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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Wednesday. Welcome to one Bill's Drive. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to newer Afield. That's the if you're watching on MSG,

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Speaker 1: that's the shot of the stadium. An they're gray, cloudy,

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Speaker 1: Can we just tape that and I'll say that every

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Speaker 1: day from now unto the middle of April. Just once again,

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Speaker 1: the sky looks just like a white non existent Yeah,

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Speaker 1: are they testing the sound? A party? Women invited to?

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Speaker 1: No right, something was going on inside newer Field there

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Speaker 1: this morning with music curious Steven Spasso just entertaining himself.

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Speaker 1: Maybe over there he's kind of a all alone over there.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the shows. We're We're here until three o'clock.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker here in our one Buffalo studio.

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Speaker 1: The Bills are assembling as we speak out on the

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Speaker 1: practice field on the other side of the wall right

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Speaker 1: over there, the at Pro Sports Training Center. We're going

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Speaker 1: to check in with Chris Brown in about thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: as they hit the practice field and begin to work

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Speaker 1: out for this week's game against the Detroit Lions. Lions

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Speaker 1: are a funny team, Steve. I spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time with them, not with them, but on them last

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Speaker 1: night and early this morning. And a lot of unfamiliar names.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that I gotta tell you, I

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Speaker 1: They just lost a Ziggy Onsa for the season. He

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Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay in his second year. A funny team to

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Speaker 1: have only five wins. It's because you don't quite know

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Speaker 1: And it's it's that's what happened, and happens with the

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Speaker 1: you know he's from up state New York, right down

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Speaker 1: You have better ideas, other ideas that you can incorporate

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Speaker 1: in top five and a lot of different no matter

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Speaker 1: how you slice it. Now they are twentieth in points allowed,

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Speaker 1: which people are saying, well, godli you know that's the

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Speaker 1: only statistic that matters. Well kind of is. But when

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Speaker 1: you got to take into account the last week, they

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Speaker 1: got put first in goal on the five without ever

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Speaker 1: having anything to do with it. Right, So there's that

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Speaker 1: have a Twitter. Now, it's funny, but I gotta we

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Speaker 1: gotta remind me to tell you something about Twitter polls.

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Speaker 1: But maybe should be a Twitter. But would you rather

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Speaker 1: have the number one offense or the number one defense

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Speaker 1: in the league? Offense? Right right? And that's not today's

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll. Here's how we get today's. And this somebody

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Speaker 1: notification on Twitter, and we do read those sometimes as

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Speaker 1: long as they're not offensive. Two for Tripping tweeted this

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Speaker 1: in yesterday One Bill's Life. Please stop referring to the

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Speaker 1: Bills defense is number one. No team wins games by

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Speaker 1: yardage too many twenty five point games to allow them

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Speaker 1: to stick out their chests when two hundred yards a

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Speaker 1: game allowed keeps points off the board. You got something

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Speaker 1: good point two for tripping. They are the number one defense.

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Speaker 1: I will stick with that. And look, there's there's a

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Speaker 1: million different ways to measure how good your team is.

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Speaker 1: Yards allowed, yards gained. I mean that's listen. They're number

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Speaker 1: one in the league and number one in yard yards allowed,

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Speaker 1: were also number one in yards passing aloud in a

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Speaker 1: passing lead their number one. They're the hardest team to

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Speaker 1: throw against. And the one and the one statistic that

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Speaker 1: successful they make your team is the one thing that

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Speaker 1: it's hard for a defense to take credit for, and

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Speaker 1: that's turnovers. There's so much that goes into turnovers. They

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Speaker 1: don't have anything to do with your defense. Certainly, you've

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Speaker 1: got a guy guys who are focused on the ball

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Speaker 1: getting it, putting their helmet on the ball when they tackle,

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Speaker 1: or ripping it out with their hands, or tipping passes,

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Speaker 1: intercepting passes. But it's unpredictable because so much of it

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Speaker 1: and I've said it before a ton of times about

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Speaker 1: that team last year, that the Bills team that went

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs last year. It was all about that

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Speaker 1: engine of turnovers that they generated last year that drove

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Speaker 1: them to a fast start and let them hang on

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Speaker 1: all about turnovers. That's the number one statistic other than

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Speaker 1: points allowed. But it's unpredictable. It's not like so much.

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Speaker 1: It's all about the defense, and all of it is

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Speaker 1: about the offense and their and their ball, their respect

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Speaker 1: for the ball in their own hands. So but you

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Speaker 1: look at the Bills defense, it is a good defense.

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Speaker 1: It's very solid, not spectacular like last year. Like last

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Speaker 1: year's defense was more spectacular that picks and fumbles and

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Speaker 1: big plays all over the place. But this is a

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Speaker 1: much more solid defense. But it doesn't feel as spectacular.

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Speaker 1: I mean, two for tripping in his tweet makes a

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Speaker 1: valid point. I mean, the Bills gave up forty seven

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Speaker 1: to Baltimore in the opening and they gave up thirty

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Speaker 1: one to the Chargers the following week, seven points in

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Speaker 1: the loss at Indianapolis, forty one points losing to Chicago,

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Speaker 1: good point. You know they're given up too many points

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Speaker 1: twenty seven to the Jets. The lowly Jets this past Sunday,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven points allowed. Good point. So here's our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll for today, and we want to get your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on this. The Buffalo Bills are quietly the top ranked

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Speaker 1: defense and yards allowed in the NFL. That's a fact.

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Speaker 1: They've given a few yardage per game than any team

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. That makes them the number one defense

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. But here's the question and the two

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Speaker 1: for tripping. If you'd like to respond via Twitter or

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Speaker 1: the phones, we'd like to air from you. What does

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Speaker 1: the Bills defense need to do better? So, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: get it. They're number one in points allowed or in

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Speaker 1: yards allowed, the number twenty in points allowed this year?

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Speaker 1: What do they need to do to do better? You

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Speaker 1: can vote on our Twitter poll. You can respond on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at one Bills we have. You can call us

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Speaker 1: something we can discuss eight oh three oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: five fifty What does the Buffalo defense need to do

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Speaker 1: to get better? On Twitter? People voting five hundred respondents

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Speaker 1: so far, forty eight scent say they need to create

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Speaker 1: more turnovers? Right, who doesn't want more turnovers? Twenty five

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Speaker 1: percent say more stops in the red zone. They've had

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Speaker 1: an issue with that the last couple of weeks. Twenty

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Speaker 1: one percent say they need to limit points allowed. Six

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Speaker 1: percent have something else in mind. Let's know what you think.

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Speaker 1: The Bills quietly top ranked defense in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: yards allowed, But what can they do better? What do

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Speaker 1: you want them to do better? Give us a call

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

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty, or vote on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I would vote for. I think

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Speaker 1: I would vote for limit points allowed, Steve, no matter

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Speaker 1: what it takes. Yeah, I think that's it. Now. Turnovers

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Speaker 1: are more fun, and they also set you up. They

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Speaker 1: do take away opportunities to score from your offense, and

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Speaker 1: I think that kind of kills two of those choices

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Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll with one stone, and it gives

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Speaker 1: an opportunity back to you. But you know, it's all

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Speaker 1: about points. I mean, it's all about points, and that

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinators will tell you that, defensive players will tell

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Speaker 1: you about Jim Schwartz to say that it's true, and

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Speaker 1: it is true. But ultimately you just want to keep

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Speaker 1: them off the scoreboard. They can keep the ball all

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Speaker 1: they want, as long as they don't score points with it,

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Speaker 1: particularly when you've got an offense that can score points.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's an interesting question, and it's kind of

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Speaker 1: what do you want to watch a defense that's stifling

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Speaker 1: or do you want to watch a defense that you

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Speaker 1: know lets them throw all over the field and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden they you know, you pick them off

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Speaker 1: and you're running around with an interception. It's a lot

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Speaker 1: more fun to watch that, I think than it is

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Speaker 1: some other defenses. But I think when he comes down

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Speaker 1: to winning games, I don't. I think winning games comes

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Speaker 1: down to turnovers. You got to give yourself extra possessions.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Give us a call? Eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. The Bills number one in defense

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's a fact. Number one in defense

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Speaker 1: and the way they rank defenses yards allowed. But what

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Speaker 1: can they do better? Let's hear from you. Give us

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Speaker 1: a call, let us know what you think. We come back.

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Speaker 1: We'll check in on practice. They should be getting set.

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Speaker 1: They begin to stretch an early warm up portion of

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Speaker 1: practice out on the at Pro Sports Training Center. Carpet

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Speaker 1: and we'll check in with Chris Brown in just a

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Speaker 1: moment on that. Come on back One Bill's Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. It is

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill Drive. I'm John Murphy.

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Speaker 1: This is Steve Tasker. We're here until three o'clock today.

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Speaker 1: We got Trimmy and Edmonds coming up after practice today.

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Speaker 1: We've got Thurman Thomas, perhaps you've heard of him. The

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer were joining us set to one o'clock today.

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Speaker 1: We got a pretty good We've got a chance at

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Speaker 1: a second and we're gonna check in with Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: at Bill's practice as soon as they open it up

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Speaker 1: to the media. And we got a pretty good topic

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Speaker 1: going as far as the defense. Yes, they are number

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Speaker 1: one defense, the Bills are, but I think all of

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Speaker 1: us feel like and I agree, there's more to be

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Speaker 1: done defensively. It's it's number one in yards allowed. Much

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Speaker 1: more to be done, and that is basically the topic

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Speaker 1: of our Twitter poll. We want to know from you

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Speaker 1: on Twitter and on the telephone line. Yes, the Bills

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Speaker 1: are number one in the NFL in yards allowed, but

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Speaker 1: what did they need to do better? Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight three fifty to three eight eight fifty two.

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Speaker 1: I think if you look around and you get a field,

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Speaker 1: and I'm without looking at statistics, but watching games on TV,

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Speaker 1: and you watch games and what they look like when

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Speaker 1: they're broadcast, and you watch those other games, like let's

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Speaker 1: get take the Chicago Bears. A couple of people have

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Speaker 1: mentioned how good you know, with Khalil Mack and getting

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Speaker 1: all that, and the and the Rams defense with and

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Speaker 1: Domin Coinsue and Aaron donald h and those great corners

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Speaker 1: that keep talib and Marcus Peters. They've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys out there. Those defenses are giving up yards,

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Speaker 1: but they make crucial plays at crucial times. You know,

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Speaker 1: they got a big pass rush, a sack, fumble, strip,

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Speaker 1: you know interceptions. Those are the kind of plays like

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Speaker 1: on a third down or a third and shorter in

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Speaker 1: the red zone where they batted around and pick it

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Speaker 1: off like the other night when the I think it

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Speaker 1: was the was it the Bears who picked off Jared

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Speaker 1: Goff in the red zone? Her No was a Seattle

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Speaker 1: Seahawks game. Russell Wilson was trying to make a throw

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Speaker 1: and he threw it into the arms of the opponent.

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Speaker 1: And they are in the red zone. So those are

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Speaker 1: the kind of plays that don't really that show up

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Speaker 1: put a lot of those blips on your score sheet,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, your defense looks unbelievable yep, when

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Speaker 1: in fact maybe they give up a ton of yards

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Those kind of plays are the ones that

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Speaker 1: splash and stick in your memory and make you think

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Speaker 1: you maybe have a better defense than what the statistics

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Speaker 1: tell you on the stat sheet. The Bills are number

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Speaker 1: one in yards allowed defensive yards allowed huis yards allowed.

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Speaker 1: The Bears are three, the Rams are nineteenth. Yeah, would

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Speaker 1: you trade places with the Rams defense? I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking just stats now, and I know the Rams got

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Speaker 1: that great one loss record, but they are thirty second

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Speaker 1: last in the league. And yards per rush they're eighteen,

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Speaker 1: They're eighteenth, and points allowed Bills are twentieth. Drap places

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Speaker 1: with the Rams defense. I don't know if I would.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's lost in the league, and I

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Speaker 1: have a lot of money. Yards per run and it's expensive.

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Speaker 1: It's a really really expensive defense. They get two lockdown

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Speaker 1: corners and two of the best defensive linemen in the league.

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Speaker 1: That's yeah, think about it. That's uh. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I would at this point. What do you think

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Speaker 1: if it's a call eight three fifty two three one

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo defense need to do better? We know their

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Speaker 1: number one in yards allowed, but they can get better.

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Speaker 1: I think we all acknowledge that trying to get better.

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Speaker 1: As we speak, practice is ongoing inside the ad Pro

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Speaker 1: Sports Training Center, and our man, Chris Brown, Bills Insider

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot Com, is to anybody to report on

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Speaker 1: practice for us for the next couple of minutes. Good afternoon, Chris,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here today. Yes, good to be

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Speaker 1: with you. I'm going to ask you the question we're

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Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts are practice Bills number one in

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Speaker 1: defensive the league, but how can they be better? What

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Speaker 1: do they need to do to be better this year?

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Speaker 1: I'm just bringing this on you. I know, red zone defense,

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Speaker 1: that's been a big problem lately. Especially it's the difference

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Speaker 1: in the game last week. You know, the Bills are

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Speaker 1: forty red zone touchdown percentage last week. I think they

639
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Speaker 1: went two of five, Jets go three of four, you know,

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Speaker 1: including at the end of the game there to win

641
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Speaker 1: by four points. And it was the same thing in

642
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Speaker 1: Miami against one of the worst red zone offenses in

643
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Speaker 1: football in the Miami Dolphins, who ranked thirty first going

644
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Speaker 1: into the game and red zone touchdown percentage. They went

645
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Speaker 1: three for three in the red zone in a twenty

646
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Speaker 1: one seventeen victory. So the Bills are outperforming their opponents

647
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Speaker 1: the last two weeks and a lot of categories, including

648
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Speaker 1: total yardage. But it's not meaning a hill of beans

649
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Speaker 1: in the end because the other team is more effective

650
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Speaker 1: in the red area and they're putting points on the

651
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: board touchdowns chiefly instead of field goals. And it's not

652
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Speaker 1: like the Bills have languished at the bottom of the

653
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Speaker 1: league in that category, but they're certainly in the bottom

654
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Speaker 1: third to bottom quarter and they net they just haven't

655
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Speaker 1: been able to climb out of the bottom half for

656
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Speaker 1: the league through the balance of the season. Well, there

657
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Speaker 1: you go. That's one of our choices was more stops

658
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Speaker 1: in the red zone. One of the things we also

659
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Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about was for the first time

660
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Speaker 1: this year, I think injuries are kind of a concern

661
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: for the entire roster. They had to make some moves.

662
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: They brought to Keith Ford up from the practice squad.

663
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Speaker 1: What does the depth chart at running back look right

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Speaker 1: look like right now as you're watching practice, Well, Lashaw

665
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Speaker 1: McCoy is not practicing today, still trying to recover from

666
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Speaker 1: the hamstring injury. Chris Ivory is participating, but we should

667
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Speaker 1: mention that this is a non contact walk through practice today.

668
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: They're trying to take some hits off the bodies and contact.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're late in the season. This is when

670
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Speaker 1: legs start to get tired and dead. They feel extra

671
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: heavy this timing year, and the upper body has been

672
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: taking a lot of licks and last week. Guys, I

673
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Speaker 1: don't know what your opinion is, but I thought that

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Speaker 1: was one of the most physical games of the season

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Speaker 1: between the Jets and the Bills, and I think the

676
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Speaker 1: injury rate in that game was an indication of that

677
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Speaker 1: because both sides lost a handful of players through the

678
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Speaker 1: course of that game, key players, as we know with

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Speaker 1: the Bills, but even with the Jets, they lost some

680
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Speaker 1: pretty important players as well, including their starting running back

681
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Crowell, who went out with a foot injury. So

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Speaker 1: I think after a rock'em sock'em game like that here

683
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Speaker 1: in week fifteen, the coaching staff decided to not even

684
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Speaker 1: go with shells today. Usually Thursday's the big hitting day.

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Speaker 1: Nothing Today, It's going to be walked through from start

686
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Speaker 1: to finish pretty much. So Chris Ivory's participation today it

687
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Speaker 1: might be a little bit misguided in terms of trying

688
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Speaker 1: to ascertain if he's gonna be ready on Sunday with

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Speaker 1: that shoulder injury. Keith Ford, Yes, he's gonna be behind

690
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Speaker 1: Marcus Murphy. So in the absence of McCoy right now,

691
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Speaker 1: Ford is the three, Murphy's the two, Ivory's the one.

692
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Speaker 1: Whether that proves to be the pecking order on Sunday, obviously,

693
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Speaker 1: is going to be largely dependent on, you know, how

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Speaker 1: Ivory gets through the week. In addition to McCoy, Christ's

695
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about Keith Ford, an undrafted rookie

696
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M started his college career at Oklahoma,

697
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: a guy who had some flashes in preseason opened some eyes.

698
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Speaker 1: Some people thought he made a bid for a spout

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Speaker 1: on the fifty three because of his preseason gameplay. What

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Speaker 1: do you think him and what does he have to

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Speaker 1: offer this Buffalo running game. Yeah, I mean I thought

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Speaker 1: he put together a strong training camp, got better as

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Speaker 1: the preseason went on. A guy that really knows how

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Speaker 1: to run behind his pads five eleven, two hundred and

705
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Speaker 1: twenty pounds. But he's not just strictly a North South guy.

706
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Speaker 1: He's got a little wiggle to his game. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's not super elusive like a Lashawn McCoy, but for

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Speaker 1: a two hundred and twenty pound back, he can get

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Speaker 1: side to side, he can make a jump cut and

710
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Speaker 1: avoid a linebacker in the hole. And he's also I

711
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: think better than advertised as a receiver out of the backfield.

712
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Speaker 1: He's not elite by any means, but he's capable. So

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Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that has really, in the

714
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Speaker 1: words of Brian's able, put his nose to the grindstone

715
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Speaker 1: all season long on the practice squad, and coach McDermott

716
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Speaker 1: said it today, he's earned the right for the call up.

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Speaker 1: So if he needs to get pressed into action, I

718
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Speaker 1: think he'll do a good job. And you know, I

719
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Speaker 1: think once he gets to the second level he can

720
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Speaker 1: really turn that speed on. He's not a four four guy,

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Speaker 1: but he's probably somewhere in the mid four or fives.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he can move for a big guy, so

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of physical traits to like about his

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Speaker 1: running style, especially with the problems that this offensive line

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Speaker 1: has had. I would classify him more in the mold

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Speaker 1: of a Chris Ivory type runner, you know, than Olashan

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Speaker 1: McCoy make your miss type runner. Yeah. One of the

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Speaker 1: things they mentioned, both Brian day Bole and head coach

729
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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, they both gushed about how hard Keith Ford

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Speaker 1: has worked. And you know, when you've got guys in

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Speaker 1: your locker room that are really doing that, particularly the

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Speaker 1: guys that are just trying to get an opportunity, it's

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Speaker 1: I think that I don't think there's any question. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they hesitated at all getting saying that this

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Speaker 1: was the guy they were going to put in there.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like they were waiting for a chance almost. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And you know, they want to get a look at

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Speaker 1: it as many of these guys as they can in

739
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Speaker 1: a real game situation, and they'll maybe they'll have an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for Ford to do that this week. And speaking

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Speaker 1: of opportunities, we did notice that the rookie lineman Ike

742
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Speaker 1: Butker was lining up at right guard during the walkthrough,

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Speaker 1: So there's a very good chance he might not only

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Speaker 1: get an opportunity, but a start on Sunday as they

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Speaker 1: continue to look at some of these young players. Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown Bills inside a Buffalo Bills dot Com is on

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Speaker 1: the field covering today's light walk through type practice for

748
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Speaker 1: us for the Buffalo Bills as they get set forward

749
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. I don't know if they're out there

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Speaker 1: sometimes as specialists are not, but I'm trying to determine

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Speaker 1: what McDermott has in mind for Stephen house can no

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Speaker 1: practice today, but he anticipates he'll be ready. Yeah, he

753
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Speaker 1: seems pretty optimistic that comes Sunday, you know he'll be

754
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Speaker 1: fit to play because he was posed the question, do

755
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: you need to kind of keep an eye out on

756
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Speaker 1: the on the wire for a kicker to add to

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00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: the roster if you know House Good doesn't come around

758
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Speaker 1: from the hip injury. I think he's more sore than

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00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: he is injured with that hip, but it is on

760
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: his kicking legs side, and so operationally to practice, he's

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Speaker 1: not able to really do that in an effective fashion,

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Speaker 1: so sit him today, let him kind of get the

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Speaker 1: soreness out of his body. I would imagine he's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna be doing some stuff with the strength and conditioning staff.

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Speaker 1: He's actually walking out onto the field right now. I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't anticipate he's gonna be doing anything today.

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Speaker 1: They said he was going to rest today. So it's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of getting through the week here for him.

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Speaker 1: But all signs for them are appointing to him being,

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Speaker 1: you know, fine to go on Sunday Talk. I was

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Speaker 1: gonna ask you a little bit about Josh Allen and

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Speaker 1: what your take was and give us a little brief

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Speaker 1: summary of what you think the next step is for

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Speaker 1: him and against the Detroit Lions. I mean the Detroit Lions,

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Speaker 1: and they're not winning very many games. What's their defense

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Speaker 1: look like? I mean, Sean McDermott said today in his

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Speaker 1: press conference, they think they've got a feel on how

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Speaker 1: people are going to defend him. What does that mean? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's anticipating that most teams, if

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Speaker 1: they have a linebacker that's capable, they're going to spy

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Speaker 1: him just because of the rushing exploits that he's put

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Speaker 1: on tape the last three weeks. I mean, he's zoomed

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Speaker 1: to the top of the quarterback rushing list in the

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Speaker 1: span of three weeks, which is no easy task with

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Speaker 1: some of the running quarterbacks you have in this league.

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Speaker 1: And teams have sat up and taken notice. And if

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Speaker 1: you're a defensive coordinator that's going against Josh Allen, you

788
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: better have a spy plan of some kind that you're

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00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: ready to deploy if he's off and running again. I

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00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: will say this, I'm hopeful that Josh sits in the

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Speaker 1: pocket an extra half second this week and delivers, you know,

792
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: daggers that way rather than with his legs, and he

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00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: may have the opportunity to do that. Ziggy Onsa went

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00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: on injured reserve for the Detroit Lions yesterday. Suffered a

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Speaker 1: shoulder injury in last week's game. He had missed portions

796
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Speaker 1: of the season, already had just come back and now

797
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: is lost for the year. And he is, without question

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Speaker 1: their best pass rusher, and even his back back up,

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Speaker 1: DeShawn Hand is dealing with an injury as well, a

800
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Speaker 1: knee injury I believe. So the Lions are every bit

801
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: as banged up as the Bills, if not more, and

802
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: they've already lost some key players this season who are

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Speaker 1: already on injured reserve. Marvin Jones maybe the most notable

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Speaker 1: among them, their wide receivers, So they are they are

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Speaker 1: operating at a deficient level as well in terms of bodies,

806
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: much like the Bills are. Chris, I have another Josh

807
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Speaker 1: Allen question for you, but before I get to that,

808
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: just for those watching on the MSG and saying, what's

809
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: up with the Christmas uniforms? The Bills are wearing red

810
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: this Sunday, right, and so the non contact jersies are green,

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Speaker 1: and it looks like it's like a Christmas scene out

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00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: there at practice today. Well, yeah, we can be festive

813
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: when we need to be. But I would say I

814
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: would say more it's an indication of yeah, they are

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Speaker 1: probably where they are wearing red on Sunday, but also

816
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,720
Speaker 1: maybe to reemphasize the non contact nature of practice today.

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00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,479
Speaker 1: Gotcha could perhaps play a part in that too. Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen question. I was fascinated by this. We had the

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Speaker 1: SoundBite on first half hour and it's not surprised but

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00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott was asked the question, you have veteran leaders

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Speaker 1: on defense, everybody knows Kyle Williams, Lorenzo Alexander, who's your

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Speaker 1: leader on offense. He didn't hesitate, he said, Josh, Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad he answered it that way. But what did

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Speaker 1: you make of that response him? What do you think

825
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: that signifies? Well, I think it signifies that now here

826
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Speaker 1: in the closing weeks of his rookie season, he has

827
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Speaker 1: asserted himself into that role. And that's a very delicate

828
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: thing for a rookie quarterback who is starting, because you

829
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Speaker 1: don't want to walk in like the big man on

830
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Speaker 1: campus because you've accomplished nothing on the field. You can't

831
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Speaker 1: just walk in and say, hey, you're gonna listen to

832
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Speaker 1: me and you're gonna do this, and you're gonna do that,

833
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: and this is the way we're gonna do things. You

834
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Speaker 1: kind of have to feel your way through that. And

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Speaker 1: from all the feedback I've gotten from the players in

836
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: the locker room, especially on the offensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: Josh handled it the right way. He came in. He

838
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,919
Speaker 1: worked hard, He earned respect through his work ethic, through

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Speaker 1: his competitive nature on the field. You know, whether it's

840
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: leap frog and a linebacker in Minnesota to get a

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00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: first down or doing something else. He's gone the extra

842
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: mile in terms of performance. Now that he's made some

843
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: of those plays to help put this team in position

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Speaker 1: to win, it's earned him the respect where he can

845
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Speaker 1: now take on a little bit more of a vocal

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Speaker 1: leadership role. And it's showing itself now, all right, Chris,

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Speaker 1: Thanks christ Chris Brown, Bills inside a Buffalo Bills dot

848
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Speaker 1: Com on the field of practice with the Bills right now.

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Speaker 1: Nothing nothing says leadership like playing good. You know, I

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Speaker 1: mean really, um you you get what you earn. And

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00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: that's why it takes even great rookies time to become

852
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: a voice. And I think he's right. I think at

853
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: this early stage, Josh has earned his voice inside the

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00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: inside the locker room and guys, uh, I think the way,

855
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: for lack of a better way to say it, when

856
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: he has something to say, guys will shut up and listen,

857
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: and that's that's hard to do as a young player.

858
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: More on Josh Allen, More on the defense. Your comments

859
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: on the defense? They're number one in the NFL. What

860
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: do they need to do to be better this year?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight oh three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two, five fifty Steve,

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Speaker 1: and I'm back with more One Goes Live from One

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Speaker 1: Goes Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Goes Live. Gen Ropy Steve Tasker. He's on Doctor

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Speaker 1: Pepper number two. I believe, ladies and gentlemen, you're worn?

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Speaker 1: Is that number two? Technically it is, but I just

868
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: opened it and I haven't really forty five minutes into

869
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: the show, he's on the second Doctor Pepper. He hit it.

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Speaker 1: I knew one of our size Tim Horton's coffee about

871
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: an hour and a half ago. Not giant. It's stick around.

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Speaker 1: You want to come back for the two o'clock hour

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00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: when Steve it gets when it kicks in. Yeah, I

874
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: was starting to kick in in there in between the

875
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,479
Speaker 1: break when we started talking about paying college athletes. Yeah,

876
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: we're not. That's a that's I am. Yeah, let's not

877
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: get to that, all right. We're four one. He's two

878
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: Doctor Peppers and a giant coffee and do the show already.

879
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in. Vard Thomas coming up at one

880
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: o'clock today. We're gonna have Tremaine Edmonds coming by after

881
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: practicing today. We want to hear from you. This is

882
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Speaker 1: your time. Buffalo defense ranked number one in yards allowed

883
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Number one ranked defense in the NFL.

884
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: That's how they rank them. We didn't make that role,

885
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: but that's how they rank them. And somebody tweeted in

886
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: and said, hey, you can't talk about it being the

887
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: number one defense when they give us that many points.

888
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: Valid point. I don't necessarily agree, but I think it's

889
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: a valid point. What do they need to do to

890
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: get better? This Buffalo defense ranked number one? A couple

891
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 1: of calls on this, we have Travis and Albany. Go ahead, Travis,

892
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: you're on the air, Travis, gentlemen, Yes, I think I

893
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: think we need to put more pressure on a quarterback.

894
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: I think if we look up sacks, we're probably at

895
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: the bottom of the league. I know Jerry Hugh is

896
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: having an awesome year. They're right in the middle of

897
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: sixteenth ranked in sacks per play, profess sixteenth rate of

898
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: middle Yeah, so I think our secondary can probably hold

899
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Speaker 1: their own if we put more pressure on a quarterback.

900
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: I think we get the quarterback too much time, which

901
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: of course translate some points. I know I resional defenses,

902
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: it's questionable, but I think more pressure on a quarterback.

903
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: More blitzes, Yeah, I think we'll do better. We had

904
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: a caller yesterday that said they didn't blitz enough, and

905
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: they haven't blitzed very much over the course of the season.

906
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: I think last yesterday, yesterday Sunday against the Jets, I

907
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: heard somebody make the observation. I hadn't really thought about it,

908
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: but I think they were right. The ball was coming

909
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: out on time from Sam Darnald. He was getting rid

910
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: of it, whether it was good or bad, or whether

911
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: it was complete or not. He didn't hang around very

912
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: much and have the ball too much. And he did

913
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: have the one play to Robbie Anderson where he ran

914
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: all over you know that half of the field came

915
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: back and found him late. That was a great play

916
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: by Darnald in that situation. But you know, some of

917
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks and a little bit of it is game

918
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: plan where particularly with Darnald, hard to get pressure on

919
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: a guy when the ball has already been through own

920
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: as well. So I don't remember them forcing or you know,

921
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,959
Speaker 1: pressing the ball down the field a lot in that game.

922
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: You remember the last play over the top that they

923
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Speaker 1: got in the last minute and a half of the game.

924
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: That kind of meant the difference. That was a that's

925
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: a tough play for the Bill's defense. But for the

926
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Speaker 1: most part, I don't know that there was a lot

927
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: of chance to get a lot of pressure. But I

928
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: agree with you, middle of the pack, you'd like to

929
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: be better than that. There's a call from John on

930
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Speaker 1: a cell phone. Hello, John, go ahead, you're on the air,

931
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Speaker 1: any guys, Thanks for taking a call. I guys agree

932
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Speaker 1: with Travis, you know. I mean, it's I've seen games

933
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: with these with this defense is really made havoc to

934
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, and then this seems like when they catch

935
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a lead, they kind of like,

936
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Speaker 1: you know, they kind of take a step back, almost

937
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: going to like a pre event with what they're trying

938
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Speaker 1: to do. And I just think, if you keep your

939
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Speaker 1: foot on the gas and do what's been working for you,

940
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Speaker 1: or I say, get after the quarterback like Travish talking

941
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Speaker 1: him out, I think, you know, bigger things can happen. Yeah,

942
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good observation, John. Sometimes sometimes it

943
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: doesn't have much to do with the coaching as it

944
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: does with the players on the field. I'll give you

945
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Speaker 1: an example. A couple of examples. That first Jet game

946
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: in New York, the Jets came out thinking the Bills stunk.

947
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: They didn't show up very much, and the Bills hit

948
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Speaker 1: him in the mouth and didn't stop, and they beat

949
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Speaker 1: him forty one ten. This last weekend, the Bills beat

950
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: him forty one to ten, and the Jets came out

951
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,240
Speaker 1: and even, and the Bills got out on them again.

952
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: And then you can see it. They got a fourteen

953
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: point lead, or fourteen to three lead on a team

954
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 1: they'd already beaten by thirty one points, and you could

955
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: just feel their defense take a deep breath, and that's

956
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: all it takes. It doesn't have anything to do with

957
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: It doesn't have anything to do with Leslie Frazier or

958
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott or anything else. Your defense thinks, you know what,

959
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: we beat these guys by thirty one a month ago.

960
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: They ain't gonna beat us. We're up fourteen to three,

961
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: and we got the number one yards defense in the league,

962
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: and they take a deep breath, and all of a sudden,

963
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: that's all it takes. I'm telling you, it doesn't take

964
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: anything more than that, and all of a sudden, the

965
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Speaker 1: Jets are back in it. Fourteen seventeen or thirteen seventeen

966
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: and playing like Gangbusters. That's and I see what you're seeing.

967
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. But at the emotional end

968
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: of it is what I'm telling you when they beat

969
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: him by thirty one, got up by a couple of

970
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: touchdowns or more than a touchdown, and they just took

971
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: a deep breath and before they could switch it back

972
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: on the Jets, the Jets were right back in it.

973
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Speaker 1: What do you think, what does the Bill's defense need

974
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: to do to be better? There? Number one in the league,

975
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: but certainly room for improvement on the tweet sheet from

976
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: Tom Spence In my opinion, last year, more often last

977
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: year when the stop was needed, we got it, even

978
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: with inferior overall defense Atlanta in Kansas City right away

979
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: come to mind is games where we needed to stop

980
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: and the defense made it. While this year's group is better,

981
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: there is that isn't there, and we're sorely needed in

982
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,439
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. I guess he's talking about

983
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: timely defense. Defense at crunch time. Okay, that's fair enough.

984
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 1: That's kind of what we were talking about a last segment.

985
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: You know, your defense looks spectacular and feels different when

986
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,760
Speaker 1: you get the key sack or a key tipped pass,

987
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: or a turnover or a stop for no gain or

988
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: a tackle for a loss at the just that right time,

989
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: your defense seems like, Wow, that was awesome. They're great. Well,

990
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: you know, they might have they might not. They might

991
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: be given up a lot of yards or doing some

992
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: other things that aren't so good. But in those crucial

993
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: situations and you make a play like that, it makes

994
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: you seem like, hey, everything's good. Last year, that's kind

995
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: of where the defense was, I think, right, Murph. I

996
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: mean they were getting turnovers handlessly. They were getting turnovers

997
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: by the hand first half last year, especially by the handful.

998
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's right. He's there's a lot to be

999
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: said for what your defense feels like rather than the statistics. Yeah,

1000
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: there's another one from the tweet sheet, and I think, yeah,

1001
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: from the guy named Jello. You didn't read this one,

1002
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: did you. Nope? The only thing that really matters is

1003
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: points allout. Of course, turnovers are nice, but the defense

1004
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 1: is there ultimately to stop the opposing offense anyway it can.

1005
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: If it gives up ninety nine yards on every drive,

1006
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: never gives up a point, you're gonna win a lot

1007
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: of games. Yeah, there's something to be said for that.

1008
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: And we've talked about how what that delicate balance is

1009
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: between looking spectacular and giving up what you need to

1010
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: give up and then keeping them off the board, or

1011
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: getting turnovers and giving your offense even more opportunities to

1012
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: score and get a bigger dip point differential over the

1013
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: course of the season. But I think I've said this

1014
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: for a while. It used to be, and we all

1015
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: heard it, NFL defense was about run and stop the run.

1016
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: Well not really, not anymore. It's about getting after the

1017
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: quarterback and turnovers. To me, that's what the that's what

1018
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,240
Speaker 1: defense has if devolved or not devolved, or evolved into

1019
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,760
Speaker 1: whichever direction you think it's headed. And I think defense

1020
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: in the NFL is about getting after the quarterback and

1021
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: getting turnovers. You can't touch the receivers anywhere on the field.

1022
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: You can't you can't hit anybody hard enough to do

1023
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: any damage anymore. I mean, you know, so it's about

1024
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: really getting after the quarterback and forcing turnovers, and those

1025
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: two things, you know, or the center of every ripple

1026
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: effect that happens over the course of the game for

1027
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: your defense good or bad? YEP, talk more about this

1028
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: is the afternoon goes along. It was a question race,

1029
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: I think, a very intelligent question race about the Bills. Yes,

1030
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: they're number one in the defense and yards allowed. How

1031
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: good are they though? And can they be better? We'll

1032
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: talk about that as the show moves along. We'll talk

1033
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: about it with Thurman. Hall of Famer running back Thurman

1034
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: Thomas is scheduled to be in studio with us when

1035
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: we come back. A lot on the table with Thurman.

1036
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: We'll get in all to it when we return. You

1037
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: can phone in your questions and commentary him as well

1038
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas when we come back. One Bill's Live from

1039
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radiollow Bills Radio

1040
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: Network Stories update an update from One Bill's Drive. The

1041
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: Bill's practicing indoors the new era of training center as

1042
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: we speak, kind of a light walk through practice, no

1043
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: pads today. Sean McCoy not practicing at all with his

1044
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: hamstring string kicker Stephen Houskt not practicing with a back injury,

1045
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: but Sehn McDermot says he's confident he'll be ready to

1046
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: go on Sunday. Quarterback Eric Anderson limited. He remains in

1047
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 1: concussion protocol. Running Back Chris Ivory good to go Sunday.

1048
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: He is not on the pre practice injury list. Some

1049
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: roster moves for the Bills yesterday. They put linebacker Matt

1050
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: Milano and cornerback Taron Johnson on injured reserve, both with

1051
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 1: season ending surgeries. Two roster spots to fill, and the

1052
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Speaker 1: Bills filled them. They signed running back Keith Ford off

1053
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: of their practice squad, an undrafted rookie this past year

1054
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: out of Texas A and M. They also signed safety

1055
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: Dean Marlowe to the fifty three man roster. Marlowe spent

1056
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: some time on the active roster earlier this season, and

1057
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: the Bills added three players to their practice squad earlier

1058
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Speaker 1: today as well. Thursday Night Football Tonight, it's the Chargers

1059
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Speaker 1: in Kansas City and LA. Running Back Melvin Gordon says

1060
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: he expects a decision on whether he will play Thursday

1061
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: Night will wait until game time. He was listed as

1062
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: limited in their practice yesterday. He suffered a sprained right

1063
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: knee against the Arizona Cardinals that forced him to miss

1064
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,399
Speaker 1: the last two games. Now, Gordon says he's looking better,

1065
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: but he's not quite sure he'll be ready to play

1066
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: tomorrow night when the Chargers take on the Chiefs in

1067
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: a very important AFC West Division game tomorrow night. Sabers

1068
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: one last night, and Buffalo is now ten three and

1069
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: two at home this season. Last night, Buffalo got an

1070
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: overtime game winner from Jeff Skinner in a four to

1071
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: three victory over the Los Angeles King Sabers and a

1072
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: rally from a two goal deficit in the third period

1073
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: to do it. The third overtime goal of the season

1074
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: for Jeff Skinner, the fifth of his career. Buffalo now

1075
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: closes out the current four game homestand with a game

1076
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:33,720
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night at home against the Arizona Cardinals seven o'clock

1077
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: faceoff at the Key Bank Center and Baseball. The Baltimore

1078
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 1: Orioles will name Cuffs bench coach Brandon Hyde as their

1079
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: next manager. I'd replaces Buck Showalter, who has let go

1080
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: after the Orioles finished with just forty seven wins. That's

1081
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill Drive, John Murphy's team tasker,

1082
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 1: joined in studio by our buddy Thurman, Thomas the Bill's

1083
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame running back, and the Year of Thurman continues.

1084
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: What is seven wins by forty seven wins by the

1085
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles. That doesn't fly. What doesn't That bad? Should

1086
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: be bad, That should be more than a manager. There

1087
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: is that bad. It's horrible. You got an hundred sixty

1088
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: forty seven wins, one hundred fifteen losses and probably you

1089
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: know how many wins at home? Yeah, you know what? Yeah.

1090
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: The executive vice president Dan Duquette was also fired. Oh,

1091
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: he was so right. It make you feel better than

1092
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: another guy lost. He can't one guy can't take the

1093
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: whole fall of that, right, seven wins awesome. The Year

1094
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: of Thurman continues. We thought back in late October when

1095
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: your number was retired and they had the big parties

1096
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: and ceremonies, we kind of thought that would be it.

1097
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: We were wrong, was The Thurman celebration continues this week.

1098
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 1: It's amazing Thurman. Right, you missed out because you could

1099
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: have put together a whole two hour movie length documentary

1100
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 1: on this year. That's been It's been fun. Of course,

1101
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,720
Speaker 1: that's what we're I'm sorry, that's what we're going to tonight. Tonight,

1102
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: Steve and I are attending to currently with a lot

1103
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: of people at seven one six Food and Sports pre

1104
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: screening of A Football Life Thurman Thomas. Now, it's gonna

1105
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: air on NFL Network Friday night at eight o'clock, but

1106
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: at seven one six a pre screening tonight, free and

1107
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: open to the public, seven o'clock. Um, we're told that

1108
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 1: all tables are books bar seating on a first come,

1109
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,720
Speaker 1: first sir basis. Of course that what that leaves us with. Listen,

1110
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: if we if we circle down there and go around

1111
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: and you can't get near that place, just no, we

1112
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: were there, even if we weren't spirit even if we

1113
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: were there, even if we weren't there was like, yeah,

1114
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: we were there. We would be sure to find you

1115
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: in a spot. What if you saved us a spot

1116
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 1: in the little VIP room. I know you've got text Patty,

1117
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: I did any think about it. But see here's the thing.

1118
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: Words gotten now Now now my son wants to go.

1119
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: All right, now, everybody wants to go right because we're going.

1120
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: And but if you see the show, Patty says, we're

1121
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: always in a VIPs. Oh yeah, exactly, yeah yeah. Asked

1122
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: her if me and Murph were VIPs tonight, and she said,

1123
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: you guys are always vising if you get dressed up doing. No, No,

1124
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 1: I'm not getting drunk. You're all dressed up already. Yeah.

1125
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: I got another gig after this. Wow, that stinks to

1126
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: do you I had to come dressing like this. I

1127
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: would normally being my bills stuff. But I think these

1128
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: bills jackets. Have you seen the show of Football Life?

1129
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: Have you seen them? No? I have not seen it.

1130
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: I have not seen it first time went tonight that

1131
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: I'll be able to watch any of it? Is there

1132
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: any nerves associated with it? Very like gush? I hope

1133
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: it looks good, you know what I mean? Yeah? Absolutely,

1134
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It's kind of like the Four

1135
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,439
Speaker 1: Falls of Buffalo. You know. We wanted that to be,

1136
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: you know, not about you know, losing all four and

1137
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: just filling down all the time. You know. So you know,

1138
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: I talk to Paul, who y'all had on the should

1139
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: other day and said, no, it's not you know, it's

1140
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: gonna be about your life. You know, it's not gonna

1141
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: be about Yeah, we're gonna show some clips of you know,

1142
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: super Bowls or whatever, but that's not gonna be the

1143
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: main part of it. You know, this goes back to

1144
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: high school, college, you know, my mom, my dad, obviously,

1145
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: I don't know who they did interviewed him, so Bruce

1146
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: and Jim and everybody. So, you know, good to see

1147
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: a lot of the you know, Bill's players face again.

1148
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: You know what Paul Monusky the producers said to a switch,

1149
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't consider you said, because you were

1150
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: an only child. Your mom took pictures all the time,

1151
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: so he had a treasure trove. Thus, I mean most

1152
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,959
Speaker 1: people back then no cell phone cameras. Most people didn't

1153
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: have that many pictures in themselves. You had a lot.

1154
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: My mom has a lot. You know. She's always telling

1155
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: me and always uh saying, maybe you know the day

1156
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: did I leave. Boy, y'all got a lot of stuff

1157
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: to keep, a lot of stuff that's been uh it's

1158
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: in the attic right now, that store for you. So

1159
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 1: I was like, Mom, just it's not gonna happen for

1160
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 1: a while, so just just let it go. So, no,

1161
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: she's you know, when you have a mom who's every

1162
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: high school game, um, every college game. I mean she

1163
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: would come to It's not like not like we stayed

1164
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: home and gamed in the basement all the time. You're

1165
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: out of football game, championship game, this champiship game, nine

1166
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: you're going to big time college football games that she was.

1167
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: She was right. There's a lot of events. He was

1168
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 1: right there with me the whole time. That's awesome a

1169
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: football life, Thurman Thomas. Are they required to make it

1170
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 1: all positive? Do you think you have a lot of names?

1171
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 1: I wonder. I don't know. I wonder. I think there

1172
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: might be some negative in there. I don't know what

1173
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: I mean. I mean, if you really look at I mean,

1174
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 1: what the negative as well? They talked to me, so

1175
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: I know I got some of that in there. Yeah,

1176
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,919
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything bad. Yeah, you always tell your line. Yeah,

1177
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: I'm tired of saying what did you say? Uh, I'm

1178
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: tired of telling everybody how great you? Yeah? Right? Yeah,

1179
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 1: so on for a while now it happened somebody might

1180
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: want to flip somebody wine is winding down. So winding down.

1181
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: But you know what you're going to super you to

1182
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: do stuff here in Buffalo. That's yeah. That's my major thing,

1183
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: including you to help the people, including the thing Friday Night,

1184
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: the thing Friday Night whom I need your people to

1185
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: contact me about, you know, my my dealer Friday Night. Yeah,

1186
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: I think what they care about and by doing it

1187
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: means I'm now he's asking. No, I'm not asking. Yeah

1188
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: on the stack, No, I mean I gotta I got

1189
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,879
Speaker 1: things I gotta do, right, Okay, yeah, good, you all

1190
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: lined up and sitting ready to go. One more thing.

1191
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: I'll be there to help you. One more thing about

1192
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: a football life. And from our interview with the Paul

1193
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: Monusky yesterday, he said, what among the many things that

1194
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: he really liked was how embedded you are in this community.

1195
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: Now he's done what twelve or thirteen these, he's won

1196
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: ten Emmys for these, He said, rarely do you come

1197
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: across the player who is is just dugging deep in

1198
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: the community where he played. You are that guy, now,

1199
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: aren't you? Yeah? I am that guy? Yeah? Yeah, you know.

1200
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: I got something going on tomorrow, but I can't speak

1201
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: of it right now. So you're here about it tomorrow

1202
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: and probably say something about it on the show to

1203
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: what's going on? No, I can't I can't see run,

1204
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: Yeah I can't. No, No, I'm not running for anything.

1205
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: I am just trying to help on my on my

1206
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: part of helping the people in the inner city of Buffalo.

1207
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: But you you're here about all right? Where's that? Where's that?

1208
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: Gonna be there a press conference someplace. Um, I can't

1209
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: tell you. All right, all right, let's talk about no,

1210
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: no, no no, how we didn't talk about that. That's Friday Night.

1211
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: That's Friday Night, the eight tream I told you last week.

1212
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: I bought my tickets. We're all excited about going. My

1213
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: wife wants to know what you're cooking? What am I cooking?

1214
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: I have no idea what I'm cooking. I'll be sure.

1215
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: I'll have her a menu for I'll send you a

1216
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: screenshot at the menu because I have no idea what

1217
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: I'm cooking. But that tell us about that? Man? Is

1218
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 1: that sold out today? Actually? You know what my wife

1219
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: was telling me today, Patty, was that we need about

1220
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: we've we've reached our goal, but we need about forty

1221
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: more tickets to be sold. All right. So we got

1222
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: between now and what Friday, Friday, eight o'clock. So yeah, uh,

1223
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: Sony Erie downtown. Um, so it's gonna be a great deal,

1224
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:52,959
Speaker 1: all right. So can we talk about the bills now? Sure?

1225
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: All right? Absolutely, tell me what do you think about this? Uh?

1226
00:58:56,280 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: About Josh versus? You're not you weren't over the loss yet? No, see, Murph,

1227
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 1: and I've been talking about it for three days. We're

1228
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: kind of like putting them kind of over. You're not over.

1229
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: I'm not over. I mean, it's the Jets. It's a

1230
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: hard one. It was the Jets. You don't have to

1231
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: beating them the last time. And even though they had

1232
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: Sam Donald he came back or whatever, there's no way

1233
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: you should have lost that game. I just feel like

1234
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: they they could have played better, obviously, I think that's

1235
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: the main reason. But you know, it's the Jets. You

1236
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: know you should have their number. I mean, when you

1237
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: want to win divisional games, I mean, just think about it.

1238
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 1: It should be two and one right now. They lost

1239
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: the two. They lost two division games in two division games.

1240
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. They should have beat Miami and they

1241
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: should have beat the Jets. But I look at all

1242
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,919
Speaker 1: this as being positive size how I think. I think

1243
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: this is these last three games, even with the one

1244
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: in New England, you still have to play well, right,

1245
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: and you know they're gonna be probably shooting for what

1246
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: the number two seats. Yeah, so you know they're gonna

1247
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: come out and they're gonna be guns a blazing. So

1248
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: but hey, I'm excited, like I said last week, for

1249
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: the last four games, three games of the season. I

1250
00:59:57,560 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the team play every week. That's

1251
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 1: just fun. And how much has Josh do you think

1252
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: made them competitive? No matter these last three games they

1253
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 1: beat the Jags, they lost to the Dolphins and the Jets.

1254
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: But he is he's been like an engine from this team. Yeah,

1255
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean he's been the offense, right, He's been the

1256
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: offense the last couple of weeks. And to see him

1257
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: progress like that, to see him get better weekend in

1258
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: a week out, I know people want to see him

1259
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: through for three hundred yards. I do two. But like

1260
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: I said, past couple of weeks, he's doing what he

1261
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: has to do to get this sixty six against the Dolphins, right,

1262
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: So he's doing what he's supposed to be doing to

1263
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: move this franchise to the next step, to the next level.

1264
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: And I'm all positive about Josh and Zay Jones coming along.

1265
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: Ruben Foster's coming along, I mean Robert Foster's coming along.

1266
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you got some young guys here that are

1267
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: itching to play weekend in week out. And I think

1268
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: these last three games, even though they're out of the playoffs,

1269
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: I think I heard you guys talk about earlier. You

1270
01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: still got to play, yeah, because they're gonna be filmed

1271
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: and you if you want to be here, you gotta

1272
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: go out there and play. What I said, Yeah, you

1273
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: gotta go out there and play no matter what. Okay,

1274
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm out of the playoffs now, but you know what,

1275
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 1: you gotta prove that. You gotta go in every Monday,

1276
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 1: and they earn that damn check earn that check man

1277
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:15,919
Speaker 1: every single week, man and so and either if they're

1278
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: not going to be here, you know there's a team.

1279
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: There are teams that watch film man and be like,

1280
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: I can use that guy right there right Yeah, dormant

1281
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 1: Thomas Hall of Fame running back in studio with us.

1282
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: You're talking about Josh Allen. Sean mcdermots hid something this

1283
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: morning term that I want to get your reaction to.

1284
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: He was asked about leaders and somebody asked them, you know,

1285
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: you've got defensive leaders Lorenzo and Kyle on the defensive side.

1286
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: Who is your leader on the offensive side of the ball.

1287
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: And listen to what Sean McDermott said to that. Here's

1288
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: his answer. Yeah, Josh, Josh as a leader, and that's

1289
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: that's a little bit different for a rookie to be

1290
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: the leader, but the position he plays, in the way

1291
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: that he's played and earned their respect, he's he's the

1292
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 1: leader on the offense. And you know, that's certainly something

1293
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: that we continue to try and find as we look

1294
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 1: at balancing it out. To your point, Josh, with respect

1295
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 1: to Lorenzo Kyle on the defensive side, sam could be

1296
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: said for special teams also that we continue to try

1297
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: and find the goals to have one leader in every

1298
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: every position room, but not always realistic. Eight starts for

1299
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and he is already the leader. I mean,

1300
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,920
Speaker 1: he's basically anointed the leader by Sean McDermott. I mean,

1301
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: how many stars did it take Jim to become a leader?

1302
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: Zero zero exactly right. Came on to a different spot, game,

1303
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: to a different spot. But this guy, for your head

1304
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: coach to say that means a lot. That means a

1305
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 1: lot not only to that player, but the football team

1306
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: and the organization going forward. You look around the National

1307
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 1: Football League. He was the leader on every football team.

1308
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: She was in the quarterback and for him to step

1309
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: up and say that, I mean, that was who did it.

1310
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, Mike Rabel said it a

1311
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago about Marcus Mariota. You know, I

1312
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: love to see you play. He's a leader on our

1313
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 1: football team. You know, I wanted you to be in

1314
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: that position to lead this football team down the field

1315
01:02:58,040 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: and score a touchdown or field goal to win the game.

1316
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: And he's putting all his confidence right now and Josh

1317
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,959
Speaker 1: Allen and I think it's great. I think it's great.

1318
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the situation that the Houston Texans

1319
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: were in a year ago. They had Deshaun Watson. Come on,

1320
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: he was a rookie. They didn't know and that he

1321
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: didn't start the season right. They plugged him in and

1322
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he he started doing They were

1323
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: scoring thirty five points a game, and then he was spraying,

1324
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: and then then he had a non contact practice injury.

1325
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: But in coming back to the for a second year,

1326
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 1: it was just you could they were, you know, chiseling it.

1327
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 1: And granted he was the guy when I asked, I

1328
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: asked Bill O'Brien. I go, at the end of the season,

1329
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: he was still hurt, he was out and you know,

1330
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: he's just rehabing. He wasn't even around And I go,

1331
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: but they were talking about the season and the next

1332
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: game we were the game we were actually covering, and

1333
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 1: I said, but Deshaun is your guy, right, I mean

1334
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: he goes, oh, yeah, he's yeah, He's oh, he's the guy.

1335
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: He's the guy. And I think, yes, guys, after this season,

1336
01:03:58,120 --> 01:03:59,919
Speaker 1: at the end of this season, is Josh the guy

1337
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,720
Speaker 1: going forward next year? And they're like, yeah, right, I

1338
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: mean that's that's where you want to be. At this

1339
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,919
Speaker 1: point with these young guys. You don't know what's gonna happen.

1340
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 1: To look back to the beginning of the season, being like, well,

1341
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 1: didn't he start off the season. Yeah, you didn't know

1342
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: what you had this really Yeah, and obviously you know,

1343
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: Nate kind of won a job. He played better than

1344
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 1: three quarterback. But yeah, but now you know, going into

1345
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: next year, this is my guy. You think too. In

1346
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:30,200
Speaker 1: that preseason, Peterman played so well, so consistent, better than

1347
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:32,919
Speaker 1: than a j and Josh and we're trying to find

1348
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: themselves and you get Nate Peterman in the game and

1349
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: it's just the opposite practice great plays like different, I'm

1350
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: not as good, you know, I'm poor, and it's just

1351
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: the opposite. For John. I don't care what he looks

1352
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: like in practice and he turned the lights on and

1353
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: then put it in play for real. Yeah, he's got

1354
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: a big engine. He revs at it and that's that's

1355
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: the difference. And that's why you don't know until you

1356
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: until you know. But I think with Sean McDermott saying

1357
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: that today, it seems like to me he's doing a

1358
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 1: hell of a job in practice too. Yeah, but you

1359
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: just don't. You just don't say that. And the meetings, yeah,

1360
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: meet meetings, and and then I ways say, you know,

1361
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 1: he goes the way that he cares himself now with

1362
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: the media. I mean, that's where everybody want to talk

1363
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: to now. And you continue to get better and better

1364
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: the weekend and week out part of it you have,

1365
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 1: that's part of the job description that you have to

1366
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: that you at that position. The Peyton man is a

1367
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. They're always they always come into the meetings

1368
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: of the broadcast crew that they said, listen, we want

1369
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: to talk to Josh, we want to talk to Right.

1370
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 1: And give us a defender, you know, give us one

1371
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: of the guys on defense. Would you like for us? Right?

1372
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: What do you guy who's a good talker? Right? You know,

1373
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 1: and give us one of those guys. You tell us

1374
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: who we want to talk to, right, and they do.

1375
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 1: They give you a couple of good guys. Here's what

1376
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: I love about. Decision has been made for the bill.

1377
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 1: You're talking about that and everybody. We talked about this

1378
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: last week's Eve everybody. There was so much analysis on

1379
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and all these rookie quarterbacks, and a lot

1380
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: of the Josh analysis now that he's playing is well,

1381
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: he's still a little bit inaccurate and he's trying figure

1382
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 1: out when to run and when to throw and these

1383
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: are all accurate, and that's all true. But to me,

1384
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: the most important part is what Sean just identified. He

1385
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 1: is a leader. He is an eight game played rookie leader,

1386
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 1: and to me, that's more than sixty percent of what

1387
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: it takes to be successful at that spot. I think

1388
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 1: it's a describe describe the mindset of like you as

1389
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: a running back. I know I can do it as

1390
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 1: a receiver and the offensive line. When you're playing on

1391
01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: offense in a game and you see your quarterback doing

1392
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:31,440
Speaker 1: all of that, describe the mindset. It's like, what the

1393
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: how does it feel about what you're gonna do with

1394
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: your game? Oh? It feels like, Okay, Jim, can I

1395
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 1: have a couple of passes, to have a couple of runs? Might? Yeah? Yeah, man,

1396
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm helping you a chance, I help Yeah, everybody jumps

1397
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 1: on board. Everybody jumps on board. Man. If you see

1398
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: him like get hit by Greg Lawn and be like,

1399
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: oh my god, how are you gonna get up from that?

1400
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:56,360
Speaker 1: And he gets up and call it like, oh yeah,

1401
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: give me the play. All right, let's go. I'm here

1402
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: to help you. I'm here to help you, brother. Next

1403
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 1: time Greg Lord blitzers off, it's a lineman to get him,

1404
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 1: not me. You were here at the game Sunday, the

1405
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: loss of the Jets and they got hit hard at

1406
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 1: running back with Shady left the game and Chris Ivory

1407
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 1: had to leave. They ran a lot of Marcus Murphy.

1408
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 1: What did you think of that when you saw those

1409
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 1: injuries at running back? Well, you know what, Johnny, it's

1410
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: late in the year. I mean, obviously these guys have

1411
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:28,960
Speaker 1: not been running the way that I think or we

1412
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 1: all think that they should be running. And I think

1413
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 1: that goes along with not having offensive line that they've

1414
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: had here in the past three years. I Mean, I

1415
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 1: think that's a big part of it. And you know,

1416
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's trying to do too much

1417
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 1: or or anything like that, but you know, I hate

1418
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:45,840
Speaker 1: to see it at the end of the year. I mean,

1419
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: Leshaun has really kind of struggled all year long, and

1420
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 1: you know, I want to see the guy do well.

1421
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 1: You know McDermott and all those guys. They talk about

1422
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: him all the time, him being a special player, but

1423
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, to see any running back struggle like this,

1424
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 1: And I don't care whe everybody says about oh he's

1425
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 1: thirty or whatever, that has nothing to do with it.

1426
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: He's just struggling right now and can't find this rhythm.

1427
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: I remember weeks ago he was like, man, I'm still

1428
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 1: trying to find my rhythm and I haven't got it yet.

1429
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: And so but to leave to have Chris Ivory out too,

1430
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that was huge. That was that was devastating.

1431
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:22,599
Speaker 1: But you were still in the game, and you're still

1432
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 1: in the game because of number seventeen. Yeah, what would

1433
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 1: you how would you analyze Lashaw McCoy when this season ends.

1434
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: We're not there yet. Three more games, but no, it's

1435
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:34,599
Speaker 1: first bringing back next year. He's under contract. Brandon Bean

1436
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: has said he's in our plans for next year. What

1437
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:40,080
Speaker 1: would you think about Lashan McCoy as you got ready

1438
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 1: for twenty nineteen if you were the Bills decision makers Here,

1439
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: I'm he's on my football team. I think he's still

1440
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: on still playing a prominent role. Absolutely. Now it may

1441
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:51,679
Speaker 1: not be rushing or whatever, but like like we've said,

1442
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:53,879
Speaker 1: like I've been saying, the guy can catch the football.

1443
01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:56,479
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a running back every single play.

1444
01:08:56,720 --> 01:08:59,839
Speaker 1: If you get ten rushes and catch seven or eight passes,

1445
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 1: that's a great day for a little Sean McCall because

1446
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna gain yards no matter what. And I can't

1447
01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 1: understand really sometimes why he's always in the backfield. You know,

1448
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: why not put him out and let him run a

1449
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: couple of routes. You know, they started him out at

1450
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 1: the wide receiver, then they motioned them all the way

1451
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 1: back to to the running back position. Keep him out there.

1452
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: The guy got great hands. But I see him as

1453
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:20,080
Speaker 1: being a vital part of this office next year. I

1454
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 1: don't care what the salary is or what his age is.

1455
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:24,759
Speaker 1: The guy can still play. Do you recall that segment

1456
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 1: of your Hall of Fame career? When you almost hate

1457
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 1: the transition and maybe fewer touches and different roles or

1458
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,560
Speaker 1: was there there was there was, Yeah, there was a

1459
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 1: little bit of transition. And it started probably when let

1460
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:38,639
Speaker 1: me see, I think when they drafted Antoine Smith. Okay,

1461
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 1: you know that's when the carriage started to go down.

1462
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 1: Where actually the carriage didn't go down. I mean he

1463
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,960
Speaker 1: started starting, but in some games I started, you know,

1464
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of carriage or whatever. But

1465
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:50,600
Speaker 1: I was in there for you know, short yardage. I

1466
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:56,080
Speaker 1: was in there for goal line. Uh, you're blitz pickup guy.

1467
01:09:56,120 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 1: In the league, it's about being out there. Even if

1468
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 1: you're not out there for or eighty percent of the places,

1469
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 1: if you were out there for twenty percent, twenty five

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Speaker 1: thirty percent, make some plays. Yeah, don't don't have it

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01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 1: be your fault. And I and I was fine with

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Speaker 1: that role. I was fine. I mean I was I

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01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: was fresh every single Sunday or Monday, you know after

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Speaker 1: the game. So, but Wade wanted it that way. Uh,

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01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: Joe Pendry I think, was the offensive coordinator that way.

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01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 1: It was more of a power game and that wasn't

1477
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:25,679
Speaker 1: my style, right, And so yeah, I was like, yeah, well,

1478
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 1: as long as I get to go and pick up

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01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:29,760
Speaker 1: my check on Monday, I'm good to go. Whatever y'all

1480
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,799
Speaker 1: want me to do special teams, I'll do it at all. Yeah.

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01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: We had a Twitter poll yesterday and I can't I

1482
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: can't remember exactly how we worded it. What was it?

1483
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 1: Murph weet? How do you get better? What do they

1484
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: need to do to compete next year? Yeah? What are

1485
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: they missing? Uh? We said? We said wide receivers. The

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01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: thing probably the highest percenter was probably what old line? Yeah, Yeah,

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01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: I think I think with these receivers that they have

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01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:05,639
Speaker 1: right now, um, I think they're doing a fantastic job.

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01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:07,519
Speaker 1: I think they can get better at that position. I

1490
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: don't think it needs I don't think you need to

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01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:12,160
Speaker 1: overhaul the entire wide receiver position. One or two guys,

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01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,160
Speaker 1: maybe one or two guys, may say one and a half.

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01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 1: Yeah right, But I think though with that offensive line,

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01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: I think you need to because I mean when wide

1495
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,759
Speaker 1: Tell when he got his first started was against the Jets,

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01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: played well and ever since then kind of struggled a

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01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 1: little bit after that. So I think with with going

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01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: in and having what ninety million dollars on the cap

1499
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 1: or whatever, Yeah, I think it's definitely the offense on line. Yeah,

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01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:36,559
Speaker 1: but I think I think too, And I was telling

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01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: this to Murphy, made this point yesterday when we were

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01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:40,800
Speaker 1: talking about all this, that the offensive line, you get

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01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 1: a top flight offensive less it's a left tackle. Yes,

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01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: you're only gonna you're only you're talking about less than

1505
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 1: ten million a year for the best couple of guards

1506
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 1: you can get in the league, right, I mean, the

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01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: best guys available. That's not that that's not gonna bust

1508
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 1: you up. So you can't go out and get other players.

1509
01:11:57,520 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: It's not gonna gonna break the bank for one guy.

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01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: You're not gonna spend ninety million dollars like on in

1511
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 1: Dominican sue, you know, and blow it off. But I

1512
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 1: think the I think the left tackle has taken care of. Yeah, yeah,

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01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah. Okay, I'm not saying I'm just saying,

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01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: if you had to go out, we're talking about money.

1515
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 1: We're talking about we're talking about, you know, the interior money.

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01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:16,640
Speaker 1: The guys that have been shuffling in and out of

1517
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:18,679
Speaker 1: there were you're playing right tackles a lot of money

1518
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 1: now these days. Soon. Yeah, but it's what I'm saying,

1519
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 1: it's not quarterback money. It's not left tackle money, it's

1520
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,599
Speaker 1: not pass rusher money. Find a guy, you know, it's

1521
01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:28,759
Speaker 1: not even wide receiver money. John, get a couple of guys,

1522
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:33,320
Speaker 1: you know, like undrafted guys, free agent guys. Those guys,

1523
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 1: I'm telling you those those I talked to Brandon being

1524
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,600
Speaker 1: last year. I said, the guys that you find that

1525
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: are undrafted seven round, six round pick, they come in

1526
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: and become starters. Those are the type of players that

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01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: you need. Those from all those are the gold ones

1528
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: goals you have. They so valuable to the Mark Pikes. Yeah,

1529
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:00,679
Speaker 1: I mean that type of guy. Yeah, I mean though, totally.

1530
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:03,759
Speaker 1: Those guys. You need guys that you you know, Howard

1531
01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 1: Ballard seventh round draft pick, he played, He literally played

1532
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,759
Speaker 1: for like fifteen years, right, I mean you get and

1533
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:13,360
Speaker 1: and we're talking to two guys around the former executives

1534
01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:16,480
Speaker 1: and stuff. They say, listen, you can find big bodies

1535
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:21,040
Speaker 1: post draft or the late rounds of the draft that

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01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: are just big guys. And you get him in there

1537
01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 1: and you find the right guy, the motivated guy, the

1538
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 1: guy wants to get better, and the guy's got an

1539
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 1: engine or an attitude, either either an engine or an

1540
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 1: attitude or both, or trying to provide for his family

1541
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 1: and plug him in, plug him in. I guarantee you'll

1542
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 1: do a great he'll he'll. He may sink or swim.

1543
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: But even if you know whatever, you're not any worse

1544
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:42,719
Speaker 1: off than you are before that, you know, So Thurman

1545
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:45,720
Speaker 1: Tonight the pre screening of a football life Thurman times

1546
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:47,560
Speaker 1: you have to speak, you have any remember, oh, I

1547
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 1: don't have to speak nothing. The film will speak for

1548
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: a seven. We're gonna see you there. We're looking forward

1549
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, well, hey we have what time are

1550
01:13:57,840 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: you gonna What time are you gonna get there? Like,

1551
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 1: I'll probably get there about six fifty nine starts and seven.

1552
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 1: You are such a rock star. Well, I gotta wait

1553
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:09,479
Speaker 1: for my son. You gotta work out, work out, Hey,

1554
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: he's working out now. So a lot of stuff going

1555
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 1: on here. Six fifty nine and a half. All right,

1556
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:19,719
Speaker 1: and be sure to look out for a little announcement tomorrow.

1557
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:24,479
Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, will you tell us off? Yeah? Maybe? Okay, yeah,

1558
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:26,240
Speaker 1: all right, so we'll get the break. Thanks Duran, We'll

1559
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: keep it. Appreciate it. Thurman, Thomas Hall of Famer. We'll

1560
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 1: see him tonight at seven one six seven o'clock of

1561
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 1: Football Life, Thurman Thomas, pretty screening. We're coming back with

1562
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:35,760
Speaker 1: more One Goes Live from One Goes Drive and this

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01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Get my buddy, Welcome back. One

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01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,759
Speaker 1: Goes Live from One Goes Driver. Thank you to Thurman

1565
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 1: Thomas for joining us in studio today. He's got a

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01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:58,439
Speaker 1: lot going on. Hey, we got a lot going on

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01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 1: on the show. Practice still going on. Just took a

1568
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: peek out there and coming up after practice. Termaine Edmunds

1569
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: schedule to join us Bills rookie linebacker. Also, we'll hear

1570
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 1: from the podium where Josh Allen we expect we'll speak.

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01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if since he's not practicing, I don't

1572
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,720
Speaker 1: know that Lashaw McCoy will address at the podium today,

1573
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: but if he does, we'll pick it up and we'll

1574
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: bring it to you. Twitter poll today Topic of the day.

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01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 1: You know by now the Bills are the number one

1576
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 1: ranked defense in the National Football League. What does that mean?

1577
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:27,799
Speaker 1: What does it mean to you? We got a tweet

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01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 1: yesterday somebody said it means nothing, and we want to

1579
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 1: know what do you think The Bills quietly the number

1580
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: one ranked defense in the NFL in terms of yards allowed.

1581
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:37,080
Speaker 1: I get it. That's not the ultimate measure, but that's

1582
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 1: what they use. What does the Bills defense need to

1583
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 1: do to be better? That's our question today. You can

1584
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: vote on the Twitter poll, you can tweet in a response,

1585
01:15:45,280 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 1: or you can call us up at eight oh three

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01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: two five fifty. We've had close to a thousand responses

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01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll so far, and almost half of

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01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:57,839
Speaker 1: you say the Bills need to create more turnovers. Forty

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01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:01,320
Speaker 1: seven percent say create more over, twenty four percent saty

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01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 1: more stops in the red zone, twenty two percent say

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 1: limit the points allowed, seven percent have something else in mind.

1593
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 1: Give us a call, let us know eight h three

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01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: h five fifty and toll free one eight eight eight

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01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. We've got lines wide open, Steve.

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01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:18,360
Speaker 1: The salary cap numbers, the estimates are out for next year. Huh,

1597
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 1: yes they are. In fact that they came out today.

1598
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 1: They got projections. The cap for the NFL, at least

1599
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:25,679
Speaker 1: is going to go up to one hundred and seven

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01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:29,679
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven million dollars in the top between

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01:16:29,760 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 1: sixty I'm not I think it's down in the one seventies.

1602
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 1: I think it's going to go up by at least

1603
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 1: ten or twelve million per teen per teen, and the

1604
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: cap projections are go from one eighty seven million maybe

1605
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 1: to one ninety one as high as one hundred and

1606
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: ninety one million. Now, if you want to know, the

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01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:49,719
Speaker 1: Bills are looking to have about ninety million, eight hundred

1608
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:54,360
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand to spend. The Colts, of course, you

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01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:57,719
Speaker 1: can see one hundred and twenty four million, the Jets

1610
01:16:57,720 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and six million, then the Bills at nine million,

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01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 1: The Browns are eighty seven million, and then the Raiders

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01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: at eighty one million, and it goes all the way

1613
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: down to through the Houston Texans, the Cardinals, the Niners,

1614
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, Dallas Cowboys, who bring around out the

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01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: top ten. Dallas Cowboys have about fifty five million and

1616
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 1: change to spend, but the Bills are number three in

1617
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:23,679
Speaker 1: the league with ninety point eight five million. The top

1618
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: team is the Colts with one hundred and twenty four

1619
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 1: point four million bucks to spend this offseason in free agency.

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01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:32,559
Speaker 1: So that's what you're up against. Really, the top five,

1621
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: six teams are all AFC teams. So that's what the

1622
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 1: Bills are up and those that's the pool that you're

1623
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: kind of bidding against to see if you can make

1624
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: your team more attractive than those other teams. And if

1625
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 1: you look at those whoever the player might be, that's

1626
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 1: who you're going to be bidding against, those top teams,

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01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:54,920
Speaker 1: and that's you know, there's no question that not all

1628
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: of those teams. I don't think the Annapolis Colts are

1629
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:59,120
Speaker 1: not going to be looking shopping around for offensive linemen.

1630
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: They've got t Y Hilton on their roster. They may

1631
01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:06,160
Speaker 1: be looking for defenders. The Jets same thing. They're kind

1632
01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 1: of the same boat that the Buffalo Bills are. I

1633
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:10,639
Speaker 1: would think almost wouldn't you maybe many weapons on offense,

1634
01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 1: and they'd also they they like Robbie Anderson, I think,

1635
01:18:13,760 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: and they have Quincy and Noonwall. Although Quincy and noon

1636
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:20,599
Speaker 1: Wall maybe a guy who has restricted free agent they

1637
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:23,760
Speaker 1: might be looking to move on. But every team's going

1638
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: to be in that same boat. And it's going to

1639
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how this thing all plays out

1640
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 1: on free agency. We had the Bills were big players

1641
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 1: two years ago when they got Micah Hide Jordan Poyer

1642
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 1: to come in. Last year they brought in star Low,

1643
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 1: tu Lelae and Trent Murphy on defense and then they

1644
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 1: bolstered them with draft picks around. It was. It's been fun.

1645
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 1: But this year you kind of think that's going to

1646
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 1: go to the other side of the football. Um, I'm

1647
01:18:48,320 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be very interested. And of course free agency

1648
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 1: heats up in March. As to the Bills approached because

1649
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 1: they need players. We know that they need talent. Do

1650
01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: they dive in and go for the big splash signings

1651
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 1: or do they kind of look for the vale signings

1652
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:03,200
Speaker 1: I have based on what we know, I think about

1653
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: McDermott and being I think they'd be more disposed to

1654
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: looking at you know, good value guys, good character fits

1655
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:11,960
Speaker 1: for the roster would be important to them as opposed to,

1656
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:14,280
Speaker 1: you know, who's the top wide receiver out there. And

1657
01:19:14,439 --> 01:19:16,519
Speaker 1: as we've done a couple times, even Thurman we're talking

1658
01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:18,600
Speaker 1: about it. I don't think you need to break the

1659
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: bank when it comes to signing offensive lineman, which is clearly,

1660
01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 1: if not the most important position they have to address

1661
01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 1: at least one of the top two. I think you

1662
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 1: attack it on every front. You look at the free

1663
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: agent market for offensive lineman. You look at him, you

1664
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 1: see and you you try not to overpay for those guys,

1665
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:36,760
Speaker 1: but we all know that you kind of have to

1666
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:41,759
Speaker 1: in some respects. But even overpaying for a lesser position

1667
01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:44,280
Speaker 1: doesn't break the bank like it would for a quarter.

1668
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:46,800
Speaker 1: You don't tie up, you know, fifty million dollars in

1669
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:49,719
Speaker 1: cap money over the next three years for a guard.

1670
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:51,680
Speaker 1: You know, it just doesn't work that way. They just

1671
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: don't get that much Starlot Lelah. Those guys, those big

1672
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: heavies down inside and your d line, Yeah, they do

1673
01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: command a good a good But by the same token,

1674
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: if you've got guys that you've targeted in the draft,

1675
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 1: and you've got ten picks in this draft, you think

1676
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 1: we're going to get at least one of these three guys,

1677
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:12,560
Speaker 1: well maybe that softens that blow a little bit, and

1678
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:14,600
Speaker 1: you do spend a little extra at wide receiver, a

1679
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: little extra at corner, or a little extra or whatever

1680
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 1: to get one of those guys, knowing that you can

1681
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:21,400
Speaker 1: get one of those guys in the draft and they

1682
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 1: will be you know, far less expensive. These decisions, by

1683
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:27,519
Speaker 1: the way, are ongoing. In fact, the Bills said a

1684
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 1: lot of their personnel people. A lot of their scouts

1685
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: back in town last weekend for the game and for

1686
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:35,160
Speaker 1: a holiday party and mostly for meetings. Right, they kind

1687
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 1: of collinate all their information. And I'm sure at this

1688
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 1: point Brandon Bean and Joe Shane and probably the others

1689
01:20:41,439 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 1: at the top level of the personnel department are trying

1690
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 1: to figure out where are the best receivers are they

1691
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: Are they draft eligible or are they free agents? Where

1692
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:50,720
Speaker 1: are the type of offensive linemen we need in the

1693
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:53,600
Speaker 1: draft or free agency? And these decisions will you know

1694
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: that discussion to be on going for a month? Oh yeah,

1695
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 1: don't have to go to the senior role at the

1696
01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:59,800
Speaker 1: end of January, and hopefully they'll have a blueprint for

1697
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:01,840
Speaker 1: how they're going to attack this. They know what needs

1698
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,639
Speaker 1: they have. Oh and here's the thing too, that here's

1699
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 1: why they it's so impressive. When you talk to these guys,

1700
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:09,080
Speaker 1: you're they are all over it. You talk guys like

1701
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:11,519
Speaker 1: Dan Morgan, it's not just you know, they just come

1702
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:13,360
Speaker 1: up with a name, like they're just gonna up and say, Hey,

1703
01:21:13,400 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: this Julio Jones guy is pretty good. He's gonna be

1704
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: really expensive if we were going to do that. It's

1705
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: not like that. It's like, we have this guy, this guy,

1706
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: this guy, this guy, and this guy. Here's the pluses

1707
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: and minuses of all five guys. Here's what they're gonna cost.

1708
01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:29,200
Speaker 1: Then we have this guy, this guy, this guy, this guy,

1709
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:31,560
Speaker 1: and this guy in the draft. Here's their pluses and

1710
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:34,519
Speaker 1: minus minuses and the question marks. And we know they're

1711
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:37,720
Speaker 1: gonna be cheap. What do you think? You know, let's

1712
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:39,479
Speaker 1: talk about it. And then you go and you say, well, this,

1713
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 1: these five guys at this one position, and the five

1714
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:44,479
Speaker 1: guys in free agency, and then these five guys in

1715
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 1: the draft at that position, how does that mesh with

1716
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:51,360
Speaker 1: our needs at this totally other position. You know, we're

1717
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:55,880
Speaker 1: gonna that. It's a it's a puzzle. Unfortunately, it's a

1718
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:58,240
Speaker 1: puzzle with a lot of moving parts. You know, they

1719
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: just don't fit nice and easy. You gotta you got

1720
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 1: to build it from the ground up, and you start

1721
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: with some pieces that you know you can build around,

1722
01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: like they did on the defensive side of the football.

1723
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: They built it around the two safeties to begin with,

1724
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:11,040
Speaker 1: and then they worked up towards the front with the

1725
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: draft picks and with the free agents on the front

1726
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:18,080
Speaker 1: flour this year and Tremaine Edmonds and with Matt Milano

1727
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:19,679
Speaker 1: turning out the way he did as a fifth round

1728
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 1: draft pick. So they built it from the ground up,

1729
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:23,560
Speaker 1: and it was kind of on both ends of it,

1730
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,600
Speaker 1: key signings and free agency on the back end and

1731
01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: the front, and then you got draft picks sprinkled in. Yeah,

1732
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 1: that's the way. You can probably look for him to

1733
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:32,840
Speaker 1: do it this way. That's what this offense is going

1734
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 1: to look like next year. Those kind of guys. All right, Hey,

1735
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:38,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen practice over. Josh Allen at the podium speaking

1736
01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: to the media. Let's listen in live to Josh Allen,

1737
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,640
Speaker 1: Bill's quarterback at the podium. As a leader on the

1738
01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:46,040
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, what do you think makes

1739
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: a good leader? Well, one, I think knowing yourself and

1740
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: knowing what you're about it is the first step in

1741
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: being a leader. And then obviously leading by example, going

1742
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 1: out there and do what you need to do. And

1743
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of been my motto throughout my life is

1744
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:07,280
Speaker 1: leading by example, you know, not saying much, um, putting

1745
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 1: my head down and and doing whatever I need to do.

1746
01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:11,720
Speaker 1: And then comes I mean, we've we've been talking a

1747
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:14,040
Speaker 1: lot as a team and Um, as we evolve as

1748
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 1: leaders and as this team gets older, UM, taking those

1749
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: right steps and becoming a leader. And that's you know,

1750
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: influencing each other, UM, challenging each other, and then you know,

1751
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:26,519
Speaker 1: at the end, being able to transform someone and being

1752
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:28,840
Speaker 1: able to transform this team and and put it on

1753
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 1: the right track of where we want to go. No,

1754
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:34,439
Speaker 1: not at all. You know, I still think there's a lot,

1755
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: a lot to do, a lot to go through. UM.

1756
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:40,839
Speaker 1: You know, I love this team. You know, I appreciate

1757
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 1: coach what he said about me. Um, So I'm just

1758
01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:45,920
Speaker 1: trying to win football games. And when we get you know,

1759
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:49,040
Speaker 1: fifty three guys that put their heads together and you know,

1760
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 1: go in one direction. UM, you know, it's gonna be

1761
01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:53,519
Speaker 1: a good thing. And I definitely think as a team

1762
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: right now, we're extremely close. You know, I think there's

1763
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: you can pick out plays in the season. Um, if

1764
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: we make these plays, it might be a little different story.

1765
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 1: Right now. Well from day one obviously, being you know,

1766
01:24:18,439 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 1: the first selection this team had in the draft, being

1767
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:25,439
Speaker 1: here in rookie otis first being the leader in that group, UM,

1768
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 1: getting those guys on board and trying to set the

1769
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: mindset of what I've talked with with coach, what I've

1770
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: talked with with the Vets, establishing that in the rookies

1771
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:36,560
Speaker 1: in in that area, trying to put us in the

1772
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 1: right direction so when we do mix with the team,

1773
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:41,599
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of seamless. So UM, I think

1774
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 1: that was the first step and just evolving over time.

1775
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,519
Speaker 1: Like I said, leading by example, not saying much, going

1776
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:49,120
Speaker 1: to work, um, going out during the games, and doing

1777
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 1: whatever I can to top the team. One football games

1778
01:24:53,280 --> 01:25:01,040
Speaker 1: have only given up sixtys ufference to quarterbacks U against studs.

1779
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:05,479
Speaker 1: Pretty good. What was the question? You're you're you're wanting

1780
01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:08,200
Speaker 1: against the Lions defense. It's really good at against the

1781
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:12,800
Speaker 1: finding quarterbacks that can run. Okay, Uh, I'm not really

1782
01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 1: you know, looking to run the ball. Um. You know,

1783
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:18,519
Speaker 1: when option one, two and three aren't there, that's when

1784
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:22,240
Speaker 1: I kind of try to exploit a defense with my legs.

1785
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 1: And it's been working the last few weeks. I know

1786
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 1: that it can't happen, you know, repeatedly over and over again. Um,

1787
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:29,600
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to be very detailed in the

1788
01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: passing game. Get the ball out quickly. You know. This

1789
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:34,920
Speaker 1: is a very good Lions defense and they've shown. Um,

1790
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:36,639
Speaker 1: you know how good they can be throughout the year.

1791
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: You know they're gonna be hungry to come in here

1792
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:41,439
Speaker 1: and play against us, and um, they're feeling the same.

1793
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:44,560
Speaker 1: So we're excited to take them on on Sunday and

1794
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 1: we're looking to you know, putt in a game plan

1795
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: where you know, we go out there next get well.

1796
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: Here go Bill's quarterback. First round draft pick Josh Allen

1797
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 1: meeting with the media. We got the other first round

1798
01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 1: draft pick Stan. Anybody to join us right here in

1799
01:25:55,880 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 1: the studio when we return, come on back for more.

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01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: Jaremine Edmonds joins us when we come back. One Bills

1801
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,679
Speaker 1: Live from One Bills Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1802
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:16,920
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. One Bill's Live from One

1803
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:19,799
Speaker 1: Bill Drive. Buffalo's practice is over for the day inside

1804
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,200
Speaker 1: the ad Pro Sports Training Center. Sort of a light,

1805
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:24,679
Speaker 1: non padded practice as we get late into the season.

1806
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker joined in studio by Tremaine Edmonds,

1807
01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:30,680
Speaker 1: Bills riockey linebacker, first round pick. Thanks for coming by,

1808
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:32,800
Speaker 1: Thanks for having Have you settled down after your first

1809
01:26:32,920 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 1: NFL pick the other day? I have, but you know

1810
01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:37,639
Speaker 1: it would have been better, you know it would have whim.

1811
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, like I said, man, we just

1812
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 1: gotta we just gotta, you know, bill for it as

1813
01:26:41,479 --> 01:26:43,679
Speaker 1: a team, you know, stick our heads down and finish

1814
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 1: his name golf strong. We were talking about Sam Darnold.

1815
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: Murph and I were both you know, kind of impressed

1816
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: with him. He he did some nice things. It's somebody

1817
01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 1: though for you. You've been your first year him and

1818
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:56,320
Speaker 1: his first year with Josh. You guys may be playing

1819
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:58,720
Speaker 1: against each other for a long time. You have thought

1820
01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:01,040
Speaker 1: about that now I have thought about it. You know,

1821
01:27:01,120 --> 01:27:03,040
Speaker 1: I'm just taking the step by the time, you know,

1822
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 1: worrying about this season first and darn whatever after that.

1823
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: Just let it come down. But uh, like I said,

1824
01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 1: just worried about this season and finishing now strong and

1825
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, don't we have to do to be successful?

1826
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:14,720
Speaker 1: On the pick um, tell me what you saw. How

1827
01:27:14,760 --> 01:27:16,720
Speaker 1: it happened. You were dropping into coverage, I guess, and

1828
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:18,599
Speaker 1: you almost threw it right to you, didn't me. Yeah,

1829
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:21,679
Speaker 1: I was kind of dropping in coverage quarterbacks ground without

1830
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: so you know, we call it plaster, so kind of

1831
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:27,160
Speaker 1: just you know, stay with my man, and uh, you know,

1832
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 1: I kind of just turned around and the ball was there,

1833
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 1: So you gotta like those. Yeah, take every one of

1834
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 1: those you can get. And you're the youngest player in

1835
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:37,040
Speaker 1: NFL history to intercept the pass. Did they tell you

1836
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 1: that after the game? So yeah, they did tell me that.

1837
01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:42,479
Speaker 1: Uh so what do you think it's accomplishment? Yeah? But

1838
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:44,880
Speaker 1: heck yeah. But but yeah, I was. I was, I

1839
01:27:45,080 --> 01:27:49,360
Speaker 1: was like, man, that's crazy, Yeah, that that play that happened.

1840
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:52,120
Speaker 1: You get you were in man coverage on Hurley the

1841
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: tight end, right and uh chasing him around and then

1842
01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:56,680
Speaker 1: do you get a call in the middle of the

1843
01:27:56,760 --> 01:27:58,519
Speaker 1: play or he just kind of like clicks up. Your

1844
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 1: mental clock goes off and it's like, oh, okay, now

1845
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 1: it's plaster. Yeah, it was actually was zone and then

1846
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:04,240
Speaker 1: it turned into man because, like I said, we had

1847
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 1: the plaster. But so yeah, it's kind of just like

1848
01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 1: you just gotta be tuned in and what's going on.

1849
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 1: And Danni's played ball with Tremine Edmunds, Bill's linebacker. So

1850
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 1: you get that pick. And it seems like over the

1851
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:17,800
Speaker 1: last four weeks or so now tremin the Buffalo defense

1852
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:20,240
Speaker 1: has done a much better job of getting takeaways, interceptions,

1853
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 1: forcing and recovering fumbles. That was a focus. I know

1854
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:25,640
Speaker 1: there were several games earlier on when the defense was

1855
01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 1: playing okay, but all of you guys were saying, yeah,

1856
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:29,639
Speaker 1: but we didn't get any turnovers, right, And it makes

1857
01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:32,040
Speaker 1: a difference, doesn't it make it leads you win off? Yeah, definitely.

1858
01:28:32,040 --> 01:28:34,120
Speaker 1: You know that's something we preach about every day. You know,

1859
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 1: as soon as we walk into the room, we were

1860
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,560
Speaker 1: preaching about takeaways. And I think that's what makes a

1861
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:43,320
Speaker 1: unit special. I mean, you know, takeaways that that changed

1862
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:45,760
Speaker 1: the ball game. So you know, we continue to preach that,

1863
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 1: and we'll still continue to preach that. Now, what if

1864
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: we had this Twitter poll we do all the time,

1865
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 1: We got one today and let me ask you would

1866
01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 1: you if you had your choice, would it be just

1867
01:28:56,080 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 1: stopping them from scoring no points allowed? Would it be

1868
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: better red zone defense? Would it be turnovers? What aspect

1869
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 1: of the defense? If you could say, you know, wave

1870
01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: a magic wand and know what was gonna change, what

1871
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:10,479
Speaker 1: would it be for you? It's kind of hard acts

1872
01:29:10,520 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 1: in me. You know, I'm on the defense the side.

1873
01:29:12,080 --> 01:29:14,360
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say ya all love them, but I

1874
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:15,640
Speaker 1: mean that it's kind of hard for me to just

1875
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 1: pick one of those areas because all those areas are

1876
01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:20,200
Speaker 1: important to me, you know, just being a successful unit.

1877
01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:22,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's kind of tough for me to say, yeah,

1878
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:26,280
Speaker 1: because you've seen each of those, each of those aspects

1879
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:28,600
Speaker 1: of defense win games in and of itself, so you

1880
01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 1: don't want to pick one and not pick the others exactly. Yeah,

1881
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:33,960
Speaker 1: you had a murf mentioned a moment ago. You guys

1882
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: had a light pad, unpadded practice today. On a Wednesday,

1883
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:40,360
Speaker 1: usually it's full, full gear, full go. It's about right.

1884
01:29:40,439 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 1: It's about time week fifteen of the season to take

1885
01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:45,519
Speaker 1: a deep breath and I you know, this is your

1886
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:47,800
Speaker 1: first year, but kind of feel good to maybe not

1887
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 1: bang its like you did, like you do normally on

1888
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:53,479
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. Yeah, you know, I would say, you know,

1889
01:29:53,600 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 1: we got just trying to keep everybody fresh because you know,

1890
01:29:56,479 --> 01:29:59,320
Speaker 1: Sunday is definitely the most important day. So, like I said,

1891
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:01,639
Speaker 1: it's my first year. You know, I'm not not really

1892
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:04,560
Speaker 1: sure other clubs do it, but uh, I mean I

1893
01:30:04,640 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 1: think it was I think it was a you know,

1894
01:30:06,280 --> 01:30:09,120
Speaker 1: great decision by coach the first year getting into week fifteen,

1895
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 1: game fourteen coming up, Do you feel it? I mean,

1896
01:30:11,439 --> 01:30:13,439
Speaker 1: people talk about hitting the rookie wall, did you have

1897
01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:16,000
Speaker 1: anything resembling that. Over the last couple of weeks or so,

1898
01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:18,400
Speaker 1: you know, I've been trying to stay on top of it.

1899
01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:20,160
Speaker 1: You know, I've been talking to some of the vets

1900
01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:21,760
Speaker 1: just trying to see, you know, what did they do

1901
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:24,000
Speaker 1: to keep their bodies fresh throughout the whole year. So,

1902
01:30:24,320 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'm taking a little bit of tidbits from

1903
01:30:25,920 --> 01:30:28,439
Speaker 1: each and everyone. Of course, it's gonna feel different from

1904
01:30:28,439 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 1: college because it's it's it's it's longer, as we all know.

1905
01:30:31,320 --> 01:30:33,080
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I'm trying to stay on top

1906
01:30:33,160 --> 01:30:35,320
Speaker 1: of it, just trying to put my mind somewhere else,

1907
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 1: so I won't focus on that as much. But it's

1908
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:40,120
Speaker 1: got to finish off. What's the biggest tip you get?

1909
01:30:40,160 --> 01:30:44,160
Speaker 1: Can I guess? You can guess sleep? Yeah? Right, Yeah,

1910
01:30:44,800 --> 01:30:48,719
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. It is underrated. You need sleep even younger,

1911
01:30:48,800 --> 01:30:50,680
Speaker 1: you know, twenty year olds like you and you're going

1912
01:30:50,720 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 1: through this whole season. It helps that we think they

1913
01:30:53,400 --> 01:30:55,559
Speaker 1: continue to get good sleep on a regular basis. Yeah,

1914
01:30:55,600 --> 01:30:57,599
Speaker 1: for sure. Does the veterans say that or do they?

1915
01:30:57,640 --> 01:30:59,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they definitely said. I mentioned you gave your

1916
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:03,000
Speaker 1: rest nighttime. I mean, obviously we know recovery which sleep

1917
01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:05,800
Speaker 1: comes with that. But uh, you know, just as far

1918
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:07,320
Speaker 1: as treating your body right, you know, do what you

1919
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:09,280
Speaker 1: gotta do if you need to get treatment, and get treatment.

1920
01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:11,840
Speaker 1: But like you said, man, sleep maybe the number one thing.

1921
01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:13,840
Speaker 1: So you're late in the season, you're gonna face the

1922
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:16,320
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. What's the order the early returns on what

1923
01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 1: the Lions look like on offense? You know it's talented offense.

1924
01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:22,720
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna they bring different challenges. Uh, you know,

1925
01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:24,439
Speaker 1: we just got to play it. I think it all

1926
01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:26,519
Speaker 1: falls back with us. You know, we just got to

1927
01:31:26,560 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: make sure we're doing our job better than what they're

1928
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:31,080
Speaker 1: doing on offense. And uh so I think that's what

1929
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:32,920
Speaker 1: today was more like, I know you was mentioning like

1930
01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 1: the unpadded practice, it was more of get a mental

1931
01:31:35,479 --> 01:31:38,040
Speaker 1: side of it for for our defense, just so you know,

1932
01:31:38,120 --> 01:31:40,360
Speaker 1: we can all play together and make sure everybody understands

1933
01:31:40,439 --> 01:31:42,720
Speaker 1: what we're doing. We're lying back here. Tremaine Edmonds is

1934
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 1: h he comes off the practice field of Bills getting

1935
01:31:45,080 --> 01:31:47,880
Speaker 1: set for the Detroit Lions. I wonder your season as

1936
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 1: you look at what you've done this year and the

1937
01:31:49,439 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: numbers are there and you're you're one of two players

1938
01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 1: in the league with ninety or more tackles, ten or

1939
01:31:54,439 --> 01:31:57,200
Speaker 1: more passes defense, and two or more forced fumbles. I mean,

1940
01:31:57,360 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: you're you're being productive. Do you feel like you've had

1941
01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:02,200
Speaker 1: kind of a steady, uphill climbing production or was there

1942
01:32:02,240 --> 01:32:04,840
Speaker 1: were there peaks and valleys along the way. You know,

1943
01:32:04,920 --> 01:32:07,320
Speaker 1: I think anybody that say that season was just straight

1944
01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:10,800
Speaker 1: up would kind of be say line a little bit.

1945
01:32:10,880 --> 01:32:13,320
Speaker 1: But I've definitely been going through it. You know, I

1946
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 1: definitely had challenges along the way. I mean, you know,

1947
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 1: I'm a rookie in this league. I'm a young guy,

1948
01:32:18,520 --> 01:32:21,640
Speaker 1: so it's definitely gonna bring different things each week. But uh,

1949
01:32:22,040 --> 01:32:23,920
Speaker 1: you know, I've been trying to just get better each

1950
01:32:23,960 --> 01:32:26,479
Speaker 1: week and just focus on things that I can. I

1951
01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:28,760
Speaker 1: know it hasn't been perfect, but uh, you know, my

1952
01:32:29,200 --> 01:32:31,400
Speaker 1: whole goal for myself has just improved each week. And

1953
01:32:31,479 --> 01:32:34,000
Speaker 1: I think that's all I could the challenges right at

1954
01:32:34,040 --> 01:32:36,599
Speaker 1: you boom, here's the playbook, here are the defensive play calls.

1955
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you really had no ramp up time right

1956
01:32:38,479 --> 01:32:41,519
Speaker 1: going back to training camp almost yeah, And uh, I

1957
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,600
Speaker 1: think I was on one time I was telling you

1958
01:32:43,880 --> 01:32:46,600
Speaker 1: sometimes that's that's that's for the better, at least for me.

1959
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:48,639
Speaker 1: You know, I like to be just thrown in sometimes

1960
01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:51,560
Speaker 1: and just you know, uh, learn on the fly. I

1961
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 1: think may sound kind of four tongus a little bit,

1962
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:57,120
Speaker 1: but if I mess up something, you know, I learned

1963
01:32:57,160 --> 01:32:58,720
Speaker 1: from that and then it's in the back of my head.

1964
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:00,840
Speaker 1: So next time I see that say, look, you know,

1965
01:33:00,920 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 1: I got it in my head like this is what

1966
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: I did last time and learned from that. Yeah, the

1967
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:06,720
Speaker 1: challenges are run ending, particularly a young player like you,

1968
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:10,599
Speaker 1: But you've got another challenge this week. You're your boy

1969
01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:13,200
Speaker 1: Matt Milano is not there with you, so you've got

1970
01:33:13,240 --> 01:33:16,040
Speaker 1: another challenge. You've gotta It's just one more degree of

1971
01:33:16,120 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: difficult for you to make sure whoever is lined up

1972
01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:21,200
Speaker 1: for you and with you in any situation that they

1973
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:23,479
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. So how does that affect you?

1974
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:26,360
Speaker 1: Knowing that the guy like Matt who's been there with you,

1975
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:29,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he took a ton of snaps you two together.

1976
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 1: Now he's not going to be out there. What's that?

1977
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:33,360
Speaker 1: How's that going to change things for you? You know,

1978
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 1: we just gotta get on the same page with those guys,

1979
01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:37,599
Speaker 1: and I have trusting you know, anybody coach put out

1980
01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:39,439
Speaker 1: there because you know, we got a great room. But

1981
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:41,840
Speaker 1: it's just you know, us talking, getting on the same page.

1982
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 1: It's going over with each other, see and you know,

1983
01:33:44,520 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 1: just watching film together and just see how each one

1984
01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:49,160
Speaker 1: of us team. I mean, was there a moment in

1985
01:33:49,280 --> 01:33:51,479
Speaker 1: your twelve games this year where you felt like the

1986
01:33:51,880 --> 01:33:53,960
Speaker 1: switch went on, the light went on, the boom, Okay,

1987
01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:56,120
Speaker 1: I think I see this now, I see how this

1988
01:33:56,280 --> 01:33:57,599
Speaker 1: is going. Did you have that kind of a moment

1989
01:33:57,600 --> 01:33:59,840
Speaker 1: at all during this rookie year? Yeah, I had a

1990
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 1: couple of moments, uh, you know, just trusting my trusting

1991
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:05,760
Speaker 1: my instincts, trusting what I see out there and not

1992
01:34:05,840 --> 01:34:08,639
Speaker 1: thinking as much and just reacting. And you know, I'm

1993
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:10,439
Speaker 1: still building each week to try to get to that

1994
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:12,840
Speaker 1: point where I could just you know, just play free

1995
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 1: all around. And uh, you know, as I continue to

1996
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:17,679
Speaker 1: grow and develop, you know it comes soon. Playing free

1997
01:34:17,760 --> 01:34:19,640
Speaker 1: means not paying attention. Not I mean you have to

1998
01:34:19,640 --> 01:34:22,439
Speaker 1: pay attention, but not getting concerned with the play call,

1999
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:25,519
Speaker 1: relaying the play call, and just being a football player everything. Huh.

2000
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:29,240
Speaker 1: I mean it's a lot of factors that go into it. Uh. Yeah,

2001
01:34:29,240 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: it's a lot of things but you know, I'm I'm

2002
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:33,479
Speaker 1: growing each day and uh, you know, getting closer to

2003
01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:35,760
Speaker 1: that stuff each day. Your brother, Terrell drafted by the

2004
01:34:35,800 --> 01:34:38,519
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. They're you know, they're in the midst of

2005
01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 1: a playoff race. Have he spoken to him lately house

2006
01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:43,360
Speaker 1: things going for him? Yeah, I mean things going well

2007
01:34:43,400 --> 01:34:45,559
Speaker 1: with him. You know, I scheduled a little bit different,

2008
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 1: so sometimes, you know, we just try to talk, take

2009
01:34:48,360 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 1: take our minds off ball a little bit, just see

2010
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:52,719
Speaker 1: how each other's doing. But you know, as far as football,

2011
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, he's enjoying it. You know, my older brother.

2012
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:56,760
Speaker 1: I have two brothers over there, so I mean, they

2013
01:34:56,840 --> 01:34:59,120
Speaker 1: both enjoying it. But like I said, sometimes I try

2014
01:34:59,120 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 1: to take our minds off. Last thing I had for you,

2015
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:03,960
Speaker 1: we were talking to our listeners and people calling in

2016
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:05,720
Speaker 1: about the fact that the Bills are the number one

2017
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,160
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. Right now, you guys aware of

2018
01:35:08,240 --> 01:35:09,720
Speaker 1: that in the locker room? Do you talk about that?

2019
01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:12,160
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you? You know? The man

2020
01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:15,040
Speaker 1: talking on our side, it's just find a ways to

2021
01:35:15,439 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: still improve, you know. Uh, you know, we feel like

2022
01:35:18,920 --> 01:35:20,800
Speaker 1: we still have a lot to improve on, and uh,

2023
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:24,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's like we're not even close to being

2024
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 1: as as good as we could be. And we truly

2025
01:35:27,479 --> 01:35:30,439
Speaker 1: believe that. Uh we said, we said all the time,

2026
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 1: and you know so, uh you know, it's it's it's

2027
01:35:33,320 --> 01:35:35,799
Speaker 1: it's amazing how far as defense can can go. Okay,

2028
01:35:36,080 --> 01:35:38,960
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit longer to go to thanks to me.

2029
01:35:39,120 --> 01:35:42,040
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Tremine Edmonds, Bills, a linebacker. We're back

2030
01:35:42,080 --> 01:35:43,760
Speaker 1: with more in a moment. One Bills Live from One

2031
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:58,759
Speaker 1: Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, oh LIT Radio

2032
01:35:58,920 --> 01:36:03,519
Speaker 1: Networks Update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills have wrapped

2033
01:36:03,560 --> 01:36:05,479
Speaker 1: up there practice for the day, getting set to play

2034
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:08,360
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions this coming Sunday. A light walk through

2035
01:36:08,479 --> 01:36:10,800
Speaker 1: type of practice, no pads at all as they take

2036
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:13,000
Speaker 1: it easy as the Bills move into week fifteen. No

2037
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:15,759
Speaker 1: practice today for running back Lashawan McCoy with his hamstring.

2038
01:36:16,000 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 1: No practice today for kicker Stephen Houshka with his back,

2039
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:21,760
Speaker 1: although Sean McDermott says he is confident Howskill will be

2040
01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:24,759
Speaker 1: ready to play on Sunday. No practice today for cornerback

2041
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:27,800
Speaker 1: Ryan Lewis. He is in concussion protocol after an injury

2042
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:31,639
Speaker 1: last Sunday. Limited work today for backup quarterback Eric Anderson.

2043
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:34,760
Speaker 1: He remains in concussion protocol. Chris Hivory good to go,

2044
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:38,080
Speaker 1: should be ready to practice coming up this Sunday, and

2045
01:36:38,439 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 1: the Bills had some roster moves. He should be ready

2046
01:36:41,439 --> 01:36:43,320
Speaker 1: to practice. He was ready to practice day. Should be

2047
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:45,880
Speaker 1: ready to play on Sunday. Roster moves for the Bills.

2048
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:49,080
Speaker 1: They put linebacker Matt Mlano on injured reserve after the

2049
01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 1: injury he suffered the broken foot he suffered against the Jets.

2050
01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:55,400
Speaker 1: They put cornerback arn Johnson on injured reserve after he

2051
01:36:55,479 --> 01:36:58,320
Speaker 1: aggravated his shoulder injury from earlier in the season. Two

2052
01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:01,679
Speaker 1: open roster spots, and the Bills those by elevating running

2053
01:37:01,720 --> 01:37:04,680
Speaker 1: back Keith Ford to the roster, a rookie undrafted free

2054
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:06,960
Speaker 1: agent from Texas. A and M had a pretty good preseason,

2055
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 1: and they signed safety Dean Marlowe from their practice squad

2056
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:12,760
Speaker 1: today as well. Marlow had a short stint on the

2057
01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:15,479
Speaker 1: active roster earlier this season when the Bills were short

2058
01:37:15,560 --> 01:37:18,599
Speaker 1: of safeties. Three players added to the Buffalo practice squad

2059
01:37:18,640 --> 01:37:22,280
Speaker 1: today tight end Kyle Carter, wide receiver Tanner McAvoy, and

2060
01:37:22,520 --> 01:37:26,439
Speaker 1: cornerback Josh Thornton. Bills Lions coming up Sunday at newer

2061
01:37:26,520 --> 01:37:28,559
Speaker 1: Afield one o'clock kickoff. You can catch the game right

2062
01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: here on our flagship in Buffalo, WGR Sports Radio five fifty.

2063
01:37:32,320 --> 01:37:34,640
Speaker 1: The NFL Weekend starts tomorrow night with the Chargers in

2064
01:37:34,760 --> 01:37:37,840
Speaker 1: chiefs in an important AFC West Division game. Chargers running

2065
01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:40,439
Speaker 1: back Melvin Gordon says he expects a decision on whether

2066
01:37:40,479 --> 01:37:43,080
Speaker 1: he played to wait until game time tomorrow. He's listed

2067
01:37:43,120 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 1: as limited yesterday in the practice. Suffered a sprained right

2068
01:37:46,120 --> 01:37:48,679
Speaker 1: knee against the Arizona Cardinals and missed the last couple

2069
01:37:48,720 --> 01:37:51,519
Speaker 1: of games. He looked better than expected working with trainers

2070
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:53,640
Speaker 1: before the Chargers win over the Bengals last week, but

2071
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:56,080
Speaker 1: still a question mark to play on Thursday and the

2072
01:37:56,160 --> 01:37:58,799
Speaker 1: Sabers now ten three and home this season. They finished

2073
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:00,600
Speaker 1: off their current four game homes today and tomorrow night

2074
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:03,800
Speaker 1: when the Arizona Cardinals come to Keybank Center. John Murphy,

2075
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio, Thanks for tuning in.

2076
01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:09,280
Speaker 1: Had a busy day here, a good talking with Tremine Edmonds.

2077
01:38:09,600 --> 01:38:11,120
Speaker 1: We heard a little bit of Josh Allen in the

2078
01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:14,000
Speaker 1: last few minutes at the podium, and um, what else Thurman.

2079
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:17,040
Speaker 1: Thomas was with us as well. Yeah, Thurman was with us.

2080
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:21,639
Speaker 1: We're talking to Thurman about the Jet game. He hadn't

2081
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 1: put the Jet game to bed. He's still stewing about that.

2082
01:38:24,160 --> 01:38:25,640
Speaker 1: And you've gotta come hang with us. We do that

2083
01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:28,639
Speaker 1: very well. We Yeah, we we turned the page pretty quick.

2084
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:32,120
Speaker 1: H on losses just like the players do. Not quite

2085
01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:34,800
Speaker 1: as good as the players, but you know, we do

2086
01:38:34,920 --> 01:38:37,160
Speaker 1: have to. We do have to vent a little bit

2087
01:38:37,520 --> 01:38:39,840
Speaker 1: on Mondays, that's Mondays. Yeah, so we do on Monday.

2088
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:41,720
Speaker 1: We got We got over pretty good this this week.

2089
01:38:41,760 --> 01:38:46,240
Speaker 1: I thought, probably sooner than we should have. Actually, way listen,

2090
01:38:46,280 --> 01:38:48,679
Speaker 1: I yeah, okay, you taught me that early in the season.

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Speaker 1: You gotta move you gotta move on man, you got

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01:38:51,080 --> 01:38:54,760
Speaker 1: you gotta you got more fish to fry, as it were,

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Speaker 1: and you know that's the way it should be. Hey, um,

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll, we got a pretty good one. We think.

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Speaker 1: We talked with Tremaine Edmonds about it. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about this? The Buffalo Bills defense ranked number one

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. It is and yards allowed. Somebody tweeted

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Speaker 1: at us yesterday after the show and said, will you

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Speaker 1: guys please quit talking about the Bills defenses number one

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01:39:14,640 --> 01:39:17,680
Speaker 1: because yards don't matter. Well, yards do matter, and it

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Speaker 1: is the kind of standard way for teams to rank

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Speaker 1: defenses and offenses for that matter. The Bills quietly the

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Speaker 1: top ranked defense yards allowed in the NFL. But what

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01:39:27,200 --> 01:39:29,400
Speaker 1: else do they need to do to be better? Tremaine

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01:39:29,479 --> 01:39:30,960
Speaker 1: had a couple of ideas. He said, all of the

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Speaker 1: above one of your renew give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: O three five fifty and toll free one eight eight eight.

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Speaker 1: By fifty two five fifty, you can vote on our

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01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:40,920
Speaker 1: Twitter poll what does the Bills defense need to be better?

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Speaker 1: Right now? With eleven hundred votes in, forty eight percent

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Speaker 1: of you say they need to create more turnovers, twenty

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Speaker 1: four percent say they need more stops in the red zone,

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01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:53,839
Speaker 1: twenty one percent say they need to limit points allowed,

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Speaker 1: seven percent of something else in mind, give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight O three oh five fifty and toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight. In case you're wondering not we

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01:40:02,479 --> 01:40:04,479
Speaker 1: talk about the Bills defense all the time. It's number

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01:40:04,520 --> 01:40:06,400
Speaker 1: one in yards given up per game, and that's how

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Speaker 1: the NFL does it because, as we mentioned earlier in

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Speaker 1: the show, one of the reasons they do that is

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01:40:11,320 --> 01:40:14,160
Speaker 1: the fact that the Bills defense took the field once

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01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:17,920
Speaker 1: this last weekend, gave up four yards total and it

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01:40:18,040 --> 01:40:21,160
Speaker 1: was a touchdown because the return game had put the

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01:40:21,200 --> 01:40:23,559
Speaker 1: ball down inside the five yard line. Their number one

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01:40:23,640 --> 01:40:25,639
Speaker 1: in the league in yards given up per game. That's

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Speaker 1: why the league says, hey, this is the number one defense.

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01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:32,800
Speaker 1: Their number three in yards per play given up, their

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01:40:32,920 --> 01:40:35,720
Speaker 1: number one in passing yards given up per game, and

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01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:39,600
Speaker 1: their number three in yards per play passing given up

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01:40:39,640 --> 01:40:41,840
Speaker 1: in a game. They're tied for fourth in the league

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01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:44,040
Speaker 1: in first downs a game, so it's they're hard to

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01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:46,080
Speaker 1: move the football on. As you would imagine, that kind

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01:40:46,120 --> 01:40:50,880
Speaker 1: of goes hand in hand. Their number eight in rushing

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01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:53,960
Speaker 1: yards a play and they're number nine in rushing yards

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Speaker 1: a game, so they're in the top ten and all

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01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:58,600
Speaker 1: those important categories. They're hard to move the football on.

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01:40:59,479 --> 01:41:02,720
Speaker 1: But as we noted, there was something that's missing from

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01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:04,760
Speaker 1: this defense this year that they had last year, and

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01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:08,680
Speaker 1: it was their ability to churn out turnovers. They got

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01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 1: that a lot last year and that was really the

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01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:13,640
Speaker 1: engine I thought that drove that team to you know,

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01:41:14,240 --> 01:41:16,280
Speaker 1: be as it may, they backed into the playoffs, they

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01:41:16,280 --> 01:41:19,320
Speaker 1: were still there and it was large doing large measure,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, to the turnovers they got. But as

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Speaker 1: some of our listeners have pointed out, the statistic a

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Speaker 1: lot of people and a lot of them the only

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01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:29,400
Speaker 1: one they care about is how many points your defense

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Speaker 1: gives up. And that's the that's the acid test. And

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01:41:32,600 --> 01:41:35,320
Speaker 1: I and the Bills are twentieth in the league and

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01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:38,160
Speaker 1: that which is not great, but it's not horrible either.

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01:41:38,240 --> 01:41:40,600
Speaker 1: But it's also a funs It's also a function of

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01:41:40,680 --> 01:41:44,639
Speaker 1: complimentary football. You got an offense that has struggled big

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01:41:44,760 --> 01:41:47,880
Speaker 1: time to score points and at times has struggled big

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01:41:47,960 --> 01:41:52,840
Speaker 1: time to even stay on the field. That haunts your

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01:41:52,920 --> 01:41:55,120
Speaker 1: defense when they go out there over the course of time.

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01:41:55,200 --> 01:41:57,280
Speaker 1: And that's why sometimes, like I said, they had a

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01:41:57,360 --> 01:41:59,840
Speaker 1: five yard field to defend last week, we gotta call

2158
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:02,280
Speaker 1: wants to make that point. I believe reinforce it anyway,

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Speaker 1: Thomas in Rochester, Go ahead, Thomas, you're on the air. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks that you just took the words out. I'm out, Steve.

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01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:13,000
Speaker 1: I wanted to say how when the offense is going

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Speaker 1: three and out for a large part of the season,

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01:42:17,080 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 1: it gives the other teams that many more opportunities to

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01:42:19,960 --> 01:42:23,160
Speaker 1: score twenty thirty forty points in the game. It's just

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Speaker 1: more opportunities that the opposing offense gets to give go

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01:42:27,360 --> 01:42:30,760
Speaker 1: out there and and uh, you know, wear our defense down.

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01:42:30,800 --> 01:42:33,880
Speaker 1: And yet I think they deserve the number one spot

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01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:36,679
Speaker 1: and they'll league giving all those circumstances. Yeah, and there's

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Speaker 1: something to be said too that Thomas, that when your

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Speaker 1: offense isn't that big a threat, the offense you're facing

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01:42:46,880 --> 01:42:49,080
Speaker 1: doesn't pull out all the stops either. I mean, you're

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01:42:49,160 --> 01:42:51,400
Speaker 1: running there, you know, they don't have a problem running

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01:42:51,479 --> 01:42:53,479
Speaker 1: up for it on third and five, or doing some

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Speaker 1: things maybe a little bit more conservatively, maybe helping your

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01:42:56,479 --> 01:43:01,800
Speaker 1: defense out on the yardage thing, but really still you know,

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01:43:01,920 --> 01:43:04,519
Speaker 1: still being in control of the game. There's some of

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01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:06,800
Speaker 1: that there at certain situations, but you can't make that

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Speaker 1: as a blanket statement. Some people have been chiming in

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Speaker 1: about that, about how this offense doesn't scare anybody, so

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01:43:12,240 --> 01:43:15,360
Speaker 1: nobody's really trying to play offense against the Bills. I

2181
01:43:15,439 --> 01:43:18,360
Speaker 1: don't buy that too much. These offenses are still trying

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01:43:18,400 --> 01:43:20,960
Speaker 1: to be really productive and they're they're going hard. Now,

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01:43:21,000 --> 01:43:22,840
Speaker 1: there may be an instance here now where a coach

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01:43:23,040 --> 01:43:24,640
Speaker 1: might say, hey, we're gonna go for it here and

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01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:27,120
Speaker 1: not go for it there based on the quality of

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01:43:27,160 --> 01:43:29,599
Speaker 1: the Bills offense. But for the most part, these teams

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01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:32,320
Speaker 1: are really trying to get in the end zone. A

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01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:34,800
Speaker 1: couple of time, a couple of responses who are Twitter

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01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:38,760
Speaker 1: question on the tweet sheet from number one Bills tackle better.

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01:43:39,200 --> 01:43:41,400
Speaker 1: Most of the big plays this defense has that happened

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01:43:41,439 --> 01:43:43,680
Speaker 1: this year were the result of miss tackles as to

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Speaker 1: go Bills. Is that true? I don't know if I

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01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:49,439
Speaker 1: have that. I can't add it up. I suppose I

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01:43:49,479 --> 01:43:52,320
Speaker 1: could research it. I don't feel like they've they've really

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, there are gonna be misstackles all the time,

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Speaker 1: But is that a major problemt for this defense? I

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Speaker 1: don't think so. Steve, do you have any thoughts on Yeah,

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01:44:00,000 --> 01:44:02,120
Speaker 1: that's that true. Are they a bad tackling team? I

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Speaker 1: don't think so. Yeah, most of the big plays, there's

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01:44:05,640 --> 01:44:08,439
Speaker 1: been some mistackles. Probably. I can't think of an egregious one,

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Speaker 1: you know, like sometimes you can think of a big

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01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:12,320
Speaker 1: play that happened because a guy missed a guy in

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01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:14,920
Speaker 1: it right at the point of a tag. I gotta

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01:44:14,960 --> 01:44:16,800
Speaker 1: tell you that one that right there kind of catches

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01:44:16,840 --> 01:44:19,280
Speaker 1: me off guard a little bit. I don't think it's true.

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Speaker 1: I didn't, you know. I'm sure that there's been some mistackles,

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01:44:23,120 --> 01:44:25,720
Speaker 1: no question, but I don't know that that's been a

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01:44:25,880 --> 01:44:28,040
Speaker 1: glaring problem. Like you can look at the other side

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Speaker 1: of the ball. You can say, hey, you know, they've

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01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:33,800
Speaker 1: had a ton of drops, you know, in the passing game.

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01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 1: But if you flip that, I don't see there's been

2212
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:40,400
Speaker 1: that many mistackles. Not egregious. I don't know this tweet

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Speaker 1: from Marty Rogers. The defense has been great this year,

2214
01:44:42,920 --> 01:44:45,080
Speaker 1: but I have to go with red zone stops. It's

2215
01:44:45,160 --> 01:44:47,200
Speaker 1: hurt the team over the last few weeks. In the

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01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:50,080
Speaker 1: games we lost against Miami, the Jets, and Houston, the

2217
01:44:50,120 --> 01:44:53,600
Speaker 1: difference between touchdowns and field goals was costly. Hard to

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01:44:53,640 --> 01:44:56,240
Speaker 1: complain about the defense, though, good point. I agree with you, Marty,

2219
01:44:56,360 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 1: and I agree with you about the red zone stops,

2220
01:44:58,120 --> 01:45:00,320
Speaker 1: especially the last two weeks. And you bring up Houston,

2221
01:45:00,439 --> 01:45:02,800
Speaker 1: that was true. They didn't do well in there in

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01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:05,360
Speaker 1: the red zone against the Houston Texans way back in

2223
01:45:05,439 --> 01:45:10,080
Speaker 1: October was at October fourteenth. I believe red zone stops important.

2224
01:45:10,720 --> 01:45:12,240
Speaker 1: You know, you can always get a sense how the

2225
01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:14,800
Speaker 1: defense is going from talking to Lorenzo and we got

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01:45:14,880 --> 01:45:17,120
Speaker 1: him in here on Fridays and every Friday. You know.

2227
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:19,360
Speaker 1: Earlier on the season was like, well we played okay,

2228
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:21,200
Speaker 1: the numbers are good, but we didn't get any takeaways.

2229
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:23,000
Speaker 1: And then the last couple of weeks it's been, well,

2230
01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:24,720
Speaker 1: we didn't get that we're giving up touchdowns and that

2231
01:45:24,800 --> 01:45:27,320
Speaker 1: field goals on the red zone. I think he's this guy.

2232
01:45:27,520 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: He's a guy who understandably has his finger on the

2233
01:45:30,560 --> 01:45:33,080
Speaker 1: pulse of what's going on in that defense. We should

2234
01:45:33,080 --> 01:45:35,720
Speaker 1: ask this question Friday of Lorenzo when he comes in here.

2235
01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:37,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, we will, and he'll he'll be in his

2236
01:45:38,160 --> 01:45:40,360
Speaker 1: lowdown too. He'll give us some points and he thinks

2237
01:45:40,400 --> 01:45:42,599
Speaker 1: are important. And I'm sure that he's going to address

2238
01:45:42,920 --> 01:45:45,600
Speaker 1: probably more than one of the choices we have on

2239
01:45:45,680 --> 01:45:48,719
Speaker 1: our list. Yeah you know, I mean, yeah, he's gonna,

2240
01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:51,080
Speaker 1: but we like to prioritize, make you find the ones right,

2241
01:45:51,200 --> 01:45:52,640
Speaker 1: just like a couple. That is true. I want to

2242
01:45:52,680 --> 01:45:56,200
Speaker 1: take this phone call here, Mike in north Tonawanda, Mike

2243
01:45:56,280 --> 01:46:00,200
Speaker 1: and NT go ahead, Mike. You're on the air, Mike,

2244
01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 1: and he's gone. I thought he had a good topic,

2245
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:05,479
Speaker 1: but he couldn't wait, Greg and Lancaster. Are you there? Greg?

2246
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:11,320
Speaker 1: This is going well. I'm suspecting user error. There are

2247
01:46:11,320 --> 01:46:13,360
Speaker 1: you doing? Fine? Let me try one more if I

2248
01:46:13,400 --> 01:46:16,200
Speaker 1: can go over for three years. Stand in Buffalo stand

2249
01:46:17,479 --> 01:46:21,479
Speaker 1: he stands. There you guys doing today? I'm doing good? Great? Listen,

2250
01:46:21,520 --> 01:46:23,880
Speaker 1: I'm going off the defensive thing. My big thing is

2251
01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:25,560
Speaker 1: I want to dress with you guys. Is I know

2252
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:28,920
Speaker 1: we have about what ninety million dollars coming up in

2253
01:46:29,040 --> 01:46:32,200
Speaker 1: cap space next year if I'm correct at nine point eight? Yeah,

2254
01:46:32,280 --> 01:46:35,839
Speaker 1: go ahead, Okay. My big thing is is this reminds

2255
01:46:35,880 --> 01:46:39,439
Speaker 1: me as a parallel to when Russ Brandon gave a

2256
01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:42,880
Speaker 1: checkbook to Tim Murray with the Sabers. I don't like

2257
01:46:42,920 --> 01:46:46,200
Speaker 1: to do the correlations, but it all went. It put

2258
01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:48,240
Speaker 1: us two three years behind. My point is with the

2259
01:46:48,280 --> 01:46:50,519
Speaker 1: free agency right now, let's go out we need in

2260
01:46:50,600 --> 01:46:53,320
Speaker 1: the draft. Let's get and fill our needs. If we

2261
01:46:53,439 --> 01:46:56,719
Speaker 1: have a process, it's another year or two process. Let's

2262
01:46:56,760 --> 01:46:58,439
Speaker 1: not spend all our money and put all ours in

2263
01:46:58,520 --> 01:47:01,080
Speaker 1: one basket. Let's see what we can do. Let's see

2264
01:47:01,120 --> 01:47:02,360
Speaker 1: we can get, Let's see who we can bring in

2265
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:05,280
Speaker 1: and save some money for the future. Stand. I'm totally

2266
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 1: with you. I'm not. I am totally let's get better.

2267
01:47:08,120 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 1: What are you waiting for? Here's the things and here's

2268
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:13,839
Speaker 1: the thing I'm and I don't have a problem spending

2269
01:47:13,920 --> 01:47:15,760
Speaker 1: every cent of it. If you spend it on the

2270
01:47:15,880 --> 01:47:19,400
Speaker 1: right guys. Yeah, if they're not out there, don't don't

2271
01:47:19,680 --> 01:47:23,080
Speaker 1: force your hand. If they're not out there and you

2272
01:47:23,320 --> 01:47:26,400
Speaker 1: not out, don't spend it. Anyway. I don't have a

2273
01:47:26,520 --> 01:47:28,840
Speaker 1: problem if they come out. And but let's face it,

2274
01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 1: they've got to sign somebody. Yeah, free agent market, there's

2275
01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:35,920
Speaker 1: no question about it. But I don't I'm not a

2276
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:38,519
Speaker 1: big fan of going out and blowing every dime you've

2277
01:47:38,560 --> 01:47:41,160
Speaker 1: got in your pocket. You've got to spend it wisely.

2278
01:47:41,400 --> 01:47:43,640
Speaker 1: You do your best if you can. We've said this

2279
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:46,200
Speaker 1: over and over again, do your best not to overspend.

2280
01:47:46,760 --> 01:47:50,960
Speaker 1: I think Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer are right on

2281
01:47:51,080 --> 01:47:53,160
Speaker 1: part with what they're making. They're great and a good buck.

2282
01:47:53,200 --> 01:47:55,240
Speaker 1: They've got a good bucking free agency and they've earned it.

2283
01:47:55,640 --> 01:47:57,519
Speaker 1: They are doing really well back there. We've got a

2284
01:47:57,640 --> 01:48:01,200
Speaker 1: really good safety tandem. You've got Starlo tou Lala and

2285
01:48:01,240 --> 01:48:02,880
Speaker 1: a lot of people, and we haven't heard too much

2286
01:48:02,920 --> 01:48:04,760
Speaker 1: about him. Let me tell you something, Murph, and I've

2287
01:48:04,760 --> 01:48:06,320
Speaker 1: had this conversation a couple of times. I think it

2288
01:48:06,360 --> 01:48:07,880
Speaker 1: was with you at least once or twice, and then

2289
01:48:07,920 --> 01:48:10,800
Speaker 1: I've had it with other people. Starlo too Lelee made

2290
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:12,439
Speaker 1: a lot of money this year for the Buffalo Bills

2291
01:48:12,479 --> 01:48:15,639
Speaker 1: in free agency, despite the fact that he doesn't get tackles,

2292
01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:18,120
Speaker 1: doesn't make sacks, anything like that. Let me tell you something,

2293
01:48:18,560 --> 01:48:22,320
Speaker 1: He's earned it. That guy has been really really good

2294
01:48:22,479 --> 01:48:25,920
Speaker 1: down inside. He's doing exactly what they're asking him to do.

2295
01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:30,120
Speaker 1: He's soaking up offensive lineman and Tremaine Edmonds and Matt

2296
01:48:30,200 --> 01:48:35,200
Speaker 1: Milano in particular, we're having Milano was having really good

2297
01:48:35,360 --> 01:48:38,840
Speaker 1: seasons because that offensive lineman can't get to them. So

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Speaker 1: guys like Starlo too Lelee have been great and you

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01:48:42,560 --> 01:48:44,360
Speaker 1: won't see it on the stat sheet, but he's been

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01:48:44,400 --> 01:48:47,679
Speaker 1: a perfect kind of template for the type of guy,

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Speaker 1: along with Poorer and Hyde, of the kind of guys

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Speaker 1: you want to get in free agency, guys who will

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01:48:52,520 --> 01:48:55,080
Speaker 1: earn exactly what you get him. When you start blowing

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Speaker 1: money out, like you know, he starts spending ninety five

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Speaker 1: million bucks on one guy, it messes everything up. Your

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01:49:03,240 --> 01:49:05,240
Speaker 1: cap goes askew. And you look at I have this

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01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:08,080
Speaker 1: a tweet here, and this is an illustration of it.

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01:49:08,400 --> 01:49:11,280
Speaker 1: The top six quarterbacks in the league, the top paid

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01:49:11,360 --> 01:49:14,920
Speaker 1: six quarterbacks in the league. One of them, one of

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Speaker 1: them is in a playoff race. Kirk Cousins one of them.

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01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:23,960
Speaker 1: Rogers isn't, Mike Matt Ryan is not. Those other guys aren't.

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01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:25,680
Speaker 1: And the other guys on that list aren't either. And

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01:49:25,720 --> 01:49:32,120
Speaker 1: here here's their name. Jimmy Garoppolo, who's hurt. Matt Stafford

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01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 1: is not in a playoff race, and Derek Carr none

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01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:36,280
Speaker 1: of those guys who are the top paid quarterbacks except

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01:49:36,320 --> 01:49:38,800
Speaker 1: for Kirk Cousins in a playoff race. You gotta hit

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01:49:38,840 --> 01:49:41,519
Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna earn the money you're paying him,

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Speaker 1: whatever position it is. Now I use the quarterback as

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01:49:43,680 --> 01:49:47,160
Speaker 1: an example. Well, the quarterback, you gotta you gotta surround

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01:49:47,240 --> 01:49:49,920
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback with talent as quickly as you can.

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Speaker 1: Ye see right now, you get him on his rookie quarterback,

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01:49:53,880 --> 01:49:57,000
Speaker 1: he's out perfecting, spending money for the talented guys around him.

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Speaker 1: Stand what Stand's gone? I have a question for him. Look,

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01:50:00,240 --> 01:50:03,599
Speaker 1: I'm not saying being a ridiculous, reckless with the money,

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01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:06,719
Speaker 1: but spend it. Spend it, find the right guys. Don't

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Speaker 1: don't spend money on guys that aren't going to fit

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01:50:08,760 --> 01:50:10,880
Speaker 1: in your culture. Don't spend money on guys who don't

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01:50:10,920 --> 01:50:13,559
Speaker 1: have a lot to contribute. But we can't keep talking

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01:50:13,560 --> 01:50:16,360
Speaker 1: about let's wait, let's let's wait for another year. They're nonna, no,

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01:50:16,439 --> 01:50:18,679
Speaker 1: they're gonna spend it. But I think what stands getting

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01:50:18,720 --> 01:50:24,080
Speaker 1: to is, man, don't go on a shopping spree and

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01:50:24,160 --> 01:50:26,240
Speaker 1: buy stuff you don't need. Well, they won't do that.

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01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:30,040
Speaker 1: They need things you don't do that. They need things.

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01:50:30,120 --> 01:50:32,960
Speaker 1: They need offensive lineman, they need receivers. They may need

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01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:35,040
Speaker 1: another back, that's all we need. Probably need a tight

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01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:37,519
Speaker 1: end and spend twenty five million bucks a year on

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01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:41,559
Speaker 1: a guard. They need offensive lineman. And if it's twenty

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01:50:41,600 --> 01:50:43,400
Speaker 1: five million to get a good one here, okay. So

2339
01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:45,559
Speaker 1: they get a guard who can run, and they get

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01:50:45,720 --> 01:50:48,400
Speaker 1: no wide receivers because they can't afford it. That's my point.

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01:50:48,520 --> 01:50:51,719
Speaker 1: Twenty five million won't break the bank. I might getting

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01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:53,400
Speaker 1: North Town of Wine. I believe you're ready now, Mike,

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01:50:53,640 --> 01:50:57,320
Speaker 1: are you there? Yes, sir, I'm sorry when you announced

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01:50:57,400 --> 01:50:59,760
Speaker 1: my name, I was started talking to you and I

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01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:02,680
Speaker 1: myself off. Oh man, that's for me to do, Mike.

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01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:06,040
Speaker 1: It was user error, just wasn't Murph. Go ahead, Mike,

2347
01:51:06,720 --> 01:51:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm cell phone challenged and I was trying to past.

2348
01:51:09,520 --> 01:51:13,000
Speaker 1: But let's talk football. What does what does the Bills

2349
01:51:13,080 --> 01:51:16,320
Speaker 1: defense need? I think there was a good remark about tackling.

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01:51:16,479 --> 01:51:21,519
Speaker 1: Tackling has been an issue, Yes it has. Well even

2351
01:51:21,600 --> 01:51:23,760
Speaker 1: looked back to last year. Well not last year, what

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01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:27,040
Speaker 1: about this year. I'm talking about a history of the

2353
01:51:27,160 --> 01:51:29,479
Speaker 1: short history of the team. But who's a bad tackler?

2354
01:51:30,880 --> 01:51:34,519
Speaker 1: Well to Steven, look at what the Pittsburgh weren't adicted

2355
01:51:34,600 --> 01:51:37,320
Speaker 1: to us last year. It was embarrassing. But I didn't

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01:51:37,360 --> 01:51:39,880
Speaker 1: call to talk about that. Guys. Okay, go ahead. What

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01:51:40,040 --> 01:51:44,880
Speaker 1: do the Bills need? One guy's name Joey Bosa or

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01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:49,160
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa, whichever one of those guys. Uh, either Bosa,

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01:51:50,120 --> 01:51:53,320
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack somebody like that. Right. Well, yeah, but I'm

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01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:56,920
Speaker 1: but taking draft Bosa. They're currently in the sixth position,

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01:51:57,000 --> 01:52:00,360
Speaker 1: I believe, yeah, and they're not gonna win the rest

2362
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:03,080
Speaker 1: of their games, so if they have a shot, they

2363
01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:05,400
Speaker 1: have to go after him. Let me just ask you.

2364
01:52:05,479 --> 01:52:07,200
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. Let me ask you, though, Mike,

2365
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:10,920
Speaker 1: with all of their offensive needs running back, now let

2366
01:52:10,960 --> 01:52:14,800
Speaker 1: me start again, offensive line, wide receiver, and all of

2367
01:52:14,800 --> 01:52:17,519
Speaker 1: their offensive leads at six overall, you would choose the

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01:52:17,600 --> 01:52:21,960
Speaker 1: defensive end absolutely because this is a this is a

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01:52:22,840 --> 01:52:27,599
Speaker 1: once in a decade player. Okay, you're that sold if

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01:52:27,600 --> 01:52:29,960
Speaker 1: you're that sold on him? Okay, are you big Ohio

2371
01:52:30,080 --> 01:52:31,680
Speaker 1: State fan? Our? Or is that where he goes to?

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01:52:32,800 --> 01:52:36,240
Speaker 1: Are you big Ohio State fan? Mike, I've I've loved

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01:52:36,280 --> 01:52:39,360
Speaker 1: Ohio State over the years, but no, I'm just thinking

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01:52:39,439 --> 01:52:44,760
Speaker 1: Bosa and I saw this on the news. You know

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01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:47,559
Speaker 1: you can't pass up an opportunity like that. But no, police,

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01:52:47,640 --> 01:52:50,760
Speaker 1: I know they're glaring needs on offense. I'm an old

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01:52:50,840 --> 01:52:54,120
Speaker 1: offensive lineman and I'm embarrassed by the way some of

2378
01:52:54,160 --> 01:52:57,160
Speaker 1: these guys have played this year. I was telling people

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01:52:57,160 --> 01:52:59,720
Speaker 1: they should be embarrassed to collect the checks. That's how

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01:53:00,280 --> 01:53:04,519
Speaker 1: well I'll tell you, Mike. I I mean, I hear

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01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:08,720
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Um, I don't know that when you've

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01:53:08,720 --> 01:53:12,080
Speaker 1: got a defense that has been as effective as the

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01:53:12,160 --> 01:53:15,320
Speaker 1: Bills defense has and an offense that has been what

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01:53:15,479 --> 01:53:19,599
Speaker 1: the Bills offense has been this year. So you spend

2385
01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:21,960
Speaker 1: a high draft pick on the side of the ball

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01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:30,000
Speaker 1: that's already good. Steve, go ahead, Steve Kama. I'm watching

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01:53:30,080 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 1: TV too, and you were talking and kept interrupting linself

2388
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:36,600
Speaker 1: been Okay, I'm highly aware of what they need. And

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01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:41,560
Speaker 1: if you had asked the question, what's the Bills the

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01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:44,479
Speaker 1: glaring need for the team? Well, yeah, I start with

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01:53:44,600 --> 01:53:49,080
Speaker 1: wide receiver and offensive lineman. There's no doubt. And unfortunately

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01:53:49,160 --> 01:53:52,960
Speaker 1: I thinks Sean is you know, I mean, he doesn't

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01:53:53,000 --> 01:53:55,120
Speaker 1: have a lot of time left. I think he could

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01:53:55,160 --> 01:53:57,519
Speaker 1: still be a strong runner if he gets the blocking.

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01:53:58,200 --> 01:54:01,800
Speaker 1: But your question was defense, Yeah, I got you. Their

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01:54:01,840 --> 01:54:05,160
Speaker 1: pass rush sucks at times, guys, sometimes they come on

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01:54:05,320 --> 01:54:08,680
Speaker 1: like gangbusters. But we didn't get any pressure on the

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01:54:08,800 --> 01:54:11,559
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and or not enough pressure, or we didn't get

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01:54:11,640 --> 01:54:15,040
Speaker 1: enough sacks. I got you. So your your question. You're

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01:54:15,080 --> 01:54:18,000
Speaker 1: answered our question today on what the what does the

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01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:20,760
Speaker 1: Bills defense need to do to do better? Your your

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01:54:20,840 --> 01:54:24,280
Speaker 1: answers pass rush for sure, without a doubt. Okay, to

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01:54:24,400 --> 01:54:28,280
Speaker 1: been a defensive end and another linebacker. Lorenzo is not

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01:54:28,320 --> 01:54:31,559
Speaker 1: going to hang around forever. Okay, I got you. Would

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01:54:31,800 --> 01:54:34,200
Speaker 1: I would take Bosa and then I would spend the

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01:54:34,280 --> 01:54:37,200
Speaker 1: rest of my money in free agency and draft picks

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01:54:37,280 --> 01:54:40,360
Speaker 1: on offensive lineman wide receivers, and start to look for

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01:54:40,400 --> 01:54:42,440
Speaker 1: another running back. One more question for you, Mike, is

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01:54:42,440 --> 01:54:44,520
Speaker 1: Bosa going to be there? Say? If they do draft six?

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01:54:45,120 --> 01:54:49,160
Speaker 1: Not likely, is it, sir? You know what? I don't know,

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01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:53,400
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, he's a generational player to me. Um,

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01:54:54,040 --> 01:54:57,200
Speaker 1: you know, we always have to take the best athlete available.

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01:54:57,800 --> 01:55:00,280
Speaker 1: We tried to draft my position in the seven and

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01:55:01,240 --> 01:55:04,720
Speaker 1: that feel miserable. Everybody does it. Everybody drafts for need.

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01:55:04,960 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 1: They draft the best player available at the position they need. Usually,

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01:55:08,880 --> 01:55:11,160
Speaker 1: but I get it. I mean sometimes they lose discipline, Mike,

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01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:13,840
Speaker 1: And I think here's the thing that you look at

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01:55:13,880 --> 01:55:16,800
Speaker 1: the top of the draft. None of the teams down

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01:55:16,920 --> 01:55:19,560
Speaker 1: towards Buffalo all the way at six, maybe seven. The

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Speaker 1: first team that pops up in the draft order, Um,

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01:55:23,600 --> 01:55:27,400
Speaker 1: that needs a quarterback is Jacksonville at number seven. I

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01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:29,080
Speaker 1: think is the way I saw it last It may

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Speaker 1: have switched over the weekend, but the first six teams

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Speaker 1: in the draft, none of them are going to be

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Speaker 1: taking a quarterback. As amazing as that is so draft,

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01:55:39,880 --> 01:55:43,240
Speaker 1: but months that's something we didn't put on our poll though, Murph,

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01:55:43,280 --> 01:55:46,640
Speaker 1: we didn't put pass rush down as we as a need.

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01:55:47,680 --> 01:55:51,080
Speaker 1: As you know, it's points allowed, more turnovers, more stops

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01:55:51,120 --> 01:55:55,840
Speaker 1: in the red zone. We this is more statistical analysis

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Speaker 1: of our pole. Twitter back. So I didn't have anything.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say I didn't have anything do with

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Speaker 1: this Twitter pole. So let me just pick it apart. Now,

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01:56:05,560 --> 01:56:08,520
Speaker 1: if we if we need, if we're gonna go by positions,

2434
01:56:08,560 --> 01:56:12,520
Speaker 1: say do we need another cornerback opposite Turdevius, Do we

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01:56:12,640 --> 01:56:16,160
Speaker 1: need or pass rusher or another linebacker who can cover

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01:56:16,240 --> 01:56:19,360
Speaker 1: or whatever? Yeah, I might say pass rusher first two.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're talking about personnel, but we're

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Speaker 1: was waiting for right there. Okay, Mike Tomlin deserves more

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Speaker 1: criticism than Bill Belichick. Sure, I'm saying. Listen, there's thirty well, okay, here,

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Speaker 1: let's say it this way. Then there's thirty one teams

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01:58:14,760 --> 01:58:17,200
Speaker 1: who would probably fire their guy tonight if they could

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Speaker 1: get Bill Belichick to coach for him. And there's a

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Speaker 1: probably twenty seven or twenty eight plus who would fire

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Speaker 1: their guy for Mike Tomlin. So I'm gonna say I

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01:58:27,320 --> 01:58:29,640
Speaker 1: guess that's true. Mike Tomlin does deserve more criticism. He

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01:58:29,640 --> 01:58:32,000
Speaker 1: hasn't won his mad super Bowls. What does that mean?

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01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:35,760
Speaker 1: I'm trying. Everybody's like a prisoner. Both those guys lose

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01:58:35,800 --> 01:58:38,480
Speaker 1: a game, right, Mike Tomlin loses a game because his

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01:58:38,640 --> 01:58:42,600
Speaker 1: kicker slides four feet on his plant leg and bounces

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01:58:42,640 --> 01:58:45,440
Speaker 1: one into the line. And Bill Belichick loses on the

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01:58:45,520 --> 01:58:50,520
Speaker 1: most unlikely, unbelievable miracle play in Miami and now the

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01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:54,440
Speaker 1: whole world is standing in line to throw a stone

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01:58:54,520 --> 01:58:57,280
Speaker 1: at him. Give me a break. I'm gonna go false.

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01:58:57,400 --> 01:58:59,920
Speaker 1: Neither one deserves. Neither one does. I'm not saying the

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01:59:00,080 --> 01:59:04,600
Speaker 1: above reproach, above criticism, but come on taking a heat

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01:59:04,640 --> 01:59:08,200
Speaker 1: because he had because he had Gronkowski on them. There's

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01:59:08,400 --> 01:59:10,680
Speaker 1: ten other guys out there that couldn't tackle either, and

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01:59:10,720 --> 01:59:12,760
Speaker 1: they're saying, oh, because Grunk is the reason they's going

2489
01:59:12,880 --> 01:59:16,720
Speaker 1: to come on. I mean, calm down for a minute. Yeah,

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01:59:17,800 --> 01:59:21,440
Speaker 1: all right, true or false. Number two Seahawks have overachieved

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01:59:21,480 --> 01:59:25,280
Speaker 1: the most in twenty eighteen. I'm gonna say they're in

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01:59:25,320 --> 01:59:27,640
Speaker 1: that conversation. I'm gonna say I like the Chicago Bears.

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01:59:29,120 --> 01:59:31,320
Speaker 1: I think their defense and the trade they made. Of course,

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01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:34,440
Speaker 1: you gotta take coming into the season, Khalil Mack wasn't

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01:59:35,440 --> 01:59:37,640
Speaker 1: in that equation, and now that he's on there, maybe

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01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:40,720
Speaker 1: their higher expectations got you know, got raised because of that.

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01:59:40,800 --> 01:59:43,240
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you what the Bears um and I

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01:59:43,360 --> 01:59:44,920
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm a little bit of a prisoner at

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01:59:44,920 --> 01:59:46,400
Speaker 1: the moment because of the way they played against a

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01:59:46,440 --> 01:59:49,960
Speaker 1: really good Rams team the other night in subfreezing weather.

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Speaker 1: But if the Bears get a home playoff game. They're tough. Yeah,

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01:59:55,800 --> 01:59:57,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna be really tough in the playoffs. So I'm

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01:59:57,840 --> 02:00:03,160
Speaker 1: gonna say false. I think the Bears are. I think

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02:00:03,200 --> 02:00:05,840
Speaker 1: the Bears overachieved more because their quarterback had more quarter

2505
02:00:05,960 --> 02:00:09,480
Speaker 1: great question marks coming. Looked at that article, right and

2506
02:00:09,640 --> 02:00:13,080
Speaker 1: found the Bills were what the sixth best overachieving Yeah

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02:00:13,120 --> 02:00:16,400
Speaker 1: that wrote this art. It was in the oh gosh,

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02:00:16,400 --> 02:00:17,680
Speaker 1: you know, let me look at it real quick. It

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02:00:17,720 --> 02:00:21,720
Speaker 1: was in a in a called It was at the

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Speaker 1: the for the Win website USA Sports Today Sports and

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Speaker 1: they had the Seattle Seahawks as the most overachieving team

2512
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Speaker 1: than the Chicago Bears. Right. Uh, Indianapolis Colts were the fourth.

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02:00:35,040 --> 02:00:37,600
Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys, I mean sorry, the Colts were the third.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys were the fourth most overachieving team in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and that Buffalo Bills are number five for overachieving. They

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02:00:46,320 --> 02:00:48,960
Speaker 1: everybody thought at the beginning of the season, particularly the

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02:00:49,080 --> 02:00:51,200
Speaker 1: USA Today, that the Buffalo Bills were going to be

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Speaker 1: by far the worst team in the National Football League.

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02:00:54,840 --> 02:00:57,040
Speaker 1: And I didn't think that. I didn't either, But by

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Speaker 1: far they are not. I mean, they're they're not. They're

2521
02:00:59,360 --> 02:01:02,600
Speaker 1: not a good foot ball team. But man, there's a there.

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02:01:03,160 --> 02:01:05,240
Speaker 1: They've been really competitive in the past month and a

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02:01:05,320 --> 02:01:07,960
Speaker 1: half with a rookie quarterback coming in, and they had

2524
02:01:08,440 --> 02:01:11,880
Speaker 1: disastrous turn of events a couple of times during the

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02:01:12,080 --> 02:01:14,880
Speaker 1: season with their quarterback position being injured. So yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Bills have overachieved. And in that respect, it's hard to

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02:01:17,280 --> 02:01:20,080
Speaker 1: look at a four and nineteen, I know, but man, listen,

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02:01:20,240 --> 02:01:24,120
Speaker 1: think people were thinking saying, outright, well, that's the little

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Speaker 1: Bills on them, right, who are the idiots who thought

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02:01:26,360 --> 02:01:27,560
Speaker 1: they were the worst team in the gay And there

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02:01:27,640 --> 02:01:29,200
Speaker 1: was more than one though. I'm just saying there are

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Speaker 1: people who thought the Bills were the worst team in

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02:01:31,120 --> 02:01:33,840
Speaker 1: football by far, and that right or wrong they were

2534
02:01:34,040 --> 02:01:36,800
Speaker 1: that they see now the Bills are being overachievers. So

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Speaker 1: there you go. Here's here's what happened. It's a media thing,

2536
02:01:39,400 --> 02:01:43,520
Speaker 1: and that's been crazy. Some media outlet or writer or

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02:01:43,560 --> 02:01:47,120
Speaker 1: broadcaster will say something and all of a sudden everybody

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02:01:47,160 --> 02:01:48,840
Speaker 1: accepts it. Well, yeah, the Bills are that bad, they're

2539
02:01:48,840 --> 02:01:51,080
Speaker 1: gonna be awful this year, and then they're not. And

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02:01:51,240 --> 02:01:53,320
Speaker 1: now the story is, oh, the Bills aren't as bad

2541
02:01:53,360 --> 02:01:56,240
Speaker 1: as I predicted they would be. And so that's the story. Come, wow,

2542
02:01:56,280 --> 02:01:59,000
Speaker 1: the Bills are surprised. Yeah, Bills are really a surprising

2543
02:01:59,040 --> 02:02:01,720
Speaker 1: overachieving team there. Four and look, I think, and I

2544
02:02:01,840 --> 02:02:03,880
Speaker 1: think I said they're gonna win six or seven. They're

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02:02:03,880 --> 02:02:05,520
Speaker 1: gonna have to hustle to get the six or seven

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02:02:05,600 --> 02:02:09,840
Speaker 1: this year. But they're kind of right where I thought

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02:02:09,880 --> 02:02:12,320
Speaker 1: they'd be there four and nine. Overachieving at four and nine,

2548
02:02:12,720 --> 02:02:15,520
Speaker 1: that's almost an insult. Dude, any team was six or

2549
02:02:15,560 --> 02:02:18,080
Speaker 1: eight with the three close games they lost in the

2550
02:02:18,280 --> 02:02:21,280
Speaker 1: last two in particular, kind of stick with me. But

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02:02:21,480 --> 02:02:23,800
Speaker 1: all right, here we go, last one last NFL. True

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02:02:23,840 --> 02:02:26,880
Speaker 1: and false. The Redskins do not need a quarterback early

2553
02:02:26,960 --> 02:02:33,120
Speaker 1: in the two thy nineteen draft. Well, if if Alex

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02:02:33,240 --> 02:02:36,840
Speaker 1: Smith bounces back from his leg injury and it's been

2555
02:02:36,920 --> 02:02:39,400
Speaker 1: complicated by an infection as we've all we've all heard,

2556
02:02:40,320 --> 02:02:43,560
Speaker 1: I would say that's true, they do not. If he's

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02:02:43,680 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 1: not able to, then they do. So it all depends

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02:02:46,320 --> 02:02:48,840
Speaker 1: on Alex Smith, and I'm unsure about his status, but

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02:02:48,920 --> 02:02:50,600
Speaker 1: if he can get back to be in one hundred

2560
02:02:50,640 --> 02:02:53,320
Speaker 1: percent healthy, No, they don't need a quarterback other than

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith. I'm gonna say false. I think Alex Smith

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02:02:56,200 --> 02:02:58,400
Speaker 1: has a Wait a minute, do you say false or true?

2563
02:02:58,520 --> 02:03:00,720
Speaker 1: The Redskins do not need a back early in the

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02:03:00,800 --> 02:03:04,760
Speaker 1: twenty Nay? True? Okay, they don't. I'm saying false. I

2565
02:03:04,840 --> 02:03:06,920
Speaker 1: think they do. I don't know if you can count

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02:03:06,960 --> 02:03:10,240
Speaker 1: on the Alex Smith based on his injury and based

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02:03:10,280 --> 02:03:12,880
Speaker 1: on the severity of the infection and Colt McCoy I

2568
02:03:12,920 --> 02:03:15,280
Speaker 1: think is demonstrating that he's not going to be much help. Yeah,

2569
02:03:15,480 --> 02:03:18,120
Speaker 1: they need a quarterback, probably early in the draft. I

2570
02:03:18,160 --> 02:03:20,720
Speaker 1: think they need to reset a quarterback, regardless of how

2571
02:03:20,840 --> 02:03:23,400
Speaker 1: much they overspent on getting Alex Smith. I think they

2572
02:03:23,440 --> 02:03:25,520
Speaker 1: do need a quarter Well, he'll be cheap whoever he is,

2573
02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:27,440
Speaker 1: because he won't be playing if Alex Smith is on

2574
02:03:27,480 --> 02:03:29,280
Speaker 1: the team, so they'll have a chance to get him mentored.

2575
02:03:29,320 --> 02:03:31,960
Speaker 1: But I don't know. You pick a guy like fourth

2576
02:03:32,080 --> 02:03:34,000
Speaker 1: or fifth overall, where they're going to be the tenth

2577
02:03:34,120 --> 02:03:37,000
Speaker 1: or top ten pick wherever they're going to be sure

2578
02:03:37,440 --> 02:03:41,760
Speaker 1: on the Redskins. Yet, let's go, yeah, let's go all right, Okay.

2579
02:03:42,360 --> 02:03:45,200
Speaker 1: I hope the Redskins lose every game. I really do.

2580
02:03:45,560 --> 02:03:49,120
Speaker 1: For the time in eternity. I hope they never win

2581
02:03:49,160 --> 02:03:51,320
Speaker 1: auto of the game. Never win again. Hey, time now

2582
02:03:51,400 --> 02:03:53,600
Speaker 1: for Coffee with the Coach, and you know the drill.

2583
02:03:53,760 --> 02:03:56,400
Speaker 1: We watch this, we listen to pros of wisdom from

2584
02:03:56,440 --> 02:03:59,240
Speaker 1: Chris Brown and the real wisdom from Bill's head coach

2585
02:03:59,320 --> 02:04:02,280
Speaker 1: On McDermott. What we really do when we watch this

2586
02:04:02,400 --> 02:04:04,840
Speaker 1: on the MSG is see if anyone makes a move

2587
02:04:05,280 --> 02:04:07,520
Speaker 1: for the coffee, the Tim Hortons coffee that each of

2588
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:09,920
Speaker 1: them has in their cup. Coffee the Coach, presented by

2589
02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:12,480
Speaker 1: Tim Hortons, Tim Hortons Cafe in Bake Shop, the official

2590
02:04:12,560 --> 02:04:16,920
Speaker 1: coffee of the Buffalo Bills. Hello everybody, Welcome to the

2591
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Speaker 1: week fifteen edition of Coffee with the Coach, presented by

2592
02:04:19,680 --> 02:04:21,880
Speaker 1: Tim Hortons. I'm Chris Brown along with Bill's head coach

2593
02:04:21,920 --> 02:04:24,560
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, as the Bills are home again this week

2594
02:04:24,600 --> 02:04:26,960
Speaker 1: to take on the Detroit Lions Sunday at New Airfield

2595
02:04:27,080 --> 02:04:29,440
Speaker 1: at one pm. Coach is always thanks for being with us.

2596
02:04:29,480 --> 02:04:33,080
Speaker 1: So the last two weeks you've outperformed your opponents in

2597
02:04:33,200 --> 02:04:36,280
Speaker 1: several areas on the stat sheet, just obviously not in

2598
02:04:36,320 --> 02:04:39,080
Speaker 1: the point category. Kyle Williams after the game on Sunday,

2599
02:04:39,120 --> 02:04:43,240
Speaker 1: said that the team has to sweat the details more effectively.

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02:04:43,320 --> 02:04:46,840
Speaker 1: Would you agree with that? I would one hund when

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02:04:46,880 --> 02:04:50,440
Speaker 1: you outperform the opponent the last two weeks like we did,

2602
02:04:50,480 --> 02:04:53,880
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Chris, to not come away with wins

2603
02:04:54,280 --> 02:04:55,800
Speaker 1: is the son of a as a sign of a

2604
02:04:56,440 --> 02:04:59,000
Speaker 1: young football team, and the way that we've turned the

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02:04:59,040 --> 02:05:03,080
Speaker 1: ball over given up field position due to penalties and

2606
02:05:03,360 --> 02:05:06,080
Speaker 1: special teams at times, among other areas as well. It's

2607
02:05:06,120 --> 02:05:09,000
Speaker 1: every one area by itself, but those are areas we

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02:05:09,160 --> 02:05:11,480
Speaker 1: have to extinguish if we want to win games on

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02:05:11,520 --> 02:05:16,280
Speaker 1: a consistent basis. And as I mentioned before, the good teams,

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02:05:16,320 --> 02:05:19,880
Speaker 1: the good individual players learn from these experiences and then

2611
02:05:19,960 --> 02:05:23,160
Speaker 1: make the appropriate adjustments moving forward. And you're that comment

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02:05:23,280 --> 02:05:25,520
Speaker 1: leads me into my next question, because you do have

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02:05:25,600 --> 02:05:28,920
Speaker 1: an inordinate amount of young players on the field filling

2614
02:05:29,360 --> 02:05:32,320
Speaker 1: some important roles. So how do you maintain as a

2615
02:05:32,440 --> 02:05:36,720
Speaker 1: coach a balance in knowing that you have young players

2616
02:05:36,760 --> 02:05:39,760
Speaker 1: who are literally learning on the fly and are probably

2617
02:05:39,800 --> 02:05:44,560
Speaker 1: going to make mistakes, while also demanding their best performance

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02:05:44,680 --> 02:05:47,360
Speaker 1: from them. How tricky is that balance? As it's a leader,

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02:05:47,440 --> 02:05:50,640
Speaker 1: it's leadership, you know, and that's something that's always there's

2620
02:05:50,680 --> 02:05:53,040
Speaker 1: times where I've you know, I feel like I'm right on.

2621
02:05:53,120 --> 02:05:56,200
Speaker 1: There's times, honestly where you feel like you're hey, you know,

2622
02:05:56,240 --> 02:05:57,760
Speaker 1: I was pretty firm in that, so you got to

2623
02:05:57,800 --> 02:05:59,839
Speaker 1: come back and then put your arm around us sometimes

2624
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:02,560
Speaker 1: because they are so young, and you know, you start

2625
02:06:02,600 --> 02:06:04,600
Speaker 1: off with Josh and then you look at Tremaine too.

2626
02:06:04,680 --> 02:06:08,360
Speaker 1: Young signal callers if you will, that run our offense

2627
02:06:08,400 --> 02:06:12,520
Speaker 1: and defense collectively, and so there's going to be growing pains.

2628
02:06:12,560 --> 02:06:14,760
Speaker 1: There's going to be some highs and lows. That's how

2629
02:06:14,800 --> 02:06:17,480
Speaker 1: the NFL is to begin with such a competitive game.

2630
02:06:17,520 --> 02:06:21,320
Speaker 1: But if we stay after and push through these these phases,

2631
02:06:21,920 --> 02:06:23,760
Speaker 1: we'll come out on the on the top end of

2632
02:06:23,800 --> 02:06:27,560
Speaker 1: this thing and having learned valuable lessons and it will

2633
02:06:27,600 --> 02:06:29,840
Speaker 1: help sustain us as me before all right, let's take

2634
02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:32,000
Speaker 1: some stock in the alliance here. Who you've got up

2635
02:06:32,040 --> 02:06:34,280
Speaker 1: next on the schedule. So just a couple of words

2636
02:06:34,280 --> 02:06:36,000
Speaker 1: that come to mind when I give you the name

2637
02:06:36,480 --> 02:06:39,120
Speaker 1: Damon Snacks Harrison, maybe one of the best nick names

2638
02:06:39,160 --> 02:06:42,040
Speaker 1: in the league right. A good football player, obviously a force.

2639
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:45,080
Speaker 1: They've got a good defense, and he's a guy we'll

2640
02:06:45,120 --> 02:06:46,760
Speaker 1: have to know where he is when he's in the game,

2641
02:06:46,840 --> 02:06:50,720
Speaker 1: and he's a force to move. How about Kenny Galladay,

2642
02:06:50,760 --> 02:06:54,280
Speaker 1: who now has been elevated to all intents and purposes,

2643
02:06:54,280 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 1: their top receiving target. Yeah, another good receiver. I mean,

2644
02:06:57,680 --> 02:07:00,360
Speaker 1: when you look at the receivers that that for his

2645
02:07:00,400 --> 02:07:02,360
Speaker 1: hat over the years, he's always got one or two

2646
02:07:02,520 --> 02:07:05,280
Speaker 1: that he elevates their game by the way that he plays,

2647
02:07:05,360 --> 02:07:08,360
Speaker 1: and so you know they've got a good passing game.

2648
02:07:08,440 --> 02:07:10,640
Speaker 1: We've got to have our have our ears and eyes

2649
02:07:10,720 --> 02:07:14,000
Speaker 1: open and play good sound, fundamental defense in the run

2650
02:07:14,120 --> 02:07:15,800
Speaker 1: in the past game. And then last a guy that

2651
02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:17,760
Speaker 1: had a big play for them and their win last week,

2652
02:07:17,880 --> 02:07:20,400
Speaker 1: Darius Slay with that big intercept. Yeah, one of the

2653
02:07:20,440 --> 02:07:22,520
Speaker 1: better cornerbacks in the league. And that'll be a good,

2654
02:07:22,680 --> 02:07:26,120
Speaker 1: good opportunity for fans to see our good corner against

2655
02:07:26,880 --> 02:07:28,680
Speaker 1: Darius Slay, even though they don't play each other. But

2656
02:07:28,840 --> 02:07:31,800
Speaker 1: good cornerback play is at a premium in the NFL,

2657
02:07:31,920 --> 02:07:35,160
Speaker 1: and those guys are hard to find. So Daris is

2658
02:07:35,200 --> 02:07:36,920
Speaker 1: a little bit further down the road in his career

2659
02:07:36,960 --> 02:07:39,040
Speaker 1: than than Trey Davis, but a guy that we have

2660
02:07:39,080 --> 02:07:41,040
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for, and he can take the

2661
02:07:41,080 --> 02:07:42,840
Speaker 1: ball away just as much as he can press and

2662
02:07:42,880 --> 02:07:45,560
Speaker 1: play finsbal defense. All right, thanks for input on that, Coach.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for our fan Question of the Week,

2664
02:07:48,200 --> 02:07:50,480
Speaker 1: a chance for you the fan to ask coach a question.

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02:07:50,760 --> 02:07:54,120
Speaker 1: This week's question comes from Alan on Twitter and he asked, coach,

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you have any rules slash restrictions the

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02:07:58,320 --> 02:08:01,400
Speaker 1: night prior to a game. That's probably better question for

2668
02:08:01,480 --> 02:08:04,520
Speaker 1: the players they think, they probably think we have too many. Yeah,

2669
02:08:04,680 --> 02:08:07,800
Speaker 1: but no, they go off to a hotel in Buffalo here,

2670
02:08:07,880 --> 02:08:10,600
Speaker 1: and um, prior to that, we have meetings at the

2671
02:08:10,680 --> 02:08:12,960
Speaker 1: facility and we go through the game plan the night

2672
02:08:13,000 --> 02:08:15,480
Speaker 1: before and and then they'll report to the hotel and

2673
02:08:15,520 --> 02:08:17,520
Speaker 1: they have a they have a believe it or not,

2674
02:08:17,720 --> 02:08:21,120
Speaker 1: believe it or not, a curfew and a bed time there. So, um,

2675
02:08:21,440 --> 02:08:24,520
Speaker 1: if that's if that's rules and regulations, then that's, by golly,

2676
02:08:24,560 --> 02:08:26,320
Speaker 1: that's what we have. We have rules and regulations so

2677
02:08:26,440 --> 02:08:29,000
Speaker 1: that they can play play a good game the next day.

2678
02:08:29,000 --> 02:08:30,480
Speaker 1: And it's pretty much the same thing on the road,

2679
02:08:30,600 --> 02:08:32,840
Speaker 1: right road, exactly the same infact thing. All right, coach,

2680
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Speaker 1: thanks for the time. There's always good luck getting a

2681
02:08:34,560 --> 02:08:36,640
Speaker 1: winning that's a lie. Appreciate it, all right. That's Bill's

2682
02:08:36,640 --> 02:08:39,200
Speaker 1: head coach. Sean McDermott. This has been Coffee with the Coach,

2683
02:08:39,280 --> 02:08:41,800
Speaker 1: presented by Tim Horton's. Thanks for watching, We'll see you

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Speaker 1: next week. Coffee just sits there, cold, untouched. Hey, did

2685
02:08:45,880 --> 02:08:49,360
Speaker 1: you see that question for the coach about any restrictions

2686
02:08:49,400 --> 02:08:51,720
Speaker 1: the night before the game? Interesting question? It was signed

2687
02:08:51,760 --> 02:08:55,760
Speaker 1: by Jordan Phillips though do we have anything we have

2688
02:08:55,840 --> 02:08:57,200
Speaker 1: to be anywhere we got to be the night before

2689
02:08:57,240 --> 02:09:01,000
Speaker 1: the game? Rules restrictions? That got my attention, did it? Yeah?

2690
02:09:01,440 --> 02:09:04,040
Speaker 1: Coffee of the Coach, presented by Tim Morton's Cafe and Bakeshop,

2691
02:09:04,120 --> 02:09:06,680
Speaker 1: the official coffee of the Buffalo Bills. We've talked a

2692
02:09:06,760 --> 02:09:09,879
Speaker 1: lot today about the Buffalo defense ranked number one overall

2693
02:09:09,920 --> 02:09:12,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL and yards allowed. We wanted to know

2694
02:09:12,200 --> 02:09:14,040
Speaker 1: from you what else can they do to be better defensive?

2695
02:09:14,120 --> 02:09:16,520
Speaker 1: You got some input from the tweets. Eat there, Steve

2696
02:09:16,960 --> 02:09:19,280
Speaker 1: John Dubic tweets and I was going to say, create

2697
02:09:19,400 --> 02:09:21,320
Speaker 1: more turnovers. But unless they're going to take it to

2698
02:09:21,400 --> 02:09:23,360
Speaker 1: the end zone themselves, there's no sense in it with

2699
02:09:23,440 --> 02:09:25,720
Speaker 1: the offense just going three and out. I'm gonna go

2700
02:09:25,760 --> 02:09:27,800
Speaker 1: with more stops in the red zone, which would turn in,

2701
02:09:28,160 --> 02:09:34,160
Speaker 1: which in turn would be less points allowed. One more sentence,

2702
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Speaker 1: Why do I got one of one Hall of Fame

2703
02:09:37,760 --> 02:09:39,440
Speaker 1: vote for Steve? Why do I got to drag that

2704
02:09:39,480 --> 02:09:45,280
Speaker 1: out of you? Man? I don't know whatever. From Kass

2705
02:09:45,400 --> 02:09:48,160
Speaker 1: Bills fan, the biggest factor for the disparity between yards

2706
02:09:48,200 --> 02:09:51,360
Speaker 1: allowed and points allowed can be directly tied to opposing

2707
02:09:51,400 --> 02:09:55,000
Speaker 1: teams field position due to bad offensive and special teams play.

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Speaker 1: Best fixed to our defense will be to fix our

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Speaker 1: offense and special teams. Good point. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's the best fixed for the defense, but the special

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Speaker 1: team's issues field position. We saw at a difference of

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Speaker 1: twenty yards this past week, forty seven yards average drive

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Speaker 1: start for the New York Jets twenty seven for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: He's right, He or she is right, And it would

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Speaker 1: help if the offense could stay on the field more,

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Speaker 1: even if they don't score more points, If they should

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Speaker 1: make first downs, first tense first down, stay on the field,

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Speaker 1: it's just fewer opportunities for the defensive to give up

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Speaker 1: points and yards and everything else that we've been talking about.

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Speaker 1: So there is something we talked about it earlier in

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Speaker 1: the in the show about a little bit of complimentary

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Speaker 1: football and how it would help both sides. But you

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Speaker 1: have no doubt that the special teams particularly, they showed

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Speaker 1: up in a bad way this last week in the

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Speaker 1: kickoff return game. Huggy Bear tweets and we need to

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Speaker 1: see more pressure and sacks on the quarterback, something that's

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Speaker 1: been lacking the last two weeks on third downs. Now

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Speaker 1: we had that as well, and in fact, we had

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Speaker 1: a guy coming in saying the only way to get

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Speaker 1: better is to draft the boast, a kid out of

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Speaker 1: Ohio State. You know, I mean that's down the road

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Speaker 1: for me to this. We're not going to have him

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Speaker 1: playing for us this week. And that's who were playing.

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Speaker 1: As Matt Stafford and Murph and I were both talking

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Speaker 1: about during the Coffee with a Coach segment as the

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Speaker 1: highlights of Matt Stafford were rolling. That guy can play,

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Speaker 1: he can sling it, he can sling it, he can

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Speaker 1: really sling it. It's amazing that a quarterback who's that

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Speaker 1: proficient has not had more success. Ye, all right to

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Speaker 1: break care. We're back with more. Steve Tasker, John Murphy

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: goes back at work, always feels good when they get

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Speaker 1: back to work. On our show today, we had Thurman

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Speaker 1: Thomas on the Hall of Fame running back you know

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Speaker 1: of him, of course, Thurman. We asked him about Sean

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Speaker 1: McCoy and what his role might be for the Bills

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Here's what Therm said. He's on my

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Speaker 1: football team. I think he's still playing a prominent role absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Now it may not be rushing or whatever, but like

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Speaker 1: like we've said, like I was, the guy can catch

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Speaker 1: the football. It doesn't have to be a running back

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Speaker 1: every single play. If you get ten rushes and catch

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Speaker 1: seven or eight passes, that's a great day for a

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Speaker 1: little Sean mccaull. Does he gonna gain yards no matter what.

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Speaker 1: And I can't understand really sometimes why he's always in

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Speaker 1: the backfield. You know, why not put him out and

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Speaker 1: let him run a couple of the route. You know,

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Speaker 1: they started him out at the wide receiver. Then they

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Speaker 1: motioned him all the way back to the running back position.

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Speaker 1: Keep him out there, and the guy got great hands.

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Speaker 1: But I see him as being a vital part of

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Speaker 1: this office next year. I don't care what the salary

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Speaker 1: is or what his age is. The guy can still

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Speaker 1: play Urman Thomas part of the show about the one

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Speaker 1: o'clock today. Also on the show today, we had that

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Speaker 1: Bill's rookie linebacker Tremaine Edmond's first round draft pick who's

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Speaker 1: been a starter right from week one. We talked to

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds and asked him if now moving in the

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Speaker 1: week fifteen, in game fourteen, if he feels like he's

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Speaker 1: hitting the rookie wall. Here's what he said. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to stay on top of it. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've been talking to some of the vets just trying

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Speaker 1: to see, you know, what did they do to keep

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Speaker 1: their bodies fresh throughout the whole year. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking a little bit of tidbits from each and everyone.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's gonna feel different from college because it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's longer as we all know. But uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to stay on top of it.

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Speaker 1: Just trying to put my mind somewhere else. I won't

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Speaker 1: focus on that as much. A lot of good stuff

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Speaker 1: from Trim and Evans. If you missed it, go to

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Speaker 1: our website Buffalo Bills dot com. On a little bit

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Speaker 1: we'll have the entire interview with trimmin Hey. Red uniforms

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Speaker 1: looks like coming up for the Bills. Yeah, color rush

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Speaker 1: game for the Buffalo Bills all read just like the

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Speaker 1: snow game last year against the Colts. Gonna be all

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Speaker 1: red Red Sox, red pants, red jerseys and white helmets.

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Speaker 1: But looks awesome. Look forward to it. Really looks good.

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Speaker 1: Stars practice today. We don't have the official report, but

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Speaker 1: the Lashan mccoin, Steven how Skill, Ryan Lewis none of

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Speaker 1: those three practice. McCoy with a hamstring. How should be

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Speaker 1: ready to play on Sunday. According to a head coach

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Speaker 1: On McDermott, limited work today for quarterback Derek Anderson still

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Speaker 1: in concussion protocol and Chris Ivory is a good Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's the injury report. Just as I was saying it.

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Speaker 1: Jason Croom full practice today, so he's back. That's good.

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Speaker 1: We'll check more on that tomorrow. I want to thank

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Speaker 1: our production crew George Blast, Jeff Colton and Thomas Honald Er,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Turrito, Kevin Cartis and James Roebel our

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Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris. We're back tomorrow, twelve noon. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you join us. One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio