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Speaker 1: Welcome back one Bill's Live, John Murphy's Steave Taskers, starting

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Speaker 1: a new show here on this Wednesday afternoon, live from

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park, New York, right next door to the Bill

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Speaker 1: Stadium with that brand new, spanking new field in there

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Speaker 1: waiting for the first preseason game now just a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks away. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm John Murphy. This

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Speaker 1: is Steve Tasker. We come to you every day noon

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Speaker 1: to three. You can listen on the radio as many

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Speaker 1: of you are on our flagship in Buffalo, w g

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Speaker 1: R Sports Radio five fifty. You may be watching on

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Speaker 1: the MSG side, on the video side on MSG. Either way.

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Speaker 1: Happy to have you a lot to talk about it, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I just get the feeling today. I've asked you a

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Speaker 1: couple of times how do we start? And I'm just

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Speaker 1: thinking about this a minute ago. We are in the

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Speaker 1: total transition period right now. We are in the waiting period,

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Speaker 1: right you can feel it. You can feel it, you know,

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Speaker 1: as we go to our morning meeting and talk about

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Speaker 1: content issues, and we sit in our office and talk

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Speaker 1: about this show and future shows. You can tell that

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Speaker 1: we're all just waiting for the next step, and the

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Speaker 1: next step is only eight days away when training camp again.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of weird because at this time of year,

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Speaker 1: and it's been this way for a couple of months now,

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Speaker 1: where we kind of choose what we want to talk about, right,

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Speaker 1: it's like, let's you know, and we've got and we

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Speaker 1: lunch time, what's for lunch? Thing we're doing. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about you know, seven one, six day yesterday, we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: stuff we took vacations in a couple of weeks. There

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Speaker 1: is no choice. We're there's gonna be stuff to talk

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Speaker 1: about with this team all day, every day. And so

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Speaker 1: it's kind of fun now to use our kind of

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Speaker 1: what else is going on? And it's you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: even in my spare time, I'm watching like other football teams,

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Speaker 1: kind of a you're right, it's transition. We're kind of

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Speaker 1: you can just feel it, man, and you and I

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Speaker 1: talk about this all the time. So when we go

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Speaker 1: They don't hesitate the okay, you know, can you can

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Speaker 1: relaxed mode right just the opposite. I feel like we're

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Speaker 1: before you have people come over, you tidy up. I

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Speaker 1: feel like we're in tidy up mode at work right now,

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Speaker 1: anticipating what next week will be like, what the trip

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Speaker 1: just kind of looking ahead, making sure everything's in place

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Speaker 1: I do you spend your time? I mean I watch ESPN,

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Speaker 1: and I here to go for the next three hours

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Speaker 1: about about the Bills in the NFL special guys coming

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Speaker 1: up with one o'clock one of our favorites, one of

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Speaker 1: your favorites. Kyle Williams will join us on the telephone line.

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Speaker 1: A lot to talk about with Kyle, including the fact

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Speaker 1: that he is the narrator for Embtted. Embtted returns on

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Speaker 1: Sunday this week. Kyle Williams is the narrator Buffalo Bills Invetted,

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Speaker 1: the digital series that started last year, returning the summer

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Speaker 1: for a season two. It will air in its entirety

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, seven pm on the Bills YouTube channel. And

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Speaker 1: Kyle Williams, thirteen year veteran just retired, is going to

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Speaker 1: be the narrator for Embetted. We'll talk with Kyle about

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Speaker 1: that at one o'clock. Two o'clock coming out a little

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Speaker 1: Madden twenty the video game, and Clint Oldenburg of Mad,

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Speaker 1: Mad and twenty. Have you ever been involved in Madden

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Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing how far the technologies allowed him to come.

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Speaker 1: But and some of that stuff, Clint Oldenberger, let it

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Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting to a clock today. We'll talk when

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Speaker 1: Madden existed, right, what are we looked up today late

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Speaker 1: don't know, not that long, right, I'll look, I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: you saw this sumhere came up with this. We are

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Speaker 1: counting down days. We're in countdown mode two and the

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen NFL season is what did you say, fifty

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Speaker 1: you want to look at stats, you want to look

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Speaker 1: at particular games, you want to look at particular players

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Speaker 1: who have to perform. Whatever you think. Let us know

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Speaker 1: what you think, though. For the Bills to make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: they must do what. Let's go to the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: It is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: official movers of the Buffalo Bills. For the Bills that

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs, they must do what Brian says to

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Four and two in the division makes

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Speaker 1: it doable. Three and three makes it possible, but a

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Speaker 1: much tougher road. But five and one would be huge.

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Speaker 1: That gives us a legit shot at the division. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's true. Look, and there's no way they should have

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Speaker 1: lost to the Dolphins last year, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: any game, and they did. They split, And I think

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Speaker 1: you got to look at the Jets game is critical

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Speaker 1: this year, the opener and the finale. Sweep those games.

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Speaker 1: Sweep those games. Now you got four, steal one from

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. There's your five and one. It's not that

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Speaker 1: ridiculous to think they could go five and one in

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Speaker 1: the division if they are who we kind of think

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Speaker 1: they will be. Sweep the Dolphins and sweep the Jets

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Speaker 1: are the keys, and pick up the one win against

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Speaker 1: you know, the home game clearly September twenty ninth against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. There you go five and one. Poom yea.

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Speaker 1: And that the Jets game are not. Everybody's kind of

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Speaker 1: counting the Dolphins as being this team is. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be you know the number four team in the

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Speaker 1: division just because of the state of their roster, the

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Speaker 1: new head coach and all that the Jet The Jets

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Speaker 1: have got a lot to prove with a brand new

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Speaker 1: head coach and new system, coming back with a second

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Speaker 1: year quarterback trying to learn another new offense in the

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Speaker 1: off season. Although their roster is truly upgraded, I think

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Speaker 1: because of the free agent signings they've had. They've got

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Speaker 1: Levon Bell, They've got some guys over there, So it'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see if the Jets can answer those

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Speaker 1: questions given the fact that it's the first year in

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Speaker 1: the system for all of those guys. We also have

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Speaker 1: something else from the tweet sheet. For the Bills to

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs, they must do what from Bill Big

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Speaker 1: Bills Fan nineteen sixty five. The Bills offense needs to

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Speaker 1: be more consistent running and passing. Josh needs to do

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Speaker 1: his part to protect the rock. Defense needs more takeaways

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Speaker 1: and a consistent pass rush. There's a lot in there,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I think the Bills defense was really consistent.

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Speaker 1: They didn't get very many turnovers, and they didn't because

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Speaker 1: they didn't really they didn't really have a chance to

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Speaker 1: rush the passer as often as I think they wanted to.

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Speaker 1: They were on the field a lot, they were never

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Speaker 1: in a they were never facing an offense that really

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Speaker 1: was in desperation mode. Because you know, the Bills offense

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Speaker 1: led the league in three and ounce and because of that,

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Speaker 1: you know, they really never faced an offense. It was

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Speaker 1: really kind of playing on the ragged edge of desperation,

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Speaker 1: which is where you get turnovers. You think back to

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Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen season when the Bills were churning out

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Speaker 1: turnovers in the first half of that season in an

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Speaker 1: enormous way. That really led to a couple of wins

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Speaker 1: early on that the China I think changed the tide

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Speaker 1: to the season. Yeah, I'd like to see that again too.

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Speaker 1: More consistent running pass Yeah, okay, that's more congested passing

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Speaker 1: is the key for me. I looked it up. You're right, Seattle.

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Speaker 1: I forgot about this game, but now I remember it.

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Speaker 1: Seattle did make the playoffs with their plus fifteen turnover ratio.

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Speaker 1: They lost a wildcard game to the Cowboys. Remember it

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Speaker 1: was pretty good games I recall watching it. What. Look,

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Speaker 1: there's no right answer for today's question, is there. It's

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Speaker 1: whatever you think for the Bills to make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: they must do. What can you boil it down to

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Speaker 1: one thing? Help us out with that eight H three

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Speaker 1: h five fifty the number toll free from outside Buffalo

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Whatever

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Speaker 1: you see stats, player performance, scheduled games to win, stretches

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Speaker 1: to do well, and whatever you see there, let us know.

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Speaker 1: Chris on the line from Buffalo. Hello, Chris, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: and you're on the air with this. Yeah, good afternoon. Five.

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Speaker 1: Just we have to beat New England. Yeah, to steal

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Speaker 1: one of those games from New England. If we lose

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Speaker 1: two games to New England every year, we have to

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Speaker 1: win ton out of fourteen games. Also, we need a

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Speaker 1: pass rush, We have to be up in the quarterback

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Speaker 1: spaces to just get the turnovers that we're talking about. Okay,

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Speaker 1: beat New England would be a big start. As you said,

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Speaker 1: just one of them, because if you don't, you're right,

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Speaker 1: it's a fourteen game season then and you gotta win

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Speaker 1: ten or fourteen. That's a lot. I think sweeping the

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Speaker 1: Jets is key, Sweeping the Dolphins is almost the mandatory

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Speaker 1: for the Bills this year, and taking one from New

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Speaker 1: England would go a long way towards ensuring the playoff spot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree, you can slice anyway you want to. They

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Speaker 1: gotta a winning record in the division. I don't care

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Speaker 1: if they sweep New England and sweep New England and

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Speaker 1: the Jets and lose both to Miami. You're four and

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Speaker 1: two in the division. That's you know. You gotta do that.

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Speaker 1: You got to. You gotta win your division games. There's

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Speaker 1: no question about it. You start out in New York

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Speaker 1: against the Jets, that game is going to be as

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Speaker 1: anticipated as an opener as this club has had in

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Speaker 1: a long time. To me, you got those first two,

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Speaker 1: those two rookie quarterbacks going at it again. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun. It's gonna be a challenging it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a challenging rivalry for years and years to come because

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Speaker 1: of those two guys, and we're gonna get to see

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Speaker 1: him do it. It's it's gonna be fun and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna mean a lot. I think it's gonna get your

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Speaker 1: season off to a great start or a disappointing start,

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Speaker 1: because I think both those teams, there's no question. You know,

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Speaker 1: every team thinks are gonna win every week. But I

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Speaker 1: think even now, when that schedule came out, both those

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Speaker 1: clubs go, man, we're gonna win that game. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna win that game. The Jets really have to think

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Speaker 1: that because they're at home. Yeah, they've got to be

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Speaker 1: thinking that. What do you think we're just getting it

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Speaker 1: going here? For the Bills to make the playoffs, they

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Speaker 1: must do. What can you boil it down to one thing?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call if you can eighth fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight by fifty two five fifty, send

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Speaker 1: in a tweet. We might read it on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You gotta be healthy coming out

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Speaker 1: of training camp. That's Big two and training camp starts

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Speaker 1: next week. Coming up in a couple of weeks the

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Speaker 1: Return of the Blue and the Red. The Bills will

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Speaker 1: of the Blue and the Red. The Bills Night practice

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Speaker 1: coming up Friday, August second, back with more. In a

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Speaker 1: moment for the Bills to make the playoffs, they gotta

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Speaker 1: do what Let us know what you think. One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: One Builds Live, John Murphy, Steve Cansker, we got here's

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Speaker 1: a little inside show info. The first half hour is

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Speaker 1: always the toughest for me, Steve, you and Jay were

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Speaker 1: talking to our producer earlier today about once we get

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Speaker 1: to one thirty, once we get to two thirty, I thought,

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Speaker 1: once I get the twelve thirty, I'm good. I do

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Speaker 1: I worry about that first half, the first half hours

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Speaker 1: easy man. No, I think it sets the tone. It's

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Speaker 1: important for you and I to establish a dialogue. No,

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Speaker 1: I worry that's the only half hour of the show.

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Speaker 1: I worry about noon. This time we got into Twitter.

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Speaker 1: We got into Twitter. Question today, say what for the

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Speaker 1: Bills to make the playoffs? What must they do? So?

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Speaker 1: Or we got all that squared away? And you and

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Speaker 1: I are you know, having a good day. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's not like we don't have we have bad days,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, yeah, so so are we. By

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Speaker 1: the way, are we gonna now? It's time for my

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Speaker 1: special project, pet project. Remember what we're gonna do now?

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Speaker 1: Eating lunch? Can we put on what's for lunch? No? No,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it now. You want to do something

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Speaker 1: else first, I'd like to continue with our topic, like

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Speaker 1: a topic. Yeah, you want to abandon into twelty maybe

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Speaker 1: twelve thirties the most difficult part of this. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: we want to put it. I was going to be

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Speaker 1: with us for the entire day. When you look, nobody

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Speaker 1: cares about our inside stuff. But you don't want to

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Speaker 1: abandon it this early. Look two calls on hold, we

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Speaker 1: gotta for calling in wanting to talk to us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a good topic. All right, listen, bills to make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, they must do. What what do you think.

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Speaker 1: Let's Doug in Brockport tell Steve why this is an

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Speaker 1: important and valuable topic. Doug, Hello, Doug, Steve, I think

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Speaker 1: you agree with this totally. And then it's got to

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Speaker 1: be special teams, special teams, special teams, especially from the

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Speaker 1: fact you pointed out two plays. If you look at

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Speaker 1: the special teams and how many plays they put wins

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Speaker 1: in jeopardy, the offense is probably going to improve. The

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Speaker 1: defense looks like it might improve. Special teams was so

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Speaker 1: horrible that if that improves greatly, you're gonna you're gonna

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Speaker 1: increase your chances of a lot of wins. Like, give

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Speaker 1: me some specific examples of special teams stinking the Jets

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Speaker 1: game in Bustball. Now we've got that returner. He had

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Speaker 1: two incredible returns which put them in position for ten points.

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Speaker 1: I believe it was so they win that game right there.

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Speaker 1: On the special teams, there was there was the fact

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Speaker 1: that we had injuries, some punts were terrible. Good returns

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Speaker 1: off those punts. House guy had a lot of trouble

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Speaker 1: where he normally doesn't because of his injury. So there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of instances where they had a lot of

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Speaker 1: opportunities of scores against them and what could have been

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Speaker 1: for them, which you know, changed the complex of the game.

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Speaker 1: There you go, special teams is horrible? Wasn't good? They've

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Speaker 1: replaced a special teams coordinator. Um, they've added players on

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Speaker 1: special teams. How you can expect to get a full

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Speaker 1: year out of the punter this year which you did

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Speaker 1: not get last year or Kes got injured horrible. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of an over statement. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna say what you want. I mean I haven't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you need better coverage. I mean when you when when

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Speaker 1: somebody gets a good return against you, it's good for him,

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Speaker 1: and it's great. You know you got this return guy coverage.

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Speaker 1: Trump's all of that. I mean, I don't you know

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Speaker 1: you need guys you've still got this if you've for instance,

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Speaker 1: if you still got the same guys covering it, doesn't

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Speaker 1: I mean some other wa who could return one against

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Speaker 1: I get it, you're right, Um, I have a hard

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Speaker 1: time think even if I mean, you can even give

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Speaker 1: me Devin Hester, and I don't know. If I don't

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00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: know that that's gonna make me think I'm gonna get

639
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: an extra couple of wins during the season. But yeah,

640
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: I get you. It is a systemic thing you got

641
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: to have in places. It's about fuel position, it's about

642
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: possession and your field goal. Your field goal kicker's got

643
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,959
Speaker 1: to be money. I like how sh guy. I think

644
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: he's I think he's really good. Unfortunately did get hurt

645
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: last year, but you know, that's football. So if you

646
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: can stay away from injuries to your kicker and your punter,

647
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna be ahead of the game this year for sure.

648
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: And I think how She's gonna bank have a really

649
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: nice year, So we'll see. I think it's a that's

650
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: a good question. It's a good point. Everything's got to

651
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: be clicking for this team. And there are certain things

652
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: that didn't last year. Special teams at times was one

653
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: of them. And the offense, you know, with a rookie

654
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: quarterback and four different guys taking snaps at different times

655
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: in the year, and the offensive line not being as

656
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: good as it could have been, should have been, would

657
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: have been whatever, there's a lot of things that you

658
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: can go to in this question and come up with

659
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: and special teams is one of them. For the Bills

660
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, they must do what Jay and

661
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo on the line with a thought on that, Jay,

662
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: go ahead, Murph and Steve. Basically, I think they need

663
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: to do six and two at home and then five

664
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: hundred on the road. I think it's too difficult to

665
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: pen point one thing, running game, passing game. Each game

666
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: is kind of situational. But I think if they can

667
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: go six and two at home in five hundred on

668
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: the road, ten wins, I think we got a D

669
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: two shot. Yeah, we were the four and four at

670
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: home last year. Two and six on the road. I

671
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: believe that's not going to get it done. Two and

672
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: six on the road, especially. You're right, and you know

673
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: what the good one of the good points you make there, Jay,

674
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: I'll let you get back up here in a second.

675
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: Is the situational nature of each game, right, Games change,

676
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: Situations change. They're horrible defense in the first couple of

677
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: weeks against last year against Baltimore, and the Chargers got

678
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: better and all of a sudden, you didn't need to

679
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: score thirty five forty points. You can get by after

680
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: that with twenty seven points and probably be playing well.

681
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: And that's why I go back to the offense and

682
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: a more consistent passing game part of an overall better

683
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: offense I think would be the best thing that they

684
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: must do. But go ahead, Jay, yet another point to make.

685
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: You're gone, What do you think about that six and

686
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: two at home? Well, yeah, that's around the road. That's yeah,

687
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: that's an axiom that you know, you win your home

688
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: games and go five hundred on the road, and even

689
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: if you go better than six and two on the

690
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: at home, yeah, just and split on the road. The

691
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: problem is every one of those games is different. You

692
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: can you can generalize whatever. I don't think going on

693
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: the road, certainly it's more difficult to play, depending on

694
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: which stadium and travel arrangements and how that all that goes,

695
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: and how familiar are you are with playing in that

696
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: city away, For instance, going to play the Jets on

697
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: opening day. For guys who are veterans of the Buffalo Bills,

698
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem like that bigger road game because you've

699
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: been to that hotel six times in your career, You've

700
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: played the Jets in or whatever, however many times you've

701
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: played them there, You've been in that hotel. It's kind

702
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: of familiar to you. Going back there on the second

703
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: week of the season, you're gonna I mean, that's just

704
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: a repay. It becomes routine. Then then it's not such

705
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: a big deal going on the road. Those are I

706
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: think when I saw that come out on the schedule

707
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,239
Speaker 1: with the Jets Giants back to back, same stadium at

708
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: two road games, you can only count. To me, that's

709
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: like a half a road game because because of familiarity

710
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: with the Jets stadium and that Jets team and the

711
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: Giants are in the stadium that you would you would

712
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: think is familiar to you, particularly the second week in

713
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: a row, it becomes really routine and it becomes less

714
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: of distraction, less of a road game, less of all

715
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: the things that go into it. Certainly the crowd is

716
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: going to be Jets or Giants, but man, oh man,

717
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: that that to me is a plus. Getting two road

718
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: games in that building in the same year, two weeks

719
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: in a row, to me, that is a That is

720
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: a big a break on a schedule, particularly in a

721
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: way schedules I've ever seen. I think I think it's

722
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: a huge boost for the Bills. I think hopefully they'll

723
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: play like that. But so I to me, yeah, going

724
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: splitting and you can say that and theoretically, um, that's

725
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: always been to say, you win your home games and

726
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: you split on the road, and that's no question. If

727
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: you do that, you're in the playoffs and you're doing

728
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: in the playoffs easily, because if you do it exactly

729
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: like that is twelve wins, you know, So that's you're

730
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: you're right, But yeah, you can split up a tone.

731
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: That's a good opinion, and you're right. You got to

732
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: you gotta do it somehow, somehow, some way, shape or form.

733
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: You gotta get to ten wins. Giants um open their

734
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: season on the road at Dallas the week before on Sunday,

735
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: the week before. That'll be a big game for them obviously,

736
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: right that would be a game that they had focus

737
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: of their turn about Dallas game. Yeah. Yeah, the Giants

738
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: open it Dallas first week. So I mean, is there

739
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: a leftdown for Buffalo home opener. It's hard to be

740
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: the team in their home opener. Well, it's hard to

741
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: beat the Giants in their row. Yeah, it's the same stadium. Yeah,

742
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: let's go to uh Bob and Buffalo. Hello, Bob, welcome,

743
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: you're on the air, all you guys. Um, I guess

744
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna says a little bit of luck but

745
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: also some some practice, and I think it's staying healthy

746
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: and people have alluded to that, but it certainly messens

747
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: up every team and they all use it for an

748
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: excuse things go south. But uh, and it's not that

749
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: it's got to be the turnovers. There's a lot of

750
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: luck involved in that, but there's also design and I

751
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: think also would staying healthy. There's a lot of that too. Yep, Yeah,

752
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 1: you're right, and that's you're right. It is unpredictable in

753
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: turnovers was what I alluded too early in the in

754
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: the broadcast as well. I think turnovers are going to

755
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: be a key because I I kind of acknowledge that

756
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: the offense is going to be better than it was

757
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 1: a year ago. The running game, the passing game, the

758
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: weapons around Josh and the offensive line are that much better.

759
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: That means Lashawn McCoy, Frank Gore, all those guys are

760
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: going to play better. Cole Beasley, John Brown are going

761
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: to be an upgrade from where they were a year ago.

762
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: And so I think all that's going to come together

763
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: in such a way that really the big question is

764
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: can they get more possessions from their defense, and they can.

765
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 1: Can they hang on to the football and not give

766
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: possessions away? And I think that's as big a thing

767
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: as anything. And the fact that you said that about

768
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 1: injuries is interesting because the Bills led the league last

769
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: year in the least amount of games lost to injury

770
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: to player injury. So if that continues, that's a plus

771
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,919
Speaker 1: you can't count on. That scares me when you cite that. Yeah,

772
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: you can would, but it's no. It makes me think, oh,

773
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: we'll pay for it now, you know what I mean.

774
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: Luck as a factor, yeah, but me saying it doesn't

775
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: have any to do it, don't say it again. For

776
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: the Bills to make the playoffs, they must do what.

777
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: Back to the tweechee, here's a good one from Huggy

778
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 1: Bear and I'm surprised this did not come up sooner.

779
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: Huggey Bear tweets this in for the Bills to make

780
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: the playoffs, he says, the offensive line has to get

781
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: has to gel together fairly quickly, key to the whole season.

782
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: If josh Atmen can be the point guard, a quarterback

783
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: had not play hero ball and let his playmakers do

784
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: the work for him. He will be much better. The

785
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: defense is good enough now. The offense just has to

786
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: score more regularly. But the offensive line is a question

787
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: mark and a key, a big key. I mean, now

788
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: that they think of it, Huggey Bear, you might be

789
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: onto it. In terms of position group under the radar.

790
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: As to what will make the difference between the Bills

791
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs or not, it probably is the

792
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: offensive line. Just question marks, right, question marks up front,

793
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: more solid at center. People will tell you there are

794
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: four other positions that are wide open. I don know

795
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: about that. I think Dawkins is good at left tackle,

796
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: but there are questions on the offensive line. And until

797
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: those questions are answered in an affirmative way, it's hard.

798
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: You know. You gotta wonder do they have what it

799
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: takes to being playoffs? I don't know, what do you think? Yeah,

800
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: I think they've taken all the logical, well thought out

801
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: steps they can to fix it. And that's you've got

802
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: to you've got and plus you don't forget. And I

803
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: hate to say it in these terms, and I'll just

804
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: I'll probably exaggerate a little bit to make a point.

805
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: They were horrible. They're in no way they can play

806
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: like they did last year. In my opinion, they just won't.

807
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: They this coaching staff, in this regime won't let it happen.

808
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: They change. That's right. They're gonna be all new guys

809
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: and they got a new coach. Everything is gonna be different.

810
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: They are not gonna be the same as they were

811
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: last year. To me, that is all as a given. Uh,

812
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: physical upgrades at every position. Um, except for the left tackle,

813
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: who is to me, he's good, He's We're set there.

814
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: I don't that is not a that is not an

815
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 1: emergency at left tackle. Dion Dawkins can play. I'm confident

816
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 1: that he's gonna give you if he can. If he's

817
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: held sixteen games. So and Mitch Morris, I think was

818
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: the coup of the off season. I think he is

819
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: gonna be a huge difference maker for the offensive line.

820
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: Cody Ford is gonna come in. I think he'll probably

821
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: have be the one guy up front who may have

822
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: some growing pains, but I think the big another overlooked

823
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: guy that I really liked that they signed with Spencer Long.

824
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: The Jet fans got soured on him for one he

825
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: tried to play hurt with a busted finger at center

826
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: and could not make a shotgun snap in a game,

827
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: and he had a horrible game, and his coaching staff

828
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: just left him in. He couldn't grip the ball with

829
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: his snap, had tried to keep snapping it, and he

830
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: kept throwing it around over the quarterback's head or under

831
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: his feet. They lost pause. You know, they had fumbles

832
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: and all kinds of problems in this one game. So

833
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: now all the fans are looking at Spencer Long like

834
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 1: he can't play at all, and they cut him for it.

835
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: The guy a busted finger and was trying to go

836
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: and help his team. He's not the he's not the

837
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: guy to blame for that. You got a guy with

838
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: a snapping the ball with a busted finger, you do

839
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: what the Jets did, You fire the coach. So now

840
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: you've got this guy who has got a lot of

841
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: NFL experience playing, who's a really good player. Now I'm

842
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 1: not gonna say he's gonna come in and be a

843
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Famer or even an All Pro

844
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: this year, but the guy can get it done up front.

845
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: He's an athletic, he's got experience and he's young enough

846
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: so and he's been in this division. So to me,

847
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: that guy was a big signing as well. Not only

848
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris and you got Dion Dawkins, but Spencer Long

849
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Speaker 1: has been overlooked. He's a perfect guy and hopefully in

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Speaker 1: a perfect world, and I'm not saying this against Spencer Long,

851
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Speaker 1: he's a starter quality guy. Hopefully he can't get on

852
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Speaker 1: the field and becomes the swing guy at guards center,

853
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: because you got three guys even better up front. If

854
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Speaker 1: that happens, then you may have a couple of guys

855
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Speaker 1: who are all pro upfront. That's the kind of quality

856
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Speaker 1: of guys they brought in. Mitch. Spencer Long is a

857
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: good player, and he got kicked to the curb in

858
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Speaker 1: New York because he tried to play hurt. So in

859
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Speaker 1: a perfect world, if he's he can't get on the field, man,

860
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: you got some guys because that guy's have proven starter

861
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Speaker 1: so I'm they have So all of this said, yeah,

862
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: the offensive line is the engine for every offense. We

863
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: saw it last year. You can have a guy who's

864
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Speaker 1: good enough to play hero ball like Josh Allen him

865
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Speaker 1: and along the lines of like a Cam Newton was

866
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Speaker 1: trying to do a couple few years ago when he

867
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Speaker 1: first came in the league. But you get an offensive

868
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Speaker 1: line in front of him, and then all of a sudden,

869
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Speaker 1: the guy, the quarterback can take the cape off, you know,

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Speaker 1: and start spreading it around a little bit. And if

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Speaker 1: that happens at the end, everybody gets better and including

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Speaker 1: the defense. Gonna take a break here. Kylewave was coming

873
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Speaker 1: up after the top of the hour, more discussion on

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Speaker 1: this topic. For the Bills to make the playoffs, they

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Speaker 1: must do what. We'll talk about that with you when

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Speaker 1: we return. One Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Reading one of Bill's Live. John Murphy's team

878
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: tasker here until three today. Kyle Williams coming up in

879
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes on the show. He's the narrator

880
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: for Buffalo Bills Embedded, which makes its debut on Sunday.

881
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about mad and twenty with one of

882
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Speaker 1: the game designers coming up at two. We're talking about

883
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: this question that we put out there today. For the

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Speaker 1: Bills to make the playoffs, they must do what What

885
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Speaker 1: do you think? Shane on the line from Fresno, California.

886
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Speaker 1: Shane what do you think, Um, you know, you know

887
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Speaker 1: our guys. First of all, I enjoy your guys of

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Speaker 1: the show by Shane. There's a few things that the

889
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: Bills have to do. There's three things. Three things all,

890
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: like you guys said, is the offensive line house to jail.

891
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: I'm very confident this year that the Bills offensive line

892
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Speaker 1: we'll get it done. Honestly. I mean, we got a

893
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Speaker 1: couple of good guys. Even we got Boon which we

894
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: signed what last year and didn't play like expectations, He's

895
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,479
Speaker 1: still going to be there and hopefully themselves. And if

896
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Speaker 1: it's a line. Second, is we gotta get off the

897
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: gates pretty hot we got. I mean, we gotta winnable

898
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Speaker 1: games we got I believe it's like the Giants, uh

899
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Speaker 1: and Giants and then we played the Jets or so yep,

900
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Speaker 1: either way around. But yep, those are winnable games. And

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Speaker 1: we have to start off the games. And the main

902
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: thing that we really really really have to do is

903
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Speaker 1: we got to beat the Patriots this year. We got

904
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Speaker 1: to get that one game under our feeling good about

905
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: ourselves and beat the Patriots. I mean, I'm not saying

906
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Speaker 1: to be both you know, Patriots twice. But I mean

907
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Speaker 1: it's possible to beat the Patriots at least once. Well, Shane,

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Speaker 1: let me ask you that. And that's an important distinction.

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Speaker 1: I think, do they need to beat the Patriots? Just

910
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: is that a feel good win? Or is that you

911
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: think it's it's essential for them to beat the Patriots

912
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: if they're gonna make the playoffs. Well, I mean, first

913
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Speaker 1: of all, you get the extra victory in the in

914
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Speaker 1: the division. Um, you know, beat the Jets and Dolphins,

915
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Speaker 1: which you know they're not that good of a team.

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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I believe Buffalo is a

917
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Speaker 1: better team. I mean, I get those two of them.

918
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good five five wins in our division.

919
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Speaker 1: I mean, and get a few moile. I mean, so

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Speaker 1: it's more than a feel good win. It would feel good.

921
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that would feel pretty good. Yeah, no question,

922
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Speaker 1: you're right, I think, Um, there's no question. At some

923
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Speaker 1: point you've got to focus on knocking the champion off

924
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Speaker 1: the throne of the AFC East and that's the Patriots.

925
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Speaker 1: And it would I think for most people, we've seen

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Speaker 1: UH teams go four and two in the division, sweep

927
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Speaker 1: two teams and get swept by the third team. Um,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna go four and two, most people around

929
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: the country would say that's the who's you know, the

930
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Speaker 1: Patriots are going to sweep the division. Uh. I don't

931
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Speaker 1: know that. I buy that. I don't think the Patriots

932
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Speaker 1: even think that that way. They'd like to win every

933
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Speaker 1: game in front of them, but they're not thinking it

934
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Speaker 1: in the big picture like that. Uh. Yeah, it would

935
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Speaker 1: be if I think more than anything, it's a feel

936
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Speaker 1: good win, no question about it. If you want to

937
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Speaker 1: win the division, you need to beat all of the

938
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Speaker 1: division opponents, even if you go split with all of

939
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Speaker 1: them and go three and three. I think a lot

940
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Speaker 1: of people in Western New York would feel better about

941
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Speaker 1: that than going four and two and sweeping the Jets

942
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Speaker 1: and the Dolphins. You know what, Shane made a good

943
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Speaker 1: point I thought right now at the bat when he said,

944
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: or a second point you made start fast. When you

945
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: think back to last year and the way the season

946
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: opened with the terrible loss in Baltimore forty seven to three,

947
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: the home opener. You know, the Chargers just racked up

948
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Speaker 1: points of bills, got within eleven, but gave up thirty

949
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 1: one points. That was a horrible way to start, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: I think there was you know, yeah, they beat Minnesota

951
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: and then they lost to Green Bay. It took a

952
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: while for them to kind of get on their feet

953
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: last year. I think Shane made a good point fast

954
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: start this year. The two New York games home against Cincinnati,

955
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Speaker 1: you get, I mean two of those three, it's a

956
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: totally different story, right, two of those three going into

957
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots game. You'd feel different if we're talking about

958
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: feel good, You feel good if you were two and

959
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: one with the Patriots coming to town end of the month, Yeah,

960
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 1: no question, You're right. Last year it was it was

961
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: a really tough start to the season, and they had

962
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: all those question marks at quarterback, and all the answers

963
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: to those questions seemed no, ye know, there's nobody ready

964
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: to play. And even now, I think even now, I mean,

965
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: this regime, you know, Brandon Bean, they just wished, they

966
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: wish they would have had those guys in, brought a

967
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback in much sooner in the process. AJ McCarron

968
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: was not the answer. They thought they got him from

969
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: Cincinnati as a free agent, They thought he might help them.

970
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: He didn't. They actually traded him at the end of

971
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 1: training camp because he wasn't playing any better than anybody else,

972
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: so they I think that at the way the season

973
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: got off to the start that it did last year,

974
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: I think you're right, Murph. I think it hit them

975
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: right in the mouth. It wasn't until led Minnesota game

976
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: when they blew out of the gates and beat the

977
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings, that they finally found themselves in a spot

978
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: where they were they could rally around somebody. Now, it

979
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: was obviously Josh early in the season, but man, oh Man,

980
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: getting out of the gates fast to me would be

981
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 1: two and one at worst three and oz to going

982
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: into Patriots. Having the Patriots coming in here would be

983
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: a great one would be the great one. All right,

984
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk more about this topic. What do the Bills?

985
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: What must they do to make the playoffs this year?

986
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: We'll continue that going forward, and would you bring it

987
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: up with Kyle right he's a Bills Kyle Williams, thirteen

988
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: year venteran on the defensive line, the narrator of the

989
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: Bills em Vetted series. He'll join us next when we return.

990
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: We're our number two of the show. Come on back

991
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive.

992
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network Sports update

993
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The Bills eight days away from

994
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: their first training camp practice at Saint John Fisher College

995
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: in Rochester, but NFL training camps are opening this week.

996
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos have rookies and veterans reporting today. They

997
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: become become the first team to hold a full team

998
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: pract because tomorrow morning, Denver is going to play in

999
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,439
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame Game against Atlanta on August first.

1000
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: Also today, rookies report for the Arizona Cardinals, the Baltimore Ravens,

1001
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: and Seattle. By the end of the week, the Falcons, Lions, Saints,

1002
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: and Jets will welcome their first year players. Several teams

1003
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: staying close to home for camp, but ten teams, including

1004
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 1: the Bills, still going off site for their training camp,

1005
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: holding camp away from their facilities. Hockey News Seattle's new

1006
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: NHL franchise as its first general manager of Hall of

1007
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: Famer Ron Francis will be named the expansion team's GM.

1008
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: According to ESPN in Seattle, Francis will get a multi

1009
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: year contract from the team. Expected to make the higher

1010
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 1: official later this week the expansion Seattle franchise set to

1011
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: begin playing the twenty two season. They'll be the NHL's

1012
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: thirty second team Bison's home this afternoon. They pushed back

1013
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: the first pitch for today's game until one thirty because

1014
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: of weather considerations. TJ. Zeutsch on the mound for the

1015
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bison's home against Charlotte again one thirty five scheduled

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Speaker 1: first for that game at Downtown Salem Park, and the

1017
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Speaker 1: British Open starts tomorrow. Roy McElroy looking to end his

1018
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: drought in the majors, but he's got some competition for

1019
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: this weekend's Open Championship. McElroy, the Northern Irishman, seeking his

1020
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: first win in a major tournament since the two fourteen

1021
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: PGA Championship. He's had a long drought since then, but

1022
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 1: I'll have to fight out challengers like brooks Keepka, Gary

1023
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: Woodland and many more. British Open begins tomorrow at Royal

1024
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,280
Speaker 1: Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland. First time in fifty

1025
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: one years the British Open has been in Northern Ireland.

1026
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,760
Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy's

1027
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, our number two of the show One Bills

1028
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. The Bills getting set this

1029
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: Sunday to make the debut for the second year of

1030
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: their series, their digital series and Bet It Buffalo Bills

1031
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Speaker 1: embetted It starts Sunday, the Pagoda Sports and Entertainment digital

1032
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Speaker 1: series that debuted last year, returning for its second season.

1033
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: It will air in its entirety this Sunday, seven pm

1034
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: on the Bills YouTube channel. Buffalo Bills Embedded with a

1035
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: unique all access look at behind the scenes goings on

1036
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: for the off season for the Buffalo Bills with a

1037
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Speaker 1: different narrator this year. Guess who's narrating this year's season

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Speaker 1: of Embedded. Take a look and listen to getting Kyle

1039
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: Williams to retire and bringing some new players in. He

1040
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 1: got him out of there addition by subtraction. But I'm back.

1041
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: You just want me to read these one at a time.

1042
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: Are we ready? All right? There's no single blueprint for

1043
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 1: success in the NFL. I am reading and you're not.

1044
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: You could wait until I got done. Who wants to

1045
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: hear the twangy drawn out ights if somebody from the South.

1046
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm going fast enough where we can get the show

1047
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Speaker 1: over with. They don't want to watch the show for

1048
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes. All my friends in Buffalo are gonna be like,

1049
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: who is this clown? They had to narrate embedded, Get

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Speaker 1: him off of there, get us a good voice. That's

1051
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Speaker 1: a route. Kyle Williams a narrator for season two. You

1052
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: have embedded the former Bill's defensive tackle, six Pro Bowl appearances,

1053
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Speaker 1: and Kyle Williams is on the line with a slide.

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Speaker 1: Right now, Kyle, I gotta say, you sound a little

1055
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Speaker 1: bit like a narrator Prima Donna during that little clip

1056
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Speaker 1: we just ran what's going on? That doesn't sound like you? Hello, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: we lost hung up? Hung up? I said, he sounded

1058
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Speaker 1: sounded like a narrator Prema Donna. That is perfect. Well,

1059
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 1: here's it. No, he didn't hang up that you sure

1060
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: that's Jay hanging up on him? Probably what you know,

1061
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: he's driving Kyle's Kyle's was driving someplaces. It's hard to

1062
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: keep this set this connection up when the guys on

1063
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: the road. Kyle, you're back with us, Yeah, I'm back.

1064
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. For some reason, my phone doesn't want me

1065
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: to talk to say I didn't call you a prima donna.

1066
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: I said, you sounded a bit like a prima donna.

1067
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: I know you're not. Oh, I'm a total prima donna.

1068
00:51:54,960 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: I totally changed retirement. Retirement has done one to my

1069
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: ego and my attitude. It gives me a great idea

1070
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: for you're in my retirement, kyd. We come up with

1071
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 1: an app that won't let you talk to John Murphy

1072
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: on the phone. It's perfect. Oh well, I've actually got

1073
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 1: a SA saved as do not answer because it will

1074
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: take an hour. But I'm gonna say with that today,

1075
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: how did you get recruited to be the voice of

1076
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills embedded? How did that go down? I don't know.

1077
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: You know, I was asked, and I'm such a nice guy.

1078
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: I said yeah, And then I hear myself on there,

1079
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: and I mean, let's let's be honest. I'm know Morgan Freeman,

1080
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: so I don't say so this is probably gonna be

1081
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: my first and last four stay into that. I think,

1082
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: like you heard you know that the h I G

1083
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: H T s and the little the long words you

1084
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 1: know from somebody from the South, And uh, it's not

1085
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: really what you're looking for. I don't think on a voiceover,

1086
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: but we had fun. I know that the embedded has

1087
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,320
Speaker 1: not been released until the last of this month, but

1088
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: have you seen it this Sunday? Have you have you

1089
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: seen any of it? I haven't. I haven't seen any

1090
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: of it, and I know some of the lines. I

1091
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: was kind of coached up while I was reading a

1092
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: particular line that hey, this is what's going on in

1093
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: the scene. But I haven't actually seen any footage other

1094
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: you said, what are we talking about? Like the word

1095
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 1: fight or right? Yeah, I mean I think if you

1096
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: hear ye lie all those you know, it seems like

1097
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: people from the South, we'd like to drag out ight,

1098
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: make it a little bit longer than it normally is. Yeah,

1099
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,479
Speaker 1: some of the things we're gonna see in this year's

1100
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: embedded it has to do with the guy that was

1101
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,919
Speaker 1: brought in to replace you, Ed Oliver. They're gonna show

1102
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: us parts of his interview at the Combined. Any thoughts

1103
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: about do you remember when your interview was like or

1104
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 1: what do you expect us to see from a guy

1105
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: like Ed Oliver? You know, I remember a couple of

1106
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: interviews from the combine Um. You know, some of the

1107
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: questions and some of the answers, you know, I'm not.

1108
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: I'm not real sure how they would play for my

1109
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: personal perspective, but you know, with him being a high

1110
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: draft pick and the things that they're talking about, you know,

1111
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: I'll see it for the first time like everybody else,

1112
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: so I'll be interested to see what they asked him.

1113
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 1: But his answers were and in all of that, So

1114
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: we'll all find out together. Just because I narrated, I

1115
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: haven't had an inside look at it, Kyle, those embedded

1116
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: cameras were everywhere during this offseason, in the meetings, at

1117
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: the Combine, they're at the Senior Bowl, they're in the

1118
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: draft room. It's different than when you came into the

1119
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: league in two thousand and six. What kind of an

1120
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: impact do you think it would have had, you know,

1121
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: your combined interviews, if you knew that there were video

1122
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: cameras in there recording what you were seeing, what was

1123
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: being asked of you for later playback in kind of

1124
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: an entertainment format, what would you think of that? Well,

1125
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: you know, I think even when I was coming out,

1126
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: you had people that coached players up or you know,

1127
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: help players prepare for interviews, etc. Etc. And I can

1128
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: only imagine that it's gotten worse now with the access

1129
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: and you know, kind of pulling the curtain back on

1130
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: every facet of life in the NFL, you know, getting

1131
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: ready for the draft, in the locker room, all those

1132
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: types of things, which are they're great for fans and

1133
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: people kind of an outside looking in to really get

1134
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: a view behind the curtain of what it is. You know,

1135
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: I think for me is knowing that everybody was watching

1136
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: and listening. Like for me, I would probably be a

1137
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: little more tight lips than I normally would have, but

1138
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,800
Speaker 1: that's just my personality. Some of these guys, you know,

1139
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: they look at that as an opportunity to to shine

1140
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: and be on camera, and you're going to get a

1141
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: full look at a lot of guys personality that way. Kyle,

1142
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: on the heels of your retirement a year ago the

1143
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: league of the NFL. The Buffalo Bills led the NFL

1144
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: last year in the least amount of games lost to injury,

1145
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: and then this last offseason they built this new facility.

1146
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:46,800
Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to walk through that and

1147
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: talk to us a little bit about do you think

1148
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: that kind of facility and the philosophy behind it is

1149
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: a big difference maker for a team. I think Number

1150
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: one I have had a chance to go through, and

1151
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 1: it's incredible and opportunities for guys for everything that they

1152
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: need to be at their fingertips where they don't have

1153
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: to outsource any kind of treatment, any kind of nutrition,

1154
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: any kind of workout. And I think that's kind of

1155
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: the master plan, if you know you're talking to Sean

1156
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: and Brandon and Harry and him, is we want our guys.

1157
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: We want our athletes to have everything at their disposal

1158
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 1: so they don't have to go anywhere, so we can

1159
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: control you know, maybe controls not the right word, but

1160
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 1: or maybe we can offer them everything that they may

1161
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 1: need here in this building so they want to be

1162
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: here so that they don't have to go elsewhere. And

1163
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: then if you look at it from another perspective of

1164
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 1: guys coming in from around in the league, that may

1165
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: have been an organization that maybe doesn't you know, supply

1166
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,359
Speaker 1: that or have that for the players to come into

1167
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 1: a place that says, hey, we've got everything you need

1168
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:58,919
Speaker 1: to be successful here on every facet of the game

1169
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: in the facility, and that will attract guys there as

1170
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: free agents and so on and so forth. Kyle, the

1171
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: Sports Performing Center and the videos out there now and

1172
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: people are becoming aware of it. Do you think you

1173
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: mentioned how they don't want players going elsewhere? Is that

1174
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: so good that it could change players off season plans

1175
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: like maybe, well, you know, why would I go to

1176
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: my hometown or go to Atlanta or go to southern

1177
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: California because the workout stuff I need is available to

1178
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: me right here in Orchard Park even through the Orchard

1179
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: Park Winner. Do you think guys positions on off seasons

1180
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: might change? Yeah, I think so. I mean, you know,

1181
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: guys are still going to take their time off early

1182
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: in the off season. But what you're gonna do is

1183
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna see guys that may have split time or

1184
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: may have not been around much at all, are gonna

1185
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 1: look at that place and say, I want for nothing

1186
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: here and you can also be with your team at

1187
00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: the same time. So you know you've had some guys

1188
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: who like, Okay, well, maybe I'm I'm going to get

1189
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: a better opportunity or are better work out here or

1190
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: better chance to perform here, but I'm sacrificing time away

1191
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: from my team. Well at that place and with the

1192
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: string staff with Erik Ciano and how Luther and those stuff,

1193
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: having staff on top of the facility. You literally you

1194
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: want for nothing. So in the performance spectrum, there's nothing

1195
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: that you could possibly want that's any more than that is.

1196
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: Then you have the added bonus of being in your

1197
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: community with your team and in a state of the

1198
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 1: art facility. I mean, I really doesn't think a good thing. Yeah, Kyle,

1199
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: I've said that it's kind of a paradigm shift from

1200
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: where it was in some places. It's still this way,

1201
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: but used to be everywhere that if you're hurt, you know,

1202
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: you can't make the club in the tub, that kind

1203
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, if you're in the training room too much,

1204
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna be. You know you're gonna be. It's gonna

1205
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: count against you. It seems like there's a paradigm shift

1206
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo, whereas they expect you to go in

1207
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: for every little ak and pain to get it taken

1208
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: care of so you can get on the field. Of course,

1209
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: you can say that it paid dividends last year and

1210
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: the fact that you know nobody got or I'm not

1211
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: saying nobody, but they lost a few games to injury

1212
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: than anybody last year. But is it a tangible difference

1213
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: from a team that has nothing like they do here

1214
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. That a different you know, the old time

1215
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: philosophy of Yank just take. You know, is there a

1216
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: tangible difference when you get on the field on a

1217
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: Sunday playing for an organization like that, Well, I think

1218
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 1: number one as far as that goes. You have to

1219
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: look at Eric Siana and how Luther what they do

1220
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: with guys in the way room preparing them for the year.

1221
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: And then you look at Nate Braski and Christmas Chetti

1222
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: and Joe Meek and those guys what they do in

1223
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: the training room from treatment and physical therapy standpoint on

1224
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: how it's not just a facility that I think Kyle

1225
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: just went into a tunnel. We lost them again. Kyle

1226
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: Williams on the line with us. We'll get back for

1227
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: them in a second. He is the narrator this year

1228
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: for season two. Have that facility? Is that that makes

1229
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: that makes all the difference in the world. It says, hey,

1230
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't want you only coming in

1231
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: here when you have something that's threatening to lose time

1232
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: and lose the game. We want you to be preventative

1233
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: and we have all of this at your fingertips to

1234
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 1: not only feel and get better from something major, but

1235
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: to prevent injuries, to you know, perform better and all

1236
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: of those things. And that's what the training room is

1237
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 1: really about. The video of the Sports Performance Center, the

1238
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: behind the scenes video a big part of Buffalo Bills

1239
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 1: embedded that Kyle is the narrator for this year. There's

1240
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: a lot more to it though, Kyle, including off field pursuits,

1241
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: you know, Jordan Poyer fishing, Lorenzo Alexander working with kids,

1242
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: Josh Alan at dinner. It seems like players, maybe it's

1243
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: a different generation than when you came up, even but

1244
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: players are receptive to cameras following them around a little

1245
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: bit during their off time, during their downtime. Would you

1246
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: did you see that happen during your career? You know,

1247
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 1: I think it's like I said earlier, with you know,

1248
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 1: the prevalence of social media and cameras and you know,

1249
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: really pulling back the curtain and getting a look at

1250
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: these guys and time together and time alone. You know,

1251
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: it's it's really a unique vantage point for their fans

1252
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: and people outside of the team and the organization in general.

1253
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: That can look yeah different, but they're more exposed or

1254
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: comfortable or whatever you want to call it with that

1255
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 1: because they kind of grew up in it. I mean

1256
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: I came to the league, I had a flip phone.

1257
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: There was no such thing as you know, iPhones and

1258
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: Instagram and all that kind of stuff. You know, I've

1259
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 1: kind of indoctrinated myself to it. But these because grew

1260
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: up with it. It's just kind of part of their

1261
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 1: life and who they are. Is there any part of

1262
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: the league that changed for you during your career a

1263
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: thirteen years from O six all the way up to

1264
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: the present day, almost to the present day. Is there

1265
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: anything any changes that happened in the NFL that you regret,

1266
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: that you think we are a bad idea, or that

1267
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: you wish wouldn't have changed. We might have lost Kyle

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Speaker 1: again having trouble keeping that connection up. Kyle Williams the

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Speaker 1: narrator for Buffalo Bills Embedded season two. You can catch

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Speaker 1: it starting Sunday seven PM this Sunday, July twenty first.

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Speaker 1: It'll be up there for a while and the Bills

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel Go ahead. Steve asked that question, Yeah, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: up until you were in your thirteen year career, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the league evolves year by year. Are there any things

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Speaker 1: that changed that you remember changing during your career in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo that you wish never would have changed. Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a good question. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: to answer. I know, Mike, when I first came in

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Speaker 1: the league, everything was such a such power oriented power

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Speaker 1: run game play acts and all those kinds of things.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, now it's such a spread game and everybody

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Speaker 1: has to be mobile and be able to play in space.

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Speaker 1: I think I've seen the game change that way. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know that there's anything I would

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Speaker 1: have changed. I got to see a lot of different things.

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Speaker 1: I got to experience a lot of different things. I

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Speaker 1: got to see the city kind of take off again

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Speaker 1: and play for a lot of different coaches. So I

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Speaker 1: mean I try to take, you know, have a silver

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Speaker 1: lining of everything I saw that would be something that

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Speaker 1: require a little deeper thought. And you know, just a

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Speaker 1: quick question today, Kyle, and you in here a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and I think at that time you

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Speaker 1: had already played in this offseason in the four Ball Championship,

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Speaker 1: did well, and then this past week you were in

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Speaker 1: the the big celebrity golf tournament, the American Century Classic,

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Speaker 1: out in Lake Tahoe and it quitted yourself very well. Right,

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Speaker 1: it was what of that modified Stableford scoring? But you

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Speaker 1: were in I think you're in the top ten at

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Speaker 1: the end of the tournament, weren't you. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I had I played h I played not very well

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Speaker 1: the first day, I played well the second day, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't play well at all the third day. End

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Speaker 1: up finishing right there. I think that, you know, the

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Speaker 1: greens are a little tricky, and I think a little

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Speaker 1: more time, I'll be able to do a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: But it was such a fun week. We took the

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Speaker 1: kids out, we hiked, we got out on the lake,

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Speaker 1: enjoyed some weather other than Louisiana weather, which this time

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Speaker 1: of year is absolutely brutal. So it was a great week.

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Speaker 1: Got to connect with some old friends, saw Josh out

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Speaker 1: there amongst other guys, and it was just a fun

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Speaker 1: week for our family. Yeah, it always seems like it's

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Speaker 1: a great event and you get a chance, and I

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Speaker 1: think one of the fun things is the fact that

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Speaker 1: you get a rub up against athletes from other sports.

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Speaker 1: Who was the most interesting athlete you met other than

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Speaker 1: a guy that played football? Well, you know, I played

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Speaker 1: the first day with Bobby Flay, which was which was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. My ten year old daughter is

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Speaker 1: there and she knew three people at the event. She

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Speaker 1: knew her dad, she knew Josh Allen, and she knew

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Speaker 1: Bobby Flay. Of all the people, all the athlete justin Timberlake,

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Speaker 1: all these people there, she knew nobody except for her dad.

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Speaker 1: A gown his team in Bobby Flay because she loves

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Speaker 1: to washing the Food Network and she loves to so

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Speaker 1: throw down with Bobby Flay. So what we're talking one

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Speaker 1: morning before we see off, and I told Bobby that

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Speaker 1: he goes, oh, I can't wait to meet her. So

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Speaker 1: my daughter got to meet Bobby play because she loved

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Speaker 1: slow down with Bobby play. He was so gracious with her.

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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, got to play with some football guys.

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Speaker 1: You know, a chef, musical artists, Jeremy Roenick on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: the hockey player. So it's really a fun event where

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Speaker 1: you get to be around highly successful people, not just

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Speaker 1: a football but at their sport in their careers. And

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Speaker 1: it's just a lot of fun to see how although

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Speaker 1: we may not play the same sports, are really play

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Speaker 1: sports at all. But you know how the wiring is

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Speaker 1: very similar in guys that you know are go getters

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Speaker 1: and successful in their field. Can you made mention a

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Speaker 1: minute ago about the brutal Louisiana weather this time of year,

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Speaker 1: and be honest, I was thinking about you and others

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Speaker 1: they know in Louisiana when the uh, the hurricane passed

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Speaker 1: through to did you guys survive? Okay? Any damaged? And

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Speaker 1: you're part of the state down there, Yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: a little bit of flooding, some trees down, but you

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Speaker 1: know it could have been much worse. And you know

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Speaker 1: the thing is is that's really early to get that

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Speaker 1: kind of storm to come through. So kind of looking

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Speaker 1: at the rest of the calendar hurricane season with your

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Speaker 1: fingers crossed. So so far, so good through that last one,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we got a long way to go

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Speaker 1: through hurricane season this year. Well I'm glad to hear that.

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Speaker 1: I know that as you kind of get used to

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Speaker 1: settle into your retirement life, I know you're still getting

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Speaker 1: accolades for your playing career. You were named to the

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Speaker 1: All Retirement team in the National Football All the guys

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Speaker 1: that retired I think of this past year were uh,

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Speaker 1: they were put on an All retirement team. You made

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Speaker 1: the cut. I guess you're top defensive. Yeah right, I

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Speaker 1: mean my career is complete now I'm so happy literally,

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And what about your next career. You did

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Speaker 1: a little work with the NFL network. What's in the

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Speaker 1: works here for you, Kyle is as the season sort

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Speaker 1: of ramps up here in the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm doing a little bit of this, a

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Speaker 1: little bit of that. Really nothing nothing solid, kind of

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Speaker 1: at all. And leisure. You know, I think I kind

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Speaker 1: of told you last time. You know, you gotta keep

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Speaker 1: your eyes filled. I may pop up anywhere. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna pop up a training camp and he plans ahead

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Speaker 1: to Rochester. I may pop up at training camp. You

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Speaker 1: never can tell. Like I said, uh um, I may

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Speaker 1: make an appearance up there, all right. Yeah, they had

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Speaker 1: to drag me back to training camp with a with

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Speaker 1: a team of mules. I wanted no part of it. Well,

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Speaker 1: they would have to try. They would have to drag

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Speaker 1: me up there if they thought I was gonna put

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Speaker 1: a helmet and shoulder pads on. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to go up there and point and laugh at

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Speaker 1: guys while they're practicing I don't do it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: may take advantage of that. Always the team player, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being with us here today. We enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: I know you're gonna do. We're looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Embedded in the great job you do despite

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Speaker 1: your repartee with the producers and the clip we showed.

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure it's gonna be great. But that was

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Speaker 1: with Derek Boco and okay, yeah telling on me about

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Speaker 1: getting Sassy Boyco. He deserved that. Yeah, that does change

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Speaker 1: that does change it. Yeah, thanks Kyle, good to talk

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Speaker 1: with you. All right, guys, you'll have a good and too.

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Speaker 1: Hi Williams Bills Thirteen year veteran defensive tackle who made

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Speaker 1: six Pro Bowled appearances, former fifth round pick for the

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Speaker 1: Bills and O six on a LSU and now a

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Speaker 1: new gig for him this offseason. He is the narrator

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Speaker 1: for Buffalo Bills Embedded season two. It returns this summer

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Speaker 1: season two on the Bills YouTube channel Buffalo Bills Embedded

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock. The episodes available on the Bills YouTube channel

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Speaker 1: for Buffalo Bills Embedded, Kyle Williams's voice and all kinds

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Speaker 1: of access to stuff behind the scenes. I recall I

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Speaker 1: mean we're at the end of the off season now,

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Speaker 1: but I recall at the beginning of the off season,

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Speaker 1: way back in third week of January, going to the

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl in Mobile and part of our crew here,

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Speaker 1: our video crew in Mobile, Alabama. All they did was

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Speaker 1: shoot those nighttime interviews with players. Were embedded. I mean

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Speaker 1: they were they were embedded in the interview room and

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Speaker 1: set up their camera and the baby set that thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of work, a lot of

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Speaker 1: man hours going to embedded and a lot of good

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Speaker 1: people working on it. They won awards for it last year.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll win more this year. There's there's some

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Speaker 1: production value in there. I mean, it's it's Michelle Does

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Speaker 1: does a great job putting that together. She worked with

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Speaker 1: ESPN and the thirty four thirties, the Four Falls of Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: She was part of that production crew before she was

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Speaker 1: hired on a PSC so she's got some experience in

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Speaker 1: doing these kind of these well you know, those behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes epic kind of big production things. And this

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Speaker 1: is by any standard. I mean, there's not too many

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Speaker 1: teams that get have the kind of wherewithal that this

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Speaker 1: one does to put people in the field that will

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Speaker 1: cover this. I mean, they got the camera power, they

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Speaker 1: got the shooters, they got the editors, they got producers

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Speaker 1: that know what how to put it together. They really

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Speaker 1: put it a lot of effort to this embedded program.

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Speaker 1: It showed in the awards they won last year. And

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Speaker 1: I think there's no question Bills fans eat that stuff

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Speaker 1: up because you get a chance to see guys behind

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Speaker 1: the curtains when they're being the real thing. They're not,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're not doing an interview in a setting

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Speaker 1: you know there, it's you know, you're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: chance to see Ed Oliver before he was a Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill being himself. And that's pretty interesting stuff. Yep, seven

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Speaker 1: o'clock he can start eating up seven o'clock on the

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Speaker 1: Bills YouTube channel Buffalo Bills Embedded Season two. All Right,

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Speaker 1: the question of the day. For the Bills to make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, they must do what let us know what

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Speaker 1: you think? Phone lines open eight fifty, toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty or sending

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Speaker 1: a tweet. We might read it on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: Come on back. We got a long way to go.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Klada Health from One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. Okay, One Bill's Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks to Kyle Williams,

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Speaker 1: the narrator of Buffalo Bills, embedded this Sunday seven o'clock

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Speaker 1: on the Bills YouTube channel. He just joined us. If

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Speaker 1: you missed that, it will be available on our website,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com. Leader on today, question of the day.

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Speaker 1: For the Bills to make the playoffs, they must do? What?

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Speaker 1: Trying to boil it down to one thing, the most

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01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 1: important thing. We got some tweets in here. Met says

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Speaker 1: they need to be consistent on offense. They cannot put

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Speaker 1: seventeen points and expect to win. I would think twenty

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Speaker 1: one to twenty four points per game is not only

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Speaker 1: a big step, but a playoff pusher. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a great. Yeah, that's a good I think twenty four

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Speaker 1: plus though pointy. Yeah. I think twenty four points is

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Speaker 1: the number. Most teams will tell you they'll have a

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Speaker 1: winning record or at least a five hundred record if

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Speaker 1: you can score twenty points a game, because defenses will

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Speaker 1: say we should win if we can hold them under

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Speaker 1: twenty pints, and statistically that's probably generally true. But you

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Speaker 1: know you've we've all seen teams win fourteen ten up

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Speaker 1: thirteen twelve like the Bills did last year. I got

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Speaker 1: a call on the line from corfew. Who do we

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Speaker 1: got here? Who's on the line with us? Hello? Hi? Hi?

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Speaker 1: Who's this? This is Bob? Hey, Bob? How are you good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you calling in? What do you think? Well, first,

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Speaker 1: let me just say MERV nice? Shall I love you guys?

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Speaker 1: Love you too? Bob was such it was such a

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Speaker 1: pleasure watching you play, brother. I really, I'm sixty years old,

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Speaker 1: so I watched you your whole career. Yeah you know

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Speaker 1: you're talking to me? Okay, good, cool, Thanks Bob, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, if we had twenty two players like you

1477
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: every Sunday, brother, we'd be the next New England Patriots.

1478
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 1: That's a fact. Back then the Patriots weren't that good.

1479
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: What do you think about this team, Bob? What do

1480
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: you think the Bills to make the playoffs? What do

1481
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 1: they what must they do? Well? Like like like he

1482
01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:20,439
Speaker 1: just said there, it's definitely consistency. Um, you know, we

1483
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: can't play like rock starres one game where we're like,

1484
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 1: we look like we belong in to Super Bowl, and

1485
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: then the next game we look like we don't even

1486
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 1: belong in those leagues. And being a fan, you know

1487
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,639
Speaker 1: that's very frustrating. You look forward every Sunday to watch

1488
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:36,799
Speaker 1: and you guys play, and then all of a sudden

1489
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: that happens, and it just frustrates the heck out of

1490
01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:42,680
Speaker 1: you and the whole city. And imagine what it does

1491
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,640
Speaker 1: for the coaches. Yeah, can I say this, Bob, and

1492
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 1: you make a good, really good point. I'll give you that,

1493
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 1: But you know what I and Steve, you may agree

1494
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:50,880
Speaker 1: or disagree with this, I'm gonna say it. You know,

1495
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 1: I think it's underestimated how bad the other team wants

1496
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 1: to win too, how hard they've worked, how much they

1497
01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: need to win. And that's kind of what. I don't

1498
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: think it's a lack of effort on any one team's

1499
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: part more than it is like WHOA, they really came

1500
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:08,760
Speaker 1: to play today or WHOA we're working hard. They're working hard,

1501
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 1: And you know what I mean, I think that's more

1502
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 1: of a factive than people anticipate. You look at records

1503
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 1: as all. I was thinking today about those two Jets games,

1504
01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: and actually more important, I was thinking about the Dolphins

1505
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 1: games and how those will be approached by the Bills

1506
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 1: and more importantly, more to the point here, by their fans.

1507
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 1: The Bills host the Dolphins on October twentieth and play

1508
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:31,400
Speaker 1: about a month later in Miami, and I was thinking,

1509
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna go into those games and the

1510
01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:35,120
Speaker 1: fans are gonna think, well, we got them. It's the Dolphins.

1511
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 1: They're not good this year. But you know what, we

1512
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:40,640
Speaker 1: underestimate how hard people play, how good peak teams are,

1513
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 1: even the bad teams, and how hard they play. I

1514
01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:45,719
Speaker 1: think about think about the Buffalo Bills going to Minnesota

1515
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 1: last year after getting crushed, crushed, and then they went

1516
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:53,160
Speaker 1: in there and they absolutely hit the Minnesota Vikings right

1517
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 1: in the mouth and they won that game. And you've

1518
01:13:57,360 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: got to show up and take it from me, you

1519
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: got to show up every week, and you gotta play

1520
01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:06,400
Speaker 1: really well every single week. And that's the beauty of

1521
01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: the sus Why people watch you see that. You know,

1522
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:13,000
Speaker 1: there's emotional content in these content in these games. These

1523
01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 1: guys play for keeps and they're physically invested in every play.

1524
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:19,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's one of the things that makes

1525
01:14:19,439 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 1: this game great. It's the violence, Let's face it. I mean,

1526
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: you can say slice anyway you want to, but it's big,

1527
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,840
Speaker 1: strong guys pushing against each other, trying to move each

1528
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: other against their will. It's it's compelling to watch, and

1529
01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:36,680
Speaker 1: there's emotion in it that sometimes does get over underrated. Yep,

1530
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:38,760
Speaker 1: thanks by good call. We'll get the more calls at

1531
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 1: a moment for the Bills to make the playoffs, they

1532
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:43,639
Speaker 1: must do what give us a call or sending a tweet.

1533
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 1: Let's see. If it's one thirty and I'm starving, it's

1534
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 1: we gotta get some. It's what's for lunch? All right?

1535
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 1: We got Here's what it is, Murph. I'm gonna name

1536
01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 1: the menu items. You tell me which item on the

1537
01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:57,360
Speaker 1: menu you've got to have for lunch. Name this menu

1538
01:14:57,439 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: item for me. There's a chicken wing and a stinky sandwich.

1539
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:03,479
Speaker 1: I'd trade. If you're watching sandwich, look at that. If

1540
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 1: you're watching on MSG, it's basically a full fish, apparently

1541
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: still alive, between two spices of wonder bread. And it's

1542
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 1: got green smoke coming out of it. So you know

1543
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,800
Speaker 1: that is not for anybody's life. We listen weeks we

1544
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: waited on that graphic to show up. That's what we got.

1545
01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: What we got. I'm loving it. The kids did a

1546
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 1: great job. I had, by the way. That makes that

1547
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: Now I am hungry. In Prince Edward Island last week,

1548
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 1: two different lunches, fish and chips. Amazing. Yeah, I'm not

1549
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 1: a I grew up in the Midwest, in Kansas right

1550
01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: in the heartland. Would like this stuff. And I am

1551
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:39,720
Speaker 1: a beef guy. I'm not a seafood guy. There's when

1552
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 1: you're there. Fish and chips is my ghost and chips muscles. Yeah,

1553
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 1: you gotta get it anyway. Now I'm ung. So what's

1554
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: for lunch? So here's for lunch? Here? It is this?

1555
01:15:47,320 --> 01:15:49,280
Speaker 1: Which one you want? Which one you want for lunch?

1556
01:15:49,320 --> 01:15:52,759
Speaker 1: Who will lead the bills in sacks in two thoy nineteen?

1557
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 1: Is gonna be Jerry Hughes or At Oliver? Who do

1558
01:15:56,360 --> 01:15:57,800
Speaker 1: I want? What do I want? Which one you think

1559
01:15:57,840 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 1: is gonna happen? You think you gonna eat Jerry Hughes

1560
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 1: for lunch? Yeah, I guess that's the best thing on

1561
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 1: the menu. Little bounce back to him. I think ed

1562
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: Oliver has a role to play in the pass rush

1563
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:10,639
Speaker 1: getting sacks, but even disrupting things more than getting sacks.

1564
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:13,679
Speaker 1: I think Jerry Hughes is as a double digit sack

1565
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: here coming and I think he'll he will lead the

1566
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:18,160
Speaker 1: Bills in sacks this year. I agree. He could to

1567
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 1: be anybody else, and we're missing anybody else maybe, but

1568
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:22,720
Speaker 1: I agree. I think Jerry Hughes is the guy, and

1569
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons he's gonna do it

1570
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:25,800
Speaker 1: is because he's gonna get some help this year. He's

1571
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:28,080
Speaker 1: got a little more help. He isn't. He's a really

1572
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: good pass rusher. He's accepted that the analytics people will

1573
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 1: go over the wall, stand on the table and tell

1574
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 1: you how good he did last year. And I think

1575
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: that's gonna come out this year. Here's another menu item.

1576
01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston's gonna have a better season than Marcus Mariota

1577
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:46,439
Speaker 1: or Marcus Mariota is gonna outshine Jamis Winston. Yeah, what's

1578
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 1: your menu item. I don't like either one of them.

1579
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 1: I wouldn't or I wouldn't pick either one of them

1580
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: on them. It's not your main course. No, But if

1581
01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:55,600
Speaker 1: you ask me, if I had to pick one or

1582
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 1: the other, I guess Winston. I think he will benefit

1583
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 1: from Bruce Arians coaching and maybe a little bit better

1584
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,880
Speaker 1: talent based around him in Tampa. But well, I don't

1585
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:05,799
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want either one of them. I really wouldn't.

1586
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: I would put Winston ahead of Mariota, but I wouldn't

1587
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 1: be excited about it. Here's the thing, and I tend

1588
01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:13,720
Speaker 1: to do this a little more generally speaking than you do.

1589
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:17,840
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota is an awesome teammate, is a he's a leader,

1590
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: he's a he's an example setter, and the organization has

1591
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:24,880
Speaker 1: jumped on board with him saying he is our guy.

1592
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 1: I mean, the head coach has said I'm going with him.

1593
01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:29,040
Speaker 1: He's going to be our guy. Not so much in

1594
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, where the quarterback who's been suspended once or

1595
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: twice they didn't pick up his fifth year option. Both

1596
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: these guys are in that boat. But Jamis Winston has

1597
01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:43,040
Speaker 1: something to prove to his teammates as well as all

1598
01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:47,800
Speaker 1: of us. Marcus Mariota really just needs to go out

1599
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: and do it. And what you said, I hadn't thought

1600
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:55,719
Speaker 1: about Bruce Arians. It could make a difference for Jamis

1601
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:58,840
Speaker 1: Winston that and Marcus Mariota and a second year the

1602
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: same system, uh with with the offensive coordinator that they

1603
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 1: have there and the head coaching Vrabel little stability. I

1604
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:10,599
Speaker 1: think I'd take Marcus Mariota just because I think he's

1605
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 1: got in a more stable setting, even though I think

1606
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston's change that's coming with Bruce Arians will help him.

1607
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 1: I think Marcus Mariota is a guy who thinks he's

1608
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: in his right spot. I think the tenant he thinks

1609
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: Tennessee is his team. So I think I'm gonna take

1610
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota, not Jameis Winston. So we all right, we

1611
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 1: have different tastes in that one. All right, here's another one. Uh,

1612
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 1: you like Aaron Rodgers better with Mike McCarthy or do

1613
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:35,519
Speaker 1: you like Aaron Rodgers better with Matt Lafleur this year?

1614
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: Don't want a World championship with mikel I like Mike McCarthy.

1615
01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: I gotta say deep in the playoffs, it went terribly

1616
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 1: off the rails last year. You Aaron Rodgers, I think

1617
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:50,040
Speaker 1: needs help. He needs better players around him. I think

1618
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:53,439
Speaker 1: he needs he needs to be a better leader for

1619
01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:56,559
Speaker 1: that team. Right. Not a at the risk of Rick

1620
01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 1: Kindling the Kyle Williams slur, not a prima Donna. They

1621
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 1: don't need a pre mcdonna quarterback. And Rodgers is supremely talented,

1622
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 1: but I think he is a bit of an attitude

1623
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 1: that does not serve well around his teammates. And I

1624
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: think Mike McCarthy tried to keep that in check for

1625
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: as long as he could. As you said, they had

1626
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: championship caliber teams. I don't know if they have that

1627
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 1: anymore up there. I like Rodgers better with Mike McCarthy

1628
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:22,760
Speaker 1: and Alex Van Pelt's leadership than I do what he'll

1629
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:25,800
Speaker 1: get from I don't know, and untested Matt Lafleur. All right,

1630
01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: here's I think. I think it's gonna be Matt Lafleur

1631
01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 1: because I think Aaron Rodgers is smart enough to realize

1632
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:35,439
Speaker 1: if it doesn't go well with Matt Lafleur, they're gonna

1633
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: blame him, and there's no place else to lay the

1634
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:39,640
Speaker 1: blame at. I think Matt Lafleur is a guy's going

1635
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: to come in and do some things. I think he's

1636
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 1: smart enough to challenge Aaron Rodgers and justify what he's

1637
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 1: asking him to do. In this offense, We've all heard

1638
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: about the kind of rift between the freedom that Aaron

1639
01:19:51,520 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: Rodgers had to change plays, and the fact that Matt

1640
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:57,120
Speaker 1: Lafleurs doesn't really like that in his offense. I think

1641
01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: Lafleur is smart enough to sell Rogers on the option

1642
01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 1: he has within the plays called to say Okay, we

1643
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:04,640
Speaker 1: can get it done now. Certainly, there's a chance that

1644
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:06,679
Speaker 1: there are gonna be some rough times when the game's

1645
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:08,800
Speaker 1: not going so good, and Aaron Rodgers has to trust

1646
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 1: that play. But I think I think Rogers is gonna

1647
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:14,680
Speaker 1: know that a little bit of this is on him.

1648
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:17,679
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to make it work with Lafleur because

1649
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:19,640
Speaker 1: it really has no choice right now. And I think

1650
01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:21,639
Speaker 1: that's going to be the thing that sets this relationship

1651
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 1: off in the right face. I'm gonna say, Matt Laflelour,

1652
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:25,640
Speaker 1: I mean to Mike McCarthy, what scares me about that?

1653
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: You assume that Rogers will take to that sort of

1654
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 1: intelligent approach and that sort of leadership. I'm not sure

1655
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: that he will. One of his criticisms was McCarthy was

1656
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 1: he didn't think he was bright enough to keep up,

1657
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:37,719
Speaker 1: and they were lacked They lacked innovation in their offense.

1658
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 1: They were running the same plays three or four years

1659
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: down the line that they would ran for three or

1660
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 1: four years. Teams don't do that. They evolved quickly in

1661
01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:48,760
Speaker 1: the NFL, and McCarthy rogers criticism was that he didn't.

1662
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: And I think Lafleur's strength, or at least perceived strength,

1663
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:55,639
Speaker 1: is the fact that he's an innovative guy who's gonna

1664
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 1: try new, creative things and give them different plays eat

1665
01:20:58,439 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: week to week that teams won't be able to predict.

1666
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 1: So I think that's one of the reasons I think

1667
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 1: Rogers will, I think, rekindle his abilities under Lafleur than

1668
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:11,400
Speaker 1: than he did with Mike McCarthy. Okay, last one more, man,

1669
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:12,640
Speaker 1: we got time for a couple more. I got a

1670
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:14,560
Speaker 1: couple more. All Right, here we go. Who's gonna have

1671
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:17,439
Speaker 1: more wins in twenty nineteen, Vic Fangio of the Denver

1672
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:21,559
Speaker 1: Broncos or Brian Flores the Nami Dolphins. I think Fangio

1673
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, John Elway and Joe Flacco or Brian

1674
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 1: Flores in Miami. I think Flores goes into a tough

1675
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:34,040
Speaker 1: situation in Miami. Questions at quarterback, rosen Or Fitzpatrick pretty

1676
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:36,640
Speaker 1: good defense, especially in the back end, but there's not

1677
01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 1: a whole lot to work with. Broncos only won six

1678
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 1: last year like the Bills. Dolphins won seven. But I

1679
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 1: still think Fangio with his experience, I mean, this is

1680
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: a guy who's been around the league. You've met him.

1681
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:49,600
Speaker 1: I know he's not you know it's Chicago. He's a

1682
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 1: Chicago's defensive coordinator last year did an outstanding job. He

1683
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:55,559
Speaker 1: and the Broncos will have more wins than the Dolphins will,

1684
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:58,840
Speaker 1: I believe. Think about the division they play in the

1685
01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:00,960
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos with a fantas City Chiefs in the San

1686
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,479
Speaker 1: Diego Chargers, they may get swept by both those teams. Now,

1687
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 1: the Dolphins can look at their AFC East and you

1688
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,599
Speaker 1: got to think they may get swept by all three

1689
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:11,760
Speaker 1: of their teams, right right, I mean that's what those

1690
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: teams are thinking. The Dolphins certainly are not thinking that.

1691
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: That's a I thought, this is a really good question.

1692
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: But I here's the thing. I'm gonna take the Denver

1693
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:24,720
Speaker 1: Broncos because of this. I think Joe Flacco's got something

1694
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: in the tank, and I think Denver's got a better

1695
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 1: defense as of right now, and fan Joe's a defensive guy,

1696
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: so They're gonna be in some tight games early in

1697
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 1: this season. I think Joe Flacco's gonna give him enough

1698
01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: with his arm and his ability to sling it, They're

1699
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:38,280
Speaker 1: gonna win some games. So I think I think the

1700
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: Broncos may surprise some people. I think they'll win at

1701
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: least as many games as they did a year ago,

1702
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 1: maybe one or two more. They may get to eight

1703
01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: and eight, nine and seven in Denver. I can't make

1704
01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:52,040
Speaker 1: that same statement about Miami, but I will say this

1705
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:57,120
Speaker 1: about Miami in their defense, knowing what I know, which

1706
01:22:57,200 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 1: is not very much. I like Brian Flores and Vic

1707
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,640
Speaker 1: Van jo as a head coach. He is a He

1708
01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:05,519
Speaker 1: strikes me as a leader, a guy who will connect

1709
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: with his players better. And Vic Van Joe. Maybe it's

1710
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:10,200
Speaker 1: just me as a player. He's an old guy, been

1711
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:12,120
Speaker 1: in the league for a long time. He's never been

1712
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 1: a head coach before. There are reasons for that reason.

1713
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:17,200
Speaker 1: He put together a nice year in Chicago last year's

1714
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:19,479
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Now he gets a head coaching job. Where's

1715
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 1: he's been for twenty years? You see the question, it's

1716
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:23,120
Speaker 1: not who is going to be a better coach. I

1717
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 1: have a better coaching career. Who's gonna win more games

1718
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen? I know, okay, I know that's how

1719
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: I answered it. I look about ban Flores, but yeah,

1720
01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:33,680
Speaker 1: that's what I did too. Yeah, I think I think

1721
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:36,879
Speaker 1: the Broncos are gonna win more games, but long term overall,

1722
01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:39,640
Speaker 1: I like Brian Forrest. Different question. I think, all right,

1723
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 1: last one? What was the This is hard, I gotta

1724
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 1: take a deep breath. What was the more exciting Super

1725
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty one? The Patriots beat the Falcons after being

1726
01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:54,200
Speaker 1: down twenty eight to three, coming back in the second

1727
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 1: half and winning that game. Or the Giants beating the

1728
01:23:57,040 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: Patriots in Super Bowl forty two? Is that right? Forty two?

1729
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: I think it? Or forty seven. Ali throws the pass

1730
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,000
Speaker 1: off the helm, the helmet and they beat They and

1731
01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,560
Speaker 1: the and the Patriots go nineteen and one, losing the

1732
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Can I go off the menu? We're super

1733
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 1: Bowl twenty five? Oh, I get you that that. I'm

1734
01:24:17,439 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: just we have to say super Bowl twenty five is better,

1735
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 1: because I think it is. I think most football fans,

1736
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 1: not just Bills fans, and I'm not saying there is

1737
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:27,439
Speaker 1: any better than there's others that are better than these

1738
01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 1: as well, oh, so I just get these two, just

1739
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 1: get these two. I'll do fifty one. Patriots over the Falcons.

1740
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,600
Speaker 1: Didn't like the way it ended, but I you know,

1741
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 1: when you're watch that game at a saloon, a bontified

1742
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:43,160
Speaker 1: saloon in uh in Arizona. Um, where was I? No?

1743
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 1: In Texas? And uh with my wife standing there at

1744
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:50,679
Speaker 1: a saloon, it was just a little swinging doors. Yes, okay,

1745
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: where were we? It's not Fredericksburg something in Texas. I'll

1746
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 1: figure it out. But I watch that game there. I

1747
01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 1: thought I knew how it was going, and then um,

1748
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 1: things change and you could tell things has changed, and

1749
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 1: I didn't. I wasn't room for the Patriots. But I

1750
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:05,439
Speaker 1: recall saying my wife, here they come, and they did

1751
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:07,679
Speaker 1: and they won, and that was pretty exciting. That wasn't

1752
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:09,599
Speaker 1: It was a really good game. You have to tip

1753
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: your hat to him. There's no question about it. It

1754
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 1: was a great comeback by those guys. But I like

1755
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:15,920
Speaker 1: the other one better. I love the Giants Super Bowl

1756
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:18,960
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. They the Patriots put together a season

1757
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: like none other, even with you can throw the seventy

1758
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:25,440
Speaker 1: two Dolphins in that mix as well. They were undefeated

1759
01:25:25,520 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 1: going into that game and they were an absolute force

1760
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:33,799
Speaker 1: of nature, and the Giants with Eli Manning, that gawky,

1761
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 1: unathletic quarterback, put together a game and beat them in

1762
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 1: the biggest stage against one of the all time great

1763
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: regular season playoff teams of all time and one of

1764
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: the great in the middle of one of the all

1765
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:51,479
Speaker 1: time great runs in pro sports history and maybe the

1766
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 1: greatest run. It is the greatest run in NFL history

1767
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: from the year two thousands all the way through the

1768
01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: present day by the Patriots right in the middle of

1769
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:05,840
Speaker 1: it is a giant game that crushed them, broke their heart,

1770
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:11,760
Speaker 1: broke their heart. And I that for me is it

1771
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 1: makes that puts that at the top. I think it

1772
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with where I watched the game.

1773
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 1: I was in Fredericksburg, Texas and that incredible saloon, eating

1774
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:24,760
Speaker 1: amazing food, sipping beers, watching Patriots come back and beat

1775
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:28,200
Speaker 1: the Feller. That's why it's a lunch man. It was

1776
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:31,760
Speaker 1: for lunch. That was it? Good one? All right? Good,

1777
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 1: there you go. What's for lunch? We do it. We

1778
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: do it almost every day. Steve. We're not gonna we're

1779
01:26:37,040 --> 01:26:38,439
Speaker 1: gonna say we're gonna do it every day. But and

1780
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:41,080
Speaker 1: when we find interesting stuff, we'll do it. Yeah, we've

1781
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:43,320
Speaker 1: got to get rid of that wonder bread with it

1782
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 1: until they sell it, and we had to. We have

1783
01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 1: to do it every day. Then it's going to him

1784
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: a job. Somebody caught a carpet through it between two

1785
01:26:49,560 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: slices of wonderbread and put it in our graphic with

1786
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 1: green smoke. We're back with more One Bill's Live from

1787
01:26:55,400 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. We're back, John Murphy,

1788
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:12,240
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, One Bills Live. We are a week and

1789
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:15,439
Speaker 1: a day away from training camp. Let's have it. Let's

1790
01:27:15,479 --> 01:27:17,680
Speaker 1: do this at training camp, Steve. Let's um when we

1791
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 1: get there next week, maybe we do it the day before.

1792
01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:22,960
Speaker 1: Let's predict who's gonna beat the training camp standouts. You

1793
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 1: up for that next week? Next Wednesday, we'll do it.

1794
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be our training camp stand because there's always somebody, Yeah,

1795
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:33,120
Speaker 1: every somebody under the radar, training camp star who wasn't

1796
01:27:33,200 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 1: last year. Sometimes train it doesn't even make the squad. Yeah.

1797
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:40,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes was it Robert Foster for a minute? Uh he

1798
01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:42,800
Speaker 1: was like a wide receiver that somebody else too. I

1799
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 1: don't think I can't, but you know what, It'll be

1800
01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:47,640
Speaker 1: fun because look, camp is gonna fly by. We do

1801
01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:49,680
Speaker 1: eight shows, that's all a training camp. We do the

1802
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: one week and in sweaty Spartanburg, South Carolina, and um,

1803
01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:56,360
Speaker 1: you know that won't even feel like camp. That'll feel

1804
01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 1: that'll be different. It'll it'll be a training camp type atmosphere,

1805
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:00,960
Speaker 1: but not our training camp. But it'll be different down there.

1806
01:28:01,320 --> 01:28:03,720
Speaker 1: Camp's gonna be over before that. So let's do that

1807
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 1: next week. We'll have our training camp. Predict our training

1808
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,519
Speaker 1: camp standouts. I look forward to camp. I do I

1809
01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:11,040
Speaker 1: look forward to preseason. I'm looking forward to this season

1810
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:13,000
Speaker 1: and our question of today. For the Bills to make

1811
01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:15,439
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they must do what? What do you think?

1812
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones and go to Ray Ray.

1813
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:19,439
Speaker 1: They must do what to make the playoffs? What do

1814
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 1: you think? Hello? Ray? That's a nice clear phone line.

1815
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:27,439
Speaker 1: You just want to listen to that for a while.

1816
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 1: Fell asleep Twitter on the tweet sheet from Josh. For

1817
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:33,560
Speaker 1: the Bills to make the playoffs, they must do what.

1818
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 1: Josh has developed consistency in all three phases and went

1819
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:40,680
Speaker 1: on the road. The defense was relatively consistent throughout the

1820
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:43,080
Speaker 1: year last year just have to build it on offense

1821
01:28:43,160 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: and special teams. I feel the additions that were made

1822
01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:49,200
Speaker 1: will help that considerably. Let me repeat, if the Bills

1823
01:28:49,240 --> 01:28:51,840
Speaker 1: are to make the playoffs, they must do what they must,

1824
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 1: in my opinion, developed a consistent, plausible NFL passing game,

1825
01:28:57,280 --> 01:28:59,479
Speaker 1: which they did not have last year. That means offensive

1826
01:28:59,520 --> 01:29:02,519
Speaker 1: line play, pass protection, that means quarterback play. They gotta

1827
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 1: get more than they got from Josh Allen. That means

1828
01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: receivers making big plays. I mean, there's a lot involved

1829
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:09,640
Speaker 1: in that, but to me, that's what must happen for

1830
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: them to make the playoffs. To have a consistent, viable

1831
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 1: passing game, which they did not have last year. Yeah,

1832
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 1: and that's right. They were, you know, generally deficient on

1833
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 1: offense last year in their run game and their ability

1834
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:26,720
Speaker 1: to throw the football consistently Josh. And we've had some

1835
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:28,640
Speaker 1: people tweet and say, you know, he can't play that

1836
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:31,920
Speaker 1: hero ball and we all saw that he was unbelievable

1837
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 1: last year at times. And to that point from Brian

1838
01:29:36,160 --> 01:29:38,000
Speaker 1: c on the tweet sheet and this is kind he

1839
01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:40,160
Speaker 1: makes the point. I'm kind of thinking. He says it

1840
01:29:40,240 --> 01:29:42,559
Speaker 1: all comes down to Josh Allen's development and the offensive

1841
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: line's performance. If Alan plays as good or better than

1842
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:50,680
Speaker 1: the last four games of twenty eighteen, and the old

1843
01:29:50,720 --> 01:29:53,240
Speaker 1: line comes together, there's no reason this team can't win

1844
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:55,920
Speaker 1: ten plus games. The pieces are all there, we just

1845
01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:58,240
Speaker 1: need them to come together. And that's kind of the

1846
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:00,120
Speaker 1: way I feel about it. If Josh can play as

1847
01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:01,320
Speaker 1: good as he did in the last month of the

1848
01:30:01,360 --> 01:30:05,880
Speaker 1: season last year or better, man, I think with this

1849
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:09,240
Speaker 1: offensive line and the new things around him, it's gonna

1850
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:14,799
Speaker 1: be a really, really fun year for Bills fans. Now, certainly,

1851
01:30:15,280 --> 01:30:16,720
Speaker 1: you know, there's a ton of questions you have to

1852
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:18,360
Speaker 1: be answering, and they're not playing in a vacuum. These

1853
01:30:18,400 --> 01:30:21,600
Speaker 1: other teams are thinking they got better as well. But

1854
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: all of us who saw him play last year, who

1855
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:28,439
Speaker 1: are Bills fans? Now, there's some people around the country

1856
01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:30,600
Speaker 1: who you know, parachute in and watch film and do

1857
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:33,880
Speaker 1: some of this other stuff. They're not as optimistic as

1858
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:35,360
Speaker 1: I am. And I'm telling you what. You and I

1859
01:30:35,720 --> 01:30:37,400
Speaker 1: we saw him get better week every week, every week,

1860
01:30:37,439 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 1: and I can't help but think it's going to continue.

1861
01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:43,400
Speaker 1: We'll see. I'm gonna talk about Medden. Do you play Madden?

1862
01:30:43,479 --> 01:30:46,000
Speaker 1: Are you aware of Medden? Medd and twenty is out there,

1863
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:47,960
Speaker 1: the new game, and we've got one of the game

1864
01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:52,800
Speaker 1: playing a gameplay designers. Former NFL offensive lineman Clinton Oldenburg say,

1865
01:30:52,840 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 1: anybody to join us when we come back, Come on

1866
01:30:54,600 --> 01:30:56,960
Speaker 1: back for that. It's One Bill's Live, presented by Collid

1867
01:30:56,960 --> 01:30:59,320
Speaker 1: of Health from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo

1868
01:30:59,400 --> 01:31:12,519
Speaker 1: Bill's Ready Hills Radio Networks Stories update from One Bills

1869
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 1: Drive where the Bills get set for training camp next week.

1870
01:31:15,120 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 1: Next Thursday, their first day on the field at Saint

1871
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 1: John Fisher College in Rochester. NFL training camps are opening

1872
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: this week, however, including in Denver. The Broncos rookies and

1873
01:31:25,240 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 1: veterans reporting today. GM John Elway meeting with the media. Today,

1874
01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 1: the Broncos become the first team to hold a full

1875
01:31:32,120 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 1: squad team practice coming up tomorrow morning. Denver's gonna play

1876
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:37,799
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame game against the Atlanta Falcons

1877
01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:40,880
Speaker 1: on August first in Canton, Ohio, so they get started early.

1878
01:31:41,240 --> 01:31:44,479
Speaker 1: Also today, rookies report for the Cardinals, the Ravens, and Seahawks.

1879
01:31:44,520 --> 01:31:46,799
Speaker 1: By the end of the week, the Falcons, the Lions,

1880
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:49,479
Speaker 1: the Saints, and the Jets will have their rookies in camp,

1881
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:52,799
Speaker 1: all thirty two teams in camp by a week from Thursday.

1882
01:31:53,479 --> 01:31:56,400
Speaker 1: Twenty teams, including the Buffalo Bills, have joined a growing

1883
01:31:56,520 --> 01:31:59,600
Speaker 1: trend of practicing jointly with other teams. The Bills are

1884
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:01,840
Speaker 1: going to do it with Carolina a couple of weeks away,

1885
01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:04,599
Speaker 1: and this year, twenty two of thirty two teams stay home.

1886
01:32:04,680 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 1: They don't go to off campus sites. That builds one

1887
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:11,440
Speaker 1: of ten teams still holding camp away from their facilities.

1888
01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:14,280
Speaker 1: One of ten teams in the NFL Hockey News Round.

1889
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Speaker 1: Francis is set to be named the first general manager

1890
01:32:17,520 --> 01:32:20,360
Speaker 1: of the NHL expansion Seattle team. The Hall of Famer

1891
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 1: will get the nod on the Friday of this week.

1892
01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:25,919
Speaker 1: They're gonna multi year contract from the team, the franchise

1893
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:29,479
Speaker 1: for in Seattle. Set to begin play in the twenty

1894
01:32:29,840 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 1: one twenty two season. They will be the NHL's thirty

1895
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 1: second team. Bisons in action this afternoon. They got a

1896
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:39,720
Speaker 1: late start one thirty first pitch today, the Bisons continuing

1897
01:32:39,800 --> 01:32:42,320
Speaker 1: their series against the Charlotte Knights. Right now, they're in

1898
01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:44,640
Speaker 1: the top of the second inning and Charlotte leads it

1899
01:32:44,920 --> 01:32:47,360
Speaker 1: by a score of one to dating over the Buffalo Bisons.

1900
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:49,880
Speaker 1: The Herd continues on with their homestand throughout the end

1901
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:52,120
Speaker 1: of the week and around. One of The British Open

1902
01:32:52,360 --> 01:32:56,080
Speaker 1: is tomorrow at royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland.

1903
01:32:56,360 --> 01:32:59,640
Speaker 1: Northern irishman Rory McElroy looking to end his drought in

1904
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:02,720
Speaker 1: the trying to win his first major tournament since the

1905
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen PGA Championship. I have to fend off challenges

1906
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:09,960
Speaker 1: from people like Brooks, Kepka and others. British Open starts tomorrow.

1907
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:13,240
Speaker 1: That's the update from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker,

1908
01:33:13,520 --> 01:33:15,560
Speaker 1: this is the week when Madden twenty comes out and

1909
01:33:15,640 --> 01:33:17,360
Speaker 1: we've got on the line with us right now. A

1910
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:21,679
Speaker 1: Madden NFL gameplay designer, ratings adjuster, former NFL offensive tackle

1911
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:23,840
Speaker 1: one or fifth round pick of the Patriots in two

1912
01:33:23,920 --> 01:33:26,600
Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Happy to welcome Clint Oldenberg back to

1913
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:29,920
Speaker 1: the show. Hello Clint, John Murphy, Steve Tasker here in Buffalo.

1914
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:32,280
Speaker 1: I think we had yon this week last year talking

1915
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:35,200
Speaker 1: about Madden. Right, Yeah, yeah, you guys had me on

1916
01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:37,160
Speaker 1: last year. I'm thrilled to be back. I appreciate you

1917
01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:39,680
Speaker 1: guys inviting me on. Clint. How many years is this

1918
01:33:39,920 --> 01:33:42,400
Speaker 1: for Madden. And here's a big question which you may

1919
01:33:42,479 --> 01:33:44,920
Speaker 1: or may not have the answer. How many Madden players

1920
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 1: are out there right now? So this is Madden twenty

1921
01:33:49,320 --> 01:33:52,599
Speaker 1: now that we're launching here. Official launch date is August second.

1922
01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:55,560
Speaker 1: We have early access starting next week for some of

1923
01:33:55,640 --> 01:34:00,040
Speaker 1: our players, but total number of Madden players very that

1924
01:34:00,160 --> 01:34:02,519
Speaker 1: any given time during the year, but it's it's over

1925
01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:06,120
Speaker 1: five million on average every year. And one more question,

1926
01:34:06,240 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 1: I know Steve's got questions for you too, just about

1927
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:11,559
Speaker 1: who's playing this game. What is the are they kids?

1928
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 1: Are they gamers are? What's the demographic? And maybe what

1929
01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 1: is the target demographic for gameplay designers like yourself. Our

1930
01:34:19,439 --> 01:34:23,280
Speaker 1: current demographic really is pretty wide. We have anything from

1931
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:26,479
Speaker 1: you know, eleven twelve year old kids, potentially even younger,

1932
01:34:26,560 --> 01:34:28,640
Speaker 1: all the way up to forty fifty year old men

1933
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:32,960
Speaker 1: playing games. Um. I think we talked about it last year. Obviously,

1934
01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:35,760
Speaker 1: we would like to try to target a little bit

1935
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: younger audience as we keep going down the road here,

1936
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:41,800
Speaker 1: just like the NFL is doing realistically, they're trying to

1937
01:34:41,880 --> 01:34:44,320
Speaker 1: capture that younger group, those people who are playing Fortnite.

1938
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:45,599
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys are were of that game,

1939
01:34:45,640 --> 01:34:48,639
Speaker 1: but large a large number of younger people playing Fortnite,

1940
01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:50,840
Speaker 1: and we're just trying to capture some experiences that those

1941
01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:53,400
Speaker 1: people are into as they relate to the NFL. Who

1942
01:34:53,400 --> 01:34:54,960
Speaker 1: do you think you're talking to Clinton? Yeah, we're We're

1943
01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:58,080
Speaker 1: a Fortnite Come on, man, give us a break. What

1944
01:34:58,160 --> 01:35:01,040
Speaker 1: do you think? How is this game? What are the

1945
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:04,680
Speaker 1: I know that technology drives it. Obviously it's a it's

1946
01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 1: an electronic video game, I mean, but even over the

1947
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:11,320
Speaker 1: past few years, you've started to expand what the game

1948
01:35:11,479 --> 01:35:13,360
Speaker 1: is capable of. Certainly when you go on and you

1949
01:35:13,439 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 1: watch these games, they almost look like real time video.

1950
01:35:16,720 --> 01:35:19,840
Speaker 1: The players look like themselves. They move well, they move

1951
01:35:19,880 --> 01:35:23,320
Speaker 1: with fluidity and athleticism, and it's really come a long

1952
01:35:23,400 --> 01:35:28,160
Speaker 1: way technologically speaking. What are the newest innovations? Yeah, like

1953
01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 1: you said, you know, the main thing were you trying

1954
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:33,360
Speaker 1: to do every year is keep pushing more and more authenticity.

1955
01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:37,599
Speaker 1: So for Madden twenty our creative razor Or, our goal

1956
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:40,160
Speaker 1: was to make the stars feel like stars. So we

1957
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:44,120
Speaker 1: created a system called Superstar X Factors, and it's an

1958
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: ability's progression system in our game, where the fifty of

1959
01:35:47,400 --> 01:35:50,600
Speaker 1: the most elite NFL players are given special abilities that

1960
01:35:50,720 --> 01:35:54,439
Speaker 1: transcend their ratings that separate them from everyone else in

1961
01:35:54,520 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 1: the game. Along with that, there's these X factor zone abilities.

1962
01:35:57,960 --> 01:35:59,719
Speaker 1: When you get one of these players in the zone,

1963
01:36:00,240 --> 01:36:03,000
Speaker 1: there's objectives for both the offense and defense to achieve

1964
01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:05,640
Speaker 1: during gameplay that could get a player either into or

1965
01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:07,719
Speaker 1: out of the zone that gives them an extra ability.

1966
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:11,280
Speaker 1: And all of these abilities are really in the inspiration

1967
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:15,040
Speaker 1: of their real life counterparts declining. I wonder what drives

1968
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:18,320
Speaker 1: the change is Is it the technology or the desire

1969
01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 1: to make it more authentic? I mean, is it kind

1970
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:25,200
Speaker 1: of a back and forth byplay between those two. I

1971
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:27,840
Speaker 1: think it's authenticity number one, and I think number two

1972
01:36:27,960 --> 01:36:31,040
Speaker 1: is just listening to our players, getting data from our players,

1973
01:36:31,040 --> 01:36:33,680
Speaker 1: and getting feedback from our players, and finding out what

1974
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:35,840
Speaker 1: they really want the most in each year's game and

1975
01:36:35,880 --> 01:36:38,559
Speaker 1: trying to deliver that. You're talking about players who play

1976
01:36:38,640 --> 01:36:40,360
Speaker 1: the game, not the players who are on the game.

1977
01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:42,680
Speaker 1: Like the NFL players, Most of the feedback I guess

1978
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:45,000
Speaker 1: you get from them has to do with their ratings.

1979
01:36:45,080 --> 01:36:46,840
Speaker 1: You guys, hear a lot about that at this time

1980
01:36:46,840 --> 01:36:50,240
Speaker 1: of year. Correct, Oh, yeah, absolutely, Unless you're one of

1981
01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:52,280
Speaker 1: those four guys who are in that ninety nine club,

1982
01:36:52,360 --> 01:36:54,600
Speaker 1: you're most likely not appy with your ratings, and we

1983
01:36:54,760 --> 01:36:56,640
Speaker 1: totally get that. If you're an NFL player, if you

1984
01:36:56,680 --> 01:36:58,240
Speaker 1: don't think you're the best player on the field, then

1985
01:36:58,240 --> 01:37:01,240
Speaker 1: you're going to have a problem. So it's understand why

1986
01:37:01,320 --> 01:37:03,560
Speaker 1: all those guys think that they should be higher. But

1987
01:37:03,720 --> 01:37:06,160
Speaker 1: we have to rate players appropriately to the evidence that

1988
01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:08,360
Speaker 1: we have and to make the gameplay the most balance

1989
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 1: that it came. Who's in the ninety nine club? So

1990
01:37:11,320 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 1: we have four guys to launch the year. We have

1991
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:17,160
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald from the Rams, Bobby Wagner from the Seahawks,

1992
01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:20,679
Speaker 1: Khalil maximum the Bears, and DeAndre Hopkins from the Texans.

1993
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:22,720
Speaker 1: Those are our four ninety nine club guys. And what

1994
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:26,040
Speaker 1: does that mean to be ninety nine club? That means

1995
01:37:26,080 --> 01:37:28,439
Speaker 1: that they are the only four players in the game

1996
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:31,560
Speaker 1: at launch with a ninety nine overall rating, which is

1997
01:37:31,600 --> 01:37:34,640
Speaker 1: the highest overall rating that we can assign. And what

1998
01:37:34,840 --> 01:37:36,680
Speaker 1: does and give us some of the You said that

1999
01:37:36,840 --> 01:37:40,280
Speaker 1: you have a superstar X factor that during different parts

2000
01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:42,800
Speaker 1: of the game, and you said there's fifty guys out

2001
01:37:42,840 --> 01:37:46,200
Speaker 1: there who are stars in the league who have super Well,

2002
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:49,320
Speaker 1: I'm going to say superpowers, and they were in These

2003
01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:52,560
Speaker 1: powers were inspired by each guy's individual gifts in his

2004
01:37:52,680 --> 01:37:55,040
Speaker 1: own career. Give us an example of a guy who

2005
01:37:55,120 --> 01:37:59,120
Speaker 1: has maybe a weird superpower that is inspired by by

2006
01:37:59,240 --> 01:38:03,360
Speaker 1: his true myself. I'll give you two examples of what

2007
01:38:03,479 --> 01:38:05,439
Speaker 1: we're what we're going for. Their number one is our

2008
01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:09,000
Speaker 1: cover athlete Patrick Mahomes, great player coming off a great season.

2009
01:38:09,800 --> 01:38:12,680
Speaker 1: If you complete three passes of over thirty yards or

2010
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:15,040
Speaker 1: more traveling in the air during a game with Patrick

2011
01:38:15,080 --> 01:38:18,880
Speaker 1: mahoneso unlock his zone ability, which gives him what's called

2012
01:38:18,960 --> 01:38:21,960
Speaker 1: the zuoka, and this ability allows him to throw an

2013
01:38:22,040 --> 01:38:24,759
Speaker 1: eighty yard pass, which is further than our max passed

2014
01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 1: into Our max pass distance in Madden is about sixty

2015
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:31,160
Speaker 1: five yards sixty four sixty five yards across the board.

2016
01:38:31,160 --> 01:38:33,759
Speaker 1: That's the first we had anyone throw. When you're unlocked

2017
01:38:33,760 --> 01:38:35,479
Speaker 1: that ability with Mahomes, he can throw it up to

2018
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:38,320
Speaker 1: eighty yards and he is actually on record of having

2019
01:38:38,439 --> 01:38:40,760
Speaker 1: eighty three yard throw, so we may have sold him

2020
01:38:40,760 --> 01:38:43,240
Speaker 1: a little short, but that's exclusive to him. The second one,

2021
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 1: I know you guys are big time fans of the Patriots.

2022
01:38:46,439 --> 01:38:50,759
Speaker 1: Fara Buffalo Tom Brady, he has an ability called pro reads.

2023
01:38:51,400 --> 01:38:55,240
Speaker 1: Once you complete five or six consecutive passes with Tom Brady,

2024
01:38:55,280 --> 01:38:59,160
Speaker 1: then you unlock this indicator, which will show you as

2025
01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 1: the player the first player, the first receiver who comes

2026
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:05,479
Speaker 1: open wal Tom Brady's in the zone. For both those guys,

2027
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:08,080
Speaker 1: Brady and mahomes the defense, then we'll get an objective

2028
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:11,160
Speaker 1: to either sack the quarterback or make an interception, and

2029
01:39:11,240 --> 01:39:12,880
Speaker 1: then you can knock him out of his zone. So

2030
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:15,040
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a meta game in there,

2031
01:39:15,120 --> 01:39:16,760
Speaker 1: or a mini game for both teams to try to

2032
01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:18,400
Speaker 1: get into the zone and knock a player out of

2033
01:39:18,400 --> 01:39:20,280
Speaker 1: his zone. On line with Clinton Oldenberg, he is a

2034
01:39:20,400 --> 01:39:23,479
Speaker 1: mad and NFL gameplay designer, ratings adjuster. He played in

2035
01:39:23,520 --> 01:39:26,439
Speaker 1: the NFL Steve mentioned in the second ago Clint about

2036
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:29,720
Speaker 1: players react to their rating which you are signed. I

2037
01:39:30,200 --> 01:39:33,120
Speaker 1: think you've heard this. Tradevious White, Bill's cornerback. We all

2038
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:35,759
Speaker 1: think he's a pretty good player. I sign an NFL

2039
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:38,320
Speaker 1: network earlier this week and had this to say about

2040
01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:40,200
Speaker 1: his rating in the New Man and twenty game. Here's

2041
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:45,160
Speaker 1: Tradevious White I did, but I'm not. I'm not a

2042
01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:48,040
Speaker 1: big big guy into video games. I don't really play

2043
01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:51,640
Speaker 1: video games, But I feel like they robbed us on

2044
01:39:51,760 --> 01:39:54,920
Speaker 1: a on a lot of our guys. Man, I mean,

2045
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:56,880
Speaker 1: look at Mica Hide, I feel like he should be

2046
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:58,519
Speaker 1: in the nineties. He's one of the best stagents in

2047
01:39:58,600 --> 01:40:01,559
Speaker 1: the game from the less the last two years him

2048
01:40:01,600 --> 01:40:04,120
Speaker 1: and Join joined to day. I pretty much think those

2049
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:07,040
Speaker 1: guys are the best safety due in the NFL if

2050
01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:08,840
Speaker 1: you just look at the novels and look at the

2051
01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:11,400
Speaker 1: way that those guys take the ball away, And then

2052
01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:14,679
Speaker 1: we got Sad at the eighty two, which is which

2053
01:40:14,720 --> 01:40:17,280
Speaker 1: is very disrespect when then you got Josh Allen at

2054
01:40:17,280 --> 01:40:20,320
Speaker 1: a seventy four. Man, it's something that uh, you know,

2055
01:40:20,479 --> 01:40:22,519
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna pretty much gonna take. You know,

2056
01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, just taking it to the season,

2057
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:27,400
Speaker 1: that's extra motivation that we need to get the pretty

2058
01:40:27,479 --> 01:40:31,639
Speaker 1: much get the acknowledging Debby deserved Bill's corners. White complaining

2059
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:34,920
Speaker 1: really about the maddened player ratings Micah Height at eighty six,

2060
01:40:35,080 --> 01:40:37,799
Speaker 1: nine ninety Tredevius at eighty five, and you actually tweeted

2061
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:40,439
Speaker 1: out Clint that you thought tradevius Um could have been

2062
01:40:40,720 --> 01:40:44,000
Speaker 1: rated higher in the Madden Game. Right. Yeah, I'm a

2063
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:46,920
Speaker 1: big fan of Tredevias. So with our ratings adjuster program,

2064
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:49,200
Speaker 1: we have a team of about eight people who contribute

2065
01:40:49,200 --> 01:40:51,840
Speaker 1: because we don't want this one one person assigning the ratings.

2066
01:40:52,520 --> 01:40:54,240
Speaker 1: So we have a team of people and we have

2067
01:40:54,360 --> 01:40:56,679
Speaker 1: meetings every week. And I was the guy always campaigning

2068
01:40:57,160 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 1: for Tradevious White to get either higher ratings or even

2069
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:02,800
Speaker 1: add on to our superstar list. Our xbacs are listening.

2070
01:41:02,800 --> 01:41:05,680
Speaker 1: I talked about but as the season went on, he

2071
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:07,919
Speaker 1: early in the season he looked like he was approaching

2072
01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:11,200
Speaker 1: shutdown corner status. But the data that we start tracking

2073
01:41:11,280 --> 01:41:13,759
Speaker 1: over the course of the season, teams actually start targeting

2074
01:41:13,880 --> 01:41:16,120
Speaker 1: him about mid season and later in the year, and

2075
01:41:16,200 --> 01:41:19,040
Speaker 1: he had a little bit of a falloff in production.

2076
01:41:19,160 --> 01:41:21,439
Speaker 1: So I think eighty five is a good place for

2077
01:41:21,560 --> 01:41:23,439
Speaker 1: him to start. But the most important thing, well two

2078
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:26,320
Speaker 1: most important things that these guys should remember. Number One,

2079
01:41:26,360 --> 01:41:28,559
Speaker 1: we update our ratings every week, so if you're out

2080
01:41:28,640 --> 01:41:30,680
Speaker 1: there balling out and you're showing up on film, your

2081
01:41:30,760 --> 01:41:33,720
Speaker 1: ratings are going to go up. And then secondly, we

2082
01:41:33,880 --> 01:41:36,599
Speaker 1: like to focus on the overall rating, but what's more

2083
01:41:36,640 --> 01:41:39,200
Speaker 1: important is the individual ratings that make up that overall.

2084
01:41:39,280 --> 01:41:42,560
Speaker 1: So a great example is your quarterback Josh Allen. He

2085
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:45,000
Speaker 1: has a seventy four overall rating, but he has the

2086
01:41:45,080 --> 01:41:47,280
Speaker 1: highest throw power in the game, which is ninety nine.

2087
01:41:47,600 --> 01:41:49,439
Speaker 1: He's the only quarterback in Matt and twenty with a

2088
01:41:49,520 --> 01:41:52,120
Speaker 1: ninety nine throw power and Clint, you do this, You're

2089
01:41:52,200 --> 01:41:56,920
Speaker 1: a gameplay designer. The ratings come from just data analysis,

2090
01:41:57,040 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 1: film study, a little bit of each what is how

2091
01:41:59,720 --> 01:42:03,040
Speaker 1: are they generated? We use anything that we can get

2092
01:42:03,040 --> 01:42:04,920
Speaker 1: our hands on. So we do have film of all

2093
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:07,920
Speaker 1: thirty two NFL teams over the last five years. We

2094
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:10,439
Speaker 1: watch a ton of game film. We read a lot

2095
01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:13,479
Speaker 1: of scouting reports, so we use any data outlets that

2096
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:15,160
Speaker 1: are out there. I know a lot of people use

2097
01:42:15,240 --> 01:42:19,080
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus anything like that. We have next Gen Stats,

2098
01:42:19,080 --> 01:42:21,840
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. We have a number of data points

2099
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:24,439
Speaker 1: that we can log into to try to nail these

2100
01:42:24,520 --> 01:42:26,960
Speaker 1: guys down, and we use all of that to come

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Speaker 1: together as a group and figure out where these guys

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Speaker 1: should be. Yeah, you mentioned it earlier in our interview

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Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes is the cover athlete for Madden twenty.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys give any credence or any thought about

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Speaker 1: you know, who you not only that obviously about who

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Speaker 1: you put on and how big a star it is,

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Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes seems like a great candidate. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember is there still any thought about the jinks that

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Speaker 1: happens with all Madden guys, that guys that get on

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Speaker 1: the cover all of a sudden end up getting hurt

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Speaker 1: or not being able to finish the season. I know

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Speaker 1: that that's definitely a thing. I've heard about it, And

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Speaker 1: as a former NFL guy, I would say by the

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Speaker 1: end of the NFL season, eighty percent of the players

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Speaker 1: in the league probably are injured in some form or

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Speaker 1: fashion and going to miss a game or two. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be pretty hard for anyone

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Speaker 1: to stay healthy, regardless of you're on the cover or not.

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Speaker 1: So I don't I think to cover cover curses a

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Speaker 1: little bit overblown, but I definitely understand why it's the

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Speaker 1: phenomenon that it is. One thing I heard also about

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Speaker 1: Madden twenty You now have the ability to allow players

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Speaker 1: to create their own college quarterback and insert him into

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Speaker 1: the NFL ranks. Correct. Yeah, you're referring to our new

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Speaker 1: career mode, which is called Face of the Franchise QB one.

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Speaker 1: What's really cool about that? Like you said, you can

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Speaker 1: create a player, and you can. We have face morphing technology,

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01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:44,680
Speaker 1: so you can do whatever you want with a face

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Speaker 1: to make it look as much like yourself as you want.

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Speaker 1: And then you get to go through your path to

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Speaker 1: the draft. So you start out in college, you get

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Speaker 1: to play two college games. We actually have ten college

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Speaker 1: football teams in Madden, and you get to play through

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Speaker 1: the college playoffs as you approach your NFL draft experience

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Speaker 1: and start your Hey, I was wondering your former offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman in college in the NFL? Is that the most

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01:44:06,640 --> 01:44:10,920
Speaker 1: difficult position group to assign grades to or take us

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Speaker 1: through that process? Where is it hard to come up

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01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:16,080
Speaker 1: with grades for all these players? I think the two hardest.

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Speaker 1: I think number one is offensive line because if you

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Speaker 1: haven't played the position, or coach the position, or been

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Speaker 1: around it in some form or fashion, it's really difficult

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Speaker 1: to understand what they're trying to do each play yeah,

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Speaker 1: without having a direct knowledge of what the playbook looks like.

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Speaker 1: So that's one area where I try to help the most,

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Speaker 1: is identifying what's trying, what's going on on the film

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Speaker 1: with the offensive lineman. I think the second one that's

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Speaker 1: really hard, especially for me, is those defensive backs. The

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Speaker 1: NFL team nowadays are so good at the skising their

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01:44:44,720 --> 01:44:47,600
Speaker 1: coverages and trying to figure out what their rule offense are,

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01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:50,240
Speaker 1: what coverages they're trying to play play to play is

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01:44:50,360 --> 01:44:52,920
Speaker 1: really difficult. So luckily we do have some other experts

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Speaker 1: in the building who are good at identifying that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I think those are the two hardest. Then twenty is

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Speaker 1: going to be released August. Second, a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: away to what kind of platforms is it available? Line,

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Speaker 1: and I think you said it's available like in a

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Speaker 1: preview sense right now for certain for certain people, Is

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Speaker 1: that right, Clint? Yeah, We launch on Xbox one, that's

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Speaker 1: Microsoft Sony playfishing for and we still have our PC

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Speaker 1: skew so your personal computer. Those are the three platforms.

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01:45:22,920 --> 01:45:26,439
Speaker 1: And then we have EA Access, which is sort of

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01:45:26,479 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 1: an early look at the game, which starts on the

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth. That's where people who are subscribed to our

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Speaker 1: EA Access network and in our official launch date for

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Speaker 1: Madden twenty is August. The second one of the things

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about was the fantasy mode.

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Speaker 1: Is that that has nothing to do with fantasy football

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Speaker 1: as we use it in the everyday life, right, This

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01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:49,320
Speaker 1: is something different, right, what's the fantasy mode of Madden

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Speaker 1: twenty Yeah, Madden Ultimate Team is what you're referring to.

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Speaker 1: This is a cool mode. It's kind of another third

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01:45:56,320 --> 01:45:58,400
Speaker 1: of Madden where people can go in and play football.

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Speaker 1: The meta of that game that is building your roster

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01:46:02,120 --> 01:46:05,880
Speaker 1: with players from multiple different eras, so you can have

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01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 1: three Bills players, two Falcons players, and Barry Sanders and

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Speaker 1: Sean Taylor and build the best team that you can.

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Speaker 1: It's primarily where a lot of our competitive players play

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Speaker 1: because there's a lot of strategy involved at finding the

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01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:22,519
Speaker 1: best players and the best values and making sure that

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Speaker 1: your team matches up across anything that you can see.

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Speaker 1: How do you know, I mean, what's the limitations on that?

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01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:31,240
Speaker 1: Is there a budget? Is there points that out? How

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Speaker 1: do you what's to keep two guys from getting the

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Speaker 1: same guys depending on what their ratings are. There is

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01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 1: multiple different ways to play in that mode. One is

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Speaker 1: salary Cap, in which case every player item has a

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Speaker 1: cap cost associated with it, so you have to make

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Speaker 1: more strategic choices about where you want to spend your

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Speaker 1: cap and not spend your cap. Also, we have unlimited,

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Speaker 1: which is you can have any player you wanted every position.

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Speaker 1: That's where you see all star teams. That's why it's

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Speaker 1: kind of known as fantasy football. But in that mode,

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01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:03,519
Speaker 1: it's very possible to run up across people who have

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Speaker 1: the same players in the same positions, and that's that's

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Speaker 1: called or Madden Ultimate Team Unlimited. Clinton. Would you say

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Speaker 1: some fifty million players Madden games? Right? Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Over how many years? I mean, we have about five

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Speaker 1: million on average five million every year, you know, give

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Speaker 1: or take, give or take one or two million based

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Speaker 1: on any given time during the year. But I'd say

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Speaker 1: we average about five million active users per year, and

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Speaker 1: you know every year we're trying to make that number

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Speaker 1: go up. Yeah, I'm sure. And I was saying to

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Speaker 1: Steve earlier on our show today, Clint, how among your

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Speaker 1: younger players, they probably have no conception of John Madden,

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Speaker 1: who he was, what he did as a coach or

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Speaker 1: a broadcaster. They only know him as the name on

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Speaker 1: this game, right, they would have to some of those

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Speaker 1: younger guys. No, that that's absolutely true. In fact, we

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Speaker 1: go out to coach Madden a couple of times a

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Speaker 1: year to pitch the creative vision to him, and he

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Speaker 1: tells us that story all the time. He says, when

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Speaker 1: I go out and I see younger people out in

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Speaker 1: the public, they just call me Madden. It's not coaching, John,

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Speaker 1: They just call me Madden, and they just know me

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Speaker 1: as the guy on the video game. And even a

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Speaker 1: step further, a lot of folks don't even know Madden

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01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 1: wasn't coach. They just think Madden is the video game.

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Speaker 1: One last thing for me, Clint, as that give us

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Speaker 1: a sense of how One of the things that has

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Speaker 1: happened over recent years is you've gotten the ability to

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Speaker 1: update the information in the games week to week. As

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Speaker 1: this season will progress, you know you'll have Patrick Mahomes's

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Speaker 1: numbers throughout the week. How much time and effort does

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Speaker 1: it take to have that? And what are the deadlines

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Speaker 1: throughout the week forgetting the rosters set and the injuries updated,

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Speaker 1: and the and the roster fluctuation from week to week?

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Speaker 1: What's the what are kind of the what's kind of

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Speaker 1: the schedule for that week to week? In the NFL season,

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01:48:47,880 --> 01:48:50,600
Speaker 1: we try to have our rosters out and live to

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Speaker 1: the public by the time the Thursday night game starts.

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Speaker 1: Occasionally we can miss that deadline. It's it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit more frequent to miss at early in the season

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Speaker 1: when there's a lot of roster moves going on. But

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Speaker 1: our rating team is working around the clock once the

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Speaker 1: season starts for those first three days of the league

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Speaker 1: to try to get it out by that date. Usually

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01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:11,519
Speaker 1: it's if it's later, it's going to hit after the

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Speaker 1: Thursday night game later that night. But we're putting in

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Speaker 1: long hours to get those roster updates out as quickly

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Speaker 1: as we can. Hey, Clint, congratulations on a new edition

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Speaker 1: of MED and medd and twenty comes out on August second,

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks away. Keep up the good work.

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Speaker 1: Hope we talk again sometime. Thank you. Yeah, thank you

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Speaker 1: guys for having me again. Pick up your copy on

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Speaker 1: the second. Let us know what you think. You can

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01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:33,400
Speaker 1: find us all over Twitter. And really looking forward to

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Speaker 1: watching the Bills play this year. Yeah, thanks, thanks, Clint,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Then. Oldenberg is MED and NFL Gameplay Designer

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Speaker 1: ratings adjuster played in the NFL, former NFL Offensive Tackle

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Speaker 1: and the Trap Pick of the Patriots in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven. MED and NFL twenty, released on August second,

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. He was also a former

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Speaker 1: teammate of I forgot Lorenzo Lorenzo, Yeah, I think he

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Speaker 1: was with the Redskins for a cup coffee. We should

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01:49:56,000 --> 01:49:58,439
Speaker 1: there's a game we could play in the show. Everybody

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01:49:58,520 --> 01:50:02,519
Speaker 1: we have on former teamingable, right, there's got a meets

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Speaker 1: with Lorenzo. Hundreds and hundreds of guys who are former

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Speaker 1: teammates of Lorenzo. It'd be also be like former teammate

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Speaker 1: who's of former teammate of Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah, other ones

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Speaker 1: over there, you know who has he not been a team?

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Speaker 1: What's the Kevin Bacon game that people play? You know,

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01:50:18,240 --> 01:50:20,360
Speaker 1: read three levels of Kevin Bacon. You can do that

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Speaker 1: with Lorenzo Alexander. Yeah. Absolutely, we're gonna break. We're coming

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Speaker 1: back with more. We'll get back to our topic. For

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Speaker 1: the Bills to make the playoffs, they must do what

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Speaker 1: give us a call, let us know eight three fifty

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Speaker 1: fifty or sending a tweet. We might read it on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio alcome Back.

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy and uh,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker coming to you from one Buffalo studio or

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Speaker 1: you're here for a couple of days, right, little bak

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Speaker 1: coming up there, say Friday this week? Yeah, and that's it,

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01:51:04,520 --> 01:51:08,080
Speaker 1: you know today, Wednesday? Yeah, yeah, today, Tuesday, Friday. Tyler

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Speaker 1: Dunn from Bleacher Report's going to be co hosting with us.

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Speaker 1: You did the show with him a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,

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01:51:12,360 --> 01:51:14,880
Speaker 1: went good, give me the scouting report. He's very good,

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Speaker 1: came prepared, he's ready, shows up early, kind of ready.

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Speaker 1: Go good. He's on time. He just gave him the

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01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:25,960
Speaker 1: ultimate compliment, he's on time. Yeah. There was a Buffalo

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01:51:26,040 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 1: Bisons manager years ago, decades ago, and we still laugh

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01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:31,479
Speaker 1: about it a little bit. Who at the end of

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01:51:31,520 --> 01:51:33,760
Speaker 1: the year, terrible year for the Bisons. I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Jeff Dats was his name, And

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Speaker 1: I'm over there doing a post you know, season interview.

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Speaker 1: Last day of the season. Rough year for the Bisons. Jeff,

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Speaker 1: what what did you think and overall how would you

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01:51:46,360 --> 01:51:50,759
Speaker 1: assess the whatever? It was nineteen ninety something, Buffalo Bisons

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Speaker 1: and the roster here and he goes, well, this group

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01:51:55,479 --> 01:51:58,720
Speaker 1: they were on time. The best thing he could say

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01:51:58,920 --> 01:52:01,800
Speaker 1: was they were on time. They were on time. Is

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01:52:01,800 --> 01:52:04,479
Speaker 1: that what you just said about Tyler Dunn? He's on time? Yes,

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01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:06,639
Speaker 1: but that's not the way I meant that. I've kind

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01:52:06,680 --> 01:52:10,800
Speaker 1: of changed the two because in our group it became

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01:52:10,840 --> 01:52:12,920
Speaker 1: like a slam. What do you think of that guy

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Speaker 1: as a player or what do you think him? What

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01:52:14,479 --> 01:52:18,720
Speaker 1: do you think he's on time? He shows up on time. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's that's not what you want, is your epithet? Well,

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Speaker 1: he was on time for the Bills. For the Bills

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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs in twenty nineteen, they must do

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Speaker 1: what give us a call? We got a couple of

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Speaker 1: minutes here eight three fifty toll free one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. We have tweets, lots

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet from Guts. For the Bills to make

2310
01:52:44,280 --> 01:52:46,439
Speaker 1: the playoffs, he says, the Bills have to continue with

2311
01:52:46,520 --> 01:52:50,280
Speaker 1: the dominant defense, grow and build an explosive offense, believe

2312
01:52:50,360 --> 01:52:55,160
Speaker 1: in the process. Wow, can you be more specific? I

2313
01:52:55,320 --> 01:52:58,160
Speaker 1: get it? Uh? Where they I don't look Number two

2314
01:52:58,240 --> 01:53:01,439
Speaker 1: defense in the league last year where they dominate. I

2315
01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: don't know about that where they I don't think so.

2316
01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:06,800
Speaker 1: I don't think at times, but not consistently. No, not

2317
01:53:06,960 --> 01:53:09,880
Speaker 1: the way it started from Vince. What do the Bills

2318
01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:11,800
Speaker 1: need to do to what must they do to make

2319
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Vince says to make the playoffs, the offensive

2320
01:53:14,080 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 1: line has to gel quickly with potentially four out of

2321
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:21,200
Speaker 1: five new starters. That unspoken communication is paramount to the

2322
01:53:21,280 --> 01:53:24,080
Speaker 1: offense being successful. There's no way that Dabo's offense can

2323
01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:26,880
Speaker 1: operate efficiently without it. I do think, Vince in an

2324
01:53:26,920 --> 01:53:30,000
Speaker 1: earlier I believe it was somebody on Twitter or onto

2325
01:53:30,080 --> 01:53:33,120
Speaker 1: something there, Steve. I do think if you ask me

2326
01:53:33,520 --> 01:53:36,240
Speaker 1: what must happen for the Bills to make the playoffs

2327
01:53:36,280 --> 01:53:39,080
Speaker 1: this year, I go right to the offensive line. Maybe

2328
01:53:39,160 --> 01:53:44,800
Speaker 1: first gel quickly, hope so identified quickly, who's playing, who's

2329
01:53:44,840 --> 01:53:46,840
Speaker 1: playing where? Yeah, I mean, that's got to be done

2330
01:53:46,840 --> 01:53:48,840
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks, I would think, And

2331
01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:52,519
Speaker 1: then gel play well together, communicate is Vince points out

2332
01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:54,519
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Yeah, And anyway you want to slice it,

2333
01:53:54,560 --> 01:53:56,439
Speaker 1: it's got to be like all the things they've done

2334
01:53:56,479 --> 01:53:58,760
Speaker 1: to fix it need to have worked, you know, That's

2335
01:53:59,600 --> 01:54:01,960
Speaker 1: basically what it's coming down to. There's no question they've

2336
01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:07,080
Speaker 1: they've done everything reasonably possible, even you know, they've committed

2337
01:54:07,600 --> 01:54:10,360
Speaker 1: a large bulk of the assets they had this offseason

2338
01:54:10,720 --> 01:54:13,800
Speaker 1: into that one position group. They needed to get it

2339
01:54:13,880 --> 01:54:16,080
Speaker 1: fixed from a year ago. They needed because they have

2340
01:54:16,120 --> 01:54:18,639
Speaker 1: a young quarterback. They needed to so they can take

2341
01:54:18,680 --> 01:54:20,840
Speaker 1: pressure off him, not only in pass protection but also

2342
01:54:20,880 --> 01:54:23,120
Speaker 1: by giving him a run game. They've tried to fix

2343
01:54:23,240 --> 01:54:25,800
Speaker 1: it both ways. They've drafted guys that they've signed guys,

2344
01:54:26,560 --> 01:54:29,439
Speaker 1: and they've got a bunch of them. So as they

2345
01:54:29,600 --> 01:54:33,600
Speaker 1: sift through that process, no question, they have every reason

2346
01:54:33,640 --> 01:54:38,240
Speaker 1: to believe it's gonna get better. And the question is

2347
01:54:38,440 --> 01:54:40,280
Speaker 1: not only is it gonna get better, is it gonna

2348
01:54:40,280 --> 01:54:43,080
Speaker 1: come together in time for the regular season opener so

2349
01:54:43,160 --> 01:54:45,120
Speaker 1: they can hit the ground running on opening day. That's

2350
01:54:45,240 --> 01:54:47,680
Speaker 1: then that is a question. But if if that all happens,

2351
01:54:47,720 --> 01:54:49,760
Speaker 1: there's no a yeah. That is the one thing that

2352
01:54:49,800 --> 01:54:51,640
Speaker 1: will make this team look much different than it did

2353
01:54:51,680 --> 01:54:53,720
Speaker 1: a year ago. What do you think? What else you

2354
01:54:53,800 --> 01:54:55,640
Speaker 1: got on your tweet sheet there? Buddy? You got one

2355
01:54:55,800 --> 01:54:59,600
Speaker 1: from Doug. He says, let's get two dimensionals. We cannot

2356
01:54:59,600 --> 01:55:01,800
Speaker 1: be a team team that only runs the back. The

2357
01:55:01,920 --> 01:55:05,480
Speaker 1: brass acknowledge that and went out and made moves, make

2358
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:09,080
Speaker 1: make Cole and Brown earn the money. We have a

2359
01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:12,520
Speaker 1: year to Josh Allen in the same system, no changes.

2360
01:55:12,560 --> 01:55:15,160
Speaker 1: He's got a lineman and your toys. Let's throw baby.

2361
01:55:15,680 --> 01:55:18,960
Speaker 1: And that's to your point. You think that this offense

2362
01:55:19,120 --> 01:55:21,800
Speaker 1: needs to look this passing game needs to look like

2363
01:55:21,880 --> 01:55:24,000
Speaker 1: an NFL passing game. You got to put some fear

2364
01:55:24,080 --> 01:55:26,640
Speaker 1: into some people. You gotta have some guys that you

2365
01:55:26,720 --> 01:55:28,320
Speaker 1: could you know, when you need a third and shorter,

2366
01:55:28,400 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: you can put the ball in the air. You don't

2367
01:55:29,800 --> 01:55:31,600
Speaker 1: have to hand it off every time. You can pick

2368
01:55:31,680 --> 01:55:33,760
Speaker 1: up a third and five, third and seven once in

2369
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:36,960
Speaker 1: a while. All of that stuff. When they when you

2370
01:55:37,120 --> 01:55:41,920
Speaker 1: drop back to throw, nobody expects your quarterback just to

2371
01:55:42,120 --> 01:55:44,840
Speaker 1: pull it down and run with it every time. Josh Allen,

2372
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:47,480
Speaker 1: you know, was the leading rusher on the club last year.

2373
01:55:47,600 --> 01:55:50,000
Speaker 1: You can't have that. You can't have that and be

2374
01:55:50,120 --> 01:55:52,400
Speaker 1: a team that you know and reach your full potential

2375
01:55:52,440 --> 01:55:53,880
Speaker 1: as an offense. And they don't have to, you know,

2376
01:55:54,000 --> 01:55:55,640
Speaker 1: fill the air with footballs here. They don't have to

2377
01:55:55,720 --> 01:55:57,240
Speaker 1: throw it all over the yard, but they have to

2378
01:55:57,320 --> 01:56:00,760
Speaker 1: be in effective and plausible NFL pass see offense, which

2379
01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:03,680
Speaker 1: they were not. They failed miserably last year at that.

2380
01:56:04,120 --> 01:56:06,600
Speaker 1: Another one from the tweet sheet from Tom. For the

2381
01:56:06,680 --> 01:56:08,760
Speaker 1: Bills to make the playoffs, they must do what Tom says,

2382
01:56:08,880 --> 01:56:11,760
Speaker 1: stop the run. In all caps. He points out the

2383
01:56:11,800 --> 01:56:14,680
Speaker 1: Bills rank seventeenth in the NFL stopping the run last year,

2384
01:56:14,720 --> 01:56:18,200
Speaker 1: allowing one hundred and fifteen yards per game seventeen touchdowns.

2385
01:56:18,640 --> 01:56:21,000
Speaker 1: Shoring up run defense will lower the points per game

2386
01:56:21,080 --> 01:56:23,400
Speaker 1: where they are eighteenth giving up twenty three point four

2387
01:56:23,440 --> 01:56:26,160
Speaker 1: points per game. That defense should be and needs to

2388
01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:28,320
Speaker 1: be under twenty points per game. And that goes back

2389
01:56:28,360 --> 01:56:30,560
Speaker 1: to the earlier point about the dominant defense that those

2390
01:56:30,600 --> 01:56:33,840
Speaker 1: kind of stats indicate as good as they were overall defensively,

2391
01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:35,920
Speaker 1: they were not dominant. And if you ask, and we

2392
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:41,080
Speaker 1: have this offseason, asked Bills defenders what about your defense

2393
01:56:41,200 --> 01:56:43,240
Speaker 1: last year? They will tell you that nobody has ever

2394
01:56:43,320 --> 01:56:45,560
Speaker 1: said we were dominant. Nobody could score on us, nobody

2395
01:56:45,560 --> 01:56:48,120
Speaker 1: could run the ball. No, there were holes in their game, right,

2396
01:56:48,760 --> 01:56:51,160
Speaker 1: red zone problems. It really speaks to the quality of

2397
01:56:51,160 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 1: the guys that got on s side of the ball.

2398
01:56:52,600 --> 01:56:54,960
Speaker 1: We had Micah Hyde come in early in the offseason, well,

2399
01:56:54,960 --> 01:56:56,760
Speaker 1: it was early in the OTAs this year. He came

2400
01:56:56,800 --> 01:56:58,920
Speaker 1: in and sat with us for just a few minutes,

2401
01:56:58,960 --> 01:57:01,360
Speaker 1: and he said, what are you guys working on? Lesson?

2402
01:57:01,480 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 1: Last year? He told less point blank, he said, our

2403
01:57:03,600 --> 01:57:06,760
Speaker 1: our red zone defense was horrible. Yeah, because we have

2404
01:57:06,880 --> 01:57:08,880
Speaker 1: got to keep him out of the end zone. Okay,

2405
01:57:08,920 --> 01:57:10,840
Speaker 1: give them a field goal find but we cannot let

2406
01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:14,080
Speaker 1: teams just get to the twenty yard line and then

2407
01:57:14,160 --> 01:57:15,880
Speaker 1: just push it on into the end zone, either by

2408
01:57:15,920 --> 01:57:18,320
Speaker 1: the throw or the pass. Because we just were not

2409
01:57:18,520 --> 01:57:21,000
Speaker 1: good enough. And so they knew, they know there's a

2410
01:57:21,040 --> 01:57:23,320
Speaker 1: lot of things that they can do differently and better

2411
01:57:24,000 --> 01:57:27,120
Speaker 1: with this defense. And that speaks to the point if

2412
01:57:27,120 --> 01:57:28,880
Speaker 1: you want to get more effective, just keep them off

2413
01:57:28,920 --> 01:57:31,920
Speaker 1: the scoreboard more. I mean, if you can get your

2414
01:57:32,120 --> 01:57:36,600
Speaker 1: defense to allow less than twenty points, seventeen points a game,

2415
01:57:37,320 --> 01:57:39,920
Speaker 1: now you're talking about a team that's really, really good

2416
01:57:39,960 --> 01:57:41,840
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have games where they only give them

2417
01:57:41,920 --> 01:57:44,120
Speaker 1: ten points. I mean, that's a kind of defense that

2418
01:57:44,240 --> 01:57:46,840
Speaker 1: wins you games and could get you to a championship.

2419
01:57:48,240 --> 01:57:50,960
Speaker 1: And they start and the quality and I started out

2420
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:52,840
Speaker 1: by saying, it speaks to the quality those guys are

2421
01:57:52,880 --> 01:57:54,240
Speaker 1: willing to admit it. Said, we got a lot to

2422
01:57:54,320 --> 01:57:57,280
Speaker 1: work on, and of course they've spent. Not only is

2423
01:57:57,320 --> 01:58:00,680
Speaker 1: the regime spent a lot of time and for fixing

2424
01:58:00,720 --> 01:58:03,520
Speaker 1: the offensive line, the defense, who is pretty good last year,

2425
01:58:03,800 --> 01:58:05,600
Speaker 1: is still working to improve their side of the ball

2426
01:58:05,640 --> 01:58:08,720
Speaker 1: as well. So hopefully they all get it done. One

2427
01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:11,840
Speaker 1: more from the tweet sheet from swice as nice. What

2428
01:58:11,960 --> 01:58:13,800
Speaker 1: do they must do to make the playoffs? He says,

2429
01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:16,920
Speaker 1: set Josh Allen up for success by allowing him to

2430
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:21,000
Speaker 1: stack up easy completions and running the ball sufficiently. Defense

2431
01:58:21,160 --> 01:58:24,280
Speaker 1: must produce turnovers and let forty nine run wild edmonds.

2432
01:58:24,680 --> 01:58:26,920
Speaker 1: These things, plus a big time special teams plays here

2433
01:58:26,960 --> 01:58:28,760
Speaker 1: and there, we'll get the Bills back to the playoffs.

2434
01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:32,840
Speaker 1: And beyond that's a lot, that's a laundry list. But

2435
01:58:33,000 --> 01:58:36,400
Speaker 1: his first thing set Josh Allen up for success, allowing

2436
01:58:36,480 --> 01:58:39,040
Speaker 1: him to stack up easy completions. And I'm going to

2437
01:58:39,120 --> 01:58:41,800
Speaker 1: focus on that because that's my point about what must happen.

2438
01:58:41,880 --> 01:58:44,240
Speaker 1: They must be an effective passing game. They don't need

2439
01:58:44,280 --> 01:58:46,320
Speaker 1: to throw the ball all over the yard, and I

2440
01:58:46,400 --> 01:58:49,040
Speaker 1: hope they don't. They don't need to go deep all

2441
01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:50,920
Speaker 1: the time. I hope they don't. But they need an

2442
01:58:50,920 --> 01:58:54,760
Speaker 1: effective NFL passing offense, Steve, where they complete the short passes,

2443
01:58:55,000 --> 01:58:57,200
Speaker 1: where they can pick up first dounds, where they can

2444
01:58:57,320 --> 01:58:59,720
Speaker 1: throw underneath coverage, where they can throw the backs coming

2445
01:58:59,720 --> 01:59:03,040
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. Hopefully they have a tight end,

2446
01:59:03,080 --> 01:59:05,880
Speaker 1: whether it's one of the rookies or maybe a Croft

2447
01:59:05,960 --> 01:59:08,840
Speaker 1: coming over from Cincinnati, a tight end who can contribute

2448
01:59:09,120 --> 01:59:11,760
Speaker 1: a lot to the passing game. The entire package, the

2449
01:59:11,800 --> 01:59:14,280
Speaker 1: passing offense needs to be better. I think that's what

2450
01:59:14,760 --> 01:59:16,560
Speaker 1: must happen for them to be a playoff team. I

2451
01:59:16,640 --> 01:59:19,480
Speaker 1: really do. Yeah, I agree with you. There's no question

2452
01:59:19,560 --> 01:59:22,560
Speaker 1: that it's going to take a lot of things going

2453
01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:24,600
Speaker 1: right to win a lot of games. And we've all

2454
01:59:24,640 --> 01:59:26,840
Speaker 1: seen it. We've seen it time and time again. I

2455
01:59:26,920 --> 01:59:29,120
Speaker 1: think one of the things that I keep coming back

2456
01:59:29,200 --> 01:59:32,160
Speaker 1: to is that I'd like to see Josh just play

2457
01:59:32,320 --> 01:59:35,200
Speaker 1: like he did in Week eighteen or Week seventeen last year,

2458
01:59:35,240 --> 01:59:37,880
Speaker 1: the game against the Dolphins here in new era of field,

2459
01:59:38,440 --> 01:59:40,160
Speaker 1: and let you see the offense play that way, right,

2460
01:59:40,200 --> 01:59:43,240
Speaker 1: he completed sixty five plus percent of his passes. Let's

2461
01:59:43,240 --> 01:59:45,840
Speaker 1: see that offensive approach. Yeah, that's how I want him

2462
01:59:45,840 --> 01:59:48,240
Speaker 1: to play. And that came. But the team right, that

2463
01:59:48,400 --> 01:59:50,440
Speaker 1: game in and of itself shows you that it's in

2464
01:59:50,520 --> 01:59:53,720
Speaker 1: there somewhere you can pull that sixty five and sixty

2465
01:59:53,760 --> 01:59:57,360
Speaker 1: five percent of his passes is ten more, is twelve

2466
01:59:57,440 --> 02:00:00,760
Speaker 1: percent higher than his season average. I mean, that's huge.

2467
02:00:01,160 --> 02:00:03,280
Speaker 1: If he could complete sixty five percent of his passes

2468
02:00:03,400 --> 02:00:06,520
Speaker 1: every week like clockwork where he comes out and he

2469
02:00:06,680 --> 02:00:09,200
Speaker 1: just said in the postgame interview after that game, he said, listen,

2470
02:00:09,280 --> 02:00:11,360
Speaker 1: we just wanted to take that easy completion, man, get

2471
02:00:11,400 --> 02:00:14,160
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands. It worked to perfection

2472
02:00:14,200 --> 02:00:17,200
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins. It proved that he's got that

2473
02:00:17,440 --> 02:00:20,440
Speaker 1: in him somewhere to be that kind of quarterback, a possession,

2474
02:00:20,560 --> 02:00:23,360
Speaker 1: kind of a timing throw quarterback, an accurate quarterback, a

2475
02:00:23,480 --> 02:00:25,640
Speaker 1: quarterback that gets it the ball out of his hands

2476
02:00:25,760 --> 02:00:29,360
Speaker 1: on time to his guy who is open. It was

2477
02:00:29,400 --> 02:00:32,240
Speaker 1: a great game plan. The executed it flawlessly. He threw

2478
02:00:32,320 --> 02:00:36,480
Speaker 1: for three touchdowns in the game and he ran for two.

2479
02:00:37,400 --> 02:00:40,320
Speaker 1: The defense played extremely well. They hung forty two points

2480
02:00:40,360 --> 02:00:44,600
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins. That type of offensive performance that gets

2481
02:00:44,640 --> 02:00:49,560
Speaker 1: you places. It wasn't Josh's most spectacular game of that season,

2482
02:00:49,640 --> 02:00:51,520
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, it was a really productive game.

2483
02:00:51,520 --> 02:00:53,880
Speaker 1: He didn't throw for three hundred yards, but he did

2484
02:00:53,960 --> 02:00:56,120
Speaker 1: complete a lot of balls. And this offense they couldn't

2485
02:00:56,120 --> 02:00:58,480
Speaker 1: get it off the field. So all those things together,

2486
02:00:58,520 --> 02:01:01,000
Speaker 1: that's the kind of game you need Forget about stats,

2487
02:01:02,240 --> 02:01:06,600
Speaker 1: just do that. Right. Of course, skeptic would say that

2488
02:01:06,800 --> 02:01:09,840
Speaker 1: was the Dolphins, who are marginally interested in that game. Right.

2489
02:01:10,280 --> 02:01:13,120
Speaker 1: They won't get opponents like that sixteen times this season,

2490
02:01:13,160 --> 02:01:15,600
Speaker 1: but a good point. Nonetheless, Hey, for the Bills to

2491
02:01:15,680 --> 02:01:17,360
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, they must do what a couple of

2492
02:01:17,400 --> 02:01:20,240
Speaker 1: phone calls on this, We'll go to Carl in Clarence Alcarl,

2493
02:01:20,320 --> 02:01:25,040
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hi, guys, are going good, real good. Girl.

2494
02:01:25,880 --> 02:01:29,680
Speaker 1: Got a comment and a question. Okay, did you buy

2495
02:01:29,720 --> 02:01:32,920
Speaker 1: a chance on your vacation happen to get over the

2496
02:01:33,040 --> 02:01:35,760
Speaker 1: forty e racetrack? I did not. I thought about it,

2497
02:01:35,920 --> 02:01:38,920
Speaker 1: drove out. I actually went to the racetrack in Prince

2498
02:01:39,040 --> 02:01:41,720
Speaker 1: Edward Island last week, though harness racing, which was a

2499
02:01:41,760 --> 02:01:43,800
Speaker 1: little bit different. It's a big sport up there. What

2500
02:01:43,920 --> 02:01:46,560
Speaker 1: are you laughing about? I have been the forty ere

2501
02:01:46,680 --> 02:01:50,080
Speaker 1: yet this year. It's in my plans though, And my

2502
02:01:50,240 --> 02:01:53,400
Speaker 1: comment is I think to make the playoffs. I think

2503
02:01:53,440 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: we just have to hold the opposing team to under

2504
02:01:55,720 --> 02:02:00,400
Speaker 1: twenty on average and keep Josh healthy and get them

2505
02:02:00,400 --> 02:02:02,080
Speaker 1: a little more accurate. And I think that should be

2506
02:02:02,160 --> 02:02:06,840
Speaker 1: good enough. Okay, yeah, thank you. You gotta stay healthy.

2507
02:02:06,880 --> 02:02:09,480
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't get don't lose sight of the

2508
02:02:09,520 --> 02:02:11,760
Speaker 1: fact that if Josh Allen's gonna get better is because

2509
02:02:11,800 --> 02:02:18,040
Speaker 1: he's playing, right, Yeah, I mean, yeah, okay, thanks, We'll

2510
02:02:18,040 --> 02:02:20,720
Speaker 1: go to Chris in California. We're in California, are you, Chris.

2511
02:02:20,800 --> 02:02:23,800
Speaker 1: It's kind of a big state where you're in Fresno. Fresno. Okay,

2512
02:02:24,160 --> 02:02:26,160
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Not too far, not too far

2513
02:02:26,280 --> 02:02:28,640
Speaker 1: from Fireball and from Reasy College or Josh Allenen to school.

2514
02:02:28,640 --> 02:02:31,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there you go. Hey, you know, hey, So

2515
02:02:31,840 --> 02:02:34,520
Speaker 1: one thing I think the Bills can improve upon. It's

2516
02:02:34,560 --> 02:02:37,080
Speaker 1: the third down conversion. I heard you guys talking. I

2517
02:02:37,160 --> 02:02:39,680
Speaker 1: think it was not earlier today or maybe yesterday, that

2518
02:02:39,800 --> 02:02:43,120
Speaker 1: they were the worst at third three and outs. Right,

2519
02:02:43,320 --> 02:02:45,880
Speaker 1: if they're not converting those third down conversions, that gives

2520
02:02:45,880 --> 02:02:47,880
Speaker 1: them a zero percent chance to even score or stay

2521
02:02:47,880 --> 02:02:50,120
Speaker 1: on the field, and then the other offense is going

2522
02:02:50,160 --> 02:02:51,800
Speaker 1: to be on the field. And we got to pray,

2523
02:02:51,840 --> 02:02:54,840
Speaker 1: our defense hold up and you know, keeps them from scoring.

2524
02:02:54,920 --> 02:02:58,320
Speaker 1: But if our third down convergions can can pick up,

2525
02:02:58,840 --> 02:03:00,720
Speaker 1: you know, the offense to get because now they're on

2526
02:03:00,720 --> 02:03:02,880
Speaker 1: the field longer, and you know, it gives a more

2527
02:03:02,880 --> 02:03:05,600
Speaker 1: opportunity to score. I can't disagree with that, Chris. And

2528
02:03:05,680 --> 02:03:10,000
Speaker 1: again a stat that I believe reflects how feudal they

2529
02:03:10,040 --> 02:03:13,000
Speaker 1: were in the passing game last year. They upgrade their

2530
02:03:13,040 --> 02:03:15,880
Speaker 1: passing offense this year, third down should come along with it.

2531
02:03:15,960 --> 02:03:19,840
Speaker 1: I believe. What do you think, Chris? Absolutely? You know,

2532
02:03:20,040 --> 02:03:22,280
Speaker 1: the lesson Josh Allen's on the field, the less chance

2533
02:03:22,360 --> 02:03:26,480
Speaker 1: he has to better his stats. Yeah, stats and wins.

2534
02:03:26,720 --> 02:03:30,520
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, thank you Chris from California. We

2535
02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:33,600
Speaker 1: appreciate that we had that good discussion today. Bills make

2536
02:03:33,600 --> 02:03:35,800
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they must do what We're still open for that.

2537
02:03:36,120 --> 02:03:38,480
Speaker 1: But let's do a little NFL to or fall Steve

2538
02:03:38,840 --> 02:03:41,560
Speaker 1: yet for this alrighty then brought to you by Yancey's

2539
02:03:41,600 --> 02:03:45,560
Speaker 1: Fancy America's Artists in Cheese, a New York's artist and

2540
02:03:45,600 --> 02:03:48,600
Speaker 1: Chew York artist. This one troubles me. The question troubles me.

2541
02:03:48,920 --> 02:03:51,320
Speaker 1: True or falls And this is the result of a

2542
02:03:51,400 --> 02:03:54,240
Speaker 1: CBS sports dot Com article, they went out and picked

2543
02:03:54,320 --> 02:03:56,520
Speaker 1: one game on every team schedule that could make or

2544
02:03:56,560 --> 02:03:59,600
Speaker 1: break their season. They picked the Bills home opener against

2545
02:03:59,640 --> 02:04:02,640
Speaker 1: the the Bengals week three as a make or break

2546
02:04:03,040 --> 02:04:05,400
Speaker 1: game for the Bills. Week three against the Bengals a

2547
02:04:05,600 --> 02:04:07,800
Speaker 1: make or break game for the Bills in twenty nineteen.

2548
02:04:07,880 --> 02:04:11,800
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Really? Week three is gonna make

2549
02:04:11,960 --> 02:04:14,400
Speaker 1: or break your season? So if they come home after

2550
02:04:14,560 --> 02:04:16,920
Speaker 1: two on the road and beat the Bengals, their season

2551
02:04:17,080 --> 02:04:22,360
Speaker 1: is made. No, false, ridiculous, It's so false. Come on, man,

2552
02:04:22,640 --> 02:04:25,080
Speaker 1: I know where at the dregs of the offseason here

2553
02:04:25,120 --> 02:04:27,600
Speaker 1: and there's nothing going on, But now you're just inventing

2554
02:04:28,600 --> 02:04:32,640
Speaker 1: stupid concept. Yeah, week three beat the Bengals. What are

2555
02:04:32,680 --> 02:04:34,840
Speaker 1: you telling me that the Bills are in good shape

2556
02:04:34,880 --> 02:04:36,960
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. No, lose to the

2557
02:04:37,000 --> 02:04:40,720
Speaker 1: Bengals season over? No, come on, stoopid not just false,

2558
02:04:41,280 --> 02:04:47,960
Speaker 1: stupidly ridiculously false. Yeah, I can't. I yeah, I can't

2559
02:04:48,000 --> 02:04:50,360
Speaker 1: disagree with you. I thought I was like what I

2560
02:04:50,520 --> 02:04:53,160
Speaker 1: when I saw that that was the game that they picked,

2561
02:04:53,200 --> 02:04:55,880
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, yeah, no, I mean I would

2562
02:04:55,920 --> 02:04:59,280
Speaker 1: even am It's not it's an out of division games.

2563
02:04:59,360 --> 02:05:03,800
Speaker 1: It's a home opener, um. And that's this comes from

2564
02:05:03,840 --> 02:05:07,840
Speaker 1: These kind of things come from sources, well, they come

2565
02:05:07,880 --> 02:05:10,320
Speaker 1: from sources that are outside of Buffalo. There it's like

2566
02:05:10,360 --> 02:05:12,320
Speaker 1: saying they're gonna lose their home openers, so the fans

2567
02:05:12,320 --> 02:05:15,200
Speaker 1: are gonna lose interest. They have no idea what the

2568
02:05:15,240 --> 02:05:18,000
Speaker 1: fans in Buffalo are like, do you really think these

2569
02:05:18,080 --> 02:05:20,720
Speaker 1: fans in this town are gonna lose interest over this

2570
02:05:20,920 --> 02:05:24,640
Speaker 1: team if they lose a home opener? Come on, man,

2571
02:05:25,520 --> 02:05:29,160
Speaker 1: that's crazy talk. You know. They You get these guys

2572
02:05:29,200 --> 02:05:31,120
Speaker 1: that write these articles and they go all around the

2573
02:05:31,200 --> 02:05:33,600
Speaker 1: league and they parashute and they just look from ten

2574
02:05:33,680 --> 02:05:37,200
Speaker 1: thousand miles away at these all the other franchises, whatever

2575
02:05:37,280 --> 02:05:39,160
Speaker 1: franchise they cover, and they look at all the others

2576
02:05:39,280 --> 02:05:41,360
Speaker 1: from a thousand miles away, and they just throw a

2577
02:05:41,480 --> 02:05:44,400
Speaker 1: dart and it's just and it's it's ridiculous. Here's the thing.

2578
02:05:44,440 --> 02:05:45,840
Speaker 1: I believe this. I've said it for a couple of

2579
02:05:45,880 --> 02:05:48,960
Speaker 1: years on this show. That looks like, yeah, home opener,

2580
02:05:49,000 --> 02:05:51,160
Speaker 1: that will be an important game. You know what, It's

2581
02:05:51,200 --> 02:05:53,040
Speaker 1: a week to week league, right, I Mean, I wish

2582
02:05:53,080 --> 02:05:54,600
Speaker 1: I had a dollar for every time I've said this

2583
02:05:54,760 --> 02:05:56,920
Speaker 1: on this show. There may come a game down at

2584
02:05:56,920 --> 02:06:00,360
Speaker 1: the rear end of the schedule, um, you know against

2585
02:06:00,400 --> 02:06:03,280
Speaker 1: Baltimore December eighth, where that's a critical game and then

2586
02:06:03,320 --> 02:06:06,200
Speaker 1: AFC game home game. We really need to beat the

2587
02:06:06,240 --> 02:06:09,320
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. You don't know. You can't say make or

2588
02:06:09,400 --> 02:06:12,240
Speaker 1: break at this in July, what's going to be make

2589
02:06:12,320 --> 02:06:15,120
Speaker 1: or break? Come on, man, We're not that stupid, aren't we.

2590
02:06:17,240 --> 02:06:21,680
Speaker 1: Two or False? Part two. Darius Leonard outstanding rookie season

2591
02:06:21,840 --> 02:06:26,040
Speaker 1: for the Indianapolis Colts. Darius Leonard, the focus of a

2592
02:06:26,360 --> 02:06:29,600
Speaker 1: feature story on NFL dot Com, has big goals for

2593
02:06:29,680 --> 02:06:32,760
Speaker 1: a second year in the NFL. Darius Leonard will get

2594
02:06:32,800 --> 02:06:36,320
Speaker 1: two hundred tackles this year for the Colts. You look

2595
02:06:36,400 --> 02:06:38,600
Speaker 1: this up about the number of two hundred tackle seasons,

2596
02:06:38,640 --> 02:06:41,960
Speaker 1: there's like three of them all time, anybody, And didn't

2597
02:06:42,480 --> 02:06:44,760
Speaker 1: Spielman have one here? It's like three guys who've done it,

2598
02:06:44,880 --> 02:06:47,560
Speaker 1: like who a total of four times. One guy's done

2599
02:06:47,600 --> 02:06:52,240
Speaker 1: it twice. Yeah, it's rare. Look, I know Darius Leonard

2600
02:06:52,320 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 1: is a good player, a really good player, but um no,

2601
02:06:55,120 --> 02:06:58,160
Speaker 1: it's so statistically rare. Steve points out, no, he won't

2602
02:06:58,200 --> 02:07:00,800
Speaker 1: get two hundred tackles, that's false. Two yeah, I agree.

2603
02:07:01,120 --> 02:07:03,000
Speaker 1: I did say if there's a guy that's gonna do it,

2604
02:07:03,080 --> 02:07:04,840
Speaker 1: he may be the guy. And this came up from

2605
02:07:04,880 --> 02:07:06,480
Speaker 1: an article that was written about and they asked him

2606
02:07:06,480 --> 02:07:09,160
Speaker 1: about his goals. You know he was he was he

2607
02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:11,040
Speaker 1: was left out of the Pro Bowl. The guy had

2608
02:07:11,080 --> 02:07:15,200
Speaker 1: a phenomenal year. He was an absolute force. He added

2609
02:07:15,240 --> 02:07:17,960
Speaker 1: on the front page the homepage of his own personal

2610
02:07:18,080 --> 02:07:22,240
Speaker 1: cell phone, he's got a quote from the Bleacher Report

2611
02:07:22,240 --> 02:07:24,040
Speaker 1: of somebody that said he was the worst draft pick

2612
02:07:24,080 --> 02:07:26,040
Speaker 1: of the draft for the Colts. And he's got this

2613
02:07:26,240 --> 02:07:29,760
Speaker 1: enormous chip on his shoulder. He absolutely dominated on the

2614
02:07:29,840 --> 02:07:33,600
Speaker 1: inside for the Colts. But I think, like you, it's

2615
02:07:34,280 --> 02:07:38,800
Speaker 1: two hundred tackles doesn't happen that often. And he was said,

2616
02:07:38,920 --> 02:07:40,240
Speaker 1: you know what keeps you going to because I want

2617
02:07:40,240 --> 02:07:41,840
Speaker 1: to have two hundred tackles. I want to be a

2618
02:07:41,920 --> 02:07:44,360
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl starter, I want to be All Pro. I

2619
02:07:44,480 --> 02:07:47,680
Speaker 1: want to be a defensive m MVP of the league,

2620
02:07:47,880 --> 02:07:50,360
Speaker 1: and I want to be Super Bowl MVP. He goes,

2621
02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:52,920
Speaker 1: he is so on a pony. Yeah, he wants. He's

2622
02:07:52,960 --> 02:07:55,480
Speaker 1: so highly motivated, and that's the issue. He was so

2623
02:07:55,640 --> 02:07:57,840
Speaker 1: highly motivated and that's why he's a great player. He

2624
02:07:58,400 --> 02:08:01,680
Speaker 1: just he's got no endpoint to his motivation, and so

2625
02:08:01,880 --> 02:08:03,560
Speaker 1: he is going to have a great year. In my opinion,

2626
02:08:03,800 --> 02:08:05,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna have another great year and he will be

2627
02:08:05,920 --> 02:08:08,240
Speaker 1: a pro bowler. He may be an All Pro, he

2628
02:08:08,400 --> 02:08:12,000
Speaker 1: may be Defensive Player of the year. Two hundred tackles.

2629
02:08:12,040 --> 02:08:13,720
Speaker 1: He's not gonna have to have two hundred tackles do

2630
02:08:13,800 --> 02:08:16,560
Speaker 1: all of those things. So I draft for the Colts

2631
02:08:16,640 --> 02:08:19,000
Speaker 1: last year, huh offensive lineman and that guy what a

2632
02:08:19,080 --> 02:08:21,920
Speaker 1: great draft? And he is. He's one of those rare guys, Murph,

2633
02:08:22,000 --> 02:08:23,800
Speaker 1: that you see and there's some in this building too.

2634
02:08:25,080 --> 02:08:28,080
Speaker 1: There's just no endpoint to how badly they wanted. Yeah,

2635
02:08:28,160 --> 02:08:30,920
Speaker 1: you know, you know you see other guys. They create goals.

2636
02:08:30,920 --> 02:08:32,960
Speaker 1: And one thing about making goals for yourself when you

2637
02:08:33,040 --> 02:08:36,160
Speaker 1: reach him, will then what? So these guys make their goals,

2638
02:08:36,920 --> 02:08:41,680
Speaker 1: they're almost unreachable. So they never stop. The hunger never stops,

2639
02:08:41,720 --> 02:08:44,160
Speaker 1: the spark never stops, the fire, and the desire to

2640
02:08:44,240 --> 02:08:46,520
Speaker 1: win or to get there never stops. And that's why

2641
02:08:46,560 --> 02:08:48,280
Speaker 1: they continue on in their career and get better and

2642
02:08:48,360 --> 02:08:50,320
Speaker 1: better and better. One more NFL true faults. I like

2643
02:08:50,440 --> 02:08:53,360
Speaker 1: this one. ESPN dot Com did a story forecasting the

2644
02:08:53,440 --> 02:08:55,720
Speaker 1: next three NFL seasons with a bunch of predictions, one

2645
02:08:55,800 --> 02:08:58,320
Speaker 1: of them, the next Los Angeles team to reach the

2646
02:08:58,400 --> 02:09:01,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl will be the Chargers. True. Look, I've had

2647
02:09:01,400 --> 02:09:03,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers in the Super Bowl my preseason prediction each

2648
02:09:03,880 --> 02:09:06,760
Speaker 1: of the last two years. Time's running out. The Melvin

2649
02:09:06,840 --> 02:09:09,520
Speaker 1: Gordon stuff doesn't help. I assume they'll get that solved.

2650
02:09:09,560 --> 02:09:11,400
Speaker 1: But I think they are. I think they have an

2651
02:09:11,440 --> 02:09:14,840
Speaker 1: outstanding roster. I think they are well coached by Anthony Lynn.

2652
02:09:15,760 --> 02:09:19,120
Speaker 1: I say true, the Rams will reach the Super Bowl

2653
02:09:19,240 --> 02:09:22,200
Speaker 1: next before the I'm sorry, the Chargers will reach the

2654
02:09:22,240 --> 02:09:24,800
Speaker 1: Super Bowl before the Rams too. I say absolutely true.

2655
02:09:25,280 --> 02:09:27,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say true as well. I don't think it's

2656
02:09:27,560 --> 02:09:29,360
Speaker 1: not that I don't think that I think the Rams

2657
02:09:29,360 --> 02:09:30,920
Speaker 1: are gonna fall off a cliff. I think they're going

2658
02:09:30,960 --> 02:09:32,880
Speaker 1: to continue to be very good under Sean McVay. I

2659
02:09:32,960 --> 02:09:35,120
Speaker 1: do think there are some limited I don't know if Todd,

2660
02:09:35,560 --> 02:09:38,440
Speaker 1: but as many problems as Melvin Gordon presents, Todd Gurley's

2661
02:09:38,480 --> 02:09:40,720
Speaker 1: no better. He may be on and off the field

2662
02:09:40,880 --> 02:09:44,080
Speaker 1: very quickly with the knee problems that he has had,

2663
02:09:44,120 --> 02:09:46,880
Speaker 1: and Philip Rivers is not going anywhere. He played as

2664
02:09:47,080 --> 02:09:49,920
Speaker 1: well last year as he has any year in his career.

2665
02:09:50,240 --> 02:09:55,080
Speaker 1: The guy's getting it done, and Keenan Allen and that

2666
02:09:55,240 --> 02:09:57,680
Speaker 1: receiving corps are going to continue to be productive. This

2667
02:09:57,800 --> 02:09:59,640
Speaker 1: is still gonna be a team that's gonna score points,

2668
02:10:00,400 --> 02:10:03,160
Speaker 1: and they've got some pretty good defenders as well. So yeah,

2669
02:10:03,200 --> 02:10:06,720
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna say, yeah, true. That's I like the

2670
02:10:06,840 --> 02:10:09,120
Speaker 1: Chargers this year better than I like the Rams too.

2671
02:10:09,360 --> 02:10:11,160
Speaker 1: All Right, there you go, NFL True false. Brought to

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02:10:11,160 --> 02:10:14,120
Speaker 1: you my Yancey's, Fancy New York's artists and cheese. We're

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02:10:14,160 --> 02:10:15,920
Speaker 1: back at the morning a Moment One Bill's Live from

2674
02:10:15,960 --> 02:10:31,160
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned?

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02:10:31,280 --> 02:10:34,960
Speaker 1: Presented by Advanced Alarm providing Western New York's homes and

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02:10:35,120 --> 02:10:37,800
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Speaker 1: the preferred alarm and home theater provider of the folks

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Speaker 1: here at One Bill's Drive. Good show today, Kyle Williams

2679
02:10:42,920 --> 02:10:45,480
Speaker 1: joined us thirteen year Bills veteran who's got a lot

2680
02:10:45,520 --> 02:10:48,560
Speaker 1: going on. Played in the American Century Golf Classic last weekend,

2681
02:10:48,840 --> 02:10:52,120
Speaker 1: and Kyle is the narrator for Buffalo Bills embedded season two,

2682
02:10:52,520 --> 02:10:55,360
Speaker 1: which is available on the Bills YouTube channel to Sunday

2683
02:10:55,360 --> 02:10:58,440
Speaker 1: at seven pm, Kyle william Steve asked him a pretty insightful,

2684
02:10:58,560 --> 02:11:02,400
Speaker 1: thoughtful question. I wasn't that surprised. You know, you look

2685
02:11:02,440 --> 02:11:04,720
Speaker 1: at me like I did. No. Steve asked him about

2686
02:11:05,040 --> 02:11:08,440
Speaker 1: the changes that he witnessed in pro football over the

2687
02:11:08,520 --> 02:11:12,720
Speaker 1: course of his thirteen year career. Here's what Kyle said. So,

2688
02:11:12,960 --> 02:11:15,360
Speaker 1: I know, like when I first came to the league,

2689
02:11:15,400 --> 02:11:20,120
Speaker 1: everything was such a such power oriented power, run game, play, action,

2690
02:11:20,720 --> 02:11:23,600
Speaker 1: all those kinds of things. And yeah, now it's such

2691
02:11:23,640 --> 02:11:26,880
Speaker 1: a spread game and everybody has to be mobile and

2692
02:11:26,920 --> 02:11:28,760
Speaker 1: be able to play in space. I think I've seen

2693
02:11:28,800 --> 02:11:32,320
Speaker 1: the game change that way. But you know, I don't

2694
02:11:32,400 --> 02:11:34,560
Speaker 1: know that there's anything that I would have changed. I

2695
02:11:34,600 --> 02:11:36,400
Speaker 1: got to see a lot of different things. I got

2696
02:11:36,440 --> 02:11:39,120
Speaker 1: to experience a lot of different things. I got to

2697
02:11:39,160 --> 02:11:42,480
Speaker 1: see the city kind of take off again and play

2698
02:11:42,560 --> 02:11:44,920
Speaker 1: for a lot of different coaches. So I mean I

2699
02:11:45,040 --> 02:11:47,320
Speaker 1: try to take, you know, have a silver lining of

2700
02:11:47,440 --> 02:11:49,480
Speaker 1: everything I saw. That would be stuffing that he'd require

2701
02:11:49,480 --> 02:11:52,000
Speaker 1: a little deeper thought and you know, just a quick

2702
02:11:52,160 --> 02:11:55,680
Speaker 1: question today, give us some thought Kyle, we'll get back yet,

2703
02:11:55,720 --> 02:11:57,280
Speaker 1: and then it was good to talk to Kyle today.

2704
02:11:57,480 --> 02:12:00,480
Speaker 1: We also talked with Clinton Oldenberg, former NFL off to lineman,

2705
02:12:00,520 --> 02:12:03,920
Speaker 1: who was a game designed specialist for Madden twenty and

2706
02:12:04,000 --> 02:12:06,880
Speaker 1: he talked about complaints from folks like Tredevius White about

2707
02:12:06,880 --> 02:12:11,760
Speaker 1: their Madden rating. Here's what Clint Oldenberg said about that. So,

2708
02:12:11,920 --> 02:12:13,880
Speaker 1: we have a team of people and we have meetings

2709
02:12:13,960 --> 02:12:16,400
Speaker 1: every week, and I was a guy always campaigning for

2710
02:12:16,560 --> 02:12:19,800
Speaker 1: tradevious White to get either higher ratings or even add

2711
02:12:19,840 --> 02:12:21,920
Speaker 1: on to our superstar list, our X Factor list, and

2712
02:12:22,000 --> 02:12:24,880
Speaker 1: I talked about but as the season went on, he

2713
02:12:25,120 --> 02:12:27,120
Speaker 1: early in the season he looked like he was approaching

2714
02:12:27,160 --> 02:12:30,040
Speaker 1: shut down corner status. But the data that we started

2715
02:12:30,080 --> 02:12:32,480
Speaker 1: tracking over the course of the season, teams actually started

2716
02:12:32,520 --> 02:12:35,200
Speaker 1: targeting him about mid season and later in the year,

2717
02:12:35,280 --> 02:12:37,520
Speaker 1: and he had a little bit of a fall off

2718
02:12:37,680 --> 02:12:40,320
Speaker 1: in production. So I think eighty five is a good

2719
02:12:40,320 --> 02:12:42,160
Speaker 1: place for him to start. But the most important thing,

2720
02:12:42,240 --> 02:12:44,440
Speaker 1: well two most important things that these guys should remember.

2721
02:12:45,080 --> 02:12:47,360
Speaker 1: Number One, we update our ratings every week, So if

2722
02:12:47,400 --> 02:12:49,640
Speaker 1: you're out there balling out and you're showing up on film,

2723
02:12:49,680 --> 02:12:52,360
Speaker 1: your ratings are going to go up. And then secondly,

2724
02:12:52,800 --> 02:12:55,520
Speaker 1: we'd like to focus on the overall rating, but what's

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Speaker 1: more important is the individual ratings that make up that overall.

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Speaker 1: Clint Oldenberg, we did not have a Twitter poll today,

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Speaker 1: but we got some interesting discussion going on what must

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Speaker 1: happen for the Bills to make the playoffs, and you know,

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Speaker 1: thinking about the responses, Eve, I don't know if there

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Speaker 1: was one predominant theme. People are kind of all over

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Speaker 1: the board, don't you. It went even, it went somewhat

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, but mostly it's

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Speaker 1: did center around the offense, the offensive line more consistently,

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Speaker 1: a passing game and running game. But there were even

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Speaker 1: some people chiming in, say, listen, the defenses got to

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Speaker 1: step it up. They need to do better against the run.

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Speaker 1: They gave up over one hundred yards a game and

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Speaker 1: all that. People say special teams. Yeah, special teams, all

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Speaker 1: three phases. So it was interesting topic of discussion because

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Speaker 1: all of it's worth having. Um, it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: fun year to watch, but this year there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people with a lot of specific ideas about what

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Speaker 1: it's gonna take. You're out here for a couple of days,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to back here Monday, right, Yeah yeah, Canta

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