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Speaker 1: Oh righty, then a twenty twenty two NFL season is

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Speaker 1: officially in the books. It is done over Faneito, and

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Speaker 1: it is. It was a It was an entertaining super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: for sure, I don't I don't think there's any debate

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Speaker 1: have some commentary on some of the things that went

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Speaker 1: down as we were all viewing it, including one pretty

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Speaker 1: funny commercial that caught Steve completely off guard. But that

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Speaker 1: was after Friday's topic of you know, who's the who's

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Speaker 1: we'll get to it. We'll get to it, for sure,

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Speaker 1: and we'll we'll discuss the halftime show and everything else

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Speaker 1: that is the Super Bowl production. But the game, Steve

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Speaker 1: left me with more clarity about the course that the

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Speaker 1: I am completely convinced of it now after the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and essentially it is this. We're watching this game unfold

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Speaker 1: last night, and on the last two touchdown drives by

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Speaker 1: He in an interview, said that Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric B.

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Speaker 1: Enemy recognized that the Eagles are very susceptible to short

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Speaker 1: On the first touchdown. It was Tony. They caught them

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Speaker 1: On the next touchdown drive, they used it on the

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid, Eric b Enemy, Patrick Mahomes, they're flat out

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Speaker 1: a lethal trio. The Chiefs scored on every possession they

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Speaker 1: just one hundred and eighty two yards. Now, that's partly

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Speaker 1: But and all the conversations we have from week one

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Speaker 1: So it is not the enemies job to lose, apparently,

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Speaker 1: So that'll be interesting to see what comes to that

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Speaker 1: as there is apparently competition for the offensive coordinator position

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Speaker 1: of the commanders, so we'll see where that goes. We

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Speaker 1: did want to pass along this. The Washington Post is

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Speaker 1: reporting because there was a conference called last Friday with

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Speaker 1: Chief Medical Officer of the NFL Alan Sills, and he

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Speaker 1: had his annual teleconference with national media members and Mark

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Speaker 1: Maski from the Washington Post asked him a series of

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Speaker 1: questions about Damar Hamlin's future, and he is reporting the

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Speaker 1: following The Bills and their medical staff are arranging for

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Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin to receive additional opinions from experts to assist

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Speaker 1: him in making a decision on whether to resume his

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Speaker 1: football career. This according to Chief Medical Officer Alan Sills,

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Speaker 1: which he said in a video conference. This passed Friday

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Speaker 1: said the following quote. This is about a player and

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Speaker 1: a patient and about getting the very best care. I do.

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Speaker 1: I do want to protect the privacy of those involved,

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Speaker 1: but I will say what I know is that the

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Speaker 1: Bills have already engaged a number of outside consultants and

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Speaker 1: will continue to do so. They'll gather opinions, and then

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Speaker 1: with all of those opinions, they'll sit down with Tamar Hamlin,

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Speaker 1: his family, his agents, all the people that love him,

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Speaker 1: and lay that out. And that's what we do in

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Speaker 1: medicine every day. We say, here's our understanding of the risks,

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Speaker 1: here's our understanding of the situation. Let us make sure

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Speaker 1: that you have all the information you need to make

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Speaker 1: a good decision. So the League is clearly pointing out

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Speaker 1: that it is his decision to make going forward, and

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Speaker 1: that the bills will assist him in gathering all the

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Speaker 1: necessary information, testing, etc. The other interesting thing that he said,

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Speaker 1: Steve doctor Sills, said that there have yet to reach

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Speaker 1: a final determination on what the cause of his cardiac

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Speaker 1: arrest was. And doctor Sills, I thought, very stutely pointed

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Speaker 1: out they may never know the official cause of the

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Speaker 1: cardiac arrest. He said, they could come to a very

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Speaker 1: likely conclusion as to what happened, but they may never

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Speaker 1: definitively determine what it was that caused his cardiac arrest

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Speaker 1: with one hundred percent certainty. Right because and I heard

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Speaker 1: this from the very beginning. The way they find out

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Speaker 1: if it was that cardio whatever that was where his

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Speaker 1: heart stops because he got commodial cortis there you go.

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Speaker 1: It is a diagnosis that is made after everything else

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Speaker 1: is eliminated as a possibility, and you know, so they

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Speaker 1: kind of have to. It's like the last thing standing.

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Speaker 1: So they got a long way to go before they

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Speaker 1: get all the way down from the bottom of that.

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Speaker 1: We have a topic of discussion for you today and

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Speaker 1: it is as follows. What did this year's Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: tell you that the Bills need to get to the

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Speaker 1: Big Game? You can let us know eight oh three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty the seven one six local number to

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

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Speaker 1: the toll free number to get on board. If you're

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Speaker 1: outside the seven one six calling area, have open lines

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Speaker 1: for you there. What did this year's Super Bowl tell

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Speaker 1: you that the Bills need to get to the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl themselves? Seven one six, eight three five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty the number to

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Speaker 1: get on board, or you can hit us up on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet at one Bills Live. For me, it's simple,

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Speaker 1: go all in on offense all the more because the

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Speaker 1: only way you're beating the Chiefs is with offense that

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Speaker 1: can go toe to toe with them and put points

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Speaker 1: on the board, maybe even at a more efficient rate

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Speaker 1: than they can, which is hard to do because the

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Speaker 1: last the Bills defense that lost it in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: last year was the number one pass defense in football,

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Speaker 1: the number one scoring defense in football, and it didn't matter.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs scored forty two points in an overtime game.

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Speaker 1: This year, the Chiefs go to the Super Bowl, they

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Speaker 1: play the number two defense in football, which had the

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Speaker 1: number one pass defense, the number one sack defense, and

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Speaker 1: it didn't mean a Hillibeans. They gave up thirty eight

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Speaker 1: points and lost the football game. So to me, the

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Speaker 1: only way to beat them is to join them. Quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: all in on offense. Add as many weapons as you can,

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Speaker 1: build up your offensive line. Hope your offensive coordinator gets

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Speaker 1: better this year in year two, which I believe he will.

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Speaker 1: I think Ken Dorsey will be a better play caller,

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Speaker 1: will be more astute at picking up things in game

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Speaker 1: and making adjustments. I think he will be better across

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Speaker 1: the board. Not that he was bad this year. If

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Speaker 1: you look at the numbers themselves, for a first year

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Speaker 1: play caller, you did a damn good job. I think

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Speaker 1: he'll be even better next year. But you let us

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Speaker 1: know what did this year's Super Bowl tell you that

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Speaker 1: the Bills need to get there. I'm guessing you're kind

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Speaker 1: of in the same boat on that, Steve, Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: all about and a lot of it, you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the You're always gonna if you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: win all your games, no question about it, nobody ever does.

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Speaker 1: And you're gonna lose him for the for the reasons

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Speaker 1: You've seen a million other teams lose them for, you know,

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Speaker 1: fumble here, a mistake there, or um, a great play

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Speaker 1: by somebody else. You know, you can down the list, bad,

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Speaker 1: bad officiating, all this stuff, you know. Uh, But the

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Speaker 1: simple fact of the the matter is the way the league

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Speaker 1: is structured. Now you gotta go. You gotta go on

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Speaker 1: one side of the ball more than the other. You

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Speaker 1: need you need a really good defensive coordinator who can

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Speaker 1: maximize your talent, no question about it. But you also

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Speaker 1: need um an offense that is manned with talent, flexibility,

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Speaker 1: great adjustment protocols, smart players, smart players, clock management all

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Speaker 1: it's it's an offensive league at this point in history,

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Speaker 1: and you gotta you gotta go with it. You gotta

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Speaker 1: give them all the weapons you can. You look at

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Speaker 1: the teams that are successful. Um. I mean look even

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Speaker 1: Philly who lost the game, and A J. Brown and

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Speaker 1: they got and Hurts who's smith and yeah and Godard Sanders. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they got all those and the best offensive line of football, um,

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Speaker 1: and the ability to get quarterback sneaks you know, ninety

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Speaker 1: nine percent of the time. And the Chiefs and they

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Speaker 1: are what they are the Chiefs and Travis Kelsey great,

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Speaker 1: an offensive line that's very good Kelsey and a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys who can really fly. The Cincinnati Bengals they

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Speaker 1: got three number one wide receivers and as good a

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Speaker 1: quarterback and a really salty offensive line as well a good,

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Speaker 1: pretty good running game. So it's those are the top

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Speaker 1: teams in the league. You can look at San Francisco

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Speaker 1: and they may be the exception to it. They're a

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Speaker 1: quarterback short, but they're quarterback short. Yeah you know so.

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Speaker 1: And their and their main weapon is their scheme, offensive

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Speaker 1: scheme and their ability to make anybody look good in

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Speaker 1: that spot. Yeah. I mean they do have playmakers, McCaffrey, Kittle,

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Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, that's a pretty good group. Brandon Ayuk pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, so yeah, I'm with you. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the draft and I may not even

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Speaker 1: consider a defensive player. Yeah, you let us know. What

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Speaker 1: did this year's Super Bowl tell you that the Bills

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Speaker 1: need to get there themselves? Eight three five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight and eight five fifty two five fifty the number

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Speaker 1: to get on board? You got an open line for

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Speaker 1: you or hit us up on the TWEETE to one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Steve and I back with more. Next Here

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live, presented by Collata Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. What did this year's Super Bowl tell you

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Speaker 1: that the Bills need to get there themselves? You let

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Speaker 1: us know at eight three five fifty one, eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty the number to get

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Speaker 1: on board. We lead off this segment with Joe in Buffalo?

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Joe? Joe? Are you there?

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Speaker 1: All right? I'm put Joe on hold. We'll get back

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Speaker 1: to Joe. Well, move ahead to I think this is

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Speaker 1: Stuart in Batavia. What do you got for us? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just just commenting on Buffalo's need. In terms of

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Speaker 1: the of the draft, one of the things that needs

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Speaker 1: to be addressed is the drafting skills of the general manager.

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Speaker 1: I think if you take a look at what we've

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Speaker 1: done since he came in, we've built up other teams,

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Speaker 1: but we've we've given up some of the things that

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Speaker 1: we need. We've given up like the and also afensive

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Speaker 1: card that would have been good for a decade for us.

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Speaker 1: We've given up in h ask to draft. The people

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Speaker 1: that we've drafted for defense, none of them really shine.

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Speaker 1: Two I probably won't even be in the league. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as their contract ends, and the other two on one

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Speaker 1: or the other two may it may end up developing.

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Speaker 1: All right, So what do you want Stewart if if

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Speaker 1: those guys aren't up to snuff in your estimation. I

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Speaker 1: think the biggest thing that I think, the biggest thing

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Speaker 1: that we end up needing is having a somebody with

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Speaker 1: personnel skills who can evaluate the players. I think when

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Speaker 1: you give when you give up, when you give up people.

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Speaker 1: For example, on the offensive guard, you had twelve guys,

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Speaker 1: they had get down to eleven and they end up

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Speaker 1: picking the one to pass on as somebody that now

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Speaker 1: is two years and never owing all twilight. There's something

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Speaker 1: wrong in how they assess people to make decisions of

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Speaker 1: who to keep. You've got the I keep reading that

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Speaker 1: what we need a good blocking tide end then and

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Speaker 1: I know he was on practice squad, but we didn't

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Speaker 1: put them on a regular squad. He's now performing for

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Speaker 1: the Giants. It just seems, it just seems to me

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Speaker 1: that except for the fact, you know, give credit for

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Speaker 1: Josh Shallon, that was a big that was a big catch.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, if they didn't have of

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen catch, my guess is that maybe neither the

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Speaker 1: general managed to or the coach you know would be

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Speaker 1: around today. I mean, he is, he is the he

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Speaker 1: is the you know, superior guy, and he certainly makes

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Speaker 1: up He certainly makes up for a lot of this thing.

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Speaker 1: All right, understood, Stewart, I think I understand what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we got to move along because we've got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of calls right behind you here. Uh. He

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Speaker 1: thinks that, you know, you got to do better in

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Speaker 1: the draft. I think everybody would love to do better

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Speaker 1: in the draft. The Chiefs need to do better in

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Speaker 1: the draft. And not for nothing. Not for nothing. Brandon

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Speaker 1: Beans outright said it himself. Trading Wyatteller was a mistakes.

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Speaker 1: He's admitted it publicly. So you know, nobody's going to

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Speaker 1: get all the choices right of all the decisions. Have

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Speaker 1: a hard time getting to the point as good as

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Speaker 1: Wyatt Teller is. And you know, this year we wish

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Speaker 1: we'd had a I have a hard time getting to

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Speaker 1: the point where if we had a better guard, all

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Speaker 1: pro guard, one guy, one all Pro guard ahead of

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Speaker 1: where we are now, we'd be hey, be good players

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Speaker 1: make you better. Yeah, but I'm having a hard time

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Speaker 1: getting from getting us one good guard to winning the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl this year. I have a hard time making

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Speaker 1: that leap. He wants better performance overall in the draft.

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Speaker 1: I understand it. I know a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: not exactly thrilled with some of the high draft choices

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Speaker 1: for defensive line. I think Greg Rousseau is going to

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Speaker 1: be a very good player in this league for a

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Speaker 1: long time. You want to argue at Oliver, I think

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Speaker 1: you have an argument there because the consistency of his

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Speaker 1: game just hasn't been there on a week to week basis,

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Speaker 1: and I think you can make the argument that it

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Speaker 1: wasn't this year again. So I understand those those criticisms

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Speaker 1: and those concerns. Let's see how things shape up in

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Speaker 1: this year's draft and take it from there, because I

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Speaker 1: I think the vast majority of Brandon Bean's first round

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Speaker 1: picks have panned out very well. You know, Ed Oliver

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00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: is probably an exception, but most of the others have

644
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: done pretty darn good. So, I mean, everybody's gonna have

645
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Speaker 1: their opinions. You're entitled to them. You got a pretty

646
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: good left tackle that he drafted, well, he didn't draft,

647
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: but they got the second round pick that he extended,

648
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job, getting an all Pro linebacker

649
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Speaker 1: in Mame Milano, an all Pro corner, finding a starting

650
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: corner on the free agent rookie free agent market that

651
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: started for you for four years, Johnson fourth round four,

652
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: Dave Davis in the fourth round. I mean, there's plenty

653
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: of guys contributors he's gotten through the draft that are

654
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Speaker 1: not just good for our team but other teams. Yeah,

655
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: and it wasn't a tight end that went to the Giants.

656
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: It was Isaiah Hodgins as a receiver. But thanks for

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00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: the call, Stewart. We move ahead and try Joe in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo again. Joe, are you there this time? Yes, I am,

659
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 1: thank you to answer your question. And I just heard

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Speaker 1: Steve's comments. I do think they've got to think about

661
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: a left guard and others one of your Super Bowl

662
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: but I think they need to think about a left guard.

663
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: They also need to think about a success or, admit

664
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Speaker 1: to Morris, because I think his contract is up this season.

665
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: They may be wrong on that. Yeah, I think he's

666
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: got one more end left and then a slot receiver

667
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: that can help get somebody to you know, Josh can

668
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: dump off the ball quickly, if you know, if he

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00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: needs to throw quickly. That's on the offensive side. On

670
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: the defensive side, I feel we beat the horse. It's

671
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: about the pass rush, but it's also about a successor

672
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Speaker 1: to Jordan player. Right. But but Joe, after seeing the

673
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Speaker 1: best pass rush in football do absolutely nothing against Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: does it change you're thinking at all about the pass rush.

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00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean, they have Von Miller here already, who's presumably

676
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: going to be good for you know, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: most of the season go. But then they've got to

678
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: figure out what they can get out of Boogie Basham,

679
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: and they've also got to figure out what they can

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Speaker 1: do with I'm sorry, I'm going to mispronounce his name,

681
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: Espenza the second epanassa thank you because I just don't

682
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: think they're developing as quickly as they need to develop.

683
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think the whole issue, obviously Mahomes is Mahomes,

684
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: and there may be structural problems with four rushing on

685
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: five with these quick quarterbacks, and those need to be

686
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: thought about by very deep thinkers, you know who designed

687
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: defensive schemes. I mean, Burrow gets rid of the ball

688
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: in two and a half seconds. Mahomes can get rid

689
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Speaker 1: of the ball quickly. I'm sure Josh could get rid

690
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: of the ball more quickly if he needed to, But

691
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: he's somebody that extends plays, and you need a good

692
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: old line if you're going to extend plays, particularly if

693
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Speaker 1: you're going to throw the deep ball. So I don't know,

694
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: but I do think there is a problem in that

695
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: interior line, and they're just gonna have to figure it out.

696
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the draft. I don't know

697
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Speaker 1: if it's free agency. I mean, I think Dusenberry did

698
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Speaker 1: what he could. I think that. I think these backups

699
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Speaker 1: do what they can, but it does appear. The thing

700
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Speaker 1: that struck me yesterday was I don't think Philadelphia sacked him.

701
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, they didn't five quarterback hits zero sacks,

702
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: and it's because he got the ball out in two

703
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: and a half seconds or less. I'm fifty six percent

704
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: of his dropback. So, I mean, you can invest in

705
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 1: pass rushers all you want. If they don't have time

706
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Speaker 1: to get there, it's not going to happen. And I say,

707
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 1: and I agree with you. I mean, we've all said

708
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Speaker 1: that you got to have We'd love to have a

709
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: dominant offensive line. That's what got Philly to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the things that showed up in a

711
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 1: huge way yesterday for the Kansas City Chiefs, their offensive line,

712
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Speaker 1: and in the playoffs, even Cincinnati's offensive line, depleted down

713
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Speaker 1: down three guys from where they thought they were gonna

714
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Speaker 1: be a month and a half before, played extremely well

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Speaker 1: against Buffalo's defensive They played well because who got the

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Speaker 1: ball out in two and a half secon er less, Right,

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00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: they don't have to do anything. But my point is this, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: even looking at all the stuff that's going on around

719
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: the league, I don't think that's what kept Buffalo from advancing.

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00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: I think there were other things that did it. Now,

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Speaker 1: certainly you want to get as good a guy as

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Speaker 1: you can if and I'm with you. Weapons they need

723
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: they need weapons, and they need a dominant If they

724
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Speaker 1: want to get a dominant offensive line together, they got

725
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: to draft an interior offensive lineman high and they're drafting

726
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Speaker 1: twenty seventh. So if they can get one still at

727
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: that point, get it. And if you can get another

728
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: one in round two, get him too. I'm with you.

729
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: I totally get it. But I'm just saying this. I

730
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: think in this league at this point, you gotta have

731
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Speaker 1: an offense that gets the ball out quick. Now here's

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00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 1: the thing too, if you and I see both sides

733
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: of it. If you're gonna sit here and say you

734
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: don't really need a pass rush because they're gonna get

735
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: rid of the ball quick anyway, Well, they get rid

736
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: of the ball quick because your defense is going to

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Speaker 1: force them to do that. If you're not gonna have

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Speaker 1: a pass rush that is up to snuff, they're gonna

739
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: step back and they're gonna sit there and wait, and

740
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: then they will spread you thin. Yeah, but you got

741
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: von Miller, You've made investments high in the draft. It's

742
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: time to flip the script. I'm just saying. I'm not

743
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: saying about the Bills. I'm saying about telesopt. Okay, because

744
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs did it against the Eagles and it worked.

745
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,240
Speaker 1: The Eagles did it against the Chiefs and it worked.

746
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Speaker 1: And so it's not that you here's the thing. It's

747
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 1: an offensive league. We say it again and again and again,

748
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: we repeated time and time again. You still have to

749
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: have as good a players as you can get on

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00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: that side of the ball because when opportunities do rise,

751
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: they got to be ready and take advantage of it.

752
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: You know, you got to have a guy that's there

753
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: forcing Jalen Hurds to change the ball in his hands

754
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: and drop it on the ground and it turns into

755
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: a touchdown for your defense. You gotta have guys like that.

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00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,800
Speaker 1: I just question the wisdom of spending high draft capital.

757
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing to Joe's point about I

758
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: don't know if the Bills can logically move forward with

759
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: just a four man rush anymore and expect to get

760
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: home more often than not. The Eagles largely ran a

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00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: fifty front this year, a five man rush. They led

762
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: the league in sacks, and it didn't mean a hill

763
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: of beans in the Super Bowl against Patrick Mahomes. I'll

764
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: say this, though, it did give him a chance to

765
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, and they lost by three. Yeah,

766
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: so so maybe if you're not playing Mahomes or Burrow,

767
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: you win. Well if they're playing, listen, go down the list.

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00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: Not only did they not play Burrow Mahomes to get

769
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, we'll have to do that week

770
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: or back because we're up against it. Yeah, okay, we'll

771
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: get to that. The Eagles did not play Joe Burrow,

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00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,959
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Pat Mahomes, Justin Herbert. They only two guys

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00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: they played. They played three guys this season. They played

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00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in one of his worst seasons as a pro,

775
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in the first month of a season where

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00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: he was still learning the new Jacksonville Offen taken off.

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00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: And they played Dak Jones twice in their Prescot Dak

778
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: Prescott twice once because he got to play Cooper Rush

779
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: the other. Well there you go. Okay, Well we'll get

780
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Speaker 1: into that in a minute. We're gonna take a break here,

781
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: but play more of your phone calls coming up here

782
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: next as we are wide open for the rest of

783
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: the show. To take your phone calls here on what

784
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: this year's Super Bowl told you. The Bills need to

785
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: get there themselves. We're back in a moment here on

786
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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. All right, what did this year's Super

787
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: Bowl tell you that the Bills need to get there?

788
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: You tell us at eight oh three, five fifty one,

789
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty. Right back to

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00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: the phones we go and to Dave in Florida. Next,

791
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: what do you got for us? Dave? Hey? You doing? Guys?

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00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,439
Speaker 1: First off, love the show, listen religiously, A long time

793
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 1: Bills fan, and um, you know what. First up, they

794
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: need three receivers that it can be tempenda and to

795
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: catch the football. I mean those guys yesterday, It's like

796
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: fly trap watching those guys catch ball. And secondly, I

797
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 1: hate to say this because I'm a loyal Bill saying

798
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: I love what McDermott has done from where we were.

799
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: You gotta give him credit for that. But sometimes in

800
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: business and in life, you gotta take a hard look

801
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: at you know, how do you take it to the

802
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: next level? And I gotta be honest with you guys,

803
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: and the mulling over since the disappointment of that last game,

804
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: but broke my heart the way they played or didn't

805
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: show up. And it's coaching. Man, something's got to change.

806
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: I mean, you see the creativity yesterday. You see the difference.

807
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: So you see the coaches, you know, working with what

808
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: they got and not sticking with what they've always done.

809
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: And it's just I just don't see it, you know.

810
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,479
Speaker 1: And I guess I'm still choking on twelve seconds because

811
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: I know a high school coach could have got through that.

812
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 1: And I'm just you know, I don't know. I love

813
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: what they've done to now up to now, but you know,

814
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: and with Josh, you know, you got a guy like

815
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 1: that you can build around. I mean, come on, man,

816
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: Hes you ever seen him home sitting on the sideline

817
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: and the bench like Josh does sometimes wor they're going

818
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: to you know, dear and I you know, headlights look

819
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: and those guys were ready to play us. And they

820
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: heard Jones a tackle pockets they were hitting this week

821
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: so that they got vicious enough to play that football game.

822
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: That tackling yesterday to blocking it was impressive both sides.

823
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: Great football game. I loved it. Yeah, And it just

824
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: seems like we don't have that level of coaching. And

825
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: I mean, like again, in business, sometimes you've got somebody

826
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: can take you like we're a contract or. You get

827
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: you to ten millions, but then when you want to

828
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: go to twenty or fifty one hundred million dollars operations,

829
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: you've got to go get people that can take you there.

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00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have it. I hate to

831
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: say it. I love the Bills. I don't know. Man, Yeah,

832
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: I get what you mean. It's easy, and it's easy

833
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: to say that get frustrated like that because, let's face it,

834
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: they've been and I've said it, I felt like they've

835
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: been good enough for the last three years to go

836
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: to and win it, and you know, they haven't made it.

837
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: They haven't even made it yet. It's pretty frustrating. I

838
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: will say this though. You need to be ready to

839
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: go through it. And we've talked about it about what

840
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,919
Speaker 1: the Bills, and it's nobody's fault. It's not Sean mcdermot's fault,

841
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: it's not Brandon Bean's fault. It's it's just kind of

842
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: the roll of the dice where you've got your team,

843
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: like the Bills going through what they went through in

844
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: the last month of the season with Damar and the

845
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: weather conditions and the extra stuff they had to deal with,

846
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: plus injuries, that they had two key players that would

847
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: have been difference makers, and the fact that they had

848
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: to overcome it mentally. And I get it. You can

849
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: hold a coach responsible for the mental preparedness of his players,

850
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: but this is you know, they were an unprecedented territory

851
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: with this club in the last month of the season.

852
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: So and you had the Bills had to deal with

853
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: all of that. They and you can say, well, that's

854
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: part of the deal. Yes, it is. It's part of

855
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: the deal. Let me tell you who didn't have to

856
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: do that, The Eagles and for those and the Chiefs.

857
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: The Eagles this year played against Jared Goff as a quarterback,

858
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:04,959
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, Carson Arson, wentz La, Trevor Lawrence in week

859
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: four of the season after they were three and thirteen

860
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: with a brand new head coach, Cooper Rush, Kenny Pickett,

861
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 1: Davis Mills, Taylor Heineke, Matt Ryan, and this is this

862
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 1: year's Matt and Ryan, not eight years ago. Matt Ryan.

863
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: Then they played Aaron Rodgers, which is the is as

864
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: good a quarterback as they faced all season, Aaron Rodgers.

865
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,240
Speaker 1: In week like eight or nine, maybe ten, they placed

866
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill Daniel Jones, Justin Fields, Dak Prescott, once Andy

867
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: Dalton and Davis Webb. Um. No adversity, there's no adversity there.

868
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 1: It's I mean, you know, that's that's the thing. I mean,

869
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: that's that's what really is the difference. And you're you know,

870
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: and I and I went through and told you who

871
00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: the Bills had, you know, the adversity, all the stuff that,

872
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: But then they had to play Matt Stafford, Healthy, Tannehill,

873
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: Ta Lamar Pickett, Mahomes, Rogers, Cousins, then you know, Goff,

874
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: mac Jones, the Jets guys, you know Burrow and then

875
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow at the end. And then there's a bunch

876
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: of no names mixed in there, some of which the

877
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 1: Eagles did play for the Bills. It's less about the quarterbacks.

878
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: It's more about the overall adversity. And I'll say until

879
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: my dying breath, the twenty twenty two Bills were completely

880
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: compromised by the Damar Hamlin incident. They were not the

881
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: same team after and there was no bringing him back,

882
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: no matter what. You could have had Vince Lombardi in

883
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 1: that locker room, and he was not bringing this group back.

884
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: All you needed to do was watch the tradevious White

885
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:51,240
Speaker 1: press conference after their first game against New England following

886
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: that week that they endured trying to come back and

887
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: play a football game after the Damar Hamlin incident. You

888
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: saw what he called that. He called it an expletive show.

889
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: They are not right. They won their last two games

890
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: on fumes and had nothing left to give against the Batman.

891
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,479
Speaker 1: And you could talk about coaching, scheming, everything. That team

892
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: wasn't even there mentally. Yeah, it was a it was

893
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: a big deal and and and they'll never they're not

894
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 1: using it as it's so they're not. That's just me

895
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: and Brownie. They weren't. They didn't look like the same team, right,

896
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: That's just me and Brownie observing what we observe on

897
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: a daily basis around the atmosphere. That we were not

898
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: in meetings with the players. We don't talk to the players.

899
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: We watch a little bit of you know, the media

900
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: availability and practice and kind of feel the vibe in

901
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: the building. And that's both of us. It was changed,

902
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: that it was changed, and it wasn't changed. Sean McDermott

903
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: hasn't said that. Brandon Bean hasn't said that. You know,

904
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: Josh Steph Dick. Nobody else is saying except Brownie and I.

905
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,800
Speaker 1: But I think both of us believe it. Um, I

906
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: know I do. Yeah, it wasn't. They weren't changing. They

907
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,399
Speaker 1: were done and they won two out of the last

908
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,359
Speaker 1: three games. They won two out of their last three,

909
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: which you know, and you can go back and look

910
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: at those games and we've we've said it. So yes,

911
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: you can say what you wanted about Sean McDermott and

912
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 1: and you know, coaching better and he and he's got

913
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: that growth mindset. He's going to look at himself and

914
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 1: say we got to do better. I'm sure he's he's

915
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: played that thirteen second thing over in his head a

916
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: million times, just like the rest of us have and

917
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: gone through this next season and talked about how to

918
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: get better. But Brownie's right. You could have had Bill Parcels,

919
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: Don Shula, Vince Lombardi all rolled into one and they're not.

920
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: They're not overcoming the mental problems and the mental obstacles

921
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: they had to deal with in the last month of

922
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: the season. Mike and Lockport, Clarence and Buffalo, hang tight,

923
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: you guys are first up after the break here. We

924
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: do have to step aside, But we're back with more

925
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: of your phone calls. As we're asking you, what did

926
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: this year's Super Bowl tell you? That the Bills need

927
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: to get there themselves? We're back for hour number two

928
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: here on a Monday on one Bill's One Bill's Live

929
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 1: presented by Klaida hell Fits Buffalo Bills Radio. These One

930
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Called Light a Health. Our number

931
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,800
Speaker 1: two on a Monday, Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you

932
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 1: on Bill's Lives the show, asking you today, what did

933
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: this year's Super Bowl tell you that the Bills need

934
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: to get there? Eight oh three five fifty local number

935
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: to call open line for you as well as one

936
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: eight at eight five fifty two five fifty if you're

937
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: outside the immedia call area. Let's get back to the

938
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: phones and we lead off with Mike in the lockpoort.

939
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: What you got for his Mike agree that we need

940
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: to load up on receivers, uh and kind of join them.

941
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: We can't beat him. It's unfortunately exposed Isaiah Hodgkins Waivers

942
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: this year and lost him. UM. But also on the

943
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: defense and going back to the point of the caller

944
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: before the break. You know, we've always wanted to do this, uh,

945
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: confusing coverages and rush the passer, and we don't do

946
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: a lot of man. I scouted the Baltimore Cincinnati games,

947
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: uh at the end of the year. And when you

948
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: when you're playing a quarterback like Mahomes or Burrow, it's

949
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: going to get the ball out under two seconds, you

950
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: got to you gotta press the man at the line.

951
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: You know. For the playoff game, I was I would

952
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: elect him to see them play cover two men under.

953
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 1: We got the Elam's supposed to be good at press coverage.

954
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: White can cover one on one. And you know, we've

955
00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:00,439
Speaker 1: been for years. We've been trying to make the team

956
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: the way that lets Refresher and mcdernamot want to do.

957
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 1: You know, we keep going after defensive linemen. It didn't

958
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: work out. Finally we had to go get a rail

959
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: one in von Miller. But you know, it can't just

960
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: be one scheme. You got to react to the league.

961
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: And at this point, if you're going to play those guys,

962
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: you got to play a different style of game where

963
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: you got to disrupt that and just one more point

964
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: to them to the super Bowl last night, I mean,

965
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: that's kind of what they were trying to do. When

966
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: that penalty was called, And yeah, I get it. The

967
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: guy said it was a holding call from Philadelphia on

968
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: himself and everything. But it just seems like Casey always

969
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: gets the breaks. You know, they showed all those holding

970
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: penalties that weren't called in the in the Cincinnati KC game,

971
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: while they seem to be called against case You know,

972
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: he's never had to come to Buffalo in front of fans.

973
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: It just seems like time after time, you know, they

974
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: never had to play a playoff game that wasn't the

975
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: super Bowl. It seems they always always get the breaks.

976
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 1: And I think that's the frustrate frustrating part about that team.

977
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: Watching that team win the Super Bowl last night. Yeah,

978
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: I get where you're coming from, Mike. I do. It's

979
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: easy to say the team that always wins gets all

980
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,439
Speaker 1: the breaks, and you know, people can make their suppositions

981
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 1: and claims that. I remember back when Michael Jordan was playing,

982
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: a lot of people could. There was a whole book

983
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: written about it called the Jordan Rules and how he

984
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: got all the calls, and a lot of times as

985
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: a Knicks fan, I felt that way myself. At the

986
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: same time, the guy was usually pretty unstoppable, and Mahomes

987
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 1: is very quickly entering that stratosphere in terms of athletic performance,

988
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: especially on the biggest stages. So if they get a

989
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 1: call here or a call there, that's fine, that's going

990
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: to happen. If you want to say they get more

991
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: than the average team, I don't know if I'm willing

992
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: to go quite that far. Yeah, you know, it's it's

993
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: a very subjective thing to discuss and hard to prove,

994
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 1: I would, yeah, And and he'll always have instances where

995
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: it looks like something's out of whack, where one team

996
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,280
Speaker 1: gets a lot of fortune their way and other teams

997
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: get bad luck. And Brownie and I were talking in

998
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: the last segment about how the you know, the list,

999
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: it's become almost you know, a fairy tale legend. How

1000
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: much adversity the twenty twenty two Bills had to go

1001
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: through during the season and the last offseason, and now

1002
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,839
Speaker 1: you know, already into this season is off season as well,

1003
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,320
Speaker 1: all the stuff they're gonna have to go through, and

1004
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: the adversity and overcoming this and that and the injuries

1005
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: and everything, and other teams had zero seemingly Yeah, okay,

1006
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: you can always go down that road if you want

1007
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: Sometimes when it becomes you pointed out, it's like, wow,

1008
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: look at you know, and look at what happened to

1009
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo this year, all the way from last May fourteenth,

1010
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: all the way through the damar Hamlin incident. It's pretty rough.

1011
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: And you look at what's Philadelphia didn't have to go through,

1012
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: and what Kansas City didn't have to go through, and

1013
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: some of the things that happened in the game. I'll

1014
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: say this. You see that well, that tikie tack holding penalty.

1015
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: And the only reason it is, the only reason it

1016
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: isn't an issue is because of the type of penalty

1017
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: it is. Because if a defensive lineman had twitched and

1018
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: fallen forward into the into the neutral zone, would you

1019
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 1: not expect that to be called? Of course, if an

1020
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: offensive lineman twitched or flinched just before the snap, would

1021
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: you think that shouldn't be called. Well, yeah, so, just

1022
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: because a penalty was called, and even though it was,

1023
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: you know, a mindless penalty, it's still got to be called.

1024
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: It's when they don't call them that, and when they

1025
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: don't call them consistently and they get tired of call them,

1026
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: or they decide not to call them or whatever. That's

1027
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: when it becomes an issue because, well, if you didn't

1028
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: call that one, why are you calling this one. That's

1029
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: the road you don't want to go down. They're not

1030
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: calling it because it's either not a penalty in their eye,

1031
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: and that's it. That should be the only reason. So

1032
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: you're talking about the Leslie Frasier, Sean McDermott and the

1033
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 1: defense and drafting guys and building this defense in the

1034
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: way and the schemes that they're trying to run. Certainly,

1035
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: defensive coaches have a style of defense, they liked a

1036
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: player that they're known for, and I think more and

1037
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: more and even Leslie Frasier was known for this this year,

1038
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: and I brought it up a number of times on

1039
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: broadcast that I was a part of that. You know,

1040
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: the Bills would come out defensively and they give up

1041
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: this opening drive touchdown, and the team would the opponent

1042
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: would look pretty good, and they'd have some pretty good

1043
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: success in all this, and then all of a sudden

1044
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: that as the game went on, they got better. They

1045
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: they kept adjusting, they kept honing in, they kept getting

1046
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: better and better, and at the end of the game

1047
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: it was really difficult for the opponent and in the

1048
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: second half, it was really difficult for any of the

1049
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: Bills opponents to do anything offensively because Leslie Frasier and

1050
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: his group adjusted throughout the game and got it dialed up.

1051
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: I don't know about drafting differently than they've drafted, or

1052
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: having guys play different coverages. And because they get their players,

1053
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: they draft their defensive players with skill sets that they

1054
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: know they're gonna need to play the defense they want

1055
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: to play. Some of those guys are not versatile enough

1056
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: to play other types of defenses. Now, we'd like to

1057
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: think Kyrie Elam probably is he'll be able to go

1058
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: man and play man up, bump it and go instead

1059
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: of keeping his eyes on the quarterback and you know,

1060
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: playing his own kind of coverage or a man off

1061
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: kind of coverage. You know, different skill sets make you better.

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00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: But I think it's easy to lump the Bill's defensive

1063
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: scheme and their coaches and their players and their draft

1064
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: picks into this pile of bad defense that you see

1065
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 1: sometimes around the National Football League, and they just don't

1066
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: belong there. Certainly, they gave up twenty seven points to

1067
00:59:55,800 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: them the Cincinnati Bengals. That's exactly what the Cincinnati Bengals

1068
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: averaged all year. During the regular season, the Bills only

1069
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: scored ten. I think that's where you start. Yeah, let's

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01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: go back to the phones and to Clarence and Buffalo,

1071
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: who's been waiting patiently. What he got first? Clarence, good afternoon, guys.

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01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: How you doing good? Good? Okay, y'all. First of all,

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01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: everything that you've guys spoken about has been has been

1074
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: something I've been saying for the past couple of years

1075
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 1: as far as uh, you know, getting all getting getting

1076
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: the right offensive players together or whatever. But what I

1077
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: want to bring up today is something that I saw

1078
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: this morning, and I was watching the way that Kansas

1079
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: City schemed their offense, the things that they did differently,

1080
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 1: and one of the things that I've been harpening on

1081
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: for some of our reason that the Bills don't seem

1082
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: to really want to do it, and that's having the

1083
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 1: having the back in the back field not just for

1084
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: not just to protect the quarterback as far as blocking

1085
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: is concerned, but even on passive routes where he goes

1086
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: out and chips the defensive end or a differensive tackle

1087
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: or onever may be a linebacker before he goes out

1088
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 1: on his routes and I kind of slowed from things

1089
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: down with their pass for us. So this is the

1090
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 1: thing that I've I've been talking about as far as

1091
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 1: scheme wise, that they need to do different and they

1092
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:36,760
Speaker 1: having a little bit more imagination, imagination and offense. The

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01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: other thing that I wanted to talk to you guys

1094
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: about it is in regards to the officiating, and it

1095
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: has nothing to really do with the way the officials

1096
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: are calling the game, but the rules that have been

1097
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: implemented in the past few years as far as it

1098
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 1: being at the offensive type league, and one of the

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01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 1: things that I I've noticed, for instance, one of the

1100
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,479
Speaker 1: rules that I'm and I hate to use the word,

1101
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: but I hate that offen that that that this rule

1102
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: is that the defense has no way of doing things

1103
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: the going next for instance, uh, five yards after the bar,

1104
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 1: you can't touch the receiver you had the passing the

1105
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: inference call, which is a fifteen yard a penalty. The

1106
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: majority offensive penalties of maybe five yards okay, and then

1107
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:35,479
Speaker 1: some of them are automatic first downs. But the one

1108
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: play that that I despised and I and that's the

1109
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak where he had the receivers or whomever may

1110
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: be in the backstood pushing the quarterback for the extra yardage.

1111
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 1: And because because last night I noticed that a couple

1112
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 1: of times they had they had the quarterback stop or

1113
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: running backstopped short of the first down or when he

1114
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: got it that was needed and without the push, they

1115
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 1: when they got it, and it made a difference in

1116
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: the in the drive itself. So I'd like to know

1117
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: what you guys think about that. Yeah, thanks for having me,

1118
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: and have a good day. Thanks. Thanks, Clarence. A lot

1119
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: of a lot in there. Uh. Yeah, that having the

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01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 1: running backs do more than just pass protecting man up

1121
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: on a guy, but release them into the route and

1122
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: chipping a guy on the way out, helping the offensive

1123
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: lineman out. I think it's it's a great scheme. They

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01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 1: do some of that, but obviously not as much as

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01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: Clarence would notice. And the officiating and about the defend defenders.

1126
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: It's interesting because he goes a step deeper than most

1127
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: people do. How can you call this? How can you

1128
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: call that? And he goes a step deeper and saying, listen,

1129
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 1: why are those rules in there? Why are you allowing

1130
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 1: them the offense to line up nine guys behind the quarterback.

1131
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:00,120
Speaker 1: You know, three guys behind the quarterback and then when

1132
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: they snap the ball, put all pushed together to get

1133
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 1: over the ball and make the quarterback sneak work. Why

1134
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: has that started to be allowed? And he's right, because

1135
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: it's teams are taking advantage of something that was put

1136
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: in not for that. The rule wasn't put in so

1137
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: they could quarterback sneak with pushers behind him. It was

1138
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: put in so that they get some momentum in the

1139
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 1: run game. And if a guy's coming, you couldn't You

1140
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 1: can't pull the guy into the end zone, but you

1141
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 1: can get behind him and push. And that's that's really

1142
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:36,959
Speaker 1: old fashioned football that way, and in doing so, they've

1143
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:42,440
Speaker 1: allowed teams to get better at the quarterback sneak in

1144
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 1: my opinion. Obviously, it's an offensive side of the ball.

1145
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: That's you know, it's an aspect of the offensive side

1146
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: of the ball that benefits them. But it also is

1147
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: a way, in this day and age of analytics to

1148
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 1: give a team a bunch of free first downs and

1149
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: stay on the field. They would rather have a quarterback

1150
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: sneak with a drive that stays alive than make a

1151
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: team punt the ball on fourth and one right from

1152
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: their own end. So I think that's one aspect of that.

1153
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 1: That the reason for those rules that are in there.

1154
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 1: They want the offenses to stay on the field and

1155
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: give them a chance to be successful, and having them

1156
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 1: be able to push the quarterback into the end zone

1157
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 1: is just one. I think that's a symptom of a

1158
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 1: rule they put in that was really meant for something else. Yeah,

1159
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if the Competition Committee takes a

1160
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: long look at that. Something tells me that it will

1161
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 1: be discussed. I don't know if there'll be any changes

1162
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 1: this year per se, but I think that that is

1163
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: a textbook thing that the Competition Committee typically examines from

1164
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: one year to the next, So be interesting to see

1165
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 1: where it goes this office. It's the route. I mean

1166
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 1: what Clarence said there and the call is right. The

1167
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 1: root of the problem is not the efficiating, it's the

1168
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: rules they're being asked to officiate. Right. That penalty last night,

1169
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 1: which was a penalty at the end of the game

1170
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: on bury defensive holding. Okay, if you don't like that penalty,

1171
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: you need to change the rule, not the application of it. Yeah,

1172
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's where we're at. We've been talking

1173
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: about it all day. It's an offensive league because of

1174
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,720
Speaker 1: rules like that. They were even when I played thirty

1175
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 1: years ago, when I was on the field. The only

1176
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 1: way guys like me could ever play in the National

1177
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: Football League. It wasn't because of special teams. It was

1178
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 1: because of the rules where guys like me could line

1179
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:41,680
Speaker 1: up outside in the NFL now and they couldn't hit us. Yeah.

1180
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you get a guy a corner like back

1181
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: in the seventies when mel Blunt was playing for the Steelers,

1182
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 1: it's six four, two twenty, and he just he'd take

1183
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, he'd grabbed me by the shoulder pads,

1184
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 1: thrown me out of bounds and then forget about me.

1185
01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's the way it was. So when

1186
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 1: they couldn't but he couldn't. If they could hit you once,

1187
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 1: they could hit you once within five yards of the

1188
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, and then they couldn't touch you theoretically, right, Well,

1189
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,919
Speaker 1: then a guy like me could out maneuver a guy

1190
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 1: like mel Blunt back in the day and be effective,

1191
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: an effective outlet for a quarterback. All of a sudden,

1192
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: you get guys like me to turn into weapons instead

1193
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: of liabilities, and it's like me as Wes Welker. It's

1194
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: you know, Julian Edelman, It's Jamison Crowder and Cole Beasley.

1195
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 1: It's all these guys, you know, Isaiah McKenzie, who are

1196
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: sub six feet such sub five to eleven, most of

1197
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: us who are explosive and can play. That's the rule changes,

1198
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 1: and they've allowed guys to play and a lot of

1199
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: us to enjoy their play. Right. So if you start

1200
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 1: changing the rules, that's where you hit. That's a that's

1201
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:53,840
Speaker 1: the slope you head into because ahead of the curved

1202
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: and back in the seventies and not so much of

1203
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 1: the eight eighties and when it really changed, but back

1204
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: in the late seventies early eight when that started to

1205
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 1: change all of a sudden, you didn't have to be

1206
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: six four six five sixty three minimum to play in

1207
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: the National Football League. You could be a little smaller

1208
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 1: than that way, a little less because you were going

1209
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: to take less physicality. That's the way it is you Isaiah. Again,

1210
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:18,679
Speaker 1: you look back at those sixties and seventies game film.

1211
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:22,879
Speaker 1: It's a bar fight, yeah it is. It is brutal.

1212
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:25,880
Speaker 1: You had to be big just to take the punishment.

1213
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: I'm seriously, whether you could play or not. You had

1214
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: to be that big just so you could survive it, right, right,

1215
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 1: So the rule changes. While we may not like, you know,

1216
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: the current state we're in right now, or maybe we

1217
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 1: do like it, you know, But that's the reason is

1218
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:48,720
Speaker 1: because the game was so ridiculous. Well, yeah, they had

1219
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 1: to change it. But now the NFL is like big

1220
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:54,600
Speaker 1: twelve football. Defense is hard to play. It's hard as

1221
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: a defense to hold a team under thirty points as

1222
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: long as they have a good quarterback and some weapons.

1223
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: And so what you have to do is make sure

1224
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:03,640
Speaker 1: you have enough of an offense to compete at that

1225
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 1: and play a game like that. Yeah, you gotta be ready.

1226
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: You better be ready to join them because you're not

1227
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: beating them with a great defense. That's right. I think

1228
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the film, the mantra of our off season. Here, Brownie,

1229
01:09:15,280 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to join them. We're gonna have to

1230
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to chase him down. We're gonna be

1231
01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: on offense and offense alone offense. Let's get back to

1232
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 1: the phones. We go to Mark in Stockton. Next, What

1233
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 1: do you got for us? Mark? Hey, guys, um great

1234
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,400
Speaker 1: super Bowl. By the way, if I like them close,

1235
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 1: it was entertainment um the Bills. They would have done

1236
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: a lot better if all the offseason talent I'm not

1237
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: gonna name names, but all the guys that they got

1238
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: to get us through the playoffs and win a bowl,

1239
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 1: we're all injured. Come on, they had all those guys

1240
01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: they signed, they were injured, they could in play. It's

1241
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: not their fault that happens. It's all about luck sometimes.

1242
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 1: And as far as that last play goes, what happened

1243
01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 1: to uncatchable ball? Michael Jordan couldn't have come down with

1244
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:00,760
Speaker 1: that one. It was so high. Here's the thing too,

1245
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this mark because that pass at the end,

1246
01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 1: it happened so early in the route that you don't

1247
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: even know where the guy could have gotten to had

1248
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 1: he not been stunt, had he not been held coming

1249
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: out of the break, he would have had way more

1250
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 1: separation than he did, and Mahomes wouldn't have had to

1251
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: throw it out where he did to make sure the

1252
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 1: defender couldn't get there, because the separation would have been

1253
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 1: so easy. Mahomes would have just put it on a

1254
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: line right on the guy. So he threw it out

1255
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 1: there not known the guy was gonna get held up,

1256
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 1: or at least because he didn't get separation, he's gonna

1257
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:36,639
Speaker 1: have to make a better throw than he would have otherwise.

1258
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 1: So there's a that's a rabbit hole too, Mark, You're right, Mark,

1259
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 1: it is a judgment call, and the ref made a

1260
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: judgment because, yes, while it was defensive holding. Well, actually,

1261
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: because it's defensive holding, whether the ball is catchable or

1262
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: not his immaterial. That only comes into play on pass interference.

1263
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: So that just doesn't apply to the ruling and how

1264
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: it's applied for defensive holding. At least as far as

1265
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 1: I know, defensive holding is more concerned with whether the

1266
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 1: ball is still in the pocket than anything else. Let's

1267
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:09,720
Speaker 1: go to Mike in cheektwagan X, what do you got

1268
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 1: for his mic? Hi? Gentlemen, how you doing to it?

1269
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 1: I watched the game yesterday, and I mean I go

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Speaker 1: back watching football for the laugh. I'm gonna say sixty

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01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 1: plus years okay, So I'm kind of like aging myself.

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01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 1: And the Bills have enough offensive talent. I hear people

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Speaker 1: saying they gotta get a top flight receiver. They got one,

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01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 1: they got digs. I mean, they've got good running backs.

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Speaker 1: I mean even a guy like a tight end, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean they've got a great tight end. They gotta

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Speaker 1: go after the offensive line, and they gotta go after

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01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: its big and hard. I mean, I mean that you

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01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 1: have to rebuild that. You look at my homes and

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01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: even Hurst hurts. I mean they had enough time because

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Speaker 1: they had strong offensive lineman in front of him. I mean,

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01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 1: you can have all the weapons you have, but I

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01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 1: mean when Josh gets the ball snapped to him, he's

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01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 1: right away running for his life. Yeah, I mean part

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Speaker 1: of that is because he extends plays on his own.

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01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 1: Other reason for that, And I'm not putting this all

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Speaker 1: on Josh, because Josh, we'll get the ball out on

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01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 1: time if you know, the design of the play works

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01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 1: well and unfolds as it's supposed to. But there are

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01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:29,599
Speaker 1: other times when Josh refuses to take the check down

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01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: because he wants a bigger play instead, and maybe falls

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01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 1: victim to getting a little greedy, And because of that,

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01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 1: the efficiency of the offense is compromised because he's choosing

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01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: a lower efficiency play deeper down the field than he

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01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 1: is a higher efficiency play. Naturally, those plays take longer

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Speaker 1: to develop, which means the line has to protect longer.

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Speaker 1: So there's a given take there that I think we

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Speaker 1: also have to come to appreciate as well when we're

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Speaker 1: factoring all of that in. I'm in agreement with you.

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01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:01,759
Speaker 1: I'm all for investing in the offensive line. It's something

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Speaker 1: that the Bills have not done. And the Chiefs, after

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01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:07,559
Speaker 1: losing the Super Bowl to Tampa Bay because they couldn't

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01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:10,800
Speaker 1: protect a hobbled Patrick Mahomes a few years ago, they

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01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 1: made a trade for Orlando Brown their left tackle. They

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01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 1: signed Joe Tuney to the highest guard contract in free

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01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 1: agent history. They also drafted Creed Humphrey and Tray Smith

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Speaker 1: their center, in their right guard, and their right tackle.

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01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:28,719
Speaker 1: His name is escaping me, but that guy was, I believe,

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01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: already on the roster. They threw Eric Fisher overboard, their

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01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:34,320
Speaker 1: veteran free agent who they did not want to pay

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01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 1: a giant contract, so they retooled their offensive line in

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01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 1: one offseason. It can be done, and they're off on

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01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:44,000
Speaker 1: their way now. They got to pay the piper now,

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Speaker 1: but it got him another Super Bowl, so that's the

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Speaker 1: bottom line. So I'm all on board with investing in

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. Let's squeeze in Mark and Buffalo here

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Speaker 1: before the break? What do you got for us? Mark? Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: I just have hndled the same thing. The offensive line question.

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01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 1: A couple of things. I'm wondering. Dean Dawkins I think

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01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 1: has flipped. He wasn't I think the player he was

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01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 1: the last two years. Spencer Brown, Young Strong, I think

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01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:17,920
Speaker 1: he's going to be worked with the interior line like

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01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:21,919
Speaker 1: you guys have been emphasizing, we need better guard play. Saffold.

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01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:24,759
Speaker 1: I think it's thirty four years old if I'm not mistaken,

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01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:29,599
Speaker 1: and I worry about that. Mitch Moore's concussions to add

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01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:35,080
Speaker 1: to the worrisome. However, MY real question is what value

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01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 1: did Aaron Cromer add to this line? I think it

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01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:41,600
Speaker 1: played better last year and the year before, even with

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01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:44,880
Speaker 1: different players. This year he came in with a little

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01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:47,840
Speaker 1: bit of fanfare and his experience, and I don't think

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01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 1: that he provided the the You know, these guys with

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01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: some techniques or something to make them better. How do

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01:14:56,920 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: you see that with his influence? Well, here's the thing, Brandan,

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Speaker 1: I've been saying this from the beginning. Statistically, the Bills

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01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:05,400
Speaker 1: were better this year than they were last year. Offensively,

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01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 1: they scored more points. They were they were a number

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01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 1: one team in the league on third down. They were

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01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 1: really good offensively. The problem is that we're in two

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01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: different places. You can say what should have happened this

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01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 1: last year and you say, well, they need to you know,

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01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 1: they need better weapons outside, they need to throw the

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01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 1: ball better, and all the data whatever, and then you

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01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:34,000
Speaker 1: can say this what happens going forward. You can take

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01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:36,080
Speaker 1: what you want about last year and say what you

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01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 1: want about it. The simple fact that matters where we're

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01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 1: sitting now is you do feel like that's where you

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01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: need to start, is at least I do. As the

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01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 1: offensive line, you got a couple of guys there that

1349
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: are long in the tooth and you don't have much depth.

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01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 1: You can look outside and if you can get got

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01:15:56,120 --> 01:15:59,640
Speaker 1: and the problems outside to me because I used to

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01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,680
Speaker 1: play that maybe or maybe I'm maybe I'm just not

1353
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: seeing it right. Maybe you see it better than I

1354
01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:05,280
Speaker 1: do out there in radio land. I don't know, but

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01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: they've got guys out there you can fix catching the ball,

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01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 1: and that's I think job one. If you could just

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01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,640
Speaker 1: catch the balls that are thrown to you better, this

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01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 1: would have been a much different Bills season. Um, let's

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01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 1: not forget that Josh's mechanics were compromised the second half

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01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: of the year after the elbowing. Yeah, we're finding out

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01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: more about that too. And you can you can imagine

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01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,880
Speaker 1: how closely guarded that was. I mean, nobody wanted anything.

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01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 1: You know, Josh was out there, not thrown at practice,

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01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing wasn't thrown in pregame warmups

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01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: the first three weeks after there was there was an

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01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:42,360
Speaker 1: issue there that they kept very much under wraps. Now

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01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 1: they put them on the injury list, but you know,

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01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: so there's that. I think I think the weapons were

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to say it in a way

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Speaker 1: that's derogatory. That's good enough. I think you're happy with

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Speaker 1: those and if Jamison Crowder doesn't. I went back and look,

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01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:03,599
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder was playing. He had some moments very early

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01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 1: in the season before he got his leg broken that

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01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 1: we're like, man, that he's gonna be good for us.

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01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:10,640
Speaker 1: It'd be a bad guy to bring back, right, So

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01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: I think where it sits now with the contracts and

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01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 1: after this year is over and you've got you know,

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01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:20,040
Speaker 1: two guys on your roster and your interiorr offensive line

1379
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:23,040
Speaker 1: that are very not very old Mitch Morse's thirty one,

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01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 1: but Saffle's thirty four and your depth. I think that's

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Speaker 1: where you start going forward. Now. Back now last year,

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01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 1: you wish the guys would have caught the football when

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01:17:32,520 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 1: it was thrown to them, and Josh would have taken

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01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 1: the check down a little bit more. But that's not

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01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 1: on the offensive line either. But going forward from this point,

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01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 1: you got to start up front because you're there's some

1387
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: question marks that I know he's got a problem with

1388
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins, but to me, that you can't do audition

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01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: by subtraction. When you need to improve your offensive line,

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01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 1: you don't start pulling people off of it, especially guys

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01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:54,560
Speaker 1: that are entering the prime of their career. Maybe you

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01:17:54,640 --> 01:17:56,400
Speaker 1: move them inside to guard and you get a tackle.

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01:17:56,880 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 1: You know, Mitch Morrise, he's probably your consistent offensive lineman

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01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:03,640
Speaker 1: last season. I know people are concerned about the concussions,

1395
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 1: but to me, you don't subtract him and create another problem,

1396
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:08,760
Speaker 1: not with the state of where the offensive line is

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01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: right now. And the other thing that people are overlooking

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01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 1: were the turnover problems. This team had twenty seven turnovers

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01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 1: this year. The only teams that had more turnovers in

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01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 1: the Bills, the Indianapolis Colts and the Houston Texans. So

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01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: it was a miracle that this team won thirteen games

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01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 1: with twenty seven turnovers, and it's only because the defense

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01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:29,639
Speaker 1: had twenty seven takeaways and they finished even. So that's

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01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: a big problem that's got to be fixed next year

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01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: as well. We have to take a break. We're way over,

1406
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 1: but Bob and Cheek Towaga, Mark and West Seneca Hank

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01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:38,280
Speaker 1: tight We will get to you when we return. Here

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01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalota Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, back here on One Bills Live,

1410
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,200
Speaker 1: where we've been taking your phone calls all day. What

1411
01:18:55,280 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: did this year's Super Bowl tell you that the Bills

1412
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: need to get there? Back to the phones we go

1413
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 1: and Bob and Cheek Twaga leads is so off with you?

1414
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:06,760
Speaker 1: Afters Bob, Hey, guys, I just want to say one thing.

1415
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 1: Great job this year. I love listening to use guys.

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01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 1: But what I want to say is if I'm right

1417
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, Brown was hurt. He played hurt

1418
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:20,280
Speaker 1: a lot this year, and I think that guy's better

1419
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:23,640
Speaker 1: than what people think. I don't think when you win

1420
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: thirteen games, you're offensive line is terrible. And I just

1421
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 1: want to say, I think, get a good draft a

1422
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:33,920
Speaker 1: receiver you can in the second round, go for a minnment,

1423
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:37,920
Speaker 1: but get a slant receiver just in a do that

1424
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: two second pass like Mahomes Dods. There's no doubt. We

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01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: don't have a bad team, guys. And that's all I

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01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: want to say. I think we played injured on a line,

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01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: and I don't think our line is as bad as

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01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:52,599
Speaker 1: to everybody thinks. When you win thirteen games, I'll say, yeah, good,

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01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:55,320
Speaker 1: thanks Bob. You're right, You're right. Yeah, They're a really

1430
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: good football team, no question. And the narrative is different.

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01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: I thought the narrative this last se and offensively during

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01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:04,639
Speaker 1: your season. Looking back on it now from from where

1433
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: we're at, I thought they dropped too many footballs and

1434
01:20:07,520 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: they turned it over too much. All that's fixable, and

1435
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:13,519
Speaker 1: it has nothing really to do with the offensive line.

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01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:15,160
Speaker 1: You can say, well, an offensive line whipped on a

1437
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:17,639
Speaker 1: block and the guy got the ball punched out maybe

1438
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:20,280
Speaker 1: maybe once or twice a few times, but that's not

1439
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:23,639
Speaker 1: the rash event of turnovers that this team went through.

1440
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: They dropped a ton of balls and they turned it

1441
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 1: over too much. If you're gonna do that, you're gonna

1442
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 1: struggle offensive. You're not gonna look your best. That's that's

1443
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 1: that's what I think, and that's why people are on

1444
01:20:34,920 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 1: this kick about saying, hey, we need more weapons. I

1445
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:40,759
Speaker 1: don't think so I'm with you, certainly draft him. I'm

1446
01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: with Brownie. Let's get an offensive draft going and get

1447
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:46,920
Speaker 1: some more weapons. I'm all for better players make you better.

1448
01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:50,679
Speaker 1: But I think now at this point, after that season's gone,

1449
01:20:51,240 --> 01:20:53,679
Speaker 1: now going forward, we do need to get better upfront.

1450
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: We've got off a couple of offensive linemen that are

1451
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 1: that are long in the tooth and are I don't

1452
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 1: like our depth as much as other people are. I

1453
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: think you need to bring in some competition for guys

1454
01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 1: to play. Kessonberry was a really nice swing tackle this

1455
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:09,400
Speaker 1: year and played well when he got in there. But

1456
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: he's a free agent. So is Greg Van Roten. Van

1457
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 1: Roten's gone, Kessenberry may be gone. Bates and butt Ger

1458
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:21,040
Speaker 1: but was a free agent. Was not the same. But

1459
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: he's a free agent. You've got to bring guys into

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01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 1: play because right now you got like four guys that

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01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:29,680
Speaker 1: are starter worthy this last year on your team. If

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01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: Dawkins still under contract, More still under contract, Bates still

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01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: under contract, Brown still on his rookie deal, and Brown,

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01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: you're right, he was injured at the beginning of the

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01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,840
Speaker 1: year because he's coming off offseason back surgery. Didn't do

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01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 1: anything in training camp. So if you want to, you

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01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 1: want to give him a pass on a slow start

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01:21:46,320 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 1: to the season, I'll grant you that. But he missed

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01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: two games Week seven, in Week eight against Green Bay

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01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 1: and the Jets, he was inactive for those games, played

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Speaker 1: in every other game. Now, is he one hundred percent healthy?

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01:21:57,520 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: They always say nobody's one hundred percent healthy. And I

1473
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 1: know he got nick and dinged a couple of times

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01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: through the course of games, not enough to take him out.

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01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:07,760
Speaker 1: I just think it was a slow go out of

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01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 1: the gate for him because of the back surgery and

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Speaker 1: not being able to participate in training camp practice. That

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01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 1: definitely hurt a second year player. So is it going

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01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:19,599
Speaker 1: to take until year three? We'll see. Took until year

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Speaker 1: three for Dawson Knox and the returns were a nine

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01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:25,280
Speaker 1: touchdown season and a forty nine catch, you know, six

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Speaker 1: hundred yard season. That's pretty dang good, and he followed

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01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,519
Speaker 1: it up with a six touchdown season this year. So

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01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:32,840
Speaker 1: maybe it takes until year three for it to all

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01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 1: kick in and come together. For Sprancer Brown, we'll have

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01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:38,160
Speaker 1: to see. But the other spots, they could certainly use

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01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:41,240
Speaker 1: some upgrades, and they could definitely use, as Steve said,

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Speaker 1: some depth. Let's get back to the phones and we

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Speaker 1: go to Mark in West Seneca. What do you got

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01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: for his mark here on One Bill's Live, Very Good afternoon, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: I must respectfully disagree with Bob about our offensive line.

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01:22:56,160 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 1: The numbers. You can argue because of numbers, but you

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01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: can make numbers basically support any argument if you ask me.

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01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:07,760
Speaker 1: But our offensive line struggled when we had to run

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01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: the ball, when teams knew we had to run the ball,

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01:23:10,040 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 1: or when it was obvious that we were going to

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01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 1: try shorten games or whatever. We struggled in short yardage,

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Speaker 1: and we definitely struggled against teams that brought pressure, and

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01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:22,680
Speaker 1: especially later in the year when the competition started to

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01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 1: get stiffer. So we definitely definitely need a major upgrade

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01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:32,640
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Okay, that's my opinion on that.

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01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:35,680
Speaker 1: What they need to do is when I look at

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01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 1: that game last night. It supports an argument I've had

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01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,760
Speaker 1: for three years now about the Bills and the scheme

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01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 1: that they run. They have to change their scheme, and

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01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: Kansas City is a testimony to this. This year. I

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01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: believe the Bills run a vertical deep passing game eighty

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01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:56,640
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and to run that kind of

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01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 1: a scheme, you have to have dynamic receivers. We only

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01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:03,480
Speaker 1: have one in day. Okay, I believe we have good personnel,

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01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:08,280
Speaker 1: but I believe we need to start a short intermediate

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01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: passing game and take it from there and draft. Hey,

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01:24:12,640 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: every offense can use more dynamic receivers, that's a given.

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01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:19,639
Speaker 1: But I believe if they can get a good receiver

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01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: in the draft, you do it. If you can pick

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01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:24,120
Speaker 1: up another one in free agency, you can do that too.

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01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,680
Speaker 1: I mean, look at what Kansas City did this year.

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01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,599
Speaker 1: I don't know people know this. Mahomes had one one

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01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 1: pass this year for a touchdown that was over twenty

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01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:37,439
Speaker 1: yards air yards one where the ball was in the

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01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:42,120
Speaker 1: air more than twenty yards all season long. Okay, they

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01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: literally changed their game from a vertical, dynamic passing game

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01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 1: to a short intermediate passing game and they brought in

1524
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:53,519
Speaker 1: free agent wide receivers that were average to above average

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01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:57,519
Speaker 1: across the board, and they have a great quarterback by

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01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: the way, which we do, and they made it win

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01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 1: or work all the way to a win in the

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01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So I believe we need to change our scheme,

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01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: use the personnel properly that we do have, and fortify

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01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 1: our offensive line in the draft, and stop bringing in

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01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,479
Speaker 1: free agent guys to start that are long in the

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01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: tooth we need. Hey, we always say best coaching staff

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01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:23,200
Speaker 1: in the league in developing players. Draft some offensive linemen

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01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:26,439
Speaker 1: minimum two. I go for three in this year's draft,

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01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 1: and then give them to our chromer, our offensive line coach,

1536
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:33,680
Speaker 1: and say, develop these guys and support them with a

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01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:36,040
Speaker 1: couple key free agents, and now we're on the road

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01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:39,960
Speaker 1: to something. But change the scheme. Change the scheme, change

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01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:44,120
Speaker 1: the scheme. Offensive line, offensive line, offensive line. Yeah, thanks guys,

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01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:45,880
Speaker 1: Thanks Mark. I don't know if you have to change

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01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: the offensive scheme. If you want to shift to the

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01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:51,320
Speaker 1: focus of the offensive scheme, I'm here for that. Where

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01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:54,879
Speaker 1: you go to a higher efficiency model, namely with focusing

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01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 1: on the short to intermediate plays more so than the

1545
01:25:57,240 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 1: hot low percentage you know deep ball, which Josh fell

1546
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:04,200
Speaker 1: susceptible to sometimes, which was not a high efficiency play.

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01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:06,920
Speaker 1: And you're right about Patrick Mahomes. They did shift to

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01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 1: a short intermediate passing model. They became a highly efficient offense.

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01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 1: They led the league in scoring and look at the

1550
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl last night, they scored thirty eight points. The

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01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:17,800
Speaker 1: longest pass play of the game for Patrick Mahomes twenty

1552
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:22,639
Speaker 1: two yards. Yeah, I'm yeah, marked a lot of good

1553
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 1: stuff in there, no question. And I have a hard

1554
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:27,760
Speaker 1: time getting anywhere around this team and saying they got

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01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:29,679
Speaker 1: to throw this out and do this. You know, change

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01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 1: And I don't know how what you're saying when you

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01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:32,880
Speaker 1: say change the scheam, change the scheam, change the games.

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01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:36,040
Speaker 1: They don't need to change too much of anything. They

1559
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:38,439
Speaker 1: need to get better, no question. They need to improve.

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01:26:38,479 --> 01:26:40,519
Speaker 1: They need to work at it. Bringing some guys to compete,

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01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 1: and I don't have a problem bringing in long in

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01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 1: the tooth veterans, particularly to be backup to or at

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01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: least to compete. And if they're better, great. A young

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01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: player who's trying to develop can learn from a guy

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01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:55,519
Speaker 1: like that really well. So let the players develop behind

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01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: them when they do get a chance they'll play. I'm

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01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:01,160
Speaker 1: all about it. You're right, bringing as many dynamic weapons

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01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 1: as you can, draft some offensive linemen. I'm I'm all

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01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 1: here for I'm here for all of that. Um, But

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01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think they need and that sometimes

1571
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 1: it comes off like this in these calls. I'm just saying, yes,

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01:27:13,200 --> 01:27:16,760
Speaker 1: they need to evolve as an offense, no question. But

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01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:20,920
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not here to throw out a year where

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01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: they won thirteen games and because they didn't do anything right. Um.

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01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's a little hyperbole, but you see what

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01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:29,639
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, sure, they're gonna work to get better

1577
01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 1: and hone ins on some things they didn't do as

1578
01:27:32,400 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 1: well and continue to do that. But U and changing

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01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 1: the scheme, yeah, they'll They'll have some new things in

1580
01:27:38,240 --> 01:27:41,280
Speaker 1: there in their game plan next year. For sure. They

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01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: will continue to do that they always do. UM. I

1582
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:46,599
Speaker 1: think this is this at this point of this game,

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01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 1: it's about the personnel on the field, not so much

1584
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:52,160
Speaker 1: the scheme, because those players that they get coming up

1585
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,360
Speaker 1: in the next few months will dictate a lot of

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01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:56,560
Speaker 1: where your scheme goes. Break time for us, Steve and

1587
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: I close it up next year. On one Bill's Live,

1588
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:15,960
Speaker 1: stay tuned to hit the tweet shade here Real Quick

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01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:19,000
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1590
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:21,519
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Zach says the Bills better take

1591
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:23,880
Speaker 1: notes from both teams and realize building around your QB

1592
01:28:24,080 --> 01:28:26,880
Speaker 1: is a vital importance to success because both of those

1593
01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:29,639
Speaker 1: old lines were stellar and weapons galore for those guys. Also,

1594
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,479
Speaker 1: both their schemes were fantastic. Offense should be the sole

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01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:35,840
Speaker 1: priority this season. Josh says. The offense needs a better

1596
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:38,439
Speaker 1: quick game. We need shorter routes, creative angles, and get

1597
01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:41,519
Speaker 1: the ball out sooner. And finally, the court, Jester says,

1598
01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:44,400
Speaker 1: improving the trenches will open up opportunities on both sides

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01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:46,439
Speaker 1: of the ball. Play the rookies a little more. The

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01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 1: only way to gain experiences through experience. Run game is important,

1601
01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:54,000
Speaker 1: but a bell cow back isn't necessary. Coaching decisions, coaching

1602
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: decision making needs improvement. I think all of those have

1603
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 1: merit in terms of what this year's Super Bowl told

1604
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:03,120
Speaker 1: us about what the Bills need to do to get

1605
01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 1: there themselves. They need the easy button options in the

1606
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 1: passing game for Josh getting the ball out here. That's

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01:29:09,479 --> 01:29:12,320
Speaker 1: what Burrow and Mahomes did with great success this year,

1608
01:29:12,439 --> 01:29:16,679
Speaker 1: and the pass rushes they were facing were rendered meaningless. Yeah,

1609
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 1: you gotta get the ball out of Josh's head. Now,

1610
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:20,680
Speaker 1: certainly that takes away from one of the weapons that

1611
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:22,800
Speaker 1: Josh brings to the table, meaning his big arm. He

1612
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:25,240
Speaker 1: can he can threaten you with a with a throw

1613
01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:27,400
Speaker 1: across the field to the back corner, and you got

1614
01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:30,120
Speaker 1: to defend it. We'll see. But that's where we're at

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Speaker 1: right now. That's it for us today here on this

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Speaker 1: Monday after the Super Bowl. We'll see you tomorrow at

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Speaker 1: one