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Speaker 1: It's One Bills Live, presented by Calledlida Health.

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Speaker 2: Happy Labor Day, everybody. The twenty twenty five NFL season

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Speaker 2: is officially. We have made it. It is Game week people.

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Speaker 2: The Bills take on the Ravens at high Mark Stadium

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Speaker 2: on Sunday night. We've got NFL kicking off on Thursday night,

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Speaker 2: the Eagles facing off against the Dallas Cowboys. Man oh man,

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Speaker 2: we have waited so long for this and we are back.

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Speaker 2: I'm Mattie Glad and I'm with Steve Tasker for the

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Speaker 2: next hour of the show. Three hours today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just because, just before we came on, I asked

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Speaker 3: matt I wouldn't it be awesome if the Cowboys rose

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Speaker 3: up after all that's happened with the Micah Parsons thing

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Speaker 3: and how the Dallas fans are throwing themselves off cliffs

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Speaker 3: that they come out and beat the Eagles right out

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Speaker 3: of the gate on Thursday night. It's not gonna happen,

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Speaker 3: but I you know, but wouldn't it be awesome if

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Speaker 3: we just got off the entire season started off with

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Speaker 3: that little bomb to drop. Just that would be awesome,

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Speaker 3: just chaos, Yeah, but start. It has been a long

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Speaker 3: off season We've had a lot to look forward to.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully we still do. I can't wait for the thing

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Speaker 3: to start. Oh my gosh, excuse me. I can't wait

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Speaker 3: for the thing that I'm usually not. I'm not ready

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Speaker 3: for noon to kick off. I just can't wait for

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Speaker 3: this thing to kick off. Sunday night. I was talking

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Speaker 3: with a guy last night. He looks at me, he goes,

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Speaker 3: you know, one week and one hour, we're gonna be tailgating.

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Speaker 3: I was like, what, whoa like last night he was

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Speaker 3: telling me that. So like last night, like I don't know,

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Speaker 3: six o'clock or something, we're gonna be tailgating in a

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Speaker 3: week and an hour. I'm like, dude, you're way out

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Speaker 3: ahead of it. But that's where we're at. Yeah, preseason.

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Speaker 2: The Bills tweeted last night at midnight, Happy Game Week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: First split second I thought it said Happy Game Day,

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Speaker 2: and I like went through a half a second of

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Speaker 2: freaking out, like, oh my god, is the game tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: Of course it's not tomorrow, but we've waited so long

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Speaker 2: for this. It smells like football.

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Speaker 3: It's in the air. Might starting to.

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Speaker 2: Feel crisp again in the mornings.

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Speaker 3: Like we've got I've got a ton of work to

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Speaker 3: do outside of the show this week, because I got

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Speaker 3: all kinds of people show. You know, the last home

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Speaker 3: opener of the stadium is Sunday night. It's the last

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Speaker 3: home opener ever in the old building. I got guest's

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Speaker 3: coming in, family coming in. I got preparations I gotta make,

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Speaker 3: I've got things I gotta get ready. My wife is

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Speaker 3: running around like you know, she's got all kinds of

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Speaker 3: stuff to do because you know, you clean the house

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Speaker 3: and stuff, but after cleans up after me, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: So it's you can really feel the gears shift. Yes,

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Speaker 3: in life, when the Bill's game week hits for the

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Speaker 3: first you know, for that first.

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Speaker 2: Game, there's a big shift in this building. There's a

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Speaker 2: big shift for the team. This week officially starts your

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Speaker 2: in season schedule, and the Bill's kicking things off on

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Speaker 2: Sunday means they have a true game week schedule. It's

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Speaker 2: not like you've got a Thursday night or Monday night

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Speaker 2: or you have a longer week because you're playing on

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Speaker 2: Monday night. So they're in their normal week. We'll hear

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Speaker 2: from Sean McDermott on Wednesday before practice kicks off. They'll

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Speaker 2: practice Wednesday, Thursday. Friday will kind of be a lighter

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Speaker 2: practice for the tea. They'll have a walkthrough on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: and the game is on Sunday. We'll hear from Josh

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Speaker 2: Allen on Wednesday. We'll hopefully find out team captains soon enough.

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen and Trel Bernard were team captains last year.

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Speaker 2: I'll be eager to see who the team votes on

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Speaker 2: for captains for the twenty twenty five season. I would

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Speaker 2: think Josh Allen is going to be back in the

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Speaker 2: He is the captain of the offense as he controls

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Speaker 2: things going into his eighth NFL season, which is just

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Speaker 2: wild to think about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's usually and sometimes teams goes far as you

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Speaker 3: have two offense, two defense, two special teams, and then

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Speaker 3: which is kind of a cool thing to do. It's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, last year was the first year the Bills just

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Speaker 2: had two team captains and then they had a leadership

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Speaker 2: council of about ten players. In seasons prior to that,

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Speaker 2: you had like five to seven ish players that were

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Speaker 2: named your team captains. So it'll be interesting to see

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Speaker 2: do they go a second straight year of just a

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Speaker 2: to the Sean McDermott model when he first got here,

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Speaker 2: So I'd assume that news is coming this week at

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Speaker 2: some point. Again, I said, Sean McDermot will meet with

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. It'll be great to get some injury updates

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday because the preseason is a time where you

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Speaker 2: don't have to report any injuries. Players don't have to

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Speaker 2: up to game week. So we'll get injury designations throughout

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Speaker 2: the week. We'll know if guys are out during practice,

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Speaker 2: We'll know if guys are just limited during practice. So

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Speaker 2: I'm eager to see where our cornerbacks are at right.

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Speaker 2: Christian Benford and Tradevious White never finished that final practice

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Speaker 2: one against the Ravens. It's a game where you don't

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Speaker 2: want to get too ahead of yourself. It's just week one.

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Speaker 2: You have to go week by week. But as we

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Speaker 2: the Ravens in week one, the implications that this game

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Speaker 2: it's big and you want to be at full strength.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you really do. It's you want to get off

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Speaker 3: They they are just they got to be sick and

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Speaker 3: for the Bills. And and we've we've been talking about

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Speaker 3: you know this is gonna be as tough a game

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Speaker 3: You know, you can't, man, we got an idea. We

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Speaker 3: know the key players and the rosters are very similar,

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Speaker 3: you're still gonna evolve a little bit. The offense has

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Speaker 3: got different wide receivers. Keon Coleman looks to be a

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Speaker 3: you just don't know what you're gonna get. So when

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Speaker 3: you're going to getst A team like that over there,

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Speaker 2: Who has a lot of tape on you, a team

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Speaker 3: How you play, and you've got to and both these

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Speaker 2: The quarterbacks were the last two MVPs. You have the

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Speaker 3: We talked about this last year and you said it.

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Speaker 3: The Bills had one of their all time great offenses

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Speaker 3: in statistics statistically speaking, last year. The Baltimore Ravens were

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Speaker 3: better in a lot of ways. Yeah, that's how good

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Speaker 2: And you talk about the stats of last season, and yes,

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Speaker 2: it's like this is a new team, this is a

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Speaker 2: Bills added Joshua Palmer, the Ravens, added DeAndre Hopkins. The

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Speaker 2: because they're projections of here's where you were at last year,

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Speaker 2: of ranking first, the Ravens ranked first in so many

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Speaker 2: statistical categories. It was totally yards per game, yards per play,

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Speaker 2: And then they were also top three in points per game,

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Speaker 2: compare them to the Bills, and they were neck and

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Speaker 2: neck in a lot of these statistical categories. Points per game,

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Speaker 2: both teams averaged more than thirty points per game, point

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Speaker 2: at nine point two to four point per game differential,

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Speaker 2: Like that's crazy. So you have two teams who produced

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Speaker 2: there's some shakeup on defense. The Ravens went and got

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Speaker 2: So one of the reports out there right now is

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Speaker 2: McDuffie has done a lot for the Chiefs on defense.

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Speaker 2: He was around the area that the Bills were drafting.

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Speaker 3: we've seen it happen, they demand a new deal. Kyler

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Speaker 3: McDuffie's not doing that. He's gonna go ahead and play,

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Speaker 3: and you know, good on him and the Chiefs. I'm

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Speaker 2: He deserves it.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers and running back Jalen Warren have agreed to

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Speaker 3: If he can continue to play like he always plays,

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Speaker 2: Highest BAEd Cornerbacks twenty twenty five. Derek Stingley's making thirty million.

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Speaker 2: Seth Walder, and they go through, Okay, who missed, who

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Speaker 2: Saints end up getting first overall pick arch Manning. And

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Speaker 2: if you go down to the super Bowl, the Bills

434
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Speaker 2: play the Bucks in the Super Bowl and the Bills

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Speaker 2: come out on top.

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Speaker 3: It's weird eating the Bucks in I want to this

437
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Speaker 3: simulation is fifty.

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Speaker 2: Five to twenty three is the final score for the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl against the Bucks.

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Speaker 3: All the teams, all the teams in here. They only

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Speaker 3: have fourteen games on the schedule, right, so I don't

442
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Speaker 3: know what the whether they take like the two super

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Speaker 3: Bowl teams completely out of the mix or what that is.

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Speaker 3: I this is a I'm gonna have to go through

445
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Speaker 3: and find out what is what the you know the

446
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Speaker 3: criteria is for this because it to me it smacks

447
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 3: of illegitimacy. But nevertheless, the Bills are going to win

448
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 3: the super Bowl fifty five to twenty three, So I'll

449
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Speaker 3: take it. Maybe it's engagement farming, maybe, but all these teams,

450
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Speaker 3: it's we're in the point in history now where it's

451
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Speaker 3: you can almost predict five or six of the playoff

452
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Speaker 3: teams in both conferences. Yeah, because just because of the

453
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Speaker 3: it's hard to play yourself out of it. It's easy

454
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Speaker 3: to play yourself out of it, actually I should say,

455
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Speaker 3: but it's hard to get your to divest of that

456
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Speaker 3: much talent that it takes to get in in one

457
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Speaker 3: off season. These gems are too smart. Yeah, you know,

458
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Speaker 3: I mean you can look at the teams that made

459
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Speaker 3: it last year in the in the in the AFC.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's just it's Miami they're not getting you know,

461
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Speaker 3: Cincinnati was just just missed. So you got Denvers. People

462
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Speaker 3: still think a lot of that team Pittsburgh they never

463
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Speaker 3: miss with Mike.

464
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Speaker 2: Tomlin winning record always.

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Speaker 3: Then the Chargers. The only team you can kind of

466
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Speaker 3: look at is Houston in the tough division in the

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Speaker 3: South where everybody's kind of even and it's not a

468
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Speaker 3: very good division. And but Indianapolis, Jacksonville and Tennessee who

469
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Speaker 3: got the first pick of the draft. I don't know

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Speaker 3: you can you can predict all of these teams, like

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Speaker 3: four or five of these teams are going to be

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Speaker 3: in there. So I don't know how. I don't know

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Speaker 3: how you get this ESPN on it.

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Speaker 2: It was a single simulation guy, single simulation.

475
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Speaker 3: Both New York both Super Bowl teams missed the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I like the end. I like the end. The Bills

477
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Speaker 2: beat the Bucks was fifty five to twenty three in

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Like, sign me up for that every

479
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Speaker 2: single day of the week.

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 2: But but I don't know if I get all of

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Speaker 2: it come back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it gets some of it. Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: All right, we have a fun question for you guys.

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Speaker 2: Say we're asking you for your bold predictions because it

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Speaker 2: is Week one, it's time to get the boldness out there.

487
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Speaker 2: What is your bold prediction for the Bills this season?

488
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 2: Is it a record? Is it a crazy statistic. Is

489
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Speaker 2: it the most important game in your mind? Is it

490
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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl finish? What is your boldest prediction?

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Speaker 3: This ESPN thing James.

492
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Speaker 2: Cook going to go off for twenty rushing touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Right this simulation we just talked, that's a bold prediction.

494
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Speaker 2: That's a bold prediction.

495
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Speaker 3: We kick out of the playoffs, Bills beat the Bucks

496
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Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl. That's a addiction. Let's hear yours

497
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Speaker 3: that we are in say, but you gotta tweet at

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Speaker 3: us today because we can't take phone calls.

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Speaker 2: I was just going to say, give us a call,

500
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 2: but you can't.

501
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 3: You gotta tweet us today. You can't. We're on TV only,

502
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 3: so all our radio listeners are like spinning the dial

503
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 3: right now. Are there here? We're not going to be

504
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 3: there at least they'll start at one anyway. But we're

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Speaker 3: on TV only, So.

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, go so tweet at us. We're going to

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Speaker 2: answer some of your bold predictions. Coming up next on

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Speaker 2: One Bill's Live. We're presented by Collecte Health. See you

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Speaker 2: guys in bit Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Mattie

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Speaker 2: Glab alongside of Steve Tasker, Happy Week one. Everybody Can't

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Speaker 2: believe it's here. We've been waiting all summer, waiting all

512
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Speaker 2: off season for this, so excited that the Bills are

513
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 2: going to kick off the season on Sunday night against

514
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Speaker 2: the Ravens. A huge game for Buffalo. A lot of

515
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 2: meaning could play into this week one game. Once we

516
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Speaker 2: look back on everything, We've got a question for you,

517
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Speaker 2: a bold question for you. We're asking for your bold predictions.

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Speaker 2: What is your bold prediction for the Bills for the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five season. Let's go to the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 2: It's brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, the official

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00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 2: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. And first we'll

522
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Speaker 2: go with Ty who says, this is the year we

523
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: finally get the one seed and close out the ralph

524
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Speaker 2: with the trip to the Super Bowl. I think that

525
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 2: is what so many members of Bill's mafia are hoping for.

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Speaker 3: Well, it'd be a storybook ending to the place. Yeah,

527
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,719
Speaker 3: no question about it. That would be yeah, almost too

528
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 3: good to be true, right. You almost feel stupid wishing

529
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 3: for it because it's such a big it's so perfectly

530
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Speaker 3: you know, it's just so romanticized about. It's a great

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Speaker 3: way into the season and all that, it's almost too

532
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Speaker 3: much to hope for. But yeah, if you're calling bold prediction,

533
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 3: do it. That's because this is a team that's got

534
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Speaker 3: the one set on the table. Whatever happens on this

535
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 3: opening weekend, it's going to be Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, whoever

536
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 3: you want to pick and neck and neck trying to

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Speaker 3: get the one seed. Like it was last year, the

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00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 3: Bills were the only team within striking distance of Kansas

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Speaker 3: City for a large measure of the season.

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Speaker 2: And the Chiefs had all those crazy finishes score games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's it would be awesome. And plus, you know,

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00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 3: obviously the cherry on the cake would be to go

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Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl after the FC Championship Game and

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Speaker 3: win it out in Santa Clara, in Josh's home town.

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Speaker 2: It's just too perfect, very nice.

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Speaker 3: That would be very, very nice.

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Speaker 2: I would love it. The Bills have won the AFC

548
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 2: East the last five years in a row. They've made

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Speaker 2: it to the AFC Championship Game twice without having the

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Speaker 2: one seed. That's the one thing this team and the

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Speaker 2: Sean McDermott, Brandon Bean, Josh Allen Era have not done

552
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Speaker 2: yet is get the number one seed. Is that the

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Speaker 2: key to unlocking a trip to the super Bowl. It's

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Speaker 2: the one thing they haven't done yet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to win the championship on the road,

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Speaker 3: I guess you know. Because you're going into the best

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Speaker 3: team in the conference. You get a bye week, which

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Speaker 3: is absolutely enormous, which is a very underrated. I think

559
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 3: people get by you think home field advantage is it.

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00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 3: It's the bye week that's really the difference. And that's

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Speaker 3: why you know, years ago when they took away the

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Speaker 3: top and when they added another wild card team, you

563
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Speaker 3: get seven teams in it. You need three wild card games.

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Speaker 3: The two seed doesn't get the bye. That's rough.

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Speaker 2: And the Bills have an early bye week this year,

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Speaker 2: so a bye week before the playoffs begin could be

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Speaker 2: huge for the team very much so.

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Speaker 3: I it's it does make a big difference. That's why

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Speaker 3: you need the bye week. I mean, that's why you

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Speaker 3: need the one seed is because of the bye week.

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Speaker 3: The home field is important. Yeah, but that's too, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's both those things. The bye week is more important

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Speaker 3: at that time of year.

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Speaker 2: Lewis says home field advantage Week eighteen against the Jets

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Speaker 2: will not be the final game at the former rich

576
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Speaker 2: Ralph Wilson, New Era and now high Mark Stadium. Yeah,

577
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Speaker 2: that's true. You're hoping that the final regular season game

578
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Speaker 2: is not the final game that the team is going

579
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Speaker 2: to play in Hei Mark Stadium. The hope is that

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00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 2: you're going to have a few more there.

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Speaker 3: That's right. It will be significant though, the last regular

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Speaker 3: season game there, because then you know that's the most

583
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 3: the last one. That's absolutely positive. But you will know

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Speaker 3: probably by then that you're going to have at least

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Speaker 3: one more if you are. So that's you know, that

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Speaker 3: Jet game, I've I was, I'm under the understanding and

587
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 3: I've got to get this confirmed that the first regular

588
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 3: season game in the stadium was against the Jets as well.

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Speaker 3: I think I've heard that, and so you know, obviously

590
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 3: none of us were around for it, but that's very symmetrical.

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Speaker 2: Did the NFL do that on purpose?

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm trying to think back to our they might

594
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Speaker 2: have did during the schedule release ship.

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Speaker 3: They might have. They might have, But nevertheless, it's all

596
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Speaker 3: of these games, and I've said it, you know, I've

597
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Speaker 3: got tons of people that want to be in the

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Speaker 3: stadium at least for a game this off this regular season.

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00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 3: They want to be back there. So much of the

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Speaker 3: history of the team is tied to this building, and

601
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Speaker 3: this with this iteration of this team is so fun

602
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 3: to watch. So yeah, it's it's gonna be hard to

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00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 3: get a ticket for some of these games. It really is.

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Speaker 2: Jacob says. His bold prediction is the defense is markedly

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Speaker 2: better even with the suspensions a healthy Matt Milano. In

606
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 2: order to keep number seventeen healthy, we'll need a two

607
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: headed monster in James Cook and Ray Davis to pound

608
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 2: the ball week after week, leading the Bills to a

609
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Speaker 2: fifteen and two record. This will be Josh Allen's lowest

610
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Speaker 2: output of touchdowns. Interesting deciding to take another step forward

611
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Speaker 2: in maybe being more of a run heavy team than

612
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Speaker 2: a pass heavy team. In twenty twenty five, they were

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Speaker 2: about even. Last year.

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Speaker 3: I saw a stat Josh Allen has five seasons of

615
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Speaker 3: forty plus touchdowns in a row or something like that,

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Speaker 3: and nobody else has more than three. And the other

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Speaker 3: guy with three is Drew Brees. So Josh has had

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Speaker 3: forty touchdowns like five years in a row. He's the

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Speaker 3: only guy in history to do it. I mean, remember

620
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Speaker 3: when he was coming to the last four or five

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Speaker 3: years we've always had. He's the first quarterback in history

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Speaker 3: to throw for three and run for three in the

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Speaker 3: same game. He's the first quarterback in the NFL. He's got,

624
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Speaker 3: like all a whole list of stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Josh Allens is the first of everything.

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Speaker 3: He I don't know if you can count him out

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Speaker 3: for getting another forty touchdowns now, maybe just forty. But

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Speaker 3: you know, he threw for thirty last year and ran

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Speaker 3: for I don't know how many.

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Speaker 2: He ran for twelve for.

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Speaker 3: Twelve, So we had forty two last year, maybe.

632
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Speaker 2: Because twenty eight last year, ran for twelve.

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Speaker 3: Because of because of the prominence of the Bill's running

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Speaker 3: game and the way they run their offense and how

635
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: efficient they are, and James Cook's emergence, Ray Davis's emergence.

636
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Speaker 3: Maybe they do, you know, he maybe he does drop

637
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 3: that that number a little bit this year for the

638
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Speaker 3: first time in a while. But I don't know.

639
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Speaker 2: They were the first team ever last year to have

640
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Speaker 2: at least thirty passing touchdowns at least thirty rushing touchdowns.

641
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 2: How do we see that kind kind of change or

642
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 2: morph this season? Are you going to see another thirty

643
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: from both sides? Of the ball. That would be about even. Yeah,

644
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 2: in terms of passing and running. But Ray Davis is

645
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 2: a year older, a year wiser in the system, so Coleman.

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00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 2: So is Keon Coleman. You would think James Cook, with

647
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: a new contract, wants to show the coaches, Hey, you

648
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 2: signed me for the right reasons. I'm gonna show you why.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's yeah. I like that prediction. That's good. Fifteen

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Speaker 3: and two number one set, Yeah, let's go. Yeah, fifteen

651
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Speaker 3: and two. How how fun would that season?

652
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Speaker 2: It'd be so fun. It'd be a party party every Sunday.

653
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be great.

654
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 2: Tom's gold prediction. Cole Bishop turns his doubters into believers,

655
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 2: not believers. Bill Evers this season, don't Kate it makes

656
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl. I like those two.

657
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's fun how to see how people think when

658
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 3: they come up with these bold predictions, because sometimes they do.

659
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 3: They focus on people cold Bishop and Dalton Kincaid. Instead

660
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 3: of saying the team's going to do this, and everybody

661
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 3: we're going to do they go, this guy's going to

662
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 3: do that, and that guy's going to do that.

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Speaker 7: I like that.

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Speaker 3: It's fun to pick guys out on a menu of

665
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Speaker 3: fifty three guys and say, I know exactly what this

666
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 3: guy's going to do, which, okay.

667
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Speaker 2: I want that's a Bishop to turn the doubters into believers. Sure,

668
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 2: I hope this guy has a great first season as

669
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Speaker 2: a full time starter. You saw Taylor Rap and Cold

670
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: Bishop get a little bit of work in together at

671
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 2: the end of the season. It was a bummer that

672
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 2: he was dealing with that quad injury through most of

673
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 2: training camp. But what people didn't see is the work

674
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 2: that Rap and Bishop put in on the indoor field

675
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 2: in the months of March and April when nobody was around,

676
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: when it was still cold outside. They were stacking days.

677
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 2: So I think they probably feel okay about where they're at,

678
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 2: even though they missed out on some valuable practice reps

679
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 2: and preseason reps together. But hey, they got in there

680
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 2: at the end of the season to kind of ramp

681
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 2: it up a little bit. They'll have this week together.

682
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 2: Remember back to when the Bills drafted Cole Bishop in

683
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 2: the second round. One of the reasons why they drafted

684
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 2: Cole Bishop was because he was a smart safety and

685
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: intelligent safety. Let's see how that unfolds on the field

686
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 2: this season. Next to a guy. And Taylor Rapp, who

687
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 2: is a human missile with the way he launches himself

688
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: at opposing offenses.

689
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, fans, even Bills fans are like looking sideways at

690
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 3: Taylor reps sometimes because he crashes in on plays and

691
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 3: he hits his own guys a lot of times, and

692
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 3: that friendly fire syndrome where you know you come in

693
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 3: crashing in and all of a sudden your own guy

694
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 3: gets hurt and instead of the other guy. But it's

695
00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 3: we'll see.

696
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 2: I'm don't kin kid, Pro Bowl you you in on that, I'm.

697
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 3: All about it. Yeah, I'm all about that that because

698
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 3: that's big. It's a tough conference to go to the

699
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 3: Pro Bowls.

700
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 2: A tight end, it's a tight end. That's a good point.

701
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 2: It's a really good point.

702
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 3: David andrews Kelsey, Andrews andrews Kelsey. There's some guys out there,

703
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 3: got some great.

704
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 2: Guys in the NFC too.

705
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

706
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, And tight ends had a good draft this year.

707
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 2: It takes a year where a lot of a lot

708
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 2: of talented tight ends got drafted to teams that we

709
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: haven't seen yet how they're gonna work in the NFL.

710
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 2: But I mean, don't k Kate with somebody back in

711
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 2: training camp when you're talking to the offensive coordinator and

712
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 2: Joe Brady when you're talking to Sean McDermott for the

713
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 2: first time, kind of as you'r as you're rolling things

714
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,439
Speaker 2: in for training camp to begin, and Joe Brady said,

715
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: don't kin kid lived here this offseason. He spent his

716
00:38:55,400 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 2: entire offseason in the building, training to get healthy and

717
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 2: then training on the indoor field to get those football

718
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 2: skills back to where they want him to be. He

719
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: had that big rookie season where he really showcased what

720
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 2: he can do as a pass catcher. His second season

721
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 2: in the NFL, he's dealing with these stupid knee injuries

722
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 2: that you know, impact what he was able to do,

723
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 2: and we really didn't figure that out until after the

724
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 2: season when his whole team went to bat for him.

725
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 2: Was like, you guys have no idea what this dude

726
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 2: was dealing with. And then you got Josh Allen saying,

727
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 2: I need to do my part to make sure we

728
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 2: get him back to where he can be within this

729
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 2: off offense. So I have high hopes for dult Can kid.

730
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Speaker 3: It's really a good sign. We've got so many guys

731
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 3: on this roster, you know, starting with Cole Bishop, Dalton Kincaid,

732
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 3: all these guys and Taylor Rapp as well, who spent

733
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Speaker 3: so much time in the off season here in Buffalo

734
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Speaker 3: trying to get better and make it, you know, trying

735
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Speaker 3: to improve, trying to be a bigger part of them

736
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 3: the team when the when the season rolled around, they

737
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 3: wanted to be out there contributing. And we'll see if

738
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 3: it bears fruit. And certainly other teams can make that

739
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 3: claim as well. There's a lot of guys that work hard,

740
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 3: but this is you know, it's something that Bills fans.

741
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,240
Speaker 3: You know, you can't be aware of because it's happening

742
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 3: in March, April, May and June, and these guys are

743
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: out and you know, we're out here and we walked

744
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 3: through there, guys.

745
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 2: Really we get to see it.

746
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 3: And I see Taylor rap and Cole Bishop out there.

747
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 3: They're standing in the middle of the field ten yards

748
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,280
Speaker 3: apart talking like this, and the point in the different

749
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 3: you know, it's pretty cool.

750
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Speaker 2: And that stuff matters. It's you know, you put the

751
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 2: time in to do that stuff. It's not like you're

752
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 2: doing it for nothing. Yes, you might not be lining

753
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 2: up against an offense. You might not be lining up

754
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: against an opponent in a preseason game, but you're still

755
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 2: getting valuable reps together. Even if it's a big part

756
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 2: of the mental game that's going to play into you

757
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 2: can do this season together as a safety tandem. We

758
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: got to take a break. When we return, we'll dig

759
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: into the tweetsheet a little bit more and then coming

760
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 2: up at one o'clock, Eric Wood joins the show to

761
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 2: preview the season. This all coming up next on One

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Speaker 2: get back to our question for the day. What is

781
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 2: your bold prediction for the Bills in this upcoming twenty

782
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Speaker 2: twenty five season, the final season in high Mark Stadium

783
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 2: before the Bills move across the street to the new

784
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Speaker 2: high Mark Stadium. Let's go with Greg. He says, I

785
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 2: predict the Bills will score over thirty five points in

786
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 2: four regular season games this season. I think that's a

787
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 2: pretty good guess for what the Bills could do looking

788
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 2: back on last season, I want to count up how

789
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 2: many games they thirty five points. Let's see one, two, three, four, five.

790
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: They scored at least thirty five points in five games

791
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 2: last season. I think they can do it again. They

792
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 2: scored at least forty points in three of those five games, so.

793
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Speaker 3: That's pretty good. Yeah, that's it. I don't know if well,

794
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 3: just let me be honest. That's not really bold.

795
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 2: It's a good prediction.

796
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 3: It's a good prediction. It's actually a likely prediction. Yeah,

797
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 3: I don't know. Likely, Yeah, I mean why I think

798
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 3: there might be scoring might be up again this year.

799
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Speaker 2: I mean, they averaged more than thirty points per game

800
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 2: last season? Why not do it again this year? With

801
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 2: new pieces on the offense, returning your entire offensive line,

802
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 2: your entire running back room is back, you expect guys

803
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 2: to take a step forward. I see that number going.

804
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 6: Up, right.

805
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 3: I think they could probably score forty.

806
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: Points in regular season games. That's one more than last year.

807
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:09,879
Speaker 3: Well it was the Jets they scored forty, Detroit forty eight,

808
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 3: LA forty two, and the Jacksonville Jaguars forty seven. So

809
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 3: they did it. They scored forty points or more in

810
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 3: four games last year.

811
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, four yeah, and for the LA Rams loss.

812
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 3: Yeah. And now if you're saying only thirty five points

813
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 3: in only four game they want, I don't know, we'll see.

814
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, that's yeah, I'm okay with that. I think

815
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 3: you I think you're being safe.

816
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 2: Here's a bold prediction. Eric says, at some point rookie

817
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 2: defensive tackle Dian Walker will take over as the starter

818
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 2: for day Kwon Jones, and it won't be because of

819
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 2: a day Kwon Jones injury. Okay, here's the facts about

820
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 2: Daikwon Jones. Jones is in his twelfth NFL season, so

821
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Speaker 2: you would assume at some point there's going to be

822
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 2: a changing of the guard next to Ed Oliver. Yeah,

823
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 2: Daikwon Jones is doing an incredible job of helping these

824
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 2: interior defensive linemen along, especially the rookies. I've talked to TJ.

825
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 2: Sanders and Dian Walker about it and they both have

826
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Speaker 2: sung Daikwon Jones's praises. And similar to day Kwon Jones

827
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Speaker 2: being in a spot where you are a VET in

828
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Speaker 2: the NFL, you think about Trudevius White, Maxwell Harriston, and

829
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 2: White has done an incredible job of helping lead Maxwell Harriston,

830
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 2: helping him feel at home in the cornerback's room. Sean

831
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 2: McDermott has said Trey White has done a fantastic job

832
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 2: of doing so. White told me, you know what, Maddie,

833
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be here forever, so I have to

834
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Speaker 2: bring these young guys along. I want this for the Bills.

835
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Speaker 2: I want this for my team. I want them to

836
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Speaker 2: be good. I just don't want to leave somebody out

837
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 2: there high and dry to figure it out on their own.

838
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 2: So Jones has got to be doing the same thing.

839
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Speaker 3: That's right, and it seems self evident that somebody's gonna

840
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 3: have to take over for Daykon Dion Walker is a

841
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 3: great candidate for that, no question about it. And I

842
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 3: think it's it does all the stuff that you just said.

843
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 3: It speaks really well to the kind of guys they

844
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 3: draft and they want to sign to contracts, guys who

845
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 3: are going to be in it for the team and

846
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 3: for the good of the game and for their teammates

847
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 3: and to be one of those guys that pat that

848
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 3: pays it forward like guys had done for them and

849
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 3: early in their career. So I think it's a great spot.

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00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 3: It says a lot about the culture of the team

851
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 3: and when you have guys like that. And I'm sure

852
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 3: dayk one's the same type of guy. So it's yeah,

853
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 3: it's the way it should be. It's the way it

854
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 3: should be.

855
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 2: Then George says, the Bills are going to have the

856
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 2: top record in the AF seed, the number one seed

857
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 2: and the bye. And here's another one, speaking of Dion Walker,

858
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: George believes Dean Walker is going to be in contention

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Speaker 2: for the Defensive Rookie of the Year award. Wouldn't that

860
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 2: be something. A fourth round pick in contention for defensive

861
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Speaker 2: Rookie of the year.

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00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:06,959
Speaker 3: That's that'd be big.

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00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,479
Speaker 2: That's a bold prediction right there.

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Speaker 3: That's that is bold fourth round draft pick in the

865
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 3: contention for the defensive Rookie of the year, and more

866
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 3: so than just being a rookie on the defensive side

867
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 3: of the ball, you know. Yeah, And the conversation is huge,

868
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 3: and that'll be that'll be fun to see. That will

869
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,800
Speaker 3: be fun to see and more important to the AFC

870
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 3: in the one seed in the bye is going to

871
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 3: be huge. At the end of the season. Well, we'll

872
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 3: see how far that goes. But that's that's been a

873
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 3: topic of conversation for a while now.

874
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 2: A lot of people think the Bills have a favorable

875
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 2: schedule ahead of them. Yes, you start the season against

876
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,800
Speaker 2: the Ravens. That's, you know, a smack in the face.

877
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 2: Welcome to the twenty twenty five season. You're going to

878
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 2: play against a really good NFL team. Let's see where

879
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: you're at right now. They've got the Chiefs Week nine,

880
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 2: You've got the Bucks Week eleven, which could be a sneaky,

881
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 2: tough game, then you got the Week fourteen Eagles. See,

882
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 2: it's all spaced out, though. You don't have any crazy,

883
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 2: crazy stretches where you're playing.

884
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 3: These You shouldn't be playing in credible team. You shouldn't

885
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 3: be playing multiple games of those games without certain players

886
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 3: on your roster unless you lose them for the season,

887
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 3: of course, but uh yeah, you should be able to

888
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 3: gear up for those games. I'm you know, I'm not

889
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 3: taking anything away from you know, the Patriots, the Falcons

890
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 3: and the Panthers and the run up to the Kansas

891
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 3: City Chiefs.

892
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 2: They're still figuring out who they are, you know.

893
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, but really the Chiefs and we not. You're two

894
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 3: months into after the Baltimore Ravens game, which is like

895
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 3: the game, you're two months into it before you face

896
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,240
Speaker 3: the Chiefs. You're another month into it before the Bengals,

897
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 3: and you know, there's six weeks before you face the Eagles.

898
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 3: That's that's really good. That's really good stuff. You start

899
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 3: out with a ton of games at home, so you're

900
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 3: gonna have that tilt in your favor so you can

901
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 3: find out who you are and what you do.

902
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 4: Well.

903
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 3: You'll head to New Jersey in week two to get

904
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 3: the Jets, so you can get that under your belt.

905
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 3: Get a game, an away game under your belt, quick

906
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 3: away game before you go to Atlanta. And Atlanta doesn't eat.

907
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 3: I mean, anybody who's ever traveled, you know all the

908
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 3: Buffalo has been through Atlanta Airport, right, because you got

909
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 3: to go there, right, it's an easy flight. Here we go. Yeah,

910
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 3: it does lay out well for the Bills as well

911
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 3: as it could for a first play schedule.

912
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really does. We're going to take a break,

913
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 2: but when we return. Color analyst for Buffalo Bills Radio

914
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 2: former center for the Bills, Eric Wood joins the show

915
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 2: to help preview the twenty twenty five season and give

916
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 2: us some big takeaways from the preseason That next tier

917
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Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live or presented by Clyde Health.

918
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: This One Bill's Live presented by called Lida Health.

919
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 2: Welcome back into One Bill's Live. Mattie Glad alongside Steve Pasker,

920
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 2: and we are so excited to be joined by Bill's

921
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 2: color analyst former center Eric Wood joining the show right now, Eric,

922
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 2: thanks for coming on for sure.

923
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 4: Glad to be on with you guys. Excited to get

924
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 4: this Caesar Roll, I.

925
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 2: Know it is crazy that Week one is here. We've

926
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 2: had an highre offseason to digest Buffalo's moves. We've gotten

927
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 2: to see the Bills in training camp now preseason. As

928
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 2: we sit right now on Monday before the Bills kick

929
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 2: off their season on Sunday night against the Ravens, where

930
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 2: are you at with this Bills team?

931
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 4: Eric, I'm excited And look, the injuries were the story

932
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 4: of most of the preseason, and you know, the Bills

933
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 4: have gotten hit by the injury bug and it hasn't stopped.

934
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 4: We saw that Dwayne Carter is going to be out

935
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 4: for the season with an achilles But this is still

936
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 4: a super talented Bills team that was on the cusp

937
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 4: of making the Super Bowl a year ago, one of

938
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 4: the betting favorites to make the Super Bowl this year.

939
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 4: So it's an exciting start to the season. You start

940
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 4: off with one of the other best teams in the NFL,

941
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 4: the Baltimore Ravens, who returned most of their roster as well.

942
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 4: It's going to look like a familiar matchup when we

943
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 4: see these teams face off Sunday night, that we saw

944
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 4: faceoff twice a year ago.

945
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 3: I said this about a week ago, that this may

946
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 3: be the most talented roster since the nineties. But you know,

947
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 3: and with yourself, and no disrespect to you, but some

948
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,919
Speaker 3: of the rot like the three roster, I mean, there's

949
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 3: a big drought in the middle of those two rosters.

950
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 3: And you know there was some star players and some

951
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 3: really good athletes on those teams. But top to bottom,

952
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 3: this roster may be the most talented in debt and

953
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 3: deep since those early nineties. You got if and with

954
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 3: finger quotes and a huge caveat, if they're healthy, right,

955
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 3: if Joey Bosa is on the field, if Trey White's

956
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 3: on the field, if Max Harriston, Christian Benford, Milano Bernard,

957
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 3: all those you know, and all the young guys on it,

958
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:39,439
Speaker 3: and of course offensively, uh, this may be the most

959
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 3: talented team that they've put together, even in the Sean mcdermare.

960
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 3: And of course you've got the little two hundred pound

961
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 3: weight of Josh Allen, you know, at the top of

962
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 3: the scales, right. But it really is a talented and

963
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 3: deep roster. But as you said, you can't predict how

964
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 3: many guys are actually going to finish the race at

965
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 3: the end of the season.

966
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, youactly right, and I agree with you and give

967
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,280
Speaker 4: credit to Brandon Bean and his staff and the Pagoula

968
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 4: is for front of the buddy, because this team's done

969
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 4: a great job of retaining the talent that they've drafted.

970
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 4: You know this, the story of the offseason was the

971
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 4: guys that they were able to bring back and resign.

972
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 4: This is this new core and you talk about the talent,

973
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:24,840
Speaker 4: it's it's tremendous. And then you add additions like Josh Palmer.

974
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 4: You add additions like Joey Bosa, Michael Hoyt, who I'm

975
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 4: extremely excited about. You go out and draft all those

976
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 4: young defensive players that we've seen throughout the preseason, and

977
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 4: hopefully Max Harrison after you know, four or so weeks,

978
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 4: will come back and make an impact on this defense.

979
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 4: But the talent level of this roster, I agree with you.

980
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 4: It's as high as it's been and a big reason

981
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 4: of that is the draft develop resigned philosophy of Brandon

982
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:50,320
Speaker 4: Bean and his staff.

983
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 2: Tasker. You mentioned it, this roster, but where the team

984
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 2: is at right now, You've got some injuries looming. We

985
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 2: haven't heard from Sean McDermott yet, so we're not quite

986
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 2: sure about the status of some of these guys who

987
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 2: didn't finish out the preseason, guys who we maybe didn't

988
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 2: see in the last two preseason games. So as we

989
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 2: sit right now, it's kind of like, who's gonna be

990
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 2: available for this Week one game. It's not like Buffalo

991
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 2: has a tune up game for Week one, No bam.

992
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 2: They're playing against the Baltimore Ravens, the team they beat

993
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 2: in the AFC Divisional Round last season. You know the

994
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 2: Ravens are going to be out for blood too in

995
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 2: this Week one game. They want to take down the

996
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills. And when you look at the magnitude of

997
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 2: what this could game could mean at the end of

998
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 2: the season, I mean, it.

999
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 3: Puts you two games behind the one Seaton. Holy moly,

1000
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 3: you gotta think they're going to be right there too.

1001
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 2: This is a big deal. So when you talk about

1002
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 2: all of this, how do these worry how do these

1003
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 2: injuries were you? What is going through your mind when

1004
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 2: you kind of think of, well, maybe the Bills won't

1005
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 2: be at full strength with some of these guys possibly

1006
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 2: missing week one.

1007
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the biggest issues the defensive secondary, and

1008
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,760
Speaker 4: Taylor Rapp and Cole Bishop were able to play towards

1009
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 4: the end of the preseason or at least be back

1010
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 4: at practice, but we saw them in a limited capacity.

1011
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 4: And then you have Christian Benford and Trinevius White going

1012
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 4: down both in the same training camp prior to the

1013
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 4: same practice, I guess leading up to the Bucks game,

1014
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 4: so we got to see where the cornerbacks are at.

1015
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 4: The safeties didn't get a lot of time on task.

1016
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,399
Speaker 4: It's a tough matchup week one when you consider how

1017
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 4: those guys have to fit in the run game. And

1018
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 4: then you also have Lamar Jackson and what he was

1019
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 4: able to do through the air a year ago and

1020
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 4: how he's developed as a passer. So I would say

1021
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 4: the secondary is the position that scares me the most

1022
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 4: when you look at all these injuries. Now, when we

1023
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 4: got the breaks beat off us last year early in

1024
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 4: the season at Baltimore in Week four, that whole second

1025
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 4: level of the defense was out. You had Milano out,

1026
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 4: Bernard out, Taron Johnson out. All indications those guys are

1027
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 4: gonna be ready to go, and that makes a huge difference,

1028
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,319
Speaker 4: and that made a difference in the second matchup in

1029
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 4: the playoffs. But you're right, I mean, this is a

1030
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 4: game that's likely going to play a huge role and

1031
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 4: what happens with that number one seed at the end

1032
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 4: of the season. And you hate to be dinged up

1033
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 4: going into it, but look, I mean, everybody's going to

1034
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 4: get dinged up throughout the season. Each team's going to

1035
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 4: be affected by injuries. You just hope that, you know,

1036
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 4: maybe the Bills caught theirs during training camp, get these

1037
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 4: guys healthy. Shakira was back in uniform last week in practice,

1038
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 4: so you know you likely get him back, and offensively,

1039
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 4: you're in a much better health spot. And so it

1040
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 4: might be a deal early on with the suspensions and

1041
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 4: some of the injuries on defense that the offense has

1042
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 4: got to carry the load.

1043
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 3: And you know better than most people what you're watching

1044
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 3: when you're we're looking at the at the preseason games.

1045
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,760
Speaker 3: We got all these young defensive linemen. You got Landon Jackson,

1046
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 3: Dion Walker, TJ. Sanders. How good are they?

1047
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 4: That's a great question. We got to see them in

1048
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 4: actual uniform in playing against starters and all of that.

1049
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 4: All of them have flashed at times, I thought Landon

1050
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 4: Jackson got better as the preseason went on, as he

1051
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 4: got more reps of the preseason. It's seem like, you know,

1052
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 4: he just had a better plan. And that happens Steve,

1053
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 4: you know that from you know, you go from training

1054
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 4: camp practices and then it's a ramp up to the

1055
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 4: preseason games and then it's another ramp up to the

1056
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 4: regular season. So we got to see these guys and

1057
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 4: action Deon Walkers flash at times, and Sanders has as well.

1058
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 4: So you love to see those high ceiling type plays

1059
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 4: from those guys where you say, okay, this is where

1060
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 4: they can play at Now, how consistently can they do

1061
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 4: it when it matters is what we'll see coming up.

1062
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 4: But there's been a lot to be excited about from

1063
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 4: all three of those young defensive linemen from how they

1064
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 4: flash throughout the preseason. Now we got to see how

1065
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 4: can they do it? And look, none of the three

1066
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 4: of those guys are likely going to be starters, you know,

1067
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 4: come Week one, but the way we roll our defensive

1068
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 4: line in and out, those guys are going to play

1069
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 4: significant snaps, especially now that Dwayne Carter's out of the

1070
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 4: mix with the Achilles injury. You know, that's even more

1071
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 4: reps that's going to be on those guys plate. But

1072
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 4: you know, I had one of the guys that I

1073
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 4: knew the most about coming into the draft, Dion Walker,

1074
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 4: just simply the fact that I played at well, he

1075
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 4: played at University Kentucky. I don't watch a ton of

1076
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 4: college football anymore, I'll admit it. You know, it's getting

1077
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 4: harder and harder to follow it with the transfers and

1078
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 4: nil and all that. But I saw that dude for

1079
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 4: a number of years at UK, and he was always

1080
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 4: impressive and he was a guy that I was excited about.

1081
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 4: And I had Connor McGovern on my podcast last week

1082
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 4: and we talked about him specifically, and he said, man,

1083
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 4: he's like a big ballerina. You think he's just gonna,

1084
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 4: you know, thud you on each play because he's six seven,

1085
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 4: three forty and he's got some wiggle to him. So

1086
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 4: to say, I'm most excited about him, you know, maybe

1087
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 4: that's how I feel right now. But I think all

1088
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 4: three of those guys can and should make an impact

1089
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 4: the season.

1090
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really fun to watch Dean Walker push

1091
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 2: the pocket a little bit in those preseason games. Speaking

1092
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 2: of preseason football. You got a chance to call three

1093
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 2: of those games, watch the team, watch the entire roster

1094
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 2: now cut down to fifty three. What surprised you most

1095
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 2: about to Bill's preseason football this year.

1096
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 4: Well, I'll say this, I mean, I think Sean did

1097
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 4: a great job of Okay, we're going to take this

1098
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 4: joint practice in Chicago, get the work that we want

1099
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 4: with our starters, especially Josh, and then hey, we're going

1100
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 4: to throttle back on how much we play those guys.

1101
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 4: And you know, I think part of it is you

1102
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 4: get dinged up that much during training camp practices. You

1103
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 4: don't want to risk any of the other guys. So

1104
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 4: you know where there's some low lights throughout the preseason,

1105
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 4: of course, and you know that's going to happen at

1106
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 4: times when you play, you know, your backups against their starters,

1107
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 4: and then you know your backups that might be getting

1108
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 4: twelve fifteen team reps a practice, now they're playing thirty

1109
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 4: reps and now the other teams backups are coming in

1110
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:36,439
Speaker 4: and they're a little bit worn down. So of course

1111
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 4: there were some low lights throughout the preseason. Fun to

1112
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 4: end the way they did against Tampa Bay, and you know,

1113
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 4: guys like Shane Bouchelle and you know, probably the guy.

1114
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 4: You know, this doesn't come as any surprise, and I've

1115
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 4: heard you guys talk about him a ton, but just

1116
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 4: so excited for Shavers and what he was able to

1117
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 4: do throughout the preseason, earn that roster spot, show that

1118
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 4: he's capable of playing on special teams. You know, towards

1119
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 4: the later part of the preseas so extremely excited about him.

1120
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 4: But you know, as far as surprises go, you know,

1121
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 4: I don't want to say it's a surprise, but maybe

1122
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 4: most impressed with the way that Shapers would have able

1123
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 4: to go out and earn a spot, not fall into

1124
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 4: a spot, not have injuries at the wide receiver position

1125
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:18,919
Speaker 4: that you know landed him on the roster. It's fun

1126
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 4: watching a guy like him go out and just truly

1127
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 4: earn a roster spot through the preseason games.

1128
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 3: One of the things we noticed as well, and you're

1129
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 3: talking about the offensive side of the ball and the

1130
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 3: wide receivers, was a different kind of Keon Coleman. His

1131
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 3: attitude was different, his demeanor was different, his production was

1132
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 3: way more consistent this year. If he turns out to

1133
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 3: be the guy he looked like in training camp. What

1134
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 3: does that mean? How does that, you know, take this

1135
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 3: offense and how's it help it evolve? Because certainly they're

1136
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 3: going to spread the football around keep you know, Shaki

1137
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 3: is still going to get his targets. Kin Kid and

1138
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 3: Knox are going to get their targets. Certainly James Cook's

1139
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 3: going to get his touches. But with a key On

1140
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 3: Coleman out there, how does that change the balance of

1141
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 3: this offense if at all?

1142
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you when you draft a guy that's six

1143
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 4: foot four with a basketball background, you hope that you know,

1144
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 4: in year two through training camp, you're going to see

1145
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 4: what you saw from Keon Coleman throughout those training camp

1146
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 4: practices and throughout the preseason and if he can be

1147
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 4: the guy, If he can, you know, piggyback what he

1148
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 4: did throughout the preseason and take it into the regular season,

1149
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 4: he could take this offense to another level. The one

1150
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 4: thing they were missing last year was a guy that

1151
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 4: can pull those safeties out of the boxes, can be

1152
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 4: your deep threat down the field, can be that physical

1153
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 4: guy in the red zone that you say, okay, you're

1154
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 4: one on one, this is our guy on the play.

1155
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 4: And he could truly be that for the Bills. We

1156
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 4: got to see it in games, but you know he's

1157
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 4: going up against Christian Benford and Tredevius White and those

1158
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 4: guys during training camp. That's pretty pretty awesome cornerback duo

1159
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 4: that he's gotten to go against throughout the preseason. Then

1160
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 4: he lit up the Bears secondary throughout the joint practice.

1161
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see what Kean could be. And

1162
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 4: this is what they hoped they were going to get

1163
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 4: in year two and that development. And you know, he

1164
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 4: got the injury last year and you know, Sean McDermot

1165
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 4: and Brandon bed said, hey, he didn't come back off

1166
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 4: the injury well, and we need to see, you know,

1167
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 4: maybe more commitment. We need to see, you know, more toughness.

1168
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 4: Whatever was they wanted to see from him, they're seeing

1169
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 4: it now and I'm excited to see what he can

1170
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 4: do in this early part of the season.

1171
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not just Keon Coleman either. You look

1172
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 2: at the offense as a whole, in some of the

1173
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 2: playmakers on the offense, and you think about other playmakers

1174
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 2: taking a step forward in don't concaid and figuring out

1175
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 2: where does Chris Samuel fit in Buffalo's offense. I know

1176
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 2: he missed most of training camp in the preseason again,

1177
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 2: but that's something they're going to work really hard to

1178
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 2: figure out.

1179
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 5: Eric.

1180
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 2: When you look at what the Bills have in the

1181
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 2: wide receiver room, the tight end room, how do you

1182
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 2: expect Joe Brady to take a step forward in his

1183
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 2: second full season as Buffalo's offensive coordinator.

1184
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think at the end of the season last year,

1185
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 4: a lot of the talk was about how can we

1186
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 4: get more big plays not have to sustain those twelve

1187
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 4: thirteen fourteen play drives. How can we make it a

1188
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 4: little bit easier to score points at times? And so

1189
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 4: you bring in a Josh Palmer who certainly has some

1190
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 4: separation ability. You have that deep threat in Keon Coleman,

1191
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 4: and you know he's making plays all throughout the preseason.

1192
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 4: And then you know it's well documented that Dalton kin

1193
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 4: kid played a lot of last year with a dinged

1194
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 4: up knee and really had to fight through. So you

1195
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 4: have so many playmakers. It's going to be that same

1196
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 4: everybody eats philosophy on offense, which fantasy football owners don't

1197
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 4: love because you don't know, is this going to be

1198
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 4: a game where you know, they keep the safeties high

1199
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 4: and James Cook runs the ball twenty five times and they,

1200
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 4: you know, turn out the game on the ground or

1201
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 4: do they bring the safeties down. And it might be

1202
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 4: a shakeure one week, it might be a Palmer, it

1203
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 4: might be a sambue, it might be Keon Coleman. And

1204
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 4: that's the luxury that the Bills have that they have

1205
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 4: so many different guys that can make plays. It's just

1206
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 4: tough to predict week to week who's going to be

1207
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 4: the guy that's going to be the focal point. Now

1208
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 4: you got the league MVP and Josh Allen, so you

1209
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 4: can say there's your focal point. But outside of him,

1210
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 4: who's going to be the one catching those balls? You know,

1211
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 4: for fantasy owners, they don't love it, but week to

1212
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 4: week it could be someone different each week.

1213
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 3: All right, So you've played offensive line, you know how

1214
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 3: brutal a way that is to make a living. They've

1215
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 3: lost one player for one game over the last two years.

1216
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 3: Spencer Brown missed the Chiefs game last year in a

1217
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 3: nine point win. Other than that, all five guys take

1218
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 3: every snap that the team wants them to. Now they've

1219
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 3: in a blowout win, they've sat them down and stuff

1220
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 3: like that and rotated them in and out. But man,

1221
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 3: when they needed them, those guys, all five of them,

1222
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 3: have always been there for two years. How likely is

1223
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 3: that happened this year?

1224
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 4: I would say not. Yeah, knockout on one. Here we go.

1225
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 4: I would say, you know, the law of averages would

1226
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 4: say it likely doesn't happen. But you know it's I

1227
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 4: don't want to give too much credit to coaching and

1228
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 4: scheme because some of it's purely luck to stay healthy

1229
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 4: throughout seventeen regular season games. But you know, this is

1230
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 4: a group that doesn't throw guys into each other. And

1231
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 4: that's a lot of what Aaron Kromer talks about. Hey,

1232
01:04:57,920 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 4: if you're gonna put a guy down, you can't go

1233
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 4: latterly throughout the line. And that's kind of getting into

1234
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 4: the weeds of things. But you know, these guys have

1235
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 4: done a great job of keeping their bodies healthy, staying available.

1236
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 4: And just because you don't miss games doesn't mean you're

1237
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 4: not dinged up throughout the season, doesn't mean might not

1238
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 4: be playing through something. So give those guys some credit

1239
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 4: for being tough enough to you know, push through some

1240
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 4: things throughout the season that maybe other guys and other

1241
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 4: teams don't push through. But when you're able to return

1242
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 4: everybody from a line that played at such a high

1243
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 4: level last year, Josh had the least amount of sacks

1244
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 4: in the league, one of the highest yards before contact

1245
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:33,040
Speaker 4: with James Cook throughout the season. When you're able to

1246
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 4: return all those guys in that chemistry and continuity, it's

1247
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 4: extremely valuable.

1248
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:38,919
Speaker 5: Eric.

1249
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 2: Looking at the Bills and the Ravens matchup last season,

1250
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 2: the Bills and Ravens both averaged over thirty points per

1251
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 2: game on defense. They both allowed around twenty one points

1252
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 2: per game. I mean, these two teams were very close.

1253
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 2: Played very different football in terms of how they scored

1254
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 2: their points, but they were really close when you look

1255
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 2: at the statue. This offseason, the Bills add to their

1256
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 2: defensive line, add a couple more playmakers on the Baltimore

1257
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 2: side of things. They add Malachi Starks in the draft

1258
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 2: of really great safety out of Georgia, also beef up

1259
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:16,920
Speaker 2: their secondary in different ways. How do you view this

1260
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:20,040
Speaker 2: matchup between these two teams who changed a little bit

1261
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 2: in the offseason, but really not too much.

1262
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you have two teams that were as solid

1263
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 4: as both these were, you don't feel like you have

1264
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 4: to change a whole lot. Now you're always trying to

1265
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,040
Speaker 4: upgrade your roster and continue to get better, but they

1266
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 4: didn't need to do a ton and you saw that

1267
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 4: from both of them. You know, the offensive side of

1268
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 4: the football primarily intact for both teams. They had DeAndre

1269
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 4: Hopkins at receiver. We add Joshua Palmer, and so we're

1270
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 4: going to be pretty similar on both sides of the ball.

1271
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 4: And when you got two teams like this that can

1272
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 4: both score touchdowns, both solid defenses, a lot of times

1273
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 4: it comes down to turnovers, big plays. And in the

1274
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 4: first game last year, we saw the game start off

1275
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 4: with that long Derrick Henry run and we weren't able

1276
01:06:58,400 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 4: to make the plays in that one. And then the

1277
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 4: same one we win the turnover battle three to nothing,

1278
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 4: and that's kind of the biggest factor in that second game.

1279
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,160
Speaker 4: And so when you look at teams that are evenly

1280
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 4: matched like this, it's you know, who can make the

1281
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 4: big plays, who can win the turnover battle? Do penalties

1282
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 4: and special teams play a factor because offensive and defensively,

1283
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:21,000
Speaker 4: these are two pretty evenly matched teams.

1284
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 3: E Thanks man, it's good to see it. We'll catch

1285
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 3: you up with you throughout the season and have a

1286
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:27,480
Speaker 3: great call on Sunday night.

1287
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,200
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Always great being on with you guys.

1288
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 2: Yep, thanks Eric. That was Eric Wood, Bill's color radio analysts.

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Speaker 2: Gonna be great to hear back in the booth with

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Speaker 2: Chris Brown on Sunday night. We are back in the

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Speaker 2: swing of things here on One Bill's Live. We're taking

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Speaker 2: a break, but would be right back. It's One Bill's

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Speaker 2: Live on Buffalo Bill's Radio, presented by Flight Help.

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Speaker 6: All Right, welcome back to a TV only edition of

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Speaker 6: One Bill's Live. Here on Labor Day Monday, Chris Brown

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Speaker 6: back in the saddle with Steve Tasker here, and while

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Speaker 6: the interview was airing with Eric Wood, it came down

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Speaker 6: the line that Buffalo has announced their captains for the

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Speaker 6: twenty twenty five campaign, and it's a rerack of the

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Speaker 6: twenty twenty four campaign, as Josh Allen and Terrell Bernard

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Speaker 6: were named the only captains for the team here in

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Speaker 6: the twenty twenty five season. So congrats to them once again.

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Speaker 6: And I don't know that I'm terribly surprised. I know

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Speaker 6: some people wanted to see, perhaps some of the other

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Speaker 6: guys the young core that got extensions this offseason to

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Speaker 6: maybe be considered. But I kind of get the sense

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Speaker 6: that the Bills feel simple is better go with two

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Speaker 6: captains that will wear seas. But I think we would

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Speaker 6: be foolish to think that there aren't other leaders scattered

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Speaker 6: throughout the locker room that are going to either a

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Speaker 6: lead by example or assist these two guys in leading

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Speaker 6: this team this season.

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Speaker 3: Right. That's yeah. Every year is different, every team is different.

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Speaker 3: I think this team is at a point where these

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Speaker 3: two guys are unquestioned leaders. And this also and Maddi

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Speaker 3: mentioned it last segment, by the way, welcome in the

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Speaker 3: there is a leadership council anyway. I mean there's a

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Speaker 3: group of guys. There's an that core guys gets together

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Speaker 3: and they communicate with Sean McDermott about a myriad of topics, uh,

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Speaker 3: everything from practice schedule to bye weeks, to the feeling mentally,

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Speaker 3: what's going on in the locker room where we at

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Speaker 3: how can we make it you know, what does our

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Speaker 3: messaging need to be about this topic? Everything? And so

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Speaker 3: you know, these captains are mainly on it's a game

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Speaker 3: day distinction because there's a ton of guys in the

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Speaker 3: room that are captain worthy and and part of the

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Speaker 3: leadership that goes on in the in the locker.

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Speaker 6: Room, like you would expect Deon Dawkins to be assisting

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Speaker 6: Josh Allen on the offensive side of the ball, you know,

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Speaker 6: that's one example, probably Connor McGovern. You know another player,

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Speaker 6: Dawson Knox. These are players on the offensive side of

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Speaker 6: the ball that have been here for a minute that

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Speaker 6: are probably going to assist Josh. And then on the

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Speaker 6: defensive side of the ball, you probably got people like

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Speaker 6: Matt Mulano, Tarren Johnson, Christian Benford, Greg Russeau, guys have

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Speaker 6: been here for a while to assist on the defensive

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Speaker 6: side of the ball. And Reied Ferguson, who's been a

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Speaker 6: captain before, probably leads the contingent on special teams. So

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Speaker 6: they have people in leadership roles even if they're not

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Speaker 6: necessarily going to have a patch with a C on

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Speaker 6: it on their jersey for this upcoming season. And we

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Speaker 6: saw some of that last year when these two guys

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Speaker 6: were the only named captains.

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Speaker 3: I said this early too, that we were Maddie and

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Speaker 3: I were talking about the expectations of this being announced

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Speaker 3: you'll have designations on game day, like you know, for

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Speaker 3: the one. The ex ample I used was you'll have

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Speaker 3: a player who played for another team we were playing

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Speaker 3: that team, he's a captain that way. Yeah, that kind

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Speaker 3: of stuff, or other instances where it's appropriate, they'll do it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. So those are your captains for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 6: five campaign. And topic of discussion, which has been out

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Speaker 6: there already and we'll resubmit it to you. What is

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Speaker 6: your bold prediction for the Bills this season? Whether you

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Speaker 6: want to give us a one loss record, how far

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Speaker 6: you think they're going in the playoffs, What seed do

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Speaker 6: you think they might be able to secure for the

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Speaker 6: AFC playoff race. You let us know on online at

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Speaker 6: one Bills Live on Twitter. Because we are television only,

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01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,519
Speaker 6: can't take phone calls today. We will be able to

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Speaker 6: do that when we resume normal operations tomorrow as a

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Speaker 6: radio TV simulcast. We are just TV today, So hit

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Speaker 6: us up on the tweetsheet at one Bills Live, let

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Speaker 6: us know what you think. I'll weigh in on this.

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Speaker 6: I will say I I am concerned about this first game. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I mean, this is the real mcgilla right out of

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Speaker 6: the shoot. So to face a team of this caliber

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Speaker 6: right off the rip is a challenge because, as you know, Steve,

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Speaker 6: Week one contains the most unknowns. Now you can turn

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Speaker 6: that on the opponent as well, because they don't know

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Speaker 6: about you either and what you've had kept under the

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Speaker 6: hood throughout the whole offseason and have been scheming right.

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Speaker 6: But the Ravens just the same have just as many

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Speaker 6: tricks up their sleeves. So who can adjust to those

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Speaker 6: unanticipated plays and moments and scheming? The best? You know,

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Speaker 6: I think is gonna emerge the victor in this game

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Speaker 6: on Sunday Night. Look, I wouldn't put it past the

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Speaker 6: Ravens to come in here with a tremendous performance and

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Speaker 6: upset Buffalo on Sunday Night. That wouldn't shock me at all.

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Speaker 6: They are a high caliber club that are right there

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Speaker 6: with the Bills in terms of victories over the last

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Speaker 6: five years and might have and would have had just

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Speaker 6: as many division titles where not for Cincinnati's run to

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Speaker 6: the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, among other things,

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Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson getting injured and missing five games in two

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Speaker 6: of those last five seasons. So coming in here healthy

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Speaker 6: with the possible exception of Isaiah Likely, who I think

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Speaker 6: is still a question mark for the game this weekend.

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Speaker 6: We'll have to wait and see. This is gonna be

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Speaker 6: a tough one. After that, the schedule gets a little

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Speaker 6: more favorable, where you could see the Bills ripping off

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Speaker 6: a string of victories, especially with so many of them

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Speaker 6: at home here in the early going. I mean, four

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Speaker 6: of the first five games are at home, so this

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Speaker 6: is a team that really doesn't lose at home. I

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Speaker 6: mean they lost to the Their last two losses at

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Speaker 6: home were to the Denver Broncos on a twelve man

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Speaker 6: on the field penalty so they could rekick a game

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Speaker 6: winning field goal at the gun. And the other losses

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Speaker 6: to Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Where they had three game stoppers that if any of

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Speaker 3: them don't go catastrophic wrong.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and they still lost by three and over time, right,

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Speaker 6: so those are their last.

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Speaker 3: They're hard to beat in this building. Now, that's not

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Speaker 3: to say it doesn't happen. And let's face it too,

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Speaker 3: they went into Baltimore last year and Week four with

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Speaker 3: a string of forty three or forty four games regular

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Speaker 3: season games in a row where they had never been

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Speaker 3: beaten by more than a single possession. Baltimore is the

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Speaker 3: team that ended that street.

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Speaker 6: Right, and let's not forget that Buffalo went into that

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Speaker 6: game without Torrell Bernard, without Matt Mulano, and without Taron

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Speaker 6: Johnson's right, all three of them and khalilshak Heir got

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Speaker 6: hurt in the game.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, So so throw.

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Speaker 6: I mean, roll all that together and talk. I'm sure.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure Baltimore is saying the same thing about the

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Speaker 6: playoff game because they had to play that game without

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Speaker 6: Zay Flowers. Say Flowers did not play in.

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Speaker 3: The playoff game, and they can look at themselves, say

1422
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Speaker 3: drop passes and we fumbled the ball away and they

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Speaker 3: turned it over. They were They have every right to

1424
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 3: come in here. They're going to be ticked. They're gonna

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Speaker 3: be really mad.

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Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson, when asked about it this preseason, said, we

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Speaker 6: have vengeance on our mind, rightfully, So to talk about

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Speaker 6: a team that's gonna come in here.

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Speaker 3: Totally get it, totally get it. So that's that's on

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Speaker 3: the plate on this in this game. And this is

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Speaker 3: also a team as good as they are and good

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Speaker 3: as they were last year, Kansas City going eleven and

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Speaker 3: oh in one score games, took them to the number

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Speaker 3: one seed. Without that, it's the Bills Ravens right there

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Speaker 3: at the end. I mean, these two teams are all

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Speaker 3: about it. They both got them one seed on their mind,

1437
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Speaker 3: and they're gonna be chasing back and forth with each

1438
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Speaker 3: other every step of the way through the season. The

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Speaker 3: Bills have to beat them in the win loss column.

1440
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Speaker 3: If if you lose to them on the on the opening.

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Speaker 6: Game, right, yeah, because you lose the head to head.

1442
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Speaker 3: If you lose the head to head, you can't finish

1443
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Speaker 3: with the same record and get the one seed. So

1444
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:59,600
Speaker 3: that's you gotta feel. And certainly we could all be

1445
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 3: fooling ourselves. You know, neither one of these teams could

1446
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 3: be any good in all that stuff. Neither one of

1447
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 3: them could be in the contention for the one seat,

1448
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Speaker 3: neither one of them could be in contention for a

1449
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 3: wild card even But from this end of the schedule,

1450
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 3: given what we know about the two quarterbacks and the

1451
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 3: organizations and how well they played in recent past, these

1452
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 3: teams have got every reason to think they're going to

1453
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 3: be in the conversation for the one seat. That makes

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Speaker 3: this game doubly important for both of them.

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Speaker 6: But after that, you know, a Jets team under new

1456
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 6: leadership under Aaron Glenn in week two, like, I don't

1457
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Speaker 6: know if they're gonna have all their ducks in a

1458
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 6: row by then. Justin Fields has not looked good through

1459
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Speaker 6: the course of the preseason at quarterback for them. And

1460
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Speaker 6: then you have the Dolphins and we've talked about a

1461
01:16:42,479 --> 01:16:48,639
Speaker 6: lot all season. They've got problems and not even half

1462
01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 6: of them have come to the surface yet. Saints first

1463
01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 6: year new head coach, and that roster has been stripped

1464
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 6: to threadbare proportion in terms of talent on the roster.

1465
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 6: It's Alvin Kamara, Chris Alave and a bunch of guys. Really,

1466
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Speaker 6: I mean, that's the Saints Patriots new head coach. I

1467
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Speaker 6: think they'll be a tough out, and I think the

1468
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Speaker 6: Falcons are as sneaky road game that could be tough.

1469
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Speaker 6: There's a lot of talent on that Falcons team, they

1470
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 6: just haven't pulled it all together. And then the bye

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Speaker 6: I'm excited about. The biggest thing about Week eight is

1472
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Speaker 6: Hoyt coming back. I can't wait to see that guy

1473
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 6: playing at Bill's uniform. Nothing against Larry Ogunjobi, but Hoyt

1474
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Speaker 6: was dynamite in the preseason. Week eight is going to

1475
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Speaker 6: be like the Michael Hoyt Return Show and.

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Speaker 3: A two week practice run up, they should be able

1477
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Speaker 3: to get on up to speed and get everything they

1478
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,280
Speaker 3: need to be as fully effective as they need to

1479
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:46,679
Speaker 3: be there. You know they're going to be fresh. They've

1480
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Speaker 3: got a lot of stuff going on to get them

1481
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 3: ready to make sure that they can ramp up. They

1482
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 3: got a two week window with no game. Yeah, let's go.

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Speaker 6: So that's a pretty that's a pretty favorable stretch there

1484
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 6: until you get to Kansas City in Week nine, and

1485
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Speaker 6: then you have Tampa two weeks later at home as well.

1486
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Speaker 6: So I see this going really well through Week eight.

1487
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Speaker 6: Then the schedule gets a little more difficult. You know,

1488
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 6: you got Chiefs, Bucks, and Texans on the road in

1489
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Speaker 6: three and a half week span, because that Texans game

1490
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Speaker 6: is a Thursday night game, and they have Bengals two

1491
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Speaker 6: weeks later, which you know you're gonna have to score

1492
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 6: points in that game. Eagles at the tail end there,

1493
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 6: but I don't see any reason why this team can't

1494
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 6: go thirteen and four just like they did last year.

1495
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Speaker 6: And the only reason I'm considering four losses is I

1496
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Speaker 6: don't see them winning all three of the monster matchups Ravens, Chiefs, Eagles.

1497
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Speaker 6: I don't see them winning all three of those. I mean,

1498
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Speaker 6: we have to be somewhat realistic. We don't know who's

1499
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:54,519
Speaker 6: going to be healthy by the time we get to

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01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 6: Week nine with.

1501
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:57,320
Speaker 3: The Chiefs and Bengals as well.

1502
01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,559
Speaker 6: Right, And I'll throw and I'll throw the in there.

1503
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:04,160
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think there's enough respect for Tampa

1504
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 6: Bay out there just in general. And I realize Bills

1505
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 6: fans don't see this team a lot. We saw we

1506
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 6: just saw them in the preseason. We didn't see any

1507
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:16,679
Speaker 6: of their starters. But that team, that offense was top

1508
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,719
Speaker 6: five in points per game, top five and rushing yards

1509
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:22,960
Speaker 6: per game, top five and passing yards per game, top

1510
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,880
Speaker 6: five in points per game, and top five I think

1511
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 6: in average yards per game. And they were the only

1512
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:32,880
Speaker 6: team in the league to be top five in all

1513
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:37,960
Speaker 6: of those categories. So I think that's a sneaky difficult

1514
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 6: game for the Bills later this season. Now, again, we'll

1515
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:44,720
Speaker 6: have to see who's going into the game healthy. How

1516
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 6: healthy are the Bucks? How healthy are the Bills. But

1517
01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:51,440
Speaker 6: that team moves the ball, they will score points. They're

1518
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 6: a lot like the Bengals, except their defense is a

1519
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:56,839
Speaker 6: little bit better than the Bengals. It's a pretty good defense.

1520
01:19:57,479 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 6: So that's why I have maybe more respect for the

1521
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:02,640
Speaker 6: Bucks than maybe most fans do.

1522
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:05,599
Speaker 3: One of the things it's that it's hard to keep

1523
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:08,000
Speaker 3: track of the what the and quantify what it means

1524
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:11,559
Speaker 3: is the fact that Liam Cohen's not there, Yeah, and

1525
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 3: he's now head coach at the Jacksonville Jaguars. The same

1526
01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 3: thing with with Detroit on the other side in the

1527
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 3: over in the NFC where you know Johnson and Aaron

1528
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:25,640
Speaker 3: Glenn have moved on.

1529
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 6: So yeah, you lose both coordinators.

1530
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 3: Both coordinators take a little bit of a step back someplace,

1531
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:35,280
Speaker 3: one of the sides of the ball anyway. So we'll see.

1532
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:39,760
Speaker 3: But that's the one thing that if Todd Bowles can

1533
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 3: keep that train rolling. Now, like you said, the division

1534
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 3: is not anything to write home about over there in

1535
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 3: the NFC South. But still, if you're gonna.

1536
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 6: Sit there, you know they've got that's two horse race,

1537
01:20:57,320 --> 01:20:58,720
Speaker 6: Atlanta and Tampa, I think.

1538
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 3: And Atlanta was eight and nine last year, right.

1539
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 6: They underachieved, but you got to remember they they switched

1540
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:07,639
Speaker 6: to Pennix, you know, late in the year. Now Penix

1541
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:11,559
Speaker 6: is the guy, right, you know, and you know, maybe

1542
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 6: they can get off to a better start.

1543
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:16,160
Speaker 3: Yes, And the reason Tampa Vegas overlooked is because of

1544
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 3: that division and the fact they were ten and seven.

1545
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:20,720
Speaker 3: They weren't like twelve and right five. No, you're right,

1546
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:24,719
Speaker 3: you know, you're right, But that's why they get overlooked.

1547
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 6: But you know, good, Yeah, and they got a Mecca

1548
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 6: Buca now added to the receiving corps. So I just

1549
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 6: I think they're a sneaky, tough game.

1550
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 3: We didn't talk about this too. We need to go

1551
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 3: back and revisit this too, Brownie. So you talk, we're

1552
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:41,719
Speaker 3: talking about going around that the league. What about green

1553
01:21:41,720 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 3: Bay getting Micah Parsons. You've got Detroit, Minnesota, green Bay

1554
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:48,759
Speaker 3: in Chicago, and green Bay trading for Micah Parsons.

1555
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 6: As we as we said on Friday when we were

1556
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 6: Radio only, we were totally wrong. We were convinced that

1557
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:00,479
Speaker 6: Jerry was gonna do what he usually does, which string

1558
01:22:00,520 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 6: it out, get all the headlines, get all the media attention,

1559
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 6: and then a week or two Garson's to a mega contract.

1560
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:09,160
Speaker 6: He's the highest paid non quarterback in football.

1561
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 3: Presto change over us. What I understand is there's some

1562
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:16,680
Speaker 3: this was not Michael was not like even the old

1563
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:19,320
Speaker 3: days back in Emmett Smith. He was not like Dak,

1564
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 3: He was not like Ceed Lamb. He wasn't like those

1565
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:26,320
Speaker 3: guys out He was like he was gonna go get

1566
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:28,840
Speaker 3: a second opinion and was gonna say, listen, my back hurts.

1567
01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:33,719
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do? And I said this mentioned

1568
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 3: this as well during one of the broadcasts one of

1569
01:22:37,439 --> 01:22:39,560
Speaker 3: the shows. There's been some rumblings out of there that

1570
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 3: some of the guys on Dallas he wasn't a great teammate. Well,

1571
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:47,639
Speaker 3: who said he wasn't a great teammate. They internal building

1572
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:52,960
Speaker 3: rumblings that Mike was a me guy and wasn't great.

1573
01:22:53,400 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 6: I talked to some NFC people around the league after

1574
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 6: this went down, and they basically told me, yeah, there

1575
01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 6: is that rep of being a little Diva esque, which

1576
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:09,639
Speaker 6: you don't see terribly often at the pass rusher position,

1577
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 6: but there it is. And I got that from more

1578
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:16,800
Speaker 6: than one person that covers an NFC team. A couple

1579
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 6: of guys that cover that work in the NFC told me, yeah,

1580
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:22,840
Speaker 6: that that diva labels out there, make no mistake about it.

1581
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:26,680
Speaker 6: I was like, Okay, so you know, we don't know

1582
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 6: what goes on behind closed doors. I do know we

1583
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 6: saw him just lounging like he was exhausted on a

1584
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 6: training table in street clothes in the preseason, like during

1585
01:23:35,520 --> 01:23:37,479
Speaker 6: a game. His teammates are out there fighting and he's

1586
01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 6: laying there on a training table street close. Oh. I

1587
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:43,879
Speaker 6: just can't deal with this anymore.

1588
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:47,880
Speaker 3: He did not want to be there, and so there

1589
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 3: is all that. Certainly, in the short term, this is

1590
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 3: my take on the whole trade between green Bay and Dallas.

1591
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 3: They got two ones and a two or I can't remember.

1592
01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:01,280
Speaker 3: Two ones, two ones and a player Kenny Clark, who's

1593
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:05,679
Speaker 3: a good player. But long in the tooth. Certainly, short

1594
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 3: term green Bay gets the best of this. But long

1595
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 3: term you never know. And I'll say this too, green

1596
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 3: Bay needs to win the championship with Micah Parsons on

1597
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:22,880
Speaker 3: their team to make this deal work it to justify

1598
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 3: it that.

1599
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 6: It did ramp up the pressure on the Packers, no

1600
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 6: question about it, and now all of a sudden Super

1601
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 6: Bowl aspirations have been thrust upon them. Yeah, I mean

1602
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:35,840
Speaker 6: they were what were they third in the division last

1603
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:38,439
Speaker 6: year because they had you know, Minnesota and Detroit ahead

1604
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:40,679
Speaker 6: of them at fifteen and two and fourteen and three.

1605
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 3: But they won eleven games, right.

1606
01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 6: So that's tamped down expectations for them until this happened.

1607
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:50,840
Speaker 6: And now it's like, dude, you got one of the

1608
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:54,200
Speaker 6: top two pass rushers in football, you better make it happen.

1609
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 6: Now now it's like people are expecting you to be

1610
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:02,559
Speaker 6: there at the end for the NFC representing that conference

1611
01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:03,200
Speaker 6: in the Super Bowl.

1612
01:25:03,320 --> 01:25:06,680
Speaker 3: So that's out there right in the short term. In

1613
01:25:06,720 --> 01:25:08,599
Speaker 3: the short term, Green Bay's under the pressure to win

1614
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 3: it now. They've got no there's no excuse for them, right.

1615
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 3: They pushed all their money to the table. This is

1616
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 3: like the Reggie White signing back in the day when

1617
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 3: they signed Reggie from the Philadelphia Eagles and and Reggie said,

1618
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 3: you know, God told me to go to Green Bay

1619
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 3: and they ended up winning the World Championship. Bless his heart,

1620
01:25:24,320 --> 01:25:27,720
Speaker 3: they did. They went out on a limit, got the

1621
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 3: best defensive player available and it paid off.

1622
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 6: Yes it did.

1623
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 3: We'll see if this does, but that's that's where they're at.

1624
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:39,000
Speaker 3: If it doesn't, they lose the trade. It's that simple.

1625
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:40,439
Speaker 6: Yep.

1626
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:42,920
Speaker 3: Well, depending on what Dallas does with those picks.

1627
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 6: Well, right, they could win the two picks.

1628
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:48,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, then they lose lose, right, We.

1629
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:50,760
Speaker 6: Got to take a break here, But when we come back,

1630
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 6: more about your bold predictions for the Bills in this

1631
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five season. You can tell us what you

1632
01:25:57,520 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 6: think the record's going to be, how far you see

1633
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:02,200
Speaker 6: him going in the playoffs, what seed you see them

1634
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,720
Speaker 6: getting in the playoffs. You let us know on the

1635
01:26:04,720 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 6: tweetsheet at one Bill's Live. As we Are TV only today,

1636
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:09,439
Speaker 6: Steve and I back in a flash here on One

1637
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 6: Bill's Live, Presented Boy call out to help them Twelveflow

1638
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 6: Bills Radio. All right back here on One Bill's Live,

1639
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 6: Chris Brown, Steve Taskers. So just to wrap up what

1640
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 6: I was kind of discussing with respect to the Bill's

1641
01:26:22,360 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 6: schedule and where I think it can go. You know,

1642
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 6: I think thirteen and four is realistic. I think if

1643
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:33,519
Speaker 6: they can stay healthy at least healthier than they've been

1644
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,320
Speaker 6: through the course of the preseason in training camp, you know,

1645
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:38,800
Speaker 6: maybe you get one more win in there. And my

1646
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:42,200
Speaker 6: hope is Steve that the one seed, there's a clear

1647
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 6: path to the one seed and not this jocking for

1648
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:49,960
Speaker 6: position down this stretch because Kansas City is in a

1649
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 6: battle in the AFC West with like Denver, you know,

1650
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 6: and those teams out in the AFC West are beating

1651
01:26:55,680 --> 01:26:58,599
Speaker 6: each other up and it's affecting their one loss records

1652
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,200
Speaker 6: to the point where the one seed isn't an option

1653
01:27:01,280 --> 01:27:03,960
Speaker 6: for even the division winner out there. That's my hope

1654
01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 6: that those teams out there beat each other up like

1655
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 6: we often see the teams in the AFC North do every.

1656
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 3: Year, right, and it may it may be that I'm

1657
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:12,360
Speaker 3: kind of I'm with you. I think they can go

1658
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:17,400
Speaker 3: fourteen and three, but we'll see it. Health depends on

1659
01:27:17,479 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 3: all of it. The bounce of the ball, there's a

1660
01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:24,400
Speaker 3: ton that goes into it. Yeah, but I think that's

1661
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 3: that's where I think they can. They can be certainly yeah,

1662
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 3: I mean, anything could happen, but I that's spinning everything positive.

1663
01:27:36,080 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 3: There's no way you can convince me this team won't

1664
01:27:38,200 --> 01:27:40,599
Speaker 3: win double digit games and be in the playoffs. There's

1665
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:43,680
Speaker 3: just no way. I you know. So, I think the

1666
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 3: division's a little better around them than it was last year.

1667
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:48,600
Speaker 3: Despite the expectations at the beginning last year where the

1668
01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 3: Bills will picked third or fourth by some people that

1669
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 3: they were going to take a step back and ended

1670
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 3: up cleaning the clock of all of those teams. I

1671
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 3: think it'll be more difficult to do that this year,

1672
01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 3: so thirteen and four twelve and five is a more

1673
01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 3: realistic thing. But it's somewhere between twelve wins and fourteen

1674
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:08,080
Speaker 3: and I'll I'll just plug him into the fourteen because

1675
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:11,040
Speaker 3: I think that's where you got to start with the

1676
01:28:11,080 --> 01:28:14,719
Speaker 3: expectations of his crew, until that changes because of injuries

1677
01:28:14,800 --> 01:28:16,760
Speaker 3: or because of some unforeseen circumstance.

1678
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 6: Back on the tweet sheets, Lauren with a bold prediction

1679
01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 6: says Dorian Strong will start more games at CB two

1680
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:27,799
Speaker 6: than any other.

1681
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:32,320
Speaker 3: Corner Boom, Wow, that's nice.

1682
01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 6: Dorian Strong's on the roster. I'm hoping that's not the

1683
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:39,479
Speaker 6: case because that means Max Harston's not playing in the

1684
01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:41,599
Speaker 6: most games at that position, and I think we'd all

1685
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:44,719
Speaker 6: prefer to see that. I mean, I like Dorian Strong.

1686
01:28:44,760 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 6: Don't get me wrong.

1687
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 3: Hey, I don't care if he earns it, let him

1688
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:54,679
Speaker 3: have it. I don't carey, But yeah, I'm that doesn't

1689
01:28:56,520 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 3: that doesn't. It would surprise me, but it's not out

1690
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 3: of the realm apossible ability. Given the fact that if

1691
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:03,479
Speaker 3: a guy plays well enough, he will be out there.

1692
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:04,000
Speaker 3: Well they do.

1693
01:29:04,160 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 6: Three years ago they saw Christian Benford do it as

1694
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 6: a sixth round per I can't.

1695
01:29:08,360 --> 01:29:10,920
Speaker 3: I can't tell you how unusual that is for an

1696
01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:14,120
Speaker 3: NFL team. You get owners and gms who draft these

1697
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 3: guys and they're all they're like, we drafted this guy,

1698
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:18,880
Speaker 3: we got all this money, and what they do not

1699
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:22,200
Speaker 3: play that game here in this building. Brandon Bean doesn't care.

1700
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 3: Terry Pegoula doesn't care. Sean mcdermot's staff make the call

1701
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:28,720
Speaker 3: and they say do it, and they have been one

1702
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 3: of our best eleven that they have proven to be

1703
01:29:31,680 --> 01:29:36,519
Speaker 3: correct so often. And that's why other players on the roster,

1704
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:38,880
Speaker 3: or well all the guys on the roster, particularly the

1705
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:41,960
Speaker 3: bottom half of the roster, continues to really bust a

1706
01:29:42,120 --> 01:29:44,840
Speaker 3: gut to get better because they know if they get

1707
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:49,519
Speaker 3: good enough, they're gonna get something for it. That's why

1708
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:51,760
Speaker 3: they have player development here like nobody else.

1709
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:58,760
Speaker 6: Cornerback is such an interesting position right now going into

1710
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:03,559
Speaker 6: the season because we will probably get some clarity on

1711
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:09,960
Speaker 6: Wednesday as to Trudevius White's availability with his lower leg injury,

1712
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 6: because it has been described as nothing more than that

1713
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 6: no prognosis has been given on his likelihood to play

1714
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 6: on Sunday Night, although coach McDermott said last week we're

1715
01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:23,920
Speaker 6: not ruling it out. That's as far as it has gone.

1716
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:26,679
Speaker 6: So you have that at play. You already know Max

1717
01:30:26,720 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 6: Harston's not part of the equation until week five at

1718
01:30:29,479 --> 01:30:35,200
Speaker 6: the earliest, and then Dorian Strong is largely unproven, and

1719
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 6: JaMarcus Ingram is your other guy who I think, in

1720
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,920
Speaker 6: the absence of Trudevius White, would probably start opposite Benford

1721
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:45,880
Speaker 6: Sunday night. If White can't go, that's probably what you

1722
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:51,640
Speaker 6: would be looking at. That's like a whirlwind of uncertainty

1723
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:55,920
Speaker 6: entering week one. It's crazy that position, like we just

1724
01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:59,280
Speaker 6: don't know right now, and it's got me a little squeamish.

1725
01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:04,160
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie. I know. Look, you're not playing

1726
01:31:04,560 --> 01:31:08,760
Speaker 6: the greatest show on turf at receiver, but yeah, you're

1727
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 6: playing a formidable offense.

1728
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:12,960
Speaker 3: You're not playing nobody either, and their quarterback is good.

1729
01:31:13,040 --> 01:31:18,840
Speaker 3: I think it's about forty touchdowns for this game. I

1730
01:31:18,880 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 3: think it's more about the front than the back end.

1731
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree with that, but you.

1732
01:31:24,520 --> 01:31:26,599
Speaker 6: Can't dismiss the back end out of hand.

1733
01:31:26,479 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 3: Because this team can sling it. Lamar is an MVP

1734
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:32,920
Speaker 3: caliber quarterback. That's what you're facing.

1735
01:31:33,280 --> 01:31:36,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's the concern. We are going to take

1736
01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:39,479
Speaker 6: a break here. When we come back in our number two,

1737
01:31:39,920 --> 01:31:43,880
Speaker 6: our good friend Mike Clay from ESPN gonna join us.

1738
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:47,800
Speaker 6: He's got some twenty twenty five season outlook predictions of

1739
01:31:47,840 --> 01:31:51,360
Speaker 6: his own, as well as some roster rankings. We'll cover

1740
01:31:51,439 --> 01:31:54,800
Speaker 6: those with him when we begin our number three Here

1741
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:56,639
Speaker 6: on One Bill's Live presented by co Lot of Health.

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01:31:56,680 --> 01:32:37,640
Speaker 5: It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:46,240
Speaker 1: This One Bill's Live presented by Calllida Health.

1744
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:49,400
Speaker 6: All Right, our number three here on a Monday, Chris Brown,

1745
01:32:49,439 --> 01:32:52,760
Speaker 6: Steve Tasker with you. Happy Labor Day, everybody, Please to

1746
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:56,240
Speaker 6: welcome in now a guy who's been busy making NFL projections,

1747
01:32:56,600 --> 01:33:00,519
Speaker 6: power ranking, super Bowl predictions. He's doing it all on

1748
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 6: the cusp of the twenty twenty five season at senior

1749
01:33:03,280 --> 01:33:07,240
Speaker 6: NFL writer from ESPN and fantasy analyst Mike Clay joining us. Mike, First,

1750
01:33:07,240 --> 01:33:12,000
Speaker 6: thanks for the time. Second, In combing through one of

1751
01:33:12,040 --> 01:33:14,919
Speaker 6: your recent write ups, it was hard not to stop

1752
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:19,000
Speaker 6: at your projected highest scoring teams, where you have the

1753
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:22,479
Speaker 6: Bills atop the list with a projected four hundred and

1754
01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 6: eighty one points after the season was over. Super Bowl

1755
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:29,679
Speaker 6: and all, the Bill scored more points than anybody else

1756
01:33:29,720 --> 01:33:32,160
Speaker 6: with six hundred and twelve, even though the Eagles and

1757
01:33:32,200 --> 01:33:34,800
Speaker 6: Chiefs got to play an extra game. Five hundred and

1758
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:39,120
Speaker 6: twenty five of those in the regular season alone, You've

1759
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 6: got them at four eighty one projected, and I see

1760
01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:43,680
Speaker 6: some of the other teams you have a little bit

1761
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:48,200
Speaker 6: lower as well. Are you expecting lower scoring collectively across

1762
01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:50,639
Speaker 6: the league this year? I'm just curious how you reached

1763
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:52,040
Speaker 6: four eighty one as a projection.

1764
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:57,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, not necessarily. That's just kind of how projections work, right.

1765
01:33:57,840 --> 01:33:59,600
Speaker 8: It's so hard to project teams to be at the

1766
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 8: apps extreme. So if the Bills do end up number

1767
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:05,559
Speaker 8: one in scoring, I'll probably be a little bit above

1768
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:09,280
Speaker 8: that number. But the fact is, you know, I think

1769
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:12,160
Speaker 8: it's going to be hard for anyone to disagree that

1770
01:34:12,160 --> 01:34:14,000
Speaker 8: the Bill should be an offensive powerhouse.

1771
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:14,240
Speaker 7: Right.

1772
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:16,800
Speaker 8: This isn't exactly one of my bold or hot takes

1773
01:34:16,840 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 8: for the twenty twenty five season. The Bills are perhaps

1774
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 8: in better shape than they were last season, obviously adding

1775
01:34:22,360 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 8: some additional pieces to the wide receiver room, not to

1776
01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:27,559
Speaker 8: mention that you know, maybe you get a leap out

1777
01:34:27,560 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 8: of dalonkin Kaid if he's healthier and plays a little

1778
01:34:29,840 --> 01:34:30,200
Speaker 8: bit better.

1779
01:34:30,240 --> 01:34:30,839
Speaker 7: This season.

1780
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:34,880
Speaker 8: Offensive line is still in terrific shape. So honestly, I

1781
01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:37,559
Speaker 8: know that maybe you don't have exactly the star power

1782
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:40,000
Speaker 8: wide receiver that other teams have. I mean, that might

1783
01:34:40,040 --> 01:34:41,920
Speaker 8: not be true if Keon Colevian makes the leap, but

1784
01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:45,880
Speaker 8: maybe not the flashiest names or household names, but plenty

1785
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:48,320
Speaker 8: of depth there. And obviously you have one of the

1786
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 8: best in the business under center and Josh Allen, so

1787
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:52,240
Speaker 8: they're in a great spot to be one of the

1788
01:34:52,280 --> 01:34:53,639
Speaker 8: top scoring teams in the league.

1789
01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:55,559
Speaker 3: And it seems to me, and I've said this on

1790
01:34:55,600 --> 01:34:57,360
Speaker 3: our show leading up to this year, right, I mean,

1791
01:34:57,439 --> 01:34:59,559
Speaker 3: the offense is kind of like, well, as good as

1792
01:34:59,600 --> 01:35:01,880
Speaker 3: it could, it's kind of a given you expect it

1793
01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 3: to be at least elevel. The floor is very high

1794
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,639
Speaker 3: for this offense. And I've said it that maybe it's

1795
01:35:07,680 --> 01:35:09,080
Speaker 3: not that accurate a way to say it, but this

1796
01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:11,280
Speaker 3: team will go as far as their defense takes them.

1797
01:35:11,280 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 3: And how far and however much the defense manages to

1798
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:17,320
Speaker 3: improve is how much further they can expect to go.

1799
01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:23,639
Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt about it. It's it's kind of unreal.

1800
01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:26,880
Speaker 8: I mean, whether the Bills having okay team on paper,

1801
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:28,519
Speaker 8: I think it's a I think it's an average team

1802
01:35:28,560 --> 01:35:31,200
Speaker 8: on paper this season, or a good team or a

1803
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:34,599
Speaker 8: little below average. Sean McDermott often gets the most out

1804
01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:36,519
Speaker 8: of it. It's one of the most impressive things I've

1805
01:35:36,560 --> 01:35:39,080
Speaker 8: seen in this league over you know, the past decade.

1806
01:35:39,400 --> 01:35:43,599
Speaker 8: I remember infamously, you know, getting criticized by Bills fans,

1807
01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:46,200
Speaker 8: and they were one hundred percent right on this when

1808
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:48,959
Speaker 8: they brought in Micah Hyde and Jordan Ployer at safety,

1809
01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:51,400
Speaker 8: and those guys were not NFL starters at that point.

1810
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:54,479
Speaker 8: They were often playing in nickel situations, very little time

1811
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 8: as full time starters, and the Bills were like, hey,

1812
01:35:57,040 --> 01:35:59,320
Speaker 8: we're just going to make them our two starting safeties.

1813
01:35:58,920 --> 01:36:00,960
Speaker 7: And how did that work? It worked out great.

1814
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:03,320
Speaker 8: So you know, when Sean mcdermot's there, I do expect

1815
01:36:03,320 --> 01:36:07,200
Speaker 8: them to overachieve defensively, and again, I think on paper,

1816
01:36:07,240 --> 01:36:10,439
Speaker 8: this is a perfectly fine unit that easily could be

1817
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:12,400
Speaker 8: a top five, top ten unit if things go right.

1818
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 8: So I agree, I think the offense will be spectacular

1819
01:36:15,880 --> 01:36:17,960
Speaker 8: even if the defense has averaged this team is going

1820
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:20,200
Speaker 8: to compete again for a super Bowl, and perhaps this

1821
01:36:20,320 --> 01:36:21,960
Speaker 8: is the time where they you know that this is

1822
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:23,160
Speaker 8: the year where they get over the top.

1823
01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:25,800
Speaker 6: As far as team by team rankings, you got the

1824
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 6: Bill second, you got the Ravens first, which makes Sunday

1825
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:33,400
Speaker 6: night even more tantalizing. And it's hard to argue that

1826
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:36,320
Speaker 6: the Ravens, I mean, top to bottom, they do have

1827
01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:38,599
Speaker 6: a better overall roster than the Bills. I don't think

1828
01:36:38,840 --> 01:36:43,439
Speaker 6: even people here in Buffalo would debate that. The one equalizer, obviously,

1829
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:45,519
Speaker 6: and we saw this in the divisional playoff last year,

1830
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:47,400
Speaker 6: was the ability to take the ball away. They had

1831
01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:49,439
Speaker 6: three takeaways in that game against the Ravens and end

1832
01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 6: up winning, albeit only by two points. But to go

1833
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:55,880
Speaker 6: back to what you were saying about McDermott, Mike, I

1834
01:36:55,920 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 6: think every year he has been here, or the last five,

1835
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:03,120
Speaker 6: the Bills have finished top five in the league in takeaways.

1836
01:37:03,160 --> 01:37:06,720
Speaker 6: Like a lot of people chalk takeaways up to happenstance

1837
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:08,120
Speaker 6: and a little bit of luck, and I'm sure that

1838
01:37:08,200 --> 01:37:11,360
Speaker 6: is part of the equation, but McDermot and his defensive

1839
01:37:11,360 --> 01:37:15,000
Speaker 6: staff have an uncanny neck of coaching. The ability to

1840
01:37:15,080 --> 01:37:18,320
Speaker 6: take the football away with alarming regularity. They were up

1841
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:19,920
Speaker 6: at the top of the league again last year, and

1842
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:21,880
Speaker 6: I'm not going to predict they are going to be there,

1843
01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:25,080
Speaker 6: but history would indicate that they're probably gonna be there again.

1844
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 6: And it's swung games for them.

1845
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 8: Yeah, completely fair again. You know, like I said before,

1846
01:37:32,479 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 8: he's going to get the most out of this defense,

1847
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 8: whether he's bringing in guys, you know, rookies or guys

1848
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:40,040
Speaker 8: off the bench, or has superstar talents out there on

1849
01:37:40,080 --> 01:37:42,639
Speaker 8: the field. So you know, there's no doubt about it.

1850
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:46,880
Speaker 8: It is hard to project turnovers because they're so you know,

1851
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:49,160
Speaker 8: such a big barrier about what you're going to see

1852
01:37:49,200 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 8: on the offensive side of the ball, the quarterback you're facing,

1853
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:51,920
Speaker 8: that kind of thing.

1854
01:37:52,760 --> 01:37:54,599
Speaker 7: But you know, at the end of the day, you're right.

1855
01:37:54,640 --> 01:37:57,240
Speaker 8: The Bills just always seem to get the most out

1856
01:37:57,240 --> 01:38:00,320
Speaker 8: of their defense, and it's just it's just excellent coaching.

1857
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:03,120
Speaker 8: Mcdermo is no doubt, one of the best in the business.

1858
01:38:03,120 --> 01:38:04,559
Speaker 8: And you have to hope that one day he gets

1859
01:38:04,560 --> 01:38:06,800
Speaker 8: that Super Bowl ranked as the guy deserves it.

1860
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:09,320
Speaker 6: And what about you know, the Ravens and what made

1861
01:38:09,320 --> 01:38:12,280
Speaker 6: them in your eyes the most deserving team to be

1862
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:13,479
Speaker 6: ranked number one.

1863
01:38:14,960 --> 01:38:18,200
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I think they're stacked. That's not really Again,

1864
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:20,400
Speaker 8: that's not a bull take, like you said earlier. This

1865
01:38:20,479 --> 01:38:21,960
Speaker 8: is a team that's been in very good shape for

1866
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:24,440
Speaker 8: a while. They have the quarterback, They added some supporting

1867
01:38:25,160 --> 01:38:28,200
Speaker 8: players on offense, including a guy like DeAndre Hopkins. You

1868
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:29,920
Speaker 8: bring him in toward the tail end of his courage,

1869
01:38:29,920 --> 01:38:33,200
Speaker 8: just as your number three wide receiver. The offensive lines

1870
01:38:33,240 --> 01:38:36,599
Speaker 8: in terrific shape. The defense was already very good. They

1871
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:38,880
Speaker 8: maybe had one of the best cornerback duos in the NFL,

1872
01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:41,639
Speaker 8: and then they go out and get JR. Alexander obviously,

1873
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:43,120
Speaker 8: Rokwan Smith, mat At Bouquet.

1874
01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:44,120
Speaker 7: I mean, you can go on and on.

1875
01:38:44,200 --> 01:38:46,960
Speaker 8: They have talent all over the field and it's hard

1876
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:49,760
Speaker 8: to find weaknesses on that roster. So I do think

1877
01:38:49,800 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 8: they're a little better defensively on then Buffalo on paper.

1878
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:56,519
Speaker 8: Not to mention they have outstanding coaching, one of the

1879
01:38:56,520 --> 01:38:59,479
Speaker 8: best in the business. So for me, you know, I

1880
01:38:59,479 --> 01:39:04,160
Speaker 8: think that the whole combination of Lamar Jackson, great support

1881
01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:08,760
Speaker 8: for him offensively, outstanding coaching with John Harbaugh, a stack defense,

1882
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 8: it's really hard to kind of pick against them right

1883
01:39:12,280 --> 01:39:15,280
Speaker 8: now in the preseason looking at these teams on paper,

1884
01:39:15,400 --> 01:39:17,519
Speaker 8: So that's why they might pick this year. I think

1885
01:39:17,520 --> 01:39:20,000
Speaker 8: they're gonna finally get over the top and get to

1886
01:39:20,040 --> 01:39:22,920
Speaker 8: the super Bowl. But things happen fast in the NFL.

1887
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:25,280
Speaker 8: They have a couple injuries and Buffalo stays healthy, we

1888
01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:27,559
Speaker 8: could be talking about something different a few months.

1889
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:30,160
Speaker 3: What do you think about this opening game? Certainly the

1890
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:33,360
Speaker 3: Brownie just said it a little bit ago on this program.

1891
01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:35,960
Speaker 3: There are no more unknowns than there are in Week one.

1892
01:39:36,040 --> 01:39:38,680
Speaker 3: I mean, nobody knows anything about anybody. The offseason is

1893
01:39:38,720 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 3: what it was, and nobody's it's hard to keep track

1894
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:43,519
Speaker 3: of these teams without the media scrutiny that you get

1895
01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:47,479
Speaker 3: because the access the NFL demands these teams give the media.

1896
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 3: So in the offseason they can keep some things under wrap.

1897
01:39:50,840 --> 01:39:52,800
Speaker 3: And let's face it, a lot of these teams don't

1898
01:39:52,800 --> 01:39:55,040
Speaker 3: know exactly what they've got in their young players anyway.

1899
01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:58,679
Speaker 3: So how do you let's size up this opening game.

1900
01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:02,680
Speaker 3: The Ravens come to Buffalo Sunday Night Football with revenge

1901
01:40:02,720 --> 01:40:05,000
Speaker 3: on their minds after being put out of the playoffs

1902
01:40:05,080 --> 01:40:07,800
Speaker 3: last year in the same building, and there's a lot

1903
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:10,840
Speaker 3: of unknowns in this in this game, So how do

1904
01:40:10,840 --> 01:40:12,599
Speaker 3: you think this play this plays out.

1905
01:40:13,720 --> 01:40:15,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, I definitely think it's a toss up. I have

1906
01:40:15,960 --> 01:40:17,920
Speaker 8: it basically a fifty to fifty game. I'm you know,

1907
01:40:17,960 --> 01:40:20,000
Speaker 8: picking head to head. I'm gonna take Baltimore just because

1908
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:22,080
Speaker 8: again they're the team. I'm picking them into super Bowl,

1909
01:40:22,080 --> 01:40:24,800
Speaker 8: but uh, it could go either way. And it's funny

1910
01:40:24,840 --> 01:40:26,640
Speaker 8: you asked this question and we're doing this on this

1911
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:29,639
Speaker 8: show because I think one of those wild card players

1912
01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:31,400
Speaker 8: in the NFL, one of those guys that could be

1913
01:40:31,479 --> 01:40:34,640
Speaker 8: kept a little under wraps nationally, maybe not to you

1914
01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:37,960
Speaker 8: guys locally. I know Dion Dawkins has had some comments

1915
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:41,760
Speaker 8: about him. Is keyon Coleman, you know, like, is this

1916
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:44,639
Speaker 8: gonna be one of the next you know, standout household

1917
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:46,400
Speaker 8: names a wide receiver? We know the guy is the

1918
01:40:46,520 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 8: Ross Gills, you know, second rounder last year, was starting

1919
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:50,760
Speaker 8: to come on before he had that injury and then

1920
01:40:50,800 --> 01:40:53,479
Speaker 8: finished slowly. You know, he's one of those guys like

1921
01:40:53,640 --> 01:40:55,519
Speaker 8: are we not you know, there hasn't there's been a

1922
01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:58,519
Speaker 8: very light drum beat all offseason. Is he a guy

1923
01:40:58,560 --> 01:41:00,280
Speaker 8: that just comes out and has a huge Week one

1924
01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:02,760
Speaker 8: and kind of you know, makes his name as a

1925
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:05,400
Speaker 8: as a top end NFL wide receiver. You know we're

1926
01:41:05,439 --> 01:41:07,680
Speaker 8: gonna we're gonna find that out. But you're exactly right.

1927
01:41:07,720 --> 01:41:10,080
Speaker 8: That is the game we play with predicting the NFL,

1928
01:41:10,640 --> 01:41:13,360
Speaker 8: and obviously I'm doing, you know, fantasy football betting.

1929
01:41:13,400 --> 01:41:14,360
Speaker 7: It's the same kind of thing.

1930
01:41:14,400 --> 01:41:19,160
Speaker 8: There are always these these players or these schemes or

1931
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:21,559
Speaker 8: whatever it might be that the teams, the coaches, the

1932
01:41:21,600 --> 01:41:23,439
Speaker 8: GMS are keeping under wraps, so we don't know much

1933
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:26,679
Speaker 8: about yet, and we're gonna be surprised with Keeam come

1934
01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:29,360
Speaker 8: Week one. So I'm fascinated to see that for a

1935
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:30,840
Speaker 8: lot of games here in Week one. But I think

1936
01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 8: Kean Coleman is one of those players on the short

1937
01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:35,400
Speaker 8: list that I'm fascinated to see how he's utilized in

1938
01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:35,840
Speaker 8: this game.

1939
01:41:36,320 --> 01:41:38,800
Speaker 6: As far as some of your other rankings, you have

1940
01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:42,800
Speaker 6: Kansas City and Denver awfully close to one another at

1941
01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:45,519
Speaker 6: five and seven, respectively. And you know, we know Denver

1942
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:48,920
Speaker 6: came up and made the playoffs last year under Sean Payton,

1943
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:52,920
Speaker 6: and I think we're expecting the Chargers to move things

1944
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:55,720
Speaker 6: forward in the second year under Harball out there in

1945
01:41:55,760 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 6: the AFC West, So is this a year where at

1946
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:03,599
Speaker 6: least Bills fans can hope that some of the teams

1947
01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 6: in the AFC West actually beat up on each other

1948
01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:08,680
Speaker 6: a little bit more, because I think Bills fans have

1949
01:42:08,760 --> 01:42:12,559
Speaker 6: seen the Chiefs benefit enormously from being the number one

1950
01:42:12,600 --> 01:42:14,559
Speaker 6: seed in the AFC year after year. It's one of

1951
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 6: the main reasons why they've gotten to five of the

1952
01:42:16,439 --> 01:42:19,639
Speaker 6: last six Super Bowls. I think the Bills Bill's fans

1953
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:21,519
Speaker 6: feel like, hey, can we go thirteen to four and

1954
01:42:21,560 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 6: actually have a shot at the one seed? And I'm

1955
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:26,800
Speaker 6: guessing what I'm asking you is, do you see the

1956
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:30,080
Speaker 6: door open a crack for the Chiefs to actually find

1957
01:42:30,160 --> 01:42:32,479
Speaker 6: going a little bit tougher in their own division this year?

1958
01:42:35,080 --> 01:42:35,320
Speaker 7: Yes?

1959
01:42:35,439 --> 01:42:38,599
Speaker 8: I think that most onlookers realized the Chiefs got away

1960
01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:40,439
Speaker 8: with a few things last year. They were still very,

1961
01:42:40,520 --> 01:42:42,280
Speaker 8: very good team. Obviously, they got to the Super Bowl.

1962
01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:44,320
Speaker 8: We know they had Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, don't get

1963
01:42:44,360 --> 01:42:47,519
Speaker 8: me wrong, but their record was certainly inflated by a

1964
01:42:47,520 --> 01:42:49,240
Speaker 8: lot of things gone right. And I expect them to

1965
01:42:49,240 --> 01:42:51,960
Speaker 8: come back to earth a bit this season. And look,

1966
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 8: would I be shocked if the Chargers beat them this

1967
01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:57,000
Speaker 8: weekend or what it was it Monday next weekend?

1968
01:42:57,760 --> 01:42:58,479
Speaker 4: No, not at all.

1969
01:42:58,560 --> 01:43:00,640
Speaker 7: Neutral Field Chargers on the on the way up.

1970
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:02,240
Speaker 8: I think the Chiefs are a little bit better team,

1971
01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:03,840
Speaker 8: but that could go either way and would I'd be

1972
01:43:03,880 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 8: surprised if if Denver wins that division, not at all.

1973
01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:08,960
Speaker 8: Sean Payton is but a heck of a team together.

1974
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:11,360
Speaker 8: We know he's one of the best coaches in the NFL.

1975
01:43:11,920 --> 01:43:14,439
Speaker 8: If Bonnicks makes a leap forward, that offense is going

1976
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:17,439
Speaker 8: to be exceptional this year. They've added more help from him.

1977
01:43:17,680 --> 01:43:19,559
Speaker 8: They have one of the best, if not the best,

1978
01:43:19,600 --> 01:43:22,360
Speaker 8: offensive lines in the NFL, number one in pass block

1979
01:43:22,439 --> 01:43:25,080
Speaker 8: and run block win rate last season. And the defense

1980
01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:26,519
Speaker 8: they just keep adding to and is one of the

1981
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:29,280
Speaker 8: better units in the NFL. So I think the Broncos

1982
01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:31,080
Speaker 8: are a top ten team. I think the Chiefs are

1983
01:43:31,120 --> 01:43:35,120
Speaker 8: as well. I don't think either stack up perfect. I

1984
01:43:35,200 --> 01:43:36,880
Speaker 8: think the Bills are a little better than both of

1985
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:40,120
Speaker 8: those teams, but I agree that division is the best

1986
01:43:40,120 --> 01:43:41,000
Speaker 8: it's been in a while.

1987
01:43:41,040 --> 01:43:42,919
Speaker 7: And by the way, Pete.

1988
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:45,240
Speaker 8: Carroll, you know they've a better quarterback, better coaching.

1989
01:43:45,520 --> 01:43:46,400
Speaker 7: In Las Vegas.

1990
01:43:46,479 --> 01:43:47,720
Speaker 8: I don't know if the Raiders are going to be

1991
01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:49,200
Speaker 8: very good this year, but they should be a little

1992
01:43:49,200 --> 01:43:51,439
Speaker 8: better and make that you know at least be more

1993
01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:55,000
Speaker 8: competitive in some of these games. So there's no dabt

1994
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:57,479
Speaker 8: about it. I think that division's better and that should

1995
01:43:57,520 --> 01:44:00,719
Speaker 8: certainly help teams like Buffalo and frankly the the Ravens,

1996
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:03,599
Speaker 8: maybe even Houston if they win the ANFC South. Help

1997
01:44:03,680 --> 01:44:05,760
Speaker 8: those teams have a better shot at better seed and

1998
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:06,519
Speaker 8: come playoff time.

1999
01:44:06,600 --> 01:44:08,720
Speaker 3: And when you get into there, certainly you look at

2000
01:44:08,720 --> 01:44:11,880
Speaker 3: the coaching in the AFC West with Pete Carroll, Andy Reid,

2001
01:44:12,840 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh and Sean Payton. They know how to put

2002
01:44:17,439 --> 01:44:19,800
Speaker 3: together a program. You look at it in LA I

2003
01:44:19,800 --> 01:44:21,479
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to kind of focus on them for like

2004
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:24,800
Speaker 3: a hot second. They seem to be the different, the

2005
01:44:24,840 --> 01:44:27,320
Speaker 3: odd team out because they got a coach who wants

2006
01:44:27,320 --> 01:44:29,839
Speaker 3: to play defense and run the ball, and they've got

2007
01:44:30,120 --> 01:44:32,360
Speaker 3: who a lot of people think is an elite quarterback.

2008
01:44:33,400 --> 01:44:34,679
Speaker 3: How does that balance out?

2009
01:44:36,320 --> 01:44:38,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, those teams always scare me.

2010
01:44:38,439 --> 01:44:40,240
Speaker 8: The teams that you're like a you know, I don't

2011
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:41,920
Speaker 8: know if they're very good on paper, if they're gonna

2012
01:44:41,920 --> 01:44:43,800
Speaker 8: stack up, it's probably a bit of a rebuild year.

2013
01:44:43,840 --> 01:44:46,120
Speaker 8: But they have the league coaching and they managed to

2014
01:44:46,160 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 8: overcome I think a good example of that is at

2015
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:50,760
Speaker 8: the other LA team, the Rams. The last couple of

2016
01:44:50,840 --> 01:44:53,639
Speaker 8: years they got their Super Bowl, they threw all their

2017
01:44:53,640 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 8: picks away, they had to rebuild through the draft, and

2018
01:44:56,120 --> 01:44:57,360
Speaker 8: the teams didn't look very good.

2019
01:44:57,360 --> 01:44:59,280
Speaker 7: They were young and lack talent. You're like, I don't

2020
01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:00,559
Speaker 7: know how they're gonna do, but.

2021
01:45:00,560 --> 01:45:03,160
Speaker 8: You have great coaching and somehow you're in the playoffs

2022
01:45:03,160 --> 01:45:05,280
Speaker 8: and competing. I mean, the Rams almost beat the Eagles

2023
01:45:05,560 --> 01:45:07,960
Speaker 8: in the playoffs last year. So that's the same kind

2024
01:45:07,960 --> 01:45:09,439
Speaker 8: of thing with the Chargers. You know, I look at

2025
01:45:09,439 --> 01:45:11,599
Speaker 8: their roster and I see some highlights, but I also

2026
01:45:11,680 --> 01:45:14,200
Speaker 8: see a lot of holes on that roster, and sometimes

2027
01:45:14,280 --> 01:45:18,320
Speaker 8: great coaching can help them overcome them void overcome them voids.

2028
01:45:18,720 --> 01:45:20,600
Speaker 8: And that's the same for the Raiders. I'm scared to

2029
01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:22,600
Speaker 8: be low on them. I think they're one of the

2030
01:45:22,600 --> 01:45:25,679
Speaker 8: shakiest rosters in the NFL and should be picking top

2031
01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:28,680
Speaker 8: five in the draft next year. But Pete Carroll's there,

2032
01:45:28,720 --> 01:45:30,640
Speaker 8: maybe he can get this team turned around and they

2033
01:45:30,680 --> 01:45:32,639
Speaker 8: go eight to nine on and eight something like that. So,

2034
01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:37,320
Speaker 8: you know, doubting elite coaching always makes me nervous. But

2035
01:45:37,560 --> 01:45:39,200
Speaker 8: the state of coaching in the NFL right now is

2036
01:45:39,280 --> 01:45:41,760
Speaker 8: very good. So you have to kind of work your

2037
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 8: way through and evaluate all the variables.

2038
01:45:44,520 --> 01:45:46,559
Speaker 7: Here when you're trying to sort through these teams.

2039
01:45:46,600 --> 01:45:49,760
Speaker 8: But no doubt about it, the Chargers an exceptional wildcard

2040
01:45:49,760 --> 01:45:53,000
Speaker 8: with Harbaugh there and obviously justin Herbert. It's going to

2041
01:45:53,040 --> 01:45:55,200
Speaker 8: be interesting to see if they could sneak into the playoffs.

2042
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:59,599
Speaker 6: Last one for me, Mike, be honest, how much did

2043
01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:03,960
Speaker 6: the Packers move with the Parsons trade going through before

2044
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,400
Speaker 6: you put this rankings up? That's part one of my

2045
01:46:06,479 --> 01:46:11,240
Speaker 6: Packers question. Part two is what kept them from eclipsing

2046
01:46:11,280 --> 01:46:13,200
Speaker 6: the Vikings, who you have right in front of them

2047
01:46:13,200 --> 01:46:15,719
Speaker 6: at number nine with the first year started a quarterback.

2048
01:46:17,720 --> 01:46:20,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's funny you asked that because I was probably

2049
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:23,599
Speaker 8: five minutes away from filing that article when I got

2050
01:46:23,600 --> 01:46:26,679
Speaker 8: the push alert from Adam Scheffer that trade went down,

2051
01:46:26,800 --> 01:46:30,559
Speaker 8: So I went back to the workshop. So I did,

2052
01:46:31,160 --> 01:46:33,640
Speaker 8: excuse me, did have the Packers outside the playoffs? I

2053
01:46:33,680 --> 01:46:36,160
Speaker 8: believe there are fourteenth in the rankings outside the playoffside

2054
01:46:36,200 --> 01:46:39,040
Speaker 8: Chicago getting in over them. Then after kind of re

2055
01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:43,479
Speaker 8: evaluating the roster, upgrading their edge rush, downgrading the entire

2056
01:46:43,600 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 8: interior line a little bit with Kenny Clark going. They

2057
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:48,519
Speaker 8: ended up with a better team certainly on paper. It

2058
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:51,280
Speaker 8: was enough to get them over Chicago and into the playoffs.

2059
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:55,679
Speaker 8: As for Minnesota, I mean, if you just like put

2060
01:46:56,360 --> 01:46:58,760
Speaker 8: quarterback aside, and this applied last year as well, If

2061
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:02,439
Speaker 8: you put quarterback aside, Minnesota might have the best team

2062
01:47:02,479 --> 01:47:05,559
Speaker 8: on paper in the NFL. I mean, if anything, it's

2063
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:08,559
Speaker 8: top five. They are outstanding on the defensive side of

2064
01:47:08,560 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 8: the football, top five unit. They did such a nice

2065
01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:14,880
Speaker 8: job rebuilding that unit last season. You know, they said

2066
01:47:15,280 --> 01:47:17,599
Speaker 8: goodbye to Danielle Hunter, one of the best edge rushers

2067
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:20,280
Speaker 8: in the NFL. Bring in Van Gingle and Grenard and

2068
01:47:20,520 --> 01:47:23,400
Speaker 8: sudden Dallas Turner as well. You fix the edge rush,

2069
01:47:23,439 --> 01:47:25,559
Speaker 8: I mean, I do some concerns there in the secondary

2070
01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:29,760
Speaker 8: is certainly a corner, but they fixed the interior defensive line.

2071
01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:33,080
Speaker 8: I like what they did there. So the defense is outstanding.

2072
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:36,599
Speaker 8: And then you look at the offense. I mean three years,

2073
01:47:36,640 --> 01:47:39,880
Speaker 8: so you've had Kevin O'Connell there in Minnesota, right, Kirk

2074
01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:43,720
Speaker 8: Cousins had two big seasons, statistically played pretty well last year.

2075
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:46,759
Speaker 8: Sam Darnold had a career year in Kevin O'Connell's system,

2076
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:50,160
Speaker 8: and A big reason for that is very good offensive line,

2077
01:47:50,360 --> 01:47:51,840
Speaker 8: one of the best in the league, and the skill

2078
01:47:51,880 --> 01:47:55,280
Speaker 8: position players. The supporting cast for the quarterback outstanding with

2079
01:47:55,439 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 8: Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison. They bring in Adam Field,

2080
01:47:58,360 --> 01:47:59,240
Speaker 8: which is gonna help TJ.

2081
01:47:59,320 --> 01:48:00,639
Speaker 7: Howkinson Jones.

2082
01:48:01,280 --> 01:48:03,559
Speaker 8: I mean, the team around the quarterback is so good

2083
01:48:03,600 --> 01:48:05,519
Speaker 8: that it's kind of hard to fail. And that's what

2084
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:07,360
Speaker 8: I think we've seen. I think that's what we saw

2085
01:48:07,360 --> 01:48:10,120
Speaker 8: from Sam Darnold last season. And JJ McCarthy if he

2086
01:48:10,120 --> 01:48:13,080
Speaker 8: can just manage his team, puts them in excellent position.

2087
01:48:13,200 --> 01:48:16,479
Speaker 8: So again with Kevin O'Connell, they're another terrific coach. I

2088
01:48:16,479 --> 01:48:19,719
Speaker 8: think they have the team in place, even with a quarterback,

2089
01:48:19,760 --> 01:48:22,600
Speaker 8: on certainty to be the best team out of the

2090
01:48:22,640 --> 01:48:25,160
Speaker 8: Packers and the Bears. I still think Detroit is a powerhouse,

2091
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:28,120
Speaker 8: healthy on defense. They're going to be outstanding by Minnesota,

2092
01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:29,360
Speaker 8: I think is the second best team there.

2093
01:48:29,400 --> 01:48:32,040
Speaker 3: What's your barometer for that? Micah Parsons trade as to

2094
01:48:32,080 --> 01:48:34,760
Speaker 3: who wins it? Is it short term is certainly Green

2095
01:48:34,800 --> 01:48:36,720
Speaker 3: Bay's got the leg up, but does it put them

2096
01:48:36,720 --> 01:48:39,360
Speaker 3: on the clock to win a championship? With Micah Parsons

2097
01:48:39,400 --> 01:48:41,160
Speaker 3: like they did way back in the day with Reggie

2098
01:48:41,720 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 3: Reggie White. You know, you bring in a guy like

2099
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:45,880
Speaker 3: Micah Parsons of that caliber, you kind of got to

2100
01:48:45,920 --> 01:48:49,759
Speaker 3: win it all. Unless Dallas whiffs on all those draft picks.

2101
01:48:51,720 --> 01:48:53,519
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's gonna be hard for Dallas to

2102
01:48:53,880 --> 01:48:56,799
Speaker 8: get the equivalent of Micah Parsons with two first probably

2103
01:48:56,880 --> 01:48:58,600
Speaker 8: late first. Who is a good Packers team with the

2104
01:48:58,680 --> 01:49:02,040
Speaker 8: terrific quarterback, terrific co coaching you know, now Micah Parsons

2105
01:49:02,040 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 8: to go with the rest of these you know, you know,

2106
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:07,639
Speaker 8: this roster that's pretty good. So I think these picks

2107
01:49:07,680 --> 01:49:10,559
Speaker 8: are probably going to be in the twenties and it's

2108
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:12,800
Speaker 8: gonna be hard to find at Michael Parsons in that area.

2109
01:49:12,800 --> 01:49:14,599
Speaker 7: It's possible, but it's a long shot.

2110
01:49:14,600 --> 01:49:16,960
Speaker 8: So I definitely think it was a better move by

2111
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:19,880
Speaker 8: the Packers. I don't know that the Cowboys go we're

2112
01:49:19,880 --> 01:49:23,240
Speaker 8: going to be competitive this year. Maybe they sneak in

2113
01:49:23,280 --> 01:49:24,000
Speaker 8: as a wild card.

2114
01:49:24,120 --> 01:49:24,680
Speaker 7: I wasn't too.

2115
01:49:24,640 --> 01:49:27,160
Speaker 8: Pumped for their roster, especially with guys the injury still

2116
01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:29,599
Speaker 8: lingering on the defensive side of the football. They had

2117
01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:31,479
Speaker 8: to have some on the offensive line as well, So

2118
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:36,120
Speaker 8: I you know, from that perspective. I guess it makes

2119
01:49:36,120 --> 01:49:38,480
Speaker 8: sense to look to the future if you're the Cowboys,

2120
01:49:38,479 --> 01:49:40,519
Speaker 8: but other moves they've made said they're trying to win now,

2121
01:49:40,680 --> 01:49:43,240
Speaker 8: so as usual, it doesn't make a lot of sense

2122
01:49:43,240 --> 01:49:46,360
Speaker 8: what they're doing in Dallas. But you know, fans of

2123
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:49,400
Speaker 8: other teams in the NFC are not upset by that

2124
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:52,360
Speaker 8: at all. So yeah, I think Cowboys miss out this year.

2125
01:49:52,760 --> 01:49:54,720
Speaker 8: They have some work to do in the future. As

2126
01:49:54,760 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 8: for the Packers, it's just it's just a loaded NFC.

2127
01:49:58,320 --> 01:49:58,800
Speaker 7: It really is.

2128
01:49:58,800 --> 01:50:00,880
Speaker 8: That division is so hard. It's really hard to project.

2129
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:02,879
Speaker 8: You can't project all the teams to make the playoffs.

2130
01:50:02,920 --> 01:50:04,920
Speaker 8: It just doesn't work that way. It's not realistic. But

2131
01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:08,040
Speaker 8: they're gonna have their hands full in the tough NFC.

2132
01:50:08,080 --> 01:50:09,280
Speaker 8: But it is a very good team.

2133
01:50:09,880 --> 01:50:12,720
Speaker 6: Mike, thanks for the time. As always, the season is

2134
01:50:12,800 --> 01:50:14,720
Speaker 6: upon us. Enjoy it. Maybe we'll catch up with you

2135
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Speaker 6: down the line. Appreciate the time.

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Speaker 7: Thanks, Mike, sounds great, guys, Take care all right.

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Speaker 6: That's the ESPN senior NFL writer and fantasy analyst Mike

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01:50:20,720 --> 01:50:23,559
Speaker 6: Clay joining us always does a good job of giving

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Speaker 6: you a synopsis of the league its strengths. It's weaknesses

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01:50:27,240 --> 01:50:28,960
Speaker 6: and teams to look out for, so you can check

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Speaker 6: out his stuff at ESPN dot com. Has done some

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01:50:31,920 --> 01:50:34,680
Speaker 6: good work for a long time. I had to ask

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01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:37,840
Speaker 6: him though about the Packers ranking because he fove this

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01:50:38,240 --> 01:50:41,880
Speaker 6: story got put up on ESPN dot com yesterday, which

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01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:44,599
Speaker 6: was obviously after the trade. So I was like, all right,

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01:50:45,240 --> 01:50:48,040
Speaker 6: let's see how far up the list, right, Mike moved

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01:50:48,040 --> 01:50:50,040
Speaker 6: the Packers, and he had him from a non playoff

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01:50:50,080 --> 01:50:51,400
Speaker 6: team to a playoff team.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:53,640
Speaker 6: He had him behind the Bears. He had him in

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01:50:53,680 --> 01:50:58,720
Speaker 6: the last place basically in the division, like based on

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01:50:58,800 --> 01:51:02,280
Speaker 6: how he had him stacked in terms of projections, and

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01:51:02,320 --> 01:51:05,320
Speaker 6: so there it is, you know. So he had him

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01:51:05,400 --> 01:51:07,880
Speaker 6: leap frog the Bears, and now they are a playoff team,

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01:51:08,880 --> 01:51:10,800
Speaker 6: which just because of the Parsons.

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01:51:10,360 --> 01:51:12,400
Speaker 3: At which puts the Bears back in last place.

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01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:17,320
Speaker 6: Right, it doesn't necessarily mean they're out of the playoffs.

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01:51:17,320 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 6: Although Mike has him out of the playoffs, he doesn't

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01:51:19,080 --> 01:51:22,639
Speaker 6: have them making it. It is kind of funny how

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01:51:23,280 --> 01:51:27,120
Speaker 6: like three or four years ago, the NFC was a joke.

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01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:30,680
Speaker 6: You know. It was like the forty nine Ers and

2162
01:51:30,720 --> 01:51:34,000
Speaker 6: a couple other teams. Packers were decent, you know, the

2163
01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:39,799
Speaker 6: Lions hadn't reached critical mass yet. Rams were good.

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01:51:39,640 --> 01:51:40,200
Speaker 3: And that was it.

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Speaker 6: And now because all those teams were so bad and

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01:51:43,680 --> 01:51:47,040
Speaker 6: drafting so high, you've got Jayden Daniels over there. Now,

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01:51:47,520 --> 01:51:49,839
Speaker 6: you know, a couple other guys that are quarterbacking teams.

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Speaker 6: You know, the Lions emerge.

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01:51:52,800 --> 01:51:55,160
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams seems to be doing a little.

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Speaker 6: Better, and so the NFC is now almost just as

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01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:00,000
Speaker 6: stacked as the AFS.

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01:52:00,439 --> 01:52:03,720
Speaker 3: We'll see how JJ McCarthy does and all that, but

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01:52:04,320 --> 01:52:06,400
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, there's a lot of young quarterbacks

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01:52:06,400 --> 01:52:11,439
Speaker 3: over there. And I'll say this, well, Jaden Daniels did

2175
01:52:11,520 --> 01:52:15,360
Speaker 3: last year. He exploded onto the scene. He played extremely well,

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01:52:15,640 --> 01:52:18,160
Speaker 3: so that would be you could put him there. In fact,

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01:52:18,200 --> 01:52:19,960
Speaker 3: he did it earlier in his career than Josh did,

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01:52:20,680 --> 01:52:22,920
Speaker 3: and right and out of the rapper, right out of

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01:52:22,920 --> 01:52:25,200
Speaker 3: the rapper, he did it. It took Lamar and Josh

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01:52:25,280 --> 01:52:27,080
Speaker 3: both a year before they kind of got their feet

2181
01:52:27,120 --> 01:52:29,920
Speaker 3: under them and started, you know, winning games and becoming

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01:52:29,960 --> 01:52:35,519
Speaker 3: the guys that are perennial MVP candidates. I don't know

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01:52:35,520 --> 01:52:39,880
Speaker 3: if Caleb Williams will get there in Chicago, but certainly

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01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:42,400
Speaker 3: Jaden Daniels is already there. JJ McCarthy, you hear good

2185
01:52:42,400 --> 01:52:45,679
Speaker 3: things coming out of Minnesota. They like him. We'll see.

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01:52:45,760 --> 01:52:49,280
Speaker 6: And O'Connell seems to be a quarterback whisperer, so we'll

2187
01:52:49,280 --> 01:52:52,360
Speaker 6: see if that continues with JJ McCarthy. For those that

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01:52:52,439 --> 01:52:56,439
Speaker 6: didn't see Mike Clay's rankings, I'll give you the top twelve.

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01:52:57,560 --> 01:53:02,920
Speaker 6: Twelve were the Bengals, the Commanders ten, the Packers nine,

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01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:08,040
Speaker 6: the Vikings, Rams at eight, Broncos at seven, Bucks at six,

2191
01:53:09,120 --> 01:53:13,280
Speaker 6: Chiefs at five, Eagles it four Lions at three, Bills

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01:53:13,320 --> 01:53:19,519
Speaker 6: it to Ravens in the number one spot. So that'll

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Speaker 6: give you an idea on the seismic nature of the

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01:53:24,360 --> 01:53:29,439
Speaker 6: Sunday night matchup. Bills Ravens won two in Mike Clay's rankings.

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01:53:29,439 --> 01:53:30,240
Speaker 6: How about them Apples.

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01:53:30,280 --> 01:53:33,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, people here in Western New York we can

2197
01:53:33,080 --> 01:53:36,280
Speaker 3: feel it anyway, no matter what Mike said, But he's right.

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01:53:36,479 --> 01:53:39,200
Speaker 3: I mean, this is as good a matchup as there

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01:53:39,240 --> 01:53:41,160
Speaker 3: is in the weekend. Certainly, you can say what you

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01:53:41,200 --> 01:53:43,479
Speaker 3: want about Philly and the Cowboys being a grudge match

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01:53:43,479 --> 01:53:45,640
Speaker 3: and all that stuff that's going on with that, but

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01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:50,200
Speaker 3: you look, just look at the schedule. Chiefs, Chargers on

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01:53:50,280 --> 01:53:51,040
Speaker 3: Friday night.

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01:53:51,200 --> 01:53:53,080
Speaker 6: And Brazil in Brazil.

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01:53:55,640 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bucks, Falcons and Bengals, Browns and you know the

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01:54:01,360 --> 01:54:04,000
Speaker 3: rest of it. Yeah, the Giants in Washington Commanders. Maybe

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01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:09,200
Speaker 3: that'll be fun. Could be, It might be fun. Titans, Broncos,

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01:54:09,960 --> 01:54:11,599
Speaker 3: the Lions and the Packers are gonna be a good

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Speaker 3: game four to twenty five Eastern time on Sunday. That'll

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01:54:15,439 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 3: be a good game. Oh yeah, that'll be a really

2211
01:54:17,160 --> 01:54:19,360
Speaker 3: good game. But man, other than that, it's it's the

2212
01:54:19,360 --> 01:54:23,080
Speaker 3: Bill's Ravens, and Bill's Raven's better than all those.

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01:54:23,240 --> 01:54:25,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's and as you heard Mike say, he

2214
01:54:25,520 --> 01:54:28,000
Speaker 6: thinks it's a fifty to fifty toss up for the

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01:54:28,040 --> 01:54:28,760
Speaker 6: game Sunday night.

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01:54:28,800 --> 01:54:30,600
Speaker 3: I know it's in Buffalo, and it's just to give you.

2217
01:54:30,600 --> 01:54:32,800
Speaker 6: An idea as to why he feels it's that close.

2218
01:54:33,360 --> 01:54:37,160
Speaker 6: In his projected highest scoring teams category, he had the

2219
01:54:37,160 --> 01:54:40,160
Speaker 6: Bills first with four hundred and eighty one projected points.

2220
01:54:40,440 --> 01:54:42,840
Speaker 6: He had the Ravens second with four hundred and seventy

2221
01:54:42,840 --> 01:54:45,760
Speaker 6: three projected points for the for the whole regular season,

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01:54:46,240 --> 01:54:51,360
Speaker 6: so he basically has eight points separating them for a

2223
01:54:51,400 --> 01:54:55,160
Speaker 6: seventeen game quite a week. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's

2224
01:54:55,280 --> 01:54:58,800
Speaker 6: that's how razor thin it could be on Sunday night.

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01:54:59,480 --> 01:55:01,520
Speaker 3: This is just gonna be a fantastic game. I can't

2226
01:55:01,560 --> 01:55:03,920
Speaker 3: wait to see it. Kick it off. It's gonna be

2227
01:55:03,960 --> 01:55:05,000
Speaker 3: an enormous.

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01:55:04,720 --> 01:55:06,720
Speaker 6: Day on time time stee.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what. I haven't even looked at the

2230
01:55:08,360 --> 01:55:09,760
Speaker 3: weather forecast for that's.

2231
01:55:09,560 --> 01:55:14,040
Speaker 6: Supposed to be cloudy, low of fifty on Sunday night.

2232
01:55:14,040 --> 01:55:15,800
Speaker 6: It's gonna be chilly, that's all right. Be a little

2233
01:55:15,880 --> 01:55:18,960
Speaker 6: chilly high of sixty four during the day. That's not bad,

2234
01:55:19,080 --> 01:55:22,040
Speaker 6: low of fifty and with cloud cover it shouldn't feel

2235
01:55:22,120 --> 01:55:24,040
Speaker 6: terribly cold. You know, you got the blanket of clouds.

2236
01:55:24,040 --> 01:55:26,760
Speaker 6: They are keeping the heat in. That is the early

2237
01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:29,960
Speaker 6: in the week forecast for Sunday night. If you are

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01:55:30,080 --> 01:55:32,920
Speaker 6: going to the game, gotta take a break here. More

2239
01:55:32,920 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 6: of your comments on the tweetsheet when we come back.

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Speaker 6: What is your bold prediction for the Bills in twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty five? Give us a one lost record, tell us

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01:55:41,880 --> 01:55:44,760
Speaker 6: what playoff seed the Bills are gonna have. Tell us

2243
01:55:44,800 --> 01:55:48,280
Speaker 6: who's gonna challenge for Offensive Player of the Year.

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01:55:48,440 --> 01:55:53,680
Speaker 3: Perhaps go out on a limb. Yeah, be bold and.

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01:55:53,720 --> 01:55:56,720
Speaker 6: Do it at one Bill's Live on the Twitter handle,

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01:55:57,080 --> 01:55:58,880
Speaker 6: So we take a break here, but we take more

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01:55:58,920 --> 01:56:01,520
Speaker 6: of your comments from I'm the tweetchee. Next here on

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Speaker 6: one Bill's Live, presented by Klida Health, it's Buffalo Bills ready,

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01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:18,080
Speaker 6: all right back here on one Bill's Live on a

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Speaker 6: Labor day. Hopefully you're enjoying with the family. Maybe got

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Speaker 6: the queue going and you got us on your television,

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01:56:24,640 --> 01:56:27,120
Speaker 6: So thanks for joining us as we are asking you.

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01:56:27,480 --> 01:56:31,360
Speaker 6: It's week one people, what is your bold prediction for

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01:56:31,400 --> 01:56:35,080
Speaker 6: your Buffalo Bills here in the twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 6: We do not have phone lines today, so we encourage

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Speaker 6: you to contribute your bold prediction on the tweet sheet

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01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 6: at one Bill's Live, and we're all too happy to

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01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:49,040
Speaker 6: read it there. We do have a comment from Victoria,

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01:56:49,120 --> 01:56:53,120
Speaker 6: who says, I'm trusting the process to take us to

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01:56:53,160 --> 01:56:56,920
Speaker 6: the promised Land that will not be named. So as

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01:56:57,000 --> 01:57:00,680
Speaker 6: confident as Victoria is in the process, she is also

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01:57:01,360 --> 01:57:05,560
Speaker 6: superstitious and is not going to mention the big game,

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01:57:05,920 --> 01:57:06,760
Speaker 6: shall we say.

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01:57:06,720 --> 01:57:10,560
Speaker 3: So, She's confident that our team is going to get

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01:57:10,560 --> 01:57:12,280
Speaker 3: to the super Bowl, as long as she doesn't say

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01:57:12,280 --> 01:57:13,080
Speaker 3: the word super.

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01:57:12,840 --> 01:57:15,120
Speaker 6: Bowl out loud or even think.

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01:57:14,960 --> 01:57:18,640
Speaker 3: It seems a little precarious of prediction is precarious?

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01:57:19,080 --> 01:57:23,200
Speaker 6: Can she can Victoria get through the whole regular season

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01:57:23,320 --> 01:57:28,960
Speaker 6: and playoffs without mentioning the words super Bowl so as

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01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:30,200
Speaker 6: not to mention their team.

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01:57:31,480 --> 01:57:35,080
Speaker 3: If your team is that good, mentioning the word by

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01:57:35,280 --> 01:57:41,520
Speaker 3: a fans mentioning that word should not be a factor

2274
01:57:41,560 --> 01:57:43,880
Speaker 3: in Yeah, that, I don't know.

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01:57:44,200 --> 01:57:48,560
Speaker 6: Maybe that's just me Levi. On the tweet, she says,

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01:57:48,600 --> 01:57:52,400
Speaker 6: I believe they will go fifteen and two, get the

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01:57:52,440 --> 01:57:56,040
Speaker 6: one seat and finally get over the hump and win

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01:57:56,080 --> 01:57:58,160
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl over Detroit.

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01:57:58,320 --> 01:57:59,200
Speaker 3: That's a bold prediction.

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Speaker 6: That is a bold predict. I don't know if Detroit's

2281
01:58:01,200 --> 01:58:04,280
Speaker 6: gonna be there. Two new coordinators. You saw what happened

2282
01:58:04,280 --> 01:58:07,440
Speaker 6: to the Eagles when they had to have two new coordinators.

2283
01:58:07,720 --> 01:58:12,080
Speaker 6: It was so bad. They crawled into the playoffs, didn't

2284
01:58:12,080 --> 01:58:15,800
Speaker 6: win a playoff game, and then bounce those two new

2285
01:58:15,840 --> 01:58:22,240
Speaker 6: coordinats and brought in Vic Fangio, right, and uh the kid,

2286
01:58:22,440 --> 01:58:25,440
Speaker 6: the guy who's the head coach of the Saints now

2287
01:58:26,400 --> 01:58:29,400
Speaker 6: Kellen Moore as coordinators, and then they go to the

2288
01:58:29,400 --> 01:58:31,720
Speaker 6: Super Bowl and went.

2289
01:58:33,520 --> 01:58:33,800
Speaker 3: Well.

2290
01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:37,640
Speaker 6: They also loaded up on defensive They had about seventeen

2291
01:58:37,720 --> 01:58:43,720
Speaker 6: defensive ends. Passer but I think Detroit's gonna slip. Maybe,

2292
01:58:43,760 --> 01:58:47,440
Speaker 6: but they're in a tough division, dude, and two new coordinators.

2293
01:58:47,880 --> 01:58:49,800
Speaker 6: I mean, I think they still have a boatload of talent.

2294
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:53,000
Speaker 6: They'll be a playoff team. But like Mike Clay for example,

2295
01:58:53,080 --> 01:58:55,440
Speaker 6: had them as the number three team in the league

2296
01:58:55,480 --> 01:58:57,800
Speaker 6: this year in his projections, and I think that might

2297
01:58:57,880 --> 01:59:00,560
Speaker 6: be a hair lofty. Maybe.

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01:59:00,920 --> 01:59:04,640
Speaker 3: You don't know. They they promoted their offensive guy from

2299
01:59:04,640 --> 01:59:06,240
Speaker 3: within and I couldn't. I can't remember his I'm not

2300
01:59:06,240 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 3: even gonna try. So they promoted from within on the

2301
01:59:09,160 --> 01:59:13,400
Speaker 3: offensive side, and you know they got a ton of talent.

2302
01:59:14,560 --> 01:59:17,840
Speaker 6: They do. Kelvin Sheppard is the defensive coordinator. Another guy

2303
01:59:17,920 --> 01:59:18,959
Speaker 6: promoted from within.

2304
01:59:19,400 --> 01:59:21,800
Speaker 3: Kelvin Sheppard. Yeah, the Kelvin Shepard.

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01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:22,600
Speaker 6: The Kelvin Shepard.

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01:59:22,640 --> 01:59:29,080
Speaker 3: Wow. Good for him. So maybe it's not always a downgrade,

2307
01:59:29,120 --> 01:59:33,280
Speaker 3: even if it's even if it's a trade sideways, they're

2308
01:59:33,320 --> 01:59:38,840
Speaker 3: still good. Okay, I'm I'm not gonna write them off.

2309
01:59:38,880 --> 01:59:41,160
Speaker 3: I like their head coach is a real leader. He's

2310
01:59:41,160 --> 01:59:43,840
Speaker 3: gonna fit, They're gonna figure some things out. They were

2311
01:59:43,960 --> 01:59:47,520
Speaker 3: snake bitten by injuries last year. At that they have

2312
01:59:47,520 --> 01:59:50,560
Speaker 3: a healthy Aiden Hutchinson. If that moves back to the mean.

2313
01:59:51,680 --> 01:59:55,960
Speaker 3: They're gonna be a good football team. So even if

2314
01:59:56,000 --> 01:59:58,240
Speaker 3: they come in exactly like they were a year ago,

2315
01:59:58,240 --> 02:00:00,840
Speaker 3: they're gonna be dynamite and they're gonna have a chance

2316
02:00:00,880 --> 02:00:01,280
Speaker 3: to go.

2317
02:00:01,360 --> 02:00:04,440
Speaker 6: All right, fair enough, and they've come close as we.

2318
02:00:04,440 --> 02:00:06,440
Speaker 3: Know, and they still have to play Chicago twice. So

2319
02:00:06,480 --> 02:00:08,200
Speaker 3: that's two wins being.

2320
02:00:07,960 --> 02:00:13,480
Speaker 6: Wow, still dumping on the Bears. That's gonna be that

2321
02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:15,400
Speaker 6: that game is gonna have a little bit extra now

2322
02:00:15,640 --> 02:00:18,720
Speaker 6: because of Ben Johnson being over there. Game is gonna

2323
02:00:18,720 --> 02:00:21,560
Speaker 6: have a little extra juice. We'll see.

2324
02:00:22,480 --> 02:00:25,680
Speaker 3: Okay, Ben Johnson's gonna look around and go, what am

2325
02:00:25,680 --> 02:00:28,840
Speaker 3: I No, I'm not gonna say it. Yeah, I like

2326
02:00:28,880 --> 02:00:30,800
Speaker 3: the I like the Detroit Lions.

2327
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:34,840
Speaker 6: Armand you hold on a second. That's like headline news.

2328
02:00:35,040 --> 02:00:38,520
Speaker 3: What I like the Detroit Lions over the Bears.

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02:00:39,040 --> 02:00:43,080
Speaker 6: Well, those are two franchises you have unceremoniously dumped off for.

2330
02:00:43,040 --> 02:00:47,440
Speaker 3: The Oh yeah, that's true for you.

2331
02:00:48,080 --> 02:00:51,640
Speaker 6: The words I really like the Lions that.

2332
02:00:51,680 --> 02:00:53,520
Speaker 3: I'll say that, well, I'm saying what I really like

2333
02:00:53,640 --> 02:00:55,680
Speaker 3: is Dan Campbell. But let me just say this.

2334
02:00:57,200 --> 02:00:58,800
Speaker 6: I just want to make sure I was hearing this right.

2335
02:00:58,840 --> 02:01:00,960
Speaker 3: It'll be really interesting to see how this iteration of

2336
02:01:00,960 --> 02:01:02,080
Speaker 3: the Lions ages.

2337
02:01:02,920 --> 02:01:03,760
Speaker 6: Oh well, that is a.

2338
02:01:03,720 --> 02:01:09,640
Speaker 3: Big when there's just when there's when when they have

2339
02:01:09,720 --> 02:01:14,280
Speaker 3: to I don't know when they have to keep it going.

2340
02:01:14,280 --> 02:01:16,360
Speaker 3: When that when the leadership at the top has to

2341
02:01:16,840 --> 02:01:20,360
Speaker 3: has to do something. Let's see how they do well.

2342
02:01:20,360 --> 02:01:22,120
Speaker 6: We know what the leadership at the top does. They

2343
02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:26,680
Speaker 6: go for it wherever he is on the field, fourth down,

2344
02:01:27,440 --> 02:01:28,120
Speaker 6: we're going.

2345
02:01:28,080 --> 02:01:30,520
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about Dan Campbell, I'm talking about the

2346
02:01:30,560 --> 02:01:34,520
Speaker 3: ownership and the Ford family. Yes, and also you know

2347
02:01:34,560 --> 02:01:37,200
Speaker 3: the GM also has to continue to do well. But

2348
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Speaker 3: at home, Dan Campbell, like I got a lot of

2349
02:01:39,600 --> 02:01:41,880
Speaker 3: faith in and he's and they've given him some.

2350
02:01:42,080 --> 02:01:44,480
Speaker 6: And he puts an enormous amount of faith in his players.

2351
02:01:44,200 --> 02:01:46,560
Speaker 3: Yes he does, and they've come through for him. And

2352
02:01:46,560 --> 02:01:49,880
Speaker 3: and that's it's a little Sean McDermott. And he puts

2353
02:01:49,880 --> 02:01:52,000
Speaker 3: it on him if they earned he gives it to

2354
02:01:52,040 --> 02:01:58,440
Speaker 3: them and they come through for him. So, yeah, this

2355
02:01:58,560 --> 02:02:00,600
Speaker 3: is what you're four or five for him?

2356
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Speaker 6: I think it's four five, might be five, Yeah, might

2357
02:02:05,000 --> 02:02:10,720
Speaker 6: be five. Armando on the tweet sheet says thirteen and

2358
02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:15,040
Speaker 6: four plain and simple, And I'm kind of in that

2359
02:02:15,120 --> 02:02:18,600
Speaker 6: ballpark too, because what we have seen, even when the

2360
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Speaker 6: Bills have been enormously successful, enormously potent on offense, decent

2361
02:02:24,720 --> 02:02:27,880
Speaker 6: to good on defense, what have we seen each of

2362
02:02:27,920 --> 02:02:31,160
Speaker 6: the last couple of years a weird couple of weeks

2363
02:02:31,200 --> 02:02:33,040
Speaker 6: where they have back to back losses. I think they've

2364
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Speaker 6: had back to back losses in each of the last

2365
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Speaker 6: four years. And it happened again last year. You know,

2366
02:02:37,760 --> 02:02:40,560
Speaker 6: they got a couple of injuries, and they have a

2367
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Speaker 6: stinker of a game against Baltimore, and then they're on

2368
02:02:43,560 --> 02:02:46,120
Speaker 6: the road the next week at Houston. You know, they

2369
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Speaker 6: don't have Khalil Shakir and they should have probably won

2370
02:02:49,520 --> 02:02:52,080
Speaker 6: that game, but they lose on a last second, fifty

2371
02:02:52,160 --> 02:02:56,200
Speaker 6: nine yard field goal. Like, stupid stuff happens to the Bills.

2372
02:02:57,080 --> 02:03:00,400
Speaker 6: And that's why I'm kind of with Armando, because stupid

2373
02:03:00,440 --> 02:03:01,800
Speaker 6: stuff happens to the Bills.

2374
02:03:02,800 --> 02:03:03,320
Speaker 7: Am I wrong?

2375
02:03:05,360 --> 02:03:07,880
Speaker 3: No, stupid stuff? I would like to say it happens

2376
02:03:07,880 --> 02:03:08,360
Speaker 3: to the Bills.

2377
02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:12,200
Speaker 6: So that's kind of why I'm in that thirteen win area.

2378
02:03:12,520 --> 02:03:14,680
Speaker 6: Maybe stupid stuff doesn't happen this year and they win

2379
02:03:14,680 --> 02:03:18,000
Speaker 6: another game and they go fourteen and three. Fifteen and

2380
02:03:18,080 --> 02:03:21,440
Speaker 6: two is lofty for me, fifteen in this league with

2381
02:03:21,560 --> 02:03:24,240
Speaker 6: as stacked as the AFC is and knowing you're playing

2382
02:03:24,320 --> 02:03:25,960
Speaker 6: a first play schedule.

2383
02:03:25,720 --> 02:03:26,960
Speaker 5: That's lofty, right.

2384
02:03:27,400 --> 02:03:31,120
Speaker 6: I mean the Chiefs had to win eleven one score

2385
02:03:31,200 --> 02:03:32,480
Speaker 6: games to get to that.

2386
02:03:32,800 --> 02:03:36,880
Speaker 3: I'll say that. I agree the Chiefs. I think that

2387
02:03:36,920 --> 02:03:40,400
Speaker 3: when you look at Pat Mahomes, that's his superpower. Yes,

2388
02:03:40,440 --> 02:03:43,400
Speaker 3: it is that. Always putting the ball into your the

2389
02:03:43,400 --> 02:03:46,760
Speaker 3: other team's core. You always helps, always one up, one up,

2390
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:48,800
Speaker 3: one up, one up, one up. You can never catch him,

2391
02:03:48,840 --> 02:03:51,320
Speaker 3: You never get on top of until the game runs over. That.

2392
02:03:51,600 --> 02:03:53,240
Speaker 3: You know who else was like that back in the day.

2393
02:03:53,280 --> 02:03:57,080
Speaker 6: As gifted and talented as he is, his best skill

2394
02:03:57,200 --> 02:03:59,880
Speaker 6: is managing the game. He is the best game man

2395
02:04:00,120 --> 02:04:00,920
Speaker 6: you're in the league.

2396
02:04:01,480 --> 02:04:04,000
Speaker 3: He always puts the ball back into your side of

2397
02:04:04,000 --> 02:04:06,200
Speaker 3: the court. You always have to answer him, yeah if

2398
02:04:06,240 --> 02:04:08,640
Speaker 3: you get And you know who else was like that?

2399
02:04:08,680 --> 02:04:10,280
Speaker 3: I say it again, you know who else was like

2400
02:04:10,280 --> 02:04:12,560
Speaker 3: that back in the day. Bernie Kozar had that.

2401
02:04:12,520 --> 02:04:15,200
Speaker 6: Ability, and he was half as talented as he was.

2402
02:04:15,560 --> 02:04:18,600
Speaker 3: He was, no, he was twenty five percent as talented.

2403
02:04:20,600 --> 02:04:26,280
Speaker 3: He was extremely intelligent and had limited physical abilities, but

2404
02:04:26,360 --> 02:04:28,760
Speaker 3: he always put the ball back in your court. That

2405
02:04:28,920 --> 02:04:31,600
Speaker 3: was his gift. He's the same thing as Mahomes. Mahomes

2406
02:04:31,640 --> 02:04:33,240
Speaker 3: is just like the accept The guy's got an arm

2407
02:04:33,280 --> 02:04:34,320
Speaker 3: and he can run the whole thing.

2408
02:04:34,560 --> 02:04:35,480
Speaker 6: He can do everything else.

2409
02:04:35,720 --> 02:04:39,640
Speaker 3: That that is Pat Mahomes's superpower. He's he's gifted and

2410
02:04:39,680 --> 02:04:41,560
Speaker 3: he's a good quarterback, got an arm and the whole thing.

2411
02:04:41,640 --> 02:04:45,440
Speaker 3: But his ability is keep his game, keep their team alive.

2412
02:04:45,480 --> 02:04:47,280
Speaker 3: Let's go. We still got a chance. Let's go, go go.

2413
02:04:47,400 --> 02:04:50,800
Speaker 3: In spite of what they do, whatever happened, whatever happens,

2414
02:04:50,840 --> 02:04:52,120
Speaker 3: whatever big I mean.

2415
02:04:52,960 --> 02:04:56,200
Speaker 6: Think about this. They almost overcame it, like they're all

2416
02:04:56,240 --> 02:04:58,360
Speaker 6: ready to beat the Patriots when the Patriots were still

2417
02:04:58,360 --> 02:05:03,520
Speaker 6: the Patriots and d four jumps off sides. That's right,

2418
02:05:05,000 --> 02:05:09,520
Speaker 6: that's right, and he hosed him. Yeah, so, I mean,

2419
02:05:09,560 --> 02:05:11,160
Speaker 6: otherwise it would have been another Super Bowl.

2420
02:05:12,080 --> 02:05:15,800
Speaker 3: The Bills don't beat him either, except that Andrew Tony

2421
02:05:16,360 --> 02:05:19,880
Speaker 3: lines up off sides. Cadarious Tony lines up off sides

2422
02:05:19,880 --> 02:05:20,360
Speaker 3: against US.

2423
02:05:20,840 --> 02:05:25,200
Speaker 6: You mixed, you mix the Philadelphia seventy kids.

2424
02:05:27,280 --> 02:05:28,520
Speaker 3: Andrew Tony is that who was?

2425
02:05:28,640 --> 02:05:30,120
Speaker 6: That's what you said?

2426
02:05:30,920 --> 02:05:37,400
Speaker 3: Sixers? Right? So yeah, I'm glorious. I'm also like dating myself.

2427
02:05:37,480 --> 02:05:39,480
Speaker 6: I want to see your rolodex up there, man.

2428
02:05:39,520 --> 02:05:43,720
Speaker 3: That is you can't listen behind. And I have done this,

2429
02:05:43,840 --> 02:05:47,360
Speaker 3: Like the entire show I had Maddie was in early

2430
02:05:47,480 --> 02:05:50,160
Speaker 3: I was, I was naming guys and I was I

2431
02:05:50,200 --> 02:05:53,000
Speaker 3: can't remember who the I was all over the map.

2432
02:05:53,720 --> 02:05:57,040
Speaker 3: I almost proud that it was a long weekend with

2433
02:05:57,080 --> 02:06:00,440
Speaker 3: the grand kids. I'm a little bit scattered. So there

2434
02:06:00,440 --> 02:06:05,240
Speaker 3: you go. But yes, I am all about that. That

2435
02:06:05,240 --> 02:06:08,480
Speaker 3: that is Pat mahomes superpower is his ability to just

2436
02:06:08,560 --> 02:06:13,240
Speaker 3: stay alive. You know, think about when he first emerged

2437
02:06:13,760 --> 02:06:18,680
Speaker 3: way back in two thousand and seven, eighteen year and

2438
02:06:18,880 --> 02:06:20,920
Speaker 3: they go out to LA in that Monday night game

2439
02:06:20,960 --> 02:06:23,040
Speaker 3: against the Rams and that it's the precursor to the

2440
02:06:23,040 --> 02:06:27,160
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, and it's like fifty two fifty or something.

2441
02:06:27,520 --> 02:06:30,960
Speaker 3: And in the last three minutes of that game, maybe

2442
02:06:31,200 --> 02:06:34,920
Speaker 3: maybe four minutes of that game, Mahomes throws two picks

2443
02:06:36,080 --> 02:06:39,520
Speaker 3: and they're still in it. At that late stage. He's

2444
02:06:39,520 --> 02:06:41,640
Speaker 3: still throwing. He's still got a chance at the end.

2445
02:06:42,240 --> 02:06:46,360
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Now he got like a cockroach.

2446
02:06:46,720 --> 02:06:50,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can't kill him, that's right, you gotta. That's like,

2447
02:06:50,760 --> 02:06:53,000
Speaker 6: it's like what we were saying last year, it's like,

2448
02:06:53,160 --> 02:06:56,480
Speaker 6: going into that Week eleven game, the Bills better be

2449
02:06:56,560 --> 02:06:58,840
Speaker 6: up by more than one score. Yeah, with two minutes les.

2450
02:06:58,880 --> 02:07:00,000
Speaker 6: That's why you can forget it.

2451
02:07:00,160 --> 02:07:03,520
Speaker 3: That's why that fourth and two run by Joshua touchdowns shoes.

2452
02:07:03,560 --> 02:07:06,600
Speaker 3: They got my back up by nine after they extra

2453
02:07:06,640 --> 02:07:09,920
Speaker 3: point where they'd answered it, and you just sit there

2454
02:07:09,920 --> 02:07:13,040
Speaker 3: and you think that he's like the alien in the movie.

2455
02:07:13,160 --> 02:07:17,480
Speaker 3: If you don't have a flamethrower, you're done. You're getting

2456
02:07:17,520 --> 02:07:20,120
Speaker 3: you're getting the face thick, you're gonna you're gonna end

2457
02:07:20,160 --> 02:07:23,360
Speaker 3: up an a. Yes, if you don't have a flamethrower,

2458
02:07:23,400 --> 02:07:27,000
Speaker 3: you're done. Josh was a flamethrower in that game, in

2459
02:07:27,000 --> 02:07:31,000
Speaker 3: that game. So so that's where I'm at. The Bills

2460
02:07:31,080 --> 02:07:33,520
Speaker 3: and at the fifteen and two seasons of the Chiefs.

2461
02:07:33,520 --> 02:07:36,040
Speaker 3: Put up last year was really a work of art

2462
02:07:36,400 --> 02:07:39,120
Speaker 3: because of the eleven to one score games, the teams

2463
02:07:39,120 --> 02:07:40,880
Speaker 3: that beat him with you know, you think about it

2464
02:07:40,920 --> 02:07:44,360
Speaker 3: was like, you know, the Bill's probably the team that

2465
02:07:44,440 --> 02:07:47,560
Speaker 3: really were the one team that beat him really first

2466
02:07:48,280 --> 02:07:50,600
Speaker 3: deep into the season. Did they have a throwaway game

2467
02:07:50,600 --> 02:07:51,680
Speaker 3: at the end? I guess they did. They had a

2468
02:07:51,680 --> 02:07:52,560
Speaker 3: throwaway game at the end.

2469
02:07:53,120 --> 02:07:54,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think right. It's played right.

2470
02:07:55,320 --> 02:07:59,080
Speaker 3: So there's all of that going on. But that's why

2471
02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:04,800
Speaker 3: you know, fifteen and two is hard to call. But

2472
02:08:06,400 --> 02:08:06,760
Speaker 3: I don't know.

2473
02:08:06,840 --> 02:08:07,440
Speaker 6: It is bold.

2474
02:08:08,280 --> 02:08:12,480
Speaker 3: It is bold. The Bills are certainly capable of winning

2475
02:08:12,480 --> 02:08:14,160
Speaker 3: every game that they're going to get lost to Denver.

2476
02:08:14,200 --> 02:08:17,040
Speaker 6: At the end of the year thirty eight nothing and

2477
02:08:17,160 --> 02:08:19,960
Speaker 6: nobody played nobody, And you know what, nobody cared.

2478
02:08:22,280 --> 02:08:24,840
Speaker 3: Denver got it. Denver got in because of it. Yeah,

2479
02:08:25,920 --> 02:08:27,960
Speaker 3: they got in because of it ahead of Cincinnati.

2480
02:08:29,560 --> 02:08:33,280
Speaker 6: Yep. How about that?

2481
02:08:33,880 --> 02:08:34,200
Speaker 4: Wow?

2482
02:08:34,320 --> 02:08:40,400
Speaker 6: Does Cincinnati play Denver this year? That's that's a sneaky

2483
02:08:40,640 --> 02:08:46,040
Speaker 6: side side motivation that some people may have forgotten about.

2484
02:08:46,720 --> 02:08:48,600
Speaker 6: Does Denver play Cincinnati?

2485
02:08:49,080 --> 02:08:49,320
Speaker 2: Ah?

2486
02:08:49,960 --> 02:08:54,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, they do for Week seventeen. Is that the twenty

2487
02:08:54,280 --> 02:08:56,240
Speaker 6: four schedule or the twenty I'm looking at the.

2488
02:08:56,200 --> 02:08:59,200
Speaker 3: Twenty fourth fourth schedule? They play Week four, September twenty ninth. Eight.

2489
02:09:01,800 --> 02:09:03,480
Speaker 3: It's a night game Denver.

2490
02:09:03,600 --> 02:09:07,040
Speaker 6: Oh, there's gonna be so much motivations at Denver.

2491
02:09:08,480 --> 02:09:09,160
Speaker 3: Let's go.

2492
02:09:10,000 --> 02:09:10,200
Speaker 6: Oh.

2493
02:09:10,240 --> 02:09:14,080
Speaker 3: I love when those little side because side motivate, chance

2494
02:09:14,120 --> 02:09:16,480
Speaker 3: to climb back into it, getting getting getting getting in

2495
02:09:16,560 --> 02:09:19,280
Speaker 3: and then the Chiefs laid down and since I remember

2496
02:09:19,320 --> 02:09:21,720
Speaker 3: if Cincinnati was already out of it though by week seventeen,

2497
02:09:22,160 --> 02:09:23,760
Speaker 3: something's telling me in my head they were.

2498
02:09:25,320 --> 02:09:28,320
Speaker 6: But they didn't do anything. Denver didn't do them any favors.

2499
02:09:28,640 --> 02:09:32,040
Speaker 6: But man, if they if they really did officially eliminated.

2500
02:09:31,520 --> 02:09:33,280
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. They won five straight at the

2501
02:09:33,320 --> 02:09:35,080
Speaker 3: end of the season, Cincinnati.

2502
02:09:34,560 --> 02:09:36,240
Speaker 6: Did, okay, so they were winning for the reason.

2503
02:09:36,320 --> 02:09:38,560
Speaker 3: Yeah they were. They were sprinting to the finish.

2504
02:09:38,720 --> 02:09:41,880
Speaker 6: And I love when there's that that undercurrent of motivation

2505
02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:44,280
Speaker 6: from last year that people forget about it. I just

2506
02:09:44,320 --> 02:09:47,520
Speaker 6: remembered it thinking about it now. Yeah, ooh, that is

2507
02:09:47,560 --> 02:09:49,320
Speaker 6: such a juicy Week four game.

2508
02:09:49,600 --> 02:09:54,760
Speaker 3: Let me let me go back Week four. Yes, yeah,

2509
02:09:54,920 --> 02:09:57,920
Speaker 3: January they played or the last game of the January.

2510
02:09:58,440 --> 02:09:59,800
Speaker 6: That's a Monday night game.

2511
02:10:00,040 --> 02:10:03,280
Speaker 3: Dude, why did we meet for Monday night?

2512
02:10:03,400 --> 02:10:03,520
Speaker 6: Right?

2513
02:10:03,560 --> 02:10:06,879
Speaker 3: Wait, I'm looking at this this last January, which is when.

2514
02:10:07,520 --> 02:10:10,000
Speaker 6: Oh you want to look at the standings.

2515
02:10:09,880 --> 02:10:13,640
Speaker 3: When the Cincinnati Bengals had to play the Pittsburgh Steelers

2516
02:10:13,640 --> 02:10:18,560
Speaker 3: at Pittsburgh January fourth. January fourth, This says Pittsburgh one

2517
02:10:18,880 --> 02:10:19,720
Speaker 3: was a Tuesday.

2518
02:10:21,240 --> 02:10:23,720
Speaker 6: Did he get moved today because of a snowstorm or something?

2519
02:10:24,400 --> 02:10:26,960
Speaker 3: So they knew they were out of it when they played.

2520
02:10:27,080 --> 02:10:28,080
Speaker 3: That's what you're thinking of.

2521
02:10:28,320 --> 02:10:29,560
Speaker 6: That's yeah, that's what I thought.

2522
02:10:29,600 --> 02:10:31,000
Speaker 3: That's what they knew they were out of it when

2523
02:10:31,000 --> 02:10:34,760
Speaker 3: you played. That guy did not remember that game getting

2524
02:10:34,800 --> 02:10:35,680
Speaker 3: moved to a Tuesday.

2525
02:10:35,800 --> 02:10:38,480
Speaker 6: I'm guessing I'm you tell me. Are you looking at

2526
02:10:38,480 --> 02:10:39,640
Speaker 6: the twenty twenty five calendar?

2527
02:10:39,760 --> 02:10:41,600
Speaker 3: Twenty four? No O, Yeah, I just went straight back

2528
02:10:41,640 --> 02:10:42,000
Speaker 3: from this.

2529
02:10:42,040 --> 02:10:47,400
Speaker 6: Date Monday night game, Week four. That's a juicy one.

2530
02:10:47,480 --> 02:10:48,880
Speaker 6: All right, We got to take a break here. Some

2531
02:10:48,920 --> 02:10:51,040
Speaker 6: final thoughts on the tweetcheet when we return here on

2532
02:10:51,040 --> 02:10:53,120
Speaker 6: one Bill's Live, presented by Collid of Health, It's Buffalo

2533
02:10:53,120 --> 02:11:11,520
Speaker 6: Bills Radio. All right, some final thoughts here on the

2534
02:11:11,480 --> 02:11:14,160
Speaker 6: tweetshet As we were asking you for your bold prediction

2535
02:11:14,320 --> 02:11:18,040
Speaker 6: for the Bills in twenty twenty five, TWG on the

2536
02:11:18,040 --> 02:11:21,320
Speaker 6: tweets sheet says, twenty and oh.

2537
02:11:22,760 --> 02:11:25,320
Speaker 3: Dear lord, that's bold. Let's go.

2538
02:11:26,440 --> 02:11:32,320
Speaker 6: That is bold. Yeah, twenty and oh, that's bold. Jungle

2539
02:11:32,360 --> 02:11:36,120
Speaker 6: Pulls comes in with a gift or a jiff, depending

2540
02:11:36,120 --> 02:11:38,760
Speaker 6: on how you pronounce it, and he's got the giff

2541
02:11:38,800 --> 02:11:43,040
Speaker 6: of clubber Lang from Rocky three, where he says, my

2542
02:11:43,240 --> 02:11:51,360
Speaker 6: prediction pain pain, just hoping it's pain for the opponents

2543
02:11:51,480 --> 02:11:55,080
Speaker 6: of the Bills and not Buffalo. So that is my

2544
02:11:55,680 --> 02:11:59,720
Speaker 6: hope there. And then we've got one more here from

2545
02:11:59,840 --> 02:12:02,879
Speaker 6: David who says, part of the reason this is interesting

2546
02:12:03,440 --> 02:12:06,600
Speaker 6: is because it's a one hundred percent injury league. I

2547
02:12:06,640 --> 02:12:09,040
Speaker 6: have great hopes of at least making the Super Bowl.

2548
02:12:09,480 --> 02:12:12,280
Speaker 6: Bean has done a great job of acquiring multiple Next

2549
02:12:12,320 --> 02:12:15,040
Speaker 6: man up, I'll go with seventeen and oh as we

2550
02:12:15,080 --> 02:12:19,680
Speaker 6: are favored in all games. But for predictions, we'll see.

2551
02:12:20,280 --> 02:12:23,720
Speaker 6: So people are bullish on the Bills, uh to save

2552
02:12:23,760 --> 02:12:24,000
Speaker 6: the leak.

2553
02:12:24,040 --> 02:12:26,320
Speaker 3: Oh yes, not just fans either, I mean most people

2554
02:12:26,360 --> 02:12:28,880
Speaker 3: around the league can see you know exactly what they're

2555
02:12:28,880 --> 02:12:31,720
Speaker 3: looking at. Josh is gonna play a high level. The

2556
02:12:31,760 --> 02:12:34,360
Speaker 3: offensive line coming back intact and it's been a solid

2557
02:12:34,440 --> 02:12:36,840
Speaker 3: unit year in year out. They've got James Cook signed

2558
02:12:36,840 --> 02:12:40,320
Speaker 3: to an extension. They got Joshua Palmer, Keon Coleman, Khalil

2559
02:12:40,320 --> 02:12:43,920
Speaker 3: Shakir who's already approven commodity, Dalton Kinkaid, and Dawson Knox,

2560
02:12:44,440 --> 02:12:49,760
Speaker 3: Ray Davis backing up Jim Jimbo. I mean, this offense

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Speaker 3: is gonna be tough to stop. And if your offense

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Speaker 3: can't score or can't stay on the field because of

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Speaker 3: its own mistakes, let alone whatever the Bills defense can

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Speaker 3: give you, you're gonna lose. It's a tough They're a

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Speaker 3: tough out. They're a tough out, and they're going to

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Speaker 3: continue to be and maybe this year they might be

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Speaker 3: tougher than they were last year when they were thirteen

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Speaker 3: and four.

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Speaker 6: So, as you know, Steve, I swooped in here after

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Speaker 6: visiting my parents in Charleston for my mom's eightieth and

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Speaker 6: my parents' sixtieth wedding anniversary. Congrats to them. So we

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Speaker 6: had a party in a soare for them. So some

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Speaker 6: of their friends are coming in and I'm introducing myself

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Speaker 6: because I don't know all of them. So this one

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Speaker 6: comes in. I said, Hi, my name's Chris, and she goes, oh,

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Speaker 6: are you Are you Mike's brother? She asked me if

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Speaker 6: I was my dad's brother. Ah, And I'm like, my

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Speaker 6: dad's eighty one bro. And do we look alike? Absolutely, yes,

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Speaker 6: you do. But I said to her, I said, no,

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Speaker 6: I'm his son. Oh you're his son. She looks at

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Speaker 6: me and she goes, well, take that as a compliment.

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Speaker 6: I was like, that's not a compliment for me. That's

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Speaker 6: a compliment for my dad. Compliment for me, you think

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Speaker 6: I look like an eighty year old?

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Speaker 3: What the hell? You should give her some vite. Let

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Speaker 3: me just give you some advice. When you dig yourself

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Speaker 3: a hole, stop digging. Compliment for me, What the hell, lady.

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Speaker 6: I couldn't believe it, so I told my dadd He goes,

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Speaker 6: I'll take the compliment.

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Speaker 3: I said, yeah, sure can have it.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure you will, and you can have it exactly unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I was like, jeez, do I have to start putting

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Speaker 6: on face cream at night? Like, what's going on?

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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, break man perfect, Yeah, that's unreal.

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Speaker 6: Tomorrow, happy to report we are back to our regular

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Speaker 6: schedule on both radio and television for the simulcast, So

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Speaker 6: you will see us tomorrow on the radio side or

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Speaker 6: the television side at our normally allotted time one pm,

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Speaker 6: where we will be rip roaring into Week one matchup

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Speaker 6: with the Ravens. We'll see you the