WEBVTT - The OTP | Pregame - Week 7 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.480 This is the OTP pre game presented by Farm Bureau 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.080 Health Plans. When it's crunch time for your health coverage, 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.960 trust Farm Bureau Health Plans to implement the perfect game plan. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.080 With over seventy seven years of protecting Tennesseeans, they know 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.159 how to win. With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith, Snicker's 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:39.559 hot seat Titans Radio's ever reliable Rhett Brian. How many 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.680 of the Snickers are you going to steal on? Behalf 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:44.240 of coach mack Zero? 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.400 Well, I mean, can we gets? 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:47.279 But I'm not going to do that. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.600 It's not as full as it is, not as full 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:50.239 as it was. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.960 The last person was who was in here was Dave 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.800 McGinnis talking about stealing the snickers. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:58.200 He clearly did that. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.639 Jar is precariously low. I are you, I mean this 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:03.320 is a crime. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.679 Are you accusing Coach MAXX? 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:06.560 Straight up? 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.399 I am. Can I say something because this is just 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.120 by the way, This studio is fantastic and with all 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.760 the cameras and the things that you can monitor, you 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.319 could probably catch him red handed with his hand in 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.720 the snickers. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.800 In now he said he was going to take the 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:21.480 whole jar. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.280 I'm thinking about getting some crime scene tape and like 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.520 taping off the area disgusting for Prince. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.640 I mean you and you could see him taking the whole. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.160 Jar too, and he put it in his bag. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.600 With zero to walk out with seventy four waters. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.480 Yep, three hundred and sixty. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.040 I think he still grabs a couple of like face 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.080 masks like from COVID whenever. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.839 He sees it. I've never seen then. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.160 I think he just grabs a couple every time. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.200 Remember he got he got a whole box. And when he 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:55.160 left Green Bay that time, Yeah, to. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.080 Exit the stadium, you had to go through the locker 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.600 room and there was a bad, a giant box of 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.080 masks and Mac just grabbed the whole box and we 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.160 walked out and he just handed them to me and 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.520 was like, here, hold these. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.240 That's the most empty I've ever seen the Snickers jar. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:13.120 And all the time. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.200 That is coach Mac, now that I think about it, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.360 though we've only won seven games since he stole all 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.919 those masks. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.840 I'm not superstitious. I'm just a little stitious, and I 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.079 think we need to do something like that. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:28.560 You need to take those back. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.000 Give them back, return them, return the masks, return of 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:32.400 the Mac. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.280 No that's that's not true. But anyway, good to have 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:37.000 you with us, Rhett. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:37.800 I'm glad to be here. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:43.119 The OTP pregame relies on five topics, okay, and so 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.880 we're getting ready to go to Buffalo. So the first 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.400 topic is pretty simple. Give me your scenario how the 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:56.360 Titans go into Buffalo and win on Sunday at twelve 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:57.640 oh two Central Time. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.800 Scenario is this. You continue to do what you had 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:05.200 done in the last couple of games. Tony Pollard is 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.880 a huge part of this and continuing the success with 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.440 the run game. But if you can somehow mix in 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.600 RPO stuff and hit on a couple of bang bang, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:20.200 big down the field type, you know, explosive plays, I 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.040 think that would ignite something in this offense that they're 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:28.040 looking for. Defense is playing well for you. Ryan Stonehouse 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.600 comes off of a game where he had a seventy 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.600 five yard punt. So you do that and you play 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.399 clean football and don't turn it over, and I think 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.080 you can play keep away with those guys and come 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.760 out of there with a win. But you've got to 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.800 overcome the atmosphere because you know the first thing you 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.720 said on the Brian Callahan Show, this week is they 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.280 have been there in a month, and we know what 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.440 it's like to show up at high Mark Stadium anyway, 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.920 because those people are outrageous. They're really going to be outrageous. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.440 Multi levels up because it's been a minute. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.360 And it's going to be a beautiful day, sixty six 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:01.440 degrees or something. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.360 A kickoff, it's like prime football. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.720 Well, I mean every I mean, if you're going to 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:11.040 the game, then you're going to that game, meaning you're 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.040 not gonna wake up and go, well, it's raining or maybe. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.760 It will tailgate much on TV, well. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.400 Yeah or some I mean, you're not doing that, and 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.120 people do that all over the league. They want to 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.880 say they don't, but you always kind of like it 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.800 if you're the opposing team and there's something that's happened, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.680 you know, it's a little windy, or there was rain 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.160 earlier in the day or whatever, because you know it's 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:39.880 gonna knock just that little edge off the crowd. Not happening. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.920 Sundow's Summer Day in Buffalo, Well. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:43.640 Chamber of Commerce. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.280 And by the way, the people in Buffalo serious about 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.120 their tailgating. I wouldn't be surprised as somebody tailgating there 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:58.040 right now I'm serious, Wild RV's lawn chairs whatever. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.840 All right, So give me your scenario, Amy Wells, of 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.960 how the Titans go into Buffalo and win on Sunday. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.160 I think if the Titans are able to handle their 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.559 own business, and by that I mean play a clean game, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.480 limit the penalties, are able to force some turnovers, are 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.800 able to handle the things that are fully in their control, 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.480 and play a clean game, I think they give themselves 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.560 a pretty good chance of winning this game. I like 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.880 a lot of the different matchups, both offensive and defensively. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.520 I like just the way these two teams go together. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.080 I think it gives a lot of advantage Tennessee Titans. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.760 But you gotta play a clean game. You have to 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.880 handle the controllable things that you can control, and that's penalties, 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.920 that's takeaways, that's not giving the ball away, that's handling 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.280 your own business. And if the Titans can do that, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.080 I think they give themselves such really good chance. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.880 I think it's Josh Allen largely the story. Josh Allen 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:59.200 has not thrown an interception this season. Wow, he is 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.400 going to throw in interception at some point. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.640 How about Sunday calls and averages? 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.960 Well and he has thrown the balls. Troy Aikman said 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.480 it on Monday Night Football. He said, now he's thrown 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.720 the balls that could have been intercepted, but they weren't caught. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.200 I think that's where you start, is if you get 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.880 a chance to have an interception, you got to intercept 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.039 the pass. The other thing he's done well that. This 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:28.159 is incredible. The Bills are seven of seven converting fourth downs. Wow, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.839 so they're converting thirty four percent of third downs, but 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:37.240 one hundred percent of fourth downs. So that takes their 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:42.320 conversion rate up to around well over forty percent. Actually, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.840 if you add those conversions in, so you can't let 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.200 them get fourth and ones. You can't let Josh Allen 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.200 be sneaking there and at the goal line, which they 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.080 use him for because he's six y five two hundred 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.039 and forty pounds. The other part of that, along with 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:05.719 the conversions, fifteen touchdowns in twenty two red zone possessions 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.640 only five field goals. Yeah, so you've gotta make them 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.520 kick field goals. They're gonna move the ball. Guess what 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.400 it's gonna happen. You stop Josh Allen and you give 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:17.240 yourself a chance. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.400 If you do the other thing, you're. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.640 Gonna right stop him. I think you're gonna hope that 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.600 you catch it when he throws into you, and that 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.160 you force him into situations where their offense has to 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.240 come off the field without having scored a touchdown. And 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.160 so that's the part of it on the other side. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:40.040 And this is really incredible about them statistically already this year, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:45.920 their defense has ten takeaways. They've also seen six possessions 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.880 by the opposition inside their twenty where the other team 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:55.000 hasn't scored points. So every time you get down there, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.640 you've got to score, whether that's a field goal or 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.560 a touchdown, you've got to score. Now, the Titans have 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.240 actually been very good. Their best offensive statistic to this 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:11.240 point is thirteen red zone trips, eight touchdowns, so that 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.360 is very solid. You like to be over sixty percent, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.480 you'd like to get it to over seventy percent. But 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:22.120 you get down there and the Titans are scoring, score touchdowns, 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.640 but at least get a field goal. I think if 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:31.560 that's the game it becomes. If you're getting off the 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:36.200 field on defense, catch the ball with Josh Allen because 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.800 you're gonna have an opportunity. And then on the other side. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.640 Just keep producing, just keep finding ways to keep grinding 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.120 points out, whether that's touchdowns or field goals, and stay 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.000 in this ball game. I think you've got a chance 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.880 to win because what you said about matchups is correct 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.640 in that the Bills have had some injury problems. Listen, 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:06.480 and what they've done is such a veteran team style 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.240 of how they've played this year. They've the best they 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.560 could have hoped for coming out of training camp with 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.000 how the schedule was set through six games was four 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:20.400 and two. Guess what they are four into because they've 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.079 they got a quarterback, they got all these veterans, They 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.600 know how to win. They win the games they should win. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.800 I mean, this is really who they are. They haven't 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.280 been overwhelming for the most part though, And that's the 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.880 thing you say, Okay, with this defense the Titans have, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.400 you've got a chance to match up. Yeah, but the 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.520 game has to go in my opinion, you know that 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.360 the topic being how did the Titans go in and win? 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.280 I think these sort of ancillary factors with the chess moves, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.520 it's kind of how it has to go down. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.839 Yeah, I think that's strong. That's good analysis. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.680 Much reasons too why I mentioned the run game being 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.360 a part of this because in one of their losses 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.480 was Baltimore, they ran all over them, right, and so 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.720 they are beatable. But you're right about now the going 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.280 inside the twenty and them not allowing a touchdown or 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.160 a score. Little of that skewed because Greg Zarlin missed 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:18.640 a couple of well chip shots. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.439 But that's the whole thing is you you can't get 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.880 down there and Breeze Hall rushed for over one hundred yards. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.640 They're giving up one hundred and forty yards rushing per 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:33.640 game in part because they've had and they've had injury situations. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.920 But you've got to make the field goals, right, you 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.240 know that. I mean if if the Jets make the 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.640 field goals, they win the game. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.440 Uncle Nick as you call him, yes's. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.480 The former Jets kicker who's kicked in Orchard Park more 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.320 than once. Which is one thing you really like about 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.560 Nick Folk in this matchup is he's been through the 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.920 swirling wins and we've all been down on the field 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.960 there before. It's a thing. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.880 Oh, it's very real. It is very real. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.720 I One of my favorite sideline memories is you coming 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.400 down to me during a game and saying, what is 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:12.800 he kicking into. 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.120 The wind or with the wind? And my thought was, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.480 who could tell? Because it really is. 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.040 It feels like you're just standing in the middle of 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.559 one of those money things. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.880 That shoots the money machine. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.640 Yeah, because the wind comes from everywhere. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.600 And I remember just kind of chuckling and being like, well, 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:32.640 I think. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.360 It's coming from this way, but who really knows. It's everywhere. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:37.160 It's wild. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.480 To your point about Josh Allen said the crazy sat 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.480 I saw on him this week, I believe about forty 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.959 percent of his rushes are either for first downs or touchdowns. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.679 To go back to your fourth down part, Wow. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.480 Well he's I mean, he's amazing. When I saw him 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.960 at the Senior Bowl, I didn't really know what to 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.880 make of him because I'd never seen an arm like 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:07.439 his ever before ever. I mean, it was and I'm 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.200 talking about you know, and there have been times where 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:14.360 I've snuck down on the field over twenty plus years 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.199 to go see somebody throw just because you wanted to 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.520 or to see somebody kick or catch, or you wanted 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.600 to determine how big somebody really was or how not 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:28.960 big they were. And when I watched him at those practices. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:35.080 I've still and the Titans quarterback Will Levice absolute gun. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:41.960 This guy is something to that level and even beyond. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.640 And he is so big. He is such a big human. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.079 But you know when he was at Wyoming he completed 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.920 I'm looking at it here fifty six percent of his passes. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:53.400 Wow. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.040 And I mean remember hit the game a couple weeks 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.240 ago in Houston where he went nine out of thirty. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:12:59.239 Yeah. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.240 So this offense is set up for him, but they 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.920 take advantage of what he does well. He runs really well. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.720 To Ret's point. In his career, Ret, he has fifty 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.840 six rushing touchdowns. Now think about that. He has started 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.439 one hundred and nine games counting playoffs, and he has 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:24.280 fifty six rushing touchdowns. Me and I mean he can run. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.600 He can. I mean early in his career he had 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.080 a couple hundred yard rushing games, but now he's up 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.120 to twenty five games with three hundred yards passing. He's 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.480 passed for four thousand yards each of the last three seasons. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.760 He hasn't thrown a pick this year. I mean, he's 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:45.600 been well coached and they've stayed with him at different points. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.800 You know, last year he threw eighteen picks, and it's like, well, 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.120 that's his game. He's gonna have a nine for thirty. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.040 He's going to throw eighteen picks on a year. But 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.560 he's so good at the things he does, and when 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.000 they are able to dictate with him, they don't lose. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.800 When you can get in the back and forth game, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.480 it's a it's a little different. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.320 That's interesting that he because you're right, and that's where 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.720 my question mark has always been with Josh Allen. Is 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.160 you feel like, I mean, he's got the size, he's 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.800 got the ability, he's got the skill. He's got these 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.560 magnificent games with all of the statistical whatever you want. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.720 But then he has some games like Houston, and then 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.920 he has some games where he's throwing picks all over 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:36.200 the place and you're just wondering, like, where's the consistency. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.880 But I guess that over time when you zoom out 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.120 a little bit and look at his career, kind. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:43.720 Of a wash. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.200 No, I mean I think it's better. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.360 I think it's better than a lot. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.120 Oh absolutely. I mean it's seven seventy two and thirty 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:51.240 seven as a starter. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:52.680 Okay, yeah, that's better. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.440 But what they've said, and this is where McDermott and 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:01.000 the GM Brandon Bean have been so smart is they've 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.440 said this is our guy period. And I mean, Rhett, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.680 you remember him as a rookie. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.160 Were you traveling his rookie year potentially? 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.000 Oh? Was that that was the Nick Williams game. Yes, 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.840 it was. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.320 That's what's in my mind as you're describing his style 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.760 of plane. I think about the growth year over years 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:20.400 since that. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.600 Yeah, he threw for eighty two yards right. He mostly 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.280 ran right, and that was the whole thing. I mean, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.160 they were running here, they were running like student body 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.000 left and things with him. But what they've done I 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:38.000 think as well, if not better than any franchise in 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:43.200 the league, is they got their guy and they said 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.800 this is our guy, and we're just going to do this, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.400 and we're going to build him out. And then the 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.080 second year, by the end of the second year, he 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.800 was better. And then by the third year, he's throwing 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.880 for four thousand yards yep. And we go get him 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.120 ste find Diggs and on and on and on, and 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.480 we have a running game, and we play defense and 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.480 he can always play in the weather because he's big 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.360 and he has a great arm. Yes, we might have 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.640 to deal with eighteen interceptions in a season which some 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.000 people would consider, oh gosh, what's happened, And they're like, 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.080 but he threw twenty nine touchdown passes. Yeah, and it's like, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:25.000 and we win again because we know some It's like, 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:32.320 the Bills are so smart because they understand they have 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.240 the guy that can get them there in their weather situation, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.360 with their cap situation, in their division, they've won the 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.200 division four straight years. Yeah, in their division situation. He 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.120 matches up with our defense. If we have to hunker 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.000 down in a game and just run it, run it, 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.520 run it, fine, whatever, it doesn't make any difference. We're 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.240 not going to go undefeated, and every once in a 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.480 while he's going to do something that's probably not going 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.480 to help us win. But guess what, he's a two 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.920 time Pro Bowl quarterback and again the stat seventy two 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.560 and thirty seven as a starter, we will win two 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:09.560 thirds of our games. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.479 Yeah, that will win more with him win a lot feriore. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:20.560 Yeah, but understanding that with his quirks, there are wins 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:21.240 attached to that. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.200 Pent Mike, I think because of him, Yeah, I think 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.680 the oppressive thing about him in twenty twenty four is 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.920 because due to injuries and a couple of other things. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.960 Obviously the trade of Stefan Dix. He's done it without 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.640 a true number one wide receiver. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.280 High and that brings us to topic number two. Topic 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.359 number two is how does Amari Cooper factor into the 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:46.400 game on Sunday. He was acquired on Tuesday from Cleveland, 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.480 and he already has twenty four catches on the year 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.480 for two hundred and fifty yards and two touchdowns. But 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.960 we saw Monday night in that game with Khalil Shakir 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.840 banged up, with Kean Coleman being a rookie, with their 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:06.000 best receiver really being Dalton Kincaid the tight end, they 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.639 needed to go get him a receiver. They've gone four 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.840 and two without replacing Stefan Diggs, and now they're getting 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:18.679 Cooper at this incredibly cheap price for the remainder of 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.239 the season, at just the right time, at just the 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:27.120 right moment. How do you think he factors in on Sunday? 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:31.000 Ret Bryan, Well, I'm gonna cheat because earlier this week 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.440 on Titans programming, you mentioned how he'd been traded, and 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.920 I had forgotten this, But he played against the Titans 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.760 in Dallas the first game he's traded from the Raiders 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.600 to the Cowboys, and he had what five for fifty 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.359 six in a score, five for fifty eight in a score, 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:52.200 five for fifty eight. Yes, yeah, but first game, and look, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.160 you look at what he's done and by default now 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.280 he's their leading receiver at two hundred and fifty yards 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.280 two touchdowns. But you're talking about guy his whole career 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.640 has averaged almost over fourteen yards of catch, his last 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.720 two years in Cleveland over one thousand yards, receiving over 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:13.879 seventy catches and I think fourteen combined touchdowns. And you 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.320 know he can make a difference. He absolutely can. I'm 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.679 interested to see what they do with him, and certainly 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.359 he's a vet and can They'll put a package together 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.800 for him. But you're right, Khalil Shakir, Dalton Kinkaid, those 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.000 are the two people who have made it work through 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.040 the first six games this year, and predominantly for Shakir 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.600 out of the slot. But they do the same thing 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:39.240 with Dalton Kincaid a lot as well. Kean Coleman has 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.399 his place that he can grow. But this is a 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.440 viable option for Josh Allen. 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.080 You agree, we're going to see a lot of Amari Cooper. 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.040 I think we are going to see a ton of 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.320 Amari Cooper. I think that that was first off the point, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.680 and I think he's something. He is someone that can 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:01.119 fit in so easily just because of the way that 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.600 he plays as a receiver. I think that he he's 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.639 kind of a plug and play guy, Like he doesn't 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.480 need a ton of reps with their offense, he doesn't 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.160 need a ton of time in their system to learn 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.640 what it is. He can come in and just go 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.320 and make an impact right away. So yeah, I think 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:20.160 that Amari Cooper is going to be a big part 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.640 of what they end up doing on Sunday. Also, I'm 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.359 interested to see how they continue to use tight Ends 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.800 because it seems like more and more and more seeing 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.440 you're seeing the tight Ends get more involved. You mentioned 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.000 Dalton Kincaid and what he's been doing it. I'm curious 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:40.720 to see if they're going to be a part of 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.679 this or if this is going to be the a 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:43.520 MARII Cooper show. 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.719 What I'm interested in with them at tight End is 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:50.200 do they and can they get Dawson Knox more involved? 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.879 You know, because Dawson Knox has been to a pro Bowl. Yeah, 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:58.119 but Ken Caid is now the focus. I mean, Ken 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.160 Kid had seventy three catches last year as a rookie. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.560 So do they use Dawson Knox or is that a 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.720 chip that they use, you know, down the line looking 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.720 at a trade possibility as we get closer to the 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.120 trade deadline on November fifth, Because he's a really good player. 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:19.640 Caught a touchdown the other night. Yep, he's a really 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:21.320 good player and still a young player. 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.400 Good athlete, oh yeah, good athlete. 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:27.040 And that's what scares you about how they when he's 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:31.600 in the game, you think, oh well, now in their offense, 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.240 he's the fourth option, but is he really? I mean, 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:38.040 he's certainly way better than a fourth option in terms 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:38.719 of his talent. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.879 And thinking about Amari Cooper now in the mix to 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:44.800 your point kind of what they do with tight ends, 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:46.800 what does this do for some of the other receiving 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.119 corps if as targets are shifted, Like, what does it 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:52.080