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Speaker 1: Lease. One Bill's Live presented by Called Light a Health.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Friday edition of One Bills Live. Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown Steve Tasker with you Radio only today in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and Rochester. As we are out of the studio with

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Speaker 1: us pretty much working from home in two different places.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I don't know if we want to start

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Speaker 1: the competition now, how much snow do you have? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Three feet? Probably you win. I've got maybe two, just

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Speaker 1: about two feet. I'm I'm thigh deep in snow and

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Speaker 1: neck deep in guests. That's right. They came in for

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland game and the game's not here. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you heard, yes, the game is not here.

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Speaker 1: So what the heck are you gonna do with twenty

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Speaker 1: four people in your house? Well, we're making the most

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Speaker 1: of it's fun where it's great. It's a snow day.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we got we got plenty of we got

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Speaker 1: tailgate food everywhere, we got enough other things going on.

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Speaker 1: It's just yeah, it's fun. It's like a yeah, it's fun.

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Speaker 1: We got the neighborhoods coming over this afternoon. We'll probably

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Speaker 1: have a watch party on Sunday, I say tomorrow, but

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Sunday. Um. Yeah, you make the best

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Speaker 1: of it. What can you do? I know there are

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Speaker 1: other people who are were you know, we had gotten

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Speaker 1: calls from listeners about and people on Twitter like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm come up to the game. What do I do?

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Speaker 1: I guess the answer is either go to Detroit or

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Speaker 1: stay home. Yeah, I did see that the Browns are

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Speaker 1: actually bussing to Detroit. Short drive, Yeah it is. It's

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Speaker 1: actually Cleveland is actually closer to Detroit than it is

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo, So I would estimate it can't be much

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Speaker 1: more than a two hour drive for them. And you know,

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Speaker 1: why would you hop on a plane. Be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see if Cleveland fans make that trip. They might. They might.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're closer than we are, so, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the stadium's wide open for ticket availability, so right,

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Speaker 1: and that's the way they did it last time as well.

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Speaker 1: I was a sideline reporter, so I got a first

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Speaker 1: hand view of it. It was concert seating. There were

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Speaker 1: no assigned seats at general admission. Yeah, he just walk in,

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Speaker 1: grab a seat, sit down. So there was a little

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Speaker 1: bit of that, you know, if he came down, got

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Speaker 1: a front row seat and on the rail and he

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Speaker 1: had to go to the bathroom, you had to pick

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Speaker 1: a different seat, you know, just take your seat. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Bills actually just released some ticket information right as

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Speaker 1: we came on the air, so I'll pass it along

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Speaker 1: to Bills fans that are thinking about making the trip

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Speaker 1: out there. The season ticket members will get access to

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Speaker 1: tickets in Detroit first. That will begin in an hour

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Speaker 1: at two pm. Season ticket members will be sent an

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Speaker 1: email they should have it in their inbox by now,

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Speaker 1: with a link and a code to access the sale,

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Speaker 1: and they can purchase up to six tickets per season

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Speaker 1: ticket member account. The Bills app presale then follows at

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Speaker 1: five pm. Fans will be notified via the app with

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Speaker 1: a link and a code to access that presale. Once again,

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Speaker 1: the ticket limit is six, and then if there are

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Speaker 1: tickets still left over, the general public will be able

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Speaker 1: to purchase those starting on Saturday. And the Bills aren't

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Speaker 1: encouraging you to go to the Bills app for up

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Speaker 1: to the date, up to date info on that. We

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Speaker 1: heard from head coach Sean McDermott this morning. Before I

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Speaker 1: know you pretty much have a plouse service with your

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Speaker 1: undulating and unending driveway on your palatial estate. But but

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Speaker 1: for me, I had to pull the snowblower out this morning,

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Speaker 1: So I'm no better than being out on a farm

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Speaker 1: the first row is a nightmare. Yeah. We had the sidewalk,

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna go out and do some stuff today

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Speaker 1: it and it's coming down so fast you can't stay.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't stay clean for very long. We've got another

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Speaker 1: saw on the Weather Channel that they've already measured almost

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Speaker 1: four feet in Orchard Park. Yeah, you guys can't be

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Speaker 1: I've got about twenty four inches on the ground here.

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Speaker 1: I'm literally five. I live five minutes from the airport,

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Speaker 1: I like snow days. I mean, who am I kidding?

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Speaker 1: inconvenience there is, and I get it. And this move

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Speaker 1: phenomenon that we hear in Buffalo. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: But it's pretty It really is pretty unbelievable that this

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Speaker 1: Players are in good spirits, but you have to believe

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Speaker 1: with the lack of practice time this week. I will say, Steve,

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Speaker 1: If that, in fact was the case, how long we'd

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Speaker 1: gonna stay there the whole week? Like, what's the deal? So, so,

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Speaker 1: and the players are on the field. They did a

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Speaker 1: after meetings were over, right, Yeah, and it's it's we

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Speaker 1: But if I hope there's some people out there that

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Speaker 1: speaking of help, some of the players tweeting and most

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Speaker 1: And then I saw DeMar Hamlin tweeted he said, anybody

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Speaker 1: Gentry from the practice squad. Maybe it's Marquez Stevenson who

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Speaker 1: was activated for his twenty one day practice window. Maybe

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Speaker 1: he if he looked good in this this week was

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Speaker 1: up to speed on everything. Maybe he's up as the

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Speaker 1: fifth wide out or and and hear me out, Steve

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Speaker 1: Naheim Hines. Could he double at some receiver duty this week.

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Speaker 1: We'll have to see. But all receivers, they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to do something. I think that's a stretch, Nahem Hines.

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Speaker 1: But it might be because he's you know, he's still

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Speaker 1: getting acclimated of the offense, let alone learning now and

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Speaker 1: learning a new a new position. Um yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: Kumar Will being out throws a real Yeah, throws a

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Speaker 1: problem into it. Shakier digs, Mackenzie and Davis. Yeah, somebody's

440
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Speaker 1: gotta that's that's not enough. You gotta add somebody. That's

441
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Speaker 1: not enough, um, because you don't want if you have

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Speaker 1: an injury, you don't want to get pigeonholed into twelve

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Speaker 1: personnel or twenty one personnel, especially when you're an eleven personnel.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, and the only guys they've got on the

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Speaker 1: roster as you go down is those guys we just

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Speaker 1: mentioned in kumerous On I R. So he's not even

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Speaker 1: an option. Um there, Yeah, so the list is only

448
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Speaker 1: includes well, there's there's Isaiah Coulter, Tannard Gentry, Keyshawn Johnson

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Speaker 1: practice squad. Yeah, those are the guys on the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: and I would anticipate it would be Gentry as the

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Speaker 1: practice squad elevation because he can play on special teams

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Speaker 1: and he's been here for three years. This is yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is where you look back and it's like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I wonder where how Isaiah Hodgens is playing, you know

455
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Speaker 1: for the Giants last week. Yeah. So it's just the

456
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Speaker 1: way the season goes. Man. You got you miss a guy,

457
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Speaker 1: you don't need him, and then two weeks later you

458
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Speaker 1: wish he was still there. Um, that's the way the

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Speaker 1: season goes. I you know, Tanner Gentry is gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: He'll be He'll be all right. He can contribute and

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Speaker 1: and let's just face it, even if the fifth guy,

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Speaker 1: whoever that is, whether it's one of those other guys

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Speaker 1: or Tanner Gentry or Keyshan Johnson or U you know,

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Speaker 1: or the other the other one I mentioned Isaiah Coulter,

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Speaker 1: even if it's any of those guys, they're a last resort.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna be a guy that's gonna win or

467
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Speaker 1: lose the game for you, unless you know, the unthinkable happens, So, uh,

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Speaker 1: special teams are gonna be huge for all three of

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Speaker 1: those guys, and Tanner Gentry is the guy. It would

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Speaker 1: seem to me just like you. But it you know

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Speaker 1: how you wonder you look back, it's like, man, how

472
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Speaker 1: do we get to this spot? Injuries will get you

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Speaker 1: there quickly. It's amazing. It's amazing. Yeah, and unfortunate. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, because you got Crowder and you forget

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Speaker 1: Crowder is on iohar that's the guy you missed, Jake

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Speaker 1: Kumero and Marquest Stevenson. That would Mark Quest. Stevenson is

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Speaker 1: intriguing to me. He certainly brings a straight line speed

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Speaker 1: element to the offense. And if you put him out

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Speaker 1: there outside the numbers where you know people have complained, hey,

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Speaker 1: there's not enough depth in terms of outside receivers. Stevenson

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Speaker 1: can do that outside the numbers, So that's a plus.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you look at what that would do

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Speaker 1: for Davis. You know we've been talking about how they

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Speaker 1: need to diversify his route tree. This would give you

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to do that. If you put Stevenson outside,

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Speaker 1: now you can move Davis around a little bit and

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Speaker 1: maybe diversify his rout tree, so some of his routes

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Speaker 1: aren't so predictable, as we heard Patrick Peterson basically breaking

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Speaker 1: down everything that Gabe Davis does and does not do

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Speaker 1: on a football field based on his film study. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's probably a Stevenson or Gentry

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Speaker 1: answer for a call up to make it five receivers

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Speaker 1: this week, and then they'll just take it from there.

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Speaker 1: They still have they still I mean, they still have

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Speaker 1: time on the clock to make a call on Stevenson.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be this week. So maybe the

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Speaker 1: easier move if you're not one hundred percent sure about

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Speaker 1: Stevenson being ready, you call up Gentry this week, you

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Speaker 1: see how Stevenson does the next couple of days, and

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Speaker 1: then maybe you call them up for the Thanksgiving Day game. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: And it may be it may be skill set related

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Speaker 1: or it may just be experience related as well, because

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Speaker 1: you know, Marcus Stevenson kick returner, Tanner Gentry kick cover.

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Speaker 1: You know which one do you want? Yeah, and it

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Speaker 1: could depend on the opponent. All right, We've got to

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Speaker 1: take a break here. That was your bills practice update

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Speaker 1: doing it a little bit differently here. Here's another exposure

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Speaker 1: to how broadcasting has to pivot, much like you guys

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Speaker 1: are for this game this week. Yeah, for sure, I

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Speaker 1: like it. Man. Thank you for having me through Zoom.

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Speaker 1: You guys party professionals at this point, going through COVID

529
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Speaker 1: and all that. Well, so are you everybody in the

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Speaker 1: universe is professionals at Zoom these days. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: what the hell it was three years ago. Now we're

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Speaker 1: all pros, but at a necessity. And you guys had

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Speaker 1: to do your meetings on Zoom today because practice got canceled, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we sure did. We had meetings. I think everyone really

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Speaker 1: had a kind of a hectic morning just trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out what was going on, what meetings you're in,

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Speaker 1: which one you're hopping into, is the position as a defense,

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Speaker 1: as a team, you know, all that type of stuff.

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Speaker 1: But you know, here we are. We're I think through

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Speaker 1: COVID we learned to know how to adjust, and um,

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Speaker 1: we're doing that right now. So what was the general approach?

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Speaker 1: Because I was at the facility late yesterday and I

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Speaker 1: saw that you guys went back out for a walk

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Speaker 1: through late on Thursday, which is in customary, but I'm

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Speaker 1: guessing that was a proactive approach by the coaching staff

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Speaker 1: knowing you guys might be shut out of getting on

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Speaker 1: the field today. Yeah, that was exactly it. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously Sean got word that we're gonna be playing in Detroit,

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Speaker 1: and then also gave us kind of the heads up

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Speaker 1: that at around seven eight o'clock the snow we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start to come. So let's get a little bit more

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Speaker 1: work in, which was yesterday and obviously today just have

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Speaker 1: some some zoom meetings and kind of canceled the practice

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Speaker 1: portion and get back to it tomorrow. I will throw

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Speaker 1: this question out to you that we got from one

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Speaker 1: of our fans, Rachel, and it pertains to playing in snow.

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Speaker 1: Rachel asks, can players enjoy the novelty of playing in

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Speaker 1: a snowstorm like the twenty seventeen Colts game, which you

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Speaker 1: obviously played in, or do you just want to clean

560
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Speaker 1: field and clear skies for every game, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of eliminate all the other variables us against them and

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Speaker 1: nothing else. Yeah, you know, usually when we play at

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Speaker 1: home late in the season November, December, January, I wanted

564
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Speaker 1: to be as bad as possible for the opposing team

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Speaker 1: that's coming in. So I don't mind playing in the snow.

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Speaker 1: I enjoy it. I'm you know, but you guys know me.

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Speaker 1: I'm an Ohio guy played at Iowa, Green Bay and

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Speaker 1: now Buffalo. So to me, I think that for the

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Speaker 1: opposing team to come in and play and snow like this,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty difficult. And you know, I love the Child

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Speaker 1: seventeen game. Yeah, I think offensive players might answer differently. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but like you you go back, you go back to

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Speaker 1: Week three, Mica, and I think if you ask any

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Speaker 1: Bills fan, they would argue that the Bills weren't only

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Speaker 1: playing the Dolphins in Week three, they were playing one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty degree temperatures also exactly, So it's just like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I was down there. You know, I wasn't playing,

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Speaker 1: but I was down I was I was able to see,

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Speaker 1: you know, firsthand from the sideline that it was the

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Speaker 1: temperature played effect and that obviously no excuses both teams

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Speaker 1: were playing in it. But at the same time it

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Speaker 1: was difficult for us to go down there and just

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Speaker 1: that temperature. So, you know, for a team like Miami

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Speaker 1: or you know, West Coast team or down south team

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Speaker 1: to come and play and you know, the weather like

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Speaker 1: we're seeing outside right now, um, it's difficult. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can't prepare for it when you're you know, in

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Speaker 1: your respected cities and it's not. It's different too. When

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Speaker 1: snow is different than bitter cold, right, I mean the

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Speaker 1: colder it really gets hard when it really gets really

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Speaker 1: really cold, like sub zero exactly. The snow is a

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Speaker 1: different kind of problem. The snow is okay, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's you know, low thirties is not so bad as

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Speaker 1: you know zero exactly. Exactly how much other playing the

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Speaker 1: snow than than those cold cold games, you know when

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Speaker 1: it's when it's that cold, doesn't even snow, it's just

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Speaker 1: it grounds hard. You know, the ball's hard. You're hitting

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Speaker 1: each other. It feels like you're running into a wall

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Speaker 1: every single play. Uh, it's difficult, but you know, I,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I don't mind playing in the snow.

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Speaker 1: It's always fun. Um. It gives you a little more

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Speaker 1: energy pre games, always a blast. Um. Do you just

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Speaker 1: go out there and have fun like you're like you're

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Speaker 1: a little kid back in the day having a snow day.

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Speaker 1: All right? So I was planning to ask you this

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Speaker 1: because you guys pick up a J. Klein Off Waivers,

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Speaker 1: who you know as a teammate your for yours for

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Speaker 1: two seasons twenty twenty twenty one veteran player knows this scheme,

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Speaker 1: but he's not going to get an opportunity to get

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Speaker 1: on the practice field at all this week. I asked

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Speaker 1: coach in his morning press conference today, you know, did

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Speaker 1: he even get here? We had no idea if he

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Speaker 1: even got here before the weather started hit. And he said,

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Speaker 1: oh no, we got him here. Past is physical and

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Speaker 1: all that. We got some materials in his hands, you know,

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Speaker 1: to kind of bring him back up to speed for

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Speaker 1: a veteran like you are, AJ, maybe going back to

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Speaker 1: a place you were just there last season. I realized

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Speaker 1: schemes morph and change and get nuanced as seasons we're on.

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Speaker 1: But what what is a realistic run up? Knowing AJ

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Speaker 1: like you do, you know, the cerebral player that he is,

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Speaker 1: What's what's reasonable to expect from him in terms of

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Speaker 1: a state of readiness. Do you think Sunday is realistic

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Speaker 1: to maybe even be up. I'm not saying start him

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Speaker 1: in the game and have him run the defense, but

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Speaker 1: at least be up maybe. UM. Yeah, I think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, with a guy like AJ, he's able to. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think that the playbook is is similar to what

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Speaker 1: you know we've had in the past obviously, so UM,

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Speaker 1: there's a little few changes, little you know, nuances here

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Speaker 1: and there within the defense because it depends on which

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Speaker 1: team you're playing. But Aj smart man. He can come in.

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Speaker 1: He has all day today, tomorrow, um, and then obviously

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Speaker 1: the morning of Sunday to to get ready. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's been playing football, so he's in football shape. That's

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Speaker 1: a bonus, um. But on top of that, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a he's a smart guy. He knows his playbook.

638
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Speaker 1: He he was with m mcdumer back in the day, right,

639
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: I had that stint here in Buffalo, so he knows

640
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: the playbook. He knows it in and out. So UM,

641
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: I have one of them ship confidence that Aj is

642
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: gonna be able to come in. He could probably play

643
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: today if he had to. Ye. I've seen teams have

644
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: times like this, certainly the twenty fifteen game where he

645
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: guys had to moved to Detroit that time as well.

646
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: I've experienced it myself and snow games where the week

647
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 1: is really torn up and broken up because you can't

648
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 1: come in snow days, and it's kind of it puts

649
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different mindset on the team.

650
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: And I called it even back in twenty fifteen, when

651
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: you guys went to Detroit about listen, they're gonna play

652
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: free and easy because you know, pressures are I mean,

653
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I really think in some ways,

654
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: particularly in a week eleven game where you guys are

655
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: in trench, I mean, it's routine, routine, routine, man, I

656
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: really think this is a chance for the team to

657
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: really free it's mind and say, listen, the pressures off.

658
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: We got all this stuff going on, let's just go

659
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: out and play. And it showed in that last time,

660
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: the last time you guys did this, Yeah, exactly exactly.

661
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: And I wasn't. I've I've never been a part of

662
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: a weather postpone or a change. I guess I wasn't.

663
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't hand the fifteen mean obviously the seventeen we

664
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: played in that snow game. But I think once again,

665
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: you know we were talking about the Zoom meetings and

666
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: stuff like that. It dates back to COVID COVID that

667
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty one with you know, you guys were

668
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: a part of it. The fight delays. You know, we're

669
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: all thinking we're getting there at one o'clock next year,

670
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: you know, they say, hey, hold tight, we're gonna get there.

671
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: At get to the airport at three thirty and next

672
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: you know, we're not getting into the city. So you know,

673
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: eight nine o'clock at night, that throws our routine off.

674
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: The next day we wake up and you know, we

675
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: were winning games. So I just think that, you know,

676
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: it's exactly what you just said. Sometimes you put some

677
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: much emphasis on the routine, and you know, you want

678
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: to you want to be doing this and doing that

679
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: and doing this, and then when you go into a

680
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: game where it was just a crazy week and you know,

681
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: jumbled up, like you said, and then all of a sudden,

682
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: you just go out there, you could just play free,

683
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: you play your best. So you know, I think that

684
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: that's definitely one of those one of those times right now.

685
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: And I think guys are excited to get to Detroit

686
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: and especially what we're gonna be playing two times and

687
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: four days. It's gonna be it's gonna be fun to

688
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: go there and get two wins in Detroit. And obviously

689
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to this first one, but you know,

690
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Speaker 1: with the week the way it's been, I think that's

691
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna be fun for us. Let's talk

692
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: a little bit of Brown's offense here. They were down

693
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Speaker 1: in Miami last week, as you know because you probably

694
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: watched that game and just about every other one they've played.

695
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: I found it interesting, Mica, Like they got off to

696
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: a good start last week against Miami's defense, you know,

697
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: a good defense, and then Chubb fumbles the ball and

698
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: it's like they couldn't recapture any kind of offensive rhythm

699
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,760
Speaker 1: after that. It's like they couldn't recover from the fumble,

700
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: which is you know what I mean. You talk about

701
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: mentally tough and getting back on the horse, they really

702
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: had a tough time doing that last week. Yeah, you know,

703
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: that's the that's the game of football we all love.

704
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're you know, you're having a smooth, sixty minute

705
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: football game where just everything's clicking, and sometimes you can go,

706
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: you know, twenty minutes and nyting, you know, something like

707
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: that happens, and you know, it all just nothing goes

708
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: away from there on out. So I think that we

709
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,959
Speaker 1: understand this is you know, a very good football team,

710
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: and we were expecting them to come here with the

711
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: weather like this, and you know, dating back to the

712
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: Monday night game last year against the Patriots and how

713
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: they just continue to run the ball, run them, you know,

714
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: so we're expecting that. And then you know, yesterday we

715
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: heard we're going to Detroit um obviously endore. Now that

716
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: we're getting they're probably gonna get back to their game plan.

717
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 1: Run the ball, play action, that type of stuff. So

718
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, we know what they're going to bring it,

719
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: you know, to the to the table um and you know,

720
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: hopefully we're able to force a turn over like that

721
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: and get them all schedule and you know, force them

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Speaker 1: to kind of go down hire from there. Also got

723
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Speaker 1: a question here from JT, another one of our loyal listeners.

724
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Speaker 1: He says, Hi, Michael, hope you're healing process is going well.

725
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: Can't to see wait to see you back out there

726
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: next season. Can Josh throw a football out of high

727
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: Mark Stadium or have you seen him do it? Just

728
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: messing around? Also, who is the funniest player on the

729
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: team and who is the most serious? M Okay, so

730
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Speaker 1: the first one joshed on the ball that stadium, I

731
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: think he can. I think the short side um the

732
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: tunnel we come out of, I think he could. I

733
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: think he could get it over top of that. I'm confident.

734
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Speaker 1: And then, uh, the funniest guy on the team. The

735
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: funniest guy that I'm around, you know everyday, Basis is tradavious.

736
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: He has no filter. He says what's on his mind.

737
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 1: He doesn't shut up. He's He's just tra Davis. And

738
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: that's you know, we've all we've all played with guys, Steve.

739
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure back when you were playing, you had guys

740
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: in the locker room that just talk talk talk, talk talk,

741
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: And and he's right next to me in the locker room,

742
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: so I got to hear him all day every day.

743
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: So um, but he he is funny. He puts you

744
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: in a good mood. The most serious guy on the team. Yeah,

745
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: serious is an art attack, like who are we? You

746
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: can't crack him. And we've heard we've heard that Doud

747
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: James Cook is kind of hard to he doesn't break

748
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: a smile very much. Yeah, yeah, he doesn't really break

749
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: a smile. Um, but I've I've seen him laugh a

750
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: few times. CB, the rookie. Um, I've only probably be said,

751
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: you know, about ten words to him. He's he's always.

752
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen him laugh. Chrispy, I've

753
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: been for Yeah, he's never. I don't think he's ever laughed,

754
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: So he might, he might win an award. He's the

755
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: most serious. Uh, it's the most serious guy on the

756
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: team for sure, Like hands down. I've never seen him

757
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: laugh so like. So he's just he's all business all

758
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: the time. Every interaction is serious. Yeah, he just he's

759
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: like in the meetings, I'll turn around, I'll look at him.

760
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: He's serious. Um, you know he makes plays on the field,

761
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: he's serious. Um, you know, a cafeteria, I could see him.

762
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: He's he's eaten. Seriously. I don't I just have Yeah,

763
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't even do that. But yeah,

764
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: he's he's forever. Um, he's forever in the mood to

765
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: play football, I guess you know. And he's it's showing

766
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: taking plays awesome. All right, Well, listen, Micael, we quickly

767
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: used up all our time with you. We appreciate you chiming,

768
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: and we know it's been a little bit of a

769
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: harrowing morning for you. Good luck on the home front there, Uh,

770
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: keeping everybody safe and sound and uh, hopefully we get

771
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: that dub up in motor City on Sunday. For sure.

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00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Chris and Steve, we'll see assume, all right,

773
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: that's Mike Hide here on Nothing to Hide. We will

774
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: take a break, be back with more including Greg Kosel

775
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: coming up an hour number two. Here on One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalota Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Back

777
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: Here on one Bills Live on a Football Friday, Chris Brown,

778
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and it is time for tailgate Friday,

779
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: presented by high Mark Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Western

780
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: New York, the official healthcare plan of the Buffalo Bills.

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00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: For those of you new to this segment, this is

782
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: when we ask you what is on your tailgating menu?

783
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: And obviously, much like the team, you too have to

784
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: pivot because you were expecting a home tailgate in your

785
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: familiar lot wherever you are, and now you're probably shifting

786
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: that to your house, your home. I got a cousin

787
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: who holds a tailgate there every year. This was the week, Steve,

788
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 1: He's moved it to a fire hall. People have to pivot,

789
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: and they're doing it, so be curious to see if

790
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: the menu changes for some people knowing they're moving home.

791
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: It might be a more elaborate menu since you have

792
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: a full blown oven at your house, an air fryer.

793
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: Who knows what you got. So let's see what people

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00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: have on the menu this week. Brian says, maybe a

795
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:27,879
Speaker 1: Detroit style pizza. Oh all right, let's getting into this style.

796
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Speaker 1: Detroit style pizza. First of all, the whole pie is

797
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,720
Speaker 1: a long rectangle. The crust is I would say, thicker

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00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: on the whole. It's crispy around the edges. I would

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00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: I would liken it to a pan pizza. It's it's

800
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 1: similar to that, and I would venture to say, I

801
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: think I'm safe in saying this. More tomato sauce than

802
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: cheese very often. So it's a crispy pizza, but a

803
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: wet one as well on top. So some of the

804
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: popular national chains, Steve are going to the Detroit style

805
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: as an new offering. Now, hold on, we're not hearing you, Steve,

806
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: So Brian says, Detroit style pizza. But a fun fact,

807
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: if the Bills win both against the Browns and Lions,

808
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: they'll have one at Ford Field more this season than

809
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: the Lions. That is true. If they win Sunday and

810
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: then on Thursday, they will have two wins in Detroit,

811
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: which is more than the Lions have at home. Poor

812
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: Lions can't really make too much fun. We know the pain,

813
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:36,720
Speaker 1: keep up the great work, love the show. Go Bills.

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00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: Detroit style pizza idea, Yeah, I like where his head's at.

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00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here to explain to me why the

816
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: different nuances of New York style pizza. Yeah, Cilian pizza,

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00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: I don't think pizza. Yeah, the consistency of Detroit style

818
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: pizza isn't terribly different from the the consistency of Chicago

819
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: style pizza, which, if you've ever had Chicago style pizza,

820
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: you need a knife and a fork a lot you

821
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: can't too sloppy. Yeah, it's not self contained, all right.

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Speaker 1: Eric on Tailgate Friday says game meal mostly cliche though, um,

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00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: the guy sent us a pick which we obviously can't

824
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: show our radio listeners. But it's got French bread, brie

825
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: and champagne. This guy actually lives in France, so I'll

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00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: let this slide. But a French native Steve going with bread,

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00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: brie and champagne when in Perry, I guess I don't

828
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: know that that is not I bet if you go

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Speaker 1: to if you make a stop at every single Bill's

830
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: Tailgators lot spot for the next five years, every week

831
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: you will not find anyone that has the combination of

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00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 1: French bread, Brion champagne. Not even our southern Ontario neighbors

833
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 1: are pulling that out. No way, Jose Hey to each

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00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: his own. But that's why you tweet it. You know

835
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: you're got to be unique. Well, he's unique. I'll give

836
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: him that. Jack Jack gives us snowed in. And if

837
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: you remember, Steve Jack is the guy that has a

838
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: lot of the artery clogging goodness menu camp. Let's hear it.

839
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,919
Speaker 1: So he says snowed in. And since we aren't going

840
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: to the game, we'll be doing some Hamburger helper for

841
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: during the game and either ordering or making meat Lover's

842
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: pizza after plenty of Irish beer to keep us warm.

843
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: Not fancy this week, but them's the brakes. If there's

844
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Speaker 1: a travel day, will the NFL push to a later

845
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Speaker 1: start four seven or eight? They? I don't think so.

846
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 1: Because of the Thursday game for Buffalo. They need every

847
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: hour of recovery and they want to get back to Buffalo.

848
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: They'll be hustling back to get their routine started. Everybody's

849
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: got a Thursday night game routine that they want to

850
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: get into. That's which is one of the issues for

851
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: this game being they couldn't push it back a day

852
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: and have it in op. Yeah. So the last submission

853
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: Steve from Joe, what are all the twenty six people

854
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: that tasker has in town doing shoveling snow? Basically, Oh

855
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: my gosh, that is so good, which is exactly what

856
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: they We did it. I mean we we we shoveled

857
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,479
Speaker 1: snow for about I don't know, a ton of time.

858
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,959
Speaker 1: The plow, My plow guy just informed us he can't

859
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: get to the house because it's gotten it's so deep.

860
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: Now we you know, these the plow gout. They get

861
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: as many people as they can, right, because they want

862
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: to make as much money as they can. Well, the

863
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: problem is when you get a snow like this, they can't.

864
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: They have so many people to do now they can't

865
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: keep up. They can't keep up. So by the time

866
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: he got back to our plays, he can't push our

867
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: he can't push the snow in our driveway. So now

868
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: he's got to get his front end loader and it's

869
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: going to take him, you know, hours and hours even

870
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 1: to get over here. So we're stranded. Yeah, the streets

871
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: actually over here are cleared. Well, you got twenty six.

872
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: You got twenty six sets of arms? Get to work. Yeah,

873
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be enough to do my driveway. I gotta

874
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: be honest. No, you'd need a small army. Yeah. I

875
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: did take care of two hundred and sixty. Maybe the

876
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,240
Speaker 1: Army Corps of Engineers to show up with heavy equipment

877
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: as well. So there you have it. All right, that

878
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: is Tailgate Friday. I hope you enjoyed some of those submissions.

879
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 1: We have to take a break because when we come back,

880
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: we're going to be joined for his weekly visit senior

881
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: producer from NFL Films, Greg co Sell. I've got a

882
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: couple of interesting questions to ask him about the Browns,

883
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: including the two most popular personnel groupings they use. It

884
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: makes up almost seventy to eighty percent of their offense.

885
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in plenty more nex with Greg Cosell.

886
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,279
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887
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill Radio les One Bills Live presented by

888
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:46,799
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889
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Here on a Friday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

890
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: with you, and it is time to bring in our

891
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 1: weekly guest for this time slot and Greg co Sales.

892
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,760
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893
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: site work partner The Buffalo Bills. It is NFL Film

894
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,479
Speaker 1: senior producer Greg co Sale joining us also co host

895
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: of ESPN's NFL Matchup show How are we doing this week? Greg?

896
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: The better question is how are you guys doing? Yeah,

897
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: that's a fair one to flip around on us. We're surviving.

898
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 1: It's as we tell everybody, it's just snow. Like you can,

899
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: you move it, and you move on. That's kind of

900
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: how it goes. And once you get five and six

901
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 1: feet then you have to pull out the roof raak

902
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: and start pulling snow off your roof so it doesn't

903
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: cave in. But I don't even know what five or

904
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: six feet of snow means, Chris. So that's that's way

905
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: beyond my comprehension. I'm not and you know going. I

906
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 1: grew up in New York and now obviously I'm outside

907
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia, so sure we get snow, but not a ton.

908
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,359
Speaker 1: And I'm not a big fan. Like to me, five

909
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 1: inches of snow is a lot of snow. I guess

910
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: where you are right now? Wouldn't be the best place

911
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: for me. No, I don't. I don't think so. Yeah,

912
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: it's uh yeah, it's an acquired taste. I'll put it. Yeah, Uh, Greg,

913
00:51:56,120 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: let's begin here because I noticed I watched I watched

914
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: the Browns game against Miami last week, and they come

915
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: out and they're very efficient on offense. That first drive,

916
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: it's like a four or five play scoring drive. Brissette

917
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: hit is like six for his first six passes. They

918
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 1: come out on the second drive, they're rolling, and then

919
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,720
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb fumbles the football. They never find the rhythm

920
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: again the rest of the game. Well, that was just

921
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: bizarre to me that there was such a flip of

922
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: the switch and they could never get it back again. Yeah.

923
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: You know, when I watched the Browns offense, Brownie, I,

924
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: there were times I feel, as you said, they're very efficient.

925
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: They're not a big play offense. They don't hit a

926
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 1: lot of big plays. Obviously, on that first drive early

927
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: it was one of their first plays. I think they

928
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: hit the stutter go to Donovan People's jones. Yes, but

929
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: they don't hit a lot of big plays in the

930
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: pass game. Although Brissette is capable of big throws. You know,

931
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: but it's an odd thing that they really don't hit

932
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays. The other thing that strikes

933
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: me is very odd about them is they do not

934
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,959
Speaker 1: feature play action as much as you would think given

935
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: their run game. You know, when you look at their

936
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: play action numbers, which I'm sure you have, compared to

937
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: the rest of the league and other quarterbacks in the league,

938
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: they are nowhere near the top of the league and

939
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: running play action. And you would think given not only

940
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: the strength of their run game, but the fact that

941
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:28,399
Speaker 1: they play with two tight ends and three tight ends

942
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:33,399
Speaker 1: and a fullback at times, because all that makes the

943
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: defense line up in specific ways. It's not just the

944
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: actual action itself, but you know how the defense will

945
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: line up when you line up with two tight ends

946
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: or three tight ends or a fullback. And yet they

947
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: are not a big play action team in terms of volume,

948
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 1: you know, number of plays in which they run play

949
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: action full idea about you know why they're so effective

950
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: and one part of their offense can't get it going

951
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: in another. You know, Jacoby Brissette is a kind of

952
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: a stand in for Deshaun Watson, but give us an

953
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: it's not either run game zone schemes as a pin

954
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: and pull or do they do it all? It's it's

955
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: both Steve because they have a their guards Joe Betonio

956
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: and Wyat Teller. You guys are familiar with by a Teller,

957
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: I believe Buffalo drafted him, do they not? Out of

958
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech and h he got a chance to play

959
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: in Buffalo and actually thought he played well, but obviously

960
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: he moved on to Cleveland. He's become Steve one of

961
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: the best pulling guards in the league. So they like

962
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: to run gap scheme and he's more often than not

963
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: the puller and he's really good kicking out you know

964
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 1: when you run gap scheme, as you know, the puller

965
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: usually kicks out the widest defender on the line of scrimmage.

966
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: And then if there's a second guy who pulls, we

967
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: call him the rapper and he goes inside the puller

968
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: and he gets the next guy that shows. But but

969
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: why at Teller is really really good at pulling and

970
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 1: kicking out the widest defender on the defensive line. So

971
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: they run gap scheme because he's really good at it.

972
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: But they still run zone a lot as well, so

973
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: they really have a multiple run gate Greg, I did

974
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: notice a fair amount of twelve personnel from them. It's

975
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 1: their second most popular personnel grouping behind eleven. A question

976
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: to you, is, all the defensive coaches that you've spoken

977
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 1: to over the years, when you have a team, yes,

978
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: you have a main personnel grouping, that's what your identity

979
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: is essentially. But when there is such a heavy secondary

980
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: personnel grouping in comparison to maybe some of the other

981
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,240
Speaker 1: things that might turn to over the course of a season,

982
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: is it a matter Is it safe to say we

983
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 1: know what the Browns are going to do now, we

984
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: just have to find a way to effectively defend it.

985
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they couldn't come up with a wrinkle.

986
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: They could, but after ten weeks this is pretty much

987
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: who they are now. They're on eleven or a twelve

988
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: personnel team most the time, it seems. Well, you know,

989
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,839
Speaker 1: one thing I've learned from talking to coaches and I've

990
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: this is a question I like to ask for the

991
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 1: because when I watch tape and I see a play

992
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 1: and I say, wow, that is a perfect play against

993
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: that coverage, you know, and so I think to myself,

994
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: does a team know what they're getting? Is that do

995
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: they anticipate based on film study, that you know, eighty

996
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 1: five percent of the time they're going to get that

997
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: that coverage or whatever you're talking about, Brownie. So I

998
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: think that in the NFL, for the most part, coaches

999
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: know what they're going to get to a large extent.

1000
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: So let's say it's first and ten and you line

1001
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: up in twelve personnel. You know, if the other team

1002
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 1: is in base defense. Of course this probably won't apply

1003
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,359
Speaker 1: to Buffalo, but you know, just to make the point,

1004
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: if the other teams in base defense, that they're probably

1005
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: going to be in one or of two different coverages

1006
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: because that's what they play on first and ten. Then

1007
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: they're base defense. Steve, I think you would probably echo

1008
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: this based on your years in the league. You know,

1009
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: you know, and certain situations, you're not getting one of

1010
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: twenty five different things. You're getting one of two or

1011
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: three different things, right, That's the way it works, you know,

1012
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: And so you get a feel for a team, and

1013
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,720
Speaker 1: maybe you work through that, you know, with your first series,

1014
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: your second series, and then the guys upstairs tell the

1015
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: you know, the play caller if he's you know, let's

1016
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: say let's say he's on the field say hey, look

1017
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: here's what we're getting on first and ten, and then

1018
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: you kind of know and then you call plays that

1019
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: reflect what you have learned and what you know. It

1020
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:36,959
Speaker 1: just sort of it kind of reevaluates what you knew

1021
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: going in, but you just want to make sure that's

1022
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: what you're getting. Al has Jacoby played for Cleveland. We've

1023
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: seen him play for Indianapolis. We've seen him play for

1024
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: the Patriots, We've seen him play team playing for Cleveland?

1025
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: Is he better? Are they working with him? Is he?

1026
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: But they've gotten him? And you can tell they're calling

1027
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: plays for Jacoby. What's he playing like? You know? Jacoby

1028
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: ber said to me, He's always been fascinating Steve, because

1029
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: I watched him coming out of NC State and there

1030
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: were times with his size and his strength that I

1031
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: said to myself, well, this guy reminds me of Ben Roethlisberger.

1032
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: And he was I guess a second or third round

1033
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: pick of New England. And from what I've heard from people,

1034
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: he's an unbelievable kid. You know, he's one of those

1035
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:20,959
Speaker 1: guys and I guess I thought he'd be a better

1036
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: pro quarterback. You know, you can line up and play

1037
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:25,919
Speaker 1: with Jacoby Brissette. He's not going to hurt you. He's

1038
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: not gonna kill you. It's not like, oh my god,

1039
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: we got to put him in. You know, you can

1040
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: line up and play and he can execute your offense.

1041
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: And all these years and you know, I haven't studied

1042
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: him in the detail. I've studied other quarterback Steve, but

1043
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 1: there's something missing that that prevents him from being more

1044
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: than what he is now, which is a perfectly fine

1045
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: guy to play, you know, to put out there and

1046
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: play if you've got enough team, you know. And every

1047
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: once in a while he makes throws. He made a

1048
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: throw this past week, Brown and you probably saw it,

1049
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: and I think it was to Donovan People's jones on

1050
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: a third down where he's stuck it into an incredibly window. Yes, yeah,

1051
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: And I mean that's one of those throws where you know,

1052
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: if Josh Allen made that throw, we'd go, Wow, that

1053
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 1: is just an unbelievable throw by Josh, you know, and

1054
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: it was Jacoby, so no one says a word, but

1055
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: it was, you know, a really big time, tight window

1056
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: throw against his own coverage. And he does that every

1057
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: once in a while, and he's mobile and he can

1058
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: move and make some plays with his legs, but it

1059
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: just never has become more than that. You know, So

1060
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: he's and that's why he's viewed as a guy you

1061
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: play until you find someone better. Yeah, two Dolphins defenders

1062
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: actually crashed into one another. It was crazy. What do

1063
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: we make of the Browns defense overall? And then what

1064
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: did Miami do to completely take Myles Garrett? Yeah, the game,

1065
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he was not a factor at I know two.

1066
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: It gets it out fast, so it's hard for even

1067
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: the premier pass rushers to get to him in the

1068
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: first place. But did they do anything else besides the

1069
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:58,439
Speaker 1: quick rhythm passing games they're now known for it. I mean, look,

1070
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 1: that's a major part of it. But they also one

1071
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: of the best left tackles in the league in Tarren Armstead.

1072
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: And I made it a point to watch the one

1073
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: on ones when they when it was one on one

1074
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: and and he truly had to block him for longer

1075
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: than let's say, one point five seconds, because when the

1076
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: ball comes out and that three step drop timing the

1077
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: ball's out in one point five seconds, a track star

1078
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: couldn't get there, you know, to hit two and when

1079
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: that happens. But I thought Armstead did an unbelievably good job.

1080
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: But he would be a top three or four left

1081
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: tackle in this league. So you know, you're fortunate. That

1082
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: was a major move Miami made in the offseason that

1083
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: was overlooked because of Tyreek hill Um, and obviously the

1084
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: coaching change was, you know, relatively big news. But I

1085
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: think that's that's what Miami's offense is. You know, everything

1086
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: is quick rhythm, the ball comes out. You know, well,

1087
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: we'll see what what Buffalo does because look, you know,

1088
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just talking tape study, but Dion Dawkins

1089
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: is not at that level of a left tackle that

1090
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: Tarren Armstead is. And you know, if you start with

1091
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: deeper drops, you're going to have a potential concern there

1092
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: on that side that you may have to chip them,

1093
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: you may have to keep someone into double them, you

1094
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: may have to do something specific if you want to

1095
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 1: take deeper drops and throw the ball. So what do

1096
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 1: you think this game's gonna look like? I mean, he's

1097
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: gonna ask you as well. You watched the Bills over

1098
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Oh sure, So I maintained

1099
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: we talked about this last week. I maintained there's a

1100
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: lot of teams that would have lost the way that

1101
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: Jets played them. Well, I gotta tell you, I said

1102
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 1: this on a couple of other shows this week because

1103
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: I got tired. You know, everything I say, you guys

1104
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 1: know it's based on film study. I don't make bold,

1105
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: controversial statements. Okay, I just don't do that, because I

1106
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: don't even know what that means. But I just sit

1107
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: here and watch tape all day. And I'm a little

1108
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: nuts in terms of how much I watch and how

1109
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: I go about, you know, trying to do this. And

1110
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 1: I heard a lot of people talk earlier this week

1111
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 1: about the Bills having a Josh Allen problem, and you've

1112
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: probably heard all that too. And I watched that game

1113
01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 1: really carefully because I was very curious, the one against

1114
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: the Vikings. And I gotta tell you, I don't know

1115
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 1: what you guys thought. I thought Josh Allen played really well. Now,

1116
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: obviously things have to be cleaned up. I'm not going

1117
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: to sit here and defend red zone interceptions and some

1118
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 1: of the poor throws and decisions he's made over the

1119
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 1: last two or three weeks. But I would say those

1120
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 1: are isolated plays, you know, And again, do they have

1121
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: to be cleaned up absolutely, you know, like I said, indefensible.

1122
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: But overall, I thought he played really well against Minnesota.

1123
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't think that he was struggling. I

1124
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: didn't think he played poorly. You know, I thought he

1125
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: played well. Now he explained both those interceptions, and you

1126
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 1: could take it for what it's worth. But you know,

1127
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: I think the Bills they still need to run the

1128
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: ball more, and they still need to run the ball

1129
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: in certain situations. I think you guys would both agree.

1130
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:54,959
Speaker 1: When they were up big late third quarter, in early

1131
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Steve, you know this. You have to be

1132
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: able to line up and run the ball. Even if

1133
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: you don't get first downs, you're eating clock, you're eating

1134
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: They had one drive, it might have been in the

1135
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Brownie, when they were ahead, where they came

1136
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: out and they threw it three times in a row

1137
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 1: and then they punted, and I think what thirty seconds

1138
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: went off the clock? You know, I think in those situations,

1139
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: and again I don't there's not a rip on the coaches.

1140
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 1: I don't do that. I'm just sitting here watching the

1141
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: game and thinking, you know, wow, you're up by whatever

1142
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: it is, and it's the fourth quarter, and you know,

1143
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: I think it's time to hand it off. That's kind

1144
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: of the way after. I want to get one other

1145
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 1: thing about the Browns defense. Greg. You know sometimes we

1146
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: see this, but if you look at their defensive statistics,

1147
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: two of their three leading tacklers are their safeties, Yeah,

1148
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: Delpitt and Johnson. Yeah. I can't imagine that is what

1149
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: their defensive staff wants to see in the staff column.

1150
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 1: Their two safeties as two of their three leading tab

1151
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: that is an issue. What do you think is behind that?

1152
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: What is causing or keeping their front seven from making

1153
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: more plays? Well, I think they've really struggled at the

1154
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 1: defensive tackle position this year, and I think they've also

1155
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 1: had injuries at linebacker. Anthony Walker's out for the year.

1156
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: He's a really good player. U The Notre Dame kid

1157
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: is out too, He's been out for quite a while.

1158
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: So you know, they're playing with basically some backup linebackers.

1159
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: So I think that's been a little bit of an issue.

1160
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: You know, that's one reason they traded for Dion Jones, who,

1161
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: quite frankly, he's not the player he was two or

1162
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: three years ago. So they're basically playing with Jones. Taki

1163
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,840
Speaker 1: Takim you know, but inside, you know, they started to

1164
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: play a lot of rookies. They're playing Alex Right, a

1165
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: player I actually really liked on tape coming out of

1166
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: a smaller school. They're playing Isaiah Thomas, now an Oklahoma kid.

1167
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to find people to play. We

1168
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: know how good Garrett is. You know, Clowney's back, but Clowney,

1169
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:54,440
Speaker 1: Clowney to me is an up and down player. I

1170
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 1: don't think Clowney is a great player. I think Clowney

1171
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 1: is a splash player based on tape study. So they've

1172
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: had some issues, you know, and they've really had a

1173
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: hard time stopping the run inside and I think, you

1174
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: know what's happened is their their safeties have to get involved.

1175
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 1: They started to play a lot of big nickel where

1176
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: they played three safeties as opposed to three linebackers. You know,

1177
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: we'll see if they do that, they could end up

1178
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 1: against the Bills being in nickel the whole game. And

1179
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: their nicol has had Newsome moving inside with Ward and

1180
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: the rookie Emerson on the outside. And I think if

1181
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 1: you go after Emerson, I think you got to go

1182
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 1: after Emerson if that's the case, And is there any

1183
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 1: possibly that you would think needs to take place for

1184
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: the Bills in this game. Obviously Josh and the passing

1185
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 1: be the centerpiece, but is there a shift or something

1186
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 1: you'd like to see them explore that they had well

1187
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:50,160
Speaker 1: ad I mean, we've talked about, you know, the screen

1188
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 1: game is non exist the short pa and they started

1189
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 1: out the season they were very efficient. They didn't go

1190
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:58,919
Speaker 1: down the field, they were doing the release passes very

1191
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 1: you know, shorter path passing game. And then you know,

1192
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 1: I think since the game when they snapped a couple

1193
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,880
Speaker 1: of huge plays off all of a sudden, they stopped

1194
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:11,840
Speaker 1: using the possession passing game as a weapon, or at

1195
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 1: least you know. Again, it comes down to philosophy, and

1196
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: everybody has a different philosophy, and there's no right or

1197
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 1: wrong one thing you don't I'm just saying what you

1198
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 1: don't see very often with the Bills passing game is

1199
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: you don't see a lot of what I would call

1200
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: combination routes. I think, Steve, there's a lot of individual

1201
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: isolation routes where they expect guys essentially to win, you know,

1202
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 1: and obviously dig is one of the best receivers in

1203
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: the league. He can win you know, I'm not sure

1204
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: all the other guys can win with that kind of

1205
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 1: needed consistency. So I guess what I'm saying is, you know,

1206
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: maybe what i'd like to see, And Ken Dorsey, if

1207
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: he's listening, might tell me I'm an idiot. Maybe i am,

1208
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:52,959
Speaker 1: but I would like to see more, you know, things

1209
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:56,840
Speaker 1: like stack bunch rug picks, you know, things that help

1210
01:06:56,920 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: receivers and then help your quarterback because it defies reads

1211
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 1: and throws really quickly. So you know, those are the

1212
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: kinds of things, Steve, you don't see a lot with

1213
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: the Bill's pass game. And it looks like Greg Newsom.

1214
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:14,040
Speaker 1: Greg is a question mark. He got into a collision

1215
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: in practice today. He's now lish questionable. He may go

1216
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 1: into concussion protocol. If he does, there's no way he's

1217
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: going to be ready in time for then. There's no

1218
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: word on whether he's been put in the protocol yet

1219
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: there they were evaluating in post practice. So if he

1220
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: doesn't go, you already mentioned Emerson and how he would

1221
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: be the guy to pick on. Now you're talking about

1222
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:36,400
Speaker 1: putting Greedy Williams on the field too, and Nickel so well,

1223
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: they also they've been playing green. This kid Green, so

1224
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: he may I don't know what they would do at

1225
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: that point. J Yeah, he's when they've gone dying. He's

1226
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:49,919
Speaker 1: been the fourth corner, okay, so I don't know if

1227
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: he becomes the third corner now if indeed Newsom cannot go, Yeah,

1228
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:59,919
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. One of the other the other things

1229
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: that we're talking about here is the shuffling around. What

1230
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 1: what effects do you see when Tremaine Edmonds is not

1231
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 1: on the field, Greg Russo is gonna be Yeah, well,

1232
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 1: certainly every team is affected by really good players who

1233
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 1: who aren't out there. My important Poyer, Greg Russeau, and

1234
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 1: of course Tremaine Edmonds. That's right down the center of

1235
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: the Bills. And I think in this case, the run

1236
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 1: defense will obviously be critical because you know who they're

1237
01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 1: playing against. I mean, they're going to get a heavy

1238
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: dose of Nick Chubb and chub Is. I mean, this

1239
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: is a really good back. You know, chub Is. Chubb

1240
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 1: has a body type that would suggest he'd be kind

1241
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: of a sustaining grinder, but he's really explosive. You know,

1242
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 1: he breaks tackles and is explosive and fast and can

1243
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 1: re accelerate. You know, I had a conversation year a

1244
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 1: number of years ago with the combine with Fred Taylor,

1245
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 1: the form of great back of the Jaguars, and he

1246
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:59,639
Speaker 1: talked to me about re accelerating and I've never forgotten

1247
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 1: that kind of station and Chub is a great example

1248
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: of that. He can run inside and get hit and

1249
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: slow down and then all of a sudden there's a

1250
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 1: berth there and he's gone. So I think, you know

1251
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 1: Edmond's being not in this game, and I know he's

1252
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 1: been officially ruled out. You know, that's a big factor.

1253
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 1: You know, Dotson is going to have to play at

1254
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 1: a really high level, particularly in the run game. And

1255
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: you know he's a big guy. Dotson, He's probably what

1256
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: Brownie to forty five is. He's a big guy. Yeah,

1257
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: he's thick, Yeah he's thick. But he's gonna have to

1258
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:30,920
Speaker 1: play really well. He's gonna have to key and diagnose

1259
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 1: really well. He's gonna have to react quickly, you know,

1260
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: because you know how it is in the run game

1261
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You know, you take one wrong step,

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Speaker 1: it a all it takes is fractions. You know, fractions

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Speaker 1: matter in the NFL. You take a half step that's wrong,

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Speaker 1: and you set yourself up to be blocked. So he's

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Speaker 1: going to be an important player in this game for

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Speaker 1: the Bill's defense. Dotson. Yeah, combining what you were saying

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Speaker 1: about the Browns not being an offense that usually has

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Speaker 1: a lot of explosive plays in the past game. I

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Speaker 1: know Steve always talks to you about how teams cannot

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Speaker 1: pry the Bills out of their nickel defense. But this

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Speaker 1: particular week, with as much twelve personnel as the Browns

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Speaker 1: play and Chubb being the focal point of their offense,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if Leslie sprinkles in a little base defense

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Speaker 1: just here and there. Then the question to me is

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Speaker 1: who's the third linebacker, because to me, it would have

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01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: to be a J. Klein. Yeah, I think it could

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Speaker 1: be not Bernard because essentially Bernard is two hundred and

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01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 1: twenty pounds, so you might as well play to run Johnson.

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Speaker 1: It's a really good run defender anyway. I think he's

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Speaker 1: a terrific run defender given his size because essentially he

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01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 1: plays in the box at times. So to me, it

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be Bernard. If you're going to go three linebackers,

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Speaker 1: you know, if they line up in twelve or thirteen

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01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,799
Speaker 1: personnel because I think isn't in joke. Who is supposed

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Speaker 1: to be back this week. He's questionable. Yeah, it's possible.

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Speaker 1: He was asked if he's going to play, and he said,

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Speaker 1: that's my plan. So so he plays, you're going to

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01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 1: see thirteen personnel Brownie as well, not just twelve. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to go three linebackers, we know AJ

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01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: Clin knows the system. He's been there, so it's not

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Speaker 1: a matter of getting him up to speed, you know.

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Speaker 1: So if you're gonna go three linebackers, to me, it

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Speaker 1: should be client as the third backup. Yeah. We were

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Speaker 1: asking about him today and they said they got materials

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Speaker 1: in his hands. They had to cancel practice today, but

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Speaker 1: they said we'll see where he is at the end

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Speaker 1: of the week. But we had Micah Hyde on before you,

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Speaker 1: and he knows Aj and he says that wouldn't surprise

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Speaker 1: me if he could be ready Sunday. So yeah, have

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Speaker 1: we may happen? Yeah? Have we seen enough of Buffalo's

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Speaker 1: defense to know even how well they could play with

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Speaker 1: three linebackers on there? We don't. You know, you don't

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01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: really know. I mean last time, the last time I

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Speaker 1: remember them playing significantly with three linebackers. Was last year

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Speaker 1: against New England. Yeah, and yeah, I mean, but it's

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Speaker 1: not about right, I don't Yeah, they don't remember do it. Yeah,

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01:11:57,560 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: they'll do it in short yardage and goal line when

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Speaker 1: you know. But but yeah, but out in the field

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Speaker 1: and a regular down a distance, like you can't get

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Speaker 1: him out of that nickel default. No, But but Brownie

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01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,160
Speaker 1: makes a good point. I mean, if if Cleveland's gonna

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Speaker 1: line up consistently in twelve and thirteen personnel and try

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Speaker 1: to grind the football, you know you may need it.

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Speaker 1: And I loved to Ron Johnson. You know that I think. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best nickel corners in

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Speaker 1: the league. But you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: he's not two hundred and thirty five pounds. Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, Greg, thanks as always for all the insight.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy this game. You got any other games you got

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Speaker 1: your eye on this week that you know? I'm actually

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Speaker 1: really her list. I'm excited. You know, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to Bill's Mafia to get manned in me, but I'm

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Speaker 1: excited this game got moved because you know why, I

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01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:48,200
Speaker 1: like seeing players play to their their true physical traits.

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Speaker 1: So now indoors, where weather's not a factor, you're going

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01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: to see that happen. I'm not a big fan of

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Speaker 1: you know, rain games or snow games. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are, and maybe in Buffalo you guys are.

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Speaker 1: But I like to see the players played to their

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Speaker 1: highest athletic trade. So I'm actually pretty excited about this one.

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Speaker 1: I agree, I agree with you and that I do

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01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: like the occasional snow game. But um, the TV people

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01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: love it. Ye. I mean, the CBS has probably bummed

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Speaker 1: that this game is getting moved out of Buffalo because

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Speaker 1: they don't get the scene that they had for the

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Speaker 1: Colts Bills game five years ago or seven years ago.

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Speaker 1: So um, because of that, you know, the games don't

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01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:27,799
Speaker 1: get moved. But this one, it was a public safety

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01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:30,759
Speaker 1: issue rather than right other than the team, I'm certainly

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01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 1: they can clear the field off easy. Yeah, if you're

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01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: getting six feet of snow, and plus you got to

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Speaker 1: clean the stadium. I mean that's the thing. Yeah, that

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01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 1: doesn't take ten minutes. Well, it's not a stadium, it's

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01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: the park. It's not even the stadium so much, it's

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Speaker 1: the parking lot. Yeah that too, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's there's just not enough and plus the city is

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01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: gonna get hit by this. Sometimes the city does escapes it,

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01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: but if so, they can use resources from other places

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01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 1: to help them do the job of getting at the

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01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: stadium ready. But that's out of the question this time

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01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 1: because of the way the storm. Yeah, all right, Greg,

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01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,640
Speaker 1: thanks as always, enjoy that game, and we'll catch up

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01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 1: with you next week. All right, guys, appreciate it. Thanks

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01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: so much. That's great. That's great. Cosl, senior producer from

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Speaker 1: NFL Films, also co hosted the ESPN NFL Matchup show,

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Speaker 1: Will Take a Break, be back with more here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Back to Bill. Five Balls decast with you

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01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 1: here on a Friday, and the OBL Friday fan mail

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01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,519
Speaker 1: Bag is open. We're gonna get to some of those

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Speaker 1: questions now, and we begin with Nick. And Nick asked,

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01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:44,599
Speaker 1: did anything specific cause Josh to revert to his hero

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01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: ball days? It seemed like he had developed past that

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01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:53,160
Speaker 1: years ago before it randomly resurfaced a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I think that is an accurate description of you know,

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Speaker 1: a way to describe what happened the last two games, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I think we all agree there were times where he

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Speaker 1: was forcing the ball down the field a little bit

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01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 1: when he had checkdowns available to him, both against the

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Speaker 1: Jets and against the Vikings last week. But Josh, to

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Speaker 1: his credit being the self aware guy that he is,

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday even said, I'm just trying to be the

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01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: best quarterback I can for my team. I'm trying to

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01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 1: make as many plays as I can. Did I step

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01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 1: over the line a couple of times? Perhaps? So. I

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01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: think he's reviewed the film, and I think after two

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Speaker 1: games of seeing how detrimental it can be when you

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01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 1: do try to force things. And we heard Ken Dorsing

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01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: on Monday, Steve say, hey, we've re emphasized to him

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Speaker 1: that he's got to trust the guys around him to

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01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 1: make plays as well. I'd like to believe that it's

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01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 1: gotten through to him that, hey, you know what, I

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01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:55,800
Speaker 1: don't have to do everything. But you pointed it out

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01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 1: earlier this week, and I thought it was a sharp

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01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 1: point on your part. He's out there, the lead is dwindling,

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01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 1: his defense is all beat up with injuries, and they

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01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:10,400
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of players in the starting lineup.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like he inherently is the leader of the team,

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01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:15,600
Speaker 1: feels he has to do more. Yeah, I think he

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01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: knows he's got to be the guy that sets the

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01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: tone and and let's face it, the offense runs through him.

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01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 1: He knows that. And I think there are times, there's

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01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: no question, there are times when he trusts his arm

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01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: more than more than he should. But I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes he gets too impatient. I think that's

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01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:42,680
Speaker 1: more than more of what it is than anything. I

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01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 1: think his patience wears fins. He's tired of taking the checkdowns,

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01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 1: he's tired of taking the easy completions, and I think

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01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:51,320
Speaker 1: that sometimes comes back to get him. I think he

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01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 1: wants to win the game in that moment, and he's

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01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: going to do it instead of giving himself three more

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01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 1: chances to do it. And I think that that's more

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01:16:59,200 --> 01:17:03,800
Speaker 1: than anything would grabs him. His own impatience with you know,

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01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: the moving the football or what have you know, taking

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01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 1: the taking the you know, taking this easy completion and

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01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 1: hoping something makes something happen. I say this one other

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01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:14,880
Speaker 1: thing that I just came to me when I was

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01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: talking about this, if somebody, somebody would catch one of

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01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 1: those checkdowns, and go to the distance. Maybe once in

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01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 1: a while he wouldn't feel like he'd have to throw

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01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,280
Speaker 1: at ninety yards instead of throwing at eight yards and

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Speaker 1: having to go ninety eight yards. You know what I'm saying.

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01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: If somebody, if he had somebody on the field that

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01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 1: would snap off a long run and a big play

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01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: on an easy completion, maybe he'd be more willing to

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01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:44,639
Speaker 1: take it. But you know, we don't see that very often.

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Speaker 1: E Horsed from the fan mail bag asks, I think

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Speaker 1: you were right last week when you talked about the

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01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: Bills not replacing Beasley and that being one of the

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01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 1: reasons for Josh's I and T s. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that he said it was the reason for his I

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Speaker 1: and T s. It was just a guy that would

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01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 1: help keep the offense on edual Beasley was usually free

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01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: if the wide receivers were covered. Can that be corrected?

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01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:06,320
Speaker 1: And do you think Ken Dorsey can change his calls

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01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:08,640
Speaker 1: to shorter throws. I don't think it's a matter of

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01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: changing your calls to shorter throws. There are progressions on

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01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: every pass play called. That's number one, number two. Steve

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01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:19,200
Speaker 1: and I are afforded the ability to watch the all

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Speaker 1: twenty two tape of each game, and we've said it

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01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 1: on the air multiple times. There are guys running open

1432
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:29,760
Speaker 1: underneath Josh just has chosen to bypass them to try

1433
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:32,639
Speaker 1: to push the ball down the field, sometimes in an

1434
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:36,519
Speaker 1: ill advised fashion. Yeah, not all the time, but enough

1435
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:38,280
Speaker 1: of times that you would like to see him take

1436
01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:40,680
Speaker 1: it more than have the ball, you know, stuck in

1437
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 1: his hand or throwing it down the field. But I yeah,

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01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with the play calls from

1439
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey at this moment. I certainly you can look

1440
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:57,200
Speaker 1: back and say, what were you doing on the quarterback sneak,

1441
01:18:57,360 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: you know, giving him the tip off that Gabe Davis

1442
01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: behind that. Yeah, but that's that was a blown exchange anyway,

1443
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 1: more so than a bad play call as well. You

1444
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 1: gotta think Josh is gonna at least get it out

1445
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:13,719
Speaker 1: of the end zone if they can just make the exchange.

1446
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 1: They couldn't get it done. That's a problem. But for

1447
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: the most part, Yeah, the one you saw the last

1448
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 1: interception there for the Bills, Yeah, Devin Singletary's off to

1449
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 1: his right. Hit him and hit him quick and give

1450
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 1: him a chance to get eight yards, ten yards, maybe

1451
01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: even a first down, but he chose to try and

1452
01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 1: throw this really tough throw down the middle of the

1453
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: field and Patrick Peterson's waiting on it. So it's that

1454
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 1: was a problem. But those are, like Greg Cosell just

1455
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,679
Speaker 1: told us, those plays he thinks, and I would agree

1456
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: with him. He thinks that they're aberrations. Those are like

1457
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:55,120
Speaker 1: one off plays that are that are happening to Josh.

1458
01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 1: They are not indicative of how well he's playing. The

1459
01:19:57,560 --> 01:20:00,000
Speaker 1: guy is leading the league in totally yards from scream

1460
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 1: and he's second in the league in passing yards. He's

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01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 1: he's first or second in total touchdowns. He's playing extremely well.

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Speaker 1: These are aberrations. I think, Travis asks no question, just

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01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 1: to comment. Last year, fans complained we were too conservative

1464
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: and lost games settling for field goals in the red zone.

1465
01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 1: Now we complain that we aren't taking the check down

1466
01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:24,920
Speaker 1: and being conservative in the red zone last year? Why

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01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 1: run we can't this year? Why aren't we running? I

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01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:33,760
Speaker 1: understand where you're coming from, Travis. When welcome to social media, Travis. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And when we say when we say it, we say

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01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:38,599
Speaker 1: it on the show all the time. If it didn't work,

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01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,080
Speaker 1: you should have done the other thing. And that's how

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01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: that's how the commentary is often going to run, especially

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01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 1: when there's a loss. So and just so it's clear,

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with them being aggressive. I welcome

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01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: it because to me, they have the talent to be

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01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 1: aggressive and they should be aggressive. But as coach Dorsey

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01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:05,240
Speaker 1: always says, be aggressive, but be smart at the same time,

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01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: there's a difference between being aggressive and being reckless. And

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01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: I think you could at least make the argument that

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01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:16,440
Speaker 1: a couple of the interceptions in recent weeks by Josh

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01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:20,640
Speaker 1: we're borderline reckless based on the coverage and what he

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01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:24,640
Speaker 1: had at his disposal across the field. Yeah, and I

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01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 1: get it too. You get laid in these games, or

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01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:28,400
Speaker 1: you get into overtime in some of these games, and

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01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 1: you're thinking, you know, you got you gotta make it,

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01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: make it play. You know, the Bills go down with

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01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 1: the sec with the only possession they're going to get

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01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:42,920
Speaker 1: in overtime, and there's a level of anxiety and and

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01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, certainly you can say now that you know

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01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:48,320
Speaker 1: he threw the interception that somebody's got to get in

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01:21:48,400 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 1: Josh year and says, hey, take a deep breath, we

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01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:52,720
Speaker 1: got time to do this. If we score a touchdown here,

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01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 1: the game's over, don't worry about, you know, making it

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01:21:56,439 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: all in one play. We've got plenty of times those

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01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 1: kind of coaching tips, even for a guy like Josh

1496
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 1: has been in the league five years. He's been in

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01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 1: the conversation for MVP for three of them. And you know,

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01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:11,679
Speaker 1: those guys need to hear that once in a while

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01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: because they get caught up in the moment and the

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01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:18,720
Speaker 1: play calls and the matchups, and they start to get

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01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:21,439
Speaker 1: wound up in their own personality. And I'm, like I said,

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01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 1: sometimes it seems like Josh is a little impatient in

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01:22:24,280 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: moments like that we'd called a hero ball, he called

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01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 1: sugar high Josh, all that stuff. Somebody's got to be

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01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:31,360
Speaker 1: there to tell him to get back to his spot

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01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:33,720
Speaker 1: where he was where he said it was amazing in

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01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: that Chiefs game when he throws four touchdown passes to

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01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:39,360
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis that he just felt so calm and relaxed

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01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: the whole time. Somebody's needs to talk him into that mindset.

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01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:49,680
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that he's out of his mind anytime,

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01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 1: but you know, you gotta make sure of that if

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01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: you're a head coach, you gotta make sure your number

1513
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:57,760
Speaker 1: one guy is more often than not right where he

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01:22:57,800 --> 01:22:59,760
Speaker 1: wants to be to play his best. And I think

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01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:04,719
Speaker 1: some of the reasons why you see fans asking, hey,

1516
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: why aren't we running, is because they've had big second

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01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:14,120
Speaker 1: half leads and at that point people are like, hey,

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01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 1: let's shorten this game, let's salt it away and run

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01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:19,880
Speaker 1: the football because we get to run clock at the

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01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:22,840
Speaker 1: same time, and they have not been able to do

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01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:25,719
Speaker 1: that the last couple of weeks, and that's a concern

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01:23:25,880 --> 01:23:31,000
Speaker 1: because you're snatching defeat from the jaws of victory the

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01:23:31,080 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Now, the turnovers have been the

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01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:38,600
Speaker 1: biggest inhibitor in that situation, but not being able to

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01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: run the football with any degree of consistency at the

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01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: end of games when the team, when the opponent knows

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01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:47,960
Speaker 1: you want to run it is a concern. Greg Cosell

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01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: brought it up, you know, and that guy watches more

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01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 1: film than anybody. Why aren't they running? Why aren't they running?

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01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: You know, there are instances you're up by seventeen, maybe

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01:23:57,479 --> 01:23:59,880
Speaker 1: run the ball a little bit more, But the effectiveness

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01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:04,599
Speaker 1: that run game has kind of compromised that approach at times. Yeah,

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01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:07,400
Speaker 1: nobody would be complaining about anything if they had not

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01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 1: turned the football over. Um even punting in those situations,

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01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,439
Speaker 1: but turning it over gives the other team a chance.

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01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 1: The Bills beat the Green Bay Packers by ten points

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01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: and they turned it over twice in the second half.

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01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:26,680
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable that they were able to do that. The

1539
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:30,679
Speaker 1: Jet game, you ran into a team that played extremely well,

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01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 1: but you know, interceptions, you know that it's a it's

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01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:39,400
Speaker 1: a problem. And of course, the the Minnesota game speaks

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01:24:39,439 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 1: for itself. You turned it over four times. That's a problem.

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01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:47,559
Speaker 1: If you want to if you want to make them better,

1544
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 1: don't worry about the run pass or you know, running

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01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 1: the ball better or passing the ball better. What worry

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01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 1: about turning it over. If they don't turn it over,

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01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:58,599
Speaker 1: they don't get beat. It's that's and to me, it's

1548
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:03,559
Speaker 1: that simple at this point the season. Yeah, Nate asks,

1549
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:07,320
Speaker 1: what is your game prediction if the game took place

1550
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: in Buffalo versus the game taking place in Detroit. That's

1551
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:20,240
Speaker 1: interesting because it's not supposed to snow here on Sunday,

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01:25:20,320 --> 01:25:25,599
Speaker 1: so really the field conditions conceivably would be okay. So

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01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 1: you are pretty much talking two teams playing each other.

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01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:32,759
Speaker 1: Straight up, I think it was supposed to be windy

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01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: on Sunday though, fifteen to twenty five miles per hour

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01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:38,720
Speaker 1: if I remember right looking at the forecast earlier in

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01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 1: the week. So has that change all that much here

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01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:47,960
Speaker 1: compared to Detroit. I don't. I don't know that it does. Yeah,

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01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: I think it does. The guys are gonna be wearing normal,

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01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: you know, normal layers, maybe Sky's bow sleeveless, won't have

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01:25:56,479 --> 01:25:59,439
Speaker 1: any bass layers on underneath their pads or their or

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01:25:59,479 --> 01:26:02,759
Speaker 1: theirs or anything like that. It'll feel like they're playing

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01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:09,080
Speaker 1: in practicing inside in here in Buffalo. They'll be able

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01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: to throw it and run it however they want the ball.

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01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 1: The kicking game won't be affected at all, The ball

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01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 1: handling won't be affected at all here in Buffalo. You

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01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:19,839
Speaker 1: don't know if any of that's gonna be true in Buffalo.

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01:26:19,960 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 1: You know, you think it's going to be. This had

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01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 1: a chance and looking like it was going to be

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01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:30,479
Speaker 1: a six to three football game in Detroit. It could

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01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 1: end up being a high scoring game, which I think

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01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:37,720
Speaker 1: it will be. I think the Bills are going to

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01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:41,360
Speaker 1: probably fly in there and be very at ease in

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01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:43,200
Speaker 1: their minds. I think they're gonna play free and easy.

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01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be

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01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: a nice bounceback game for them mentally. I think they'll

1577
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:49,840
Speaker 1: come out and play extremely well. Now, if they turn

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01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: it over, they're gonna lose. But if they don't turn

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01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 1: it over, that we're going to see the more like

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01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:56,439
Speaker 1: the team we saw in the first couple of weeks

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01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:59,680
Speaker 1: of the season. Break time for us here. When we

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01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 1: come back, we will wrap things up with the final

1583
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: injury reports for both teams. Those coming your way next year.

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Speaker 1: On one Bill's Live Stay Tuned being a game plan

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01:27:17,439 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 1: presented by United Rentals, the exclusive and official construction equipment

1586
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Speaker 1: rental partner of the Buffalo. Bill Steve, you got the defense.

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01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,280
Speaker 1: What does the Buffalo have to do on Sunday? I

1588
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:28,800
Speaker 1: think they got to do everything they can to put

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01:27:28,840 --> 01:27:30,680
Speaker 1: this game in the hands of Jacobe Brissett and the

1590
01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 1: wide receivers. If you can get them out of their game,

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01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:36,320
Speaker 1: out of their run game, and make them in third

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01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: NEU this this team's done a nice job of it.

1593
01:27:38,479 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 1: You can say what you want about their run defense,

1594
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:42,479
Speaker 1: but they have had in Minnesota is a great example

1595
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:47,040
Speaker 1: of it. They were in third and long incredibly a bunch.

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01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:48,800
Speaker 1: They just got to get them off the field when

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01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 1: they get to that point, and that's that's the that's

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01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:54,559
Speaker 1: the key, I think. Yeah, for Buffalo's offense, there's a

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01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:56,720
Speaker 1: lot of good matchups that you have to like here.

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01:27:57,600 --> 01:28:00,880
Speaker 1: Denzil Award is just back from a concussion, didn't do

1601
01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:05,799
Speaker 1: too badly on Tyreek Hill at times last week. Diggs

1602
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: is a little bit different kind of receiver. He's the technician.

1603
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 1: I wonder if Ward can handle that. And I like

1604
01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:13,920
Speaker 1: some of the other matchups because the Browns defense has

1605
01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:16,680
Speaker 1: almost as many injuries as the Bills defense. Yes, so

1606
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 1: I think you just go to your go to people,

1607
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: and I think Josh should be able to spread the

1608
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 1: ball around too, because I don't think it's just going

1609
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 1: to be Diggs that's winning on Sunday. I think this

1610
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:27,400
Speaker 1: game is really going to be interesting because of the

1611
01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:30,160
Speaker 1: injuries on both sides. You really don't know how either

1612
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:33,880
Speaker 1: group is going to play. Yeah, defensively anyway, with the

1613
01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:37,719
Speaker 1: new new defenders so quickly injury reports tight end David

1614
01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: and Joku questionable with an ankle for the Browns. He

1615
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:42,919
Speaker 1: said he's going to play. We'll see on Sunday. Cornerback

1616
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 1: Reg Newson being evaluated for a concussion. He's questionable. If

1617
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:48,679
Speaker 1: he's in the protocol, he's not going to play. Perry

1618
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: and Winfrey, Michael Dunn, de Anthony Bell all out for

1619
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:55,759
Speaker 1: the Browns. Defensive tackle, a backup guard, and a backup

1620
01:28:55,800 --> 01:29:00,920
Speaker 1: safety for the Bills, kyer Elam, Reggie Gilliam, Jordan Poyer

1621
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 1: all questionable for Sunday. Gilliam is the only ILL player

1622
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:08,040
Speaker 1: who is not a lock to play on Sunday. The

1623
01:29:08,120 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 1: other four ILL players all good to go on Sunday.

1624
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:14,719
Speaker 1: As we found out earlier today, Tredavious White, Tremaine Edmonds,

1625
01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:18,360
Speaker 1: Greg Rousseau not gonna play on Sunday. And that's pretty

1626
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:23,200
Speaker 1: much how it looks from an injury perspective. I don't

1627
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:25,760
Speaker 1: know why, Steve, but I think the Bills are not

1628
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:28,760
Speaker 1: going to have a problem scoring points. For something obvious.

1629
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:31,360
Speaker 1: They take care of Myles Garrett over there. I think

1630
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:33,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to score points. Yeah. I think

1631
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to have a plan for it, no

1632
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:37,120
Speaker 1: question about it. They will, And you're right, this should

1633
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,440
Speaker 1: be a game where the Bills get back on track offensively,

1634
01:29:39,479 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 1: but they've got to stop the turnovers. And I think

1635
01:29:41,280 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: it's a good, great game. If it does turn out

1636
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 1: like that, maybe they got a chance to gain some confidence.

1637
01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:47,400
Speaker 1: That's it for Steve and I today. Enjoy the game

1638
01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:49,880
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Steve and I'll be back at noon on Monday.

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01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:50,760
Speaker 1: We'll catch up within that