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Speaker 1: going to be a head coach in the league, and

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Speaker 1: ton to say about the fifty three and all that,

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Speaker 1: but he doesn't do a number of the responsibilities that

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Speaker 1: He says, these are the guys I want, go find

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Speaker 1: him and he works with whoever did Scott Paoli? All

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Speaker 1: these guys. There's a crew in there that have a

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Speaker 1: voice in that room, even with Bill Belichick in there.

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Speaker 1: So and Belichick gets it done his way, no question,

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Speaker 1: and you can say which one he has. He may

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Speaker 1: have more power than most head coaches in personnel wise,

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Speaker 1: but even so, he's not a GM with the same

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Speaker 1: responsibilities that other GMS had. Most GMS have, So it's

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Speaker 1: just a given, and it's just an almost a you

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Speaker 1: can carve it and granted that you gotta have a

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Speaker 1: guy to do those responsibilities because it becomes too much

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Speaker 1: for one guy to do the head coach and the

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Speaker 1: GM and other NFL news and notes. Josh Allen has

446
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Speaker 1: been named a finalist for the twenty twenty FedEx Air

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Speaker 1: NFL Player of the Year. Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: are the other candidates. So you can vote at NFL

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Speaker 1: dot com for Josh all the way up to I

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Speaker 1: think February first. So Bill's mafia, do what you do,

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Speaker 1: get your votes in there for Josh. See if you

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Speaker 1: can get him named FedEx Air Player of the Year.

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Speaker 1: And we know why he's up for that award with

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Speaker 1: the season that he had. There are also reports out

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Speaker 1: of Philadelphia that Brian Dable will be requested for a

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Speaker 1: head coaching interview. Now I don't see. I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: a date and a time, and obviously that's not going

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Speaker 1: to happen this week. But Steve, this is the reason

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Speaker 1: selfishly why I want the Bills to keep winning, because

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Speaker 1: I think the more the Bills keep winning, I think

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Speaker 1: it reduces the chances of somebody like Brian Dable getting away.

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Speaker 1: Because perfect example of that Titans lose the wild card

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Speaker 1: playoff game last week to Baltimore. Arthur Smith is flying

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Speaker 1: hither and yon to all these teams. He just conducted

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Speaker 1: who's the San Francisco DC. It's an interesting two edged sword.

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Speaker 1: The more the Bills win, the better Josh Allen looks,

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Speaker 1: the more enticing Brian day Ball becomes. But as with

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Speaker 1: every clicking game and every week that passes, these teams

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Speaker 1: become more and more desperate not to get left out

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Speaker 1: because there's no guarantee at the end of it they

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Speaker 1: will get him. Yeah, so they don't want to be

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Speaker 1: a point of no return that I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of these NFL clubs have on their calendar. Now. Some

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Speaker 1: people are convinced, this is my guy. I'll wait as

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Speaker 1: long as I have to. I want him and nobody else.

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Speaker 1: And the San Francisco forty nine ers did that with

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Speaker 1: Bowl with Atlanta before losing to New England, and then

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Speaker 1: he was hired after they waited until the second week

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Speaker 1: in February to hire him. But that's a rarity that

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen very often. So there's two races here. One

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Speaker 1: is you're racing all the other teams looking for a

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Speaker 1: you have to make a decision sooner rather than later

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Speaker 1: and not let somebody else hire them, right. And then

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Speaker 1: the second thing is how long do you want to

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Speaker 1: wait for your guy if he's still working right now

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs? And those are the that's the balance

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Speaker 1: that a lot of these gms looking for head coaches

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Speaker 1: have to strike, or NFL clubs who don't even have

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Speaker 1: a GM have to strike. The other news injury related

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Speaker 1: ed Oliver, Tremaine Edmonds, Justin Zimmer all limited again in

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Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday. Team practicing again today, probably as we speak,

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Speaker 1: and coach McDermott said today he has not ruled anyone

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Speaker 1: had not yet taken the practice fiel due to a

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Speaker 1: And then the most noteworthy development regarding the roster for

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Speaker 1: Saturday was revealed by coach McDermott in his media access today.

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Speaker 1: Coach said this about who will fill the void left

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Speaker 1: TJ will be the one that's grown up in Zack

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Speaker 1: spot t J. Yelvin just to give you that information,

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Speaker 1: and Jay and then we do have a lot of

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Speaker 1: confidence in Antoniowens and we really really were impressed by

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Speaker 1: what we saw in that game against my And just

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Speaker 1: to clarify, does that mean that you don't plan on

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Speaker 1: bringing Antonio upper? Has that decision not been made yet?

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Speaker 1: That decision has not been made. So Antonio Williams currently

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Speaker 1: sits on the practice squad. You heard coach McDermott there

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Speaker 1: end of the week where they could thereby activate him

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Speaker 1: for the game if they so choose. They have until

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Speaker 1: Friday at four pm. Or sorry, they have until well, yes,

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Speaker 1: still the day before, so Friday four pm to make

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Speaker 1: t J. Yelden will fill the role left by Zach

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Speaker 1: it'll be Singletary and Yelden as the top two backs

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Speaker 1: on offense for the Bills, and I, as we alluded

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Speaker 1: to yesterday, Steve coach mcderm its history is going with

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Speaker 1: more experience in this league. I think he even has

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Speaker 1: while I while there's no question they were impressed with

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Speaker 1: what Antonio Williams did in his NFL debut in Week

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Speaker 1: seventeen against the Miami Dolphins, averaging five point three to

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Speaker 1: carry and two touchdowns, I think experience counts here. It

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Speaker 1: Moss's role. Yeah, and you can see it's easy to justify,

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Speaker 1: but he's been above him all season and the only

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Speaker 1: reason he wasn't getting the Bowl in Miami could have

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Speaker 1: been just because he was on the COVID list, otherwise

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Speaker 1: you would have even seen Antoni right, Antonia Wims might

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Speaker 1: not even hit the fe So his experience and his

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Speaker 1: hard work during the regular seasons what earns you this

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Speaker 1: and keeps it So DJ Yelden's going to be active,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't say that Antonio Williams won't be. But

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Speaker 1: on the number two or number three at the depth

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Speaker 1: chart all year? Law Ye Law and the last That's

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Speaker 1: how you get to that spot. Yelden's appeared in three

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Speaker 1: games for the Bills this season. The last time was

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Speaker 1: Week five against Tennessee. Had seven carries for fifty two

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Speaker 1: yards and caught a touchdown pass. So it's been a

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Speaker 1: minute since he's seen regular season game action. But this

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Speaker 1: is a This is a talented player that I don't

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Speaker 1: think gets enough credit. And the reason I say that

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Speaker 1: is back in high school, this guy was the number

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Speaker 1: two running back in the country coming out of high school.

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Speaker 1: I think he was the Alabama State Player of the

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Speaker 1: Year and then obviously went to Alabama for his college ball.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, he was like number two in the country

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Speaker 1: for Gatorade Player of the Year he's like the runner

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Speaker 1: up or something. So talented kid and still a pretty

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Speaker 1: season with Jacksonville he caught fifty five passes as a

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Speaker 1: running back, and that could be a valuable safety valve

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Speaker 1: for Josh Allen if the Ravens decide to blitz as

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Speaker 1: much as they do. They lead the league with blitz

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Speaker 1: rate to forty five and a half percent. He's been

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo in the system for a while and won't

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Speaker 1: get caught blocking the wrong guy if they do blitz

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Speaker 1: and pass pro that kind of thing. So all that

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Speaker 1: goes into the mix. And that doesn't not to say

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Speaker 1: anything that Antonia Williams that's a concern with him, but

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Speaker 1: the experience certainly gives you more security knowing the guys

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Speaker 1: should be have every assignment under his belt. Break time

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Speaker 1: for us, But we want to know from you, where

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Speaker 1: are you at two days away from kickoff and why

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Speaker 1: you're cool as a cucumber, you're nervous as hack or

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Speaker 1: you're climbing the walls right now to the point where

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Speaker 1: you might not even make it to game time. Give

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Speaker 1: us a call eight oh three oh five fifty Justin

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Speaker 1: and Elmira, tedd in Atlanta. Hang on, we'll get to

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Speaker 1: you in the next segment. You Know A One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio

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Speaker 1: drink of the Buffalo Bills. We want to get right

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Speaker 1: to the phones here as we are, asking you on

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Speaker 1: today's Twitter poll, where are you at two days away

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Speaker 1: from Saturday's game? And why are you cool as a cucumber?

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Speaker 1: Are you nervous or are you an absolute wreck? Wondering

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna make it to game time in just

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Speaker 1: over forty eight hours from now. So we go to

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Speaker 1: the phones and leading us off today is Justin and Elmira. Justin,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: Steve Chris, how are you doing? We're doing all right?

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Speaker 1: All right, So just a couple of things to answer.

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Speaker 1: Where I'm at? First, the bouts of insomnia started last night,

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Speaker 1: but two three thirty five, and that's all I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about. And I actually find myself pacing while I'm

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Speaker 1: on the phone with you just thinking about this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and this is like pacing like I would during a

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Speaker 1: game pace. I probably walked six miles during the game

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Speaker 1: in my little living room. Is there anything in particular

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Speaker 1: that really has you in this state or is it

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Speaker 1: more of a general sense of nervousness the fact that

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Speaker 1: it's the fact that we're here, it's the fact of

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Speaker 1: where we're at, you know what I mean, it's the

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Speaker 1: fact of Okay, we I was thinking about this. I

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Speaker 1: think at one of these points in the morning that

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Speaker 1: we checked the box. You know. Last year, it was

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Speaker 1: all right, we need to win a playoff game, right

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Speaker 1: like that. That was the goal for this year, division title,

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Speaker 1: win a playoff game, you know, and then maybe the

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Speaker 1: next step the following year. I don't knew we were

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Speaker 1: going to be good. I didn't know we'd be here.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we're here, but I think that that's we've

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Speaker 1: we've exceeded expectations. I think, certainly my expectations. And I

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Speaker 1: you know, and it's been since I was fourteen, fifteen

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Speaker 1: years old, since we've been this far, So it's you know,

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Speaker 1: I turned forty this year. Just to put it in perspective.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's it's where we're at that has

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Speaker 1: me on edge. But then on the on the flip side,

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Speaker 1: I can go back to sleep because we're so damn good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're just so we're so good that I'm

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Speaker 1: more confident obviously than I have been in years past.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sweating too big a bull. It's of course

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Speaker 1: it's Thursday. It's not Saturday's waiting for the game. Saturday

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Speaker 1: is gonna equate to waiting the entire week. You know,

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Speaker 1: Saturday's just going to be a long day. So if

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Speaker 1: you guys are on, I'll check with you then, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure things will be different my state of mind

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Speaker 1: and and and and nerves. But I was down doing

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Speaker 1: the laundry. I'm very superstitious, guys, So I'm making sure

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Speaker 1: that the clothes that I wore for last week, I'm

643
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Speaker 1: gonna wear again this week. Highly superstitious and rate. In

644
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Speaker 1: your opening segment, while I was doing that, you had

645
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Speaker 1: brought up the stat the I think it was the

646
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: yards per game where Buffalo was fourteenth in Baltimore was seven.

647
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Speaker 1: I believe that was the stat. H Steve was rattling

648
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Speaker 1: them all off in it. Yeah, um, yes, buff Yeah,

649
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Speaker 1: yards per game defensively defensively defenses. Go ahead, what what

650
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Speaker 1: was the I thought it was offensive yards? Yeah, it's

651
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Speaker 1: defensive defensive yards per game the Baltimore. Baltimore's number seven

652
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Speaker 1: in the league. They allow fewer yards than Buffalo does

653
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Speaker 1: at fourteen yards per fourteen. My my fault. I thought

654
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Speaker 1: the stat was my bad for not listening a right

655
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Speaker 1: total defense. I was gonna go in too. Well, Wow,

656
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: our return game might play a big part of why

657
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: we might be lower than good. So how Yeah, yeah,

658
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. Field position. There are a

659
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: lot of people out there talking about how good the

660
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: Baltimore special teams have been, and they have been. They've

661
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: been in really good So Buffalo's got their work cutout

662
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: for him on that end of the spectrum as well.

663
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Speaker 1: Although Buffalo's special teams have played really well, they didn't

664
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Speaker 1: have a great game last week against the Colts. So yeah,

665
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Speaker 1: although yeah, Bass came through, that's for sure, he did

666
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Speaker 1: good call justin. We appreciate that good leadoff hitter for us.

667
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Speaker 1: Today we go to Ted in Atlanta. Next Ted, what

668
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Speaker 1: do you have You're on one Bill's Live. Well, first stillman,

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Speaker 1: I want you to know that I'm very relaxed about

670
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Speaker 1: this game. Really, okay, Oh, I mean, it's going to

671
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: be just a great fun game to watch. And here's

672
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Speaker 1: why number one, Buffalo is the better team. Number two.

673
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Speaker 1: We're playing in Buffalo number three. The conditions that we're

674
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: playing in are going to really be advantage shots. And

675
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Speaker 1: here's why. First of all, of course, Josh has played Wyoming,

676
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: He's used to this kind of weather. This is nothing

677
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: new to him. Lamar has not played ever in snow,

678
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: as he said, so that's going to be a new

679
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: feature to him that he's going to have to make

680
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: some adjustments to that. Josh is already going to be

681
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: it's already going to know to do. And when you

682
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: look at their defense and the fact that they blitz

683
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: a lot, these kind of weather conditions make it where

684
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Speaker 1: the zig zagging, the stunting and all that is not

685
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 1: as effective as just straight bull rushing. So the blocking

686
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: schemes are going to be easier for us in terms

687
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Speaker 1: of being able to pick up what they're doing. And

688
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: if they do decide to blitz, the offense has a

689
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: huge advantage in terms of making cuts, knowing where they're

690
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: going and the defense having to respond to that in

691
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: the amount of energy that they use making in those brakes.

692
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Speaker 1: So you're going to see a lot of a lot

693
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Speaker 1: of big games. Now on the other side of the ball, Okay,

694
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: their running attack has a lot to do with pulling guards,

695
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: trapping things like that. Again, the same thing. Conditions are

696
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: not going to be favorable for that. So I think

697
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Speaker 1: that they're gonna get theirs. But at the end of

698
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Speaker 1: the day, it's gonna Buffalo is going to jump out

699
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Speaker 1: on them early and it's going to be a thirty

700
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Speaker 1: seventeen victory and we're never going to sweat it. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: rest easy, Ted, I will tell you the forecast is

702
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Speaker 1: only for light snow. There's not supposed to be any

703
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 1: real measurable accumulation. It's supposed to start sometime after kickoff,

704
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: and they're really not expecting much more than an inch.

705
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Speaker 1: I'll say this if that, I'll say this, though it's

706
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Speaker 1: gonna be cold, it's gonna be like it will be cold.

707
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Speaker 1: It'll be like it'll be in the teens, the high teens,

708
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Speaker 1: and that's cold. Yeah. The other thing that I think

709
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: has kind of gone under the radar because Lamar dismissed

710
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: it this week. Is he put a glove on his

711
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: left and his non throwing hand after halftime last week

712
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: because he jammed his thumb. Now it's his non throwing

713
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: hands a big deal. He said, it's fine, So it's

714
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Speaker 1: just something to keep an eye on. Does he wear

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Speaker 1: a glove again this week? Is? That would mean it's

716
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Speaker 1: still bothering him. And you know, if he has to

717
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Speaker 1: switch hands while he's carrying the football, maybe he can't

718
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Speaker 1: apply that point of pressure with his thumb on the

719
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Speaker 1: football to hold on to it effectively enough. So just

720
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Speaker 1: something to think about. I know it's a small, minor detail,

721
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Speaker 1: maybe it's a non issue, but if he's wearing that

722
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Speaker 1: glove in the second half, or if he comes out

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Speaker 1: in the game on Saturday night and he's got that

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Speaker 1: glove on, I just think it's something to keep an

725
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Speaker 1: eye on. Yeah, maybe I'm overthinking it. No, No, you're right.

726
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Speaker 1: It's always Ball handling is always an issue in the cold.

727
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Speaker 1: And another thing that you remember is and you got

728
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Speaker 1: to know, is when guys wear long sleeves, what those

729
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Speaker 1: sleeves are made of is really crucial to how easy

730
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Speaker 1: it is to hang onto the football because you get

731
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Speaker 1: a nice little white cotton shirt or whatever that's slipper.

732
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: The ball slips, is slippery on it, even you know,

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Speaker 1: under good conditions, and so you gotta have something on

734
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Speaker 1: your arms where if you tuck it into you, the

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Speaker 1: ball's gonna be sticky in there on that SIPs. It's

736
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Speaker 1: just like the gloves. The gloves these guys wear. The

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Speaker 1: technology is fantastic. It grips really well. But if if

738
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Speaker 1: you're tucking it up against your arm, your jersey and

739
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Speaker 1: your sleeve don't have that technology. And that's so when

740
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Speaker 1: it gets cold, you see fumbles a lot happen because guys,

741
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Speaker 1: the sleeves they wear in the clothes they wear are

742
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Speaker 1: slippery against the ball, not like their gloves are or

743
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Speaker 1: their skin is. Yeah, break time for us, but when

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Speaker 1: we come back, more of your phone calls. So Greg

745
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: and North Tanawan, the Josh and Java DJ Colin hang on,

746
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Speaker 1: we'll get to you guys. We have plenty of open

747
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: segments here for your phone calls, as we want to

748
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Speaker 1: know where are you at two days away from Saturday's game,

749
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Speaker 1: and why we want to take the temperature of the room.

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Speaker 1: You guys crawling up the walls You're nervous as hell

751
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: or are you just breathing free and easy thinking? This

752
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: is going to be a walk. Give us a call

753
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty or hit us up

754
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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at one Bill's Lives task or

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown back in a moment. You're on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Killid to health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live Thursday edition. We are getting

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00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: the temperature of the room for Bill's Mafia. Where are

759
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: you at two days away from Saturday's kickoff? And why

760
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: it's choices for you at One bills Live on Twitter. Sorry,

761
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,720
Speaker 1: I'll get that right. Are you cool as a cucumber

762
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: or you're nervous or your wreck? And we're also taking

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on the phone lines at eight oh three

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Speaker 1: five fifty and there to lead us off in this

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Speaker 1: segment is Greg in north Tonawanda. Greg, what do you

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00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: have for us? Hey, guys, great show as always. I

767
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 1: absolutely love your show. Steve. I have no idea why

768
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: you're not in the Hall of Fame anyway. I'm gonna

769
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 1: be sixty in a couple and I've been watching games

770
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: since the rock Pile stories I could tell you beyond belief.

771
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: But if we went back and watched all the Multimore

772
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: Ravens games so far from this past year, beatable. I'm

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00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 1: in the majority where I'm kind of on the fence

774
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: with this one, but I see areas where there Beatable.

775
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: The games they lost a couple of Pittsburgh, they lost one.

776
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: They barely beat Philly, they lost one of Tennis. They're

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00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: very aggressive blitzing defense, and that was the key how

778
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: they got tore off. Just those little swing passes, the

779
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 1: short passing game, the tight end screens. I think there's

780
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: a way to effectively beat the Baltimore if you game plan,

781
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: and then the key is execute, execute the game plan.

782
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, And what encourages me is

783
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: you have two backs. Devin Singletary and t J. Elda

784
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: are very good receivers out of the backfield. I don't

785
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: think that should be dismissed in this game. As as

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00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: productive and as consistent as this Bill's receiving corps has

787
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: been this year, and they've been great. I mean, don't

788
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: get me wrong, they've been great, Steve, but these backs

789
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: can catch the ball. You can you can get them

790
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: on linebackers you can you can make some hey there,

791
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: or at least neutralize the blitz. Right, I like the call.

792
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: He's right there. And Josh said that as much to

793
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: the to the media yesterday. They went back and he

794
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: said it was a hard watch to go back and

795
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: watch that game from a year ago when Josh was

796
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: wasn't anywhere near the quarterback he is today, and to

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00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: watch that team blitz him sixty eight percent of the time. Yeah,

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00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: that was the number. Sixty eight point nine percent of

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Speaker 1: the time they blitzed Josh last That's that's totally a

800
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown stack because the blitz. Listen this Bills fans

801
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: last week Week four last year, Week fourteen, the Baltimore

802
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: Ravens in Buffalo blitz Josh Allen sixty nine percent of

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00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: the time in those in that game. And they didn't

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00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: look great. The Bills didn't. They got seventeen points, they

805
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: gave up twenty four points, lost by a touchdown. Um

806
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: they you know, they got after him all day. So

807
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: Josh had to go back and watch that game. He

808
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: said it was hard to watch. And he's also said, well,

809
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: there were sometimes there's some things we should have done

810
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: to when he made a couple of bone headed plays.

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Speaker 1: His estimation. I am really interested to see what Baltimore

812
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: thinks of this Bill's offense this year in week nineteen

813
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty season, as opposed to Week fourteen

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00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,959
Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen season. I'm really interested to see

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Speaker 1: what they think of these guys, because there are those

816
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: of you, those of us who say, I dare you

817
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: to blitz our guy sixty nine percent of the time

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Speaker 1: with these weapons. I just don't know if you can

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Speaker 1: do it. You can't play man defense as much as

820
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: they do against this group, but they'll eat you alive.

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Speaker 1: But the Ravens are really good doing that. They're good,

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Speaker 1: and so they might have a lot as much faith

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00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 1: in their defense as we haven't, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I want to see what they think, and we're gonna

825
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: have to wait until Saturday to find out. There's there

826
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: is reason to be optimistic, no question, but this is

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00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: a team like the Bills have not faced all years,

828
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 1: the same in the same breath. You got to say that,

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Speaker 1: and you don't know how it's gonna. Go back to

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Speaker 1: the phones and to DJ on a cell, DJ, what

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live. Hi,

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Speaker 1: thanks for selecting my call a great lesson. Once again,

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Speaker 1: I loved your discussion yesterday about minor hockey, and there's

834
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: a there's a little local link between UH hockey and

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and slap Shot. So during the Sabers, m Mayhem

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Speaker 1: or whatever popularity in early seventies, there was actually a

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Speaker 1: North American Hockey League team that played out of the

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00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: odd called the Buffalo Norseman. And one of the teams

839
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Speaker 1: in the league was a Johnstown Jets, And playing for

840
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: the Jets was this guy named Ned Dowd who was

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Speaker 1: a college guy and actually the model for the Ned

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Speaker 1: Braden character in Slap Shot. Okay. Ned went to Bowden

843
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: Division two and three or four years in the minors.

844
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Speaker 1: His sister Nancy was kind of intrigued with what he

845
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Speaker 1: was doing, came to visit him. She wrote the screenplay

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Speaker 1: a flap Shot. The actually written by a woman, and

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00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: the sister of the college guy was in there. Anyway,

848
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm nervous, really nervous. I'm like you guys when you

849
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: said at the beginning, sometimes you read something you're really excited,

850
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: and sometimes you're like, oh, we're gonna lose this thing.

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00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: I did. I watched the I watched a replay of

852
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: the second Tennessee Baltimore game, and Tennessee was successful partly

853
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: because Tannehill was throwing short passes and you know, five

854
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: to ten yard passes. And when I was watching the

855
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: Indianapolis game, I had the same feeling at halftime that

856
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: I did at the Pittsburgh game, was that she's where

857
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: the short passes. And so the question to you guys

858
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: is two, Um, why didn't they shorten the routes or

859
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: shorten the passes in the second half of the Colts

860
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: game like they did the Pittsburgh game? And do you

861
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: think they'll do that against Baltimore like joh Tannehill did?

862
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: And um, I also noticed there was not a whole

863
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: lot of pre snap movement when we really usually kind

864
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: of rely on that a lot, just to get the

865
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: defense showing what they're doing. So, UM, two questions, why

866
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: no presnamp movement in the Colts game? And do you

867
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: think they'll shorten up the routes against the Ravens? Right? Thanks, Jake,

868
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: I do not know. I gotta say I didn't notice

869
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: the lack of movement because there was some movement in

870
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: the cold game not much. Yeah, No, Mackenzie really in

871
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: the game right offense, right, and he's usually one of

872
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: their main motion guys, right, Not that they can't motion

873
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: anybody else, but yeah, you're right. Um, I don't. I

874
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: couldn't answer that. I'll say this, it's by design, because

875
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: you do motion for a reason. And I think one

876
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: of the one of the reasons they use motion probably

877
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: was absent playing the Colts defense for some reason, whether

878
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: they didn't play enough man to have to find out

879
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: if they were playing man, or whether or some other

880
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: reason they playing two high safeties. Good a right, If

881
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: they're playing two high safeties, they're not playing man to

882
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: man against the Bills against Josh, because they're just not

883
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: enough guys up front to contain a quarterback. If you're

884
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: gonna rush, you know, you go, you kind of you'll

885
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: run motion to find out where they're blitzing from, who's blitzing,

886
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: what's blitzing, and or your or your motion to find

887
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,240
Speaker 1: out who's following who and if he if nobody follows

888
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: a guy across the formation in motion, you know, it's

889
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: his own coverage. So all of that stuff was probably

890
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: taken off the table by the fact that the Colts

891
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 1: just decided to go too high and play zone behind.

892
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: So that's why there was no motion there and why

893
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: you don't shorten up the rout side. That's another I

894
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if I can answer that. Yeah,

895
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: it's I think what you have to consider is that

896
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 1: Brian Dabel has considered anything and everything under the under

897
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: the sun between the end of the last game and

898
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: it preparing for that game and putting in the game

899
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: plan and whatnot. And I mean he's a guy that

900
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: will adjust on the fly during the course of game.

901
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: So if he notices something or feels there's a better

902
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: answer to what they're up against, he will go to

903
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: that without hesitation. I mean, I may be shown that.

904
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: It may be given the fact that the way the

905
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: first half went, It may be they said, listen, we're

906
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: going to be successful in what we're doing if we

907
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 1: can just get out there and stay out there, right,

908
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: we don't need to change what we're doing if we

909
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: can just don't forget. They hung two quick, quick touchdowns

910
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: in the second quarter on the Colts, and really all

911
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: it took was just a couple of first downs to

912
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: do it. They probably felt like they had enough in

913
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: their arsenal to get it done if they could just

914
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,720
Speaker 1: get better field position and weren't hamstrung by field position

915
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: and time of game. So I think that might have

916
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: had something to do with it as well. There's no

917
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: reason to think they felt like they needed to change

918
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: what they were doing at the end of that first half. Yeah,

919
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: break time for us. When we come back. More of

920
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: your phone calls, got an open segment for you again,

921
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: So Colin and Olean, Josh and Java Doug in Ohio

922
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: hang tight. Will get to you when we return. Here

923
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo

924
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Buffalo Bills Radio Network Sports Update. Here's a

925
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills will be

926
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: turning to t J. Eldon to fill the void left

927
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: by the injured Zach Moss. That according to coach McDermott,

928
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 1: who also left open the possibility of calling up Antonio

929
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: Williams from the practice squad. Coach McDermott has not ruled

930
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: anyone out for the game yet, even though defensive end

931
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: Daryl Johnson did not practice on Tuesday or Wednesday this week. Meanwhile,

932
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: for the Ravens, there are two injured players of note.

933
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: Marcus p Their cornerback and outside linebacker Matt Judon did

934
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: not practice each of the last two days. Philadelphia Eagles,

935
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: in their search for a head coach, are reportedly interested

936
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: in Bill's oc Brian Dable. No formal request has been

937
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: reported to this point. Dabele is also a candidate for

938
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: the Jets and Chargers head coaching positions. Urban Meyer is

939
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: returning to the sidelines. The Jacksonville Jaguars reportedly working toward

940
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: finalizing a deal with the three time National Championship winning

941
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: coach to be their next head coach. Meyer will be

942
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: taking his first stab at the NFL, ringing with him

943
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: an overall mark of one eighty seven and thirty two

944
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: in his college days spent at Ohio State, Florida, Utah,

945
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: and Bowling Green. Cleveland Browns officially get their head coach

946
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: back ahead of their Divisional round playoff matchup with the

947
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Kevin Stefanski returned to the Browns facility

948
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: Thursday morning after having to miss last week's wildcard game

949
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: against the Steelers after he tested positive for COVID. Bill O'Brien,

950
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: the former coach of the Huston Texans and Penn State

951
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: is finalizing a deal to become Alabama's next offensive coordinator.

952
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: Taking the job will mark O'Brien's return to the college

953
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: sidelines for the first time since twenty thirteen. NBA News

954
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,280
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets landed disgruntled star James Harden from the Houston

955
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: Rockets in a blockbuster fourteen trade. The mega deal reunites

956
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,800
Speaker 1: Hardened with former Oklahoma City teammate Kevin Durant in Brooklyn

957
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: and positions the Nets, who also have All star guard

958
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,240
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving as a title contender in the Eastern Conference,

959
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: and the Sabers, after three hundred eleven days since their

960
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: last game, will officially open the twenty twenty one regular

961
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 1: season tonight at the Key Bank Center. They host the

962
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: Washington Capitals. Carter Hutton, We'll get the start in Net tonight,

963
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: face off set for seven pm. That is your sports update.

964
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you our number two of

965
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,879
Speaker 1: a Thursday edition of one Bills Live. Where we are

966
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: asking you where are you at? With two days before

967
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: kickoff in this divisional playoff between the Bills and the Ravens,

968
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 1: we get right back to the phones and here to

969
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: lead us off is Colin in Olean Colin, what do

970
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: you have for us? You're on one Bills Live Brownie, Steve,

971
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Yeah, well, first of all,

972
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,479
Speaker 1: the one of the last callers took my thunder. But Steve,

973
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 1: you belong in the Hall of Fame and the story done. Also,

974
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: I think that after the game against the Colts, I

975
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,720
Speaker 1: was excited, and you know, I was pumped, And then

976
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: about Monday morning when I woke up to go to work,

977
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: I entered what I call the vomit fog, which in

978
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: the regular season usually doesn't hit until right before the game,

979
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: but against the Colts that hit me Friday before the game.

980
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: But now this one, now that we've made it to

981
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: the divisional round, I am I'm very nervous. Every time

982
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: I see something that has to do with the Bills.

983
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: I watch, you know, an interview with coach McDermott or

984
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: one of the players, it's just like, Oh, it's coming,

985
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: and I just get more and more excited, which takes

986
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: me further into the fog of the pregame nerves. Um.

987
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 1: So I'm very excited for the Savers to start tonight

988
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: to hopefully take my mind off of that game. For

989
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: a little bit and give me some relief, but definitely

990
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 1: definitely looking forward to this Saturday and hopefully another Bills win. Yeah,

991
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. I ride the roller coaster

992
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: of positive and negative. And it's like for me plus

993
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: doing this show and do it, you know, the game

994
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: on radio and doing all that stuff for the team

995
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: and being in the middle of it. I we have

996
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: from week one all the way through, from all the

997
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 1: whole offseason. Everything it's with me twenty four to seven.

998
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 1: I mean, I never set it aside when I'm when

999
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: I when I scroll in my offtime on my timeline,

1000
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: it's all about the game. Obviously. When I come in

1001
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: here in the morning, we get started with this, it's

1002
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: walled wall. I mean, when I go home, if I

1003
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: meet anybody that's not a family member, my family members too,

1004
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: What do you think? That's exactly it's all. And I

1005
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 1: don't mind because I'm thinking about it. You may as

1006
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: well talk to me about it because that's all I

1007
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: got on my mind too. I can't escape it. I

1008
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 1: can't escape it. It's like it's literally like a bad

1009
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:23,839
Speaker 1: rash I've gotten on my face, right, I gotta late

1010
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: every time I look at I just can't get away

1011
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: from it. And so um I think about it all

1012
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: the time, bills and it's and it isn't and it's

1013
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: a it's a rollercoaster, man. It goes from the highest

1014
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 1: of highs thing and how awesome it's been, how good

1015
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: it looks for the future, all the cool stuff we've

1016
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: seen this year, the finish to the regular season, the

1017
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: stellar play from the quarterback, the weapons he's gotten, they're

1018
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: all they're all signed. Nothing is is sitting at the

1019
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: front and center, like you gotta sign this guy, you

1020
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: gotta get that. They're all they all got another year

1021
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,399
Speaker 1: on their deal. I mean, it's just looking forward. It's

1022
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: just awesome. But you know, the moment that final play

1023
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: happens in your season where it's a super Bowl or

1024
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: this game or next week or but whatever, this has

1025
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: gone forever. It is nothing but a memory. This does

1026
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: It doesn't count towards next year. It does nothing. Maybe

1027
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: that's where a lot of the nervous nervousness lies, because,

1028
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 1: like one of the earlier callers said, you know, the

1029
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: expectation this year was to win the division and finally

1030
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: win a playoff game. We're an uncharted terror. Can I

1031
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 1: think for a lot of fans, they're sitting there saying

1032
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: to our saying to themselves, we're allowed to have some

1033
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: gravy too, Like can we get some gravy on that

1034
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 1: on that dinner? Like a little cherry on that cake?

1035
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: Can we you know what I mean? So do we

1036
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: have time for dessert? Can we have? Can we get

1037
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: one more? Can I have seconds? But last thing? Would

1038
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: you like some whip cream with that? Yeah? Yes I would,

1039
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: thank you? May I have another? Thank you? Yes? I

1040
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,919
Speaker 1: will have some I WI cream. I think that's where

1041
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: a lot of fans are right now, like I know

1042
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 1: means can. I don't think a lot of them would

1043
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: be disappointed because of what has been achieved this year.

1044
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: Division title playoff monkey off the back victory swept the

1045
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: Division six hardest, hardest record in the league, had schedule

1046
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: schedule right of the playoff teams for sure. So there's

1047
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: all of that and you and you want to check

1048
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: all those boxes, and you're happy to see this team

1049
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: check all those boxes. Unquestionable progress has been made. They

1050
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: took the proper steps in year three that I think

1051
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: everybody expected, and maybe a little bit more. Um. But

1052
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: those fans are out there and they're saying, can I

1053
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: just getting just getting a little bit more? Can we

1054
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: can we get to the almost Can we do that?

1055
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: You're almost embarrassed to ask for it. Yeah, well they

1056
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: shouldn't be embarrassed to ask for it. The team is

1057
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: good enough to go that far, I believe, so they

1058
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: should not be embarrassed for it. I just think Bills

1059
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: fans are pretty happy with how far this season has gone,

1060
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: and now they're just like, maybe we could get maybe

1061
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more, I think, but they're nervous about it.

1062
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: Think about this this team, certainly we thought they got

1063
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 1: a chance to win the division. But you thought they'd

1064
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: go like four and two in the division, right, split

1065
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: with Miami and Patriots and sweep the Jets. You know

1066
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:20,959
Speaker 1: what I mean? Four and two in the division. You think, okay,

1067
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: and then you know those two fall out. You know,

1068
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: you still win all that Yigiti act, right, so you

1069
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: get to get to the end of it then you know.

1070
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 1: But the problem was we sat at the four months

1071
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: ago four and a half months ago, back in early September,

1072
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: and we're thinking, man, we have a really tough schedule

1073
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: the NFC West with the Rams, the Seahawks, the Cardinals

1074
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: and the whoever the other team is. I can't think

1075
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: of San Francisco with those four teams, I don't know.

1076
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: And the AFC West with the Chiefs and the Raiders. Yeah,

1077
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you had two of the last NFC representatives

1078
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl in the NFC West in the

1079
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: Rams and the Niners. He had a perennial playoff team

1080
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: in Seattle, and he had an up coming team with

1081
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Arizona. That division looked like it gone right.

1082
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,439
Speaker 1: They went three. The AC West with the defending Super

1083
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: Bowl champs, play right, and you gotta play Tennessee, you

1084
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: gotta play Pittsburgh. I mean, you think we're you know,

1085
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: so not only do they hang up thirteen wins on

1086
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: all of those jokers, none of them, nobody else had

1087
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: to go through the regular season gauntlet that the Bills did.

1088
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: That are sitting here, Yeah, nobody's just sitting here where

1089
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,919
Speaker 1: the Bills are? Who had to play all of those guys? Right?

1090
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: Even the Ravens got to play the NFC East this

1091
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: year is their cross division. You know, the Dallas, Philly Washington.

1092
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: He had a winning record, Dallas filling Washington and and

1093
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: they had to struggle to beat the Giants. That was

1094
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 1: that was a close game for them, if I remember right,

1095
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: the Dallas game for them, that wasn't a walk in

1096
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: the park for them. Let me see if I can

1097
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: find it. I got it. Oh no, I don't have

1098
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: any front. I got it. Um yeah, so yeah they

1099
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: the Giants game was uh and they lost to the Patriots.

1100
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: The Ravens did twenty three seventeen, So yeah, I get it.

1101
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: I can't find the Giants game on. While you're looking

1102
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: for that, I'm going to go back to the phones,

1103
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: just more places. Josh and Java, who's been waiting patiently? Josh,

1104
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hi, guys,

1105
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 1: how's it going? Because I'm in a good day and

1106
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: doing all this beautiful Buffalo weather did not do the Giants.

1107
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: Yeah quick, I'll warm up on on my twenty twenty.

1108
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,479
Speaker 1: I've been a fan going a game for thirty plus

1109
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 1: years with my family. Me and my mom and my

1110
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: nine year old daughter go to every game until this

1111
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: year obviously, and h in May, I had twin daughters

1112
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 1: four months early. I came out one and two pounds. Wow.

1113
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: So and you know, during all this coronavirus stuff. And

1114
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: then the next month, my mom turned fifty and I

1115
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: couldn't spend her birthday with her because of everything going

1116
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:57,919
Speaker 1: on in the hospital. Um, I bought her a frame

1117
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: Steve test Ura Jersey because that's her favorite player. Look

1118
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: at that. Very nice. They both dropped that off um

1119
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: in her driveway. That was her birthday and waved to

1120
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: everybody the gift that keeps on giving. Who did that?

1121
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 1: Who dropped it in the driveway? He dropped it off

1122
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: in his mom's house in the driveway because he couldn't,

1123
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, see her in the house. Good. Yeah, I

1124
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: kind of because I was going into the Nikkei every

1125
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 1: day to see my twins. Like I said, they were

1126
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 1: born one and two pounds, and uh now they're home

1127
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: and healthy. Are they doing good? Oh? Good? Doing great?

1128
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: And what what was their what's their birthday? Do you remember?

1129
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: Do I remember their birthday? Yeah? May ten ear because

1130
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: I had twin grandchildren, twin grandsons born April ninth. Yeah

1131
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: your birthday, Yeah, yeah, it's around my birthday. Yeah, so

1132
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: that good for you. I'm happy for you. My mom's

1133
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 1: birthday April twenty ninth, The one that loves Steve so Um,

1134
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,640
Speaker 1: that's when they dropped it off. And yeah, we go

1135
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: to every game. We're crazy fans. You know, my mom

1136
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: dresses up as a buffalo. Um, I dressed up as

1137
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 1: a crazy character and we we love the Bill. So

1138
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: this year has been insane not being able to go

1139
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: and we out on tickets again this week. Um, but

1140
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 1: life is just it's awesome. Right now we get to

1141
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: you know, be home and be home with my daughters

1142
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: and I gear them up perfect game. They don't know yet,

1143
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: but my oldest daughter Amaya does, and we just we

1144
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: have fun and love watching this team and what they're becoming.

1145
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: And man, it's got my nerves going to the roof.

1146
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 1: But in a good way. Uh. They gave me, like

1147
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: they keep giving me, like more positivity and more positivity,

1148
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: and uh, I love it. I love where we're going.

1149
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 1: I think this weekend is going to be a good game.

1150
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,440
Speaker 1: And I think if we jump out on them early

1151
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: and then try to keep Lamar in and make him

1152
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: a pocket passer, we could have a really good game

1153
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 1: and go forward and on to the FC Championship. Well

1154
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: that's hard to do. It's hard to do to to

1155
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: do that to Baltimore. It's really hard to do to

1156
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 1: keep them from doing what they do best. So we'll

1157
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: see it is U But he Josh brings up a

1158
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: good point. The year that we've all kind of endured

1159
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 1: here amidst COVID and not being able to love on

1160
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: this team like fans are used to by showing up

1161
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: at the stadium every weekend has been tough. But the

1162
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: success of this team I think has just filled so

1163
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 1: many fans in this area with so much hope. They've

1164
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: been a welcome distraction because I mean, I think we'd

1165
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: be remiss if we forgot the fact that there's a

1166
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: lot of people still struggling out there. You know, might

1167
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: be furloughed, might be out of work, you know, different

1168
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: circumstances for sure, across the spectrum of what people are

1169
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: facing now ten months into COVID, it's been tough. And

1170
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 1: you know, Steve and I were, I mean we were

1171
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 1: kind of facetiously talking about it yesterday, but you know,

1172
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: life's gotten pretty dull too in a lot of ways.

1173
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 1: So what the bills have provided this area has been

1174
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 1: nothing short of spectacular and and I think the fans

1175
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: appreciated even more. Um, it's kind of one of those

1176
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: things you don't know what you got till it's gone,

1177
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: and not being able to go to the stadium I

1178
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: think has made people even more appreciative of what this

1179
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 1: team has done this season. Well, it's like ten major

1180
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: events in Western New York that were removed from the

1181
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: count or everything got removed from the count or all

1182
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 1: the summer sucommer concerts, and you know, everything got removed.

1183
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 1: But it's like clockwork. You know. Concerts are kind of

1184
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 1: like you pick and choose which ones you go to

1185
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 1: year to year, and you don't go to all of them,

1186
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 1: or most people don't. But the bill schedule, schedule comes out,

1187
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: your states are locked up. Yeah, you got ten ten

1188
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 1: weekends that you're gonna do, be doing something all the

1189
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:43,959
Speaker 1: home games, and that was all evaporated. And so that's

1190
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: it's a different It's been a different year for that reason.

1191
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: And by the way, they did not play the New

1192
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: York Giants this year, the Ravens. The Ravens did not

1193
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: did in week sixteen. Why is that nast Why is

1194
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: that not? I said, I've got to the right year.

1195
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 1: Hold on, you have the raven Ray full schedule two thirteen.

1196
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: What you're year two thousand. I hate myself. I hate myself.

1197
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: I love you so much, stud I hate myself. I

1198
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 1: am I'm a wreck. I'm an absolute men. Well, we

1199
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 1: know where you fit on the Twitter poll. Then you're

1200
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: a wreck. I'm a mess, all right. Yeah. By the way,

1201
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: they beat the Giants. By the way, did I tell

1202
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: you yes, Hey Baltimore played the Giants this year? Thank you,

1203
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: Thank you for you don't get you can't get this

1204
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: stuff everywhere, So we're glad you've tuned in to us

1205
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 1: here One Bills. Well, while Steve gets his bearings, we're

1206
01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: gonna go back to the phones into Doug and Ohio

1207
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: has been waiting patiently. Doug, what do you have for us?

1208
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Hey, guys, thanks for having

1209
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: me on. It's the honor. Um. I think I covered

1210
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: two of those emotional things, like on the outside, I'm

1211
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: as cute, cool as a cucumber, because I kind of

1212
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 1: have to be. My wife supports the Bills and me

1213
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: watching them, but she thinks it's ridiculous when I get

1214
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:59,160
Speaker 1: so worked up, So I kind of gotta maintain the

1215
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: level head the inside. I've had a stomach it the

1216
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 1: whole week. Yeah, just won't go away. It's just churning

1217
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah. The one thing I wanted to bring

1218
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:11,880
Speaker 1: up like that I've thought about this whole week is

1219
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: just as we found out we were playing Baltimore. To me,

1220
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: this is almost like the AFC Championship. I feel like,

1221
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 1: whoever wins this game, which I hope it's US obviously,

1222
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 1: is going to the Super Bowl because it wouldn't surprise

1223
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 1: me any if Cleveland goes in and beats Kansas City.

1224
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: Kansas City has not played great football the last six

1225
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 1: weeks and now they've got their starters, have had three

1226
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: weeks off, and you know we've heard or I've heard

1227
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 1: anyway on different talk shows, Well, Kansas City's just coasted

1228
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Listen, this ain't the NBA. You have to

1229
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 1: play one hundred percent. And I don't know, I just

1230
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: feel like Baltimore in Buffalo are the two teams in

1231
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: the AFC that are playing the best football right now. Yeah.

1232
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you bring up a fair point, Doug. The

1233
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 1: fact that the Chief starters played in three weeks. By

1234
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 1: the time they get to the game on Sunday, for them,

1235
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:08,439
Speaker 1: they Andy Reid said, all the starters in week seventeen Yeah,

1236
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: we know they didn't play last week because they were

1237
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 1: on the buy and now here they are and it's

1238
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: like dial it back up again. I think the magnitude

1239
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: of the game will have them ready quite frankly. Plus,

1240
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:21,000
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys have been in these playoff

1241
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: games before on that roster, so I'm not terribly worried

1242
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: about it. But three weeks seems like an eternity. I'll

1243
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 1: say that in NFL football. But Steve, you can tell

1244
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: me you're not gonna waste an ounce of energy thinking

1245
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 1: about the Chiefs right now. You can't get them off it.

1246
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't. That's that's crazy talk. Yeah, think

1247
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 1: about this game, yeah, and the Chiefs, and you're right,

1248
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 1: you beat this If the Bills beat this team, and

1249
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:52,080
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's six three. If you beat

1250
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 1: this team, then you can start thinking about the Chiefs.

1251
01:07:56,120 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 1: But if you do beat them, you gotta know you're

1252
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: good enough to go in and beat those guys. This

1253
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: is a team in Buffalo that is built to play

1254
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 1: with and play better than the Chiefs. The Bills have

1255
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 1: got a commensurate amount of weapons as the Chiefs do.

1256
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 1: They've seen each other once this year, when they are

1257
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 1: these new I had this this identity the Bills. This

1258
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: is gonna give the Bills some help. And the Chiefs, Uh,

1259
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: you're right, they haven't played their best. But like and

1260
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:23,760
Speaker 1: I will subscribe to the fact that I think the

1261
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 1: Chiefs have had it out of gear for six weeks

1262
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: when they got the one seed or the two seed,

1263
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 1: and when the when the Raiders lost that last game

1264
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: that they needed, like in week fifteen, the pressure was off.

1265
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 1: Nobody was gonna catch the Chiefs. They were out of

1266
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 1: They had their division wrapped up a month early, like

1267
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Speaker 1: in week twelve. Yeah, they were done. So they haven't

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Speaker 1: been pushed for two months, no question. But you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get You're gonna get a full dose of them tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Browns are gonna have their hands full,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see. But I'm not thinking about that. I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking about this game. The Bills need to focus on

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01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: the Ravens and all that. And I'm not going to

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01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: go so far as to say the winner this goes

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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl because I want to see the

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01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: Chiefs play and see how they do ye. But yeah,

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01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:16,920
Speaker 1: I'm not wasting any energy thinking about the AFC championship. Yeah,

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01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:19,719
Speaker 1: being home away step step one. I'll say this though

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01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: one of the other callers said this too. He goes,

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01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo is the better team. They played better throughout the season.

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01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: Their offense was lighten it up, Baltimore. While they've played

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01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of really good football, the

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01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: Bills have played a lot of good football against better opponents. Two,

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01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:41,640
Speaker 1: it's here, it's in Buffalo's backyard. That's whatever it is.

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01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of an advantage. Maybe it's maybe

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01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: it's a hair's advantage, a hair's breadth advantage this year,

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01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 1: maybe not like he usually is, but it's there. The

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01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 1: conditions about the game, the field don't worry about the

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01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: coal and they only worry as if it's like twenty

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01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 1: mile an hour wins, that's an issue. Everything else that's

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01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: a level field can't really worry about it. And Baltimore,

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01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 1: I think in their blitz games, they think they're gonna

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01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 1: blitz this team and win. That's something I kind of think. Yeah,

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01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: I think the Bills are like going, yeah, I think

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01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: we're ready for that. This is not this is not

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01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 1: the same team as it was a year ago. And

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01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 1: coming down the stretch a lot has been said about

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01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: how good the Baltimore Ravens played down the stretch. They

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Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys, good stuff. They beat the Cleveland Browns

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01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,559
Speaker 1: that was a playoff team. They won forty seven forty

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01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:32,520
Speaker 1: two against the Cleveland Browns. They beat the Jacksonville Jaguars,

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01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: who won a single game all year. They beat the

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01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: New York Giants by fourteen points, a team that was

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01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:44,680
Speaker 1: five and eleven. I think they're about And then they

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01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 1: beat They thumped the Cincinnati Bengals thirty eight string quarter

1306
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:51,679
Speaker 1: with the third string quarterback for Cincinnati. So they beat

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the Browns, the Jaguars, Giants, and Bengals to

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01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 1: close the season. And while that's a win as a

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01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:01,599
Speaker 1: win as a win, I get it. Um. You gotta

1310
01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:09,720
Speaker 1: know that the Bills coming down the stretch beat in

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01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:12,759
Speaker 1: their winning streak. They beat the Chargers. Okay, Chargers, weren't

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01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: that anything four and twelve, No, they were better. They

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01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: won their last four games, played the Bills all right.

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01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: So then they beat the Niners, who was seven and nine.

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01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 1: I think this year. They beat the San Francisco forty

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01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 1: Niners who were in the Super Bowl Jerry Riddle. But

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01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,640
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, who were a playoff team, the Broncos.

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01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: They thumped the Bronchos, the New England Patriots who are

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01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 1: down this year, and they beat the Dolphins who had

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01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 1: a chance to win it and get in to the

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01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:36,200
Speaker 1: playoffs and they couldn't win the game. And they thumped

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01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 1: those guys big time. Um, And of course they're a

1323
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: hail Mary away from winning their last nine games ten

1324
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: ten well, ten county Indie. Yeah, they're no ten county.

1325
01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 1: There's there's six. If they were beating Arizona, they would

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01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 1: have won their last ten. They won nine of their

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01:11:55,880 --> 01:12:00,800
Speaker 1: last ten, let's uh, ten of their last eleven. And

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01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 1: they've been against some playoff teams. So the Bills have

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01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: run the gauntlet, That's what I'm saying. So if you're

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01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 1: gonna take some solace in it, yeah, they're better. They

1331
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 1: played a tougher schedule, they're finishing stronger. I don't know

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01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:14,600
Speaker 1: what else you say. I mean that this is a

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01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 1: team that's really good. And if the Ravens are looking

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01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: past this team, it's a huge mistake. We have to

1335
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:26,400
Speaker 1: take a break, but when we come back, we're gonna

1336
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 1: get a little bit more Baltimore perspective as we are

1337
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:35,520
Speaker 1: joined by one Kamar Aikin, host of the Ravens podcast

1338
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:39,599
Speaker 1: on the Believed podcast Network. Former Bills Wide receiver, former

1339
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 1: Ravens wide receiver Kamar Acin he joins us. Next, You're

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01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

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01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Second half

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01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 1: of the show. On your way and joining us now

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01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: from way down in South Florida. Steve It is a

1344
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:10,879
Speaker 1: former Bills receiver, former Ravens receiver, former seven year NFL

1345
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:16,520
Speaker 1: VET one Kamar Aiken joining us. Kamar, how are you doing? Guy?

1346
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 1: I'm all right now, I'm doing We're doing okay. And uh,

1347
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: we know you host that Ravens Flock podcast as well

1348
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:26,759
Speaker 1: on the Believe Networks. Um, how's how's the podcast world

1349
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 1: treating you right now? It's been good. We kind of

1350
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: took off the last couple of weeks just because of

1351
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 1: the holidays and a couple of business eventures I have

1352
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 1: going on, So we kind of been a little lashed

1353
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,839
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. But prior to that, it's

1354
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 1: been going good. And you've been busy down there in

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01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 1: South Florida because you're you got a restaurant opening up

1356
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 1: down there, the Miami Grill. Is that right? Tell us

1357
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 1: about how this all came together. Yes, um uh. Like everybody,

1358
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:56,720
Speaker 1: we played the game, but you also have to have

1359
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: an exit plan, and um I started thinking about my

1360
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: exit plan and the franchise world came up. So Miami

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01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 1: Grill used to be Miami Sells. I grew up on

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01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 1: a brand. I was very familiar with it. They're doing

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01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:11,559
Speaker 1: great as far as a brand, They're growing, and it

1364
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: was just something that I've seen myself being a part of,

1365
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:17,880
Speaker 1: just how in corporate, how they carried itself, the team atmosphere.

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01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 1: It was something that I wanted to be a partner.

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01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 1: You know. That's that's awesome. It's scared. We wish you,

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01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 1: we wish you luck with that if we get if

1369
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:25,680
Speaker 1: we ever get a chance to travel again over the road,

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01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: we're gonna kind of stop it. Everybody's all. But how

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Speaker 1: have you been as the pandemic been? Okay? For you?

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Speaker 1: I know it's it must be the most difficult thing

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01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 1: to do in the world to open up a restaurant

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01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:37,200
Speaker 1: in the middle of a pandemic. How's it going for

1375
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 1: you and your family? Have you been safe and healthy. Yes,

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01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 1: we've been safe and healthy. We kind of live a

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01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 1: life of being quarantined anyways. Um, so it hasn't been

1378
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 1: a big adjustment for us as far as family. The

1379
01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: restaurant industry has been a little bit up and down.

1380
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: It's been a little slow because of COVID and just

1381
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 1: the new rules and new things coming in. So, yes,

1382
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 1: it has been slow, but I feel like everything happened

1383
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: in due time, and as long as we're able to

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01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:06,559
Speaker 1: get back to a safe and regular norm that that's

1385
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 1: what we're hoping. The first question I've got for you

1386
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: fromar about the Ravens is you know you spent four

1387
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 1: seasons there, um, and you played under John Harball. I'm curious,

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01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,240
Speaker 1: you know, when you get to the playoffs with John Harball,

1389
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:23,640
Speaker 1: what's the kind of messaging that he's delivering through the

1390
01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:26,560
Speaker 1: course of the week this time of year to his

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01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: players to get them ready to go. Um, it's not

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01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 1: really much of a message, to be honest, at this time.

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01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: It's that you've done the groundwork. Um, you had a

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01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 1: training camp, You've you've done everything to put yourself in

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01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:42,480
Speaker 1: a position to punch your ticket to have an opportunity

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01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:45,240
Speaker 1: to go to the super Bowl. So they understand that

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01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:48,880
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a wind moose situation, um,

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01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: and that we need everybody all hands on deck. Um.

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01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:54,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, he's just preaching to do it. We'll do

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01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: what you've been doing. Do it what God us here

1401
01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: to do, what has made us win the games that

1402
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 1: one and just got ben't playing raven ball. That's that's

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01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:05,840
Speaker 1: usually what they preaching, what they heard for them. And

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01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: what do you think that's going to look with this

1405
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 1: particular Ravens team. How is it unique to other ones?

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01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:13,680
Speaker 1: Certainly they're very much similar to what they were a

1407
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:15,880
Speaker 1: year ago, although they've evolved a little bit. What has

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01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 1: your has been your sense of how they've changed from

1409
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: last year? This year with Lamar at quarterback, UM more

1410
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 1: of a leadership, him taking accountability. I would say they

1411
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 1: had a little more adversity this year and just to

1412
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: see them respond to the adversity more so than last year.

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01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:34,679
Speaker 1: Last year, things were kind of going in their favor

1414
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:36,719
Speaker 1: and they were kind of rolling and kind of the favorite.

1415
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: So now this year is a it's a different team

1416
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 1: for him. They're more of the underdogs. They're coming in,

1417
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: not the top dogs. It's not an MVP season for him,

1418
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 1: so it was a big growing year for him going

1419
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Speaker 1: to adversity. He's handled it very well. Coach Martindale, we

1420
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:55,080
Speaker 1: know is a guy that likes to blitz. I mean

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01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 1: the Ravens blitz at a higher rate than any other

1422
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:01,759
Speaker 1: team in football. But Josh has done pretty good against

1423
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 1: the blitz this season with that passing game, buying time,

1424
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:08,680
Speaker 1: getting out of the pocket and extending plays link. Martindale

1425
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: was quoted this week saying he should expect pressure because

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01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: we do what we do. Uh do you see that

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01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 1: as a little bit foolhardy with a quarterback like alan U. No,

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Speaker 1: just because of the history of the Ravens, they harparm

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01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 1: on that that's just the style of Raven football. You

1430
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: went and lose a draw with that type of styff um.

1431
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 1: I know they're not gonna be hardheaded and just go crazy. Obviously,

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01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: if he's he's breaking runs and getting outside of the

1433
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:37,639
Speaker 1: pocket and doing stuff that's exploiting that, they're gonna they're

1434
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 1: gonna tone it back. But that's what they're known for.

1435
01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:43,519
Speaker 1: Getting after the ball, carry, getting after the quarterback, not

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01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:45,479
Speaker 1: let them get comfortable in the back here and uh,

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01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 1: and being able to go through his progressives and get

1438
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 1: it guys because they do have a good group of

1439
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: receivers them. What has what has been the problem with

1440
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: the Ravens and games where they've struggled, And certainly they

1441
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 1: struggled when they didn't have Lamar a quarterback and they

1442
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 1: had to do all the stuff on COVID, But wouldn't

1443
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 1: they struggle. What's it look like? Um passing? Um, they're

1444
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: just having a guy that they can really depend on

1445
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 1: other than the tight end position on the outside. Um.

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01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:14,040
Speaker 1: They've been having guys that show up every other week

1447
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: and make plays. But to have that consistent number one,

1448
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:19,560
Speaker 1: number two that you can kind of go to and

1449
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 1: past situations, we know Lamar is gonna run the ball, well,

1450
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 1: we know they have great a great set of backs

1451
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:26,960
Speaker 1: in the back to a great old line. But if

1452
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 1: you look at their weakness on offense, you're gonna look

1453
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: at the receiving corps and not necessarily for the guys

1454
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 1: that they have, but just they haven't been a success

1455
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:36,920
Speaker 1: successful in the past game as they have in the

1456
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Speaker 1: ring game. Talking to Kamar Aiken, former Bills and former

1457
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: Ravens receiver, host of the Ravens Flock podcast on the

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Speaker 1: Belief in Sports Network. Um, Kamar, there's a guy on

1459
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:52,759
Speaker 1: this roster that has certainly impressed very early in his career.

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01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,800
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a stacked receiving group with Stefan Digs,

1461
01:18:55,840 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, and John Brown and In Walks gape Real Davis,

1462
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: who they say is wise beyond his years. I know

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01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:06,680
Speaker 1: you are a fellow UCF alum, So how quickly was

1464
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: this kid on your radar, you know, being a lum

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01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: of UCF. Uh? Pretty quick. I heard a lot of

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01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 1: talks about him when when he was at UCF. A

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01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 1: lot of people telling me, yeah, this is the kids

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01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 1: you need to come check out. Actually he was able

1469
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:22,400
Speaker 1: to come catch catch a game with those guys and

1470
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 1: see him player. UCF actually took my son, um and

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01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: he had a great game. Um. I always thought he

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01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: had a lot of upside. Um. I think he should

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01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 1: have got drafted a little bit higher. But obviously he's

1474
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,639
Speaker 1: coming from UCF. You don't kind of get that same

1475
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: type of respect from other schools. Yet other schools get.

1476
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 1: But I'm glad he came to that situation. That's a

1477
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:44,000
Speaker 1: great situation form Um. I actually joked about it and

1478
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 1: told my friends um that I felt like he's gonna

1479
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:48,680
Speaker 1: have a breakout year with the building. They didn't think so,

1480
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:51,600
Speaker 1: with the courts that they had already in place, But

1481
01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: I felt like he's a special, special kid, a special talent. Yeah,

1482
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:58,840
Speaker 1: and he's I think the surprising thing about this year,

1483
01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:02,200
Speaker 1: so many things have gone so well for Buffalo surprisingly well.

1484
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 1: I think the surprise for a lot of us, even

1485
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 1: looking back, was the fact that one of the reasons

1486
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 1: the Bills went so much four wide receivers sets and

1487
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: early in the year was because Gabe Davis impressed the

1488
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:17,240
Speaker 1: coaching staff so much in an abbreviated offseason. His ability

1489
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:21,599
Speaker 1: to play at a pro level so early gave them

1490
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: the confidence to use him and find a way to

1491
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: get him on the field with three other guys. I

1492
01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 1: think that speaks volumes about where he was as a

1493
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: receiver coming out of UCF. Did I know, you seem

1494
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:33,679
Speaker 1: like you thought he was going to have a pretty

1495
01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 1: good effect on this team. But it says a lot

1496
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 1: about who heat and forget about his skill set. Who

1497
01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:41,559
Speaker 1: he is as a rookie coming in and forcing his

1498
01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: way onto the field. That says a lot. Yes, him

1499
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 1: forcing his way and also having the coaches that see

1500
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:51,120
Speaker 1: that and give him opportunity to go out there and

1501
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 1: display that. A lot of times you have guys like

1502
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:55,679
Speaker 1: that and they kind of put them in the back burner,

1503
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: not necessarily hiding them, but letting the guys that they

1504
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:01,519
Speaker 1: already have do it they're supposed to do against show him.

1505
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,560
Speaker 1: And so to see them actually throw him in the

1506
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 1: rotation and have him be a big part of what

1507
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 1: they're doing, that that that's a big compliment to that

1508
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: coach success as well. You know, being down there in

1509
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:15,759
Speaker 1: South Florida, kamar Um, you know Ryan Fitzpatrick was still

1510
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:17,920
Speaker 1: playing football, and I mean I know when you were

1511
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 1: up here, you know, you were on the roster with

1512
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: him up here. Chan's calling plays down there. How surreal

1513
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: was it to be watching you know, your former teammates

1514
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: still playing on television and your former head coach still

1515
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:35,160
Speaker 1: calling plays. It's pretty cool. I can see fits to

1516
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 1: the artistist to play thirty years if he if they

1517
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to. Um right, he's a great He's

1518
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 1: a great guy to be around. Besides football, He's he's

1519
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:48,960
Speaker 1: purely just a great guy. Um that that brings a

1520
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:52,040
Speaker 1: lot of good energy when you're around him, So I'm

1521
01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 1: glad to be able to see him still be able

1522
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 1: to go out there and perform at a high level.

1523
01:21:56,560 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: Un said, they make the spot obviously this year, but

1524
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: you just see him, they'll be able to come in

1525
01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:03,679
Speaker 1: and still playing a high level. As you know, Yeah,

1526
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:05,920
Speaker 1: there's no question. Gabriel Davis has been a really pleasant

1527
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:08,400
Speaker 1: surprise for Bills fans. I think made probably a surprise

1528
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: for defenses playing the Bills offense around the league. One

1529
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: of the surprises about the Baltimore offense was the fact

1530
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: that JK. Dobbins got inserted and when it's I think

1531
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:19,360
Speaker 1: when the season started he was like the third guy

1532
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 1: right and active sometimes right now he has really emerged.

1533
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:27,320
Speaker 1: What caused that transition and what was the biggest factor

1534
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:29,800
Speaker 1: in JK. Dobbins being such a huge part of the

1535
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 1: offense where at the beginning of the year he was not.

1536
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:35,960
Speaker 1: I think he was always going to be a big part.

1537
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:37,559
Speaker 1: But at the same time, when you look at the

1538
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,320
Speaker 1: business side, you played mark Ingram to come in and

1539
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 1: be the guys. You kind of have to go into

1540
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 1: the season with him being the guy, and then you

1541
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:47,840
Speaker 1: have you given him opportunities. You see the great splashes

1542
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:49,720
Speaker 1: and now his opportunity to start to pick up, and

1543
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:53,400
Speaker 1: he really just picked his carries and made the best

1544
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:55,640
Speaker 1: of him and show the coaches and head he's a

1545
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: guy that could be every guy back and he deserves

1546
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: to be back there. Another guy, dous Edwards. I would

1547
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 1: like to see him back there a lot more too.

1548
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:06,680
Speaker 1: They're kind of similar as far as their opportunities that

1549
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 1: they've gotten and the place that they're at today as

1550
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: far as getting the one two punch. I know in

1551
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:15,520
Speaker 1: the secondary for the Ravens, Kamar that you know, they

1552
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:18,960
Speaker 1: play a lot of man coverage. You know, Jimmy Smith,

1553
01:23:19,040 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters and Marlon Humphrey. They'll get right in your face.

1554
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:25,599
Speaker 1: They're not shy. They play physical, they challenge the officials

1555
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:29,599
Speaker 1: to throw flags. But this Bill's offense has eaten man

1556
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 1: coverage alive this year. If you saw either of the

1557
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 1: two Miami games with the Bills when they decided to

1558
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:38,600
Speaker 1: play man coverage Byron Jones and Xavier Howard got embarrassed.

1559
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 1: Do you think the same thing could potentially happen if

1560
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:46,640
Speaker 1: the Ravens commit to man coverage that much against this

1561
01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:52,439
Speaker 1: Bill's receiving quarter. Yes, I think so if the blitzer

1562
01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 1: isn't able to get there, and he has time in

1563
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:57,240
Speaker 1: a pocket and he's able to escape and extend time,

1564
01:23:57,280 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: I think that's where you will see the majority of

1565
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 1: the big is on the secondary with Peters and those guys.

1566
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: They take a lot of chances, they jump a lot

1567
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 1: of routes, and sometimes they break down. And Carver's when

1568
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:11,160
Speaker 1: quarterbacks get out of the pocket. So it's going to

1569
01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:13,960
Speaker 1: be good for them to still have plaster and stay

1570
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 1: on their guys when he does great contain and gets

1571
01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 1: outside of the PARKT Kamar, thank you. We're up against

1572
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: the Clark, but thanks so much for talking to good

1573
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:23,760
Speaker 1: luck with the Miami Grill franchise you're opening up down there.

1574
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:25,360
Speaker 1: I hope it goes well. And good luck also with

1575
01:24:25,400 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 1: the Ravens Flock podcast. Thank you. I appreciate it. That's

1576
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:34,639
Speaker 1: Kamar Aiken, former Bills and former Ravens wide receiver. Seven

1577
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: years in the league. Not bad for an undrafted kid.

1578
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:39,640
Speaker 1: When he came in here with the Bills during the

1579
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:43,639
Speaker 1: Chan Gailey years and they just didn't have a spot

1580
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:46,720
Speaker 1: for him here. That's why he didn't last. You know,

1581
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 1: they had had David Nelson, then they had Stevie Johnson

1582
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: and Donald Jones, and I know they really like Donald

1583
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:58,479
Speaker 1: Jones as a special teams guy, and that was the difference.

1584
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:01,120
Speaker 1: And Kamar was on the pract the squad and then

1585
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: got up on the roster for a couple of years

1586
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 1: and saw some time here and there. But uh, he

1587
01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 1: was just the odd man out right in a situation

1588
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:10,960
Speaker 1: which sounds crazy because you're like, well, that team didn't

1589
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 1: win a whole lot, what are you talking about? But

1590
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 1: that was that was the pecking order there, and he

1591
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: was just on the outside looking in, but found a

1592
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 1: home in Baltimore. They were happy to have him there

1593
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:20,720
Speaker 1: for four seasons and bounce around to a couple of

1594
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 1: other teams. Seven year career for an undrafted guy's nothing

1595
01:25:23,439 --> 01:25:25,600
Speaker 1: as sneeze at for sure. So kind of did a

1596
01:25:25,640 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: good job with that. And now look at this, he's

1597
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:29,680
Speaker 1: guy's in the restaurants. You got guts if you're going

1598
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 1: in the restaurant business this time around this with the

1599
01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 1: pandemics as a gutsy it might be the best time

1600
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: to kind of get it ramped up. But so you're

1601
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: not ready to open then open up at the end

1602
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 1: of this because offt opening show, because well no, because

1603
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 1: everybody's when this thing breaks, when the pandemic's over, it's

1604
01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:48,800
Speaker 1: gonna be like a flower blooming, right, everybody's gonna be

1605
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:51,479
Speaker 1: where can we go? I'll go anywhere. I don't care, Yes,

1606
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:55,280
Speaker 1: I don't care, as it's not in my basement exactly,

1607
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:58,240
Speaker 1: I don't. I want to see my house for a month, right,

1608
01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 1: So the timing might work out perfectly that way. But yeah,

1609
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:05,000
Speaker 1: good stuff, it's been it's been a rough year. Yeah,

1610
01:26:05,040 --> 01:26:07,519
Speaker 1: my gosh. But I'm glad he could see a way

1611
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: for the Bills. If if the Ravens decide to play

1612
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:12,840
Speaker 1: man coverage and wake Martindale said it this week. We

1613
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,719
Speaker 1: are who we are. He should expect pressure, There's no question.

1614
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:17,599
Speaker 1: That's the key. If if you're gonna blitz him, fine,

1615
01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:20,680
Speaker 1: but if if the blitz gets home, Bill's got problems. Right.

1616
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:24,320
Speaker 1: If you don't get home, Ravens, You've got problems. And

1617
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:27,320
Speaker 1: that's it's it's it's that kind of chest. And Marcus

1618
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 1: Peters is a chance taker and he hasn't practiced this

1619
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 1: week yet. He's got a back injury. If he can't,

1620
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 1: he gonna be all right. If he's hobbled up and

1621
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:38,320
Speaker 1: can't play, don't fall into that trap. Right, come on, well,

1622
01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 1: I want to see if you practice today, we'll they'll

1623
01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:43,519
Speaker 1: be saying the same thing about Cole Beasley. Tremaine, I

1624
01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 1: don't know he's gonna go Tremaine, Edmund, I don't know.

1625
01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:48,160
Speaker 1: All right, break time for us when we come back.

1626
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:50,759
Speaker 1: More your phone calls, Chris and West Seneca, Erican Cheek, Towaga,

1627
01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 1: Hank Tight. We'll get to you next here on One

1628
01:26:52,360 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1629
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 1: Just Brob, Steven Jasker back with you here, closing up

1630
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:13,599
Speaker 1: our number two of the program. Our number three will

1631
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:17,160
Speaker 1: begin in about ten minutes time with Ken Moore, Native

1632
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:21,920
Speaker 1: you be alum and CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, who will

1633
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: be joining us to maybe let us know how he's

1634
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:28,640
Speaker 1: doing this week, how the fans are on edge understandably

1635
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:30,519
Speaker 1: so we were laughing earlier in the show about this

1636
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:34,160
Speaker 1: might be the angst of this playoff game, might be

1637
01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:36,800
Speaker 1: a welcome relief from the angst to politics that Wolf

1638
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 1: lives in. Yeah, the way things are going now as

1639
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: we get closer to inauguration day. Yeah, he's got a

1640
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:45,280
Speaker 1: busy week. So we appreciate him giving us some time.

1641
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:47,479
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones though, to Chris in

1642
01:27:47,600 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 1: West Seneca, Chris, what do you have for us? You're

1643
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:52,200
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. What's going on? Thanks for taking

1644
01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 1: a call. Sure, Yeah, I wanted to say, wapp McKenzie

1645
01:27:57,320 --> 01:27:59,240
Speaker 1: last week, I see him at all? Really, yeah, he

1646
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:02,720
Speaker 1: only got four on offense, just really wasn't part of

1647
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 1: the game plan. And one of the earlier callers that

1648
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:08,760
Speaker 1: you may have heard also expressed that, you know they

1649
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 1: lacked pre snap motion in last week's game plan, which

1650
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,120
Speaker 1: was true. It was far less than we usually see.

1651
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:16,640
Speaker 1: But I have to believe that Brian Dabele had a

1652
01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: reason for that based on what he anticipated he would

1653
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:21,600
Speaker 1: see from that Colts defense. I don't know if you

1654
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: feel differently, Steve, but yeah, I think it was a

1655
01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:27,080
Speaker 1: game plan specific and I think in the playoffs they

1656
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:30,160
Speaker 1: when particularly with all guns blazing, Isaiah McKenzie goes back

1657
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:31,800
Speaker 1: to where he was in the beginning of the year,

1658
01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:34,679
Speaker 1: and that was he'll come in and take a few snaps,

1659
01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:37,160
Speaker 1: going some motion, maybe get the occasional end around that

1660
01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But with this team clicking on all

1661
01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:42,640
Speaker 1: cylinders with the four wise they've got from top to

1662
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:45,559
Speaker 1: bottom with Steph Diggs all the way down through Gabriel Davis.

1663
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 1: There's just no room to put Isaiah McKenzie on the field.

1664
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: He is a He's a guy that if somebody twists

1665
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:56,240
Speaker 1: an ankle or whatever, he's in. So that's that's kind

1666
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:58,080
Speaker 1: of the way it's going to be. You know, the best,

1667
01:28:58,120 --> 01:29:00,760
Speaker 1: the best guys with the best offensive combination get to play.

1668
01:29:00,760 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 1: And while McKenzie played awesome against Miami Dolphins, it's a

1669
01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:08,160
Speaker 1: totally different roster on the offensive side when you've you know,

1670
01:29:08,200 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 1: when you're playing in the playoffs. Yeah, he has been

1671
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:12,639
Speaker 1: more often than not a part of the game plan.

1672
01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:15,639
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question that day Ball respects him

1673
01:29:15,640 --> 01:29:18,879
Speaker 1: as an element of their attack because he very quietly

1674
01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:22,200
Speaker 1: had five touchdowns this season. I think if most people guess,

1675
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 1: they probably would not have guessed that he scored that

1676
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:26,599
Speaker 1: much for the Bills. And that's not counting his punt

1677
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 1: return touchdown you know that he had at the end

1678
01:29:29,439 --> 01:29:33,000
Speaker 1: of the season. There. So yeah, I mean, he'll I

1679
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 1: suspect he will have a role this week. It's just

1680
01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: a gut feeling. I don't know anything. It's just a

1681
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 1: gut feeling sure, but I just think his speed is

1682
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:47,240
Speaker 1: something that's going to be coveted this week. And I

1683
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:51,400
Speaker 1: just think he's he's really good at stretching defense as horizontally,

1684
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 1: and I think there's a place for him in this

1685
01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 1: game against this opponent because of that. I don't know.

1686
01:29:57,479 --> 01:29:59,680
Speaker 1: I might be wrong, but I don't know. I just

1687
01:29:59,720 --> 01:30:01,960
Speaker 1: feel we have a bigger role this week than we

1688
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 1: saw from him last week. We have to take a

1689
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:07,680
Speaker 1: break because coming up next in the third hour of

1690
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:12,280
Speaker 1: our program will be a Bills fan, self proclaimed and

1691
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:16,360
Speaker 1: Western New York native, CNN host Wolf Blitzer joining us

1692
01:30:16,479 --> 01:30:19,439
Speaker 1: next here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health,

1693
01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:38,960
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

1694
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,280
Speaker 1: been all all of our field, kind of unique. He

1695
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:43,439
Speaker 1: was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

1696
01:30:44,800 --> 01:30:50,200
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stratgyre of

1697
01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:55,960
Speaker 1: normalcy all our number three of a Thursday edition of

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01:30:56,040 --> 01:30:58,600
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and

1699
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:03,560
Speaker 1: joining us is the ken More native that you be Alum,

1700
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:06,559
Speaker 1: the self proclaimed and proud to admit it Bill's fan

1701
01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:10,400
Speaker 1: who isn't afraid to tell anyone that inside the Beltway.

1702
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:15,240
Speaker 1: It is CNN anchor and host of the Situation Room one,

1703
01:31:15,280 --> 01:31:18,400
Speaker 1: Wolf Blitzer, joining us here an hour three of the program. Wolf,

1704
01:31:18,439 --> 01:31:21,799
Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us. Hopefully we are a welcome

1705
01:31:21,880 --> 01:31:25,439
Speaker 1: respite from the political agenda that you are dealing with

1706
01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 1: down there inside the Beltway. Goodness, gracious, it's been intense.

1707
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:32,519
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, guys, I've been a journalist. I've

1708
01:31:32,560 --> 01:31:35,479
Speaker 1: been with CNN. This is my thirty first year at CNN,

1709
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:37,840
Speaker 1: so I've been with CNN for a long long time.

1710
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 1: But what we're going through, I mean, the coronavirus pandemic

1711
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:45,200
Speaker 1: this past year has been awful and it continues. The

1712
01:31:45,280 --> 01:31:48,760
Speaker 1: numbers are even worse now than it was a few

1713
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:51,360
Speaker 1: weeks months. It's getting worse and worse. Let's hope these

1714
01:31:51,439 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: vaccines really work and that millions and millions of Americans

1715
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:59,640
Speaker 1: can get vaccinated because we're gonna need something. If you

1716
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:03,439
Speaker 1: look all the numbers, almost four thousand Americans died from

1717
01:32:03,439 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: the virus just yesterday, just in one day. You think

1718
01:32:06,720 --> 01:32:09,800
Speaker 1: about those numbers, We're getting numb to that. But it's

1719
01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:12,599
Speaker 1: so powerful, so dominating, and I know it has an

1720
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:16,040
Speaker 1: impact on everything on the economy, on jobs, and on

1721
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:19,360
Speaker 1: football too. There's gonna be an audience. There's gonna be

1722
01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:22,160
Speaker 1: some fans at the stadium, but not many. I take

1723
01:32:22,200 --> 01:32:24,519
Speaker 1: it about sixty seven hundred, and I was going to

1724
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:27,400
Speaker 1: ask you this most importantly, do you see, as from

1725
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:30,120
Speaker 1: your perch inside the boat rare and how close to

1726
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 1: watch you keep on the pulse of everything, do you

1727
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:36,880
Speaker 1: see any light at the end of this tunnel? The

1728
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 1: only light I see is if we can distribute two

1729
01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:44,519
Speaker 1: hundred two hundred and fifty three hundred million doses, not

1730
01:32:44,640 --> 01:32:46,960
Speaker 1: just one dose, but everybody's gonna need too. The modarian

1731
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 1: of the fiser vaccines, you need one after three weeks

1732
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:53,320
Speaker 1: than the second dose where you get the other one

1733
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: after four weeks. So we're gonna just get We gotta

1734
01:32:56,160 --> 01:33:00,519
Speaker 1: get everybody vaccinated. And that's the light of the end

1735
01:33:00,520 --> 01:33:02,519
Speaker 1: of the tunnel. In the meantime, we're all going to

1736
01:33:02,560 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: be walking around like we all do. We got the

1737
01:33:04,920 --> 01:33:08,360
Speaker 1: mess and we got to make sure we have social distancing.

1738
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:11,639
Speaker 1: That's why there's gonna be six thousand fans at the stadium,

1739
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:14,840
Speaker 1: a stadium that holds what seventy seventy five thousand people

1740
01:33:15,120 --> 01:33:18,479
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's an awful situation this past year.

1741
01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:20,560
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a sports fan. I love going to

1742
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:24,520
Speaker 1: Wizards games in Washington, you know, not happening. I love football,

1743
01:33:24,560 --> 01:33:27,800
Speaker 1: I love by Washington National's baseball team. Can't go to

1744
01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:31,120
Speaker 1: baseball games. You got to get away from news a

1745
01:33:31,160 --> 01:33:34,160
Speaker 1: little bit and have some fun. And sports is so

1746
01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:37,479
Speaker 1: therapeutic and so exciting, So especially if you grew up

1747
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:40,120
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, which I grew up, and you love sports.

1748
01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:43,479
Speaker 1: That's the way we were raised. How big a restpit,

1749
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:46,439
Speaker 1: how welcome a restpit? Has this Bill season been for

1750
01:33:46,520 --> 01:33:49,240
Speaker 1: you to kind of get that escape that you're talking about,

1751
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:52,880
Speaker 1: because I think they've probably exceeded everybody's expectations after a

1752
01:33:52,920 --> 01:33:56,080
Speaker 1: thirteen and three season. Yeah, I would have loved to

1753
01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 1: have come up to Buffalo for a few some games,

1754
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, but obviously that's not happening. It's been great.

1755
01:34:02,439 --> 01:34:05,040
Speaker 1: I've lived with the Bills ever since I was a

1756
01:34:05,040 --> 01:34:08,880
Speaker 1: little boy growing up in Kenmore. I actually started growing

1757
01:34:08,920 --> 01:34:11,679
Speaker 1: up in Buffalo until second grade. Then my parents moved

1758
01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:14,280
Speaker 1: all the way out to Kenmore two blocks at past

1759
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:17,599
Speaker 1: Kenmore Avenue, and I went from Public School eighty one

1760
01:34:17,920 --> 01:34:21,519
Speaker 1: in Buffalo to Washington Elementary that Ken Moore Junior or

1761
01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:24,160
Speaker 1: High Ken More or West. But all those years, I

1762
01:34:24,240 --> 01:34:26,880
Speaker 1: was a huge Bills fan. And I remember all those

1763
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:29,639
Speaker 1: players from those days. You guys are too young to remember,

1764
01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:33,479
Speaker 1: you know, Elbert Dubenion and people like that, the Cookie

1765
01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:36,360
Speaker 1: Hill Christ I remember those guys. I remember when Jack

1766
01:34:36,439 --> 01:34:39,639
Speaker 1: Kemp was a quarterback of the Buffalo Bills. That later

1767
01:34:39,640 --> 01:34:41,680
Speaker 1: when he became a congressman here, I used to go

1768
01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 1: talk to him. We've got to dinner. Once in a while.

1769
01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:47,679
Speaker 1: I would interview him and the conversations would always turn

1770
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:50,559
Speaker 1: back to the Bills. It was part of you know,

1771
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:53,360
Speaker 1: his so important part of his life in such an

1772
01:34:53,400 --> 01:34:56,080
Speaker 1: important part of my life. What's been your favorite part

1773
01:34:56,080 --> 01:35:01,880
Speaker 1: of this season? Winning? You know, winning is great. Like

1774
01:35:02,040 --> 01:35:06,000
Speaker 1: I lived through four seasons in the nineties early nineties

1775
01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:09,360
Speaker 1: when the Bills won the championship and went to four

1776
01:35:09,400 --> 01:35:13,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowls in a row, and we lost, sadly, four

1777
01:35:13,240 --> 01:35:15,840
Speaker 1: super bowls in a row, and I watched, you know,

1778
01:35:16,040 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 1: all of that. That was it was great to go

1779
01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:20,439
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl. And I actually went to one

1780
01:35:20,479 --> 01:35:23,360
Speaker 1: of those Super Bowls in Atlanta, uh and we you know,

1781
01:35:23,960 --> 01:35:27,600
Speaker 1: unfortunately it didn't work out for us. The first of

1782
01:35:27,920 --> 01:35:30,639
Speaker 1: Super Bowls in January nineteen ninety one, I would see

1783
01:35:30,640 --> 01:35:33,920
Speaker 1: an ans Military Affairs corresponded at the Pentagon and the

1784
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:38,080
Speaker 1: first Goal four had just started. The Air War was underwent,

1785
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:41,160
Speaker 1: and it was it was a tough situation. Uh. And

1786
01:35:41,240 --> 01:35:43,959
Speaker 1: I remember sitting in my little office at the Pentagon

1787
01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:48,400
Speaker 1: watching what was happening in the war on one TV,

1788
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 1: but watching the Bills game on the other TV. And

1789
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:55,479
Speaker 1: unfortunately we lost that game, but we went out to

1790
01:35:55,479 --> 01:35:59,519
Speaker 1: win the war. I'm glad the other screen actually did win.

1791
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:03,240
Speaker 1: Could just say that, yes, um, you know, I know

1792
01:36:03,320 --> 01:36:05,880
Speaker 1: you're not shy about flying the flag. We've been talking

1793
01:36:05,920 --> 01:36:09,840
Speaker 1: to fans today about the nervous energy that they have

1794
01:36:10,080 --> 01:36:12,559
Speaker 1: leading up to a game of this magnitude, you know,

1795
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:15,120
Speaker 1: the divisional playoff on Saturday night between the Bills and

1796
01:36:15,160 --> 01:36:17,680
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Where where are you a wolf? Because we

1797
01:36:17,720 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 1: saw you last week with the Bill's T shirt on,

1798
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,840
Speaker 1: you know, getting some steps in on the treadmill. Is

1799
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:26,120
Speaker 1: that how you kind of burn off your nervous pregame energy.

1800
01:36:27,040 --> 01:36:29,560
Speaker 1: I've got a routine. I got a little routine. I

1801
01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:33,000
Speaker 1: exercise in the morning on the treadmill in order before

1802
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:35,680
Speaker 1: a big game. There's there's a nice picture. I tweeted it.

1803
01:36:35,800 --> 01:36:39,360
Speaker 1: I instagrammed at Facebook that the whole nine yards. I

1804
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:42,040
Speaker 1: love the Bills, but you gotta get a good sweat

1805
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 1: in the morning to get ready for the game. Ask me,

1806
01:36:45,439 --> 01:36:47,080
Speaker 1: you know, Stevid Chris asked me what I'm going to

1807
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:49,840
Speaker 1: be doing this Saturday getting ready for the game. What

1808
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 1: are you going to be doing this Saturday? Getting ready

1809
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 1: for the game? I say it like this, saying, Wolf,

1810
01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:55,519
Speaker 1: what do you ask me? Like as if you were

1811
01:36:55,640 --> 01:36:57,479
Speaker 1: some real question? Wolf? What are you going to be

1812
01:36:57,520 --> 01:37:00,320
Speaker 1: doing to get ready for the game this Saturday. That's

1813
01:37:00,320 --> 01:37:02,360
Speaker 1: such a good question. Thank you so much for asking

1814
01:37:02,360 --> 01:37:06,759
Speaker 1: me that question. Actually, believe it or not, I'm gonna

1815
01:37:06,880 --> 01:37:11,240
Speaker 1: be working. I'm anchoring our live special Situation Room coverage

1816
01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:15,439
Speaker 1: just for the weekend before the inauguration, which is next Wednesday.

1817
01:37:16,120 --> 01:37:19,720
Speaker 1: I'm going to be anchoring four hours of Situation Room

1818
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:23,840
Speaker 1: live coverage Saturday from three pm until seven pm. The

1819
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:26,840
Speaker 1: good news is I'm off at seven and the game

1820
01:37:26,920 --> 01:37:29,840
Speaker 1: starts an hour later, so I'll be okay for the game.

1821
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:32,920
Speaker 1: That was the most important consideration I had. But when

1822
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:35,559
Speaker 1: Ted Turtter hired me at CNN, you know, more than

1823
01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:38,599
Speaker 1: thirty years ago. He said, if you take this job,

1824
01:37:38,640 --> 01:37:42,439
Speaker 1: remember the news comes first. That was his message to me.

1825
01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 1: You know I believe that all these years. So yes,

1826
01:37:44,920 --> 01:37:47,200
Speaker 1: I'll do the news that'll come first, But then I'll

1827
01:37:47,200 --> 01:37:49,960
Speaker 1: watch the game. Scale of one to ten, one being

1828
01:37:50,160 --> 01:37:52,479
Speaker 1: not stressed at all, in ten being maybe not even

1829
01:37:52,520 --> 01:37:55,400
Speaker 1: be able to make it to Saturday. What's your level

1830
01:37:55,439 --> 01:37:58,599
Speaker 1: of angst about this game with the Ravens. I would

1831
01:37:58,680 --> 01:38:03,960
Speaker 1: say I'm nervous because you know, all of us Buffalo

1832
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 1: Bills fans, we've been there. You know, we know what

1833
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:08,200
Speaker 1: it's like to win, but we also know what it's

1834
01:38:08,280 --> 01:38:12,839
Speaker 1: like to lose. I'm reluctant to make any predictions. I'm afraid,

1835
01:38:13,120 --> 01:38:15,880
Speaker 1: you know, I'll say something that could have an impact

1836
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:18,760
Speaker 1: on the game. Whatever. You know, we're all very you know,

1837
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:22,360
Speaker 1: we're all very sensitive about that. We don't want to

1838
01:38:22,360 --> 01:38:24,920
Speaker 1: give the Bills and jinks. So I would say I'm

1839
01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:28,200
Speaker 1: about a seven, right, Yeah, And then well, if I'm

1840
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:32,839
Speaker 1: always curious because we we had another Buffalo native, Bill Fickner,

1841
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:35,360
Speaker 1: the actor, on a week or so ago, and he's

1842
01:38:35,439 --> 01:38:37,760
Speaker 1: cheering from the West Coast. Uh. You know, he's got

1843
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:41,040
Speaker 1: all his Bills fandom going out there, but he isn't

1844
01:38:41,120 --> 01:38:44,519
Speaker 1: shy about flexing his Bills muscles on set, you know,

1845
01:38:44,560 --> 01:38:46,960
Speaker 1: when he's taping his shows and his sitcoms out there.

1846
01:38:47,160 --> 01:38:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm curious what is the atmosphere around the CNN set, Like,

1847
01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:54,760
Speaker 1: do people wear their fandom on their sleeves there? And

1848
01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:56,479
Speaker 1: you know what the season the Bills have had, I'm

1849
01:38:56,479 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 1: wondering if you're flexing your Bills muscles a little bit

1850
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:03,120
Speaker 1: more this year. I think everybody here at CNN and

1851
01:39:03,280 --> 01:39:06,200
Speaker 1: knows what a Bills fan I am. They have no

1852
01:39:06,280 --> 01:39:09,000
Speaker 1: doubt about it. They know, and I think that's one

1853
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:11,960
Speaker 1: of the reasons that the big shots at CNN decided,

1854
01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be a lot of news this weekend.

1855
01:39:14,120 --> 01:39:16,760
Speaker 1: Wilf's can actur from three to seven, and I think

1856
01:39:17,040 --> 01:39:19,320
Speaker 1: the main reason was he's got to be free in

1857
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:23,639
Speaker 1: order to watch that Bill's game Saturday night. So everybody knows.

1858
01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:26,519
Speaker 1: I'm a fanatic Bills fan, always have been, going back

1859
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:29,559
Speaker 1: to the very beginning. Look, I love Buffalo, and as

1860
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:31,760
Speaker 1: I always tell everyone, you can take the kid out

1861
01:39:31,760 --> 01:39:33,960
Speaker 1: of Buffalo, but you can't take the Buffalo out of

1862
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:37,720
Speaker 1: the kid. Buffalo is a great, great city. It's a

1863
01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:41,400
Speaker 1: city that welcomed my parents who were Holocaust survivors who

1864
01:39:41,439 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 1: came to United States after World War Two, survived the

1865
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:48,680
Speaker 1: concentration camp slave they were young kids, but they were

1866
01:39:48,720 --> 01:39:51,320
Speaker 1: allowed to come to the United States and they settled

1867
01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:54,120
Speaker 1: in Buffalo and they had a fabulous life. My dad

1868
01:39:54,280 --> 01:39:57,400
Speaker 1: and my mom love love Buffalo. Everybody in Buffalo was

1869
01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:00,400
Speaker 1: always so wonderful to my family. So it's got a

1870
01:40:00,439 --> 01:40:02,519
Speaker 1: special place in my heart. I love the Bills, I

1871
01:40:02,560 --> 01:40:05,519
Speaker 1: love everybody in Buffalo, and so I'm just so thrilled

1872
01:40:05,560 --> 01:40:08,280
Speaker 1: that we're doing well this season, and I hope we

1873
01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:11,880
Speaker 1: go all the way it must be. And I can

1874
01:40:11,920 --> 01:40:14,479
Speaker 1: say this that I do have some affection for an affinity,

1875
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:17,080
Speaker 1: because it's hard to be a pilgrim in an unholy land.

1876
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:19,920
Speaker 1: And you being in DC with the with the Washington

1877
01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:23,000
Speaker 1: football team fans and the Baltimore raven fans just around

1878
01:40:23,040 --> 01:40:26,200
Speaker 1: the corner. How has that atmosphere down there with the

1879
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:31,760
Speaker 1: Ravens coming to Buffalo. You know, it's nobody. Everybody knows

1880
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:36,040
Speaker 1: I'm a fanatic, and plenty of Ravens fans and plenty

1881
01:40:36,080 --> 01:40:39,240
Speaker 1: of Washington football team fans. You know, it's all we're

1882
01:40:39,240 --> 01:40:44,040
Speaker 1: all excited. Uh, you know, I love football. My football

1883
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:46,599
Speaker 1: career sort of ended when I was a freshman at

1884
01:40:46,680 --> 01:40:51,080
Speaker 1: ub UH even before the season began. It ended. I

1885
01:40:51,160 --> 01:40:52,960
Speaker 1: was not very good, but I loved the game, so

1886
01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:56,360
Speaker 1: I wanted to try out. Didn't necessarily work out, but

1887
01:40:56,439 --> 01:40:59,360
Speaker 1: you know what, I settled for another career in journalism.

1888
01:40:59,439 --> 01:41:03,160
Speaker 1: It's worked out. Okay, yes, yes, question for you, Wolf,

1889
01:41:03,320 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 1: where can we expect to find you on CNN's coverage

1890
01:41:07,439 --> 01:41:10,400
Speaker 1: for Inauguration Day next Wednesday? Maybe just give us the

1891
01:41:10,400 --> 01:41:12,760
Speaker 1: four one one on that if you don't mind. I'll

1892
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 1: be here in Washington. We have a special location that

1893
01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:19,879
Speaker 1: CNN has developed for me and for John King. Will

1894
01:41:19,920 --> 01:41:23,760
Speaker 1: be at an area overlooking the US Capital. It's a

1895
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:27,000
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful live shot location. So it'll be good.

1896
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: We'll be busy, you know, from early in the morning

1897
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:32,720
Speaker 1: until after the inauguration and into the evening. You know,

1898
01:41:32,840 --> 01:41:35,639
Speaker 1: it's a tense situation right now and Washington. I've lived

1899
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:37,439
Speaker 1: here for a long time, ever since I came here

1900
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:41,000
Speaker 1: for graduate school. And you know what's so sad is

1901
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:44,800
Speaker 1: if you walk around and you see all the military personels.

1902
01:41:45,040 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 1: Even at a regular street corner, you see troops, armed

1903
01:41:48,960 --> 01:41:53,400
Speaker 1: troops just standing. Twenty thousand National Guard troops have already

1904
01:41:53,400 --> 01:41:56,759
Speaker 1: been activated or here and washed. Another ten thousand law enforcement.

1905
01:41:56,960 --> 01:41:59,680
Speaker 1: Those numbers are going to go up between now and Wednesday.

1906
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:02,680
Speaker 1: And it's so depressing when you think about this is

1907
01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:05,760
Speaker 1: the United States of America and it could be very

1908
01:42:05,760 --> 01:42:08,719
Speaker 1: few people at the inauguration. The mayor doesn't want anybody

1909
01:42:08,720 --> 01:42:11,000
Speaker 1: to be under Washington involved. Security is going to be

1910
01:42:11,120 --> 01:42:17,280
Speaker 1: very tense, and it's it's painful to see what's going on. Yesterday,

1911
01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 1: when I was just walking around, I wanted to see

1912
01:42:19,120 --> 01:42:22,639
Speaker 1: what was happening, and I would see these these National

1913
01:42:22,680 --> 01:42:27,240
Speaker 1: Guard troops armed, you know, you know, major weapons on

1914
01:42:27,360 --> 01:42:31,000
Speaker 1: regular street corners, just protecting people. I'd say to myself,

1915
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, I covered the war in a rock. I

1916
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:35,280
Speaker 1: was in Fallusia, I was in Mosul, I was in Dagda.

1917
01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:38,559
Speaker 1: You get used to seeing armed US military personnel at

1918
01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 1: corners in a worst situation like that, but it's not

1919
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:44,160
Speaker 1: normal to see it here in the nation's capital. And

1920
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:49,400
Speaker 1: that was very worrisome. And my last question Wolf is this,

1921
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:52,960
Speaker 1: do you expect to go Do you expect it to

1922
01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 1: go off without a hitch on an Auguration Day. I

1923
01:42:56,479 --> 01:42:59,920
Speaker 1: hope and pray it will. I hope everybody learned the

1924
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:03,360
Speaker 1: lessons from last week when it was an awful scene

1925
01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:06,640
Speaker 1: that we saw unfolding up on Capitol Hill. I know

1926
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:10,479
Speaker 1: that they've built fences and they've got barricades, and they've

1927
01:43:10,479 --> 01:43:14,640
Speaker 1: blocked off tons of streets. I hope it goes smoothly.

1928
01:43:14,920 --> 01:43:17,439
Speaker 1: I hope people have learned their lessons and we get

1929
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:21,040
Speaker 1: through it peacefully. That's the most important. All right, Wolf, Well,

1930
01:43:21,040 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: we thank you for the time. We hope that the

1931
01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:26,639
Speaker 1: Bills can give you another smile this weekend and enjoy

1932
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:29,920
Speaker 1: the next week heading into Inauguration week. Keep doing what

1933
01:43:29,960 --> 01:43:32,439
Speaker 1: you're doing. We're watching from back here in Buffalo all

1934
01:43:32,439 --> 01:43:34,280
Speaker 1: the time. So thank you for the time you gave

1935
01:43:34,360 --> 01:43:36,360
Speaker 1: us today, and give us one more Go Bills before

1936
01:43:36,360 --> 01:43:39,799
Speaker 1: you go. I'll leave you with the most important words,

1937
01:43:40,040 --> 01:43:44,639
Speaker 1: Go Bills. Thanks both. We appreciate it, Wolf Blitzer, you'll

1938
01:43:44,640 --> 01:43:49,040
Speaker 1: be lum Buffalo native joining us here on one Bills Live,

1939
01:43:49,400 --> 01:43:52,800
Speaker 1: proudly expressing his fan following of the Bills from the

1940
01:43:52,840 --> 01:43:55,120
Speaker 1: time he was a little boy here in Buffalo. He

1941
01:43:55,160 --> 01:43:57,679
Speaker 1: grew up in the Jack Kemp years, but still rooting

1942
01:43:57,680 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: for them proudly down there. And there was a clip

1943
01:44:00,400 --> 01:44:05,320
Speaker 1: on CNN last week they were covering the January Georgia

1944
01:44:05,400 --> 01:44:09,200
Speaker 1: runoffs for the Senate seats that were up to runoffs

1945
01:44:09,400 --> 01:44:12,040
Speaker 1: two seats, and he and John King were kind of

1946
01:44:12,040 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 1: doing their thing, going through the different districts, you know,

1947
01:44:14,479 --> 01:44:18,679
Speaker 1: tallying up the votes and whatnot. And they were talking

1948
01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:21,640
Speaker 1: to a Georgia representative who was in charge of the

1949
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:25,120
Speaker 1: vote counts. And at the end of the interview with Wolf,

1950
01:44:25,200 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 1: he says, go dogs, you know, for the Georgia Bulldogs.

1951
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:31,120
Speaker 1: And so John King and Wolf take it back from him.

1952
01:44:31,120 --> 01:44:33,519
Speaker 1: At the end of the interview and John King's talking

1953
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:36,080
Speaker 1: and Wolf interrupts. He goes, can I just say go Bills?

1954
01:44:37,040 --> 01:44:40,200
Speaker 1: It was a King said, yeah, go go ahead. Congratulations

1955
01:44:40,200 --> 01:44:42,479
Speaker 1: to you, I like, out of nowhere, just hey, go Bills.

1956
01:44:42,479 --> 01:44:44,599
Speaker 1: You know. It was great, good stuff. Yeah, And that's

1957
01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:48,120
Speaker 1: it's always that's one of the things we've We've said

1958
01:44:48,160 --> 01:44:50,479
Speaker 1: it on this show a ton and you've noticed it,

1959
01:44:50,479 --> 01:44:54,000
Speaker 1: and it's that there is a level of affinity for

1960
01:44:54,120 --> 01:44:56,719
Speaker 1: other Bills fans as you go out and about in

1961
01:44:56,439 --> 01:44:58,639
Speaker 1: the world, and there's a lot of transplants out there,

1962
01:44:58,680 --> 01:45:01,639
Speaker 1: Wolf being one of them. And it is it's it's

1963
01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:04,760
Speaker 1: a thing where there's a level of affection, not just like, hey,

1964
01:45:04,760 --> 01:45:07,800
Speaker 1: how you doing? You know, it's more of a you know, Bill,

1965
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:10,320
Speaker 1: how did that happen to you? Right? Kind of thing?

1966
01:45:10,360 --> 01:45:12,479
Speaker 1: And where where did you grow up? In Western Erea

1967
01:45:12,520 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: because it's it's more like we've all known. It's a

1968
01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:17,760
Speaker 1: it's a regional franchise here. It's all you know, the

1969
01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:20,400
Speaker 1: entire region all the way you know James, Southern Ontario,

1970
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:24,080
Speaker 1: every place. So you know, it's and it's um, it's

1971
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:26,200
Speaker 1: nice and comforting to know that wherever you are in

1972
01:45:26,200 --> 01:45:29,280
Speaker 1: the world, you give that Go Bills thing that they're

1973
01:45:29,280 --> 01:45:31,240
Speaker 1: gonna say, Hey, you know, it's a it's a friendly

1974
01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:34,240
Speaker 1: greeting more so than just an acknowledgement. Yeah, it's like

1975
01:45:34,280 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 1: you belong to something. Let's get back to the phones.

1976
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:39,360
Speaker 1: We've got some people waiting patiently there is they tell

1977
01:45:39,439 --> 01:45:42,240
Speaker 1: us where their nerves are at forty eight hours away

1978
01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:44,760
Speaker 1: from kickoff or so, and we go to Eric in

1979
01:45:44,840 --> 01:45:46,559
Speaker 1: cheek Towaga. Eric, what do you have for us? You're

1980
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:51,080
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys, are you all doing this? Afternoon,

1981
01:45:51,200 --> 01:45:57,320
Speaker 1: doing good, doing good. Hey, um, you know, I feel

1982
01:45:57,640 --> 01:46:02,599
Speaker 1: fairly confident, you know, except for listen to you guys,

1983
01:46:02,680 --> 01:46:08,679
Speaker 1: and Steve's like making me very nervous. It's all your faults, Steve.

1984
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:12,760
Speaker 1: What are you doing? What are you doing? Steve? Got

1985
01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:16,080
Speaker 1: everybody gripping out there, go ahead, what's on your mind? Now?

1986
01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:21,080
Speaker 1: So you know, when I look at the new Bills,

1987
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:24,000
Speaker 1: you know, when I say new Bills under Josh Allen,

1988
01:46:24,920 --> 01:46:28,599
Speaker 1: you know, and he could do magic. You know, even

1989
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:33,639
Speaker 1: if we're down you know, seven points or whatever, he's

1990
01:46:33,680 --> 01:46:39,000
Speaker 1: still pretty calm, cool, collective, and he gets the job done.

1991
01:46:39,479 --> 01:46:45,639
Speaker 1: And it reminds me much like the nineties with Jim

1992
01:46:45,720 --> 01:46:50,240
Speaker 1: Kelley and the rest of their squad. Now, obviously our

1993
01:46:50,280 --> 01:46:54,919
Speaker 1: defense doesn't ever Bruce Smith, but I think our defense

1994
01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:59,400
Speaker 1: can hold up against the Ravens. So I feel fairly

1995
01:46:59,479 --> 01:47:04,639
Speaker 1: confident in this game. And if we lose, I'll still

1996
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:08,160
Speaker 1: be still really happy that we get a great season

1997
01:47:08,280 --> 01:47:13,200
Speaker 1: because this is a very young team and you know,

1998
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:16,880
Speaker 1: there's many years ahead and they're going to you know,

1999
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:21,960
Speaker 1: with mcderman and being they're just going to continue to grow. Yeah,

2000
01:47:22,040 --> 01:47:23,879
Speaker 1: good call, Eric, thank you for it, and we appreciate

2001
01:47:23,920 --> 01:47:27,200
Speaker 1: your holding as long as you did. He's right. You know,

2002
01:47:27,280 --> 01:47:29,120
Speaker 1: this team has been built not to be a one

2003
01:47:29,200 --> 01:47:31,880
Speaker 1: year wonder, but more of a perennial contender, and they

2004
01:47:31,920 --> 01:47:34,200
Speaker 1: are in position to do that. There are some offseason

2005
01:47:34,240 --> 01:47:37,160
Speaker 1: decisions that have to be made this year, some easier

2006
01:47:37,200 --> 01:47:40,240
Speaker 1: than others, and that's the case every year. But now

2007
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:45,160
Speaker 1: that you've become an AFC title contender. When loser draw

2008
01:47:45,240 --> 01:47:48,000
Speaker 1: this week, this team is an AFC title contender going forward,

2009
01:47:48,840 --> 01:47:51,360
Speaker 1: the decisions become maybe a little bit more difficult, like

2010
01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:53,280
Speaker 1: do we push the pedal all the way to the

2011
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:56,000
Speaker 1: floor on the cap to really go for it next year?

2012
01:47:57,080 --> 01:48:02,280
Speaker 1: Do we extend Josh Allen, you know, John Feliciano, Darryl Williams,

2013
01:48:02,320 --> 01:48:04,280
Speaker 1: those guys contracts are up, do they you know they

2014
01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:06,040
Speaker 1: got to be resigned. Do you want them back in

2015
01:48:06,080 --> 01:48:09,439
Speaker 1: the full? All these things will come to pass once

2016
01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 1: the season is over, but for now, trying to enjoy

2017
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:17,640
Speaker 1: the ride here. Yeah, there's been rumblings on my timeline

2018
01:48:17,680 --> 01:48:19,800
Speaker 1: and for all these people saying they think that there's

2019
01:48:19,840 --> 01:48:22,960
Speaker 1: already talks going on about Alan's extension and what it's

2020
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:25,520
Speaker 1: going to look like, and they're already kind of formulating

2021
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:29,200
Speaker 1: their thoughts about that, and rightfully so they should. Doesn't

2022
01:48:29,200 --> 01:48:31,080
Speaker 1: need to be done right away or anything like that,

2023
01:48:31,240 --> 01:48:34,559
Speaker 1: but you know, you can't just decide one day and

2024
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:38,200
Speaker 1: do it the next. So, and this is a team.

2025
01:48:38,240 --> 01:48:40,679
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody out there who's a Bills fan

2026
01:48:40,840 --> 01:48:43,240
Speaker 1: is gonna say I'm no longer a Bills fan if

2027
01:48:43,240 --> 01:48:44,840
Speaker 1: they go out and lose to the Baltimore Ravens in

2028
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:47,479
Speaker 1: the Division round of the playoffs. Nobody's in that boat.

2029
01:48:47,520 --> 01:48:50,400
Speaker 1: There's eight teams left. Right, there's eight teams left. Buffalo

2030
01:48:50,439 --> 01:48:53,240
Speaker 1: is one of them. They had a fantastic regular season.

2031
01:48:53,280 --> 01:48:56,240
Speaker 1: It's been a year to remember, no question about it.

2032
01:48:56,240 --> 01:48:58,439
Speaker 1: It has been the culmination of a lot of hard

2033
01:48:58,439 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 1: work that Sean McDermott and Brandon be And have done,

2034
01:49:00,479 --> 01:49:02,120
Speaker 1: as well as all the players and other coaches on

2035
01:49:02,160 --> 01:49:05,160
Speaker 1: the staff and people in the building getting fans in here.

2036
01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:08,280
Speaker 1: But having said all of that, here's what you gotta

2037
01:49:08,280 --> 01:49:11,960
Speaker 1: know going forward. This is not an organization that is

2038
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:13,960
Speaker 1: gonna go all of a sudden gonna push all their

2039
01:49:14,040 --> 01:49:15,360
Speaker 1: chips to the table and say we got to do

2040
01:49:15,400 --> 01:49:17,639
Speaker 1: it because we were so close this year, we got

2041
01:49:17,640 --> 01:49:20,679
Speaker 1: to do it this way. No, this is an organization says, listen,

2042
01:49:20,720 --> 01:49:23,680
Speaker 1: we're doing it right. We don't need to change what

2043
01:49:23,720 --> 01:49:26,519
Speaker 1: we're doing. We just need to do what we do better,

2044
01:49:26,920 --> 01:49:29,639
Speaker 1: and that'll be the tack going forward. That's what keeps

2045
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:32,880
Speaker 1: you in the playoffs, that's what keeps you sustainable and competitive.

2046
01:49:33,040 --> 01:49:35,599
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you're gonna win thirteen games every year, but

2047
01:49:35,640 --> 01:49:38,040
Speaker 1: it does mean you're going to stay away from going

2048
01:49:38,520 --> 01:49:41,960
Speaker 1: four and twelve when you do it the right way

2049
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:44,680
Speaker 1: and have it lined out and don't get outside the

2050
01:49:44,680 --> 01:49:46,519
Speaker 1: lines in order to say, oh my gosh, if we

2051
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:49,960
Speaker 1: let this guy go, we might lose eight more games

2052
01:49:49,960 --> 01:49:53,160
Speaker 1: this year. It's not true. Just do what you do

2053
01:49:53,280 --> 01:49:56,479
Speaker 1: and it'll be sustainable. That's where this organization is. So

2054
01:49:56,560 --> 01:49:58,840
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna keep on keeping on, and it's

2055
01:49:58,880 --> 01:50:00,960
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch them develop this over the

2056
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:04,000
Speaker 1: next you know, year or two years too, even from

2057
01:50:04,000 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 1: where they're at now. Back to the phones into AJ

2058
01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:09,320
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, AJ, what do you have for us?

2059
01:50:09,400 --> 01:50:14,080
Speaker 1: Jaron won Bills Live. Hey, how you doing guys? Good?

2060
01:50:14,240 --> 01:50:16,800
Speaker 1: Oh let me stop. Let me start by saying I'm

2061
01:50:16,840 --> 01:50:20,400
Speaker 1: honored to speak to the Steve Task and of course

2062
01:50:20,439 --> 01:50:25,120
Speaker 1: you will Brownie. Um I'm a Bills fan. I'm thirty

2063
01:50:25,160 --> 01:50:27,599
Speaker 1: nine years old. Long time I went through the suff

2064
01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: front of the four Super Bowls, the Music City Miracle,

2065
01:50:30,760 --> 01:50:33,400
Speaker 1: all those things. But um, I just want to give

2066
01:50:33,439 --> 01:50:37,240
Speaker 1: you a couple of acts factors for Saturday Night. And

2067
01:50:37,320 --> 01:50:41,400
Speaker 1: you guys talk about nerves and and and a nerve wreck.

2068
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:46,439
Speaker 1: I have this thing where on offense I wear my

2069
01:50:46,520 --> 01:50:50,960
Speaker 1: hat forward, and on defense I wear my hat backwards,

2070
01:50:50,960 --> 01:50:55,080
Speaker 1: almost like a rally thing. And on the Tennessee game

2071
01:50:55,160 --> 01:50:59,599
Speaker 1: and the Casey game, I didn't watch. We lost those games. Um,

2072
01:51:00,120 --> 01:51:02,839
Speaker 1: but I wanted to get due ac fact on offense,

2073
01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:06,280
Speaker 1: I think that if Devin Singletary just imagine how good

2074
01:51:06,320 --> 01:51:12,320
Speaker 1: we will be with a running game. Um, how life

2075
01:51:12,320 --> 01:51:15,240
Speaker 1: would be so much easier for Josh, so for me.

2076
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:19,439
Speaker 1: I think Devin Singletary is big on Saturday Night and

2077
01:51:19,880 --> 01:51:24,719
Speaker 1: gay Bro Davis and on defense. Um, I just wanted

2078
01:51:24,720 --> 01:51:27,559
Speaker 1: to see what you guys think on that. How about

2079
01:51:27,560 --> 01:51:30,599
Speaker 1: we flip the switch and do what do to them

2080
01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:33,040
Speaker 1: what they did to us? But eight in the box

2081
01:51:33,439 --> 01:51:36,479
Speaker 1: they cover zero and play man and man. We have

2082
01:51:36,600 --> 01:51:40,480
Speaker 1: the secondary to do it. I actually believe our secondary

2083
01:51:40,680 --> 01:51:45,920
Speaker 1: is better than theirs. Uh yeah, I would say, and

2084
01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:48,240
Speaker 1: thanks for the call. Aj We we gotta cut you off.

2085
01:51:48,280 --> 01:51:50,760
Speaker 1: We had a little feedback there on your phone line. Um,

2086
01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:54,400
Speaker 1: I think you can make the argument the bigger names

2087
01:51:54,439 --> 01:51:58,560
Speaker 1: are in the Raven secondary in terms of cornerbacks specifically,

2088
01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:01,719
Speaker 1: just because of the Ravens have been the last few years,

2089
01:52:01,720 --> 01:52:03,880
Speaker 1: which more often than not has been at the top

2090
01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:07,120
Speaker 1: of their division and in the playoffs. But I think

2091
01:52:07,160 --> 01:52:10,240
Speaker 1: you could certainly make the argument that Buffalo secondary is

2092
01:52:10,280 --> 01:52:12,640
Speaker 1: just as talented. They may not go as deep at

2093
01:52:12,640 --> 01:52:15,040
Speaker 1: the corner position specifically, but if you factor in the

2094
01:52:15,080 --> 01:52:18,439
Speaker 1: safeties poorer and hide, can even the scales pretty quickly.

2095
01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:21,920
Speaker 1: What do you think about eight in the box and

2096
01:52:22,320 --> 01:52:24,760
Speaker 1: go in single safety high A good deal? Steve, You're

2097
01:52:24,800 --> 01:52:27,840
Speaker 1: okay with that because Hollywood Brown is really the only

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01:52:28,360 --> 01:52:31,200
Speaker 1: major threaded wide out does Brian can still box people

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01:52:31,200 --> 01:52:33,600
Speaker 1: out and make some plays on jump balls. But I

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01:52:33,600 --> 01:52:36,920
Speaker 1: don't know, what do you think about that? I don't know. Yeah,

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01:52:36,920 --> 01:52:38,639
Speaker 1: you can try it once in a while, no question.

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01:52:38,760 --> 01:52:42,760
Speaker 1: I think certainly on rundown you gotta do something. But

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01:52:43,200 --> 01:52:45,320
Speaker 1: this is a defense that is gonna have to come

2104
01:52:45,400 --> 01:52:49,400
Speaker 1: up big and with a against a power power run game.

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01:52:49,640 --> 01:52:53,160
Speaker 1: Certainly the Bills. Secondary is their strength, no question, But

2106
01:52:53,640 --> 01:52:55,879
Speaker 1: what's a what good is it day to have a

2107
01:52:55,880 --> 01:53:00,400
Speaker 1: strong secondary when they're never going to test it anyway. Yeah,

2108
01:53:00,479 --> 01:53:02,920
Speaker 1: you need like four linebackers back there and sit at

2109
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:05,800
Speaker 1: two corners and two safeties right against this team, I

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01:53:05,920 --> 01:53:08,280
Speaker 1: get it. Throw eight guys and nine guys at the box,

2111
01:53:08,360 --> 01:53:10,759
Speaker 1: go man to man on the outside and let Lamar

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01:53:10,800 --> 01:53:12,920
Speaker 1: try and loft little fade routes on your old day,

2113
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:14,960
Speaker 1: or hit try and hit quick slants on your old day.

2114
01:53:16,760 --> 01:53:18,680
Speaker 1: At least they're not trying to run the football and

2115
01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:21,080
Speaker 1: they're trying to beat your left handed. It's it's a

2116
01:53:21,120 --> 01:53:25,120
Speaker 1: tough problem to face this offense. They're really good at

2117
01:53:25,160 --> 01:53:28,320
Speaker 1: what they do and Lamar has got a strong arm

2118
01:53:28,920 --> 01:53:33,320
Speaker 1: and they'll throw it enough to keep you honest. And

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01:53:33,360 --> 01:53:36,680
Speaker 1: if you're playing it honest, the question is are you

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01:53:36,800 --> 01:53:38,800
Speaker 1: good enough to stop their run game if you're playing

2121
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:41,800
Speaker 1: it honest, And most teams are not. Most teams are

2122
01:53:41,840 --> 01:53:44,080
Speaker 1: not when they're playing this team honest. You can't stop

2123
01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:46,360
Speaker 1: their run game. You've got to sell out to stop it,

2124
01:53:46,400 --> 01:53:48,479
Speaker 1: and that's when they hit you with the pass. So

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01:53:49,160 --> 01:53:52,760
Speaker 1: there's the question, and we'll have to wait to see

2126
01:53:52,760 --> 01:53:56,360
Speaker 1: what the answer is, spots with everything, and just keep it,

2127
01:53:56,840 --> 01:53:59,160
Speaker 1: keep it changing all throughout the game. You don't want

2128
01:53:59,160 --> 01:54:00,800
Speaker 1: them to get a beat on you at all, because

2129
01:54:00,840 --> 01:54:03,920
Speaker 1: once they do, they just do what they do best,

2130
01:54:04,600 --> 01:54:07,480
Speaker 1: and they'll mix in play action when they feel it's appropriate.

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01:54:07,960 --> 01:54:09,880
Speaker 1: But they're just such a dominant run team that they

2132
01:54:09,880 --> 01:54:12,840
Speaker 1: don't have to be too varied, quite frankly, because they're

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01:54:12,920 --> 01:54:15,040
Speaker 1: they're just they're just good at what they do and

2134
01:54:15,080 --> 01:54:16,879
Speaker 1: even if you know what's coming, they can be productive,

2135
01:54:16,960 --> 01:54:18,920
Speaker 1: or at least they have been against most of their opponents.

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01:54:19,160 --> 01:54:21,880
Speaker 1: Let's go to Justin and depew on one Bill's Live.

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01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:25,240
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Justin? After gervertize you

2138
01:54:25,240 --> 01:54:30,400
Speaker 1: guys doing good good? Yeah, I wanted to share my feelies.

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01:54:30,680 --> 01:54:34,440
Speaker 1: Um ever since that game, the last game, I was

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01:54:34,520 --> 01:54:37,680
Speaker 1: sweating through the whole game. I had I had just

2141
01:54:38,040 --> 01:54:42,240
Speaker 1: I just had a muscle shirt on sweat. I just

2142
01:54:42,400 --> 01:54:45,000
Speaker 1: hit Pascy around my house. I couldn't I couldn't even

2143
01:54:45,040 --> 01:54:47,800
Speaker 1: stand the pressure I was. My nails are down to

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01:54:47,800 --> 01:54:53,680
Speaker 1: the nub. But I think that we're gonna pull it off.

2145
01:54:53,720 --> 01:54:57,800
Speaker 1: I think that if we play you know, the run.

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01:54:58,520 --> 01:55:00,560
Speaker 1: I thinks the phrase you will come up with a

2147
01:55:00,600 --> 01:55:05,520
Speaker 1: good plan for that, and we should be victorious because

2148
01:55:05,560 --> 01:55:07,680
Speaker 1: I think we have a better offense than they do.

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01:55:07,920 --> 01:55:12,000
Speaker 1: Like you guys are saved all day. Yeah, I would,

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01:55:12,120 --> 01:55:14,880
Speaker 1: I would, I would say yes to that. What do

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01:55:14,920 --> 01:55:19,440
Speaker 1: you think Steve about because if you watch last year's game,

2152
01:55:20,440 --> 01:55:24,080
Speaker 1: the Bills didn't sit back, you know, they came at Lamar,

2153
01:55:24,200 --> 01:55:26,240
Speaker 1: forced him to make decisions when he had the ball

2154
01:55:26,280 --> 01:55:29,360
Speaker 1: in his hands, and more often than not, they were effective.

2155
01:55:29,360 --> 01:55:31,080
Speaker 1: I mean you saw the numbers they held him to.

2156
01:55:31,160 --> 01:55:34,000
Speaker 1: I think it was forty something yards rushing in that game,

2157
01:55:34,160 --> 01:55:36,840
Speaker 1: under two hundred total yards passing and rushing. It's the

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01:55:36,840 --> 01:55:39,280
Speaker 1: only game last season where that was the case. They

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01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:42,560
Speaker 1: had a good plan. Where he killed them was down

2160
01:55:42,600 --> 01:55:45,400
Speaker 1: inside the red zone where he kind of scrambled around

2161
01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:47,840
Speaker 1: and then he threw a short touchdown pass. Three yard

2162
01:55:47,840 --> 01:55:50,480
Speaker 1: pass here, six yard passed there, and that was fourteen

2163
01:55:50,520 --> 01:55:52,880
Speaker 1: points on the board and it proved to be the

2164
01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:56,000
Speaker 1: difference in the game. The sixty one yard at Hayden Hurst.

2165
01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:59,280
Speaker 1: That's just the one big play that he had and

2166
01:55:59,440 --> 01:56:01,960
Speaker 1: it was it was part and parcel enough to get

2167
01:56:02,000 --> 01:56:04,240
Speaker 1: the win. But there were all there were a lot

2168
01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:07,600
Speaker 1: of plays that the Bills won defensively in that game,

2169
01:56:07,640 --> 01:56:10,120
Speaker 1: and they did it by not letting him get on

2170
01:56:10,160 --> 01:56:14,880
Speaker 1: the edge too often swarming to the football, and there

2171
01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:17,760
Speaker 1: were times where they attacked him and forced him to

2172
01:56:17,760 --> 01:56:20,560
Speaker 1: make a decision or at least stutter step. And I

2173
01:56:20,560 --> 01:56:23,200
Speaker 1: don't know if it applies in every sport, but big

2174
01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:25,640
Speaker 1: rule on defense is to delay the attack and if

2175
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:28,000
Speaker 1: you can help can arrive on touch, right, And that's

2176
01:56:28,040 --> 01:56:29,560
Speaker 1: that's what you've got to do. You've got to corral.

2177
01:56:29,600 --> 01:56:31,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't give him, you know, the edges

2178
01:56:31,560 --> 01:56:36,000
Speaker 1: of your defense. You can't lunge, you can't you know,

2179
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:38,240
Speaker 1: I mean, if he's got space, the best thing to

2180
01:56:38,240 --> 01:56:40,760
Speaker 1: do is just wait till he runs and then try

2181
01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:45,400
Speaker 1: and cut him off and force him to go behind them,

2182
01:56:45,480 --> 01:56:48,600
Speaker 1: or go sideways, go backwards and try and loop around you,

2183
01:56:48,720 --> 01:56:52,080
Speaker 1: or go sideways and then just hope that your pursuit

2184
01:56:52,080 --> 01:56:54,480
Speaker 1: can get there. And that's you know, what you're preaching

2185
01:56:54,480 --> 01:56:57,560
Speaker 1: to your defense all week is pursue, pursue, pursue. You

2186
01:56:57,600 --> 01:56:59,600
Speaker 1: got to get to the football. When he's running the ball,

2187
01:56:59,600 --> 01:57:01,440
Speaker 1: everybody he's got a rally. When you do get to

2188
01:57:01,480 --> 01:57:03,640
Speaker 1: the football, though, you still got a break down though, right,

2189
01:57:03,680 --> 01:57:07,040
Speaker 1: I mean fundamental tackling posture here. You can't be you know,

2190
01:57:08,080 --> 01:57:10,160
Speaker 1: diving tackle arms, and you know he can't be going

2191
01:57:10,200 --> 01:57:12,440
Speaker 1: Superman at this guy because you'll be getting nothing but

2192
01:57:12,520 --> 01:57:16,560
Speaker 1: air right and broken tackles will always be the crusher

2193
01:57:16,600 --> 01:57:20,200
Speaker 1: for a defense. Mis tackles or a crusher for a defense.

2194
01:57:21,680 --> 01:57:24,160
Speaker 1: You know, that's it. I mean, if you get the

2195
01:57:24,200 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 1: first guy to the ball makes the tackle, you're gonna

2196
01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:28,320
Speaker 1: have a really good day defensively. But this guy makes

2197
01:57:28,320 --> 01:57:33,320
Speaker 1: it tough. There's no question he does. I still maintain.

2198
01:57:33,880 --> 01:57:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen a guy this tall

2199
01:57:35,600 --> 01:57:39,160
Speaker 1: and angular that can change direction this fast. The way

2200
01:57:39,200 --> 01:57:42,640
Speaker 1: he's able to change direction despite being so I mean,

2201
01:57:42,640 --> 01:57:46,240
Speaker 1: he's like a stick. You know, he's pretty thick. Yeah,

2202
01:57:46,360 --> 01:57:48,840
Speaker 1: well a thick lower body, does he Yeah, he does.

2203
01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:50,720
Speaker 1: That's why he can do it, because he's got a

2204
01:57:50,800 --> 01:57:54,000
Speaker 1: nice power plant, big legs, and he's you know, I'm

2205
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:57,680
Speaker 1: telling you he's so long and angular. You don't, I don't.

2206
01:57:58,040 --> 01:57:59,920
Speaker 1: Most people don't expect him to cut on a dime.

2207
01:58:00,360 --> 01:58:02,880
Speaker 1: And when he does cut, it seems like he never

2208
01:58:02,960 --> 01:58:06,000
Speaker 1: loses his speed, like he can cut, but he doesn't

2209
01:58:06,040 --> 01:58:08,680
Speaker 1: slow down like a lot of guys if they're gonna

2210
01:58:08,680 --> 01:58:11,520
Speaker 1: cut hard, they're gonna slow their momentum down, and it

2211
01:58:11,880 --> 01:58:14,720
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like he does. He just kind of glides

2212
01:58:14,760 --> 01:58:17,200
Speaker 1: through a One of the things he is good at,

2213
01:58:17,280 --> 01:58:19,680
Speaker 1: and one of that makes him so effective too, is

2214
01:58:19,680 --> 01:58:24,000
Speaker 1: the fact that he can stop hard and then also

2215
01:58:24,120 --> 01:58:27,680
Speaker 1: he's got explosion he can sell. He re accelerate, so

2216
01:58:28,000 --> 01:58:30,880
Speaker 1: most guys it takes him longer to stop and they

2217
01:58:30,920 --> 01:58:34,200
Speaker 1: look like they stepped in a hole trying to accelerate

2218
01:58:34,240 --> 01:58:35,800
Speaker 1: to get him. You know, they just can't catch up

2219
01:58:35,840 --> 01:58:38,080
Speaker 1: to him once he turns and change his directions. So

2220
01:58:38,120 --> 01:58:42,200
Speaker 1: he's yeah, he's really good man. It's it's gonna be

2221
01:58:42,280 --> 01:58:44,600
Speaker 1: a heck of a game, a really good game. All right,

2222
01:58:44,680 --> 01:58:46,680
Speaker 1: break time for us when we come back. We gotta

2223
01:58:46,720 --> 01:58:48,360
Speaker 1: take a look at the tweet sheet. We haven't checked

2224
01:58:48,360 --> 01:58:50,080
Speaker 1: it out as if yet, so hit us up there

2225
01:58:50,120 --> 01:58:52,920
Speaker 1: at one. Bills, live with your thoughts on just where

2226
01:58:52,920 --> 01:58:56,000
Speaker 1: you're at. How are your nerves doing forty eight hours

2227
01:58:56,000 --> 01:58:59,680
Speaker 1: away from kickoff? Are you a mess? Are you nervous?

2228
01:59:00,240 --> 01:59:02,160
Speaker 1: Or are you just sitting back and chilling because you

2229
01:59:02,200 --> 01:59:04,480
Speaker 1: think that this is a game the Bills can absolutely

2230
01:59:04,480 --> 01:59:06,720
Speaker 1: win and you expect him to do, so let us

2231
01:59:06,720 --> 01:59:08,240
Speaker 1: know what the tweet sheet. We'll be hitting that next

2232
01:59:08,240 --> 01:59:10,640
Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bill's Live, presented by

2233
01:59:10,680 --> 01:59:25,360
Speaker 1: Kalia Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker,

2234
01:59:25,440 --> 01:59:28,120
Speaker 1: final half hour of the program here on a Thursday

2235
01:59:28,280 --> 01:59:32,360
Speaker 1: edition of One Bills Live. We'll be back with tomorrow's program, which,

2236
01:59:32,400 --> 01:59:35,600
Speaker 1: as you know, is the opening of the obl fan

2237
01:59:35,720 --> 01:59:40,520
Speaker 1: mail Bag. Any question on your mind about the Bills,

2238
01:59:40,840 --> 01:59:44,880
Speaker 1: the roster, the coaching staff, the team head, coaching vacancies,

2239
01:59:44,960 --> 01:59:49,600
Speaker 1: the NFL at large, the playoff landscape, or life in general,

2240
01:59:50,360 --> 01:59:53,200
Speaker 1: Steve and I are here to answer. They'll have all

2241
01:59:53,200 --> 01:59:55,640
Speaker 1: of your answers for you tomorrow on the program noon

2242
01:59:55,680 --> 01:59:58,040
Speaker 1: to three. As we do every week, we haven't we

2243
01:59:58,240 --> 02:00:01,400
Speaker 1: doing the Tasker's Teammate think tomorrow. That is the plan

2244
02:00:02,000 --> 02:00:06,320
Speaker 1: We're we're we're hoping that the selection for this week's

2245
02:00:06,560 --> 02:00:10,120
Speaker 1: edition of Tasker's Teammate is available to join us on

2246
02:00:10,160 --> 02:00:13,160
Speaker 1: the program. As Jay says, every week, he or she

2247
02:00:13,360 --> 02:00:17,160
Speaker 1: went for Phil Hanson to show up, and John finis yeah,

2248
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:20,760
Speaker 1: um so yes, well we're hoping that that comes together.

2249
02:00:20,840 --> 02:00:26,360
Speaker 1: As they say, unbelievable and then okay, I had you know,

2250
02:00:26,400 --> 02:00:28,640
Speaker 1: I had an ongoing We've got to it's got to

2251
02:00:28,680 --> 02:00:34,200
Speaker 1: be like twenty twenty to twenty guys, yeah something, We've

2252
02:00:34,200 --> 02:00:35,840
Speaker 1: had a ton of them. You're gonna run out sooner

2253
02:00:35,920 --> 02:00:39,040
Speaker 1: or later. No, we won't, Steve, you played for thirteen years.

2254
02:00:39,160 --> 02:00:42,320
Speaker 1: You got hundreds of teammates, Yeah, maybe even a thousand.

2255
02:00:42,360 --> 02:00:45,040
Speaker 1: You probably I can barely remember the cruise name in

2256
02:00:45,080 --> 02:00:47,600
Speaker 1: the in the back in the other room, let alone.

2257
02:00:47,720 --> 02:00:50,040
Speaker 1: You know guys I played with twenty years again. Why

2258
02:00:50,040 --> 02:00:52,080
Speaker 1: you have it in your notes page on your phone right?

2259
02:00:52,120 --> 02:00:55,680
Speaker 1: That's uh okay, yeah. Uh So we wanted to get

2260
02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:58,960
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet today because we have yet to

2261
02:00:59,000 --> 02:01:01,839
Speaker 1: do that at this point. As we have been asking

2262
02:01:01,840 --> 02:01:04,880
Speaker 1: you through the course of the show today, where are

2263
02:01:04,920 --> 02:01:08,160
Speaker 1: you at two days away from kickoff for this Saturday game,

2264
02:01:08,200 --> 02:01:10,920
Speaker 1: and why we're kind of getting we sense that there's

2265
02:01:10,920 --> 02:01:13,400
Speaker 1: a lot of angst here in Western New York and

2266
02:01:13,760 --> 02:01:17,560
Speaker 1: surely points beyond in terms of you know, fans that

2267
02:01:17,720 --> 02:01:20,800
Speaker 1: live elsewhere in the country as they get set for

2268
02:01:20,840 --> 02:01:23,480
Speaker 1: this game. Some people have called and told us they

2269
02:01:23,480 --> 02:01:28,040
Speaker 1: can't even sleep. Um, that's not healthy. That's kind of

2270
02:01:28,040 --> 02:01:30,440
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna beat probably tonight. That's not healthy. No,

2271
02:01:30,520 --> 02:01:32,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the Saves. I'm just hoping the

2272
02:01:32,680 --> 02:01:34,200
Speaker 1: saves game is a good one. I hope they can

2273
02:01:34,240 --> 02:01:37,080
Speaker 1: pull out a wing an overtime game and wear you

2274
02:01:37,080 --> 02:01:39,120
Speaker 1: out a little bit and I'll, like I said, I'll

2275
02:01:39,160 --> 02:01:40,960
Speaker 1: have a pop and you know, kind of relax a

2276
02:01:40,960 --> 02:01:42,360
Speaker 1: little bit, just try and go to bed. I went

2277
02:01:42,400 --> 02:01:45,560
Speaker 1: to bed fairly early last night because I'd kind of

2278
02:01:45,720 --> 02:01:49,000
Speaker 1: been running on a distress deficit, you know. And uh,

2279
02:01:50,400 --> 02:01:52,320
Speaker 1: actually got a pretty good night's sleep last night. But

2280
02:01:52,360 --> 02:01:53,880
Speaker 1: that's I think that's the last one I'm getting for

2281
02:01:53,920 --> 02:01:58,840
Speaker 1: a while. That's tough, but we do. Nevertheless, we're going

2282
02:01:58,880 --> 02:02:00,480
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, which is ought to you by

2283
02:02:00,560 --> 02:02:03,640
Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company, and the

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02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:07,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And Denny leads us off today, says, as

2285
02:02:07,120 --> 02:02:11,160
Speaker 1: a kid, games made me nervous. Then after nearly two

2286
02:02:11,200 --> 02:02:15,160
Speaker 1: decades of games that rarely mattered, these games are enjoyable

2287
02:02:15,440 --> 02:02:18,880
Speaker 1: because they do matter and the Bills belong. It will

2288
02:02:18,880 --> 02:02:21,720
Speaker 1: probably be close, but that's part of the fun. Let's

2289
02:02:21,800 --> 02:02:26,080
Speaker 1: go Buffalo. I gotta, I gotta, I'm here. Don't ask

2290
02:02:26,160 --> 02:02:29,840
Speaker 1: me how Denny's tweet They're triggered this in my mind. Okay,

2291
02:02:31,640 --> 02:02:35,040
Speaker 1: we're listening. I keep even today, I'm like, I gotta

2292
02:02:35,120 --> 02:02:38,960
Speaker 1: do this game on the radio. You forgot, well, I

2293
02:02:38,960 --> 02:02:41,720
Speaker 1: got you know. I don't think about it like that, right, Okay,

2294
02:02:41,760 --> 02:02:45,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, how am I going to act?

2295
02:02:46,240 --> 02:02:49,960
Speaker 1: Oh you're you're worried about keeping it together. You saw

2296
02:02:50,000 --> 02:02:51,600
Speaker 1: what happened to me last week. We did see what

2297
02:02:51,640 --> 02:02:54,640
Speaker 1: happened to you last week. After the controversial call or

2298
02:02:54,760 --> 02:02:57,880
Speaker 1: non call on the back people and the fumble, They'll

2299
02:02:57,880 --> 02:02:59,400
Speaker 1: be taken me out of there in a street Jack

2300
02:03:00,400 --> 02:03:04,320
Speaker 1: kicking and screaming. That's an outrage. He'll be going Spider Man,

2301
02:03:04,440 --> 02:03:06,760
Speaker 1: jumping out. He'll be like, you'll be getting a text, Chris,

2302
02:03:06,760 --> 02:03:08,760
Speaker 1: we need you in the booth. Come come take over

2303
02:03:08,800 --> 02:03:12,920
Speaker 1: for tasker. He's absolutely lost his mind. It's happened. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't put it past. I wouldn't put it past, you know.

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Speaker 1: That's the sad part about it. That's why I brought me.

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02:03:18,160 --> 02:03:19,760
Speaker 1: That's why I was like, oh gosh, I gotta do

2307
02:03:19,800 --> 02:03:23,080
Speaker 1: this game. From Jeremy on the tweet sheet, I'm a

2308
02:03:23,120 --> 02:03:25,880
Speaker 1: wreck because I keep going back and forth on where

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02:03:25,920 --> 02:03:28,440
Speaker 1: I think our strengths and weaknesses are. One minute I

2310
02:03:28,480 --> 02:03:30,680
Speaker 1: think we got this, then I think we don't. If

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02:03:30,680 --> 02:03:33,000
Speaker 1: I'm nervous now, I can't imagine how I'm gonna feel

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02:03:33,040 --> 02:03:35,520
Speaker 1: next week. Well, he just well he just kind of

2313
02:03:35,520 --> 02:03:38,600
Speaker 1: indicated he's expecting a win. If he thinks, he's gonna

2314
02:03:38,600 --> 02:03:40,720
Speaker 1: be even more nervous next week. So I think in

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02:03:40,720 --> 02:03:44,040
Speaker 1: the end, Jeremy, you're subconscious is telling you Bills will

2316
02:03:44,080 --> 02:03:47,640
Speaker 1: win subconsciously. That's where that's where you got to live.

2317
02:03:47,680 --> 02:03:50,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's where you've got to live. You're Bills fan, right,

2318
02:03:50,040 --> 02:03:52,120
Speaker 1: I mean you just gotta live there. And whether it's,

2319
02:03:52,560 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 1: however precarious, that position seems is where you're at, right,

2320
02:03:56,640 --> 02:03:58,200
Speaker 1: But you gotta live in the fact where you know

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02:03:58,240 --> 02:04:00,240
Speaker 1: this team's got a real shot at it and it's

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02:04:00,280 --> 02:04:02,560
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch, and it's it's been fun

2323
02:04:02,680 --> 02:04:05,080
Speaker 1: all season, even this last this game last week. Think

2324
02:04:05,080 --> 02:04:07,240
Speaker 1: about it as a nail bier, but deep shot the

2325
02:04:07,360 --> 02:04:10,360
Speaker 1: digs and you're going up twenty four to ten in

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02:04:10,360 --> 02:04:13,320
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of the game. Yeah, that was That

2327
02:04:13,400 --> 02:04:15,680
Speaker 1: was fun. That was a lot of fun from Joe

2328
02:04:15,920 --> 02:04:19,760
Speaker 1: my confidence in a win, good coaching, and Josh Allen's

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02:04:19,760 --> 02:04:21,960
Speaker 1: ability to make plays with his arm and legs. My

2330
02:04:22,080 --> 02:04:25,880
Speaker 1: concerns Bill's old line having problems with the Ravens D line,

2331
02:04:26,400 --> 02:04:32,600
Speaker 1: Bill's stopping JK. Dobbins My prediction, Bill's twenty seven Ravens seventeen,

2332
02:04:33,040 --> 02:04:38,320
Speaker 1: Bill's special teams, Big Play, Touchdown, Jackson turnovers, and Bill's

2333
02:04:38,400 --> 02:04:44,440
Speaker 1: running back surprise Ravens on run and Pass. Wow. Pretty

2334
02:04:44,480 --> 02:04:48,720
Speaker 1: detailed synopsis there. I hope you're a soothsayer, Joe, Yeah,

2335
02:04:48,880 --> 02:04:51,680
Speaker 1: I really do good. I mean, that's where a lot

2336
02:04:51,720 --> 02:04:53,600
Speaker 1: of Bills fans live in the you know, in the

2337
02:04:53,720 --> 02:04:56,480
Speaker 1: in the that mine's eye, where they can they can

2338
02:04:56,680 --> 02:04:58,240
Speaker 1: envision what it's going to look like. I don't know

2339
02:04:58,360 --> 02:05:00,880
Speaker 1: he's he's certainly having an easier time of it than

2340
02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:03,680
Speaker 1: Jeremy is, who's going back and forth like a what

2341
02:05:03,720 --> 02:05:08,920
Speaker 1: do they call that ticking thing, the the metronome. Thank you, Steve. See,

2342
02:05:08,960 --> 02:05:11,160
Speaker 1: this is why you're here. That's the only reason, you know.

2343
02:05:12,520 --> 02:05:14,880
Speaker 1: That's that's where Jeremy is. He's going back and forth

2344
02:05:14,920 --> 02:05:17,640
Speaker 1: like that metronome thing. I don't know which pays us up.

2345
02:05:17,680 --> 02:05:20,600
Speaker 1: I prefer the the roller coaster analogy, where you're up

2346
02:05:20,640 --> 02:05:22,440
Speaker 1: at the top and then you drop and you and

2347
02:05:22,440 --> 02:05:25,000
Speaker 1: then you come back up. I feel better today. We're good.

2348
02:05:25,120 --> 02:05:28,240
Speaker 1: We're good. That's where I'm at. More like a bungee jump,

2349
02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:33,840
Speaker 1: right n from Jack on the tweet sheet. I've pushed

2350
02:05:33,880 --> 02:05:36,600
Speaker 1: all my chips in. The high of a win will

2351
02:05:36,640 --> 02:05:39,680
Speaker 1: be Mount Everest, and the low of a loss will

2352
02:05:39,720 --> 02:05:42,920
Speaker 1: be the Marianna Trench, which I actually know what that

2353
02:05:43,040 --> 02:05:47,760
Speaker 1: is thanks to my son and his ridiculous knowledge about oceanography. Um,

2354
02:05:48,280 --> 02:05:51,680
Speaker 1: what more could I ask for as a fan? Right? Yeah?

2355
02:05:51,680 --> 02:05:53,760
Speaker 1: The Marianna Trench for those that don't know, is that

2356
02:05:53,800 --> 02:05:56,760
Speaker 1: deep trench in the bottom of the supposed to be

2357
02:05:56,800 --> 02:05:59,840
Speaker 1: the deepest point on the Earth or something. It's the

2358
02:06:00,160 --> 02:06:02,880
Speaker 1: think I have that right. It's in the right off

2359
02:06:02,920 --> 02:06:06,040
Speaker 1: the coast of Japan. There you go get Steve no

2360
02:06:06,120 --> 02:06:08,640
Speaker 1: in the location I couldn't have even told you that. Yeah,

2361
02:06:08,720 --> 02:06:12,080
Speaker 1: yeah you are. You're coming up big on today's show Metronome,

2362
02:06:12,160 --> 02:06:15,960
Speaker 1: followed by the location you can't sleep at night you read. Okay,

2363
02:06:16,000 --> 02:06:17,920
Speaker 1: here we go. I'm a silent from Big Multi. I'm

2364
02:06:17,920 --> 02:06:20,120
Speaker 1: silently nervous. I hope all the hype on how they're

2365
02:06:20,120 --> 02:06:22,480
Speaker 1: gonna blitz and run isn't a disguise for them doing

2366
02:06:22,520 --> 02:06:25,480
Speaker 1: something completely different. All I want is Josh to go

2367
02:06:25,520 --> 02:06:27,880
Speaker 1: off and play cool as a cucumber. I did not

2368
02:06:28,000 --> 02:06:31,200
Speaker 1: like that he was sitting on the bench thinking get hyped,

2369
02:06:31,280 --> 02:06:35,760
Speaker 1: Go bills yep. One of our resident contributors to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet, Tiffany, She says, mild nerves going into Saturday.

2371
02:06:40,280 --> 02:06:41,840
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, no matter

2372
02:06:41,920 --> 02:06:43,920
Speaker 1: the outcome, as long as we play the style of

2373
02:06:43,920 --> 02:06:46,200
Speaker 1: football we've played all season, you can feel good no

2374
02:06:46,280 --> 02:06:49,480
Speaker 1: matter what. That being said, I'll ride with our boys

2375
02:06:49,640 --> 02:06:52,880
Speaker 1: all day every day. You always count on Tiffany to

2376
02:06:53,040 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 1: be the voice of reason, you know, Yeah, yeah, it's

2377
02:06:57,960 --> 02:07:01,200
Speaker 1: she's a calming influence for the show. You know. Sometimes

2378
02:07:01,240 --> 02:07:02,800
Speaker 1: you and I we get out on the fringes there

2379
02:07:02,800 --> 02:07:05,720
Speaker 1: and we're not in a good place, and uh, Tiffany

2380
02:07:05,760 --> 02:07:07,840
Speaker 1: always brings us. You know this. You know, at some

2381
02:07:07,880 --> 02:07:10,560
Speaker 1: point in this game, maybe a lot in this game,

2382
02:07:11,360 --> 02:07:13,160
Speaker 1: the Ravens are too good a team not to go

2383
02:07:13,400 --> 02:07:16,160
Speaker 1: to go quietly. They're gonna play, and they're gonna play

2384
02:07:16,200 --> 02:07:17,840
Speaker 1: well right to the end, and they're gonna play. It's

2385
02:07:17,840 --> 02:07:19,880
Speaker 1: gonna be a game you can kind of count on that.

2386
02:07:19,920 --> 02:07:23,000
Speaker 1: Even if your team plays their very best, they're not

2387
02:07:23,040 --> 02:07:25,560
Speaker 1: doing it in a vacuum, and the Ravens are gonna

2388
02:07:25,560 --> 02:07:27,240
Speaker 1: be able to do some things that they do very well.

2389
02:07:27,320 --> 02:07:29,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna nick you sometimes, and the Bills will have

2390
02:07:29,960 --> 02:07:32,400
Speaker 1: some plays against them. It's just the way these games go.

2391
02:07:33,240 --> 02:07:36,440
Speaker 1: The question is who you know, which guy or which

2392
02:07:36,480 --> 02:07:39,840
Speaker 1: team is gonna make either a catastrophic mistake. Maybe it's

2393
02:07:39,880 --> 02:07:41,760
Speaker 1: it's something in the first quarter or a second quarter,

2394
02:07:41,760 --> 02:07:44,200
Speaker 1: but you never recover or late in the game or

2395
02:07:44,240 --> 02:07:46,000
Speaker 1: all of that stuff where you don't have a chance

2396
02:07:46,040 --> 02:07:48,000
Speaker 1: to recover off of it. But there's gonna be some

2397
02:07:48,080 --> 02:07:52,160
Speaker 1: quirky plays in this game. You know, a fumble, tipped interception,

2398
02:07:52,320 --> 02:07:55,960
Speaker 1: a missed field goal, a doink like we saw last week.

2399
02:07:56,480 --> 02:07:59,200
Speaker 1: Those kind of plays happen, you know, fourth down stop,

2400
02:08:00,160 --> 02:08:02,160
Speaker 1: All of that stuff goes in here, and those are

2401
02:08:02,160 --> 02:08:04,760
Speaker 1: things you can anticipate that you gotta have a plan for,

2402
02:08:04,920 --> 02:08:07,120
Speaker 1: and your team's got to be ready to handle them

2403
02:08:07,120 --> 02:08:10,800
Speaker 1: emotionally and and come back from them if it goes

2404
02:08:10,960 --> 02:08:13,560
Speaker 1: doesn't go your way, and or to capitalize on them

2405
02:08:13,600 --> 02:08:16,120
Speaker 1: if it does go your way. So it's it's where

2406
02:08:16,160 --> 02:08:18,000
Speaker 1: we're at. You don't know how this is going to

2407
02:08:18,080 --> 02:08:20,880
Speaker 1: turn out, and you're and the angst that all the

2408
02:08:20,880 --> 02:08:24,800
Speaker 1: fans haven't rightfully so is you know, based on the

2409
02:08:24,880 --> 02:08:27,480
Speaker 1: unpredictability of the entire game. I think the one thing

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02:08:27,480 --> 02:08:30,080
Speaker 1: that we can say definitively, just knowing how these two

2411
02:08:30,080 --> 02:08:34,320
Speaker 1: teams are coached, whoever wins this game will have earned

2412
02:08:34,320 --> 02:08:36,800
Speaker 1: it because these two teams are gonna be at each

2413
02:08:36,840 --> 02:08:39,520
Speaker 1: other's throats for sixty minutes and there's going to be

2414
02:08:39,560 --> 02:08:42,600
Speaker 1: no let up on either side. That's just the way

2415
02:08:42,600 --> 02:08:45,040
Speaker 1: these two teams are coached by these two men, who both,

2416
02:08:45,080 --> 02:08:47,280
Speaker 1: by the way, come from the Andy Reid coaching tree.

2417
02:08:48,840 --> 02:08:51,880
Speaker 1: So imagine that Steve, the winner, if the Chiefs win

2418
02:08:53,120 --> 02:08:57,600
Speaker 1: the AFC title, will be somebody from the Andy Reid

2419
02:08:57,680 --> 02:09:01,120
Speaker 1: coaching tree either Andy Reid himself were one of his disciples.

2420
02:09:01,520 --> 02:09:04,640
Speaker 1: So kind of a cool deal if you think about it.

2421
02:09:04,680 --> 02:09:08,200
Speaker 1: From Ralph on the tweet sheet, people gushing over Lamar

2422
02:09:08,280 --> 02:09:11,480
Speaker 1: and the Ravens may be failing to recognize they have

2423
02:09:11,560 --> 02:09:14,800
Speaker 1: the last ranked pass game in the NFL. Not to mention,

2424
02:09:15,200 --> 02:09:17,800
Speaker 1: Josh and the Bill's offense is completely different from the

2425
02:09:17,800 --> 02:09:21,040
Speaker 1: one that struggled Week fourteen last season. Dabl and Alan

2426
02:09:21,120 --> 02:09:24,400
Speaker 1: worked well against man coverage this year. Bill's thirty four

2427
02:09:24,440 --> 02:09:28,720
Speaker 1: to seventeen. I will say this the man coverage for

2428
02:09:29,040 --> 02:09:31,720
Speaker 1: the Ravens, which they don't seem shy in playing even

2429
02:09:31,760 --> 02:09:36,120
Speaker 1: against an offense like this. Marcus Peters is a chance taker,

2430
02:09:37,480 --> 02:09:40,879
Speaker 1: big time chance taker. Sometimes it works to the Ravens benefit,

2431
02:09:41,240 --> 02:09:43,640
Speaker 1: sometimes it works to the detriment. He's given up five

2432
02:09:43,720 --> 02:09:47,600
Speaker 1: touchdowns through the air this year. Now we also has

2433
02:09:47,680 --> 02:09:50,120
Speaker 1: four interceptions, so you see the fine line that he

2434
02:09:50,160 --> 02:09:53,560
Speaker 1: does walk. But there could be opportunities against him, in

2435
02:09:53,640 --> 02:09:56,400
Speaker 1: particular because he is more of a chance taker. While

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02:09:56,400 --> 02:09:59,040
Speaker 1: Marlon Humphrey kind of plays it closer to the vest,

2437
02:09:59,520 --> 02:10:03,400
Speaker 1: plays a physical game to try to win. Marcus Peters

2438
02:10:03,520 --> 02:10:06,040
Speaker 1: is a dice roller. He is a dice roller, and

2439
02:10:06,160 --> 02:10:09,120
Speaker 1: if you if you play discipline football against him, you

2440
02:10:09,120 --> 02:10:12,920
Speaker 1: could have opportunities to make big plays. Discipline is the

2441
02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:16,840
Speaker 1: key everywhere, particularly for the Bills. I think not only

2442
02:10:16,880 --> 02:10:20,280
Speaker 1: in route running on the outside with the receivers getting

2443
02:10:20,280 --> 02:10:23,200
Speaker 1: open that because against man coverage, particularly physical man coverage,

2444
02:10:23,200 --> 02:10:26,880
Speaker 1: you've got to really work hard to get your routes

2445
02:10:26,920 --> 02:10:29,400
Speaker 1: in the way they're supposed to get in the timing right.

2446
02:10:29,440 --> 02:10:31,880
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things reasons being physical is

2447
02:10:31,880 --> 02:10:34,120
Speaker 1: always such a plus for a defense because it throws

2448
02:10:34,160 --> 02:10:35,960
Speaker 1: the timing of it off. So even if the guy

2449
02:10:36,040 --> 02:10:39,920
Speaker 1: does get open, it's too late right up front, because

2450
02:10:39,920 --> 02:10:41,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback looked at him, he was all tied up,

2451
02:10:41,800 --> 02:10:44,120
Speaker 1: and the play was blown. He has to go to

2452
02:10:44,120 --> 02:10:46,240
Speaker 1: a second read. So even if if the guy comes open,

2453
02:10:46,280 --> 02:10:48,840
Speaker 1: he comes open too late, or he doesn't get open

2454
02:10:48,880 --> 02:10:51,600
Speaker 1: at all. And like I've said before, the officials in

2455
02:10:51,640 --> 02:10:54,280
Speaker 1: these playoff games at this level, they just get tired

2456
02:10:54,320 --> 02:10:57,000
Speaker 1: of throwing flags and there. They don't want to be

2457
02:10:57,120 --> 02:10:59,920
Speaker 1: that guy that has a soft penalty call that decides

2458
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:03,320
Speaker 1: a game or decides a series or whatever. So the

2459
02:11:03,320 --> 02:11:07,480
Speaker 1: physical team usually always has the advantage because the officials

2460
02:11:07,520 --> 02:11:10,520
Speaker 1: just don't have the courage to do their job, and

2461
02:11:10,600 --> 02:11:14,360
Speaker 1: so they it's as long as they're consistent, you get

2462
02:11:14,360 --> 02:11:15,760
Speaker 1: a handle on it, you can kind of do it.

2463
02:11:15,760 --> 02:11:17,800
Speaker 1: Whether you're that way or whether the physicality is there

2464
02:11:17,880 --> 02:11:19,400
Speaker 1: or not. You can adjust, you can adjust to it

2465
02:11:19,440 --> 02:11:20,760
Speaker 1: on the fly, as long as they do it the

2466
02:11:20,800 --> 02:11:23,000
Speaker 1: same both ways. But for the Bills, they need to,

2467
02:11:23,080 --> 02:11:24,600
Speaker 1: you know, they need to know that that's kind of

2468
02:11:24,720 --> 02:11:26,400
Speaker 1: going to be part of the part of the package.

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02:11:26,440 --> 02:11:28,560
Speaker 1: This week. I think Rachel, who will be our final

2470
02:11:28,600 --> 02:11:31,360
Speaker 1: comment on the tweet sheet encapsulate the Bills fan base

2471
02:11:31,800 --> 02:11:35,600
Speaker 1: pretty accurately. This game is the definition of a coin flip.

2472
02:11:35,840 --> 02:11:38,360
Speaker 1: But I actually feel better coming off a close win

2473
02:11:38,800 --> 02:11:41,160
Speaker 1: than I would have if we had dominated the Colts.

2474
02:11:41,400 --> 02:11:43,880
Speaker 1: The adversity it was good for us. Or maybe I'm

2475
02:11:43,880 --> 02:11:47,280
Speaker 1: just trying to convince myself of that. That is where

2476
02:11:48,400 --> 02:11:52,760
Speaker 1: convince myself on the fence. It can't be that good. Yeah,

2477
02:11:53,240 --> 02:11:55,040
Speaker 1: all right, that'll do it for the tweet sheet. That'll

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02:11:55,040 --> 02:11:56,720
Speaker 1: do it for this segment. Steve and I close it

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02:11:56,800 --> 02:11:59,320
Speaker 1: up next Here on a Thursday edition of One Bill's Live,

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02:11:59,360 --> 02:12:01,600
Speaker 1: presented by a Lot of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

2481
02:12:15,840 --> 02:12:18,960
Speaker 1: Welcome back time for what have we learned from today's show?

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02:12:19,040 --> 02:12:22,240
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

2483
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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. And if anything, Steve, we

2484
02:12:25,480 --> 02:12:28,760
Speaker 1: learned that the nervous energy is alive and well out

2485
02:12:28,760 --> 02:12:32,320
Speaker 1: there amongst Bills mafia. Well, I think everybody's smart enough

2486
02:12:32,320 --> 02:12:33,720
Speaker 1: to know you don't get to this level of the

2487
02:12:33,760 --> 02:12:36,120
Speaker 1: playoffs without you're not gonna that you're not going to

2488
02:12:36,160 --> 02:12:39,480
Speaker 1: meet a really good team. And this Ravens team fits

2489
02:12:39,520 --> 02:12:41,760
Speaker 1: all of those They're coming in playing well, playing hot.

2490
02:12:42,960 --> 02:12:45,880
Speaker 1: They're a unique, neatly skilled team, one that you don't

2491
02:12:45,920 --> 02:12:48,520
Speaker 1: match up that well against. And it's gonna be like

2492
02:12:48,560 --> 02:12:52,320
Speaker 1: one of those games where it's gonna be four quarters

2493
02:12:52,360 --> 02:12:55,960
Speaker 1: of real, real tension and back and forth. I think

2494
02:12:55,960 --> 02:12:57,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun to play, and

2495
02:12:57,360 --> 02:12:59,160
Speaker 1: it's it's impossible. I think this game is going to

2496
02:12:59,200 --> 02:13:02,440
Speaker 1: be a runaway on either side with the way this

2497
02:13:02,600 --> 02:13:06,360
Speaker 1: season is played out. YEP. The last injury report of

2498
02:13:06,360 --> 02:13:08,600
Speaker 1: the week should be out later today. Stay tuned to

2499
02:13:08,600 --> 02:13:12,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot com for that, along with any updates

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02:13:12,520 --> 02:13:16,960
Speaker 1: coming between now and kickoff. There is some updates out

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02:13:17,040 --> 02:13:19,800
Speaker 1: West for the Rams, who have to play the Packers

2502
02:13:19,800 --> 02:13:23,120
Speaker 1: this week in the divisional round. Sean McVay has ruled

2503
02:13:23,160 --> 02:13:27,200
Speaker 1: out quarterback John Wolford or Wolford with the neck injury,

2504
02:13:27,280 --> 02:13:30,640
Speaker 1: he's not available, so it will be Jared goff starting.

2505
02:13:30,800 --> 02:13:33,920
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles will back him up, and that'll be the

2506
02:13:34,000 --> 02:13:36,720
Speaker 1: quarterback situation for the Rams as they go into their

2507
02:13:36,760 --> 02:13:39,120
Speaker 1: game with the Packers. Goffs still getting over that thumb

2508
02:13:39,200 --> 02:13:44,920
Speaker 1: injury that required surgery. Big Friday show for you to

2509
02:13:45,040 --> 02:13:48,600
Speaker 1: get amped up for the Saturday night Divisional game between

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Speaker 1: Steve and I back tomorrow. Don't you dare miss it.

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