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Speaker 1: If you're ready, I can catch up. Okay, I'll catch up.

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Speaker 1: Sundays it kind of we're kind of wound up. You

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Speaker 1: You know it's still on the roster. How do you

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Speaker 1: think he'll work out of this? And the answer from

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Speaker 1: And I thought, well, and now here you have the

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Speaker 1: exact opposite from Sean McDermott. By the way, he's not

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Speaker 1: talking about nobody's talking about bench and anybody. Sean dermot

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Speaker 1: says he will continue to work at it, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna work there right alongside of him. Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: you want to hear. If you're a player, I think

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Speaker 1: that's what you want to hear. If you're a fan,

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Speaker 1: you're one of us. We're working with you. You gotta

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Speaker 1: get better. We're gonna help you get better. We're not

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Speaker 1: dumping you off the side of the road. We're not

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Speaker 1: going to say I don't care what happens to you

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Speaker 1: because I'm switching quarterbacks. I think that's exactly the right

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Speaker 1: tone to take. I really like mcdermotsy in that's it's leadership,

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Speaker 1: no question about it, and it's it has already paid dividends.

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Speaker 1: Particularly you know, you can see other players who have

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Speaker 1: thrived in it, Guys they've found and like Levi Wallace emerging,

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Speaker 1: you know, Dawson Knox. I mean, some of these guys

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Speaker 1: are starting to thrive in this. Matt Milano, a fifth

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Speaker 1: part of the Maybe we've got Andy Benoydon. Later in

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Speaker 1: the show, he thinks Milano and Edmonds are the best

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Speaker 1: linebacking tandem in the AFC. So you know, you've got

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Speaker 1: guys who are responding and not just responding, were but flourishing. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: This is an environment that's made for guys like that

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Speaker 1: to flourish. And you can the fans here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can look at it. People look at this team.

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Speaker 1: You can tell which ones are he's talking about. You

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Speaker 1: can tell which ones are responding to this atmosphere. I

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Speaker 1: think Devin Singletary's going to respond to that in Oakland.

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Speaker 1: You're right, So you got this quarterback question this week

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Speaker 1: for the Bills, and look, let's be ready. You know

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Speaker 1: you're not going to get a lot of answers. We

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Speaker 1: may not know right up until Sunday. Quite frankly, whether

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen place he is in concussion protocol. They are

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Speaker 1: restricted in what they can say about him in concussion protocol. Um,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. I have no idea whether Josh you're ready

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Speaker 1: to go tomorrow or Thursday or Friday. And we may

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Speaker 1: not know. There are five steps to concussion protocol. They

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Speaker 1: will not give us updates. When you're in step one

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Speaker 1: through five, he will be out of concussion protocol and

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Speaker 1: we'll be told that only when he comes out of

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Speaker 1: concussion protocol. Say, I'll say this as well, because you

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Speaker 1: know they're players in the protocol across the league last

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Speaker 1: night during the Cincinnati Pittsburgh game, and I apologize I

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Speaker 1: can't remember the player's name, but as he was going

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Speaker 1: it was the other It doesn't matter that the amount

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Speaker 1: of the testa tour. I guess was the guy doing it?

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Speaker 1: He said yes, and he this guy was in had

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Speaker 1: for those of you who think, well, the protocols at

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Speaker 1: least a week long, and he guys come out of

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Speaker 1: the cook protocol, it doesn't take like the length of

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Speaker 1: time it took Mitch Morse to come out of protocols

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Speaker 1: this last week during a preseason. It doesn't always take

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Speaker 1: that long. And not all concussions are created equal. So

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Speaker 1: there are guys who pop out practice late in the

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Speaker 1: week and get in the game. So you know, there

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Speaker 1: is a chance obviously that Josh could be on the

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Speaker 1: field on Sunday. See so, but if he can't, it's

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Speaker 1: Matt Barkley, right, Matt Barkley, who's got I think this

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Speaker 1: would be his eight NFL start in his career, his

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Speaker 1: second when the Bills had the forty one to what

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Speaker 1: fourteen win at the Jets last last November when he

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Speaker 1: got the spots start. Matt Barkley getting ready to start.

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Speaker 1: The Bills are getting him ready to start, and Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott talked about Matt Barkley and how he is so

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Speaker 1: well respected by his teammates and what that means is

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Speaker 1: they get set for this game. Here's Sean. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: well respected. He's well respected by our team. He's earned

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Speaker 1: everything he's gotten here. You guys saw what he's done

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Speaker 1: and how he carries himself week to week, day to

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Speaker 1: day around the building. So he's highly prepared every week

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Speaker 1: whether he's played or he hasn't, which is the life

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Speaker 1: of a in this case, a backup quarterback. And but

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of internal belief in Matt Barkley and

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Speaker 1: we know if he'll be ready to go if need

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Speaker 1: to be this week. Yeah, I think what I looked

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Speaker 1: at this point. I think Barkley's in his seventh year,

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Speaker 1: but you feel like he's been around the league longer. Steve,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You feel like you said,

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Speaker 1: more than eight NFL starts, this would be his eighth.

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Speaker 1: Because he is respected, he carries himself like a veteran. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: seventh year out of UFC, former fourth round pick. The

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Speaker 1: game against the Jets last year was storybook right, not

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Speaker 1: the storybook ending this past Sunday against New England. But

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Speaker 1: he didn't look overmatched against the Patriots and came out

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Speaker 1: kind of flinging it around. Look, I look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing if if Josh camp play. I look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing Matt Barkley with a full week's worth of practice

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Speaker 1: under his belt. I know his teammates will respond because,

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Speaker 1: as Sean said, he's respected and while liked. You know,

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Speaker 1: he takes the time to get to know the teammates

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Speaker 1: around here. If it goes that way, I'm really interested

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Speaker 1: to see how it turns out. Yeah, I will too.

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Speaker 1: I think the team has some real faith in him,

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Speaker 1: and for good reason. The guy played extremely well in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. He's in all the meetings, he knows the offense.

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Speaker 1: He's been here for almost a full calendar year. He's

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Speaker 1: had plenty of time to get acclimated. He went through

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Speaker 1: an entire training camp in preseason. Yeah, I mean, so

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Speaker 1: he is a known commodity. I think one of the

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Speaker 1: interesting things is what will Brian Dabole ask Matt Barkley

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Speaker 1: to do that he wouldn't ask Josh Allen to do

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Speaker 1: and vice versa. You know, obviously he's not going to

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Speaker 1: call quarterback runs with Matt Barkley. So certain other plays

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Speaker 1: game plan that Matt likes better than Josh does that

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't really give to Josh that they'll give to Matt,

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Speaker 1: you know, that kind of thing. And that's also an

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Speaker 1: extra degree of difficulty for the Tennessee Titans get ready

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Speaker 1: a lot in there. I think, I don't know, I

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Speaker 1: can't speak for all Bills fans. Anythink I can we

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Speaker 1: I think most people think that with this defense that

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Speaker 1: let's go out and roll to see if they can

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Speaker 1: beat us. I you know, I I like Matt Barkley

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Speaker 1: better than I like Marcus Mariota. Okay, we'll see, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, look, I've just dip my toe in

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Speaker 1: the water of the Tennessee Titans. Notice that they've They've

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Speaker 1: only played one home game, lost that to Indie, so

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Speaker 1: two of the they're two and two. They won of

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Speaker 1: nine games a year ago, so they were doing something right.

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Speaker 1: But two of their wins are road wins. Now I

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Speaker 1: think they got five of their next seven at home.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be really happy to be home and to

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Speaker 1: start to, you know, like anybody in their position, or

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Speaker 1: the Bills position, start to pack some wins together while

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Speaker 1: they are at home and get ready to make a

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Speaker 1: charge at the playoffs. Right. They missed last year with

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Speaker 1: nine wins, so I wouldn't overlook That's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't looked in any Tennessee video. I

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Speaker 1: saw him play once this year. I haven't really done

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Speaker 1: much research. But they're they're it's not a walkover now.

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Speaker 1: They're a hard nosed They won six and lost two

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Speaker 1: at home last year, so their home field means something.

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Speaker 1: They're hard nosed, intelligent football team, and they're they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be tough to beat in their building, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: This defense has got to step up again. I think

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Speaker 1: I saw them play against Atlanta on film, and they

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Speaker 1: did a lot of things really well. Now Atlanta wasn't

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Speaker 1: playing very well, but the Tennessee Titans were. I think

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Speaker 1: the Titans were a more physical team. Derek Henry gives

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Speaker 1: them a real dimension of speed and size. He's a big,

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Speaker 1: big back and he outruns people. Hey, he's a load.

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Speaker 1: He's That's a big concern for me if I'm getting

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Speaker 1: ready to play this team. I think Derrick Henry, I

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Speaker 1: think for me and looking at it from my eyes,

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is the engine of that offense and Maria

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Speaker 1: Mariota is just a distributor. And they'll get Taylor Luan back,

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Speaker 1: their great left tackle who is suspended for Peeds this

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Speaker 1: last off see first four games of the year, they'll

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Speaker 1: be better upfront than they will have been in the past.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, Tennessee's gonna come in a little bit and

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Speaker 1: vigorated this week, I think. So we're not gonna talk

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Speaker 1: much about Tennessee today. We will as a week goes along.

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Speaker 1: We want you to give an assessment of the Bills

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Speaker 1: first quarter of the season, first four games. What have

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Speaker 1: you learned about your team after the first four games

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Speaker 1: of the season. Phone Mine zone. But we'll get to

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Speaker 1: them when we come back. Eight h three h five

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Speaker 1: fifty and toll free from outside Buffalo one eight eight

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Speaker 1: can read it on the tweet sheet. Just tweeted into

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Speaker 1: One bills Live on Twitter. All of that coming up. Steve,

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Speaker 1: You have a good night last night. Everything quiet, everything good, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very quiet night. It was yeah, rest wresting agreeable, it

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Speaker 1: On a Tuesday, Bill Spirit Turned to practice Tomorrow. John

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Speaker 1: Murphy's Steve Tasker players day off today here at One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. They'll be back and work tomorrow. The coaching

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Speaker 1: Steve hard at work today, big today. He's a game

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Speaker 1: plan day right, um. And you know what's this is

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Speaker 1: one of the great things about the NFL. Stephen, You

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Speaker 1: and I live kind of outside the major loop here,

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Speaker 1: but this time of the year, right up until the

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Speaker 1: end of the year, no matter how bitter, no matter

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Speaker 1: how devastating. The loss is roll you roll on. I

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Speaker 1: love that about the league, I really do. When it

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Speaker 1: took me a while to learn that people don't dwell

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Speaker 1: on losses, It's like, oh, that was a bad loss

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Speaker 1: in New England. Now we gotta get Tennessee. You know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, show me this Tennessee film. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: do love that about the lead. They keep going and

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Speaker 1: there's also people here, uh you know, when they were playing,

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Speaker 1: it comes in. They got people looking at New England,

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Speaker 1: they know, and then weeks ahead they're they're looking at

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Speaker 1: Philly film. They got people out advancing Philadelphia. They got

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Speaker 1: looking way down the road and getting starting to compile

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Speaker 1: all kinds of information before they get there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's man, it is non stop. And that's I tell people.

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Speaker 1: Coaching is a lifestyle. It did if the game was

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Speaker 1: a problem it is they you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: with it. It's it's amazing, right, it just grinds on man. Again.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about this opponent as the week goes along.

636
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: But nine wins last year, that's that's three wins better

637
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: than the Bill's head last year. I know a little

638
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: bit who they are, and I know that they benefit

639
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: from playing in that division. But they're home home once

640
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: this year. Don't let's not get ahead of ourselves and

641
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: chuck this in the w column yet. But we want

642
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: to talk about the first four Bills games and what

643
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: you've learned from the Bills after the first four games

644
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: of the regular season, and let's take some calls on this.

645
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: We'll start with Mike in Pittsburgh, New York. Mike, welcome

646
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: to the show. You're on the air with the Settle. Hey, guys,

647
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for taking my call. I enjoy your

648
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: show greatly. I get a chance to listen to a lot. Hey,

649
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: we'll listen. From my perspective, the defense, for sure has

650
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: continued to improve, and I think the number one thing

651
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: is that they play as a unity. They continue to

652
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: go out there, that they pick up the flak from

653
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: somebody who might be out like Jordan's, like Phillips. We

654
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: lost Harry Phillips, but they continue to thrive on playing

655
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: at the unit and it's it's really cool. I was

656
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: at the game on Sunday with my son, nephew and

657
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: a good friend, and I think The Twelfth Man is great.

658
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: They were I'll standing this weekend and I think, Steve,

659
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: you were bringing up a point about you had not

660
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: seen too many Bruce Smith jerseys in the year in

661
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: the past years. Yea. I sat down and then a

662
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: fright in front of me was one big guy with

663
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: the Bruce Bruce Smith's and in the row in front

664
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: of him was another guy. So let you go. Hey,

665
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: I want to thanks Mike. I want to talk about

666
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: something you said though about and I think you're absolutely

667
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: spot on when he talks about the Buffalo defense. Steven.

668
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: We spent a lot of time on this show last

669
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: week raving about the new England defense, and the thing

670
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: that got me looking at the Patriots defense in the

671
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: prep leading up to the game was that, man, there's

672
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: no superstars here. Khalil Max not here, Aaron Donald's not here,

673
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: and look at those numbers. Yes, it's something to do

674
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: with who they played. Say a similar thing about the

675
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo defense. Who's the superstar on the Buffalo defense? I mean,

676
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: there are candidates. Matt Milano's played well, tremine Edburns is

677
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: getting recognition for as good as he's played. Jerry Hughes

678
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: belongs in the Pro Bowl, he asked for a couple

679
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: of years. There are candidates on the back end, Trey White, etc.

680
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: But there aren't No there are no superstars on the

681
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo defense yet. And there they are, as the caller,

682
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: Mike pointed out, Mike from Pittsburgh, they're number two ranked

683
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: in the league, and they looked like they're as good

684
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: as anybody defensive within the league. And that's significant. It's

685
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: a team oriented defense, totally different than the scheme the

686
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: Patriots have, but the same kind of concept. And I

687
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: count down one guy to get after the quarterback, and

688
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: I countdown one guy to be the run stuffer. It's

689
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 1: a team concept defense and it's worked really well through

690
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: the first quarter of the season. Yeah, and it hasn't

691
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: been that. You know, they've been churning out turnovers. Although

692
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: they have gotten some key turnovers this season, they haven't

693
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: gotten a ton of sacks nothing like that. But I'll

694
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: tell you this, they have stopped the run. Now. Patriots

695
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: made a little hay in the third quarter of this

696
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: last week, but you know, we picked it off in

697
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: the end zone and that stopped that drive and they

698
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: never really garnered anymore rushing the rest of the day.

699
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: But this is a tough crew to run on, very

700
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: difficult to run on. This thing. Tremaine Edmonds has continues

701
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: to take steps forward. I think this team is really

702
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: starting to look to him as the absolute cog that

703
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: makes that machine roll. He's he's really getting a lot

704
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,239
Speaker 1: of kudos around the league for what he's done at

705
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: middle linebacker. He's making a lot of tackles on their

706
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: side of the line of scrimmage. Uh. Starlow to Lelee

707
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: had some moments this last week as well. I think

708
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: it's just a defense that hits on you know, it

709
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: just checks so many boxes, the depth, the rotation, the teamwork,

710
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: the discipline, and the athleticism in the back end. Uh.

711
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: You just they're just hard to move the football on,

712
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: really hard to move the football on. I agree. Thanks

713
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: for your call. What do you think? What have you

714
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: learned about the Bills through the first four games? This season.

715
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike and Rochester. Hello, Mike, welcome. Hey,

716
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: thanks guys for taking my call. I feel very excited.

717
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: I think the offense is really jelly. You see what

718
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: they've done over these first four games. They're still a

719
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: very young unit. And in particular, I think Josh. What

720
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 1: I noticed, I thought was that he was just super

721
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: hyped up and excited, and when he was out there,

722
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: I think some of those early theories, he was just

723
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: so excited that that you know, he was not doing

724
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: what he should be doing. And this will be a

725
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: great learning experience because we've seen him come back when

726
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: he's made my steps. He did great against the Jeff

727
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: when he came back, and I think this will just

728
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: go in a big step and to learn because I'm

729
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm brought into Josh. I think he's the right guy.

730
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: He's got all the right talents, but it's gonna take

731
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: some things like this to sort of, you know, mature

732
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: him in this league. So your thoughts please, Yeah, I'm

733
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: with you, Mike. I'm all in on him too. I

734
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: would love to have seen him, you know, being able

735
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: to stay in that game if that hit would have

736
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: been innocuous rather than you know, a concussion thing. I

737
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: would have liked to seeing him trying to finish that

738
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: game out and come through. Uh. That would have been

739
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,479
Speaker 1: fun to see if he could have gotten that done.

740
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: He didn't, as we all know, and the team came up.

741
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: He didn't get a chance to finish the game. But

742
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think there's a lot of positives

743
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: in this The offense does look much much better than

744
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: it did a year ago. The offensive line, well, let's

745
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: face it, this was a tough game on for every

746
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,240
Speaker 1: position group. It was a tough game and it showed

747
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: at times in every position group. But by the same token,

748
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 1: the strengths of this team remained the strengths of this team,

749
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: and they were a bundle to handle for the New

750
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: England Patriots as well on both sides. So I'm with you.

751
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: I agree with you about the excitement that Josh displayed

752
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: earlier in the game. I was talking to him today.

753
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: I think Dave Ball did a nice job early in

754
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: this game. They tried to get him some early easy completions,

755
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: short routes. He got his first throw I think was

756
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 1: tipped at the line of scrimmage. His second one he missed.

757
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley by a mile on a little flat route

758
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: and then he overthrew Frank Gore the other side on

759
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: a flat route. So Dave Ball was trying to get

760
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: him some easy completions early and Josh was so hyped

761
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: the ball was going everywhere. So and I haven't seen

762
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: him miss throws like that all preseason. And yeah, so

763
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: I think I agree with you. I think he really

764
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: knew or felt like this was an enormous game that

765
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: he wanted to play well in, and I think it

766
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: affected his play and the early going. And I think

767
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: that I believe that I agree with that it was

768
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: part of it. It was also, you know, schematic, the

769
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: looks that he saw from England he had. You know,

770
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: I'm sure they told him you're going to see some

771
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: different stuff today, but he didn't respond like he either

772
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: got the message or maybe you're seeing different stuff than

773
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: what they prepped him for. But it was it was different, right,

774
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it was kind of somebody described it today

775
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: as an Amba type of defense that he just you

776
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: could see him, You could see the look on his

777
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: face like what am I seeing here? What am I

778
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: doing here? You know? And it took a toll on him.

779
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: I think and in the way I mean, even as

780
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: I think it took such a toll and more than um,

781
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, being geeked up and couldn't play. I think

782
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: it was the confusion of what he was seeing from

783
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: the Patriots defense, and all of a sudden his mechanics deteriorated.

784
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, He's not setting up in a

785
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: good position to throw the ball, you know what I mean,

786
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: And and that's why we saw you know, backfoot passes

787
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: and under thrown balls. I mean, I just think it

788
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: it got away from him. And fifteenth NFL start, that'll

789
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: happen twenty three year old quarterback, that'll happen against against

790
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: that defense. It'll happen with veteran quarterbacks. So yeah, it's

791
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: um you know, in looking back it, you know, we

792
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: we tend to focus on Josh a lot, and and

793
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: rightfully so, but you gotta think too, the rest of

794
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 1: this team seems to be up to snuff in every respect.

795
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what they said, certainly that times the

796
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: offensive line, you know, had some problems with protection. Maybe

797
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: once in a while Josh had a guy covered up

798
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: he really wanted to go to. But I tell you

799
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: that there were some guys running around that were a

800
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: little bit open, and Josh never got a chance to

801
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: get back to him because because of what he was seeing,

802
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: he never thought about it or never got back to

803
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: you know, to the third progression or the second progression.

804
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: So you know, all that stuff together, this is a

805
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: team that is really, really good, but a little bit

806
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: right now, a little too inconsistent to win a game

807
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: like that. We both read I don't mind giving this

808
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: guy credit. I think Jim Kubiak, former Navy quarterback, stuck

809
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: around with a cult for a couple of years, former

810
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: color analyst on the UB football radio broadcast, and he writes,

811
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: I guess an online piece in the Buffalo News occasionally,

812
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's every week about Josh Allens,

813
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: And we both read it today and I just came

814
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: and he pointed out something which I knew I saw,

815
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: but he pointed it out about the Patriots kept him

816
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: in the pocket, right. The Patriots came in and said, look,

817
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: we don't want this guy running around wild on the

818
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: edges of the of our defense making plays. And they

819
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: did a great job of forcing him to try to

820
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: be a pocket passer, and he essentially was not able

821
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: to do that on Sunday, just if you get a chance,

822
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: if you want to look at it. I think it's

823
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: at Buffalo News dot Com. I just thought, I think

824
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kubiak is as an astute observer of quarterback play

825
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: that I've come across in a long time. That's all

826
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: I say. Yeah, and I think too, he's got some

827
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: film clips of plays that illustrate what he's saying. It

828
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: makes it's pretty self evident. So another call. Let's take

829
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 1: of the call here about your take after the first

830
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: four games. What do you take from the from the

831
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Let's go to h Nick and Buffalo welcome

832
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: Nick around the air, Grey John, they listen. I was

833
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: very impressed with the Bills. There was I thought it

834
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: was an even game without great Kusi, and you know,

835
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: he was always a factor without him being there, and

836
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: our defense stepping it up. I thought it was going

837
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: to be a really close team. And I was so

838
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: impressed with New England finding the weak spot. They they're

839
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: they're cloching, They're so stupid. We've been saying as fans

840
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: a whole week. It's just the first four are weak

841
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: spot with special teams and punter Corey, but Buchez he

842
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: was horrible. They found the week spot, they attacked it,

843
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 1: and I think that was the difference in the game.

844
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: And after that the Orcas it was a mind game.

845
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: He never got another great punic gain. He hit a

846
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: nineteen year Qweenland GA one block. I think they need

847
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: to upgrade special teams that are hurry. There's got to

848
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: be somebody out there, uh maybe some kind of a

849
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: metrian out there, but we definitely need to make the

850
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: most All right, mister special teams. We have one of

851
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 1: the country's foremost experts on special teams right here. Yeah,

852
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: do they need to do something or do they stay

853
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: the course? I'm sure they acknowledge the issues that came

854
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: up Sunday. Yeah, you gotta acknowledge what happened on that

855
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: block punt, no question about it, and the fact that

856
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: they had shown that on film. The giants had had

857
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: come off there, and the bills that came in and

858
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 1: brought their gunners in off the edges to help protect

859
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots shifted too late for them to do that,

860
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: and then just said listen, we're gonna We're gonna leave

861
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: him uncovered. If you want to try your punder just

862
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: deciding he's gonna throw it on the spur of the moment,

863
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: We'll take that chance, and it paid off for him

864
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 1: and by or Kez, I think he was affected by

865
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: that block punt. I think that he did not have

866
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: a good day. And I think he's got to be better.

867
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 1: You gotta be better. He's got a thirty one yard net.

868
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: That's not good enough. You gotta have it more than that.

869
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: You gotta be more consistent. And when you put the

870
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: ball inside the twenty, it's not good enough. You got

871
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: to put it inside the ten or fifteen or the five.

872
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 1: You've got to get better field position for your team.

873
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 1: That's job one. Get the punt off and get good

874
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: field position for your team. And he has struggled at that.

875
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: I agree, But I think also this but Orchis has

876
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: got a big engine under the hood. He's got a

877
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: leg that can do it, and I know Heath Heath

878
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: Farwell is really trying to coach him up and get

879
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 1: him to be more consistent across the board. And if

880
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: he can do that, the Bills have got a really

881
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: good punter with a big leg and a guy that

882
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: can also drop it inside the twenty. He's got eight

883
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: inside the twenties and three touch backs. You want to

884
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: be a little better than that. The touchbacks you want,

885
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: but I think you know one or two of those

886
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: were the guys chasing it, not Corey. But you're right,

887
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: he's he needs to get bigger, more consistent punts, and

888
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: that block punt, I think it's gonna stick with him

889
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: for a while. Those are the kind that bother you, yep,

890
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: because it's if you're talking fractions of an inch on

891
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: a play that covers a lot of round and those

892
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: are hard to live with. Let's hear from you. What

893
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: have you learned about your team, the Buffalo Bills after

894
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: the first quarter of the season, the first four games.

895
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: We'll get back to the phones. We'll read some of

896
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: the tweets when we come back. Come on back with

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Speaker 1: us One Bills Live, presented by Kalada Health from the

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Speaker 1: buddy Kyle Brandt coming up at one o'clock in a

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Speaker 1: Really the Buffalo defense number two last year, number two

913
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: right now, they've been good for a while. Yeah, they had.

914
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you that. You know, they

915
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be it ain't gonna change either. I mean,

916
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna be good. They gotta put it all together.

917
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: You know, they got to score enough points to win.

918
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,919
Speaker 1: It's a team that's average, and what fifteen sixteen points

919
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: a game, fifteen point eight something like that, And that's

920
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: how many you gotta score to win. You know, this

921
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: last week the Bills was scored seventeen they to one.

922
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 1: I know you I was sitting there in the booth

923
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: last week. You predicted they were gonna win seventeen sixteen,

924
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: and I thought, oh, no, why you wouldn't, Boddy, They're

925
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: gonna Barkley's gonna come in and make this touchdown. They're

926
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: gonna kick the extra point, win this seventeen sixteen. And

927
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: I gotta live with Murph. I wouldn't have road, No, well,

928
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: you kid me, I would. I would try to set

929
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: a better example. I called a seventeen thirteen and I thought, oh,

930
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: this is you know, before they kicked that last field goal,

931
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, this is it? You know? Of

932
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: course it was thirteen pretty quick? Did we talk? I

933
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: don't want to dwell on yesterday or Sunday's game, but

934
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: that was the right decision, right, And I think it

935
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: was at the time right, I do, because down sixteen ten,

936
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: they have the ball at the three yard line, fourth

937
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: and goal at the three. You could have and there

938
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,760
Speaker 1: was a ton of time. I want to say ten minutes,

939
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: could have kicked the field goal and say, will continue

940
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: to play. And here's the argument for it. And I look,

941
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad they went for it. I'm sorry they missed.

942
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: But the argument is you got a ton of time

943
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: left here. Uh. And the theory is kind of the

944
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: strategy is before you win the game, you got to

945
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 1: not lose the game, and that would be the argument,

946
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: which I don't think applies. I don't feel like it

947
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 1: was a mistake here, but that's the argument. Right, get

948
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: down by three and then the next set and when

949
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 1: you get the ball again, you go for a field

950
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: goal to tie it, and that gets to before you

951
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: win the game, you got to not lose the game,

952
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: and that would be the argument that those people would make.

953
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm not one of them, let me be clear about that.

954
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: I'm glad they went for it on fourth and goal

955
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: to the three, but it's it's it's a question that

956
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: has to be considered. New England had thirteen drives in

957
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: the game, seven of them. Over half the drives in

958
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 1: the game that New England had were three and outs.

959
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 1: So if you go for it on fourth and three

960
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 1: and you don't make it, say it's and you get

961
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: it down to the one, which is what happened. They

962
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: had the interception and it was it was rule to

963
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: not an interception, so they get first and ten on

964
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: their own three. So they're coming out so they got

965
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: to go against your defense now deep in their own end.

966
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: So you're gonna, you know, if you can get them

967
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: into three and out there you still got good field position.

968
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: Let's come on, let's go down score again. Let's go.

969
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: So if you don't do that, if you take the

970
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: field goal, then you got to kick off to them.

971
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: Then they get the ball out to twenty five and

972
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: then you know, then you know, if they make if

973
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: they go three and out, if they're you know, you're

974
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,399
Speaker 1: all the way back in your end again, you gotta

975
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: go to the link. You gotta go to the same

976
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: amount to get a field goal along field goal to

977
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: tie with a ton of time left, yeah, you're probably

978
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: gonna get at least two more, at least two more possessions, right,

979
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: and again, I'm straining to make the argument for kicking

980
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: the field goal because I believe they did the right thing. Yeah,

981
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 1: I don't think there was an argument. I was totally

982
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: with him going forward too. And but the only the

983
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: issue for me wasn't going for it. The issue for

984
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: me was it was fourth and three. It wasn't three.

985
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: It was it wasn't fourth and one. Yeah, it was

986
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,959
Speaker 1: fourth and three. Three is like you know, and that's

987
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: to me, that was rough. That was like, that was

988
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: that was the borderline thing. I liked that they went

989
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: for it. I wish it would have been fourth and

990
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: one instead of fourth and three. I just got to

991
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: look up and see how much time was left. I was.

992
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: I want to say there was maybe not ten minutes.

993
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: Let me look, I might have been like ten fifty left. Yeah, yeah,

994
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: that's deep. They got a whole quarter left on them,

995
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, I don't think the time was

996
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: the factor. I think it was. But you knew too.

997
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: You were in a game, man, it was points were premium.

998
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think maybe. I mean hindsight, it's he say, yeah,

999
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: it didn't work, so let's try the other thing. Right.

1000
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: You don't know, I have any idea they kicking the

1001
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 1: field goal, you might lose by ten. You know, you

1002
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: don't have that. You don't know the ramifications of it.

1003
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: You just sound like Marv Levy when you said that

1004
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: that was a mark thing. Yeah, in hindsight, if it

1005
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: didn't work, you do the other thing. And he's right,

1006
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: aproach that's the way a lot of people approach analytics.

1007
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 1: Kennon Buffalo, Welcome to the show. Can any thoughts after

1008
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:21,439
Speaker 1: the bill's first four games, Cannon Buffalo, are you there? Yeah,

1009
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: I'm here. Go ahead, you're on the air, buddy, Yeah,

1010
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: sense I'm not gonna get into that. You know what

1011
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: I think, and this is just my personal opinion. A

1012
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: couple things. We still need to make an upgrade at

1013
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: wide receiver, be it looking into a j Green Baby,

1014
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, Steve, you noticed we had a receiver back

1015
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: in eighty late eighties, early nineties that when the game

1016
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: was on it I had the swagger and Andre re

1017
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: get me that ball. We have it with John Brown

1018
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: say I'm sorry, but I don't see it feel it.

1019
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: We need to upgrade there on Josh Allen. If you

1020
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: remember back when Jim Kelly first out here, he's always

1021
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: started games so hyped up. He was erratic at early games.

1022
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: Josh needs to find a way, some kind of activity

1023
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: to relax him before the game, before that first drive

1024
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: gets going. You can tell you can see his face.

1025
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I saw this in film. I know this,

1026
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: this is where I'm going. But he's too hyped up

1027
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: and he misses it and then he gets down. Yeah,

1028
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: all right, good point. You know I've been thinking about

1029
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: that Ken about Josh Allen start the games. I don't

1030
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: know if that's a trend or not. It seems this

1031
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: year that's been the case, a little slow start for

1032
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. But I'd like to spend more time on

1033
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: that and see if that can be verified, not just

1034
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,240
Speaker 1: the look on his face, but his early game production.

1035
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's an issue yet, it seems

1036
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: like it might prepared, I think being I think it's

1037
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: it showed itself a little bit this week. Oh yeah,

1038
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: for the we all watch him so closely. We could

1039
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: all tell that man, the ball came out of his

1040
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: hand funk. He was trying to throw it too quick,

1041
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: he was a little jitter. It just didn't seem like

1042
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: himself in the pocket. And I it's hard to articulate

1043
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: exactly what you're looking at because we've seen him play

1044
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: three games this year and ten or eleven games last year.

1045
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: M yeah, this game seemed a little different early on

1046
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: because of his inability to hit those easy throws that

1047
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: we've seen him make, and and you it's easy to

1048
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: attribute that to nerves. I'm whether he's too hyped or not,

1049
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think sometimes I think particularly

1050
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: this year more so another. I think he's probably excited

1051
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: a lot of it because he feels really prepared, a

1052
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: lot more prepared than he did last year. He feels

1053
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: like he's you know, he's like, all right, you know,

1054
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: I see it. Here we go. And I think, you know,

1055
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: the caller Ken just said, you know, he sees it.

1056
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: I see it. I know what I'm gonna do with it,

1057
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: and you know, then when things change and then he's like,

1058
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: oh right. And so I think there is some of that,

1059
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: no question, And I think Ken, the caller just made

1060
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: those points, is in the same place as a lot

1061
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: of US wide receiver upgrade. I don't know. Listen, you

1062
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: can throw away all those names that you just mentioned

1063
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: about the Bills either not gonna trade for a big

1064
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: name wide receiver. It's October first, who's got a big contract.

1065
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: And I mean, you're just not gonna do that. You're

1066
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: just not gonna do that. It doesn't work like that.

1067
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 1: As as much as you covet the green grass on

1068
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: the other side of the fence, don't do it. You know,

1069
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: just mow your own grass. Yep, Kyle Brant coming up

1070
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: from the NFL network, you don't want to miss it.

1071
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: He's coming up. When we return from One Bill's Drive.

1072
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Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Life presented by Klaid to Health in

1073
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: the Seneca studio. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Bills Radio

1074
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: Network Sports Update. The update from One Bill's Drive. The

1075
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: Bills players the off day today. The coaches at work

1076
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: on the game plan for Sunday's game at Tennessee. Sean

1077
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: McDermott confirming yesterday the quarterback Josh Allen is in concussion

1078
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: protocol as they head into preparation for the week five game.

1079
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 1: Dean Marlow, bill safety also would in concussion protocol. So

1080
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,720
Speaker 1: the Bills have to prepare for Sunday's team against the Titans.

1081
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: Maybe under the assumption that Matt Barkley could be starting

1082
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: a quarterback this weekend. It would be just his second

1083
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: start in the Bills a uniform. They may also have

1084
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: to add a quarterback to the roster. They have Davis

1085
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: Webb on the practice squad. Devin Singletary questionable and did

1086
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: not play last week. Has missed a couple of games now.

1087
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: Mcderbot said yesterday that he was close to returning to

1088
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: game action last weekend, and we'll see how that goes

1089
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 1: starting tomorrow. The Bills on the practice field tomorrow around

1090
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: the rest of the National Football League, Bradley Chubb of

1091
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos as a partially toured Ac Allen his leftee.

1092
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: He will miss the rest of the season. He was

1093
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: the fifth overall pick in twenty eighteen. Suffered the season

1094
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: ending injury in Denver's loss to Jacksonville. The Chicago Bears

1095
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: linebacker Roquan Smith's gonna be out indefinitely, the team giving

1096
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 1: him time to deal with the personal issue. According to ESPN,

1097
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: the reporters that Smith had not been acting like himself

1098
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: round the team facilities for the last week or so

1099
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: a personal issue. The Buffalo Savers getting set to start

1100
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: a new season. Savers returned to practice today. First game

1101
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: Thursday night at Pittsburgh against the Penguin's first game coming

1102
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: up Saturday night at home against the New Jersey Devils.

1103
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: Savers assistant coach Down Gronado has been hospitalized with severe pneumonia.

1104
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: According to the team, he will take a medical leave.

1105
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: Amirst coach Chris Taylor will assist the Savers in his absence,

1106
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: and the baseball playoffs start tonight in the nation's Capitol

1107
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,720
Speaker 1: It's the Milwaukee Burds and the Washington Nationals. The National

1108
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,439
Speaker 1: League Wildcard Game a single elimination game. The winner gets

1109
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: to face the Dodgers in the first of five National

1110
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: League Division Series. The loser heads home for the rest

1111
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: of the winner their season is over. And then, as

1112
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,439
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy and Steve

1113
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: Kasker in our One Buffalo Studio ready to go with

1114
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: our number two on this Tuesday afternoon and on the

1115
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: line with us, our guest is Kyle Brant, the host

1116
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: of Good Morning Football on NFL Network. You can catch

1117
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: it every morning at seven am. Good Afternoon, Kyle. Thanks

1118
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,240
Speaker 1: coming on with us today. We appreciate it. I'm always

1119
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: filled to be with you. But I have to admit you, guys,

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00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 1: I'm a little bummed this week. This is our first

1121
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: visit following a Buffalo Bill's loss. I thought we were

1122
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: going to ride this relationship right teams in nineteen and

1123
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: open listen, we did our part. Yeah, like, what can

1124
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: we say, right? Yeah? I guess so yeah, that was

1125
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: That was one of the most disappointed halfs of Bills

1126
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: football in a long time. And I gotta tell you this,

1127
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what you guys were getting. But I

1128
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: hope that the Bills fans are not going this route

1129
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: of yeah, but we played them tough. You know, there's

1130
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: a lot of positive moral victory. Leave that to the Lions.

1131
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: The Lions are claiming some sort of banner because they

1132
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,840
Speaker 1: almost beat Patrick Mahomes at home. Buffalo is better than that.

1133
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: Don't be the team that says we almost beat them.

1134
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: Don't be the almost team they should have won that game.

1135
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: Be frustrated about it. Yeah, you're right, a lot of that.

1136
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 1: See we haven't the last not too much. This is

1137
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: a team that's it's more so they considered a missed opportunity.

1138
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: It's a game they had for the taking and they

1139
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: didn't get And no question of defense played outstandingly. But

1140
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: I think for the most part of it, if their

1141
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: offense can get a little more consistent, this is the

1142
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: Bills feel like they got a team that's going to

1143
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: be really, really hard to beat. And I think that's

1144
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: mostly what we're hearing from callers. It's a couple of things.

1145
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: You know. The opportunity ward is great. I saw a

1146
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: stat that if you look at Tom Brady's entire career,

1147
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: all the hundreds and hundreds and games he played his

1148
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: five lowest quarterback ratings ever in a game. One of

1149
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: them is the Lawyer Miller game all those years ago,

1150
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: and one of them was Sunday. It was one of

1151
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 1: the worst games he has ever played, and the Bills

1152
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: still couldn't beat him at home, which is frustrating to me.

1153
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: And yet, however, we asked the question this morning, you guys,

1154
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: We said, all right, the Chiefs are great, the Patriots

1155
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: are great. Can you name the third best team in

1156
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,720
Speaker 1: the AFC? Everybody? Every team has warts, every team has losses.

1157
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: I still think, and I said this on the oest one,

1158
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: I still think it's the Buffalo Bills. I will take

1159
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,760
Speaker 1: them and that defense and who knows what that offense

1160
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:09,439
Speaker 1: over right now? The Browns, the Texans, really anybody else.

1161
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: I think it's a big drop off from the Chiefs

1162
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: of New England. But I think the Bills are the

1163
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: third best team the sc right now. Got something there, Colleen,

1164
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: you know, I want to get your take on this.

1165
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 1: We talked about this briefly yesterday. That game Buffalo and

1166
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 1: New England was a defensive clash of really good defense.

1167
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: If a couple of maybe the best two defenses in

1168
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: the league, and in a league where everybody talks about

1169
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: point production and offense and it's a different game. Now,

1170
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,879
Speaker 1: I'm happy to see that people can appreciate two good

1171
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 1: defensive teams basically in a heavyweight battle the way they

1172
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: were Sunday. Did you get that at all from Sunday's game?

1173
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 1: I like it too, because Mark one of these teams

1174
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,919
Speaker 1: is going to run into that that monster in Kansas City.

1175
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: Someone is going to have to play defense. Now, maybe

1176
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: it's next month, maybe it's in January. But in this

1177
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: era of Pat Mahomes being on pace for six thousand

1178
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: passing yards and us just going numb to a guy

1179
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: who throws four touchdowns, I mean, we remember back in

1180
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: the day when I was younger, if somebody if Drew

1181
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: Bledsoe through four touchdowns, if it was a huge news,

1182
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, somebody through four touchdowns. And now it's like, well,

1183
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 1: Mahomes only through four. So to answer your question, there's

1184
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: a handful of teams, I mean, five out of thirty

1185
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: two that can really play defense. The New England Patriots,

1186
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, the Chicago Bears, and maybe a couple others.

1187
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 1: Those might be the teams when it gets cold, when

1188
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: people start to get hurt, that can really lock this

1189
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: thing down. Because let's not forget and this air of

1190
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: stats and numbers and everything, that was an all defensive

1191
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in which there was one play in the

1192
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: red zone. Ever, so Buffalo Bulles have a locked a

1193
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 1: build on. We just got to get this quarterback to

1194
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: stop doing interceptions. I mean, come on, we've talked about this.

1195
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: We needed a clean game, and if we talked about it,

1196
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: we have talked about it, Yes, we have. Right, you

1197
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 1: said this morning you were talking about, you know how

1198
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: good this the third best team in the AFC. Also,

1199
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: something else you were talking about this this morning was

1200
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 1: out of the streets in New York you re enacted

1201
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: the home run throwback twenty years later. Twenty years later.

1202
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,760
Speaker 1: How iconic is that play that these teams have played

1203
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: like eight times since then and they still talk about.

1204
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, Andrew Kyle, this is this

1205
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: is the thing I would That's the first playoff game

1206
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: that the Bills were in after I retired. It was

1207
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: the first year I retired, and it's the only time

1208
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: when I was watching there with my family in my

1209
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: living room that the Bills had a special teams play

1210
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: that happened. I said, oh, I would have made a

1211
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: difference there. What do you no, don't go that way? This, no,

1212
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: go this way. I was so proper respect it's it's

1213
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: let's call backs proper name the Music City Miracle, all right,

1214
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 1: let's it's earned that name. What the gentleman of referring

1215
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: to left than anyone did not see is we went

1216
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: out of the streets this morning, on the streets of Manhattan,

1217
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: and we've been doing this ongoing series of re enacting

1218
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: famous plays, you know, Montanda, the Clark, Freddie Mitchell, fourth

1219
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: and twenty six, and with the Titans and Bills playing

1220
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: this weekend, we went out and rolled, playing as Lorenz O'Neill,

1221
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: Frank White Check, Kevin Dice. I want all of your

1222
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: listeners to know that I was the kicker Christie. So

1223
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: I did my job. I had nothing to do with

1224
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: that down on the street. I cannot be blamed for that. Yeah,

1225
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: I basically lost my breakfast when I saw that this morning.

1226
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, twenty years later, Kyle, you need to bring

1227
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:16,439
Speaker 1: that back. That That is right there among the worst

1228
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: memories any Bills fan has do you remember what exactly

1229
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 1: where you were Mark when it happened. I was in

1230
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: the broadcast both doing the game, and what do you think?

1231
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: What do you what did you say? I said? Illegal

1232
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: forward pass? Is what I said? It was an illegal

1233
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: forward pass? Are kidding me? Phil luck At lost his

1234
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: job because of that call. Yeah, I've seen it. They've

1235
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: measured it with the geometry and angle everything. I still

1236
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: think they're trying to figure that run. Yeah, let's all right,

1237
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: let's all take a deep breath now to see that.

1238
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: I did not need to see that, So listen, let's

1239
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about it. This week. We've got, uh,

1240
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: the Bills going down to Tennessee. They just had a

1241
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: you know, disappointing missed opportunity against the Patriots at home.

1242
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: Now the Tennessee Titans seem to be getting a little

1243
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: bit more on track. Marcus Mariot to a little bit

1244
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: more like the quarterback we all thought he would be

1245
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: this last week, in the same weekend that Jamis Winston

1246
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: did as well. How do you think you know your

1247
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: early thoughts about the Tennessee Buffalo matchup in Nashville. I

1248
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 1: absolutely love it for Buffalo, and I'll tell you why

1249
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 1: been watching the Titans? These Mario the Titans for years now.

1250
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: They are Steve magnetically attracted to nine and seven. No

1251
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: matter what they do, they will end up in week seventeen,

1252
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: maybe a Saturday game, trying to play their way in.

1253
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 1: I have a theory about the Tennessee Titans. There's two teams.

1254
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,919
Speaker 1: There's the Titans, and then there's the off brand team

1255
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: called the Tritans. You ever go to the grocery store

1256
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: and you know, I level on the shelf there's Captain Crunch,

1257
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 1: Captain Crunch, but then down about your knees there's that

1258
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: kind of pillowcase bag of serial called Colonel Crackle or

1259
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: something like that, and it's about a dollar cheaper and

1260
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: you get a little bit more. That's what the Titans are.

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Speaker 1: Just when you get the Titans, the Captain Crunch, you said, well,

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00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: this team is pretty good, the Tritons show up and

1263
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: it's Kirkland brand, it's dollar store, and they just nag.

1264
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: Every time I've said the Titans are good, you get

1265
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: the Tritans, and they're due for Tritans this weekend. I

1266
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: think Buffalo wins this game. They've the Titans have been tough.

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01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: You know, with two with their wins, with both of

1268
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: their wins on the road, and now they get a

1269
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: chance to look at the home field for a while.

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01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 1: That's got to help them out a little bit. Playing

1271
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: in Nashville, I would think, uh, win, loss, win, win, loss,

1272
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Speaker 1: lost the Titans. This is the story of this entire

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Speaker 1: chapter of Titans football. I would I would put you know,

1274
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: these shows do their their locks and their guarantees of

1275
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Speaker 1: the week. I guarantee the Titans will lose at home

1276
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: this weekend. They don't rip off wins in a row.

1277
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: It's up and down, up and down. This is the

1278
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: perfect week to get them right after the big win.

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Speaker 1: I just marked that quote in case we need that.

1280
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah, our guests is Kyle Brandt from NFL

1281
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: never goes to Good Morning Football. Back to the Bills

1282
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: for a second, So it looks like the Bills might

1283
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: have to go with Matt Barkley instead of Josh Allen.

1284
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: Josh and concussion protocol. What do you think of that?

1285
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: Does that change your thoughts about this game if it

1286
01:00:56,240 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: is Barkley instead of Josh Allen? Yeah, it does, But

1287
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: isn't it very in vogue right now? Every single team

1288
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: is playing someone who's not their starter. I look at

1289
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: it a lot like the Chicago Bears. You know, you

1290
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 1: have this ferocious defense, they lose mister Bisky, and now

1291
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: the take that's flying around Chicago that's got some heat

1292
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: on it as well. They might actually be better with

1293
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: Chase Daniel because Mitch is a little sporadic and Chase

1294
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: just knows what he is, all right, Chase Daniel for

1295
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:23,760
Speaker 1: the Bears, and I'll get back to the Bills. But

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01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 1: Chase Daniel for the Bears is limited, but smart and

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01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 1: has a pure identity. He knows what he is. I

1298
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: think mister Bisky doesn't. I'm not sure Josh Allen does yet.

1299
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: He's still figuring out his talents. Where someone who's been

1300
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: in the legal a bit longer, like Matt Barkley, maybe

1301
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: it's fine to just throw it the hell out of

1302
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 1: the bounce five or six times a game and maybe

1303
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 1: you win this game thirteen to ten. Maybe it's not

1304
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: the worst thing for the Bills right now. One of

1305
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: the good things coming into this season that people kind

1306
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: of raise their eyes at, or maybe some of them

1307
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: even rolled their eyes, was they thought that Frank Gore

1308
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: was kind of what they call him an aggregator. A

1309
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: guy he's played so long. Of course he's got great numbers,

1310
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: but he pops out against the Patriots. You know, seventeen

1311
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 1: rushes for one hundred and nine yards. He goes over

1312
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand for his career, and he seems to be

1313
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 1: even at this early stage of his Buffalo career. A

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01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: guy that mantled man. He sets a tone in the

1315
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:15,439
Speaker 1: locker room. How kind of are you surprised by Frank

1316
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: Gore and what he's doing in Buffalo? I am, because

1317
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: you know, I've always thought, like you said, Steve great

1318
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 1: in the locker room, good leader, he'll mentor Devin's singletary.

1319
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: We hear that about a lot of guys. That's nonsense.

1320
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: This guy has been a feature back, and I think

1321
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 1: it was great that he got to the mark that

1322
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: he was aiming for, not on some three yard fall

1323
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: forward deal. It was a breakaway run. He's been really good,

1324
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: and I think I've told you guys this. You know,

1325
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: in the sports circle you hear about it a lot.

1326
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: Frank Or is a really kind of controversial figure in

1327
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: terms of the Hall of Fame, who is polarizing rather

1328
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 1: than controversial. But some people say, his biggest gift is

1329
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: that he stays healthy and knows how to play the game.

1330
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: He's never been in the conversation and his whole career

1331
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: as best running back in the league. He's to use

1332
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: your word aggregator, which is a four letter word for

1333
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I think the last month has

1334
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,440
Speaker 1: washed out a lot of that. I think this Bill's

1335
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: season should have progressed like this will be this season

1336
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: that emphatically gets him into Canton. Because I was a doubter.

1337
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: I look at guys in his generation. He's never been

1338
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: in Adrian Peterson, he was never a Ladanian, Tomlinson really

1339
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 1: good back, but not those guys. I think if you

1340
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: look at the numbers, you look at the leadership and

1341
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: the duration, and that he's still breaking off big runs

1342
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: this year. I think this is the year that's changing

1343
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 1: my mind. Cole, your guy Dawson Knox broke off another

1344
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: pretty big play, I think a twenty one yard. They're

1345
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 1: playing a great reception, and you guys celebrated last late

1346
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: last week, right, you had the Rambow look going on

1347
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 1: on the ear. Yeah, I'm so glad you brought this up.

1348
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: One Hall of Famer to another. Frank Gord to Dawson

1349
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 1: Knox and I like guys that he's showing versatility. He's

1350
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: not just running people over and throwing stiff arms. He

1351
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: made this ridiculous diving, acrobatic catch in the biggest game

1352
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 1: of the year against the Patriots. Was an amazing catch

1353
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: that they really needed. And it's gone from well, this

1354
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: is a cool thing and he wears headband in his

1355
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,919
Speaker 1: rambo to you know what, I think that Bills Matter

1356
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: really found a player here. I mean, this guy, this

1357
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: is the catch is where you're seeing it to your viewers.

1358
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: It was It was not just your standards tight end play.

1359
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: This is a Gronkowski type than This is almost shades

1360
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: of Vodell Beckham. So Dawson Knox mainly complaint with him

1361
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 1: last week because he was not involved more. That's two

1362
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: weeks in a row and he's been one of the

1363
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: best targets, and I think the lead I'm moving forward.

1364
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: I'd like him a lot, not just as an angry runner.

1365
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,439
Speaker 1: This guy's a player. Let's move around the league. There's

1366
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: so much going on in the first month of the

1367
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 1: season's over, and I think we're kind of getting a

1368
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 1: handle on who all these teams are. We didn't know

1369
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: exactly when the season started, and like you said, there's

1370
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:37,920
Speaker 1: a ton of people that are playing quarterback in the

1371
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 1: NFL that we didn't think we were gonna see, and

1372
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: most notably your guys in Chicago, Chase Daniels. Is there

1373
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 1: a chance that they're better with him? Listen, I'm not

1374
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 1: subscribing to that. I think that they're good with him,

1375
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,160
Speaker 1: and I really I mean, they with that defense, they

1376
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: can play with almost anybody. But it's one of the

1377
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: things that people are saying this week, Well, Chase Daniel,

1378
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna be better off of them. I still don't

1379
01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 1: subscribe to that, because I think missus Trabisky's talent is

1380
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 1: something they're really gonna need. Not they could probably go

1381
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 1: ten and six with Chase Daniel. Look to their defense,

1382
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: is that good? But when they get to the playoffs,

1383
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: when they come down the stretch and they're playing the Juggernauts,

1384
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, the Saints, the Eagles, the Cowboys, I think

1385
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna need Rabisky. You know, I think Chase is

1386
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 1: the good substitute teacher, and he's cool to let you

1387
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: hang out and put your feet on the desk, But

1388
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: I think you need Trabisky. It's not the case with

1389
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 1: all of them. I mean, what's going on in Jacksonville

1390
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: with Gardner Minshew, he looks like a player from the

1391
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 1: second he hit the field. Obviously, what's going on with

1392
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. The most intriguing one is probably Kyle Allen

1393
01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 1: and in Carolina because he looks like a player and

1394
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,000
Speaker 1: they're looking him on moving on from a superman. So

1395
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 1: it's this is the identity of the season right now.

1396
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 1: There's the front runners and there's all these young quarterbacks

1397
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: coming in. I just hope for the Bill stakes that

1398
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley can do well filling in for Josh Cow

1399
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: struck me last night on Monday Night Football. How life

1400
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 1: is so different in some of the other divisions in

1401
01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: the NFL. The Bill is always looking up. In New England,

1402
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: Seelers win their first game last saying, and all of

1403
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 1: a sudden they can entertain the prostruct. Ay, maybe we

1404
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: win the division. Right. You know, one thing that I

1405
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: feel like I've learned in this generation of football is

1406
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: never give up on the Steelers. Just never do it.

1407
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 1: It's they're too good as a company, as a franchise,

1408
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 1: and their defense is fantastic. Take what you will away

1409
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: from them just beating the snot out of the Bengals

1410
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: last night. The Bengals don't have it right now, but

1411
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: the Steelers defense is really good. I don't know another

1412
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: one of these young quarterbacks who didn't start the season,

1413
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph. If you watched that game last night, First

1414
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 1: of all, my apologies, it was a tough watch. But

1415
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 1: if you watched it, they kind of hid Mason Rudolph.

1416
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 1: It was all these push passes and pop passes and pushpops,

1417
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,920
Speaker 1: whatever the hell they were doing. It was a gimmicky offense.

1418
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 1: And if that was their game plan for one night

1419
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:45,320
Speaker 1: to beat the Bengals, credit to them. But they're not

1420
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,160
Speaker 1: doing that week after week. I still don't know if

1421
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph can play. And so with the Browns in

1422
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: that division and then the Ravens kind of licking their ones,

1423
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: maybe there's an opening for the Steelers. But I gotta

1424
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 1: see much more from Mason Rudolph. Who do you think

1425
01:06:56,560 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna win that division? I like the Browns. I've

1426
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: said up from the get go, i'd like them. I

1427
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 1: think the thing that's dangerous about the Browns they're in

1428
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: first place, they're two and two, but they're they're really

1429
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: untapped still. They don't feel like they have it together.

1430
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: You know, that win against the Ravens was fantastic, but

1431
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 1: I didn't see Odell Beckham anywhere. He's their most talented player.

1432
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 1: The defense is still coming together. So what's dangerous about

1433
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 1: them is that the Ravens came out and set the

1434
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 1: world on fire in the first couple of a couple

1435
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: of weeks. You saw that they looked great. The Browns

1436
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:26,959
Speaker 1: are just sort of this identity crisis and they're still

1437
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: in first place. So with their talent, if they start

1438
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 1: to piece it together a little bit, I think the

1439
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 1: Browns are going to go get this thing. One of

1440
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:35,680
Speaker 1: the things I got to ask you about two is

1441
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 1: something that's going on. We saw Bruce arians come back

1442
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,080
Speaker 1: into the league. We saw him he'd transformed the Arizona

1443
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: Cardinals for a minute, right, and then he kind of

1444
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,160
Speaker 1: went south on him. Now he's with Tampa Bay and

1445
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they don't look like the old

1446
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a week. Is this gonna keep

1447
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 1: going or have they turned the corner? Is this just

1448
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: an aberration? It's tough. You know. You see fifty five

1449
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 1: points on the road against the NFC champions and you

1450
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 1: say this is it. I mean, this is this is

1451
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 1: the Jamis Swinston experience we've been waiting for since Tallahassee.

1452
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: I'd love to get excited about them. I just listen.

1453
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: I've trusted Jamis Winston in a lot of ways as

1454
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:18,680
Speaker 1: a player, as a human being, as a citizen, and

1455
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 1: he has routinely let me down and across the board.

1456
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 1: And if that sounds harsh, that's all his fault. That's

1457
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 1: not me being gratuitous. Every time I try to think

1458
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: that Jamis Swinston has turned the corner in any walk

1459
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:32,759
Speaker 1: of life, I've been disappointed. So looked great against the Rams,

1460
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 1: or against the Rams rather, Yeah, but he still threw

1461
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 1: a pick six. And he's just one of these guys that, look,

1462
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:41,760
Speaker 1: there's thirty two quarterbacks in the league. There's a lot

1463
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: of guys that trust more than Jamis Winston. Whose teams

1464
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: to step in it every other week. So he's going

1465
01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 1: to have to prove a lot more than went on

1466
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:48,720
Speaker 1: against a Rams team that is kind of looking for

1467
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: themselves right now, kle We're gonna get you back to

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Speaker 1: the Bills just to kind of a summer I tea today.

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Speaker 1: Your partner on Good Morning Football, Kay Adams, was up here.

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Speaker 1: What did you tell you about the atmosphere here in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo last Sunday, Electric Lallapalooza, Comic Con. Uh, there's you know,

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Speaker 1: the tables, the headbands, everything you want from the experience.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, next time she goes, I hope

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Speaker 1: she comes back with a win because I know that

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Speaker 1: was a big one. Guys, and we're moving on to

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Speaker 1: week five. But I just we have not talked after

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Speaker 1: a loss, and I just if we could have just

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01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: a couple interceptions, fine, just not three. We've gotta get

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Speaker 1: better because you got to take out those. We're like

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Speaker 1: Kevin Kay up here. But we got a three game

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Speaker 1: homestand coming up after the bye week. What about you?

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01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 1: Maybe you're you're what the Bills are missing. I've never been.

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01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 1: I would love to go. Uh is I'm concerned a

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01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: little bit that it might be uh not friendly for

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Speaker 1: children in the parking lot. You guys, tell me, I

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Speaker 1: gotta five. Is you gonna sit in in that parking lot?

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Speaker 1: Or no? Yeah, no, you're all right. We'll take care

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Speaker 1: of especially it's fine, yeah, perfect, yeah, but the problem

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Speaker 1: is now I'm the guy who duplicated the Music City

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Speaker 1: Miracle on TV as well. And the course we are

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Speaker 1: on the Tennessee. That's all we can say, right right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Kyle, good to talk with you again. Thank you anytime. Guys.

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Speaker 1: When next week they will be the Tennessee Triton's play

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Speaker 1: back to this clip? Next week? All right? L Brandt,

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Speaker 1: host of Good Morning Football and the NFL network you

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01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 1: can catch at seven am weekdays. They'll be on tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at seven am. Um. He seems he seemed a little

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Speaker 1: down about the loss, right, maybe more than I anticipated

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Speaker 1: he would be. He has bought in, he's got a steak,

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Speaker 1: he's got he's like you said, he still thinks that

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01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: we're the third best team in the AFC, and I

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01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 1: think I agree with him. I mean, by record wise,

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01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 1: we are for sure. Um, And I think, uh yeah,

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01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 1: I think the rest of the conference is looking to

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01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 1: chase us down. Now. I think they you know, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Patriots are what they are, but we're

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Speaker 1: up there. I mean they will see they gotta walk

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Speaker 1: us down. And do you think the Tennessee Titans are

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01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 1: think looking at us, thinking, Wow, they don't Tennessee Titans

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Speaker 1: saying we won nine games last year. We're home, we

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01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 1: got five or next seven at home. Let's get to work.

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Speaker 1: That's probably what they're saying. The fans might be saying

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Speaker 1: that I don't think their teams saying that we'll find out.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it, we will find out. Yes, we'll

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Speaker 1: find out. Chasing us down. Who do you think thinking

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Speaker 1: they gotta chase down the Buffalo Bill? Anybody with a

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Speaker 1: two and two record? Okay, all right, we gotta break.

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Speaker 1: We're coming back with more. One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Collatda Health. We're coming to you from the Seneca Studio

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back, John Murphy, Steve Tasker.

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01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,599
Speaker 1: We motoring up. We're halfway through the down show already, Steve,

1522
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,880
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta pick it up. Man. We got

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Speaker 1: stuff around to cover before we cover the ground. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: We're here in our Seneca, Buffalo studio with One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collida Health, John murphy' Steave Tasker, and

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Speaker 1: our special gift guest. She is Buffalo Bill's reporter, Maddy Glad.

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01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:47,600
Speaker 1: You're all over social media for us or you're on

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Speaker 1: the website. Yeah, you do everything book live. Are you

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01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:52,679
Speaker 1: doing that today, aren't you? Yeah? We're doing a Facebook

1530
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 1: live with Levi Wallace at Dinosaur Barbecue, so we'll be

1531
01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: asking him some fun questions having the fans way in.

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Speaker 1: So that's at six o'clock if you're gonna be tuning

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Speaker 1: in Facebook Live or dine Sore Barbecue Downtown. Host of

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Speaker 1: Bills Tonight, Yes, with Fred Jackson. Right, how's that going.

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01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: I'm usually tied up postgame. It's going good. It's been fun.

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01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately loss on Sunday, but first time ever

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01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 1: that you had to do that, right, Yeah, first time

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01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:21,479
Speaker 1: so far. I thought I was the good luck charm

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01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: for good So it's funny. Thirty four years ago, I

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01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 1: thought I was a good luck charm, you know. Maddie

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Speaker 1: glev joined US Bills Reporter, the host of Bills Tonight

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Speaker 1: and here to look. We're asking Vans this question and

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01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:37,080
Speaker 1: the Twitter question and getting phone calls about it. Manny

1544
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: and why not you? What have you learned about the

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01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:41,760
Speaker 1: Bills after the first four games of the regular season.

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01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 1: What do you see here? I see a pretty good team,

1547
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: but I see all the off season moves that Brandon

1548
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: Bean and Sean McDermott made are all making an impact

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01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:56,559
Speaker 1: right now through the first four games, aside from Tyler Croft,

1550
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 1: who unfortunately still hasn't made his way to the field.

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01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 1: The draft too, offseason editions, everybody is playing a part

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01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: on this roster. Yeah, I agree with you. You can

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01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: see it happening. We had these conversations all the way

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01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 1: from the Murph and I we do. You know, we're

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01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 1: here every day and you've been with us a bunch.

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01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 1: We've been talking about these topics since February, about you know,

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, who we're going to draft, watch Ed

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01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 1: Oliver workout for Sean McDermot, want the draft, who's this

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01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:27,839
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox guy. Oh, and they got another one Tommy Sweeney,

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01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: and this Tyler Craft. The offensive line. They signed nineteen

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Speaker 1: thousand guys on the offensive line. And now to see

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Speaker 1: it all take shape. All these conversations over the months,

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Speaker 1: A lot of what they have done has been exactly

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Speaker 1: as advertise. Yeah, the offensive line looks better at Oliver's

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01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:47,799
Speaker 1: fitting in. Daryl Johnson is even playing well. A seventh rounder.

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Speaker 1: He got pressure on Tom Brady on Sunday. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that's actually suns to throw away on Tom Brady. I

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01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: saw him come off the edge, he brushed Brady, he

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Speaker 1: got a swiped at him. Brady felt it, stepped up

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Speaker 1: and just chucked it to get rid of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of contributor to Devin Singletary. What a find.

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Speaker 1: He was a US and not everything. Tommy Sweeney makes

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01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: this roster and is making an impact. You what have

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Speaker 1: you learned about Josh this first month. Well, we're going

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Speaker 1: to go through a few things that we have learned

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Speaker 1: in the last four weeks. One of those we just

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Speaker 1: talked about. But through four weeks we've learned that Josh

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Speaker 1: is a dual threat quarterback. There was all these questions

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Speaker 1: after last season, after he rushed for more than six

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01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 1: hundred yards of how are they going to use him

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01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 1: in the run games? Should they? Well, it's obvious to

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01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,240
Speaker 1: see that Josh Allen is very much a part of

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01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 1: the run game with day Ball bring up designed runs

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Speaker 1: for him and things like that. He's used his feet

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Speaker 1: when he needs to. He has one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: one rushing yards so far, averaging thirty two ish rush

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Speaker 1: rush yards per games. I think he can be a

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Speaker 1: little bit smarter sometimes. I think he's of course still

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01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 1: learning that in the second year as a quarterback, of

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Speaker 1: when to play hero ball and when not too early

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01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: on in the game. You don't necessarily need to lower

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01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 1: your shoulder and plow into someone. You can slide instead.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's something that we'll see him continue

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01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: to learn as the season goes on. But this offense,

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01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: they want him to be able to run the ball.

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01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 1: He's going to get in the end zone by running

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Speaker 1: the ball. He's going to get first downs by running

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Speaker 1: the ball. He is an asset to this team on

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Speaker 1: the ground. And I think for me at this point

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Speaker 1: about him being a running quarterback. And I don't know,

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Speaker 1: Murphy Met what you think about this. I think we're

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01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 1: kind of I mean, we kind of have to endure

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01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: the fact that we got a quarterback it's going to

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Speaker 1: run it. I would love it to see him be

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01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 1: a pure pocket passer with the ability to scramble. But man,

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Speaker 1: they design runs for him. Yeah, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: long that's gonna last. Well, look, you really want to

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01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 1: take away what is one of his strongest assets when

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01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 1: he's a twenty three year old guy. Not really, you

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Speaker 1: do want to be judicious about it. I think I

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01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 1: don't know a pure pocket passer means team. They never

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Speaker 1: call him run for him mistake, I think right now

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01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: to me, they get enough out of him out of

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01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 1: breaking out of the pocket in running game. But they

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01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 1: do call some design runs where he'll take it out

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01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: of a shot. He can't tuck it under his arm

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01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: and go. And I think the only reason they do

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01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,760
Speaker 1: that is so that they get it on film. The

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Speaker 1: defense has to know it's coming and they got to

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Speaker 1: spend time getting ready for it. I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: something they want to make, you know, like a set

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Speaker 1: element of their office where he's going to get and

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01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: they scored touchdowns with him. I think it's in there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I don't think it's a featured part

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01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:30,160
Speaker 1: of their offense, but I don't, yeah, make people think

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Speaker 1: about it because he can do it and do it effectively. Now,

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01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: can he be more judicious? Can he runs smarter and

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Speaker 1: slide sometimes? Absolutely? But well he can do that. He's

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Speaker 1: twenty three years old. Yes, it's tough to make that

1630
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 1: argument now that he's in concussion protocol, But I don't

1631
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 1: want to take that out of the offense. I think

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Speaker 1: that's a weapon. What do you think, Maddie? Totally And

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Speaker 1: I think he can learn as the season goes on

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Speaker 1: to be a more talented scrambler. I think we saw

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Speaker 1: against the Patriots. The Patriots forced him, right, because that's

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Speaker 1: where he loves to go. I'm getting to look from

1637
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 1: Steve him not getting an argument, him getting you guys

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01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 1: realize he's in concussion protocol. Right. I think I just

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01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:04,719
Speaker 1: said that, Yeah, he can. He can learn to be smarter.

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01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 1: He can learn to be smarter. He's got to be

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01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: smart enough to learn. That's that's the thing what you're

1642
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:11,639
Speaker 1: trying to He can learn to be smart. He can't

1643
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: learn to be smarter. You have to be smart enough

1644
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: to learn. You don't think he is true? True? I

1645
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 1: believe he will to be smarter this season. All right.

1646
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 1: I think after getting into concussion protocol, you're you have

1647
01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: to learn something from that. Yeah, absolutely, say all right, okay, Um.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the offseason moves. He talked about Josh Allen,

1649
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 1: and we talked a little bit about Dawson Knox. But

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01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 1: I think Dawson Knox is even our last get. As

1651
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:36,640
Speaker 1: Kyle Brand pointed out, he's got something to offer this

1652
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: offense that they may have to tap into here, right,

1653
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 1: but the place he's made these are big plays. He's

1654
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:45,120
Speaker 1: making plays in coverage. He has great hands. He is

1655
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:48,840
Speaker 1: averaging eighteen yards per catch, which is the most yards

1656
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 1: per catch out of any tight end in the NFL.

1657
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 1: Right now, Yeah, as a real key play guy, he's

1658
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,240
Speaker 1: he's turned into a real find, I think, and I

1659
01:17:57,280 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: don't think it's any question Brian day Ball sees it.

1660
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen's probably gonna understand it and see it.

1661
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:07,320
Speaker 1: That Dawson Knox I think has been for me the

1662
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 1: biggest surprise. I remember he had the hamstring and training camp,

1663
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 1: so we didn't get a chance to really get to

1664
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 1: see this. And this is, you know, finishing up the

1665
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:15,680
Speaker 1: first four weeks of the season. He was in the

1666
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:18,680
Speaker 1: last preseason game. But now to see him emerge and

1667
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 1: do some of the things he's done, and the angry

1668
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: run against Cincinnati shows his you know, his toughness and

1669
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:26,800
Speaker 1: you know the kind of things you'd love to see

1670
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:29,719
Speaker 1: from the guy, right. I mean, that's and it's been consistent.

1671
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:32,639
Speaker 1: This is a big, strong tight end and he Sean

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01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,799
Speaker 1: McDermott was asked about Dawson Knox and this press conference yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and coach McDermott kind of played it down. Is he's

1674
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: just a rookie. You know, he's still learning, just like

1675
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:43,759
Speaker 1: all these young players on our team. But Brian Daballs

1676
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 1: said multiple times that Dawson Knox is someone that they

1677
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: can do more with because of his IQ, right See, yeah, yeah,

1678
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:53,640
Speaker 1: you know. It's funny you mentioned it because I was

1679
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:56,599
Speaker 1: looking over the transcripts of coach McDermot and coach Dabele

1680
01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: and they were both I think asked about Dawson Knox,

1681
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 1: and I felt like that were I would have raved

1682
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:02,800
Speaker 1: about him. We love this guy, and that they both

1683
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 1: downplayed it. They don't want to. I guess send the

1684
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 1: signal didn't, right. We really like this guy. I think

1685
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 1: this guy has an important role to play in the

1686
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 1: final three quarters of the season. Every one of the

1687
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:14,360
Speaker 1: other things one of the other things I wanted to

1688
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 1: talk to you about two is well. I guess regialists

1689
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary, Harrison Phillips, Tarn Johnson and now this week

1690
01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. All those guys are out sitting on the

1691
01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:26,920
Speaker 1: sidelines with injuries. Also Tyler Croft. But you know, the

1692
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 1: depth on this team that we found out about in

1693
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 1: the first month of the season, plus with the rotation

1694
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 1: and the different personnel sets, and there's been a ton

1695
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:37,320
Speaker 1: of guys taking snaps offensively and defensively. The depth on

1696
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:41,000
Speaker 1: the team has really been something that seems to be, yeah,

1697
01:19:41,120 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: some we can depend on. The way that these players

1698
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 1: have stepped up with players being out is incredible. I mean,

1699
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:50,559
Speaker 1: Frank Gore, who's known as being a power running back

1700
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 1: maybe averaging of a few yards per carry, goes into

1701
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: averages six point four yards per carry against the Patriots.

1702
01:19:57,200 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 1: That's a great game out of him, and of course

1703
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:02,479
Speaker 1: it's to the fifteen thousand mark in that game as well.

1704
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 1: You have Siran Neil and Kevin Johnson in the secondary

1705
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:09,760
Speaker 1: playing nickel doing a great job for tarn Johnson being out.

1706
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:13,160
Speaker 1: You have Jordan Phillips and Kyle Peco playing in the

1707
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 1: interior line when Harrison Phillips unfortunately has been to having

1708
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,640
Speaker 1: He was having a great start to this season and

1709
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:21,599
Speaker 1: is now out for the season. But you see these

1710
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 1: guys stepping up and it's totally a next man up mentality,

1711
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:26,640
Speaker 1: which I think is what coach McDermott preaches in the

1712
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:28,960
Speaker 1: locker room is you know, next man up to your

1713
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 1: one eleventh And these players who are having to step

1714
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 1: up and spots are doing a great job so far,

1715
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: and it's showing just how much depth this roster has.

1716
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:40,840
Speaker 1: Talking to Maddie Glad Bill's reporter about what we've all

1717
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:43,639
Speaker 1: learned after about the Bills after the first four games, Now,

1718
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 1: what about the next four games? The next quarter of

1719
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:47,719
Speaker 1: the season. There's a bye week in the middle there, Maddie,

1720
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: but it starts with the road game at Tennessee and

1721
01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:53,200
Speaker 1: then three straight home games coming up after that. The

1722
01:20:53,240 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: Bills can make some hay over the next month, and

1723
01:20:55,240 --> 01:20:57,839
Speaker 1: I think we've all seen enough positive signs to almost

1724
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:00,320
Speaker 1: expect that over the next four weeks. What do you think, Definitely,

1725
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:03,360
Speaker 1: I think this defense is going to carry this team.

1726
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 1: Hopefully Josh Allen can get healthy and the offense can

1727
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: start to even out with the load there. I believe

1728
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: Josh Allen can do it. I think he can get

1729
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: smarter when it comes to decision making. I think this

1730
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,560
Speaker 1: defense can get even better if we can even believe that.

1731
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:20,679
Speaker 1: I mean, they played a great game against the Patriots.

1732
01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota has yet to throw an interception. He's thrown

1733
01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:28,240
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns. I would love to see an interception out

1734
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: of the defense on Sunday. That would be awesome. Tom Brady,

1735
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: there's first one of the seasons too, My guys. The

1736
01:21:35,560 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 1: thing about the next part of the season two and

1737
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: look at a loss, and people will call our show

1738
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: and say, well, why don't they playing this guy, and

1739
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 1: maybe they should bring Duke Williams up, and all of

1740
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: that is valid. I get that, but I'd also and

1741
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:48,160
Speaker 1: it's with the three and one Mark, I'd be reluctant

1742
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 1: to start playing, you know, with the roster too much,

1743
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 1: and you know people want anybody else get activated from

1744
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 1: the practice squad. Well, they may have to activate a

1745
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: quarterback this week, but I think I'd go slow with

1746
01:21:58,120 --> 01:22:01,000
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, I agree. I think we would only

1747
01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 1: see someone get activated from the practice squad if there's

1748
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: another injury, which hopefully this team continues to stay healthy

1749
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: and the guys who are out can get healthy and

1750
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:12,320
Speaker 1: start making an impact in the game. But the Duke

1751
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:16,280
Speaker 1: Williams talk, I think we have some great receivers on

1752
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: this team right now, and I think they're going to

1753
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,400
Speaker 1: start to get involved more. We haven't seen Robert Foster

1754
01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:26,599
Speaker 1: involved as much in this offense. Andre Roberts hasn't been

1755
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:29,360
Speaker 1: involved as much because he's just getting healthy now. I

1756
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:32,040
Speaker 1: think you have so many people you can use in

1757
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: this offense, and I think Brian day Ball is doing

1758
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,760
Speaker 1: a slow rollout of his playbook. Yeah, that's probably a

1759
01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:40,200
Speaker 1: good point. They haven't done everything they want to do.

1760
01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 1: They're probably trying to build on what they've done well,

1761
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 1: and they're still trying to find out what their guys

1762
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 1: do well and who can do what, and more importantly,

1763
01:22:47,960 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 1: who can do multiple things in the offense so they

1764
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: can get them out there and do different things when

1765
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 1: the same people are out there. I think we saw

1766
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 1: that right from the get go to this beginning of

1767
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:59,639
Speaker 1: this season, where in the first game against the Jets,

1768
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:03,679
Speaker 1: they ran out, you know, play after play of different

1769
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 1: personnel and then they would change the formation, they would

1770
01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 1: shift in motion, and they were trying to find out

1771
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: who they who did a lot of things well. And

1772
01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: I still think they're in that process, Yeah, definitely. I

1773
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 1: mean they rotate eleven, twelve, twenty one personnel and it's

1774
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:19,559
Speaker 1: great to see because of how many great offensive players

1775
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 1: that are on this roster this season. A lot of

1776
01:23:22,920 --> 01:23:24,880
Speaker 1: great players on defense, and we know their names, right,

1777
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 1: Jermaine Edmonds and Lorenzo Alexanders played well. Milano's played really well,

1778
01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't think doesn't get much notice

1779
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 1: and I think he's played really well for the first

1780
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:35,719
Speaker 1: quarter of the season. Is the other corner Levi Wallace.

1781
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 1: He made a pass break up last Sunday, there was

1782
01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: a huge line that I've ever seen. Seriously, that guy

1783
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:45,960
Speaker 1: can play. I guess you'd expected coming from Alabama, but undrafted,

1784
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 1: second year and he is playing on a defense is

1785
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 1: playing really well Levi Wallace. I think it's a standout.

1786
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, And I remember in camp, I'm not sure

1787
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:57,240
Speaker 1: who asked the question, but someone asked defensive cornator Leslie

1788
01:23:57,280 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 1: Frasier about that corner spot and said, is it going

1789
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:06,080
Speaker 1: to be Levi Wallace's job this year? And Leslie Fraser said,

1790
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 1: it's his job to lose right now. This is his job.

1791
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:10,639
Speaker 1: It's a it's not an open spot on the roster.

1792
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 1: Who fight for this is Kevin Johnson. It was a

1793
01:24:15,240 --> 01:24:17,760
Speaker 1: three way spot, right right, three way spot that job.

1794
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 1: But he's the guy and clearly he's one of the

1795
01:24:20,360 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: better players on the defense. Over Yeah, he's totally under

1796
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:25,720
Speaker 1: the radar. And I think some of these players on

1797
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: this roster, the Bills as a whole, not getting respect

1798
01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 1: when they deserve it. I think that kind of fuels them.

1799
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:34,920
Speaker 1: And it's it's not the worst to be under the

1800
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:37,679
Speaker 1: radar and to be an amazing player like Levi Wallace

1801
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: has shown so far this season. I was going to

1802
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: ask both of you, how good do you think this

1803
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:44,960
Speaker 1: defense is gonna get? I mean, if it stays healthy

1804
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:47,599
Speaker 1: through the season, Um, there's no reason to think it's

1805
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 1: going to get worse and it'll probably get better. Um,

1806
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 1: You're still got a couple of guys who were getting

1807
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:57,000
Speaker 1: better week by week, and Tremaine Edmonds and ed Oliver.

1808
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver's going to start to play better and better.

1809
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 1: You've got to Errol Johnson Bam Johnson, who snap played

1810
01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 1: in what thirty two percent of the defensive snaps against

1811
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:08,879
Speaker 1: the Patriots, that if you'd told me that in the preseason,

1812
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:10,880
Speaker 1: what are you kidding me? Because we didn't even know

1813
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,960
Speaker 1: who the guy was until the preseason games started, and

1814
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:15,720
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's like, oh, we got another

1815
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:17,759
Speaker 1: sack and a strip fumble, you know that kind of stuff.

1816
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:20,080
Speaker 1: He was making plays. So I think this is a

1817
01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: defense that's kind of spread its wings even a little more.

1818
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:24,920
Speaker 1: I'll ask both of you, what do you how good

1819
01:25:24,920 --> 01:25:26,439
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna get out Their second in the

1820
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: league right now, which is really good. And I think, Maddie,

1821
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:32,880
Speaker 1: they passed the biggest test so far and maybe the

1822
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 1: biggest one they face offseason by what they did against

1823
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 1: New England. The defense I'm talking about, definitely, Tom Brady

1824
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 1: had a quarter passer rating of fifty forty five point

1825
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:44,920
Speaker 1: nine after that game, one hundred and fifty passing yards.

1826
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:47,840
Speaker 1: That's something you don't see out of quarterback like Tom Brady.

1827
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 1: I was reading Brownie's article about numbers to know that

1828
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 1: came out today and right now, the Bills are first

1829
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: in the league with three and outs. They get a

1830
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:00,600
Speaker 1: team off the field thirty two point seven percent of

1831
01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:04,280
Speaker 1: the time. Right now, that's crazy. Maddie, you said tonight

1832
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:06,680
Speaker 1: you got Facebook live at where are you know? At

1833
01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 1: Dinosaur Barbecue? Dinosaur Barbecue with Levi Wall There you go, right,

1834
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:13,400
Speaker 1: what else you got? What are you working on this week?

1835
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:15,599
Speaker 1: Is the Bills get set to play Tennessee. Well, getting

1836
01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 1: ready for the game, getting ready for Bills tonight, trying

1837
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: to do as much prep work as I can film

1838
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:23,679
Speaker 1: in something with Dawson Knox a little what's the scoop?

1839
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 1: So that will go out in a couple of weeks here,

1840
01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:28,679
Speaker 1: So have you noticed you work harder than most people

1841
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:33,559
Speaker 1: in our department? Seriously, it's hard not to notice. I've noticed.

1842
01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 1: Take a stroll through the control room. By the way,

1843
01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: it's really smart enough to answer that question. Yeah, that's good, Maddie. Thanks,

1844
01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:42,800
Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you. Maddie Glad Buffalo Bills Reporting and

1845
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 1: catch her on all the social media platforms on Facebook

1846
01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: Live Tonight, Sabers Bills multi media reporter Steve and I

1847
01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:50,960
Speaker 1: coming back One Bill's Live presented by Klada Health. We're

1848
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:53,280
Speaker 1: coming to you from the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo

1849
01:26:53,400 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show. It is time

1850
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 1: for Reads Milestones, presented by Reads Jewelers, the official jeweler

1851
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. How about this Frank Gore one

1852
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:15,719
Speaker 1: hundred nine rushing yards against Patriots. He is the fourth

1853
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 1: player in NFL history with fifteen thousand or more career

1854
01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: rushing yards. We said this on the broadcast Sunday. We

1855
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:23,760
Speaker 1: talked about it. So we talk about this Gore now

1856
01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:28,799
Speaker 1: trails D three, Emmett Smith, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders. Smith's

1857
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: with eighteen thousand plus, Walter Payton sixteen thousand plus, Barry

1858
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 1: Sanders fifteen thousand plus. I mean, that's Hall of Fame territory,

1859
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:38,720
Speaker 1: clearly clear We said it yesterday in the show. All

1860
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 1: those guys go by their first names. A year ago.

1861
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: A year ago, we're talking about Guard with the Dolphins, saying,

1862
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: I don't know who's he a Hall of Famer? How

1863
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:49,519
Speaker 1: could he not be with those numbers where the absolutely is?

1864
01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:51,240
Speaker 1: And I think he'll be a first ballot Hall of

1865
01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: Famer really good, really so absolutely. I had two good

1866
01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:58,439
Speaker 1: get the bills. You have leaned on Frank Gore the

1867
01:27:58,560 --> 01:28:00,920
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, and he has responded. At age

1868
01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 1: thirty six seventeen carries in the Patriots game, he has

1869
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 1: run for two hundred and fifty three yards. Over the

1870
01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:12,200
Speaker 1: last three games. He's averaged five yards per carry starting

1871
01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:14,920
Speaker 1: with the Giants game two touchdowns in the last three games.

1872
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:17,200
Speaker 1: He had no touches in the final ten minutes of

1873
01:28:17,240 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 1: the game, and he was asked about it in the

1874
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: locker room Sunday, he said, it's cool. We believe in

1875
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:22,640
Speaker 1: our coaches. It's not about me, it's about all of us.

1876
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:24,519
Speaker 1: Exactly what you want to hear from him, Frank Gore

1877
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 1: really cool, It's great. Yeah, what you want to say, Wow,

1878
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:30,960
Speaker 1: what a find, what a signing? Yeah, you get it.

1879
01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 1: But you know, for a certain extent, you and I

1880
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:38,640
Speaker 1: were the same way. It's like Ah's he'll come in

1881
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:41,040
Speaker 1: for camp and they'll see, you know what, he ain't

1882
01:28:41,080 --> 01:28:42,880
Speaker 1: gonna do anything, you know what I mean, all the

1883
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:45,200
Speaker 1: things you heard about Frank Gore's thirty six years old.

1884
01:28:45,280 --> 01:28:49,000
Speaker 1: I mean, but you know here he is playing well

1885
01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 1: and still playing on him And I said it during

1886
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: the preseason. I watched him last year in Miami, and

1887
01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:01,120
Speaker 1: even as the season progressed, they started more and more

1888
01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 1: to lean on the guy. Adam Gates brought him in

1889
01:29:04,320 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 1: for the exact same reason that Sean McDermot brought him

1890
01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:09,720
Speaker 1: into the Bills this year. The guy's a phenomenal locker

1891
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:13,519
Speaker 1: room guy, the consummate professional, the guy who's always ready

1892
01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:17,160
Speaker 1: to go, always prepared, and always us first, not me first.

1893
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:21,040
Speaker 1: And that goes a long way still in this league

1894
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:23,720
Speaker 1: for a guy who you know, I mean a home

1895
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:25,599
Speaker 1: run hitter. I don't know that he ever was, even

1896
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:29,000
Speaker 1: in his eight years in San Francisco. But I'm telling

1897
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:32,479
Speaker 1: you what, the guy's still productive. That's the bottom line.

1898
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 1: Forget about being this lightning bolt or a home run hitter.

1899
01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 1: The guy is five yards of carry through the first

1900
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:42,639
Speaker 1: quarter of the season, and he's helped him a lot.

1901
01:29:43,520 --> 01:29:45,919
Speaker 1: That's all you can say. Man, the guy's been important.

1902
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: They needed him. They have needed him nuts for sure.

1903
01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 1: What have you learned about the Bills after the first

1904
01:29:50,040 --> 01:29:52,720
Speaker 1: four games. That's the topic we're discussing today. Here is

1905
01:29:52,840 --> 01:29:55,320
Speaker 1: Ron in Rochester. Thanks for reading, Royn, you're on the

1906
01:29:55,360 --> 01:29:58,559
Speaker 1: air with this. Hey, guys, I was going to talk

1907
01:29:58,560 --> 01:30:00,559
Speaker 1: a little bit about the punt to that got blocked.

1908
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 1: Just one quick thing. I thought the snap was a

1909
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:07,679
Speaker 1: little low and that could have had some infrot. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah.

1910
01:30:07,800 --> 01:30:13,800
Speaker 1: The point is about the illegal procedures having a call

1911
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:19,439
Speaker 1: time out because there's not the clock's running down. They're

1912
01:30:19,439 --> 01:30:23,680
Speaker 1: always something going on and wondering it's the playbook too

1913
01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:29,679
Speaker 1: much for the special teams. No, no, you're talking about offense.

1914
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:32,839
Speaker 1: I think I don't know. I guess it's worth asking.

1915
01:30:33,320 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 1: You mean too detailed too complex as that they get

1916
01:30:36,040 --> 01:30:39,920
Speaker 1: called for illegal procedure that had I gotta tell you

1917
01:30:40,200 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 1: from my position, run the clock is ticking down. They

1918
01:30:43,160 --> 01:30:46,320
Speaker 1: took a penalty one time. That penalty put them out

1919
01:30:46,360 --> 01:30:49,720
Speaker 1: of position to make us a field goal. I think, yeah,

1920
01:30:49,960 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 1: remember right, Yeah, I don't know if it's too I mean,

1921
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'd like to see a played out a

1922
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,880
Speaker 1: little bit. It doesn't look that way when they're productive offensively. Um.

1923
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:00,600
Speaker 1: You know, there's a certain if you can speak to

1924
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:02,840
Speaker 1: this certain about a mental discipline that needs to be

1925
01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:06,639
Speaker 1: at play, regardless of how complicated the playbook might appear.

1926
01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 1: To the complicated. A complicated playbook has nothing to do

1927
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:13,080
Speaker 1: with jumping off sides when the snap count. On the

1928
01:31:13,160 --> 01:31:17,639
Speaker 1: snap count, I mean, that's two different things. You can say, Well,

1929
01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 1: the guy wasn't sure about what he was doing. He's

1930
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:21,200
Speaker 1: thinking about something else that you know that's on the guy.

1931
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: Um No, I don't think that. No. I do not

1932
01:31:25,280 --> 01:31:28,520
Speaker 1: think the playbook is the reason they're getting illegal procedures

1933
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,439
Speaker 1: or taking penalties delay a game penalties. I think that's

1934
01:31:31,760 --> 01:31:34,880
Speaker 1: a different problem, not the size of the playbook, but

1935
01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:39,000
Speaker 1: getting the thing called quicker getting there, getting the guys

1936
01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:41,080
Speaker 1: in the headsets who have a voice to get that

1937
01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:43,960
Speaker 1: voice on and going, and the people on the field

1938
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:46,720
Speaker 1: and the play called and having Josh get it up

1939
01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 1: there and line up quicker. And that's not the size

1940
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 1: of the playbooks, and doesn't even have as much to

1941
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: do with the verbiage of the playbook, even though that

1942
01:31:55,439 --> 01:31:57,439
Speaker 1: sometimes they can get a little wordy these play calls.

1943
01:31:57,720 --> 01:32:00,600
Speaker 1: It has to do with just getting started earlier in

1944
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 1: the down clock and being ahead of the play once

1945
01:32:03,120 --> 01:32:05,679
Speaker 1: more like like, for instance, if we gain one yard,

1946
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:09,200
Speaker 1: think about this. If we're gonna gain three or more yards,

1947
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:11,080
Speaker 1: think about this, If we're gonna get the first down,

1948
01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:13,120
Speaker 1: think about this. You gotta be out ahead of the

1949
01:32:13,160 --> 01:32:15,839
Speaker 1: play before it happens. And then when the play develops

1950
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:17,640
Speaker 1: and you get that number of yards, you go to

1951
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:21,880
Speaker 1: that situation and you start in on those personnel groups

1952
01:32:21,880 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 1: and you get them on the field and you get

1953
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:25,840
Speaker 1: ahead of the play call. It has nothing to do

1954
01:32:25,920 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 1: with the size of the playbook or the complicated nature

1955
01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: of the offense. It has to do with getting out

1956
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 1: ahead of it earlier in the down clock. Hey and

1957
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:36,839
Speaker 1: Andy Bnoid coming up on the show from the MMQB

1958
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: dot SI dot Com. He's got some thoughts that he

1959
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:42,120
Speaker 1: has been very vocal about regarding the Buffalo defense, and

1960
01:32:42,240 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 1: we'll talk to him about that. Come on back for that.

1961
01:32:44,360 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: We got an hour to go, just one hour. The

1962
01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:49,160
Speaker 1: show is flying by One Bill's Life, presented by Kalidah

1963
01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 1: Health Life from the Seneca Studio, Seneca Resorts in Casino.

1964
01:32:52,600 --> 01:33:07,760
Speaker 1: Nothing comes close. Hills Radio Network. Sports Day update from

1965
01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:10,599
Speaker 1: One Bills Drive. The Bills returned to practice tomorrow. Player's

1966
01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:12,759
Speaker 1: day off today, Game Plan today today as the Bills

1967
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:15,439
Speaker 1: get get set to play the Tennessee Titans and may

1968
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:17,639
Speaker 1: have to go with Matt Barkley at quarterback. Sean McDermot

1969
01:33:17,720 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 1: confirming yesterday that Josh Allen is in concussion protocol Dean

1970
01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 1: Marlow and concussion protocol as well a backup safety, but

1971
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley could be the starting quarterback this weekend in Nashville,

1972
01:33:27,439 --> 01:33:29,160
Speaker 1: and the Bills may have to add another quarterback to

1973
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:32,000
Speaker 1: the roster They've got. Gave Us Webb on their practice

1974
01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:34,680
Speaker 1: quad who could be elevated if necessary. As far as

1975
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:37,799
Speaker 1: the running back Devin Singletary, yesterday, McDermott gave the indication

1976
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:40,599
Speaker 1: that he was close to returning this past Sunday against

1977
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:42,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots, but did not down to the wire, he said,

1978
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:45,479
Speaker 1: so we'll see if Devin Singletary returns. He's missed the

1979
01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:48,600
Speaker 1: last two games with his hamstring. Poll Denver Brocco is

1980
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:51,719
Speaker 1: going to go without Bradley Chubby is a partially torn

1981
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 1: ac allen his left knee and will miss the rest

1982
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:55,960
Speaker 1: of the season. He was the fifth overall pick in

1983
01:33:56,040 --> 01:33:59,439
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and vic Henjio said he is out. Suffered

1984
01:33:59,479 --> 01:34:02,360
Speaker 1: the an ending injury in the Brocco's loss to the

1985
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:05,560
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars with fourteen minutes left to play. Bears have

1986
01:34:05,640 --> 01:34:08,679
Speaker 1: an interesting case with linebacker Roquan Smith's former first rounder.

1987
01:34:08,880 --> 01:34:11,320
Speaker 1: He is out indefinitely, the team giving him time to

1988
01:34:11,400 --> 01:34:14,160
Speaker 1: deal with what is called a personal issue. The report

1989
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:16,200
Speaker 1: for me ISBN says Smith had not been acting like

1990
01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:19,960
Speaker 1: himself around team facilities for the last two weeks. That Naggie,

1991
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:23,040
Speaker 1: Bears coach, just said repeatedly that Smith's situation is a

1992
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:26,080
Speaker 1: personal issue. Did not go into greater detail. He was

1993
01:34:26,160 --> 01:34:28,080
Speaker 1: asked twelve times about him yesterday and they had not

1994
01:34:28,240 --> 01:34:30,720
Speaker 1: much to say. Buffalo Sabers, getting set to open up

1995
01:34:30,720 --> 01:34:33,960
Speaker 1: a new season, Their fiftieth NHL season. They're practicing today.

1996
01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:36,519
Speaker 1: First game of the year is Thursday in Pittsburgh. They

1997
01:34:36,640 --> 01:34:38,880
Speaker 1: take on the Penguins Thursday night at seven o'clock, Game

1998
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:40,759
Speaker 1: two of the season. Coming back home here to Buffalo

1999
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:46,000
Speaker 1: Keybank Center, New Jersey Devils and the Sabers on Saturday.

2000
01:34:46,400 --> 01:34:49,600
Speaker 1: This week, Sabers assistant coach Dan Gronado has been hospitalized

2001
01:34:49,640 --> 01:34:52,160
Speaker 1: with severe pneumonia. He'll be taking a medical leave of

2002
01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:55,000
Speaker 1: absence from the team and amirst coach Chris Taylor will

2003
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:58,240
Speaker 1: assist the Sabers staff in the interim and baseball playoffs

2004
01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:01,400
Speaker 1: start tonight in Washington Milwaukee in the Washington Nationals in

2005
01:35:01,479 --> 01:35:04,000
Speaker 1: the NL Wildcard Game. The winner gets to go against

2006
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:06,360
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the best of five National League Division Series.

2007
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:09,160
Speaker 1: You will be locked onto the TV for the playoffs,

2008
01:35:09,160 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: won't you, Steve? Yes? I will. No, that's not true.

2009
01:35:12,360 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 1: There's a baseball playoffs Baseball playoffs? Is it playoffs? Or

2010
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:17,439
Speaker 1: is just like one game? This is a one game

2011
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:20,400
Speaker 1: tonight wild card game. Why is the wildcard thing only

2012
01:35:20,479 --> 01:35:22,120
Speaker 1: one game and not a series like every other basic

2013
01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:23,920
Speaker 1: because they don't want to play when the snow is flying.

2014
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:26,479
Speaker 1: I think why is it what not a serious Yeah,

2015
01:35:26,680 --> 01:35:29,600
Speaker 1: because you gotta get these games in. Why do they

2016
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 1: have a wild card? I don't know. I was not

2017
01:35:30,840 --> 01:35:32,360
Speaker 1: a favor of that, but it's ten years so they

2018
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:34,320
Speaker 1: got one hundred and sixty two games, I mean nothing,

2019
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:39,519
Speaker 1: so they can squeeze in. Gonna talk about the NFL.

2020
01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:41,800
Speaker 1: Steve Moore cometable the NFL, So are we, and our

2021
01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:43,280
Speaker 1: guest is pretty good at it. Two. He is a

2022
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:47,680
Speaker 1: columnist for MMQB Sports, Illustrated NFL writer and analysts. Good

2023
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:49,960
Speaker 1: friend of the show. Happy to have Andy Benoit on

2024
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:52,680
Speaker 1: the show with us here, Andy, good to talk to you.

2025
01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:54,800
Speaker 1: How you doing out there out West. I know you're

2026
01:35:54,800 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 1: writing well, everything else going well for you? Yeah, I

2027
01:35:57,520 --> 01:35:59,840
Speaker 1: appreciate that I'm doing well. And Steve, I kind of

2028
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:01,439
Speaker 1: happen to agree with you a little bit on that

2029
01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:08,120
Speaker 1: about about the baseball playoffs. Yes, yes, I don't want to.

2030
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:10,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw him to seem the same

2031
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:13,680
Speaker 1: boat as mister baseball hater Steve Tasker. I began to

2032
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:18,400
Speaker 1: wonder if Steve grew up in Americas. Seriously, I didn't know. Well,

2033
01:36:18,520 --> 01:36:20,720
Speaker 1: I know, and I am not a baseball expert at all,

2034
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:23,200
Speaker 1: but I'll put it this, Let's let's keep it positive.

2035
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:26,360
Speaker 1: One of the things I love most about the NFL

2036
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:32,200
Speaker 1: is the significance of every regular season game. I got you, Well,

2037
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:34,720
Speaker 1: let me just follow up. You've seen the speculation that

2038
01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:37,160
Speaker 1: they're going to expand the playoffs, perhaps in the next CBA.

2039
01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:40,519
Speaker 1: Are you good with that? Andy? Um? Well, I don't know.

2040
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:43,639
Speaker 1: If I don't love the idea of expanding the playoffs,

2041
01:36:43,640 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 1: I do think I understand reducing the preseason if they

2042
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:49,519
Speaker 1: do that. What I'd love to see them do, guys

2043
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:52,439
Speaker 1: actually writing about this, it's it's it's coming out on

2044
01:36:52,520 --> 01:36:55,479
Speaker 1: a Bill's article that I'm publishing later today or tomorrow,

2045
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:58,760
Speaker 1: is I'd love to see them at a seven team

2046
01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:01,479
Speaker 1: game for each team and then add a second bye week,

2047
01:37:01,479 --> 01:37:03,960
Speaker 1: because I think if you do that second by the

2048
01:37:04,120 --> 01:37:07,920
Speaker 1: league can sell that and sell it honestly as a

2049
01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:11,840
Speaker 1: measure of still protecting players safety and then those rules

2050
01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:15,439
Speaker 1: and those endeavors by adding a seventeen game, but we're

2051
01:37:15,479 --> 01:37:17,600
Speaker 1: off setting it with a second bye, and then that

2052
01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:20,519
Speaker 1: seventeen game can be an international game for everybody, and

2053
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:23,200
Speaker 1: the revenue that they would get from growing the game more,

2054
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:26,960
Speaker 1: accelerating the growth of the game internationally, I would think

2055
01:37:27,040 --> 01:37:29,560
Speaker 1: I'm not an economic economist, but I would think that

2056
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:33,080
Speaker 1: would more than double what you'd get from a week

2057
01:37:33,200 --> 01:37:35,439
Speaker 1: eighteen game or an eighteenth game for each team. What

2058
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:39,160
Speaker 1: do you think the preseason should look like? Two games,

2059
01:37:39,240 --> 01:37:41,880
Speaker 1: get in, get out, two games, everybody plays there starts

2060
01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:43,760
Speaker 1: probably a half. If that's what you do. You don't

2061
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:47,080
Speaker 1: have to make that mandatory, of course. But the other thing, guys,

2062
01:37:47,840 --> 01:37:49,960
Speaker 1: and this gets in. I know you're not asking about this,

2063
01:37:50,080 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 1: but if they do expand the postseason, then the value

2064
01:37:54,080 --> 01:37:56,840
Speaker 1: of a playoff spot becomes a little bit diminished. And

2065
01:37:56,920 --> 01:37:59,800
Speaker 1: so I think in order to offset that, one thing

2066
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:01,680
Speaker 1: they could do to kind of fix some of the

2067
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:06,240
Speaker 1: issues that the overtime coin toss is automatically give first

2068
01:38:06,280 --> 01:38:09,360
Speaker 1: possession to a home team in a playoff game, because

2069
01:38:09,479 --> 01:38:12,360
Speaker 1: then that makes the seating in the playoffs that much

2070
01:38:12,439 --> 01:38:16,040
Speaker 1: more important, and that offset some of the diminishment that

2071
01:38:16,120 --> 01:38:18,600
Speaker 1: you get by adding a playoff game. Interesting, I never

2072
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:21,120
Speaker 1: thought of that. Andy Venoid from Sports Illustrated and the

2073
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:24,240
Speaker 1: MMQB joins us. You mentioned you're writing a story going

2074
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:26,080
Speaker 1: up soon about the Buffalo Bills. We could tell we

2075
01:38:26,160 --> 01:38:29,080
Speaker 1: saw all your tweets and essentially you liked what you

2076
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:31,439
Speaker 1: saw from the Buffalo defenses past Sunday there was a

2077
01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:34,560
Speaker 1: lot to like. Hunt. I've liked what I've seen the

2078
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:36,920
Speaker 1: last four Sundays on the Buffalo defense. They have been

2079
01:38:37,040 --> 01:38:39,600
Speaker 1: tremendous to watch on film. I think they look like

2080
01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: the best coach defense in the NFL so far. What

2081
01:38:42,439 --> 01:38:45,559
Speaker 1: do you see? Why do you say that, Well, they

2082
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:50,439
Speaker 1: play fast across the board, and they play fundamentally sound football.

2083
01:38:50,439 --> 01:38:53,760
Speaker 1: And those two things are symptomatic of players who are

2084
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:56,240
Speaker 1: very comfortable in the scheme. And I think it's a

2085
01:38:56,360 --> 01:39:01,080
Speaker 1: relatively simple scheme from the defenses perspective. Is I don't

2086
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:04,000
Speaker 1: think it looks so simple from the offensive perspective because

2087
01:39:04,040 --> 01:39:05,800
Speaker 1: what the Bills do, there's a couple things that stand

2088
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:09,080
Speaker 1: out with them. Sean McDermott is great at understanding task

2089
01:39:09,160 --> 01:39:11,719
Speaker 1: protection rules, and they don't blitz a lot in Buffalo.

2090
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:13,920
Speaker 1: They didn't blitz a lot in Carolina when McDermott was

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Speaker 1: running that defense. But when they do blitz, it is

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01:39:17,120 --> 01:39:21,200
Speaker 1: highly efficient and highly effective. So they're blitz success rate.

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Speaker 1: It's without an official stat by any means, but just

2094
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:26,640
Speaker 1: watching the film, when they blitz far more often than

2095
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:28,880
Speaker 1: not they get some kind of benefit out of that.

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01:39:29,439 --> 01:39:32,360
Speaker 1: So I think they're very good in those designs, lining

2097
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:34,960
Speaker 1: up in different fronts to put you in an uncomfortable spot,

2098
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:38,080
Speaker 1: and then out of those different defensive fronts they can

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01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:40,400
Speaker 1: get to a lot of different coverages. And they're one

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01:39:40,400 --> 01:39:44,320
Speaker 1: of the fewer teams that will drop safeties back into coverage.

2101
01:39:44,400 --> 01:39:47,599
Speaker 1: Most teams that disguis coverage, they're just rotating safeties down

2102
01:39:47,720 --> 01:39:50,840
Speaker 1: a buzz defender. It's almost not even a disguise at all.

2103
01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:54,600
Speaker 1: It's just regular rotation. The Bills are very interchangeable with

2104
01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:57,439
Speaker 1: how they use their safeties. Against New England, we saw

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01:39:57,520 --> 01:39:59,880
Speaker 1: they can go into significant snaps of man to man

2106
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:03,360
Speaker 1: and now they're fast across the board. They're comfortable schematically,

2107
01:40:03,439 --> 01:40:06,320
Speaker 1: and it's a little bit of a nuanced scheme what

2108
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:10,840
Speaker 1: defender jumps out at you on film. Tremaine Edmonds would

2109
01:40:10,840 --> 01:40:12,240
Speaker 1: be the first one. I think he can be a

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01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:16,400
Speaker 1: top five linebacker real soon. He looked lost early in

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01:40:16,520 --> 01:40:18,760
Speaker 1: his rookie season. He probably was lost. He's really young.

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01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 1: You get rushed into the lineup, and he improved a

2113
01:40:21,640 --> 01:40:24,960
Speaker 1: lot last year. Each week he looked smarter and more

2114
01:40:25,040 --> 01:40:27,920
Speaker 1: comfortable and this year, not only does he look smarter

2115
01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:30,800
Speaker 1: and more comfortable, but there's an assertiveness to him. He's

2116
01:40:30,800 --> 01:40:34,160
Speaker 1: almost dictating parts of the game now. His coverage awareness

2117
01:40:34,200 --> 01:40:37,200
Speaker 1: has really improved. He is as fast as just about

2118
01:40:37,240 --> 01:40:39,720
Speaker 1: any linebacker in the league. You see that against the run,

2119
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Speaker 1: and I think at times you see it in past

2120
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Speaker 1: defense man and zone concepts. I've been really impressed with him,

2121
01:40:46,240 --> 01:40:48,760
Speaker 1: and Matt Mlano is probably the most underrated linebacker in

2122
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:51,639
Speaker 1: the league. So those two together, that's to me, that's

2123
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:55,360
Speaker 1: the Jalen Smith Vanderesh tandem of the AFC. Huh Andy Benoid,

2124
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:57,960
Speaker 1: our guest from MMQB, does a lot of video breakdown

2125
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 1: and talking about what are you seeing from the Buffalo defense.

2126
01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:01,960
Speaker 1: I want to kind of dive in a little deeper

2127
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:04,720
Speaker 1: into both those guys you just mentioned. I agree what

2128
01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:06,719
Speaker 1: you're saying. In Tremenea Edmands, you can see the speed,

2129
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:09,000
Speaker 1: you can see the athleticism. And as I watched the

2130
01:41:09,040 --> 01:41:11,600
Speaker 1: Patriots game over however, Andy, I thought, and if I

2131
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:14,200
Speaker 1: were going against the Bills, I would force Tremine Edmonds

2132
01:41:14,240 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 1: to cover backs coming out of the backfield tight ends.

2133
01:41:16,400 --> 01:41:18,040
Speaker 1: I would try to find a way to get somebody

2134
01:41:18,120 --> 01:41:20,640
Speaker 1: isolated up against him. He's capable, but I think there

2135
01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:23,519
Speaker 1: might be advantages there for a Buffalo opponent. Thoughts on that.

2136
01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:26,880
Speaker 1: I think that's fair because you still have to go

2137
01:41:26,960 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 1: after somebody in those corners are playing well and both

2138
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:31,760
Speaker 1: those safeties can cover. So I probably would agree with

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01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:34,120
Speaker 1: you where I've liked and to be it's interesting the

2140
01:41:34,160 --> 01:41:38,400
Speaker 1: way you phrase that, Murph, because when in my mind's eye,

2141
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:41,280
Speaker 1: when I see Edmonds improvements in coverage, I view him

2142
01:41:41,360 --> 01:41:44,200
Speaker 1: running the middle hole in the Tampa two or playing

2143
01:41:44,240 --> 01:41:47,320
Speaker 1: the flats, operating in space where he's got some room

2144
01:41:47,400 --> 01:41:50,439
Speaker 1: to move what you described as more of operating and

2145
01:41:50,520 --> 01:41:53,720
Speaker 1: confined areas and back out of the backfield. Maybe a

2146
01:41:53,800 --> 01:41:56,280
Speaker 1: tight end. Depends on the route design, of course, but

2147
01:41:56,920 --> 01:41:59,559
Speaker 1: that could be an interesting way to challenge him. Let's

2148
01:41:59,560 --> 01:42:03,000
Speaker 1: see how he moves and changes directions and not only

2149
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:04,560
Speaker 1: does that, but how can he do it when he

2150
01:42:04,640 --> 01:42:06,960
Speaker 1: has to think as well, Let's let's let's put some

2151
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:10,080
Speaker 1: motion into the play. I still understand. I think that'd

2152
01:42:10,120 --> 01:42:12,040
Speaker 1: be a good way to go after him, and I

2153
01:42:12,160 --> 01:42:14,040
Speaker 1: bet he'd be a little bit up and down with that,

2154
01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:16,720
Speaker 1: and I would guarantee you though he'd be a lot

2155
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:18,599
Speaker 1: better now than he would have been at this point

2156
01:42:18,680 --> 01:42:21,160
Speaker 1: a year ago. He has really improved. Who has been

2157
01:42:21,200 --> 01:42:26,000
Speaker 1: the Bill's best defensive lineman. That's a good question, you know. Honestly,

2158
01:42:26,200 --> 01:42:28,680
Speaker 1: it's and I think this might surprise people. I think

2159
01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:32,160
Speaker 1: it's Jordan's Phillips, the backup defensive tackle, and he's been

2160
01:42:32,240 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 1: that way. I don't know. I don't know anything about

2161
01:42:34,280 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 1: him personally, but guys, like if it's bizarre, because he's

2162
01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:40,519
Speaker 1: been that way for his whole career. He's been a

2163
01:42:40,640 --> 01:42:43,640
Speaker 1: flash player every single week that he plays. He was

2164
01:42:43,720 --> 01:42:45,599
Speaker 1: like that in Miami, has been like that in Buffalo,

2165
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:49,639
Speaker 1: and yet he hasn't really stuck on teams quite fully

2166
01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:51,840
Speaker 1: in the length of his career. And he's mostly been

2167
01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:55,479
Speaker 1: a backup that plays rotational snaps. And I don't understand

2168
01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:57,920
Speaker 1: why that is. I'm not saying, like when they try

2169
01:42:57,960 --> 01:43:00,960
Speaker 1: to give him fifty snap, the game's rotation across the

2170
01:43:01,080 --> 01:43:02,880
Speaker 1: board there. That's how they play on their D line.

2171
01:43:03,400 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 1: But Jordan Phillips, to me, is one of the more

2172
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:08,880
Speaker 1: undervalued players in the NFL, and he has been for

2173
01:43:08,960 --> 01:43:11,720
Speaker 1: a long time. And I think, guys, honestly, I think

2174
01:43:11,760 --> 01:43:13,599
Speaker 1: it's not even close right now, or at least it's

2175
01:43:13,680 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: very apparent. Let's put it that way. It's very clear

2176
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:19,439
Speaker 1: to me that he's been their most dynamic defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: this year. How good could this defense be? I mean,

2178
01:43:21,960 --> 01:43:24,439
Speaker 1: you've talked and said that they may be the best

2179
01:43:24,520 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 1: coach or it appears that they're one of the best

2180
01:43:26,080 --> 01:43:28,519
Speaker 1: coach units in the league. They've got a lot of continuity,

2181
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:31,200
Speaker 1: it seems they've got some good depth. How far could

2182
01:43:31,240 --> 01:43:35,479
Speaker 1: this defense carry an offense that they're dealing with for

2183
01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:39,200
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. If what we're seeing right now is

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01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 1: true and to be believed and can be maintained, and

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01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:45,320
Speaker 1: I don't know why it wouldn't be, then I think

2186
01:43:45,360 --> 01:43:47,519
Speaker 1: they could probably muster at ten and six type of

2187
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:51,639
Speaker 1: season with these guys. Their offense has some considerable issues

2188
01:43:51,720 --> 01:43:54,840
Speaker 1: to overcome, and it starts at the quarterback position. The

2189
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:57,000
Speaker 1: one thing I do worry about with this defense. I've

2190
01:43:57,040 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 1: voiced it in the offseason before, and they've done a

2191
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:01,640
Speaker 1: great job. They've actually kind of off step this by

2192
01:44:01,720 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 1: putting guys in different positions at different times, but they

2193
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:08,679
Speaker 1: really don't have a true natural, dominant edge bending pass

2194
01:44:08,800 --> 01:44:12,160
Speaker 1: rusher there. Jerry Hughes can be close, especially if he

2195
01:44:12,280 --> 01:44:15,080
Speaker 1: gets into his bowl rush, but he's the only thing

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01:44:15,120 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 1: that's really close. They don't have any true natural edge

2197
01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 1: rushers there, which I'm sure as part of the reason

2198
01:44:20,479 --> 01:44:23,559
Speaker 1: they've been scheming with different fronts and getting guys inside.

2199
01:44:23,640 --> 01:44:26,479
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes rushed inside of times against New England. You

2200
01:44:26,600 --> 01:44:28,599
Speaker 1: have to scheme your way out of that. Sometimes, as

2201
01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:31,080
Speaker 1: good as they've been, it's reflected really in the numbers

2202
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:34,439
Speaker 1: and either twenty fifth in sack percentage, which is you

2203
01:44:34,479 --> 01:44:36,200
Speaker 1: know they're getting by, but you'd like to see that

2204
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:38,240
Speaker 1: chick up a little bit, wouldn't use. The season goes

2205
01:44:38,240 --> 01:44:41,559
Speaker 1: along absolutely. One thing to keep in mind too, though,

2206
01:44:42,240 --> 01:44:44,799
Speaker 1: is your pass rush can be reflected in your opponent

2207
01:44:44,920 --> 01:44:48,240
Speaker 1: quarterback rating or the yard for tant or turnovers as well.

2208
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:51,200
Speaker 1: And you guys know that you guys are smart football guys,

2209
01:44:51,520 --> 01:44:54,400
Speaker 1: but it's always good to remind ourselves because it's easy

2210
01:44:54,439 --> 01:44:56,599
Speaker 1: to look at the sacks and think that's the pass rushers.

2211
01:44:56,640 --> 01:44:58,639
Speaker 1: A lot more that goes into impact in the passer

2212
01:44:58,720 --> 01:45:02,360
Speaker 1: than sacks. But I think that statue said doesn't surprise

2213
01:45:02,479 --> 01:45:06,439
Speaker 1: me either. Anybody surprising jump out about the Bill's secondary

2214
01:45:06,520 --> 01:45:09,840
Speaker 1: has been highly touted the safety's poorer, and Jordan poor

2215
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 1: Yar and Micah Hyde obviously playing well, and Tredavious White

2216
01:45:14,000 --> 01:45:15,920
Speaker 1: on the one side, I think the surprise is obviously

2217
01:45:16,320 --> 01:45:18,680
Speaker 1: early going has been Levi Wallace, as any of those

2218
01:45:18,720 --> 01:45:21,200
Speaker 1: guys been surprising in their play either up or down.

2219
01:45:22,760 --> 01:45:24,720
Speaker 1: Wallace has been better than I thought he'd I thought

2220
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:27,280
Speaker 1: he'd looked pretty good at times in the past in

2221
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:32,040
Speaker 1: reefing years, but he's been steady and really outstanding for

2222
01:45:32,240 --> 01:45:35,160
Speaker 1: sustained stretches of time and a variety of different coverages.

2223
01:45:35,240 --> 01:45:38,360
Speaker 1: He's doing it out of matchup zone, out of Manda Man,

2224
01:45:38,479 --> 01:45:40,799
Speaker 1: out of regular zone, and different parts of the field.

2225
01:45:41,160 --> 01:45:43,799
Speaker 1: You know, you guys a secondary coach there, John Butler,

2226
01:45:43,880 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 1: He's a pretty good one. He's very to the point

2227
01:45:46,760 --> 01:45:49,479
Speaker 1: he understands a lot of details about coverages. He did

2228
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:51,880
Speaker 1: a lot of different things in Houston as one of

2229
01:45:51,920 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 1: the one of the overseers of their coverage there, and

2230
01:45:55,080 --> 01:45:57,479
Speaker 1: I know since he's a ride the Bill secondary has

2231
01:45:57,520 --> 01:46:00,080
Speaker 1: been a lot better than they appear on paper. That

2232
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:04,599
Speaker 1: they've overachieved, so to speak. And honestly, Houston Secondary since

2233
01:46:04,680 --> 01:46:07,600
Speaker 1: Butler left, it hasn't been the same there either. With

2234
01:46:07,800 --> 01:46:11,479
Speaker 1: Andy Bnoit. He is columnists for Mmqbans writes for Sports Illustrated,

2235
01:46:11,680 --> 01:46:14,599
Speaker 1: NFL writer and analyst does a ton of film breakdown.

2236
01:46:14,720 --> 01:46:16,880
Speaker 1: He said, you're writing about the Bills, Andy, and will

2237
01:46:16,880 --> 01:46:19,040
Speaker 1: you talk about Josh Allen in this in this story

2238
01:46:19,080 --> 01:46:22,800
Speaker 1: you're writing, yeah, I will. It will be mostly the

2239
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:26,320
Speaker 1: stuff we've said defensively and then the big, the big yeah.

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01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:29,120
Speaker 1: But here's where Josh Allen stands. It's a yeah. But

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01:46:29,240 --> 01:46:31,720
Speaker 1: it's been a look, let's be honest, it's been a yeah.

2242
01:46:31,800 --> 01:46:33,720
Speaker 1: But for you since Josh came to the Bills more

2243
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:36,519
Speaker 1: than a year ago, right, it has. I thought he

2244
01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:38,920
Speaker 1: got better down the stretch last year. I was really

2245
01:46:39,080 --> 01:46:42,160
Speaker 1: encouraged by some of the improvement he showed late in

2246
01:46:42,200 --> 01:46:45,679
Speaker 1: the season. It wasn't quite Tremaine Edmund's level of rookie

2247
01:46:45,800 --> 01:46:50,519
Speaker 1: year growth, but there was a noticeable improvement, honestly, guys.

2248
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:52,160
Speaker 1: And it's early, and you want to give everyone the

2249
01:46:52,200 --> 01:46:54,280
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt. I mean, it's very early. He's

2250
01:46:54,280 --> 01:46:57,160
Speaker 1: a long way to go in his development. But if anything,

2251
01:46:57,200 --> 01:46:59,280
Speaker 1: I think he's regressed back to what he looked like

2252
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:02,240
Speaker 1: early as a rookie. Last year. I had not been

2253
01:47:02,360 --> 01:47:04,760
Speaker 1: very impressed with the way he's seeing things right now. Yeah,

2254
01:47:04,800 --> 01:47:06,800
Speaker 1: how much do you attribute that to them? How did

2255
01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 1: you take the Patriots game out of it? What do

2256
01:47:09,160 --> 01:47:10,840
Speaker 1: you think about him in the first three weeks of

2257
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:14,240
Speaker 1: the season against the Jets, the Giants, and the Bengals

2258
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:18,759
Speaker 1: Jet I thought he looked completely lost. Against the Giants,

2259
01:47:18,840 --> 01:47:20,840
Speaker 1: I thought he was a little bit inconsistent. There were

2260
01:47:20,880 --> 01:47:23,920
Speaker 1: a few plays that were designed their plays with They

2261
01:47:23,960 --> 01:47:26,920
Speaker 1: weren't quite one read plays, but it was there. They

2262
01:47:26,960 --> 01:47:29,120
Speaker 1: were plays you drew up to get a specific coverage

2263
01:47:29,160 --> 01:47:30,439
Speaker 1: and you're going to attack it, and it was in

2264
01:47:30,520 --> 01:47:33,240
Speaker 1: the scripted play, so you know they practiced them, and

2265
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:37,559
Speaker 1: the execution wasn't there. The awareness wasn't quite there. The Bengals,

2266
01:47:37,640 --> 01:47:39,519
Speaker 1: he played well. There were some interesting snaps in that

2267
01:47:39,640 --> 01:47:42,800
Speaker 1: Bengals game, because there were times I tweeted one of

2268
01:47:42,840 --> 01:47:45,240
Speaker 1: these plays. There was a pass he hadn't I don't

2269
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,559
Speaker 1: remember who caught it, but it was an inbreaking route

2270
01:47:47,920 --> 01:47:50,559
Speaker 1: over the middle of the field, and Alan clearly rented

2271
01:47:50,640 --> 01:47:53,240
Speaker 1: his Cover two and it was cover three, and it

2272
01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:56,360
Speaker 1: could have easily been intercepted because the safety's rotating down

2273
01:47:56,520 --> 01:47:59,400
Speaker 1: right to where the inbreaker route is running and the

2274
01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:02,160
Speaker 1: ball got there was completed anyways, because Alan has such

2275
01:48:02,240 --> 01:48:05,160
Speaker 1: unbelievable arms straight I thought that's a really good snapshot

2276
01:48:05,520 --> 01:48:07,639
Speaker 1: of where he is right now. It's a bad read

2277
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:11,080
Speaker 1: overcome by a strong arm throw, and you can get

2278
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:13,800
Speaker 1: away with that sometimes, but you're not going to make

2279
01:48:13,800 --> 01:48:15,679
Speaker 1: a living on that in the NFL. And what there's

2280
01:48:15,720 --> 01:48:18,639
Speaker 1: no stat or video that will ever capture videocame captured.

2281
01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:22,000
Speaker 1: I guess stats will never is throws that should be

2282
01:48:22,160 --> 01:48:24,800
Speaker 1: made that are not made, throws that are left on

2283
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:28,080
Speaker 1: the field. And you see that every week with Alan

2284
01:48:28,160 --> 01:48:30,719
Speaker 1: right now, and let me put the Patriots Josh against

2285
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:33,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots back into it for a moment. I just

2286
01:48:33,479 --> 01:48:36,000
Speaker 1: have a hard time thinking that any twenty three year

2287
01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:38,799
Speaker 1: old in his fifteenth NFL start would have much success

2288
01:48:39,160 --> 01:48:42,680
Speaker 1: diagnosing what the Patriots are doing and doing anything successful

2289
01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:44,360
Speaker 1: against them last Sunday. What do you think of that?

2290
01:48:45,479 --> 01:48:47,880
Speaker 1: I think that's totally fair and I probably I don't

2291
01:48:47,920 --> 01:48:49,559
Speaker 1: think i'd argue with that. I'm trying to think if

2292
01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:51,599
Speaker 1: there have been in the I mean, Patrick Mahomes had

2293
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:53,559
Speaker 1: a lot of success against them, but Mahomes it's an

2294
01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:57,679
Speaker 1: otherworldly talent, and I guess my counter argue, not really argument.

2295
01:48:57,800 --> 01:49:00,720
Speaker 1: The other point is what you said is true, and

2296
01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:03,320
Speaker 1: what's also true is that's still your quarterback. That's still

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Speaker 1: the team you're playing. It's the NFL there in your decision.

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01:49:05,720 --> 01:49:07,240
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do about it? Yet you've still

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01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:08,880
Speaker 1: got a gaunt and play and that's the guy you're

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01:49:08,920 --> 01:49:13,120
Speaker 1: playing with. We can argue in can we argue, Absolutely,

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01:49:13,200 --> 01:49:14,640
Speaker 1: we can argue. Yet we have built a lot of

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01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 1: mutual perspector. I love arguing with you. What do you

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01:49:17,439 --> 01:49:19,719
Speaker 1: think about the Bills upcoming opponent of the Tennessee Titans.

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01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:21,720
Speaker 1: They've been on the they've been there two and two.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota has been a little bit up and down

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Speaker 1: in his career. It's hard to think that the Tennessee

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01:49:26,400 --> 01:49:29,479
Speaker 1: Titans are sold on him as a starting quarterback. You know,

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01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:34,280
Speaker 1: match these two quarterbacks up well, Mariota's you know, they're

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Speaker 1: they're not totally comfortable their quarterback situation there in Tennessee,

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01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:40,200
Speaker 1: and Mariota's further in his career, so they have some

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01:49:40,640 --> 01:49:43,080
Speaker 1: decisions to make. Allen will be in a quarterback here

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Speaker 1: almost certainly next season and probably beyond. What's interesting, guys

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Tennessee. I just occurred to me if I'm

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Speaker 1: I guarantee of Mike Rabel and Dean psor decordinator there

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01:49:54,160 --> 01:49:56,519
Speaker 1: in Tennessee are telling their guys, hey, we ought to

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01:49:56,520 --> 01:49:59,599
Speaker 1: have three or four interceptions this week, because Tennessee does

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01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:03,479
Speaker 1: more with courage disguises out of zone than any defense

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01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:06,400
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And that's a great formula for forcing

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01:50:06,479 --> 01:50:08,720
Speaker 1: balls or getting the quarterback to throw bad balls into

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01:50:08,840 --> 01:50:12,559
Speaker 1: bad spots. So I bet they're looking their chops there

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Speaker 1: because they take a lot of pride in all the

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01:50:14,520 --> 01:50:18,040
Speaker 1: different things that they do schematically, and Alan's a quarterback

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01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:21,799
Speaker 1: they're gonna be eager to see against contrast that with Mariota.

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01:50:21,840 --> 01:50:24,160
Speaker 1: To bring it back to him, you know, he's not

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01:50:24,240 --> 01:50:26,200
Speaker 1: a downfield risk taker. He's not going to pull the

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01:50:26,240 --> 01:50:29,400
Speaker 1: trigger the way Alan does. He does have Alan's tendency

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01:50:29,479 --> 01:50:32,360
Speaker 1: to stay on bad reads a little too long. I

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01:50:32,479 --> 01:50:35,080
Speaker 1: don't think Mariota sees the whole field at times, and

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01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:38,280
Speaker 1: so when he gets outside the pocket, he's usually thrown outside.

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01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:41,160
Speaker 1: If he's inside the pocket, he's often thrown inside. It's

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01:50:41,640 --> 01:50:45,280
Speaker 1: there's some limitations there at QB with him. Quite frankly,

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01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:47,760
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he can't run an offense with him,

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01:50:48,040 --> 01:50:50,840
Speaker 1: but he has to be a complimentary piece in an offense,

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01:50:50,920 --> 01:50:52,439
Speaker 1: and I think it needs to be the kind of

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01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:55,320
Speaker 1: offense that he ran at Oregon, which is a little

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01:50:55,320 --> 01:50:58,479
Speaker 1: bit more spread out up tempo, and that's not how

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01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:00,640
Speaker 1: they're set up the playing tendency there. There are other

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01:51:00,720 --> 01:51:03,240
Speaker 1: ten guys are built for a run based offense, and

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01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 1: that's the way they're trying to play. Of course, Andy

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01:51:05,040 --> 01:51:07,640
Speaker 1: the Titans meet go against Matt Barkley depending on how

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01:51:07,720 --> 01:51:10,320
Speaker 1: Josh makes you through a concussion protocol. And he's only

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01:51:10,360 --> 01:51:13,599
Speaker 1: got seventh NFL starts, Barkley only one here in Buffalo.

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01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:16,280
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on him and what he brings to the table,

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01:51:16,360 --> 01:51:20,519
Speaker 1: maybe against Tennessee this week. Barkley has played well at times,

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01:51:20,560 --> 01:51:23,720
Speaker 1: and he's had opportunities to step into these kind of situations.

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01:51:23,720 --> 01:51:25,320
Speaker 1: I remember and he was with the Bears. He had

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01:51:25,400 --> 01:51:28,760
Speaker 1: some good moments. His arm has limitations, so if the

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01:51:28,800 --> 01:51:31,800
Speaker 1: pass rush gets home, he's not going to get many

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01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:34,880
Speaker 1: balls off the way Alan would. But he will read

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01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:38,559
Speaker 1: the field a little sounder than the young QB would

2351
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:40,960
Speaker 1: and he's a little more of a cautious player, so

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01:51:41,040 --> 01:51:43,479
Speaker 1: I'm sure underneath throws and a lot of you know,

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01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:45,160
Speaker 1: it's going to start with the running game, all that

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01:51:45,320 --> 01:51:48,519
Speaker 1: type of stuff. That'll be interesting, you know, guys. And

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01:51:48,600 --> 01:51:50,679
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Barkley should ever play ahead at Josh

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01:51:50,720 --> 01:51:52,920
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen's the QB. He's the talent, that's who

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01:51:52,960 --> 01:51:55,759
Speaker 1: you've invested in. But I would bet you the Titans

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01:51:55,840 --> 01:51:58,120
Speaker 1: would rather see Josh Allen and Matt Barkley this week.

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01:51:58,560 --> 01:52:00,760
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Well, we'll see how it goes. Andy. We

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01:52:01,040 --> 01:52:03,240
Speaker 1: appreciate your insight. You do all that work. I'm glad

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01:52:03,240 --> 01:52:04,880
Speaker 1: you get a chance to spill it out. When's the

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01:52:04,960 --> 01:52:07,040
Speaker 1: article coming up about the bills and where will it

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01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:12,599
Speaker 1: be MMQB SI, same thing, yep, MMQB SI sometime probably tomorrow,

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01:52:12,960 --> 01:52:15,720
Speaker 1: late morning for you guys, maybe early afternoon. We'll look

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01:52:15,760 --> 01:52:18,719
Speaker 1: for us. Thanks. Thanks Andy, all right, thanks guys. Andy,

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01:52:18,760 --> 01:52:21,559
Speaker 1: But know it countless for the MMQB writer analyst covers

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01:52:21,600 --> 01:52:24,920
Speaker 1: the NFL for Sports Illustrated. Interesting thoughts. Tons of praise

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01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:27,800
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo defense, obviously there's yeah, there's a lot

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01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:30,320
Speaker 1: of that going around. Yeah, but Andy breaks it down.

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01:52:30,400 --> 01:52:32,080
Speaker 1: He's good. I think he's really good. I mean, he

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01:52:32,160 --> 01:52:34,519
Speaker 1: puts in the time it's out in Boise, Idaho. Yeah,

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01:52:34,760 --> 01:52:36,280
Speaker 1: I'm kepted to say what else is there to do?

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01:52:36,400 --> 01:52:38,720
Speaker 1: But I won't do that because and he might still

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01:52:38,720 --> 01:52:43,680
Speaker 1: be on the nowt if we can't if people in

2375
01:52:43,720 --> 01:52:46,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo can't make fun of everybody else, you know, what's

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01:52:46,640 --> 01:52:48,920
Speaker 1: the world we're living in. But he's got some really

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01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:50,880
Speaker 1: into and he's always been what the reason we have

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01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:52,600
Speaker 1: him on once in a while is he does you know,

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01:52:52,680 --> 01:52:54,360
Speaker 1: he tries to be as honest as you can, and

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01:52:54,560 --> 01:52:56,640
Speaker 1: it's not all doom and gloom. He has not been

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01:52:56,680 --> 01:52:58,800
Speaker 1: a Josh Allen fan. We're not afraid to bring him

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01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:00,080
Speaker 1: on and talk to him about and call him a

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01:53:00,160 --> 01:53:02,759
Speaker 1: task for that. And also he knows a good defense

2384
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:04,000
Speaker 1: when he sees when he had a lot of nice

2385
01:53:04,040 --> 01:53:07,519
Speaker 1: things to say about Tremaine Edmonds, uh, Jordan Phillips, he

2386
01:53:07,600 --> 01:53:11,080
Speaker 1: had a lot of nice things and he thought this

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01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:13,439
Speaker 1: defense was being coached as well as any in the

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01:53:13,520 --> 01:53:15,439
Speaker 1: National Football League. So there's a lot of reasons to

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01:53:15,479 --> 01:53:17,320
Speaker 1: be optimistic. And he thinks this is a team's got

2390
01:53:17,439 --> 01:53:19,000
Speaker 1: a what a ten and six record? He thinks in

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01:53:19,120 --> 01:53:23,160
Speaker 1: it um, I think he's shy one plus, but it's

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01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:27,240
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting to get the thought about a guy

2393
01:53:27,280 --> 01:53:30,840
Speaker 1: who just watches it, just tries to get a you know, dispassionately.

2394
01:53:31,400 --> 01:53:32,680
Speaker 1: You and I are neck deep in this, you know,

2395
01:53:32,920 --> 01:53:35,320
Speaker 1: we we get caught in the ups and downs and

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01:53:35,360 --> 01:53:37,680
Speaker 1: the missed opportunities and all that too. So you can

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01:53:37,720 --> 01:53:42,040
Speaker 1: mad when the lunches lead. I mean right, we're totally

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01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:43,600
Speaker 1: untying to know how to push the button. We are

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01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:46,479
Speaker 1: totally untried. So everybody thinks about the Bills, Andy Benoid

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01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:48,160
Speaker 1: after four games? What do you think? We got lots

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01:53:48,200 --> 01:53:50,280
Speaker 1: of time to talk about that in the remaining moments here?

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01:53:50,560 --> 01:53:52,519
Speaker 1: What have you learned from the Bills after the first

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01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:54,320
Speaker 1: four games of the regular season, the quarter of the

2404
01:53:54,400 --> 01:53:56,439
Speaker 1: way through the year. What have you learned about your

2405
01:53:56,479 --> 01:53:58,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills team? Give us a call lines open eight

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01:53:59,040 --> 01:54:01,360
Speaker 1: oh three five five d toll free one eight eight

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01:54:01,520 --> 01:54:04,280
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty sending a tweet. We

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01:54:04,320 --> 01:54:07,120
Speaker 1: got to get to the tweets sheet eventually. We're gonna

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01:54:07,120 --> 01:54:08,640
Speaker 1: do that when we come back, So come on back

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Speaker 1: with us. One Bill's Live presented by KLADA Health from

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01:54:11,200 --> 01:54:27,920
Speaker 1: our Seneca studio on Buffalo Bills Radio on Tuesdays, we

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Speaker 1: salute the high school football Coaches of the Week the

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01:54:30,840 --> 01:54:33,720
Speaker 1: ad Pro Sports high school football coaches of the week,

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Speaker 1: both in Buffalo and Rochester the Buffalo area Section six.

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01:54:37,120 --> 01:54:39,320
Speaker 1: The high school football coach of the Week Adam Crenning

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01:54:39,400 --> 01:54:42,040
Speaker 1: of Albion. He led the Albion Purple Legals to a

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01:54:42,080 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 1: twenty one winter for Lackawana a couple of unbeaten teams.

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01:54:44,760 --> 01:54:47,320
Speaker 1: Albion now four and oh this season, they will clinch

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Speaker 1: their division with a win over only in this coming weekend,

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01:54:49,800 --> 01:54:52,720
Speaker 1: Ian Rochester in Section five. The high school football coach

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Speaker 1: of the Week Caleb Sabbatino of Attica. They beat East

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01:54:56,400 --> 01:54:58,840
Speaker 1: Rochester twenty eight sixteen to go to four and oh.

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01:54:59,160 --> 01:55:01,320
Speaker 1: The Blue Devils of Attica scored twice in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter to get to win. Caleb Sebatino's third season as

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Speaker 1: head coach with Attica. Congratulation coaches Coaches of the Week.

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01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:09,800
Speaker 1: Great to have you on the show here today. Hey

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01:55:09,800 --> 01:55:11,520
Speaker 1: you go talking about the Bills here on the show.

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01:55:11,560 --> 01:55:13,520
Speaker 1: We do it every day New to three. Thanks for

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01:55:13,600 --> 01:55:15,440
Speaker 1: tuning in. What have you learned from the Bills after

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01:55:15,480 --> 01:55:17,240
Speaker 1: the first four games of the regular season. What do

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01:55:17,320 --> 01:55:19,040
Speaker 1: you like, what do you dislike? What do you think

2432
01:55:19,080 --> 01:55:20,480
Speaker 1: you've seen. What do you want to see more of?

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01:55:20,920 --> 01:55:22,960
Speaker 1: Give us a call eight three five fifty or two

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Speaker 1: three one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Send it a tweet to one Bills liive. We got

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01:55:27,600 --> 01:55:29,760
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet here. It is brought to you by

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01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:33,440
Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills,

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01:55:33,480 --> 01:55:35,400
Speaker 1: and Steve is Rare to go. Read some of those

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01:55:35,720 --> 01:55:38,160
Speaker 1: from r ND Bills fan. Our defense is playing is

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01:55:38,200 --> 01:55:40,320
Speaker 1: playoff caliber, and our offense is still a work in

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01:55:40,440 --> 01:55:42,800
Speaker 1: progress after a quarter of football. I still believe this

2442
01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:44,800
Speaker 1: team will make the playoffs, but how far we will

2443
01:55:44,840 --> 01:55:47,080
Speaker 1: go that will depend on the growth Josh Allen and

2444
01:55:47,160 --> 01:55:51,200
Speaker 1: this new offense show during the remainder of the season,

2445
01:55:51,560 --> 01:55:54,840
Speaker 1: and that seems a pretty well reasoned to take. Also

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01:55:54,960 --> 01:55:57,600
Speaker 1: from Jeremiah, he says Josh has all the tools to

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01:55:57,640 --> 01:55:59,680
Speaker 1: be an elite, but he's human. He just played a

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01:55:59,720 --> 01:56:02,480
Speaker 1: full season. He's just played a full season of games,

2449
01:56:02,520 --> 01:56:04,440
Speaker 1: and so many are ready to run him out of town.

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01:56:05,880 --> 01:56:08,720
Speaker 1: They're ready to run Baker out last week, and Darnold

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01:56:08,800 --> 01:56:11,440
Speaker 1: Spleen has its own Twitter account, Josh is going to

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01:56:11,520 --> 01:56:14,080
Speaker 1: be great with time. I'm people ready to run Josh

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01:56:14,120 --> 01:56:16,160
Speaker 1: out of town. I haven't heard that on our show,

2454
01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:18,680
Speaker 1: people talking like that. I haven't heard that. I have

2455
01:56:18,840 --> 01:56:21,720
Speaker 1: detected that. No. I think Bill's fans are pretty smart.

2456
01:56:21,760 --> 01:56:23,200
Speaker 1: They know what they're looking at. They're looking at the

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01:56:23,200 --> 01:56:26,160
Speaker 1: guy gonna get his sixteenth NFL start the next time

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01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:27,920
Speaker 1: he starts, right, I haven't heard that. Yeah, and I

2459
01:56:28,040 --> 01:56:32,920
Speaker 1: think I go on, I've said a bunch on yesterday

2460
01:56:32,960 --> 01:56:35,560
Speaker 1: and today. Yeah, there's a long list of quarterbacks that

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01:56:35,640 --> 01:56:38,560
Speaker 1: have looked just like Josh did yesterday against Bill Pelichick

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01:56:38,600 --> 01:56:40,960
Speaker 1: and the Patriots, A long list of them. And there's

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01:56:40,960 --> 01:56:44,760
Speaker 1: a pretty prestigious list too. So I'm not ready to say,

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01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:46,440
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we're never gonna get anywhere with this,

2465
01:56:46,680 --> 01:56:49,680
Speaker 1: because listen that that was a tough game, a really

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01:56:49,760 --> 01:56:52,280
Speaker 1: tough game to win. So well, you know, he put

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01:56:52,360 --> 01:56:54,520
Speaker 1: together a nice drive there in the third quarter, which,

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01:56:54,720 --> 01:56:57,920
Speaker 1: by the way, is an improvement over the three quarters.

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01:56:58,080 --> 01:57:00,320
Speaker 1: The three third quarters they put to other than the

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01:57:00,360 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 1: first half of the season. Remember, they struggled in the

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01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:06,240
Speaker 1: third quarter all through all three games the Jets, Giants

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01:57:06,400 --> 01:57:08,520
Speaker 1: and Scent and Bengals, and then they came out against

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01:57:08,560 --> 01:57:11,640
Speaker 1: the Patriots, put together a nice drive and got into

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01:57:11,680 --> 01:57:13,680
Speaker 1: the end zone, so that there was that I thought

2475
01:57:13,720 --> 01:57:16,800
Speaker 1: that was a really good moment in the game that

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01:57:17,360 --> 01:57:19,160
Speaker 1: I thought was going to lead to something better, but

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01:57:19,360 --> 01:57:21,600
Speaker 1: Day just couldn't make it happen. Also from the tweet sheet,

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01:57:21,640 --> 01:57:23,480
Speaker 1: when we asked the question what have you learned from

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01:57:23,520 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 1: the Bills after the first four games of the season,

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01:57:26,080 --> 01:57:30,440
Speaker 1: big multi tweets in defense wins championships. I say that

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01:57:30,520 --> 01:57:33,400
Speaker 1: because he capitalized those three words. Our defense, he says,

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01:57:33,520 --> 01:57:35,600
Speaker 1: is unreal. If the offense can step up and gain

2483
01:57:35,720 --> 01:57:39,120
Speaker 1: some chemistry like our defense, we can be an unstoppable team.

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01:57:39,120 --> 01:57:42,400
Speaker 1: Hopefully Josh learns from his mistakes, the wide receivers get

2485
01:57:42,480 --> 01:57:44,920
Speaker 1: the butter out of their hands, and the online gels,

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01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:47,520
Speaker 1: we will be fine. Josh usually has I mean again,

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01:57:47,960 --> 01:57:51,160
Speaker 1: a year into it, Josh has basically learned from his mistakes.

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01:57:51,240 --> 01:57:54,560
Speaker 1: He typically does get better. Yeah, he typically doesn't make

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01:57:54,640 --> 01:57:59,200
Speaker 1: the same mistake over. But there's one thing he does

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01:57:59,480 --> 01:58:01,960
Speaker 1: We've seen it is go backwards and throw that stinking

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01:58:02,040 --> 01:58:05,800
Speaker 1: ball right. Yeah, that's the one thing we've seen him

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01:58:05,880 --> 01:58:08,760
Speaker 1: do consistently, and it's a mindset he gets into on

2493
01:58:08,840 --> 01:58:10,680
Speaker 1: a third down or a third and long, or a

2494
01:58:10,760 --> 01:58:13,280
Speaker 1: game that's tied or again. He wants to win the

2495
01:58:13,360 --> 01:58:17,720
Speaker 1: game every play. And Tom Brady must have thrown more

2496
01:58:17,840 --> 01:58:21,160
Speaker 1: footballs away on Sunday than I've ever seen him throw

2497
01:58:21,200 --> 01:58:24,000
Speaker 1: away in a Bill's game. I mean, just one guy

2498
01:58:24,160 --> 01:58:26,160
Speaker 1: comes in, brushes his shoulder and he just steps up,

2499
01:58:26,200 --> 01:58:27,760
Speaker 1: throws it out of them, you know, throws it in

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01:58:27,840 --> 01:58:32,120
Speaker 1: the dirt. He got intentional grounding what once? And that

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01:58:32,360 --> 01:58:34,040
Speaker 1: you know, just getting rid of it. That's how you

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01:58:34,120 --> 01:58:37,440
Speaker 1: last to all age forty two, right, Yeah, in rocket science.

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01:58:37,920 --> 01:58:40,680
Speaker 1: And he and Tom Brady was pretty forthcoming in his

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01:58:40,720 --> 01:58:42,760
Speaker 1: advice for Josh Allen after the game, and he remembered

2505
01:58:42,800 --> 01:58:45,120
Speaker 1: what Bill Belichick told him. And after they hit in

2506
01:58:45,200 --> 01:58:48,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo and he recounts them Nate Clemens hit where his

2507
01:58:49,040 --> 01:58:51,920
Speaker 1: helmet went flying fifteen yards and Belichick said, hey, Brady,

2508
01:58:51,960 --> 01:58:53,680
Speaker 1: if you want to last in this league, either slide

2509
01:58:53,720 --> 01:58:57,040
Speaker 1: or throw it away. One of the two. Yeah, somebody

2510
01:58:57,080 --> 01:58:58,680
Speaker 1: probably said that to him, don't you think I would

2511
01:58:58,760 --> 01:59:01,480
Speaker 1: think that's probably somebody's has said that to Josh a

2512
01:59:01,920 --> 01:59:04,680
Speaker 1: this week. Go to call Harry in Lockport. Welcome Herry,

2513
01:59:04,680 --> 01:59:08,880
Speaker 1: You're on the air of this Hello, are you there,

2514
01:59:08,920 --> 01:59:11,960
Speaker 1: Harry in Lockport. I'm gonna say no let's go to

2515
01:59:12,040 --> 01:59:15,680
Speaker 1: Mike in New Jersey. Hey, good afternoon, guys. How are

2516
01:59:15,720 --> 01:59:19,640
Speaker 1: you hell? Listen, I've been a Bills fans, like a

2517
01:59:19,720 --> 01:59:22,080
Speaker 1: diehard Bills fans in ninety ninety nine, and you can

2518
01:59:22,200 --> 01:59:25,320
Speaker 1: imagine I've gone to a lot of heartbreaks throughout this year.

2519
01:59:26,160 --> 01:59:28,040
Speaker 1: This year, I you know, after we went three and oh,

2520
01:59:28,120 --> 01:59:30,840
Speaker 1: I really had a high hope. But after watching the

2521
01:59:30,920 --> 01:59:35,120
Speaker 1: offensive side of the performance yesterday, uh, you know, overall,

2522
01:59:35,200 --> 01:59:37,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's okay that we had a close game

2523
01:59:37,760 --> 01:59:40,440
Speaker 1: or whatever. And but when I look at the play

2524
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:43,200
Speaker 1: calling in those two drives where we were at the

2525
01:59:43,240 --> 01:59:46,360
Speaker 1: two yard line and the third third, third down and goal,

2526
01:59:46,440 --> 01:59:48,120
Speaker 1: and then a four down and goal, I mean I

2527
01:59:48,280 --> 01:59:51,760
Speaker 1: do not see any creativity whatsoever. There is no motion.

2528
01:59:52,160 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 1: What would you have called, Mike, I'm sorry, what would

2529
01:59:55,880 --> 01:59:58,840
Speaker 1: you have called? Yeah? What were you looking for? I

2530
01:59:58,960 --> 02:00:01,560
Speaker 1: mean we have also knock. So it was an ax quarterback.

2531
02:00:01,680 --> 02:00:03,960
Speaker 1: You want to beat Belichick at home and you're down

2532
02:00:04,040 --> 02:00:06,280
Speaker 1: six points, you on two yard line. You don't have

2533
02:00:06,480 --> 02:00:08,960
Speaker 1: him run that, you know, run like a trick player.

2534
02:00:08,960 --> 02:00:11,760
Speaker 1: I haven't told the ball like do something something that

2535
02:00:11,880 --> 02:00:14,720
Speaker 1: don't like starting when you have the four yard line.

2536
02:00:14,880 --> 02:00:16,520
Speaker 1: We just run up the middle of the Frank Bloor

2537
02:00:16,680 --> 02:00:19,040
Speaker 1: youth and Union is gonna let you in four yards

2538
02:00:19,080 --> 02:00:21,880
Speaker 1: starting blow. Mike Trick plays, thanks, Mike Trick plays. Aren't

2539
02:00:21,880 --> 02:00:23,680
Speaker 1: gonna do it. They're not gonna do it. There's a

2540
02:00:24,560 --> 02:00:26,840
Speaker 1: the number one defense in the NFL last week, still

2541
02:00:26,960 --> 02:00:30,000
Speaker 1: number one. It is a defense that is complex. It

2542
02:00:30,160 --> 02:00:32,800
Speaker 1: is a defense played by eleven smart guys who all

2543
02:00:32,840 --> 02:00:36,160
Speaker 1: flying around the field, and probably six or seven more

2544
02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:38,000
Speaker 1: on the bench who come in and play. And it

2545
02:00:38,160 --> 02:00:41,840
Speaker 1: is a defense orchestrated by a Hall of Fame defensive

2546
02:00:41,880 --> 02:00:45,560
Speaker 1: coach Bill Belichick. Trick plays not the answer. Yeah, I

2547
02:00:45,680 --> 02:00:48,160
Speaker 1: get what he's saying. You're right, And I'll tell you

2548
02:00:48,280 --> 02:00:51,480
Speaker 1: what Mike from Jersey did have right. And I remember

2549
02:00:51,760 --> 02:00:54,760
Speaker 1: I've heard first guy I heard say this was Marty Schottenheimer.

2550
02:00:54,800 --> 02:00:56,800
Speaker 1: We were in a production meeting with him when he

2551
02:00:56,880 --> 02:01:00,840
Speaker 1: was head coach of the San Diego chart Argers. And

2552
02:01:01,000 --> 02:01:03,160
Speaker 1: I heard other guys say it as well. Since then,

2553
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:06,920
Speaker 1: when you get down inside or down close, or when

2554
02:01:06,960 --> 02:01:08,720
Speaker 1: you get down to the final play of the game,

2555
02:01:08,800 --> 02:01:11,200
Speaker 1: or when you get down to crunch time of when

2556
02:01:11,240 --> 02:01:13,080
Speaker 1: you've got to make a play to win the game,

2557
02:01:13,440 --> 02:01:16,280
Speaker 1: you know in those moments when you know when the

2558
02:01:16,400 --> 02:01:20,720
Speaker 1: game is on the line. Great coaches don't think play selection,

2559
02:01:21,400 --> 02:01:24,480
Speaker 1: they think players. They don't think plays, they think players.

2560
02:01:24,880 --> 02:01:26,280
Speaker 1: And Mike's on the right track. If you got a

2561
02:01:26,320 --> 02:01:28,680
Speaker 1: guy like Dawson Knox who's a hard matchup, yeah, he's

2562
02:01:28,720 --> 02:01:31,400
Speaker 1: talking about Dawson Knox throwing a pass, you think of

2563
02:01:31,520 --> 02:01:33,560
Speaker 1: the right track. You think about players that are that

2564
02:01:33,640 --> 02:01:37,320
Speaker 1: are really good. You think about guy like Frank Gore,

2565
02:01:37,440 --> 02:01:38,800
Speaker 1: who is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

2566
02:01:38,920 --> 02:01:41,200
Speaker 1: You think about your best receiver like John Brown, or

2567
02:01:41,240 --> 02:01:43,400
Speaker 1: you think about Colby's the guys who were really good.

2568
02:01:44,360 --> 02:01:47,240
Speaker 1: And that's why I think when Josh Allen's in the game,

2569
02:01:47,320 --> 02:01:49,000
Speaker 1: you get down there in his fourth down or whatever,

2570
02:01:49,080 --> 02:01:50,800
Speaker 1: and I think he's when he's talking about is when

2571
02:01:50,880 --> 02:01:52,440
Speaker 1: it was Josh in the game, then I can't even

2572
02:01:52,880 --> 02:01:55,280
Speaker 1: went and the fourth down thing, or was that Barkley

2573
02:01:55,320 --> 02:01:57,480
Speaker 1: at that time? Barley? Yeah, Barkley was in the line.

2574
02:01:57,560 --> 02:01:58,880
Speaker 1: Here's one of the things you got to know too,

2575
02:01:59,080 --> 02:02:01,480
Speaker 1: some of them from me from the outside looking in.

2576
02:02:02,320 --> 02:02:04,760
Speaker 1: One of the big red zone weapons the Bills have

2577
02:02:05,440 --> 02:02:09,360
Speaker 1: is Josh Allen's ability to throw it and also to

2578
02:02:09,480 --> 02:02:12,440
Speaker 1: run it. It's a huge red zone threat. He's the

2579
02:02:12,520 --> 02:02:15,080
Speaker 1: best short yardage back the Bills have because the balls

2580
02:02:15,120 --> 02:02:16,840
Speaker 1: in his hands every time and it's not a trick

2581
02:02:16,920 --> 02:02:19,520
Speaker 1: play unless he does run it. So I you know,

2582
02:02:19,720 --> 02:02:22,760
Speaker 1: hit the best red zone player they had on the

2583
02:02:22,840 --> 02:02:25,160
Speaker 1: team was out of the game. And that fourth ground down,

2584
02:02:25,280 --> 02:02:29,440
Speaker 1: so they're trying to call a play forget about all

2585
02:02:29,480 --> 02:02:31,480
Speaker 1: the stuff they've planned. They're trying to call a play

2586
02:02:31,560 --> 02:02:35,240
Speaker 1: that Matt Barkley can run. And that's different than the

2587
02:02:35,320 --> 02:02:39,120
Speaker 1: playlist that Josh Allen had prepared to run against the Patriots.

2588
02:02:39,160 --> 02:02:40,840
Speaker 1: So they were in a tough spot in that fourth

2589
02:02:40,880 --> 02:02:43,240
Speaker 1: down because they had a backup quarterback on the field.

2590
02:02:43,840 --> 02:02:46,040
Speaker 1: But when you get down to these crunch moments, even

2591
02:02:46,080 --> 02:02:47,840
Speaker 1: when Josh Allen comes back and when he gets back

2592
02:02:47,880 --> 02:02:50,480
Speaker 1: on the field, think about the players they're on the field,

2593
02:02:50,800 --> 02:02:55,440
Speaker 1: not the play selection. I love that. I love that theory. Right, Yeah,

2594
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:59,280
Speaker 1: who's our playmakers? Those are the guys Joss and Knox

2595
02:02:59,360 --> 02:03:01,400
Speaker 1: thrown it passes not what I'm looking for down there,

2596
02:03:01,480 --> 02:03:04,400
Speaker 1: right with a Foolham. Yeah, will it be successful? Probably not.

2597
02:03:04,640 --> 02:03:06,680
Speaker 1: It'll foolham and they'll say huh. And it's funny. They

2598
02:03:06,720 --> 02:03:10,000
Speaker 1: just had their tight end team. What team has gotten

2599
02:03:10,120 --> 02:03:13,240
Speaker 1: nicked by an awareness play like that? A trick play

2600
02:03:13,320 --> 02:03:15,959
Speaker 1: by a tight end? Oh yeah, it was the Patriots

2601
02:03:16,000 --> 02:03:17,880
Speaker 1: and the Philly throwback. Yeah, they're not going to be

2602
02:03:17,960 --> 02:03:20,720
Speaker 1: ready for that. Let's go to Ben and Amhurst. Hello, Ben,

2603
02:03:20,800 --> 02:03:24,720
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hey guys. I liked TJ. Yeldon

2604
02:03:24,800 --> 02:03:27,000
Speaker 1: on Sunday, combined him with Gore and Singletary. I think

2605
02:03:27,040 --> 02:03:29,800
Speaker 1: he got a pretty versatile group of backs there. Yeah,

2606
02:03:29,840 --> 02:03:31,320
Speaker 1: he did come through a couple of times, and I

2607
02:03:31,400 --> 02:03:34,160
Speaker 1: like it too. Now he's I think everybody's still on

2608
02:03:34,280 --> 02:03:36,360
Speaker 1: pins and needles about it because he's coughed the ball up,

2609
02:03:36,640 --> 02:03:40,040
Speaker 1: you know, too often, and he had I gotta tell you,

2610
02:03:40,400 --> 02:03:43,520
Speaker 1: I heard somebody say that about him in Jacksonville too.

2611
02:03:43,680 --> 02:03:46,160
Speaker 1: I was kind of his thing. Sometimes he's too loose

2612
02:03:46,200 --> 02:03:49,040
Speaker 1: with the football. But the guy's got a lot of ability.

2613
02:03:49,160 --> 02:03:51,440
Speaker 1: He's a great pass receiver and he seems to have

2614
02:03:51,520 --> 02:03:53,560
Speaker 1: a feel for finding an area where a quarterback can

2615
02:03:53,640 --> 02:03:56,680
Speaker 1: find him late in a play as well. So I

2616
02:03:56,760 --> 02:03:59,000
Speaker 1: think as an outlet and a safety and a guy

2617
02:03:59,040 --> 02:04:01,960
Speaker 1: who's aware and there when you need him. Yeah, t J.

2618
02:04:02,120 --> 02:04:04,040
Speaker 1: Yelden does bring something. I think that's why he's on

2619
02:04:04,080 --> 02:04:05,960
Speaker 1: the team. Don't they have to run him though once

2620
02:04:06,000 --> 02:04:07,720
Speaker 1: in a while, just to mix it up. He had

2621
02:04:07,920 --> 02:04:11,120
Speaker 1: no runs this past Sunday. He's got eight all season

2622
02:04:11,200 --> 02:04:13,960
Speaker 1: in three games played. Give him the ball, right, let

2623
02:04:14,040 --> 02:04:15,360
Speaker 1: him run a little bit, see what he can do.

2624
02:04:15,720 --> 02:04:18,160
Speaker 1: I think it. Look when Yeldon comes in, if you're

2625
02:04:18,200 --> 02:04:20,560
Speaker 1: the opponents, you say, well, here comes a pass because

2626
02:04:20,600 --> 02:04:22,320
Speaker 1: Yelden's in the game. You know who else is like

2627
02:04:22,480 --> 02:04:26,920
Speaker 1: that is the running back for the Patriots. The guy

2628
02:04:27,000 --> 02:04:29,480
Speaker 1: who comes in White and James White, he's a receiver.

2629
02:04:29,960 --> 02:04:32,800
Speaker 1: It's the same way. It's a pass play when White's

2630
02:04:32,840 --> 02:04:34,640
Speaker 1: on the field, he's gonna run out for a pass

2631
02:04:35,160 --> 02:04:38,840
Speaker 1: and it's a run play when when the other guy's in. Yeah,

2632
02:04:39,320 --> 02:04:44,040
Speaker 1: Pat and Cannadega. Hello, Pat, welcome to the show. Pat.

2633
02:04:44,080 --> 02:04:48,560
Speaker 1: Are you there? Yeah? Yes, Pat Canada? Yeah, I love

2634
02:04:48,600 --> 02:04:51,280
Speaker 1: your show. I'll move from Pittsburgh Cannadagua. Thanks for a radio,

2635
02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:54,240
Speaker 1: dinom like listening to you all the time. You gotta

2636
02:04:54,240 --> 02:04:57,520
Speaker 1: beautiful day in cannadagu I would think, Pat right, little warm?

2637
02:04:57,560 --> 02:04:59,320
Speaker 1: But are you by the lake? Just how many of

2638
02:04:59,400 --> 02:05:01,080
Speaker 1: you by the lake? I know you touched on it.

2639
02:05:01,320 --> 02:05:03,160
Speaker 1: I know you touched on a little bit before. But

2640
02:05:03,320 --> 02:05:07,720
Speaker 1: I don't see the reasoning behind not bringing Duke Williams up.

2641
02:05:08,360 --> 02:05:10,840
Speaker 1: I'm not impressed to having watched the four games for

2642
02:05:11,120 --> 02:05:14,520
Speaker 1: Jay Jones, and of course Foster hasn't done anything, and

2643
02:05:14,960 --> 02:05:18,720
Speaker 1: Duke is such a different kind of weapon that seems

2644
02:05:18,760 --> 02:05:21,840
Speaker 1: that it's really take advantage of why aren't they doing that?

2645
02:05:22,000 --> 02:05:25,160
Speaker 1: Why that out? I would say, yeah, you're right, there's

2646
02:05:25,160 --> 02:05:27,080
Speaker 1: a reason for that, probably, And I don't know all

2647
02:05:27,120 --> 02:05:29,280
Speaker 1: the reasons or any of the reasons really. I'm guessing

2648
02:05:29,400 --> 02:05:33,880
Speaker 1: here one reason would be speed. Duke is not as

2649
02:05:33,960 --> 02:05:38,760
Speaker 1: fast as Robert Foster, Isaiah McKenzie or Zay Jones. And

2650
02:05:39,240 --> 02:05:41,240
Speaker 1: but I do see what you see. I mean, you

2651
02:05:41,320 --> 02:05:43,440
Speaker 1: think about him on that fourth down play when they

2652
02:05:43,480 --> 02:05:45,080
Speaker 1: tried to get it to Zay Jones. That's the kind

2653
02:05:45,120 --> 02:05:47,680
Speaker 1: of ball Duke Williams kind of comes down with, you know,

2654
02:05:47,760 --> 02:05:50,320
Speaker 1: the high ball, the fifty fifty ball, and he's got

2655
02:05:50,360 --> 02:05:54,600
Speaker 1: that tough, hard nosed attitude as well. Like and some

2656
02:05:54,720 --> 02:05:56,680
Speaker 1: of the criticisms towards Jay Jones has been that he

2657
02:05:56,720 --> 02:05:58,800
Speaker 1: didn't break up a couple of those interceptions on the

2658
02:05:58,920 --> 02:06:01,880
Speaker 1: high ball on the sidelines, Duke Williams kind of does that.

2659
02:06:02,000 --> 02:06:05,240
Speaker 1: He's a kind of a battler. But I think if

2660
02:06:05,280 --> 02:06:07,520
Speaker 1: I was looking for one main reason why he's not

2661
02:06:07,720 --> 02:06:10,320
Speaker 1: out there is probably has to do with his ability

2662
02:06:10,360 --> 02:06:13,560
Speaker 1: to outrun people, because he does have a good skill

2663
02:06:13,640 --> 02:06:16,040
Speaker 1: set and a skill set that you know, at times

2664
02:06:16,120 --> 02:06:19,280
Speaker 1: you can really use. Thanks for your call. Let's take

2665
02:06:19,360 --> 02:06:22,680
Speaker 1: a call from Todd in California. Hello, Todd, welcome to

2666
02:06:22,720 --> 02:06:25,000
Speaker 1: the show. You're on the air with this, Hey guys,

2667
02:06:25,040 --> 02:06:27,680
Speaker 1: how are you guys doing today? Great? I think what

2668
02:06:27,800 --> 02:06:29,840
Speaker 1: we need to do is dummy down the playbook in

2669
02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:33,200
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game to get Josh some easy

2670
02:06:33,320 --> 02:06:37,640
Speaker 1: throws and get him in rhythm instead of him scrambling

2671
02:06:37,720 --> 02:06:40,760
Speaker 1: to the right and throwing forty yard bombs that are

2672
02:06:40,800 --> 02:06:43,360
Speaker 1: getting picked off. Because you can see when that happens,

2673
02:06:43,760 --> 02:06:46,160
Speaker 1: he comes off the field and he's just shaking his

2674
02:06:46,240 --> 02:06:48,560
Speaker 1: head and has kind of confidence as little shaking a

2675
02:06:48,600 --> 02:06:51,320
Speaker 1: little bit. And also I think we've got to throw

2676
02:06:51,400 --> 02:06:55,440
Speaker 1: more screen passes to Gore yelled him or when Singletary

2677
02:06:55,520 --> 02:06:58,560
Speaker 1: comes back, because New England kept on doing that zero

2678
02:06:58,640 --> 02:07:02,000
Speaker 1: blitz where the blitz and everybody and then Josh is

2679
02:07:02,000 --> 02:07:04,320
Speaker 1: over there patting the ball trying to throw it and

2680
02:07:04,400 --> 02:07:07,320
Speaker 1: he's getting sacked and throwing a little screen pass. Those

2681
02:07:07,360 --> 02:07:10,000
Speaker 1: are like fifteen twenty yard games and maybe even bigger.

2682
02:07:10,520 --> 02:07:13,120
Speaker 1: But I think we'll be okay. I think there's a

2683
02:07:13,200 --> 02:07:16,040
Speaker 1: lot of weapons on the team, and I'm not too

2684
02:07:16,200 --> 02:07:20,680
Speaker 1: throw the ball, stage zones and the punter. But that's it, guys, Okay, Yeah,

2685
02:07:20,720 --> 02:07:23,920
Speaker 1: thanks to and I'll answer the early early completions get

2686
02:07:24,040 --> 02:07:25,480
Speaker 1: him under his feet. They did. They don't need to

2687
02:07:25,520 --> 02:07:27,480
Speaker 1: dumb me down the playbook. They just give him, need

2688
02:07:27,520 --> 02:07:29,000
Speaker 1: to give him some things he can do. And if

2689
02:07:29,040 --> 02:07:31,520
Speaker 1: you watch early in that game, the first three times

2690
02:07:31,600 --> 02:07:34,880
Speaker 1: he threw it, they were supposed to be easy completions,

2691
02:07:35,000 --> 02:07:37,440
Speaker 1: exactly what day Ball wanted him to do. The first

2692
02:07:37,480 --> 02:07:39,320
Speaker 1: one got batted down with the line of scrimmage, then

2693
02:07:39,360 --> 02:07:41,520
Speaker 1: he threw one into the dirt right in front of

2694
02:07:41,600 --> 02:07:43,760
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley on a really bad throw, and then he

2695
02:07:43,840 --> 02:07:46,040
Speaker 1: overthrew gore in the flat on the other side. So

2696
02:07:46,400 --> 02:07:49,440
Speaker 1: there were three completions, or at least two completions the

2697
02:07:49,640 --> 02:07:51,760
Speaker 1: ones that didn't get batted down that were right there

2698
02:07:51,800 --> 02:07:54,320
Speaker 1: for the taking. And Josh, and we've had people calling

2699
02:07:54,760 --> 02:07:57,920
Speaker 1: Josh looked jittery early in the game. He looked like

2700
02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:00,320
Speaker 1: he was trying too hard and had saws things he

2701
02:08:00,360 --> 02:08:01,840
Speaker 1: wanted to do. He's, you know, he's trying to win

2702
02:08:01,920 --> 02:08:04,160
Speaker 1: the game on the opening snap of the game, and

2703
02:08:04,880 --> 02:08:07,520
Speaker 1: those throws were errant. But I think Brian day Ball

2704
02:08:07,600 --> 02:08:10,520
Speaker 1: had exactly that thought in mind to give him some

2705
02:08:10,680 --> 02:08:13,240
Speaker 1: easy completions early, and they just didn't work out. Josh

2706
02:08:13,280 --> 02:08:16,160
Speaker 1: couldn't hit him. And for the other thing, the screens

2707
02:08:16,160 --> 02:08:18,160
Speaker 1: and cover versus covers zero, yeah, I agree with you.

2708
02:08:19,280 --> 02:08:22,160
Speaker 1: Certainly would have worked had you know, had you known

2709
02:08:22,200 --> 02:08:24,000
Speaker 1: that they were going to start running cover zero a

2710
02:08:24,120 --> 02:08:26,440
Speaker 1: lot that they did the other day. You know, I

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Speaker 1: didn't know they were gonna run it that much yesterday

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Speaker 1: the other day on Sunday. If you knew that going in, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you would call him and maybe run him. And if

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Speaker 1: you can execute him, it's great. But by the same token,

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Speaker 1: screen passes against a savvy, very smart defense sometimes backfire

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Speaker 1: because that the screen passes, by its very nature kind

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Speaker 1: of a gotcha play a fool you play the rushers

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Speaker 1: come through, you let them through, and then you throw

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Speaker 1: it right behind him. When you do that to the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: they sniff it pretty quick. So maybe they were afraid

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Speaker 1: to run it because it was the Patriots, not because

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Speaker 1: the cover zero. All right, we've got a break care

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Speaker 1: We're back when more One Bills Live presented by Kalada

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Speaker 1: Health Live from the Seneca Studio, and this is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio Time. Now for what have we learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show. It is brought to you by Skyworks, the

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Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Kyle

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Speaker 1: Brandt joined us he does every Tuesday at one pm

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Speaker 1: from the NFL Network from Good Morning Football. Loves the Bills.

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Speaker 1: We've established said over the last couple of weeks. He says,

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Speaker 1: the Bills have been establishing themselves as one of the

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Speaker 1: best teams in the AFC, thanks in large part to

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Speaker 1: their defense. Here's Kyle Brant. We asked the question this morning,

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Speaker 1: you guys. We said, all right, the Chiefs are great,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots are great. Can you name the third best

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Speaker 1: team in the AC? Everybody? Every team has warts, every

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Speaker 1: team has losses. I still, I said, the son of

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Speaker 1: this one, I still think it's the Buffalo Bills. I

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Speaker 1: will take them and that defense and who knows what

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Speaker 1: that offense over right now? The Browns, the Texans really

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Speaker 1: anybody else. I think there it's a big drop off

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Speaker 1: from the Chiefs in oiland but I think that Bills

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Speaker 1: are the third best team the sc right now. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt pretty pretty adamant about it. Maddy Gleb joined

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Speaker 1: us from PSC Bills reporter on PSC. We talked about

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Speaker 1: what we asked her, what we were asking Bills fans

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Speaker 1: the phone in today about Maddie Glad her biggest takeaway

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Speaker 1: from the Bill's first four games this year. Here's what

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Speaker 1: she said. I see a pretty good team, but I

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Speaker 1: see all the offseason moves that Brandon Bean and Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott made are all making an impact right now through

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Speaker 1: the first four games. Aside from Tyler Croft, who unfortunately

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Speaker 1: still hasn't made his way to the field from the

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Speaker 1: draft to offseason editions, everybody is playing a part on

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Speaker 1: this roster. Thanks to Maddie Glad, we're again off the

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Speaker 1: air almost is good. We're talking about what'll be learned.

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Speaker 1: We had a good show today. We got a good

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Speaker 1: one coming up tomorrow, Steve, and I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: what we got. It's well, it's Chris Brown reporting from practice,

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Speaker 1: and there are questions, right John McDermott meets with the

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Speaker 1: media tomorrow before practice. We'll see if there's any kind

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Speaker 1: of update at all on Josh Allen Tomorrow. McDermott, I

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Speaker 1: think eleven twenty would be time eleven fifteen tomorrow morning,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know. You know, it's concussion protocol. They

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Speaker 1: don't have to say squat, and they might they might

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Speaker 1: not that that bothers merved. So well, look, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: for clarity on what's happening. But I get it. I

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Speaker 1: understand why you wouldn't. You don't want to speculate on

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Speaker 1: people's conditions. So Chris Brown tomorrow from practice Field Yates,

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Speaker 1: Chris will be on the field of practice. Field Dates

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Speaker 1: will be in the studio, So Chris on the field field.

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Speaker 1: From studio, he'll join US Field Yates from ESPN to

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Speaker 1: look around the league, a kind of a fantasy preview

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Speaker 1: from Field Yates coming up on tomorrow's show, Andrey Roberts

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Speaker 1: Spill's returned specialists back in the lineup now the last

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Speaker 1: couple of games. He will join us after practice tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and we'll hear more as the Bills get back to

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Speaker 1: work and if yeah, and usually on Wednesday, Josh Allett

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Speaker 1: meets with the media, he probably he won't do that

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Speaker 1: as long as he's in the concussion protocol. So if

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Speaker 1: if he meets with the media, it'll be Newsworthy, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it'll be Barkley. It might be Matt Barkley with

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Speaker 1: the media. We will as the week goes along, and

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Speaker 1: if it becomes apparent or at least it leads in

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Speaker 1: the direction of Matt Barkley, will have a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk more with him about what would be his second

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Speaker 1: start in the NFL, or about him anyway about a

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Speaker 1: second start in the NFL, and is a second start

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Speaker 1: with the Bills eight start in the NFL. Look, the

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Speaker 1: Jets game left an impression last year, right a game,

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Speaker 1: right out of the box, swinging in that game against

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Speaker 1: the Jets last November. I think two that I remember

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Speaker 1: about that is, you know, the Bills had a really

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Speaker 1: aggressive game plan, and I think it was very unsettling

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Speaker 1: for the Jets. And I think the Jets, I know,

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Speaker 1: there's any question they came out flat as a pancake.

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Speaker 1: They thought the Bills. The Bills had struggled so badly

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Speaker 1: offensively throughout the year because of their offensive line and

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Speaker 1: with starting a guy who'd been there for eleven days.

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Speaker 1: They just the Jets just showed up, thought they were

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Speaker 1: going to roll out there and win, and the Bills

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Speaker 1: hit him right in the mouth and they didn't let

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Speaker 1: up the entire game, and that really kind of solidified

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Speaker 1: Matt Barkley as a Bill. Yeah. I guess this all

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Speaker 1: time Bill, all time. I get the sense of Buffalo

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Speaker 1: team will respond well to that setback, and the defense

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Speaker 1: played well. We've talked about that, but I do think

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Speaker 1: we'll have a good response to losing their first game,

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Speaker 1: and you Benoit had something to say about that as well.

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Speaker 1: He said, the Tennessee Titans maybe are as good as

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Speaker 1: any team in the league about disguising what they do

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Speaker 1: in the secondary, which you know that was a seemed

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Speaker 1: to be a problem with Josh this last week. We'll

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Speaker 1: have more chance to talk about that more tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: the rest of the week as well. Production assistance from

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Speaker 1: George Blast, Jeff Coltonick Thomas Homilder, Kelly Rude, Jay Tarito,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Charcter's Team's Roll Ball, our producers Jay Harris. So

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Speaker 1: we see tomorrow with another show Noon to three one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by a lot of Health. Coming here

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Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park. And this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's radio