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Speaker 1: This one Bill's Live presented by Call LIGHTA help.

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Speaker 2: Every time I walk in here, it's the same feeling.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's got the same hopes and dreams. When Big in Vegas.

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Speaker 3: Go home a champ, now went, I'm the move, look ahead,

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Speaker 3: look at Tom Field first, then go Buffalo, and the

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Speaker 3: crowd is into it early. Through four games, Buffalo has

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Speaker 3: been the best team in the af SE comes out

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Speaker 3: the touch time.

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Speaker 1: They unstoppable, fational on both sides of the ball, and.

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Speaker 4: Vanessas.

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Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills are the real deal.

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Speaker 5: They're back representing the AFC.

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Speaker 2: But most of the time those dreams are met with

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Speaker 2: despair and disappointment.

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Speaker 5: Perfect and the prodcoons have come to Buffalo and they're

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Speaker 5: gonna leave.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with the Bills.

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Speaker 5: Still no run game, Still lots of turnovers.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you're down so bad you're not sure you'll ever

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Speaker 2: make it out.

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Speaker 5: Hurts to the artside and the egos want it in

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Speaker 5: over time.

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Speaker 2: You hear the voices, feel the eyeballs staring at.

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Speaker 5: Right now, the Bills are tenth in the AFC.

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Speaker 6: Jeff Saturday, are they done?

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Speaker 2: You're done?

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Speaker 5: I just think they peaked.

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Speaker 2: I don't have them making the playoffs?

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Speaker 3: What leaves you still confidence after it's been so many

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Speaker 3: weeks of kind of the same story here because we've

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Speaker 3: done it before.

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Speaker 2: But you know, with the odds stacked against you and

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Speaker 2: nothing to lose, all you need is a seat at

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Speaker 2: the table because you know you're about to go on

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Speaker 2: a run.

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Speaker 5: It's crushed there talking about the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 2: The only thing that matters, man, gonna do they have

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Speaker 2: fixed their offensive problems? Are you hearing this?

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Speaker 5: I stout running game, physical bull sides of the ball.

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Speaker 5: That's the scary Buffalo.

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Speaker 6: You guys told me you felt rejuvenated. Why let James.

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Speaker 5: Cook under star Cook is in the hitchet.

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Speaker 2: On behalf of the Americans football comp Do not let

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Speaker 2: this team get.

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Speaker 5: Into the tournament. Seventeam's a tough hand, saying is our

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Speaker 5: lucky number. He's dynamic, this is next level.

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Speaker 6: Touchdown the hell it's gonna take touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Buffalout And sometimes you realize you don't need the perfect.

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Speaker 3: Hand that as your champions.

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Speaker 2: You just need to play the cards you're dealt.

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Speaker 5: I don't want what's everything?

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Speaker 2: You wanted?

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Speaker 7: You everything game, but what the game was?

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Speaker 6: Ah right?

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Speaker 5: Put your helmets on at home, everybody. My goodness, let's go.

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Speaker 5: The playoff hype video has been released. If you haven't

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Speaker 5: seen it, get on Buffalo bills dot com and let

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Speaker 5: the chicken skin run all over your body, goose bumps

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Speaker 5: from head to toe. My goodness, Steve Tasker's done it again.

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Speaker 2: You did a great job. I'm telling you. They you

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Speaker 2: know they you know this too, Brownie. It's not just

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Speaker 2: our little group in here or control that they do

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Speaker 2: such great but we've got a whole crew of people

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Speaker 2: that are really talented and they put all that together,

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Speaker 2: got the extras together, got the you know, made made

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Speaker 2: the arrangements. It's great, came out very nice. We've got

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Speaker 2: a lot of good comments on the on the hype video,

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Speaker 2: so I'm congratulations the guys over in the creative and

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Speaker 2: the shooters and them all that. So it's great.

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Speaker 5: If you are a fan and you're coming to the game,

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Speaker 5: you need a little extra juice coming into the stadium,

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Speaker 5: just rip that off on your phone and turn the

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Speaker 5: volume all the way up. My goodness, Are we ready

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Speaker 5: for playoff football? Or what? The answer is a yes

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Speaker 5: with a capital Y and uh. The most interesting development

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Speaker 5: concerning the game is the weather, Steve. Some of our

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Speaker 5: local mediorologists in fact, are predicting the potential for a

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Speaker 5: persistent lake effect snowband YEP to set up shop here

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Speaker 5: on Sunday. Now we all know there is a wide

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Speaker 5: range of what that could bring, but the possibility certainly

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Speaker 5: that brings. I think the concern with that, though, Steve,

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Speaker 5: is weather like that, which as you mentioned yesterday, could

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Speaker 5: I would say the majority believe is the superior team.

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Speaker 2: They're the favorite, yeah, and they become I think less

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Speaker 2: of a favorite in conditions like that. Certainly they've got

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Speaker 2: did it last year against Miami in a slight down

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Speaker 2: in a slight snowstorm. They've had bad weather today, not.

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Speaker 5: Go well against Cincinnati last year, they had problem with footing.

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Speaker 2: It didn't go well again in the in the game

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Speaker 2: against New England three years ago. There's all this kind

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Speaker 2: way the Steelers are built and the way they run

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Speaker 2: the football, is going to be a close game, you know,

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Speaker 2: kind of one of those grinded out games. And now

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Speaker 2: with the weather like this, and you're you're right. There

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Speaker 2: is a wide range of possibilities at this time of

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Speaker 2: year for the weather to be. But now that we

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Speaker 2: get the weather getting closer, it looks like the spectrum

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Speaker 2: is shifting towards the bad end of it. The best

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Speaker 5: And wind chills as well, So make sure if you're

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Speaker 5: coming to the game you layer up because it's going

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Speaker 5: to be chilly, to say the least. But yeah, which

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Speaker 5: just how weather impacted this game could be. So something

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Speaker 5: And I'll say this, I know, usually about forty eight

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Speaker 2: With Obviously, Yeah, the closer it gets, the better they're

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Speaker 2: it's a lake effect snow chance. We all know, it

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Speaker 2: depends on which way the wind's blowing. It could go

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Speaker 2: bro it's ugly. Yeah, buckle up, it's ugly. We'll see. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna see. It's funny too, because I Jim Nantz

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Speaker 5: Well, from what we understand, right, yeah, from what we understand,

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Speaker 5: it's supposed to be even worse on Monday than it

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Speaker 5: we could be looking at stuff like school closings, business closings,

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Speaker 2: But I've got obviously I got people know I'm locally,

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Speaker 2: i got grandkids. They're schools already called.

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Speaker 5: For next Monday.

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Speaker 2: School's already called.

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Speaker 5: Oh yes, there's no school Monday. It's Martin Luther King Day.

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Speaker 2: So that's good.

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Speaker 5: Oh well, that's that's actually is it.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't because of the weather, I guess, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: sure it was the way it's not. It's Martin Luther

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're going to dodge a bullet there because it's

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Speaker 5: looking like weather would have closed school anyway, and businesses

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Speaker 5: pick those under the tires all that stuff. Oh yeah, hey, man,

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Speaker 5: as long as you got the right amount of layers,

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Speaker 2: There is no bad weather, just bad gear.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. The last thing you you want to be cold

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Speaker 2: Hand, your feet, in your head. If you can do that,

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Speaker 2: you can pretty much. You know whether it wear, you're

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know about that.

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Speaker 2: Pretty much, not not completely.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you, mister outdoor winter camper. Not me. I don't

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Speaker 5: play that game. Layer it up. I'd rather have so

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Speaker 5: much that I got to take it off rather than

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Speaker 5: You say that all the time.

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Speaker 2: I know. Let my kids, all of them, and now

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Speaker 2: that they're older, probably teaching their own kids this now too.

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Speaker 2: The thing I used to tell all my kids all

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Speaker 2: So don't underpack for the game on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Better to overestimate poor conditions.

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Speaker 2: Can take it off and leave it behind, but you

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Speaker 5: So there's that. And we should tell you that this

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Speaker 5: week's wild card game against the Steelers is presented by

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Speaker 5: this year's Playoff presenting sponsor Northtown Automotive Companies, the official

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Speaker 5: automotive dealer of the Buffalo Bills. In fact, Maddie Clab

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Speaker 5: and myself will be on location at Northtown Automotive out

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Speaker 5: on Miller's Port Highway tomorrow to do the show from

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Speaker 5: one to three pm, so feel free to swing by

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Speaker 5: check us out. And yeah, well we'll have fun out

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Speaker 5: you wish one to three pm tomorrow. But we got

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Speaker 5: plenty to get to today, most notably practice, which is

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Speaker 5: of curious about that. My guess is Coach mcdermany will

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Speaker 2: Well here's the thing. Yeah, you want to get used

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Speaker 2: We used to practice inside as well when we could

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Speaker 2: a quick outdoor thing. Particularly since they got the set

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Speaker 2: up here is perfect. Now they can just hop outside

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right about that. So we'll pass along a

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Speaker 5: Seven national titles for Nick Saban, six super Bowls as

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Speaker 2: And there's already obviously when something like this happens, particularly

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Speaker 5: You've got a quarter in the league looking for head coaches.

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Speaker 2: That's right, eighteenth Usually eight's usually the max.

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Speaker 2: One of the things you do. Think about it. You

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Speaker 2: a former head to coach of the coach Arizona State,

435
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Speaker 2: was the head coach of the Jets. You play to

436
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Speaker 2: win the game, Herm Edwards. He goes to Herm Edwards

437
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 2: and says, you owe me so Herms like, I don't know,

438
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Speaker 2: I goes, Yeah, you owe me, so Herm had to

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Speaker 2: go coach for Tony, Right, it's that kind of thing.

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Speaker 5: I got this job.

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Speaker 2: I need your help. Yeah, it's you know, the turmoil.

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Speaker 2: The turmoil is unbelievable. You got two hundred and forty

443
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Speaker 2: guys and their families. It's it's crazy, it is it's man.

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Speaker 2: You want to know what people go Did you ever

445
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Speaker 2: think about coaching?

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Speaker 10: No?

447
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Speaker 2: How about no, I'm not doing it? Yeah I am not.

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Speaker 2: I am not moving this year to Minneapolis, and then

449
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Speaker 2: next year to San Francisco in the year out and

450
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Speaker 2: two years after that to what Nashville or someone you know,

451
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Speaker 2: you just don't know.

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Speaker 5: No, thanks, Yeah, dude, it's a lifestyle, as you say.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 5: The only other bit of around the NFL news to

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Speaker 5: bring you Steelers safety Minka Fitzpatrick interviewed by the media

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Speaker 5: down in Pittsburgh. He said he does intend to play

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Speaker 5: on Sunday against the Bills. He's been dealing with a

458
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Speaker 5: knee injury. He's a pretty important piece on the back

459
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Speaker 5: end of that Pittsburgh defense, so it looks like he

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Speaker 5: will be back in the lineup on Sunday. Also wanted

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Speaker 5: to remind you that We've got the Football Relationship Hotline.

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Speaker 5: So if you have an issue, especially with this weekend's game,

473
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Speaker 5: we're talking playoffs now, people, everything else has got to

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Speaker 5: get out of the way, got to clear the decks here.

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Speaker 5: drink of the Buffalo Bills. We've got to take a

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Speaker 5: break here because when we return, we are going to

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Speaker 5: She covers much of the AFC North most of the season.

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Speaker 5: We're going to get the four to one one on

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Speaker 5: Bill's Live presented by Collide Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 5: All right, welcome back One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 5: with you. Were still waiting to connect with add King

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Speaker 5: Kobala from CBS Sports, so we'll catch up with her

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Speaker 5: here shortly. I think maybe the most interesting thing about

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Speaker 5: the Steelers, Steve, is since they made their offensive coordinator change,

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Speaker 5: they promoted their running backs coach Eddie Faulkner after firing

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Speaker 5: Matt Canada right before Thanksgiving. They and we talked to

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Speaker 5: Dani Rolovski about this a little bit yesterday. There's no surprises.

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Speaker 5: Their offensive approach is very much like Buffalo's defense is

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Speaker 5: defensive approach used to be, We're just gonna line up

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Speaker 5: and play, and you try to stop us. That's their

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Speaker 5: offensive approach, and it is straight ahead, coming downhill. See

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Speaker 5: if you got enough to neutralize us and make us

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Speaker 5: one dimensional. And then they rely on their defense to

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Speaker 5: force takeaways to get extra possessions for their offense, but

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Speaker 5: get used to a ball control, control the clock kind

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Speaker 5: of style. From Pittsburgh with every so often a deep shot.

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Speaker 2: Now they had the when they made if they made

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Speaker 2: the switch, like in November for the Cincinnati game, or

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Speaker 2: just after the Cincinnati game, they won sixteen to ten.

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Speaker 2: Then they scored ten points against Arizona, eighteen points against

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Speaker 2: the Patriots, and the thirteen points against Indianapolis is a

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Speaker 2: three game losing streak. And then they switch over to

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Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph. Then they scored thirty four thirty and then

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Speaker 2: seventeen against the Ravens.

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Speaker 5: This last time, they're averaging twenty seven a game with

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Speaker 5: him in the lineup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty four thirty and then seventeen. There they do.

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Speaker 2: They can light it up a little bit.

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Speaker 5: So with that, we turned to our good friend from

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Speaker 5: CBS Sports at d D. Kinkawala, who joins us now

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Speaker 5: on the line as Didi. Good to see you a

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Speaker 5: long time, no see, good to have you back. How

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Speaker 5: you been.

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Speaker 6: It is so good to be here. And I'm sorry

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Speaker 6: I'm smiling so big, but I'm just thinking about how

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Speaker 6: I'm making my son proud.

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Speaker 2: There you go, that's right. You do have the small

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Speaker 2: the small child who's you know, an embarrassment to your

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Speaker 2: family as a Bills fan.

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Speaker 6: Right, not to the family, only to the husband. But

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Speaker 6: I will tell you. I will start with a personal story,

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Speaker 6: if that's okay. I was in LA this weekend. I

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Speaker 6: had the Chiefs Chargers game. I was on the sideline

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Speaker 6: for that. It's snowed in Pittsburgh. My husband sends me

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Speaker 6: a picture of my son in his Bill's hat next

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Speaker 6: to a snowman that he had made, and the snowman

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Speaker 6: is wearing a Steelers hat. And when I came home,

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Speaker 6: I asked Nico, I said, why'd you put the Steeler's

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Speaker 6: hat on the snowman? And he said, because the snowman

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Speaker 6: was going to melt, just like you know who.

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Speaker 5: Wow, wow, wow all.

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Speaker 6: I love it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he goes my favorite because it's creating mabe I've

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Speaker 2: never met.

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Speaker 6: My husband messages me regularly to say this Bills thing

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Speaker 6: really needs to fade and go away. This is really annoying.

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Speaker 6: And I just told him I'm done talking about it.

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Speaker 6: I'm proud that your son goes his own way.

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Speaker 2: I've met I've never I've never met Nico, but he

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Speaker 2: is automatically my favorite.

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Speaker 5: So ADDI are you working this weekend anywhere?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Very funny that you say that. I am indeed supposed

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Speaker 6: to be in Kansas City for the Dolphins Chiefs, but

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Speaker 6: I literally just got a message saying my flight has

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Speaker 6: been canceled. So ostensibly I am working, but we'll see

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Speaker 6: with all the weather.

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Speaker 5: I was just going to say, I was just going

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Speaker 5: to say, you're in a house divided. That might not

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Speaker 5: be a good place to be this Sunday.

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Speaker 2: With the situation.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know what, Nico will be home to cheer

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Speaker 6: for his bills. Matt will be on a plane. He

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Speaker 6: has a works trip overseas.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you can deal with his will house. Okay, that's good.

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Speaker 5: Let's let's begin with with the Mason Rudolph phenomenon. You know,

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Speaker 5: since he's taken over, they've won three games in a row.

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Speaker 5: Coach Tollins says he's staying with the hot hand, even

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Speaker 5: though he curiously still has Kenny Pickett listed as the

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Speaker 5: starter on the depth chart. People are having a field

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Speaker 5: day with that in Pittsburgh, I hear, but you can't

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Speaker 5: knock the results. I mean, they're averaging twenty seven points

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Speaker 5: a game with him in the lineup, and it's not

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Speaker 5: like he's done anything spectacular in the passing game. But

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Speaker 5: he's made this offense more functional and has given them

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Speaker 5: just enough in the passing game, it seems to keep

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Speaker 5: opposing defenses.

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Speaker 6: Honest, he's very coolly, calmly and in an experienced way,

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Speaker 6: standing in the pocket and going through his progressions and

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Speaker 6: doing exactly what you said, what he needs to do.

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Speaker 6: And Guys, this is in a lot of ways very

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Speaker 6: similar to the Joe Flacco situation. And I'll explain it

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Speaker 6: this way. Mason Rudolph was legitimately thinking about and looking

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Speaker 6: into what next year would be, and next year was

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Speaker 6: not in the National Football League. He had already started

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Speaker 6: the process of this is what my job, this is

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Speaker 6: where I will live, these are the things I'm going

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Speaker 6: to do. So in so many ways, Mason Rudolph is

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Speaker 6: playing free right now. There's no burden on him. There's

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Speaker 6: no expectation. There's just merely, hey, I'm going out and

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Speaker 6: doing something. And we heard Mason say this a week

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Speaker 6: ago when he said, I already fulfilled my dream. My

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Speaker 6: dream was to play in the NFL, and I've done it.

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Speaker 6: So in that sense, when you're not carrying any weight

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Speaker 6: on your shoulders, it's that much easier to just go

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Speaker 6: out there and do what you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this team, you know, it's a run first offense.

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Speaker 2: But against the Bengals, against the Seahawks, they hung thirty

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Speaker 2: points on those guys, and that's something that they had

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Speaker 2: struggled to do throughout most of the season, Yes, for

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Speaker 2: most of the season anyway, in this iteration, now, of

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00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: course they run into a bussaw in Baltimore and those

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Speaker 2: guys are hard to score on. The seventeen points. They

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Speaker 2: still get the win, but they don't score as many points.

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Speaker 2: But there is something in there. Even though they're a

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Speaker 2: Naji Harris and a Jalen Warren kind of team, scoring

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Speaker 2: points is still you know, the golden ticket in the

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Speaker 2: NFL playoffs, and they seem to be able to do it.

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Speaker 6: Sure, except you know what, I might even disagree with

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Speaker 6: you very respectfully and say, the Steelers' best chance Sunday

606
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Speaker 6: is to have one of those dirty, grimy close games

607
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Speaker 6: which they are so good at, and if they can

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Speaker 6: somehow go Josh Allen, who's just I mean, in so

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Speaker 6: many ways, he's like a Ben Roethlisberger. He's feast or famine.

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Speaker 6: You know, didn't we just see that on Sunday? I

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Speaker 6: was telling you I was in LA and before I

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Speaker 6: get on the plane, he's on these two dumb interceptions

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Speaker 6: in the first quarter. He ends the game having thrown

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Speaker 6: for three hundred yards. So which, Josh Allen, are you

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Speaker 6: going to see and if you can somehow got him

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Speaker 6: into that inconsistent one, keep the game close, the keep

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Speaker 6: the ground game going, eat up clock.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: It's not out of the realm of possibility. It's not

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Speaker 6: like I'm calling the Steelers to win here, and especially

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Speaker 6: without TJ. Watt. The Steelers are one in ten without

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Speaker 6: TJ Watt. I was just telling the story. The last

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Speaker 6: time I was in Buffalo for a Steelers at Bill's game,

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Speaker 6: it was TJ. Watt who single handedly basically ended the

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Speaker 6: game and beat the Bills. If you remember, that was

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Speaker 6: a COVID year, right, I think that was the COVID year, Right,

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Speaker 6: was that the core?

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Speaker 5: I think it was the twenty one opener, twenty one

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Speaker 5: op Yeah, it was twenty one.

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Speaker 6: Well, it was just when COVID had ended and we

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Speaker 6: were back on the field. Yes, So no, TJ. Watt

632
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Speaker 6: is a very big deal obviously for the Steelers. The

633
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Speaker 6: weather is supposed to be cold up there, right, even

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Speaker 6: if not like Kansas City, still it's not as if

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Speaker 6: it's an impossibility. And this is a Mike Tomlin team.

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Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin teams do weird things, not in the playoffs necessarily,

637
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Speaker 6: but they do do weird things.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, we're trying to look for weaknesses in

639
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Speaker 5: this Steelers team, and we know that they have had

640
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Speaker 5: to cycle through several inside linebackers due to injury this season.

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Speaker 5: We know that Cole Holcome's on injured reserves, so is

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Speaker 5: Kwan Alexander, who were the two projected starters at the

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Speaker 5: beginning of the season, and they've cycled through others and

644
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 5: mix and matched others based on personnel packages down in distance,

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Speaker 5: that kind of thing. How how would you kind of

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Speaker 5: characterize that? Is that still a little unsettled or do

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Speaker 5: you think they've at least found some kind of a

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Speaker 5: formula to get through games at that position.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think that that's a fair way to say it,

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Speaker 6: that they have found some sort of formula. I don't

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Speaker 6: know that I would sit here and say, Okay, that's

652
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 6: a strength in some way. And again, it's all the

653
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 6: puzzle pieces. Everybody looks a little bit better when Alex

654
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Speaker 6: Highsmith and TJ. Watt are in front of them. Cam

655
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Speaker 6: Hayward looks better when he's got TJ. Watt out there,

656
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Speaker 6: you know. So it's a subtraction of more than just

657
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Speaker 6: one body in losing TJ.

658
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Speaker 2: Watt.

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you if you want to feel something particularly

660
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Speaker 6: good about it's the way that Josh Allen has been

661
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 6: so good at distributing the ball to so many different

662
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Speaker 6: pass catchers. That tax is a secondary. And even though

663
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 6: the Steelers are expected to have Minka Fitzpatrick back, I

664
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Speaker 6: believe Minka has in fact just said that he will

665
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Speaker 6: be playing Sunday. I don't know that anybody is looking

666
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Speaker 6: at the Steelers secondary as a major strength.

667
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Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about the weapons around Mason Rudolph.

668
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Speaker 2: We know about Jalen Warren and Nagy Pickens has been,

669
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of this guy that's been in the

670
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 2: news for some of the wrong reasons, but he has

671
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Speaker 2: stepped up when they kind of put it on his lap.

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Speaker 2: He kind of responded, did he not?

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Speaker 6: He so to anyone who doesn't know George Pickens earlier

674
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Speaker 6: this season, very very very notably did not block when

675
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Speaker 6: Jalen Warren was running in for a touchdown. He just

676
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 6: kind of stepped back like this, and when asked about it, said, well,

677
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 6: I'm not going to get hurt. We all saw what

678
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 6: happened to Tank Dell. Something very similar happened a few

679
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 6: weeks prior with Deontay Johnson, who is ostensibly their number

680
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 6: one receiver, when there was a fumble and he just

681
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 6: turned around and didn't even realize the ball had been

682
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 6: picked up by the opponent, made no attempt to chase

683
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 6: down the guy that had that ball. It is something

684
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 6: that has sort of plagued the Steelers this year. But

685
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 6: everybody's happier when you're winning, and George Pickens certainly is

686
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 6: getting the ball. He is a very very talented receiver.

687
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Speaker 6: Since the Steelers have made a change at offensive coordinator,

688
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 6: having Mike Sullivan calling the plays, it seems as if

689
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 6: they're using him a little bit more intelligently. I'm being

690
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 6: very careful how I say all of this. Can you tell?

691
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Speaker 6: So definitely George Pickens can burn you. Deontay Johnson can

692
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 6: burn you to Pat Friyarmouth is a very very very

693
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Speaker 6: good tight end who was grossly and criminally underused earlier

694
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Speaker 6: in the season, who can be very good in the

695
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 6: red zone. So there's certainly weapons there. There are certainly

696
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 6: things that the Steelers can offensively people the Steelers can

697
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 6: offensively turn to and look to do things with. But again,

698
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Speaker 6: I don't even though you're pointing to the Steelers having

699
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 6: indeed put up points with Mason Rudolph, they're not necessarily

700
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Speaker 6: someone that you're easily saying is going to be in

701
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Speaker 6: a barn burner right. They probably would prefer, in fact,

702
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 6: a closer, grittier, run heavy type game.

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Speaker 5: And we understand why because the Steelers are nine to

704
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 5: two in one score games this year. They're nine wins

705
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 5: lead the league, so they seem to be comfortable being

706
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 5: uncomfortable in a tight game. Bills are six and six

707
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 5: in one score games this year, although they've won their

708
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 5: last four such games down the stretch here, So if

709
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 5: it is tight, it seems like both of these teams

710
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Speaker 5: have an awful lot of recent experience in dealing with

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Speaker 5: those kinds of circumstances.

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Speaker 6: Well, and I'd say one other thing that sort of

713
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 6: really plays on my mind, and that's just because last

714
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Speaker 6: year I was on the sideline during the Dolphins bill

715
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Speaker 6: first round playoff game, and I was the Westwood One

716
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Speaker 6: sideline reporter. It was jarring to me. The Dolphins, if

717
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Speaker 6: you remember, were up there with nothing to lose, starting

718
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Speaker 6: Skyler Thompson. It was jarring how different those two sidelines were.

719
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Speaker 6: The Dolphins were loose, even when there were those early drops,

720
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Speaker 6: they were still loose, and the Bills were tight and tense,

721
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Speaker 6: and it was just pulls apart. I remember that Jay Feely,

722
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Speaker 6: who had been one of my in season partners, one

723
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Speaker 6: of the guys in the booth for one of the

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Speaker 6: crews that I worked with. Jay was on the sideline

725
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Speaker 6: for CBS that game, and he and I were both

726
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 6: talking about it that the Bills just seemed nervous and tight,

727
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Speaker 6: and you worry about that a little bit, you know,

728
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Speaker 6: in some ways, and you two would know this better

729
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 6: than me, so I'd actually love to hear it from afar.

730
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Speaker 6: It feels to me that when the Bills were sitting

731
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Speaker 6: in six and six, when it looked like this guy

732
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 6: was falling on Sean McDermott, when everybody in that building

733
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Speaker 6: was telling me that they had never seen McDermot as

734
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 6: angry as they were seeing him postgame, all of that,

735
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 6: it feels as if they've whatever the cliche is circle

736
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 6: the wagons come together and put together this good run

737
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 6: and are feeling really good about who they are from

738
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 6: the outside, that's what the Bills feel like to me.

739
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 6: You can tell me from inside if that's what you're seeing,

740
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 6: and if there's a good amount of confidence in the

741
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 6: way Josh Allen is taking the field and these players

742
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 6: are taking the.

743
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Speaker 2: Field, Yeah, I would say, And I don't know if

744
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 2: Brownie would ech well. We talked about those last year's

745
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 2: playoff run at length, of course, after it ended with

746
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 2: Cincinnati the next week. We knew going into that it

747
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 2: was really difficult to get your mind around the Bills

748
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 2: doing anything because of what happened to Tamar Hamlin and

749
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Speaker 2: all the things that they'd been through. They were spent,

750
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 2: and those those playoff games, it really felt like it

751
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 2: was a tough game for them to even show up

752
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 2: to do and think about because of what had happened

753
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 2: to them emotionally in that this does seem like a

754
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Speaker 2: very different group of guys.

755
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Speaker 6: Yeah, And to your point, even though they ultimately won

756
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 6: the division, it almost feels like they're carrying that underdog

757
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 6: mentality simply because they were at six and six and

758
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 6: were being written off. So it almost again from Afar

759
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 6: to me, feels that it's not necessarily the same weight

760
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 6: and burden of expectation as they were carrying.

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Speaker 2: A year and ago.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the feeling that Josh Allen tried to

763
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 5: portray yesterday was just how grateful they are that they

764
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 5: made it through that stretch, doing what they needed to

765
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Speaker 5: do to get to this point. He was even referencing

766
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 5: the FACU goes, there's a lot of teams that aren't

767
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 5: They don't have practice today, so we're pretty grateful that

768
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 5: we have practice and we have the opportunity in front

769
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Speaker 5: of us. So I think knowing how they had to

770
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 5: put a lot of sweat equity just to get where

771
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 5: they are right now, I think kind of just has

772
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Speaker 5: them grateful for the opportunity and not like, oh my god,

773
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 5: we have to win. We're the higher seed. I don't

774
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Speaker 5: think they're thinking like that at all.

775
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Speaker 6: Right right, And it makes you know, it makes a difference.

776
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 6: I think about the Ravens in two thousand, the twenty

777
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 6: nineteen Ravens, which I guess would have been January of

778
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 6: twenty twenty, they were fourteen and two heading into a

779
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 6: home playoff game. They hadn't been tested all year and

780
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 6: they ended up losing to the Titans that year. Being

781
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 6: battle tested matters. And to your opponent about the Steelers

782
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 6: earlier knowing how to win a close game, how do

783
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:23,959
Speaker 6: you know how to win a close game by winning

784
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 6: close games? So having been through that, really, I think

785
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 6: makes a difference.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Adity, is so good to have you on again.

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Speaker 6: Always my pleasure. Thanks for having me. And hopefully there's

788
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Speaker 6: a reason. Well I shouldn't actually say that. My husband

789
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 6: just came home. I was going to say, hopefully there's

790
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 6: a reason to talk next week, but I guess I'm

791
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Speaker 6: not just to say that out loud.

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Speaker 5: Take care of Deity, best of luck in that household.

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Speaker 5: That's a Deity Kikawalla from CBS Sports joining us who

794
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 5: has a son who's a Bills fan and a husband

795
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Speaker 5: who's a Steelers fan. Yeah, it's probably a good thing

796
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 5: that she's working. Although she said her husband was going

797
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 5: to be out of town as well, so wow, that's crazy.

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00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 5: Her flight to Kansas City has already been canceled because

799
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Speaker 5: of that polar vortex that's sweeping down across the Western

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Speaker 5: vortex Western portal. Isn't that a fun word, fun phrase

801
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 5: to say. It's the polar vortex is impending, doom is

802
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 5: about to arrive.

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Speaker 2: Yes, listen, it's like something out of a site. It's

804
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 2: gonna be bad this weekend. It's gonna be bad.

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Speaker 5: We got to hang in there, right, but yes, and

806
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 5: and and the thing about the Chiefs Dolphins game, it's

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Speaker 5: at eight pm on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna it'll be blow up about bro I grew

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00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 2: up out there. It's cold, cold, yeah, out there cold. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: We got to take a break.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 5: More to come when we return, including more on this

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Speaker 5: Bill Steelers matchup. But we also have the latest installment

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Speaker 5: of excuse Me, mister Tasker. We'll see what question we

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Speaker 6: We missed.

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Speaker 5: is Angie, who asks what was your favorite moment from

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Speaker 5: a wild card game as a member of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 2: Only one answer. I mean it's the comeback game and

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Speaker 2: January third, nineteen ninety three, after the ninety two regular season.

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Speaker 2: I mean Bill's fan, I'm the joke goes and Marv

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Speaker 2: says it and Bill, I mean Bill, not Bill Pulley,

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Speaker 2: but Marv and Bruce and Jim and all those guys.

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Speaker 2: We've met one point two million people who say they

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Speaker 2: were at the game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, even though that was a blacked out game.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and Frank comes out and throws. And I remember

841
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 2: at halftime somebody asked me what Marvin said at halftime?

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Speaker 5: This was real.

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Speaker 2: I still get questions about this game. Marv said. The

844
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 2: thing I remember at halftime was Marv said just hey,

845
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 2: we're down twenty eight to three, and Marv said, just

846
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 2: just don't let him say you quit. Let's go. I

847
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 2: don't know if we can come back and win them,

848
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Speaker 2: but just don't let him say you quit. And so

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Speaker 2: we come back and Frank throws Sweetness, throws at pick

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Speaker 2: six right out of the gate, and it's thirty five

851
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Speaker 2: to three, and infamously, Darryl Talley walks by Marv going

852
00:46:58,200 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 2: out to defend the extra point, says Marve, we got

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00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 2: a right where we want them, And I guess that's

854
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 2: a true story. I wasn't standing right there. But and

855
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 2: then you know, we start plugging away at it. The

856
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 2: Oilers completely leave town early and they didn't even show

857
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 2: up for after that, and Frank just keeps throwing the

858
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 2: football around and Andre and Beabes. Andre catches three balls,

859
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 2: three touchdowns in the end zone, Beabs catches a touchdown,

860
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 2: Kenny Davis runs in for one, and all of a

861
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 2: sudden end up in overtime winning the game. And it was, uh,

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget it. It was a little bit like

863
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 2: the Nahem Hinds opening kickoff return last year against the

864
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Speaker 2: Patriots after the DeMar Hamlin.

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Speaker 5: Oh that kind of emotion.

866
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 2: It was that kind of thing where you think, wow,

867
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 2: it's supernatural, almost right, it's it really did seem otherworldly.

868
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 2: A couple of fourth down conversions for touchdowns. This and

869
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 2: that one we just saw was a fourth down. This

870
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 2: one to Andre was the one that gave him the lead.

871
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 2: And this is when the you know, you can see,

872
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: i mean, look up at the stands, there's everybody's back

873
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 2: in their seat. It was empty for a minute.

874
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, and there were people we know this just from

875
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 5: the stories. There were people that left the stadium at halftime,

876
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,439
Speaker 5: and they were in their cars getting ready to leave,

877
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 5: and then they hear after it was thirty five to three.

878
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,240
Speaker 5: You know, by the time they were in their cars

879
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 5: getting ready to leave, that other Bill scored a touchdown,

880
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 5: and then you know, Bill scored another touchdown. And now

881
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 5: people were trying to you there is no re entry

882
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 5: when yeah, when you come to a football game and

883
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 5: you leave, you cannot re enter.

884
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 2: There's none of that going on. They were climbing the

885
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 2: fences and I remember they John Butler said, you know,

886
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 2: Ralph just said, hey, guys, just go back gates, just

887
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 2: let open the gates. Let him back in and so

888
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 2: they just opened the gates and people were going and coming,

889
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 2: you know, just coming in and out, people coming back

890
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 2: into the stadium. And Frank, the way he handled himself before, during,

891
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 2: and after that game was spectacular and it gives you

892
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 2: an idea the kind of quality of guy he is.

893
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 2: Now you know this many years later, he's a two

894
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 2: time head coach in the NFL. And just an amazing day.

895
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 2: Was It really had a supernatural feeling. It wasn't until

896
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 2: this past year when those Indianapolis Colts, after firing Frank

897
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 2: as their head coach, gave up an even bigger lead.

898
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 2: And that's and so now it's the biggest comeback in

899
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 2: playoff history in the NFL. It was the greatest comeback

900
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 2: of all time. But now that's been eclipsed by the

901
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts letting somebody else I can't eve remember who was.

902
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,879
Speaker 5: And the Jaguars came close to it last year beating

903
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 5: the Chargers.

904
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 2: They came from twenty eight points down. And so that

905
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 2: wild Card game, and that's why one of the reasons

906
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 2: it sticks with me when people ask me about, you know,

907
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 2: wild Card weekend. I think wild Card weekend is the

908
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 2: best football of the year, you get two teams that

909
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 2: are playing at a high level at that moment, scratching

910
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 2: and kicked some of them, and particularly in the wildcard

911
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 2: round or scratching and kicking and clonging to get into

912
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and they kind of carry that over for

913
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 2: a week, right and it into that next week, say oh,

914
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 2: right here we are, let's go just keep it going,

915
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 2: you know, And ultimately it's hard to keep that going

916
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 2: for Wildcard, Division Championship, super Bowl, it's hard to do that.

917
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 2: But those first weeks of the playoffs, these first weeks

918
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: super wild Card is I think some of the most

919
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 2: exciting and meaningful football ever because it is the playoffs,

920
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 2: and it does hit a lot of guys for the

921
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 2: first time when they're you know, they've never been in

922
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 2: the playoffs before, they've never been in that situation before.

923
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 2: It's as big as it gets, and it's it's interesting

924
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 2: to watch it take place. I think it's going to

925
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 2: be the you know, it's like always going to be

926
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 2: one of the great weekends of the season. That one

927
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 2: certainly was with the Bills and the Oiler's forty one

928
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 2: thirty eight it ended up and it's one it's one

929
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 2: of now two times where it felt like there was

930
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 2: a supernatural thing going on in that stadium.

931
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty pretty cool stuff. Angie, congratulations, you'll be getting

932
00:50:55,560 --> 00:51:01,399
Speaker 5: your premium mystery box, uh from t SE. So good

933
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 5: luck and we hope you get something you're really gonna enjoy.

934
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 5: I'm pretty confident that you will. We do have to

935
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 5: take a break here. When we return for hour number two,

936
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,439
Speaker 5: we're gonna be joined by content coordinator for Buffalo Bills

937
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 5: dot Com Alec White, who's gonna tell us what the

938
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 5: Steelers are saying about this upcoming matchup with the Bills

939
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 5: in Super wild Card weekend. When we return here on

940
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 5: One Bill's Line presented by Colida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

941
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: The One Bills Live presented by Calida Health.

942
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 5: All Right, our number two on a Thursday, Chris Brown,

943
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 5: Steve Tasker and joined in studio now by content coordinator

944
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,879
Speaker 5: for Buffalo Bills dot Com one Alec White. We've seen

945
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 5: him pop in periodically through the course of the season

946
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 5: for the info on what the opponent is saying leading

947
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 5: up to Sunday's matchup, So this week we've put him

948
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 5: on the Steelers case and uh, I guess before we

949
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,760
Speaker 5: get to all of that, Alec looks like the third

950
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 5: and well, I shouldn't say the third. The second opponent

951
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 5: for the Bills is going to be the weather. It'll

952
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,720
Speaker 5: be an opponent for the Steelers too, but weather getting

953
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 5: a little dicey heading into the weekend based on some

954
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 5: of the local mediorologists' forecast like effect snow.

955
00:52:55,880 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 4: Yep forecast could be winds, snow, of it cold. So

956
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 4: both Bills and Steelers are gonna have a lot to

957
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,919
Speaker 4: prepare for for that one, and the Steelers already seem

958
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 4: to be heading that direction in terms of their preparation.

959
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 4: They changed their practice schedule yesterday. Normally they're at you know,

960
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 4: a practice field nearby, but they went and practiced at

961
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 4: a Crasier Stadium yesterday.

962
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 2: Uh.

963
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 4: And it was more to get a feel for obviously

964
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 4: the elements, but the footing is the main part that

965
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin was talking about, just getting to feel for

966
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 4: the playing surface when things are damp. You know, players

967
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 4: have different cleat sizes right where you know, the spikes

968
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 4: on the cleats getting figured out, Okay, what's going to

969
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 4: be the best best size for guys.

970
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got multi stud and they've got seven studs.

971
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 2: They got all kinds of stuff they check out and.

972
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 5: It footing was an issue here last week last year

973
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 5: against Cincinnati.

974
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 2: Let's guys slipping and it's and here's the problem. I mean,

975
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 2: what will happen is I'm sure they're the same as

976
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 2: every other team. When you go on the road, you

977
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,320
Speaker 2: bring a couple of options. Every guy will bring like

978
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:06,280
Speaker 2: three options for shoes, and you go out in the pregame,

979
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 2: you try them out. You know, you see how they're

980
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: going because you don't. And plus you come out for

981
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 2: pregame and it's one way. And here in Buffalo, you

982
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 2: know how it is, Brownie, you come out, you come

983
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 2: back out after the pregame warm up, you're ready for kickoff,

984
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 2: and it's everything's different. It's a problem. So they some guy.

985
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 2: You'll see some guys changing shoes on the sidelines between series.

986
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 2: It's it's really hard to get it right. And because

987
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 2: it does change throughout the game and throughout the pregame,

988
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,839
Speaker 2: the pregame process, so it's it's it's an issue. It's

989
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 2: in the weather. Forget about ball handling. The footing is huge.

990
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 2: It's gonna be really huge.

991
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 5: This is called winter Storm Jerry, which is hitting the

992
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 5: middle of the country and will sweep eastward. It has

993
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 5: a name heavy snow, freezing rain, and it's Jerry with

994
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 5: a G G E R R I. I don't know

995
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 5: how they make these determinations, Like, first of all, they

996
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 5: go alphabetical in most cases. Well, how do you come

997
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 5: up with it Jerry with a J.

998
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 2: No, it's it's random, computer randomized, is it? Yeah? I

999
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 2: don't know how. I don't know where to get the

1000
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 2: list of names from that they're gonna come out with.

1001
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 2: That's that's what I'm saying, a puke out. But yeah,

1002
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 2: it's randomized Cherry with a G Jerry g r R I.

1003
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 2: So this isn't the the J number whatever JA means G.

1004
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 5: I guess h is next. I don't know the tenth

1005
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 5: storm storm.

1006
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 2: Not the tenth storm. It's the sixth storm, is that?

1007
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 5: Yeah? But what we're worried about is Lake efect snow.

1008
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 5: That's that's the issue.

1009
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 4: And it could be could be south, could be north

1010
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 4: of the stadium where it could be right over the

1011
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 4: middle of the stadium before and in the game. It

1012
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 4: could be you know, as Buffalo people know here. It's

1013
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 4: could be completely random where that snow decides to right.

1014
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 5: It's all based on what direction the wind's coming out of.

1015
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 5: If it's out of the southwest, right might not get hit.

1016
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 5: What out of the west, we're probably getting slammed.

1017
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 2: What does it? What is the rhetoric? What do the

1018
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 2: Steeler fans and there, what are they saying about what

1019
00:55:58,440 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 2: they're coming to here in Buffalo?

1020
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,760
Speaker 4: Well, I mean there's already a radio host I forget

1021
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 4: his name, but he's you know, imploring the Steelers fans

1022
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 4: that come to Buffalo or are in Pittsburgh to not

1023
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 4: order Buffalo wings for the duration of the week. They

1024
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,320
Speaker 4: are on a Buffalo wings strike, and they are eating

1025
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 4: it with If you're gonna get anything, you're having it

1026
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 4: with ranch. So they're on a food strike. Is I

1027
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 4: think the first or specific Buffalo food. They're getting rid

1028
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 4: of that from their diet.

1029
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 5: So that's that's yourself.

1030
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not ordering wings. I'm not ordering wings

1031
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 2: if I'm in Pittsburgh either. Now, if they come to

1032
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 2: Buffalo and don't order wings and it's more for us.

1033
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 5: You know, it's their loss as far as I'm concerned.

1034
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 5: Mason Rudolph has been a boon to the offensive fortunes

1035
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 5: they're averaging twenty seven points a game with him as

1036
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 5: their starter three and zero in his three starts. What

1037
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 5: are people like bothered by this or they're like, we've

1038
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 5: seen such lousy offense all season. Will take whoever's making

1039
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 5: it work, because that's what Mike Tomlin's doing, and he's

1040
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,439
Speaker 5: staying with the hot hand. And curiously, Kenny Pickett still

1041
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 5: listed as the starter on the depth chart though, Like,

1042
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,359
Speaker 5: is there any consternation going on down there, like knowing

1043
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 5: that Pickett is the future but he's not the right now.

1044
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,320
Speaker 4: Well, Mike Tommans said they're not going to disrupt the

1045
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 4: apple cart. That was his direct So that's why they're playing. Yeah,

1046
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 4: got ride the hot hand, don't disrupt what's working. If

1047
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 4: you would have told me that Mason Rudolph would be

1048
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,919
Speaker 4: leading the league in completion percentage over the last three games,

1049
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 4: I would have called you a fool. But Mason Rudolph

1050
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 4: is leading the league in completion percentage the last three

1051
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 4: weeks since he took over three and zero. As you mentioned,

1052
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 4: he's got three touchdowns as well. But for leading the

1053
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 4: league in completion percentage, she's throwing a lot of short routes. However,

1054
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 4: his three touchdowns are all sixty plus yards and they're

1055
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 4: not through the air sixty plus, but they're you know,

1056
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 4: Deontay Johnson running fifty yards to the house. You know,

1057
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 4: George Pickens has at a couple big ones. So for

1058
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 4: as much as we see Mason Rudolf kind of manage

1059
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 4: the game, they still have those receivers on the outside

1060
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 4: where if they get in space, you know, one guy

1061
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 4: falls down in the snow on Sunday, you know, easy

1062
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 4: house call.

1063
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 2: We we were just speaking with Aditi kin Kabwala, who

1064
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 2: lives and works in Pittsburgh, covers them. They and the

1065
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 2: AFC North. The Steelers have scored thirty points in two

1066
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 2: of the three starts that Rudolph has has made seventeen

1067
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 2: points this last week against Baltimore, but they did light

1068
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 2: it up against Seattle and the other and a couple

1069
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 2: of other teams, so it's not like they don't know

1070
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 2: how to score points.

1071
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 5: But it was also the thirtieth defense at football.

1072
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 2: That's well, there you go. But nevertheless, this is is

1073
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 2: one of those games where you got to walk into

1074
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 2: with your eyes wide open, and particularly with a bad

1075
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 2: field service and blowing wins and that kind of thing.

1076
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 4: And it's the run game too for the Steilers that's

1077
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 4: really propelled them on you know this three and zero stretch.

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00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 4: They ran at Seattle forty six times for two hundred

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00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 4: and two yards, had three touchdowns. They ran thirty nine

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00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 4: times against Baltimore in the pouring rains. They're already used

1081
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 4: to a bad weather game from last week. They ran

1082
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 4: for one hundred and fifty five yards in a touchdown.

1083
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 4: Najie Harris just notched his third straight season with one

1084
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 4: thousand yards. So Pittsburgh very capable of winning in multiple

1085
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 4: different ways. And one thing that I think we could

1086
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 4: see is them using a thirteen personnel. They would use

1087
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 4: that nineteen times against the Ravens last week, so that's

1088
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 4: you know, one running back, three tight ends. They ran

1089
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 4: nineteen times for one hundred and thirty eight yards out

1090
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 4: of that formation.

1091
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of time they're twelve, But yes, they

1092
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 5: went to thirteen because the weather kind of dictated that.

1093
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 5: We'll see if they decided to duplicate it in another

1094
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 5: weather game here this week. All that being said, Rudolph

1095
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 5: isn't throwing a whole lot. He is strictly a complimentary

1096
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 5: piece to their run game. He's been an effective one,

1097
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 5: but he's only throwing it like twenty twenty five times

1098
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 5: a game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. He threw twenty seven times against the Bengals, twenty

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00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 2: times last week and twenty times. Yeah. Yeah, so it's

1101
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 2: you're right, it's he's not.

1102
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 5: He threw for one hundred and fifty yards last week. Like,

1103
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to minimize it. The weather was terrible.

1104
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 5: You're not going to throw the ball a lot. But

1105
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 5: they're they're leaning on a run game to keep them

1106
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:14,120
Speaker 5: on schedule.

1107
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 4: Slop it up, run game defense, and.

1108
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 5: We're comfortable in a one score game. And if that's

1109
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 5: the case, we're happy. I would think they would be,

1110
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Speaker 5: especially as a road team against the number two seed

1111
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 5: in the AFC.

1112
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Speaker 4: Right, and also Baltimore. You know, they played pretty well defensively.

1113
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 4: They were arresting a lot of guys. Baltimore and Buffalo

1114
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 4: have run very similar defensive concepts. The Boat teams run

1115
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 4: a two high safety look a lot of the time.

1116
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 4: Buffalo's you know, third in the league using a two

1117
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 4: high or too high safety look. Baltimore was seventh in

1118
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 4: the league. You know, the nickel defense with five defensive backs.

1119
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 4: Buffalo used that goes that direction eighty five or eighty

1120
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 4: percent of the time. That's third in the league Baltimore

1121
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 4: at eighty two. So philosophically, the Buffalo in Baltimore are

1122
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 4: two very similar defenses. So if you can find Buffalo

1123
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 4: this week, can find ways to replicate some of that.

1124
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Speaker 4: I know Steelers ended up winning that, but for a

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01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 4: large stretch of that game, the Steelers couldn't move the football.

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Speaker 2: Right, And that's that's good for the Bills in preparation too,

1127
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 2: because they'll see a team that wants to do what

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01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 2: the Bills do well against this Steelers team and what

1129
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 2: the Steelers did against them, So they'll have some answers

1130
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 2: for the Steelers answers right right. So that's that's always

1131
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 2: a good thing because one of the problems with if

1132
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 2: you're playing a team and they've never played a team

1133
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 2: with your style of football, it's hard to get good film.

1134
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 2: The Bills should have some really good film by watching

1135
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens play against this this Pittsburgh offense and defense,

1136
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 2: So it'll be it'll be interesting to see what are

1137
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 2: what are some of the other things coming out of

1138
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh that you know that are notable about this this matchup.

1139
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 4: Well, TJ. Watt's not going to play in this game.

1140
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 4: We hope we all kind of knew that they're one

1141
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 4: in sists without them. You know, it's well documented that

1142
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 4: they're not the same Pittsburgh defense with when he's not

1143
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 4: on the field. But the team is a little different

1144
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 4: this year with Marcus Golden and free agency, and they

1145
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 4: added another linebacker in the fourth round. Those two guys

1146
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 4: have combined for forty seven tackles in seven sacks this year.

1147
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin believes they're a deeper team at you know,

1148
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 4: where TJ. Watt lines up on the field. They feel

1149
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 4: like they've got some better depth in that area to

1150
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 4: make up for his loss. And then Mika Fitzpatrick is

1151
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 4: expected to be back. He's missed the last three games

1152
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 4: with a knee injury, so they believe that he will play.

1153
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 4: He's been limited to start the week, but kind of

1154
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 4: all signs are appointing to him returning to the field.

1155
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, the draft choice you're referring to is Nick Herbig,

1156
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 5: and he had a big game in the preseason game

1157
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 5: against the Bills. Granted he was second string for them,

1158
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 5: going against Buffalo's second stringers and he was getting in

1159
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 5: the backfield an awful lot. He was an accomplished pass

1160
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 5: rusher at Wisconsin, I want to say, is where he

1161
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 5: came out of. And he's not a fit for every

1162
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 5: defense in the NFL, but he is a fit in

1163
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 5: a three to four scheme because he's kind of an

1164
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 5: undersized pass rusher, so you line them up an outside

1165
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 5: linebacker and that kid can go. He's really clever as

1166
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 5: a pass rusher. I'm looking at his stat line from

1167
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 5: the preseason game back in August. He had two tackles,

1168
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 5: a sack, tackle for loss, quarterback hit pass defense, and

1169
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 5: a forced fumble. So he was I noticed him, I guess,

1170
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 5: is my point that I'm trying to make when we

1171
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 5: were there in August doing the Bills Steelers preseason game.

1172
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 5: So just I'm curious to see how far his game

1173
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 5: has come along. Knowing he's probably going to get some

1174
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 5: opportunities with wat out of the lineup, him and Golden

1175
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 5: are probably going to be rotating, I would think.

1176
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, rushing the passer, you know, stopping the run. I

1177
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 4: think the Bills are going to try to establish that

1178
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 4: run game with James Cook and whoever decide, whoever is

1179
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 4: going to be that secondary option for the Bills, So

1180
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 4: a lot of chess pieces that are going to be

1181
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 4: moving around, especially in the elements.

1182
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 5: Another guy that killed it in the preseason game against

1183
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 5: the Bills was Jalen Warren had a sixty two yard touchdown,

1184
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 5: and we know that he is clearly the more explosive

1185
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 5: of the two backs between him and Nagy, but they're

1186
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 5: kind of a good one to two punch knowing what

1187
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 5: their offensive approach has been. I mean, surprise, surprise, the

1188
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 5: running back coach gets promoted to offensive coordinator and what

1189
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 5: are they doing?

1190
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 2: Then?

1191
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he's he's a he's a dual threat. Like

1192
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 5: he's pretty good catch catcher the ball out of the backfield,

1193
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 5: and you know he can make big plays.

1194
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 4: He's got five targets in five consecutive five or more

1195
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 4: targets in five consecutive games. Even you know, going back

1196
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 4: to last week at Baltimore in the rain, Uh, he

1197
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 4: did have two fumbles, one of the which he lost

1198
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 4: against the Ravens, So that could be an issue of

1199
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 4: concern for him. Younger running back, it's gonna be his

1200
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:47,360
Speaker 4: first playoff game. Najee Harris has been there in the playoffs,

1201
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 4: before you think, you know, a couple of years ago

1202
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 4: against you know, against the Browns, you know that obviously

1203
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:54,160
Speaker 4: didn't go with the Steelers way. But Nase is more

1204
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 4: of your your veteran presence that you want to lean

1205
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 4: on and can probably trust more in the run game.

1206
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 4: But harrot orr Jalen Morren, excuse me? Is you know

1207
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 4: certainly an explosive back has a couple hundred yard games

1208
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 4: this season.

1209
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 2: It's funny you knew he was gonna have quite the

1210
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 2: season because that we've been showing the run that he

1211
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:14,120
Speaker 2: made against the Bills in that preseason games, the only

1212
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 2: carry he had. That's very telling. He got in there

1213
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 2: one run sixty two yards.

1214
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Speaker 5: You sit down, that's it, let's play some other guys.

1215
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 2: You don't get it. Yeah, they treated him, They treated

1216
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 2: him like an all pro. They knew, I mean, they

1217
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,360
Speaker 2: absolutely knew how good he was gonna.

1218
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 5: Be undrafted, I mean undrafted dude. This is I mean,

1219
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 5: it's amazing you can find running backs like this on

1220
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 5: the undrafted scrap heat. For lack of a better term, Alec,

1221
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 5: thanks for all the info. We appreciate it. We'll make

1222
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 5: sure people stay tuned to Buffalo Bills Dot com for

1223
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 5: more info leading up to Sunday. Thanks guys, I'm a

1224
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:52,160
Speaker 5: content coordinator Alec White from Buffalo Bills dot com. Joining us,

1225
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 5: We'll take a break, be back with more here on

1226
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 5: one Bills Live presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bills

1227
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Speaker 5: Radio warm up like a pro. With the temperatures dropping

1228
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 5: for this weekend's wild Card game, the team will be

1229
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 5: warming up on the sidelines with bone broth. You can

1230
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 5: get yours at Wegmans as they have their healthy and

1231
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:31,120
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1232
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 5: There are just two ingredients, organic chicken bones and water

1233
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,800
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01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 5: superior flavor, creating a naturally thick and delicious broth great

1235
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Speaker 5: for soups, casseroles, or simply to heat up and drink

1236
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Speaker 5: it straight. Wegmans is the official tailgate headquarters of the

1237
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 5: Buffalo Bills. We got some right here.

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Speaker 2: You got to say, this is like, it's good. Can

1239
01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 2: I say it's good? It's a broth, yeah, amazingly, it

1240
01:06:59,080 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 2: tastes like chicken.

1241
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean this is like, uh, you just get

1242
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 5: it right in the jar. At Wegmans.

1243
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 2: It's hardy too, so it's nice. I mean, bring it

1244
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 2: to your tailgate. Absolutely, have a couple before you go in.

1245
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 2: When when the Bills had that, maybe it was it

1246
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 2: last year. No, it was the It was the perfect game, right,

1247
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 2: the perfect playoff game. The CBS crew Iron Eagle and

1248
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 2: his crew had a little hit about the broth of

1249
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 2: the guys were drinking down there, so it's yeah, it

1250
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:28,480
Speaker 2: works good.

1251
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 5: We saw Michael Hyde the other day and we were

1252
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 5: talking to him about bone broth because we knew we

1253
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 5: were going to be talking about this on the show.

1254
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 5: I said, how do you guys consume it? And he says, oh,

1255
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 5: we just pour it in a cup and I just

1256
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 5: drink it like a drink. He goes, I only have

1257
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 5: time to waste with a spoon or anything. I got

1258
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 5: my game gloves on and stuff, and he goes, when

1259
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 5: it's cold, I'm not taking my gloves off. So they

1260
01:07:49,200 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 5: just pour it out of a hot container that they

1261
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 5: have into a cup and they just sip it up.

1262
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:56,480
Speaker 5: He goes, oh my god, it's good. He goes to

1263
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 5: keep you warm for a two quarter and said.

1264
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 2: As a veteran move, you gotta you gotta all the

1265
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,800
Speaker 2: rookies on actually trying it. Yeah, but yeah, the veterans

1266
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 2: all hit it. Yeah.

1267
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 5: So it was kind of cool talking to Micah about that,

1268
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 5: like just a new He goes, oh, yeah, he's like

1269
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 5: all over it. Yeah, like we mentioned it to him,

1270
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:16,240
Speaker 5: he goes, oh, absolutely, like it was. You know, some

1271
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 5: people give you a look when you say something. I

1272
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 5: mean he knew exactly what we were referring to because

1273
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:23,479
Speaker 5: they've been using it on the sideline. So might not

1274
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,879
Speaker 5: be a bad idea this weekend you're out at your tailgate,

1275
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:28,920
Speaker 5: you're going to be out in the elements for a

1276
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 5: few hours before you even go there to the stadium.

1277
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 2: Drink what the players drink.

1278
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 5: Well, no, I mean it works for the players, Like

1279
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 5: you have a cup of this, you're probably good through

1280
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 5: the first half. They're not even feeling the cold until

1281
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 5: you get to the second half and you know there

1282
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 5: you go. So kind of a good way to prepare

1283
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 5: your own body for enduring the elements at Sunday's game.

1284
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 5: So once again, Uh, it's the chicken bone broth that

1285
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 5: you can get at Wegmans. And like we said, all

1286
01:08:57,720 --> 01:08:59,080
Speaker 5: you got to do is just pour it out. You

1287
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 5: could put it in a couple like this. We just

1288
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:02,639
Speaker 5: did it here. You put it in like a little

1289
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 5: serving cup like this, and uh, just heat it up

1290
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 5: and you're at home just popping in the microwave.

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01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 2: It's really good for like thirty four And like I said,

1292
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:13,360
Speaker 2: you know, there's what is a broth and water.

1293
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's there's two ingredients, organic chicken bones and water.

1294
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 5: And they simmer it for sixteen hours to come up

1295
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 5: with this. And here's the other thing you want to

1296
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:27,680
Speaker 5: talk about. Protein nineteen grams of protein per serving in

1297
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 5: bone broth. Yeah, that's why it is so I mean

1298
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:34,040
Speaker 5: you're talking. I mean that's a shot.

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01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 5: Ten grams of collagen as well, perserving prove your skin.

1301
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 5: Look at that. Yeah, protein for your muscles, collagen for

1302
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 5: your skin. Hard to do much better than that. Yeah,

1303
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 5: So pick it up at your local for this weekend's tailor.

1304
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 2: Thanks for letting us try. It's good.

1305
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. Uh, it's great this time of year

1306
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 5: in the cold weather. There's no question about it. So

1307
01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 5: be sure to check it out at your local Wegmans

1308
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 5: because they're the official tailgate headquarters of the Buffalo Bills.

1309
01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:06,080
Speaker 5: Uh think we got a take, do we have to

1310
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 5: take another break. No, we don't. We can keep going here.

1311
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 5: So I wanted to get to the Football Relationship Hotline,

1312
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 5: which is presented by Pepsi. And obviously, if you have

1313
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 5: a football viewing dilemma, you can give us a call

1314
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 5: as well at eight h three zero five fifty one

1315
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:24,920
Speaker 5: eighty eight five fifty two five point fifty. But we

1316
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,800
Speaker 5: did have a couple of submissions come in on the

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01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 5: tweet sheet for the Football Relationship Hotline. First one, Steve,

1318
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 5: is from Bob. He says, Yeah, it's my wife's birthday

1319
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 5: the day before the game, but she treats it as

1320
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 5: a birthday weekend end, so I am not sure if

1321
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 5: I'll be able to watch any part of the game.

1322
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:53,640
Speaker 5: So he seems pretty convinced that his entire weekend is

1323
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 5: going to be swallowed whole by his wife's birthday.

1324
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:58,760
Speaker 2: It may him, well, he makes it sound and I

1325
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:00,679
Speaker 2: don't know that this is accurate. He makes it sound

1326
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:03,679
Speaker 2: like it's a deliberate attempt to not let him watch

1327
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 2: the game, right, I am.

1328
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:10,479
Speaker 5: Going to suggest the following, Steve, Okay, if you believe

1329
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 5: she wants the whole weekend, you have the perfect solution here.

1330
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 5: Bob you give her Saturday and her you give her

1331
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:26,719
Speaker 5: your undivided attention all day Saturday, which is her actual birthday,

1332
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 5: and then leading up to this weekend and you should

1333
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:36,719
Speaker 5: start early. You negotiate a compromise which is as follows.

1334
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 5: We have a national holiday on Monday, okay, so you

1335
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 5: have an extra day to play with here Martin Luther

1336
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 5: King Day on Monday. Hopefully you and your wife do

1337
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:54,799
Speaker 5: not have work on Monday. So in exchange for getting

1338
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:59,639
Speaker 5: Sunday just to watch the Bills, you say, we will

1339
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 5: extend end your birthday weekend into Monday, and you will

1340
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:11,559
Speaker 5: have something planned Bob for Monday, so you can watch

1341
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 5: your bills on Sunday. You are in a fortuitous position

1342
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 5: here because you have a national holiday on Monday with

1343
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:21,720
Speaker 5: which to work, make the most of Monday. Offer that

1344
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 5: to your missus as the extension of her birthday weekend,

1345
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 5: and in exchange, you get to watch the Bills game

1346
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 5: on Sunday. I think it's a fool proof.

1347
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 2: It is. It's a good plan.

1348
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:36,000
Speaker 5: Have a good plan of what to do though on Monday,

1349
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 5: which could be prepared, could have you indoors. So have

1350
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,800
Speaker 5: something that you know you can do with her that's

1351
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 5: fun that you know she enjoys on Monday. Maybe it's

1352
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 5: her favorite movie. Maybe it's something you found, uh, you know,

1353
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:52,160
Speaker 5: on one of the streaming services that you think she'd like.

1354
01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 5: Maybe it's something as simple as that you make her

1355
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 5: a nice dinner. In something like that, you have to

1356
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 5: have a pen though.

1357
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to plan ahead. But also this you hood,

1358
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 2: and when you're talking about birthdays and things like that,

1359
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:06,559
Speaker 2: if you had enough lead time and you could find

1360
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:10,720
Speaker 2: a place, you could also schedule a SPA day that

1361
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 2: starts at like noon and goes until five. Right, you

1362
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 2: could schedule her a SPA day where she's gone during

1363
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 2: that time and it's her gift. That is the other Uh,

1364
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:24,560
Speaker 2: that's a little pricey, but at least you get to

1365
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 2: watch the game, and you'd have to, you know, And

1366
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 2: you can't make it like a couple's spa day either,

1367
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 2: You're right, you gotta oh no, this is just just

1368
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 2: for you, baby, you deserve it. So, but you gotta

1369
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,360
Speaker 2: find a spa that's a open and one and when

1370
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:38,920
Speaker 2: it has stuff that she can do during the game,

1371
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 2: right during the game. All of that. Yep, So you

1372
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 2: could put your put her gift in lieu of the

1373
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 2: game right there at game time, so and make sure

1374
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 2: it overlaps a good amount on either end. So that's

1375
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 2: possibility as well.

1376
01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 5: I like that idea as well. So you got to

1377
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 5: get planning now though, As we say all the time,

1378
01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 5: the key to these workarounds is planning ahead. Don't just

1379
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 5: accept your fate. Come up with a constructive solution ahead

1380
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 5: of time. B Smith, on the football relationship tweets sheet says,

1381
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 5: you can always use what I do. I know you

1382
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 5: you may be busy, but we as Bill's Mafia, can

1383
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:19,600
Speaker 5: congregate at my place and have all the televisions on

1384
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:22,760
Speaker 5: volume one hundred and I'll make all the food just

1385
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 5: byob All right, Well that's very noble of you, B Smith.

1386
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 5: I don't know, if you want to put that call

1387
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:32,680
Speaker 5: out there, you might get more people showing up at

1388
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:35,120
Speaker 5: your house than you think. You might have a full

1389
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 5: house pretty quickly.

1390
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 9: I don't know.

1391
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe he's got a big house.

1392
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 5: Maybe he does. He's got five TVs.

1393
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 2: B Smith. I know a guy named Bruce Smith. Maybe

1394
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 2: that's him. He does have the space.

1395
01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta go all the way down to Virginia Beach.

1396
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:52,840
Speaker 5: Tough commute, Dave on the football relationship hotline tweet sheet says,

1397
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 5: is it okay to back out of going to a

1398
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 5: watch party this weekend if you know you're going to

1399
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 5: be outnumbered by Steeler fans at the party? They are

1400
01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 5: all friends, but Steeler fans are insufferable. Thanks. I think

1401
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 5: you're you're well within your right because if you feel

1402
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:15,200
Speaker 5: like your viewing enjoyment is going to be sullied by

1403
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 5: an ornery opposing fan, contingent.

1404
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 2: Right, and you can. Depending on how the game goes,

1405
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:23,360
Speaker 2: they're gonna be happy and you're gonna be miserable, or

1406
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:27,599
Speaker 2: vice versa, you're gonna be miserable and they're gonna be happy. Yeah,

1407
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 2: I'm yes. You can always opt out of a watch

1408
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 2: party because if there's more people in there, you can.

1409
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 2: You can do what you want. You don't have to

1410
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 2: show up with the party's gonna happen no matter what. Right,

1411
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 2: it's not like it's your birthday, so there's that. Or

1412
01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:44,040
Speaker 2: you can just make a pact and just set and

1413
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:46,479
Speaker 2: once again get out in front of it and say

1414
01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:49,400
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there, but I promise you you're not

1415
01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:52,680
Speaker 2: gonna want me there because I'm gonna I'm gonna be

1416
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 2: as obnoxious as I could possibly be. If my team

1417
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 2: goes up and we're gonna win, You're you're those people

1418
01:15:59,880 --> 01:16:01,840
Speaker 2: are going to be no longer friends because I'm going

1419
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 2: to be insufferable. But you got to be ready to

1420
01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 2: do that.

1421
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 5: You are well within your rights to pull the ripcord here.

1422
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:09,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, ch And And the other part

1423
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:11,640
Speaker 2: of that is birds of.

1424
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:14,320
Speaker 5: A feather flock together for a reason. They enjoy each

1425
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:17,240
Speaker 5: other's company more because they're all pulling for the same thing. Right,

1426
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 5: So with Bills fans, you'll have a much more enjoyable time, right.

1427
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 2: A mixed watch party is tough. It's tough to begin with,

1428
01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:26,760
Speaker 2: so you got to know you're getting it, and you

1429
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:29,519
Speaker 2: got to it's almost got to be like good natured

1430
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:31,560
Speaker 2: family that you've always done it, and it's, you know,

1431
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 2: kind of one of those things where you know nobody's

1432
01:16:33,160 --> 01:16:34,680
Speaker 2: gonna get out of line, that kind of thing. If

1433
01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 2: it's people you know find, if it's really close friends

1434
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:39,640
Speaker 2: and you're always going to be friends, that's one thing.

1435
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 2: But if it's like a group of people you met

1436
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 2: a couple of times, yeah, that's a yeah, that's a

1437
01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:47,200
Speaker 2: that's a no for me. I think that's hard to do.

1438
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 5: Well within your rights, Dave, to pull the ripcord and

1439
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:52,320
Speaker 5: kind of just watch the game with fellow Bills fans.

1440
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 2: But I'll admit, I'll admit that's a judgment call. How

1441
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 2: well do you know the people? How many are going

1442
01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 2: to be there? Because you don't really know the atmosphere

1443
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 2: until you get there. Yeah, and not all fans are

1444
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 2: created equal, right, There's some that you can live with

1445
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 2: and some you cannot. So there you know you got

1446
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 2: to you got. It's a judgment call.

1447
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, good luck with that, Dave. We hope for nothing

1448
01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:15,799
Speaker 5: but the best for you. Let's go to the phones

1449
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 5: at eight oh three oh five fifty and to Mark

1450
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:18,960
Speaker 5: in West senecon X.

1451
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 7: What do you got first, Mark, I'll try to make

1452
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:24,720
Speaker 7: this quick. You guys mentioned the Great Comeback Game, which

1453
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 7: chocked my memory. About this story real quick. I'm about fourteen,

1454
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 7: it's in the seventies. We're playing the Raiders on Monday

1455
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 7: night football. OJ fumbles late in the game and I'm

1456
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 7: there with my dad and my brother and they pick

1457
01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 7: it up, running in for the goal ahead score. My

1458
01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:41,200
Speaker 7: dad looks at us, come on, we're out of here.

1459
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,559
Speaker 7: We go out in the parking lot. There's a big roar.

1460
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,759
Speaker 7: Joe Ferguson throws a go ahead winning touchdown to Omad Rashad,

1461
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 7: and I look at my dad and I say, We're

1462
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 7: never leaving a game early again. Fat Subsequently, years later,

1463
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 7: my dad passes away. Now I'm at the greatest comeback

1464
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:01,400
Speaker 7: game ever. I'm with my brother again. Everybody knows what

1465
01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:03,640
Speaker 7: the score was. Halftime. My brother wants to leave. I

1466
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:05,679
Speaker 7: look at him and say, I'm thinking to my dad,

1467
01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:10,599
Speaker 7: I'm not leaving. Frank throws the interception. Now my brother

1468
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 7: really wants to leave. I hand him the keys to

1469
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 7: the car. I say, if you want to go, sit

1470
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 7: in the car and wait. Fine, I'm not leaving. We

1471
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:19,960
Speaker 7: all know what happened.

1472
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:21,600
Speaker 2: Wow, what'd your brother do?

1473
01:18:22,439 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 7: My brother stayed. He did stay so but as a

1474
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 7: season ticket holder for thirty years because of that one

1475
01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 7: game and me being a generational fan from my dad,

1476
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 7: never left a single home game early. Everyone to the

1477
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 7: final gun, and believe me, there were some real painful water.

1478
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you had you get around to make that claim.

1479
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 2: You're it's just it's a it's a hard row to

1480
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 2: hoe that, no question about it. So hey, congratulations to you.

1481
01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:54,280
Speaker 2: And you know, if you ever stuck with it, if

1482
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:56,160
Speaker 2: you learn a lesson, you don't unlearn it.

1483
01:18:56,400 --> 01:19:00,120
Speaker 5: That's right, and Mark clearly did. Uh. Let's go to

1484
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 5: Bill in South Buffalo. What you got for us? Bill?

1485
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,040
Speaker 9: Hey, good afternoon, guys. How are you today?

1486
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:06,639
Speaker 5: Doing well?

1487
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:11,599
Speaker 9: Okay? I got a scenario for you. Dick Sable retires

1488
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 9: yesterday abruptly, unexpectedly. Nobody knew he was going to retire.

1489
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:20,640
Speaker 9: Bill Belichick inspired, for lack of a better word, how

1490
01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 9: about him going to the San Diego Chargers and hiring

1491
01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 9: Nick Saban as a defense coordinator because Saban knew that

1492
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:29,839
Speaker 9: Belichick was out the door. And that's why he retired

1493
01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:33,000
Speaker 9: a day earlier, because a week earlier he had team

1494
01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 9: meetings and stuff telling him how we're gonna be good

1495
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:38,759
Speaker 9: this next year and everything else, and then he abruptly retires.

1496
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:41,479
Speaker 9: What do you guys think about that? And one more thing,

1497
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 9: by Bill's prediction, those will win by twenty one plus on.

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Speaker 5: Sunday market down Okay, okay, wow, Bill, very confident about

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Speaker 5: this weekend. I don't know if the weather's going to

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Speaker 5: allow for that, but maybe it does. No storm as

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Speaker 5: far as the I mean, I'm sure there are going

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Speaker 5: to be multiple teams interested that have had trouble finding

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Speaker 5: success in interviewing Bill Belichick for their head coaching position.

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Speaker 5: Atlanta seems to be the hot name right now. They

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01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 5: are loaded for bear in terms of offensive talent. Their

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Speaker 5: defense is what needs help, and you know Belichick knows defense.

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Speaker 5: Of course, they still have to have an answer at

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Speaker 5: quarterback too, since Desmond Ritter wasn't exactly what they had

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01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 5: hoped for the former third round draft choice. So there's

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Speaker 5: stuff on the to do list there in Atlanta. But

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Speaker 5: there are some New England connections. You know, Scott Pioli

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01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 5: used to work down there. There was another guy in

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Speaker 5: the front office with New England ties, so there's a

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Speaker 5: certain amount of recon that can be done there as well.

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Speaker 5: But I'm sure there'll be other teams. I've heard Tampa

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Speaker 5: out there in the ether. The Chargers have been mentioned

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Speaker 5: as well. I don't see Sabin joining him though he's

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01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:53,880
Speaker 5: actually Saban's actually older than Bill. Saban is seventy two,

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Speaker 5: and at the most recent press conference, Saban in a

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01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:04,560
Speaker 5: veiled way, mentioned health concerns. He was not specific, but

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Speaker 5: it sounds like there are other reasons for him stepping

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Speaker 5: away from coaching, which you know Steve, as Steve has

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Speaker 5: outlined several times, is a lifestyle and very demanding both

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Speaker 5: physically and mentally, and because of the hours involved and

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01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:27,920
Speaker 5: never getting enough sleep, it wears the body down quite literally,

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Speaker 5: that job. So I think there's a little bit more

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Speaker 5: to it that we probably really don't know on the outside.

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Speaker 5: I'd be surprised if Saban returns to coaching in any

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Speaker 5: form or fashion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think if you're Bill Belichick, I think

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Speaker 2: this is one of those things I talk about all

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01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:50,760
Speaker 2: the time. I think you'd be surprised at how many

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Speaker 2: candidates remove themselves from the conversation. There might be some franchises.

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick knows all too well already that he'll say,

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Speaker 2: you know, thanks, but no thanks. I mean, you've got

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Speaker 2: college kids stiff arming teams. John Elway wanted no part

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01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:09,400
Speaker 2: of the Baltimore Colts, or it was Baltimore Colts at

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01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 2: the time. Peyton Eli Manning said no thanks to the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: I mean there are some franchises in the past, not

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01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 2: always and not not currently and whatever. I'm not saying

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01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:29,320
Speaker 2: anything about anybody, but you got some probably opportunities out

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Speaker 2: there of all these ones we know about Atlanta, Carolina,

1543
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 2: La Chargers, the Raiders, that some of these candidates will

1544
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:43,080
Speaker 2: just say, you know what, no, no, thanks so, and

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Speaker 2: that's never made public because the candidate doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: show up an owner because another owner will say, if

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Speaker 2: you're going to show him up, what he's going to

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Speaker 2: keep you from showing me up. So they'll never come

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Speaker 2: out and say, no, I didn't want to work for

1550
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Speaker 2: that guy. But I think it happens. Yeah, I think

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01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:02,720
Speaker 2: it happens. And this may be. If you're Bill Belichick,

1552
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:06,200
Speaker 2: you can see yeah, you certainly are not going to

1553
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:07,640
Speaker 2: be without a job if you want one.

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Speaker 5: Gotta take a break here because when we come back,

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Speaker 5: we may have some post practice podium sound from the players.

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Speaker 5: As soon as we do, we'll bring it to you

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Speaker 5: to talk to you during commercial breaks of course, but yeah,

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Speaker 5: we'll be out there in Amherst tomorrow, so come check

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Speaker 5: us out. Uh got to go to the post practice

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Speaker 5: podium now though, to rel Bernard is addressing the media.

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Speaker 10: But extra edge and an advantage, you know, just having

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01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:30,639
Speaker 10: the opportunity to be at home and play in front

1574
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 10: of them, and you know, just feel the energy. I

1575
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:34,920
Speaker 10: think it's I think it's gonna be huge for us.

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01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 10: Is your first playoff experience, What did you learn that

1577
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 10: experience actual that would kind of carry over this? Yeah,

1578
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 10: I think just the the intensity. You know, obviously, every

1579
01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:49,080
Speaker 10: game throughout the regular season counts and everything matters, but

1580
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 10: once you gets to the playoffs, it's a it's a

1581
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 10: little bit a little bit different, and you know everything's

1582
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:56,760
Speaker 10: on the line, and you know, we understand that, and

1583
01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 10: you know, just being a rookie, I feel like, you know,

1584
01:24:59,439 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 10: I had had a unique experience to to be able

1585
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 10: to see, you know, how much it means to everybody

1586
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 10: in the building, all the guys on the team. So

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01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 10: I think, I think just the the intensity and you know,

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01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 10: the care factor of everybody, like you get to you

1589
01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:14,080
Speaker 10: get to really see that and really.

1590
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,599
Speaker 2: Feel that about the emotional call that you guys under

1591
01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:20,679
Speaker 2: took last year down the stretcher are going into the playoffs,

1592
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 2: the fatigue that you all talked about. What's different this

1593
01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 2: time around, with what's happening with these last five or

1594
01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:30,600
Speaker 2: six weeks going into the playoffs. Is it, you know,

1595
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:32,639
Speaker 2: like there's a renewed enerview.

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01:25:33,320 --> 01:25:35,760
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think so, you know, you hit it, you know,

1597
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 10: kind of last year just so much going on, you know,

1598
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 10: very very unique season, and you know, I feel like

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01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 10: we felt that definitely. And then this year, you know,

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Speaker 10: just the everything that we went through to get to

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Speaker 10: this point to you know, have the opportunity to play

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01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 10: at home in our first playoff game and you know,

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01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:56,800
Speaker 10: finish you know, first in the AFSE East.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 10: You know, I think you know, we talked about finding

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01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:03,680
Speaker 10: an identity. Uh, you know, a few games back and

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01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 10: I feel like we've we've been able to do that

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01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 10: and establish that, and you know that's something that we've

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01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 10: been you know, really trying to build on and you know,

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01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 10: trying to trying to manifest And I feel like that's

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01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 10: that's coming to Fruition now. And you know, we know

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Speaker 10: who we are, we know who we need to be,

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01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:21,120
Speaker 10: and you know, I think if that team shows up,

1614
01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 10: you know, I feel like we could play with anybody.

1615
01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:27,599
Speaker 10: I think especially on defense, you know, being fast, physical,

1616
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 10: effecting the quarterback, stopping the run, and taking the ball away. Uh,

1617
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Speaker 10: those are a few things that we talk about and

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01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:33,760
Speaker 10: a few things that you know, we we live by

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01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 10: and we understand if we're able to do those things,

1620
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:37,679
Speaker 10: you know, it'll help us win games.

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Speaker 5: You look at the number of blitz.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot. Is much more than Germaine did if

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01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 2: it was the last year, kind of similar to what

1624
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 2: he did three years ago. Do you feel like from

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the.

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Speaker 3: Season to the town you've grown in your ability to

1627
01:26:50,760 --> 01:26:53,320
Speaker 3: blitz and then how have you breaks out?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.

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Speaker 10: I think really just understanding protections, understanding what you know,

1630
01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:00,640
Speaker 10: Coach mcgermy is trying to get done and with the

1631
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:03,360
Speaker 10: with the blitz and with the pressures, and then understanding

1632
01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:06,640
Speaker 10: my role within the defense. And you know, when understand that,

1633
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 10: you know, when your numbers called, you got to you

1634
01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:11,680
Speaker 10: got to be effective and you know, make plays. So

1635
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Speaker 10: I think, you know, just just through time and through reps,

1636
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 10: I feel like you get a better sense and a

1637
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:18,760
Speaker 10: better feel for it, and you know, it becomes a

1638
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 10: little bit more natural. And I feel like, you know,

1639
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:23,680
Speaker 10: as the seasons has gone on, I feel like I've

1640
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:25,599
Speaker 10: gotten I've gotten better at that, and you know, still

1641
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 10: a time to improve on and you know, certain areas

1642
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:30,080
Speaker 10: that I know, I know I can I can get

1643
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 10: better at. But you know, looking back at it, I

1644
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 10: feel like, you know, from week one to now, you know,

1645
01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:36,519
Speaker 10: it's been a huge, huge difference.

1646
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 2: I was bailing handling and increased the role.

1647
01:27:39,240 --> 01:27:41,519
Speaker 10: And how are you helping him? Yeah, it's been great.

1648
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:45,759
Speaker 10: You know, he's a true professional, you know, just throughout

1649
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 10: this whole season. You know, he's done, you know, just

1650
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 10: as much studying and preparation as anybody. So I feel like,

1651
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 10: you know, we're able to see that against Miami last

1652
01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:55,800
Speaker 10: week when he came in and you know, didn't miss

1653
01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:59,280
Speaker 10: a beat. So I think, you know, just communication. You know,

1654
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 10: when we're out there together, we're we're working together, and

1655
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 10: we're doing everything together. We're watching tape together, you know,

1656
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:09,599
Speaker 10: we're studying together. So me and him, you know, trying

1657
01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 10: to be on the same page and every aspect of

1658
01:28:12,080 --> 01:28:15,759
Speaker 10: the game plan and every aspect of communication and execution

1659
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 10: and making sure that everybody else around us is lined

1660
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:21,240
Speaker 10: up and you know, make sure everybody's on the same page.

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Speaker 10: So I feel like, you know, last week and then

1662
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:26,920
Speaker 10: leading up to this week, he's been he's been great,

1663
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:28,760
Speaker 10: and you know, it's been it's been fun working with him,

1664
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 10: all right.

1665
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:34,679
Speaker 5: So that's Terrell Bernard addressing the media here after practice today,

1666
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:37,679
Speaker 5: and he was asked there at the end Steve about

1667
01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 5: Bail Inspector, who very well may have to start this

1668
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:44,439
Speaker 5: week if Tyrrell Dotson cannot recover in time from his

1669
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:47,720
Speaker 5: shoulder injury suffered in last week's game. And this would

1670
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:50,280
Speaker 5: be another good week to have Baile Inspector in the

1671
01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 5: lineup because his strength is defending the run, right, and

1672
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:55,120
Speaker 5: you know this Steelers team is going to run the ball.

1673
01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:58,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, they They've proven their ability to do it and

1674
01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 2: then desire to do it as good and as fun

1675
01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 2: as it's been to see Mason Rudolph go through this

1676
01:29:05,840 --> 01:29:07,560
Speaker 2: streak with them and get him into the playoffs and

1677
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 2: all that. They are not leaning on Mason Rudolph to

1678
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:15,640
Speaker 2: win this game. It's Jalen Warren and Nogie Harris that

1679
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 2: are the keys, and it.

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01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:21,719
Speaker 5: Would if Dodson cannot go, Specter is a good option

1681
01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 5: to turn to for sure. It is interesting though, that

1682
01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 5: aj Klein was added to the practice squad. Could he

1683
01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:31,680
Speaker 5: be a practice squad elevation at the end of the

1684
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:35,400
Speaker 5: week as a backup option to those two. I think

1685
01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:38,639
Speaker 5: it's a possibility. That's it for us today. Catch Maddi

1686
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 5: clabing myself out of Northtown Automotive tomorrow for Friday's show.

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Speaker 5: We'll see it on