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Speaker 1: What time, Steve Tasper done, Bucks down, Bucks downtime. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Orchard Park, New York. Welcome to New Airfield right

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Speaker 1: next door, and we're in the One Buffalo Studio and

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Speaker 1: it's our show from noon to three every day, One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill Driver in the One Buffalo Studio,

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Speaker 1: Ready to go until three o'clock today. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us, John Murphy alongside former Bills

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Speaker 1: Special Team's days Steve Tasker here until three to talk

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Speaker 1: about the Bills, because that's what we do. That's what

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Speaker 1: we do, Steve. You know, yeah, well everybody's bummed and discouraged,

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Speaker 1: but we press on and darn it, we're gonna press

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Speaker 1: on today. What are you laughing about? I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: get you up with this man. It is the the

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Speaker 1: thing about this day and age is we had this

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Speaker 1: show and we you know, you and I've got some

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Speaker 1: skin again. We want the Bills to do well. We're

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Speaker 1: kind of in it with them. And you know, you

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Speaker 1: do all the pregame, post game, you call all the games.

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Speaker 1: I do this Sean McDermott show or the weekends, and

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Speaker 1: and we talk about and we get to sit down

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Speaker 1: with the players. We get we get an inside end

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Speaker 1: back that's behind the scenes conversations with the coaches and players,

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Speaker 1: and we know how much effort they put into getting

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Speaker 1: better and stuff than you and I, because I was

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Speaker 1: like a player like this too, and I went through

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Speaker 1: the exact same thing at times where you do invest

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Speaker 1: everything you've got, You pour your heart and soul into

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Speaker 1: these games. You go out like the Bills did in

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Speaker 1: Week one and just get clobbered, and then you go

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Speaker 1: out and you play a little better in week two,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you think you know, and you get

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Speaker 1: and you get hammered again. Yeah, and so you're you

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Speaker 1: keep pouring yourself into this and they keep making really

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Speaker 1: they logical, analytical, systematic decisions having to do with players,

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Speaker 1: roster moves, with dead cap space, you know, and they're

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Speaker 1: limited in what they can do this year, and he

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Speaker 1: kind of thought that, but they made some really prudent

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Speaker 1: decisions in the offseason. We're gonna got Trim Murphy, got

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Speaker 1: it's not working right now, right not yet, And you

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Speaker 1: gotta and did players in the coach, they gotta show up,

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Speaker 1: and they think, okay, we gotta you know, what are

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Speaker 1: we doing here? We gotta. So they start attacking it

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Speaker 1: and on every front, bringing guys into workout, scouring the

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Speaker 1: waiver wire for corners, looking at the pass rush, Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott calling signals at halftime. You know, they got it's

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Speaker 1: all hands on deck. And you go into this game

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Speaker 1: and you got the Minnesota Stinking Vikings at home in

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. Want to be a year Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: like that. You're like doing stretching exercise before we go

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Speaker 1: on the show. Today, Man, oh man, what a week.

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Speaker 1: Here's my way of kind of turning and around. I

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Speaker 1: week three already. And I watched it and I thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: the best, the most complete team the Bills have faced

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be the toughest game they played so

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Speaker 1: far coming up. And think about it, that last game

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Speaker 1: last week, the Vikings and the Packers tied twenty nine

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Speaker 1: got a show, just like the Bills have a game.

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Speaker 1: Bills fans, you have a game coming up this week.

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Speaker 1: I think it's only the faint of heart who have

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Speaker 1: But if you've in mid September, if you've already turned

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Speaker 1: a big mistake. The story is gonna unfold here for

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Speaker 1: the next fourteen or fifteen weeks. The story is is

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Speaker 1: really believe that it hasn't been good so far. I

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Speaker 1: know that it's been awful for the first two weeks.

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Speaker 1: But if you're walking away from it now, that's a

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Speaker 1: big mistake. You don't forget a lot of what happens

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Speaker 1: the moves they make in free agency. When listen, the

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have a hundred million dollars in free agent

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Speaker 1: We've talked about, you know, Eric Wood and Richie in Cognite,

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Speaker 1: People are starting to question whether he's mentally ill. That's

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Speaker 1: this year. It's not as if they lost a good player,

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Speaker 1: all right. He was not ready to help the Bills.

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Speaker 1: He was not, whether it was mental or physical recovering

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Speaker 1: a good player. And I won't say game to rosters

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Speaker 1: about Fonte Davis too. Though it's a bad look for

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Speaker 1: the Bills, it's a bad look for the National Football

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Speaker 1: League I think, Steven, it is very unusual, as you said,

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Speaker 1: so unusual that people are wondering about his mental fitness.

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Speaker 1: But it's unusual, and it's a bad look for the league,

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Speaker 1: The report came out this morning Antonio Brown, maybe the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll we got going out on the question. We

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Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the telephone line. What's

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Speaker 1: the quickest way for the Bills defense to get better?

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Speaker 1: Do they need players? Of course they do, that's down

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Speaker 1: the road, that's next year's draft. We're not talking about.

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Speaker 1: You got to add a pass rushing defensive end, you

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Speaker 1: got to add a better corner or whatever. The quickest

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Speaker 1: way this week? Way, what's the quickest way for the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills defense to get better this week? You can

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Speaker 1: ring us up on the phone's eight h three oh

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Speaker 1: five fifty or toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Love to hear you on the

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Speaker 1: air with your explanation of how you think it can

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Speaker 1: get better and get better in a hurry, Or you

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Speaker 1: can vote in our Twitter poll or just tweet us.

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Speaker 1: Send in your tweets on the Twitter poll right now

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Speaker 1: in the early going air. With seven hundred thirty votes

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Speaker 1: in so far, forty three percent of you say the

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Speaker 1: quickest way for the Bills defense to get better is

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Speaker 1: to continue to let Sean McDermott call the defensive place.

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Speaker 1: Thirty two percent of you say the best the quickest

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Speaker 1: way for the Bills defense to improve is to get

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Speaker 1: a better pass rush. Seventeen percent of you say the

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Speaker 1: quickest way for the Bills defense to get better is

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Speaker 1: find some depth at corner. Eight percent say something else. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to cornerback depth on this one, Steve, just

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Speaker 1: because I don't know who's lining up and playing this Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I really don't. They've got injuries. You know, They've got

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Speaker 1: injuries that McDermott talked about yesterday, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: where are they going. Cornerback Phillip Gaines with a dislocated

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Speaker 1: elbow day to day, a chance he could play this week.

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Speaker 1: A cornerback who am I'm missing here? The other corner

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Speaker 1: who got hurt, Tarn Johnson. Yeah, Terren Johnson. That's why

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Speaker 1: I want to say. Terren Johnson did not play last week.

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Speaker 1: We don't know if he's going to be able to play.

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Speaker 1: He's supposed to return to practice this week, but we'll see.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm voting in the Twitter poll, the quickest

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Speaker 1: way for me for the Bill's defense to get better

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Speaker 1: is to get some corners in here right away. And

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Speaker 1: you know the reason I like that is because last

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Speaker 1: year we saw what happened when EJ. Gaines was the

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Speaker 1: opposite corner from Tredavious White. When he was in there,

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Speaker 1: it changed everything. And the thing that set their defense

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Speaker 1: back last year was their inability to stop the run.

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Speaker 1: They're at They gave up seventy five yards to the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, they gave up one hundred and two, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and nine to the San Diego Chargers. They're avaging

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Speaker 1: nine two yards a game. I think they can they

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Speaker 1: play better against the run than that. I think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be the upper end of their average. I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be much better against the runs. So if

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Speaker 1: we can get a find a corner like we're asking about,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna give them a chance to do some things.

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Speaker 1: And in the secondary, I don't think he's a trade

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Speaker 1: really to get a starting caliber corner here that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they got ten picks next year, Yeah they got some,

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Speaker 1: they got some leeway, but you know then two yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I don't know how important it is to

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Speaker 1: them for that one guy and where they can find him.

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Speaker 1: If there's a guy out there who could they get,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, you probably get a guy who's

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Speaker 1: on a really good team, who's a backup. You know,

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Speaker 1: they could play for this team. I mean, you think

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Speaker 1: about it, there's no way that you have to grab

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Speaker 1: somebody starting corner from another team right now. Their best

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Speaker 1: their nickel guy would help us, their third corner would

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Speaker 1: help us, or the fourth corner would help us. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's that's a big yeah, that's a that's an interesting item. Man,

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Speaker 1: he might be out there turning looking for a trade.

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Speaker 1: That's why I would go to corner first. But you

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Speaker 1: might have a different idea. What's the quickest way for

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Speaker 1: the Bill's defense to get better? Ring us up eight

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty or on Twitter. You can send in your

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Speaker 1: message on Twitter or you can have vote in the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll. Some of the tweets that have come in

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Speaker 1: so far from the tweet sheet from Scott Polichet, he said,

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Speaker 1: I'm for Leslie Frasier, but the defense did at one

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Speaker 1: eighty in the second half Sunday, we saw the defenses

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Speaker 1: results With McDermot calling plays. It seems for the good

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Speaker 1: of the team. Fraser prep and McDermott calls the plays.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that, Steve. You you seem to

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Speaker 1: have a stronger feeling about that than I do. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Leslie Frasier has been a successful coach in

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Speaker 1: this league for a long time, a successful defensive coordinator. Right,

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Speaker 1: he didn't get bad all of a sudden. Was there

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Speaker 1: a different second half less Sunday? Yeah? Was it all

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Speaker 1: because of who's calling the plays? I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It was a different San Diego, Oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: it was a different charger offense Los Angeles charger offense

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Speaker 1: in the second half because they were up twenty eight

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Speaker 1: to three or a twenty eight to six or whatever

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Speaker 1: it was, and they and they just didn't they didn't

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Speaker 1: put their foot on the gas. Philip Rivers was not

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Speaker 1: playing the same football in the second half by design

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Speaker 1: than he was in the first half. That being said,

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Speaker 1: they still played better. Yeah, they still played better. So

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think the conversation needed to be had.

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Speaker 1: There's no needed to be had. There's no doubt that

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Speaker 1: it was going to be different in the second half

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Speaker 1: than it was the first because a little bit because

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Speaker 1: of the Chargers, a little bit because of the Buffalo Bills. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's up to them. I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: see what they see, what they think. We'll find out

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Speaker 1: what they think when they line up and see who's

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Speaker 1: calling those plays. I was listening yesterday afternoon, late in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon, Kyle Williams, as a regular weekly spot, was

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Speaker 1: show up with the Bulldog on our flagship here in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: w GR Sports Radio five fifty and they asked Kyle, Hey,

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Speaker 1: what was it like havan Sean McDermot called the plays

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Speaker 1: in the second half. Kyle's answer, honestly was he didn't

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Speaker 1: even know it. He didn't even realize it because he

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Speaker 1: doesn't get the play call in his head. It said, said,

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Speaker 1: you didn't even realize it until sometime later in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. So with that in mind, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: did it make a difference Maybe as far as the

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Speaker 1: plays calling going in, But it wasn't as if Sean

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Speaker 1: mcdermot's voice inspired the eleven guys on the field, right

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Speaker 1: if one of them is hearing them and most of

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Speaker 1: them don't know who's calling the play. Look, I will

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Speaker 1: say this and going into that game, We talked about

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Speaker 1: this last week going into the Chargers game. There was

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Speaker 1: a need, I believe for the Bills to be more

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Speaker 1: aggressive defensively, to blitzmore. And they did blitzmore in the

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Speaker 1: second half, and they had different sort of blitz looks.

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Speaker 1: I haven't looked at the All twenty two yet, but

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Speaker 1: I watched the game over again yesterday. They put more

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Speaker 1: pressure on Philip Rivers and they did it in different

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Speaker 1: ways in the second half than they did in the

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Speaker 1: first half. Maybe McDermott is more predisposed. Maybe when you're

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Speaker 1: down twenty eight six, you get this way more predisposed

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Speaker 1: to blitzmore. And maybe maybe that's what you'll get from

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Speaker 1: Sean mcdermoccollin plays. Yeah, maybe. I mean there's certainly and

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Speaker 1: people will tell you where they call it on offense

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Speaker 1: or call defensive plays. It's an art for him. It's

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Speaker 1: a little bit about feel and knowing what you know

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Speaker 1: about your opponent and knowing what you know about your guys,

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Speaker 1: and calling an artful game means in certain down and distances,

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Speaker 1: you do things that are both unexpected and an extremely

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Speaker 1: good matchup. And it is an art form, but it

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Speaker 1: does take a level of familiarity for both your team

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Speaker 1: and the other team. So it's interesting. I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch. And you can bet that

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Speaker 1: when I guess Jim Nanson Tony Romo doing the games,

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Speaker 1: they'll have a camera on who's calls got defensive plays

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't, if Sean doesn't, if Sean McDermott doesn't

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Speaker 1: tell everybody who's calling the defensive plays before that, they'll

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Speaker 1: have a camera to find out. McDermott was asked about

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Speaker 1: it yesterday. Here's what he had to say when he

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Speaker 1: was asked the question, what's the plan for calling plays

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Speaker 1: on defense this week? Here's what he said. Leslie and

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Speaker 1: I are still working through that. Um. You know, either way,

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00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 1: Leslie's going to be a big part of what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: But I thought we did some good things yesterday at times. Overall,

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Speaker 1: and you know there's and obviously in the first half

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Speaker 1: wasn't good enough. So I can't give up twenty eight

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Speaker 1: points and expect to win or give yourself a chance

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Speaker 1: to win. So overall, as a defense, I didn't think

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Speaker 1: we play well enough in the first half. I thought

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Speaker 1: in the second half, I was very pleased with the effort,

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Speaker 1: very pleased with the way the guys were flying around,

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Speaker 1: that they were executing and having fun out there, and

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Speaker 1: that was that was fun to watch. They weren't better

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Speaker 1: in the second half, right, There's no question about that.

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00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: I thought there was a little more pressure in the

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Speaker 1: second half. I also were and I mentioned this tou yesterday.

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Speaker 1: See if I worry about what Sean McDermott misses necessarily

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Speaker 1: by calling defensive signals, what he's not able to think about,

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Speaker 1: get to talk to if he's calling signals on defense.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a consideration here, and I gotta I

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Speaker 1: gotta be honest. I don't know that Mike Zimmer calls

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Speaker 1: him in Minnesota. I don't know. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he does or not either. We have to find that out.

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00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: But some coaches do. McVeigh calls the offense in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: There are certain other guys who call the offensive play,

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Speaker 1: certain head coaches who do that. I think Adam Gase

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Speaker 1: in Miami calls they calls a place, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of head coaches are head coaches and not coordinators. It's

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00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: different for every guy, and I think every team's different

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Speaker 1: as well. So I don't think there's any pat answer

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Speaker 1: for it. But I do know this, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of thing a head coach has to keep track of

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Speaker 1: on game day, and when he's called and plays on

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Speaker 1: one side of the ball or the other, there is

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Speaker 1: a chance that something gets by up. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: like that. They got to have a plan for it though.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you got to know that sometimes

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Speaker 1: that happens, and you got to have assistant coaches who

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Speaker 1: help you with it. But still there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: moving parts. Yeah, so maybe you have a thought on that.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call. Lines are open eight o three

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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. How do you get better on defense immediately

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Speaker 1: if you're the Buffalo Bills. The quickest way for the

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Speaker 1: Bills to improve on defense ring us up. We got

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Speaker 1: phone lines open or tweeted in. We can read your

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Speaker 1: tweet on the air. This is interesting. Steve alex Kemp

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Speaker 1: has been named the referee for Sunday's game, and another

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Speaker 1: first time for the third consecutive week the Bills get

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Speaker 1: a referee in his first year as a referee, alex

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Speaker 1: Kemp has been a side judge for the last three

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Speaker 1: years in the NFL, a Big Ten conference official before that.

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Speaker 1: Third consecutive week, right, Hockey Lee week one, who was

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00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: at Clay Martin Sunday, and now Alex Camp. That's it.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of new officials, no question. You know.

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Speaker 1: I have problems sometimes with officiating, and I do think

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Speaker 1: there was a common theme from both Hockeyley and the

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Speaker 1: guy last Sunday. They called too much. They called too

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Speaker 1: much stuff. They're they're interested in, you know, making their

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Speaker 1: mark here in the NFL. I hope Alex Kemp is

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Speaker 1: not is not going to follow along that line. It

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Speaker 1: bothers me a little bit. Third consecutive Well, I get it,

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Speaker 1: I get I don't think. I don't think. Well, four

637
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: of the events are gone um Ed Hockey Lee, Gene Sterator,

638
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: Tony Carnti, and there's another one. Yeah, but Jeff Triplett's

639
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: gone Triplett. So all these guys, they're all there's a

640
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: bunch of news. But yeah, you're right, I mean, isn't

641
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: a Trent I didn't know that. Yeah, crazy. I don't

642
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: think they actually think about that when they assigned these games.

643
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: They gotta work. I think it must be. It must

644
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: be just by the luck of the drawer or whatever.

645
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: I need some familiar faces. I gotta wait till these

646
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: guys get familiar. They're gonna be familiar. Yeah, hopefully we

647
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: don't see him too much. All right, we're just getting

648
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Speaker 1: rolling here, John Murphy and Steve Tasker Robert Foster, Bill's

649
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver has made some plays in his first

650
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: game or two here in the NFL, and he's standingbody

651
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Speaker 1: to join us live in our studio and when we return,

652
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: come on back for that One Bill's Live presented by

653
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Speaker 1: Kalida Health. We are at One Bill's Drive and this

654
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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back. One goes live from

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Speaker 1: One Goals Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker special guest in

656
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Speaker 1: studio with as part of the Bills receiving core rookie

657
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free agent from Alabama. Happy to have Robert

658
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: Foster and studio. Hi, Robert, thanks coming by so quick

659
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: to see we had you on when you first got signed,

660
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: came in rookie minicamp and here you are still here. Man.

661
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: It's gonna feel good, right yeah man, some blessing. Yeah

662
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: did you at that point? And that was back rooky

663
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: minicamp had to be first week in May. Ye, did

664
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna make the team? Did you have

665
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 1: a good feeling or no, not at all at all?

666
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,719
Speaker 1: Something Now, you know, I had to work for Like

667
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: everybody says, like, it's a working opportunity, So I try

668
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: to embrace it every day. What do you think sealed

669
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: the deal for you? What? What was it that allowed

670
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,959
Speaker 1: you to make the fifty three man ross Just you know,

671
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: give him a hard work every day and coming out

672
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: to play in a professor and just you know, just

673
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: working hard, you know, taking advantage of every opportunity. If

674
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: it was special teams, offense, scout team, it wouldn't matter.

675
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: I was thinking, And actually I was talking to the

676
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: Chargers radio guys the other day, one of them Daniel

677
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: Jeremiah from NFL Network, and he was asking them about

678
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: johsh Allen. But I told him about Josh Allen's first

679
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: preseason pass in the preseason game. You and he are

680
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: going to be linked forever. I mean, it's two bad.

681
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: It wasn't a completion, you didn't get it in bounced,

682
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: but that deep pass against Carolina still is one of

683
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: the highlights of this early season. So fart, yeah, I

684
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: mean you know Jos got Joss got a real good arm.

685
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: So you know, at the end of the day, I

686
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: gotta run, you know what I mean. So he's going

687
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: to throw it out there and my job is just

688
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: to go and get it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna keep

689
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: running even though three three rows up. I mean, you

690
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: threw that thing five yards out of bout. But there's

691
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: a few of them that I missed too. So that's

692
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: the thing that I gotta work on, technique, Glad to

693
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: just put my head down and keep running. Put it,

694
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: you know, I think to the last mark. So you

695
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: your rookie free agent came in and we had a

696
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: chance last week or so that Brian day Ball was

697
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: up and he was at the podium talking about you,

698
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: and he got asked about you, and it was a

699
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: really interesting answer he had. We're gonna play that what

700
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: Brian Dayball had to say about Robert Foster. Robert turned

701
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: you know everything that he's gotten here. He's a He's

702
00:32:55,520 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: up there every night with Chad and Terry working at fundamentals,

703
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: watching tape, trying to learn the opponent, go through his plays.

704
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: He's a very very hard worker. He knows he's young,

705
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: he's got to be hungry. Um, there's a lot to

706
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: work on. Obviously his speed, but you know he's making

707
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: he's making increments every week and we need it to

708
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, he's got he's got good speed, but there's

709
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: a lot of other things that he's working on to

710
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: try to develop. And he's just like any other player.

711
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: Not's early in the process, but he's a he's a grinder,

712
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: which is good for a whide out. Yeah, I kind

713
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: of like what they see. I mean, you you you

714
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: gotta know you're working hard, right right, tell me about

715
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: your relationship with Terry Bisky and those guys. Oh man, course,

716
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: it's really like he expects you to do your job,

717
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, be accountable, you know what

718
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: I mean. So everything he basically wants to do is

719
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: just do everything full of speed, Like like everybody says,

720
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: I got a lot of speed. So all he really

721
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: wants me to do, he says, running this line and

722
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: cut you know what I mean, running this line and

723
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: go straight, and you know, so it's like he's he's

724
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,239
Speaker 1: he's just doing your job, you know what I mean.

725
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: And that's why I go by, you know, Coach Dable

726
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: in that somebody Robert talked about your work, and that's

727
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: good obviously to have a coach talk about I heard

728
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: your work. What do you do here at night? How

729
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: late do you stay and what do you do when

730
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: you're in the meeting room with the coaches? You know,

731
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: I like and the mean I sit next to Pat DeMarco.

732
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: You know, I really look up to Pat DeMarco because

733
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: like he's a vet, you know what I mean, And

734
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: at some point I want to be a vet too.

735
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: And I just try to stay healthy. You know. I'm

736
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: always in the training room. I'm always with my coach Chad,

737
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: coach Shay, and just trying to be ahead of the game,

738
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because like I said, I'm

739
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: still a rookie, you know what I mean. So I'm

740
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: trying to develop to be the best player I can

741
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: possibly be for the Buffalo Bills and try to help

742
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,439
Speaker 1: us when and you know, take advantage of everything. Yeah,

743
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: and it really pays to have a guy like a

744
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: DeMarco and all these guys to look at how do

745
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: you do this and have to answer your questions as well.

746
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: And that's today. Tuesday is a day off for the

747
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: players and you're in you're getting treatment and doing all

748
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff today, right right, because I know, come Sunday,

749
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: I gotta be able a run full of feet. I

750
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: kind of come be able to be physical at the top.

751
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: So I know this thing that I gotta work on.

752
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: I coach day Boss said, I mean, I'm still young.

753
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to develop, you know what I mean.

754
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to do things that's gonna help me

755
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: in a long run. In for these sixteen weeks with

756
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: Bill's rookie wide receiver Robert Foster and studio with us,

757
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about Sunday's game.

758
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 1: This past Sunday's game against the Chargers. In one play,

759
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: it was like end around motion for you and a

760
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: little flip pass from Josh to you. And I was

761
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: looking at the play again on tape yesternight. I thought, Wow,

762
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: that's a good play, and then I thought that's a

763
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 1: really dangerous play. And you you didn't bobble it, but

764
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: it's close, right, I mean, that ball, he just sort

765
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: of flips it up in the air when the timing's

766
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: got to be perfect. It's just the timing thing, you

767
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: know what I mean. After once you get that flip

768
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: pad it's all on your hands, you know what I mean,

769
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: trying to make a play for the team. And I

770
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: came around Coin and made a first down. It was

771
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: almost as if like a volleyball tap or something, just

772
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: a little love tap. Yeah, yeah, it's like, yeah, just

773
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: a volleyball setting. Yeah he didn't spike it, but yeah, right,

774
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about about, you know, the mindset

775
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: of the team or it's been a couple tough weeks.

776
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman came in You're a driving rainstorm in Baltimore.

777
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 1: He came out this last week and he got Josh

778
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: talk about his mindset, how the team rallied around him,

779
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: if they did, and what some of the vibe was

780
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: coming in along. You know. The vibe is basically, we

781
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: want to work to improve every week, you know what

782
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: I mean, Like we're not gonna be perfect. You want

783
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: to make mistakes, so you gotta learn from your mistakes

784
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: and just try to get better. You know. Coach always

785
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 1: talks to like do your job, you know, and I

786
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: think it's just learn from our mistakes, you know, go

787
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: out there and practice it the thing that we can

788
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: learn from, you know, and just improved. So I mean

789
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: our drive this week. I told my drive and our

790
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: drive is just execute better. You know, on both sides

791
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: of the ball, special team, offense, defense, Just execute better.

792
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. At the end of the day,

793
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: if we do that, then there shouldn't be no reason

794
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: why we shouldn't improve. Um, what do you think it's

795
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,959
Speaker 1: gone wrong? I mean, from your perspective just two games

796
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: into the NFL, I'm sure you're at some point your

797
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: head is spinning. But um, anything surprised you about the

798
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: NFL game and about this Bill's team so far through

799
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: the first few games, I read a difficult question. Yeah,

800
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, it's it's all the business.

801
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day that we're

802
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: going through everything we possibly can do that when you know,

803
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: and take advantage of every game. So I mean, like

804
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: I said, the only thing we can possibly do right

805
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: now is just improve every single day and just continue

806
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: to you know, build a family, build a standard for ourselves.

807
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: You've came in as a rookie free agent. You were

808
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: kind of the same story at Alabama. You came in

809
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,479
Speaker 1: that you were a highly touted recruit, but you've gone

810
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: through some rough times in your life. UM, tell us

811
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: how that you know, all the stuff leading up to

812
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: this year can as a rookie, even if you have

813
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: a chance to share kind of your trials and tribulations

814
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: and maybe you know, hey, this is just another step

815
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: in the road. Yeah, hell brother, even guys who maybe

816
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: have not had to go through certain stuff you, um,

817
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just the beginning, you know what

818
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: I mean. I've been through trials and tribulations. I've been

819
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,919
Speaker 1: through ups and downs, but I feel like, um, God

820
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: placed this on my life for a reason, and it's

821
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: just a testimony for people to believe that just because

822
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: certain things don't go your way at the time that

823
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: you're expected, you know, just continue to keep driving and

824
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: keep and believing in certain things that at some point

825
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: it's going to come and just keep driving. One more

826
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: question for me. You played for Day Bowl last year, Yeah,

827
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: in Alabama? How much I mean that really had to

828
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: be a boost for you coming in having a headstart

829
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: on that it kind of did you know what I mean?

830
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: Because you know it's it's I'm not gonna says the

831
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: same offense because it's a different terminology and different systems,

832
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: but like it gave me a drive, a harder drive

833
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: because I know that he sees potential in me. So

834
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: now all they really had to do is go out

835
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: there and sold my coaches like Coachman, you know, everybody

836
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: and my team. It's the same. You know what I

837
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: mean that I had the ability to help the team,

838
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: and I thought, I really want to do is contribute

839
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: to health the Buffalo Bills. You know, at the end

840
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: of the day, they have they have faith in me,

841
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give him everything I got. Robert,

842
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: best of Lucky. Thank you for coming in here today.

843
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: We appreciate it seeing you man. See again, Robert Foster,

844
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: Bill's wide receiver joining us, Steve and I back with

845
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: more One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. And this

846
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back. It's One Goal's Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. Peter King, our regular Tuesday guest.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna join us after the top of the hour.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker here at One Bill's Drive on

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Speaker 1: a nice late summer day. I think summer ends this weekend, Steve,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it Sunday? I think it's first day of fall.

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Speaker 1: Sad to see it go. What do you got this

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Speaker 1: week on CBEs You're going away again, I am I'm

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Speaker 1: going to Carolina. Cincinnati at Carolina. How do you feel

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Speaker 1: about that game? Pretty good and looked into it. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure deeply. I'll tell you what I told you this

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Speaker 1: in preseason. I think the Bengals, who are not one

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Speaker 1: of my favorites, I don't. I don't like that organization,

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Speaker 1: but I think they're pretty good. I really do think

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Speaker 1: they're pretty good, pretty talented roster. Yeah, and Andy Dalton

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Speaker 1: with AJ Green playing the way was you see what

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Speaker 1: they did to Baltimore last week with the three touchdown

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Speaker 1: passes in the first half, and that was that was

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Speaker 1: pretty impressive. So yeah, and we saw him in the

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Speaker 1: preseason there. They are talented upfront, particularly defensively, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: since now he's a load right now, they're good. They

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Speaker 1: are good. I enjoyed talking with Robert Foster. We have

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Speaker 1: not talked to him since May. You can tell you know,

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Speaker 1: he's just settled down a little bit right made the

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Speaker 1: fifty three, knows that he hasn't really made anything yet,

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Speaker 1: looking to make contributions to an offense that desperately needs him.

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Speaker 1: But I's like his demeanor. I liked his approach and

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Speaker 1: I love to hear coach Dable talking about how hard

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Speaker 1: he works at it too. Yeah, he's been He stays late,

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Speaker 1: spends an extra time with the coaches, trying to get

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Speaker 1: a handle on everything that is going to be asked

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Speaker 1: of him. And they're starting to use him and made

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Speaker 1: a couple of plays in the Charger game. He's getting

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Speaker 1: on the field, and you know that it's that's the

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Speaker 1: way it starts. It's the way it was for me

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Speaker 1: as well. You play hard in practice, you do extra

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Speaker 1: things that you earn the coach's trust through some of

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Speaker 1: the things that happen away from the field, and from

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Speaker 1: the strength and conditioning coaches to your position coaches, to

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Speaker 1: all the people who interact with you during the day,

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Speaker 1: and they get a sense of how hard you are working,

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Speaker 1: how serious you are about your craft, and they say, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: then let's give him a couple of reps in practice

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Speaker 1: this week. And that's how it starts. And then the

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Speaker 1: next game is you know what put him in there

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Speaker 1: in this play, and then he's you know, he does

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Speaker 1: that in practice and then he gets activated for games,

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Speaker 1: and then he gets in a few reps. As you know,

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Speaker 1: one guy gets tired, he goes in and spells him

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Speaker 1: for a running player or whatever. Then all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden they're throwing him the football and by the end

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Speaker 1: of the season, or maybe this year, even mid season,

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Speaker 1: it's like, Wow, this guy has done it. And that's

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Speaker 1: that's the progress. Brian Dable alluded to it. He's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's early in the process. But I think part of

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Speaker 1: that process is earning the trust. Says, Okay, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: put this guy in there because he can play, he's

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Speaker 1: going to do the right thing. We trust him to

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Speaker 1: be in the right spot. And so does Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Josh trust him to be in the right spot. And

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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of that too. Josh Allen go,

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Speaker 1: you know what the guy feel most comfortable with is

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Speaker 1: number sixteen. Yeah, I'd rather have him in there. Hey,

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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll today deals with the Buffalo defense and

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Speaker 1: we want to get a sense from you what's the

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Speaker 1: quickest fix for the Buffalo Bill's defense. On Twitter, we

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Speaker 1: were looking at some of the numbers and I think

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Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting what people are looking for as far

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Speaker 1: as the Bills getting better on defense. The quickest way

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Speaker 1: for the Bills defense to get better Right now, with

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Speaker 1: over a thousand votes In forty four percent of you

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Speaker 1: say having Sean McDermot call the plays is the quickest way.

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Speaker 1: Thirty one percent say a better pass rush. Can't ignore that,

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Speaker 1: seventeen percent say let's find some cornerback depth, eight percent

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Speaker 1: have something else in mind. See what he got from

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Speaker 1: the betweeen sheet. Ryan Brows says McDermott did a great

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Speaker 1: job calling plays, but Frazier did a great did great

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Speaker 1: last year. The Rogers beat us on tons of dump

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Speaker 1: offs that went for big yards because we did have

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Speaker 1: many defenders managing the second level. Everyone was either blitzing

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Speaker 1: Rivers or out in coverage, and you got to do

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Speaker 1: one or the other. I don't know what else you do.

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Speaker 1: If you're not in coverage, you gotta you gotta rush.

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Speaker 1: But if Philip Rivers was on, he was fifteen to

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Speaker 1: sixteen in the first half. Yeah, he was unscalppable. We

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Speaker 1: said it going in. He's a Hall of Fame guy

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Speaker 1: and he's playing great. He played great last year. I

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Speaker 1: mean they went seven and two over their last nine

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Speaker 1: games last year. I'm just thinking about how if I

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Speaker 1: had to choose between Tom Brady and Philip Rivers just

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Speaker 1: for likability, I would choose. Philip Rivers's he's a great guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got all those Kevin aus shucks, guys, got that

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Speaker 1: Southern drawl that he kind of liked that Carolina, that

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Speaker 1: Carolina thing. He talks like that. He's got a ton

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Speaker 1: of kids, and you know, so at and he's been

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Speaker 1: with that organization through thick and thin and and played

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Speaker 1: really well in the midst of a lot of bad seasons.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, he's that's a good question. He's younger, Yeah, younger,

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Speaker 1: A little bit, right, a little bit, not much, but

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Speaker 1: a little Also from the tweet sheet, our question about

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Speaker 1: defense the quickest fixed for the Buffalo defense, Tiffany Daniels

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Speaker 1: tweets in with the cornerback position being so thin and

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Speaker 1: not too many options in free agency, the defensive line

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Speaker 1: and linebackers have to pressure the quarterback into making mistakes.

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo has played his heart out so far. They need

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Speaker 1: to send him on more blitzes the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: He's been a beast that goes to the second option

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Speaker 1: we provide you on the Twitter poll, more pass rush.

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons why the defense

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Speaker 1: was more effective, slightly more effective in the second half.

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Speaker 1: They got after the passer a little bit. It was

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Speaker 1: effort obviously Lorenzo at the big half. I thought Trent

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Speaker 1: Murphy had a lot to offer and pass rush on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: especially second half, but even just trying to get the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you know, not being so laid back, not being you know,

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Speaker 1: being more aggressive. Let's send some different blitz says, let's

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Speaker 1: give them different looks, let's show them stuff they haven't seen.

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Speaker 1: I think that was part of the if that's a

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Speaker 1: mcdermock effect in the second half, okay, but I think

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Speaker 1: that aggressiveness is the way that they're going to have

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Speaker 1: to play in the future to get better defensively, and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of room to get better defensively. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know from the tweet sheet, John agrees with you.

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Speaker 1: I think John on the tweet sheet, not John Murphy.

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Speaker 1: I think we saw the improvement in the second half

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Speaker 1: with a pass rush. They made a good adjustment at

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Speaker 1: halftime and weren't giving up this short over the middle passes. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: seeing a noticeable adjustment at half was great to see.

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Speaker 1: And I've said it too. You kind of earn your

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Speaker 1: medal as a and an NFL coach by making adjustments

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Speaker 1: at halftime. Now, sometimes your hands are tied and your

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Speaker 1: personnel won't allow you to do the things you'd like

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Speaker 1: to do. But in this case, they did something at halftime. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't the same San Diego to charge your defense,

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Speaker 1: But on top of that, they were getting home and

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Speaker 1: you saw it in the second half, and you know

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Speaker 1: you've got to be able to do that. If you're

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Speaker 1: going to get better with this defense, the pass rush's

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Speaker 1: got to get better. And I don't know if one

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Speaker 1: goes in the other. We got two of these choices

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Speaker 1: here on this twitter poll, McDermott call him plays or

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Speaker 1: a better pass rush. Maybe McDermott McDermott calling the plays

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Speaker 1: leads to a better pass rush, right, It's just that

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Speaker 1: it's just a different set of eyes on the play sheet,

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Speaker 1: like I said before, But I thought there's no doubt

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Speaker 1: both of those things were in play to charger offense

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Speaker 1: and an improved adjusted Bill's defense, and the pass rush

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Speaker 1: came through a little bit better in the second half.

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Speaker 1: One more from the tweet sheet from tick Nagger. You

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Speaker 1: didn't read this one, right, I did not. Getting cornerback

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Speaker 1: depth is crucial at this point, even with Fonte Davis.

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Speaker 1: They were thin. The pass rush improved in week two.

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Speaker 1: Give Frazier one more chance, especially against his old team

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Speaker 1: this week. Minnesota Cousins had four hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 1: yards passing last week. Bills have to get cornerback depth

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Speaker 1: or the defense will get even worse. I agree, that's

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Speaker 1: my number one choice. You know, they need bodies at

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Speaker 1: cornerback right now. Who they're gonna get who's out there?

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Speaker 1: Not a lot. Chris Brown. I think he mentioned he

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Speaker 1: thought E. J. Gaines was still available. We'll see. I

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Speaker 1: don't know about that if he's still available, but if not,

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Speaker 1: I would not rule out of trade to get a

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Speaker 1: quality cornerback. You're not you know you're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl cornerback into trade. No, you don't want to

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Speaker 1: give up that much, but I would not rule out

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Speaker 1: of trade. That's how badly they need bodies back there

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Speaker 1: at corner right now. Steve, Yeah, it's true, and I

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Speaker 1: think we've getten. Another one. Another tweet from on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the coin, Doogie Briggs says, I think

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Speaker 1: what will help our defense most is better offensive play.

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Speaker 1: When they had time to breathe and regroup, we saw

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Speaker 1: some better play out of them, and the offense did

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Speaker 1: pick it up in the second half this last week,

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Speaker 1: but nevertheless, you know, they put together a couple of

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Speaker 1: scoring drives, that kind of thing. But nevertheless, your defense

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Speaker 1: still has to get it done in the first half

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Speaker 1: when they still should be as fresh, even if they

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Speaker 1: played the entire half, they got to get it done.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if if I buy that. No question,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a hand in hand thing. If the

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Speaker 1: offense is playing great, the defense has got an easier job,

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Speaker 1: and vice versa. But that first half, you know, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't acceptable, It was awful. All right, We got

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Speaker 1: one hour in the books and two more to go,

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Speaker 1: and coming up next hour right after the break of

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Speaker 1: the top of the hour, you're king. Longtime NFL observer

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Speaker 1: right now working for Pro Football Talk dot Com NBC Sports.

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Speaker 1: He writes the Football Morning in America column that one

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Speaker 1: goes up every Monday. Wrote yesterday's column that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: good one. A lot of interesting thoughts on that. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk with Peter about the Bills and about the rest

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Speaker 1: of the NFL. That's when we come back. Come on

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Speaker 1: back for that. John Murphy with Steve Tasker One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio Bills Radio Network storysop date. Players day off here

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Speaker 1: at one Bills Drive. Many of them in however, for

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Speaker 1: conditioning and treatment. And the Bills have some key injuries

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Speaker 1: to deal with. Running back Lashawan McCoy day to day

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Speaker 1: with his rib injury ripped rib cartilage. According to head

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Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermot yesterday, the Bills do not rule him

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Speaker 1: out yet for the game this Sunday. Cornerback Philip Gaines

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Speaker 1: says a dislocated elbow, he is day to day, a

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Speaker 1: chance he could play this week. Also, running back Taiwan

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Speaker 1: Jones bruised and he caught no concussion, though he hasn't

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Speaker 1: been rolled out either. And then Bills got to keep

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Speaker 1: an eye on defensive end Check Lawson and cornerback Karen

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Speaker 1: Johnson when they returned to practice tomorrow. They hit the

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Speaker 1: road for two in a row, starting this Sunday in

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Speaker 1: Minnesota against the Vikings, the first ever game for the

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Speaker 1: Bills at us Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The Vikings experiment

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Speaker 1: with a rookie kicker lasted just two weeks. They traded

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Speaker 1: up into the fifth round last April to draft Daniel Carlson,

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00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: and they released him late yesterday. The Vikings expected to

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00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 1: sign Dan Bailey, former Dallas Cowboys kicker, to replace him.

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00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers wondering about Antonio Brown. He posted a cryptic

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00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: trade meet tweet yesterday and did not show up to

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00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: the Steelers facility yesterday. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette says he

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00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: did not report for work. No confirmation about whether he

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Speaker 1: was given an excused absence Monday Night football Last night,

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Speaker 1: Kalil Mack had one of six sacks against Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Prince Amukamara returned an interception forty nine outs for a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: and Chicago beat the Seattle Seahawks twenty four to seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Bears coach Mike met Nagie gets his first victory. The

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Speaker 1: Bears are one and one, the Seahawks are owing two

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Speaker 1: to start the year. The Browns traded talented but troubled

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00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: wide receiver Josh Gordon to the Patriots yesterday. In return,

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Speaker 1: Cleveland gets a twenty nineteen fifth round pick. The Patriots

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00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: will pay Gordon there remaining money on his twenty eighteen contract,

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00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,959
Speaker 1: and the Washington Redskins had a two former first round

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00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: picks at receiver yesterday after they failed to get Josh Gordon.

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00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: They signed free agents Michael Floyd and agreed to a

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Speaker 1: deal with the free agent for Shad Perryman. Hockey Tonight

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Savers Hope s Pittsburg a Keybank Center, second

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Speaker 1: preseason game. It's as many nights, it's a seven o'clock

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Speaker 1: face off. And that's the update from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: OHI to the NST tost tot Toto time. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: another hour one of those last June Tasker in our

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00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: one Buffalo studio in Orchard Park, joining us on the subway,

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Speaker 1: Fresh take Highline in for his regular visit. Happy to

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Speaker 1: have Peter King, longtime NFL analysted writer, the current author

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00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 1: of Football Morning in America. He writes each week for

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00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk dot NBC Sports dot Com, Peters, John

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00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve up here in Buffalo. How are you

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00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 1: doing today? I'm doing okay. How are you? We're great? Hey? Great?

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00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: To the point, Josh Allen, what did you think? What

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00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: do you think here was first NFL start? Well? I

1092
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: thought it was that it was better than I expected.

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00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 1: He obviously is going to have a difficulty with protection

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00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: issues the Bills are, and so you're probably not going

1095
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: to be able to use everything. You wonder how many

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00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: seven step drops he has when he does take the

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00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: snap from under center when that happens. But overall, I

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00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 1: you know, I'd give him a good mark. I think

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00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: one of the things when you play a young quarterback.

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00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: I talked to Pat Mahomes the other day after his

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00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: sixth touchdown game, and one of the things that he

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00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: was talking about was what a great benefit he got

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00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: from sitting in year one, especially behind Alex Smith. And

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00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,800
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and Josh McCown basically are the state of

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00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: the art when it comes to tutoring young quarterbacks, and

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00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: that is something, without any question, any young quarterback can use.

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00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 1: And so I question obviously whether that's going to happen

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00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: this year in Buffalo, And I wish you would for

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00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: for Allan's sake, But I think overall he did a

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00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: good job. Yeah, talk a little bit about you know,

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00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: the Bills right now. The surprise here in Buffalo is

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00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: how their defense has been playing. I mean, they let

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00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: alone the fact that they've got a guy like Vonte

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00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: Davis walking off the team at halftime time. Have you

1115
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: ever heard of that happening? And what's your take on

1116
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: a guy that just decides, you know, I can't do

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00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: this anymore in the middle of a game. Well, my

1118
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: first reaction is the reaction of what Lorenzo Alexander was

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00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: that it's totally disrespectful. I thought it was really bush league,

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00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I understand a guy retiring, but

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00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 1: to do it in the middle of a game is

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00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: just is just really quite irresponsible. But again, the one

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Speaker 1: thing I do want to say about this is I

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00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: don't have any idea what's going on in Vante Davis's head.

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00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: Is he having some mental issues? Is he is he

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00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: going through depression? You know, like, those are things I

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00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: can't answer. I haven't talked Avante Davis since he was

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Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, so I really can't say what happened.

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00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: And I mean, but I do think overall that to

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00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: do this in the middle of a game is unless

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00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: there's some really good explanation for it, is just really

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00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: it's just the irresponsible. Peter in your mind, would the

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00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: Bills have any contractual recourse, you know, what the for

1134
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:49,839
Speaker 1: the bonus they paid him or the amount they paid

1135
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: him so far. What do you think? That's a really

1136
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: good question. I know that the last time that the

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00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: CBA was done, the NFLPA went to great pains to

1138
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 1: say that if anything disciplinary happens to you in the

1139
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: you know, during the season, you end up being cut,

1140
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: you don't have to give your bonus back. Now, if

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00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: you volunteer retirely, like like u Vante Davis did, I

1142
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: would think that the Bills would be able to would

1143
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,919
Speaker 1: be able to recoup uh, you know, the pro rated

1144
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: part of his signing bonus. But John, I just don't

1145
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: know that for sure. One of the other things going

1146
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 1: on around the league is Josh Gordon landing in New England.

1147
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: They cut Corey Coleman, who was here in Buffalo for

1148
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, to make room for him. How

1149
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: do you think that's gonna go in New England? You know,

1150
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: I don't know, Steve, Your guess is as good as mine,

1151
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: But I thought, I think it's ridiculous that this that

1152
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: teams were bidding for Josh Gordon, which basically I'm told

1153
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: is what happened. There were three teams interested in him,

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00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: and the Patriots made the best offer. Whether the other

1155
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: two got to the offer stage. I don't know. But

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Speaker 1: but here's the thing that bothers me about it. Okay,

1157
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: so Josh Gordon came in the league yet two good years,

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00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,720
Speaker 1: right at the beginning, and since then, the last fifty

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00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: one games of the Cleveland Browns, he's played six and

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00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 1: the rest of the time he has been suspended for

1161
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: whatever reason or voluntarily in one case, checking him into

1162
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 1: an impatient rehab clinic. This guy's twenty seven years old.

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00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: I would think he would have a chance to resume

1164
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: his career at some point. But my biggest problem with

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00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 1: this is team's drooling after a guy who has given

1166
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: nobody in the league reason to, you know, to want

1167
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,320
Speaker 1: to take a chance on him. Patriots to do it

1168
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: out of sheer desperation. And you know, last night on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: I saw a bunch of people were comparing him to

1170
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, which is probably the most disrespectful comparison I've

1171
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:57,359
Speaker 1: ever seen on Twitter before Randy Moss, by the time

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Speaker 1: he got traded to the Patriots, was a Hall of

1173
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 1: Fame football player. Josh Gordon has had a starry cup

1174
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: of coffee. That's what he That's who he is, right

1175
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 1: and you know he has been suspended five times and

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00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: then checked him in for almost a season long period

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00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: of rehab of six This is a guy who who

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Speaker 1: people are are fighting to sign. It's in trade for

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00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: it's sad state of affairs in the NFL as far

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Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, and I think it's a very sad

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00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: state of affairs. That's the Patriots. We are the ones

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00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, I agree, We're gonna have to

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00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: watch that closely. I don't know if it's going to

1184
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,439
Speaker 1: work out either. I think you mentioned a moment ago though,

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00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:35,879
Speaker 1: you mentioned a guy that everybody would love to sign

1186
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: right now, Patrick Mahomes. What a start to his starting

1187
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:42,439
Speaker 1: quarterback career in Kansas City. Ten touchdowns over the first

1188
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: two weeks of the season, and he has lit it

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00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: up and he did it on the road in Pittsburgh.

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00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? You know, I'm surprised, obviously,

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00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: I think everybody is. But Steve, I think I will

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Speaker 1: guarantee you that if you watched the tape, if you

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00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: just put on and you can find it on YouTube,

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00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: if you find the tape of his six touchdown passes

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00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 1: shown back to back, take like, I don't know, a

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00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: minute twenty probably, But if you find that and you

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00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,320
Speaker 1: watch all six plays, you know what You'll notice On

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00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: five of the six plays the Chiefs were either in

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Speaker 1: a two bye two formation with the field widely spread,

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00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: or in the case of one of his touchdowns of

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00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: three bye two and Steve, the field is spread and

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00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: there are basically almost track athletes, you know, going out

1203
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: in the formation, with the exception of Travis Kelsey's obviously

1204
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: a tight end, but they have incredible speed, and the

1205
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers just absolutely didn't know who to try to stop.

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00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: You know, poor Lardie Burns, he's going to have to

1207
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: go into therapy. He just got he got he got

1208
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: torched by Mahomes. But the point I'm trying to make

1209
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: is that this, to me is a great example of

1210
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: what football has become today versus a few years ago.

1211
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Speaker 1: You know, a few years ago, a generation ago, probably

1212
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: you would see mostly two backs, two wide receivers in

1213
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: a tight end. The Chiefs regularly, regularly will play four

1214
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: wides in a tight end, and they'll put them all

1215
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: out in They'll have an empty backfield and they'll put

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00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: them all out in the roof. And to me, I

1217
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: just think. I mean, it's an embarrassment of riches right now.

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00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: If the Chiefs stay healthy with this attack, I cannot

1219
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: imagine any way that they won't average thirty points a game.

1220
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be absolutely phenomenal and the

1221
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: hardest team in the NFL. This includes the Rims, the

1222
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: hardest team in the NFL to stop with Peter King,

1223
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: he writes Football Morning in America every Monday. I really

1224
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: liked him. Yesterday's Colin Peter, how you're talking about Mahomes

1225
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: but talking about how much credit he and his father,

1226
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: the former pitcher Pat Mahomes, you give to Alex Smith.

1227
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: I never knew that about Alex Smith. How what a

1228
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: great team and how much he helped the last year's rookie,

1229
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. That was a great part of that story

1230
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: in the you know, in the time before the season

1231
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: last year Mahomes. Look, if you're Alex Smith, you know

1232
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: he's been a pragmatist his whole life. I'd say he's

1233
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: constantly had to fight for his job. But if you're

1234
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and this team, the team that you're on,

1235
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: spends two first round picks to move up to get

1236
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: a quarterback, their own, and then the twenty eighteen first

1237
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: round pick to move up to get a quarterback. The

1238
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: writings on the wall, You're not going to be the

1239
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 1: starter there much longer. So rather than say essentially, rather

1240
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: than say, I'm going to try to fight this kid,

1241
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: and I'm going to do everything I can to prevent

1242
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: him from taking this job, why not help him in

1243
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: any way you can so that then you can get

1244
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: to a place at still a young age and get

1245
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: a new contract and and and be the starter for

1246
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: a few years. I mean, it's look, I view it

1247
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: as a great thing that Alex Smith did, don't get

1248
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: me wrong, But I also view it as a pragmatic thing,

1249
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: said Alex Smith did. But I thought the most hilarious

1250
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: thing in my column was was Pat Mahomes saying that

1251
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: when he got to the big league and asked Jack Morris,

1252
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: who at the time was one of the best pitchers

1253
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: in baseball, asked his teammate Jack Morris, Tay, can he

1254
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: helped me learn how to throw a split finger fastball?

1255
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: He said, Hey, get away from me. You'll be trying

1256
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: to take my job next year. And I said, I said,

1257
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: I said to Pat Mahomes, it's like eleven o'clock Sunday night.

1258
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 1: I said to him, I said, man, football is a

1259
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: cutthrow game. But I can't imagine a quarterback even when

1260
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 1: Tom even when not Tom Brady, when when Brett Farve

1261
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: was was not very helpful to to Aaron Rodgers coming up.

1262
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: He never tried to be you know, tried to totally

1263
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: totally screw him, you know. And so I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think it's his looks. Seems to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: different game in baseball than it is just football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. What do you that You're right?

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Speaker 1: I mean, the locker room in the game itself cultivates

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Speaker 1: a different mentality among teammates who have to depend on

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Speaker 1: each other more than they do in other sports. And

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about one of the few

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Speaker 1: good stories of the season so far in Ryan Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: down in Tampa Bay is one of the all time

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Speaker 1: great guys. Everybody loves to cheer for the guy, and

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Speaker 1: he's been through this cycle of going from team to team,

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Speaker 1: and we see seemed the same thing. He goes as

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Speaker 1: a backup, ends up as a starter, signs a big contract,

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Speaker 1: and then stinks after that and then signs as a

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Speaker 1: backup someplace else, and it's happened here again in Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, you know, I think one of the

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Speaker 1: things that we don't realize and we don't talk about

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Speaker 1: enough in the NFL, is that there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of quarterbacks right now, in my opinion, who can do

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Speaker 1: what Pat Mahomes and Ryan Fitzpatricks are doing. Because look

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Speaker 1: at the weapon and marine that we just talked about. Mahomes, now,

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Speaker 1: look at look at look at Ryan Fitzpatrick. You've You've

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Speaker 1: got You've got Mike Evans, who's a top six to

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Speaker 1: eight wide receiver. You've got the Sean Jackson who went healthy.

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Speaker 1: Is as great a deep thread as there is in

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Speaker 1: the guinning. You know, you've got a bunch of You've

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Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys on both teams who are

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Speaker 1: real field stretchers, and if you can protect the quarterback

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Speaker 1: in both cases. I mean, when I talked to Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: last week, he basically said, you know, he said, this

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Speaker 1: really isn't that surprising because look at the protection I've had,

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Speaker 1: and look also at the guys who are catching the

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Speaker 1: ball from me. So and again I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: demean or diminish what either guy has done, but you've

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Speaker 1: seen it. I'll never forget when I covered the Bills

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Speaker 1: all those years, Jim Kelly used to always say, you

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01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: know and he loved you know, hey, he loved being

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Speaker 1: the star, he loved being famous, love getting paid and

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Speaker 1: winning games and everything. But he would always say it,

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Speaker 1: and it sounds like a cliche, and I can't read

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Speaker 1: his mind, but I never really thought it speaking in

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Speaker 1: cliche terms that he said, it always starts up front,

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01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: and when you have Ken Hall and the guys surrounding

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Speaker 1: Ken Hall on that line, he said, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get protected and I'm going to be able to do this.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm in a great place to be able

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Speaker 1: to be a great quarterback because I'm afforded the chance

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Speaker 1: to be a great quarterback. And in my opinion, you

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Speaker 1: look at Russell Wilson last night, embarrassing how the seat

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Speaker 1: the line in the Seahawks have built around him. You

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Speaker 1: look at Eli Manning, it's it's getting better, But that

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Speaker 1: was a total embarrassment Sunday night. You know, the way

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Speaker 1: the Giants just can't protect it. So I think that

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Speaker 1: not only is Ryan Fitzpatrick playing well, but I think

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Speaker 1: this is the ultimate When they talk about football is

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01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 1: the ultimate team game. You know, you got to give

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Speaker 1: credit to the other ten guys on that offense around

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Speaker 1: him too. Peter spent an interesting couple of weeks. We

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us to talk about it. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk again next week. Thanks a lot, so let's have

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Speaker 1: a great week. Peter King wraps it up every week

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Speaker 1: and his column Football Morning in America on Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Talk dot NBC Sports dot Com, and he joined us

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Speaker 1: on the Subway Press Take Hotline. Steve and I back

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Speaker 1: with more in a moment. One Bills Live from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy s tasker here. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's time to announce the Blue Rock Energy Player of

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Speaker 1: the Week for the Bills game against the Chargers. It

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Speaker 1: is powered by Blue Rock Energy, the official electricity supplier

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Speaker 1: of the Bills. Votes are in this week's winning player,

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Speaker 1: quarterback Josh Allen the Blue Rock Energy Player of the Week.

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Speaker 1: He got sixty three percent of your votes. Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 1: got sixteen percent, Lorenzo Alexander thirteen percent. Josh Allen the

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Speaker 1: Blue Rock Energy Player of the week. You vote the

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Speaker 1: morning after each game. Go to Blue Rock Energy dot

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Speaker 1: com or Blue Rock Energy's Facebook page to learn more.

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01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen the Blue Rock Energy Player of the Week.

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Speaker 1: We're talking Bill's defensive by the way, our thanks to

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Speaker 1: Peter King for joining us today. We had some interesting

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01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: thoughts on Vante Davis. He's never heard of that. Nobody's

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01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 1: ever heard of that right now. I mean, it's crazy,

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Speaker 1: but it's good to hear. That's why people are asking

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Speaker 1: if he went crazy. Thanks to Peter King for joining

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Speaker 1: us our Twitter poll today. We're talking about Bill's defense

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Speaker 1: and we want to know from you what's the quick

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01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 1: fix for the Bill's defense. They need one, right, don't they?

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Speaker 1: What are they? What can they do this week to

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Speaker 1: get better defensively? On Twitter? The preponderance of the vote

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Speaker 1: so far, most of you say, have Sean McDermot continue

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01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: to call the plays forty four percent. Thirty two percent

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Speaker 1: of you say they need a better pass rush. No

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Speaker 1: one would argue with that. Twenty two or sixteen percent

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Speaker 1: say find cornerback depth, eight percent have something else in mind.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call, let us know what you think.

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty toll free from Outside Buffalo

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Here's

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Speaker 1: one from the tweet sheet. And you always, Murph, we

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Speaker 1: always have our little idiosyncrasies about what we both like

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Speaker 1: in our twitter poll. Yes, uh, Murph likes. The column

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Speaker 1: at the bottom says other. So out of to my

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Speaker 1: guy Murph, I'm gonna read from Josh s he says,

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Speaker 1: I chose other. I believe the scheme we're playing allows

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01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 1: too many holes in the passing game. We should go

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Speaker 1: man with white TuS white and roll a safety coverage

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01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: to help the other side. If the front keeps the

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Speaker 1: confidence it showed in the second half, they'll be fine

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Speaker 1: and it'll help the DBS. There you go. There's one

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Speaker 1: from your other calling well. The reason the reason I

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01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: think others important is because we only have four options.

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Speaker 1: We can't think of every option. And I want to

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01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: encourage thinking. I want people to think, hey, what what

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01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 1: is the problem with the defense? Not me? I want

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01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: to knee jerk reaction. The quicker, the better shoot from

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01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 1: the hip. That's what I all. Right. From Adam from

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, we need to find a decent corner

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01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: opposite from twenty seven. The reason the defense improved in

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01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:01,200
Speaker 1: the second half is because they start playing more Mann coverage,

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01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: which allowed them to pressure rivers more clean up the

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01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:07,040
Speaker 1: back end. That will improve the front end and vice

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01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 1: versa from Adam. So yeah, they're gonna argue with that. Well, yeah,

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01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you can improve everywhere. You're gonna improve everywhere.

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01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a lot of thoughts. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is and the reason we got to this and for

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01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 1: those of you who just joined us, the reason we

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Speaker 1: got to this thing about the defense is we feel

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Speaker 1: like and rightfully so, we were laughing at me because

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Speaker 1: I was calling them out to be a top ten defense.

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Speaker 1: I'm I wasn't laughing yet. I'm not bailing yet, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not laughing yet. You were laughing at me. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go back and listen to it because I

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01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 1: because you made me laugh. You had to remember that

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Speaker 1: if anyway, you know, by the way, I know the

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Speaker 1: season is just getting started. Oh I know, you know

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Speaker 1: they might be top ten. Nobody knows better than you

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Speaker 1: and me. So but we got to this Twitter question

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Speaker 1: because the defensive side of the footballs has been really

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Speaker 1: the one that's been unexpectedly poor this year with the

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Speaker 1: new free agent signings, particularly on the front seven. Trent Murphy,

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01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 1: Starlot tu Lele, the draft pick of Harrison Phillips, who

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01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 1: has been contributed a great deal and if you watch him,

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01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: he plays with a high motor. I like what he's

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01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:07,600
Speaker 1: doing down inside Starlow to Lela, and I still think

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01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 1: they're run defense is a step ahead of where it

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01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,440
Speaker 1: was last year, no question about it. The problem is

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01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 1: nobody's had to run the football against him. Philip Rivers

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01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: was fifteen to sixteen in the first half against him

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Speaker 1: this last weekend, and that's that's an issue issue to

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Speaker 1: the point where Sean McDermott made an adjustment at halftime,

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Speaker 1: it took over the play calling duties. So that's where

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Speaker 1: we got to this point where because the defense has

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Speaker 1: been the disappointment this year, we want to see what

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Speaker 1: you thought, as our list faithful listeners, as to what

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Speaker 1: you think the quickest way or the easiest way to

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Speaker 1: fix that defense would be in and we've gotten a

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Speaker 1: lot of feedback about it. It's an interesting feedback too.

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Speaker 1: It's an interesting tweet from the tweet cheat Thomas Durlac says,

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Speaker 1: move Micah Hide to corner and Raphael Bush to safety

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Speaker 1: press coverage, put more pressure on the quarterback with a

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01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: package of blitzes, moved Tremaine Edmonds to various spots like J. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt take advantage of his speed. I don't like the

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Speaker 1: part of moving Tremaine edmon chen. I want him to

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Speaker 1: settle in where he's at. But he's got enough on

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Speaker 1: his play. Yeah, Michael, I just played corner and Bush

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Speaker 1: has looked good playing safety. And you know, we talked

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Speaker 1: about how they need corners. Is that the answers that

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01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: puts all right? So that that may put your best

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01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 1: five dbs on the field. Rockael Bush, the really good safety,

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Speaker 1: he played extremely well in the preseason. Puts Micah Hide over.

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Speaker 1: You'd have your best five guys on the field, but

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Speaker 1: one of them will be playing out a position. Now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: now as that he's an athlete, I mean, don't get

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Speaker 1: me wrong, Mica hide can do it. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's got the sheer speed that Tradavious White does, or

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Speaker 1: maybe as a pure corner does, but certainly he's got

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01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 1: the wherewithal in the sense and the intelligence to make

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Speaker 1: it work for himself. They may do that, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you will have the option between doing that, moving

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01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 1: Mica up to play corner and putting Bush in or

1443
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 1: hitting the street finding some corner who's currently unemployed. Micahy

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01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:51,880
Speaker 1: option might be the better option. It might be, particularly

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01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: going forward at the beginning, because if you bring a

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01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: guy in off the street, he's got to learn the

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01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:57,600
Speaker 1: defense and the calls, and at least you've got a

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01:09:57,600 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: guy in there that knows the words yeah to be

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01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 1: in with. And that doesn't mean if they do make

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01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:03,640
Speaker 1: that move with Micah hide up to corner and put

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01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: Ralfhael Bush on the field, they still, believe me, They're

1452
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Speaker 1: still going to be out there scouring the streets looking

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01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:12,719
Speaker 1: for the best possible option to go opposite of That's

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01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about. That's why you put other

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Speaker 1: in there. Get people thinking. Thomas Buffalo duke Thomas der

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01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: Lack was thinking, I like that. I wonder what he voted,

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01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: though he didn't say whether he voted. It's okay if

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Speaker 1: he's voted or not. He's got some thoughts. He does

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Speaker 1: have some thoughts. All right, let's go from Team many

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Coaching is very underrated. Good coaches put players

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Speaker 1: in position to succeed, and I haven't seen Frazier confusing

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01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 1: anyone tired of hearing players say they're throwing some stuff

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01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: at us we didn't expect and made adjustments at half.

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Speaker 1: Coaching need to do a better job with game planning,

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01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 1: so the pre job. You know, they need to get

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01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 1: on top of it before they go in. That's one

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Speaker 1: of the things that it's easier said than done, especially

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Speaker 1: in the beginning of the season, like, yeah, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen. You know, they had one game to

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Speaker 1: look at Chargers versus Chiefs. Right, certainly there was stuff

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01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:58,600
Speaker 1: that the Chargers through Adam they didn't use in the

1472
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:00,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs game. I think it's always going to be the

1473
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,760
Speaker 1: case this early in the season. I take a phone

1474
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 1: call here on this topic from Tom and Buffalo. Hi Tom, welcome,

1475
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Go ahead, Hey, John,

1476
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,600
Speaker 1: I would have to agree with you. I love the

1477
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: fact that McDermott called the defense for the second half

1478
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:17,160
Speaker 1: and they performed a whole lot better for him. I

1479
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:21,720
Speaker 1: like that scenario, but we need help at cornerback now.

1480
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: I got a little story about everybody keeps saying they

1481
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 1: never heard of anything like von Tay Davis before I

1482
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:33,280
Speaker 1: took myself out of a Pop Warner football game. Did

1483
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:37,559
Speaker 1: you retire? Tom? Did you retire? Though? No, I didn't retire.

1484
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: How did you Did you go back to practice on

1485
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 1: Monday or whatever it was? And did they welcome you

1486
01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: with open arms? I went back into the game, but

1487
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 1: the other team had a thick because I was yelling

1488
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 1: at the rough on the rough stif I open my

1489
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:53,240
Speaker 1: mouth one more time, he was gonna kick me out

1490
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: of the game. Tom. I have been there on the

1491
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: other side of the field. I feel you, Tom, I've

1492
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: been there. I've been tossed out of the game myself.

1493
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 1: But I didn't take myself out. Took my helmet, jersey,

1494
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:10,600
Speaker 1: shoulder pads off, turned it inside out. Why did you

1495
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 1: do that? Tom? What was going on that? They were

1496
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: mad because there were two guys on our defense that

1497
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 1: were bigger than their guys, so they called a penalty

1498
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:21,760
Speaker 1: on me and it wasn't me. I was on the

1499
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 1: other side of the field, and when I yelled at

1500
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 1: the ref about it, he said, if I opened my

1501
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:29,599
Speaker 1: mouth one more time, I'm getting kicked out of the game.

1502
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 1: So I stormed off to the sidewine, took my home

1503
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 1: at shoulder pad, jersey, off, turned my jersey inside out,

1504
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:39,760
Speaker 1: sat back down on the bed. Everybody thought I was

1505
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:43,879
Speaker 1: kicked out of the game. I sat out a series,

1506
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 1: got back up, put everything back on right, walked up

1507
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,800
Speaker 1: the coach and said, I'm ready to go back in.

1508
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:52,360
Speaker 1: He's like, I thought you got kicked out of the game.

1509
01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: And I said, no, I took myself out of the game.

1510
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 1: He's like, get back in there. Oh, there you go, Tom.

1511
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 1: It was a heartwarming s the other team had there,

1512
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 1: like I thought he got kicked out of the game. Man, No,

1513
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 1: all right, there you go. Good story. Thanks. It's not

1514
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:13,400
Speaker 1: quite the Vonte Davis story, but still, you know, I've

1515
01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: seen a lot of crazy things in youth football. I

1516
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:18,519
Speaker 1: had four sons and all grew up here in Buffalo,

1517
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: and they all played youth football, and yeah, it's it's

1518
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:25,680
Speaker 1: some crazy stuff happens. But yeah, and I don't think

1519
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 1: I've ever seen a kid. I don't think he may

1520
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:30,800
Speaker 1: ever got thrown out during my tenure as an assistant

1521
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:33,720
Speaker 1: to the assistant to the assistant coach. So hey, you

1522
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,000
Speaker 1: know what I was thinking too, And the Vante Davison

1523
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:37,960
Speaker 1: ever seen? Has that ever happened? Has that ever happened?

1524
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 1: I think this predates your career. I can look that

1525
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:42,599
Speaker 1: up exactly when it was. But there was a Patriots

1526
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: Bills game when Irving Fryar, remember him, former Debraska stand out,

1527
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:50,920
Speaker 1: and he got hurt. I just looked it up. Tony

1528
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 1: Easton was a quarterback. So this before you got in

1529
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: the NFL Bills Patriots in New England. He got hurt

1530
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: in the game. Irving Fryar left the game after he

1531
01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:02,040
Speaker 1: got hurt. He's driving home or driving somewhere around Foxborough,

1532
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: listening to the game on the radio when he lost

1533
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 1: control of his car and crashed into a tree. Taken

1534
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 1: to a hospital held overnight for x Race injured during

1535
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: the game, and then crashed into a tree on his

1536
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,640
Speaker 1: way home. And he gave nothing funny about it. I

1537
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 1: kind of it was kind kind of, well, your buddy

1538
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 1: friends kindles. He had something hilarious to say after the game.

1539
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,679
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it was. I forget his quote.

1540
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 1: It was something like, you know, in the road or something,

1541
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 1: or a knife in the kitchen. There was some other incident.

1542
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: There was some domestic with a kitchen knife. Yeah, yeah, right, right, yeah, yeah,

1543
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:36,600
Speaker 1: Fred said. Instead of the fork in the road, it

1544
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:38,760
Speaker 1: was a knife in the kitchen or something. It was

1545
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: classic Fred's roles. That's the only thing I came up with,

1546
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 1: Say Davis ever happened to Peter. Peter King brought this

1547
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:47,120
Speaker 1: up to You see it in baseball, where guys will

1548
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 1: get taken out of the game, they'll leave the stadium. Yeah,

1549
01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 1: football players don't do that. Even Yeah, baseball guys will

1550
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 1: do that. They you know, they'll get mad, they'll leave.

1551
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 1: You know, they'll just take offs. They don't have to

1552
01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:00,640
Speaker 1: stick around after the game. But football, you know, you

1553
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,920
Speaker 1: just don't do that. You know, you kind of hang out.

1554
01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 1: Even when I got thrown out in the fifth game,

1555
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 1: fifth play, the fifth play of my last game, I

1556
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 1: got tossed in Green Bay right right? Where are you going?

1557
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 1: Green Bay? Right? And I gotta wait for the team

1558
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 1: to get on the bus anyway, so you know, I

1559
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,680
Speaker 1: wasn't going anywhere. I was eating sandwiches in the locker room.

1560
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:25,320
Speaker 1: But but you just can't leave, you can't, you can't.

1561
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably happened that guys got taken out

1562
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 1: of the game or were heard or whatever. And obviously

1563
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: if they get taken the hospital or something, but you know,

1564
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,719
Speaker 1: guys leave in the game early. You remember when leon

1565
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:38,719
Speaker 1: led in the Thanksgiving game when he when they blocked

1566
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins field goal in the ice game. Leon

1567
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:45,519
Speaker 1: Lett didn't know the rules. The ball was bouncing down around,

1568
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 1: He went down, tried to get it, it was slippery.

1569
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:49,599
Speaker 1: He couldn't get it. The Dolphins recovered kicked the game

1570
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 1: winning field goal, and the Cowboys lose the game because

1571
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 1: leon Lett didn't know the rule. He left the game

1572
01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:58,920
Speaker 1: early that day. He went in, he didn't even change,

1573
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 1: He went home in his pads and helmet. He just

1574
01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: didn't even because we could get out of there before

1575
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 1: the media got in, and he just bolted. So I've

1576
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:09,759
Speaker 1: seen that. Yeah, well that was different. That's a lot different.

1577
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: Our question on the table today, quickest way for the

1578
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:14,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo defense to get better this week? Give us a

1579
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 1: call eight H three h five fifty or toll free

1580
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight by fifty two five fifty. You

1581
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 1: asked me this yesterday. I don't know if it was

1582
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: on the air off the air, and we frequently do

1583
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:26,479
Speaker 1: that about the Clay Matthews play right the uh the

1584
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: penalty called? And I watched the game this morning, the

1585
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 1: Packers Vikings game, and I saw it for the first time.

1586
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:37,280
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews, Packers linebacker roughing the passer penalty late in

1587
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: the game. He was flagged for a roughing case Keenom

1588
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:46,679
Speaker 1: on a play where it never really looked like roughing

1589
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: the passer. Right the Paul came out, passed down field

1590
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 1: went for an interception that Matthews Packers team came up

1591
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: with critical play with a minute and a half left

1592
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:56,839
Speaker 1: to play in the fourth quarter of the Packers basically

1593
01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: probably thought they had iced the game. Matthews should have yeah,

1594
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:03,200
Speaker 1: drilled case Keenum in the midsection and brought him down.

1595
01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: They called roughing the passer. Matthews couldn't believe it. In fact,

1596
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:08,800
Speaker 1: here's what Clay Matthews had to say after he got

1597
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:11,400
Speaker 1: flagged for roughing the passer late in the game against

1598
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:16,120
Speaker 1: Minnesota on Sunday. I don't even know where it's starting

1599
01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:17,640
Speaker 1: to be completely honest with you. I mean, I have

1600
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 1: so many emotions kind of running through as far as

1601
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:24,720
Speaker 1: it's just what a terrible call it was. But at

1602
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 1: the same time, I don't know what else to do.

1603
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know you let me know, let

1604
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 1: me tell me that I did. I put pressure on

1605
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 1: him because I you know, I thought I hit him

1606
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:37,400
Speaker 1: within you know, it's waste the chest, I got my

1607
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 1: head across, put my hands down, and to call it,

1608
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:41,600
Speaker 1: you know, at that point in the game, it's just

1609
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's unbelievable. Last week, okay, you know, shame

1610
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 1: on me. But this week, I mean, that's unbelievable. So

1611
01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:52,160
Speaker 1: and the worst part is we'll probably send it in

1612
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 1: and you know what they're gonna say. They're gonna say,

1613
01:17:55,120 --> 01:17:57,559
Speaker 1: you know, they'll find fault on me because they're gonna

1614
01:17:57,560 --> 01:17:59,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna agree with the ref. So I don't know,

1615
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 1: it's it's a difficult call to call. And I mean,

1616
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 1: you see how it changed the game. And I know

1617
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:09,640
Speaker 1: there's an emphasis on protecting quarterbacks, but it's I mean,

1618
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 1: it's gotten out of control here. I don't know what

1619
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:16,600
Speaker 1: else to do. So it's frustrating because I mean, you know,

1620
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: you Jaire's interception, I believe it was. I mean, that's

1621
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:23,920
Speaker 1: game right instead, you know, they go down score over

1622
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 1: time this and that we had opportunities to win the game,

1623
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But um frustrating, you know, to

1624
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 1: to allow a call which I feel like, you know,

1625
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: I did the right thing. To to influence the game.

1626
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm trying about my tongue here,

1627
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,519
Speaker 1: but I obviously don't agree with it. He didn't try

1628
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 1: to bite his timee. But it's good. He's right, He's

1629
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: absolutely right. That's Clay Matthews talking about that Russian made it.

1630
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 1: He made a legitimate effort not to hurt the quarterback.

1631
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: Yeah to me, hit him in the mid section and

1632
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,360
Speaker 1: him with the crowd of his helmet. And now now

1633
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:57,120
Speaker 1: read what the NFL came out and tell him. Now

1634
01:18:57,160 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: the NFL says about it that hit. The NFL is

1635
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 1: going to include that hit, that roughing the pastor penalty

1636
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: on a teaching video that they distribute to clubs this

1637
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: week to emphasize the fact that it was a good

1638
01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:09,360
Speaker 1: call and what was wrong with it. There's something they

1639
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:13,519
Speaker 1: call the scoop and pole tactic that Matthews used when

1640
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:15,679
Speaker 1: he hit Kirk Cousins. They say it is a foul.

1641
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 1: It was called correctly. Tony Correnti his quote the other

1642
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 1: day Sunday. The referee that day said he picked the

1643
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:25,479
Speaker 1: quarterback up and drove him into the ground. Did anybody

1644
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 1: see him do that? I didn't see that happen. I

1645
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:29,760
Speaker 1: didn't see him picked the quarterback up and drive him

1646
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 1: into the ground. And now they're gonna use that. They're

1647
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: gonna show players this week in NFL teams all over

1648
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 1: the country that is that is roughing the pastor and

1649
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:43,240
Speaker 1: why it is roughing the pastor. He picked the quarterback up,

1650
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: drove him into the ground. I didn't see it. I

1651
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:49,000
Speaker 1: didn't see it that way, and they're gonna use that

1652
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: as the teaching video. Here's the thing he grabbed. He

1653
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:54,840
Speaker 1: hit the quarterback in the hitting zone, which is between

1654
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:58,680
Speaker 1: the knees and the shoulders. His arms went down and

1655
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,840
Speaker 1: he lifted the guy he tried to get. He lifted

1656
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:03,720
Speaker 1: the guy's right leg. He didn't get the other leg,

1657
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: but he lift the guy's right leg, Keendom's right leg

1658
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:07,840
Speaker 1: up and then took him to the ground. And then

1659
01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: with the same hand that he was lifting him with,

1660
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 1: he reached out and braced himself so as not to

1661
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:15,320
Speaker 1: land on Keenom. At least it looked that way now

1662
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,599
Speaker 1: and the other angle he did land with his shoulder

1663
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: on Keendom and all that, but it was it was,

1664
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the most innocuous quarterback tackle that you

1665
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 1: could have done in that situation. I mean, there's the

1666
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,120
Speaker 1: only way he could have made sure that he didn't

1667
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:35,680
Speaker 1: do it was if he wouldn't have grabbed him and

1668
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: then run the risk. Keenan didn't throw the football over

1669
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:40,599
Speaker 1: the top of his head, which he couldn't have seen,

1670
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:42,920
Speaker 1: and let it give him a chance to get away.

1671
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 1: It is I get what they're saying with the league

1672
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 1: and you watch it over, but when he did it live,

1673
01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:51,479
Speaker 1: I was like, that's fine. Am I not seen this right?

1674
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:54,880
Speaker 1: There's a good story about an NFL dot com They

1675
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 1: say the technique of grabbing a passer from behind the

1676
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:00,640
Speaker 1: leg scooping and pulling in an upward motion and is

1677
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: considered a foul. Did that happen? Did he grab grab

1678
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 1: him from behind the legs, try to get one leg?

1679
01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 1: He got one leg. He didn't get the other leg.

1680
01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 1: But that's what he grabbed him and went up through,

1681
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 1: you know, went through him. And when Keenan starts to

1682
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:20,720
Speaker 1: buckle or when the cousin starts to buckle up, did

1683
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:22,680
Speaker 1: he grab a leg and pull it up? Yeah, watch

1684
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:25,479
Speaker 1: grabs that that right leg. So he does he grabs

1685
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 1: the right legs there. I don't know if he yeah,

1686
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:30,880
Speaker 1: he didn't pick him up. Listen. That is the absolute

1687
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 1: end of the spectrum as to what you can call.

1688
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: Make that call, and I'm telling you what it's that

1689
01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:39,600
Speaker 1: is as if he and nobody listen, that would have

1690
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: been a non issue. They would have not have gotten downgraded,

1691
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 1: They wouldn't have gotten it wouldn't even have been on

1692
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 1: the blip on the radar had the official left his

1693
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 1: black flag in his pocket. Unbelievable, don't believable through Yeah, now,

1694
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,920
Speaker 1: NFL that calm reports and here they gregious. Part of

1695
01:21:57,920 --> 01:22:00,160
Speaker 1: it is they intercepted the pass on that play and

1696
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: the game was over, and the Vikings are the Vikings

1697
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: would have lost, the Packers would have won that game

1698
01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:08,120
Speaker 1: because it was intercepted and they would have run out

1699
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: the clock instead, it turns out to be a tie,

1700
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 1: you know, it turns out to be a tie in overtime.

1701
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com said there were fifteen flags thrown for

1702
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,080
Speaker 1: roughing the passer in week one, way up from the

1703
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:20,639
Speaker 1: average of six point eight over you know a week

1704
01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:23,559
Speaker 1: last season. So last season the NFL average six point

1705
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 1: eight roughing the pastor calls per weekend. There were fifteen

1706
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:29,120
Speaker 1: of them thrown in week one and went down in

1707
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:31,720
Speaker 1: week two. This past Sunday, the numbers were down six

1708
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 1: roughing the passer files called going into the last night's game.

1709
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if they were any last night. So

1710
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: a week one there was all about roughing the past.

1711
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:40,400
Speaker 1: So they came back down towards the last year's average

1712
01:22:40,439 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: in week two. But that one one of the six

1713
01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: calls and of the egregious parts. Yeah, like I said,

1714
01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: it affected the game, and it was late. It was

1715
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:50,799
Speaker 1: a part of the game. Here's the thing with penalties

1716
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 1: and how they affect games. Nor question they do, No question,

1717
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 1: they do once in a while. The problem isn't when

1718
01:22:56,320 --> 01:22:58,120
Speaker 1: it happens in the first quarter. It's like, you know what,

1719
01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: you got the whole game to make up for it.

1720
01:23:00,479 --> 01:23:02,600
Speaker 1: You got a whole bunch of time, you got a

1721
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:04,559
Speaker 1: bunch of series, you got a bunch of defensive plays,

1722
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:08,839
Speaker 1: you got a bunch of opportunities to overcome it. Inside

1723
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:11,080
Speaker 1: the last two minutes of the game, you can't overcome that.

1724
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,320
Speaker 1: That's when it's that's when it's important. And I know

1725
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 1: this too. If the league wants that called, and it

1726
01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a penalty, you gotta want it called.

1727
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:21,080
Speaker 1: Even if you don't like the look of it, you

1728
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 1: gotta want it called because you don't want the officials

1729
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 1: letting these guys turn it into a street brawl in

1730
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:29,479
Speaker 1: the last two minutes, because the officials don't want to

1731
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: insert themselves into the outcome of the game. Call the

1732
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: rule the way it's supposed to be called. I just

1733
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,240
Speaker 1: don't like that, apple, I just don't like that. That right,

1734
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: there was a penalty. I think it's it's the softest

1735
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:44,559
Speaker 1: call there there's been thus far in the league, so far,

1736
01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 1: because the ones that we're also called that some of

1737
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: them they saw the Yeah, I shouldn't have been a called.

1738
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 1: I get that. This one they're saying is like a

1739
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:55,080
Speaker 1: teaching tool. A teaching tool. We got a call on

1740
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 1: the line from penalties from time and lack of want

1741
01:23:57,120 --> 01:24:00,720
Speaker 1: a time go ahead? You're on the ear, yes, him,

1742
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:03,640
Speaker 1: I agree with the comment you made last hour. I mean,

1743
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:05,760
Speaker 1: we have to suffer through the last four or five

1744
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 1: years of at hockey trying to get face time. I mean,

1745
01:24:09,560 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 1: holding can be called on every play it's considered and hockey,

1746
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:14,720
Speaker 1: and now they got his kid in there and some

1747
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 1: of these new guys call it every third play. And

1748
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: it Buffalo would have lost the game obviously the first game,

1749
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:24,560
Speaker 1: but there were some crucial plays wiped out with just meaningless,

1750
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:26,960
Speaker 1: stupid penalties that aren't just slowing the game down and

1751
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 1: they're actually turning the way it's played. Yeah, I think

1752
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:32,360
Speaker 1: they're calling too much. I do. The first couple of

1753
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 1: Bills games, more penalties than I think were necessary. And

1754
01:24:36,120 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 1: and look, I don't think the Bills would have won

1755
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 1: either game at the call has been right. But it

1756
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:43,519
Speaker 1: bothers me, and it bothers me that they've got here's

1757
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:47,080
Speaker 1: for the third consecutive week, a first year NFL referee

1758
01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:49,600
Speaker 1: for the third consecutive week. That seems like it'd be

1759
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: hard to do that. Here's the thing you're not. You know,

1760
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,080
Speaker 1: me more so than anybody, has no love love loss

1761
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 1: for officials, and I have no reason to, you know,

1762
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:03,639
Speaker 1: stick up for them. But the officials in the NFL

1763
01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 1: are really, really good, and when they see a penalty,

1764
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 1: for the most part, they call it. And it's up

1765
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:12,640
Speaker 1: to the league to say, don't call this, call this,

1766
01:25:12,920 --> 01:25:15,760
Speaker 1: call that. And that's what you know. The official in

1767
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:17,760
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Minnesota game we were just talking about

1768
01:25:17,760 --> 01:25:20,080
Speaker 1: with Clay Matthews, the league says, yeah, that's what they

1769
01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 1: want them to call. So the official did the right thing.

1770
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:25,040
Speaker 1: So you can say the official, the official got a

1771
01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: plus on that grade and teaching right and all these

1772
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:31,840
Speaker 1: all these officials, the young officials or whoever, whoever, however

1773
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:33,519
Speaker 1: long they've been doing it, they're doing the Bills games

1774
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:37,560
Speaker 1: and other games around the league, whichever, they're doing the

1775
01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:39,479
Speaker 1: job that the league has asked them to do. You can,

1776
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 1: you can complain about it. You can moan and harp

1777
01:25:43,400 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 1: on how bad a job they're doing. But unless the

1778
01:25:45,560 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 1: league comes out and says that was a bad call,

1779
01:25:47,720 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 1: you got nothing to complain about because they're doing what

1780
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:52,960
Speaker 1: the league has asked them to do. They're enforcing the

1781
01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: rules the league has in place. And if if the

1782
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:58,519
Speaker 1: league says, listen, they say holding can happen on every play,

1783
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:01,880
Speaker 1: call the holding penalties, and if it happens on every play,

1784
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 1: call it. That's what those officials are going to do.

1785
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,519
Speaker 1: So they're doing what they're told. And you can say

1786
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:09,080
Speaker 1: sometimes they'll make a mistake, but the league usually tells you, hey,

1787
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 1: that was a mistake. The league will tell you. You

1788
01:26:11,360 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 1: find out if it was a mistake or not. If

1789
01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: they don't and you find out that a penalty like this,

1790
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:18,160
Speaker 1: the one we were talking about with Clay Matthew's gonna

1791
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,919
Speaker 1: be made a teaching tool. Yet there's room for some outrage,

1792
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 1: and you got it, and I've got'm justifiably overflowing withoutrage. Hey,

1793
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:27,640
Speaker 1: as we go to break, it's time to honor the

1794
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:30,680
Speaker 1: AD Pro Sports High School Football Coaches of the Week.

1795
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:33,960
Speaker 1: In Section six. The Section six high School Football Coach

1796
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: of the League of the Week from Saint Francis and

1797
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:39,559
Speaker 1: Nathal Springs, Jerry Smith Saint Francis went to Cleveland last

1798
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 1: week beat Walt Jesuit forty two forty Red Raiders first

1799
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:44,880
Speaker 1: went over a team from Ohio since two thousand and five.

1800
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 1: And in Section five, the Pro Sports Coach of the

1801
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: Week in Section five in the Rochester area jos Henninger

1802
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 1: a Red Jacket they'd beat Clyde Savannah forty twenty six.

1803
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: Clyde Savannah was the defending Class D champions, came into

1804
01:26:58,520 --> 01:27:00,599
Speaker 1: the game unbeaten Red Jacket two and one day played

1805
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 1: Cubo Rushford this weekend. The AD Pro Sports High School

1806
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: Coaches of the Week. Congratulations to both of them. Steve

1807
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:08,439
Speaker 1: and I back with more One Bill's Live from One

1808
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:22,519
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

1809
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live, John Murphy's Steve Tasker. Time now

1810
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:29,800
Speaker 1: for Milestones presented by Reads Jewelers. With his touchdown catch

1811
01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Bills receiver Calvin Benjamin has reached twenty career

1812
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:37,880
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his career. Calvin Benjamin twenty career touchdowns. Number

1813
01:27:37,920 --> 01:27:41,800
Speaker 1: twenty was just the other day Sunday against the Los

1814
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:45,679
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers. I'm busy suffling through papers and I believe

1815
01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:47,920
Speaker 1: this is your year or something I'm looking for. Is

1816
01:27:47,960 --> 01:27:51,639
Speaker 1: this this fifth year? It is, right, Kevin. So that's

1817
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: that's an average of four per season for Calvin Benjamin.

1818
01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: Milestone's brought to you by read gen Z, Official Jeweler

1819
01:27:59,439 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. That's not an outrageous number for

1820
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 1: a five year veteran in his fifth year. You know

1821
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: he was and he came in and as we remember,

1822
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:09,280
Speaker 1: he came in with a quarterback that needed to develop

1823
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:13,639
Speaker 1: as well. That's right, remember that exchange and then uh yeah,

1824
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:17,760
Speaker 1: so you remember, Yeah, they developed together and it's you know,

1825
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: takes some time. Yeah, Hey, we're talking about the Buffalo defense.

1826
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:23,080
Speaker 1: But anything's on the table. Anything you'd like to talk about.

1827
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:25,479
Speaker 1: Give us a call. Eight oh three five fifty toll

1828
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:28,439
Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

1829
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:30,439
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on the Bills defense, what they can do

1830
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 1: immediately to get better. Let us know what you think.

1831
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 1: Joe and Tonawanda is on the line with a question

1832
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 1: or a comment. Joe, go ahead, Joe and Tonawanda. Hi,

1833
01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:44,800
Speaker 1: I was wondering if there was any chance. I don't

1834
01:28:44,880 --> 01:28:47,760
Speaker 1: know what the situation is. What's Colin Kaepernick? Is he

1835
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 1: still allowed to play? Sure? I would you know, take

1836
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:55,040
Speaker 1: a chance on him. Can you imagine the national sensation

1837
01:28:55,160 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 1: of him coming back and jerseys and you know going

1838
01:28:59,080 --> 01:29:03,040
Speaker 1: to rise? Well know that? And uh and maybe he

1839
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 1: could buy some time to throw the ball and not

1840
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 1: get killed like Allen's gonna probably get well, Jo, did

1841
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:13,120
Speaker 1: you have a problem with the way Josh Allen played

1842
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:16,080
Speaker 1: Sunday or he didn't get killed Sunday? But I just

1843
01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 1: see it coming with the wine, Joe. You can't. Don't.

1844
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:22,960
Speaker 1: Don't live your life in fear bro for a change

1845
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:26,839
Speaker 1: of pace. And yeah, and you're looking for a sensation

1846
01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 1: you mentioned the sensation really is that what this is

1847
01:29:29,439 --> 01:29:33,600
Speaker 1: all about. Yeah, sensation, Joe, listen, buy some time and

1848
01:29:33,640 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 1: then we might get some national attention. You know, maybe

1849
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 1: you might win a couple of games and all, and

1850
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 1: then it would be really good. You know. I don't

1851
01:29:40,240 --> 01:29:43,479
Speaker 1: care about national attention and that for I'm my wins.

1852
01:29:43,840 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 1: Kaepernick hasn't really played in several years though. I don't

1853
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:47,439
Speaker 1: know if he can. I don't know if he'd be

1854
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:49,920
Speaker 1: better than than what they could what else they could get,

1855
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:51,680
Speaker 1: you know, and he certainly I wouldn't want to play

1856
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 1: him ahead of Josh Allen. That's me. Yeah, I'm not.

1857
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm not benching Josh Allen for any body. If that's

1858
01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: on the street right now, that's uh to me, Joe,

1859
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:08,400
Speaker 1: That's that's crazy talk. I mean, that's yeah. And I'm

1860
01:30:08,439 --> 01:30:12,160
Speaker 1: not And and getting getting Colin, I mean, all right,

1861
01:30:12,320 --> 01:30:14,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this with a straight face because he

1862
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,840
Speaker 1: deserves it. Getting Colin Kaepernick in here and getting some

1863
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: national attention and getting some people, you know, some attention

1864
01:30:21,040 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 1: towards Buffalo and towards the Buffalo Bills. And what they're

1865
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 1: doing here is not going to win them any games.

1866
01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:27,920
Speaker 1: What's gonna win them games is playing better with the

1867
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:29,640
Speaker 1: guys they got in the building. Now, you might be

1868
01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:31,920
Speaker 1: able to bring in a corner somebody, or a wide

1869
01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:34,759
Speaker 1: receiver or somebody like that, but bringing in Colin Kaepernick

1870
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 1: and bringing in the national media is not gonna win

1871
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:40,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo any games. It is about the guys in the

1872
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:44,840
Speaker 1: building now. Uh, they are going through what you have

1873
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:48,519
Speaker 1: to consider this a rebuild. You have to consider this. Uh.

1874
01:30:48,760 --> 01:30:51,680
Speaker 1: You know, they're not where they're headed. This roster is

1875
01:30:51,720 --> 01:30:54,599
Speaker 1: not the final product that they're shooting for. Josh Allen

1876
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:58,000
Speaker 1: maybe part of that. He still has to play better.

1877
01:30:58,040 --> 01:30:59,720
Speaker 1: He still has to gain experience, He still has to

1878
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: be that guy that lives up to his physical abilities.

1879
01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:07,720
Speaker 1: But this is not a roster at this point with

1880
01:31:07,840 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 1: this regime, who has fully implemented all the things they

1881
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 1: want to do. They have been hand m handcuffed by

1882
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 1: the finances of it. You can say some of it

1883
01:31:16,600 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 1: was brought upon themselves. But they're fixing problems that were

1884
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:24,560
Speaker 1: already here. Their roster was top heavy with uh with

1885
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:27,240
Speaker 1: in financial ways, and it was about to be really

1886
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:31,360
Speaker 1: top heavy with if they wanted to keep Sammy Watkins

1887
01:31:31,400 --> 01:31:34,000
Speaker 1: and pay him. Marcel Darius was not living up to

1888
01:31:34,040 --> 01:31:37,800
Speaker 1: the money that they signed him for uh and goes

1889
01:31:37,840 --> 01:31:39,840
Speaker 1: on from there and some of the other players they've

1890
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:42,240
Speaker 1: the moves they've made either they got fifty million dollars

1891
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 1: in dead cap space, so they're dealing with that. They did,

1892
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:50,080
Speaker 1: in my opinion, they fineggled and horse traded their way

1893
01:31:50,160 --> 01:31:52,080
Speaker 1: to one of the top quarterbacks in this draft, and

1894
01:31:52,120 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 1: in fact, I think it was one of the top

1895
01:31:53,479 --> 01:31:56,080
Speaker 1: two guys they wanted in this draft. Um. I don't

1896
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:58,839
Speaker 1: know exactly what the what order they had ranked those quarterbacks,

1897
01:31:58,880 --> 01:32:00,320
Speaker 1: but I know they got one of the as they

1898
01:32:00,400 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 1: really thought could be great, and that's Josh Allen. They're

1899
01:32:03,120 --> 01:32:07,360
Speaker 1: riding him. So all this stuff about getting sidetracked now

1900
01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:11,360
Speaker 1: because they've had a couple of really rough weeks. Like

1901
01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:14,000
Speaker 1: I said, it's crazy talk. I mean, you gotta you

1902
01:32:14,080 --> 01:32:17,360
Speaker 1: gotta listen. You gotta be willing to sit through this.

1903
01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 1: You know, these growing pains. You don't have to be

1904
01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:24,040
Speaker 1: happy about it, man, because nobody is. I mean, forty

1905
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:26,200
Speaker 1: seven to three, and then this game this last week,

1906
01:32:26,240 --> 01:32:30,880
Speaker 1: although they scored twenty, they got to play better. They

1907
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:33,719
Speaker 1: got to play better, even if their roster isn't everything

1908
01:32:33,760 --> 01:32:36,600
Speaker 1: they hoped it would be. But man, oh, man, Come on,

1909
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:39,439
Speaker 1: come on, man, come on, man, hey break here. We

1910
01:32:39,520 --> 01:32:41,439
Speaker 1: got another hour to go and a lot of discussion

1911
01:32:41,479 --> 01:32:43,640
Speaker 1: about our Twitter poll, we hope in the third and

1912
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:46,360
Speaker 1: final hour, and that is the defensive side of the

1913
01:32:46,439 --> 01:32:49,240
Speaker 1: ball for the Bills. On Twitter, we're asking you what's

1914
01:32:49,240 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 1: the quick fix? What would you do this week for

1915
01:32:51,400 --> 01:32:53,800
Speaker 1: the Bills to get better defensively? And right now most

1916
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 1: of you say on Twitter in the Twitter poll, most

1917
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,120
Speaker 1: of you vote for continue to have Sean McDermott called

1918
01:32:59,160 --> 01:33:01,519
Speaker 1: the defensive ignals. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe you got

1919
01:33:01,560 --> 01:33:03,519
Speaker 1: something else, Give us a call. Eight oh three h

1920
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Speaker 1: five fifty toll Free one eight eight eight by fifty

1921
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Speaker 1: two five fifty, John Murphy, Steam Tasker one hour Ago

1922
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Speaker 1: and One Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Health from One

1923
01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:26,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio Hills Radio Network. Sports

1924
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:29,720
Speaker 1: Date Tuesday is player's day off here at One Bills Drive.

1925
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:31,760
Speaker 1: But many of them in for conditioning and treatment. And

1926
01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:33,640
Speaker 1: there are a lot of players that you've got to

1927
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:36,880
Speaker 1: think about their conditioning and treatment, including running back la

1928
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:39,799
Speaker 1: Sean McCoy day to day with his rib injury, ripped

1929
01:33:40,240 --> 01:33:42,880
Speaker 1: ripped cartilage. According to Sean McDermott yesterday. The Bills do

1930
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:45,639
Speaker 1: not rule him out yet for the Sunday. Cornerback Philip

1931
01:33:45,680 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 1: Gaines has a dislocated elbow. He's day to day, a

1932
01:33:48,479 --> 01:33:51,080
Speaker 1: chance he could play this week. Running Back Taiwan Jones

1933
01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: bruised cut but no concussion. He hasn't been ruled out

1934
01:33:53,479 --> 01:33:55,120
Speaker 1: yet either, and the Bills also have a couple of

1935
01:33:55,160 --> 01:33:58,320
Speaker 1: injuries left over from last week, Shack Lawson and cornerback

1936
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:00,840
Speaker 1: Terren Johnson. We'll see if they were into practice tomorrow.

1937
01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:02,799
Speaker 1: The Bills two in a row on the road, starting

1938
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:05,280
Speaker 1: Sunday in Minnesota against the Vikings, their first ever game

1939
01:34:05,600 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: at us Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The Vikings are expected

1940
01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:11,760
Speaker 1: to bring in a new kicker. They have not done

1941
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:14,280
Speaker 1: it yet, but the Vikings reportedly ready to sign former

1942
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:17,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys kicker Dan Bailey, making him the fourth kicker to

1943
01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:20,680
Speaker 1: play for Mike Zimmer, Vikings coach, since he arrived in

1944
01:34:20,680 --> 01:34:24,760
Speaker 1: Minnesota in twenty fourteen. The Vikings yesterday cut their fifth

1945
01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:26,679
Speaker 1: round draft pick. They moved up in the fifth round

1946
01:34:26,720 --> 01:34:29,880
Speaker 1: this past April to draft Daniel Carlson for going two

1947
01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:32,200
Speaker 1: picks in the process, but they cut ties with him

1948
01:34:32,240 --> 01:34:34,559
Speaker 1: after he missed three field goals at Green Bay two

1949
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:38,760
Speaker 1: and overtime this past weekend. Pittsburgh Steelers wondering about Antonio Brown.

1950
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:41,760
Speaker 1: He posted a cryptic tweak yesterday that said trade me.

1951
01:34:42,200 --> 01:34:45,000
Speaker 1: He did not show up at the Steelers practice facility yesterday,

1952
01:34:45,080 --> 01:34:47,800
Speaker 1: did not report for work. No word yet on whether

1953
01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:50,600
Speaker 1: it's an excused absence, but multiple sources to say the

1954
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:53,560
Speaker 1: Steelers did not do not know where Antonio Brown is.

1955
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:56,679
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky and the Chicago Bears picked up their first

1956
01:34:56,680 --> 01:35:00,200
Speaker 1: win of the year last night. They bounced back after

1957
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 1: blowing a twenty point leading their opener to the Green

1958
01:35:02,439 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 1: Bay Packers and came up with a victory at home

1959
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,479
Speaker 1: against Seattle twenty four to seventeen last night. Khalil mac

1960
01:35:07,560 --> 01:35:10,160
Speaker 1: had one of the six sacks on Russell Wilson in

1961
01:35:10,280 --> 01:35:13,000
Speaker 1: last night game. The Sea Seahawks dropped to Owen two.

1962
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:16,000
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon is now in New England Patriots. The Browns

1963
01:35:16,040 --> 01:35:18,559
Speaker 1: traded the talented and troubled wide receiver to the Patriots

1964
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:21,040
Speaker 1: in return for a fifth round draft pick next year,

1965
01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:24,280
Speaker 1: and the Sabers preseason continues tonight at home at key

1966
01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:27,679
Speaker 1: Bank Center against Pittsburgh seven o'clock face, Uff, John Murphy

1967
01:35:27,760 --> 01:35:30,400
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio at One Bill's Drive.

1968
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, of course, a prominent Sabers season ticket holder.

1969
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:36,320
Speaker 1: Do you have tickets for tonight's game? And are you

1970
01:35:36,479 --> 01:35:39,559
Speaker 1: using them to? Yeah? Huh, you're going. I haven't decided

1971
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:42,080
Speaker 1: where I'm going. I gotta run that by my part.

1972
01:35:42,280 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 1: Go get you a fork so you can eat those tickets.

1973
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:48,120
Speaker 1: I just I just you know, it's preseason. I don't know,

1974
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:50,760
Speaker 1: but you know, you buy the things you gotta you know,

1975
01:35:50,840 --> 01:35:52,680
Speaker 1: you gotta take You do have tickets for tonight and

1976
01:35:52,760 --> 01:35:55,800
Speaker 1: you're not? Yeah? And would you go? Would you ever

1977
01:35:55,920 --> 01:36:00,640
Speaker 1: go to a preseason game? Well, here's the thing, yes, absolutely.

1978
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:05,559
Speaker 1: The thing is seeing as how this point of the year,

1979
01:36:05,640 --> 01:36:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm working seven days a week, two jobs, seven days

1980
01:36:08,840 --> 01:36:13,600
Speaker 1: a week, right right, sorry, yes, So I'm here with

1981
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:15,720
Speaker 1: you five days a week. Three and then you know,

1982
01:36:15,800 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 1: we don't you know, it's not like we just show

1983
01:36:17,280 --> 01:36:19,519
Speaker 1: up five minutes to three. You know, we're hanging around. So,

1984
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:23,280
Speaker 1: but then I get Friday, you know, So then Saturday

1985
01:36:23,360 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 1: morning I get up and I'm out. I'm gone till

1986
01:36:25,439 --> 01:36:28,120
Speaker 1: late Sunday night. And then you know, Monday we started

1987
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:35,320
Speaker 1: up again, so my free time has since become more precious. Exactly,

1988
01:36:35,439 --> 01:36:39,920
Speaker 1: not valuable, but precious. So, um, I gotta run it

1989
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:43,880
Speaker 1: by the wife. Why did you get to that, right?

1990
01:36:44,960 --> 01:36:49,200
Speaker 1: I got ask permission. Here's the thing. You know, my son,

1991
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:51,400
Speaker 1: my oldest son, and I get the tickets and stuff,

1992
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:53,639
Speaker 1: but he may not want to go whatever. And he's

1993
01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:55,479
Speaker 1: you know, he's got a young fan of right, so

1994
01:36:55,520 --> 01:36:57,320
Speaker 1: he's got a wife and two kids, right at least

1995
01:36:57,320 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: we're empty nesters. So, um, I gotta run it by.

1996
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:01,720
Speaker 1: I gotta run up the flag pole, and maybe my

1997
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: wife and I would be the ones to go, That's

1998
01:37:03,200 --> 01:37:04,840
Speaker 1: what I mean. My son. Yeah, and I and I

1999
01:37:05,439 --> 01:37:09,080
Speaker 1: literally didn't think about that until like ten minutes before

2000
01:37:09,120 --> 01:37:10,519
Speaker 1: we came on the show, because I, you know, I

2001
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:13,400
Speaker 1: called and actually, you know, put the rest of the

2002
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 1: whatever was left on the season tickets and the money. Yeah, yeah,

2003
01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 1: I look, now, this is a good story and I

2004
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:20,960
Speaker 1: really look forward to finding out how it turns out. Tomorrow.

2005
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:23,280
Speaker 1: We are going to begin tomorrow's show figuring out No,

2006
01:37:23,439 --> 01:37:25,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, I think we're can all

2007
01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:28,800
Speaker 1: identify with this kind of hind her family drama you know, yeah,

2008
01:37:28,920 --> 01:37:30,559
Speaker 1: can you get permission to go? Do you bring your

2009
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: wife to go? Does that make it better? Does she

2010
01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 1: really want to see a preseason hockey exact? You know?

2011
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:36,200
Speaker 1: But for her, what does she care whether it's game

2012
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 1: seven or pre season? Because you know that's that might

2013
01:37:40,280 --> 01:37:42,439
Speaker 1: be mistake to say that. What you say, right, she's

2014
01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 1: don't say that, you know, you know what I mean.

2015
01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:47,719
Speaker 1: It's an insult to her. No, No, she doesn't. She doesn't.

2016
01:37:47,720 --> 01:37:50,799
Speaker 1: She doesn't care about hockey. She likes the saves everything,

2017
01:37:50,840 --> 01:37:52,840
Speaker 1: but she couldn't, you know, she doesn't care if its

2018
01:37:52,880 --> 01:37:55,599
Speaker 1: preseason game seven of the ye she would understand. In fact,

2019
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:57,479
Speaker 1: she understands so well that if it was game seven,

2020
01:37:57,479 --> 01:37:59,559
Speaker 1: she would say, listen, isn't there someone who really has

2021
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:02,280
Speaker 1: something into this game that should be going with you?

2022
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 1: She's like that. She's kind of selfless like that, and

2023
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 1: the preseason might be perfect for her because then she could,

2024
01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, make it pay somebody. She's cheerful for the

2025
01:38:10,240 --> 01:38:12,800
Speaker 1: regular season. And the story is just getting better and better,

2026
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:17,599
Speaker 1: and you try to dig out, digging deeper. Just give

2027
01:38:17,600 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 1: you a piece of old advice, and if you find

2028
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:23,479
Speaker 1: yourself in a hole, stop digging and the foremost. I

2029
01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:25,639
Speaker 1: can't wait until tomorrow. There's a reason to tune in tomorrow.

2030
01:38:25,920 --> 01:38:27,559
Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a story until about thirty

2031
01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 1: seconds ago, and then a great story. I gotta find

2032
01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:32,000
Speaker 1: my way. We got something to look forward to tomorrow. Show.

2033
01:38:32,040 --> 01:38:34,479
Speaker 1: Today we're just talking about the Bills in the NFL.

2034
01:38:34,560 --> 01:38:35,680
Speaker 1: We got an hour to do it. We got a

2035
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:37,760
Speaker 1: lot of time for you to participate. Give us a

2036
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:39,880
Speaker 1: call the lines of rope and eight h three fifty

2037
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:42,639
Speaker 1: toll three one eight eight eight five fifty two five

2038
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:45,479
Speaker 1: fifty or on Twitter or Twitter poll. Look, I think

2039
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:47,640
Speaker 1: the Big Bill's biggest problem through two weeks, and they

2040
01:38:47,720 --> 01:38:49,439
Speaker 1: got a lot at oh and two, But I think

2041
01:38:49,439 --> 01:38:51,120
Speaker 1: the biggest problem is the defense and the way the

2042
01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:54,400
Speaker 1: defense has played through at least six quarters of the

2043
01:38:54,479 --> 01:38:56,720
Speaker 1: eighth they played so far. So what's the quick fix?

2044
01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:58,240
Speaker 1: What do the Bills need to do to turn that

2045
01:38:58,360 --> 01:39:03,599
Speaker 1: around instantly? On Twitter, many of you forty forty four

2046
01:39:03,600 --> 01:39:05,880
Speaker 1: percent say the way to get better in a hurry

2047
01:39:05,960 --> 01:39:08,559
Speaker 1: is to have Sean McDermott continuing to call the defensive

2048
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:11,000
Speaker 1: plays as he did in the second half last Sunday.

2049
01:39:11,479 --> 01:39:13,760
Speaker 1: I'm I'm open to that. Listen to that. I don't

2050
01:39:13,800 --> 01:39:15,479
Speaker 1: know if I'll have that much difference, but I'll listen

2051
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:17,679
Speaker 1: to it if somebody wants to make that argument. Thirty

2052
01:39:17,720 --> 01:39:19,559
Speaker 1: one percent of you say they need a better pass rush.

2053
01:39:19,880 --> 01:39:22,320
Speaker 1: Where do I sign up for that? Sixteen percent say

2054
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:24,799
Speaker 1: they need to find cornerback depth. Yes, they need quarters.

2055
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:27,200
Speaker 1: Where is it? Yeah? Find us help if you know somebody,

2056
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:29,599
Speaker 1: let us know. Nine percent have something else in mind,

2057
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:34,519
Speaker 1: give us a call. Eight h three five fifty. Here's

2058
01:39:34,560 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 1: the thing that people don't know. I talk to people

2059
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:40,240
Speaker 1: with the league and the teams and everybody that you know.

2060
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:43,240
Speaker 1: And He've always heard these guys at one time or

2061
01:39:43,240 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 1: another be referred to when you're hearing guys talk on

2062
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:48,439
Speaker 1: the radio or what have you, particularly around draft time.

2063
01:39:48,479 --> 01:39:51,080
Speaker 1: This guy's in charge of college scouting, and you know

2064
01:39:51,160 --> 01:39:53,240
Speaker 1: his college scout, so he's an air his scout or

2065
01:39:53,280 --> 01:39:56,720
Speaker 1: he's a college scout. He's director of college scouting. And

2066
01:39:56,800 --> 01:39:59,799
Speaker 1: then you have this guy's pro personnel, director of pro personnel.

2067
01:39:59,840 --> 01:40:02,400
Speaker 1: And and what that means is they scout every NFL

2068
01:40:02,479 --> 01:40:06,960
Speaker 1: team and every CFL team and every Arena league team,

2069
01:40:07,479 --> 01:40:10,000
Speaker 1: and you know, and they keep track of guys that

2070
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:12,200
Speaker 1: are fresh out of the league. That may still be

2071
01:40:12,280 --> 01:40:14,120
Speaker 1: trying to get back into the league through they know

2072
01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:17,599
Speaker 1: this through agents and representation that guys still want to play.

2073
01:40:18,360 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 1: All those all those entities are in play, and the

2074
01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:24,760
Speaker 1: Bills have all those people that are out there. They've

2075
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,720
Speaker 1: got lists of people that they're keeping track of. And

2076
01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:30,160
Speaker 1: the league, a guy with the league told me, there

2077
01:40:30,200 --> 01:40:35,200
Speaker 1: are they keep track of twelve one to twelve one

2078
01:40:35,280 --> 01:40:39,719
Speaker 1: thousand to twelve hundred college kids that are within twelve

2079
01:40:39,800 --> 01:40:42,720
Speaker 1: months or eighteen months of getting into the NFL. They

2080
01:40:42,840 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 1: keep track of all two thousand NFL players whatever many

2081
01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:50,040
Speaker 1: there are thirty two times fifty three, plus the practice

2082
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:52,400
Speaker 1: squad guys, all the other guys. There's you know, two

2083
01:40:52,439 --> 01:40:55,360
Speaker 1: thousand of those guys. And then there's also twelve to

2084
01:40:55,479 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred guys that are just out like I just mentioned,

2085
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:03,040
Speaker 1: like are just out of the league, just retired or

2086
01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:07,320
Speaker 1: um just cut that are free agents. That's a lot

2087
01:41:07,360 --> 01:41:10,519
Speaker 1: of names, and you would you know, the thing is this,

2088
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:14,760
Speaker 1: You think, Wow, there's gotta be somebody out there that's

2089
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:19,000
Speaker 1: worth doing it and worth getting it. Probably not right,

2090
01:41:19,720 --> 01:41:22,120
Speaker 1: probably not. It's not a guy that's gonna come in.

2091
01:41:22,200 --> 01:41:24,280
Speaker 1: You're not gonna find a guy out there that's gonna

2092
01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:29,000
Speaker 1: come in and be tradevious White. No, you know you're not.

2093
01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:31,200
Speaker 1: And he's not gonna be like E. J. Gaines was

2094
01:41:31,240 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 1: a year ago. He's not even gonna He's not gonna

2095
01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:34,960
Speaker 1: be one of those guys. He's gonna be what he is,

2096
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:38,680
Speaker 1: a guy that just missed for whatever reason. So, but

2097
01:41:39,280 --> 01:41:44,120
Speaker 1: there's still what four thousand names, forty five hundred names

2098
01:41:44,160 --> 01:41:46,080
Speaker 1: they gotta they gotta keep track of. Now, not all

2099
01:41:46,080 --> 01:41:49,200
Speaker 1: of those guys are defensive backs obviously or pass rushers,

2100
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:52,320
Speaker 1: but still those guys are on lists, and that's it's

2101
01:41:52,360 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: a it's a huge job they gotta keep track of

2102
01:41:54,280 --> 01:41:56,639
Speaker 1: all the time. I think signing a corner is paramount

2103
01:41:56,760 --> 01:41:59,280
Speaker 1: of finding a corner, maybe trading for a corner. Many

2104
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:01,680
Speaker 1: of you think it's who calls the defense based on

2105
01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:05,200
Speaker 1: what happened second half Sunday against the Chargers when Sean

2106
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: McDermot took over the plate calling duties on defense. The

2107
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 1: head coach talk about it yesterday. Sean McDermot talked about

2108
01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:14,320
Speaker 1: taking over the play calling duties and will that continue.

2109
01:42:14,360 --> 01:42:17,920
Speaker 1: Here's what he had to say, Well, we're gonna do

2110
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:21,920
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to win. And you know, look, there's

2111
01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:25,200
Speaker 1: I've been around some coaches before where that's been the case.

2112
01:42:25,560 --> 01:42:28,800
Speaker 1: And sometimes you're able to get into a flow. Sometimes

2113
01:42:29,160 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 1: somebody else you feel I can get into a flow.

2114
01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 1: And that was really them. Where it came from was

2115
01:42:34,240 --> 01:42:36,680
Speaker 1: just hey, I felt like I had I had a

2116
01:42:36,720 --> 01:42:38,960
Speaker 1: pretty good feel for what they were trying to do offensively,

2117
01:42:39,040 --> 01:42:42,040
Speaker 1: and um, and uh, I know wanted to come out

2118
01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:43,760
Speaker 1: and take the series and see how it went. And

2119
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:46,040
Speaker 1: I was able to get into a flow and Leslie

2120
01:42:46,120 --> 01:42:48,439
Speaker 1: was helping me the whole time. And and um, so

2121
01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:51,960
Speaker 1: like I said before, whatever whatever direction we go, um,

2122
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:54,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna work on it together. And I have a

2123
01:42:54,240 --> 01:42:56,600
Speaker 1: lot of confidence and Leslie Fraser in terms of a

2124
01:42:56,640 --> 01:42:59,639
Speaker 1: good defensive football coach. I'm sure Sean will be asked

2125
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:01,400
Speaker 1: that question again tomorrow and the next day and the

2126
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:03,360
Speaker 1: next day, and he may or may not answer it.

2127
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 1: He may not want to give that away. But it's

2128
01:43:06,040 --> 01:43:09,760
Speaker 1: an interesting question, Steven, not for me, not insomuch as

2129
01:43:10,400 --> 01:43:13,320
Speaker 1: what a difference it made, but just um, it's almost

2130
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:16,760
Speaker 1: like a moving forward question, you know, how their working relationship.

2131
01:43:17,520 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 1: If if he gives him back the defensive play calling

2132
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:22,000
Speaker 1: duties again, then what does he doing the next time

2133
01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:24,639
Speaker 1: defense is in trouble take him back again. That would

2134
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:26,800
Speaker 1: be a little awkward. If he doesn't give it back,

2135
01:43:26,960 --> 01:43:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, that's a little bit awkward too. I don't

2136
01:43:29,800 --> 01:43:31,120
Speaker 1: know where to go with I don't know where they

2137
01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:33,120
Speaker 1: will go with this. Yeah, I don't know. And it

2138
01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:35,560
Speaker 1: comes down to their relationship. I mean, how good of

2139
01:43:35,640 --> 01:43:39,479
Speaker 1: friends are they? And I listen coaching, you hear about

2140
01:43:39,520 --> 01:43:43,799
Speaker 1: guys coaching together. I know guys who are close friends

2141
01:43:44,240 --> 01:43:47,519
Speaker 1: and one of the friends has fired the other three times.

2142
01:43:48,280 --> 01:43:51,200
Speaker 1: He's fired him three times, but he's also been hired

2143
01:43:51,240 --> 01:43:54,200
Speaker 1: by the guy twice. Yeah, so it's that kind of relationship.

2144
01:43:54,280 --> 01:43:56,639
Speaker 1: In coaching circles, you get guys who around you, who

2145
01:43:56,680 --> 01:43:59,240
Speaker 1: you know you can trust, and they also understand each

2146
01:43:59,240 --> 01:44:01,600
Speaker 1: other that when things change, they got to pull the

2147
01:44:01,640 --> 01:44:03,720
Speaker 1: trigger on making a change. And you may be the

2148
01:44:03,840 --> 01:44:05,639
Speaker 1: change they're talking about making. You got to you gotta

2149
01:44:05,680 --> 01:44:08,320
Speaker 1: know that going in it doesn't it can't come between

2150
01:44:08,400 --> 01:44:15,439
Speaker 1: you and your and your friendship. It. But watching how

2151
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:18,200
Speaker 1: this plays out with Sean McDermott and Leslie Frasier is

2152
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:21,840
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting, are very interesting, and you know,

2153
01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:24,280
Speaker 1: everybody's got an opinion about it. Because of how the

2154
01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:26,080
Speaker 1: second half of that game went and how the in

2155
01:44:26,240 --> 01:44:30,360
Speaker 1: comparison to the first half. So yeah, but making no mistake,

2156
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: he said it in the very beginning of that sound bite.

2157
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:34,559
Speaker 1: He goes, we're gonna do whatever it takes to win. Yeah, Hey,

2158
01:44:34,640 --> 01:44:36,080
Speaker 1: let's take a few phone calls, a lot of calls

2159
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:39,400
Speaker 1: about johnsh Allen. Let's go to Ryan and Charlotte. Hello, Ryan,

2160
01:44:39,439 --> 01:44:42,639
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with us. So yeah, well,

2161
01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:45,400
Speaker 1: I think, you know, with Allen and the offense coming

2162
01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:48,080
Speaker 1: out in the second half, obviously everything works together. You know,

2163
01:44:48,280 --> 01:44:50,240
Speaker 1: if you can't see the finish line, you're running a

2164
01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:53,200
Speaker 1: race and the defense doesn't think they're getting off the

2165
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:55,200
Speaker 1: field because hey, we're just gonna go three and out again,

2166
01:44:55,760 --> 01:44:58,240
Speaker 1: you get gas. You lose a lot of drive and motivation.

2167
01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:01,280
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they're they're and it really seemed like

2168
01:45:01,360 --> 01:45:03,320
Speaker 1: when they came out in the second half and started

2169
01:45:03,360 --> 01:45:06,160
Speaker 1: to establish you know, a few runs, a few passes,

2170
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: and obviously, you know, I think they all work together

2171
01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:12,559
Speaker 1: with maybe McDermott calling the plays, that seemed to help

2172
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:15,200
Speaker 1: a lot. And then I was wondering what you guys

2173
01:45:15,240 --> 01:45:16,960
Speaker 1: thought about maybe bring it back like a guy like

2174
01:45:17,040 --> 01:45:19,759
Speaker 1: Breon Borders. I thought he looked better than Pitts. Actually

2175
01:45:20,320 --> 01:45:22,680
Speaker 1: he just wasn't a special team guy. But obviously now

2176
01:45:22,760 --> 01:45:24,479
Speaker 1: we have some room or maybe even I guess we

2177
01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:27,040
Speaker 1: just let Ryan Davis go. But I've never even seen him.

2178
01:45:27,040 --> 01:45:30,719
Speaker 1: He was on the team for about three days. Um. Yeah,

2179
01:45:30,760 --> 01:45:34,160
Speaker 1: I mean that's listen. Maybe one more flyers, Tanner Gentry,

2180
01:45:34,200 --> 01:45:36,600
Speaker 1: who played college ball with Josh All. I'd really like

2181
01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:39,240
Speaker 1: to see that guy can hide palm point of ball

2182
01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:42,519
Speaker 1: like better than anybody. I watched some of his preseason

2183
01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:44,800
Speaker 1: looks on the Bears last couple of years, and he

2184
01:45:44,880 --> 01:45:47,599
Speaker 1: looks very good. I'll take it out there. Yeah, I mean,

2185
01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:50,519
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's interesting stuff him. But believe me, they're

2186
01:45:50,600 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 1: all those guys are on the radar, particularly the guys

2187
01:45:52,560 --> 01:45:54,320
Speaker 1: that have been here in training. Cam he talked about

2188
01:45:54,320 --> 01:45:57,519
Speaker 1: the corners down the list of guys who have been playing.

2189
01:45:58,400 --> 01:46:00,720
Speaker 1: They're they're talking to all those guys. There's absolutely no

2190
01:46:00,800 --> 01:46:04,960
Speaker 1: doubt about it. They're talking to everybody who they have

2191
01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:08,120
Speaker 1: a file on, which is everybody. All the guys, certainly

2192
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 1: all the guys you talked about playing preseason football in

2193
01:46:10,200 --> 01:46:12,360
Speaker 1: the NFL all over the league, not just in Buffalo,

2194
01:46:12,479 --> 01:46:15,080
Speaker 1: not just in the AFC East, not just against teams

2195
01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:19,400
Speaker 1: that the Bills played in the preseason. Everybody, and they

2196
01:46:19,640 --> 01:46:22,679
Speaker 1: know who's representing them. And the simple fact the matter

2197
01:46:22,800 --> 01:46:25,320
Speaker 1: is they already had know a lot about those guys,

2198
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:28,600
Speaker 1: and they've already been disqualified for one reason or another. Now,

2199
01:46:28,720 --> 01:46:31,320
Speaker 1: some of them have been disqualified because they couldn't get them.

2200
01:46:31,439 --> 01:46:34,360
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there's a very short list to guys like that.

2201
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:37,080
Speaker 1: And other guys are disqualified because they're just not good

2202
01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:38,920
Speaker 1: enough and they know it before they even sign him,

2203
01:46:38,920 --> 01:46:40,519
Speaker 1: and which is why they didn't go after him in

2204
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:46,400
Speaker 1: the first place. But Ryan Tanner, the kid from Wyoming, Yeah,

2205
01:46:46,439 --> 01:46:48,439
Speaker 1: I don't know about him. I couldn't. I couldn't tell

2206
01:46:48,439 --> 01:46:50,240
Speaker 1: you whether he's any good or not. I know he's

2207
01:46:50,280 --> 01:46:52,560
Speaker 1: in training like he said, he's with the Bears for

2208
01:46:52,640 --> 01:46:54,439
Speaker 1: the last year or two or in training camp. I

2209
01:46:54,479 --> 01:46:55,840
Speaker 1: don't even know. Did he come out the same year

2210
01:46:55,840 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 1: as Josh or not. But high pointing a ball at

2211
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:00,880
Speaker 1: Wyoming's a little different than high pointing a ball in

2212
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:03,519
Speaker 1: the NFL. They have on the practice squad. By the way,

2213
01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 1: if you're talking about corners, and I think were you

2214
01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:08,479
Speaker 1: talked about Breon Borders. They have the rookie Levi Wallace

2215
01:47:08,520 --> 01:47:10,200
Speaker 1: from Alabama who went to camp with him and was

2216
01:47:10,280 --> 01:47:12,280
Speaker 1: here way back in the spring. He is on the

2217
01:47:12,320 --> 01:47:15,240
Speaker 1: practice squad. They have to sign him to the active roster,

2218
01:47:15,360 --> 01:47:18,320
Speaker 1: but that's one option as they look for some more corners.

2219
01:47:18,360 --> 01:47:20,000
Speaker 1: I think in the days ahead. A call here from

2220
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:24,439
Speaker 1: Joe and Rochester. Welcome Joe, you're on the air. How

2221
01:47:24,479 --> 01:47:28,120
Speaker 1: are you guys doing today? Really well? Right? All right?

2222
01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:30,360
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say this. I was talking with

2223
01:47:30,479 --> 01:47:33,080
Speaker 1: a good friend of mine earlier. It's not about the design.

2224
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:37,320
Speaker 1: For anybody out there who has anything against Josh Allen

2225
01:47:37,439 --> 01:47:42,080
Speaker 1: starting Troy Aikman one and fifteen its first year, Peyton

2226
01:47:42,560 --> 01:47:47,360
Speaker 1: two and fourteen. There was promise on Sunday. It was exciting. Yes,

2227
01:47:47,479 --> 01:47:51,519
Speaker 1: he made mistakes, but I'm excited for the first time

2228
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:54,080
Speaker 1: in a long time. And I don't care how many

2229
01:47:54,160 --> 01:47:57,519
Speaker 1: games we win this season. It's exciting, all right, Joe,

2230
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:00,800
Speaker 1: put your seatbelt on. You don't want that to I

2231
01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:02,880
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying. Yeah, And I'm not willing to

2232
01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:06,280
Speaker 1: concede one win season or two or three win season yet.

2233
01:48:06,280 --> 01:48:07,840
Speaker 1: We'll see how this goes. But go ahead, you got

2234
01:48:07,880 --> 01:48:10,400
Speaker 1: something to say about quarterbacks team at least right and right,

2235
01:48:10,479 --> 01:48:13,040
Speaker 1: And Peyton Manning was three and thirteen his rookie year,

2236
01:48:13,080 --> 01:48:16,560
Speaker 1: and you're right, Troy Aikman was one in fourteen or

2237
01:48:16,640 --> 01:48:22,080
Speaker 1: one in fifteen. They were bad. But nevertheless, nobody else

2238
01:48:22,160 --> 01:48:23,720
Speaker 1: on that team thought it was any fun going one

2239
01:48:23,840 --> 01:48:26,400
Speaker 1: or fifteen and three and thirteen. You may be okay

2240
01:48:26,479 --> 01:48:28,640
Speaker 1: with it, and some fans are okay with They can

2241
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:30,160
Speaker 1: see the light at the end of the tunnel. They

2242
01:48:30,200 --> 01:48:33,439
Speaker 1: see the big picture, and they're willing to sit back,

2243
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:37,799
Speaker 1: you know, and watch this team struggle through this season.

2244
01:48:38,880 --> 01:48:43,439
Speaker 1: I don't think it's any question, you know that this

2245
01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:46,320
Speaker 1: is a team that needed to overperform to get back

2246
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:48,240
Speaker 1: to the playoffs because of the way they played last

2247
01:48:48,320 --> 01:48:51,200
Speaker 1: year and the turnovers. The turnovers they got really drove

2248
01:48:51,280 --> 01:48:53,679
Speaker 1: them to the playoffs. They were the twenty sixth ranked defense,

2249
01:48:53,760 --> 01:48:56,400
Speaker 1: twenty ninth ranked offense. There aunt numbers just didn't that up,

2250
01:48:56,560 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 1: but they got a bunch of turnovers and they never

2251
01:48:58,280 --> 01:49:03,000
Speaker 1: turned it over. Everybody wanted to everybody involved even though

2252
01:49:03,040 --> 01:49:05,800
Speaker 1: this team made the playoffs last year, the fans, the

2253
01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:10,200
Speaker 1: coaching staff, the players, everybody expected this team to evolve

2254
01:49:10,320 --> 01:49:13,320
Speaker 1: from that, they expected it to change from that. They

2255
01:49:13,400 --> 01:49:16,280
Speaker 1: didn't want a quarterback that was basically kneeling down in

2256
01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:18,920
Speaker 1: the passing game. They didn't want a quarterback to throw

2257
01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:20,960
Speaker 1: that could throw for fifty six yards in a game.

2258
01:49:21,280 --> 01:49:23,599
Speaker 1: They wanted a running game. They wanted to play better

2259
01:49:23,720 --> 01:49:26,040
Speaker 1: run defense, They needed a better pass rush. They needed

2260
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:27,880
Speaker 1: to do a lot of things better than they did

2261
01:49:27,920 --> 01:49:30,360
Speaker 1: a year ago, and they had to make changes to

2262
01:49:30,439 --> 01:49:32,880
Speaker 1: the roster to do that, and some of those changes

2263
01:49:32,920 --> 01:49:35,200
Speaker 1: were dictated by the investment they had to put into

2264
01:49:35,280 --> 01:49:37,559
Speaker 1: getting high enough into the draft to get the guy

2265
01:49:38,040 --> 01:49:41,240
Speaker 1: that you're excited about, Josh Allen, and then they got

2266
01:49:41,320 --> 01:49:44,000
Speaker 1: blindsided a couple of times by the loss of a

2267
01:49:44,040 --> 01:49:46,240
Speaker 1: couple of offensive linemen. They have a pretty good chance

2268
01:49:46,280 --> 01:49:48,439
Speaker 1: of getting some guys in. They signed a free agent center,

2269
01:49:48,479 --> 01:49:51,120
Speaker 1: they signed a defensive lineman. They signed some guys to

2270
01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:53,880
Speaker 1: make some differences, and to this point we haven't seen

2271
01:49:53,880 --> 01:49:57,040
Speaker 1: any benefit from that. That's been a surprise. That's been

2272
01:49:57,040 --> 01:49:59,760
Speaker 1: a surprise, but they had to live through those consequences

2273
01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:02,639
Speaker 1: of a There is a lot to be excited about,

2274
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:06,599
Speaker 1: no question about it, and there's but by the same token,

2275
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:08,960
Speaker 1: you gotta expect these guys to play better. Yeah, you

2276
01:50:09,040 --> 01:50:11,000
Speaker 1: gotta hold them account. You got there, because again you

2277
01:50:11,040 --> 01:50:13,439
Speaker 1: start writing the obituary for the season. Yet they're going

2278
01:50:13,479 --> 01:50:17,599
Speaker 1: to play better, and they played better. Yet they played

2279
01:50:17,640 --> 01:50:20,360
Speaker 1: better week two than they did Week one, significantly better.

2280
01:50:20,360 --> 01:50:22,240
Speaker 1: A lot of it was Josh Allen giving them a chance.

2281
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:24,840
Speaker 1: Some of it was the field conditions even but I'm

2282
01:50:24,880 --> 01:50:28,400
Speaker 1: telling you this, I did see a difference in their

2283
01:50:28,439 --> 01:50:30,400
Speaker 1: pass rush and the way their defense played in the

2284
01:50:30,439 --> 01:50:32,560
Speaker 1: second half. Maybe it was Sean McDermott, maybe it was

2285
01:50:32,600 --> 01:50:35,120
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Maybe it was the players looking around at

2286
01:50:35,120 --> 01:50:37,760
Speaker 1: each other saying, listen, this isn't good enough. Whatever it was,

2287
01:50:38,360 --> 01:50:40,920
Speaker 1: they're playing, there's it's in them to play better. They've

2288
01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:43,479
Speaker 1: got to continue that. Nobody can be happy with the

2289
01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:46,040
Speaker 1: way they've played in the first two weeks of this season.

2290
01:50:46,160 --> 01:50:48,639
Speaker 1: A call here from Peter and Rochester. Hello Peter, welcome

2291
01:50:48,680 --> 01:50:53,840
Speaker 1: to the show. Hello, thanks for taking the call. Sure, um,

2292
01:50:54,400 --> 01:50:57,040
Speaker 1: And a couple of thoughts after the game on Sunday.

2293
01:50:57,800 --> 01:51:02,200
Speaker 1: For the first time so the season started, I really

2294
01:51:02,320 --> 01:51:06,200
Speaker 1: felt very positive about the Bills season coming up. And

2295
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:11,320
Speaker 1: that was because at last we have the quarterback positions settled.

2296
01:51:11,960 --> 01:51:14,680
Speaker 1: It was very disturbing to be going day after day,

2297
01:51:14,760 --> 01:51:18,080
Speaker 1: week after week. We're wondering who the quarterback would be.

2298
01:51:18,760 --> 01:51:24,839
Speaker 1: And I think that Josh Allen showed enough of skills

2299
01:51:25,439 --> 01:51:29,400
Speaker 1: and positive things that he needs to perform in the NFL.

2300
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:34,479
Speaker 1: And I said, well, the quarterback issue is over, that's settled,

2301
01:51:34,720 --> 01:51:38,400
Speaker 1: and he was looking for good on several things and

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01:51:38,640 --> 01:51:43,760
Speaker 1: others he needs improvement. The one thing that he must

2303
01:51:43,840 --> 01:51:48,080
Speaker 1: have is time as a starting quarterback. He will not

2304
01:51:48,360 --> 01:51:52,160
Speaker 1: learn to read defenses without being out there in front

2305
01:51:52,200 --> 01:51:56,960
Speaker 1: of different defenses. And probably you know Steve, it's different

2306
01:51:57,080 --> 01:52:01,360
Speaker 1: working in the various Steels video playoffs. He needs experience

2307
01:52:01,479 --> 01:52:05,200
Speaker 1: of that too. So leave him there, let him learn

2308
01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:07,880
Speaker 1: the things he can only learn by being there, and

2309
01:52:08,040 --> 01:52:13,080
Speaker 1: then look on his areas of improvement, like, for example,

2310
01:52:13,200 --> 01:52:17,760
Speaker 1: he showed patience with his running. He didn't run immediately.

2311
01:52:18,320 --> 01:52:21,280
Speaker 1: He waited till that until you could see some openings

2312
01:52:21,360 --> 01:52:25,559
Speaker 1: coming along, and that was very positive. He showed patience

2313
01:52:25,600 --> 01:52:31,960
Speaker 1: with his short memory too. Yeah, did not disflate him totally. Right, Peter,

2314
01:52:31,960 --> 01:52:34,280
Speaker 1: You make a lot of good points, including the point

2315
01:52:34,320 --> 01:52:37,160
Speaker 1: I most agree with is the fact that the fact

2316
01:52:37,200 --> 01:52:39,840
Speaker 1: that he's playing now earlier than many had anticipated and

2317
01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:42,320
Speaker 1: some had hoped for. But the fact that Josh Allen

2318
01:52:42,439 --> 01:52:45,719
Speaker 1: is playing now means the education has begun, the process

2319
01:52:45,800 --> 01:52:48,599
Speaker 1: of him getting better. I don't think there's much value

2320
01:52:48,600 --> 01:52:51,439
Speaker 1: Steve to being the guy with the clipboard and being

2321
01:52:51,479 --> 01:52:53,560
Speaker 1: on a headset during the game. There's some, but not

2322
01:52:53,640 --> 01:52:56,800
Speaker 1: as much value as he's getting being out there five

2323
01:52:56,880 --> 01:52:59,120
Speaker 1: fifty five sixty plays a game, and yeah, he just

2324
01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:01,880
Speaker 1: put in one days one day work last Sunday, and

2325
01:53:01,960 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: hopefully he punches the clock and does it again this

2326
01:53:03,800 --> 01:53:06,479
Speaker 1: Sunday and gets a little bit better every time he plays. Yeah,

2327
01:53:06,520 --> 01:53:09,400
Speaker 1: that's what the goal is. There is absolutely no substitute

2328
01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:12,799
Speaker 1: for being out there none. I mean you can certainly

2329
01:53:12,920 --> 01:53:15,360
Speaker 1: being on the team going through practice, watching the starter

2330
01:53:15,520 --> 01:53:18,519
Speaker 1: get ready, being standing on the sidelines listening to the

2331
01:53:18,560 --> 01:53:21,120
Speaker 1: play call every play during a live game and watching

2332
01:53:21,160 --> 01:53:24,400
Speaker 1: a quarterback get it done or not get it done

2333
01:53:24,760 --> 01:53:28,280
Speaker 1: is invaluable to every quarterback. But nothing takes the place

2334
01:53:28,400 --> 01:53:30,800
Speaker 1: of being the guy on the field. It's going to

2335
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:35,000
Speaker 1: accelerate his process of getting good enough to where the

2336
01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:38,240
Speaker 1: team is gonna win because of him and not lose

2337
01:53:38,320 --> 01:53:41,320
Speaker 1: because of him or get beat because of him. This

2338
01:53:41,560 --> 01:53:44,679
Speaker 1: is a guy who Josh Allen and his development could

2339
01:53:44,800 --> 01:53:46,800
Speaker 1: get to He's got the abilities to get to the

2340
01:53:46,920 --> 01:53:53,479
Speaker 1: point where this team wins because of him. That's that

2341
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:56,439
Speaker 1: shining star on the horizon that Bill's fans have been

2342
01:53:56,479 --> 01:53:59,479
Speaker 1: waiting for for a long time, not to have a

2343
01:53:59,600 --> 01:54:02,120
Speaker 1: quarterback act that gives you a chance to win, but

2344
01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:07,360
Speaker 1: a quarterback that your team is gonna win because he's

2345
01:54:07,439 --> 01:54:11,080
Speaker 1: on the fields, like Philip Rivers and like Joe Flacco too,

2346
01:54:11,320 --> 01:54:14,599
Speaker 1: and like like Aaron Rodgers, like Drew Brees, like all

2347
01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:17,960
Speaker 1: those guys, like anybody, like any quarterback you can name

2348
01:54:18,080 --> 01:54:20,680
Speaker 1: who you know, when that guy's on the field, that

2349
01:54:20,800 --> 01:54:24,519
Speaker 1: team's got a shot. And after the game, you realize

2350
01:54:24,560 --> 01:54:26,719
Speaker 1: when you're walking off, Yeah he played good and everybody

2351
01:54:26,760 --> 01:54:28,559
Speaker 1: did good. The team was a great, great team win.

2352
01:54:28,720 --> 01:54:30,160
Speaker 1: But you know what, we would not have gotten it

2353
01:54:30,240 --> 01:54:33,160
Speaker 1: done without that guy. That's what you're hoping for from

2354
01:54:33,240 --> 01:54:36,600
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. That road and that journey has begun, and

2355
01:54:36,760 --> 01:54:39,320
Speaker 1: I thought he got off on to a really good

2356
01:54:39,400 --> 01:54:41,760
Speaker 1: start last Sunday. Say one more call on the offense

2357
01:54:41,840 --> 01:54:44,200
Speaker 1: before we get to a break, Danny and Buffalo go ahead, Danny,

2358
01:54:44,240 --> 01:54:47,400
Speaker 1: welcome to the show, and thank you guys. Um I

2359
01:54:47,480 --> 01:54:50,160
Speaker 1: just want to say, um, Steve Tasker, we miss you,

2360
01:54:50,760 --> 01:54:53,560
Speaker 1: but I would like to see Buffalo come out with

2361
01:54:53,720 --> 01:54:57,920
Speaker 1: some more officive place guy's going across the middle. You know,

2362
01:54:58,160 --> 01:55:00,280
Speaker 1: we had it back in the dates with Andre Read

2363
01:55:00,720 --> 01:55:03,240
Speaker 1: it was very successful. I don't see a lot of

2364
01:55:03,320 --> 01:55:05,800
Speaker 1: those plays. All I see is guys throwing it down

2365
01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:07,720
Speaker 1: a field, you know, trying to get out routes and

2366
01:55:07,840 --> 01:55:11,680
Speaker 1: everything like that. And you know, an offensive line also

2367
01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:15,240
Speaker 1: need to engage the defensive line. I hate when the

2368
01:55:15,280 --> 01:55:18,760
Speaker 1: offensive line is walking back towards the quarterback, don't give

2369
01:55:18,800 --> 01:55:22,280
Speaker 1: him enough room to really operate. I would like to

2370
01:55:22,320 --> 01:55:25,880
Speaker 1: see the guys engage them. Yeah. I think a little

2371
01:55:25,880 --> 01:55:28,120
Speaker 1: bit of that, Danny is. You know, the offensive line

2372
01:55:28,920 --> 01:55:31,600
Speaker 1: you're trying to absorb that rush and they're getting pushed back.

2373
01:55:31,640 --> 01:55:33,240
Speaker 1: You're right, they need to be a little stouter up

2374
01:55:33,320 --> 01:55:36,120
Speaker 1: front and hold their ground a little better. That's what

2375
01:55:36,240 --> 01:55:38,920
Speaker 1: a pass rush is for, particularly from those defensive tackles.

2376
01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:41,960
Speaker 1: They're trained just really. You know, you see those outside guys,

2377
01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:44,560
Speaker 1: those outside rush edge guys go up and under. You

2378
01:55:44,600 --> 01:55:46,600
Speaker 1: see him go off the edge and around the corner.

2379
01:55:47,040 --> 01:55:50,200
Speaker 1: You see him push the defensive or the offensive tackle

2380
01:55:50,280 --> 01:55:53,400
Speaker 1: back into the quarterback. Now you see Khalil Mack do

2381
01:55:53,520 --> 01:55:55,240
Speaker 1: that if you watch Money Night Football last night. He

2382
01:55:55,280 --> 01:55:57,320
Speaker 1: has a whole repertoire of pass moves where he goes

2383
01:55:57,400 --> 01:56:00,960
Speaker 1: up and under inside, outside, and twists and turn and moves.

2384
01:56:01,560 --> 01:56:06,480
Speaker 1: Defensive lineman down inside are trained to be road graders,

2385
01:56:07,040 --> 01:56:10,040
Speaker 1: push the whole thing back so that the guys coming

2386
01:56:10,080 --> 01:56:13,120
Speaker 1: off the edge, the quarterback can't step away from them.

2387
01:56:13,400 --> 01:56:16,560
Speaker 1: And that's that's what the Bills into your offensive line

2388
01:56:16,600 --> 01:56:18,280
Speaker 1: needs to keep from happening. You're right, they need to.

2389
01:56:18,520 --> 01:56:22,240
Speaker 1: They need to be stouter upfront, but they're working progress.

2390
01:56:22,720 --> 01:56:26,000
Speaker 1: They played much better against the Chargers than they did

2391
01:56:26,040 --> 01:56:28,919
Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Ravens, and we'll have to see continued improvement.

2392
01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:31,400
Speaker 1: But you're right they do. I thought when they gave

2393
01:56:31,480 --> 01:56:33,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, in fact, what's one of the positives I

2394
01:56:33,160 --> 01:56:36,160
Speaker 1: saw that game when they did, on occasion give him

2395
01:56:36,280 --> 01:56:40,080
Speaker 1: enough time and like Peter the caller before said, he

2396
01:56:40,320 --> 01:56:43,000
Speaker 1: used it. He hung in there, kept his eyes down

2397
01:56:43,080 --> 01:56:47,360
Speaker 1: the field and delivered the football. There was a lot

2398
01:56:47,440 --> 01:56:50,320
Speaker 1: to like about Josh Allen because those occasions when he

2399
01:56:50,360 --> 01:56:52,760
Speaker 1: did have time he didn't have He wasn't pulling it

2400
01:56:52,840 --> 01:56:55,280
Speaker 1: down quick and running. He was Actually he was getting

2401
01:56:55,280 --> 01:56:57,800
Speaker 1: criticized for hanging onto it too long. Yeah, which is

2402
01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:01,800
Speaker 1: better than not looking long enough to see somebody get open.

2403
01:57:01,960 --> 01:57:04,120
Speaker 1: I mean, because you know what, I think it had

2404
01:57:04,160 --> 01:57:06,360
Speaker 1: something to do with the five sacks, you know, I think, Yeah,

2405
01:57:06,440 --> 01:57:08,840
Speaker 1: And even Davell said it yesterday. Davis quote, I don't

2406
01:57:08,840 --> 01:57:10,320
Speaker 1: have it in front of me, was like half of

2407
01:57:10,360 --> 01:57:12,600
Speaker 1: those sacks were not the fallow the offensive line. Yeah.

2408
01:57:12,800 --> 01:57:15,120
Speaker 1: My interpretation was they were Josh hanging onto a two.

2409
01:57:15,400 --> 01:57:16,920
Speaker 1: So three of the five. Yeah, but you know what,

2410
01:57:17,560 --> 01:57:21,640
Speaker 1: it's better than having him rushed for eighty seven yards

2411
01:57:22,040 --> 01:57:24,280
Speaker 1: to thirty. Well, let's get good. So he pulls the

2412
01:57:24,320 --> 01:57:25,880
Speaker 1: trigger and get some get rid of the ball and

2413
01:57:25,960 --> 01:57:29,000
Speaker 1: makes some separation on the outside. You're right, let's get

2414
01:57:29,040 --> 01:57:31,360
Speaker 1: it does get some guys open. We're gonna get back

2415
01:57:31,400 --> 01:57:33,040
Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the ball when we come

2416
01:57:33,120 --> 01:57:36,200
Speaker 1: back after this break, Steve I looked over my Sabers notes.

2417
01:57:36,200 --> 01:57:38,919
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to know this about tonight's game. Expected

2418
01:57:38,960 --> 01:57:40,960
Speaker 1: to play for the Sabers tonight in this preseason game

2419
01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:44,880
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. Jack Eichel, Rasmus Dialine Rasmus rista line in

2420
01:57:45,200 --> 01:57:49,360
Speaker 1: Jeff Skinner, Casey middlestadt, Carter Hutton, Steve they might. You

2421
01:57:49,480 --> 01:57:51,000
Speaker 1: gotta go to this game? Am I supposed to know

2422
01:57:51,040 --> 01:57:54,000
Speaker 1: those guys? You're a season ticket older Dane, you know

2423
01:57:54,040 --> 01:57:55,680
Speaker 1: what he is. Jack Eichel, you know who he is.

2424
01:57:55,840 --> 01:57:57,840
Speaker 1: I remember Jack, You gotta go to this game. He's

2425
01:57:57,880 --> 01:58:00,920
Speaker 1: this guy. Skinner. You gotta, Yes, you gotta go to

2426
01:58:01,040 --> 01:58:03,040
Speaker 1: this game tonight. It's gonna be fun. Is it gonna

2427
01:58:03,040 --> 01:58:04,320
Speaker 1: be a buzz in the building? Is that what you're

2428
01:58:04,320 --> 01:58:06,320
Speaker 1: telling me? When you show up? There will be today? There?

2429
01:58:06,840 --> 01:58:09,960
Speaker 1: Let's go, baby break. We're back with more and more

2430
01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:13,040
Speaker 1: discussion on the Buffalo defense. When we return One Bills

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01:58:13,040 --> 01:58:27,920
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Speaker 1: the Numbers quarterback Josh Allen. He had two ter forty

2434
01:58:33,880 --> 01:58:37,000
Speaker 1: five passing yards last week against the Chargers, the most

2435
01:58:37,080 --> 01:58:39,560
Speaker 1: passing yards by a Buffalo Bill, making his first career

2436
01:58:39,720 --> 01:58:42,960
Speaker 1: NFL start since Jim Kelly threw for two hundred ninety

2437
01:58:42,960 --> 01:58:47,000
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2439
01:58:49,560 --> 01:58:52,000
Speaker 1: a break from the expected place scratch off games from

2440
01:58:52,040 --> 01:58:54,560
Speaker 1: the New York lottery. All right, let's talk about the

2441
01:58:54,600 --> 01:58:57,600
Speaker 1: defense and our Twitter poll today dealing with the Buffalo defense,

2442
01:58:57,760 --> 01:58:59,240
Speaker 1: I I don't know from you, how do they get

2443
01:58:59,440 --> 01:59:01,800
Speaker 1: better in hurry? Because time is of the essence. Right,

2444
01:59:01,840 --> 01:59:04,240
Speaker 1: we're moving to week three of the season. What do

2445
01:59:04,320 --> 01:59:06,400
Speaker 1: you think? What do the Bills need to do? On Twitter?

2446
01:59:06,480 --> 01:59:08,680
Speaker 1: We put the question up there about eleven thirty twelve

2447
01:59:08,680 --> 01:59:10,920
Speaker 1: o'clock today, We've had I want to say, about a

2448
01:59:10,960 --> 01:59:14,520
Speaker 1: thousand responses or so on Twitter. The majority right now say,

2449
01:59:14,600 --> 01:59:18,160
Speaker 1: have Sean McDermott continue to call the plays on defense,

2450
01:59:18,200 --> 01:59:21,240
Speaker 1: to call the defensive plays, that's your solution. Forty four

2451
01:59:21,280 --> 01:59:23,360
Speaker 1: percent of you say that. Thirty one percent of you

2452
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:25,600
Speaker 1: say a better pass rush is the key to get

2453
01:59:25,640 --> 01:59:28,080
Speaker 1: better in a hurry. Sixteen percent say you got to

2454
01:59:28,120 --> 01:59:30,960
Speaker 1: find some cornerback depth. I agree with that. Nine percent

2455
01:59:31,080 --> 01:59:32,640
Speaker 1: have something else in mind. Give us a call eight

2456
01:59:32,720 --> 01:59:36,040
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo

2457
01:59:36,120 --> 01:59:39,080
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty A

2458
01:59:39,120 --> 01:59:40,920
Speaker 1: couple of calls on us. Let's go to our buddy

2459
01:59:41,040 --> 01:59:43,000
Speaker 1: Edric in New Jersey. How Edric, go ahead, you're on

2460
01:59:43,040 --> 01:59:46,280
Speaker 1: the air. Hey, how are you guys going? Okay, I'm

2461
01:59:46,320 --> 01:59:48,480
Speaker 1: gonna be on. It's been a while again. I don't know,

2462
01:59:48,480 --> 01:59:49,920
Speaker 1: I just kind of never get a chance to call

2463
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:53,520
Speaker 1: in anymore. We miss you, Edric, go ahead. Yeah, I

2464
01:59:53,640 --> 01:59:57,280
Speaker 1: still listen though, I still listen. But anyways, you know,

2465
01:59:57,440 --> 02:00:00,200
Speaker 1: just just my comments on the defense, I'm I'm so

2466
02:00:00,320 --> 02:00:03,320
Speaker 1: disappointed because I was on, I was on board with

2467
02:00:03,480 --> 02:00:05,760
Speaker 1: with with with Steve. I thought we'd be a top

2468
02:00:05,840 --> 02:00:08,520
Speaker 1: ten defense and and I just don't. I don't know,

2469
02:00:08,920 --> 02:00:11,600
Speaker 1: I don't understand what the problem is because I I

2470
02:00:11,680 --> 02:00:15,120
Speaker 1: don't see individual guys playing all that bad, you know,

2471
02:00:15,200 --> 02:00:18,040
Speaker 1: aside from Philip Gains in that first game, and and

2472
02:00:18,280 --> 02:00:20,880
Speaker 1: and you know, Raphael Bush getting put in the nickel,

2473
02:00:21,400 --> 02:00:24,280
Speaker 1: you know. Um So, I just I don't. I don't

2474
02:00:24,320 --> 02:00:27,640
Speaker 1: see what the issue is. I thought, once uh coach

2475
02:00:27,760 --> 02:00:30,600
Speaker 1: McDermott started calling the plays, there was a spark. There

2476
02:00:30,720 --> 02:00:33,280
Speaker 1: was a definite spark. I mean, the guys looked like

2477
02:00:33,320 --> 02:00:35,440
Speaker 1: they were flying around, looked like there was the right

2478
02:00:35,480 --> 02:00:39,720
Speaker 1: play calls um being called. Um So, I don't know,

2479
02:00:39,760 --> 02:00:41,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's if coach should take over

2480
02:00:41,560 --> 02:00:44,440
Speaker 1: the calling dude, either or I don't know what could work,

2481
02:00:44,520 --> 02:00:47,280
Speaker 1: but but man, I looked really good in that second half. Um.

2482
02:00:47,400 --> 02:00:49,200
Speaker 1: And also, I just want to want to make a

2483
02:00:49,280 --> 02:00:54,680
Speaker 1: comment on on our offense, um Man, besides uh Josh Allen,

2484
02:00:54,720 --> 02:00:58,120
Speaker 1: who I thought played pretty well on Sunday, I gave

2485
02:00:58,200 --> 02:01:00,480
Speaker 1: him a beat because kind of like Steve to Um,

2486
02:01:01,280 --> 02:01:05,880
Speaker 1: we have no no offensive cornerstone guys moving forward, aside

2487
02:01:05,920 --> 02:01:07,960
Speaker 1: from maybe d On Dawkins. I mean, our offense is

2488
02:01:08,600 --> 02:01:13,400
Speaker 1: our offense is bad. I mean Kelvin Benjamin if he

2489
02:01:13,480 --> 02:01:17,200
Speaker 1: can somehow revert to that first preseason game, then maybe

2490
02:01:17,240 --> 02:01:20,680
Speaker 1: we have something. Say Jones is practically a non factor.

2491
02:01:20,720 --> 02:01:22,040
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't even see he was in the

2492
02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:25,240
Speaker 1: game that first game of the season. Um. I mean,

2493
02:01:25,400 --> 02:01:27,720
Speaker 1: we have a lot of work to do offensively, guys,

2494
02:01:28,160 --> 02:01:31,720
Speaker 1: and it's really disappointing that we really, you know, we

2495
02:01:31,840 --> 02:01:34,640
Speaker 1: just have I look forward. I'm just like, man, all

2496
02:01:34,720 --> 02:01:37,120
Speaker 1: I see is Alan. I said, that's all we got Alan,

2497
02:01:37,760 --> 02:01:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, And I just want to get your thoughts

2498
02:01:39,120 --> 02:01:41,680
Speaker 1: on that. And as always, it's a great show. I

2499
02:01:41,760 --> 02:01:44,360
Speaker 1: love the guests and thanks for having me on, guys.

2500
02:01:44,400 --> 02:01:46,920
Speaker 1: Than I'll tell you another spot Edrich that I've been

2501
02:01:46,920 --> 02:01:51,320
Speaker 1: a little unpleasantly surprised, I guess are a little disappointed

2502
02:01:51,360 --> 02:01:52,840
Speaker 1: in is that the tight ends. I thought the tight

2503
02:01:52,960 --> 02:01:54,240
Speaker 1: ends were gonna be much better than they were. I

2504
02:01:54,280 --> 02:01:56,280
Speaker 1: thought they're gonna be a much bigger factor in the

2505
02:01:56,400 --> 02:01:59,040
Speaker 1: offense than they have been. Certainly, Charles Clay is a

2506
02:01:59,080 --> 02:02:01,440
Speaker 1: guy that has been active in the National Football League,

2507
02:02:01,440 --> 02:02:03,800
Speaker 1: and he's a He's a weapon, particularly when he's been

2508
02:02:03,880 --> 02:02:07,600
Speaker 1: healthy in the past, He's been a real threat for

2509
02:02:07,720 --> 02:02:11,160
Speaker 1: this club. And also with the addition of Jason Krumh,

2510
02:02:11,400 --> 02:02:15,520
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas, Uh, They've got some guys that are not

2511
02:02:15,800 --> 02:02:19,000
Speaker 1: only athletic but also big. Logan Thomas is a really

2512
02:02:19,080 --> 02:02:22,880
Speaker 1: tall guy, big target, much like Calvin Benjamin Uh, and

2513
02:02:23,040 --> 02:02:25,240
Speaker 1: we haven't seen him use them like that either. So

2514
02:02:26,040 --> 02:02:28,080
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons, I like you, I'm a

2515
02:02:28,080 --> 02:02:33,640
Speaker 1: little a lot disappointed in not only the production they've had,

2516
02:02:34,280 --> 02:02:37,720
Speaker 1: but also the fact that you know, going forward, which

2517
02:02:37,800 --> 02:02:39,920
Speaker 1: guys you really hang you gonna hang your hat on.

2518
02:02:40,160 --> 02:02:44,440
Speaker 1: I think maybe Dion Dockins, Yeah, maybe, uh, Jordan Mills,

2519
02:02:44,520 --> 02:02:47,280
Speaker 1: maybe he may have two offensive tackles that you can

2520
02:02:47,360 --> 02:02:50,800
Speaker 1: go move forward with. It has been Lashawn McCoy also

2521
02:02:50,880 --> 02:02:52,640
Speaker 1: in the past, he's been a pretty steady guy. You

2522
02:02:52,680 --> 02:02:55,400
Speaker 1: saw him snap through a hole on Sunday and get

2523
02:02:55,680 --> 02:02:58,120
Speaker 1: get loose for a big game. He's still got some

2524
02:02:58,200 --> 02:03:00,360
Speaker 1: gas in his tank. Although you know, like we we

2525
02:03:00,440 --> 02:03:03,440
Speaker 1: saw he's injured. And even on the injury, it was

2526
02:03:03,480 --> 02:03:05,960
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman getting pushed back over the top of

2527
02:03:06,040 --> 02:03:09,880
Speaker 1: him that that crunched his ribs. So yeah, there's a

2528
02:03:09,920 --> 02:03:13,879
Speaker 1: lot to be worried about, I think maybe going forward,

2529
02:03:13,960 --> 02:03:16,200
Speaker 1: but I think there's no question either that the guys

2530
02:03:16,240 --> 02:03:20,040
Speaker 1: they've got on the roster, I've seen all of these

2531
02:03:20,120 --> 02:03:22,640
Speaker 1: guys played better than they've played so far. That's the

2532
02:03:22,720 --> 02:03:27,120
Speaker 1: big thing. I've seen these guys play better, and that's

2533
02:03:27,320 --> 02:03:30,280
Speaker 1: what has me kind of sitting back, kind of waiting

2534
02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:34,120
Speaker 1: for that to happen. We had Robert Foster on the

2535
02:03:34,240 --> 02:03:37,240
Speaker 1: on the show earlier today and he was a really

2536
02:03:37,280 --> 02:03:38,840
Speaker 1: good guests and I think we got a couple of

2537
02:03:39,080 --> 02:03:41,560
Speaker 1: little feedback about Robert's interview. A lot of people really

2538
02:03:41,600 --> 02:03:45,480
Speaker 1: like he's a great guy, likable guy. Um, we saw

2539
02:03:45,600 --> 02:03:47,640
Speaker 1: him on the field so this last week, and it's

2540
02:03:47,640 --> 02:03:51,880
Speaker 1: a rookie, undrafted free agent who by all accounts has

2541
02:03:51,960 --> 02:03:57,160
Speaker 1: worked his way onto the field that's been great to see. Um,

2542
02:03:57,400 --> 02:04:00,200
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of speed and he's six feet two.

2543
02:04:00,320 --> 02:04:03,000
Speaker 1: He's ways you're right, around two hundred pounds. He's big

2544
02:04:03,600 --> 02:04:07,560
Speaker 1: and fast. So uh, that's something that the that the team.

2545
02:04:07,800 --> 02:04:10,680
Speaker 1: I would look for him to grow even further. He's

2546
02:04:10,720 --> 02:04:13,160
Speaker 1: worked his way onto the field after working his way

2547
02:04:13,240 --> 02:04:17,200
Speaker 1: onto the roster, and he's active for both games and

2548
02:04:17,360 --> 02:04:19,680
Speaker 1: now he's on the field and they're handing him the football.

2549
02:04:20,280 --> 02:04:22,280
Speaker 1: That spells good things for this team. I think he's

2550
02:04:22,320 --> 02:04:25,360
Speaker 1: a guy that you could look for to develop, no question, though,

2551
02:04:25,720 --> 02:04:27,920
Speaker 1: I've seen most of the guys on this offense play

2552
02:04:27,960 --> 02:04:29,720
Speaker 1: better than we've seen him play in the first two weeks,

2553
02:04:29,760 --> 02:04:32,120
Speaker 1: and they're much like the defense you gotta expect. You

2554
02:04:32,160 --> 02:04:33,960
Speaker 1: got to hold him to a higher standard. Let's take

2555
02:04:33,960 --> 02:04:36,640
Speaker 1: a call from Kevin in Rhode Island. Hello, Kevin. We're

2556
02:04:36,680 --> 02:04:40,880
Speaker 1: in Rhode Island. Are you Kevin? Hey? Birth? Yeah? War

2557
02:04:41,040 --> 02:04:45,320
Speaker 1: College here in Newport? Okay? What college is there in Newport?

2558
02:04:45,600 --> 02:04:47,960
Speaker 1: War College? He said, oh, War College. Okay, I didn't

2559
02:04:48,000 --> 02:04:51,640
Speaker 1: hear that college. Okay, isn't um. Let's say let's go

2560
02:04:51,800 --> 02:04:55,360
Speaker 1: Roger Williams is at a Newport it is, Yeah, Okay,

2561
02:04:55,720 --> 02:04:59,480
Speaker 1: I actually just moved here from Virginia a few weeks ago. Okay, cool,

2562
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:03,800
Speaker 1: I'll figure in the area out, gotcha, you go. What's up, keV. Hey,

2563
02:05:03,920 --> 02:05:06,720
Speaker 1: So just wanted to say, Uh, you know, I think

2564
02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:10,080
Speaker 1: it really boils down to scheme on defense. Uh, we've

2565
02:05:10,120 --> 02:05:14,400
Speaker 1: got a talented secondary, you know, good good safeties, you know,

2566
02:05:14,600 --> 02:05:17,920
Speaker 1: player and Micah Hyde and you know the second half.

2567
02:05:18,000 --> 02:05:21,640
Speaker 1: I just think McDermott took over for Frasier there and

2568
02:05:21,880 --> 02:05:24,680
Speaker 1: just changing up the scheme and the call and play calling.

2569
02:05:25,480 --> 02:05:27,760
Speaker 1: I really, I really think that's what it boils down to,

2570
02:05:28,080 --> 02:05:31,560
Speaker 1: is planning, you know, planning ahead for the next opponent

2571
02:05:31,680 --> 02:05:34,160
Speaker 1: and making sure that you've got a plan in place

2572
02:05:34,360 --> 02:05:38,160
Speaker 1: beforehand that's gonna be successful. Yeah, that's a really good point,

2573
02:05:38,200 --> 02:05:40,480
Speaker 1: Kevin Stephen we talked about. I'm really interested to thank

2574
02:05:40,520 --> 02:05:43,120
Speaker 1: you Kevin for calling. Really interesting to see how this

2575
02:05:43,240 --> 02:05:45,440
Speaker 1: works out, how they settle up who's coming to the defense.

2576
02:05:45,960 --> 02:05:48,840
Speaker 1: I hope it is as easy as changing up who

2577
02:05:48,920 --> 02:05:51,520
Speaker 1: calls the defensive signals. I'm not sure that that will

2578
02:05:51,800 --> 02:05:54,160
Speaker 1: solve the problem. It was a better second half. I

2579
02:05:54,280 --> 02:05:56,879
Speaker 1: hope it's that quick a fix. I guess I'm skeptical

2580
02:05:56,920 --> 02:05:58,800
Speaker 1: that it's almost too much to ask for it. It's

2581
02:05:58,800 --> 02:06:02,360
Speaker 1: almost too easy to think it's at Yeah, I have

2582
02:06:02,440 --> 02:06:05,240
Speaker 1: a hard time believe in that. Sens And one of

2583
02:06:05,240 --> 02:06:07,920
Speaker 1: the earlier callers or one of the tweets came in

2584
02:06:08,000 --> 02:06:09,960
Speaker 1: and said, listen, they they got to do a better

2585
02:06:10,080 --> 02:06:11,760
Speaker 1: job getting out ahead of it and doing a better

2586
02:06:11,920 --> 02:06:14,960
Speaker 1: job game planning. Certainly, all of these teams at this

2587
02:06:15,120 --> 02:06:17,320
Speaker 1: point of the season, even into this week three, are

2588
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:18,960
Speaker 1: going to be able to pull some things out of

2589
02:06:18,960 --> 02:06:21,840
Speaker 1: their playbook and game plan that nobody has seen before

2590
02:06:21,920 --> 02:06:24,760
Speaker 1: this season, something new that they weren't able to prepare for.

2591
02:06:25,280 --> 02:06:27,600
Speaker 1: You're also able to do that on the defensive side.

2592
02:06:28,000 --> 02:06:31,440
Speaker 1: So don't think just because the Chargers and the Baltimore

2593
02:06:31,480 --> 02:06:33,920
Speaker 1: Ravens were able to pull some things out offensively that

2594
02:06:34,000 --> 02:06:36,200
Speaker 1: the defense hadn't seen, the defense can do the exact

2595
02:06:36,280 --> 02:06:38,720
Speaker 1: same thing in reverse, give them some looks and some

2596
02:06:38,880 --> 02:06:41,000
Speaker 1: rushes that they haven't seen as well. So it would be,

2597
02:06:41,320 --> 02:06:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, great to see them get an edge that way,

2598
02:06:43,800 --> 02:06:46,720
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're trying to do that, but they

2599
02:06:47,720 --> 02:06:50,800
Speaker 1: to me, and this kind of boils back to my

2600
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:53,960
Speaker 1: past and the fact that I was a player. You

2601
02:06:54,040 --> 02:06:56,520
Speaker 1: gotta have guys that are gonna play. They got to

2602
02:06:56,560 --> 02:06:58,680
Speaker 1: sell out and they gotta play, and they gotta play hard,

2603
02:06:59,240 --> 02:07:00,840
Speaker 1: and they got to play well, and they got to

2604
02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:02,720
Speaker 1: play within the scheme and they got to go beyond

2605
02:07:02,760 --> 02:07:04,680
Speaker 1: the scheme when they get an opportunity that shows up.

2606
02:07:04,680 --> 02:07:06,200
Speaker 1: They got to make a play and be an athlete

2607
02:07:06,560 --> 02:07:08,920
Speaker 1: and they got to be a football player. And you

2608
02:07:09,040 --> 02:07:11,800
Speaker 1: see that. M seen that enough. And last year they

2609
02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:14,480
Speaker 1: got hot when the ball started getting tipped up in

2610
02:07:14,520 --> 02:07:16,120
Speaker 1: the air, when they started getting a little bit of

2611
02:07:16,160 --> 02:07:19,360
Speaker 1: a pass rush or getting a team in a tough

2612
02:07:19,400 --> 02:07:22,560
Speaker 1: spot where they got a little desperate and quarterbacks invariably

2613
02:07:22,680 --> 02:07:25,000
Speaker 1: throw it up for grabs and our secondary was there

2614
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:27,040
Speaker 1: to pick it off. They need to get back to

2615
02:07:27,120 --> 02:07:29,080
Speaker 1: that a little bit, and I think an enhanced pass

2616
02:07:29,160 --> 02:07:31,960
Speaker 1: rush would help it. And I also think getting another

2617
02:07:32,040 --> 02:07:34,720
Speaker 1: cornerback in there for depth is gonna help it. I mean,

2618
02:07:34,760 --> 02:07:39,600
Speaker 1: there's no doubt better players make your team better. The

2619
02:07:39,680 --> 02:07:41,720
Speaker 1: Bills have better players on their front seven this year

2620
02:07:41,720 --> 02:07:44,080
Speaker 1: and they did last year, and they need to show up. Hey,

2621
02:07:44,320 --> 02:07:46,200
Speaker 1: time for a little bit of NFL True and False

2622
02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:49,040
Speaker 1: True or false, brought to you by Yancey's fancy new

2623
02:07:49,120 --> 02:07:53,280
Speaker 1: York's artist in cheese. The NFL now belongs to Patrick Mahomes.

2624
02:07:53,440 --> 02:07:56,520
Speaker 1: That's a headline that was in the Washington Post yesterday

2625
02:07:56,720 --> 02:07:59,720
Speaker 1: story written by Adam Kilgore. He says Mahomes has established

2626
02:07:59,800 --> 02:08:03,080
Speaker 1: him as both the way too early leader for MVP

2627
02:08:03,640 --> 02:08:06,160
Speaker 1: and the best explanation for how the NFL operates in

2628
02:08:06,240 --> 02:08:09,560
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Interesting. I'm not sure if I agree with this,

2629
02:08:09,720 --> 02:08:12,240
Speaker 1: but there was one note in here, and Peter King

2630
02:08:12,360 --> 02:08:14,360
Speaker 1: kind of talked about this a little bit too, about

2631
02:08:14,480 --> 02:08:16,920
Speaker 1: not just Mahomes, but what Andy Reidston with this defense.

2632
02:08:17,200 --> 02:08:20,880
Speaker 1: This writer Adam Kilgore Washington Post writes, read, schemes have

2633
02:08:21,000 --> 02:08:24,720
Speaker 1: become the model for how offense is played. They might

2634
02:08:24,760 --> 02:08:27,200
Speaker 1: be honest something there. The NFL belongs to Patrick Holmes.

2635
02:08:27,280 --> 02:08:30,080
Speaker 1: I'll say false. But the fact that that offense with

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02:08:30,240 --> 02:08:32,680
Speaker 1: those what Peter called them track stars on the outside

2637
02:08:32,920 --> 02:08:35,120
Speaker 1: and a quarterback just gunn in the downfield, that may

2638
02:08:35,200 --> 02:08:37,839
Speaker 1: be the model for the future of the NFL. I'm

2639
02:08:37,880 --> 02:08:40,960
Speaker 1: gonna have to say, maybe true, but true. With this,

2640
02:08:41,480 --> 02:08:44,480
Speaker 1: it's a week to week league, and we saw this

2641
02:08:44,640 --> 02:08:47,200
Speaker 1: same Chiefs team with Alex Smith. The quarterback goes six

2642
02:08:47,280 --> 02:08:49,800
Speaker 1: and O to begin the season last year and then

2643
02:08:49,960 --> 02:08:53,400
Speaker 1: the bottom fell out. They couldn't play very well. So

2644
02:08:53,720 --> 02:08:56,200
Speaker 1: if they can sustain this, if they if this season

2645
02:08:56,280 --> 02:08:57,760
Speaker 1: goes on like it has for the first two weeks

2646
02:08:57,800 --> 02:09:01,480
Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Chiefs, no doubt it does belong

2647
02:09:01,560 --> 02:09:03,920
Speaker 1: to Patrick Mahomes and he is the MVP. There ain't

2648
02:09:03,920 --> 02:09:06,040
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But then again, the second place

2649
02:09:06,080 --> 02:09:08,960
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be Ryan Fitzpatrick. So let's just pump the

2650
02:09:09,000 --> 02:09:12,600
Speaker 1: brakes on week two. But the first couple of weeks, yeah,

2651
02:09:13,720 --> 02:09:16,120
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes is the man. You know what I was

2652
02:09:16,120 --> 02:09:17,680
Speaker 1: thinking too, and when Peter said it, and now that

2653
02:09:17,760 --> 02:09:20,680
Speaker 1: I scanned this article for man in Kilbourne, Washington a

2654
02:09:20,880 --> 02:09:23,040
Speaker 1: four or five years ago, when the Golden State Warriors, yes,

2655
02:09:23,120 --> 02:09:25,560
Speaker 1: accumulated all that talent, but they had a different way

2656
02:09:25,560 --> 02:09:27,320
Speaker 1: to play and a different way to play offense. We

2657
02:09:27,440 --> 02:09:29,000
Speaker 1: could be seeing that with a kid. They could be

2658
02:09:29,080 --> 02:09:31,640
Speaker 1: the NFL version of the Golden State Warriors from a

2659
02:09:31,680 --> 02:09:33,480
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Yeah, it could be. It's a

2660
02:09:33,640 --> 02:09:36,160
Speaker 1: it was a no question the Warriors. It was a

2661
02:09:36,200 --> 02:09:38,480
Speaker 1: paradigm shift. Yep. It was the three ball and he

2662
02:09:38,640 --> 02:09:41,680
Speaker 1: playing outside in the center for the first time. The

2663
02:09:41,800 --> 02:09:45,640
Speaker 1: big man wasn't a difference, right, Can I do one more? False? Yeah,

2664
02:09:46,120 --> 02:09:47,680
Speaker 1: and you can speak to this because you were there

2665
02:09:47,760 --> 02:09:51,080
Speaker 1: in East Rutford Sunday tur or False. Ryan Tannehill shows

2666
02:09:51,120 --> 02:09:55,160
Speaker 1: the Dolphins can be a surprise playoff contender true false.

2667
02:09:56,400 --> 02:09:58,320
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say false because I don't like the

2668
02:09:58,360 --> 02:10:00,520
Speaker 1: Dolphins and I don't like Tannehill, and I think they

2669
02:10:00,560 --> 02:10:03,920
Speaker 1: are a mirage, a t and a mirage at this point. Well,

2670
02:10:04,000 --> 02:10:06,080
Speaker 1: I don't like the way that's worded. And forgive me

2671
02:10:06,120 --> 02:10:09,040
Speaker 1: for being an English major, but what if they do

2672
02:10:09,520 --> 02:10:12,160
Speaker 1: if they do make the playoffs, Yeah, they're surprised because

2673
02:10:12,200 --> 02:10:16,440
Speaker 1: they're not that good. So right, they're agreeing, Yeah, I

2674
02:10:16,480 --> 02:10:18,640
Speaker 1: mean they're not they're not that good. I mean they're

2675
02:10:18,840 --> 02:10:23,200
Speaker 1: they're they have to listen. For them to win, they're

2676
02:10:23,200 --> 02:10:26,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to play good defense, run the ball, and

2677
02:10:26,480 --> 02:10:29,440
Speaker 1: get timely play from their quarterback, and win special teams.

2678
02:10:29,760 --> 02:10:35,560
Speaker 1: So I mean, so as far as mentioning Ryan Tannehill,

2679
02:10:37,080 --> 02:10:39,760
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the reason they show their surprise

2680
02:10:39,840 --> 02:10:42,440
Speaker 1: playoff team. They'd be a surprise because they'd be bouncing

2681
02:10:42,480 --> 02:10:46,360
Speaker 1: back and after and I said this too. They lost

2682
02:10:46,640 --> 02:10:49,320
Speaker 1: in Doma consue. They lost Jarvis Lander. They traded Jayagi,

2683
02:10:49,480 --> 02:10:51,520
Speaker 1: three really named players. It's the exact same thing the

2684
02:10:51,560 --> 02:10:53,760
Speaker 1: Bills did last year and they got better because of it,

2685
02:10:53,840 --> 02:10:56,000
Speaker 1: and this year it looks like and with Tannehill back,

2686
02:10:56,120 --> 02:10:59,880
Speaker 1: certainly that addition by subtraction gets even more pronounced when

2687
02:10:59,920 --> 02:11:02,240
Speaker 1: he get your starting quarterback plugged in. All right, NFL

2688
02:11:02,280 --> 02:11:04,280
Speaker 1: True and False brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New

2689
02:11:04,360 --> 02:11:06,360
Speaker 1: York's artists and chief Steve and I back with more

2690
02:11:06,440 --> 02:11:09,560
Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio.

2691
02:11:24,880 --> 02:11:27,360
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Speaker 1: provider of the Buffalo Bills Good Show. Today, we had

2695
02:11:35,720 --> 02:11:38,520
Speaker 1: Robert Foster, rookie wide receiver in studio with us in

2696
02:11:38,560 --> 02:11:40,960
Speaker 1: the first hour. What have we learned from him? Well, Robert,

2697
02:11:41,000 --> 02:11:43,280
Speaker 1: oh no, I've got the instigators rundown up to see.

2698
02:11:43,520 --> 02:11:45,839
Speaker 1: Robert Foster talked about his rookie year with the Buffalo

2699
02:11:45,880 --> 02:11:49,280
Speaker 1: Bills when he joined us today at twelve thirty and

2700
02:11:49,400 --> 02:11:51,560
Speaker 1: a meeting room. That's it. Next to pet De Marco.

2701
02:11:51,800 --> 02:11:54,120
Speaker 1: You know, I really look up to Pat DeMarco because

2702
02:11:54,960 --> 02:11:56,920
Speaker 1: he's a vet, you know what I mean. At some

2703
02:11:57,080 --> 02:11:58,880
Speaker 1: point I want to be a vet too, and I

2704
02:11:59,080 --> 02:12:00,800
Speaker 1: taught to stay healthy. You know. I'm always in the

2705
02:12:00,840 --> 02:12:03,320
Speaker 1: training room. I'm always on my coach tag, coach say,

2706
02:12:03,840 --> 02:12:06,360
Speaker 1: and just trying to be ahead of the game, you

2707
02:12:06,400 --> 02:12:08,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Because like I said, I'm still

2708
02:12:08,160 --> 02:12:09,480
Speaker 1: a rookie, you know what I mean. So I'm trying

2709
02:12:09,520 --> 02:12:12,360
Speaker 1: to developed to be the best back. I composite bet

2710
02:12:12,400 --> 02:12:14,760
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills and try to help us when

2711
02:12:14,920 --> 02:12:17,880
Speaker 1: and you know, take advantage of everything. To talk to

2712
02:12:18,400 --> 02:12:21,280
Speaker 1: Robert Foster. Today, we had Peter King on from his

2713
02:12:21,840 --> 02:12:25,160
Speaker 1: website Pro Football Talk dot com, NBC Sports and Football

2714
02:12:25,240 --> 02:12:28,200
Speaker 1: Morning in America. Peter King talking about how Alex Smith,

2715
02:12:28,320 --> 02:12:31,080
Speaker 1: who was a teammate last year of Patrick Mahomes, has

2716
02:12:31,160 --> 02:12:33,600
Speaker 1: helped Mahomes this year to be as successful as he is.

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Speaker 1: You're Alex Smith, and this team, the team that you're on,

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Speaker 1: spent two first round picks to move up to get

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Speaker 1: a quarterback their own, and then they're the twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: first round pick to move up to get a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The rankings on the wall, You're not going to be

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Speaker 1: the starter there much longer. So rather than say, essentially,

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Speaker 1: rather than say, I'm going to try to fight this kid,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do everything I can't prevent him from

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Speaker 1: taking this job, why not help him in any in

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Speaker 1: any way you can so that then you can get

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Speaker 1: to a place at billy young age and get a

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Speaker 1: new contract and uh and and and be the starter

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Speaker 1: for a few years. Good point from Peter King. Hey,

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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll today, what's the easiest quickest way for

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Speaker 1: the Bills defense to get better? Forty four percent of

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Speaker 1: you say, continue to have Sean McDermot call the plays,

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Speaker 1: Thirty one percent said better pass rush, sixteen percent said

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Speaker 1: find some corners, nine percent had something else. Steve, what's

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Speaker 1: the record, by the way, we've had thousands before. All right,

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Speaker 1: all right, hey, we'll get better one tomorrow, Yeah, we will.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow is another day, another show. Our production assistant today,

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Speaker 1: George Blast, Jeff Coltonick Thomas, honold Or, Kelly Rude, JJ Trito,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cargiss, and James Roebel. Our producer, Jay Harris. We'll

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Speaker 1: see tomorrow at noon. Bills are back tomorrow to practice

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Speaker 1: so join us tomorrow One Bills Live from One Bill's

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