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Speaker 1: Jake bateson to try to win this game. There it

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Speaker 2: Then it is good.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the twenty in the Huddle podcast presented by Microsoft.

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Speaker 3: It is Week fifteen in the NFL season, and I

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Speaker 3: have a very special guest for you guys this week.

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Speaker 3: Matt Ryan, former League MVP, current analysts for CBS Sports. Matt,

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Speaker 3: thanks for joining me. I appreciate you taking the time.

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Speaker 4: Of course, happy to be on with you.

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Speaker 3: So week fifteen, monster matchup between Detroit and Buffalo. Just

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Speaker 3: how much are you looking forward to, just as a

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Speaker 3: football fan of this matchup Sunday between two MVP you

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Speaker 1: How much you looking forward to that matchup?

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Speaker 4: Now? I'm fired up.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing better than when you see teams

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Speaker 2: this time of the year that are playing really good

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Speaker 4: And you know, quite.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, we've got a chance to see this as a

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Speaker 2: preview of what could happen in February, and so I'm looking.

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Speaker 4: Forward to it. The energy of the Lions fan base.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've only been to a game as a player, right,

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Speaker 2: and so you know, maybe it wasn't the same the

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Speaker 2: same Lions football team that we're seeing now, but the

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Speaker 2: energy from the fans has always been unbelievable. Great fan

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Speaker 2: base and looking forward to to kind of feeling that energy.

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Speaker 2: But then watching this game, I think you're talking about

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Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to watching it. It's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 3: Your your crew will be in Detroit in the pregame

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Speaker 1: You get to see it in person.

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Speaker 3: Matt, how much would you have loved to play for

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I would have. I would have loved it.

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Speaker 2: Right, You've got you've got pieces, you know on the outside,

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Speaker 4: But then you you know, you talk.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and by the way, we might have the

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Speaker 2: best offensive line in football. And on top of that,

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Speaker 4: But at their core, they're a run the football.

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Speaker 2: Play action team and for me as a quarterback, that

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Speaker 3: When you watch Jared, what impresses you the most about

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Speaker 4: Well, I think that's just it. I think it's the consistency. Right.

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Speaker 2: And I think he's done a great job with it.

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Speaker 1: He's playing within the offense.

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Speaker 3: Look, you played with some good offensive lines, especially when

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Speaker 2: Matt, Yeah, I think I think the versatility is probably

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Speaker 2: It's not like, man, this is all we can do.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think he's.

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Speaker 3: You know, quarterbacks love those kind of security blanket players, right,

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Speaker 4: But it becomes difficult. It really does.

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Speaker 4: And I'm looking for them, I think, you.

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Speaker 3: All Right, last one for you, Matt. You obviously know

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Speaker 4: I absolutely believe they do. You know, I look around.

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Speaker 2: You know, we went to the NFC Championship game in

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Speaker 4: So I think, you.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's Week fifteen. The best matchup in the NFL

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan will be there.

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Speaker 3: Him and his crew will be breaking it all down

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Speaker 1: It'd be a good one.

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Speaker 3: Matt, thanks so much for joining you joining me. I

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to get there on Sunday, Welcome back to

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Speaker 3: In the Huddle podcasts and on this show. I always

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Speaker 1: And you do you love that?

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Speaker 3: One thing you're doing at an extremely high level, and

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Speaker 1: My god, you won the last guy?

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Speaker 4: You know, it's crazy. It's crazy is that I was

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Speaker 6: We're definitely looking forward to it any any competition. I mean,

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Speaker 6: So I mean, we're not focused on anything after. We're

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's the right mindset to have go get

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Speaker 1: Collie Doors The appreciate you, hig you.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the twenty in the Huddle podcast, and

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Speaker 3: I am very happy welcome. And Chris Brown, the play

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Speaker 3: by play man for the Buffalo Bills. Nobody knows Buffalo

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Speaker 3: football better than Chris. Chris, thanks for taking the time.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Sure good to be with you.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: Detroit is going to get you know, a bunch of

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Speaker 3: guys back this week. They've been kind of decimated by injury.

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Speaker 1: Over the last couple of weeks.

445
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Speaker 3: How is Buffalo now midweek handle handling the injury situation?

446
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Speaker 3: What's it looking like for Sunday on their front?

447
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Speaker 5: Looking better on the offensive side of the ball right

448
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 5: now because guys that they've missed for the last month.

449
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,400
Speaker 5: Dalton can Get and Keon Coleman are both practicing fully again. Finally,

450
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Speaker 5: they've missed those two players. The last time those two

451
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Speaker 5: guys played was in Week eight at Seattle, so it's

452
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Speaker 5: been a minute and Coleman had his best game as

453
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Speaker 5: a pro. He had one hundred and twenty five yards

454
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Speaker 5: and a touchdown and was making yards after the catch.

455
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Speaker 5: He's one of the league leaders in that area as

456
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Speaker 5: a matter of fact, and then all of a sudden

457
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Speaker 5: he's got a wrist injury and he's gone for four games.

458
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Speaker 5: Kincaid suffered a knee injury the next week, and we

459
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Speaker 5: haven't seen Hyde nor hair of him either. So getting

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Speaker 5: those two guys back in the offensive lineup will be great,

461
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Speaker 5: especially considering they scored forty two points without those two

462
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Speaker 5: last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just what Josh Allen needs is more weapons. Right

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Speaker 3: after that performance last week, just talk about that a

465
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Speaker 3: little bit, Chris, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, have you ever seen anything like that?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know you're getting a pretty accustomed to

468
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Speaker 3: terrific performances from an MVP candidate like him, but to

469
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Speaker 3: throw for that many yards and three touchdowns and then

470
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Speaker 3: rush for three touchdowns and unfortunately you lose the game.

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Speaker 3: But just how good is he playing right now?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean all the talk all season long has

473
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Speaker 5: been how he has played more within the structure of

474
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Speaker 5: the offense, which has been a more balanced attack this

475
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Speaker 5: year with the exploits of James Cook, which go largely

476
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Speaker 5: unnoticed because Josh is such a huge figure in the

477
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Speaker 5: league that he kind of blocks out the sun with

478
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Speaker 5: everything else that goes on here in Buffalo, and James

479
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Speaker 5: Cook very quietly had almost sixteen hundred all purpose yards

480
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Speaker 5: last year and nobody knew about it because of what

481
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Speaker 5: Josh does every week. And this year he's almost as productive.

482
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Speaker 5: I mean, he's got eleven rushing touchdowns. I think he's

483
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Speaker 5: got thirteen total on the season, and you don't hear

484
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Speaker 5: anything about it because of what Josh does, especially last week,

485
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Speaker 5: which I think only Otto Graham did in a nineteen

486
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Speaker 5: fifty four championship game, going for a hat trick with

487
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Speaker 5: rushing touchdowns and passing touchdowns in the same game.

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Speaker 4: The biggest shame of.

489
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Speaker 5: It is they lost the dang game. But Josh for

490
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Speaker 5: the most part is not putting the cape on as

491
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Speaker 5: much as he has in previous years, and I think

492
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Speaker 5: it's because Joe Brady, the offensive coordinator, has done an

493
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Speaker 5: excellent job of convincing him that all he needs to

494
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Speaker 5: be is a point guard and a facilitator. And if

495
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Speaker 5: there are three or four plays where you have to

496
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Speaker 5: do something amazing in a game, great. In previous years

497
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Speaker 5: it was more like ten or twelve. And I think

498
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Speaker 5: they they like the fact that he's asked to do

499
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Speaker 5: less in this year's version of the offense because it's

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Speaker 5: less wear and tear on him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's less turnovers too, And that's something that

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Speaker 3: Dan Campbell talked about this week. He talked about, you know,

503
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Speaker 3: when asked about Alan is how patient he is and

504
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Speaker 3: noticing that. I mean, you look at the past four

505
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Speaker 3: years double digit interceptions. I think he's only got five,

506
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Speaker 3: correct me if I'm wrong, you know, this season. But

507
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Speaker 3: that's something that that you know, people outside of Buffalo

508
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Speaker 3: have taken notice too.

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Speaker 1: And when you can play that well and.

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Speaker 3: Limit those turnovers, that's been huge for this football team,

511
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Speaker 3: hasn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: And once again it comes back to playing within the

514
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Speaker 5: structure of the offense, which Bradish should get credit for.

515
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Speaker 5: He's probably the first coordinator that's convinced Josh to do

516
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Speaker 5: more of that. I think there's also been a concerted

517
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Speaker 5: effort on Josh's part, you know, going into the offseason

518
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Speaker 5: and coming into this season, was to reduce the turnovers.

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Speaker 5: I think just in reviewing all the film from last year,

520
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Speaker 5: he realized how costly those were. But I think one

521
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Speaker 5: of his biggest sticking points in his development has been

522
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Speaker 5: leaving the pocket too early when in many cases it

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Speaker 5: wasn't necessary. And I think he's done.

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Speaker 4: A better job of that too.

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Speaker 5: More patients in the pocket to Dan Campbell's point, and yes,

526
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Speaker 5: he will still make plays off script, but not nearly

527
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Speaker 5: as much as he has in the past because I

528
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Speaker 5: think he's hanging in there that extra half second and

529
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Speaker 5: letting the progressions of the play unfold to give him

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Speaker 5: options to throw the football.

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Speaker 3: And now he's got two more options. As we talked

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Speaker 3: about earlier. That'll be important this week. How were was

533
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Speaker 3: the forty two points and you still lose a football game?

534
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Speaker 3: Look that happens their third loss. But is there any

535
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Speaker 3: lingering worry about the defense, especially heading indoors on a

536
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Speaker 3: fast track this week against the Detroit Lions team that's

537
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Speaker 3: number one in the NFL in scoring.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're going to chalk it up to

539
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Speaker 5: bad day at the office. I think Sean McDermott was

540
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Speaker 5: pretty honest in his assessment, basically saying they didn't come

541
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Speaker 5: with the sense of urgency that you needed to against

542
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Speaker 5: a team that's quite literally fighting for their playoff lives

543
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Speaker 5: in the RAMS. They didn't match that intensity. They didn't

544
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Speaker 5: match that urgency. And this league is too close, even

545
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Speaker 5: from the best team to the worst team in the

546
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Speaker 5: league to play like that and expect to win a

547
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Speaker 5: football game. So that's on them, and they don't make

548
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Speaker 5: any bones about it. They know they just flat out

549
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Speaker 5: we're not good enough. I think they have to do

550
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Speaker 5: a better job of getting back on task in marrying

551
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Speaker 5: the rush with their coverage because it was a complete

552
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Speaker 5: disconnect last week and a lot of the guys on

553
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Speaker 5: the back end got hung up out to dry. Now,

554
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Speaker 5: all that being said, Nikua and Cup in that game,

555
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Speaker 5: between the two of them made six unbelievable plays in

556
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Speaker 5: tight coverage, and that's where you just kind of tip

557
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Speaker 5: your hat and be like, you know, that's good on

558
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 5: good and you were better on that play. And those

559
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Speaker 5: two guys did that a half dozen times in that game,

560
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Speaker 5: But there were also instances where you had guys running

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Speaker 5: wide open making plays and you don't usually see that

562
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Speaker 5: from a Bill's defense. So I think they're going to

563
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Speaker 5: make their necessary corrections. And I think because they were

564
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Speaker 5: a little embarrassed last week giving up the most points

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Speaker 5: they have, I think in a couple of seasons that

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Speaker 5: they're going to be out to reestablish pride in themselves

567
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Speaker 5: because they got embarrassed last week, and I think they

568
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Speaker 5: want to prove that's not.

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Speaker 3: Us, all right, Who's one player Detroit Lions fans might

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Speaker 3: not know?

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Speaker 1: Obviously?

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Speaker 3: Interconference matchup here two teams that aren't familiar, even though

573
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Speaker 3: pretty close play in the preseason. But who's maybe somebody

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Speaker 3: that that Lions fans don't know who could make an

575
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Speaker 3: impact in that game?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I would say on the offensive side

577
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Speaker 5: of the ball, Coleman coming back to the lineup is intriguing.

578
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Speaker 5: Not a lot has been said about him because, like

579
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Speaker 5: I said, he's missed the last month of the season.

580
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Speaker 5: He was just starting to take control of football games

581
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Speaker 5: in his last two games on the field and then

582
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Speaker 5: it's a shame like his progress got completely interrupted by

583
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Speaker 5: the injury. What does he look like his first game back,

584
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Speaker 5: it's gonna be a good question. I think he's gonna

585
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Speaker 5: have to really knock some rust off, maybe through the

586
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Speaker 5: first couple of quarters. But that kid's an unbelievable physical talent.

587
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Speaker 5: He's an above the rim player. He's got a thirty

588
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Speaker 5: eight inch vertical and he's six y three. I mean,

589
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Speaker 5: the guy was mister basketball in the state of Louisiana

590
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Speaker 5: in high school and played college hoops at Michigan State,

591
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Speaker 5: which you guys probably remember before he transferred to Florida

592
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Speaker 5: State playing for Tom Izzo. That's not nothing. He plays

593
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Speaker 5: like a basketball player. He is an athletic body type

594
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Speaker 5: like a basketball player should be. And so you know,

595
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Speaker 5: I think he can out leave just about any corner

596
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Speaker 5: out there in the league, and he's open when he's

597
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Speaker 5: not open. So I'm very curious to see how they

598
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Speaker 5: incorporate him back into the offense. That would be probably

599
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Speaker 5: the first guy I would pick on the offensive side

600
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Speaker 5: of the ball defensive side of the ball. It's Christian Benford,

601
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Speaker 5: sixth round draft choice out of Villanova. He's in his

602
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 5: third season and he is their number one lockdown corner

603
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Speaker 5: and I think opponent passer rating against him is something ridiculous.

604
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Speaker 4: It's like under fifty.

605
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Speaker 5: He just really Quarterbacks don't even throw his way anymore

606
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Speaker 5: because guys are rarely open. Last week there were a

607
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Speaker 5: couple of plays made against him in zone coverage, but

608
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Speaker 5: he is phenomenal whether it's man or zone. And I

609
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Speaker 5: think he's still a guy that is not on a

610
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Speaker 5: lot of people's radar in this league. But he has

611
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Speaker 5: been top ten corner worthy this season.

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Speaker 3: All right, Chris, And in your opinion, how does Buffalo

613
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Speaker 3: go on the road against a good team and come

614
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Speaker 3: away with a victory at forfield? What's the biggest key

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Speaker 3: in your opinion.

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't think you have a chance against Detroit

617
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Speaker 5: unless you match their physicality at the line of scrimmage.

618
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Speaker 5: So that's job one on both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 5: And then I think the second part is gonna have

620
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Speaker 5: to be time of possession. I think they have to

621
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Speaker 5: be better than the Lions in that area because if

622
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 5: you give the Lions time with the ball, that's a problem.

623
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Speaker 5: They'll just wear you down. So I think getting off

624
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Speaker 5: the field quick on defense and long sustained drives on

625
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 5: offense could be a good recipe to try to pull

626
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Speaker 5: off an upset in Detroit.

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Speaker 3: It should be a really fun game, Chris. I mean,

628
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Speaker 3: two of the best in their conference. I think it's

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Speaker 3: the game of the week nationally televised. It's crunch time

630
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Speaker 3: right the last month of the season, of the regular season,

631
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Speaker 3: and everybody's jockeying for that playoff position.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a.

633
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Speaker 3: Crazy atmosphere there and a really good matchup against two

634
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Speaker 3: really good teams. Chris Brown, the play by play man

635
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Speaker 3: for the Buffalo Bill. Thank you for joining me so much.

636
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Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Safe travels over here, and I'll make sure

637
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Speaker 3: I stop buying Salo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Good to be with you.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Jimm