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Speaker 1: These One Bill's Live presented by called Light to Health.

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Speaker 1: It's a Tuesday, man, we are radio only for the

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Speaker 1: second straight day. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: coming to you here on a Tuesday, and Steve in

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Speaker 1: his humble abode. I am doing the same in my

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Speaker 1: humble abode. As the digging out has ensued here in

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Speaker 1: Western New York, and thankfully the snow has pretty much

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Speaker 1: stopped across the Western New York region. Suffice to say,

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Speaker 1: we've had enough, Steve, I think that's safe to say.

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Speaker 1: I think we're up over ninety inches for the season already.

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Speaker 1: And what are we seven days? Six days into winter. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's snowing here in the Southtown still, is it really?

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Speaker 1: But it's but it's a beauty though. It's coming straight down,

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Speaker 1: fluffy white. Yeah, and not very fast either. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: my plowd guy came by for the first time in

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Speaker 1: a couple of days, and yeah, we're kind of we're

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Speaker 1: kind of back on top of it now. The travel

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Speaker 1: band where I'm at was lifted yesterday morning, and you

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Speaker 1: know that, you know, whenever that happens, you feel like

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Speaker 1: you can go out and get some things done. You know,

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Speaker 1: so the lines in the grocery store of subsided that

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll say this, we went. We had to.

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Speaker 1: We had to go out to dinner last night, as

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Speaker 1: they had to because you know, when you got people

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Speaker 1: in for the holidays, it got here before the storm

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Speaker 1: and haven't been able to leave because of the storm,

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Speaker 1: you gotta go out. So yeah, yeah, so everybody else

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Speaker 1: was in the same boat down here. Every place was act. Yeah. Act.

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Speaker 1: Our travel band got lifted, I want to say, was

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Speaker 1: yesterday morning at seven am, so that gave us the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to do our family Christmas celebration a day late,

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Speaker 1: which we did at my sister in law's house. So

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Speaker 1: we were able to get that done last night, although

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Speaker 1: still not everybody could get there because there were some

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Speaker 1: travel bands that were still in place. So still a

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Speaker 1: little tricky, but we made the best of it, as

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people around Western New York

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Speaker 1: are still trying to do, and as we understand it,

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Speaker 1: the city of Buffalo is still behind a lot of

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Speaker 1: the outlying suburbs in terms of their recovery. So our

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Speaker 1: best wishes to people in the city that might still

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Speaker 1: be homebound and not able to go anywhere. I still

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Speaker 1: believe the driving band exists in the city. So yeah, way,

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Speaker 1: I understand it as well. So just do your best

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Speaker 1: to hang on for maybe another day, and hopefully things

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Speaker 1: get better and stuff gets cleaned up and you can

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Speaker 1: kind of get back to your daily normal living. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's really interesting because we're so isolated here because of

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Speaker 1: the borders at the storm and how severe the storm was.

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Speaker 1: We forget everything else is still going on, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, people every place else are traveling around all that.

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Speaker 1: Although the airlines are neck deep in problems and the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Airport has yet to open, but every place else

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Speaker 1: aside from that seemed to be moving right along. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I watched, you know, the football game last night was

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a snooze fest, but you know,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers are in the playoffs. Five of the seven

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Speaker 1: spots in the AFC or are taken up. You got

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Speaker 1: guys like JJ Watt announcing that he's retiring, and we

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Speaker 1: can spend the whole show talking about Tua. We could

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Speaker 1: that guy. I don't think we're going to, but I

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Speaker 1: spend some time. I'm not that interested in it, but man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, what there's like nine layers to this thing. Right.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there, this season alone could be a thirty

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Speaker 1: inside of three minutes of that first half left and

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you get a concussion, you don't know it for

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Speaker 1: a half an hour, an hour, you know. That looks

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Speaker 1: and made a couple of throws in that fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: the huddle and that's what led to the music communication.

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Speaker 1: So here's my whole problem with the issue. Two. Basically

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Speaker 1: half with it, much like he did in week three

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Speaker 1: right and he gets up all wobbly and he can

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Speaker 1: back for the second half in week three, and then

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Speaker 1: he has a hit in the Bengals game the next week,

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Speaker 1: and he misses the next three games. So now you've

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Speaker 1: got two concussions in close proximity. Now he comes back

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Speaker 1: here in week sixteen, has almost the same kind of

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Speaker 1: week three, same kind of fall onto his back head,

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Speaker 1: back of his head hits the ground. Nobody checks the

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Speaker 1: guy out, Like, who's who is watching? This is the

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Speaker 1: first guy? Well, this is the whole reason, though, Steve, Like,

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Speaker 1: not watching the game? I mean, it's here's the other

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Speaker 1: it's your quarterback. I mean, is there a more important person?

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Speaker 1: On the field. How are you not watching every move

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Speaker 1: that guy makes with his concussion history this year alone.

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Speaker 1: So here's where I come down on this. If I

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Speaker 1: am to his family, I'm ticked off, right, Like the

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Speaker 1: than one occasion has been incapable of either a diagnosing

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Speaker 1: a concussion after clear evidence on the field suggests that

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Speaker 1: happen week three, or they're unable to err on the

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Speaker 1: side of caution and pull him from a game when

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Speaker 1: another such fall similar to the one that he had

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Speaker 1: against the Bills back in Week three, has taken place again,

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Speaker 1: knowing he's had two concussions already this season, Like, at

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Speaker 1: least pull him out and check him out, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: saw it. He kind of was falling forward, flipped the

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Speaker 1: on a scramble and he goes yeah, the camera pans away.

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Speaker 1: He gets up like nothing happened, no symptoms at all.

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Speaker 1: So I get that, And you say, observers, people might

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Speaker 1: not know what that is. They've got guys and I'm

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Speaker 1: and they put them there all the time for all

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Speaker 1: kinds of reasons. They've got guys watching the sidelines for

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Speaker 1: binoculars watching nothing but the players for symptoms of concussions.

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Speaker 1: And those are guys up in the stands with binoculars

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Speaker 1: that have got they have no other job than to

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Speaker 1: And having said all of that, something happens even if

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Speaker 1: they observe the guy. Part of the evaluation process for

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Speaker 1: concussions is looking the guy in there, say how do

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Speaker 1: that's where that's where as a medical professional, though, you

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Speaker 1: gotta kind of step in and make a call. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: make a call. What brown need the guys telling you

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Speaker 1: you're crazy. I feel fine, what are you doing? And

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Speaker 1: you say, he's a medical professional standing there. You gotta

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Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Tell your patient they're lying

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Speaker 1: can't do that. You've got to if as long as

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Speaker 1: part of the evaluation process is patient feedback, the system

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Speaker 1: only other thing I could think the doctor could do

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Speaker 1: does he sound right? Like? Does he sound like he's

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Speaker 1: the one in Buffalo where the teammate comes over and says, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: head those teammates. Yeah, well no, but but seriously, like

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Speaker 1: pulls DeVante Parker out of the game himself because the

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Speaker 1: observers there, Well, that's because Aguilar. You couldn't tell except

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Speaker 1: And right away my teammate puts his hand on my

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Speaker 1: the next day I've done. It's happened to me the

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Speaker 1: next day and again, and people say, wow, that's frightening. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got a concussion a game, didn't know it, got evaluated,

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Speaker 1: answered the questions, spend some time off, you feel. I

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Speaker 1: went back in the next day. You watch the game

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Speaker 1: on film, and this was the same game that I got.

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Speaker 1: You know, I asked, what are I doing? They took

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Speaker 1: me off after that because it became apparent to everybody,

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Speaker 1: Make a Catch and an fell game. I don't remember

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours later. So that's how slippery this is.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know, and I far be it from me

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Speaker 1: to say, I mean, the system is far perfect. I

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Speaker 1: think what we've seen this year is evidence of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not medically qualified to come up

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Speaker 1: with a way to make it better. But right, it's

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Speaker 1: clear that there are loopholes that that have to be

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Speaker 1: closed up here, because yeah, they're talking about brain injuries. Man,

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Speaker 1: like they'll work on to his family. If I'm to

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Speaker 1: know they're not to his family. Probably won't sue the Dolphins. No,

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Speaker 1: they won't, because two will step in say no, don't

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Speaker 1: do that. Well, he may, I mean he might, he

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Speaker 1: may jump. I doubt he would, but you're right, I

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Speaker 1: which seems to be the importance of winning football games

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. And let's just talk about this

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Speaker 1: let's not forget that. You know, the Bills were interested

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Speaker 1: Bills were not going to go too high in the bidding,

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Speaker 1: and the Cardinals agreed to go super high in the

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Speaker 1: bidding and gave him sixteen and a half million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year, coming off a stretch where he did not

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Speaker 1: have a sixteen games played season in like three years,

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Speaker 1: and they paid him sixteen and a half million dollars

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Speaker 1: to average about nine ten games a season. He did

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Speaker 1: not bring the impact to the Cardinal Cardinals have a

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Speaker 1: slew of other problems too. Let's not kid ourselves, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think he provided them with quite what they

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Speaker 1: anticipated paying sixteen and a half a year for him.

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Speaker 1: Certainly not. And he kind of knew they wouldn't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he probably sold some tickets when they signed him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was probably a signal to some other players on

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Speaker 1: the team that the that the organization was in you know,

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Speaker 1: all in, so to speak. But that was at a

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Speaker 1: time when you remember they traded for DeAndre Hopkins, they

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Speaker 1: got JJ Watt, They had some they had some intentions

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Speaker 1: on going places, and it just hasn't worked out for him.

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Speaker 1: Some other news around the league concerns the Broncos. A

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Speaker 1: day after firing their head coach Nathaniel Hackett, NFL Networks

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Speaker 1: Tom Pellaceero is reporting Broncho's owner and CEO Greg Penner

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Speaker 1: says the next head coach will report to him, not

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Speaker 1: to GM George Patton. He says Patton will be intimately

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Speaker 1: involved in the search for a new head coach, and

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Speaker 1: then Jonathan Jones from CBS Sports said Bronchos CEO Greg

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Speaker 1: Penner said trading for and extending Russell Wilson was a

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Speaker 1: long term decision. This is a quote. We know he'll

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Speaker 1: do the right work in the off season to be

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Speaker 1: ready for next year. I wonder what work that would be. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that'll he is presumably going to have another new offensive

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Speaker 1: system this year, Steve Well, hopefully it'll be an offensive

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Speaker 1: system that will help him rather than ask him to

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Speaker 1: do stuff he's not capable of doing either anymore or ever. Also,

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Speaker 1: we didn't know this yesterday, but Jerry Rossberg, the guy

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Speaker 1: who was brought in as a game management yet I

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Speaker 1: could hired him and they Jerry Rossberg is now the

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Speaker 1: interim head coach. He's a sixty seven year old guy

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Speaker 1: who's got a lot of experience in the NFL. He

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Speaker 1: was the coordinate special teams coordinator for John Harbaugh in

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Speaker 1: Baltimore for ten years and a couple of stops before that.

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Speaker 1: So he's been he's been put into that seat, and

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Speaker 1: you would think that he has very little chance to

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Speaker 1: hang onto that seat. Yeah. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: saw this yesterday. I saw it reported by one of

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Speaker 1: the national reporters. He said that the Broncos first went

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Speaker 1: to defensive coordinator Edjiro Evero and asked him if he

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Speaker 1: would be interested in being the interim head coach, and

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Speaker 1: he turned it down. He said his focus needed to

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Speaker 1: remain on the defensive side of the football. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if he hangs around. I think he kind of knows

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Speaker 1: a new head coach is probably gonna want his guy

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Speaker 1: as defensive coordinator. I don't know why he wouldn't want

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Speaker 1: to try to be an interim head coach for two weeks,

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Speaker 1: though two weeks different. Two weeks is different than two months,

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Speaker 1: Like Jeff Saturday, that's true. I just didn't know if

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Speaker 1: there was anything to be read into that. Here's the DC,

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Speaker 1: he's been there all year, your organization believes you're the

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Speaker 1: most eminently qualified to be the interim head coach, and

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Speaker 1: you say, yeah, thanks, but no thanks. There's no way

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Speaker 1: that guy is there next year. Then maybe not. But

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Speaker 1: I think too, it's it's better he probably felt, and

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Speaker 1: you know, giving him everything, I've never met met the guy.

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Speaker 1: I would think, knowing the mentality of these coaches, particularly

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Speaker 1: on well, as a coordinator, you gotta lead, and he's

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Speaker 1: probably saying to listen. For me to lead is best

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Speaker 1: for me to do what I'm doing and help you

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Speaker 1: guys continue to play well and help us win ball games.

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Speaker 1: This is the best place for me because if I

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Speaker 1: do take the head coaching seat, the defense may go

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Speaker 1: down the tubes. I'm you know what I mean. So

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Speaker 1: he's probably thinking he can help more in the day

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Speaker 1: to day basis in these last couple of weeks as

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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator than he would have helped as the

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Speaker 1: head coach. And he knows too that it would be

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Speaker 1: it would get out to the people, the powers that

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Speaker 1: be that they offered it to him and he said no,

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Speaker 1: so that he still gets credit for being that could

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Speaker 1: you know, being good enough to be that guy, But

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Speaker 1: he also gets credit for being smart enough not to

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Speaker 1: take it. Yeah, because they ain't gonna win a game, Brownie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they got the Chiefs this week, Thanks very much. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. I get it. But still, in all, despite

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Speaker 1: all of the offensive horrors that Russell Wilson and the

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Speaker 1: Broncos offense has been, that defense is still a top

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Speaker 1: five defense in the league. It's a pretty impressive job

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Speaker 1: that he's done. And I think he knows he might

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Speaker 1: be a candidate for a head coaching job somewhere else

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Speaker 1: might be. And there's two other jobs open right now

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Speaker 1: in Indian Carolina. Yeah, I'll say this, though, I would

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Speaker 1: highly doubt that he has any inkling that he is

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Speaker 1: like a front runner or candidate or what that landscape

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Speaker 1: looks like for those two teams. Yeah, and whoever else

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Speaker 1: might be in the market for a head coach Indianapolis, Yeah, Carolina,

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Speaker 1: and name another. Well, they'll be some others. Probably at

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Speaker 1: the end there will be usin. Yeah. Maybe Lovey Smith's

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Speaker 1: had it. Although you know, they liked him and he

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Speaker 1: was but he was like their fifth choice. They I

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Speaker 1: truly remember Lovey was helping them in the process. Well

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Speaker 1: he was there, wasn't he their DC process? He was,

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Speaker 1: and he was helping him through their process and they

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Speaker 1: I'm not I don't think this is I'm just conjecturing here.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting it. Sounds like they had a hard time

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Speaker 1: getting somebody to say yes, and they ended up offering

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Speaker 1: it to Lovey because he was the last guy that

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Speaker 1: would say, now, all right, I don't do it, because

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Speaker 1: some of their candidates said no, I'll do it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know it sounds crazy. Love Smith was a head

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Speaker 1: coach in the league for a long time, got the

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Speaker 1: Bears to the super Bowl. You know, he's a good coach. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But these guys, everybody thinks that all these candidates just

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Speaker 1: when it's offered, they take it. When it's offered, they

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Speaker 1: take it. Some of these guys are candidates and they

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Speaker 1: get into the process and they do it and they say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I I don't think I'm your guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this one's not for me. Yeah, I remember, I don't

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Speaker 1: say that last year, you know what I mean? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: last year we were wondering if if Leslie Fraser said

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Speaker 1: that because he was a candidate for the Houston Texans job. Um,

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Speaker 1: and he didn't because in here, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: it went. But I wouldn't be surprised if he looked

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Speaker 1: at that thing and said, this might not be the play.

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Speaker 1: Because here's the thing. A lot of these guys they

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Speaker 1: want to take a coaching job, no question about. They

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Speaker 1: want to be a head coach for the first time

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Speaker 1: or again or whatever. But they also know, because of

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Speaker 1: their years of experience in the league, that they've got

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Speaker 1: to have a B and C and D in place

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Speaker 1: For me to win, I need to have a general

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Speaker 1: manager who believes like I do and we have a

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Speaker 1: good relationship. I need an owner. Owner. Well, I'm owner.

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Speaker 1: I need a budget, I need this, I need this

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Speaker 1: much for my my coaching staff. I need, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is. And the owner or the GM or

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Speaker 1: the president of the club, whoever, the CEO, whoever they're

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Speaker 1: dealing with, says, we can give you A and half

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Speaker 1: of B most of c F, but not E. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, not E, but I'll give you F.

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Speaker 1: And the coaches like, and they gotta make it. They

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Speaker 1: gotta make a call. They want to say, that's not

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Speaker 1: gonna do it. So some of these guys just quietly

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00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: because they don't want to embarrass the club, right, because

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Speaker 1: that gets around two. Yeah, you want to handle it

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00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: the right way and say, yeah, don't put it out

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Speaker 1: there that I was a runner up. Just say you

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Speaker 1: interviewed me and you appreciate my effort, that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: And then and the coach just says he I don't

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Speaker 1: want the job. Yeah, basically because that don't don't think

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Speaker 1: that all these guys just take these jobs as soon

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Speaker 1: as they're offered. Yeah, it ain't like that, particularly for

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Speaker 1: veteran head coaches. All right, we gotta take a break.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to discuss our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll topic of the day. How do you want the

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Speaker 1: Bills offense to look when entering the playoffs? What does

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Speaker 1: it look like in your ideal world? You let us

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Speaker 1: know on the tweet sheet at Win Bills Live. We're

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on a Tuesday. We are

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Speaker 1: radio only again here today. We do anticipate being back

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Speaker 1: in the studio tomorrow for as simulcast broadcast, so we

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Speaker 1: look forward to that. But in the meantime, we are

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Speaker 1: discussing the Bills and their offense. How do you want

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Speaker 1: the Bills offense to look when the team is entering

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Speaker 1: the postseason? So two weeks from now. What is your

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Speaker 1: ideal appearance of the Bills offense? What does it look like?

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Speaker 1: And we'll go to the tweet sheet to get things

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Speaker 1: TJ leads off and says, love the run game, but

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Speaker 1: need more from the passing game. They have to get

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Speaker 1: the ball to Digs more consistently, keep using Knox, and

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Speaker 1: get Beasley more involved. That should open things up for Diggs,

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Speaker 1: Davis and the running backs. Cook is a big time

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Speaker 1: weapon back there. All right, A lot to unpack in

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Speaker 1: that comment, Steve, so let's start with this. We heard

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Speaker 1: Josh his postgame press conference after the win over the

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Speaker 1: Bears specifically and unsolicited mentioned the fact that he felt

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Speaker 1: he has to get fourteen Stefon Diggs more involved in

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Speaker 1: the passing game. He had two targets in the game

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Speaker 1: last week. Granted they didn't throw it a ton because

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Speaker 1: of the windy conditions, but those two targets, both in

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Speaker 1: the second half. I don't think he caught. He didn't

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Speaker 1: have a target in the first half. That can't happen

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Speaker 1: with your leading receiver, not just your leading receiver, but

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Speaker 1: one of the top guys in the league. I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: don't I don't think the Bills right now are too

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Speaker 1: worried about their offense or their defense. What they have

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Speaker 1: been able to do. And we talked about it a

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Speaker 1: ton yesterday. They are I'm not pumping their tires, but

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Speaker 1: they're the number one seed in the AFC after playing

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Speaker 1: the hardest schedule. I'll say it again. They're winning games

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Speaker 1: in whatever way it takes to win games. They ran

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Speaker 1: the ball for two Bills the other day and they

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Speaker 1: have thrown the ball for four hundred in this season.

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Speaker 1: They've thrown the Josh has five touchdowns in a game

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Speaker 1: or something. I think that's right. He has five touchdowns

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Speaker 1: in a game this year. Four throwing in a running

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Speaker 1: touchdown he's got he leads the league in quarterback rushing touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Or he's right there. They can They've won the game

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Speaker 1: by with a stifling defense like they did against Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: They have I mean, you know, I mean, they outscore,

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Speaker 1: they go out into Los Angeles, they crush the ram

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Speaker 1: they My point is this, however, you need they need

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Speaker 1: to win a game. They got the horses to do it,

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Speaker 1: if they need to run it, if they need to

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Speaker 1: throw it, if they need to rush the passer, if

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00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: they need to cover, if they need to do short passing,

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00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: long passing, if they need to do power run game,

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00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: if they need to do the quarterback run game. They've

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00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: got it under the hood. They've proven an all season.

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00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: They are the team that has beaten their opponents in

641
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: more different ways than anybody anybody in the league in

642
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: my opinion, and I'm just saying that. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's true. There may be somebody out there who's

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00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: done that. Philly may be able to do that, but

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00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: they are. They are good on all cylinders, and they

646
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: can execute a game plan that is vastly different on

647
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: a week to week basis. So you got a game

648
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: where Steph doesn't get targeted for a whole half, and

649
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: let's face it, he didn't get carted. He hasn't gotten

650
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: targeted much over the last few weeks. But they're winning

651
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: games and they're doing it in a multitude of different ways.

652
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: That's how good they are. That's a that's not a detriment,

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00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: that's not a weakness. That doesn't show that they're incomplete

654
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: it shows just the opposite the yeah, because they're still winning. Yes,

655
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: they're still winning. I mean Dix gets two targets, they

656
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:56,240
Speaker 1: win by twenty two two, So I mean they're getting

657
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: a fall right the wayside, and understandably so because they're

658
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: still winning the football game. They goffortable margin. They got

659
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: crushed on Thanksgiving because they beat the Lions by three

660
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: and that was the only game the Lions won in

661
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: a six or seven game stretch lost or lost, and

662
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: only game the Lions lost in the six or giving

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00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: against and they beat them. Bills beat them by three

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Speaker 1: of the last second controlled field goal, and they're getting

665
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: crushed for style points. Same thing with the Patriots. They

666
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: beat them by two touchdowns. They just squeeze the life

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00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: out of him, and people saying, no, you should have

668
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: scored more, and they're just you know, I mean, they're

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00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,320
Speaker 1: they're hard to beat, bro right, And that's and that's

670
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: this game plan and all the stuff we're talking about

671
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 1: proves it. I mean, they're they're winning these games every

672
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: which way you can think of because that's their plan

673
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: and they have executing it at a high level across

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Speaker 1: the roster. The second part of TJ's comments interesting too.

675
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: Keep using knocks and get easily more involved. They have

676
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: found something here with knocks of late, and I think

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00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: it's important. I think it's important, Um. And it's not

678
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: just you know, a little check down throws in the

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00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: flat or over the middle. I mean Knox is delivering

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00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,959
Speaker 1: some some big plays. I think over the last two

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00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: weeks he has like three of the team's six longest

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00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 1: plays from scrimmage, So that's not nothing. The more interesting

683
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,760
Speaker 1: part of that involves Beasley. I think they sign Beasley

684
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: to the practice squad and we were wondering what it means.

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00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: Was it an indictment on the lack of production behind

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Speaker 1: Diggs in the passing game. Was it meant to light

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00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: a fire under those guys that are behind Digs in

688
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: the pecking order at the receiver position. Or is Beasley

689
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: just an insurance policy in case somebody else goes down,

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00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: or maybe Jamison Crowder runs out of time and can't

691
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: come back. This season, he played six snaps on Saturday, Steve,

692
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: which is even less than the week before when he

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Speaker 1: only had I think he's all of those things, Brownie.

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00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: I think he's an insurance policy. I think he's a

695
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: fire to light underneath it, and if something happens to

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00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: somebody else, he's the guy you go to that you

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00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: trust in the offense, who's played in the offense. So

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00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: I'm he made a lot of senses as signing for

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00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo even more so, and he played. Look, don't forget

700
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: he was with the Buccaneers for like eight days. A

701
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: cup of coffee down there and he said, I'm done.

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00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: This is the only place that he fits perfectly, and

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00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 1: not only as a player, but as a locker room

704
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,760
Speaker 1: guy in the offense, as a piece to an offensive system,

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00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: a game planned guy. He's the perfect fit right now.

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00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: Even if he doesn't play a snap, he's the perfect

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00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: fit right The only other problem as far as Beasley's

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Speaker 1: involvement in the offense is concerned, is there might be

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Speaker 1: a guy emerging here that's going to get more touches

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Speaker 1: going forward. We'll tell you who that is when we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Pills Live, presented by Collid to Health.

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Speaker 1: your Buffalo Bills. We got to get back to the

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00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,439
Speaker 1: tweet sheet to get some of your comments on what

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00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,919
Speaker 1: you ideally want the Bill's offense to look like as

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00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: it heads to the postseason in two weeks or preferably

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00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: three weeks time, because that would mean they got to

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Speaker 1: buy in the top seed, and TJ gave us a

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00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: lot to look at. We were dicing up some of

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Speaker 1: that in the last segment, and we were talking about

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Speaker 1: Beasley and how he's probably an insurance policy, a guy

725
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Speaker 1: to light a fire under the guys behind Digs in

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Speaker 1: the pecking order on the active roster there in case

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Speaker 1: he's needed. I wonder if what is keeping his snap

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00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: count down is the emergence of James Cook. He plays

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00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: a different position, not all the requirements within the scope

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00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: of the offense are the same, but he can deliver

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Speaker 1: in the receiving part of the game and be an

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Speaker 1: extension of the run game that way, much the way

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Speaker 1: Beasley was. So Cook's production is up over the last

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Speaker 1: six games, not only because he's playing more, but in

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00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:25,359
Speaker 1: my opinion, he's playing better. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Beasley's time on the field increases all that much in

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Speaker 1: these final two weeks because, in my estimation, Steve, they

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Speaker 1: know what Beasley is. I think they want to learn

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Speaker 1: more about what Cook can be for this offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're up for learning anything right now.

741
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: I think they're up for getting the guy out there

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00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: they think can do something. Cook has. It's taken him

743
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: a long time to get on the field. Let's face it,

744
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: We've been waiting on him all season. And he gets

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00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: out there and he catches a little swing pass and

746
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: falls down, or he coughs up the ball, or he

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00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: drops a pass. It's been a it's been an issue.

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Speaker 1: They finally starting to string some good plays together without

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00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: falling over himself, and it's great. You've got Khalil Shakir

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Speaker 1: who's finally getting some snaps. He got up catch last

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00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: week on one target. I think that's crucial for like

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Speaker 1: Reggie Gilliam, Cole Beasley, Khalil Shakir, Clinton Morris, Stefan Diggs,

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00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 1: all of these guys like Diggs two targets, two catches,

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00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: Gilliam one target, one catch, Beasley one target, one catch,

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00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 1: Shakier one target, one catch, everybody else and like knocks

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Speaker 1: five targets, only three catches, Gabe Davis six targets, only

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00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: three catches. You need guys to catch it when it

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00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: gets thrown to him, and he need him to do

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Speaker 1: something with it after they catch it. And the young guy,

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00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: well young guys I say young like Gilliam Beasley, Shakier,

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00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: the guys who have started to be sprinkled into the offense.

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Speaker 1: They've got to continue to do exactly that. Cook to

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00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: catch one catch for two targets. You know, if he's

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00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: gonna be in the part of the passing game, he's

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00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: got to be a part of the passing game. That's

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00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: not enough. Now that the Chicago game can't be taken

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00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 1: as a you know, an encapsulation of everything they hope

768
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: and dream because it was the Chicago Bears and you

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00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: were thumping them up pretty good and all you had

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00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: to do is hand it off to win it. But

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Speaker 1: at some point, if you want Cook to shine in

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00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: the offense, I get it. But he hasn't done enough

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Speaker 1: in the passing game yet. They haven't given him that

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00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: much opportunity. But he I mean, I thought he was

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00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: gonna be a dynamite receiver. I thought he's gonna be

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00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: his thing Hinz seems to be just as good in

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00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: some ways. So yeah, I like that they spread it around.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it yesterday. They had a ton of

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Speaker 1: guys catching balls yesterday or on Sunday Saturday. A lot

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Speaker 1: of them only caught one. Nobody caught more than three,

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00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: and they only threw it twenty six times. Different kind

782
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: of game, I get it. I don't know that you

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00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: make sweeping judgments based off of the Bears game, but

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00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: the one thing I do take away is that all

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00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: those guys got a chance, and a lot of them

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Speaker 1: made the most of it. Jeremy on the tweet sheet says,

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Speaker 1: I don't mind if we run the ball forty five

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00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: times where we pass it forty five times. Limiting turnovers

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00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: and executing plays correctly is what I hope for. And

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00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: maybe Jeremy's prompted to say that after a three turnover

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00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 1: performance this past Saturday, still won by twenty two. But

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Speaker 1: I think we all know when you get to the postseason,

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Speaker 1: if you have a three turnover game, you're probably going

794
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: home and you're see over. Yeah, you can't do it.

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00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: And a couple of times Bears did some good things defensively.

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Speaker 1: Eber Flews. Their head coach is a defensive guy. They

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00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: had some guys and we talked about the first pick

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00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: on the long throwdown to McKenzie in the end zone.

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00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: They had a guy dropping from the box on the

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00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: opposite side of the field all the way back underneath

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00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 1: that route. Um, that's an easy one for Josh tomission

802
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 1: not realize that guy's going to be there when he's

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00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: got to get rid of it. Um, that's a gotcha play.

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00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: Good for them. They did it, Um, And I can't

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00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: even remember the other the other interception, but you know

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00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: that's um. Turnovers have been the bugaboo this year, and

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00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 1: they were minus two in this game until the last

808
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: interception on the last play the game that was meaningless.

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00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: Then they were minus one, but they were they were

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00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,240
Speaker 1: gonna win that game. And a minus two turnover ratio.

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Speaker 1: Do the research on that, you won't. It's not pretty

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00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: wins on losses for the team. That's minus two. Correct.

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Speaker 1: H Tim on the tweet sheet says, I like the

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Speaker 1: commitment to the run. Keep that up. I want Josh

815
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Speaker 1: to take what the D gives. It seems like he

816
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: still is trying for the big play. I would tend

817
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: to agree with that, he still tries to push the

818
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: ball down the field and doesn't always take the layups.

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Speaker 1: And I'm all for being aggressive, but as we heard

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00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey even say last week, Steve somebody asked coach Dorsey, hey,

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Speaker 1: what do you say in the headset to Josh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you give him the play, do you give him a

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00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: word or two, you know, before the headset shuts off?

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Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, he said a lot of times

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00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: it's I say this US or nobody, US or nobody

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00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: which or he says, be aggressive, but be smart. So

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Speaker 1: there's a balance there. You want to be aggressive, but

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Speaker 1: in a way that if your guy doesn't catch the ball,

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Speaker 1: nobody does. And that's that's what he means by us

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00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: or nobody. So right, throw it to our guy or

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Speaker 1: nobody else, throw it out of it, throw it into

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00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: the stands kind of thing. Yeah, I get it, and

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00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:43,399
Speaker 1: that and that's you got to maximize. Mike shuts off

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00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: at fifteen of the play clock, and we all know

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Speaker 1: they go all the way down to two and one

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00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: most of the time. But yeah, they That's what a

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Speaker 1: good offensive coordinator is. He's he motivates, he empowers, he

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00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: coaches up, he anticipates and gives the guy heads up

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00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: all that stuff as much as he can give, and

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Speaker 1: maybe remind him of something they spoke about in the meeting. Hey,

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00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: don't don't forget to, you know, look him off kind

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00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:17,439
Speaker 1: of thing. All of that stuff goes into it. Yeah,

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00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: it's a personal relationship that those guys share. And when

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Speaker 1: he and he knows or should know, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he does, Dorsey knows how to speak to Josh in

846
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: a way that catches him, you know, and communicates to

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00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: him in a way that's very very quick, very succinct,

848
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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of information in there. Yeah, break

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00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: time for us here, but when we return an hour

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Speaker 1: number two will begin with NFL on CBS Color analyst

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00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: and former NFL defensive back Adam Archiletta. He joins us

852
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: for our number two here on One Bills Live presented

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00:49:47,200 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio, the one Bill's

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00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: Live presented by called Light to Health. All Right, here

855
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: we are on a Tuesday, our number two. Chris Brown,

856
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. One Bills Live is the program

857
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: and happy to have on with us now NFL on

858
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Speaker 1: CBS Color analyst, former NFL defensive back Adam Rchiletta, who

859
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: just did the game last week Bills Bears on CBS. Adam,

860
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,720
Speaker 1: thanks for the time. I hope you had a good Christmas.

861
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: But we're right back at it man week seventeen coming

862
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: at us here. It's a gigundo one with Bill's Bengals. Yeah. Thanks.

863
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: I hope you guys had a merry Christmas. And I

864
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: was fortunate. I was able, pretty nervous. I caught my

865
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: flight home from Chicago. I got on the plane two

866
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: minutes before they shut the doors. Otherwise it might have

867
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: been trouble. So thankfully I was home nice and safe

868
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: and early on Christmas Eve. I know a lot of

869
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo folks I didn't have the same Christmas as I did. Yeah,

870
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: it wasn't Yeah, we knew it was going to be

871
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: an issue, you know, and it turned out to beef

872
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 1: and it still is for a lot of people. Buffalo

873
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: airports still not open. So we're gonna ask you too,

874
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: what you think about the Bears Bills is what you expected,

875
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: what the Bills were able to do on the ground,

876
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: which was a little unexpected, a little out of character.

877
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 1: I think, Well, Steve, as you know, it's it's hard

878
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: to know what to expect going into a game with

879
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: those conditions because both teams, I mean, just the cold

880
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: and the wind, and you don't really get a proper

881
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: perspective even when you're in the booth exactly. You know

882
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: how tough it is with the passing game and how

883
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: to operate. So you kind of knew that it would

884
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: be an atypical game. But you certainly feel like the Bills,

885
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: if any buddy, or up to the challenge because of

886
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: how they play and how you guys are used to

887
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: being in those kind of elements, and so I was

888
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: just kind of curious to see what exactly it would

889
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: be like. And what I came away with was, yes,

890
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 1: it was tough in the passing game, but if you

891
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: want to be a great team, if you want to

892
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: be a super Bowl team, you've got to find different

893
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: ways to win. And I think that's what we saw

894
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: from the Bills in that game. What did you make

895
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 1: of Buffalo's defensive performance because the first drive, the Bears

896
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: go right down the field. Now we have seen that

897
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: from the Bills defense before, but coach Fraser and his

898
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 1: defensive staff, they'll give up an early touchdown drive at

899
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:40,839
Speaker 1: the start of a game, but then they make these

900
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: adjustments and it just gets put on lockdown. What do

901
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: you think of their performance, particularly after that first drive

902
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: went down for a TD for Chicago. Well, look, sometimes

903
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 1: the running game, you can one guy is out of

904
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: their gap and you know they hit you. Sometimes that

905
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: can happen, you know, And that's what happened on the

906
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: big Really it was the one big David Montgomery run.

907
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: And certainly again being in the cold, it can be

908
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: a little shocking at first. It's a kind of to

909
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: get warmed up and start to fly around and start

910
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: to make plays. What I was impressed with is, you know,

911
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: justin fields, look, he's still he's still one dimensional quarterback.

912
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 1: But in that one dimension he's as good as it gets.

913
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: And every single game he makes eye popping plays. He

914
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: makes highlight plays against really good defenses, and so I

915
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: just thought that, you know, they smothered him. And as

916
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: the game went on, you really started to see the

917
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: difference in personnel and you saw, you know, the Bills

918
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: rock solid at all three levels. Bears were overmatched. And

919
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: that's what you should do in a game like that,

920
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: if you if you have designs and you feel like

921
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: you're one of the best teams and you are going

922
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: to go on a supermow o round like the Bills are,

923
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: and then you know, as that game goes on, you

924
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: should smother that football team. And that's what they did.

925
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: You get into these games and you're right. We've been

926
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: talking about it this week. The Bills have found Yeah,

927
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,439
Speaker 1: they found a way to win in Chicago. I thought

928
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: their planned and their adjustments during the game they started

929
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: handing the football off speaks to the fact that they

930
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,280
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things that beat other teams.

931
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: And I made the statement I thought the Bills were

932
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: good enough all over their roster to pick any way

933
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: they want or need to beat another team. Their strengths

934
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 1: and weaknesses match up with anybody's. And whatever your weakness

935
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: on your team is, whether it's your pass rush or

936
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: your secondary or your run game, or your passing game

937
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: or this guy or that guy, they can beat you.

938
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: They can exploit that weakness of you better than any

939
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: team in the league because they're so deep and across

940
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: the board. Is that is this Chicago game an illustration

941
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: of that? Or is that oversimplify it? Well, let's face it,

942
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: the Bears are not a good football team. So is

943
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 1: that a true measure? It's maybe it's hard to say that,

944
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: but I will say to your points Steed, that personnel wise,

945
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: I do believe the Bills have that capability on both

946
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,040
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. But also what they have, and

947
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: this is what all good teams should have, is I

948
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,760
Speaker 1: just think they're really solidly coached fundamentally all the way around,

949
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:08,760
Speaker 1: and so you really see it on the defensive side.

950
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 1: I think Ken Dorsey is really starting to come to

951
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: his own on the offensive side. But but these guys

952
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: are well coached, and I admire the way Sean McDermott

953
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: and Leslie Frasier, the way they coach the defense. They're

954
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: not you know, how do we say, they're not schemers.

955
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have some exotic game plan weekend and

956
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: week out. But they do enough and they never stray

957
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: away from their fundamentals in the core of what they are,

958
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: and so they have a really good feel of how

959
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: to adjust the different offenses, how to make those adjustments

960
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: in game. And really that's what you come away impressed with.

961
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: They have good personnel, but I really am impressed with

962
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: the way they are coached. They're fundamentally sound, and I

963
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 1: just think they've since Sean McDermott has been there. I

964
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: just I love the way he's coached. I love the

965
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: way they put this football team together, and I do

966
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: think especial actually with Josh Allen having the ability to

967
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: do what he does when they need him to do it.

968
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 1: That look, they've got to be one of the favorites

969
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 1: to go all the way. Adam. It's been kind of

970
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 1: a slow burn with James Cook here in his rookie season.

971
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 1: He's had a season that's had a few hiccups here

972
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: and there, but it really feels like he's turned a

973
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: corner on the field in some, not all, aspects of

974
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: his game because he hasn't really been factored heavily in

975
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: the passing game just yet, even though we know he's

976
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: capable of it in his skill set. But what we're seeing,

977
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: at least for those of us that have seen him

978
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: every single week, it looks like he's seeing it faster

979
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: on the field and playing faster as a result. I'm

980
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 1: just curious, because you probably haven't seen him up close

981
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,760
Speaker 1: and personal every week like we have, what your initial

982
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: impressions are of him. Well, first, before I really speak

983
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: to him. It's just your running game in general. What

984
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: I noticed is that, let's face it, you guys are

985
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: going through Josh Allen's right arm. Okay, so it doesn't

986
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,919
Speaker 1: have to take center stage. When I watched the Miami game,

987
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: and I made this point during the game, it wasn't strong,

988
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 1: they didn't really do much, but when they had to

989
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: have it in the fourth quarter, both Cook and Singletary,

990
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: well they made some tough runs. And so they're really

991
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: it's a good situational running game, and so they don't

992
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: have to I mean they did last week, they ran

993
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: for over two hundred, but they don't have to really

994
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: carry the load. And so that's what really impressed me.

995
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: When I saw Cook last week. I just loved how

996
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: decisive he was. I loved how there wasn't a lot

997
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: of hesitation. He saw it, he hit it, and then

998
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: you saw once you know, he got to that next level,

999
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: you saw the speed and what the guy is capable

1000
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: of doing. But I just see this as a really

1001
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 1: good complimentary piece. And you just add the fact that

1002
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, when they started doing the quarterback runs with

1003
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, I just came away impressed. Again. The numbers

1004
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 1: aren't big. But I just loved how both Singletary and

1005
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: Cook when they need them to make a run, even

1006
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: if it's just a three yard run to pick up

1007
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: the first down, they just came up huge and they

1008
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: came up clutch. And I do think that, you know,

1009
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: put all those pieces together, it just makes the Bills

1010
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: a stronger football team. How much credence do you give

1011
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: the the arm injury that Josh suffered in week out

1012
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: nine or whatever it was, and it did seem we

1013
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: saw him. They were making the comments about how much

1014
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: or how little he threw in practice for a couple

1015
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: of weeks now he said he's had days where he

1016
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: really he actually feels great during the week, which tends

1017
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: to think make you think when was he not feeling great? Right?

1018
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: And he went through he went through a stretch where

1019
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: he was throwing red zone interceptions like you know, like

1020
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: it was his job. So you know, what do you

1021
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 1: think about where he is healthwise and the extent of

1022
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: what that might have done to this offense during the

1023
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: lull and when they were turning the football over well, Steve,

1024
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really hard to say because I'm not

1025
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: in his body right, So I don't know exactly what

1026
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: he's going through. You can only go by the performance

1027
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: on the field. I think that you know, as far

1028
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: as the red zone interceptions go, when you study quarterbacks

1029
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 1: and you study the guys and the offenses that really

1030
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: you're humming, it's the quarterbacks that are fearless in the

1031
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 1: red zone. You know, one thing is that a they

1032
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 1: can extend places, but be they're fearless and the anticipation

1033
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: and the confidence to make throws that a lot of

1034
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 1: guys won't. And so for Josh there's a balance there, right,

1035
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:38,479
Speaker 1: he does things and he makes throws that most quarterbacks can't.

1036
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: So he has they have the ability to be an

1037
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: excellent red zone team, but at times he's not going

1038
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: to make a good decision. I think we've seen it

1039
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: that at times. You know, he still goes into that

1040
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: that freestyle backyard football mode. But you look at his

1041
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: touchdown interception ratio. Shoot, I'd rather what is it thirty

1042
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: seven to fifteen or something like that. I'd rather have

1043
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 1: that than fifteen touchdowns and five interceptions. So as far

1044
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: as his elbow goes, I have no idea, but I

1045
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: remember the throw against Detroit. I think what was that

1046
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 1: the week after he hurt his elbow. I mean, if

1047
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: his elbow is hurt and he's making throws like that,

1048
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: then the guy certainly is bionic and he is Superman.

1049
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: So again, I don't know, but he's still, to me,

1050
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: is plenty healthy to play at a championship caliber. Talking

1051
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: with CBS color analysts for our NFL defensive back Adam Arceletta,

1052
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: and let's spin it forward now, Adam to what is

1053
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: turning into a monumental Monday night matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals.

1054
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: Bills have won six in a row, Bengals have won

1055
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: seven in a row. And it's two of the better

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01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the conference in Allan and Borrow. Steve and

1057
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: I were having this discussion yesterday, and I'm just curious

1058
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: for your thoughts. I think Josh still sometimes falls victim

1059
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: to wanting to get it all in one play, maybe

1060
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: pushing it down the field when they're all are underneath

1061
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: options to kind of just stay on schedule. And I

1062
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: think Burrow is more willing to take the layups than

1063
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: maybe Josh is, who might be perceived as a little

1064
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: bit more of a gun slinger. Do you see that

1065
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: in Burrow's game, and believe me, I know better than anybody,

1066
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: he's got a heck of a top three to work with,

1067
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: you know, with Jason Higgins and Boyd. But I'm just

1068
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 1: curious for your take on that in terms of the

1069
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: ways in which they kind of make those decisions work

1070
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: in the offense down the field. Yeah, it depends how

1071
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: much time you guys have, Because I could, I can

1072
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: go into a forty five minute dissertation on the Bengals offense.

1073
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 1: I've had them a few times this year, and I'm

1074
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: really impressed with Burrow, So I'll start with in my opinion,

1075
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: what makes them as deadly as anybody is their ability

1076
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: to attack single high coverage. It reminds me of when

1077
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 1: I used to prepare against Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison.

1078
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: The chemistry and connection between Burrow and Chase it is.

1079
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: It's on a different level. With the way they worked

1080
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 1: the fade route in the back shoulder route. You really

1081
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 1: couldn't play Peyton Manning in a single high defense because

1082
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: of it. You couldn't do it. You had to go

1083
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,680
Speaker 1: too high and you can only play about four different defenses.

1084
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 1: It's that good. I believe that Burrow and Chase have

1085
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: that type of a chemistry, and then with te Higgins

1086
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 1: on the other side, it's almost like Reggie Wayne. And

1087
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: so now you get an offense that has to you

1088
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: can't run single high, you can't blitz because Burrow gets

1089
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 1: the ball out and can identify defenses, and so you're

1090
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 1: in a two high defense. And then they have Joe

1091
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: Mixon who now can operate against two high looks. And

1092
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: it almost reminds me exactly of the indie offense back

1093
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: in the day. So the second partier your question is

1094
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: that I believe that the early struggles of the Cincinnati offense,

1095
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: because of what they did last year getting so many

1096
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: home runs against single high Burrow, They're seeing a lot

1097
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 1: of two high defenses, and Burrow was hanged on Chase

1098
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: a little bit longer than he should and that's some

1099
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: of those sacks came because of that. And so their

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01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: adaptation really has been him taking the easy stuff underneath

1101
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:13,439
Speaker 1: and just say, look, you're gonna go too high, We're

1102
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: gonna nickel and dime you, and I'm going to get

1103
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: the ball out and I'm going to frustrate you, and

1104
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: really getting confident in that they've gotten so much better

1105
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: at attacking. Now they're explosives down the field. They're one

1106
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 1: of the more explosive offenses, but that as far as

1107
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: like taking shots, they're one of the least as far

1108
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 1: as taking shots twenty yards down field. So they have

1109
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: really mastered the art of getting the big play by

1110
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: the underneath and the intermediate passing game. And to me, boy,

1111
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 1: that is what is so hard to stop. You go

1112
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: single high, it's going to Chaser Higgins and good luck

1113
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 1: stopping it. And then now you go too high, and

1114
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 1: then his command of where to go with the football

1115
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 1: is as good as there is in my opinion in

1116
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: the National Football League. So are they still getting explosives

1117
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: on yards after catches that what you're into meeting there

1118
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 1: absolutely there if you look at them and this I

1119
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 1: had them. It was two weeks ago and I was

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01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 1: studying their offense and they were top three I think

1121
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: in explosives, and they were bottom three as far as

1122
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:19,440
Speaker 1: shots down the field, which is pretty remarkable. Last year

1123
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: it was almost the opposite. They they they had a

1124
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: lot of explosive what I won balls did the marchase

1125
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 1: and so they're getting it from their backs between Mixon

1126
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 1: and p Ryan out of the backfield and the screen game. Again,

1127
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: it all starts with single high defense. To me, it's

1128
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 1: just they are They're the best in football at attacking

1129
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 1: and it starts with burrows chemistry with Jamar Chase and

1130
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: then Tee Higgins ability to win you know, those physical

1131
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: balls on the other side, they are Burrows playing at

1132
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,919
Speaker 1: a high He's playing a quarterback position as as high

1133
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: levels as you can play. What about the other side

1134
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: of the football, We know that it's not It's a

1135
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 1: pretty complete team over there. And their defense to me,

1136
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 1: when I watch it, they seem aggressive, fast, athletic. They

1137
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: played with a lot of confidence. Yeah, you know, when

1138
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 1: I look at their defense, first, I give a lot

1139
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,120
Speaker 1: of credit to Luanna Rumo. He had a couple tough

1140
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: years when he first got there and they struggled. Now,

1141
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: their personnel wasn't good, but you know, he was still

1142
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 1: a new coordinator. When I look at what he's done

1143
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: with that defense over the last four or five years,

1144
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: he's an impressive coordinator to me. And he puts those

1145
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 1: guys in a really good position up front. They have

1146
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: two really good ends. Now, I know Hendrickson is hurt,

1147
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 1: but but the combination of Hendrickson and Hubbard both setting

1148
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 1: edges in the run game and pressuring the quarterback really good.

1149
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 1: DJ Reader is an absolute beast inside. He is I mean,

1150
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: he makes so many one on one plays just that

1151
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 1: he really takes the defense at a different level. Their

1152
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 1: backers are playing exceptional Logan Wilson and Jermaine Pratt, and

1153
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: their secondary has always been solid even without their best

1154
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: cover guy, Cheetobe Woozier. Their secondary, you know, Luana Rumo

1155
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 1: is a secondary guy, really plays aggressive. You know, I

1156
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 1: had them the week after they played the Chiefs, and

1157
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,800
Speaker 1: when I was studying them on tape, what I was

1158
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 1: impressed with is that they had no fear. They weren't

1159
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 1: scared of Mahomes, they weren't scared of the receivers. They

1160
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: challenged them, man, They didn't do any fancy defenses. They

1161
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: just said, hey, we're gonna get after it. We're gonna

1162
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 1: challenge you. We have confidence in our players that I

1163
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: think they zero blitz them six or seven times. Now.

1164
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 1: Mahomes hit him a couple, But I just to me,

1165
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 1: it's a defense that believes in themselves and they're they're

1166
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: not afraid of anybody. And so again I'm not gonna

1167
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make them the the you know, the

1168
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 1: eighty five Bears or the eighty six Giants. But that's

1169
01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: what shows up to me on tape that I just

1170
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 1: feel like that football team on sides of the ball

1171
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: has a real belief system that they can match up

1172
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 1: with anyone. So what do you think would behoove the

1173
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 1: Bills offensively to try to hit him on a few

1174
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 1: or let alone be productive from start to finish, to

1175
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: try to score more points than Burrows going to put up. Well,

1176
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 1: I think the Bills should be the Bills. Yeah. It

1177
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: was funny because before this Chicago game, because I knew

1178
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: the cold was going to be a factor, and talking

1179
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: to a lot of the Bills, I went back and

1180
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 1: they said that the preview the Patriots game from last

1181
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 1: year's playoff was with the coldest game that they had

1182
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:42,439
Speaker 1: played in. And so I actually the night before the game,

1183
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 1: I turned on that game and I watched it. As

1184
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 1: you guys you remember, I mean, the Bills were unstoppable.

1185
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 1: I mean it was like I was like, wait a minute,

1186
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: Like they're all saying that was the cold. It's like

1187
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 1: there was nothing cold about that game because they jumped

1188
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 1: out and you know, Josh was just splinging it. I

1189
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 1: mean it was They had three hundred yards and twenty

1190
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: eight points in the first half. So I think the

1191
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 1: Bill should just be the Bills. There's no reason to

1192
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 1: try and be anything that you're not. They have a

1193
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 1: quarterback that is of the caliber that can win any game.

1194
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 1: They have the offensive personnel, and so I believe that

1195
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:23,600
Speaker 1: most likely as you get into the playoffs with the

1196
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:28,519
Speaker 1: caliber of quarterbacks with Josh and Patrick and Burrow, and

1197
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:31,440
Speaker 1: then you know, he doesn't have the big game experience,

1198
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: but I put Herbert maybe in the same category. Probably

1199
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: going to end up the quarterback that has a ball

1200
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 1: ask and which defensive guy up front can make the

1201
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: stop the closer. You know, I don't see I see

1202
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 1: all of these quarterbacks playing at a high level, and

1203
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,720
Speaker 1: that's probably how it's gonna end up, almost like it

1204
01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: was in the Super Bowl with Aaron Donald sacking Joe

1205
01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: Burrow on the last drive. I really that's how That's

1206
01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 1: how good I feel about all these quarterbacks, these offenses.

1207
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 1: So you know, up front, I believe these games. You know,

1208
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: I don't know about you know, Monday night, I'm kind

1209
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 1: of looking forward to the playoffs, but it's probably going

1210
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,760
Speaker 1: to be won by the front flour that has the

1211
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:15,599
Speaker 1: best postseason. Yeah, I would, I would agree. I mean,

1212
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 1: and that's outside of this Cincinnati game. I don't know what.

1213
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at the weather what it's going to

1214
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: be like in Cincinnati, but you'd love to have it

1215
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 1: a clear, calm night so these two offenses can work. Right.

1216
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 1: It does seem like this may be one of those

1217
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 1: games that really makes a statement about what's going to

1218
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 1: happen in the next month and a half of the

1219
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: NFL football season, in the playoffs and all of that.

1220
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: These two teams going at it. How important do you

1221
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 1: think for all of these teams? Because Bills have gone

1222
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: into Kansas City and beating them twice in the regular season.

1223
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was three and oh against Pat Mahomes. Mahomes

1224
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: doesn't fear anybody, particularly if they're playing in Kansas City.

1225
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: You know, the Bills are the number one seed right now,

1226
01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,599
Speaker 1: but they got to win all these games because nope,

1227
01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, Broncos and the Raiders are not beating the

1228
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs to finish the season. So the Bill's

1229
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:06,719
Speaker 1: got to win out to get home field. Talk about

1230
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:08,800
Speaker 1: home field, what it's going to mean for all three

1231
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 1: of those teams, the Bills, the Bengals, and the Chiefs. Well,

1232
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: I think home field matters because there's nothing, especially on defense,

1233
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: like playing in front of your home fans and the

1234
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 1: stadium is rocking, right, And so as I mentioned what,

1235
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: I think, it's probably going to come down to the

1236
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: front four that makes the play. Well, who's going to

1237
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 1: be cheering them on on those final drives, right, I'm

1238
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:38,040
Speaker 1: sure you want your home crowd. I mean, that's there's

1239
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: no better feeling in football as a defensive player than

1240
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 1: when the game's on the line and then all of

1241
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: your sixty seventy thousand fans are just screaming. I mean,

1242
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: it's it's to me, it's one of the best feelings

1243
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: in sports. So I do think home field matters for

1244
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:56,080
Speaker 1: those reasons. I do believe though, that with all of

1245
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, and really they're just they're all solid football teams.

1246
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 1: So obviously the quarterbacks are at the next level, but

1247
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: they're all really well coached, so solid football teams with

1248
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:10,679
Speaker 1: good personnel on the offensive and defensive side of the ball,

1249
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,800
Speaker 1: so they certainly have the capability of winning the game

1250
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: on the road. So it's not a for sure, hey,

1251
01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: home field, that we're going to go all the way

1252
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. But I do think there's nothing

1253
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,480
Speaker 1: better than Hey, we don't have to get on an airplane,

1254
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: you know, we can just sit at home, we can

1255
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 1: just dial in and we've got our fans to me

1256
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 1: that that is a special feeling. So I do think

1257
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 1: that it is important. Yeah, I think all of us

1258
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 1: are just isshing to finally see Patrick Mahomes play a

1259
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 1: playoff game that's not in Arrowhead just once, you know

1260
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:40,640
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, I'd like to see that just

1261
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 1: one time, because it has in the postseason. It's crazy. Adam, listen,

1262
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 1: thanks very much for the time. We appreciate it. We'll

1263
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: catch up with you down the line. But if we

1264
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:52,479
Speaker 1: don't talk to you, have a happy New Year always, guys,

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Speaker 1: have a happy New Year. And thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Love Tasker. I don't get to I

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Speaker 1: don't get to see her. Talk to you very much. Man,

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Speaker 1: you ignore me, so oh yeah right, yeah, I know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know my phone's been blown up with you calling me.

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Speaker 1: I know it's great seeing Yeah, I mean, hey, I

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Speaker 1: enjoyed your commentary. You and Greg did a nice job

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Speaker 1: for the Bears game. It's good to see you again

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Speaker 1: and congratulations on all of that. It's good season, man,

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Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas. Awesome guys. Thanks all right, that's Adam

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Speaker 1: arletta NFL on CBS color analyst, former NFL dB. We

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Speaker 1: will take a break, but be back with more, including

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on the tweet sheet. Here on One Bill's

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We wanted to get back to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet where we were asking you today, how do

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Speaker 1: you want the Bill's offense to look when entering the

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Speaker 1: postseason two weeks from now? What do you want it

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Speaker 1: to look like in your ideal Bill's world. Tim on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, I like the commitment to the run.

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Speaker 1: Keep that up. I want Josh to take what the

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Speaker 1: D gives him. Seems like he's still trying for the

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Speaker 1: big play. I think we read that one already. That's

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Speaker 1: my bad. Mike says, to be able to attack whatever

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Speaker 1: the opposing team's defense is, whether it's run up the middle, outside,

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Speaker 1: short passes over the middle, outside, the hashes. Don't need

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Speaker 1: to be balanced, just execute what works when needed. Well

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Speaker 1: that's kind of what every offensive play callers trying to do, right, Steve.

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Speaker 1: But you gotta justice kind of the game unfold. So

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Speaker 1: in an ideal world, that's great, but yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: change as the game moves along. Yeah that's a little generalized,

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Speaker 1: but yes, and the Bills have been doing that. I

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Speaker 1: mean they have, they have, They did it Saturday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's not forget. They're on just a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a winning streak here. So that's nice. Yeah. From Twitter

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Speaker 1: user x run based with play action no turnovers, the

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Speaker 1: Bills defense will keep most teams at twenty or under.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have kept their opponents to twenty or under

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Speaker 1: ten times this year, including the Chiefs. This is a

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Speaker 1: winning formula. I will say play action is down this

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Speaker 1: year compared to what it was Undrew Bryan Dayble the

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Speaker 1: last two years. I don't know if we need play

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Speaker 1: action or not. Yeah, yeah, maybe if the other team

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Speaker 1: is susceptible to it. Like certainly, if you played the

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Speaker 1: Bears again, they'd be susceptible to it because you crushed

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Speaker 1: them with the run this last time, don't. I think

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Speaker 1: one of the things about it with a guy like

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, play action isn't as effective because they don't

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Speaker 1: straight handoff that much. Because this offense, when you say

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Speaker 1: run based with play action, no, this is the throw

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Speaker 1: they throw it. Their offense is to throw the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they don't need to change anything, and I think that

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Speaker 1: would be a change. Certainly, they can sprinkle in play action,

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Speaker 1: but they're not going to do They're not going to

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Speaker 1: do ten reps of play action passing a game, right.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I said it was down compared to

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Speaker 1: what it was under Dable is because I wasn't trying

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Speaker 1: to say they should do more of it. I was

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Speaker 1: just stating effect. It is down the number of times

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Speaker 1: they've used play action from what it was. It's not

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Speaker 1: that Dable used it a ton either. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I think this offense is a shotgun offense with Josh

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Speaker 1: back there and Daring you to play man coverage against

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Speaker 1: Steph Diggs and Gabe Davis and McKenzie or Shaker or

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Speaker 1: Beasley whoever's in the slot and Dawson Knox. Uh. If

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Speaker 1: you want to play man, you better win in the

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Speaker 1: back end and have a by on the quarterback because

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Speaker 1: if your defensive line runs a stunt up front and

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Speaker 1: leaves a gap, he's gonna gash you. They got problems

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Speaker 1: with a run game because of the quarterback threatening you

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Speaker 1: with the pass and he'll run it. So, yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is a throwing offense. You don't need to have a

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Speaker 1: run based offense. And you know, last week in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: they were playing a team that's won three games all

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Speaker 1: year and stinks at the line of scrimmage on both

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Speaker 1: sides of the ball, and it showed and had lost

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Speaker 1: seven in a row, and it showed and the Bills.

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Speaker 1: The Bills did a little bit of a flex on them,

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Speaker 1: And that's probably gonna skew some analytics for some teams

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Speaker 1: that are looking at the Bills trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: analytically what they're doing. You throw it, You might want

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Speaker 1: to throw that game out because they only threw it

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Speaker 1: twenty six times, right, and there are a couple other

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Speaker 1: games where they actually ran more than they threw it, right,

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Speaker 1: But yes, and some of those were games where, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Browns game was the Browns game, the Packer game

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Speaker 1: that any of these teams where they were squeezing the

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Speaker 1: life out of the Patriots first Patriots came game, you know,

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Speaker 1: So they did that a couple of times, but those

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Speaker 1: were late in the game rushes. They sought the game

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Speaker 1: away situations, which is great, and that's kind of what

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Speaker 1: the Bills did here. Bears weren't moving the football offensively

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Speaker 1: that you know what did The Bills weren't anything right,

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Speaker 1: so the Bills weren't really worried about it getting nicked

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Speaker 1: for a big play. Yeah, Andrew on the tweet sheet says,

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Speaker 1: would love a bigger role for Cole Beasley, but love

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Speaker 1: the increased utilization of Dawson Knox, Devin Singletary and James Cook.

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs got us here and the reduced workload will

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Speaker 1: have him fresh come playoff time. Much needed versatility with

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Speaker 1: this offense. Now, let's talk about that for a second, Steve,

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Speaker 1: because I remember the game last year was right at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season. They got Diggs his hundred

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Speaker 1: receptions and kicked in a bonus for him or something,

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Speaker 1: and Josh was literally forced feeding him the ball. And

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Speaker 1: it was a game that they didn't necessarily need. I

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Speaker 1: don't think a win was going to improve their playoff seating,

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Speaker 1: if I remember right in week eighteen, and so I

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Speaker 1: asked Josh after the game, I said, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: forcing the ball to Diggs and blah blah blah, and

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Speaker 1: that's all well and good. Was there a reason that

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Speaker 1: didn't happen sooner? And he kind of shed some light

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Speaker 1: on the fact that they had been pacing him in

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Speaker 1: Beasley through the course of the season, because if you

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Speaker 1: remember the year prior in twenty twenty, those two guys

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Speaker 1: entered the postseason not one hundred percent. Diggs was dealing

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Speaker 1: with an oblique injury, Beasley at a crack bone in

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Speaker 1: his leg. It impacted the effectiveness of their passing game

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Speaker 1: in the postseason, even though he didn't make it to

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Speaker 1: the AFC Title Game. Is that at work again here,

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Speaker 1: do you think? Or based on what Josh said after

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Speaker 1: the game on Saturday, maybe it's just the way the

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Speaker 1: game unfolded. He didn't intend to not get the ball

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Speaker 1: to Stefon Diggs. It just kind of happened. There may

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Speaker 1: be some of that in there. I think you'll see

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Speaker 1: remnants of it or evidence of it during the week

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Speaker 1: in practice as well, when these guys are getting more

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Speaker 1: than one rest day and you know they got a

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Speaker 1: little extra time off this holiday as well. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's on their mind. And if they did

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Speaker 1: it last year and it worked, and let's face it,

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Speaker 1: this team was humming last year when they hit the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and they got into it, they were singing. So

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Sean McDermott is looking back at his notes

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Speaker 1: and remembering it and saying, you know what, we gotta

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Speaker 1: we gotta repeat that because they hit this postseason last year.

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Speaker 1: I remember thinking this they were they were one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent healthy at the playoffs. As the playoffs kicked off

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Speaker 1: after eighteen weeks, they were one hundred percent healthy and

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Speaker 1: rested and just humming. So I think, yeah, there might

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01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 1: be a little bit of that posturing and getting your

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01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: pitching staff lined up for a late you know, for

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Speaker 1: the for the series coming up, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Oh totally. And I'll say this too because people might

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Speaker 1: have forgotten this, but over the last four weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season. Last year, the Bills had the second most

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Speaker 1: rushing yards in the league over the final month of

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Speaker 1: the season. And after this week's game, when they ran

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Speaker 1: for two fifty four, albeit against much different circumstances, you

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Speaker 1: got a beleaguered Bears defense that's half the guys probably

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Speaker 1: don't even belong in the league lining up for him

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Speaker 1: because of all the injuries they've had, and they run

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Speaker 1: for two fifty four. And so I asked Singletary, I said, look,

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Speaker 1: last year, down the stretch, you're running back, You're running

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Speaker 1: game really kicked it into gear. You were the second

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Speaker 1: leading team in rushing over the final months of the season.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're getting back to that now.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted his take on it, and he wasn't

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Speaker 1: ready to commit to that. He wasn't ready to commit

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Speaker 1: to that. And I think it's partially because I think

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Speaker 1: they knew they were running against an inferior opponent this

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Speaker 1: past week. But if you can do a little run,

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Speaker 1: not as much, but if you can do a little

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Speaker 1: running like that against the Bengals, that's not nothing. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not. And it might have been a little serendipitous

1433
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Speaker 1: about facing the Bears at the exact time he wanted

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01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 1: to kind of chill and run the football, And it

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Speaker 1: might have been a happy coincidence where you get a

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Speaker 1: team that can't stop the run and you want to

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Speaker 1: flex that way and do it. Um, maybe some of that.

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Speaker 1: I think we're going to see a much different football game.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well the Bengals not for nothing. They're a

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Speaker 1: top ten run defense, as are the Bills. I mean

1441
01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:32,719
Speaker 1: the Bills are fourth and run d and the Bengals

1442
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:35,599
Speaker 1: are seven. So yeah, it's gonna be a tough night.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be flying in the air. I think, yeah,

1444
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:42,719
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough night. Yeah. From Jay Whistler, healthy

1445
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,839
Speaker 1: O line is the most important. Like to see Josh's

1446
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 1: elbow stop impacting his throws and decision making. Do you

1447
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:51,720
Speaker 1: think that's still happening. I don't think it is. I

1448
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 1: don't know that. There's no way for us to know,

1449
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 1: but we'll never know. He says he feels good. I

1450
01:21:56,840 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 1: guess what else would he say? I feel lousy and

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01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: I can't throw. He's not gonna say that, but right

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01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 1: as Adam Archiltar guest last segment just said, two weeks

1453
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 1: after the injury. He rips that ball to Digs at

1454
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: the end of the game against the Lions right and

1455
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:13,320
Speaker 1: salts it away. Um. Yeah, it puts him in field

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01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: goal range right away. They win the game. They win

1457
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: the game because of it. Yeah, And and he made

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01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 1: a third and the third and third and seventeen against

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01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 1: the Jets or the Dolphins as well. You get twenty

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01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 1: one and he rips it right over the middle two

1461
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:31,160
Speaker 1: to to Gabe Davis. That's right after he just hurt

1462
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:34,600
Speaker 1: his elbow. And granted, maybe adrenaline's going here, but the

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01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: two plays after he hurt the elbow, he throws a

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01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:39,840
Speaker 1: sixty yard bomb to Gabe Davis, puts it on his

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01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: chest and he can't pull it in. That's two plays

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01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:49,719
Speaker 1: after the injury happened. Yeah, so its er. He's okay.

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01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 1: I mean, he may not feel one hundred percent, but

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01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 1: his you know, whatever it is, he feels, it's it's

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01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: pretty great. Yeah. I don't. I don't know that it's

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Speaker 1: impacting his decision making. I think it's his competitive nature

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Speaker 1: that impacts his decision making more than else. I think

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Speaker 1: you're right, right, Yeah, I mean it's like you say,

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01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:10,080
Speaker 1: all this time, you gotta peel him off the ceiling.

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01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:13,559
Speaker 1: Something absolutely is so jacked to go win a football game.

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01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 1: If you don't in this game in Cincinnati this weekend,

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01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:21,280
Speaker 1: if I'm Ken Dorsey, you may just call a quarterback

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01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 1: power suite. Play one first and ten on your twenty

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01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: five after the opening kickoff, take the hit, yeah he didn't,

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01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:29,400
Speaker 1: get him roughed up, and then get him back in

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01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: the huddle down he settles down. Unless he snaps one

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01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:34,960
Speaker 1: off for thirty five and snaps a hammy, then you're

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01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 1: in trouble. Oh my god, bite your tongue. Um. Kevin

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01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:40,599
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet says, I want to see twenty

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01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 1: twenty one playoff, Gabe Davis. I want to see a

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01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 1: balanced offense and no abandoning of the running game if

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01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:49,679
Speaker 1: it's working. So he's he's reacting to what we saw

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01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:52,679
Speaker 1: last week because a lot of the social media chatter

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01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 1: from last week's game Steve, especially after they watch three

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01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: turnovers happen in the passing game, two on interceptions, one

1490
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: on a fumble after a catch, They're like, why are

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01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:03,600
Speaker 1: we not running it more? We're killing him in the

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01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 1: run game. We gotta be running it more. Don't abandon

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01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:11,240
Speaker 1: the run game, and I get it. But in the end,

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01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:15,120
Speaker 1: that's not what this Bill's offense is. They're a passing offense.

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01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:18,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, if the run game's working and

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01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: you're ahead on the scoreboard, sure run more. I can.

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01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 1: I can understand the argument, but there's also an identity

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01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:27,200
Speaker 1: of this offense, and I don't think they're ever gonna

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01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:29,600
Speaker 1: stray too terribly far from it. Adam said it in

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01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: the last segment, just be just play the Buffalo Bills offense.

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01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: Who let them play be who you are, let them

1502
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:38,760
Speaker 1: Let the Buffalo Bills be the Buffalo Bills. And I

1503
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: get it too. There's a lot of angst in Bills

1504
01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:43,680
Speaker 1: in the Bills mafia about this. It's a huge game

1505
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: and you're playing a really good football team, right Just

1506
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:50,760
Speaker 1: let remind let me remind you that the Bengals are

1507
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:54,639
Speaker 1: playing a really good football team too, really good, really good.

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01:24:56,040 --> 01:25:00,600
Speaker 1: From feel, trust the run game, Alan is good, but

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01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,679
Speaker 1: do we always need to use it. No. We easily

1510
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 1: could have killed Chicago off if we ran the ball,

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01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 1: but we stopped doing it. So I want Dorisy to

1512
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 1: trust cook In Singletary to carry the rock well instead

1513
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:15,360
Speaker 1: of forcing Alan to be the MVP. On every play. Okay,

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01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:18,640
Speaker 1: a lot of these, a lot of these. I love

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01:25:18,680 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 1: the people who listen. We really appreciate people getting involved

1516
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:23,519
Speaker 1: and responding to us. But this is a little bit

1517
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 1: of hyperbole here. Yeah, I mean, yeah, they didn't call

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01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,880
Speaker 1: Josh's number very often in the run game this last week,

1519
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:33,560
Speaker 1: and they haven't for a while. And you throw it

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01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:36,400
Speaker 1: twenty six times. They threw it twenty six times, so

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01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:42,639
Speaker 1: far below. Yeah, So this thing about abandoning the run listen,

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01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 1: they're abandoning the pass is what they did in this game.

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01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:48,519
Speaker 1: It's just the opposite of what you think you're feeling.

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01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:52,640
Speaker 1: They abandoned the passing game and they were running the

1525
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 1: football all over it, so they only threw So I

1526
01:25:57,320 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 1: get it, but yeah, that's not what's happening. Yeah, and

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01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 1: it's not that they don't trust Cook and Singletary to

1528
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:10,519
Speaker 1: carry the rock. They just know Allan, more often than not,

1529
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:14,560
Speaker 1: is their best answer on every single play because he

1530
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:17,800
Speaker 1: is the MVP, because he's a freakazoit. Yeah, he is

1531
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:20,639
Speaker 1: an MVP and he's and it was this way. Anytime

1532
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:23,599
Speaker 1: you've got a guy playing Josh Allen's position, quarterback, who's

1533
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 1: the guy like Josh Allen, Allah, Cam Millway, John Elway,

1534
01:26:28,160 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, you name it, Randall, Cunningham, Mike Vick. You

1535
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:36,920
Speaker 1: get a guy that can do something on outside of that, Yeah,

1536
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: that's it's a weapon you gotta use because defenses don't

1537
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 1: see it very often. They got to cope with it.

1538
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 1: And Josh Allen at six five two fifty, Yeah, they

1539
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:49,680
Speaker 1: got to the defense. They're gonna have a problem with him,

1540
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: so they don't do it all the time, and certainly

1541
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,280
Speaker 1: there's a lot of times where they don't ask him to,

1542
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:57,479
Speaker 1: but it ends up being him anyway. So if you

1543
01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:02,639
Speaker 1: got a guy who's an MVP caliber, it's looney tunes

1544
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:07,360
Speaker 1: not to use his abilities fully like it. You gotta

1545
01:27:07,400 --> 01:27:09,560
Speaker 1: let him. You gotta let him drop back and sling it,

1546
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:14,120
Speaker 1: and if you need him, let him quarterback sneak it. Yep,

1547
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 1: we gotta take a break here. Steve and I will

1548
01:27:17,080 --> 01:27:18,880
Speaker 1: wrap things up with some final thoughts on the tweet

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01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 1: sheet next here on One Bill's Lives. Welcome back to

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01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:30,559
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Here on a Tuesday, Chris Brown, Steve

1551
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:34,759
Speaker 1: Tasker with you and Steve, we have kind of danced

1552
01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 1: around the Monday night game. Coming up here in six

1553
01:27:37,920 --> 01:27:40,240
Speaker 1: days time between the Bills and Bengals. We've called it

1554
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:45,040
Speaker 1: a gigundo enormous matchup and it is because the top

1555
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: seed in the AFC Conference is on the line, and

1556
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,680
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring this to your attention. Courtesy of

1557
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:57,000
Speaker 1: NFL Communications, this game on Monday Night, Steve is going

1558
01:27:57,040 --> 01:28:00,559
Speaker 1: to mark just the third in Monday Night football history.

1559
01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:04,640
Speaker 1: The fifty three years of Monday Night football, this is

1560
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:08,719
Speaker 1: only going to be the third time that two teams

1561
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 1: are playing each other with eleven or more wins. In

1562
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:16,560
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven San fran and Denver, that was the

1563
01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:19,160
Speaker 1: Broncos last loss of the season that year and route

1564
01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl win. And then in nineteen eighty five,

1565
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 1: Raiders eleven and four won the league's final regular season

1566
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,680
Speaker 1: game at the Rams, also eleven and four. So that's

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01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:33,719
Speaker 1: where you're at. Awesome, that's it for us. I didn't

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01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:35,639
Speaker 1: realize we were out of time. We'll see you tomorrow

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01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:37,400
Speaker 1: at one with Solomon Wilcot's on the show.