WEBVTT - Bills By The Numbers: AFC East Still Up For Grabs? Latest Super Bowl Odds 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.000 Welcome into Bills by the Numbers, where we let the 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:03.880 stats tell you where the Bills are at. We're presented 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.920 by FanDuel make every moment more. Coming up the ESPN 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.319 Football Power Index. As Buffalo in some interesting spots in 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.040 terms of projected record and odds to win the Super Bowl, 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:20.280 we'll investigate is it premature to dismiss the AFC East Race? 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.600 Steve has quizzed on Bill's playoff history, and we'll have 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.200 our one burning question. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.639 We have officially reached crunch time. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.040 What did you make a good decision? Joining us here 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:44.800 on Bills by the Numbers. He is Bill's Wall of 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.120 Famer Steve Tasker on Bill's play by playman Chris Brown, 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.120 and down the stretch. We come here in the twenty 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.479 twenty five regular season, four games to play in a 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.520 gigantic head to head matchup with the AFC East Division leader, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.360 the Patriots in New England. Buffalo two games back of 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.000 New England with the week fifteen game in Foxborough and 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.800 three to play after that. Before we get to the 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.000 division race, Steve, we want to share with the ESPN 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.680 Football Power Index thinks of the current NFL landscape. It 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.039 has the rams atop the power Index as the strongest 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.440 team with a month left in the season. After that, 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:23.160 believe it or not, are the Chiefs, Packers, Lions, Seahawks. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.240 To round out the top five. Buffalo comes in at seventh. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:31.240 We should note Buffalo is the top ranked AFC team 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.880 currently in a playoff position. When it comes to projections 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.040 for the rest of the slate, the team expected to 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.039 finish with the best record is New England at thirteen 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.759 and four, followed by Denver, the Rams, Seattle, and the Bills. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.920 Buffalo projected at about twelve and five. It's like eleven 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.560 point seven and five point whatever. If that projection plays out, 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.360 Buffalo would be the top wild card seed and they 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.760 would go to Pittsburgh, who are projected to win the 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.559 division in the AFC. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:08.519 North at nine and eight. Thoughts on that possible matchup, Steve. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:09.840 I'm okay with it. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:10.480 I like it. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:16.160 Yeah, we match up well with them. They'll have a 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.840 chip on their shoulder because of the way the Bills 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.160 handled them in their building the last time, two hundred 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.560 and forty nine rushing yards. They're gonna come out with 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.040 a chip on their shoulder and I would anticipate that 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:31.600 being a really physical attitude game. But the Bills are 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.200 the better team and you got to go in thinking 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:36.200 that and believe in Yeah. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.240 ESPN Analytics gives the Bills a ninety seven percent chance 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.760 to make the playoffs as they prepare for their Week 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.320 fifteen matchup with the Patriots. They give them just a 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.720 nineteen and a half percent chance to win the division, 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.399 which seems higher than we've initially seen projective. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.720 Aslow as it is, it seems high. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.079 We've calculated that if the Bills win their last four games, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.639 including Sunday at New England obviously, in the Patriots lose 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.079 one o their game to a division opponent, either the 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.440 Jets in Week seventeen or the Dolphins in Week eighteen, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.320 Buffalo could win their sixth straight division title. The other 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.280 scenario is if the Patriots lose three of their last four, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.920 Buffalo could go three and one in their final four games, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.399 provided one of those wins being against the Patriots, and still. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.600 Win the division. So it's possible, but. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.919 Probably unlikely, knowing New England has won ten in a 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.360 row coming into this weekend. But should the division title 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.799 hopes beshelled, Steve I. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.840 Would say yes only because of it, not that it 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.240 couldn't happen. But because you've got bigger fish to fry around, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.640 you gotta win this game, all right. Your goals have 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.920 shrunken from winning the Super Bowl, winning the AFC Championship 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.760 Division all that down to its game by game because 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.160 now a large measure of what you need to happen 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.320 is out of your control. So you can't think about it. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.720 You got to win this game and then reevaluate after 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.119 everybody else in the league settles in their win loss column. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:05.080 It's about tomorrow and then the next day. So you 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:09.480 don't you stop thinking about the division title unless you 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.480 had a chance to sew it up, so to speak. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.440 Right now, you've got to continue to stack wins because 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.640 of the landscape. Everyone is so close at the top 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.800 of that that's the conference. You can't get caught up 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.840 in stuff you can't control, and right now the division's 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:27.599 out of your control. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:32.359 Yeah, and that's the rub, right because I think the 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.080 general consensus is the Bills just have to keep on winning. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.200 Pick your head up at the end and see where 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.279 you are. There's a very good you know, it's like 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.000 a ninety seven percent chands you're going to the playoffs, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.200 So that much is known, but you have to keep 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:51.760 winning to ensure that. And then secondarily you can think about, okay, 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.080 as New England slipped up, you know, a couple of 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.240 weeks from now, whatever have they slipped up? 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.360 Is the door open now? You can worry about that then. 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:04.000 But more importantly, the wild card race is tightly packed 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:08.400 as well, so you still control your own destiny in 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.760 that aspect, and because of that, you have to keep winning. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.760 I mean, that's priority one right now. Just keep on 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.800 winning and hope it's good enough to if not win 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.240 the division, be the top wild card seed and play 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.159 the weakest division winner. So we'll have to see what happens. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.479 It's interesting though, because coach McDermott has said in the 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.599 past with respect to the playoffs, win your division first 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.919 because that guarantees you a home playoff game. Obviously that 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.279 has fallen out of their control. To your point, Steve, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.960 I don't know that winning the division should be dismissed, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.279 especially if they win this week, to delay a division 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.920 title for New England, because if New England wins, it's over. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:51.839 They win the division. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.000 But I gotta believe there's a little added motivation this 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.160 week to not let that be a hat and T 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:58.600 shirt game for the Patriots. 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:05.440 Sure, but yeah, secondarily, you gotta win a period. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.040 Yeah, if you win anyway, if. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.280 You lose, you may be the seven seed this week 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.680 and you're playing one of the best pass rushes in 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.640 the league next week and you got the World champions 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:16.560 in a week after that. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.840 You have to win. Yeah, you have to win. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.640 And that's whether the whether it was the division title 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.680 or the Patriots or not, you'd still have to This 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.440 is a game too where you've seen this team once 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.560 this year. They're a little bit of a different team 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.520 now than they were in Week five, as are the Bills, 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.320 so it's gonna be a little bit different matchup, completely 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:42.520 different venue obviously as well. Yeah, if you want to 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.000 have any semblance of having some control over your own destiny, 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:46.560 you gotta win. 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.800 ESPN Analytics has the Bills with the third best odds 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.480 to make the divisional playoff at fifty four and a 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.040 half percent, behind only Denver and New England on the 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.920 AFC side of the ledger, and the third best odds 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.200 to make the AFC Title game, again behind Denver in 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:03.440 New England, but it's. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:03.920 Not by much. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.000 Denver with a forty percent chance to reach the AFC Championship, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.240 New England with a thirty four percent chance, followed by 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.920 Buffalo at thirty percent. Knowing the Bills in one of 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.240 those scenarios is probably playing at Denver or at New England. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.080 Do you have a preference, because there is the argument 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.960 about how hard it is to play a team the 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.760 third time, namely New England. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.840 Yeah, I might rather go on the road to Denver 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.200 rather than New England again. Playing a team for the 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:39.920 third times difficult. And Denver hasn't seen this team, and 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.120 they have played against a quarterback like this one. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.360 Well not since last year's wildcard playoff. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.120 Right, so they would they'd be up against It would 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.800 be different for them this run game. Denver's defense is 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.920 very good. But playing out in Denver, to be're honest, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.400 I think the weather would be better in Denver than 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.280 it would be in New England. They get could be 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.960 they get three hundred and thirty days of sunshine in Denver. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.680 It'd be altitude. But that they're sports science, you know, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.720 will take care of that. I like the Denver matchup better. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.840 Bo Knicks is not in the MVP race, Drake may is. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.320 Yeah, that's what was gonna be the difference maker for me. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.119 Bo Nicks has had trouble putting points on the board 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.440 for his offense on a consistent basis. There might be 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.040 some weeks where they make enough plays and they score 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.000 twenty four twenty seven points, but there are other weeks 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.960 where they're barely and struggling to get to twenty and 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.120 their defense has bailed them out because it's so good 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.640 at keeping opponents off the scoreboard. I think I would 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:50.360 be inclined to take that. Not only that Denver's defense, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:54.240 if there is a soft underbelly, they have been victimized 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.360 to a great degree by backs and tight ends in 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.840 the passing game. And with the evolution of Buffalo's offense 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.360 here down the stretch and seeing backs and tight ends 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.800 playing more prominent roles in Buffalo's passing game, I kind 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.480 of like that matchup a little bit better than I 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.920 would playing New England a third time this season. As 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.480 for odds to make the Super Bowl, ESPN Analytics has 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.360 Buffalo with the second best odds to reach the ultimate 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.720 game in the AFC, behind only Denver, which is at 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.480 twenty two percent. Buffalo at sixteen and a half percent 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.240 to reach the Super Bowl. What do you make of 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:30.560 seeing them rated there? 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.640 Well, surprise, there's been some conversation now with if Lamar Jackson, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.400 Pat Mahomes and Joe Burrow are out of the playoffs, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.120 you'll have the best player in the tournament. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.559 But Buffalo always does. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.760 There's only three games this year you can have even 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.880 a conversation about where the guys as good as the 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.400 guy you've got. It's Mahomes, it's Burrow, and it's Lamar Jackson, 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.520 and he beat he went three to zero against him. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.880 But as we've seen in the playoffs, having the best 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.600 player isn't always the trump card. Yeah, you've got to 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.040 have more than just one guy, even if it is 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.920 the quarterback. You gotta have more guys helping him. You 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.680 got to have more guys that make plays. You gotta 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.920 have more guys that are elevating. But having said that, yeah, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.280 I get why they like Buffalo, and it's because of 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:25.160 the guy taking snaps and secondarily they can run the ball. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.920 So it's hard to bet against teams like that, particularly 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.280 a team that's proven over the course of a long 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.200 season that it is consistent and unless you keep a 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.440 lid on it, it will get you and Bills have 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:37.800 done it. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.800 I think part of the reason they're rated this high 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:45.480 is because some of those other elite quarterbacks it's looking 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.600 more and more like they're not gonna be in the tournament, 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.400 and because of the drop off from Josh to the 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.120 other quarterbacks that will be in on the AFC side 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.640 of the Ledger, I think that's why the analytics people 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.360 have this number for Buffalo to make the Super Bowl 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.480 at sixteen and a half percent. That's higher than I 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.240 can remember it being in previous years. Last year, when 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.920 they were thirteen and four, it wasn't that high, But 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.240 it's because there were other teams like the Chiefs in 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.720 the tournament. So it's really interesting to see that number 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.560 as high as it is, and I wonder if it's 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.680 because some of those other teams were used to seeing 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.800 in the postseason may not be there. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.240 We still have four games to play as well, so 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.040 there's a lot at this point. Last season, at that point, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:29.959 Joe Burrow looked like he was going to make a 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.480 run at the playoffs, right, So yeah, it's a different 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:37.839 atmosphere and it may change twice over the next four weeks. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.240 When it comes to winning the Super Bowl. Buffalo again 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.120 has the second best odds among AFC teams, again behind Denver. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.240 Broncos are given a ten percent chance, Bills an eight 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:49.080 percent chance. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.839 The NFC teams, though, in. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.480 Terms of odds, are way ahead Rams at eighteen point 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.760 one percent, Packers at nine point six, Seahawks at eight 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.760 point eight. How hard is it to see that far 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.520 down the road, knowing how much has to happen between 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:04.120 now and then. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:05.800 Yeah, I mean, projections are nice. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.440 Projections are nice. But the difference is that the Broncos 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:13.120 and the Bills have more significant flaws than apparently the 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:18.160 Seahawks and the Rams and the Packers do both. All 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.160 of those teams, Rams, Packers, Seahawks have defenses that are 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.800 playing at a higher level than Buffalo's is and their 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.600 offenses the Seahawks, Packers, and Rams are playing better than 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:34.600 the Broncos offense. So those three NFC teams seem more 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:39.319 well rounded than the either the Bills or the Broncos 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.839 at this point, And at this point I don't know why. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.800 But at this point I don't know. Perhaps it's because 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.320 of their weak schedule they played. Nobody has that much 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.680 faith in the New England Patriots to overcome a really 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:56.720 good team. So I think I see why. You know, 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.680 the the NFC teams are given the edge there by far, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:06.280 it's because they're more well rounded and those teams have 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.520 been tested more often than the Patriots, the Broncos Patriots 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:11.160 of the Broncos. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.040 Yeah, I do find it interesting. I almost feel like 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.000 there has been a little bit of a power shift 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:22.839 between the conferences. The NFC used to be the team 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.000 with one, two, maybe three teams that could realistically get 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.400 to the Super Bowl, and really when you kind of 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.080 got down to brass tacks, you can only see one 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.679 or two maybe, And now I think there's three or 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.719 four players that could legitimately make the Super Bowl on 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.800 the NFC side, and all of them might be stronger 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.920 than whoever represents the AFC, because it seems as though 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.560 the AFC teams, even some of the best ones in 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:53.280 terms of record, have some flaws, flaws that could cost 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.320 them in the ultimate game. So it just two years 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.280 ago the AFC was the power conference by far, and 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.439 I think we're seeing a shift to some degree. And 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.160 that's what makes it interesting to see the Bills as 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.800 the current sixth seed in the AFC playoff picture with 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.480 some of the best odds among AFC clubs to win 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.000 the whole Enchilada. Does it illustrate to you how wide 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.680 open the AFC seems to be this year. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.400 Yeah, you've got team, and Buffalo is probably as big 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.280 a culprit of this as anybody. They dropped some games 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.880 they shouldn't have dropped, most notably to the Miami Dolphins 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.040 and the New England Patriots. They turned it over three 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.600 times of their own volition. Against the Patriots, Keon just 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.960 drops it inside the fifteen yard line of the Bills. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.320 It takes away an opportunity for Josh Allen the offense 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.520 to move it and also gives points right away to 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.920 the Patriots, which they take advantage of and the game 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.280 they win in a last second field goal. That kind 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.200 of stuff happened in Miami. The Bills go down and 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:56.440 absolutely show up flat, did not play well and didn't 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.360 even look like the same team, and lost by double 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.440 digits to a bad Dolphins team, or at least at 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:07.480 that moment they were bad. So that's why the AFC 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.800 is wide open. You've got teams like Buffalo who just 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.440 can't get it together on a week to week basis. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.160 Save the New England Patriots, and I still believe there's 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.760 some narrative out there that Drake May is a beneficiary 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:24.040 of a Josh McDaniel's ability to manipulate an offense from 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.240 the bench with a good with at least a. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.240 Passion giving on as much pre snap information as possible. 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.040 So he's Josh McDaniels as much deserves as much credit 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.320 as the success of Drake May, as Drake May does 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:40.200 well in that narrative. So they're not giving Drake May 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.560 the credit for carrying that team with solid play as 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.000 they are other teams. So you take you chop off 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.280 the Patriots, you chop off Josh Allen the Bills because 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.920 they're too inconsistent. That drops everybody down, because the Baltimore 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.520 Ravens are nowhere to be found, the Kansas City Chiefs 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.920 are nowhere to be found. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.520 Yeah, it's a wash more inconsistent than the Bills are. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:01.720 Yeah. 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.200 So you look at the conference that all the the 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.040 most notable teams that we had huge expectations at the 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:14.360 beginning of the season and they're riding roller coasters. Yeah, 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.880 it's easy to see that the more consistent and well 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.640 rounded teams are in the NFC this year, even if 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.640 their quarterbacks aren't as good, with the exception of Matt Stafford. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.640 Who's probably the leader in the clubhouse for NFL MVP. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.000 We turn our attention now to the Numbers game, where 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.480 Steve will be quizzed on Bills playoff history. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.560 Let's do it. Question number one, there are. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.760 Three Bills players who hold the record for most interceptions 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.880 in a playoff game. Two of them were your teammates. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.360 Can you name two of those three Bills players? 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.720 Mark Kelso, it is not Mark. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:55.440 Henry Jones. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:03.160 It is not Henry Jones. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.600 Uh, Nate Odams, no one, Nate Well, I have no 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:10.040 idea that. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.800 Come on, It's two interceptions. That's the record in a 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.600 single playoff game. Then you think of two teammates who 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.280 had two interceptions in a playoff game. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:21.920 Please be no. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:27.560 Here. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:33.199 You just pull out a roster. Yeah, I thought this 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:39.600 was going to be a layup. Jeff Burris, not Jeff Burrs. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.440 So I'll give you the non teammate of yours, which 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.879 I didn't expect you to get because I wouldn't have 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.399 gotten it either, Bill Simpson in nineteen eighty one against 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:54.639 the Jets. The other one was in nineteen ninety hold 0:17:54.640 --> 0:18:00.879 on against the Raiders. Oh, Darryl Tally, Daryl Talley who 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.679 had two picks there? And the other one was in 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:12.280 nineteen ninety two against the Chiefs John Hagy. 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.720 It was Kirby Jackson. Oh, who had two. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:16.919 I wouldn't have gotten Kirby. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.680 Good for him, though, good for him. Question number two, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:26.919 who has the longest run from scrimmage in team playoff history? 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:29.639 Josh Allen? 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.800 That is correct. It is Josh Allen. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.959 Two yards against the Pittsburgh Steelers browning. And I've been 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.360 having the conversation. Everybody was saying, yeah, Josh is forty 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.720 yard touchdown, it's the longest of his career, and we're like, oh, no, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.520 it's not longest in the regular longest in the regular season. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.479 But that doesn't That's not his career, So shut up 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:45.720 with that, Come on, get it right. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:51.200 Question number three, who has the most touchdown receptions. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.960 In a playoff game and team playoff. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.080 History for the Bill Andre Reid. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:55.840 He was incorrect. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.760 Really he had three in the comeback game. But someone's 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.040 done him one better, Stevie Johnson. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:03.399 Not Stevie Johnson. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:04.560 He never made the playoffs. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:06.440 Poor guy. 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.960 Eric Moles not Eric Moles, although he has the record 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.240 for most receiving yards in a playoff game with two 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:19.040 hundred and forty in Miami at ninety nine wildcard James Lofton. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.399 Not James Lofton. It's more recent than that. 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:27.080 Steve oh Oh, Gabe Davis, Gabe Davis four against the 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.080 Chiefs in twenty twenty one. That was dumb. I should 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:31.439 have got that. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:32.119 Don't beat yourself. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:33.000 I should have got that. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:37.080 And question number four, who has the longest kick return 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.439 in a playoff game in Bill's team history? 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:42.200 Me? 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:48.040 That is correct, kids, you sixty seven yards against the 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.440 Raiders that I didn't score on in nineteen ninety four. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.919 Guy pushed me on, Oh, that's really cold. If I 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.000 could find it, if I could get the ball out, 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.400 I couldn't there. All right, Well, I'm glad you got 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.119 that one. I would have been a little worried. It 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:03.360 might have been catastrophic. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.520 Get that one hot, and that one that's you'd had 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.480 to come up with a new buzzer for that one. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:10.600 Yeah, it would have been. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.480 I think it might have just been that old trumpet 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:17.919 wmwomp oh yeah, or a wampwamp. Bill's fans get in 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.359 on the action with FanDuel America's number one sportsbook. Just 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.560 download the app today to play anywhere you want. Plus, 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.720 with live betting, you'll get updated odds on games that 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.240 have already started. Best of all, you get page your 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.200 winnings fast. Make every moment more with FanDuel Official Sportsbook, 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.080 partner of the Buffalo Bills. 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.959 Time now for our one burning question. 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.240 We've seen the Bills passing game struggle to get major 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:41.840 production from their receivers this season, but we have seen 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.960 some big games of late in the passing attack from 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.800 the backs and tight ends. Could making consistent use of 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.560 them in the passing game make Buffalo a more well 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.680 rounded offense down the stretch and into the playoffs. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:56.399 Well, absolutely. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.800 If you've got a group of if that's where you 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:01.760 want to focus, you're passing game, and you become good 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:03.760 at it, be good at it. 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:03.919 Go. 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:07.080 Teams are going to have to contend with it, and 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.359 they'll come up with new ways, in different ways to 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.600 combat it, and you'll have to have answers, but they 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.679 have to have answers for you. If you're good at it, 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.240 that's what add it to the recipe. You've got to 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:22.240 use it to win games. And if having haws, knocks 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.560 and kincad on the field a lot more, with two backs, 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.680 one back, whatever the combination it is, you got to 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:32.000 do it. And this last game certainly showed that if 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.320