was called,

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01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: had a really important pass break up on third down

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01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the game, then goes and has

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01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:08,719
Speaker 1: an interception. Excited to see maybe how he's used going forward,

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01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: if at all. I mean, he proved, hey, I get

1538
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 1: one shot, I can do something with that opportunity. The

1539
01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 1: thing I like about his game is how physical he is.

1540
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,280
Speaker 1: You know, I know this isn't a defense that dials

1541
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: up press coverage a lot, but I mean, he doesn't

1542
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:24,799
Speaker 1: give up an inch. I just like his physical style

1543
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: and the way he plays. So we'll see. Hopefully that

1544
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 1: gets him more time on the field. We'll have to

1545
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 1: see where this goes because he was just a practice

1546
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:33,599
Speaker 1: squad call up this week, so we'll have to see

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01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: if he gets called up again next week. I guess

1548
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,599
Speaker 1: that could be predicated on when whether Levi Wallace comes

1549
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:40,840
Speaker 1: off I R or not this week? Okay, next up

1550
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 1: the Way to Go rook Award, And some people might

1551
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:48,840
Speaker 1: have said, well, wasn't Dane Jackson perfect fit for this?

1552
01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:51,280
Speaker 1: But there's somebody else you have, Here's somebody else, And

1553
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:54,640
Speaker 1: the haters will say he missed two field goals, But

1554
01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:57,759
Speaker 1: you know what way to go Tyler Bass for making

1555
01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: six of eight along from fifty three three yards. It's

1556
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:04,920
Speaker 1: hard to do that as a kicker, as a rookie kicker,

1557
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:06,840
Speaker 1: to be able to go out there and have eight

1558
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:09,559
Speaker 1: opportunities to score in six of them. Yes, we've talked

1559
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: about it a lot already, but you know what way

1560
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 1: to go Tyler Bass for being able to come back

1561
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:17,640
Speaker 1: from those misses and have makes I am excited to

1562
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: see where he's at going forward because I think this

1563
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: game is really a confidence builder game from him. That's

1564
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: what he talked about. Another guy that I want to

1565
01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: say way to go to He is somebody who picked

1566
01:21:27,560 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 1: up his first win in the NFL as a starter.

1567
01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 1: It's justin Herbert. They beat the Jaguars yesterday. He was

1568
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:36,960
Speaker 1: twenty seven to forty three four three hundred and forty

1569
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:42,320
Speaker 1: seven yards through three touchdowns. He was someone who didn't

1570
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:45,519
Speaker 1: start the season necessarily with the Chargers. They were using

1571
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, and here he comes in starting with the

1572
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: Chargers now, and I think he's proved to be someone who,

1573
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: maybe with the narrative, was out there like, I don't

1574
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:57,720
Speaker 1: know what Justin Herbert's gonna do for this team, but

1575
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 1: I like what I've seen from us and Herbert so far.

1576
01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 1: I think he's got three hundred yards passing and every

1577
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 1: one of his starts as a room. That sounds about rights.

1578
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:09,439
Speaker 1: I wanted to check it to make sure, but I

1579
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 1: ran out of time here, but I was looking at

1580
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:12,880
Speaker 1: it and I was like, what the heck. I think

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01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 1: he's three hundred yards every single week that he's made

1582
01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:18,800
Speaker 1: a start so far. So I mean that's I mean,

1583
01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:20,679
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a rocket of a start

1584
01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 1: to a career. Holy cow. I mean, that's just something else.

1585
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:26,640
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it because I want to say, I

1586
01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 1: saw it on Twitter somewhere, and I'm trying to pull

1587
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:31,360
Speaker 1: it up in my computer is just way too freaking slow.

1588
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 1: I remember the first game that he had, the first

1589
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:37,200
Speaker 1: game that he started, he started like super last minute

1590
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:41,880
Speaker 1: because Taylor was hurt for that game. Yeah, and here

1591
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:46,080
Speaker 1: he comes like with no time, no notice before, Hey,

1592
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: you're starting in your first NFL game. And he went

1593
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,800
Speaker 1: out there and I believe, like you said, had three

1594
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,840
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Didn't win the game, but okay, so yes,

1595
01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:57,400
Speaker 1: he in his first game three hundred eleven yards, second game,

1596
01:22:57,439 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: three hundred thirty yards. But then he was two ninety

1597
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 1: and two six four each of the last two weeks

1598
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:04,840
Speaker 1: before yesterday's game. So he's got three three yard passing

1599
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: games in his first five starts. That's pretty darn good.

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01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:09,639
Speaker 1: Do you want to know what else I didn't realize

1601
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:12,720
Speaker 1: about justin Herbert. He's as big as Josh Allen. He's

1602
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:15,839
Speaker 1: six six, two thirty seven. That's exactly the size of Josh.

1603
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he was that big. I was. I

1604
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:22,720
Speaker 1: was surprised to see that. So good on him. All right,

1605
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: next the Hustle Award. So we've got one for the

1606
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, one for an NFL team. Jerry Hughes, you

1607
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: get the Hustle Award for the Buffalo Bills. I mean, man,

1608
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:36,600
Speaker 1: did he have a day of force fumble in interception

1609
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: to sacks, a TfL past defended like he did it

1610
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:43,280
Speaker 1: all for the Bills yesterday, but a number in just

1611
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 1: about every defensive category you could have. And I think

1612
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 1: a guy like Jerry Hughes, a leader on that defensive

1613
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:51,679
Speaker 1: leader on that defensive line, for him to have a game,

1614
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:54,640
Speaker 1: for him to bring that momentum into the game, I

1615
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,360
Speaker 1: think this is going to do good things going forward

1616
01:23:57,439 --> 01:23:59,920
Speaker 1: for that defensive line, for that defense. Sometimes you just

1617
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:03,679
Speaker 1: need an interception a sack to just be woken up.

1618
01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:06,400
Speaker 1: And hopefully that is the case for Jerry Hughes and

1619
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 1: his guys next week against the Patriots. The other Hustle

1620
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 1: Award is going to dk Metcalf, not something that he did.

1621
01:24:17,680 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily a catch or a touchdown. It was

1622
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:24,080
Speaker 1: when Russell Wilson threw an interception, Buddha Baker picked it

1623
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:26,840
Speaker 1: off for the Cardinals, and it looks like Buddha Baker

1624
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:29,519
Speaker 1: is going to get a pick six as we are

1625
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 1: watching here, if you're watching on TV. So Buddha Baker

1626
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 1: grabs this ball. It looks like no one is there,

1627
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: but here comes dk Metcalf out of nowhere to say, Nope,

1628
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:42,840
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get a pick six. I'm just gonna

1629
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 1: put you on the ground here. Yeah, they're in a

1630
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:49,240
Speaker 1: great place to score, but it was a turnover on downs.

1631
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:52,759
Speaker 1: Then yeah, do you know how nuts it is watching

1632
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:55,680
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf run this guy down and he looks like

1633
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: he's like two times the sides of Buddha Baker. And

1634
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:01,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's a behemoth of a human,

1635
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,240
Speaker 1: but my goodness, I mean, the other guy's got like

1636
01:25:04,240 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 1: a six yard head start and he closes all of

1637
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: it in the span of about ninety yards. A mountain

1638
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:14,320
Speaker 1: man running down the field to stop a Buddha Baker.

1639
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:16,760
Speaker 1: The Seahawks, of course, did not win the game. The

1640
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:19,559
Speaker 1: Cardinals won thirty seven to thirty four, but if he

1641
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: would allow that touchdown, it wouldn't have been as close

1642
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 1: of game. Okay, quickly the ball in backups. So these

1643
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:29,719
Speaker 1: are two players who if they're on your fantasy team,

1644
01:25:30,479 --> 01:25:33,240
Speaker 1: kudos to you to having them on your team one

1645
01:25:33,360 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 1: and then putting in them in your lineup. I had

1646
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:38,680
Speaker 1: one of these guys on my fantasy team and dropped him,

1647
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 1: and now I'm really pissed that I dropped him because

1648
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 1: he had such a good game. Y'll stay all right.

1649
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:45,920
Speaker 1: Number one is Scottie Miller for the Bucks. He had

1650
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:49,160
Speaker 1: six receptions for one hundred and nine receiving yards a touchdown.

1651
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:52,280
Speaker 1: He's a sixth round pick out of Bowling Green. How

1652
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:54,679
Speaker 1: does a guy like this have one hundred and nine

1653
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:58,000
Speaker 1: receiving yards when you have a stacked offense with Mike Evans,

1654
01:25:58,120 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, Robert and cow Ski, so many different options

1655
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:03,639
Speaker 1: to pass the ball too. But this is someone who's

1656
01:26:03,720 --> 01:26:06,160
Speaker 1: proving that he can do something for this offense. He's

1657
01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 1: five to eleven. He's their deep ball guy. Has six

1658
01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 1: receptions of twenty or more yards, So kudos you, Scottie Miller.

1659
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: And the second one is Jeff Wilson Junior. So when

1660
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:22,400
Speaker 1: Raheemostert went out for the first time, I was thinking, Okay,

1661
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 1: everybody's saying pick him up on waivers, pick him up

1662
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: on waivers. So I did, and he did nothing. The

1663
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 1: most rushing yards he had up until yesterday was twenty

1664
01:26:30,360 --> 01:26:32,760
Speaker 1: seven yards. He had seventeen carries for one hundred and

1665
01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:37,280
Speaker 1: twelve yards three touchdowns yesterday, average six point six yards

1666
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:40,679
Speaker 1: per carry. So if you started him yesterday, you got

1667
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:43,200
Speaker 1: lots of points. Of course, where he mostirt is on

1668
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: the IR So kudos to Jeff Wilson Jr. Alright, ten

1669
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,560
Speaker 1: seconds your hot Team Alert, Hot Team Alert the Steelers

1670
01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals. The Steelers are the only undefeated team

1671
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:57,400
Speaker 1: left in the NFL. They just beat the Titans twenty

1672
01:26:57,439 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 1: seven to twenty four. The Cardinals beat the Seahawks thirty

1673
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:02,800
Speaker 1: seven to thirty four. They beat the forty Niners as well,

1674
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 1: but lost the Lions. So hot Team Alert for the

1675
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 1: Cardinals and the Steelers. A couple of teams to look

1676
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:10,679
Speaker 1: out for. All right, those are the Mattie Awards, brought

1677
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 1: to you by Energy Mark, the official energy supplier of

1678
01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:15,880
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Time for a break, but we'll try

1679
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:17,679
Speaker 1: to get more of your phone calls when we return

1680
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's

1681
01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Gives it the p Ryan. He gets

1682
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 1: beat at the backfield, he is stopped, He is dropped

1683
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:41,560
Speaker 1: right away. Quinton Jefferson met him in the backfield and

1684
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:45,600
Speaker 1: dropped him for a one yard loss. At Quinton Jefferson

1685
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:48,680
Speaker 1: fourth down stopped for the turnover on downs. Is your

1686
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: Hunt Red Zone play of the week, the official Wait

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Speaker 1: a second, that's not right. It's your Hunt Red Zone

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Speaker 1: Player of the Week. But I want to get the

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Speaker 1: get the reads right. They're gonna take enough time to

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Speaker 1: sponsor our sorry behinds. We better get their reads right.

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01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:23,040
Speaker 1: So there you go. Appreciate that. Hunt. Um. Yeah, Quinn

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01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 1: Jefferson went a big play there. That was a turnover

1697
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:28,160
Speaker 1: on downs and it was nice. I enjoyed it. Good

1698
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:30,360
Speaker 1: to see a fourth down stop in there. I think

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01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 1: it's the first one since the Raiders game, which at

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01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:35,360
Speaker 1: Oliver had in the fourth quarter. I think that was

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01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:38,120
Speaker 1: their first fourth down stop since week four, So good

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01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:40,759
Speaker 1: on them. I'm going to hear Quinn Jefferson's name. Yeah,

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01:28:40,880 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 1: amen to that. You're You're absolutely right. We did want

1704
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:46,600
Speaker 1: to get to the tweet sheet. We are short on

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01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:48,320
Speaker 1: time here before the top of the hour. For those

1706
01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: of you holding at eight oh three oh five fifty,

1707
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:52,160
Speaker 1: stay right there because we are going to take your

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01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,720
Speaker 1: phone calls after the top of the hour when we

1709
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: have Eric Wood on to break the game down, so

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01:28:57,320 --> 01:28:59,280
Speaker 1: he will take your phone call. So stay right where

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01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 1: you are and we will get to you, but we

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01:29:01,360 --> 01:29:03,080
Speaker 1: do have to get to the tweet sheet before we

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01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 1: get to the break. And that has brought to you

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and from Tiffany on the tweet sheet,

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01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:16,439
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's willingness to do anything humanly possible to help

1717
01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:19,400
Speaker 1: the team win is the identity of the Bills team?

1718
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? I mean, yeah, it's

1719
01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:25,240
Speaker 1: completely true Josh Allen will do anything possible to help

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01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: this team win. But is that team identity or is

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01:29:29,400 --> 01:29:33,879
Speaker 1: that just Josh's identity. I think that maybe Josh's identity.

1722
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:37,719
Speaker 1: I think the team does take that on at times,

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01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:41,439
Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's a team. Yeah, I mean,

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01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:44,559
Speaker 1: I think you can probably say that he has been

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01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:48,760
Speaker 1: the quintessential part of the offensive success. I don't think

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01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:51,200
Speaker 1: there's any debate about that. But I don't even know

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01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:53,639
Speaker 1: if you could say that that's the identity of this team.

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01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 1: You certainly could have set it through the first four weeks,

1729
01:29:56,520 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: but that's been kind of turned on its ear a

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01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 1: little bit, so that's I'm kind of like, I'm gonna

1731
01:30:02,280 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 1: wait a minute, here, but I'm more than willing to

1732
01:30:04,479 --> 01:30:07,519
Speaker 1: take all comers and your opinions. So from Steve on

1733
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, I think the identity of this Bill's

1734
01:30:11,120 --> 01:30:14,599
Speaker 1: team is the wounded Warriors. It's hard to really know

1735
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: what your identity is with so many key injuries. Not

1736
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:21,879
Speaker 1: having a healthy Brown, knox Ford, Feliciano is killing the offense.

1737
01:30:22,280 --> 01:30:25,639
Speaker 1: Not having a healthy Edmonds, White, Milano, Norman and Wallace

1738
01:30:26,040 --> 01:30:29,480
Speaker 1: is killing the defense. So my answer is to be determined.

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01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:33,000
Speaker 1: I think that is about as in line as I'm

1740
01:30:33,040 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 1: feeling the wounded Warriors. That's a good one. This team

1741
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:39,639
Speaker 1: is wounded. Maybe it's because the last season we were

1742
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:43,280
Speaker 1: just so dang healthy we were, We didn't have many

1743
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 1: injuries like I think we are. You know what, this year,

1744
01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:52,360
Speaker 1: we're paying for it, that's what I think. Yeah, Well,

1745
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 1: the law of averages in this league is eventually going

1746
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 1: to catch up to every single NFL team. So if

1747
01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:00,839
Speaker 1: you have an extraordinary year where you're able to avoid

1748
01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:04,639
Speaker 1: injuries like no one's ever seen before, those chickens are

1749
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:07,720
Speaker 1: gonna come home to roost eventually. And they have this

1750
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 1: year and they're dealing with it now. The Bills are

1751
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 1: not alone there's a host of other teams. You can

1752
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:14,439
Speaker 1: run down a list. Forty nine Ers lost two of

1753
01:31:14,479 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 1: their starting off defensive linemen in the span of like

1754
01:31:18,080 --> 01:31:22,639
Speaker 1: ten plays for the season, like season ending injuries. I mean,

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01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:25,719
Speaker 1: you know, So there's there's some teams that are dealing

1756
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:30,080
Speaker 1: with some stuff. The Patriots had to play last week's

1757
01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:33,320
Speaker 1: game without their center, and they lost to Denver like

1758
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:37,000
Speaker 1: eighteen to twelve. I think it was got their backup

1759
01:31:37,040 --> 01:31:39,439
Speaker 1: center snapping it over Cam Newton's head. He's running around

1760
01:31:39,439 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 1: for loose footballs. It was a comedy of errors there.

1761
01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:44,799
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of teams dealing with some critical

1762
01:31:44,840 --> 01:31:46,600
Speaker 1: injuries and it's hurting them. You want to read the

1763
01:31:46,600 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: next one, Maddie from Nick From Nick, t he says,

1764
01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:51,519
Speaker 1: I think we're still lacking an identity. For a while,

1765
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:53,640
Speaker 1: it looks like we had a solid air attack, but

1766
01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:56,760
Speaker 1: teams have slowed that down the past three weeks. Defensively,

1767
01:31:56,840 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 1: I'm hoping the Jets games showed the return of our

1768
01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:02,320
Speaker 1: shutdown d but all remain skeptical until we do it

1769
01:32:02,360 --> 01:32:06,040
Speaker 1: against better opponents. And that's why we ask this question,

1770
01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:09,280
Speaker 1: because you know, we're still like, hey, yeah, TBD, here

1771
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:11,639
Speaker 1: I don't know if the identity has been revealed yet

1772
01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:14,160
Speaker 1: as to what this team really is in terms of

1773
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 1: when somebody says Buffalo Bills, you think this, and from

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01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:20,599
Speaker 1: week to week it's been different. So I don't know

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01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:24,639
Speaker 1: that we can say definitively the Bills are this. Whether

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01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:27,559
Speaker 1: it's because they've won games in very different ways, whether

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01:32:27,600 --> 01:32:29,879
Speaker 1: it's because they've leaned on different parts of their football

1778
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:33,200
Speaker 1: teams in different weeks. It's it's hard to definitively say

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01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:35,720
Speaker 1: that they are this. And who knows, Mattie, maybe that's

1780
01:32:35,720 --> 01:32:39,400
Speaker 1: a good thing because now they're harder to figure out

1781
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:42,599
Speaker 1: for opponents. Perhaps I don't know. I'm just guessing. I'm

1782
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:44,400
Speaker 1: just throwing stuff up against the wall and seeing what

1783
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 1: sticks here, because to me, they're they're an enigma, and

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01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:52,960
Speaker 1: that's not a knock. I think it's just a situation

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01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:56,520
Speaker 1: where each week, I don't know if we're all completely

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01:32:56,560 --> 01:32:58,479
Speaker 1: sure it's just what we're going to get from this

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01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:02,120
Speaker 1: team in terms of what's going to be the difference

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01:33:02,120 --> 01:33:05,360
Speaker 1: maker to help them get a win. And Leslie Fraser

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01:33:05,400 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 1: has said this multiple times, and he's been talking about

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01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:09,559
Speaker 1: the defense when he said this, but I think it

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01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:13,280
Speaker 1: can speak for the entire team. He said, it's September,

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01:33:13,400 --> 01:33:16,479
Speaker 1: it's October. We don't want to play our best football yet.

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01:33:16,520 --> 01:33:18,799
Speaker 1: We want to play our best football when it matters

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01:33:18,840 --> 01:33:22,240
Speaker 1: down the road. So maybe that's the case for their

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01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:25,800
Speaker 1: their identity. They're not playing their best football yet because

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01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:29,040
Speaker 1: they don't need to play their best football right now.

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01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:31,799
Speaker 1: They need to get wins. Surely they need to scoop

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01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 1: by and get wins, but when it matters is when

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01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:36,040
Speaker 1: they want to play their best and maybe that's when

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Speaker 1: their identity shows up. Right from Dinah, she says, the

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01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:43,400
Speaker 1: offense seems to be leaning towards an air attack with

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01:33:43,520 --> 01:33:46,880
Speaker 1: some running mostly by Josh. Defense seems to still be

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01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:49,760
Speaker 1: looking for their identity. Special team's identity is tied to

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01:33:49,800 --> 01:33:53,000
Speaker 1: field goals, but they're still trying to make it all gel. Yeah,

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01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe that's the answer here as far as identity,

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01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:59,400
Speaker 1: it's a work in progress. Because what what Dinah led

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01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:02,599
Speaker 1: out there, laid out there is on the money. I mean,

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01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:05,000
Speaker 1: you've got an offense that can throw the ball seemingly

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01:34:05,040 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 1: at will, but they're still trying to find their traction

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01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:10,200
Speaker 1: in a run game to try to balance things out

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01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:14,759
Speaker 1: a little bit better. The defense. Great game yesterday, yes,

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01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:17,920
Speaker 1: but admittedly it was for only a half of football,

1813
01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:21,559
Speaker 1: and then special teams has done some really nice things

1814
01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:25,680
Speaker 1: in the return game with Andre Roberts and Bass ultimately

1815
01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:28,920
Speaker 1: comes through to win them a game yesterday. But still

1816
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:32,920
Speaker 1: there's been some inauspicious misses here and there. So yeah,

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01:34:32,960 --> 01:34:35,400
Speaker 1: we're still like, what do we got here? You know,

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01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:38,120
Speaker 1: I think it's just twenty twenty. It's just the year.

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01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:43,600
Speaker 1: That's that's my identity for this team. It's twenty twenties. Fault.

1820
01:34:44,080 --> 01:34:46,280
Speaker 1: Bill's fault. Yet, all right, we do have to take

1821
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:49,320
Speaker 1: a break, but when we return, it is Eric woodtime.

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01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:52,320
Speaker 1: He'll be joining us to break down yesterday's game, dive

1823
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:54,799
Speaker 1: into the xs and o's, and take your phone calls

1824
01:34:54,800 --> 01:34:57,639
Speaker 1: at eight oh three, five fifty back in a moment

1825
01:34:57,640 --> 01:35:00,800
Speaker 1: with e Wood here on One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello Bills Radio Network

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Speaker 1: Sports Date your sports update from One Bill's Drive. The

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01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:21,240
Speaker 1: Bills improved to five and two on the season after

1829
01:35:21,320 --> 01:35:25,040
Speaker 1: yesterday's eighteen ten win over the Jets. Tyler Bass with

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01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 1: six field goals as the defense came alive in the

1831
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:31,360
Speaker 1: second half limiting the Jets to just four total net yards.

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01:35:31,760 --> 01:35:35,759
Speaker 1: Next up the Patriots, coming up Sunday at Bill's Stadium.

1833
01:35:35,880 --> 01:35:38,240
Speaker 1: Bills had a number of starters missing in yesterday's game.

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01:35:38,240 --> 01:35:40,559
Speaker 1: We'll get an update from head coach Sean McDermott when

1835
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 1: he meets the media later this afternoon. Patriots dealt another loss,

1836
01:35:45,160 --> 01:35:48,400
Speaker 1: a thirty three six thrashing at the hands of the

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01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:51,479
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. Cam Newton threw three interceptions and was

1838
01:35:51,560 --> 01:35:54,800
Speaker 1: benched in favor of Jarrett Stidham. After the game, New

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01:35:54,800 --> 01:35:57,960
Speaker 1: England head coach Bill Belichick said that Newton was absolutely

1840
01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:01,280
Speaker 1: still the starter, so he's expected to go this weekend

1841
01:36:01,320 --> 01:36:04,879
Speaker 1: against the Bills. Patriots meanwhile, fall to two and four

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01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:08,000
Speaker 1: on the season. As the Bills sit atop the AFC

1843
01:36:08,160 --> 01:36:11,559
Speaker 1: East by themselves after Week seven, they now have a

1844
01:36:11,560 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 1: two game lead over the three and three Dolphins, who

1845
01:36:14,360 --> 01:36:17,920
Speaker 1: were on their bye week. Chiefs hosting the Jets on

1846
01:36:18,040 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: Sunday coming up, and wait, do you hear the point

1847
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:24,040
Speaker 1: spread in this one? Twenty one and a half points.

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01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:27,800
Speaker 1: That's what the Chiefs, the defending Super Bowl champs, are

1849
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:32,080
Speaker 1: favored by against the league's only winless team. Some unfortunate

1850
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 1: injury news from around the NFL. Brown's wide receiver Odell

1851
01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:37,280
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior as a torn ACL He's going to miss

1852
01:36:37,320 --> 01:36:40,200
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. It's a devastating blow for Cleveland,

1853
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:42,360
Speaker 1: who improved to five and two on the season Sunday

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01:36:42,760 --> 01:36:46,639
Speaker 1: with a win over Cincinnati, and the Dodgers moved within

1855
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:49,400
Speaker 1: a game of capturing the World Series title. After last

1856
01:36:49,479 --> 01:36:52,320
Speaker 1: night's four two win over the Rays, Clayton Kershaw held

1857
01:36:52,640 --> 01:36:55,920
Speaker 1: Tampa to two runs while striking out six, running his

1858
01:36:55,920 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 1: postseason career strikeout total to two hundred seven. La now

1859
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:02,640
Speaker 1: leads the series three games to two. Game six is

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01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:05,840
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, and that's your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

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01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:08,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Maddi glab with you ready to roll in

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01:37:08,120 --> 01:37:11,320
Speaker 1: an hour number three of a victory Monday edition of

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01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:14,600
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. And set to join us now is

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01:37:14,640 --> 01:37:17,679
Speaker 1: one Eric Wood, who is going to break this down

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01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: for us. Eric I gotta ask you, how did this

1866
01:37:21,160 --> 01:37:26,320
Speaker 1: nineteen forties style eighteen to ten final grab you? You know,

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01:37:26,479 --> 01:37:28,719
Speaker 1: to me, honestly, it's a good it's a good win.

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01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:32,200
Speaker 1: And you go on the road into the vision when

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01:37:32,240 --> 01:37:36,759
Speaker 1: you're banged up. You have another short ish week and

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01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 1: you have the COVID situation pop up on Friday. To me,

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01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:44,000
Speaker 1: it's a good win. All division wins are good, you know.

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01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:45,720
Speaker 1: Would you like the Bills to have been able to

1873
01:37:45,720 --> 01:37:49,240
Speaker 1: put those drives in the end zone? Absolutely are the Bill.

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01:37:49,840 --> 01:37:52,240
Speaker 1: This Bill's offense seems to be in a little bit

1875
01:37:52,240 --> 01:37:55,519
Speaker 1: of an adjustment period since these teams are playing them different.

1876
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:59,160
Speaker 1: Seems like ever since the Titans rolled out the I

1877
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:01,559
Speaker 1: don't want to call event defense, but prevent the big

1878
01:38:01,640 --> 01:38:04,640
Speaker 1: play defense against the Bills and make them kind of

1879
01:38:04,720 --> 01:38:07,240
Speaker 1: nickel and dime down the field. Everyone's gonna copy that.

1880
01:38:07,600 --> 01:38:10,719
Speaker 1: And I thought yesterday, especially in the second half, Josh

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01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:13,599
Speaker 1: Allen did a great job of just taking checkdowns, hitting

1882
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:16,720
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley on short routes. The running game got going

1883
01:38:16,760 --> 01:38:18,920
Speaker 1: a little bit better, and that's how you have to

1884
01:38:18,960 --> 01:38:21,800
Speaker 1: bring those safeties up, and then obviously when you get

1885
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:23,720
Speaker 1: in the red zone you have to capitalize. I don't

1886
01:38:23,760 --> 01:38:26,320
Speaker 1: think this is going to be a huge deal. Josh

1887
01:38:26,360 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 1: Allen was great in the red zone last year. He's

1888
01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 1: been great so far this year. They had an off

1889
01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:38,800
Speaker 1: day yesterday. It was penalties of reverse that huge loss

1890
01:38:38,840 --> 01:38:42,559
Speaker 1: when they were down there. They had a sack fumble.

1891
01:38:42,800 --> 01:38:46,639
Speaker 1: They just made a bunch of mistakes that they'll get eliminated. Eric,

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01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:48,519
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the way that Josh

1893
01:38:48,560 --> 01:38:51,680
Speaker 1: Allen put together this three hundred yard performance. Chris and

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01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:53,960
Speaker 1: I have already touched on it a little bit, but

1895
01:38:54,360 --> 01:38:57,240
Speaker 1: I remember us talking in the postgame show last night,

1896
01:38:57,240 --> 01:38:59,800
Speaker 1: and You're like, look, Josh Allen had his fourth game

1897
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 1: three hundred yards and we're not even batting an eye

1898
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:04,600
Speaker 1: at it anymore. We're just like, oh, Josh threw for

1899
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:07,639
Speaker 1: three hundred yards whatever. But the way that he put

1900
01:39:07,640 --> 01:39:10,680
Speaker 1: it together, Chris pointed out, was very different than he

1901
01:39:10,760 --> 01:39:14,880
Speaker 1: had in the previous games in that these were short yardage,

1902
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:18,120
Speaker 1: chunk play situations in which he moved the ball down

1903
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:21,519
Speaker 1: the field. There weren't many big plays yesterday. Tyler Croft

1904
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:24,880
Speaker 1: had the biggest reception for thirty eight yards. But what

1905
01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:27,639
Speaker 1: was different about the way that Josh Allen was able

1906
01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:30,040
Speaker 1: to put these three hundred yards together? And I guess

1907
01:39:30,080 --> 01:39:33,320
Speaker 1: what does it also say about his growth and maturity

1908
01:39:33,360 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 1: being able to do that. It's a great sign. And

1909
01:39:38,439 --> 01:39:41,599
Speaker 1: after his first three hundred yard game to start the season,

1910
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:45,400
Speaker 1: we were talking about, well he hit I believe it

1911
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:48,439
Speaker 1: was John Brown or maybe it was digs on the

1912
01:39:48,560 --> 01:39:50,840
Speaker 1: screen for a long play when he checked to it.

1913
01:39:51,200 --> 01:39:53,680
Speaker 1: He had a tight end screen that went for a

1914
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 1: good amount in that game running back screens. The Bills

1915
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:59,679
Speaker 1: only ran one screen I believe yesterday was an eighth

1916
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:03,080
Speaker 1: plat pass the singletary, and so all of these yards

1917
01:40:03,120 --> 01:40:05,519
Speaker 1: came through the air. This was not even we didn't

1918
01:40:05,520 --> 01:40:07,880
Speaker 1: even see a shovel pass in front of them during

1919
01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:10,840
Speaker 1: this game where you get those three yards, and so

1920
01:40:11,479 --> 01:40:14,400
Speaker 1: this was all through the air. We saw right there

1921
01:40:14,520 --> 01:40:16,640
Speaker 1: the one long pass to Croft, but other than that,

1922
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:19,120
Speaker 1: it was just him making accurate throws, taking what the

1923
01:40:19,160 --> 01:40:22,439
Speaker 1: defense gives them, and a lot of it was Cole Beasley,

1924
01:40:22,479 --> 01:40:25,240
Speaker 1: who went over one hundred yards again for the second

1925
01:40:25,240 --> 01:40:28,880
Speaker 1: time this season. But since the Bills unveiled their I

1926
01:40:28,920 --> 01:40:32,000
Speaker 1: guess a new look offense in Week one, with all

1927
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:36,280
Speaker 1: that ten personnel and eleven personnel mixed in, it's just

1928
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:39,320
Speaker 1: amazing now that we don't even make a big deal

1929
01:40:39,320 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 1: of it. When Josh Allen throws for three hundred and

1930
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:45,240
Speaker 1: seven yards, has three hundred and sixty eight total yards

1931
01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:47,840
Speaker 1: on the day, I mean, that's a remarkable game. I

1932
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:50,360
Speaker 1: know there's no touchdowns to go along with it. But

1933
01:40:50,439 --> 01:40:53,599
Speaker 1: that's a productive day. All right, Let's go to the phone, Eric,

1934
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:56,439
Speaker 1: I got some bills fans waiting here online. They got

1935
01:40:56,439 --> 01:40:59,640
Speaker 1: some questions for us. So Greg in Lockport, you're a

1936
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:02,000
Speaker 1: joining us on one bills live with Eric Wood. What

1937
01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:05,200
Speaker 1: do you have for us? Well? I just think that

1938
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:09,120
Speaker 1: they need to focus on Josh and Ellen within that

1939
01:41:09,240 --> 01:41:11,720
Speaker 1: offense a little more in terms of his running. And

1940
01:41:11,760 --> 01:41:13,719
Speaker 1: I don't mean zone read and the pipe of things

1941
01:41:13,760 --> 01:41:17,080
Speaker 1: we've been seeing. I'm talking about bootlegs. He had a

1942
01:41:17,120 --> 01:41:20,200
Speaker 1: great year last year doing that. We watched Sam Donald,

1943
01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:23,040
Speaker 1: who is not quite the runner that Josh is, has

1944
01:41:23,120 --> 01:41:26,280
Speaker 1: success on that. I think got scenario where if they

1945
01:41:26,360 --> 01:41:28,960
Speaker 1: devote a little more attention to it, you can really

1946
01:41:29,000 --> 01:41:31,920
Speaker 1: get quite a lot of mileage. Okay, not not a

1947
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:34,439
Speaker 1: bad idea. How does that one grab you? Eric? We

1948
01:41:34,479 --> 01:41:37,160
Speaker 1: certainly saw the Rams use it with great success with

1949
01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:40,719
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. I know they've done it at times with Josh.

1950
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:44,400
Speaker 1: What do you think about doing it even more? I'll

1951
01:41:44,400 --> 01:41:48,240
Speaker 1: say this, What makes the boot game great is the

1952
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:50,680
Speaker 1: run game being great because you have to honor it.

1953
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:53,880
Speaker 1: The backside defensive end has got a crash and honor

1954
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:58,839
Speaker 1: that fake. Well, the Bills rarely go under center anymore,

1955
01:41:59,240 --> 01:42:01,600
Speaker 1: and their run game has not been that effective. I

1956
01:42:01,600 --> 01:42:04,599
Speaker 1: would be worried about the defensive ends coming up field

1957
01:42:04,600 --> 01:42:08,880
Speaker 1: and not worrying about the run as much. If you

1958
01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:11,559
Speaker 1: established the ground game, which the Bills did a whole

1959
01:42:11,560 --> 01:42:14,720
Speaker 1: lot from under center last year, it makes the bootleg easier.

1960
01:42:14,920 --> 01:42:17,479
Speaker 1: I don't think it's it's a bad point at all,

1961
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:20,559
Speaker 1: and I think the bootleg game can be great. I

1962
01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:23,200
Speaker 1: will say this though, as well as Josh Allen is

1963
01:42:23,280 --> 01:42:26,719
Speaker 1: using the entire field on offense, any sprint outs, any

1964
01:42:26,760 --> 01:42:30,680
Speaker 1: bootlegs generally eliminate half the field, and right now he's

1965
01:42:30,720 --> 01:42:33,679
Speaker 1: doing such a good job of attacking bashups, you don't

1966
01:42:33,760 --> 01:42:36,880
Speaker 1: need to use the book bootleg game as much, and

1967
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:39,920
Speaker 1: without them having the run game under center, it's not

1968
01:42:40,040 --> 01:42:44,680
Speaker 1: nearly as effective. We'll take another phone call. We'll go

1969
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:47,720
Speaker 1: to uh, let's see who's been waiting patiently here? Dennis

1970
01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:51,280
Speaker 1: in Indiana. Dennis, what do you have for us? Welcome

1971
01:42:51,320 --> 01:42:54,800
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live. You got Eric Wood? Yeah, thank

1972
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:57,439
Speaker 1: you for taking the call. I'm a very long time

1973
01:42:57,520 --> 01:43:01,840
Speaker 1: Bills fan from the days of Cookie Guilt Christen Ray.

1974
01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:06,120
Speaker 1: But one thing I want to say is there's been

1975
01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:08,920
Speaker 1: a lot of focus on all the drives into the

1976
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 1: red zone and no touchdowns. I'd rather have Mike last

1977
01:43:12,640 --> 01:43:16,000
Speaker 1: ninety percent Phil, because in essence, I'd look at it

1978
01:43:16,040 --> 01:43:20,800
Speaker 1: as Josh throwing two touchdown passes. One was the illegal formation,

1979
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:23,680
Speaker 1: but nonetheless he threw a touchdown pass. Didn't count for

1980
01:43:23,840 --> 01:43:26,439
Speaker 1: the points, but he threw it, and the other was

1981
01:43:26,479 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 1: to play the croft. Unfortunately he slipped on a turf,

1982
01:43:30,680 --> 01:43:34,599
Speaker 1: but there was nobody to get him. So in essence,

1983
01:43:34,960 --> 01:43:37,840
Speaker 1: Josh threw two touchdown passes, and I'd like to be

1984
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:41,799
Speaker 1: on the positive side and remind folks of that winning.

1985
01:43:41,840 --> 01:43:43,960
Speaker 1: Your comments on that would be good. I'd make one

1986
01:43:44,040 --> 01:43:47,840
Speaker 1: other comment that has nothing to do it yesterday's game,

1987
01:43:48,640 --> 01:43:52,040
Speaker 1: and that's on these boats for the Hall of Fame

1988
01:43:52,080 --> 01:43:54,599
Speaker 1: and the support, and I hope Tasker makes it, but

1989
01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:57,719
Speaker 1: I'm just making mention on can't hold for a second.

1990
01:43:58,520 --> 01:44:01,680
Speaker 1: I actually taught Can't call at Mississippi State when he

1991
01:44:01,720 --> 01:44:04,280
Speaker 1: was a student there, and he was about the brightest

1992
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:07,559
Speaker 1: student I had in a statistics class, and uh, and

1993
01:44:07,640 --> 01:44:11,759
Speaker 1: he sure showed it on the football field working under center.

1994
01:44:12,040 --> 01:44:15,240
Speaker 1: So I just want to remind frans that there was

1995
01:44:15,280 --> 01:44:17,719
Speaker 1: another guy knt Halt, which one hit of a player

1996
01:44:17,760 --> 01:44:21,000
Speaker 1: and a very very very bright guy. All right. Dennis

1997
01:44:21,120 --> 01:44:25,840
Speaker 1: Benny comments on the attention given to Josh and reminding

1998
01:44:25,880 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: people that we could have easily had two touchdowns. I'd appreciate. Nope,

1999
01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:32,560
Speaker 1: that's a fair point, Dennis. I'll go along with that.

2000
01:44:32,720 --> 01:44:35,760
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean Tyler Croft had another but

2001
01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:40,960
Speaker 1: green Grass in front of America so close. Yeah. MetLife

2002
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:44,679
Speaker 1: claims two victims this week. Everyone saw da Daniel Jones

2003
01:44:44,720 --> 01:44:47,160
Speaker 1: and then Tyler Croft. Yesterday. Tyler Crofts a little bit

2004
01:44:47,160 --> 01:44:49,600
Speaker 1: different because he had to stretch out, which kind of

2005
01:44:49,600 --> 01:44:52,840
Speaker 1: made him lose his balance, but that was a great

2006
01:44:52,840 --> 01:44:55,760
Speaker 1: recognition to be able to make the throw. And then

2007
01:44:55,880 --> 01:44:59,400
Speaker 1: obviously he's kicking himself for slipping and falling. But no,

2008
01:45:00,200 --> 01:45:03,160
Speaker 1: his point. And I'm still trying to figure out exactly

2009
01:45:03,160 --> 01:45:06,519
Speaker 1: what happened on the illegal formation. I'm assuming they got

2010
01:45:06,600 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams for not being on the line of scrimmage.

2011
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:13,040
Speaker 1: But other than that, I mean, I can't figure it out. Yeah,

2012
01:45:13,080 --> 01:45:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's people a lot smarter than me,

2013
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:18,160
Speaker 1: especially on Twitter, So for subly someone can help me

2014
01:45:18,200 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 1: out with it. Yeah, for some reasons figured it out. Yeah,

2015
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:24,920
Speaker 1: for some reason, Eric, they the officiating crews seemed to

2016
01:45:24,920 --> 01:45:27,040
Speaker 1: make this a point of emphasis yesterday because they called

2017
01:45:27,080 --> 01:45:29,719
Speaker 1: Beckton for it too, for the Jets in the game,

2018
01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:31,720
Speaker 1: saying he wasn't on the line of scrimmage. So yeah,

2019
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think that that's my guess that

2020
01:45:33,720 --> 01:45:37,479
Speaker 1: it was Daryl Williams too. Yeah. And the thing that

2021
01:45:37,560 --> 01:45:40,040
Speaker 1: gets me though, is they announced when it was Beckton.

2022
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:42,800
Speaker 1: They said seventy seven lined up in the backfield. They

2023
01:45:42,840 --> 01:45:46,320
Speaker 1: didn't announce Daryl. Right when I went back and looked

2024
01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:49,080
Speaker 1: at the formation, I couldn't figure it out out exactly,

2025
01:45:49,160 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: and I assumed as soon as they announced it on

2026
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:54,280
Speaker 1: Beckton the next job. I said, you're right to your point, Chris.

2027
01:45:54,320 --> 01:45:58,400
Speaker 1: All these officiating crews have points of emphasis, and I thought, okay,

2028
01:45:58,439 --> 01:46:00,639
Speaker 1: that had to have been in on the Daryl Williams won,

2029
01:46:01,120 --> 01:46:03,920
Speaker 1: and maybe they already warned them. I know, I know

2030
01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:06,559
Speaker 1: one thing, Maybe you'll get a kick out of this.

2031
01:46:07,040 --> 01:46:09,439
Speaker 1: So early in my career I was like, I was

2032
01:46:09,600 --> 01:46:12,160
Speaker 1: a hothead. I'd be a jerk to the reps. And

2033
01:46:12,200 --> 01:46:14,080
Speaker 1: then I realized later in my career, like, man, these

2034
01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:16,040
Speaker 1: guys are people. I wonder if they'll quit throwing as

2035
01:46:16,080 --> 01:46:18,120
Speaker 1: many flags on me if i'd treat them a little better.

2036
01:46:18,160 --> 01:46:20,080
Speaker 1: So I'd go up to them before the game and

2037
01:46:20,320 --> 01:46:23,200
Speaker 1: talk to them. I'd know their first name and say, hey,

2038
01:46:23,520 --> 01:46:27,559
Speaker 1: make sure on any alignment deals maybe my head Bob

2039
01:46:27,560 --> 01:46:30,599
Speaker 1: and the sign of the silent account like always please

2040
01:46:30,680 --> 01:46:33,600
Speaker 1: give a warning. And they were always great about that,

2041
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:37,040
Speaker 1: so I'm assuming they warned them. And then Darryl Williams

2042
01:46:37,240 --> 01:46:40,720
Speaker 1: still lined up back and the Jets sure don't have

2043
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:43,880
Speaker 1: the edge rushers that would make you really have to

2044
01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:47,320
Speaker 1: worry too much about your alignment where you feel like, man,

2045
01:46:47,360 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 1: I gotta get back off the ball. So if that

2046
01:46:50,200 --> 01:46:52,479
Speaker 1: was it, maybe just a lapse of judgment by Darryl

2047
01:46:52,520 --> 01:46:55,439
Speaker 1: Williams a legal formation aside. I've got a question for

2048
01:46:55,479 --> 01:46:58,160
Speaker 1: you about the offensive line and how they've played so

2049
01:46:58,200 --> 01:47:01,840
Speaker 1: far through seven games. Now, how do you evaluate their

2050
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:05,439
Speaker 1: play with pass protection and run protection? Now going into

2051
01:47:05,479 --> 01:47:10,040
Speaker 1: week eight? I think the pass protection has been phenomenal.

2052
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:12,720
Speaker 1: And I say that when you throw the ball as

2053
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:14,680
Speaker 1: much as the Bills have this year and teams though

2054
01:47:14,720 --> 01:47:17,960
Speaker 1: it's coming, they're teeing off on you constantly. And I

2055
01:47:18,040 --> 01:47:20,880
Speaker 1: thought they've done a great job of Keaton keeping Josh

2056
01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:24,000
Speaker 1: Allen clean for the most part. Now, Josh Allen, to me,

2057
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:30,280
Speaker 1: has the best pocket maneuvering of free rushers I think

2058
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:33,919
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. And you know, Chris, you've watched football

2059
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 1: longer than me, Maddie, I think I'm older than you, sout.

2060
01:47:38,120 --> 01:47:41,160
Speaker 1: But for all the quarterbacks that I've watched in my lifetime,

2061
01:47:41,439 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: what Josh Allen does the free rushers is absolutely remarkable,

2062
01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:49,439
Speaker 1: and so he takes some of that. Maybe the sacking

2063
01:47:49,520 --> 01:47:52,920
Speaker 1: numbers down a touch. Now he scrambles and doesn't always

2064
01:47:52,920 --> 01:47:54,640
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball. That probably evens it out.

2065
01:47:54,680 --> 01:47:56,439
Speaker 1: But I think they've done an excellent job in pass

2066
01:47:56,520 --> 01:48:00,240
Speaker 1: protection and then in the run game. Obviously there's more

2067
01:48:00,280 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: to be desired in a lot of ways for the

2068
01:48:02,520 --> 01:48:05,040
Speaker 1: run game this year. That's offensive line, that's backs, that's

2069
01:48:05,080 --> 01:48:07,679
Speaker 1: tight ends, that's everybody, that's Josh getting the right checks.

2070
01:48:08,240 --> 01:48:10,600
Speaker 1: When you listen to Dave all listen to McDermott, it

2071
01:48:10,640 --> 01:48:13,360
Speaker 1: seems like it's a cumulative effort with the run game

2072
01:48:13,439 --> 01:48:15,840
Speaker 1: not being as successful. But I will say this, and

2073
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:18,480
Speaker 1: this is something that I can add based upon my experience,

2074
01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:21,519
Speaker 1: when you don't rush the ball a ton throughout a game.

2075
01:48:21,920 --> 01:48:24,800
Speaker 1: Oftentimes it's hard to get in a rhythm. And the

2076
01:48:24,840 --> 01:48:26,120
Speaker 1: reason you need to get in a rhythm in the

2077
01:48:26,200 --> 01:48:29,080
Speaker 1: run game is you're a lot of times you're combination

2078
01:48:29,160 --> 01:48:33,839
Speaker 1: blocking with somebody else. Well, different defenders play it different

2079
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:37,040
Speaker 1: every single week, and they might not even do it

2080
01:48:37,080 --> 01:48:39,599
Speaker 1: the exact way that they showed on film. So by

2081
01:48:39,760 --> 01:48:43,080
Speaker 1: getting those repeat reps over and over, you get to

2082
01:48:43,160 --> 01:48:45,479
Speaker 1: kind of get a feel for the run game. And

2083
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:49,719
Speaker 1: then obviously, if you ground somebody out like we did

2084
01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:54,360
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, towards the end of the game,

2085
01:48:54,760 --> 01:48:57,000
Speaker 1: you really start wearing on a defense and you get

2086
01:48:57,040 --> 01:48:58,920
Speaker 1: those big chunk plays. You're not getting a ton of

2087
01:48:58,920 --> 01:49:01,799
Speaker 1: big chunk plays in the run game in the first quarter,

2088
01:49:02,360 --> 01:49:05,559
Speaker 1: and the Bills have not established a run game enough

2089
01:49:05,600 --> 01:49:08,360
Speaker 1: to kind of get those that wear down effect in

2090
01:49:08,400 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 1: the second half. Right, And to your point about reps too,

2091
01:49:11,520 --> 01:49:13,400
Speaker 1: eric I remember Mitch Moore saying a week or two

2092
01:49:13,439 --> 01:49:17,879
Speaker 1: ago that the lack of a preseason, in his opinion,

2093
01:49:18,479 --> 01:49:21,360
Speaker 1: hurt the offensive line more in terms of the run

2094
01:49:21,400 --> 01:49:24,360
Speaker 1: blocking than pass blocking because of the very combinations that

2095
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:26,600
Speaker 1: you're talking about. He said, we really didn't have a

2096
01:49:26,680 --> 01:49:29,639
Speaker 1: chance to rep combination blocks because we didn't have any

2097
01:49:29,640 --> 01:49:33,080
Speaker 1: preseason games to do it live, and he felt that

2098
01:49:33,160 --> 01:49:35,000
Speaker 1: kind of put them behind the eight ball a little bit.

2099
01:49:35,040 --> 01:49:38,599
Speaker 1: Then you compound that by not running all that much,

2100
01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 1: so you're not even getting the required reps maybe through

2101
01:49:41,360 --> 01:49:43,320
Speaker 1: the first four or five games of the season, and

2102
01:49:43,360 --> 01:49:46,519
Speaker 1: so here you are now going into week eight and

2103
01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:51,640
Speaker 1: they're still trying to find that defined, consistent traction in

2104
01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:53,160
Speaker 1: the run game that they're looking for. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: did pop a couple of runs yesterday, but it just

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01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:59,000
Speaker 1: seems that they're too few and far between. And maybe

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01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:00,720
Speaker 1: you're right, maybe it is a buy product to the

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01:50:00,760 --> 01:50:02,640
Speaker 1: fact that they're just not running enough to get a

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Speaker 1: real good feel for it. Yeah, and another thing on

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01:50:07,479 --> 01:50:09,760
Speaker 1: like the big places, because I know there's a lot

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01:50:09,760 --> 01:50:13,759
Speaker 1: of people out there that want the home run runs

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Speaker 1: well without getting maybe twenty or twenty five carries, which

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Speaker 1: I don't think any running backs for the Pills are

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01:50:20,160 --> 01:50:22,880
Speaker 1: going to get this year individually, unless maybe they're there

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01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:25,400
Speaker 1: with the solo back in the game. Unless you get

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01:50:25,439 --> 01:50:27,639
Speaker 1: that many, the chance to poping one off at aren't

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01:50:27,720 --> 01:50:31,280
Speaker 1: very good. And then Devin's singletary their main feature back.

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Speaker 1: He is extremely elusive. He's great at getting positive yards.

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Speaker 1: There's often free hitters in the backfield where maybe you

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01:50:40,320 --> 01:50:43,000
Speaker 1: missed a check, missed the block, and he'll get positive yards.

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01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:45,920
Speaker 1: He's got a ton of great qualities as a running back,

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01:50:46,120 --> 01:50:48,880
Speaker 1: but top end speed is not one of them. So

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01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:51,439
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be a home run

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01:50:51,560 --> 01:50:54,960
Speaker 1: hitter ever for the Bills. But you don't necessarily need

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01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:58,519
Speaker 1: that if you have home run hitters elsewhere on offense,

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01:50:58,840 --> 01:51:01,960
Speaker 1: and you do. You have John Brown and Stefon Dix

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01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:03,880
Speaker 1: who could take the top off the defense. And then

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01:51:03,920 --> 01:51:06,800
Speaker 1: you have Isaiah Mackenzie, who's liable to have a big

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01:51:06,840 --> 01:51:08,559
Speaker 1: play when he gets the ball in his hand, so

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01:51:08,600 --> 01:51:12,719
Speaker 1: you do have other big play options. Zack Moss. He's

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01:51:12,760 --> 01:51:16,760
Speaker 1: more of a thumper, still not a breakaway back, but

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01:51:17,000 --> 01:51:20,320
Speaker 1: he saws off a twenty six yard or yesterday. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll take that all day. We'll go back to the phones.

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Speaker 1: We'll take another one here from DJ in Hamburg. DJ,

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01:51:28,720 --> 01:51:30,200
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Welcome to the show,

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01:51:30,320 --> 01:51:33,200
Speaker 1: miss Eric. How are you doing good? I want to

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01:51:33,240 --> 01:51:36,280
Speaker 1: focus on Cam Newton asked me. In all the first

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01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:39,280
Speaker 1: four games, he played really well, especially against Kansas City

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01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:43,080
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Then he got the coronavirus and his performance

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01:51:43,120 --> 01:51:49,080
Speaker 1: wrapped off. And my concern is this, if you know,

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01:51:49,080 --> 01:51:51,400
Speaker 1: if it comes back where he starts throwing the ball

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01:51:51,439 --> 01:51:54,080
Speaker 1: like he did against Cama City in Vegas, we and

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01:51:54,080 --> 01:51:56,360
Speaker 1: I only have to worry about the running game. We

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01:51:56,439 --> 01:51:58,840
Speaker 1: got to worry about the passing game as well. And

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01:51:58,880 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: I still thinking Night has some codlips going on in

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01:52:01,320 --> 01:52:04,479
Speaker 1: there and then might kick in. So, you know, being

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01:52:04,479 --> 01:52:06,400
Speaker 1: a big divisional game, I want to know what you

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01:52:06,800 --> 01:52:09,320
Speaker 1: think about the what do you think about that? When

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01:52:09,360 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: Eric will let you take it first. Well, you know

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01:52:13,479 --> 01:52:16,320
Speaker 1: he mentioned Vegas in Kansas City. I thought he played

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01:52:16,360 --> 01:52:18,840
Speaker 1: great against Seattle too. They were one play away from

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01:52:18,880 --> 01:52:21,960
Speaker 1: getting a victory against the Seahawks, who were finally dealt

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01:52:21,960 --> 01:52:24,960
Speaker 1: their first loss last night. And to be Cam Newton.

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01:52:26,360 --> 01:52:29,240
Speaker 1: Early in the season, I think defenses were really struggling

2155
01:52:29,240 --> 01:52:32,439
Speaker 1: to figure out how Josh McDaniels was going to utilize

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01:52:32,479 --> 01:52:36,120
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. It was it was some shotgun design runs.

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01:52:36,120 --> 01:52:37,800
Speaker 1: A lot of those happened down in the red zone,

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01:52:37,840 --> 01:52:40,960
Speaker 1: but it was a lot of play action, hard play

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01:52:40,960 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 1: action and utilizing their run game. And by doing that,

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01:52:45,200 --> 01:52:48,200
Speaker 1: I think they caught some people off guard. Cam was

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01:52:48,240 --> 01:52:51,160
Speaker 1: able to make some accurate throws. But to me, Cam

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01:52:51,200 --> 01:52:54,080
Speaker 1: got beat up in Carolina, and I just don't I

2163
01:52:54,120 --> 01:52:56,920
Speaker 1: don't know that he has the arm strength anymore. He's

2164
01:52:56,960 --> 01:53:00,640
Speaker 1: never been just a pure pocket pass, sit there and

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01:53:00,640 --> 01:53:03,280
Speaker 1: pick you apart. I mean, he was a former MVP

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01:53:03,360 --> 01:53:06,280
Speaker 1: of the league, don't get me wrong. Phenomenal talent, great

2167
01:53:06,280 --> 01:53:08,760
Speaker 1: football player, and for people that have been around him

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01:53:08,760 --> 01:53:12,280
Speaker 1: in the organization, a great leader, high energy. There's a

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01:53:12,280 --> 01:53:14,960
Speaker 1: lot of positives about Cam Newton, but I think at

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01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:18,080
Speaker 1: this point of his career, once teams have figured out

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01:53:18,080 --> 01:53:22,160
Speaker 1: how exactly Josh McDaniels has wanted to attack them, I

2172
01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:25,439
Speaker 1: think they've really been able to get a beat on that,

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01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:31,200
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been nearly as effective. I agree with that,

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01:53:31,400 --> 01:53:34,240
Speaker 1: but I also wouldn't count Cam Newton out for a

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01:53:34,320 --> 01:53:37,280
Speaker 1: game just because of the way when people look down

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01:53:37,320 --> 01:53:39,320
Speaker 1: on him or when people doubt him. The way that

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01:53:39,360 --> 01:53:42,439
Speaker 1: he was able to start off the season for the

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01:53:42,479 --> 01:53:45,559
Speaker 1: Patriots winning against the Dolphins. Of course they lost against

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01:53:45,600 --> 01:53:48,920
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, but then won against the Raiders. And yeah,

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01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:53,280
Speaker 1: his last two performances haven't been that amazing by any means.

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01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:56,560
Speaker 1: He's finished with a fifty one passer rating against the

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01:53:56,640 --> 01:54:00,000
Speaker 1: Broncos thirty nine passer rating against the forty nine ers.

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01:54:00,479 --> 01:54:03,519
Speaker 1: Those are not good stats to have, But in a

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01:54:03,640 --> 01:54:06,720
Speaker 1: game where he is coming off of playing two games

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01:54:06,720 --> 01:54:09,639
Speaker 1: pretty down, not that great. I would be a little

2186
01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:11,760
Speaker 1: bit worried for maybe what he could come back and

2187
01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:14,759
Speaker 1: do against the Buffalo Bills. But if the defense dials

2188
01:54:14,840 --> 01:54:18,000
Speaker 1: up an answer against that, then well maybe he doesn't

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01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:19,920
Speaker 1: have anything. The other thing, too, is, you know, you

2190
01:54:20,040 --> 01:54:22,240
Speaker 1: hear three interceptions and you're like, oh wow, and he

2191
01:54:22,280 --> 01:54:24,080
Speaker 1: got benched. He must have been awful, But then we

2192
01:54:24,160 --> 01:54:28,000
Speaker 1: were just running the highlights. One interception, his receiver falls

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01:54:28,080 --> 01:54:31,080
Speaker 1: down on a deep post and you know, the safety's

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01:54:31,080 --> 01:54:32,880
Speaker 1: back there to make the I and T and then

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01:54:32,920 --> 01:54:34,720
Speaker 1: the other one's off at tiff ball off to, you know,

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01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:36,840
Speaker 1: to Julian Edelman. That gets picked off, kind of like

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01:54:36,880 --> 01:54:39,960
Speaker 1: we saw in the Tennessee game for Josh Allen when

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01:54:39,960 --> 01:54:42,640
Speaker 1: it went off Andre Roberts hand. So is it really

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01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:47,160
Speaker 1: all on him? Probably not. The thing that surprises me

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01:54:47,320 --> 01:54:51,200
Speaker 1: most about the Patriots is I think we all thought

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01:54:51,280 --> 01:54:53,480
Speaker 1: that they were going to really lean on their running

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01:54:53,520 --> 01:54:56,280
Speaker 1: game a lot more, not only with their backs but

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01:54:56,400 --> 01:54:59,480
Speaker 1: also with Cam himself, and they do do a good

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01:54:59,560 --> 01:55:01,040
Speaker 1: deal of it. As a matter of fact, I think

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01:55:01,040 --> 01:55:05,040
Speaker 1: they're one of the highest run percentage teams in the league. Yeah,

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01:55:05,080 --> 01:55:08,800
Speaker 1: and so right now they're pretty balanced. They're like forty

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01:55:08,840 --> 01:55:12,080
Speaker 1: nine percent run, fifty point like they're forty nine point

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01:55:12,120 --> 01:55:14,960
Speaker 1: two and then fifty point eight percent pass. So they

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01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:19,280
Speaker 1: are a balanced offense. But more offenses lead, you know,

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01:55:19,760 --> 01:55:22,240
Speaker 1: lean towards the passing game, including the Bills who are

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01:55:22,240 --> 01:55:24,320
Speaker 1: throwing in almost sixty two percent of the time. Eric,

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01:55:24,360 --> 01:55:28,520
Speaker 1: I mean, can this Patriots team be productive enough on

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01:55:28,640 --> 01:55:31,120
Speaker 1: offense with all that they seem to be struggling with

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01:55:31,200 --> 01:55:34,560
Speaker 1: receivers that can't get open. Cam Newton inconsistent. I mean,

2215
01:55:34,640 --> 01:55:38,040
Speaker 1: everybody's cautiously optimistic here in Buffalo this week, Eric, but

2216
01:55:38,440 --> 01:55:44,480
Speaker 1: we've seen how this story's played out too many times. Yeah,

2217
01:55:44,520 --> 01:55:51,000
Speaker 1: how do I answer this and not ruffle too many feathers? One,

2218
01:55:51,760 --> 01:55:54,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots are going to come in and test the

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01:55:54,000 --> 01:55:57,200
Speaker 1: Bills on the ground. The Jets were able to be

2220
01:55:57,200 --> 01:55:59,480
Speaker 1: effective in the ground on the ground in the first half,

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01:56:00,240 --> 01:56:03,720
Speaker 1: and the Kansas City Chiefs got him really good on

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01:56:03,760 --> 01:56:06,280
Speaker 1: the ground. Now, the Bills have shown when they focus

2223
01:56:06,360 --> 01:56:08,720
Speaker 1: on the ground game like they did at Tennessee. They

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01:56:08,760 --> 01:56:12,480
Speaker 1: held the league leading rusher to three yards to carry

2225
01:56:12,640 --> 01:56:14,840
Speaker 1: in Derek Henry. So the Bills can stop the run

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01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:18,160
Speaker 1: when they focus on it. They've shown that the Patriots

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01:56:18,200 --> 01:56:20,320
Speaker 1: are going to make sure that's the case, and they're

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01:56:20,320 --> 01:56:22,400
Speaker 1: going to test them on the ground. I wouldn't be

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01:56:22,400 --> 01:56:26,440
Speaker 1: surprised to see's a quarterback run game with Cam Newton

2230
01:56:26,520 --> 01:56:29,920
Speaker 1: utilized as well, him being another weak removed from the coronavirus.

2231
01:56:30,000 --> 01:56:31,560
Speaker 1: And I actually think that was a valid point by

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01:56:31,560 --> 01:56:34,200
Speaker 1: a caller, because when you're a quarterback and you have

2233
01:56:34,280 --> 01:56:37,000
Speaker 1: to stay away from the facility and you know we

2234
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:39,839
Speaker 1: don't know his symptoms and all that, I mean, that's balid.

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01:56:40,360 --> 01:56:46,400
Speaker 1: That's extremely valid. But I am tired at this point. Now.

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01:56:46,440 --> 01:56:48,360
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in Louisville, Kentucky, so it's easy for me

2237
01:56:48,400 --> 01:56:52,360
Speaker 1: to say this, but I'm tired of everyone just speaking

2238
01:56:52,480 --> 01:56:56,440
Speaker 1: so cautiously about the Patriots this week, like speak a

2239
01:56:56,520 --> 01:57:00,400
Speaker 1: wind it into existence, Speak some confidence in these guys,

2240
01:57:00,440 --> 01:57:03,920
Speaker 1: like we are the better team. I just want to

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01:57:06,640 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean, we have better players all over the place,

2242
01:57:08,960 --> 01:57:12,240
Speaker 1: and they don't have Tom Brady anymore. You know, each

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01:57:12,320 --> 01:57:15,040
Speaker 1: year when we were talking about, well, you know, the

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01:57:15,120 --> 01:57:17,840
Speaker 1: Patriots are down a little bit, or they're not. They

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01:57:17,840 --> 01:57:20,400
Speaker 1: don't seem as good. Well that entire time. They might

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01:57:20,400 --> 01:57:23,200
Speaker 1: have had the best quarterback of all time back there.

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01:57:23,480 --> 01:57:25,800
Speaker 1: So yes, they always had a good chance. Plus they

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01:57:25,840 --> 01:57:29,400
Speaker 1: got a defensive out. I'll say, the defensive mastermind. And

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01:57:29,400 --> 01:57:32,320
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick I had to prepare for his defense eighteen

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01:57:32,400 --> 01:57:37,480
Speaker 1: times as a player. He's a mastermind. Well, Tom Brady's

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01:57:37,480 --> 01:57:41,560
Speaker 1: not there anymore. Yeah, all right, we have to take

2252
01:57:41,560 --> 01:57:43,200
Speaker 1: a break, but when we come back, more of your

2253
01:57:43,200 --> 01:57:46,320
Speaker 1: phone calls and more of Eric Wood, Chris Brown, Maddie

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01:57:46,320 --> 01:57:48,760
Speaker 1: Glad with you here on a victory Monday edition of

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. More with Eric coming up after this

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01:57:51,680 --> 01:57:53,760
Speaker 1: when we return on One Bills Live. Be back in

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01:57:53,800 --> 01:58:08,880
Speaker 1: a second. Back on One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Manny

2258
01:58:08,920 --> 01:58:11,480
Speaker 1: Glab on a victory Monday edition of One Bills Live.

2259
01:58:11,560 --> 01:58:13,920
Speaker 1: And we still have Eric Wood in the fold with

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01:58:14,000 --> 01:58:16,920
Speaker 1: us here for one more segment as we break down

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Speaker 1: Monday's game and look ahead to the Bills Patriots matchup

2262
01:58:19,840 --> 01:58:25,360
Speaker 1: this coming Sunday here at Bill's Stadium. Penalties, Eric, I

2263
01:58:25,440 --> 01:58:28,720
Speaker 1: know some of them were correctly called, some were a

2264
01:58:28,760 --> 01:58:32,839
Speaker 1: little questionable, but eleven for one oh six is obviously

2265
01:58:32,880 --> 01:58:36,520
Speaker 1: too many. That's the most penalty yardage in over a season,

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01:58:36,560 --> 01:58:39,919
Speaker 1: I believe, with thee hundred and six yards assessed against them,

2267
01:58:39,960 --> 01:58:43,000
Speaker 1: and in two of the last three games now they've

2268
01:58:43,000 --> 01:58:46,400
Speaker 1: gone double digit penalties. So where do you come down

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01:58:46,440 --> 01:58:48,600
Speaker 1: on that when you see it kind of crop up

2270
01:58:48,640 --> 01:58:54,880
Speaker 1: to that degree? You know, the thing with penalties are

2271
01:58:55,000 --> 01:58:58,040
Speaker 1: is you can always live with penalties that happen between

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01:58:58,080 --> 01:59:02,600
Speaker 1: the whistles. Yeah, you know, actually when they're people being aggressive,

2273
01:59:02,720 --> 01:59:05,680
Speaker 1: think Mica hide play at the end of the game,

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01:59:05,720 --> 01:59:07,800
Speaker 1: and I thought Michel Hyde actually did a good job

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01:59:07,840 --> 01:59:10,600
Speaker 1: of pulling up. It'd be interested to see if or

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01:59:10,680 --> 01:59:13,640
Speaker 1: what he gets fined. I know the referees I college

2277
01:59:14,520 --> 01:59:18,760
Speaker 1: I cover college football as well, so they're very cautious

2278
01:59:18,800 --> 01:59:21,280
Speaker 1: with throwing the flags. Then it goes to review process.

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01:59:21,480 --> 01:59:25,440
Speaker 1: NFL referees are also taught to throw the flag even

2280
01:59:25,480 --> 01:59:27,640
Speaker 1: if it's close. They're trying to clean up the game.

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01:59:27,680 --> 01:59:30,720
Speaker 1: They'd rather be wrong this way than the other way.

2282
01:59:30,400 --> 01:59:33,200
Speaker 1: But I use that penalty as an example. That's a

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01:59:33,240 --> 01:59:36,280
Speaker 1: play that's a penalty you can live with. The penalties

2284
01:59:36,320 --> 01:59:40,000
Speaker 1: you can't live with are the illegal formation deal that

2285
01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:45,120
Speaker 1: wipes out a touchdown. The various offsides on the offense

2286
01:59:45,440 --> 01:59:49,120
Speaker 1: defensive neutral zone of fractions one every now and then

2287
01:59:49,280 --> 01:59:51,680
Speaker 1: is fine, but they've just become too much of a problem,

2288
01:59:52,000 --> 01:59:54,320
Speaker 1: especially for a defense that's still trying to find their

2289
01:59:54,320 --> 01:59:56,560
Speaker 1: identity and get their footing, and you just got to

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01:59:56,560 --> 02:00:01,760
Speaker 1: eliminate those. And like I said, you know the bills,

2291
02:00:01,800 --> 02:00:03,920
Speaker 1: you know, as far as the offense blind out a

2292
02:00:03,920 --> 02:00:07,360
Speaker 1: lot of holding calls this year and all that, but

2293
02:00:07,600 --> 02:00:10,000
Speaker 1: it just seems like the pre snap penalties and post

2294
02:00:10,040 --> 02:00:13,000
Speaker 1: snap when you look at the second half against Kansas City,

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02:00:13,760 --> 02:00:16,320
Speaker 1: those need to be eliminated. I don't know how you felt, Maddie,

2296
02:00:16,360 --> 02:00:18,360
Speaker 1: but like that Micah Hyde play that we just ran

2297
02:00:18,520 --> 02:00:22,400
Speaker 1: here for our MSG viewers, I just felt like he

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02:00:22,600 --> 02:00:25,440
Speaker 1: saw that he was going to be in a vulnerable

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02:00:25,520 --> 02:00:28,240
Speaker 1: position to be hitting a defenseless receiver. I felt he

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02:00:28,280 --> 02:00:31,880
Speaker 1: almost turned away from to make sure he would hit

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Speaker 1: with his shoulder and not his head, and I almost

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Speaker 1: think that I don't even know if he really got

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02:00:37,440 --> 02:00:39,840
Speaker 1: a clean shot on his head. It looked to me

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02:00:40,320 --> 02:00:45,680
Speaker 1: like the first thing Micah's shoulder hit was Breshad Perriman Sternham. Yeah,

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02:00:45,680 --> 02:00:48,040
Speaker 1: and at that point you're jumping up, it's so hard.

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Speaker 1: If he's already in the air, it's hard to make

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02:00:50,080 --> 02:00:52,080
Speaker 1: a quick decision to get out of the way there.

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02:00:52,120 --> 02:00:54,160
Speaker 1: I really feel like, like you said, Mike Hyde was

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02:00:54,240 --> 02:00:58,520
Speaker 1: just trying to turn away and not hit his helmet

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02:00:58,560 --> 02:01:02,840
Speaker 1: but hit his shoulder instead. That looks nothing like the

2311
02:01:02,960 --> 02:01:07,000
Speaker 1: hit on Andy Dalton yesterday. Oh, definitely not. No, that

2312
02:01:07,120 --> 02:01:11,240
Speaker 1: was a pure and unadulterated headshot that John Bostick took

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Speaker 1: on Andy Dalton. Although they're saying the reports are today

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Speaker 1: that he's not going to be suspended, he's only going

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02:01:18,520 --> 02:01:22,080
Speaker 1: to be fined, which is surprising considering he was ejected

2316
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Speaker 1: from the game. Eric, I don't know if you saw that,

2317
02:01:23,960 --> 02:01:27,080
Speaker 1: But where do you come down on that if you did. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did see it, and I'm anxious to actually watch

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02:01:29,520 --> 02:01:35,680
Speaker 1: this replay again because it happened so simultaneously. So and

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Speaker 1: I say, it happens so simultaneously. Bostick goes to lunge

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Speaker 1: at Dalton at the exact same time that he slides,

2322
02:01:43,600 --> 02:01:47,400
Speaker 1: so it looks awful, and he takes his head off,

2323
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Speaker 1: and you know, we're trying to protect these quarterbacks anyway,

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Speaker 1: We can. But John Bostick's in the air and he's

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Speaker 1: making a football move to tackle him make a hit

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Speaker 1: on him. When Dalton and slides, I don't think Bostick

2327
02:02:02,720 --> 02:02:05,600
Speaker 1: went in trying to rip his head off. Was he

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02:02:05,760 --> 02:02:11,000
Speaker 1: trying to make a tempo setting hit on a quarterback probably,

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02:02:11,720 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: and he lowers his head, which can't do But to me,

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of playing Devil's advocate and giving an

2331
02:02:20,520 --> 02:02:23,839
Speaker 1: opposite side of the spectrum here, just because everyone's hammering

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Speaker 1: Bostick today. Yeah, the thing that I think it's been

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02:02:27,920 --> 02:02:30,600
Speaker 1: in the league long enough at least for defensive players

2334
02:02:30,600 --> 02:02:34,920
Speaker 1: to realize head lower legs. I realize there's not much

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02:02:34,960 --> 02:02:36,840
Speaker 1: of a body on a quarterback left that they are

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02:02:36,880 --> 02:02:39,680
Speaker 1: allowed to hit, even when they are in the open field.

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Speaker 1: But I think you've got to know that quarterbacks, when

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02:02:46,080 --> 02:02:50,000
Speaker 1: they feel people closing in, more often than not, are

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02:02:50,040 --> 02:02:53,320
Speaker 1: going to try to slide. And it's I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that a defensive player has to anticipate that, but in

2341
02:02:57,360 --> 02:02:59,640
Speaker 1: a way they kind of almost have to say, this

2342
02:02:59,680 --> 02:03:02,840
Speaker 1: is a possibility of what could happen, and I don't

2343
02:03:02,840 --> 02:03:06,560
Speaker 1: want to get nailed with a flagrant foul or an

2344
02:03:06,560 --> 02:03:09,600
Speaker 1: ejection and I know that's hard on a bang bang

2345
02:03:09,640 --> 02:03:12,720
Speaker 1: play like that, really I do. But it's almost like

2346
02:03:12,760 --> 02:03:15,640
Speaker 1: defensive players have to anticipate that now, whether it's fair

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02:03:15,760 --> 02:03:20,200
Speaker 1: or not. I think they almost have to anticipate that. Yeah,

2348
02:03:20,240 --> 02:03:23,440
Speaker 1: they do. And and you know what, to take hits

2349
02:03:23,520 --> 02:03:27,120
Speaker 1: like that out of the game, that's fine, you know

2350
02:03:27,160 --> 02:03:29,960
Speaker 1: what I mean. I understand there's a lot of old

2351
02:03:30,000 --> 02:03:32,800
Speaker 1: heads that played and will say, man, the game's getting

2352
02:03:32,800 --> 02:03:35,640
Speaker 1: soft in this and that. But you know what, I

2353
02:03:35,720 --> 02:03:37,880
Speaker 1: don't think it takes anything away from the game. When

2354
02:03:37,880 --> 02:03:42,080
Speaker 1: there's a crackback block opportunity and a guy slide swipes

2355
02:03:42,160 --> 02:03:44,800
Speaker 1: him and doesn't touch him and kind of just breezes

2356
02:03:44,840 --> 02:03:47,880
Speaker 1: by him and gets in his way, like it don't

2357
02:03:47,960 --> 02:03:50,000
Speaker 1: It doesn't make me not want to watch football because

2358
02:03:50,000 --> 02:03:52,320
Speaker 1: he doesn't knock his head off anymore like we did

2359
02:03:52,360 --> 02:03:54,640
Speaker 1: in the old days. Like that doesn't make me not

2360
02:03:54,760 --> 02:03:57,640
Speaker 1: want to watch football. And if you don't want to

2361
02:03:57,680 --> 02:04:01,360
Speaker 1: watch football, because in that situation, if Bostick would have

2362
02:04:02,280 --> 02:04:06,040
Speaker 1: somehow in the bang bang situation, tagged him off and

2363
02:04:06,440 --> 02:04:08,160
Speaker 1: not taking his head off, if that makes you not

2364
02:04:08,280 --> 02:04:11,120
Speaker 1: want to watch football, I don't. I don't know what

2365
02:04:11,200 --> 02:04:14,080
Speaker 1: to tell yet, But the game is changing when you

2366
02:04:14,160 --> 02:04:16,560
Speaker 1: have the studies out like they do with head injuries.

2367
02:04:16,640 --> 02:04:18,800
Speaker 1: We don't need to get down that path on this show,

2368
02:04:18,880 --> 02:04:23,040
Speaker 1: but I just think that it's a better game when

2369
02:04:23,080 --> 02:04:25,600
Speaker 1: you got your star players playing, which is carl reason

2370
02:04:25,920 --> 02:04:28,240
Speaker 1: they want the quarterbacks protected. The other thing is health

2371
02:04:28,240 --> 02:04:32,000
Speaker 1: and wellness reasons and so yeah. But to your point, Chris,

2372
02:04:32,400 --> 02:04:35,280
Speaker 1: and my last point on this, you know a guy

2373
02:04:35,320 --> 02:04:37,360
Speaker 1: like Micah Hide making that decision where he kind of

2374
02:04:37,400 --> 02:04:40,080
Speaker 1: turns away, We're getting closer and closer to where the

2375
02:04:40,160 --> 02:04:42,440
Speaker 1: NFL wanted it when they implemented these roles when they

2376
02:04:42,440 --> 02:04:44,480
Speaker 1: first put him in. Everyone's getting fine, like crazy, but

2377
02:04:44,560 --> 02:04:46,760
Speaker 1: you had to put in perspective. I got like, Micah

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02:04:46,800 --> 02:04:50,520
Speaker 1: Hide is thirty years old, thirty plus years old. He's

2379
02:04:50,520 --> 02:04:53,120
Speaker 1: been playing football since he was probably nine, doing the

2380
02:04:53,120 --> 02:04:56,160
Speaker 1: exact same things, being taught his entire life. Put your

2381
02:04:56,160 --> 02:04:58,360
Speaker 1: head on the football. And when I first learned how

2382
02:04:58,400 --> 02:05:00,080
Speaker 1: to tackle, they said, put the crown of your head

2383
02:05:00,200 --> 02:05:02,320
Speaker 1: on the football and wrap up. You know you know

2384
02:05:02,320 --> 02:05:05,440
Speaker 1: what I mean. Times you're going to get launching a spearing,

2385
02:05:05,440 --> 02:05:08,280
Speaker 1: a targeting call. In college football nowadays, putting the crown

2386
02:05:08,360 --> 02:05:10,440
Speaker 1: of your head towards the ball, I mean your Aventure,

2387
02:05:10,440 --> 02:05:12,880
Speaker 1: You're gonna get kicked out of most games. I think

2388
02:05:12,920 --> 02:05:15,680
Speaker 1: the game in college and NFL because a lot of

2389
02:05:15,680 --> 02:05:18,160
Speaker 1: these guys are starting to learn these techniques in junior

2390
02:05:18,240 --> 02:05:22,400
Speaker 1: high even earlier than that through high school. Now in college,

2391
02:05:22,640 --> 02:05:27,960
Speaker 1: the game's becoming naturally less involved with the headshots because

2392
02:05:28,000 --> 02:05:31,080
Speaker 1: of all that. Yeah, I think targeting also. When that

2393
02:05:31,160 --> 02:05:34,320
Speaker 1: first was implemented in college football, I think like every

2394
02:05:34,400 --> 02:05:37,640
Speaker 1: other game, it seemed like there was a targeting penalty called,

2395
02:05:37,640 --> 02:05:40,000
Speaker 1: but now less and less. To your point, I want

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02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:42,640
Speaker 1: to ask you about the defense and just those halftime

2397
02:05:42,680 --> 02:05:45,000
Speaker 1: adjustments that were made. We talked about it last night

2398
02:05:45,040 --> 02:05:50,080
Speaker 1: on the show. But from a football player's perspective, halftime

2399
02:05:50,320 --> 02:05:52,800
Speaker 1: is not long. In the NFL, it is very short.

2400
02:05:52,920 --> 02:05:55,720
Speaker 1: So what are you able to accomplish in a halftime

2401
02:05:55,760 --> 02:05:59,240
Speaker 1: and how did you see this defense really turn the corner,

2402
02:05:59,320 --> 02:06:01,920
Speaker 1: turn the page on how they played in the second half?

2403
02:06:01,960 --> 02:06:04,200
Speaker 1: What was different from the first to the second half?

2404
02:06:04,560 --> 02:06:08,240
Speaker 1: Xes and Os wise to answer your first part of

2405
02:06:08,240 --> 02:06:09,680
Speaker 1: the question, what are you able to get done? You're

2406
02:06:09,680 --> 02:06:12,360
Speaker 1: able to use the restroom very fast because you're generally

2407
02:06:12,440 --> 02:06:16,080
Speaker 1: very hydrated during a game. Maybe put something in your

2408
02:06:16,080 --> 02:06:18,760
Speaker 1: stomach to get some energy for the second half. And

2409
02:06:18,800 --> 02:06:21,680
Speaker 1: then for offensive purposes, we would kind of go through

2410
02:06:21,680 --> 02:06:24,280
Speaker 1: an opening script for the second half, talk about maybe

2411
02:06:24,280 --> 02:06:27,080
Speaker 1: how we would block a certain play a little bit different.

2412
02:06:27,080 --> 02:06:28,880
Speaker 1: But that's about it. You got to get back out there,

2413
02:06:29,000 --> 02:06:31,200
Speaker 1: especially if you're getting the ball. You got to get

2414
02:06:31,200 --> 02:06:34,080
Speaker 1: out there and kind of rewarm up, especially if you

2415
02:06:34,120 --> 02:06:36,240
Speaker 1: weren't out there for maybe a two minute drive before

2416
02:06:36,280 --> 02:06:38,400
Speaker 1: the half. You got to get loosened back up. So

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02:06:38,440 --> 02:06:42,280
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of the process. And then what I

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02:06:42,320 --> 02:06:45,160
Speaker 1: saw the Bills do in the second half is I

2419
02:06:45,160 --> 02:06:48,640
Speaker 1: saw them apply some more pressure. They seem to play

2420
02:06:48,720 --> 02:06:51,080
Speaker 1: the run a little bit tighter, force them into some

2421
02:06:53,680 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 1: highly likely past situations, and then a little bit of

2422
02:06:57,440 --> 02:06:59,880
Speaker 1: a nuance, which you're seeing a couple of these here

2423
02:07:00,080 --> 02:07:02,440
Speaker 1: as you see Tremaine Edmunds entered the screen. I'm sorry

2424
02:07:02,440 --> 02:07:04,000
Speaker 1: for those on the radio that didn't get to see it,

2425
02:07:04,040 --> 02:07:07,200
Speaker 1: but for the WGN viewers, we just saw a play

2426
02:07:07,240 --> 02:07:10,640
Speaker 1: where it's called adding on to a blitz. So if

2427
02:07:10,640 --> 02:07:13,560
Speaker 1: you're in man demand coverage and they run a play

2428
02:07:13,560 --> 02:07:17,440
Speaker 1: action concept, a lot of times defenses will kind of

2429
02:07:17,480 --> 02:07:19,920
Speaker 1: sit back and that guy will maybe play in a

2430
02:07:20,840 --> 02:07:22,720
Speaker 1: maybe a robber position in the middle of the field,

2431
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:25,080
Speaker 1: trying bat balls down, whatever it may be. What the

2432
02:07:25,120 --> 02:07:28,600
Speaker 1: Bill started doing yesterday, and they did it earlier than

2433
02:07:28,640 --> 02:07:31,880
Speaker 1: the third quarter, was a rush to cover situation where

2434
02:07:32,080 --> 02:07:35,080
Speaker 1: if your guy blocks, as if you have the running

2435
02:07:35,080 --> 02:07:37,000
Speaker 1: back man and he blocks in a play action, then

2436
02:07:37,000 --> 02:07:38,760
Speaker 1: you add onto the blitz and you're going to be

2437
02:07:38,840 --> 02:07:41,600
Speaker 1: a free hitter. The kicker is you have to recognize

2438
02:07:41,600 --> 02:07:44,280
Speaker 1: its play action fast enough to get home because everybody

2439
02:07:44,320 --> 02:07:46,800
Speaker 1: else is in now man coverage without anybody helping in

2440
02:07:46,840 --> 02:07:48,400
Speaker 1: the middle of the field or deep or whatever it

2441
02:07:48,400 --> 02:07:50,560
Speaker 1: may be. And I saw the Bills doing a lot

2442
02:07:50,600 --> 02:07:52,160
Speaker 1: more of that, and they were able to get home

2443
02:07:52,320 --> 02:07:56,160
Speaker 1: fluster Sam Darnold to really make an impact. All right,

2444
02:07:56,160 --> 02:07:57,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna go back to the phones. Take a couple

2445
02:07:57,880 --> 02:08:01,920
Speaker 1: more here for Eric Wood. We go to Dennis in Rochester. Dennis,

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02:08:01,960 --> 02:08:04,680
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. What do you have for us? Yeah,

2447
02:08:04,800 --> 02:08:07,640
Speaker 1: he thanks a lot. Guys. You know, everyone's talking about

2448
02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:10,680
Speaker 1: all these different players, but no one's really mentioning anything

2449
02:08:10,720 --> 02:08:13,920
Speaker 1: about my number one guy, Beasley and his career day

2450
02:08:13,920 --> 02:08:16,680
Speaker 1: that he had. You know, this guy here comes to

2451
02:08:16,840 --> 02:08:21,120
Speaker 1: play every single game and here We're talking about some

2452
02:08:21,160 --> 02:08:24,240
Speaker 1: of these guys that and so so of a day,

2453
02:08:24,280 --> 02:08:26,720
Speaker 1: but no one's mentioned anything about Beasley and what a

2454
02:08:26,760 --> 02:08:29,120
Speaker 1: great day he had. Yeah, I mean we mentioned it

2455
02:08:29,160 --> 02:08:31,640
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. But yes, I mean I don't

2456
02:08:31,680 --> 02:08:34,360
Speaker 1: think there's any argument there, Dennis, And thanks for the call.

2457
02:08:34,440 --> 02:08:36,720
Speaker 1: But Eric, why don't you take that one? When you

2458
02:08:36,800 --> 02:08:40,200
Speaker 1: have to lean on a guy to that degree? Here's

2459
02:08:40,200 --> 02:08:42,560
Speaker 1: my question for you. Why did the Jets not have

2460
02:08:42,600 --> 02:08:45,040
Speaker 1: an answer? I mean, Brian Poole is arguably one of

2461
02:08:45,040 --> 02:08:48,720
Speaker 1: their better cover corners. He's their slot guy, and he

2462
02:08:48,760 --> 02:08:53,400
Speaker 1: didn't have an answer for him. They never adjusted. Yeah,

2463
02:08:53,440 --> 02:08:56,720
Speaker 1: when you watch Cole Beasley versus man to man defense,

2464
02:08:56,800 --> 02:09:01,000
Speaker 1: even against elite nicol corners, he is very crafty with

2465
02:09:01,040 --> 02:09:04,280
Speaker 1: his route running. Josh Allen often looks to him if

2466
02:09:04,360 --> 02:09:06,440
Speaker 1: he's if he knows there's gonna be pressure, he knows

2467
02:09:06,480 --> 02:09:09,480
Speaker 1: bees can get open quick. He's also great against zone.

2468
02:09:10,200 --> 02:09:12,880
Speaker 1: He's got a ton of football knowledge. Former not to

2469
02:09:12,880 --> 02:09:15,200
Speaker 1: play it out too much, it's been talked about before,

2470
02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:19,320
Speaker 1: but former quarterback, and he just understands passing lanes where

2471
02:09:19,360 --> 02:09:22,320
Speaker 1: he's got to get to. He's extremely valuable and as

2472
02:09:22,400 --> 02:09:26,480
Speaker 1: these teams continue to play the Bills with over the

2473
02:09:26,520 --> 02:09:29,800
Speaker 1: top coverage prevent the deep ball. It might be time

2474
02:09:29,840 --> 02:09:35,200
Speaker 1: to just wear out Cole Beasley and just let him

2475
02:09:35,400 --> 02:09:37,880
Speaker 1: make a number of plays and then maybe that opens

2476
02:09:37,880 --> 02:09:39,880
Speaker 1: it up over the top. And I thought of the

2477
02:09:39,920 --> 02:09:42,400
Speaker 1: times yesterday the running back checkdowns were open a lot

2478
02:09:42,400 --> 02:09:44,800
Speaker 1: of times as well. Some of those were longer situations

2479
02:09:45,440 --> 02:09:48,640
Speaker 1: down in distance wise, But I also think by utilizing

2480
02:09:48,680 --> 02:09:51,400
Speaker 1: the checkdown, utilizing the running backs in the passing game,

2481
02:09:51,720 --> 02:09:55,800
Speaker 1: that'll get those cover two corners that can sync back

2482
02:09:56,160 --> 02:09:58,880
Speaker 1: and get into way of passing lanes. It can mess

2483
02:09:58,920 --> 02:10:01,160
Speaker 1: with some of those as well. I don't about you, Maddie,

2484
02:10:01,200 --> 02:10:03,760
Speaker 1: but like Cole Beasley looked like what Julian Edelman had

2485
02:10:03,800 --> 02:10:06,240
Speaker 1: done to everybody else in the AFC East for years,

2486
02:10:06,280 --> 02:10:08,360
Speaker 1: That's what he looked like yesterday. And I think they

2487
02:10:08,400 --> 02:10:10,800
Speaker 1: went to him on like the second or third play,

2488
02:10:11,320 --> 02:10:13,640
Speaker 1: and we've seen games where they don't go to him

2489
02:10:13,720 --> 02:10:15,520
Speaker 1: until later in the game. And I feel like if

2490
02:10:15,520 --> 02:10:19,000
Speaker 1: you go to him early, that gets things going for

2491
02:10:19,040 --> 02:10:21,360
Speaker 1: this offense. Like you just said, Eric, it may open

2492
02:10:21,520 --> 02:10:25,040
Speaker 1: up those deep balls, those deep routes for this offense.

2493
02:10:25,080 --> 02:10:27,080
Speaker 1: When you start to go to someone like Cole early

2494
02:10:27,080 --> 02:10:29,040
Speaker 1: and they went to him all game because that's where

2495
02:10:29,240 --> 02:10:32,000
Speaker 1: your openings were with how the Jets defense was playing

2496
02:10:32,040 --> 02:10:34,320
Speaker 1: the Bills. Yeah, no question. All right, Eric, listen, we're

2497
02:10:34,360 --> 02:10:36,120
Speaker 1: out of time here, but thanks for the input and

2498
02:10:36,160 --> 02:10:38,800
Speaker 1: the insight. We'll catch up with you on the Sean

2499
02:10:38,880 --> 02:10:42,640
Speaker 1: McDermott show. Will you'll be chopping some wood? Sounds good?

2500
02:10:42,640 --> 02:10:44,600
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on, guys. All right, Eric Wood

2501
02:10:44,640 --> 02:10:47,760
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live given us his thoughts on

2502
02:10:47,800 --> 02:10:49,720
Speaker 1: the game. We do have to take a break, but

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02:10:49,960 --> 02:10:52,640
Speaker 1: when we return, it's time for what have we learned

2504
02:10:52,720 --> 02:10:56,760
Speaker 1: from today's show? Plenty of lessons, I'm sure, Maddie, Glad

2505
02:10:56,840 --> 02:10:58,360
Speaker 1: Chris Brown back with you in a moment. Here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalidah. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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02:11:14,880 --> 02:11:17,520
Speaker 1: It's time for what have we learned? Brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of the

2509
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. I think, Maddie, what we've learned from today's

2510
02:11:24,760 --> 02:11:28,520
Speaker 1: Twitter poll is that the jury is still out on

2511
02:11:28,560 --> 02:11:30,840
Speaker 1: what the identity of this Bill's team is. I think

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02:11:30,840 --> 02:11:35,360
Speaker 1: people are still waiting and wondering, and I guess we'll

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02:11:35,400 --> 02:11:37,360
Speaker 1: see in the coming weeks and you know, I know

2514
02:11:37,440 --> 02:11:40,000
Speaker 1: you and I talked about it already today. We hope

2515
02:11:40,040 --> 02:11:42,520
Speaker 1: this team's peaking in November and December, and then maybe

2516
02:11:42,560 --> 02:11:44,920
Speaker 1: at that point in time we'll have a clearer picture

2517
02:11:45,720 --> 02:11:48,760
Speaker 1: on just what who, what or who this team is

2518
02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:51,760
Speaker 1: and how they're going to win on a consistent basis

2519
02:11:51,760 --> 02:11:54,960
Speaker 1: week after week. Yeah, maybe this coaching staff is completely

2520
02:11:55,040 --> 02:11:57,840
Speaker 1: fine with a team not having an identity right now,

2521
02:11:57,920 --> 02:12:00,400
Speaker 1: still being October. Maybe they want to show case that,

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Speaker 1: like you said, Chris, later in this season when you're

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Speaker 1: in the hunt for the playoffs. Another thing, I think

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Speaker 1: the identity also is not formed yet because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty. We don't know what tomorrow is going

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Speaker 1: to look like for us, or maybe next week. We

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Speaker 1: don't know what next week's gonna look like for this team.

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Speaker 1: It's still to be determined. Hopefully they can determine it

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Speaker 1: by December. Yeah, sooner rather than later would be nice.

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Speaker 1: Some other NFL news that came down during the course

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Speaker 1: of today's show, saying Dallas is unlikely to sign another

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Speaker 1: quarterback with Dalton in protocol, so it doesn't look like

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Speaker 1: one of the Dallas writers floated the idea in his

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Speaker 1: Monday morning column for the Cowboys to go sign Colin Kaepernick,

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Speaker 1: who obviously becomes popular whenever there's some kind of quarterback

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Speaker 1: shortage somewhere. But the reports are now and NFL dot

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Speaker 1: com is reporting this that the plan right now is

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Speaker 1: not for Dallas to sign an additional quarterback or at

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Speaker 1: least some big name guy with Dalton in protocol. I

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Speaker 1: was trying to madly scramble and pull up a Dallas

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Speaker 1: depth chart because I honestly don't know where the backup

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Speaker 1: to Dalton was right now. Who is it? It's Ben

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Speaker 1: de Nucci. Okay, go get him Ben. He is a

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Speaker 1: rookie from James Madison. Oh, and they have Garrett Gilbert.

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Speaker 1: They signed him off a practice squad somewhere else. So yes,

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Speaker 1: who is Gail? Who I believe is Gail Gilbert's son,

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Speaker 1: who was a third quarterback for the Bills for some time.

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Speaker 1: So I just didn't make do with what they've got.

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Speaker 1: That's it for a victory Monday edition of One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Naddy Glam will join us again tomorrow for Tuesday show

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Speaker 1: when we have Kyle Brand. But that's it for today.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch you tomorrow. It's one Bills Live, presented by

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