1
00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,559
Speaker 1: At a Steve tester who has been all over the fields.

2
00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,280
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

3
00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:18,919
Speaker 1: player for Steve. A blimp. We're not even in the

4
00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:26,200
Speaker 1: straded beer of normalcy here, all right. It's the first

5
00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,200
Speaker 1: Friday of the regular season. The camper lot is filling

6
00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,640
Speaker 1: up just down the street from us. Yeah, the Mafia

7
00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,080
Speaker 1: parking lot. This right over the fence there. It's full.

8
00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,159
Speaker 1: I tried, Yeah, I tried to count how many trailers

9
00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,640
Speaker 1: were in their campers were in there. I couldn't. I

10
00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,960
Speaker 1: was like, it's like ten to fourteen. It's full. It's full.

11
00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,800
Speaker 1: They're ready to rock. They are in Their team was

12
00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,120
Speaker 1: practicing in the stadium as they typically do on Fridays. Uh.

13
00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:57,040
Speaker 1: Some injury updates. The Bills will be without star Latoula

14
00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,320
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Steelers, which a lot of that

15
00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,000
Speaker 1: has prompted a lot of Twitter responses from Bills fans,

16
00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,119
Speaker 1: which says, oh boy, that means we're going to get

17
00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,640
Speaker 1: a full load of Naji Harris, which could very well

18
00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,959
Speaker 1: be the case, and the Bills have to be up

19
00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,119
Speaker 1: to the task. We set in on coach McDermott's press

20
00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:22,399
Speaker 1: conference just before practice late this morning, and you know

21
00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,080
Speaker 1: he based because I was curious, Hey, does or are

22
00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,040
Speaker 1: you going to consider calling up you know, Brandon Bryant

23
00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,440
Speaker 1: from the practice squad, a defensive tack who did okay

24
00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:32,959
Speaker 1: in the preseason, or are you gonna ride with the

25
00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,800
Speaker 1: four guys health that you have health he's still on

26
00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,319
Speaker 1: the roster, namely Harris and Phillips, Justin Zimmer, Vernon Butler,

27
00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,319
Speaker 1: and at Oliver, and all indications seemed to point to

28
00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,240
Speaker 1: them relying on those four players. I would imagine Steve

29
00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:47,840
Speaker 1: that Vernon Butler is gonna have to play a little

30
00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,280
Speaker 1: more one technique than three technique. Yeah, well, they did

31
00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,080
Speaker 1: it all last year and they just just in. They

32
00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,440
Speaker 1: won thirteen games last year, so they know their role

33
00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,120
Speaker 1: and they've been practicing it for week since starlotu Leles

34
00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:05,280
Speaker 1: not been out so hasn't been practicing. So that you know, yes,

35
00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,920
Speaker 1: it's you'd like to see your best players out there.

36
00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,840
Speaker 1: Star Lotulelee is one of those guys. You're not as

37
00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,760
Speaker 1: good without him as you are with him. But you

38
00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:17,480
Speaker 1: got guys out there that are ready to play too.

39
00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,920
Speaker 1: And let's face it, this is nobody's gonna lack emotion

40
00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,519
Speaker 1: and energy tomorrow. No, so they'll be they'll be ready

41
00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,880
Speaker 1: to go, but still in all I mean, coach McDermott

42
00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,800
Speaker 1: even admitted it's hard to replace a guy of his caliber,

43
00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,760
Speaker 1: so that will be a noticeable absence from the defensive

44
00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,760
Speaker 1: front on Sunday. Emmanuel Sanders, who has practiced all week

45
00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:43,480
Speaker 1: on a limited basis he is listed, is going to

46
00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,560
Speaker 1: be listed as questionable. Coach McDermott revealed that earlier this

47
00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,880
Speaker 1: morning in an appearance on WGR. He said he will

48
00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,720
Speaker 1: be limited in practice again today and he will be limited.

49
00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,040
Speaker 1: He will be listed as questionable for the game on Sunday.

50
00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,560
Speaker 1: The good news concerning Sanders toe, it's a toe injuries.

51
00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:04,400
Speaker 1: He said his toe is improving. So I don't know

52
00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,080
Speaker 1: about you, Steve, but he's practiced all week, granted on

53
00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,720
Speaker 1: a limited basis. We're told the toe is improving. I

54
00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,160
Speaker 1: would tend to think he's on the more favorable side

55
00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,800
Speaker 1: of questionable to play on Sunday. Well, yeah, but you're kissing,

56
00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:21,360
Speaker 1: but yeah, absolutely. This club has always kind of errord

57
00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,799
Speaker 1: on the side of safety with the players they give.

58
00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,320
Speaker 1: They'll give a hamstring an extra week, you know, they'll

59
00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,119
Speaker 1: give star lotule, they'll give a star an extra week.

60
00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,720
Speaker 1: You know, even if he thought he might be able

61
00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,080
Speaker 1: to go today, they're gonna hold him out. All these guys,

62
00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,720
Speaker 1: they've done it on a regular basis throughout Sean mcdermot's

63
00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,720
Speaker 1: tenure here, and with this medical staff and with his

64
00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,720
Speaker 1: training staff and the sports science staff, they give the

65
00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:45,040
Speaker 1: guys all the time they need so they can come

66
00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,920
Speaker 1: back one hundred percent healthy. So I don't think they

67
00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,920
Speaker 1: feel any undue pressure to get these guys out there

68
00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,680
Speaker 1: just because this is opening day and it's time. They're

69
00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,760
Speaker 1: gonna make sure these guys are ready to play. And

70
00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,280
Speaker 1: if you're not ready to play, the chance of you

71
00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:04,360
Speaker 1: getting hurt are to me tenfold. You know, Emmanuel sanders Toe,

72
00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,280
Speaker 1: you can just bet that he's going to aggravate it

73
00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,200
Speaker 1: and it's going to start dragging it around Star Star

74
00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,840
Speaker 1: his calf. I mean, you can pop that calf again.

75
00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,440
Speaker 1: Now he's out for another three weeks just because you

76
00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,440
Speaker 1: wanted him on opening day. So this staff has always

77
00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,080
Speaker 1: aired on the side of getting him one hundred percent

78
00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,000
Speaker 1: before you come back, so you don't string the thing

79
00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,400
Speaker 1: out for a month and a half after he's after

80
00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,320
Speaker 1: the fact, right, Yeah, So we'll have to see where

81
00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,040
Speaker 1: it goes. And as I said, coach McDermot gave indication

82
00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,280
Speaker 1: that they're going to ride with basically the four healthy

83
00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,640
Speaker 1: defensive tackles that they have, which basically means Harris and

84
00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,000
Speaker 1: Phillips and I would anticipate Vernon Butler are going to

85
00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,320
Speaker 1: have the majority of the one technique load, both being

86
00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,360
Speaker 1: over three hundred pound. Zimmer is a little bit lighter.

87
00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,040
Speaker 1: He can stand in there and grind if you want

88
00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,440
Speaker 1: him to. I don't know that he's an ideal fit

89
00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,240
Speaker 1: for that role. He's more of a penetrating type. So

90
00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,880
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see what the rotation is and

91
00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,320
Speaker 1: if any of the defensive ends try to help about

92
00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,239
Speaker 1: here and there in certain spots and kicked down inside

93
00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,200
Speaker 1: like an fa Obata for example. So we'll have to

94
00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,760
Speaker 1: see how that unfolds. On Sunday. There are some unfortunate

95
00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:18,359
Speaker 1: injuries around the league, and the Baltimore Ravens Steve Mike God,

96
00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,240
Speaker 1: they look like this year San Francisco forty nine ers

97
00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,200
Speaker 1: and we haven't even gotten to the regular season yet.

98
00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,800
Speaker 1: The Niners got all beat up in weeks two and three,

99
00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,320
Speaker 1: losing four or five starters to season ending injuries. The

100
00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,479
Speaker 1: Ravens haven't even gotten to the season yet. They lost

101
00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,479
Speaker 1: two guys in the span of fifteen minutes at practice yesterday.

102
00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,360
Speaker 1: Cornerback Marcus Peters, a starter running back Gus Edwards, who

103
00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,279
Speaker 1: has taken over the starting role after they already lost JK.

104
00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,560
Speaker 1: Dobbins to a torn achilles. They both tear their acls.

105
00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,080
Speaker 1: They're both done for the year. Right, Are we checking

106
00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,440
Speaker 1: the field surface? There something in the water? Are we

107
00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,359
Speaker 1: checking the field surface? Seriously? Like the practice field. I

108
00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,120
Speaker 1: didn't know non contact. Both of those acls are like

109
00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,680
Speaker 1: covid over there. Everybody's catching it. You know. It's best,

110
00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,240
Speaker 1: terrible bad and I don't want to mean to make

111
00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,880
Speaker 1: light of it, but it's it's so it's so bad

112
00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:12,039
Speaker 1: it's comment you have to laugh. I mean, John Harball's

113
00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:17,839
Speaker 1: gotta be looking over there, going what he's gotta And

114
00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,440
Speaker 1: they gotta put tight end Tim Boyle on short term.

115
00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,240
Speaker 1: I R. He's not their starting tight end, but he's

116
00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,040
Speaker 1: their number two guy. He's going on short term I R.

117
00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,359
Speaker 1: I mean they are a mash unit right now. It

118
00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,200
Speaker 1: is a mess in Baltimore and they haven't even played

119
00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,400
Speaker 1: game one. I mean, that's just they stopped practice they

120
00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,960
Speaker 1: had two ACL injuries in the span of fifteen minutes.

121
00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,920
Speaker 1: Harball is like, we're calling it everybody inside, We're done.

122
00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,000
Speaker 1: Like you want to talk about taking the collective air

123
00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,440
Speaker 1: out of the room. You have two big injuries like

124
00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,280
Speaker 1: that to two starters, you know you're depending on going

125
00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,719
Speaker 1: into the season. My god, and how do you recover

126
00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,040
Speaker 1: from that? You're like forty eight hours away from the season. Yeah,

127
00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,120
Speaker 1: it's not like, hey, we got three weeks to fill

128
00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,600
Speaker 1: the void here, Let's do this, do that. Let's see

129
00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:02,880
Speaker 1: if there's anybody out there, and anyone out here. They're

130
00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,440
Speaker 1: gonna signed lev Bell and get him. And they signed

131
00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,920
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray too, So they got guys but brand new

132
00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,040
Speaker 1: and they're you know, basically they signed two guys that

133
00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,480
Speaker 1: were not playing football because nobody wanted them to play football. Right,

134
00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:24,040
Speaker 1: That doesn't make you better. It's that's the most frustrating

135
00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,480
Speaker 1: part about football. We used to have a thing in

136
00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:30,720
Speaker 1: in our practice regime. You know, you go out and

137
00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,080
Speaker 1: do one on ones and it's like, you know, Andre

138
00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,440
Speaker 1: read against, you know Nate Odams, and you know all

139
00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,720
Speaker 1: these got Henry Jones and Kelso and all these guys,

140
00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,320
Speaker 1: these defensive backs from back in the night. We to

141
00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,000
Speaker 1: go go out. We go one on one against them

142
00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,120
Speaker 1: all the time. It's me against you, and let's go.

143
00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,600
Speaker 1: We run around and the quarterback throws the ball and

144
00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:49,160
Speaker 1: you do it. And it got to be so prevalent

145
00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,280
Speaker 1: around the national football every time you hear a guy

146
00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,520
Speaker 1: they got, you know, injured, it would always it was

147
00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,119
Speaker 1: always the same way as, oh, it was the last

148
00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,320
Speaker 1: rep of practice, or was the last time. And so

149
00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,240
Speaker 1: whenever we had they blow the whistle and guys were

150
00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:02,840
Speaker 1: lined up there just about radio to snap the ball,

151
00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,040
Speaker 1: they blow the whistle, we would jump in and grab

152
00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,680
Speaker 1: them so they wouldn't go. We would let him take

153
00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,680
Speaker 1: another rep because you knew they knew it was the

154
00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,880
Speaker 1: last rep. Something and something would pop. We'd lose one

155
00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,160
Speaker 1: of them for a week or lose one of them

156
00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,280
Speaker 1: for the season. So we just had a rule, an

157
00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,440
Speaker 1: unwritten rule and our receivers group, in our defensive backs

158
00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,320
Speaker 1: group that that last rep wouldn't get taken because it

159
00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,480
Speaker 1: was such a thing around the league that we just

160
00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:37,080
Speaker 1: stopped doing it. So it's superstition, yeah, probably, but it's

161
00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,760
Speaker 1: a real thing. You don't think that, you know, if

162
00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,400
Speaker 1: John Harball, if you told John Harball throwing chicken bones

163
00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,600
Speaker 1: onto the practice field, would he would do it? I

164
00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:52,400
Speaker 1: mean you're talking about whatever. Right, you're a garlic necklace

165
00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,199
Speaker 1: to practice so you don't get hurt. Yeah, burn a

166
00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,640
Speaker 1: roll of tape or something, right, do anything, whatever it takes,

167
00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,800
Speaker 1: because that's how super that's how superstitions start. You get

168
00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,240
Speaker 1: something that's like whoa, whoa? What it's like people are

169
00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,160
Speaker 1: looking sideways each other. Are what is going on? You

170
00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,160
Speaker 1: don't You don't think John Barbond is looking at each other.

171
00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,880
Speaker 1: They're snake bid man. There are other injuries around the league.

172
00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,840
Speaker 1: Washington football team coach Ron Rivera just announced about an

173
00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,720
Speaker 1: hour ago that wide receiver Curtis Samuel is going on

174
00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,400
Speaker 1: short term i R with a groin injury, So he's

175
00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,760
Speaker 1: gonna miss the first three games of the season at

176
00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,280
Speaker 1: least and maybe more depending on how quickly he is

177
00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,880
Speaker 1: able to recover from that. UM. So there's that injury,

178
00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,320
Speaker 1: and there are some other more minor, you know, minor injuries.

179
00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,640
Speaker 1: But Xavier Rhodes has a calf injury for the Colts

180
00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:45,760
Speaker 1: and it looks like he's not going to be able

181
00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,840
Speaker 1: to play on Sunday against Seattle. So Now, now the

182
00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,800
Speaker 1: Colts go into that game without one of their starting

183
00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:57,120
Speaker 1: corners facing DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett like, yeah, yes,

184
00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:03,040
Speaker 1: that's you take it for granted until it's the opposite, right,

185
00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,000
Speaker 1: and he thinks, Okay, let's just line up and play.

186
00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,480
Speaker 1: I mean I thought, and I said, this is early

187
00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,320
Speaker 1: as as late as last week, late last week and

188
00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,760
Speaker 1: early this week at least, you know everybody's gonna be

189
00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,640
Speaker 1: ready to go on Opening Day? Yeah, what was I thinking?

190
00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:25,560
Speaker 1: This just was posted by Brooke Prior, ESPN reporter for

191
00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,920
Speaker 1: the covering the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they were just interviewing

192
00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,760
Speaker 1: Naji Harris after practice and he was asked, if given

193
00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,360
Speaker 1: a choice, would you rather play in an away game

194
00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,960
Speaker 1: or a fun game or a home game? He said,

195
00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000
Speaker 1: I'd rather play in an away game because it's more

196
00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,000
Speaker 1: fun playing in front of Bill's mafia for his first

197
00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,320
Speaker 1: NFL game, as perfect as he sees it, because he says,

198
00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,320
Speaker 1: it's always fun to see their faces and their eyes

199
00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,000
Speaker 1: in the crowd. You can silence that crowd and that's

200
00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:57,079
Speaker 1: the best feeling. Yeah, how do we feel about that? Yeah?

201
00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,000
Speaker 1: I get it. It's a little easier to do that

202
00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000
Speaker 1: when you're playing for Alabama, right, He's used to silencing crowds.

203
00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,600
Speaker 1: He's gonna find out. The NFL is a little bit

204
00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,600
Speaker 1: different animal, I think so. I mean, I'm not saying

205
00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,640
Speaker 1: they can't win because they show good. No, they're a

206
00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,960
Speaker 1: very good team. And I think a lot a lot

207
00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,439
Speaker 1: of Bills fans are underestimating him. In my opinion. He's

208
00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,200
Speaker 1: a good player, really good player, big strong fasts. He's

209
00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,120
Speaker 1: going to be a really productive NFL player. But yeah,

210
00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:32,000
Speaker 1: they're not playing Wake Force this weekend. Um, I get it. Um. Yeah,

211
00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,719
Speaker 1: to watch the guy in the preseason and watch it

212
00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,120
Speaker 1: and get a field for him. He's he's really good.

213
00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,200
Speaker 1: You know that. Leonard Fournette last night for the for

214
00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:39,960
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers one of those kind of guys. But he's

215
00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,760
Speaker 1: a difference maker. Um more and more though, And this

216
00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:45,840
Speaker 1: is why you and I have had this conversation a ton.

217
00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,200
Speaker 1: It's a throwing league, bro, Yeah it is. Did you

218
00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,320
Speaker 1: see the game last night? Yeah, it's a throwing league.

219
00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,600
Speaker 1: All of you who drafted Ezekiel Elliott in your fantasy

220
00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,960
Speaker 1: football leagues, I hope you're ready to be disappointed. And

221
00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to go out

222
00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,920
Speaker 1: of too far into this because I know it's we

223
00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:10,400
Speaker 1: can get in the weeds. Did Dallas Cowboys just just

224
00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,560
Speaker 1: stumbled the way the game last night? Zeke Elliott, a

225
00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,920
Speaker 1: veteran running back running out of bounds and inside a

226
00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,560
Speaker 1: minute to go? What is he? What are you doing?

227
00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,000
Speaker 1: And then all you know? Then and I know this, anybody,

228
00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,520
Speaker 1: any Bills fans who are out there watching Tom Brady

229
00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:27,920
Speaker 1: and the Bucks, they get the ball back with a

230
00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,680
Speaker 1: minute forty three or something instead of a minute or

231
00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,720
Speaker 1: instead of instead of whatever, forty seconds or thirty seconds,

232
00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,320
Speaker 1: they get the ball with like it was like fifty

233
00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:38,800
Speaker 1: three seconds or something like that. I don't know what

234
00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,920
Speaker 1: it was. You just knew it was gonna happen. It

235
00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,240
Speaker 1: didn't matter what the clock said. Yeah, if it was

236
00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,960
Speaker 1: that minute, you needed another. You just needed two more

237
00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000
Speaker 1: plays to run out. I'm just sitting there saying, how

238
00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,040
Speaker 1: long had Mike McCarthy been away from football? Did he

239
00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,839
Speaker 1: forget like how much time Tom Brady needs to lead

240
00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,160
Speaker 1: a game winning drive. He looked like a dope. I'm mean,

241
00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,840
Speaker 1: what do you do? I was coaching in nine hell,

242
00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,800
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott to get to stay in bounds. Nobody coaches

243
00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,719
Speaker 1: that I mean, and Tom Brady's back there like, no,

244
00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,920
Speaker 1: it was not, it was it was easy. Oh my gosh.

245
00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,520
Speaker 1: It looked like, oh my gosh, seriously, you just played

246
00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:21,000
Speaker 1: sixty minutes to give the guy this kicking a winning

247
00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,840
Speaker 1: field goal with two seconds left on the clock. Left

248
00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:29,480
Speaker 1: two seconds left. That's how you managed to clock, Mike. Yeah.

249
00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,280
Speaker 1: Not that the Bucks were perfect either. They were minus

250
00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,160
Speaker 1: three in turnovers and had like ten penalties for over

251
00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,120
Speaker 1: one hundred yards. They stunk and beat a Cowboys team

252
00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,959
Speaker 1: that was too stupid to take it from him? What

253
00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,679
Speaker 1: are you doing? Yeah, I was Zach Dak Prescott's going,

254
00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,240
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, really, I mean, I got a surgery

255
00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:49,920
Speaker 1: on my ankle. I come back and I worked so

256
00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:56,560
Speaker 1: hard to do this. And Mike, you know, serians over

257
00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:04,760
Speaker 1: there going, you guys, all these guys, he can't even

258
00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,120
Speaker 1: he can't even raise his arm and completely in the air.

259
00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,320
Speaker 1: He just raised it up over, just up like peer level.

260
00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,040
Speaker 1: I laughed last night because Chris collins Worth is talking

261
00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,719
Speaker 1: about that pack, you know, his communication pack, and he

262
00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:20,320
Speaker 1: straps to his chest instead of his belt KG. It

263
00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,120
Speaker 1: looked like it's like, which I thought was a little insensitive.

264
00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,520
Speaker 1: Since the van's already had a heart attack in his life.

265
00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,960
Speaker 1: It looked like he was like a defibrillator, getting just

266
00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000
Speaker 1: ready in case, ready, in case the stress got to him.

267
00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,600
Speaker 1: They just pushed the button instead of having to set it. Terrible,

268
00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,520
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable he's and how much could that thing weigh

269
00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,960
Speaker 1: that he can't wear it around his waist? Well, it's

270
00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,000
Speaker 1: too big to put on a belt. I think that's

271
00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,200
Speaker 1: safe to say. But oh, like in twenty twenty in

272
00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,400
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty one, you can't have the technology.

273
00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:50,960
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, but the thing he's using, that

274
00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:52,880
Speaker 1: thing's a honker Man. And since the size of a

275
00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,520
Speaker 1: microwave up, it looks like he's got he's warming up

276
00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,480
Speaker 1: some pop. It looks like a half he could throw

277
00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:02,920
Speaker 1: a case d that all right? What do you got

278
00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,880
Speaker 1: to find out exactly what that is? You can't get

279
00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,920
Speaker 1: a more streamlined piece of technology. I know that, I

280
00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,800
Speaker 1: know it's expensive, I mean, but I know that this

281
00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,080
Speaker 1: is the NFL though, right right? What are we doing?

282
00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,200
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I got to toast up and on

283
00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,160
Speaker 1: his chest an easy bike. He's kind of an easy

284
00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:30,640
Speaker 1: banks strap. I knew. I knew in the last three

285
00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,560
Speaker 1: or four plays, Dak Prescott and the Dallas offense was clicking.

286
00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:36,640
Speaker 1: I mean, they looked good last night. They were getting

287
00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:41,120
Speaker 1: first downs all that. If and I say this, if

288
00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:49,280
Speaker 1: it weren't for their apparent apparent like mandate that they

289
00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:51,560
Speaker 1: gotta give Ezekiel Aoi at the ball a certain amount

290
00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,520
Speaker 1: of times. He only carried it eleven times. Yeah, he

291
00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,320
Speaker 1: should have carried it like six. Well. Yeah, And that's

292
00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,240
Speaker 1: why I was applauding their offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, because

293
00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,040
Speaker 1: here's a young guy that knows where the league is headed.

294
00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,960
Speaker 1: He recognized the strength of the Bucks defense, which is

295
00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,760
Speaker 1: right down the middle. And then they got the Vita

296
00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,520
Speaker 1: Vey in the middle, and you got Devin White and

297
00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,600
Speaker 1: Lavante David behind him. You're not running between the tackles

298
00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,240
Speaker 1: in the game. I don't care how good your offensive

299
00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,800
Speaker 1: line is, and their line is pretty good, but you

300
00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,200
Speaker 1: didn't have Zach Martin in this game. So throw the ball,

301
00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,120
Speaker 1: and they did with a lot of success. So I

302
00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,000
Speaker 1: tipped my hand to Kellen Moore. The problem was he

303
00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:27,400
Speaker 1: had a head coach that was coaching like it was

304
00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,840
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. I was in nineteen sixty five. Yeah,

305
00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,160
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore did a very nice job I thought last night,

306
00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,560
Speaker 1: and so did Dak. Dak played very well. Their offensive

307
00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:43,280
Speaker 1: line was overmatched inside and Dominican Sue and Vitavey. Vitavey

308
00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,600
Speaker 1: was a steamroller. He was putting the guard in Dak

309
00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,360
Speaker 1: Prescott's lap all night. He was running winsprints and Dak

310
00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,280
Speaker 1: did an outstand He did a great job. I mean,

311
00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:55,960
Speaker 1: there were a couple of throws. I was like, wow, Dad,

312
00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,800
Speaker 1: what are you doing? You know? But and he got

313
00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,840
Speaker 1: lucky a couple of times. Question, Um, a pick that

314
00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,720
Speaker 1: was gonna be a pick going the other way, it

315
00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,920
Speaker 1: got tipped by the underneath. If he's thrown it through

316
00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,240
Speaker 1: two guys and it would have gotten picking. The first

317
00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,679
Speaker 1: guy hadn't got a hand on it. Um. But for

318
00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,520
Speaker 1: the most part, you know, throw it through for four

319
00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:16,440
Speaker 1: hundred yards three tds in a pick. It was. It

320
00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,400
Speaker 1: was a great outing by their offense. Ceedee Lamb didn't

321
00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:20,960
Speaker 1: help him, and he had ended up with a great

322
00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,320
Speaker 1: statistical night. But he stunk in the first ten minutes

323
00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:29,280
Speaker 1: of their jobs. He stunk. They got four turnovers from

324
00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:33,320
Speaker 1: the cow from the Buccaneers, which is uncharacteristic. I mean,

325
00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,440
Speaker 1: and they had a chance to come down and win it.

326
00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:44,879
Speaker 1: But you, why do you not the clock manage the

327
00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:50,920
Speaker 1: beginning of that game. I mean, my mom, bless her heart,

328
00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,280
Speaker 1: she knew they should have stayed in bounds. Yeah, poor

329
00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:00,160
Speaker 1: clock management, you got it at every turn, you they

330
00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,800
Speaker 1: did it. There's about four or five times on that

331
00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,240
Speaker 1: last drive where they could have just put the screws

332
00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,800
Speaker 1: to the bucket and they just didn't. And I just

333
00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:13,400
Speaker 1: you can't leave any time on the clock for Brady, No,

334
00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,960
Speaker 1: you just can't. The only time where the opponent didn't

335
00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,960
Speaker 1: leave enough time on the clock for him was Philly

336
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,680
Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl. You remember that, and he's still

337
00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,520
Speaker 1: heaving a bomb to the end zone and it almost happened. Yeah, yeah,

338
00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,679
Speaker 1: I mean you can't give him. You can't leave the

339
00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,880
Speaker 1: door open a crack. I mean, if you haven't learned

340
00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,120
Speaker 1: after twenty years of watching this guy that you can't

341
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,879
Speaker 1: leave time on the clock for him, well then you

342
00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,959
Speaker 1: deserve to lose. And that's when Mike McCarthy got you're

343
00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,080
Speaker 1: this just in You're opening on the road in the

344
00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,200
Speaker 1: home stadium where the Super Bowl happened and the home

345
00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,359
Speaker 1: team won it, and it's their opening game. The next season,

346
00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,760
Speaker 1: like raise the banner, show the rings and you're walking

347
00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:59,879
Speaker 1: in there. You you gotta be on it as a

348
00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,840
Speaker 1: coaching staff. And they were not. They were not. They again,

349
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,520
Speaker 1: the Bucks should not play a perfect game by any stretch.

350
00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,959
Speaker 1: The Bucks were horrible, and the difference was you know,

351
00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,600
Speaker 1: they have the goats. And by the way, I hate,

352
00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,000
Speaker 1: I hate to say, he's still playing great. Oh my god,

353
00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:20,240
Speaker 1: he played so good. When is this guy just gonna

354
00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,520
Speaker 1: even look old? Can we just get him to look old,

355
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,560
Speaker 1: like appear just a little rickety? I gotta tell you, Steve,

356
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,000
Speaker 1: I was watching him, you know, covering this team as

357
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,040
Speaker 1: long as we have. You know, we're watching him in

358
00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,160
Speaker 1: two thousand and ten, and we're just like, oh my god,

359
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,800
Speaker 1: this is endless. Like he had already been a starter

360
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,800
Speaker 1: for almost a decade, and I'm just like, well, you know,

361
00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,720
Speaker 1: at some point out at some pis head coaches in

362
00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,720
Speaker 1: his mid sixties, you know, at some point he's gonna

363
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,680
Speaker 1: they'll phase out, he's going to retire, and we can

364
00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,679
Speaker 1: finally have a shot at something. Now they're blessed with

365
00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,920
Speaker 1: the fact that he leaves the division. But anybody expected

366
00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,800
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, well I didn't expect him

367
00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,240
Speaker 1: to play in New England. As long as he did,

368
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,960
Speaker 1: I thought he'd be done by you know, twenty seventeen

369
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,440
Speaker 1: eighteen somewhere in their tops that's when we are in

370
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,480
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and they were showing some stats on

371
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,439
Speaker 1: his release point or his release time. His throwing motion

372
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,640
Speaker 1: has a quicker release now, yeah, than it did ten

373
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:24,320
Speaker 1: years ago because he's worked on its better. It's just

374
00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,879
Speaker 1: come on, man. And I'll say this too during the

375
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 1: broadcast last night, and Collinsworth and al Michaels didn't mention it.

376
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 1: But in the last drive and the last two drives,

377
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 1: I think in certain situations short yardage, third downs, Brady

378
00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,000
Speaker 1: would look over at Byron Leftwich, the offensive coordinated the Bucks,

379
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 1: and he would be shake his head and just say no, yeah, no,

380
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:48,560
Speaker 1: that's not He didn't want to do that. He had

381
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 1: a real clear idea of what he did and certainly

382
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 1: then they'd do it and he'd call the play. But

383
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,200
Speaker 1: he was waving Byron Leftwich off. He did it at

384
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 1: least three times in the last three minutes of that game,

385
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 1: the last maybe two drives. He waved him off twice.

386
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,120
Speaker 1: And I'd be really interested to see what that because

387
00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,200
Speaker 1: I saw him later they were face to face because

388
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 1: it was all loud and stuff at the end of

389
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 1: the and when there were two seconds left in the

390
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: game was almost over, and it was all over, and

391
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 1: you know, except the celebration, Brady was talking to him

392
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 1: and they were and they were having a serious conversation.

393
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,159
Speaker 1: I know that it was about the play selection and

394
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 1: what they were both thinking and all of that. Um,

395
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,920
Speaker 1: I think I'd be okay, trusted him right and left,

396
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 1: which is no fool. I think I would trust him. Yeah,

397
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,879
Speaker 1: And I'm sure. I'm sure that happens less. It happens

398
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 1: more this year than it did last year, you know

399
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,639
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Now they've got a year under their

400
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 1: belt and all that, and Tom's looking at him go no,

401
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 1: no, no no, And then he'll get I'm sure that there's

402
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 1: a short list in certain situations and they'll go to

403
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: the next play and he'll say, yeah, yeah, but it's

404
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,800
Speaker 1: you know, I thought that was really interesting. Brady just

405
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: look over and play clocks moving, it's a huddle, and

406
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,040
Speaker 1: he just he like shaking his head and you can

407
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 1: just read his lips going no, no, now we you

408
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: and I obviously have not had to deal with Brady

409
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 1: our entire lives. But just think about Bills fans that

410
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:16,159
Speaker 1: are about eighteen, nineteen years old, twenty years old. It

411
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,640
Speaker 1: has been a ubiquitous narrative in their entire life as

412
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 1: a football fan. My son had a dartboard in the

413
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:29,400
Speaker 1: basement with Brady's face on it in twenty ten. He

414
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: was six. He's seventeen now and he's still watching this guy. Yeah,

415
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 1: it's just I get it. You're right, and he has

416
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 1: not known any different. And I say this, there will

417
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 1: be a time, you know, when the guy, you know,

418
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 1: when the guy's in the Hall of Fame, maybe where

419
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: you can look back and kind of be better and

420
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,919
Speaker 1: appreciate the guy. Absolutely everybody respected. But we don't mean

421
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 1: I have to Bills fans grudgingly. They don't want to

422
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,679
Speaker 1: talk about the respect that's there. You know, that's not

423
00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 1: part of the conversation. They'll do that when he's you know,

424
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: when he's maybe when he's dead. But you gotta know,

425
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,439
Speaker 1: at some certain point you're gonna be able all the

426
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: all these younger like your son and my kids are

427
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: going to talk to their kids about you don't know nothing. Yeah,

428
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 1: we had to live through that. Guy. You know, you

429
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: know that's happening with that generation, and it's gonna be

430
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: happening now in the NFC South too. That it's it's

431
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,959
Speaker 1: pretty amazing because he looks he's a better, younger, fitter

432
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 1: looking guy now at forty four then he was at thirty.

433
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,120
Speaker 1: This isn't his last year. There's no way in hell.

434
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 1: He looks awesome, No way in hell. When he first

435
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 1: signed with the Bucks, he said, I'm definitely giving you

436
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: two years, right, that was the original agreement. Yeah, then

437
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: after last year that they've said it already publicly he

438
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 1: can play as long as he wants. And that means

439
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: even when he stinks, if it ever happens, I mean

440
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: man alive. Ratings wise, the game did very well too.

441
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: Hammer they were anticipating this. They were anticipating NFL ratings

442
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 1: to be up. They thought the telecast would be even

443
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: more entertaining with crowds back in the stands, the atmosphere,

444
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: all of that, and that's proven to be true. Obviously.

445
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: With all of the gambling and sportsbook partnerships that are

446
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,479
Speaker 1: popping up in terms of partnering with the NFL, they

447
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 1: believe that's going to drive increased viewership. Because skip, we

448
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: got a little money on the game. People are gonna

449
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: be more. They're gonna be tuning into Bengals Browns, you know,

450
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 1: on a Thursday overnight. So this is from John hourand

451
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: from Sports Business Journal. NBC's coverage of the Cowboys Bucks

452
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: game hit a five year high in the overnight ratings.

453
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: Fifteen point nine is the rating. It's up sixteen percent

454
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: from last year. And the number doesn't include out of

455
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: home viewing bars, restaurants, that kind of thing, So the

456
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 1: final national number is almost certain to be an even

457
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: bigger increase than the sixteen percent initially reported. It is. Yeah,

458
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: I think as a juggernaut. It's it's the eight hundred

459
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: pound gorilla in sports television. And no, no, it's it's

460
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: the eight hundred pound gorilla in television. Yeah. Period. Yeah,

461
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: art of story, No need to go on full stop. Yeah,

462
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 1: it's it's the property to own and have a piece of.

463
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: And that's that's the reason everybody was watching that game

464
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: last night. We mentioned the Bill's injury report No Start

465
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: Latula on Sunday, and Emmanuel Sanders is going to be

466
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: listed as questionable according to coach McDermott. With his toe injury,

467
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: practicing today, but on a limited basis. The Steelers have

468
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: healed up considerably. We were talking yesterday on the show

469
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: about rookie center Kendrick Green with a thumb injury. We

470
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: did not ascertain whether that was on his snapping hand,

471
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: but he was a full participant in practice on Thursday,

472
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: so he appears to be good to go for the

473
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: Steelers and make his first career start at center on Sunday. Meanwhile,

474
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: defensive end Tyson Alu Alu, big body in that three

475
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: four front for them, has been dealing with an elbow injury.

476
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: He too, practiced fully on Thursday. The only question mark

477
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: here is there starting outside linebacker Alex Highsmith, who did

478
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: not practice after being limited with a growing injury on Wednesday,

479
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: So perhaps he has taken a step back. Coach Thomlin

480
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: went asked today prior to practice as to whether Alex

481
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: Highsmith would play on Sunday. He said, wait for the

482
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: injury report. That's what he told the media in Pittsburgh today.

483
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: So probably not good for Alex Highsmith, knowing he took

484
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: a step back and did not practice at all on Thursday,

485
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: So we'll wait for the Steelers injury report to come

486
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: out later this afternoon, see if he's declared his out questionable.

487
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: What have you so that you're brought up to date

488
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: on that. Obviously, it is Friday, which means the OBL

489
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 1: Friday fan mail Bag is open for you to submit

490
00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: your questions to Steve and myself. So we welcome your questions,

491
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: anything and everything. Maybe you're wondering who's going to fill

492
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: in for Stars something like that, we'll try to answer

493
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: that for you. Maybe you have another question about coming

494
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: back to the stadium. We'll try to answer those intelligently,

495
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: although it seems like things things are changing all the time,

496
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: you know, so we'll do our best to answer those.

497
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: But fire them off to us at one Bills Live

498
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: on Twitter and we'll get to them in short order.

499
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 1: Second hour of the show, we've got the one, the

500
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: only Greg Cosell from NFL Films going to break down

501
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: some of the matchups coming up in this game on Sunday,

502
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: So we look forward to that since he's been crunching

503
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: the film all week long and essentially Coach McDermott in

504
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: his comments today prior to practice indicated that Levi Wallace

505
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: will start at cornerback. I think it was a foregone conclusion.

506
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: We all assumed that he had won the starting job

507
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: in the competition with Dane Jackson, but McDermott, without saying

508
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: he's the starter at Corner, all but confirmed it at

509
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: the press conference this morning. So I think we've brought

510
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: you up to speed. The only thing we left out, Steve,

511
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 1: the Cam Newton sit down interview with his dad's cecil.

512
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: Did you see any of that? I did not see

513
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: it all. Yes. First of all, he did not disappoint

514
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 1: with the fashion statement he decided to make. He had

515
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: a hat, a big, a wide brim hat all the

516
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: way around, you know, um, not as big as Farrell

517
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: the musician, but a pretty big hat. And there was

518
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: apparently a hole in the top because you know how

519
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: he has his hair sticks straight up off the top

520
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: of his head. It was coming through the top of

521
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: the hat. From what I could see, it was let's

522
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: just say interesting to say the least. But yes, Cam Newton,

523
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,479
Speaker 1: among his comments, said he felt that the only reason

524
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: he was released was because there look at that, Steve,

525
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: what do you think our MSG viewers looking at this,

526
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: that's his hair? It looks like I think it's his hair. Yeah,

527
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: it looks coming right out of the top of his hat.

528
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: It looks photoshopped. Ah, so I don't know, Yeah, I

529
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: don't know. That's definitely his hair. Yeah. Um, I've seen

530
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: him put feathers and stuff in his hat bands. Yes, yes,

531
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: he has done that. But that that looks like his

532
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: Froe's that top not thing that he's Yeah, so there's that.

533
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: But and he was and forget about the fashion statement. Yeah,

534
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: what he said was more important. Yeah, what he was

535
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: there to talk about. And and he's you know, he said, hey,

536
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: I absolutely would have been max back up if they

537
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: asked me to be up, he would, he would, But

538
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: he said his you say it, I can't say it,

539
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: old on, I gotta pull it up. Uh. Yeah. He

540
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: basically insinuated that all along it was trending in this

541
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: direct action to go with to go with Mac Jones,

542
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: because even though he was getting the first team reps

543
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: and Mac was not, he would get two and then

544
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: Mac would get the next ten. So he said it

545
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: was evident the direction they wanted to go. But essentially,

546
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 1: he said his aura was the reason they chose not

547
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: to keep him as a backup, which he cites as

548
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: a blessing and a curse. His aura is a blessing,

549
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: and he used that word aura as a blessing as

550
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: a curse. I gotta tell you, after being cut by

551
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: an NFL team and losing a starting job to a rookie,

552
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: the ego is very healthy right now for Cam Newton. Yeah,

553
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: he's yeah, if you're talking about your aura as the

554
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: main reason he could not function as a backup and

555
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: felt he would be a distraction. He felt the Patriots

556
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: would see him as a distraction as a backup to

557
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: Mac in the event that, you know, he has a

558
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: bad game or he struggles a Cam in. That's his opinion,

559
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: and I he's probably got something there because that's also

560
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: maybe part of the reason why teams may or may

561
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: not be banging down his door. Yes, I mean, I'm

562
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: not sure what team I would look at unless it

563
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: was a team like I don't know, Tennessee or somebody

564
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: who doesn't have a you know, like a Kansas City even,

565
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: or somebody who had doesn't have a an established backup

566
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: or a quarterback room that would be in flux Jacksonville,

567
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But here's the thing, if there's

568
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: also this brownie, it's been a while since we've seen

569
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: him play adequate football, correct, not great, just adequate. He

570
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: was bad last year, really bad, and he didn't look

571
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: all that much better this year. So he's a shell

572
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: of what he used to be. So what are we

573
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: talking about? You know, what's he I mean, is there

574
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: a job for him out there? And he'll say he

575
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: said this, there's not thirty you guys better than me. Well,

576
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. I respectfully disagree. I don't know if

577
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: there aren't, um Steve, I said it last year at

578
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: the end of the season. I don't know if Cam

579
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: is going to be a starter in this league ever. Again,

580
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: you've said it too in passing. I don't know that

581
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: you really meant it, but you say you don't think

582
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: he'll ever start another game. I don't as not as

583
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: the true blue starting quarterback for an NFL team. There's

584
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: too much, too much of his game has now been

585
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: has now deteriorated. I mean, he they had eight passing

586
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: touchdowns last year, Steve, think about that for a second,

587
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: in this era of the NFL. Eight passing touchdowns. I mean,

588
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: that is a nemic. That's a nemic. You can't win

589
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: that way. It is I gotta tell you people should

590
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: have considered Bill Belichick for Coach of the Year last year.

591
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: How he navigated that team to seven victories last year.

592
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,959
Speaker 1: That's a miracle. It's a miracle. All right. We have

593
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: to take a break. When we come back, we're gonna

594
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: talk about a new part of the show here on

595
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: Friday's where we get your take on your tailgate. We'll

596
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: explain when we return here on one Bill's Line presented

597
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: by Kalid to health, it's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, people,

598
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: it is Tailgate Friday, which is presented by high Mark

599
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Western New York, the official

600
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: health plan of the Buffalo Bills. Before we went to break,

601
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,719
Speaker 1: I mentioned how we kind of put out the query

602
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: to let us know what your tailgate or pregame plans

603
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: are for Sunday. So some people are tailgating already in

604
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: the camper lot as we drove in here this morning.

605
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: But Dinah leads us off here on the Tailgate Friday

606
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, which is always has brought to by Korrigan

607
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: Moving Systems presented by high Mark Blue Cross, Blue Shield

608
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: to Western New York. So Dinah says, I'll be watching

609
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: the game at home every time the bills score. I'll

610
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: call my eighty six year old mother and we sing

611
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: the shout song together like we did when we went

612
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: to the games. Now, that is not the sweetest thing

613
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: you have ever heard. I don't know what is awesome.

614
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,959
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, eighty six year old mom singing

615
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: the shout song. That's passion. There, there you go, that's awesome.

616
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: Chris says, Oh no, not that one. Let's see. Oh yeah, Chris,

617
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: you can find me with seventy thousand of my best

618
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: friends on Sunday. Let's go. So he's just gonna be there.

619
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: Just being there is going to be enough for a

620
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: lot of people, because you know, you haven't been in

621
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: the sea of humanity that is high Mark Stadium for

622
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: over a year. And even the people that were there

623
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: for the playoff games were only there with stein their

624
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: best friends. I got a couple of videos from my

625
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: golfing partner that he goes to the game. He's been

626
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: going to games forever, and he's got a couple of

627
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: videos of kickoffs and touchdowns and all of that, and

628
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: you look around and it really you're like, wow, you

629
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: forget what it's like to see all the people in

630
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: that stadium, and it's just amazing. Say, how much of

631
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 1: a difference did it make on the telecast last night? Yeah,

632
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: and that's not even a super raucous fan base down

633
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: there in Tampa. No offense to them, but it's just

634
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: not the same. Jason says, Friday is when I start tailgating. Yeah,

635
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: I hope you make it to Sunday. Pal pace yourself.

636
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: You got time to sober up again and start all right,

637
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: take Saturday off, resume Sunday, cut off a little bit

638
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: earlier Saturday night or whatever. Oh my gosh, yeah, there

639
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: you go. Alan says, Mafia Sauce vodka. Two cases of

640
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 1: the bad Italian sausage ready to be grilled. Sunday can't

641
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 1: come soon enough. Go bills, locked, stocked and loaded. It's

642
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: a I think that's Mafia sauce. Mafia Sauce vodka. There

643
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: is a thing, okay called that. Yeah. I saw a

644
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: period after Mafia Sauce, so I thought he was separating

645
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: the two, but maybe not. You could be right. I

646
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: there was a yes, there was an event I saw.

647
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I happened. Steve is in the know on

648
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: this so good on Sauce vodka that you talk about

649
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: a marketing plan. That's it, right, You think from the

650
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: humble process, a little gazebo out on the parking lot. Hey,

651
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: do whatever you need to do from the humble process

652
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: at home, but doing the same thing we do at

653
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:53,919
Speaker 1: the stadium. Steak sandwiches, brotts, chili well done, and ice

654
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: cold beer. Sides will be more diverse than the usual

655
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 1: deviled eggs, nice handcut rides, baked beans and salad. I'm

656
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: not eating tomorrow night, right, just save up the space.

657
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: It's like you're going into a competitive eating contest. I've

658
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: got skipped dinner on Saturday night. I've got a little

659
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 1: space in my heart for deviled eggs. Oh my gosh, yeah, Steve,

660
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: we had deviled eggs at our wedding reception. Oh yeah.

661
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: There were two people in my wedding party that went hard,

662
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: oh yeah on the deviled eggs and lived to regret it.

663
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: Maybe a little too hard drank to regret it. But

664
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: all I remember is they were like three platters of

665
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: deviled eggs and we you know, we're still going table

666
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: to table. Thanks for coming, blah blah blah, We come

667
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: back like where the hell of the deviled eggs? Right,

668
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, two guys in your wedding party

669
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: housed about half a tray on their own. I was like,

670
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: I grew up growing to church potluck dinners and that

671
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: was a staple. Little paprika on top of the Oh

672
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: it's really good, really good. Just house those things. Yeah,

673
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: just oh, they they're so good. They are. They're like,

674
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: they're the like you have slider burgers, Like if you

675
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: don't have a slider burger, that's the closest thing to

676
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: a slider because those things go down and that's not

677
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: they're not. And here's the thing too, They're not for everybody.

678
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: They're for me. But yeah, it seems like that they're

679
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: a little bit polarizing, right, They're so kind of like

680
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: I don't know what what it's something else like them,

681
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: like mayonnaise or whatever. Like some people are like yeah

682
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: manas and other people are like absolutely not. Devil Leggs

683
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: are kind of like that. But I'm I am all

684
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: about those things. Did you see the guy at the

685
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: the Clemson Georgia game last week with the jar of

686
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: mayonnaise in the stands? I did. Yeah, that was alarming that, Yeah,

687
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: that was disturbing. I mean that is just disturbing. But

688
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: you couldn't look away. That was the thing. Like, as

689
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: disturbing as it was here, I couldn't look away. Here's

690
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: how I got through it. I'm waiting for him to puke.

691
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: Here's my Here's how I got through it. It was

692
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: a put on, right, it was vanilla yogurt. Oh you

693
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: think so, that's that's how I got through it. I

694
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: don't know that it was mayonnaise or not. I'm just

695
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: saying there's I just can't think about somebody doing that way.

696
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: I will say, so, I'm thinking, you know what it

697
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: was just it was just yogurt. He was fooling us.

698
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: I will say that it did drip with the consistency

699
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: of yogurt, so you might be onto something there. Yeah,

700
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: mayonnaise is thicker than that. Yeah, I could not. It was.

701
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: It was like I say, it was disturbed. It was

702
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: unsettling for my stomach. I can't imagine what it's doing

703
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: to him. It was a video and I was I

704
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: couldn't watch it, let alone be there to witness it.

705
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: But I'm thinking, I mean, my son are watching. He's like, okay,

706
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: this is awful. He goes, I can't look away. It

707
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: was right, because this is so disgusted. I have to

708
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: keep watching, like right right, we're right right about now,

709
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: we're on we're in game day mode. We're just talking

710
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: about all the sites. But yes, I I'm That's the

711
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: only way I could get my mind around that was

712
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: if I told myself, no, no, no, that's he's putting

713
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: us on, because that's yeah. Because if I if I

714
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: would have believed that that was yeah, oh yeah, I

715
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: could have done it. Because I couldn't have done it.

716
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: And I like mayo on my sandwich, but man, not

717
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: like that. That's that's extreme. Jack on the Tailgate Friday

718
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: tweet sheets says, honey Cajun and spicy barbecue wings on

719
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: my new charcoal kettle grill. Also sausage stuff, cherry peppers,

720
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: home grown, and home ain't woh. I like the sound

721
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: of that. I gotta find out where Jack's extra effort

722
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: and chip dip with plenty of local beer of course,

723
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: not sure what everyone else is making, but mine will

724
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: be a hell of a feast. Yeah that sounds good.

725
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: You start talking. I love when they start chest pounding. Yes,

726
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: you know, hey, tailgaters, they got a lot of pride

727
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: in their work. You know, there's a little something something

728
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: to it because the let me think about it, he

729
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: home grew the peppers and he made the sausages. It's

730
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: got to be spectaclear. If it was mediocre, nobody wouldn't

731
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: do it again, right, because that's a big effort. Yeah,

732
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: that's gotta be spectacularly delicious to put that kind of

733
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: effort in time and time again to do that. There's

734
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: obviously I'm thinking, this isn't the first time he's ever

735
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: done it, right, This is not an experimental dial doesn't

736
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: sound like his first road. And I think if you're

737
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: gonna put that kind of effort in the feedback you've

738
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: gotten from the people that are eating it has got

739
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: to be off the charts. Yeah, we have to take

740
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: a break here, But that was the Tailgate Friday tweet

741
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: sheet presented by him Mark Blue Cross, Blue Shield of

742
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: Western New York, the official healthcare plan of the Buffalo Bills.

743
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: When we come back, we will get to some of

744
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: your questions from the obl fan Friday mail bag, and

745
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: don't forget coming up second Hour the show from NFL

746
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: Films one Greg co Sell, who's also going to have

747
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: the first edition of the ESPN NFL Matchup Show with

748
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: Matt Bowen and Sal Palantonio. And I know for a

749
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: fact the Bills and the Stea are on their breakdown docket,

750
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to that with him about that with

751
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: him in the next hour. Here on one Bills Live,

752
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

753
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: welcome back. Closing out our number one here with the

754
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: OBL Friday fan mail bag, brought to you by Corrigan

755
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: Moving System is the official equipment moving company the Buffalo Bills.

756
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: Max leads us off with the following Steve, the defensive

757
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: coordinator of Pittsburgh, talked a little junk about Alan running

758
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: with the football, even saying I hope he tries to

759
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: finish runs like a running back. We'll treat him like

760
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: a running back. End quote. Is this the standard and

761
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,479
Speaker 1: nothing to worry about or is it a little out

762
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 1: of character? Obviously we want Josh healthy moving forward. If

763
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: the question is about what Keith Butler, the defensive coordinator,

764
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: is saying about Josh, you know, it's it's just a

765
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 1: shot across the battle thing. It's an attempt at intimidation.

766
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: It's I don't think it's going to affect Josh one bit.

767
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: At the same time, I will say this, I don't

768
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 1: believe Josh is going to run as much this year

769
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: as he has in years past. He didn't run much

770
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: last No, he didn't. And I think the only time

771
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 1: we're going to see him run between the twenties is

772
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: when the play breaks down completely and he has no

773
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: options in the passing game. Then I think he runs

774
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: in the red zone is the other place where I

775
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: think he might run. Quarterback draw rollouts and then deciding

776
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: to tuck it and run. Those are the instances where

777
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: I think he runs with the football saying this. Yeah,

778
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: you want me to translate this, give you my translation

779
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: of this. He says, I hope he tries to run

780
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: finish runs like a running back. We'll treat him like

781
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: a running back. That means, Gosh, I hope he don't

782
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: run the ball. Do not run the ball. If he

783
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,479
Speaker 1: runs the ball, we got note, we got problems. That's

784
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: what he's saying. He says, I hope he runs the

785
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 1: ball so we can finish him off like a running

786
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: back Dada, and we're gonna make it bad. That's when

787
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the guy not to run the ball.

788
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: That's what that's what that is. That doesn't mean I

789
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: want I think Josh should run the ball or whatever.

790
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: That means that when a quarterback has the ability to

791
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: run the ball and throw it like Josh Allen can,

792
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: you got no answers. You could. You can stop him

793
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: doing one, but he's gonna kill you with the other.

794
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: Then if he kills you with the other and you

795
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: stop him the other, he's gonna kill you with the

796
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 1: first thing. He can do it either way. You want

797
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: to make it so that the Bills are unwilling to

798
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: use him to one hundred percent of his capabilities, because

799
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: if they do, you have no answers. That's that's what

800
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,399
Speaker 1: that statement by Gith Butler. Watch the tape last year,

801
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: he watched the Denver ask Rob watched the San Francisco game. Yeah,

802
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: watch that. There were no answers. Watch the Denver game.

803
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: Those those got two defensive minded Robert Slow, the defensive

804
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: coordinator of the of the Niners last year and the

805
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 1: head coach of the Jets this year, and Vic Fangio,

806
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: head coach of the Denver Broncos last year, were out

807
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: of ammunition. They were checking for rain out there. They

808
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: were out of ammunition. They were out there checking for rain,

809
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: palms up. They were what am I going to do?

810
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 1: And they were gunfighters who would run out of ammo

811
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: about early in the third quarter. Neither one of them

812
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: had any answers. And that's this statement by Keith Butler

813
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: is gamesmanship, no question about it. The Bill's Friday injury

814
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 1: report is out and there are no surprises. Star latou Lay,

815
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: as coach McDermot said earlier this morning on w g

816
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: R radio, is out for Sunday's game. And then Emmanuel

817
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: Sanders listed as questionable with a foot injury. So that

818
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: is it. Those are the only players. One is out,

819
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 1: one is in question, that being Emmanuel Sanders, although coach

820
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: McDermott did say today before practice that sanders toe, which

821
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 1: is the injury of note here, is getting better or foot,

822
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: I should say. So if foot is about this, Sanders

823
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: goes down, Does that mean Kumero's active now He's gonna

824
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: be active anyway? Uh? Well, they they had six receivers

825
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: active every game last year, but that does that mean

826
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: they go seven active? And Isaiah mckent, well, McKenzie, they

827
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: don't have seven on the roster right now. They only

828
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: Stevenson is on IR They only have six there you go,

829
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: So all six bring Hodgens or Tanner Giners maybe, I

830
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: don't know. That means Kumro's in the mix, Oh definitely. Yeah,

831
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: And he would be up anyway to play specialty, right,

832
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:44,439
Speaker 1: So they're gonna have all If Sanders is down, that's

833
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: the only reason they don't have six wide white outs. Yeah,

834
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: which would be the first time and over a season

835
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: that would be the case. So yeah, I suppose a

836
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 1: call up is possible if he can't play. But I

837
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: would tend to think with him practicing all week that

838
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: he's on the I would think he's on the more

839
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: I don't know this. I'm just guessing based on his

840
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: He's participated all week long, granted on a limited basis,

841
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: I think he's on the more favorable side. I don't Yeah,

842
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what his whether it's turf toe or

843
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: whether it's something else. Um, you haven't been on turf much.

844
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: They'll give him, they'll give him some help with a

845
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: tape job and whatever else they can do for medically. Yeah,

846
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: they'll make him feel better. The question is does this

847
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: turn into does this little you know, this little fanny

848
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: pack that he has to carry around with him as

849
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: a toe injury turn in linger turn into a steamer

850
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: trunk where he's got to lug that thing around for

851
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 1: six weeks. You know he's got it's just that's what it's.

852
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: It's luggage. Yeah, you don't want it to turn into

853
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: something bigger. You can't carry it, chronic, you don't want

854
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: any of that stuff. All right, We have to take

855
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: a break here because when we come back, senior producer

856
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,280
Speaker 1: from NFL Film and the co host of ESPN's NFL

857
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: Matchup Show, Greg co Seal, joins us to discuss some

858
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: of the matchups in this game between the Bills and

859
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: the Steelers as he tells us what the film is

860
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: telling him. We'll catch up with Greg next here on

861
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Helpt It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

862
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all the field,

863
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

864
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

865
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: in the strated fere of normalcy all right. Here we

866
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 1: are on a Friday, and you know what that means.

867
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 1: It's time to assess the matchups and here to help

868
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: us with that. For Bill's Steelers on Sunday is a

869
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: guy that crunches film because it's fun for him. It's

870
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: NFL Films senior producer Greg Cosell, who also will be

871
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: on ESPN's NFL Matchup Show. And I believe Bill Steelers

872
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 1: is a part of the program. Is that correct, Greg?

873
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: It is the first game in our show. Wow, this

874
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: kicking off the new season with Steelers. That's because South

875
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: Palenttonio is doing the game. You know how that work.

876
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: There's always an ulterior motive with sal I tell you

877
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: you know, therefore that makes it the most important game

878
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: of the weekend, which of course it is, but you

879
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: know absolutely, Oh my god, that's awesome. We're um. Let's

880
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: begin with Josh because a lot of people after the

881
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 1: breakout season last year are wondering where his game goes

882
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: from here. And I think while a lot of people

883
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: are at least Steve and I are trout trying to

884
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: be realistic and recognize the that that was a pretty

885
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: extraordinary season. Just matching those numbers is going to be

886
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: a challenge this year, even with an extra game. I

887
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: don't want to speak for Steve but I think we're

888
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: anticipating that the improvements in Josh's game this year might

889
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: be more nuanced and less easily recognizable to maybe the

890
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: casual fan. What do you think about that? Well, you know,

891
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 1: it's funny you mentioned that given who they're playing this week,

892
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: because I think you could argue that that Pittsburgh game

893
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: a year ago, Week fourteen was actually one of his

894
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 1: better games given the nature of the opponent, because as

895
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: you guys probably recall, that game, I think was very

896
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: low scoring at halftime, and then they came out in

897
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: the second half and had two touchdown drives to start,

898
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: which put the game in their favor, But it was

899
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: the kind of game where he didn't put up numbers. Chris,

900
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: But I thought that game showed just the maturity of

901
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,720
Speaker 1: playing to a specific game against a really high level

902
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:03,280
Speaker 1: defensive opponent. And I think that's they play a pretty

903
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: tough schedule this year, some tough road games, and you

904
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: might see some more games like that, in games in

905
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: which he throws, you know, for four twenty and four touchdowns,

906
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: and it's those kinds of games that very often from

907
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: a coaching perspective anyway, say a lot more about a

908
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: player's development than just the ability to make unbelievable throws,

909
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: which of course he can do any time. Take us

910
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: back to that game a year ago, and it was

911
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: the Tarren Johnson pick six down the sideline there that

912
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,720
Speaker 1: kind of put the game on ice. But Steph Diggs

913
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: was out and all of a sudden the second half

914
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: they started throwing to him and didn't stop. What were

915
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: some of the things you noticed about the tactics of

916
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: each coaching staff that changed during that game. Well, you know,

917
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: the thing that was interesting is the Steelers were very

918
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: very aggressive in that game. On defense. They played a

919
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: lot of dime sixtybs on third down, they blitzed a

920
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: pretty good percentage. They played a lot of man to

921
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: man coverage. They felt comfortable doing that. They were snapps

922
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: in which they doubled digs both when he was inside

923
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: and even when he was the boundary x uh, the

924
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: single receiver to the short side of the field. So, uh,

925
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, they were very very aggressive in how they

926
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: approached the Bills. And the Steelers are always aggressive. They're

927
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: they're they're very proactive defensively. They never play sort of

928
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: scared where they think, oh, you know, we can't allow

929
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: big plays. They always feel they can go after you,

930
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: and I remember that first half was was kind of

931
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: a slog a little bit, and then that those first

932
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: two drives, if I'm not mistaken, at the third quarter

933
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: was when they started moving the ball and they were

934
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: short throws. I don't think Josh had a big He didn't.

935
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: He certainly didn't have a long pass in that game,

936
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: but it was the kind of game that he sort

937
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: of had to allow the game to come to him.

938
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: He didn't make one ridiculously good throw, and that was

939
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: the touchdown pass to Gabriel Davis, which in the red

940
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: zone obviously defenses change up a bit, and that came

941
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: him against split safety's own. That was a big time throw.

942
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: What do you think will be the Steelers defensive approach here?

943
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: I mean, Cameron Sutton looks like he's the guy that

944
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: moves inside to play Nickel, and we're presuming he'll be

945
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: the matchup with Beasley inside. What do we kind of

946
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: make of it? Because their secondary has undergone some changes.

947
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: I know they still have Fitzpatrick, but Hilton is gone,

948
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: so too is Stephen Nelson. Do you anticipate a similar approach?

949
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if Keith Butler can feel as confident

950
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,760
Speaker 1: playing as much man as he did the last time. Yeah,

951
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 1: and we will know that Sunday. Yeah, but that's tough

952
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: to answer now. I guess my question to you first

953
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: is what's Emmanuel Sanders status. He's questionable, but he's practiced

954
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: all week and coach McDermott said today that his foot

955
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: is improving, so take that for what it's worth. But

956
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: he was limited in practice all week, but he practiced Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

957
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: So right, Because I think I think his availability is

958
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: somewhat key to this, because I think you could see.

959
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: Look last year, let me say it this way. Last year,

960
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: in that game against Pittsburgh, which was late in the season,

961
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: week fourteen, they did not play a lot of ten personnel, Chris,

962
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: you know, not as much as they played in a

963
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 1: lot of other games, and that we've come to expect

964
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: from them. So I guess what I'm trying to figure out.

965
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: We won't know the answer. It's an unanswerable is if

966
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: Sanders can go, do you think they'll play a lot

967
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 1: of ten personnel which they did not do a year

968
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: ago against the Steelers, or will they feel that that

969
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: Steeler pass rush is still a factor. You know. Obviously

970
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 1: t J. Watt's gonna play. He just you know, he

971
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: just got Steve Tasker money eighty million guaranteed, right, so

972
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: that's ready to go. Congratulations to him, So, you know,

973
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: and I think Highsmith is actually a young emerging pass

974
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: rusher on the other side, so they can rush the passer.

975
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: It depends on, you know, whether the Bills feel they

976
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: can protect if they go empty sets, let's say, four wide,

977
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: or if they need the back in the backfield. You

978
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 1: know that this all remains to be seen. But we

979
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,479
Speaker 1: know that the Bills are going to throw the ball.

980
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: This team is built on Josh, They're going to throw it.

981
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: It just depends on schematically and tactically how they go

982
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: about doing that. Yeah, and before Steve asked his question,

983
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: we should mention that Alex Highsmith is a major question

984
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 1: mark for the Steelers. After practicing on a limited basis Wednesday,

985
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: he did not practice at all on Thursday with a

986
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:42,800
Speaker 1: groin injury. And when he was asked prior to practice today,

987
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: what's highsmith set is for Sunday, he said, wait till

988
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: the injury report comes out, which doesn't sound well, that's

989
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: probably not a good sign. Well, how do you expect?

990
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: How do you expect this game? Let's say that I

991
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: know there's a big question marks on the front, you know,

992
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: the front seven of the Bills defense, the offensive line

993
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: of the Steelers, and vice versas, the offensive line of

994
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: the Bills against the pass rush of the Steelers. Let's

995
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: let's say that's a wash. Let's talk about skill positions,

996
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,919
Speaker 1: the quarterback play. What do you think given the fact

997
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: that they went out and I conspicuously took a running

998
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: back in the first round, yes, and a tight end

999
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: in the second round, and they've got Ben Roethlisberger at quarterback?

1000
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: What are you What is your best guess about what

1001
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: this offense will look like with Matt Cannon to the

1002
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator. My best guess would be that it

1003
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: will be different from a year ago. And I think

1004
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: that the foundation will be a run game. I do

1005
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: not personally believe you draft Nigi Harris, who is a big, physical,

1006
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: volume runner, to give him the ball seven or eight

1007
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: times in a game. I think that you've draft him.

1008
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: You draft the second tight end and Friar Muth out

1009
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: of Penn State. You draft Kendrick Green, the center out

1010
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: of I believe it might be Texas A and M.

1011
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: I can't remember they drafted it. Uh. They drafted another

1012
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, Dan Moore. He may be Kendrick Kereens out

1013
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: of Illinois, excuse me, more out of a Yeah. Um uh,

1014
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 1: you know with what they did, I would believe that

1015
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: this offense will change from a year ago. So uh,

1016
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,240
Speaker 1: I would. I would believe that the run game will

1017
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: be much more of a foundation and you're gonna have

1018
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: to line up and defend the run a lot more

1019
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: out of base personnel. But you know, on the other hand,

1020
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: they've got three receivers who are pretty good. So you know,

1021
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: this is why week one so interesting. Guys, as you know,

1022
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: and Steve, you noticed, there's there's a lot of things

1023
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: you don't know week one, right, What do you make

1024
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: of Juju versus Tarren Johnson? What about that matchup? Um? Inside, Yeah,

1025
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: and and again that comes down as well to how

1026
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: much man to man coverage that the Bills will play.

1027
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: They play more man than than a lot of people

1028
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: might think they're Uh, so you will see that matchup

1029
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: at times. Juju's a big, physical receiver. Johnson is not small,

1030
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: but he certainly can't match up sizewise to Smith Schuster.

1031
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster is a good receiver. You know, I think

1032
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: the pass game is going to be different for the Steelers.

1033
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see more play action. I think. Uh,

1034
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm waiting to see is Ben played

1035
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: almost exclusively out of the shotgun a year ago. I'm

1036
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: very curious to see now that they have Nige Harris,

1037
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: if Ben is more under center and the run games

1038
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: a little more conventional and traditional, and then they work

1039
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: the play action pass game off that. Ben has been

1040
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: notorious for not being a big fan of turning his

1041
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: back to the defense. And you know, obviously if you

1042
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: do conventional play action with the quarterback under center, your

1043
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 1: quarterback has to turn his back to the defense, right

1044
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: and yeah, and if if, if it does indeed go

1045
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: that direction. I mean, look at last night the Cowboys

1046
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: lose that game to the to the if seen any

1047
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: of the Tampa Babe Tapa most of the tape, right,

1048
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: you know, a guy like Ezekiel Elliott, who's a franchise

1049
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: kind of running back, they got big money invested in him.

1050
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: He gets the ball eleven times. Is the league, I mean,

1051
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: or the seaters really gonna buck the trend that is

1052
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: everywhere else in the National Football except perhaps Baltimore and

1053
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: start handing the football off twenty five times a game. Well,

1054
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: I think there's other teams that do do that, Steve,

1055
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: but there's no question people would argue it's a passing league.

1056
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's sustainable to Dak Prescott dropped

1057
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: back sixty plus times every week, And because it's Week

1058
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: one and they played a Bucks defense that is really

1059
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: really good against the run, we don't know if that's

1060
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: the mo for the Cowboys going forward or if that

1061
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: was a function of the opponent last evening, So that

1062
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: that's hard to answer. Um, I just cook with the

1063
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: revamped O line with then a year older, Ben does

1064
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: not move the way he used to. I just don't

1065
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: know if it's viable to have been dropped back by

1066
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: choice forty five fifty times a game, which they did

1067
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: in a number of games a year ago, then why

1068
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: draft Nige Harris? Right? Yeah, I think they will have

1069
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: a lot more balanced to their offense, and I do

1070
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: think Ben's going to be under center a little bit

1071
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: more maybe than even he would prefer. Based on what

1072
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: we're hearing out of Pittsburgh with new OC Matt Canada.

1073
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: What about Friarmouth though, Greg, I mean, this is a

1074
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: guy that, you know what people are trying to get

1075
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 1: a read on through the course of the preseason. Obviously

1076
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: Eric Hebron is still there, but Friarmouth is, you know,

1077
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: a pass catching tight end. I mean, so he's not

1078
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: probably the same all around player that Heath Miller was

1079
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 1: for them for years. He's more of a one dimensional

1080
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: tight end. How quickly do they incorporate him into the offense,

1081
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: knowing all of the receiving weapons they have at the

1082
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: receiver position. Yeah. Well, it's funny you mentioned Heath Miller

1083
01:00:56,480 --> 01:01:00,040
Speaker 1: because when I watched Friars twenty nineteen tape where it

1084
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 1: was a full season in twenty and twenty, he only

1085
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: played four games, but I watched all those games as well,

1086
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: and I actually made the Heath Miller comparison because he's

1087
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: improved as a blocker. He was better in twenty twenty

1088
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: as a blocker than he was in twenty nineteen, and

1089
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:18,919
Speaker 1: he's very very good on third down. He's a red

1090
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 1: zone weapon, you know. I think he'll be a factor

1091
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: for them. I think the question really becomes will they

1092
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: play or how much will they play at a twelve

1093
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 1: personnel with one back and two tight ends when they

1094
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: have three really quality wide receivers. And I'm not sure

1095
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: we know the answer to that. But I don't think

1096
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: you draft Frya Muth in the second round, Chris. I

1097
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: mean again, now we're just spitballing here. You know, they

1098
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 1: draft Harris in the first round, they draft Frya Muth

1099
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:47,919
Speaker 1: in the second round. I don't think you'd do that,

1100
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 1: not to have those guys be a meaningful part of

1101
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: what you're going to do. Yeah, right, Yeah, And if

1102
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: you talk about the matchups, if Emmanuel Sanders is in

1103
01:01:57,640 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: or out of the lineup, how that affects the defensive

1104
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: scheme that which, if Sanders is out, it means you can,

1105
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: you know logically that guys like Cole Beasley are gonna

1106
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: have more opportunities. What about Cole Beasley's matchup with Cameron

1107
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 1: Sutton down in the slot? How do you think? And

1108
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 1: we can go around around about what we expect from

1109
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and what this offense is gonna look like.

1110
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: I think it for me, We've had this conversation Brownie,

1111
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna be more of the same

1112
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: than it was last year. I think Josh Allen is

1113
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: that guy to drop back and throw awa oh, without question.

1114
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 1: I don't think. Look, we talked about this last year

1115
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: as well. Do they want to run the ball, Yes,

1116
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:37,920
Speaker 1: but I think they want to run the ball successfully.

1117
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: They don't want to run the ball in big value.

1118
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: You know when they do hand it off. They want

1119
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: the run game to be efficient and effective. But this

1120
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: is not going to be a running football team. So

1121
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see much of the same. Obviously,

1122
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:56,479
Speaker 1: coaches every offseason tweak things, and they'll tweak certain things

1123
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 1: they like. They'll tweak get rid of some things maybe

1124
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: they don't like. But I think the overall philosophy of

1125
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: what this offense is with Josh and the receivers is

1126
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: not going to change. I think going in Greg, we

1127
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: knew with all the changes that that Steeler offensive line

1128
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: was undergoing this offseason that it probably was not going

1129
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 1: to be a well oiled machine in Week one or

1130
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:21,720
Speaker 1: look like one anyway. Now. You know, in the last week,

1131
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: Zach Banner, who was projected to be the starting right tackle,

1132
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: goes on ir They take a choraph and move him

1133
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: back to right tackle, where he played last year, and

1134
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 1: they're starting the rookie more at left tackle in a

1135
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 1: road environment as raucous as Buffalo, facing a veteran pass

1136
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: rusher like Amrio Addison with aj epinessa ready to come

1137
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:46,400
Speaker 1: in the second wave behind him. I'm just wondering, based

1138
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: on what you saw have Moore's college tape, is this

1139
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 1: guy up to the task or are we anticipating he's

1140
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 1: going to get a lot of help via slide protection

1141
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: or from a tight end. What do you anticipate there

1142
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: on the edge? I did watch Dan Moore. Well, you're

1143
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 1: probably not surprised by that, and I'm not You've probably

1144
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: not surprised by that either. I did watch Dan Moore

1145
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 1: and he played in the SEC, and to be honest

1146
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: with you, and I don't I'm gonna qualify this by

1147
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 1: saying I don't fancy myself as an offensive line guru

1148
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: by any means, but I thought he was a good prospect. Again,

1149
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: I can't speak to all the nuances as a technique,

1150
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 1: but when you play in the SEC and you're facing

1151
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 1: pretty good pass rushers, you know you're facing a lot

1152
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: of five star recruits in the SEC. I thought he

1153
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 1: did a very good job at left tackle. You know,

1154
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 1: at the end of the day that his goal was

1155
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: to stop guys from getting to the quarterback, and he

1156
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: did that. And I you know, you can debate where

1157
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: a guy should be drafted. I don't do that, but

1158
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:42,680
Speaker 1: he was a fourth round pick and I thought that

1159
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:47,040
Speaker 1: his tape suggested he was better than that. So whether

1160
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: he's how good he is week one, I can't answer that,

1161
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: but I thought his college tape indicated that he could

1162
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:54,919
Speaker 1: line up and play in the NFL as we moved

1163
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 1: away from the fcas in this Pittsburgh Buffalo matchup. Let's

1164
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about Miami, New England. There's

1165
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: ta do we like not have enough respect for Tuah

1166
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: mis Brownie, And I think it's only a matter of

1167
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: time before he's not a Miami Dolphin. Yeah that that

1168
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I certainly can't speak to that, but I

1169
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 1: think Tah can be a very good player. I think

1170
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 1: he's a certain kind of player. He's a very rhythmic

1171
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: plays with excellent timing, is very quick feet on his

1172
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: drop plants, delivers the football. To me, that's what kind

1173
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: of quarterback he is. As this season progresses, they will

1174
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: have very good weapons. I know Will Fuller is not

1175
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 1: playing this week, but they'll have Fuller, they have Waddle,

1176
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:41,440
Speaker 1: They've got Parker, They've got pretty much every dimension you

1177
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 1: could want it at the wide receiver position, plus a

1178
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: vertical tight end in Mikeasecki. So I think two is

1179
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: set up well for success there. But Ta to me

1180
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: is a very rhythmic player. I don't believe that he's

1181
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: a late in the down pocket player. I don't think

1182
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 1: he can sit on his back foot, laid in the

1183
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: down three seconds in, three point two seconds in and

1184
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 1: drive the ball. I think that it has to be

1185
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: defined within the structure of the offense so that the

1186
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,439
Speaker 1: ball can come out. Yeah, and their offensive line isn't

1187
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: in the greatest of shape either coming into the regular season,

1188
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: because no Austin Jackson went on the COVID reserve list.

1189
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: I'll admit I haven't paid attention to see whether he

1190
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 1: has a chance to be up on Sunday. But there

1191
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 1: are some down there who feel that they might be

1192
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: better off without him, and they might start somebody else

1193
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: there at left tackle this week whose name is escaping

1194
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: me right now. But they've been juggling some stuff down

1195
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 1: there a little bit, and I don't know if that's

1196
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 1: not going to help Ta If he is the rhythmic

1197
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 1: passer that you describe, well you can. Yeah, you certainly

1198
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 1: can help your offensive line as well with that kind

1199
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: of game planning. You know, if you're talking five step

1200
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:55,919
Speaker 1: drop stuff where you want the ball to come out,

1201
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 1: your old line will more than likely hold up. But

1202
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: obviously every game gets to be third and long, and

1203
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: those are the plays that well, you can't necessarily help

1204
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 1: your on line unless you want to chip, unless you

1205
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: want to keep a tight end or a back in,

1206
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: and then it's a numbers game. Then you're you're limiting

1207
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 1: your number of eligible receivers. So uh, you know that that,

1208
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 1: I guess is dependent on how they see their on

1209
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: line and how they see this particular game against New

1210
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:26,439
Speaker 1: England playing out. I am eagerly anticipating the New York

1211
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: Post in daily news headlines on Monday after the Jets

1212
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 1: play against the Panthers in their former cornerback Sam Darnold.

1213
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 1: If Darnald somehow pulls out a victory, Greg, can you

1214
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 1: imagine what the back pages are going to look like

1215
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,240
Speaker 1: if Darnald wins? Yeah, not only if Darnald wins. What

1216
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: if he lights it up, then what's gonna Oh, I

1217
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 1: they might they might just sell the paper with matches. Well,

1218
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 1: you know, Caroline is one of those teams that does

1219
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 1: not get a lot of national attention, and Arnolds had

1220
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: some issues in his first three years. I talked about those, uh,

1221
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 1: through a connection I have in Carolina. From what I understand,

1222
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: he's been coached hard addressing a lot of those issues. Now,

1223
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 1: whether that happens in the speed of a regular season game,

1224
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:17,879
Speaker 1: we'll find out. But they've got a lot of weapons.

1225
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got the good wideouts, the terrorist Marshall kid,

1226
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: the rookie from LSU. I liked his tape a lot.

1227
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: From what I understand, he had a very good preseason.

1228
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: That we know, they have McCaffrey, they've got a good

1229
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: tight end group. Um, they've gotten weapons. So this their

1230
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 1: old line is a concern. But they're playing a Jets

1231
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:39,439
Speaker 1: defense that I think is lacking in some areas as

1232
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: far as talent, So they may be able to hold

1233
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:47,640
Speaker 1: up this week. Okay, I can't tell. I am so

1234
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:52,160
Speaker 1: rooting for Sam Darmin in this game, so rooting for

1235
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:54,240
Speaker 1: it because I just want to see I just wanted

1236
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: to watch the world burn. I guess that's that's I

1237
01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: guess that's why you have You just want the for

1238
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 1: everybody else in the division. That's your problem. Patriots defense, Greg, Well,

1239
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 1: I'll close with that with my last question for you.

1240
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:10,599
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not gonna have Gilmore here at the outset,

1241
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,679
Speaker 1: but still this looks like a pretty put together group,

1242
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 1: nice mix of young talent and vets. Yeah, I think

1243
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 1: this is going to be a pretty good defense. You know.

1244
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 1: I think getting Kyle van noyback is a really good

1245
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: move for them. He's one of those guys that doesn't

1246
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 1: necessarily stuff the stat sheet, but you can play him

1247
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:35,120
Speaker 1: in a lot of different places. He's multidimensional and how

1248
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:38,160
Speaker 1: he can be used. He's used differently in every game

1249
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:40,640
Speaker 1: depending on the nature of the opponent. You know, I

1250
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: guess what I'm interested to see is how coach Belichick

1251
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: will match up on the perimeter. Obviously, Fuller's not in

1252
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:50,719
Speaker 1: as we said, but they do have some speed Wattle

1253
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:54,320
Speaker 1: can run, So I'm curious to see because you know,

1254
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 1: Bill's played a lot of man coverage over the last

1255
01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: number of years. But then there's always that game where

1256
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 1: you put the tape on and you go, well, he's

1257
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:03,680
Speaker 1: playing a lot of zone and you never know what

1258
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 1: game that is because obviously we're not we can't get

1259
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,800
Speaker 1: into Coach Belichick's head. But I'm very curious to see

1260
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 1: the approach that he takes. Yeah, I think it's gonna

1261
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 1: be I think it's gonna be an interesting, fun, fun weekend.

1262
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 1: Any other games that you're particularly interested in or a

1263
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 1: players that you've been watching that you're um, you know,

1264
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 1: kind of intrigued by. There's some other interesting games. I mean,

1265
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:30,600
Speaker 1: you have Cleveland k C. I'm actually interested in the

1266
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:32,600
Speaker 1: Philly Atlanta game. I would say I live in the

1267
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 1: Philly area, but I'm real curious because Dean pas is

1268
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 1: one of those veteran masters as a defensive coordinator. Steve

1269
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, you probably know about him, and he's there's

1270
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:44,560
Speaker 1: a lot of disguise, a lot of late movement, a

1271
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: lot of intricate pressure schemes. And Jalen Hurts is making

1272
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 1: his fifth NFL start, and my guess is that Dean

1273
01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 1: Peas will show him some things that he's never seen before. Right. Yeah,

1274
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,600
Speaker 1: Brown's Chiefs is where it's at for me outside of

1275
01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Pittsburgh. So yeah, that's there's a good it's a

1276
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:02,200
Speaker 1: good slate this week. And what is it? What are

1277
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:05,599
Speaker 1: the returns and preseason about Jalen Hurts. What's it looked

1278
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:09,560
Speaker 1: like for him in the new head coach? You know,

1279
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: from what I understand, I was out there a couple

1280
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:13,400
Speaker 1: of times, but obviously couldn't be out there all the time.

1281
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,360
Speaker 1: From my understanding, is someone I spoke to in the

1282
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 1: building that he was okay from let's say practice one

1283
01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: through seven, but then you got to practices eight through

1284
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 1: sixteen and that he really improved meaningfully. You know what

1285
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: that means. That's an unanswerable until they play a regular

1286
01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 1: season game. The question I have for this given game

1287
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: is I think he's gonna end up running a lot

1288
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: because I think he's going to get some looks, particularly

1289
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:41,160
Speaker 1: on third down, where as he drops back, he's still

1290
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,519
Speaker 1: going to be deciphering and he's just not going to

1291
01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 1: be comfortable and he's going to rely on what he

1292
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 1: knows he can do very well, which is run right. Greg.

1293
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: As always, we thank you for the time. We'll look

1294
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: for you on the NFL Matchup show on ESPN this weekend.

1295
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for the time we'll catch up with the next week.

1296
01:11:57,439 --> 01:11:59,639
Speaker 1: All right, guys, appreciate it. Thanks all right, that's great

1297
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: coach joining us here senior producer NFL Films and also

1298
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:05,240
Speaker 1: on the Matchup Show. And if you're going to catch

1299
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:07,920
Speaker 1: the NFL Matchup Show on ESPN, catch it right from

1300
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 1: the start, because he said the Bills Steelers matchup is

1301
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:14,559
Speaker 1: the first one they are breaking down on the show, him,

1302
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: Matt Bowen and Sal Palantonio. So that'd be great night.

1303
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 1: Well we've been breaking it down for like, yes, we

1304
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 1: have days and days, so yeah, so what are you're saying,

1305
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 1: no need to watch her? I should watch. I'll try.

1306
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna maybe DVR that. I don't want to see

1307
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:31,679
Speaker 1: it into a think. I just like the matchups. They pick,

1308
01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 1: the video they show they really like, especially for somebody

1309
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: like me who did not grow up playing the game.

1310
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,919
Speaker 1: There are some ways that they decipher things and explain

1311
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: things that allow people who are not exactly super well

1312
01:12:49,479 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 1: versed in all of the lingos and stuff they break it.

1313
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: They break it down effectively for you know, the everyman

1314
01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 1: to understand. I've always thought it the best favor you

1315
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 1: can do for people listening is to make sure they

1316
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about So the verbiage and the

1317
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 1: vernacular that they use in the NFL isn't really handy

1318
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 1: dandy in the every day It's not English, and so yeah,

1319
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:15,719
Speaker 1: so you really have to instead of using the terms

1320
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 1: that football people know, just describe what you're looking at

1321
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: so that everybody knows what it is. And yeah, it

1322
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 1: makes it easier, and they do the nice job of

1323
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: that on the Matchup show. We have to take a

1324
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 1: break here, but when we come back, I did not

1325
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 1: mention this at any point prior in the show. We

1326
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 1: have the latest edition of Tasker's Teammate coming your way

1327
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 1: as we put the questions to Steve to see if

1328
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:43,480
Speaker 1: he can correctly guess which former Bill's teammate we are describing.

1329
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: And we'll get to that when we return here on

1330
01:13:46,160 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo

1331
01:13:48,640 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. It is

1332
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 1: that time in the show where we put the screws

1333
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: to Steve and asked him to channel the deeper recesses

1334
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:13,600
Speaker 1: of his memory in what we like to call taskers Teammates.

1335
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 1: That's right, Tasker's Teammate, brought to you by Wegman's Meals

1336
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:21,400
Speaker 1: to Go Delicious meals delivered. Download the Wegman's app today.

1337
01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 1: Steve A. You're ready, yep, Blue number one. See if

1338
01:14:26,240 --> 01:14:30,640
Speaker 1: you can guess your former teammate here. Born in Cheek, Texas.

1339
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 1: I played my high school football at Hampshire Fannet, where

1340
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:38,720
Speaker 1: I was a standout quarterback. But that would not be

1341
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: the position I played as I made a change midway

1342
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 1: through college, Cheek, Texas. That's right. They got some weird

1343
01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:59,839
Speaker 1: town names down there, don't they. Yeah, well, some unusual.

1344
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 1: I think the towns are weird. Um, I'm just I'm

1345
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:20,639
Speaker 1: just being a fat south uh, Cheek, Texas standout quarterback

1346
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:28,080
Speaker 1: in high school quarterback changed positions midway through college, Cheek, Texas. Yeah, guys, think,

1347
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 1: why does that ring a faint bell? We've had Kenny

1348
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 1: Davis on already? We have Yeah, we have used like

1349
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 1: number two. Okay, all right, I don't know clue number two.

1350
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 1: It was a quarterback and then switched midway through college.

1351
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:43,800
Speaker 1: I would go on to earn a scholarship as a

1352
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: walk on at McNeese State and move to the receiver

1353
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 1: position my junior year, where I caught sixty three passes

1354
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 1: for nine hundred forty nine yards and seven touchdowns as

1355
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:59,439
Speaker 1: a senior for the Cowboys. Russell Copeland, it is not

1356
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: Russell Colvin. It is not Al Edwards. Wait, I mean

1357
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 1: look down my list all the guys we've had on

1358
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 1: no Wo McNeice state. That's right, that's in Louisiana, right. Yeah,

1359
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure. I was um um nice state wide receiver,

1360
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:43,560
Speaker 1: Bro MacNeice State. I gotta know this. I'm trying to

1361
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 1: go down the list of receivers in my head. I'm

1362
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 1: not sure there were a lot of them. Yeah, there's

1363
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: a ton of them. I don't know. Go ahead, clue

1364
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:57,560
Speaker 1: number three. Coming from a small school, I did not

1365
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 1: get drafted by an NFL club, but signed with Buffalo

1366
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: as an undrafted rookie in nineteen eighty seven. Lamar Hamilton, Hamilton, No,

1367
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:23,879
Speaker 1: that's not Oh wait Knox, not Knocks and not Lamar Hamilton.

1368
01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:29,560
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, let me give you the next flue. Okay. Unfortunately,

1369
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:32,639
Speaker 1: I spent my rookie season on injured reserve and even

1370
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:34,760
Speaker 1: missed the first few games of the nineteen eighty eight

1371
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 1: season with a hamstring injury before appearing in eleven games,

1372
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: mostly on special teams, But Flip Johnson is correct. Steve Tasker,

1373
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 1: well done, Flip Johnson. I thought Flip was older than that. No,

1374
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: and uh you know, as we know, unfortunately had a

1375
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: short career um but used as a kick and punt

1376
01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 1: returner that rookie season in eighty eight. Appeared in eleven games.

1377
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:03,559
Speaker 1: First career touchdown came in a thirty seven fourteen win

1378
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 1: over the Jets when he pulled in a sixty six

1379
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 1: yard pass from Jim Kelly on Monday Night football. What

1380
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 1: a way to get score your first touchdown? League, you

1381
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: don't remember that. Flip? He always he was smarter than me.

1382
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 1: You know, he gets no guys and he's really sure,

1383
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:28,479
Speaker 1: he's really sharp, you know. Yeah, Flip was good. And

1384
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 1: I'll say this, he's the guy that he worked really hard.

1385
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 1: And he replaced chrisper Kett right. Well, yes, he was gonna.

1386
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: They said, listen, it's time to get him on the field.

1387
01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: And Chrisma was gonna sit down and Chris laughed. Chris said,

1388
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 1: that's it. Get me. He asked for his na he said, yeah,

1389
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 1: he asked for his releasing went to the Jets because

1390
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 1: of Flip. Yeah, Flip's most productive game would come the

1391
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: following season in his home state of Texas. Five catches,

1392
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 1: eighty six yards and a forty seven and forty one

1393
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: shootout went over the Oilers in Week three of the

1394
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 1: eighty nine season. Was that the overtime game? I believe

1395
01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: it was one, Yeah, the Andre Reid overtime game. But yeah,

1396
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:12,719
Speaker 1: Flip had five catches for eighty six yards in that game. Unfortunately,

1397
01:19:12,760 --> 01:19:15,559
Speaker 1: the eighty nine season would be his last, not only

1398
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:18,599
Speaker 1: with the Bills but in the league. So twenty seven

1399
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 1: games is played in out and dust. He had a

1400
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:23,800
Speaker 1: hole in his hamstring after he pulled it that year.

1401
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean it was like defected and there. But yeah,

1402
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:30,840
Speaker 1: that that was the game back in the old Houston Astrodome.

1403
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 1: That's had some shootouts with that team over the years. Yeah,

1404
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: we did that was do you know Flips given first

1405
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:43,799
Speaker 1: name Philip Fulton? Oh Fulton, how about that? Yeah Fulton?

1406
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:49,599
Speaker 1: So I guess no, I do not know his Fulton Johnson. Yes, yeah,

1407
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:52,760
Speaker 1: so Flip Johnson the latest Taskers team, And unfortunately we

1408
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 1: couldn't get him on the line today because we always

1409
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 1: like catching up Flips round. I've cut for past with him.

1410
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 1: He'll be in Buffalo once in a while. He was

1411
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: doing stuff with therm for a while. Cool. They may

1412
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: still Yeah, they're both Texas guys. That makes sense. So

1413
01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: I can't pretend to know where Cheek, Texas is exactly

1414
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: on a map of Texas, but I know it's in

1415
01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:15,720
Speaker 1: the somewhere somewhere, somewhere low and on the back of

1416
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 1: the estate the western half. The dryer has something. So yeah,

1417
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 1: Flip Johnson this week's Tasker's teammate. We do have some

1418
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:29,360
Speaker 1: more comments in the Obil Fan Friday mail bag, but

1419
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 1: we also have one on the phone line. So uh,

1420
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,880
Speaker 1: let's go to Don in Buffalo at eight oh three,

1421
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 1: five fifty d on. What do you have for us?

1422
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 1: You're on one bills livedon, You're on all right, Steve,

1423
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 1: hey man, how are you good? What are you doing? Oh?

1424
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and watching you guys. And uh had

1425
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 1: to go to the VA today for a doctor appointment.

1426
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 1: But I love my bills, and I love you, and

1427
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:56,760
Speaker 1: I love the other guy, which you forget his name,

1428
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: Chris Brown. I got a question. We got Josh out

1429
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 1: and okay, yeah, he's slinging the ball left right over

1430
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:07,080
Speaker 1: the top everywhere, but we have no running back for him.

1431
01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:10,400
Speaker 1: We can't wear his arm out, don't you guys think? Well, yeah,

1432
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:15,320
Speaker 1: I agree. It's here's the thing, Dion, the whole league

1433
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 1: is doing that. You look at that game last night,

1434
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:23,960
Speaker 1: both both quarterbacks through like fifty times. Um. Yeah, I

1435
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:26,600
Speaker 1: think it's almost over eight hundred yards the way the

1436
01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:30,120
Speaker 1: game is being administrated now, and it's evolved to a

1437
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 1: point now where it's almost like a seven on seven practice.

1438
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:37,080
Speaker 1: The guy's dropping back and throwing it And Okay, I

1439
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:38,640
Speaker 1: just think that's the way the league's going now. I

1440
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: get you. I don't want to, you know, I don't

1441
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: want to Josh to have to throw up sixty times.

1442
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 1: But if he does, he'll be ready for it. Yeah,

1443
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:51,479
Speaker 1: but I mean longevity, thinking longevity and like all the

1444
01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 1: Super Bowls you went to, we need him to go

1445
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: to the Mini that many too. Yeah, we need to

1446
01:21:56,439 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: go more than that. We don't want to wear his

1447
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: arm out too. Five. Right, I get you. I get you.

1448
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 1: But they'll you know, they'll let him recover during the week.

1449
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 1: They'll find a way around that. Go ahead, what else? Okay,

1450
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:09,679
Speaker 1: my next question is the running back situation. I don't

1451
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:11,760
Speaker 1: know if you agree with me, but I think our

1452
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:16,800
Speaker 1: running back situation is moot. I don't singletary smaller than

1453
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 1: you and he's good, but he's not fast than You're

1454
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:26,000
Speaker 1: faster than him. And the other guy he's from Utah

1455
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: and he's always hurt. Well, we got monster and he's

1456
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:32,800
Speaker 1: took me the fastest guy on the team from what

1457
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 1: I heard, Breeda Matt breedas, who are you talking about?

1458
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:40,439
Speaker 1: Why did we not draft Nausea Harris from Alabama? Well

1459
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: he wasn't there. Yeah, he got taken twenty fourth bills

1460
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 1: picked thirtieth. So that's number one. Um, trade it up? Well,

1461
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: you think more often than not. Nowadays, teams don't like

1462
01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: drafting running backs in round one unless they believe they're exceptional,

1463
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:02,759
Speaker 1: and even then they're hesitant to do so. And here's

1464
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 1: why you have the first round contracts, which are all

1465
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:09,880
Speaker 1: four years with an option for a fifth year. And

1466
01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:12,960
Speaker 1: do you want to do that with a running back

1467
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:16,240
Speaker 1: because you're really almost never going to get to a

1468
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: long term You shouldn't get to a long term second

1469
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 1: contract with a running back, no matter how good they are,

1470
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 1: just because they don't last in this league. And Ezekiel Elliott,

1471
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: the guy you watched last night, is a perfect example.

1472
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: How is his ninety two million dollar contract looking right now?

1473
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:33,760
Speaker 1: When he's carrying the ball eleven times a game. That's

1474
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:35,680
Speaker 1: not a good investment. Running out of bounds when you

1475
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:37,600
Speaker 1: need and running out of bounds when you need the

1476
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 1: clock to stop right. So yeah, but I'll tell you this, Dion.

1477
01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, here's my I get you. You'd like

1478
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:55,520
Speaker 1: to have some Bell cow Derrick, Henry, Say, Quon Barkley, McCaffrey.

1479
01:23:56,520 --> 01:23:58,640
Speaker 1: Guy back there that you can hand the ball to,

1480
01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:01,320
Speaker 1: the Bills are doing it with three different guys. They

1481
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:04,799
Speaker 1: got Brida Moss and Single Arry. And I think Singletary

1482
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:06,680
Speaker 1: is gonna be better this year than you've ever seen

1483
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:08,920
Speaker 1: him be. I think he's in for a much better year.

1484
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: But there no matter who it is, they're only gonna

1485
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: hand it to him, so they don't wear their quarterback out,

1486
01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 1: just like you said. And I think that's what I

1487
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: was wondering. And all those guys, I said, Josh can't

1488
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: throw that ball every week, right like that. But all

1489
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna be better because the five guys

1490
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 1: ahead of them are gonna have to play better. And

1491
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 1: that's why they drafted two of those guys in on

1492
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:32,719
Speaker 1: the first and second day, and they drafted two pass rushers,

1493
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 1: and they drafted two offensive linemen, three offensive lineman. Overall,

1494
01:24:36,120 --> 01:24:38,680
Speaker 1: it all starts up front, Dion, it ain't. It's not

1495
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: so much about single, although it is a little bit

1496
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,800
Speaker 1: obviously about single Arry Moss and Brita, It's also about

1497
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 1: the five guys up front. And if those five guys

1498
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:51,840
Speaker 1: up front are dominant, a guy like single Terry, Moss

1499
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: and Breeder are gonna be exponentially better without even without

1500
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:58,720
Speaker 1: changing the way they play. So I think that's the

1501
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:01,960
Speaker 1: philosophy the Bills. You and I agree with it. So

1502
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:05,439
Speaker 1: I'm don't get too upset about what we haven't seen yet.

1503
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 1: Let's let it play out a little bit before we

1504
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:09,640
Speaker 1: start making pronouncements about would have been, should have been,

1505
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:11,559
Speaker 1: could have been? And Jim threw the ball a ton

1506
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 1: how long before he started getting backed off in practice

1507
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:16,960
Speaker 1: to rest his arm on front? I mean, yes, he

1508
01:25:17,080 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 1: was on the other Yeah, it was late in his career. Yeah,

1509
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 1: and yeah, and he was like and I saw this too,

1510
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 1: And this is just a side point, the one you know,

1511
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:29,760
Speaker 1: everybody's comparing this team and the expectations of what it

1512
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:31,360
Speaker 1: was like when they were going to the Super Bowl

1513
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: all those years. Um, I will say this, when we

1514
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:37,760
Speaker 1: were watching practice during training camp. You go out there

1515
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:39,600
Speaker 1: and watch for twenty minutes or watch a couple of

1516
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 1: periods of practice, and it was just like Jim and

1517
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 1: Frank Reich with Josh and um Mitch Trubisky. Ball never

1518
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 1: touched the ground and those guys were throwing it and

1519
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,640
Speaker 1: it was not getting dropped, and it wasn't incomplete. It

1520
01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:58,000
Speaker 1: was it was something to see. So that's one way

1521
01:25:58,120 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 1: that it's kind of like that year if you want

1522
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: to look for comparisons, which I know everybody's kind of

1523
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:10,040
Speaker 1: doing these days. But yeah, it's let's not think about

1524
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 1: what should have been could have been with Naji Harris

1525
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:14,439
Speaker 1: and the offensive line and these running backs aren't. Let's

1526
01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:17,639
Speaker 1: just let's let him play first before we cap passing

1527
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:20,759
Speaker 1: the judgments. We will take a break here, but suffice

1528
01:26:20,800 --> 01:26:22,720
Speaker 1: to say, Dion and thanks for the call. By the way,

1529
01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:27,839
Speaker 1: that it's basically the running game is basically a compliment

1530
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:30,640
Speaker 1: to the Bills passing game. That's what's happened. You know,

1531
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:33,439
Speaker 1: back in Steve's day, Thurman was the engine of the

1532
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:35,760
Speaker 1: offense and Jim threw the ball all over the place.

1533
01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:40,719
Speaker 1: The way you win in the NFL on offense has flipped.

1534
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,040
Speaker 1: It's about having a quarterback that can throw the ball

1535
01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:45,880
Speaker 1: forty forty five times a game, and you compliment him

1536
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,759
Speaker 1: with a running game that is at least functional and effective.

1537
01:26:49,120 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 1: And the Bills are a model of that. When we

1538
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:53,439
Speaker 1: come back, we'll have a couple of last questions to

1539
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:56,360
Speaker 1: answer in the obl fan Friday mail bag. Stay tuned

1540
01:26:56,439 --> 01:27:09,840
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live. All right, welcome back. A

1541
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: couple more questions than the fanmail back before we go

1542
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 1: before the day. Darryl Williams is from scott Darryl Williams

1543
01:27:16,240 --> 01:27:18,760
Speaker 1: held his ground very well last year while facing t J. Watt,

1544
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: which he did. Do you believe Daryl will have the

1545
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:23,559
Speaker 1: same success again this year? Also, what are your thoughts

1546
01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:27,200
Speaker 1: on the Bills rund this year? Without Star on Sunday,

1547
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:28,560
Speaker 1: It's going to be a tougher row to Hoe. I

1548
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:30,519
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question about that. We'll have to

1549
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 1: see how capable and effective Harrison Phillips Vernon Butler are

1550
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:38,639
Speaker 1: With Justin Zimmer and at Oliver inside, they're down their

1551
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: most important run stuffer, so it's gonna have to be

1552
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:45,240
Speaker 1: an adjustment. It's an adjustment that they made for you know,

1553
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 1: sixteen weeks, sixteen games last year, so it's nothing new.

1554
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:52,720
Speaker 1: And the thing that gives you angst is you've got

1555
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:54,719
Speaker 1: a team coming in and there's a lot of unknowns,

1556
01:27:54,800 --> 01:27:57,080
Speaker 1: like we've been talking about. I mean, there's a lot

1557
01:27:57,120 --> 01:27:59,680
Speaker 1: of ankst coming over in with the Pittsburgh team coming

1558
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 1: in here. Who might want to hand the football off

1559
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: thirty five forty times. You know, you got that feel

1560
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,639
Speaker 1: and you're not going to have your best run defender,

1561
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:10,439
Speaker 1: interior run defender there, So that that gives you some

1562
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:14,240
Speaker 1: you know, Daryl Williams, I agree with Scott did pretty

1563
01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:16,920
Speaker 1: good with t J. Watt. He's such a wide body.

1564
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 1: It takes so long to get around him. If you

1565
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:23,080
Speaker 1: don't win on the initial move, Watt's probably not getting there.

1566
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:26,519
Speaker 1: And that's what happened in last year's game with Daryl Williams.

1567
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 1: Darrel played a really good game against him, and he

1568
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 1: did not get a lot of help from anybody. It

1569
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 1: was him and Watton. He fared well, I thought, but

1570
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 1: the Steelers did bring a lot of pressure. They were,

1571
01:28:35,640 --> 01:28:38,799
Speaker 1: like Greg Kosel told us during that segment, the Conteelers

1572
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:41,240
Speaker 1: came out were very aggressive against the Bill's offense in

1573
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 1: the past, rushing up front last year. We'll see if

1574
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:47,560
Speaker 1: they mimic that. The Bills started to answer it in

1575
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: the second half of that game, scored a couple of

1576
01:28:49,280 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 1: quick touchdowns after halftime. But that you know, going into

1577
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 1: this game, there's a ton of question marks and it's

1578
01:28:58,000 --> 01:28:59,880
Speaker 1: going to be up to the coaching staff on both

1579
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: sides of the field to come up with answers and

1580
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:05,479
Speaker 1: adjust on a fly. Enjoy the game on Sunday. Steve

1581
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 1: and I will be back on Monday to break it

1582
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:10,560
Speaker 1: all down. We will be on at noon. Remember Mondays,

1583
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 1: we're a full three hours breaking this game down with you.

1584
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 1: And don't forget to listen to our podcast to take

1585
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:18,960
Speaker 1: you right up till game time. One Bill's Light on

1586
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:22,560
Speaker 1: all your podcast platforms, new and numbers related discussion. Be

1587
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: sure to check it out. We'll see you Monday