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Speaker 1: look easy. Two blown coverages. Look, there are two. There

429
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Speaker 1: are things that go hand in hand with poor performances,

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Speaker 1: and it's basically execution on the field and game strategy.

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00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: And coach McDermott said it after the game. We got

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Speaker 1: physically manhandled at the line of scrimmage. We had miscues

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Speaker 1: on the field, so a lack of execution. And he

434
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Speaker 1: also said they got outcoached, so all the way around.

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Speaker 1: It was a bad day to have a bad day,

436
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: but everybody had a bad day for the Bills, and

437
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: that's why we saw the result that we did. Now

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Speaker 1: you want to start firing people, that's your opinion, But

439
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Speaker 1: I don't think you want to take a one game

440
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Speaker 1: sample with adverse circumstances that we can run down the

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Speaker 1: list of. And I'm not trying to be an excuse

442
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: maker an apologist. They got beat yesterday. They got a

443
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Speaker 1: flat out beat on the field, on the sideline up

444
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Speaker 1: in the coaches booth. However, you want to slice it.

445
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: They got flat out beat by a team that was

446
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 1: more ready to play and had a better game strategy

447
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: going in and throughout, making adjustments that it were necessary

448
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: to handily win the football game. But I just don't

449
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: think knee jerk reactions like firings are the way to

450
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: go here. Yeah, there's too much quality behind him to

451
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 1: do that. And you're right something a couple of touchdown,

452
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: first two touchdowns you look at and anytime you've got

453
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: blown coverages, I mean to me, that's on the players.

454
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: That's an execution. That's an execution issue on the field.

455
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: That's defensive coordinate over there, makes a call where everybody's

456
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: covered and has an assignment and somebody doesn't cover them

457
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: and blows their assignment. You can say what you want

458
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: about the preparation, but this is, you know, in the playoffs,

459
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: there's five guys on the field in the secondary that

460
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: shouldn't know what they're doing. They've had tons of all

461
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 1: those guys had tons of reps. There's you know, when

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00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: you blow it, it's because you start to panic and

463
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 1: start to do something outside your responsibility or start to

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00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: go someplace else to make a play when you should

465
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: have been doing what you were supposed to do on

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Speaker 1: the play. That's how you blow assignments defensively. You get

467
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: caught up in what you're looking at and forget that

468
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be doing something else rather than watching,

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Speaker 1: or rather than going up to make somebody else's tackle,

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00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you turn around and

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00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:23,919
Speaker 1: they're throwing at the guy you should have been covering,

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00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: or you get your eyes are wrong because you start

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Speaker 1: getting caught up in ball handling in the backfield, and

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00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the guys running by you. Stuff

475
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 1: like that happens when you blow assignments. The coordinators over

476
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 1: on the sidelines calling the defense, he wants you to run.

477
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 1: If you don't run it, that's when you give up touchdowns.

478
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: Now there's Brownie's right. It was a I mean, it

479
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,479
Speaker 1: was an unprecedented collapse. Yesterday when you got two opening

480
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: drives of the game for the Cincinnati Bengals, they didn't

481
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: they didn't face the third down on one I mean

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Speaker 1: they had either of them. They had They averaged nine

483
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: point one yards per play. They had thirty first downs

484
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 1: in the game and only ten third downs. So it's

485
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: a rough day defensively. And you went up against an

486
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: offensive line that was full of backup players. They steamrolled them,

487
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,239
Speaker 1: and they got steamrolled. They got, they got, they got

488
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: blown up. And it goes back to not being engaged

489
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: in that game enough to stem that tide. They were

490
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: not mentally in the right place to go in and

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Speaker 1: play an NFL game, let alone an NFL playoff game.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but more of

493
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: your phone calls when we return, and we'll also go

494
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: around the locker room as it is locker clean out

495
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: day here at One Bills Drive. Some interesting comments from

496
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: the Bills, maybe the most notable Micah Hides comments about

497
00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:00,160
Speaker 1: his availability had they won the game this week. We'll

498
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Speaker 1: let you know about that next Here on One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalata Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bills Live here on this Buffalo

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00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: Football Monday. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you at his

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00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: locker clean out day here at One Bills Drive after

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Speaker 1: the AFC Divisional loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, and it's

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00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: time for us to take you around the locker room.

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Speaker 1: Presented by connect Life, your blood and organ donor network

506
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: and we begin with veteran safety Micah Hide, who had

507
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: been out since Week two, but began practicing two weeks ago,

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00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: and as we'll find out here from Micah, had the

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Speaker 1: Bills won yesterday, he would have been cleared to play

510
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: in the conference championship game. Here is Micah Mike. I

511
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: guess what's the next step in your recovery health wise?

512
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: I know you're able to get out to practice. You

513
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: know what does that look like as far as they

514
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: like recovery health wise for you? Well? You actually, yeah,

515
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: I got cleared. I got cleared, so next game I

516
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: was gonna be able to go out there and play. Um.

517
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: This is the most unique season obviously I've ever been

518
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: a part of, just you know, working working my way

519
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: back to just be a part of this team and

520
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: go out there and try to help anywhere I could. UM,

521
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: and then to come, you know, get into the playoffs

522
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: and like I told you guys, struggling for a little

523
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: bit after surgery. Then you know, getting some good news

524
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: from the doctor about my recovery, and um, you know,

525
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: getting to the point where I finally got to last

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Speaker 1: week to to get cleared um late in the week

527
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Speaker 1: and know that you know, we have to possibly win

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Speaker 1: this game. I'm out there. Um, I'm out there in

529
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: the ANFC Championship game. So, you know, just a lot

530
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 1: of highs and lows this year from you know, my

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00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: own personal life and also just this football team. And

532
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: to come to a quick stop like that. Um, just

533
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: like you know, thirty one other teams are gonna you know,

534
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: live through that is it's pretty tough. You mentioned about

535
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Speaker 1: your personal journey, but also everything the team's been through

536
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: this year. What did you learn about the Buffalo Bills

537
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: this season? Just in everything, um, as far as the

538
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: organization or just like your teammates. Yeah, I just learned

539
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: a lot, learn a lot about these guys this year,

540
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: having to to you know, not to be on the

541
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Speaker 1: sideline and just still going to meetings, being here every day,

542
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: the long hours. Um, just seeing the way guys work.

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00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: You know, I definitely got closer to a lot of

544
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: guys this season and just to um, like I said,

545
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: just see how they work and see how they you know,

546
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: approach their job each anybody. I learned a lot from

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00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: the young guys, older guys. Um. You know, I like

548
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: I told you guys before, I feel like with my

549
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: injuries a blessing in disguise. Um, I was able to

550
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: learn a lot about the game, UM, learn a lot

551
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: about myself. UM, So it was cool to see. It

552
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: was cool to see a lot of guys step up,

553
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: um and and play a lot of snaps, big roles

554
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: have a big role on this team that you know,

555
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: they coming into OTA's last year, they probably wouldn't have

556
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: thought would be the case, um, but it was. It

557
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: was exciting to see a lot of guys really really

558
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: flourish and blossom and and come to life this season.

559
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: Years passed, we've done this day and it's been a

560
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: lot of them like, hey, let's keep the band together possible.

561
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's probably a similar sentiment players, but there's

562
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: also maybe the really elmy it's just not as feasible

563
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: as it was in years passed. One of those big

564
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: names as somebody who've played a long time with Jorgan Porter,

565
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: how do you just kind of approach that side of

566
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: things heading into the offseason with so much uncertainty. Yeah,

567
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: I mean after every every loss, UM, this emotion, a

568
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: lot of emotion after the season ending, these is way

569
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: more you know, motion, and you know we're we're all

570
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: we all understand the business side of things. We all

571
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: know whose contracts are up and and who's going to

572
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: be free agents and stuff like that, and so coming

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Speaker 1: into this season, um, you knowing, knowing, you know pose situation.

574
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: Um you know, I wanted to Number one. I wanted

575
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: to help him get a new deal. I feel like,

576
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: you know, within the locker room, guys want to see

577
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: other guys get paid, and UM, you know, we all

578
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: love each other, we all look out for each other.

579
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna see guys get paid. And so that was

580
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: kind of my mindset coming into the season. And um,

581
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: with my situation happening. Um you know, I said this

582
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: numerous times that there was there was more on post

583
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: shoulders shoulders this year than any other year of us

584
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: being here. Um you know, I I to be honest,

585
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: I kind of felt like I let him down, just

586
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: in the sense of getting hurt because you know, him

587
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: having to continue to move on without me, which I

588
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: would have been the same way if Poe got you know,

589
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: if Poe got hurt for the season and I was

590
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: out there, it would have been more on my shoulders

591
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: to get guys lined up. Um to mentally prepare for

592
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: the week, Um to talk ball. You know, just when

593
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: you spend so much time with somebody, um, throughout the

594
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: last six years, you just you know, you kind of

595
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: just leaning into them and so um, you know, I

596
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: feel like I kind of let him down and he

597
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: had a lot on his shoulders, and you know, just

598
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: seeing him yesterday, UM, not really in the game how

599
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: we wanted to and in the game, how he personally

600
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: wanted to was tough to see. Like it hurt me

601
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: to see that. Um, you know, because you never know

602
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: what the future holds. It's a business, you know. So

603
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: I've been in the league long enough and I've seeing

604
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: a lot of teammates come and go, and M Poe

605
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: would definitely be the one, UM at the top of

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00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: the list to see go, just because you know, we

607
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Speaker 1: were able to step into this place together and in

608
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Speaker 1: seventeen and make a name for ourselves. He'd helped me

609
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Speaker 1: get to where I am in my career, in my

610
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: career and vice versa. Um, you know, we leaned on

611
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: each other a lot over the last six years, not

612
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: just on the field, but off just having just girl

613
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: man convers stations, starting families together. Um, just you know,

614
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: everything every aspect of life. So love Poe. Um, you

615
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: know it was emotional. It was emotional yesterday just coming

616
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Speaker 1: home and and and seeing you know, number one me

617
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Speaker 1: not playing, but number two seeing Poe um really uncertain

618
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: about his future. And that goes along with some other guys.

619
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Speaker 1: But like I said, Poe definitely be the top of

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Speaker 1: the list. I know that. You know, this is obviously

621
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: above you know, you your pay grade, and these are

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00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: decisions that are made above you. What if Jordan's here

623
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Speaker 1: next year if he's not, but knowing what he means,

624
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: to see what he means, you are these conversations that

625
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: do you have conversations with guys like Sean Brandon, Um,

626
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: you know, as that time approaches, I guess they know that.

627
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: They know that. Um, you know they've been around us

628
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: just you know, being in the building and stuff like that.

629
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Speaker 1: Now they know how you know, what relationships guys have.

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00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 1: They know how close Poe and I am. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's like you, like you said, that's above

632
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: my pay grade. UM. As far as guys coming and

633
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: going in this you know organization, there's really nothing, you know,

634
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: really nothing I can say. I can always vouch for

635
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: somebody you know, and stuff like that. But um, it's

636
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 1: above me. But Micael, this team has been going upward

637
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: seventeen and the AFC Championship game a couple of years ago.

638
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: Now that the standard is different than when you first started.

639
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: You were in Green Bay a lot of success, but

640
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: you weren't always reaching the peak. What's your message to

641
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: this team now moving forward? Of all right, we've gotten here,

642
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: but how do we get here? It's it's I mean,

643
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: I've never won a championship like like you said, I've

644
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: I've gotten to you know, the NFC Championship games a

645
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: few times, AFC Championship game one time here and throughout

646
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: the years, you just realize how crucial and how detail

647
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: you'd have to be in the playoffs. Um, you know

648
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: what if it's a game like I think it was

649
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: a three score game, it was a final score twenty

650
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: seven to ten yesterday, it was a three score game.

651
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: At the same time, there were some there were some

652
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: plays within that game that, um, you know, could have

653
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: definitely went a different way. And if those plays were

654
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: made on our side, um, you know, the outcome of

655
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: the game could have been different. And I know you

656
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: can talk about each and every play and I'm sure

657
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: you guys do that a lot also, but um, it's

658
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: just very detailed. When those plays come to you have

659
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: to make them. Um. And so to lose a divisional

660
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: round again, it's tough, m but you got to understand

661
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: that it's just a your few plays away from really

662
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, getting through that game. And then you know,

663
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: once you get into the playoffs, it's anybody's game. You

664
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta get hot out the right get hot

665
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: at the right time. We felt like it was us.

666
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: We felt like it was us this year. Um, and

667
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: a lot of teams definitely felt that. But you got

668
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: to continue to, uh fine tune your craft in the

669
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: off season, continue to get better, understand that, um, it's

670
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: never gonna be easy. It's never gonna be easy. Like,

671
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how much work you put in. I

672
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: can I can say it's say to say that I've

673
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: each all season, I feel like I'm working harder. But

674
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: obviously with the situation that happened this year with in

675
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: my case and whatever, it just it doesn't matter. You

676
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: got to continue to work, You got to continue to

677
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: find fine tune your craft and and just uh, you know,

678
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: hope that you get out at the right moment. About

679
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: like the energy maybe just not being there yesterday, you

680
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: know from the outside looking in because you didn't play

681
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: in the game. Did it feel like it was something

682
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: that the Bengals did or was it more something that

683
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: just for whatever reason did a materialize on the dead Uh? Yeah,

684
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: I mean we got beat yesterday, like we we we

685
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: felt like we definitely got just beat all around. Um,

686
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: you know they what the team's doing that to you,

687
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be a you know, a bunch of energy,

688
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: a bunch of juice. Um, there were too many plays

689
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: for us to be able to get excited, you know,

690
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: get up, get off the bench, and and and you know,

691
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: really talk about so Um, I think when that is happening,

692
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit of low energy. Do

693
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,959
Speaker 1: I feel like before the game there was low energy?

694
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: Now not at all, guys. I feel like guys were

695
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: ready to go. Guys are ready to play. The game

696
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: plan throughout the week was was in place and we

697
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: were executed. Um. But at the same time, you know,

698
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: we just gotta we got outplayed by them, and and uh,

699
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: you gotta live with it, you gotta watch it, you

700
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: gotta learn from it, and um and move on. Sticks

701
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: with you most from this season as you head into

702
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: the off season. UM, all the things that this team

703
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: went through, for sure, Like it's I've never been on

704
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: our team this resuling it UM, just stuff that was

705
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: was clearly out of our control. UM, and guys just

706
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: continue to fight and fight, and a lot of it motivated.

707
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: It motivated us. And just at the end, we just

708
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: ran out of gas. Um. We you know, we fought

709
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: all year long, and you know we've talked about this

710
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: plenty of times. Was just the the weather issues, the injuries, UM,

711
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: just a lot of things that happened this year. And

712
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 1: then to see these guys really keep fighting, keep coming

713
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: to work, keep being positive, keep getting up in the morning,

714
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: which is hard to do when the weather was bad,

715
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: when it's snowing. To see all that, it was just

716
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: it's really I learned a lot. Like I said, I

717
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: learned a lot about my teammates. And I'm very very

718
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: proud of the the players, the coaches, this organization from

719
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: you know, cafeteria ladies, the janitors, just everybody having a

720
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: positive mindset in this building each and every day. And

721
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: that's something I'll definitely cherish for USh my life. Do

722
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: you think that all of that stuff did or can't

723
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: have an emotional toll as the season goes on, even

724
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: you don't realize that in the moment you sit back

725
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: and reflect and say, maybe all that stuff was just

726
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: to did finally catch Oh yes, oh yeah. And I

727
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: think that even my perspective was different because I wasn't playing,

728
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: so I was really able to sit back in and

729
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: be like wow, like, you know, even though I was

730
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: in the meetings that was part of the game playing stuff,

731
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: but I wasn't on the field. And I feel like

732
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: if when you're on the field and you know you're

733
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: kind of your mind's kind of being taken away from

734
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: you know, what's going on around you. So I was,

735
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 1: you know, off the field and just like really paying

736
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: attention to what was going on. I was like, oh wow,

737
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: like geez from the like I said, from the other

738
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: issues that we had, having to leave early, and everybody has,

739
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: you know, their own personal things going on at home,

740
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: and you know, when that stuff was happening, my wife was,

741
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, at the house with blizzard going on, two

742
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: kids and electricity going out. I'm getting phone calls, I'm

743
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: staying up late, making sure, you know, my neighbors can

744
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: help out, which they're amazing. And you know, so everyone's

745
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: going through their own personal battles with a lot of

746
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: the issues that went on this year, and like I said,

747
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: just ran out of gas. It was just it was

748
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: it was a tough year. It's not making excuses by

749
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,439
Speaker 1: any means. We felt like we, you know, this team

750
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: was gonna get it done, and at the end of

751
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: the day, we just didn't. Pretty tailing comments from Micah Hyde,

752
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: who I think pegged a lot of things. Maybe the

753
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: most interesting is the uncertainty that comes in this offseason

754
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: knowing that the guy who he has been a tandem

755
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: with at safety for the last six years is a

756
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: free agent and it's going to be thirty two years

757
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: years old next year, and we don't know what the

758
00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: future holds. There could look very different in Buffalo secondary

759
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: next year. Hide his back, he's under contract for one

760
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: more season. Player is not, and we don't know where

761
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: that's going to go. If you remember, he wanted a

762
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: new contract at the beginning of the year, that never happened,

763
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: so and he was riddled with injuries for most of

764
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: the season, but he got it out. I played extremely

765
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: well m even in the midst of those injury, hyper

766
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: extended his elbow and training camp had to take a

767
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: take a bus to Kansas City to play a couple

768
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: of cracked ribs, and you know, just kind of played tough.

769
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: He really laid it on the line for the club.

770
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: And I know, you know, Brandon Bean, Sean McDermott and

771
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: his teammates really appreciated, no question about it. They love

772
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: the guy. Um, you know, but like he said, you know,

773
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: he's thirty two years old, and it's a business, and

774
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: it's a business and and I'll tell you this too,

775
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: not for nothing. He may strike it rich. Good for him,

776
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think the Bills will make him

777
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,879
Speaker 1: that guy though, with Tremaine Edmund standing there and the rest,

778
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: So I don't know. It's I know that the Bills

779
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: will make him an I think. I don't know. I

780
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: think the Bills will make him an offer. But whether

781
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: that's an offer that nobody else will match or even

782
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:20,439
Speaker 1: succeeds supersede, you know, I kind of doubt it. Break

783
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: time for us here when we come back, more of

784
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: your phone calls here on this Buffalo Football Monday at

785
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 1: eight oh three, five fifty. We're back in a minute.

786
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned. All right, welcome

787
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

788
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna get right back to the phones and we

789
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: go to Jim in only end next. What you got

790
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: for his Jim? Yeah, afternoon, guys. Um gotta say, I'm

791
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: not totally shocked about yesterday's game. I think they get

792
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: beat that bad. But I looked back at the game

793
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: three weeks ago with a DeMar Hamlin incident, and that

794
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: game almost seemed to be going the same way up

795
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: until the time of the medical incident there. I mean,

796
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: Joe Burrows seemed to be moving the ball pretty easy,

797
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: and he's that team You've got to put up sevens

798
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: and nothing but sevens and play a perfect game on defense.

799
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: And the defense is something definitely that needs to be

800
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: short up, you know, in the offseason here, and I

801
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: would like to see somehow they could ever get a

802
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: Thermon Thomas like running back. I don't think anybody should

803
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,919
Speaker 1: be fired. You don't want to throw away a whole

804
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: team just because of a team that played poorly yesterday.

805
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: I mean, for crying out loud, they've only lost four

806
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: games this season. I mean if we got to give

807
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: them a break there and just try to shore up

808
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,479
Speaker 1: the areas that need to be shure of help Josh,

809
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: and more ways that we can through an offensive line,

810
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: more you know, good receivers and are running back to

811
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 1: maybe you could catch the ball out of the backfield,

812
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: and a tougher defense. I remember the defenses of the nineties,

813
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: and I'd like to see that come back. And now

814
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 1: I'll just sit back and listens. I appreciate the call. Yeah,

815
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: I get it. I'll say this about the Money Night

816
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 1: Football game, even the game yesterday, I kind of predicted that.

817
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 1: I was always my thought, and I watched this team

818
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: play like everybody else did. One of the things that

819
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 1: was became kind of a hallmark of the way Bills

820
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: games went were that their opponents would come out and

821
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: early in the game and have make them hay offensively.

822
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: They would come out and move the football and they

823
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,439
Speaker 1: would sometimes in a lot of instances, have their most

824
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: offensive production early in games, and then Leslie Fraser and

825
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: the staff they'd start to make some adjustments and they

826
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: just squeezed the life out of him. There's a maybe

827
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: double digit games this season, maybe certainly more than six

828
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: games this season where that looked to be the case

829
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: in games that they just strangled their opponents. So I

830
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: was not phased when Cincinnati came out and on that

831
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: Monday night game, when they came out, when right down

832
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: the field and scored a touchdown, and the Bills came

833
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: down and moved right back down the field the other way,

834
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: and they had the interset the incompletion on the two

835
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: yard line, kicked the field goal, so seven three, and

836
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: since he was off again running again, that to me

837
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: was early in the game. It was three possessions in

838
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: or two and a half possessions in. I was not

839
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: surprised that that's how that game was going to go,

840
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: because the Bill's defense adjusts during games and squeezes that

841
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: stuff out of the other team. So that game, to me,

842
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: was happening exactly like he kind of thought it was

843
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: gonna happen. And I thought the Bills were gonna be

844
00:45:54,680 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: fine in that game on Monday night. I would agree that,

845
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: you know, just with the team's only lost four times

846
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: this season, I mean, let's, you know, take a deep

847
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: breath here. And I said that a little earlier in

848
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: the show, this is a really good team. And when

849
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: the most of the criticism of your team is coming

850
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: about style points after wins, not winning by enough. You're

851
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: pretty good. You're in a pretty good spot. And that's

852
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: where this team has lived over the past three years.

853
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,919
Speaker 1: They've been in a really good spot. They're a hard

854
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: team to beat, and that remains to be so. That

855
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: remains so. But in games like this, you've got to

856
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: play better on game day. Your coaches have to coach

857
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: their best and your players have to play their best.

858
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: And I don't think either one happened yesterday. Yeah, And

859
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 1: to his point, Joe Burrow, the way that he improved

860
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: his game this year was he became a highly efficient quarterback.

861
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,959
Speaker 1: He was always a high completion passer, but I said

862
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, he has incorporated the Tom

863
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: Brady approach into the assing game for the Bengals. Basically,

864
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 1: what he has done is he's adopted the death by

865
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: a thousand cuts passing game philosophy of Tom Brady. His

866
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: yards per attempt came way down this year, but his

867
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: efficiency went way up, and as a result, the Cincinnati

868
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: offense stays on schedule, they get first downs, and they

869
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: score points. The Kansas City Chiefs operate in much the

870
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: same way this year, especially after trading away Tyreek Hill.

871
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: The big play element of their offense went away. They

872
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: focused on efficiency. The Bills could do a lot of

873
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: good to take that same approach and adopt an efficiency model.

874
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: But to do that, you're going to have to have

875
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: weapons on the offense that you can consistently count on

876
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: weekend and week out, not once every four or five

877
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: weeks outside of Stefan Diggs and maybe Dawson Knocks. That

878
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: is the challenge that this team is going to go

879
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: in with into the off season. Can you adopt the

880
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: efficiency model effectively? And do you have enough weapons to

881
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: effectively execute that model. The Cincinnati BEng will certainly do

882
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: with their top three receivers in a tight end that's

883
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: very capable in Hayden Hurst. The Chiefs we know can

884
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: do it as well. And those are the two teams

885
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: that are still playing right now. That's the challenge. I

886
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: think in the offseason. We're going to squeeze in one

887
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: more phone call here before the top of the hour,

888
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: Isaac and Tennessee what do you got for us? Year

889
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: on one? Bills Live? Yeah, Hi, guys, can you hear me? Yes? Yeah? Basically,

890
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: what I just wanted to say is we have the

891
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 1: third best quarterback in the league right now, and it's

892
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: not because he lacks talent. I'm talking about Burrow Mahomes,

893
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: but it's because he lacks weapons around in I mean,

894
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: how many times do you see on the screen that

895
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: Mahomes will throw a five yard pass to McKinnon and

896
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: they'll run it for fifty yards, or samewhat Chase, they'll

897
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: they have great yards after catch. We have nothing like that,

898
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: I mean after digs. Everybody else is just you know,

899
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 1: an average player. And another thing I wanted to say

900
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: was Allen's going into year six, he's got, you know,

901
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 1: no mvts, no Super Bowl appearance. Says either Burrow's gonna

902
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: have two or Mahomes is gonna have three. So we

903
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,280
Speaker 1: got to hurry up and get this team right because

904
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: he's got some catching up to do if he wants

905
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: to be, you know, remembered like these guys. And I'm

906
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: going to hang up all right, thanks, Isaac, appreciate the

907
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: phone call. I think we kind of covered some of

908
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: that ground with the last caller as well, so no

909
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: need to expand on that. We are going to take

910
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: a break here when we come back. We'll begin our

911
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: second hour with Josh Allen, who will be addressing the

912
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: media here on Locker clean Out Day. Will get his

913
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: thoughts as he heads into the off season in preparation

914
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: for season number six in twenty twenty three. That's coming

915
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: your way next here on one Bill's Live, presented by

916
00:49:45,840 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio, the series one

917
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by called Light of Health. All Right,

918
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: here we are for our number two on a Buffalo

919
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 1: Football Monday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and addressing

920
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: the media here on Locker clean Out Day is Bill's

921
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: quarterback Josh Allen. We know at the end of the

922
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: game when he was buried with his face in an

923
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:58,760
Speaker 1: iPad reviewing plays from the previous Series one, Stefon Diggs

924
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: was not exactly thrilled with what was going on. We'll

925
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: see if Josh addresses that as he addresses the media

926
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: here on Monday. You know, not where we always, you know,

927
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 1: wanted to be with this. What do you think, you know?

928
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: Processing in a day after what do you think went wrong? Um?

929
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 1: I don't think we obviously executed at a high level.

930
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: And that starts with me, Um, you know what we're

931
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: in as detailed as maybe we would have liked to

932
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: have been. But again, credit to to the Bengals. He

933
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: had a really good game plan. They came out and

934
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball and they were firing. Um. Yeah,

935
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: we just didn't we didn't answer back. As you being

936
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: from two years ago a conference championship parents to now

937
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: back to back divisional rounds, does it feel in your

938
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: mind like this season was a step backward in some

939
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: ways and the size that you didn't advance beyond where

940
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: you got last year. You know, I don't want to

941
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: just discredit, um, everything that we did this year. Um.

942
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of a lot of positives

943
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: that we saw throughout the year. You know, a lot

944
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: of adversity that this team had been dealt. Um. I'm

945
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 1: still proud of our team for how we handled some

946
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: of those really adverse situations. Um. You know, they weren't

947
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: they weren't all easy. And uh that's the NFL, man,

948
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 1: every there's gonna be thirty one unhappy teams. And this

949
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: is going to be the feeling every year unless you

950
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. Um. So again, obviously, we want

951
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: to we want to win our last game, and we

952
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: didn't do that. So, um, lots to learn from, a

953
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: lots to grow from. Um. But you know, we're to

954
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: stick together as a team and uh, you know, as

955
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: an office and an organization, and you know, continue to

956
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: try to figure things out. Recognize that the hurt is

957
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: still fresh from yesterday. But what in your mind has

958
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 1: to happen to you to push past this from this,

959
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: you know, this stage of where you've been in an

960
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 1: advance beyond it. Yeah, Um, I mean it's a it's

961
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: a load of question. You know, we gotta we gotta

962
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: play play better in the later parts of the season. Um.

963
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta find a way to to peak

964
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: at the right time, you know, in the playoffs. So um,

965
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: we had a lot to look at, a lot to

966
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: learn from and grow from, you know, and we're going

967
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: to continue to u you know, keep working on things.

968
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: Josh with your elbow, we know it was listed on

969
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: the injury report, you know through the season. What are

970
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: the steps forward in terms of taking care of that?

971
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: Is it rest or you're gonna have to get an

972
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: operation of any sword? Where's that at? Yeah, No, we

973
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 1: don't think operations necessary at this time. And um, obviously resting,

974
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:44,439
Speaker 1: rest and recovery is going to be really good for it. Um. Yeah,

975
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: how impactful was it since the injury to the end

976
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: of the season in your performance? I mean there's a

977
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: period obviously right after for a few weeks where you know, um,

978
00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: it was pretty bothersome. But again, it didn't affect me

979
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: all that much. UM just kind of felt like maybe

980
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: I was trying to throw it a little differently mechanically,

981
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: had to change a few things, um, and got away

982
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 1: a little bit from UM you know how I how

983
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,959
Speaker 1: I used how I'm I'm used to throwing the ball,

984
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: and that's just kind of a byproduct of that. But again,

985
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: it didn't didn't affect me too much. There was a

986
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: lot of offense just just seemed easy to the offense.

987
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: Did it? Did it? Did you get the sense later

988
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: in the year that it was really hard, like everything

989
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: just seemed hard for you guys lately or did you

990
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: have that same sense of feeling? Um, I don't. I

991
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: mean it's the NFL, and again, the first few weeks

992
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: of a season, you don't really know you know who

993
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: the teams are in the league. You know, the first

994
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 1: couple of games are a really big fill up process

995
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: for for everybody. Um. And as you get in the

996
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: later part of the season, that's when you know, deposing teams,

997
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: you know, defenses in general are starting to click and

998
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: you know they're figuring things out too. They've got film

999
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: on you. Um. So we got to be we gotta

1000
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: be adaptive, and we gotta figure out ways to again

1001
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: make it a little easier for us. And uh, you know,

1002
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 1: going in the off season talking with with the coaching

1003
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: staff and just figuring out again ways to maybe lessen

1004
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: that burden. Um. Um. So again there's a lot to

1005
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: learn from understanding that, understanding that peaking at the right time.

1006
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: We'll also knowing that some things prevented seem to prevent

1007
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: this team from peeking through a lot of adversity from

1008
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: what from the things that happened. How do you balance

1009
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: being proud of this team and yet still unhappy with

1010
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: where things ended. Yeah. Well, again, there's there's a lot

1011
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: of love in this locker room for each other. Um.

1012
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, I'm sick to

1013
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 1: my stomach um and a lot of guys in the

1014
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:56,800
Speaker 1: locker room are as well. You know, we want to

1015
00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: we want to win a super Bowl, and that's that's

1016
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:01,479
Speaker 1: our goal, and that's our mindset every time we step

1017
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: out on on the field and each and every year

1018
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:07,760
Speaker 1: that'll never change. UM. And it sucks, you know, feeling

1019
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: like you're close and not being able to accomplish it.

1020
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: And I know it's been the last three years with

1021
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: a very similar feeling. And we got to continue to

1022
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: you know, push our push forward and you know, find

1023
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: a way to get over this hump and um, you know,

1024
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: set out to accomplish what we want. Saw that staff

1025
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 1: was visibly upset on the sideline yesterday, you know as

1026
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: the game went on over those conversations like with him

1027
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: and UM, just conversations really since the game ended. Yeah,

1028
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: I mean, guys are guys are competitive. Um again, we

1029
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: don't want to lose. It's not fun losing. It's not

1030
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: fun losing that way. UM. So it's it's all understood.

1031
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, we got

1032
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 1: to be there for each other and and continue to

1033
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: keep pushing forward. Do you ever feel like at any

1034
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: point this season that there was any like disconnect between

1035
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: you two or you guys like Warren on the same

1036
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: page at all, or was it just they're just sometimes

1037
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 1: weren't those opportunities in games? Yeah, I just feel like

1038
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: sometimes they were there one you know that many opportunities,

1039
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: and again defenses can game plan, um, you know, and

1040
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: try to take away your nimble one receiver and you

1041
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: know that's uh, that's just the fact of it. You know,

1042
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: those guys on the other side of the ball get

1043
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: paid too. But um, just again continuing to find ways

1044
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: to to get in the ball. Something agate again in

1045
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: a few weeks or I think it's good to go. Yeah,

1046
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: I think it's um. Yeah, we don't. We don't play

1047
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: on any of that. As you mentioned that you felt

1048
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: at times maybe that you're throwing motion was compromised a

1049
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: bit after the injury. Did that improve as the season

1050
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: went on to where you know, now here and like

1051
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: you can say in the playoffs that you were back

1052
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: to throwing normally. Yeah, I think, uh really two weeks

1053
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: ago is when I kind of felt like I got

1054
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: back to mechanically, um what I like, um again, being

1055
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: the rotational thrower, it's very kind of elbow prevalent um

1056
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: and maybe I got a little bit too more of

1057
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: a linear type deal because I just couldn't really use

1058
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: all that much force. And kind of flicking it out there.

1059
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: But um, again, just just adapting, Josh. We've seen this

1060
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: team invest heavily on the defense last year, signing Von

1061
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: multiple first round picks. You've done on that side of

1062
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: the football. Are you satisfied with the level to which

1063
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: you have added on the offense, whether that be up

1064
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: front in front of you or a wide receiver in

1065
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: giving you weapons. I love our guys. They they battle

1066
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: their tails off. Um. Yeah, that that doesn't bother me.

1067
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 1: And I gotta go out there and be the best

1068
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: quarterback that I can be for this team and just

1069
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: go try to execute, and you know, trust the ten

1070
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: guys on the field with me, Josh. It's an ad

1071
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: from a coverage standpoint that made it difficult for you

1072
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: guys to go on execute. Um. I mean they were

1073
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: bringing some simulated pressures and dropping it d N and

1074
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: bringing the star and um, you know, throwing some whether

1075
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: it be junk tamper, some POSTI zone behind it, um

1076
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: and just you know, mixing up the looks of where

1077
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: they were bringing pressure. So again, just gotta be gotta

1078
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: be better. Um. You know, and they they out played

1079
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: us yesterday, which you know is a sucky feeling, UM,

1080
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: and we got we gotta learn from it, Josh. What

1081
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: we'll stick with you most from this season, UM, I

1082
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: mean the adversity of this team had to overcome. UM. Again,

1083
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: there's a there's a lot of a lot of stuff

1084
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: that happened to a football team that I don't know

1085
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: if it's ever happened before, you know, and UH, just

1086
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: just battling through that with the guys in this locker

1087
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 1: room and thus, you know, trusting each other. Obviously we

1088
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 1: want to we want we want to win. UM, make

1089
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: no mistake about it. But you know, I'm proud of

1090
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: how this team was able to fight through some of

1091
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: the stuff that we went through. How do you guys

1092
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: trust the page? And obvious right now is how do

1093
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 1: you get out of the che I mean the only

1094
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: the only way is forward. And we had to continue

1095
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: to keep pushing and UM learning and UM, you know,

1096
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: talking with the coaching staff and being involved with that

1097
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: and UM figuring out how how we can make this

1098
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: thing we're going forward, UM, and how it's you know,

1099
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: to make it a little easier for us. And again,

1100
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 1: the NFL, it's hard to win this league, you know,

1101
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 1: and to have sustained success is very, very difficult. And

1102
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: you know we've been in the playoffs the last four

1103
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 1: years now. Um, you know we've gotten close, but we

1104
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to where we want to get to. And

1105
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna keep striving to do that. And again,

1106
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: the guys in the locker room of that same feeling,

1107
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 1: and again every year is different. I don't know who's

1108
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: like personnel and all that stuff. That's such a different

1109
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: part of it too. And you know, it sucks saying

1110
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: by to these guys that you know you may never

1111
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: may never play with again, never see again. Um, And

1112
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: that's just kind of the fact of the league. And

1113
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: it's a business at the end of the day. But

1114
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: I've got so much love for for the guys in

1115
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: this locker room. Yeah, it's good to talk about that.

1116
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: On Draft nice such a special night, right, you get

1117
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: drafted him onside, a guy named Tremaine, and you know

1118
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 1: how important is it to keep a guy like that?

1119
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 1: And it's yeah, I mean Tremaine's had a he's had

1120
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 1: an unbelievable year. Um, you know, he's a captain, calls

1121
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: our plays for us on defensive side of the ball. Um,

1122
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: a guy that has been in this League for five

1123
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: years now and he's made some some unbelievable plays and

1124
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 1: um had some unbelievable moments for us, and UM, and

1125
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's all shaking up. I don't

1126
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: know anything about that. UM. What. I love to have

1127
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 1: him absolutely, he's he's a difference maker out there. UM.

1128
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: Guys love him. I love him. You know, he busts

1129
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: his tell, he works hard, he doesn't complain. UM. You know,

1130
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: he's the ultimate ultimate guy on defense that you would

1131
01:01:56,080 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: want leading your defense. So, UM, I guess what to see.

1132
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: And again I hope we get him back based on

1133
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: the guy uh. I mean yeah, I think he's got

1134
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 1: that ability. And um, again, who knows what's going to

1135
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: happen with all that? So UM, all kind of leave it,

1136
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: leave it there, go ahead. Yeah, I thought I thought

1137
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: he did a really good job, um, you know, putting

1138
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: us in positions to be successful. And you know, if

1139
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: you look at the the statistics and rankings, UM, I

1140
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: mean I think we're ranked statistically at least pretty high

1141
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: and basically all the UH metrics that you want to use. UM.

1142
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: But again, I gotta be better for him, UM, you know,

1143
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: especially when he gives me some shot plays. I had

1144
01:02:57,720 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: turned the ball too many turned the ball over too

1145
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: many times this year and um, you know, didn't didn't

1146
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: really bite us all that much, you know, only losing

1147
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: three games in the regular season, but there's opportunities where

1148
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: it could have. And uh, you know, just taking a

1149
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: deep dive into that and understanding, um, you know, defenses

1150
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 1: as well as I can, and just trying to make

1151
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 1: the right play moving forward, and um, you know, again,

1152
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: allow this offense to to continue being out in the

1153
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: field the same that starts now. Yeah, talking with the

1154
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: coaching staff and um, you know, maybe taking a little

1155
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: bit time off and just kind of reevaluating things and

1156
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: and obviously letting the body rest and recover. Um, but again,

1157
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: just it doesn't really stop. How much room do you

1158
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 1: think you endorsing? How much room is there solid row

1159
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: A lot of room, A lot of room. And you know,

1160
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 1: the relationship that we have and the faith that we

1161
01:03:59,880 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: have each other, and that's that's going to stay high.

1162
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: And um, you know, recency bias from this last game.

1163
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 1: I know everybody's gonna lose their minds. But we did

1164
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: a lot of good things this year. And I trust him.

1165
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: He works He works so hard. He works tirelessly. He's

1166
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: always in the building. Um, he'll FaceTime you at eleven

1167
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: o'clock at night, still here and just trying to find

1168
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 1: new ways to get the ball, you know, into certain

1169
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: guy's hands. So I respect, I respect the hell out

1170
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: of him, I really do. You guys as a team

1171
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaker 1: went through a lot, this community went through a lot

1172
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 1: this year. Did you feel that you guys were at

1173
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:35,200
Speaker 1: least some sort of distraction or inspiration through a nice

1174
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: season you had and I know it didn't end that

1175
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 1: well through what this community went through in the sense

1176
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 1: even if there's a sense of responsibility with that. Yeah, Um, again,

1177
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:44,479
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of stuff. And like I said,

1178
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 1: the way our team handled it, there's times easily we

1179
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: could have you know, allowed it to be an excuse,

1180
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 1: and we didn't. And at the end of the day,

1181
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 1: we got we got the more back. So that's that's

1182
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:58,080
Speaker 1: an extreme silver lining um for everybody in this locker room.

1183
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: You see the before your back room last off season

1184
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: about Joe and Keith's coming in. Would you like this

1185
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: new to stay the same? Would you like you know,

1186
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: do you like working with Joe and having Kith? I

1187
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,640
Speaker 1: love both of them. I really do. And uh, obviously

1188
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: Gus now much. I love Matt, but they were they

1189
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: were fantastic for me this year. Joe works his tail off,

1190
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 1: he really does. He's extremely smart, um, obviously being an

1191
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator before and I'm sure he's gonna be getting

1192
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 1: calls and however that you know plays out is yet

1193
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: to be seen. But case, you know, just the presence,

1194
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: the vet presence, you know, the things that we're able

1195
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: to talk about, um, not just exs and os, but

1196
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 1: from leadership, mentality and that type of standpoint, how to

1197
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: interact with certain guys. Um, He's he's been great for me.

1198
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 1: And you know, again it's it's the league. It's a

1199
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: business to understand that things change up extremely quickly. Um.

1200
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: But I love both those guys and I'd love to

1201
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: work with them going forward. Josh Matt Milano yesterday said

1202
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 1: it felt like the sideline lack the energies given what

1203
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 1: was at stake in the game, that sounded like a

1204
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,479
Speaker 1: sort of a troubling thing year. Did you get that sense?

1205
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 1: And if you did, how do you fix that going forward? Um?

1206
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: You know, I don't you know, energy is created by execution, um,

1207
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: And we didn't go out there and execute. So you know,

1208
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: the two three outs right away, they score two touchdowns

1209
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: right away. That's just really bad situational football. It's bad

1210
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 1: complimentary football, um, you know, and somebody, somebody's got to

1211
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:29,840
Speaker 1: step up and make a play, um, you know, and

1212
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: early on in the game, we just we didn't. And

1213
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: that's just that's the fact of it. And we had

1214
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:37,840
Speaker 1: an opportunity to make it a one score game right

1215
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: before halftime. UM didn't get that done. So again it's

1216
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of complimentary football, a lot of

1217
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: situational football that we got to be better at, and

1218
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: especially against good teams where um, you need to execute

1219
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:51,919
Speaker 1: at a very high level. And we didn't do that uday,

1220
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,640
Speaker 1: And I take that upon my shoulders and I gotta

1221
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,680
Speaker 1: be better for this team, Jordan again this offseason, And

1222
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: what's that timeline looked like? Yeah, most likely, UM, honestly,

1223
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know when I'm going back to California,

1224
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 1: if I'm going back to California. UM, I didn't really

1225
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: plan for this to happen obviously, so uh, just kind

1226
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 1: of figuring things out as we go here, um, and

1227
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:27,480
Speaker 1: just kind of playing it by here. So Um, you know,

1228
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 1: I had a lot more to learn, a lot more

1229
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:31,920
Speaker 1: to grow from, and I got a long way to go.

1230
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 1: You mentioned preparationalizing. Yeah, I think it's it's a mixture

1231
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 1: of a lot of different things. Um, you know, we

1232
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta be out be able to go out

1233
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: there and and execute. And again we didn't. And whether

1234
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 1: it was um, you know, mental error, my mistake. Um,

1235
01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: whether it's sliding the protection the right way or the

1236
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:02,920
Speaker 1: wrong way, or um calling you know, to play the

1237
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: right way in the huddle, whatever it is, there's just

1238
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: a lot of things leading up to it that we

1239
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 1: need to be better at. And um, you know, and

1240
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: again I take that upon on myself. And you know,

1241
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 1: I gotta get this team to where we feel like

1242
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:19,600
Speaker 1: we're comfortable to go out there on game day. And

1243
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:21,920
Speaker 1: I'm saying not saying that we we weren't yesterday. We

1244
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: just didn't execute. And uh, you know, we gotta we

1245
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 1: gotta be better at that. I should mentioned the turnovers

1246
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 1: earlier as a as an area that you identified as

1247
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:34,400
Speaker 1: a problem. Do you feel maybe at times this season

1248
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: that you were trying to do too much or what

1249
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: do you maybe attribute those two If it's something else potentially.

1250
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 1: Um again, looking back at film every year, it's just

1251
01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, you continue to get better, but you look

1252
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 1: at film, it's just like God, why why are my

1253
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 1: eyes starting here in this concept? Why why am I

1254
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: looking over here? Why am I throwing this ball um

1255
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 1: stuff to clean up? And again with repetition, you know,

1256
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to get better and I'm gonna

1257
01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 1: learn a lot from this season, and um, you know,

1258
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: come out and have the hunger for for next year.

1259
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 1: You guys, every season it's different for everyone. For you. Um,

1260
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 1: you know I can I can agree with that statement.

1261
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 1: I don't know for me personally. Um, but again, it

1262
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: just you gotta play play your best against really good teams,

1263
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 1: and we didn't initial day. Thank guys, Thank you guys

1264
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:38,360
Speaker 1: for everything. All right, that's Josh Allen addressing the media

1265
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:42,759
Speaker 1: here on Locker clean out Day. A lot to unpack there, interesting,

1266
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: but a very strong vote of confidence for Ken Dorsey

1267
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 1: and Joe Brady, the quarterbacks coach. Incidentally, the Jets are

1268
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 1: reportedly interested in interviewing Joe Brady for their vacant offensive

1269
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: coordinator position, so we'll have to see how that unfolds

1270
01:09:57,479 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: in the coming days and weeks as they're do vision

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01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: rival looks to fill an important position on Robert Sala's staff.

1272
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 1: Josh also, as we always say, one of the most

1273
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:09,680
Speaker 1: self aware quarterbacks I've ever been around. I know you

1274
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 1: feel similarly, Steve, and he admits that he's got some

1275
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:15,560
Speaker 1: things he wants to clean up. He also revealed that

1276
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:18,840
Speaker 1: his elbow that he was injured, that injured was injured

1277
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 1: in Week nine, did not feel right to allow him

1278
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: to throw with his normal throwing mechanics until two weeks ago. Yeah,

1279
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: We've been talking about some of the things I thought

1280
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: he was going to need to work on in the offseason.

1281
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 1: One of them was those quick little like he'd wait

1282
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: in the pocket and before he'd take the check down,

1283
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:39,599
Speaker 1: he'd wait almost impossibly long and then flick it quick,

1284
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: and he was always a little bit more inaccurate with

1285
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: those checkdowns. Come to find out, his elbow wasn't right,

1286
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:49,479
Speaker 1: and that may lead to a lot of the answers

1287
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: that you know, why some of his throws didn't look

1288
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 1: the way they should have looked was the pain in

1289
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 1: his elbow and the fact that he had to change

1290
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 1: his mechanics because of it. Doesn't seem to be I'm

1291
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: pretty sure would be more in those statements if we

1292
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 1: if he thought it was going to be lingering, if

1293
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: he thought he was gonna have to have offseason surgery,

1294
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:08,840
Speaker 1: if he thought he's gonna have to have some sort

1295
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: of lengthy rehab or something like that, there would have

1296
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:13,880
Speaker 1: been more in his answers. So I don't you know.

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01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:17,160
Speaker 1: I think it's just just a little rest and and

1298
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 1: and a slow return to normal activity. He'll be one

1299
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: hundred percent. But yeah, that's some stuff. Makes some sense now.

1300
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 1: We suspected it during the season. We talked about him

1301
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 1: whether his elbow was hurting him or not, But then

1302
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 1: he'd he'd pop off a sixty five yard thrown. It's like, well,

1303
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,599
Speaker 1: how much can it be hurting? And it was more

1304
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,840
Speaker 1: of a mechanical thing than it was a strength thing,

1305
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: and he just changed his throwing motion a little bit

1306
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: and it was fine. Let's get back to the phones.

1307
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 1: We got some people waiting patiently there. We're gonna go

1308
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:48,680
Speaker 1: to Mark and West senecon next Mark, What do you

1309
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 1: have for us here on one Fill's life? Gentlemen, how

1310
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:54,599
Speaker 1: are you today? Good? Good? That's good. I'm doing good too.

1311
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 1: Just a couple I wanted to call and talk about

1312
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:03,280
Speaker 1: the coordinators. And I'm not advocating anybody getting firing fired,

1313
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: so police don't misconstrue what I'm about to say. I

1314
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:09,720
Speaker 1: think the Bills as an organization are going to have

1315
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:13,320
Speaker 1: to do some higher evaluations this last season. I'm personnel

1316
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:18,680
Speaker 1: number one, but also on the coordinators. I think there

1317
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 1: were times where on the offensive side of the ball,

1318
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand how Ken was trying to attack teams

1319
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:29,519
Speaker 1: or how focused they seem to be on just a

1320
01:12:29,680 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: vertical passing game. And hence, why would you address three

1321
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: slot receivers yesterday and then really not use them and

1322
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:38,600
Speaker 1: when you did, you were throwing the ball still downfield.

1323
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:42,719
Speaker 1: Things like that, And I think Josh sort of said

1324
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 1: it in his comments when he just said we have

1325
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:48,840
Speaker 1: to figure out how to be more adaptive light in

1326
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 1: the year. To me, that means we have to figure

1327
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 1: out as a group how to change things up because

1328
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: people are getting a beat on us that's on the

1329
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, the defensive society of the ball.

1330
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: Leslie phrase your head to spend a question mark for

1331
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: several years now and for a lot of people, and

1332
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 1: he has a great regular season record, always a top

1333
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: five defense, pretty much all of that. But this is

1334
01:13:11,320 --> 01:13:14,560
Speaker 1: the third year in a row, now third year in

1335
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 1: the elimination game where our defense will like they weren't

1336
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 1: up to snuff and like we had no idea how

1337
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:24,760
Speaker 1: we were being attacked twice by Kansas City and now

1338
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:28,200
Speaker 1: by Cincinnati. We don't pay these guys, and they don't.

1339
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: He doesn't get paid to be a great regular season coach.

1340
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: He's got to figure out a way to be better

1341
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: when it counts the most against the best teams. Now,

1342
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 1: obviously a lot of that was execution. Are injury excuses.

1343
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 1: I don't think you could use that yesterday when you're

1344
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: going up against a backup offensive line and you still

1345
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:53,080
Speaker 1: didn't figure out a way to use your front seven

1346
01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:58,200
Speaker 1: to affect the quarterback more to help obviously an undermanned secondary.

1347
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: We didn't do anything like as Lisa didn't seem to

1348
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 1: me with my naked eye and my limited knowledge of football.

1349
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: So that all being said, I just want to finish

1350
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:10,960
Speaker 1: one last thing for the team in the organization. They

1351
01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: did not let us down in a year where things

1352
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:16,800
Speaker 1: were horrible in this community and a lot of the

1353
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: time with everything we were going through, the one binkill

1354
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 1: of life we all are white. We always had was

1355
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: a Bills game at the end of the week, So

1356
01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 1: I thanked them for that. I love them, I'll always

1357
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:31,920
Speaker 1: be behind them and God Bills for next year. Thanks Mark,

1358
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 1: appreciate the phone call. Some valid points we just heard

1359
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:40,760
Speaker 1: Josh addressed. You know, the Ken Dorsey and offensive adapting

1360
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:44,720
Speaker 1: relationship there. You know, they have to find a way

1361
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: maybe to adjust more effectively in game. I think that

1362
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:51,240
Speaker 1: was the strength of Brian day balls. But Brian Dable

1363
01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:54,679
Speaker 1: had been a coordinator before at different stops in his career,

1364
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:58,639
Speaker 1: and not for nothing Brian Daville didn't have a whole

1365
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:00,759
Speaker 1: lot of success as a coordinate are in two previous

1366
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:05,559
Speaker 1: stops in Cleveland and Kansas City. So you know, Dorsey

1367
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 1: in his first year as a play caller probably went

1368
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: through some growing pains. But I think the big time

1369
01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 1: endorsement from Josh that we just heard ten minutes ago

1370
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:17,679
Speaker 1: is a testament to the fact that even the guy

1371
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: for whom he is calling plays believes he's on the

1372
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:24,759
Speaker 1: right track. So maybe this is a position that Dorsey

1373
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:27,560
Speaker 1: just has to grow into. But that's the risk you

1374
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 1: take when you have quarterback when you have coordinator changes.

1375
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:34,160
Speaker 1: And this was not by choice. Brian Dabele got a

1376
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: head coaching job. It was a position they had to fill,

1377
01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 1: so you can't fault him from making the change. But

1378
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 1: now some people, not Mark and West Seneca, but some

1379
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 1: other people out there want more change, and I think

1380
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:51,080
Speaker 1: you run the risk of taking another step back when

1381
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 1: you reset the deck again. That's what the Jets are

1382
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 1: doing on offense, That's what the Dolphins are doing on defense.

1383
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: It sets you back because it takes time to gain

1384
01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: traction in those new systems. Do you want Yeah, you

1385
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 1: have to ask yourself a question. How you do it?

1386
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:07,560
Speaker 1: Every year? And he said, there you know, And like

1387
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: Mark from West Seneca said, then you do some heart evaluation. Absolutely,

1388
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:13,400
Speaker 1: and they do that. Nobody's harder on these players or

1389
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 1: these coaches than themselves. They take good, hard looks at

1390
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 1: themselves and they hold each other accountable. Why did you

1391
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: do this? Why didn't we do this? Were what were

1392
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: our steps towards getting to that decision? They take some

1393
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 1: hard self analytic looks at what they did and how

1394
01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 1: they did it. No question, but you're right, you have

1395
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:33,920
Speaker 1: to ask yourself this question, would you rather have a

1396
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:39,560
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator that has different things to learn that

1397
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: we still have to suffer with you for them. Or

1398
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:43,599
Speaker 1: would you rather have Leslie Frazier who has gone through

1399
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 1: this with this team and learn the lessons that the

1400
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: entire team and franchise have learned on the way to

1401
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:53,480
Speaker 1: get here. You don't know what if you're gonna change coordinators,

1402
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 1: what are you going to have to find out about

1403
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 1: that coordinator that you have to fix? You know? I

1404
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 1: mean so yeah, I think the guys who have suffered

1405
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:07,600
Speaker 1: through this and gone through it together learn more and

1406
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 1: move further down the road and are worth hanging in

1407
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 1: there with because they have not fallen on their faces.

1408
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 1: I mean, this is I mean, you know, one bad

1409
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:18,919
Speaker 1: game at the end of the season. Certainly it's crushing

1410
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: it and it costs you an opportunity for the Super Bowl.

1411
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: But these are guys that, you know, put together one

1412
01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:29,120
Speaker 1: of the really good seasons in Bill's history, overcoming some

1413
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 1: obstacles that not too many other coaching staffs have ever

1414
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:34,679
Speaker 1: had to put put up with and put their team

1415
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: out there and gotten a bunch of wins. Can they

1416
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 1: be better? Yeah, they helped tell you that themselves. But

1417
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 1: let's let them be better for Buffalo, not for some

1418
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:47,559
Speaker 1: other team. Let's take a break here. When we come back,

1419
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,560
Speaker 1: we'll hear from a couple of prospective free agents for

1420
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: the Bills, Devin Singletary and Jamison Crowder. Will get to

1421
01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:58,559
Speaker 1: them next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalid

1422
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 1: to Health, it's Buffalo Bills raiding back Here on One

1423
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. On a Buffalo Football Monday, Chris Brown Steve

1424
01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:23,080
Speaker 1: Tasker with you Bill's Locker clean Out Day, and we

1425
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 1: want to get some comments from the players, most notably

1426
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 1: some of the perspective free agents, one of whom is

1427
01:18:29,080 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 1: running back Devin Singletary. His rookie contract is up, he

1428
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:35,280
Speaker 1: is scheduled to become a free agent in the off season.

1429
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 1: Let's hear his comments here on locker cleanout Day. I

1430
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: guess it's fairly obvious, but you know, what is the

1431
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:42,599
Speaker 1: feeling in the locker room today, kind of the reaction

1432
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 1: to how the season ends like this? Sick? Just sick.

1433
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:47,600
Speaker 1: It's the best way to put it. Man, It's just

1434
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 1: a sick feeling. How how interested are you to see

1435
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:55,800
Speaker 1: what your market is going to be in March? Oh? Yeah, man,

1436
01:18:56,040 --> 01:19:00,439
Speaker 1: See see what I'm worth the people. You know. I

1437
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 1: guess it's exciting. I guess in a way. Um, but

1438
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the best choice of words.

1439
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: But we'll we'll see, we'll see what is it you want?

1440
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 1: You know, what are the things that at the top

1441
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: of your list for for where you go or what

1442
01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:15,800
Speaker 1: you do next? I don't know, Man, ain't to be honest,

1443
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 1: I ain't even think that far yet. To be I

1444
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: ain't think the season was gonna be over, so I

1445
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 1: thought I still had time to think about it. Um,

1446
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: But I got time to think about it now. So

1447
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: I just been thinking about that for a few days.

1448
01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 1: How much would you like to be back here knowing

1449
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 1: that you know, there is a young guy they just

1450
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:34,640
Speaker 1: drafted this year who had a pretty good year like

1451
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:37,640
Speaker 1: you did, and you know, you know how working this league? Yeah, um,

1452
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:39,600
Speaker 1: I mean I love to be back here. You know,

1453
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:43,160
Speaker 1: I love Buffalo, Um, but you know it's a business,

1454
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:46,600
Speaker 1: so see how I play out. Just love a little disappointment,

1455
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 1: just knowing what this whole team went through and have

1456
01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: it end like the THU like that it said all

1457
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:57,599
Speaker 1: the time, said all the time, Huh what the biggest

1458
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 1: thing even take away from this season. Everything that you

1459
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:02,080
Speaker 1: guys kind of went through. It feels like you haven't

1460
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:03,600
Speaker 1: been able to process it. And now you can just

1461
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:07,200
Speaker 1: kind of sit back. What will you take away from him? Um?

1462
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: And this lee? You gotta be a fighter. Um, this

1463
01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:17,680
Speaker 1: group of guys, Uh learned a lot about ourselves. Um.

1464
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: Like I said, we went through a lot this year. Um,

1465
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 1: we could have easily just laid down early on and

1466
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:28,560
Speaker 1: went separate ways, but we banded together. Um. Really just

1467
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:31,320
Speaker 1: with some fighters. That's that's the best way to put it.

1468
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: With some fighters. This offense kind of ended with a

1469
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: game that was not typical of this season. You know,

1470
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: it's just how much do you look at this game

1471
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 1: and think maybe things need to be different next year?

1472
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 1: How significant do things need to be different with his

1473
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 1: offense going forward? Yeah, Um, we'll see. I mean that's

1474
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:53,160
Speaker 1: all I can say. Man, we'll see how imported this

1475
01:20:53,240 --> 01:20:55,200
Speaker 1: off season for you. You know, running backs in this league,

1476
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: you know don't hang around too long, and you know

1477
01:20:57,240 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 1: that this is this is the contract year, you know.

1478
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much on my line, you know,

1479
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:03,800
Speaker 1: how how do you approach it? Knowing you know what's

1480
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen this year? And what it means to

1481
01:21:05,439 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 1: your your future. Yeah, I'm gonnapproach it. I always approach it. Um,

1482
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,720
Speaker 1: I mean I learned, I learned a lot this year,

1483
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 1: so it might be better I approach it better, I

1484
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 1: feel like. But um, I feel like I always had

1485
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: a good approach when it comes to getting prepared, you know,

1486
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: for the for the season and what's to come. So, UM,

1487
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 1: I think I think would be a good off season.

1488
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:29,639
Speaker 1: Are you're happy with your season overall production lesson? Um? Yeah,

1489
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 1: you know, with the opportunities that I had, I feel

1490
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: like I made the most out of it. Had enough opportunities. Um,

1491
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:40,640
Speaker 1: it's tough with this team. You know, we got a

1492
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 1: lot of playmakers. So I mean I would say, you know,

1493
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 1: I feel like I had a fair amount going home

1494
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:50,600
Speaker 1: now being back here, having kind of twelve hours or

1495
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 1: so to kind of process what happened. Is there any

1496
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 1: less emotion today or where are you at? No, I'm

1497
01:21:56,920 --> 01:22:00,240
Speaker 1: still it's still sick. It's probably gonna take me wease

1498
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:03,559
Speaker 1: so to get over it. But yeah, I'm still sick

1499
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 1: about it about Um. We wasn't expecting to be going home,

1500
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: going on vacation. You know, we was ready to be

1501
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Um, that's that's really what it was in

1502
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,760
Speaker 1: the locker room. That's how it helped you guys through

1503
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 1: this anyone as far as the loss or just um,

1504
01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:31,680
Speaker 1: that's not really much you can say that's gonna, you know,

1505
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 1: make anyone feel better or anything. So it wasn't really

1506
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:38,720
Speaker 1: much said talk about feeling sick. Is it is it

1507
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:40,640
Speaker 1: a different feeling than the last two or is it

1508
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: just you know, I gotta get over that hump and

1509
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 1: we haven't got over the hump yet. All right, that's seven.

1510
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: Singletary addressing the media. He is a prospective free agency.

1511
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 1: He really hasn't thought about free agency. Thought they'd still

1512
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:58,599
Speaker 1: be playing. Obviously that's not the case. He'll think about

1513
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:00,479
Speaker 1: it now, said he would like to be back in Buffalo,

1514
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: but understands that it is a business. We are going

1515
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,559
Speaker 1: to get back to the phones here now and take

1516
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 1: a few more calls because we got some people waiting

1517
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:11,560
Speaker 1: for us, and so we'll get to those calls and

1518
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: get to Jamison Crowder in the next segment, as he

1519
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:16,439
Speaker 1: addressed the media as well, he signed a one year

1520
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: contract and he too will be a free agent come

1521
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: this offseason, so we'll get to him shortly. But in

1522
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 1: the meantime, we go to Bob in Rochester. Next, what

1523
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:27,800
Speaker 1: do you got for us? Bobby? You're on one Bill's Live. Okay,

1524
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:30,679
Speaker 1: so you just want to make a comments and hear

1525
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:36,200
Speaker 1: you respond that for I hang up. Sure. A couple

1526
01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: of people said we can't fire a coach because of

1527
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:43,519
Speaker 1: a one game jerk reaction, and somebody said, you know,

1528
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:46,679
Speaker 1: we had a thirty and three record, but the ultimate

1529
01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:48,360
Speaker 1: goal is not to have a winning record, it's to

1530
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl. And as far as the knee

1531
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:56,240
Speaker 1: jerk reaction, I'm not really not happy with the performance

1532
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: at Dorothy. He's to start with, he had no offensive

1533
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 1: coordin experience before he was promoted, and the Bills offense

1534
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 1: had no identity the entire season, Like you don't know

1535
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:13,240
Speaker 1: who the top receivers are. We already know Diggs as

1536
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:16,280
Speaker 1: the best. He's a superstar and he is him. So

1537
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 1: why aren't we getting Diggs the ball every game? He

1538
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:23,600
Speaker 1: shouldn't be, you know, shouting at Josh and coaches on

1539
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:27,600
Speaker 1: the sidelines to get the ball. He's a superstar. We

1540
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: need to get him the ball. And as far as

1541
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 1: our offensive plays, they're designed with Josh to stay in

1542
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: the pocket too long. That's why he runs out of

1543
01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 1: it so fast and starts looking for people. Look what

1544
01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:45,600
Speaker 1: Cincinnati did with Burrow bing bing bing bing off his

1545
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:49,680
Speaker 1: hand fast and they're off like, that's what we need

1546
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:53,599
Speaker 1: to do, and I'll hand up and listen. Okay, thank you, yep,

1547
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:58,000
Speaker 1: sure thing, Bob. I'm just gonna say this, Yeah, I

1548
01:24:58,120 --> 01:25:00,960
Speaker 1: know you're talking about thirteen and three. Rec isn't the

1549
01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 1: ultimate goal. It's to win the Super Bowl. Well, you

1550
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:04,720
Speaker 1: better have a record like that if you want to

1551
01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:06,759
Speaker 1: have a chance to win the Super Bowl, because unless

1552
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: you're one of the top three seeds, it's going to

1553
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:10,880
Speaker 1: be a very difficult road to hoe to get to

1554
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 1: the AFC Title Game, let alone the Super Bowl. That's

1555
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:16,400
Speaker 1: number one, Number two. This team was second in the

1556
01:25:16,479 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 1: league and scoring, and first in the league and third

1557
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 1: down conversions. They were also a top ten red zone

1558
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:27,600
Speaker 1: offense unit, something they weren't under Brian Dayball. So you know,

1559
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:30,720
Speaker 1: you can throw stones at Ken Dorsey all you want,

1560
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 1: but for a first year coordinator who, to your point,

1561
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: had never done it before, those are pretty good figures

1562
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:38,920
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. Now, you want to talk

1563
01:25:38,920 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 1: about getting the ball, this is fond Diggs, You'd be

1564
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. His targets in the second half

1565
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:46,679
Speaker 1: dropped by fifty percent in the second half of the season.

1566
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:50,000
Speaker 1: Why because other teams got wise to what their approach

1567
01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:52,679
Speaker 1: was going to be, which was get the ball to Diggs.

1568
01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 1: The problem was when the Bills had to turn to

1569
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: other answers in their receiving corps with some measure of consistency,

1570
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:02,680
Speaker 1: they quickly found out they did not have that consistency

1571
01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:05,640
Speaker 1: within their receiving corps. And that's why in this offseason

1572
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:07,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to get a lot more weapons to

1573
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:10,120
Speaker 1: catch up to the Bengals and the Chiefs. That's kind

1574
01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: of how I see it. And yesterday, you're right, fourth

1575
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 1: and six game on the line, gotta get in the

1576
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:17,760
Speaker 1: end zone. You throw it to your best receiver, and

1577
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 1: that's when he blew. That's when he blew a gasket

1578
01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 1: because he's loft in a pass in the end zone

1579
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,400
Speaker 1: to Gabe Davis when he should be throwing it to Digs. There.

1580
01:26:25,439 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 1: I will agree with you on that fourth and six

1581
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:31,160
Speaker 1: end zone. Throw it to your best guy. Yeah, and

1582
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:35,559
Speaker 1: I know too. It's it's not about the regular season,

1583
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:41,280
Speaker 1: but the regular season is an indicator of the kind

1584
01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:42,720
Speaker 1: of roster and the kind of offense, and the kind

1585
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 1: of defense you've got, the kind of players you've got,

1586
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,679
Speaker 1: the kind of team you have. The regular season shows

1587
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:49,800
Speaker 1: everybody that the Bills were at the top of the conference,

1588
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:56,639
Speaker 1: at the very top of the conference. And to say

1589
01:26:56,680 --> 01:27:04,680
Speaker 1: that your coordinators stink is just flat wrong. Certainly, we

1590
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:11,679
Speaker 1: have seen signs that in big moments, catastrophic things happen.

1591
01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 1: You can go back and look and maybe game changing

1592
01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 1: plays or decisions here a fourth down. You know, people

1593
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:20,640
Speaker 1: are crushing them for not going forward on fourth and

1594
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 1: what's fourth and sixth or something in their own end,

1595
01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:27,000
Speaker 1: all that stuff, all those coaching decisions after the fact.

1596
01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 1: I get it. But you've got a team that went

1597
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:35,600
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, got you to the division round of

1598
01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:39,679
Speaker 1: the playoffs on a seven game, eight game winning streak

1599
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:44,280
Speaker 1: to the divisional round. I have a hard time poking

1600
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:49,560
Speaker 1: holes in it, certainly because the competition level jumps to

1601
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:51,800
Speaker 1: the divisional round the wild card round. You can make

1602
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: what you what you want of you mean, we had

1603
01:27:54,040 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson for the Miami Dolphins and a couple of

1604
01:27:58,240 --> 01:27:59,640
Speaker 1: other guys I don't know. I can't remember who the

1605
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 1: other backup quarterbacks were on the other side, you know

1606
01:28:02,520 --> 01:28:04,760
Speaker 1: they weren't. But when you get to the divisional round,

1607
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:08,080
Speaker 1: these are good teams playing well with great players. It's

1608
01:28:08,120 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 1: harder to win. And in a game like yesterday, when

1609
01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: the team doesn't show up like it did. Yeah, that's

1610
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:17,200
Speaker 1: that's hard to that's hard to take as a fan

1611
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 1: base and as a team, as players and as coaches.

1612
01:28:21,479 --> 01:28:23,880
Speaker 1: But it's not because they don't have the right people

1613
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 1: in the right spots, Because you know, it's for a

1614
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:29,920
Speaker 1: ton of reasons. It's hard to even put your finger on.

1615
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:32,280
Speaker 1: As a former player, it's hard to put your finger

1616
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:33,840
Speaker 1: on them. I mean, I went, I went to four

1617
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 1: Super Bowls in a row, and we lost them all

1618
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:40,800
Speaker 1: in different ways. It's a crusher, and it's hard to

1619
01:28:40,880 --> 01:28:44,240
Speaker 1: put your finger on just exactly why your mentality was

1620
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 1: in a completely wrong spot to go in and compete

1621
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 1: in a game. Because we played one of those games

1622
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:52,160
Speaker 1: where we were just off our rocker as a team

1623
01:28:52,240 --> 01:28:56,960
Speaker 1: and we lost fifty two seventeen. I think it's hard.

1624
01:28:57,040 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 1: It's hard to get your mind around why things happen

1625
01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 1: the way they do. But it's not a sign that

1626
01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:03,120
Speaker 1: you don't have the right people in the right spots.

1627
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:08,160
Speaker 1: And the problem is this, and this is a problem

1628
01:29:08,240 --> 01:29:10,400
Speaker 1: for I guess for somebody like Terry Pogoula, because all

1629
01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 1: of us are just working like owners. Just because we're

1630
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 1: talking about it, right, do you want to take a

1631
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:19,280
Speaker 1: step backwards because you're gonna take it? If you it's

1632
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:21,639
Speaker 1: hard not to think you're gonna take a step backwards.

1633
01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:24,880
Speaker 1: If you switch out coordinators on either side of the ball,

1634
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna take a step backwards, at least for a

1635
01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: little bit. And I don't know that this team wants

1636
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:34,840
Speaker 1: to take a step backwards when they're when they're so

1637
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: close to being exactly where they want to be. That's

1638
01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 1: a hard that's a hard pill to swallow for me,

1639
01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:45,160
Speaker 1: sitting where I'm sitting today, Break time for us here

1640
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:47,679
Speaker 1: more of your calls and we hear from Jamison crowd

1641
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:50,040
Speaker 1: or another perspective free agent here on locker clean out

1642
01:29:50,120 --> 01:30:09,080
Speaker 1: Day on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, welcome

1643
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

1644
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:14,800
Speaker 1: you as we close out our number two and we

1645
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:18,400
Speaker 1: do that by going back around the locker room with

1646
01:30:19,360 --> 01:30:22,200
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder a prospective free agent for the Bills, who

1647
01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:25,120
Speaker 1: addressed the media today. We disappointed that I didn't get

1648
01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:27,519
Speaker 1: opportunity to get back out there, but um, you know,

1649
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:29,080
Speaker 1: it is what it is. It's you know, one of

1650
01:30:29,120 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 1: the things, one the cards I was done this year.

1651
01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:36,280
Speaker 1: I did you have a com patient with doctors? I mean,

1652
01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:38,439
Speaker 1: how how close did it get to to you being

1653
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:40,160
Speaker 1: available to be on on the field this weekend and

1654
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 1: last weekend? And I thought it got very close. Um,

1655
01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:44,360
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what you know. Obviously, if

1656
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:47,439
Speaker 1: we would have won yesterday, um, you know, potentially it

1657
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:50,800
Speaker 1: was a chance I could have played next week. So UM, yeah,

1658
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:52,280
Speaker 1: I was. I was closed though. You know, I felt

1659
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 1: I was back practicing and um I was feeling, you know,

1660
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,519
Speaker 1: pretty good. How frustrating was it to get close and

1661
01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:00,040
Speaker 1: not be able to get back on the field. And

1662
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:01,840
Speaker 1: it's frustrating. I mean I think you know, for any

1663
01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:05,439
Speaker 1: any player you know that that that that has dealt

1664
01:31:05,479 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: with an ankle injury or just any injury. Um in general.

1665
01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:11,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Um, where you were where

1666
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:12,680
Speaker 1: you where you had to have surgery and stuff like

1667
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 1: that to be able to you know, at least get

1668
01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 1: myself a shot, um and obviously come up a little short. Um. Yeah,

1669
01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:22,439
Speaker 1: it's definitely frustrating. How about your future, um, you know

1670
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 1: and your free agent? Now, would you want to be

1671
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:26,880
Speaker 1: back here next year? Yeah? Yeah, I would want to. Um,

1672
01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:29,559
Speaker 1: Like I was saying, like I told other reporters, UM,

1673
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 1: I feel like you know, here's um, you know, probably

1674
01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:34,040
Speaker 1: the best situation I've been in as far as like

1675
01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:37,680
Speaker 1: an organstation standpoint, um, in my eight year career. So

1676
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 1: I would definitely love to be back. What makes you

1677
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:41,920
Speaker 1: say that after only being here for one year and

1678
01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:43,679
Speaker 1: then really not playing a whole lot of year. Yeah,

1679
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:45,519
Speaker 1: I mean it was just um, you know, just to

1680
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:48,519
Speaker 1: just to day to day man, just the small things. Um,

1681
01:31:48,640 --> 01:31:51,000
Speaker 1: you know, how they focus, great, how they go about

1682
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 1: their business here. Um. You know, I've been in some

1683
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:56,479
Speaker 1: places where a lot out of distraction and stuff like

1684
01:31:56,600 --> 01:31:59,200
Speaker 1: that was going on. Um, So I mean, you know,

1685
01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 1: just just that. And then obviously the talent of the

1686
01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:03,560
Speaker 1: skill set on this team, UM, you know it was

1687
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 1: was was really good. So UM you know, why not, um,

1688
01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: you know, give another shot if I can't. What was

1689
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,680
Speaker 1: your reaction to kind of how this team reacted to,

1690
01:32:11,880 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: you know, falling short in the playoff yesterday. Um, I

1691
01:32:15,040 --> 01:32:17,320
Speaker 1: mean it's tough, you know what I'm saying. Um, you know,

1692
01:32:17,439 --> 01:32:19,000
Speaker 1: just one of those things where you know, you feel

1693
01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 1: like we had a really good shot to uh um

1694
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 1: obviously contend, uh you know, reach Resett super Bowl or

1695
01:32:24,240 --> 01:32:26,759
Speaker 1: reach the next round. And I was count Shaw yesterday,

1696
01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:29,559
Speaker 1: jameis So I apologize, we just came up a little

1697
01:32:29,560 --> 01:32:31,320
Speaker 1: bit late. But it does seem like you would be

1698
01:32:31,360 --> 01:32:35,360
Speaker 1: interested in coming back next year if possible. Yeah, for sure. Um.

1699
01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, I feel like, you know,

1700
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:39,559
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good spot, good place here. Um.

1701
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 1: And I'm definitely you know, he's just coming back, all right.

1702
01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: So that is Jamison Crowder saying he'd be willing to

1703
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:50,160
Speaker 1: come back and probably take care of some unfinished business

1704
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:52,640
Speaker 1: for him. Guy went out with a busted ankle in

1705
01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 1: Week four and couldn't get back on the field, although

1706
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,400
Speaker 1: he did say there that had he and had the

1707
01:32:59,479 --> 01:33:02,720
Speaker 1: Bills danced to the conference championship game, he might have

1708
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:06,240
Speaker 1: had a shot of coming off injured reserve and participating

1709
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:09,960
Speaker 1: in that game down in Atlanta, if in fact it

1710
01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:12,760
Speaker 1: came to pass. That wasn't to be, and so now

1711
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:14,560
Speaker 1: he is a prospective free agent. We'll see what the

1712
01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:17,080
Speaker 1: Bills decide to do. They do need to add weapons

1713
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:19,599
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. Maybe bringing him

1714
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:22,200
Speaker 1: back into the fold is part of that equation. We

1715
01:33:22,280 --> 01:33:24,280
Speaker 1: will have to wait and see. We are going to

1716
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:26,840
Speaker 1: take a break here when we come back. Our number

1717
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:30,479
Speaker 1: three begins with Bills radio color analyst Eric Wood, who

1718
01:33:30,520 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 1: will give us his thoughts on his view from the

1719
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 1: radio broadcast booth on yesterday's game. We'll do that next

1720
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:38,560
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This

1721
01:33:38,680 --> 01:34:17,680
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. These One Bills Live presented by

1722
01:34:18,160 --> 01:34:21,240
Speaker 1: Come Light to Health. Here we be an hour number

1723
01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:23,960
Speaker 1: three on a Buffalo Football Monday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1724
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:27,799
Speaker 1: with you and joined as we usually are after games

1725
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:30,439
Speaker 1: in our number three on a Monday by Bill's Radio

1726
01:34:30,479 --> 01:34:35,040
Speaker 1: color analyst Eric Wood, who watched that thing from start

1727
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:38,080
Speaker 1: to finish with the rest of you watching at home

1728
01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:40,920
Speaker 1: on TV or in the stadium and high Mark Stadium. Eric,

1729
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 1: how are we doing here the day after what was

1730
01:34:44,120 --> 01:34:48,840
Speaker 1: a disappointing performance by the Bills. Yeah, I would say

1731
01:34:48,920 --> 01:34:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm still disappointed, and you know it's just this day

1732
01:34:54,280 --> 01:34:56,840
Speaker 1: after the final game of the season, everyone in the

1733
01:34:56,960 --> 01:34:59,599
Speaker 1: league at some point, besides the Super Bowl champion, has

1734
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:03,000
Speaker 1: a disappointing next day. And that's where we sit here

1735
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:08,719
Speaker 1: today as Bills fans, as Bills employees, or Bills media people,

1736
01:35:08,920 --> 01:35:12,200
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it was a shame that the

1737
01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:14,719
Speaker 1: Bills couldn't come out and put forth a better product

1738
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:19,840
Speaker 1: on the field yesterday, because you know, yes, at times

1739
01:35:19,880 --> 01:35:22,160
Speaker 1: it looked like they were overmatched by the Bills yesterday,

1740
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:24,360
Speaker 1: but when you look at those rosters, when you looked

1741
01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:26,479
Speaker 1: at the game coming into it, it didn't appear like

1742
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:27,920
Speaker 1: it was going to be that way. The Bills were

1743
01:35:28,080 --> 01:35:31,320
Speaker 1: the betting favorite coming into the game, the point spread

1744
01:35:31,439 --> 01:35:34,320
Speaker 1: five six points, and so to come out and lay

1745
01:35:34,360 --> 01:35:38,360
Speaker 1: an egg like the buildings did yesterday, it happens. It's

1746
01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:41,920
Speaker 1: just unfortunate. It's disappointing, and it was right from the jump.

1747
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:45,639
Speaker 1: And you know, after the game, I saw where Matt

1748
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 1: Mullano said, you know, the energy just wasn't there. And

1749
01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:52,360
Speaker 1: I heard Josh say today, you know, energy comes with execution,

1750
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:56,320
Speaker 1: and I talked about it in my podcast centered on Buffalo.

1751
01:35:56,880 --> 01:35:59,840
Speaker 1: You know what Matt Milano said, that like there's not

1752
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:02,800
Speaker 1: energy like that's in the moment after the game. I

1753
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:05,479
Speaker 1: don't want it to seem like the Bills weren't prepared

1754
01:36:05,600 --> 01:36:08,160
Speaker 1: to come out with energy, that they weren't excited for

1755
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:11,480
Speaker 1: this game, But man, you just get the win completely

1756
01:36:11,560 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 1: taken out of your sales. When they take the ball

1757
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:16,320
Speaker 1: right down the field without even having a third down

1758
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:17,920
Speaker 1: in the first drift of the game, you go three

1759
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: and out. They march right back down the field only

1760
01:36:20,520 --> 01:36:22,559
Speaker 1: one third down on their second possession of the game,

1761
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:25,800
Speaker 1: back to back touchdowns on what appeared to be blown coverages,

1762
01:36:26,240 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 1: and man, now you're just fighting uphill the entire rest

1763
01:36:29,280 --> 01:36:31,479
Speaker 1: of the game. The Bengals, for the majority of the time,

1764
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:34,040
Speaker 1: just made it look so easy on offense. It seemed like,

1765
01:36:34,479 --> 01:36:36,880
Speaker 1: even when the Bills are getting the ball back down

1766
01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:39,880
Speaker 1: ten in that final two minute drill before the end

1767
01:36:39,920 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: of the first half, it just felt like, even if

1768
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: the Bills could get back into it there, cut the lead,

1769
01:36:44,640 --> 01:36:46,040
Speaker 1: get the ball coming out of the half with a

1770
01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:48,600
Speaker 1: chance to take the lead, it just felt like it

1771
01:36:48,760 --> 01:36:51,240
Speaker 1: was so much harder on the Bills to execute in

1772
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:53,559
Speaker 1: that game than it was for the Bengals. And there

1773
01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 1: is something in that though. I mean, it just looked

1774
01:36:56,439 --> 01:36:59,720
Speaker 1: like the Bills for lack of a better way to

1775
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:03,519
Speaker 1: lack that energy. There was an attitude that the Bengals

1776
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:07,599
Speaker 1: had and and you know, laughably or whatever, just or unjustly,

1777
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:11,280
Speaker 1: they came in fired up about the the neutral sight

1778
01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 1: game tickets. And I you know, as well as I do.

1779
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:20,120
Speaker 1: As players, you conjure up all the disrespect you can

1780
01:37:20,479 --> 01:37:23,960
Speaker 1: from anybody and everybody, from the most remote sources ever,

1781
01:37:24,120 --> 01:37:26,000
Speaker 1: you know, and you kind of do have to jump

1782
01:37:26,080 --> 01:37:28,240
Speaker 1: through mental hoops to get there, because the Bengals are

1783
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 1: selling tickets too, for goodness sake, so you get you

1784
01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:35,600
Speaker 1: go through that. But it really in this case, and

1785
01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:37,720
Speaker 1: I've been part of teams that were like that, it

1786
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:41,760
Speaker 1: does make a difference when that team comes in feeling disrespected,

1787
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:44,960
Speaker 1: with something to prove, with an enormous chip on their shoulder,

1788
01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:49,880
Speaker 1: and the Bills are fighting really to come up with

1789
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:52,880
Speaker 1: even any animosity towards the Cincinnati Bengals, Right, I mean,

1790
01:37:52,960 --> 01:37:55,240
Speaker 1: this is the town that you know, they treated, you know,

1791
01:37:55,360 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 1: tomorrow and the Bills fans love Cincinnati was this love

1792
01:37:58,080 --> 01:38:00,559
Speaker 1: fest and we really appreciated it. And right, so, all

1793
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:03,200
Speaker 1: the stuff that happened with the game on Monday night,

1794
01:38:04,240 --> 01:38:08,639
Speaker 1: the Bengals come in angry and disrespected, and the Bills

1795
01:38:08,720 --> 01:38:12,880
Speaker 1: come in, you know, like, guys, She's good to see you,

1796
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:18,160
Speaker 1: guys kind of thing, right, Yeah, I don't know from

1797
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:21,040
Speaker 1: the Bill's perspective, and I'm sure you conjure up things,

1798
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:24,599
Speaker 1: you know. I was saying on the round table before

1799
01:38:24,680 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 1: the game because I was just like you said, Steve,

1800
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:29,880
Speaker 1: talking about ways to get you fired up for a game.

1801
01:38:30,280 --> 01:38:32,120
Speaker 1: I would figure out a way to hate the nose

1802
01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 1: guard I was going against each and every week, or

1803
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:37,320
Speaker 1: their linebackers or their defense and find something and I'm

1804
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:39,559
Speaker 1: using it with the guys up front. And the way

1805
01:38:39,640 --> 01:38:42,400
Speaker 1: Hendrickson rolled into Josh's ankle in the first matchup in

1806
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 1: that nine minutes of game action, the way Hayden Hurst

1807
01:38:45,320 --> 01:38:47,479
Speaker 1: took us for under the back of Terrence Johnson's head

1808
01:38:47,479 --> 01:38:49,200
Speaker 1: when he was already on the ground and he ended

1809
01:38:49,280 --> 01:38:51,640
Speaker 1: up getting concussed. To me, that would be enough to

1810
01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:54,080
Speaker 1: get a little bit of extra chip on your shoulder, like, hey,

1811
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:56,479
Speaker 1: we owe these guys one. Yes, it was this love

1812
01:38:56,560 --> 01:38:58,479
Speaker 1: fest after the game. There was a lot of class

1813
01:38:58,520 --> 01:39:03,040
Speaker 1: shown by both teams, both coaches, the captains in agreeing

1814
01:39:03,160 --> 01:39:06,080
Speaker 1: that they weren't going to play after tomorrow Hamlin was

1815
01:39:06,120 --> 01:39:09,160
Speaker 1: injured and had the cardiac event on the field. But

1816
01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:12,759
Speaker 1: the Bengals, I mean, starting with the ruling the following

1817
01:39:12,840 --> 01:39:15,439
Speaker 1: week that it would be a coin toss that if

1818
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:17,840
Speaker 1: they lost to the Ravens on who would host. So

1819
01:39:17,920 --> 01:39:20,519
Speaker 1: then now they had to go out and play their

1820
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:23,200
Speaker 1: starters a week eighteen, which they may not have had

1821
01:39:23,240 --> 01:39:26,800
Speaker 1: to do otherwise. You know, into that game against the

1822
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 1: Ravens where they felt disrespected. Then all week all everybody

1823
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:33,040
Speaker 1: talked about was the offensive linemen, that we're out for them,

1824
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:36,559
Speaker 1: how bad they played against Baltimore and Baltimore's with their

1825
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 1: backup quarterback, and they came in with a chip on

1826
01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:41,439
Speaker 1: their shoulder and they executed, and that's the name of

1827
01:39:41,479 --> 01:39:45,440
Speaker 1: the ball game. They executed their schemes, they played aggressive,

1828
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:48,320
Speaker 1: and they executed in the snow. And I'm not sure

1829
01:39:48,960 --> 01:39:51,799
Speaker 1: we've mentioned it from the start of the game yesterday, Brownie,

1830
01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:55,280
Speaker 1: it just seemed like the Bills and whether it's a

1831
01:39:55,439 --> 01:40:00,120
Speaker 1: confidence issue or because I understand that both teams have

1832
01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 1: the ability to wear whatever They're going to give them

1833
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:08,160
Speaker 1: the best footwear, the best cleats that's possible in the

1834
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:10,280
Speaker 1: snow with the weather and so I don't know if

1835
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:12,800
Speaker 1: it was a confidence thing where maybe you're on your

1836
01:40:12,840 --> 01:40:15,839
Speaker 1: heels as a defensive back, worried about Chase or Higgins

1837
01:40:15,920 --> 01:40:18,160
Speaker 1: blown past you, so maybe you look a little hesitant.

1838
01:40:18,640 --> 01:40:21,080
Speaker 1: Whatever the case was, they just handled the elements early

1839
01:40:21,439 --> 01:40:23,519
Speaker 1: a lot better than the Bills as well. Yeah, I

1840
01:40:23,560 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 1: would agree with that. I actually asked coach Meek Tournament

1841
01:40:25,880 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: after the game if there was unsure footing for the

1842
01:40:29,439 --> 01:40:31,840
Speaker 1: defensive players and if that forced them to play more

1843
01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:35,840
Speaker 1: conservatively in coverage, and he just dismissed it out of hand, saying,

1844
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: we don't make excuses. So take that for what it's worth. Right,

1845
01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:45,080
Speaker 1: you could say we don't make excuses, and I respect

1846
01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:48,040
Speaker 1: coach for saying that, But it could also be an issue.

1847
01:40:48,080 --> 01:40:50,800
Speaker 1: We saw it with our own eyes. There was there

1848
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:55,960
Speaker 1: was a footing issue. I mean, Naim Haines and James

1849
01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:59,200
Speaker 1: Cook both slipped on the same play and it just

1850
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, there was a footing issue out there. It

1851
01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:05,479
Speaker 1: just seemed like it was affecting us more than them.

1852
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:07,880
Speaker 1: And like I said, it could be a confidence issue

1853
01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:11,200
Speaker 1: where you're worried about it and you're kind of worried

1854
01:41:11,200 --> 01:41:13,080
Speaker 1: about maybe giving up a big player or whatever may

1855
01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:16,000
Speaker 1: be defensively, but that's part of the reason for so

1856
01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 1: many misstackles in the game, was unsure footing. I know

1857
01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:24,080
Speaker 1: that we had a situation, you know, three weeks ago

1858
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:28,439
Speaker 1: that affected this team deeply on an emotional level, and

1859
01:41:28,560 --> 01:41:34,679
Speaker 1: understandably so, they seemed to rally from that the following

1860
01:41:34,760 --> 01:41:37,479
Speaker 1: week and beat the Patriots with some help from special

1861
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:40,560
Speaker 1: teams and two return touchdowns to beat New England. The

1862
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:44,240
Speaker 1: following week, they hang on to beat a team with

1863
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:48,360
Speaker 1: a third string quarterback in the wildcard playoff game. When

1864
01:41:48,439 --> 01:41:52,920
Speaker 1: you see the way they came out yesterday, is it

1865
01:41:53,120 --> 01:41:56,200
Speaker 1: hard not to think that their emotional gas tank was

1866
01:41:56,320 --> 01:41:59,760
Speaker 1: just completely empty and getting up for an all in

1867
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:04,200
Speaker 1: horton playoff game. While hard for fans to fathom it,

1868
01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:07,719
Speaker 1: they they were just riding on e They had nothing

1869
01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:10,639
Speaker 1: left to give. Because this is a team that lost

1870
01:42:10,680 --> 01:42:12,880
Speaker 1: three games by a combined date point and now they

1871
01:42:12,920 --> 01:42:15,400
Speaker 1: get blown out by seventeen and they're never in the game.

1872
01:42:15,840 --> 01:42:18,280
Speaker 1: It just doesn't line up with everything else we've seen

1873
01:42:18,360 --> 01:42:21,759
Speaker 1: this season. Yeah, I think there could be some merit

1874
01:42:21,840 --> 01:42:24,360
Speaker 1: to that, and I don't know that we ever get

1875
01:42:24,520 --> 01:42:27,519
Speaker 1: that true answer, because the guys aren't going to make

1876
01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:30,160
Speaker 1: excuses either, but dating all the way back to the

1877
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 1: shooting in May and running through all the events which

1878
01:42:34,280 --> 01:42:36,639
Speaker 1: have been doctor you know, we've talked about that plenty.

1879
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:40,120
Speaker 1: But with Kim Pagola being sick and Dawson Knox's brother

1880
01:42:40,240 --> 01:42:43,640
Speaker 1: passing in the snowstorms and getting stuck on Christmas in

1881
01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:48,559
Speaker 1: Chicago to the snowstorm and losing over forty people lose

1882
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:51,360
Speaker 1: their lives in the city of Buffalo, Damar Hamlet, there's

1883
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: so you know, the injuries, the key guys. You know,

1884
01:42:54,400 --> 01:42:57,599
Speaker 1: you lose Michael Micah early in the season, Dane Jackson

1885
01:42:57,640 --> 01:43:01,120
Speaker 1: and Nambulis. There is so much advert city that hit

1886
01:43:01,200 --> 01:43:05,519
Speaker 1: this team. And yes, at some point, yes, you may

1887
01:43:05,640 --> 01:43:11,240
Speaker 1: be emotionally, physically, mentally drained. We talked about the bye week,

1888
01:43:11,760 --> 01:43:13,920
Speaker 1: the Bills losing a chance to get that one seed

1889
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:16,120
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and how valuable that could have been.

1890
01:43:16,520 --> 01:43:19,559
Speaker 1: Well for a team that needs a break, a reset,

1891
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: that could have been very valuable. Obviously, the game got

1892
01:43:23,360 --> 01:43:28,519
Speaker 1: canceled and that's not the top priority, Damar Hamlin. Being

1893
01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 1: healthy and being safe and progressing is the most important

1894
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:37,080
Speaker 1: thing through the through all that situation. But I say,

1895
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:40,120
Speaker 1: I think You do have a great point there, Chris,

1896
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:44,240
Speaker 1: that these guys could be just hit on e and

1897
01:43:44,320 --> 01:43:47,280
Speaker 1: when you start the game like they did, it's just

1898
01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:50,960
Speaker 1: kind of stock, just kind of steamrolled on them. So

1899
01:43:51,120 --> 01:43:53,960
Speaker 1: at this point, you see, you have a big snapshot

1900
01:43:54,040 --> 01:43:56,800
Speaker 1: of what the season was, and it you know, after

1901
01:43:56,880 --> 01:43:58,600
Speaker 1: a game like yesterday, and we see it and we

1902
01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:02,280
Speaker 1: hear it after every law us at some level where

1903
01:44:03,760 --> 01:44:07,240
Speaker 1: you know catastrophic change is needed kind of thing. How

1904
01:44:07,400 --> 01:44:10,360
Speaker 1: difficult is it to remember how good this team really

1905
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:13,880
Speaker 1: is after a game like that yesterday? And how you

1906
01:44:13,920 --> 01:44:15,439
Speaker 1: know how good they had to be just to get

1907
01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:17,880
Speaker 1: in that game, and certainly that was as bad a

1908
01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:23,280
Speaker 1: game as we've seen them play in two years. How

1909
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:26,680
Speaker 1: big a reaction do you expect after a game like that?

1910
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:33,320
Speaker 1: That's that's time to time will tell that. I mean,

1911
01:44:33,640 --> 01:44:35,679
Speaker 1: when you look at the way this roster has built,

1912
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:39,400
Speaker 1: they win thirteen games this year, UM come into the

1913
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:41,679
Speaker 1: season as a betting favorite to win the Super Bowl,

1914
01:44:42,120 --> 01:44:44,760
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's a betting favorite to win the MVP. This

1915
01:44:44,960 --> 01:44:47,960
Speaker 1: isn't a team that needs an overhaul per se. Does

1916
01:44:48,040 --> 01:44:50,600
Speaker 1: there need to be some fine tuning? Yes? Did you

1917
01:44:50,800 --> 01:44:53,479
Speaker 1: bring in von Miller and day, Kuan Jones and the

1918
01:44:53,560 --> 01:44:56,759
Speaker 1: other guys along the defensive line, to prevent a situation

1919
01:44:56,840 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 1: like yesterday, to prevent a situation like the last two

1920
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:02,280
Speaker 1: years were you couldn't pressure a quarterback in the playoffs.

1921
01:45:02,320 --> 01:45:04,679
Speaker 1: And then de Quan and Von Miller are both out

1922
01:45:04,960 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 1: for the game yesterday, which affects the game. And so

1923
01:45:09,200 --> 01:45:12,120
Speaker 1: to me, there's things that need to be addressed. And

1924
01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:15,400
Speaker 1: every team goes into the off season needing to address things,

1925
01:45:15,479 --> 01:45:18,400
Speaker 1: needing to get better, and we have an entire off

1926
01:45:18,479 --> 01:45:21,880
Speaker 1: season to talk about what those specifically are. But when

1927
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:26,160
Speaker 1: you are looking at this roster, this organization, this coaching staff,

1928
01:45:26,680 --> 01:45:29,759
Speaker 1: in my opinion, you have a thirteen and three team,

1929
01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:34,639
Speaker 1: and look, you're gonna be going against Mahomes, and you'll

1930
01:45:34,760 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 1: be going against Burrow, and now you got Lawrence and Herbert.

1931
01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:40,920
Speaker 1: You have all this young talent in the AFC. Yes,

1932
01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:43,840
Speaker 1: you need to keep getting better and better each and

1933
01:45:43,920 --> 01:45:47,479
Speaker 1: every season, fine tuning, learning and everything that coach talks

1934
01:45:47,479 --> 01:45:51,240
Speaker 1: about in that continued growth. But I don't think an

1935
01:45:51,360 --> 01:45:56,040
Speaker 1: overhaul gets you over the hump necessarily, But they're definitely

1936
01:45:56,520 --> 01:45:59,599
Speaker 1: are areas to be addressed, like all teams are looking

1937
01:45:59,640 --> 01:46:02,559
Speaker 1: at right now, and Eric flipping that forward, It's hard

1938
01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:06,480
Speaker 1: not to think that the Bills could use an influx

1939
01:46:06,920 --> 01:46:10,760
Speaker 1: of or an investment, I should say, on the offensive

1940
01:46:10,800 --> 01:46:15,080
Speaker 1: side of the ball, because right now you could argue

1941
01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:18,000
Speaker 1: that Joe Burrow has better weapons and a better O

1942
01:46:18,280 --> 01:46:22,160
Speaker 1: line than Buffalo, Kansas City has a better O line

1943
01:46:22,200 --> 01:46:26,320
Speaker 1: and better weapons than Buffalo. Jacksonville is closing the gap

1944
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:30,519
Speaker 1: in those two areas, and Samless at San Diego. The

1945
01:46:30,640 --> 01:46:35,880
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers have better receivers top to bottom then

1946
01:46:35,960 --> 01:46:38,960
Speaker 1: I think the Bills do, and their offensive line has

1947
01:46:39,000 --> 01:46:41,600
Speaker 1: seen investments in the form of first round picks, like

1948
01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:45,880
Speaker 1: their left tackle Rashawn Slater. So the Bills look as

1949
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:49,559
Speaker 1: though they need to invest heavily in their offensive line

1950
01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:52,280
Speaker 1: and weapons going forward if they're going to keep pace

1951
01:46:52,439 --> 01:46:56,840
Speaker 1: with the other powers in the AFC going forward. Yeah,

1952
01:46:56,880 --> 01:46:59,200
Speaker 1: I think when you look at this season when they

1953
01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:01,880
Speaker 1: came into it, James and Crowder gets hurt, so that

1954
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:04,800
Speaker 1: affects part of your plan. But they had high hopes

1955
01:47:04,880 --> 01:47:07,640
Speaker 1: for Gabe Davis and Isaiah McKenzie, and those guys are

1956
01:47:07,680 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 1: still young. Those guys can continue to develop and continue

1957
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:13,679
Speaker 1: to get better. But when you look at the weapons

1958
01:47:13,720 --> 01:47:17,680
Speaker 1: on offense. They need more playmakers on the outside and

1959
01:47:17,840 --> 01:47:20,280
Speaker 1: guys that can step up in big moments, and they

1960
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:22,760
Speaker 1: just didn't have that outside of Stefon Diggs on a

1961
01:47:22,840 --> 01:47:26,200
Speaker 1: consistent basis this year. Now they have young talent. Knox

1962
01:47:26,479 --> 01:47:29,320
Speaker 1: still getting better, finished the season very well, and so

1963
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:32,559
Speaker 1: they do have They do have young guys that are

1964
01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:35,120
Speaker 1: continuing to get better. Shakier got better as the year

1965
01:47:35,160 --> 01:47:38,240
Speaker 1: went on as well. But yes, there needs to be

1966
01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 1: some weapons on the offensive side of the ball. And

1967
01:47:40,960 --> 01:47:44,439
Speaker 1: then I think both the lines. You know, you just

1968
01:47:44,560 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 1: got to analyze it, and when you're looking at the

1969
01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:50,000
Speaker 1: Bills and how they're structured, they've put so much investment

1970
01:47:50,080 --> 01:47:54,120
Speaker 1: in draft capital into that defensive line, into defensive players

1971
01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:58,800
Speaker 1: first rounder and kyer Elam last year at cornerback. I

1972
01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:01,599
Speaker 1: do believe it's in time to invest in the offense.

1973
01:48:01,680 --> 01:48:04,040
Speaker 1: You have Josh Allen in the prime of his career

1974
01:48:04,160 --> 01:48:08,080
Speaker 1: right now, give him weapons and say, look, we've invested

1975
01:48:08,120 --> 01:48:09,920
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. Now we're going

1976
01:48:10,000 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 1: to give Josh Allen the best opportunity we can and

1977
01:48:13,560 --> 01:48:16,000
Speaker 1: maybe take a little pressure off him as well. And look,

1978
01:48:16,520 --> 01:48:18,719
Speaker 1: when you have one of the top quarterbacks in the League,

1979
01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 1: a lot of it's going to be on him, and

1980
01:48:21,120 --> 01:48:23,360
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting here saying I want this to turn

1981
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:27,680
Speaker 1: into a you know, completely balanced attack on offense with

1982
01:48:27,880 --> 01:48:32,160
Speaker 1: run and pass, but just working in some screen like

1983
01:48:32,320 --> 01:48:36,080
Speaker 1: improving the screen game, some design rollouts which you got

1984
01:48:36,120 --> 01:48:38,759
Speaker 1: to some this year, the play action game, the RPO,

1985
01:48:39,120 --> 01:48:42,240
Speaker 1: just taking some pressure off him at times. I believes

1986
01:48:42,360 --> 01:48:45,760
Speaker 1: Key moving forward which will create more consistency and then

1987
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:48,320
Speaker 1: maybe in the playoffs give you more answers in a

1988
01:48:48,439 --> 01:48:51,360
Speaker 1: game like yesterday where you're really struggling to find any rhythm.

1989
01:48:51,840 --> 01:48:54,520
Speaker 1: We were talking earlier in the show Eric about philosophies

1990
01:48:54,520 --> 01:48:57,559
Speaker 1: about building rosters, and you look around like like Kansas City,

1991
01:48:58,080 --> 01:49:00,479
Speaker 1: you can make the argument that they'll build their offense

1992
01:49:00,520 --> 01:49:02,439
Speaker 1: and take what's left over and just live with the

1993
01:49:02,560 --> 01:49:05,599
Speaker 1: defense that they have right um and and other ways

1994
01:49:05,600 --> 01:49:07,800
Speaker 1: of doing it as well, like Baltimore they're gonna they're

1995
01:49:07,840 --> 01:49:10,519
Speaker 1: gonna grind with the way they're built around Lamar. They

1996
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:13,320
Speaker 1: are gonna grind it out on the ground, play absolutely

1997
01:49:13,680 --> 01:49:16,560
Speaker 1: huge defense and hold the game down. Close to that

1998
01:49:16,640 --> 01:49:18,439
Speaker 1: kind of thing. The way the Giants won games this

1999
01:49:18,600 --> 01:49:22,760
Speaker 1: year by doing things the way they did philosophically, what

2000
01:49:22,880 --> 01:49:26,719
Speaker 1: do you do when you've got an atomic weapon like Josh,

2001
01:49:28,640 --> 01:49:31,120
Speaker 1: don't you want to build it around him and his

2002
01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:35,800
Speaker 1: skill set? And if you do, which I yeah, of course,

2003
01:49:36,240 --> 01:49:38,200
Speaker 1: Well what do you do with that defensive side of

2004
01:49:38,200 --> 01:49:43,480
Speaker 1: the ball? How much of your you know, your your assets?

2005
01:49:43,760 --> 01:49:45,840
Speaker 1: And you got two ones and two twos on the

2006
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:51,160
Speaker 1: defensive end spot, and and you signed von Miller. That's

2007
01:49:51,160 --> 01:49:53,080
Speaker 1: a lot of assets on that side of the ball

2008
01:49:53,240 --> 01:49:55,200
Speaker 1: up front, and certainly it made a difference in the

2009
01:49:55,320 --> 01:49:58,320
Speaker 1: run game, at least the defensive tackle acquisitions did. So

2010
01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:01,519
Speaker 1: what's your philosophy on, you know, continuing to build the roster.

2011
01:50:01,720 --> 01:50:03,200
Speaker 1: Do you just say, you know, listen, we got this

2012
01:50:03,360 --> 01:50:07,599
Speaker 1: guy taking snaps. Let's give let's put all our eggs

2013
01:50:07,640 --> 01:50:11,200
Speaker 1: into that basket. Let's see if teams can keep up. Yeah,

2014
01:50:11,360 --> 01:50:12,960
Speaker 1: I think you need to. I think you need to

2015
01:50:12,960 --> 01:50:15,479
Speaker 1: surround them with weapons, put the best offensive line you

2016
01:50:15,560 --> 01:50:17,000
Speaker 1: can in front of him. And you can only pay

2017
01:50:17,040 --> 01:50:18,720
Speaker 1: so many people. And the Bills are gonna have to

2018
01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:21,320
Speaker 1: make some decisions this offseason, whether it's poor or whether

2019
01:50:21,400 --> 01:50:24,840
Speaker 1: it's Tremaine Edmonds and resigning guys. They're gonna have some

2020
01:50:24,960 --> 01:50:27,760
Speaker 1: tough decisions. To make. But I truly do feel like

2021
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:30,439
Speaker 1: if I'm building a team to compete in the AFC

2022
01:50:30,640 --> 01:50:32,920
Speaker 1: right now, you're gonna have to surround your quarterback with

2023
01:50:33,040 --> 01:50:35,480
Speaker 1: weapons because you have to keep pace with these offenses.

2024
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:39,040
Speaker 1: And then you got to be able to affect the passer.

2025
01:50:39,080 --> 01:50:41,320
Speaker 1: And yes, the Bills got the ball ran down their

2026
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:44,040
Speaker 1: throat yesterday, and that was an issue as well. But

2027
01:50:44,160 --> 01:50:48,160
Speaker 1: when you're looking at affecting quarterbacks with a four man rush,

2028
01:50:48,520 --> 01:50:52,200
Speaker 1: the Bills, although they're playing without Daiquan Jones, without Von Miller,

2029
01:50:52,439 --> 01:50:56,840
Speaker 1: were unable to affect Burrow yesterday, and you just you

2030
01:50:57,000 --> 01:50:59,200
Speaker 1: have to be able to do that to win games

2031
01:50:59,240 --> 01:51:03,800
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and win them consistently. Eric, thanks for

2032
01:51:03,920 --> 01:51:06,800
Speaker 1: all your input this season. We appreciate you're visiting with

2033
01:51:06,920 --> 01:51:09,639
Speaker 1: us every Monday after Bills games or on different days

2034
01:51:09,640 --> 01:51:12,479
Speaker 1: when they played on different days. We appreciate it. Enjoy

2035
01:51:12,920 --> 01:51:15,200
Speaker 1: some well deserved time off. We'll catch up at the

2036
01:51:15,240 --> 01:51:18,920
Speaker 1: in August. Yeah, my pleasure. Guys. I hope to see

2037
01:51:19,439 --> 01:51:22,160
Speaker 1: see your faces and I'll talk to you before that,

2038
01:51:22,320 --> 01:51:26,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but yeah, and enjoy this time. Hopefully you

2039
01:51:26,240 --> 01:51:29,920
Speaker 1: guys can get away at some point and hopefully the

2040
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:33,599
Speaker 1: callers take it easy on. Well, we're all in it together.

2041
01:51:33,720 --> 01:51:36,479
Speaker 1: You know, we're getting through it, and we all process

2042
01:51:36,560 --> 01:51:39,000
Speaker 1: it differently. You know, we gotta just you know, it's

2043
01:51:39,040 --> 01:51:41,439
Speaker 1: a therapy Monday full, be full of grace and love

2044
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:44,680
Speaker 1: for all the people who process it with anger and frustration.

2045
01:51:44,840 --> 01:51:48,320
Speaker 1: So just put your arm around him and then, you

2046
01:51:48,439 --> 01:51:51,400
Speaker 1: know what. I'm generally a positive glass half full type

2047
01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:55,640
Speaker 1: of guy, and this season, you know, extremely grateful for

2048
01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:59,680
Speaker 1: the opportunity to call games with the Bills, to be

2049
01:51:59,760 --> 01:52:02,160
Speaker 1: a affiliated with the team, to be around such a

2050
01:52:02,240 --> 01:52:05,879
Speaker 1: special organization. I'm appreciative of all the relationships and everything

2051
01:52:06,240 --> 01:52:08,439
Speaker 1: that comes with it. And I can tell you I'm

2052
01:52:08,479 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 1: crushed today, I honestly, and I was crushed last night.

2053
01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:15,760
Speaker 1: I'm crushed for the city. And you know, even dating

2054
01:52:15,800 --> 01:52:17,880
Speaker 1: back to May, I thought, man, this team can do

2055
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:20,120
Speaker 1: something special for this city and then for all the

2056
01:52:20,200 --> 01:52:22,360
Speaker 1: city went through this year for it to end in

2057
01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:26,120
Speaker 1: the disappointment it did yesterday at home, you know, I'm crushed.

2058
01:52:26,160 --> 01:52:30,080
Speaker 1: I'm crushed for everyone involved. But the Bills are one

2059
01:52:30,120 --> 01:52:33,360
Speaker 1: of the most consistent franchises in sports right now. They're

2060
01:52:33,479 --> 01:52:35,880
Speaker 1: built for the future. They have so much young talent

2061
01:52:35,960 --> 01:52:38,920
Speaker 1: on the roster and our man seventeen at quarterback, So

2062
01:52:39,320 --> 01:52:41,800
Speaker 1: there are brighter days ahead. These off seasons are long,

2063
01:52:42,479 --> 01:52:46,000
Speaker 1: and it's stinks, and you don't get to pick back

2064
01:52:46,080 --> 01:52:47,960
Speaker 1: up at the divisional round. You got to do it

2065
01:52:48,040 --> 01:52:50,840
Speaker 1: all over again and take our business in the regular season.

2066
01:52:51,520 --> 01:52:55,080
Speaker 1: But man, it was a special run this year. And

2067
01:52:55,160 --> 01:52:57,720
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, when you're thirteen and three, it's

2068
01:52:57,880 --> 01:52:59,719
Speaker 1: pretty fun. It makes it easy to call the games.

2069
01:52:59,760 --> 01:53:03,760
Speaker 1: So I appreciate you guys, appreciate the team, appreciate the organization,

2070
01:53:04,080 --> 01:53:06,000
Speaker 1: and I will talk to you guys soon. All right,

2071
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:09,200
Speaker 1: thanks again, Eric. That's Eric Wood joining us here, Bill's

2072
01:53:09,280 --> 01:53:11,840
Speaker 1: radio color analyst, obviously former Bills center for a long

2073
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:15,200
Speaker 1: time here in Buffalo. And yeah, I mean we're all

2074
01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:19,840
Speaker 1: feeling that today. The whole thing stinks. I mean, come on,

2075
01:53:20,479 --> 01:53:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, we wanted we wanted to keep playing football obviously,

2076
01:53:23,320 --> 01:53:25,920
Speaker 1: and keep watching games and see how far this team

2077
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:28,800
Speaker 1: could go. But yeah, there were there were cracks in

2078
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:32,040
Speaker 1: the armor due to injuries, due to emotional setbacks like

2079
01:53:32,120 --> 01:53:35,719
Speaker 1: the Damar Hamlin situation where his life was literally at stake,

2080
01:53:35,800 --> 01:53:38,360
Speaker 1: and it all kind of adds up and weighs on

2081
01:53:38,479 --> 01:53:41,000
Speaker 1: you and makes the task all the more difficult. Again,

2082
01:53:41,120 --> 01:53:42,760
Speaker 1: this team is not going to make excuses, and I

2083
01:53:42,800 --> 01:53:45,519
Speaker 1: don't expect Sean McDermott, who either when he addresses the

2084
01:53:45,600 --> 01:53:48,439
Speaker 1: media at four o'clock this afternoon for his season wrap

2085
01:53:48,560 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 1: up comments. But those things are very real, you know,

2086
01:53:54,160 --> 01:53:56,720
Speaker 1: and everybody deals with it in a different way. And unfortunately,

2087
01:53:57,240 --> 01:53:59,960
Speaker 1: on an important day in the playoffs, the Bills didn't

2088
01:54:00,160 --> 01:54:02,479
Speaker 1: have the energy to deal with that game. It was

2089
01:54:02,520 --> 01:54:05,599
Speaker 1: clear we are going to take a break here because

2090
01:54:05,640 --> 01:54:08,280
Speaker 1: when we come back. Von Miller addressed the media on

2091
01:54:08,439 --> 01:54:11,160
Speaker 1: locker clean out Day. Haven't heard from him in a

2092
01:54:11,240 --> 01:54:14,240
Speaker 1: little while, so we'd like to get his thoughts as

2093
01:54:14,320 --> 01:54:17,479
Speaker 1: he heads into the offseason with a rehab assignment on

2094
01:54:17,680 --> 01:54:22,040
Speaker 1: tap after undergoing knee surgery. Von Miller coming your way

2095
01:54:22,120 --> 01:54:24,519
Speaker 1: next here on One Bills Live presented by Kalaida Health.

2096
01:54:24,560 --> 01:54:41,360
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to one

2097
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Speaker 1: Bills Live. As we told you before the break, Von

2098
01:54:43,800 --> 01:54:46,560
Speaker 1: Miller addressed the media on locker clean out Day, He's

2099
01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:49,640
Speaker 1: got a long rehabilitation ahead of him this offseason. He

2100
01:54:49,920 --> 01:54:52,960
Speaker 1: shed some light on what that might entail, along with

2101
01:54:54,000 --> 01:54:57,240
Speaker 1: his outlook for this football team going forward here is

2102
01:54:57,320 --> 01:55:00,480
Speaker 1: von Miller. Then to the top of the out and

2103
01:55:00,640 --> 01:55:03,360
Speaker 1: you've gone through these types of things before, what can

2104
01:55:03,400 --> 01:55:06,440
Speaker 1: you say to this group knowing where they got, we're

2105
01:55:06,440 --> 01:55:08,360
Speaker 1: not able to get past this. I think it's I

2106
01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:11,240
Speaker 1: think it's a you know, I think it's a blessing

2107
01:55:11,280 --> 01:55:14,240
Speaker 1: for these guys to you know, not be not see

2108
01:55:14,280 --> 01:55:16,240
Speaker 1: the mountaintop and the end like this, you know, m

2109
01:55:16,960 --> 01:55:18,480
Speaker 1: because when you've been there and you've seen it, like,

2110
01:55:18,560 --> 01:55:20,880
Speaker 1: it's a lot more depressing, you know, it's it's a

2111
01:55:20,960 --> 01:55:23,800
Speaker 1: lot more um, you know, it's it's only a little

2112
01:55:23,800 --> 01:55:25,880
Speaker 1: bit more when you so for me last year, we

2113
01:55:25,960 --> 01:55:27,720
Speaker 1: just wanted super but we didn't even have you know,

2114
01:55:27,800 --> 01:55:31,080
Speaker 1: exit meetings or anything like that. We were celebrating, you know,

2115
01:55:31,200 --> 01:55:33,640
Speaker 1: parades and you know all that stuff. And you know,

2116
01:55:33,720 --> 01:55:36,480
Speaker 1: I think once you've experienced that and then you don't

2117
01:55:37,480 --> 01:55:38,920
Speaker 1: make it to the playoffs or you don't have the

2118
01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:42,480
Speaker 1: type of success that you that you want in the playoffs,

2119
01:55:42,560 --> 01:55:45,720
Speaker 1: like it's it's it's tough, it's tougher, I feel like, um,

2120
01:55:45,840 --> 01:55:48,080
Speaker 1: but for thirty one teams, they got thirty one teams

2121
01:55:48,080 --> 01:55:51,000
Speaker 1: in the National Football League gonna feel like this and um,

2122
01:55:51,240 --> 01:55:53,160
Speaker 1: you know my message to the guys was, you know,

2123
01:55:53,200 --> 01:55:56,840
Speaker 1: as competitors, whenever you lose, you know, you you you

2124
01:55:57,000 --> 01:55:58,200
Speaker 1: go back to the drawing board and be like, I

2125
01:55:58,240 --> 01:56:00,080
Speaker 1: gotta make some changes. I gotta do this. I got

2126
01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:02,520
Speaker 1: to do that, Like I need to work harder, like

2127
01:56:03,040 --> 01:56:06,440
Speaker 1: you know, all of you should always debrief. Um, but

2128
01:56:06,600 --> 01:56:09,640
Speaker 1: I honestly feel like we're in a unique spot here.

2129
01:56:09,920 --> 01:56:13,040
Speaker 1: And we got a great football team. We got a

2130
01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:17,520
Speaker 1: great coaches, we got great staff, great players. You know,

2131
01:56:17,640 --> 01:56:21,600
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, more isn't always an answer. Sometimes you

2132
01:56:21,720 --> 01:56:24,640
Speaker 1: just gotta just keep playing, you know, sometimes you just

2133
01:56:24,720 --> 01:56:27,360
Speaker 1: gotta line back up, give us another year and to

2134
01:56:28,200 --> 01:56:31,000
Speaker 1: just go through it again. Um, we lost four games.

2135
01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:33,320
Speaker 1: We lost four games this whole entire year, four games

2136
01:56:33,360 --> 01:56:35,080
Speaker 1: out of ninth. It was a nineteen games that we

2137
01:56:35,160 --> 01:56:39,000
Speaker 1: played and we lost four of those games. You know,

2138
01:56:39,120 --> 01:56:42,160
Speaker 1: and UM, we got we had a great season. We

2139
01:56:42,240 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 1: had a great year. UM. You know, of course it

2140
01:56:45,080 --> 01:56:51,320
Speaker 1: didn't end like we wanted it to. Um, but you know,

2141
01:56:51,360 --> 01:56:53,200
Speaker 1: I came here, I had multiple shots at winning the

2142
01:56:53,240 --> 01:56:55,480
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I came here. You know, this wasn't my

2143
01:56:56,200 --> 01:56:58,360
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like, you know, this would be my

2144
01:56:58,480 --> 01:57:00,440
Speaker 1: only shot Like this one year I feel like I

2145
01:57:00,560 --> 01:57:03,200
Speaker 1: had multiple shots at the Super Bowl. By the way,

2146
01:57:03,280 --> 01:57:05,680
Speaker 1: this team was built by you know, a quarterback, our defense.

2147
01:57:05,720 --> 01:57:08,360
Speaker 1: I felt like I had, you know, multiple changes at

2148
01:57:08,360 --> 01:57:10,400
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And I still feel like that, man.

2149
01:57:10,480 --> 01:57:12,160
Speaker 1: And you know, I feel like I've been a part

2150
01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:13,280
Speaker 1: of this team. I feel like I've been in this

2151
01:57:13,360 --> 01:57:16,160
Speaker 1: community for years. Um. I feel like I've been doing

2152
01:57:16,200 --> 01:57:19,480
Speaker 1: Coach Washington and Brandon Bean and Coach Fraser and Coach

2153
01:57:19,600 --> 01:57:23,320
Speaker 1: McDermott and Nate Breski and Tabani. I've been feeling like

2154
01:57:23,320 --> 01:57:25,120
Speaker 1: I've been doing these guys for years, you know. And

2155
01:57:25,280 --> 01:57:28,200
Speaker 1: only I haven't. Only We've only been working really the

2156
01:57:28,240 --> 01:57:29,720
Speaker 1: work time. It's only been a couple of months that

2157
01:57:29,720 --> 01:57:32,640
Speaker 1: I've been around these guys. So I'm super excited to

2158
01:57:33,040 --> 01:57:35,320
Speaker 1: for year two with the Buffalo Bills. I'm super excited

2159
01:57:35,360 --> 01:57:37,120
Speaker 1: to line back up and do it all over again.

2160
01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:40,080
Speaker 1: I'm super excited to get back to Rochester and go

2161
01:57:40,200 --> 01:57:42,840
Speaker 1: through training camping, you know, to be healthy again. So

2162
01:57:43,800 --> 01:57:46,320
Speaker 1: I'm super excited, man. And just because we lost the

2163
01:57:46,480 --> 01:57:48,960
Speaker 1: to the Bengals, it doesn't diminish the type of team

2164
01:57:49,040 --> 01:57:51,760
Speaker 1: that we have. It doesn't diminish, you know, our position

2165
01:57:51,840 --> 01:57:54,080
Speaker 1: in this league. We have a really good team, and

2166
01:57:54,400 --> 01:57:56,560
Speaker 1: you know, our window is still open man, and it's

2167
01:57:56,920 --> 01:58:00,360
Speaker 1: you know, brighter days are are definitely here for you.

2168
01:58:00,440 --> 01:58:03,400
Speaker 1: Guys are still searching for answers though, and you found

2169
01:58:03,480 --> 01:58:06,480
Speaker 1: them in certain instances. What do you tell them to

2170
01:58:06,640 --> 01:58:08,560
Speaker 1: kind of fill in those gaps to to kind of

2171
01:58:09,080 --> 01:58:11,520
Speaker 1: answer some of those questions for them? Well, I got

2172
01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:13,200
Speaker 1: a lot of answers. What answer do you want? You

2173
01:58:13,320 --> 01:58:15,960
Speaker 1: want that? Which answer do you want? You want to answer?

2174
01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:19,280
Speaker 1: I'm talking about to my teammates whatever? What what? Whatever?

2175
01:58:19,400 --> 01:58:21,680
Speaker 1: My teammates looking for while we lost yesterday, or we

2176
01:58:22,440 --> 01:58:25,400
Speaker 1: got down by fourteen points early in the game, um

2177
01:58:25,800 --> 01:58:28,880
Speaker 1: versus a really good Cincinnati Bengals team. They were able

2178
01:58:28,880 --> 01:58:30,680
Speaker 1: to run the ball and move the ball. Not big

2179
01:58:30,800 --> 01:58:34,360
Speaker 1: chunks down the field, they had those, but um, they

2180
01:58:34,400 --> 01:58:36,720
Speaker 1: were able to move the ball consistently. Um, they were

2181
01:58:36,720 --> 01:58:39,400
Speaker 1: able to want to run the ball consistently. We weren't

2182
01:58:39,440 --> 01:58:43,080
Speaker 1: able to run the ball or convert consistently. We got

2183
01:58:43,120 --> 01:58:46,120
Speaker 1: down by fourteen points early in the game, fourteen points

2184
01:58:46,160 --> 01:58:47,600
Speaker 1: with snow on the ground, and you're trying to make

2185
01:58:47,640 --> 01:58:50,600
Speaker 1: a drafted come back and gets a good team. You know,

2186
01:58:51,560 --> 01:58:54,919
Speaker 1: you know, it's tough it's tough, and that's the reality

2187
01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:58,880
Speaker 1: of it. All four teams that played, um, you know

2188
01:58:59,040 --> 01:59:01,360
Speaker 1: yesterday and this weekend. You know, anybody can beat anybody.

2189
01:59:01,480 --> 01:59:03,800
Speaker 1: You know, it's not one team that you know, of

2190
01:59:03,840 --> 01:59:05,600
Speaker 1: course you got favors and stuff, but all the four

2191
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:07,880
Speaker 1: of the teams, whether it's the Jags, the Bengals, US

2192
01:59:08,040 --> 01:59:10,440
Speaker 1: or or the Chiefs, like you know, any of those

2193
01:59:10,440 --> 01:59:12,200
Speaker 1: teams could have won. Any of those teams has the

2194
01:59:12,280 --> 01:59:14,760
Speaker 1: potential to be the AFC champion and go to the

2195
01:59:14,800 --> 01:59:18,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Is just you know, yesterday was wasn't our

2196
01:59:18,440 --> 01:59:20,520
Speaker 1: day and it started early, and you know we were

2197
01:59:20,560 --> 01:59:22,600
Speaker 1: reeling after that and weren't able to get our feedback

2198
01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:25,840
Speaker 1: under us. Um. You know when when you got uh,

2199
01:59:25,880 --> 01:59:27,640
Speaker 1: when you're about fourteen points and it snow in the

2200
01:59:27,680 --> 01:59:30,000
Speaker 1: ground like we're playing the snow. But when you're about

2201
01:59:30,040 --> 01:59:33,480
Speaker 1: fourteen points and you we're trying to push the ball

2202
01:59:33,520 --> 01:59:35,840
Speaker 1: down the field and make big chunk plays like you

2203
01:59:35,880 --> 01:59:38,200
Speaker 1: know nine times that ten is it's tough too. It's

2204
01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:40,080
Speaker 1: tough to do that. And of course we're we're we're

2205
01:59:40,320 --> 01:59:41,680
Speaker 1: we know how to play in the snow and all

2206
01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:44,400
Speaker 1: that stuff. But you know, I don't think it wouldn't

2207
01:59:44,400 --> 01:59:46,320
Speaker 1: matter if we had snow shoes on out there yesterday,

2208
01:59:46,400 --> 01:59:48,480
Speaker 1: like they got about fourteen points and it was gonna

2209
01:59:48,480 --> 01:59:51,920
Speaker 1: be tough to win that game. So, um, if you're

2210
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:54,080
Speaker 1: look at any of my other teammates, that's that's looking

2211
01:59:54,080 --> 01:59:57,080
Speaker 1: for answers on what to do next. Like you know,

2212
01:59:57,240 --> 01:59:59,880
Speaker 1: my my passion has always been football. You know, I

2213
02:00:00,080 --> 02:00:03,160
Speaker 1: do this, Uh better not do anything else in life.

2214
02:00:03,440 --> 02:00:08,120
Speaker 1: I'm a great teammate. Um, I know that for a fact.

2215
02:00:08,160 --> 02:00:11,200
Speaker 1: I'm a great teammate. I work hard, and if you're

2216
02:00:11,240 --> 02:00:13,800
Speaker 1: looking for what to do next, just just do that,

2217
02:00:14,080 --> 02:00:18,720
Speaker 1: you know, continue to work, continue to grindum, continue to

2218
02:00:18,880 --> 02:00:22,280
Speaker 1: just let your love for this game, you know lead you.

2219
02:00:22,880 --> 02:00:25,240
Speaker 1: Um for thirty one of the teams, They're gonna thirty

2220
02:00:25,240 --> 02:00:27,200
Speaker 1: one of the team's gonna feel like this, and then

2221
02:00:27,280 --> 02:00:30,120
Speaker 1: in six months, it's gonna be a new In six months,

2222
02:00:30,160 --> 02:00:32,280
Speaker 1: we're getting ready to get back and try to find

2223
02:00:32,320 --> 02:00:35,760
Speaker 1: a new Super Bowl champion. So we can you know,

2224
02:00:35,880 --> 02:00:39,160
Speaker 1: let that loss yesterday, um create a loss for us

2225
02:00:39,200 --> 02:00:42,080
Speaker 1: in the offseason, or let it carry over into you know,

2226
02:00:42,160 --> 02:00:44,320
Speaker 1: this next season. We just gotta keep pushing, man, and

2227
02:00:44,960 --> 02:00:48,160
Speaker 1: you know year twelve, I just gotta I just got

2228
02:00:48,200 --> 02:00:50,880
Speaker 1: a different perspective, man. And there's no other place, no

2229
02:00:50,920 --> 02:00:52,760
Speaker 1: other team that I would want to be on right now. Man.

2230
02:00:52,800 --> 02:00:56,480
Speaker 1: I still um and I'm still super excited about our

2231
02:00:56,520 --> 02:00:58,720
Speaker 1: window here with the Buffalo Bills. I'm still excited for

2232
02:00:58,840 --> 02:01:01,440
Speaker 1: our shot. We didn't get it this year, but you know,

2233
02:01:01,560 --> 02:01:05,000
Speaker 1: better days are coming for sure. Rehab half going, And

2234
02:01:05,080 --> 02:01:07,360
Speaker 1: what's the timeline now? Is you kind of start eyeing

2235
02:01:07,440 --> 02:01:10,880
Speaker 1: next week? So six, I think it was. I think

2236
02:01:10,920 --> 02:01:13,600
Speaker 1: I'm at six weeks. I'm in six weeks, which it

2237
02:01:13,680 --> 02:01:17,160
Speaker 1: feels like, I mean, I feel like it feels like months.

2238
02:01:17,280 --> 02:01:20,680
Speaker 1: Like what I'm you know, the biological clock is that

2239
02:01:20,760 --> 02:01:24,520
Speaker 1: six weeks, um, you know, I you know it's I

2240
02:01:24,600 --> 02:01:26,400
Speaker 1: think at thirteen where you sit you can start running

2241
02:01:26,400 --> 02:01:29,000
Speaker 1: and stuff. But honestly, I walk around and I do

2242
02:01:29,120 --> 02:01:32,080
Speaker 1: rehab and stuff, and I just where I am Mentally,

2243
02:01:32,160 --> 02:01:34,000
Speaker 1: I just try not to just think about it. I

2244
02:01:34,080 --> 02:01:35,720
Speaker 1: go through my rehab. I try to be as bright

2245
02:01:35,760 --> 02:01:40,120
Speaker 1: as as I possibly can. I think your mental state

2246
02:01:40,240 --> 02:01:42,280
Speaker 1: is a huge part of any type of rehab like this.

2247
02:01:42,400 --> 02:01:44,600
Speaker 1: It's not like a four month like a four week

2248
02:01:44,840 --> 02:01:46,400
Speaker 1: process where you just got to do this and do that,

2249
02:01:46,520 --> 02:01:49,040
Speaker 1: like it's you know, they say it's nine months, hopefully

2250
02:01:49,040 --> 02:01:51,000
Speaker 1: I can do it, and like, you know, six or

2251
02:01:51,200 --> 02:01:54,160
Speaker 1: or seven or something like that, but you know it's

2252
02:01:54,240 --> 02:01:58,080
Speaker 1: nine months, and nine months have put me right at August.

2253
02:01:58,240 --> 02:01:59,880
Speaker 1: So right at the beginning of training camp, you know,

2254
02:01:59,920 --> 02:02:03,440
Speaker 1: I should be ready to go. You were, you know,

2255
02:02:03,560 --> 02:02:05,680
Speaker 1: we were the GM had in all season and you've

2256
02:02:05,680 --> 02:02:08,839
Speaker 1: been here for four years. You know with this team, August,

2257
02:02:08,880 --> 02:02:11,520
Speaker 1: the need to get over that. Hume, what will you be?

2258
02:02:11,920 --> 02:02:14,480
Speaker 1: What will you would you be recruiting in all season? Yeah,

2259
02:02:14,480 --> 02:02:16,600
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's whatever they may be, I'm a

2260
02:02:16,640 --> 02:02:18,720
Speaker 1: great recruiter. Now. I mean I missed out on O'Dell Beckham,

2261
02:02:18,760 --> 02:02:21,960
Speaker 1: but that's really that's really it. And you know that

2262
02:02:22,040 --> 02:02:23,960
Speaker 1: I don't think there's clothes for O'Dell leave it though.

2263
02:02:24,040 --> 02:02:28,040
Speaker 1: So you know, um, we got a great team, man. Man,

2264
02:02:28,240 --> 02:02:32,280
Speaker 1: we are in great position. Um you know, after this

2265
02:02:32,440 --> 02:02:33,960
Speaker 1: the super Bowl is over, man, we gotta we got

2266
02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:36,800
Speaker 1: a great team coming back. We got Josh Allen. If

2267
02:02:37,080 --> 02:02:38,880
Speaker 1: he's not the best quarterback in the league, he's he's

2268
02:02:38,960 --> 02:02:41,080
Speaker 1: number two. And if he's not number two, he's number three.

2269
02:02:41,080 --> 02:02:44,200
Speaker 1: And we all know that those rankings rotate weekly. So

2270
02:02:44,520 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 1: we got one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

2271
02:02:46,520 --> 02:02:48,720
Speaker 1: Got great defense, We've got great skilled players all over

2272
02:02:48,800 --> 02:02:52,520
Speaker 1: the place. We got great coaches. Man coach Washington. UM.

2273
02:02:53,120 --> 02:02:56,720
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed, you know, being around coach Washington. Um.

2274
02:02:58,040 --> 02:03:00,800
Speaker 1: You know, he's super intelligent. It wasn't one game, Um,

2275
02:03:00,960 --> 02:03:02,960
Speaker 1: that I came into that I played this season where

2276
02:03:02,960 --> 02:03:07,240
Speaker 1: I felt um unprepared or I felt like it was

2277
02:03:07,440 --> 02:03:10,520
Speaker 1: it was something that wasn't covered or when we played

2278
02:03:10,560 --> 02:03:13,000
Speaker 1: the team, everything that that we that they showed us,

2279
02:03:13,040 --> 02:03:15,720
Speaker 1: everything that we did, I felt prepared for. And that

2280
02:03:15,880 --> 02:03:20,000
Speaker 1: was that was due to coach Washington and UH and

2281
02:03:20,120 --> 02:03:23,440
Speaker 1: coach UH Marcus West. And this is my first time

2282
02:03:23,520 --> 02:03:26,560
Speaker 1: being in the meeting room with with the D tackles

2283
02:03:26,560 --> 02:03:28,160
Speaker 1: in the defensive ngage. Usually I mean I'm with the

2284
02:03:28,160 --> 02:03:31,720
Speaker 1: outside linebackers or I'm with the UH you know, the Mike,

2285
02:03:31,840 --> 02:03:33,840
Speaker 1: the Wheel and the Sam I'm in the linebacking room.

2286
02:03:33,920 --> 02:03:35,640
Speaker 1: So this is my first year out of twelve years

2287
02:03:36,160 --> 02:03:37,800
Speaker 1: being in there with the D tackles in d MS

2288
02:03:37,840 --> 02:03:39,480
Speaker 1: MAN and it was it was a it was a

2289
02:03:39,520 --> 02:03:43,360
Speaker 1: special time for sure. UM. Great group of guys, you know,

2290
02:03:43,440 --> 02:03:45,280
Speaker 1: funny group of guys. They're a little weird too, but

2291
02:03:45,440 --> 02:03:48,360
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I really enjoyed being around those guys. Man.

2292
02:03:48,400 --> 02:03:50,520
Speaker 1: It was it was a really really fun year. We

2293
02:03:50,640 --> 02:03:54,080
Speaker 1: lost four games, it's whole entire year, man, So I

2294
02:03:54,160 --> 02:03:56,840
Speaker 1: can't let those diminish us. Man, And we just gotta

2295
02:03:56,920 --> 02:03:58,720
Speaker 1: keep going. And you know, for me, you know, I,

2296
02:03:59,200 --> 02:04:01,480
Speaker 1: like I said beginning, if I'm putting my gym mad on,

2297
02:04:01,640 --> 02:04:05,960
Speaker 1: like I know, um by being there, by going to

2298
02:04:06,040 --> 02:04:08,920
Speaker 1: the super Bowl twice, really three times, went to super

2299
02:04:08,920 --> 02:04:12,680
Speaker 1: Bowl three times. It's just an element of luck that's involved. Man,

2300
02:04:12,800 --> 02:04:17,120
Speaker 1: Like you gotta go all season long, try to avoid injuries. Um,

2301
02:04:17,680 --> 02:04:18,960
Speaker 1: you need a couple of players to go you away,

2302
02:04:18,960 --> 02:04:21,920
Speaker 1: a couple of calls to go your away. Um. You know,

2303
02:04:22,280 --> 02:04:24,320
Speaker 1: it's not like basketball where you got seven games to

2304
02:04:24,360 --> 02:04:26,800
Speaker 1: get it to get it done the best out of four.

2305
02:04:26,960 --> 02:04:29,520
Speaker 1: Like you could be the best team, you know, all year,

2306
02:04:29,560 --> 02:04:31,600
Speaker 1: you could be seventeen eighteen and over and then you

2307
02:04:31,720 --> 02:04:34,840
Speaker 1: play it's one team and you could lose. Like that's

2308
02:04:34,960 --> 02:04:37,880
Speaker 1: that's what makes football great, man. And we got a

2309
02:04:37,920 --> 02:04:40,720
Speaker 1: great team. We got a great chemistry, great culture here

2310
02:04:40,960 --> 02:04:43,920
Speaker 1: and I'm you know, if I'm putting my gym had on,

2311
02:04:44,000 --> 02:04:45,960
Speaker 1: I just want to line this team back up. Of

2312
02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:47,680
Speaker 1: course you want to tweak some things, of course, you

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02:04:47,720 --> 02:04:49,680
Speaker 1: know it's you got a debrief and see what you

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02:04:49,760 --> 02:04:51,280
Speaker 1: did great, and see what you didn't do great, and

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Speaker 1: you know, address those things. Or I'm super excited to

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02:04:55,200 --> 02:04:57,480
Speaker 1: see this, uh, this Bill's team coming out there. Get

2317
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Speaker 1: some guys back healthy again. You know I'll come back. Man,

2318
02:05:00,560 --> 02:05:02,280
Speaker 1: if I'm putting my GM head on, just I want

2319
02:05:02,280 --> 02:05:04,520
Speaker 1: to line it up, same team, same code and staff,

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02:05:05,160 --> 02:05:07,840
Speaker 1: same fans, same energy, and lining back up and let's

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Speaker 1: do it again, all right. That's Von Miller addressing the

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02:05:11,240 --> 02:05:14,280
Speaker 1: media here on locker clean out day. He has a

2323
02:05:14,360 --> 02:05:17,480
Speaker 1: long rehab ahead of him this offseason following knee surgery.

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02:05:17,520 --> 02:05:20,720
Speaker 1: There is another player who's got an offseason surgery coming up,

2325
02:05:20,800 --> 02:05:23,840
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips telling the media today that he suffered a

2326
02:05:23,960 --> 02:05:27,480
Speaker 1: torn rotator cuff in the December first game against the

2327
02:05:27,560 --> 02:05:31,120
Speaker 1: Patriots back in week thirteen, and he will have to

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02:05:31,160 --> 02:05:33,520
Speaker 1: have surgery on that, but he intends to be ready

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02:05:33,920 --> 02:05:37,200
Speaker 1: for training camp next summer. He also, of course, is

2330
02:05:37,240 --> 02:05:39,840
Speaker 1: a perspective free agent after signing a one year deal

2331
02:05:39,920 --> 02:05:44,000
Speaker 1: this past offseason, but clearly he's already thinking, Bills, I

2332
02:05:44,120 --> 02:05:46,440
Speaker 1: want to be back we'll see if the two sides

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02:05:46,760 --> 02:05:50,960
Speaker 1: can come together on a new agreement. So that's kind

2334
02:05:50,960 --> 02:05:53,040
Speaker 1: of the nuts and bolts of today. As we said,

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02:05:53,360 --> 02:05:55,600
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott will be dressing the media with his season

2336
02:05:55,720 --> 02:05:59,040
Speaker 1: rap up press conference at four pm today. Yeah, we'll

2337
02:05:59,080 --> 02:06:02,480
Speaker 1: have parts of that tomorrow. I'm sure you'll hear what'll

2338
02:06:02,520 --> 02:06:04,320
Speaker 1: tell about it now. You'll probably be able to see

2339
02:06:04,360 --> 02:06:05,840
Speaker 1: it on the local news as well. It'll be a

2340
02:06:05,920 --> 02:06:09,200
Speaker 1: big deal when Sean finally speaks to the media after

2341
02:06:09,320 --> 02:06:11,280
Speaker 1: twenty four hours after the loss. You know, it's tough.

2342
02:06:11,520 --> 02:06:14,000
Speaker 1: We came in today, Brownie, knowing it was going to

2343
02:06:14,080 --> 02:06:15,800
Speaker 1: be a tough day, and it is. I mean, Bills

2344
02:06:15,840 --> 02:06:18,320
Speaker 1: fans are bumming and they should and the team but

2345
02:06:18,440 --> 02:06:19,800
Speaker 1: let me tell you the team is. You can tell

2346
02:06:19,840 --> 02:06:23,520
Speaker 1: the players are bummed. They're disappointed. I know this too

2347
02:06:23,680 --> 02:06:25,840
Speaker 1: as a guy who lived through the disappointment of four

2348
02:06:25,880 --> 02:06:27,760
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. You're a little embarrassed, you know the way.

2349
02:06:27,760 --> 02:06:29,920
Speaker 1: You know you didn't play well and you were you

2350
02:06:30,040 --> 02:06:31,680
Speaker 1: felt like you were better than you got a chance

2351
02:06:31,720 --> 02:06:34,120
Speaker 1: to prove. It's a really tough day for everybody. I'll

2352
02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:37,120
Speaker 1: say this though. In the aftermath of yesterday's loss, to

2353
02:06:37,200 --> 02:06:41,800
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals, and you kind of take a big

2354
02:06:41,920 --> 02:06:48,600
Speaker 1: snapshot of where the season has come. Certainly disappointed as

2355
02:06:48,680 --> 02:06:51,280
Speaker 1: everybody else is. But the one thing I got to

2356
02:06:51,360 --> 02:06:53,560
Speaker 1: take away from this season is how proud I am

2357
02:06:53,880 --> 02:06:56,600
Speaker 1: of not only, you know, the Bills as an organization

2358
02:06:56,720 --> 02:07:00,600
Speaker 1: a team, but the city of Buffalo and fan base.

2359
02:07:01,760 --> 02:07:04,200
Speaker 1: Our town was put in a spotlight for a lot

2360
02:07:04,280 --> 02:07:08,440
Speaker 1: of the wrong reasons because of DeMar Hamlin's tragedy. Kim Pagoula,

2361
02:07:09,120 --> 02:07:13,040
Speaker 1: Luke Knox, Jefferson Avenue, and our fan base in our

2362
02:07:13,120 --> 02:07:16,840
Speaker 1: city have risen to it. On every occasion. We have

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02:07:16,920 --> 02:07:21,920
Speaker 1: shown ourselves to be selfless, empathetic, full of grace and love,

2364
02:07:22,080 --> 02:07:24,720
Speaker 1: mercy and forgiveness. And I'm very proud of our city

2365
02:07:24,760 --> 02:07:26,760
Speaker 1: for doing that in our fan base. Our fan base

2366
02:07:26,840 --> 02:07:29,880
Speaker 1: continues to be philanthropic, putting their arms around not only

2367
02:07:29,920 --> 02:07:32,440
Speaker 1: their own players, but the players on other teams who

2368
02:07:32,480 --> 02:07:34,880
Speaker 1: have proven themselves worthy and given them reason to do so.

2369
02:07:35,400 --> 02:07:38,120
Speaker 1: The DeMar Hamlin incident put the Bills fan base, in

2370
02:07:38,160 --> 02:07:41,760
Speaker 1: their organization and the city on full display and in

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02:07:41,880 --> 02:07:44,600
Speaker 1: the spotlight, and I thought our fans, our city, and

2372
02:07:44,720 --> 02:07:50,200
Speaker 1: our team carried it off spotlessly. And that's what I

2373
02:07:50,280 --> 02:07:54,560
Speaker 1: will remember about this season. I was very proud of

2374
02:07:54,600 --> 02:07:56,960
Speaker 1: our city, very proud of our team, and very proud

2375
02:07:57,000 --> 02:07:58,680
Speaker 1: of the fans of the Buffalo Bills. And I don't

2376
02:07:58,720 --> 02:08:02,720
Speaker 1: want anybody to forget how difficult it was for our

2377
02:08:02,760 --> 02:08:05,320
Speaker 1: team to play as well as they did down the

2378
02:08:05,400 --> 02:08:09,200
Speaker 1: stretch and to go out the way they did yesterday. Okay,

2379
02:08:10,240 --> 02:08:13,560
Speaker 1: But on a deeper level, I think we've proven our

2380
02:08:13,600 --> 02:08:15,960
Speaker 1: team in our city to be something special and that's

2381
02:08:16,000 --> 02:08:18,320
Speaker 1: something we can all be proud of. Yeah, and I

2382
02:08:18,360 --> 02:08:21,560
Speaker 1: would just add resolve to that. That's another thing that

2383
02:08:21,840 --> 02:08:23,680
Speaker 1: I think the city and the team showed a lot

2384
02:08:23,760 --> 02:08:26,600
Speaker 1: of through the course of all those setbacks and adversity,

2385
02:08:26,640 --> 02:08:31,040
Speaker 1: an awful lot of resolve. We've got one more caller

2386
02:08:31,120 --> 02:08:33,560
Speaker 1: waiting patiently here that we want to get to. Jeff

2387
02:08:33,720 --> 02:08:36,200
Speaker 1: in Rochester. Jeff, what do you got for us? Y're

2388
02:08:36,200 --> 02:08:39,160
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. Hey, guys, how are you doing good?

2389
02:08:40,200 --> 02:08:41,920
Speaker 1: I just want to make a statement and then you

2390
02:08:42,000 --> 02:08:45,520
Speaker 1: guys can respond to it after. But I love this season.

2391
02:08:45,640 --> 02:08:49,600
Speaker 1: It was great, amazing regular season, but once the playoffs started,

2392
02:08:49,960 --> 02:08:52,120
Speaker 1: I just feel like on the offensive side of the

2393
02:08:52,160 --> 02:08:54,640
Speaker 1: ball and defensive side of the ball. We got out

2394
02:08:54,720 --> 02:08:58,440
Speaker 1: coached in both of those games. And what I would

2395
02:08:58,480 --> 02:09:02,000
Speaker 1: like to see moving forward is I hate to say

2396
02:09:02,040 --> 02:09:04,000
Speaker 1: anyone lose their job, but I think we need a

2397
02:09:04,080 --> 02:09:07,520
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator. I think the defense of coordinator is fine,

2398
02:09:07,640 --> 02:09:10,400
Speaker 1: even though von Miller didn't really praise him at all,

2399
02:09:10,440 --> 02:09:14,480
Speaker 1: which I found kind of weird. But the offensive size ball.

2400
02:09:14,560 --> 02:09:18,120
Speaker 1: Why the nineties Bills were so good is because of

2401
02:09:18,160 --> 02:09:21,960
Speaker 1: the k gun up pempo. Don't let the defense sub

2402
02:09:22,600 --> 02:09:24,680
Speaker 1: keep them running the whole time, get them tired. In

2403
02:09:24,720 --> 02:09:27,280
Speaker 1: a quarterback like Josh Allen who could run all over

2404
02:09:27,680 --> 02:09:30,200
Speaker 1: tire the shit out of the defense. Wait till all

2405
02:09:30,240 --> 02:09:33,840
Speaker 1: those fat boys all right. Sorry, we had to let

2406
02:09:33,920 --> 02:09:36,320
Speaker 1: you go there because your language got a little out

2407
02:09:36,320 --> 02:09:38,720
Speaker 1: of control, starting a little too passionate. That's right, I

2408
02:09:38,840 --> 02:09:42,000
Speaker 1: get it, I get it. I mean and that's the

2409
02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:44,120
Speaker 1: way some people are going to respond to this loss.

2410
02:09:44,760 --> 02:09:48,959
Speaker 1: And let's face it, you go back over the Bills losses,

2411
02:09:49,120 --> 02:09:52,400
Speaker 1: and like we saw this season during the regular season,

2412
02:09:52,560 --> 02:09:54,360
Speaker 1: the Bills were their own worst enemy. In a lot

2413
02:09:54,400 --> 02:09:59,840
Speaker 1: of cases. They you know, the fumble, the way to

2414
02:10:00,200 --> 02:10:04,040
Speaker 1: game stoppers against Minnesota, Miami game in the heat where

2415
02:10:04,120 --> 02:10:06,560
Speaker 1: they they just couldn't get the ball spotted to give

2416
02:10:06,600 --> 02:10:10,520
Speaker 1: themselves a chance to win that game. Those kind of losses,

2417
02:10:10,560 --> 02:10:12,920
Speaker 1: and in the playoffs, the thirteen seconds last year, where

2418
02:10:13,120 --> 02:10:16,840
Speaker 1: it seemed like a golden opportunity that was squandered. People

2419
02:10:16,840 --> 02:10:19,360
Speaker 1: are gonna get angry over it. And it's hard not

2420
02:10:19,520 --> 02:10:22,080
Speaker 1: to draw parallels between one season and another. Even though

2421
02:10:22,080 --> 02:10:24,880
Speaker 1: the teams are different, the coaches are the same, and

2422
02:10:26,320 --> 02:10:31,360
Speaker 1: I listen, it's their responsibility that if they feel a

2423
02:10:31,440 --> 02:10:34,720
Speaker 1: way that there is a way to improve themselves as coaches,

2424
02:10:35,080 --> 02:10:38,360
Speaker 1: or their coaching staff or their roster. Certainly, the players

2425
02:10:38,480 --> 02:10:42,720
Speaker 1: are all up for improvement. If you can find better players,

2426
02:10:42,760 --> 02:10:46,360
Speaker 1: we all expect them to get better players. But if

2427
02:10:46,720 --> 02:10:50,480
Speaker 1: if you're gonna improve your coaching staff by switching coaches out,

2428
02:10:51,640 --> 02:10:54,560
Speaker 1: it's not as easy as switching out a player. And

2429
02:10:54,680 --> 02:10:56,560
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that change if you're going

2430
02:10:56,600 --> 02:10:58,400
Speaker 1: to start tinkering with your coaching staff. And I'm not

2431
02:10:58,440 --> 02:11:00,880
Speaker 1: saying I'm afraid to make that change, but it's a

2432
02:11:01,040 --> 02:11:03,160
Speaker 1: very short list of guys I would talk to, and

2433
02:11:03,320 --> 02:11:08,480
Speaker 1: most of them are not available. I got a lot

2434
02:11:08,520 --> 02:11:11,320
Speaker 1: of love and respect for Leslie Fraser. We've been here,

2435
02:11:11,640 --> 02:11:14,000
Speaker 1: he's been here as long as I have since this

2436
02:11:14,160 --> 02:11:17,640
Speaker 1: last return to me doing the show. He is a

2437
02:11:17,840 --> 02:11:22,240
Speaker 1: stellar human being. I know that that's not a prerequisite

2438
02:11:22,280 --> 02:11:25,200
Speaker 1: for being a great coach, but it certainly helps. I'm

2439
02:11:25,280 --> 02:11:28,720
Speaker 1: not ready to cast a coaching staff that went thirteen

2440
02:11:28,760 --> 02:11:31,879
Speaker 1: and three to the wayside, and like I said earlier,

2441
02:11:33,240 --> 02:11:36,560
Speaker 1: it would waste the lessons this staff has learned over

2442
02:11:36,640 --> 02:11:39,240
Speaker 1: the hardship of the last couple of years. Because these

2443
02:11:39,280 --> 02:11:41,080
Speaker 1: new coaches you brought in, they're not going to have

2444
02:11:41,200 --> 02:11:43,880
Speaker 1: those lessons. They're not going to have learned how it

2445
02:11:44,040 --> 02:11:46,360
Speaker 1: is in the playoffs with this team and this group.

2446
02:11:47,000 --> 02:11:50,240
Speaker 1: So I don't want to waste the lessons by throwing

2447
02:11:50,320 --> 02:11:52,360
Speaker 1: the people who have learned them off to the wayside.

2448
02:11:52,520 --> 02:11:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm not willing to do that. I know a lot

2449
02:11:54,440 --> 02:11:56,160
Speaker 1: of you are, and that's that's cool. I get it

2450
02:11:56,200 --> 02:11:58,920
Speaker 1: you're angry with him, but I'm not there yet. I'm

2451
02:11:58,960 --> 02:12:01,320
Speaker 1: not there. We have to take a break, but Steve

2452
02:12:01,400 --> 02:12:03,080
Speaker 1: and I will close it up next here on a

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Football Monday, It's One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health.

2454
02:12:06,240 --> 02:12:24,400
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. All Right, welcome back to

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02:12:24,440 --> 02:12:27,280
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you as

2456
02:12:27,360 --> 02:12:31,920
Speaker 1: we close out a Buffalo Football Monday. Not an easy one.

2457
02:12:32,600 --> 02:12:37,320
Speaker 1: We've gone through these before. Nobody says that losing before

2458
02:12:37,720 --> 02:12:40,320
Speaker 1: you get to the ultimate game is easy. We are

2459
02:12:40,480 --> 02:12:42,560
Speaker 1: here in the same place we were last season. I

2460
02:12:42,680 --> 02:12:45,600
Speaker 1: understand why that's frustrating. And I think the biggest reason

2461
02:12:45,680 --> 02:12:49,280
Speaker 1: why fans are as angry and disappointed as they are

2462
02:12:49,920 --> 02:12:53,200
Speaker 1: is because, for the first time this season, the Bills

2463
02:12:53,240 --> 02:12:56,600
Speaker 1: didn't look like the team we saw all season. Even

2464
02:12:56,720 --> 02:13:01,600
Speaker 1: in the losses that this team incurred Steve earlier this

2465
02:13:01,800 --> 02:13:05,040
Speaker 1: year in the regular season, they were right in the game,

2466
02:13:05,880 --> 02:13:09,280
Speaker 1: fighting tooth and nail every step of the way until

2467
02:13:09,320 --> 02:13:11,280
Speaker 1: the clock hit zero, and even went to overtime in

2468
02:13:11,360 --> 02:13:14,000
Speaker 1: one particular case against Minnesota. And they were right there

2469
02:13:14,720 --> 02:13:18,360
Speaker 1: this game. They weren't there from start to finish, And

2470
02:13:18,400 --> 02:13:21,960
Speaker 1: I think because they looked so different from the team

2471
02:13:22,000 --> 02:13:24,080
Speaker 1: that we had watched all season. I think that's what

2472
02:13:24,320 --> 02:13:28,600
Speaker 1: was so confounding for Bill's fans. Sure this is it was.

2473
02:13:29,480 --> 02:13:31,960
Speaker 1: The reason it's hard to get your mind around is

2474
02:13:31,960 --> 02:13:34,320
Speaker 1: because it was such a different game than anything we've

2475
02:13:34,360 --> 02:13:36,440
Speaker 1: seen this team play in two years. I mean, you

2476
02:13:36,480 --> 02:13:39,320
Speaker 1: can make a case for what it got to go

2477
02:13:39,400 --> 02:13:41,920
Speaker 1: back to November of last year when they got beat

2478
02:13:43,120 --> 02:13:48,480
Speaker 1: forty seven to fifteen by Indianapolis, kind of the same thing.

2479
02:13:48,520 --> 02:13:50,520
Speaker 1: Indianapolis was mad at Buffalo for putting them out of

2480
02:13:50,520 --> 02:13:52,840
Speaker 1: the playoffs the year before. We have not seen this

2481
02:13:52,920 --> 02:13:56,000
Speaker 1: team lay an egg like this, and they did, and

2482
02:13:56,120 --> 02:13:59,680
Speaker 1: they self admittedly own up to it. And that's the

2483
02:13:59,760 --> 02:14:01,840
Speaker 1: hard part about this lost. Plus it's the last one

2484
02:14:01,880 --> 02:14:04,680
Speaker 1: of the season and it's a season ender. We'll be

2485
02:14:04,760 --> 02:14:08,400
Speaker 1: back tomorrow at one to kind of take steps forward

2486
02:14:08,440 --> 02:14:11,000
Speaker 1: into the offseason. We'll have NBC's Peter King with us.

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02:14:11,040 --> 02:14:11,560
Speaker 1: We'll see you that