Speaker 1: Welcome into Bills by the Numbers, where we let the
Speaker 1: stats tell you where the Bills are at. We're presented
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Speaker 1: Football Power Index. As Buffalo in some interesting spots in
Speaker 1: terms of projected record and odds to win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: we'll investigate is it premature to dismiss the AFC East Race?
Speaker 1: Steve has quizzed on Bill's playoff history, and we'll have
Speaker 1: our one burning question.
Speaker 2: We have officially reached crunch time.
Speaker 1: What did you make a good decision? Joining us here
Speaker 1: on Bills by the Numbers. He is Bill's Wall of
Speaker 1: Famer Steve Tasker on Bill's play by playman Chris Brown,
Speaker 1: and down the stretch. We come here in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five regular season, four games to play in a
Speaker 1: gigantic head to head matchup with the AFC East Division leader,
Speaker 1: the Patriots in New England. Buffalo two games back of
Speaker 1: New England with the week fifteen game in Foxborough and
Speaker 1: three to play after that. Before we get to the
Speaker 1: division race, Steve, we want to share with the ESPN
Speaker 1: Football Power Index thinks of the current NFL landscape. It
Speaker 1: has the rams atop the power Index as the strongest
Speaker 1: team with a month left in the season. After that,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, are the Chiefs, Packers, Lions, Seahawks.
Speaker 1: To round out the top five. Buffalo comes in at seventh.
Speaker 1: We should note Buffalo is the top ranked AFC team
Speaker 1: currently in a playoff position. When it comes to projections
Speaker 1: for the rest of the slate, the team expected to
Speaker 1: finish with the best record is New England at thirteen
Speaker 1: and four, followed by Denver, the Rams, Seattle, and the Bills.
Speaker 1: Buffalo projected at about twelve and five. It's like eleven
Speaker 1: point seven and five point whatever. If that projection plays out,
Speaker 1: Buffalo would be the top wild card seed and they
Speaker 1: would go to Pittsburgh, who are projected to win the
Speaker 1: division in the AFC.
Speaker 2: North at nine and eight. Thoughts on that possible matchup, Steve.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with it.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we match up well with them. They'll have a
Speaker 3: chip on their shoulder because of the way the Bills
Speaker 3: handled them in their building the last time, two hundred
Speaker 3: and forty nine rushing yards. They're gonna come out with
Speaker 3: a chip on their shoulder and I would anticipate that
Speaker 3: being a really physical attitude game. But the Bills are
Speaker 3: the better team and you got to go in thinking
Speaker 3: that and believe in Yeah.
Speaker 1: ESPN Analytics gives the Bills a ninety seven percent chance
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs as they prepare for their Week
Speaker 1: fifteen matchup with the Patriots. They give them just a
Speaker 1: nineteen and a half percent chance to win the division,
Speaker 1: which seems higher than we've initially seen projective.
Speaker 3: Aslow as it is, it seems high.
Speaker 1: We've calculated that if the Bills win their last four games,
Speaker 1: including Sunday at New England obviously, in the Patriots lose
Speaker 1: one o their game to a division opponent, either the
Speaker 1: Jets in Week seventeen or the Dolphins in Week eighteen,
Speaker 1: Buffalo could win their sixth straight division title. The other
Speaker 1: scenario is if the Patriots lose three of their last four,
Speaker 1: Buffalo could go three and one in their final four games,
Speaker 1: provided one of those wins being against the Patriots, and still.
Speaker 2: Win the division. So it's possible, but.
Speaker 1: Probably unlikely, knowing New England has won ten in a
Speaker 1: row coming into this weekend. But should the division title
Speaker 1: hopes beshelled, Steve I.
Speaker 3: Would say yes only because of it, not that it
Speaker 3: couldn't happen. But because you've got bigger fish to fry around,
Speaker 3: you gotta win this game, all right. Your goals have
Speaker 3: shrunken from winning the Super Bowl, winning the AFC Championship
Speaker 3: Division all that down to its game by game because
Speaker 3: now a large measure of what you need to happen
Speaker 3: is out of your control. So you can't think about it.
Speaker 3: You got to win this game and then reevaluate after
Speaker 3: everybody else in the league settles in their win loss column.
Speaker 3: It's about tomorrow and then the next day. So you
Speaker 3: don't you stop thinking about the division title unless you
Speaker 3: had a chance to sew it up, so to speak.
Speaker 3: Right now, you've got to continue to stack wins because
Speaker 3: of the landscape. Everyone is so close at the top
Speaker 3: of that that's the conference. You can't get caught up
Speaker 3: in stuff you can't control, and right now the division's
Speaker 3: out of your control.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the rub, right because I think the
Speaker 1: general consensus is the Bills just have to keep on winning.
Speaker 1: Pick your head up at the end and see where
Speaker 1: you are. There's a very good you know, it's like
Speaker 1: a ninety seven percent chands you're going to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: So that much is known, but you have to keep
Speaker 1: winning to ensure that. And then secondarily you can think about, okay,
Speaker 1: as New England slipped up, you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks from now, whatever have they slipped up?
Speaker 2: Is the door open now? You can worry about that then.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, the wild card race is tightly packed
Speaker 1: as well, so you still control your own destiny in
Speaker 1: that aspect, and because of that, you have to keep winning.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's priority one right now. Just keep on
Speaker 1: winning and hope it's good enough to if not win
Speaker 1: the division, be the top wild card seed and play
Speaker 1: the weakest division winner. So we'll have to see what happens.
Speaker 1: It's interesting though, because coach McDermott has said in the
Speaker 1: past with respect to the playoffs, win your division first
Speaker 1: because that guarantees you a home playoff game. Obviously that
Speaker 1: has fallen out of their control. To your point, Steve,
Speaker 1: I don't know that winning the division should be dismissed,
Speaker 1: especially if they win this week, to delay a division
Speaker 1: title for New England, because if New England wins, it's over.
Speaker 2: They win the division.
Speaker 1: But I gotta believe there's a little added motivation this
Speaker 1: week to not let that be a hat and T
Speaker 1: shirt game for the Patriots.
Speaker 3: Sure, but yeah, secondarily, you gotta win a period.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you win anyway, if.
Speaker 3: You lose, you may be the seven seed this week
Speaker 3: and you're playing one of the best pass rushes in
Speaker 3: the league next week and you got the World champions
Speaker 3: in a week after that.
Speaker 2: You have to win. Yeah, you have to win.
Speaker 3: And that's whether the whether it was the division title
Speaker 3: or the Patriots or not, you'd still have to This
Speaker 3: is a game too where you've seen this team once
Speaker 3: this year. They're a little bit of a different team
Speaker 3: now than they were in Week five, as are the Bills,
Speaker 3: so it's gonna be a little bit different matchup, completely
Speaker 3: different venue obviously as well. Yeah, if you want to
Speaker 3: have any semblance of having some control over your own destiny,
Speaker 3: you gotta win.
Speaker 1: ESPN Analytics has the Bills with the third best odds
Speaker 1: to make the divisional playoff at fifty four and a
Speaker 1: half percent, behind only Denver and New England on the
Speaker 1: AFC side of the ledger, and the third best odds
Speaker 1: to make the AFC Title game, again behind Denver in
Speaker 1: New England, but it's.
Speaker 2: Not by much.
Speaker 1: Denver with a forty percent chance to reach the AFC Championship,
Speaker 1: New England with a thirty four percent chance, followed by
Speaker 1: Buffalo at thirty percent. Knowing the Bills in one of
Speaker 1: those scenarios is probably playing at Denver or at New England.
Speaker 1: Do you have a preference, because there is the argument
Speaker 1: about how hard it is to play a team the
Speaker 1: third time, namely New England.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I might rather go on the road to Denver
Speaker 3: rather than New England again. Playing a team for the
Speaker 3: third times difficult. And Denver hasn't seen this team, and
Speaker 3: they have played against a quarterback like this one.
Speaker 2: Well not since last year's wildcard playoff.
Speaker 3: Right, so they would they'd be up against It would
Speaker 3: be different for them this run game. Denver's defense is
Speaker 3: very good. But playing out in Denver, to be're honest,
Speaker 3: I think the weather would be better in Denver than
Speaker 3: it would be in New England. They get could be
Speaker 3: they get three hundred and thirty days of sunshine in Denver.
Speaker 3: It'd be altitude. But that they're sports science, you know,
Speaker 3: will take care of that. I like the Denver matchup better.
Speaker 3: Bo Knicks is not in the MVP race, Drake may is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what was gonna be the difference maker for me.
Speaker 1: Bo Nicks has had trouble putting points on the board
Speaker 1: for his offense on a consistent basis. There might be
Speaker 1: some weeks where they make enough plays and they score
Speaker 1: twenty four twenty seven points, but there are other weeks
Speaker 1: where they're barely and struggling to get to twenty and
Speaker 1: their defense has bailed them out because it's so good
Speaker 1: at keeping opponents off the scoreboard. I think I would
Speaker 1: be inclined to take that. Not only that Denver's defense,
Speaker 1: if there is a soft underbelly, they have been victimized
Speaker 1: to a great degree by backs and tight ends in
Speaker 1: the passing game. And with the evolution of Buffalo's offense
Speaker 1: here down the stretch and seeing backs and tight ends
Speaker 1: playing more prominent roles in Buffalo's passing game, I kind
Speaker 1: of like that matchup a little bit better than I
Speaker 1: would playing New England a third time this season. As
Speaker 1: for odds to make the Super Bowl, ESPN Analytics has
Speaker 1: Buffalo with the second best odds to reach the ultimate
Speaker 1: game in the AFC, behind only Denver, which is at
Speaker 1: twenty two percent. Buffalo at sixteen and a half percent
Speaker 1: to reach the Super Bowl. What do you make of
Speaker 1: seeing them rated there?
Speaker 3: Well, surprise, there's been some conversation now with if Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: Pat Mahomes and Joe Burrow are out of the playoffs,
Speaker 3: you'll have the best player in the tournament.
Speaker 2: But Buffalo always does.
Speaker 3: There's only three games this year you can have even
Speaker 3: a conversation about where the guys as good as the
Speaker 3: guy you've got. It's Mahomes, it's Burrow, and it's Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: and he beat he went three to zero against him.
Speaker 3: But as we've seen in the playoffs, having the best
Speaker 3: player isn't always the trump card. Yeah, you've got to
Speaker 3: have more than just one guy, even if it is
Speaker 3: the quarterback. You gotta have more guys helping him. You
Speaker 3: got to have more guys that make plays. You gotta
Speaker 3: have more guys that are elevating. But having said that, yeah,
Speaker 3: I get why they like Buffalo, and it's because of
Speaker 3: the guy taking snaps and secondarily they can run the ball.
Speaker 3: So it's hard to bet against teams like that, particularly
Speaker 3: a team that's proven over the course of a long
Speaker 3: season that it is consistent and unless you keep a
Speaker 3: lid on it, it will get you and Bills have
Speaker 3: done it.
Speaker 1: I think part of the reason they're rated this high
Speaker 1: is because some of those other elite quarterbacks it's looking
Speaker 1: more and more like they're not gonna be in the tournament,
Speaker 1: and because of the drop off from Josh to the
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks that will be in on the AFC side
Speaker 1: of the Ledger, I think that's why the analytics people
Speaker 1: have this number for Buffalo to make the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: at sixteen and a half percent. That's higher than I
Speaker 1: can remember it being in previous years. Last year, when
Speaker 1: they were thirteen and four, it wasn't that high, But
Speaker 1: it's because there were other teams like the Chiefs in
Speaker 1: the tournament. So it's really interesting to see that number
Speaker 1: as high as it is, and I wonder if it's
Speaker 1: because some of those other teams were used to seeing
Speaker 1: in the postseason may not be there.
Speaker 3: We still have four games to play as well, so
Speaker 3: there's a lot at this point. Last season, at that point,
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow looked like he was going to make a
Speaker 3: run at the playoffs, right, So yeah, it's a different
Speaker 3: atmosphere and it may change twice over the next four weeks.
Speaker 1: When it comes to winning the Super Bowl. Buffalo again
Speaker 1: has the second best odds among AFC teams, again behind Denver.
Speaker 1: Broncos are given a ten percent chance, Bills an eight
Speaker 1: percent chance.
Speaker 2: The NFC teams, though, in.
Speaker 1: Terms of odds, are way ahead Rams at eighteen point
Speaker 1: one percent, Packers at nine point six, Seahawks at eight
Speaker 1: point eight. How hard is it to see that far
Speaker 1: down the road, knowing how much has to happen between
Speaker 1: now and then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, projections are nice.
Speaker 3: Projections are nice. But the difference is that the Broncos
Speaker 3: and the Bills have more significant flaws than apparently the
Speaker 3: Seahawks and the Rams and the Packers do both. All
Speaker 3: of those teams, Rams, Packers, Seahawks have defenses that are
Speaker 3: playing at a higher level than Buffalo's is and their
Speaker 3: offenses the Seahawks, Packers, and Rams are playing better than
Speaker 3: the Broncos offense. So those three NFC teams seem more
Speaker 3: well rounded than the either the Bills or the Broncos
Speaker 3: at this point, And at this point I don't know why.
Speaker 3: But at this point I don't know. Perhaps it's because
Speaker 3: of their weak schedule they played. Nobody has that much
Speaker 3: faith in the New England Patriots to overcome a really
Speaker 3: good team. So I think I see why. You know,
Speaker 3: the the NFC teams are given the edge there by far,
Speaker 3: it's because they're more well rounded and those teams have
Speaker 3: been tested more often than the Patriots, the Broncos Patriots
Speaker 3: of the Broncos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do find it interesting. I almost feel like
Speaker 1: there has been a little bit of a power shift
Speaker 1: between the conferences. The NFC used to be the team
Speaker 1: with one, two, maybe three teams that could realistically get
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, and really when you kind of
Speaker 1: got down to brass tacks, you can only see one
Speaker 1: or two maybe, And now I think there's three or
Speaker 1: four players that could legitimately make the Super Bowl on
Speaker 1: the NFC side, and all of them might be stronger
Speaker 1: than whoever represents the AFC, because it seems as though
Speaker 1: the AFC teams, even some of the best ones in
Speaker 1: terms of record, have some flaws, flaws that could cost
Speaker 1: them in the ultimate game. So it just two years
Speaker 1: ago the AFC was the power conference by far, and
Speaker 1: I think we're seeing a shift to some degree. And
Speaker 1: that's what makes it interesting to see the Bills as
Speaker 1: the current sixth seed in the AFC playoff picture with
Speaker 1: some of the best odds among AFC clubs to win
Speaker 1: the whole Enchilada. Does it illustrate to you how wide
Speaker 1: open the AFC seems to be this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got team, and Buffalo is probably as big
Speaker 3: a culprit of this as anybody. They dropped some games
Speaker 3: they shouldn't have dropped, most notably to the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 3: and the New England Patriots. They turned it over three
Speaker 3: times of their own volition. Against the Patriots, Keon just
Speaker 3: drops it inside the fifteen yard line of the Bills.
Speaker 3: It takes away an opportunity for Josh Allen the offense
Speaker 3: to move it and also gives points right away to
Speaker 3: the Patriots, which they take advantage of and the game
Speaker 3: they win in a last second field goal. That kind
Speaker 3: of stuff happened in Miami. The Bills go down and
Speaker 3: absolutely show up flat, did not play well and didn't
Speaker 3: even look like the same team, and lost by double
Speaker 3: digits to a bad Dolphins team, or at least at
Speaker 3: that moment they were bad. So that's why the AFC
Speaker 3: is wide open. You've got teams like Buffalo who just
Speaker 3: can't get it together on a week to week basis.
Speaker 3: Save the New England Patriots, and I still believe there's
Speaker 3: some narrative out there that Drake May is a beneficiary
Speaker 3: of a Josh McDaniel's ability to manipulate an offense from
Speaker 3: the bench with a good with at least a.
Speaker 1: Passion giving on as much pre snap information as possible.
Speaker 3: So he's Josh McDaniels as much deserves as much credit
Speaker 3: as the success of Drake May, as Drake May does
Speaker 3: well in that narrative. So they're not giving Drake May
Speaker 3: the credit for carrying that team with solid play as
Speaker 3: they are other teams. So you take you chop off
Speaker 3: the Patriots, you chop off Josh Allen the Bills because
Speaker 3: they're too inconsistent. That drops everybody down, because the Baltimore
Speaker 3: Ravens are nowhere to be found, the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 3: are nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a wash more inconsistent than the Bills are.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you look at the conference that all the the
Speaker 3: most notable teams that we had huge expectations at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the season and they're riding roller coasters. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's easy to see that the more consistent and well
Speaker 3: rounded teams are in the NFC this year, even if
Speaker 3: their quarterbacks aren't as good, with the exception of Matt Stafford.
Speaker 1: Who's probably the leader in the clubhouse for NFL MVP.
Speaker 1: We turn our attention now to the Numbers game, where
Speaker 1: Steve will be quizzed on Bills playoff history.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Question number one, there are.
Speaker 1: Three Bills players who hold the record for most interceptions
Speaker 1: in a playoff game. Two of them were your teammates.
Speaker 1: Can you name two of those three Bills players?
Speaker 2: Mark Kelso, it is not Mark.
Speaker 3: Henry Jones.
Speaker 1: It is not Henry Jones.
Speaker 3: Uh, Nate Odams, no one, Nate Well, I have no
Speaker 3: idea that.
Speaker 1: Come on, It's two interceptions. That's the record in a
Speaker 1: single playoff game. Then you think of two teammates who
Speaker 1: had two interceptions in a playoff game.
Speaker 3: Please be no.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: You just pull out a roster. Yeah, I thought this
Speaker 2: was going to be a layup. Jeff Burris, not Jeff Burrs.
Speaker 1: So I'll give you the non teammate of yours, which
Speaker 1: I didn't expect you to get because I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: gotten it either, Bill Simpson in nineteen eighty one against
Speaker 1: the Jets. The other one was in nineteen ninety hold
Speaker 1: on against the Raiders. Oh, Darryl Tally, Daryl Talley who
Speaker 1: had two picks there? And the other one was in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two against the Chiefs John Hagy.
Speaker 2: It was Kirby Jackson. Oh, who had two.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have gotten Kirby.
Speaker 2: Good for him, though, good for him. Question number two,
Speaker 2: who has the longest run from scrimmage in team playoff history?
Speaker 3: Josh Allen?
Speaker 2: That is correct. It is Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: Two yards against the Pittsburgh Steelers browning. And I've been
Speaker 3: having the conversation. Everybody was saying, yeah, Josh is forty
Speaker 3: yard touchdown, it's the longest of his career, and we're like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: it's not longest in the regular longest in the regular season.
Speaker 3: But that doesn't That's not his career, So shut up
Speaker 3: with that, Come on, get it right.
Speaker 1: Question number three, who has the most touchdown receptions.
Speaker 2: In a playoff game and team playoff.
Speaker 3: History for the Bill Andre Reid.
Speaker 2: He was incorrect.
Speaker 1: Really he had three in the comeback game. But someone's
Speaker 1: done him one better, Stevie Johnson.
Speaker 2: Not Stevie Johnson.
Speaker 1: He never made the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Poor guy.
Speaker 1: Eric Moles not Eric Moles, although he has the record
Speaker 1: for most receiving yards in a playoff game with two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty in Miami at ninety nine wildcard James Lofton.
Speaker 2: Not James Lofton. It's more recent than that.
Speaker 3: Steve oh Oh, Gabe Davis, Gabe Davis four against the
Speaker 3: Chiefs in twenty twenty one. That was dumb. I should
Speaker 3: have got that.
Speaker 2: Don't beat yourself.
Speaker 3: I should have got that.
Speaker 1: And question number four, who has the longest kick return
Speaker 1: in a playoff game in Bill's team history?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 1: That is correct, kids, you sixty seven yards against the
Speaker 1: Raiders that I didn't score on in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2: Guy pushed me on, Oh, that's really cold. If I
Speaker 2: could find it, if I could get the ball out,
Speaker 2: I couldn't there. All right, Well, I'm glad you got
Speaker 2: that one. I would have been a little worried. It
Speaker 2: might have been catastrophic.
Speaker 3: Get that one hot, and that one that's you'd had
Speaker 3: to come up with a new buzzer for that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have been.
Speaker 1: I think it might have just been that old trumpet
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Speaker 2: Time now for our one burning question.
Speaker 1: We've seen the Bills passing game struggle to get major
Speaker 1: production from their receivers this season, but we have seen
Speaker 1: some big games of late in the passing attack from
Speaker 1: the backs and tight ends. Could making consistent use of
Speaker 1: them in the passing game make Buffalo a more well
Speaker 1: rounded offense down the stretch and into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Well, absolutely.
Speaker 3: If you've got a group of if that's where you
Speaker 3: want to focus, you're passing game, and you become good
Speaker 3: at it, be good at it.
Speaker 1: Go.
Speaker 3: Teams are going to have to contend with it, and
Speaker 3: they'll come up with new ways, in different ways to
Speaker 3: combat it, and you'll have to have answers, but they
Speaker 3: have to have answers for you. If you're good at it,
Speaker 3: that's what add it to the recipe. You've got to
Speaker 3: use it to win games. And if having haws, knocks
Speaker 3: and kincad on the field a lot more, with two backs,
Speaker 3: one back, whatever the combination it is, you got to
Speaker 3: do it. And this last game certainly showed that if
Speaker 3: you do have a deficiency in covering a certain element
Speaker 3: of an offense, they've got the horses to take advantage
Speaker 3: of it. So yeah, absolutely, and I don't have a
Speaker 3: problem with it at all. No, it doesn't make you
Speaker 3: less of a good offense. It doesn't make nothing. It
Speaker 3: doesn't say anything about your ability to win games. It's
Speaker 3: just different.
Speaker 1: I would like to see now what happened last week
Speaker 1: happened against the defense that is given up more production
Speaker 1: to tight ends than any other team in the league.
Speaker 1: But the backs were involved too. You know, you had
Speaker 1: the lead out passed the cook that went up the sideline,
Speaker 1: set up first in goal, and there was another one
Speaker 1: down the right sideline that unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Came back on a penalty.
Speaker 1: But all that being said, I want to see how
Speaker 1: that approach works against a better defense like New England
Speaker 1: this weekend, for example, Can you have the same tight
Speaker 1: end slash running back success in the passing game against
Speaker 1: the defense that's, you know, a high quality unit like
Speaker 1: the Patriots, similar to what you saw last week against
Speaker 1: the Bengals. They did it against a bad defense. Now
Speaker 1: let's see if it's fruitful against a better, more well
Speaker 1: rounded defense.
Speaker 3: I'll say that it certainly lured the Bills into giving
Speaker 3: it a try. I don't know that there are other
Speaker 3: teams who have tight ends that are as productive as Knox,
Speaker 3: Kincaid and Hawes or versative or yeah, and both in
Speaker 3: the run and the pass. So yeah, I'm saying, let's
Speaker 3: flesh that part of our offense out a little bit.
Speaker 3: See if we can get some more production out of it,
Speaker 3: either splitting those guys out and going in running the
Speaker 3: football out of a condensed formation, or then when they
Speaker 3: start to go heavy, spread them out and match their
Speaker 3: defensive personnel with a little bit more of a spread
Speaker 3: formation if they go heavy.
Speaker 1: Our closing figure deals with touchdown production in the passing game.
Speaker 1: To dovetail off the topic we were just discussing, Shakir,
Speaker 1: Coleman and Shavers have accounted for nine receiving touchdowns this season.
Speaker 1: Dalton Kinkaid, Dawson, Knox, Jackson, Hawes have also accounted for
Speaker 1: nine receiving touchdowns this season, and when you compare those
Speaker 1: three receivers to Buffalo's three tight ends, the Bills tight
Speaker 1: ends have scored the same number of touchdowns on thirty
Speaker 1: five fewer receptions one hundred and five catches for the
Speaker 1: three receivers, just seventy for the tight ends. It makes
Speaker 1: you wonder where Buffalo's highest scoring efficiency might lie going forward.
Speaker 2: Something to think about.
Speaker 3: It is, but I'll say this, it's a function two
Speaker 3: of their ability to move the football on the ground
Speaker 3: efficiently with the running game and stay on the field.
Speaker 3: Their time of possession is still a thing. They still
Speaker 3: possessed the ball a ton, and they get down into
Speaker 3: the red zone a bunch, and that means big targets
Speaker 3: tight windows. We saw this last week two touchdowns to
Speaker 3: the tight ends. Haws and Kincaid. Tight Ends are hard
Speaker 3: to handle down there for smaller dbs, so it makes
Speaker 3: a lot of sense that when they get down there,
Speaker 3: they're throwing to the big guys.
Speaker 2: That'll do it.
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