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Speaker 1: These one bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 2: Hand off the Cook Gillium leading up in the hole

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Speaker 2: on the left side, still driving his legs forwards six

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Speaker 2: seven eighth yard. They're still pushing him.

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Speaker 3: Don't whistle yet.

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Speaker 2: They're past the first down marker there, get it takes

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Speaker 2: the snap, takes the hand off, play back to pass,

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Speaker 2: has time over the middle of the digs, completed the

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Speaker 2: twenty three and tackled at the twenty one yard line.

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Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs getting some separation from Stefan Gilmour usual.

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Speaker 4: Running a mat huk and Cook, but people need to fast.

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Speaker 2: Cook takes the handoff, tries to work over the left

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Speaker 2: side and they're trying to push him over the goal line.

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Speaker 2: There's a surge on a second effort.

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Speaker 4: It's a touchdown, a two yard touchdown run by Latavious Furrys.

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Speaker 2: Gonna roll out to his right, links it.

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Speaker 4: To the end zone for James Cook for an eighteen

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Speaker 4: yard touchdown reception. The Cook is in the kitchen, run to.

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Speaker 2: The right side, darts through a hole.

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Speaker 4: Still on his feet at the ten down to the

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Speaker 4: James Cook is fired names.

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Speaker 1: I'll say topic.

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Speaker 3: You know I deserved the shot.

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Speaker 5: I Coreta is soooked.

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Speaker 4: Here's the staff gonna go over the left side and

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Speaker 4: he's into.

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Speaker 3: The end zone.

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Speaker 2: Eric Wood playing Southsayer on a one.

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Speaker 4: Yard touchdown run by Josh Allen cos.

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Speaker 1: They ain't nowhere that a king conchut.

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Speaker 2: Now to add shorts, Prescott under center play action. They're

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Speaker 2: gonna try to take a shot, but it's Prescott taking

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Speaker 2: a shot as he's sacked by three Buffalo Bills. Tyrell

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Speaker 2: Dobson was there first.

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Speaker 4: And got some help from Greg Brusso and Jordan Dillas

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Speaker 4: to Cook goes behind Dawkins through a hole down to

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Speaker 4: the ten to five and he leaps into the end zone.

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Speaker 4: James Cooked for this second touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Of the game.

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Speaker 6: He's in.

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Speaker 7: And then put it down back to pass as time

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Speaker 7: looks to the left and it's overthrown and inners it

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Speaker 7: picking it off and covering the other way is Christian Benford.

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Speaker 2: You know I could shook the sty nervous, I'm sin

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Speaker 2: at Bills with a convincing and impressive thirty one to

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Speaker 2: ten victory over the hottest team in football, that is

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Speaker 2: your Toshiba game. Rewind Toshiba, the official copier company of

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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills. Who's that coming down the track? It's

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Speaker 2: number four at running back. Ain't nothing finer in the

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Speaker 2: land than James Good touchdowns and Bills.

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Speaker 3: Fans, Go Bills, Go Dogs, Go Bills, Go dog.

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Speaker 2: Sick of me.

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Speaker 3: The Georgia Chin James Cook?

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Speaker 2: Whoa can you dig it?

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Speaker 3: Stanz? That was That was a stress free a game

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Speaker 3: as Bills fans have had all season? Right, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: well it was as stress free as it gets.

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Speaker 2: I even the Dolphins ten week three.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe Dolphins, you know, forty eight, twenty yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: but this one was Bills went out, Cowboys punted right,

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Speaker 3: I mean no, the Bill's got the ball and proceeded

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Speaker 3: to eleven play or eleven play, seventy five yards touchdown,

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Next drive got extended by the

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Speaker 3: They got extended by the roughing the kicker penalty. They

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Speaker 3: were gonna punt it back, and he thought, okay, we're

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Speaker 3: gonna settle in. It's gonna be a kind of one

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Speaker 3: of those games. No, they I can't believe the dude

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Speaker 3: didn't block the punt. Here's the thing. They spend all

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Speaker 3: this time scheming the guy getting in there free on

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Speaker 3: the punter's foot, and they don't teach him how to

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Speaker 3: do it, so they get ruffing the kicker.

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Speaker 2: I thought of you watching Sam Williams, because that is

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Speaker 2: the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do. When

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Speaker 2: you're trying to block a kick. You lay out across

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Speaker 2: it's crazy. So they scheme, they do all this stuff.

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Speaker 3: They scheme the guy coming Scott free hand right, okay,

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Speaker 3: so they extend the drive. It ends up, you know,

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Speaker 3: and then that's it. The Cowboys can't do it. They

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Speaker 3: and Terrell Dotson lights him up.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Taylor wrap him.

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Speaker 3: Taylor rap lights him up. And you know there's a

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Speaker 3: little bit of stuff going on there and they deserve it.

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Speaker 3: Yet yeah, you get it, but then you get it

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Speaker 3: off setting and it's like, okay, they get the first down,

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Speaker 3: so you know they come out field goal Cowboys, one

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Speaker 3: of the best red zone teams in the league, can't

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Speaker 3: punch it in settle for a field goal fourteen to three,

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Speaker 3: and then you know it builds another fifteen player eleven

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Speaker 3: play drive and I score again.

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Speaker 2: Here are the three things I take out of yesterday's

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Speaker 2: game as it pertains to the Bills. And I told

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Speaker 2: you this before we came on today. Number One, Buffalo's

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Speaker 2: offense proved they can win in a different way without

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Speaker 2: putting the lion's share of the burden on Josh Allen

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Speaker 2: to win a football game on offense, that's number one.

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Speaker 2: Number Two, the defense has successfully recalibrated. It took him

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Speaker 2: about ten weeks, but ever since losing Matt Mulano, Daikwon Jones,

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Speaker 2: Trudavius White, they have been working to find their footing

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Speaker 2: strengths and weaknesses are, and third player development once again

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Speaker 2: has come into play in making this team play their

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Speaker 2: best football at the most important time of the season.

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Speaker 2: I've been banging this drum for six years. This is

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Speaker 2: the best player development coaching staff the Bills have had

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Speaker 2: since Marvel Levy's staff was here in the late eighties

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Speaker 2: and early nineties. They make players better. Chief example, Tyrell

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Speaker 2: Dotson has played his best three games in a Bills

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Speaker 3: Yep, and I you're right, but coaches, the staff deserves

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Speaker 3: a lot of credit for that. It's still you know,

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Speaker 3: the stress free win as we're going to have in

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Speaker 3: as we were saying. And yes, they've got guys who

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Speaker 3: are now playing to their strengths instead of trying to

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Speaker 3: fit into somebody else's role, who've moved in. You know,

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Speaker 3: you try, and that's we talked about that, you know

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Speaker 3: said said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, he's not Tremaine.

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Speaker 3: Let's let him do what he does best. And they

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Speaker 3: made the calls and game and Taylor the game plan accordingly, Well,

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Speaker 3: So they got to find out about their players, they

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Speaker 3: a while they didn't know, well, is this guy gonna

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Speaker 3: so they finally are tailoring their game plan and getting

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Speaker 3: it right with the guys they have. You're right, it's

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Speaker 3: a it's a it's a good point their roster. Now

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Speaker 3: know how to tailor a couple of defensive play calls.

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Speaker 3: I was showing you on the REP. We were watching

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Speaker 3: you know, NFL Network and ESPN and all these things

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Speaker 3: are running highlights of the game last night. There was

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Speaker 3: a rush on the first drive of the second half.

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Speaker 3: The Cowboys come out, they get you think, okay, here

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Speaker 3: they go, we're gonna They're gonna make some adjustments to

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Speaker 3: come on the first third down they faced, that's the

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Speaker 3: one where Dak got like three guys on top of him.

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Speaker 3: I mean he dropped back and it was Dodson mm hmmm, Rousseau.

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Speaker 3: and thirty five pound cherry on the cake was Georth

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Speaker 3: Philip flopping on the pile.

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Speaker 2: He lined up a defensive end on that. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: I noted it on the broadcast.

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Speaker 3: Was design Rush Packe. They they knew they were They

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Speaker 2: Up three yards off the line of Scrimma's.

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Speaker 3: Standing up like like a stand up linebacker off the ball,

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Speaker 3: and it ends up in a wind sprint to Dak

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Speaker 3: So uh, kudos to the coaching staff for doing exactly

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Speaker 3: what you said, great game plan and tailoring it to

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Speaker 3: and the players playing great.

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Speaker 2: I know I took a lot of heat just a

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Speaker 2: when you know, I was criticizing people that wanted Sean

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 2: All I'm gonna say is this, the guy faced the

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Speaker 2: number one scoring team in football twice this season. Twice Okay,

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Speaker 2: held the first one to twenty points and Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 2: ten points and really three before he put his backups

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Speaker 2: and did it with two very different defensive starting lineups,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they did. And you ride that roller coaster, and

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Speaker 3: the season and ended up six and six after twelve

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Speaker 3: and no question, they struggled to get it right defensively

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Speaker 3: that unenviable look where they play these teams like Dallas,

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Speaker 3: like Kansas City and like Miami and they show up

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Speaker 3: Running two hundred and sixty six yards against the Dallas Cowboys,

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Speaker 2: That's why Mike McCarthy, I think, did not adjust because

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Speaker 2: It's amazing what happens too when the Bills don't turn

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Speaker 2: That's a stupid number, it is. Josh Allen, also, with

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Speaker 2: You got to stop the run, right, and you just

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Speaker 2: What do you got for us? Rick, You're on One

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Speaker 8: Hello, you know I'm My concern is that you know

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Speaker 8: NFL Mayor of the Year word very prestigious. I would

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Speaker 8: thousand dollars. The manor there or not the money it's

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Speaker 8: And I would think in the long run that phill

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Speaker 3: Oh I see, Yeah, that's that's a fairly that's a

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Speaker 3: done forty thousand dollars of valuable work. You're right, I

435
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Speaker 3: would say that's that's a fair point. I'm you know,

436
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Speaker 3: sure they can, the league should always could always be

437
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Speaker 3: more generous. Interesting, I hadn't really thought about that, that

438
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 3: it's not what it's about. But yeah, yeah, that's fair enough,

439
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Speaker 3: especially with the fines fine system. You're right now that

440
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Speaker 3: money does And I'll say this too, the forty thousand

441
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 3: dollars that the league gives to the NFL Man of

442
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Speaker 3: the Year as a reward is the tip of the

443
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Speaker 3: iceberg for what they give everywhere out. I mean, the

444
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 3: NFL has always been very supportive of all kinds of

445
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Speaker 3: causes and charities and a ton of stuff. So the

446
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Speaker 3: forty thousand they give to the NFL Man of the

447
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Speaker 3: Year is only one of a multitude of things that

448
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Speaker 3: they do give. And all the fine money, the way

449
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Speaker 3: I understand, all that fine money does go to NFL charities,

450
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Speaker 3: So it's not like they don't give it away to somebody,

451
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 3: because they do. But that's a fair point. The NFL.

452
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Speaker 3: It is a prestigious ward, and you would think that

453
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Speaker 3: they would make it a little more flashy than a

454
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Speaker 3: forty grand than less than a fine for complaining about officials.

455
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Speaker 3: That is an ironic point. That's very good.

456
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Speaker 2: Go to John in Cleveland. Next, What do you got first?

457
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Speaker 9: John hy Christ and Steve I.

458
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Speaker 10: Gray went for the Bills yesterday. I was there. It

459
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Speaker 10: was a lot of fun. I've just got two questions.

460
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Speaker 10: What's the status on Damian Harris and Kyrie Elom?

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Speaker 2: Okay? So yeah, go ahead. Did you have something else, John?

462
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Speaker 11: Yeah?

463
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Speaker 10: And also, do you think ten and seven gets us

464
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Speaker 10: in the playoffs because we don't have very many tiebreakers

465
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Speaker 10: against teams.

466
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think ten and seven will be tough.

467
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Speaker 3: I think ten and seven probably will. But if you're

468
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Speaker 3: gonna get in, it's gonna be because it falls right ten.

469
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Speaker 3: And there's only been a couple of since they went

470
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Speaker 3: to the seven team format. There's only been one time.

471
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Speaker 3: I think I went back and checks like one time

472
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Speaker 3: where a ten win team didn't get in. Uh, but

473
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Speaker 3: it happens. If eleven wins and you're in almost virtually

474
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Speaker 3: it's almost impossible not to get in. But ten wins probably,

475
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Speaker 3: but you can get shut out at ten.

476
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's a shmazzle of teams right now. And

477
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Speaker 2: this is six.

478
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Speaker 3: This is not a lost team. This is one of

479
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Speaker 3: those years where it might happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know if ten and seven is

481
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Speaker 2: going to be good enough for the Bills, because at

482
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Speaker 2: this point that means they're dropping another AFC game with

483
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Speaker 2: three games to play, and that would drop their AFC record.

484
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Speaker 2: If they go to and one the rest of the way,

485
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Speaker 2: they would finish at six and six in the conference.

486
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Speaker 2: And I don't like those odds there. And I know

487
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Speaker 2: the last time I checked, just going through the simulations,

488
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Speaker 2: that when I had them at eleven and six, it

489
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Speaker 2: was a ninety seven percent chance to make the playoffs.

490
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Speaker 2: When I had him at ten and seven, it was

491
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Speaker 2: like a coin flip, right, which I don't like.

492
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Speaker 3: That's right. I don't like that there's no guarantee it.

493
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Speaker 3: I guess that's why we can't really give you a

494
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Speaker 3: straight answer. It's impossible to know. Yeah, it's because you

495
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 3: don't know who's winning and who's losing. It's a coin

496
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Speaker 3: but because it'll depend on the rest of the teams.

497
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Speaker 3: Now you can look at a team like Indianapolis, which

498
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Speaker 3: is one of those that would kind of be in

499
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Speaker 3: that mix. They play Atlanta, the Raiders and the Texans. Now,

500
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Speaker 3: the techin may give him a run the way the

501
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Speaker 3: Texans are playing, but even so, you may need the

502
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Speaker 3: Texans to lose at that point.

503
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And we'll get into that in the second hour

504
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: the show a little bit more. We're gonna have Maddie

505
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: on for the Maddie Awards, and then we'll kind of

506
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,439
Speaker 2: dive into the conference standings and the teams that are

507
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 2: ahead of the Bills with the same record at eight

508
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 2: and six and what they have left on their schedule

509
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Speaker 2: and kind of assess things for you then. So stay

510
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Speaker 2: tuned for that because we'll breaking it down a little

511
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Speaker 2: bit more in the second hour. As for Damian Harris

512
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Speaker 2: and kyer Elam, Damien Harris still on IR and there's

513
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Speaker 2: no indication that he's going to be coming back in

514
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 2: the regular season, which is unfortunate for him and the

515
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 2: team for that matter. Kyer Elim just completed his second

516
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: week of his twenty one day practice window last week.

517
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Speaker 2: He did not get activated on to the active roster,

518
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Speaker 2: so he remains on IR. He's got one more week

519
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Speaker 2: to practice this week and I'll have to double check

520
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 2: when that twenty first day is on the deadline because

521
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 2: that's when they have to make a decision to either

522
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Speaker 2: put him on the active roster or leave him on

523
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: injured reserve, in which case he would be ineligible to

524
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 2: play the rest of the season in the postseason, So

525
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: they will have a decision to make on Kye here

526
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 2: very soon. He was listed as questionable on the Friday

527
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 2: injury report this week, which would be an indication that

528
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 2: he's getting close to being fit to return to play

529
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 2: on a full time basis. And again, it's a decision

530
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 2: they'll have to make, and if they put him on

531
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 2: the active roster, that means someone else is going to

532
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,919
Speaker 2: have to come off the fifty three man roster at

533
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 2: the same time. So it's a weighty decision that this

534
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: team's going to have to make on Kaye, who I

535
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 2: believe can certainly help this football team down the stretch

536
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 2: on the back end and on special teams. So we'll

537
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 2: see what they ultimately decide, and I wouldn't be surprised

538
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 2: if coach McDermott is asked about Kye's status going forward

539
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: here at his press conference with the media online later

540
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 2: this afternoon. After we're off the air. We've got to

541
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Speaker 2: take a break here when we come back more of

542
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: your phone calls as we want your takeaway from Buffalo's

543
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 2: resounding thirty one to ten victory over the Cowboys. And

544
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 2: we'll also have our player of the game. I think

545
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 2: he can all guess who that's going to be when

546
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Speaker 2: we return here on one Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health,

547
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,600
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548
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,359
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549
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 2: Delicious Meals Delivered download their app today. You guessed it,

550
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 2: I guessed it, we all guessed it. We'd win a

551
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 2: prize if we were asked the question, your player of

552
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 2: the game is James Cook. Twenty five carries, one hundred

553
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: and seventy nine yards for his seven point two yards

554
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 2: per carry average. Also chipped in two receptions for forty

555
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 2: two yards, a receiving touchdown and a rushing touchdown for

556
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: Jimbo with his biggest day as a Buffalo Bill two

557
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty one total yards from scrimmage. Hello, we

558
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 2: also saw a stat on social I think of his

559
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: twenty five carries, only once was he touched at or

560
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 2: behind the line of scrimmage. By a Cowboys defender. So

561
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 2: kudos to Buffalo's offensive line. They were killing it yesterday.

562
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 3: You and I have been a little bit out in

563
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 3: front of this. The offensive line certainly got noticed last

564
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 3: night after that statement when you and I have been

565
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 3: talking about them. They've been a really impressive group under

566
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 3: the radar all season.

567
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a whole podcast on it last.

568
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 3: Week, and it's it was evident last night against a

569
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Speaker 3: really good team, certainly at home. But when you only

570
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 3: through the football fifteen times only and completed less than

571
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 3: half of those and one by twenty one, that's hard

572
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Speaker 3: to do. Bro, That is really hard.

573
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Speaker 2: Well, when you run for two sixty six, it's not.

574
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll say this, Look you look at the

575
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Speaker 3: halftime stats. At halftime, Josh Allen threw. Where is it?

576
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 3: I can't even find? Oh, yeah, here he is. They

577
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 3: threw eleven times. They threw four times in the second half.

578
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 3: They were two of four in the second half. Yes,

579
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Speaker 3: it's pretty impressive job by the group up front. And

580
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 3: I'll say this too, same goes on the other side

581
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 3: of the ball. Bill's defense. In their pass rush were

582
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 3: money Sean McDermott and the secondary and the calls. They

583
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 3: had had Dak Prescott holding the football just for a

584
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 3: half a second and they got home. They got home

585
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 3: a bunch last night. Shoot him out of the pocket,

586
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: got a couple of hits on him, a couple of

587
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 3: them were illegal that got called, and it was it

588
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 3: was a total game by the big boys up front

589
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 3: that won that game. Certainly James Cook was beneficiary of it.

590
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 3: But of this twenty five runs he had or whatever

591
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 3: it was he got hit for, he didn't get hit

592
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Speaker 3: in the backfield. He got positive yards before he ever

593
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 3: made contact with like one time he got hit before

594
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage on contact. Other than that he

595
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 3: was all past the line of scrimmage. It was a

596
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 3: great night to be James Cook last night. And he

597
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 3: flexed a little bit when he got the chance.

598
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 2: And the best thing about his game, and Eric Wood

599
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 2: and I have discussed this on the broadcast for weeks now,

600
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 2: it's his timing, end his vision. There are times where

601
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: he sees the hole and he'll put the foot on

602
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 2: the gas pedal and go top speed through the hole

603
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: to maximize the run. There are other times when the

604
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 2: hole is not initially there and he'll wait and be

605
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: patient until the crease does open and then he'll hit it.

606
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 2: And then there are other times where there is absolutely

607
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 2: nothing there and there's no hope for anything opening, and

608
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,239
Speaker 2: he improvises and makes a positive gain out of it.

609
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: And that is what is so special about James Cook.

610
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 2: He just has that innate ability to read a play

611
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 2: very quickly and invariably make the right decision every single time.

612
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: He maximizes every run he is given, whether the hole

613
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 2: is there, initially opens up later or never opens. He

614
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 2: gives you a positive play every single time.

615
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 3: I'll say this too, and you can understand where I'm

616
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 3: coming from. And when he was well, he's only you know,

617
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 3: this is what second year in the league, but a

618
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: young player, you know how you get in here. He's

619
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 3: you knew he was excited to play and he wanted

620
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Speaker 3: to do it. I think now he has enough confidence,

621
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Speaker 3: particularly this season, of getting the ball and being that

622
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 3: kind of the guy that goes in first. He's the starter,

623
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 3: he's going to get the lion's share of the carries,

624
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 3: He's going to get the ball, throw in too many

625
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 3: opportunities that in and of itself has given him, Plus

626
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 3: the reps have given him the confidence not to feel

627
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,959
Speaker 3: like he's got to get the yards now. You know,

628
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 3: we saw him last night hesitate a couple of times,

629
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Speaker 3: led it to developed for just a split second and

630
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 3: then burst through. He's got the burst. I mean, good grief.

631
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 3: The guy's at four to two eight, dude, So he

632
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 3: has learned patience and knowing that he doesn't you know,

633
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 3: he's just not too excited to let the play develop

634
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 3: in front of him. I think that patience and the

635
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 3: vision was really the difference last night. On a couple

636
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 3: of run, not all of them, but a couple of

637
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 3: runs you could see that you'd never see him do earlier.

638
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 2: But that's the decision making I'm talking about there. When

639
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: he has to be patient, he's patient. When he sees

640
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 2: the hole and he has to hit it, he hits it.

641
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: When he has to improvise because there's nothing there, he improvises.

642
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 2: He makes the right decision every single time. That's why

643
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 2: his worst carry last night is a plus one or

644
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 2: a plus two. It's not a minus four or a

645
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 2: minus six, you know what I mean. He just makes

646
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 2: really good decisions ninety nine percent of the time. Let's

647
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 2: go back to the phones and to Kenny in Indiana,

648
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 2: what do you got Kenny?

649
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 9: Hey, guys, how you doing. Merry Christmas?

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you.

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Speaker 12: Hey.

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Speaker 9: I'll tell you what My favorite part about the game yesterday,

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Speaker 9: other than the final score, of course, I love the

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Speaker 9: fact that it was in the late window and the

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Speaker 9: entire country got to see the Bills put on a

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Speaker 9: dominant performance with Josh Allen as a complete afterthought. That

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Speaker 9: is so cool to me because, I mean, we've known

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Speaker 9: for a while this team is more than Josh Allen,

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Speaker 9: but now the entire country thought, the whole country is saying,

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Speaker 9: while the Bills have a defense, while the Bills can.

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Speaker 8: Run the ball.

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Speaker 9: You know, it's pretty cool here in Indiana. People who

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Speaker 9: don't know the Bills, they're going to be asking me

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Speaker 9: all week where did this James Cook guy come from?

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Speaker 9: And I can't wait to tell him, you know. But

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Speaker 9: I'm just I find that I think that's really good

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Speaker 9: for the Bills brand, that we have other ways we

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Speaker 9: can win. We're not just Superman seventeen. And other than that,

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Speaker 9: I just want to tell the Bills, hey, focus on

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Speaker 9: the Chargers this week. Keep your focus because some people

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Speaker 9: might laugh at me, but how many times have we

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Speaker 9: seen the team get a boost of energy after the

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Speaker 9: firing of an unpopular coach. So just put the pedal

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Speaker 9: down and and we'll be playing for the division in

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Speaker 9: week eighteen. So Merry Christmas to you guys, and go Bill.

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Speaker 3: You're right, Yeah, there's a lot in that. We touched

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Speaker 3: on a little bit of the Charger stuff, but it

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Speaker 3: was It is interesting to see the conversation turn because

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Speaker 3: it almost invariably it because they ran the ball so

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Speaker 3: effectively and so predominantly, and so it's so out of

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Speaker 3: character for this team that it almost automatically turns the

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Speaker 3: conversation over to how bad the Cowboys were overrated, or

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Speaker 3: they had a bad game, or whatever whatever you want

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Speaker 3: to say about the cow It turns into a conversation

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Speaker 3: about the Cowboys because the Bills were so dominant, doing

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Speaker 3: it in a way that nobody thought the Bills could do.

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Speaker 3: It changes the conversation post game because it's so surprising

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Speaker 3: that the Bills were able to win a game the

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Speaker 3: way they did in such a dominant fashion. It's a

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Speaker 3: weird dynamic, but it's true. It's true.

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Speaker 2: And Eric would address this at the close of the

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Speaker 2: broadcast yesterday, and we'll have him on in the third

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Speaker 2: hour of the show, so I'll be happy to ask

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Speaker 2: it to him again so fans can hear it. He's

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Speaker 2: a guy that played during his Bill's career under a

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Speaker 2: couple of interim coaches, and he said the mindset for

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Speaker 2: players changes because when they see a head coach get canned,

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Speaker 2: it's like, oh, geez, I better really ball out here

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Speaker 2: so I'm not the next guy that's fired and lose

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Speaker 2: my job. So it puts a built in incentive in

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Speaker 2: the head of every player on that Chargers roster coming

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Speaker 2: up this week. Doesn't matter that they're already eliminated from

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. They know they're playing for their job now

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Speaker 2: and for whoever the next head coach is going to be.

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Speaker 2: They know they're going to be looking at this film

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Speaker 2: this week and the film of their games over the

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Speaker 2: last three weeks. How does this guy play after their

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Speaker 2: season's over? So they're going to be putting their foot

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Speaker 2: on the floor to play their best game possible. That's

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Speaker 2: the danger this week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a job interview for your for a guy

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Speaker 3: that you don't know who he is, that's looking at

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Speaker 3: your film. Yeah, you don't know who it's gonna be.

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Speaker 3: That's you know, it's an interesting that's real. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: an interesting dynamic. You gotta put your mind around for

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Speaker 3: how it would be for you if you're you know,

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Speaker 3: whatever job you do, if you knew the next couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks was gonna be recorded results your effort, every performance,

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Speaker 3: everything was gonna be evaluated, and you have no idea

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Speaker 3: who the evaluator is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's an incentive.

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Speaker 3: It's a bump.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a bump.

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Speaker 3: It's a real So it's yeah, you got to think

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Speaker 3: about that. And for the bills. You don't really put

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Speaker 3: it in that kind of perspective. If you're a player,

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Speaker 3: you're just saying, to listen, we're gonna go out and play.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna play hard. We're gonna let's go forget about

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Speaker 3: those jomokes over there. We don't care. We're gonna play. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you can't. You got to put that out of your

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Speaker 3: mind and look at what they've put on film to

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Speaker 3: this point and prepare for let's.

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Speaker 2: Go to Warren down in Florida next. Well, yeah, first, Warren.

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Speaker 13: Thanks for calling. I think of my call. A long

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Speaker 13: time builds me and I go back to the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 13: I'm seventy six. I just want to say, if we

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Speaker 13: have a run this year, you're going to go back

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Speaker 13: to that twelve men on field against Detroit and look

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Speaker 13: back on that as the best thing that ever happened,

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Speaker 13: because it gave McDermott cover to get rid of Dorsey

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Speaker 13: and hire Brady.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Well, first of all, it was Denver, Warren,

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Speaker 2: But I understand what you're saying. I mean Denver, Sorry, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean I don't know if I called the best

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Speaker 2: thing that ever happened, because it's put him in a

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Speaker 2: tough spot right now, and it's the reason why they

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Speaker 2: got to keep winning because it was another tiebreaker that

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Speaker 2: you don't have head to head wise, I understand what

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Speaker 2: you're saying in terms of making that decision. If they

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Speaker 2: win that game over Denver, maybe McDermott doesn't make that decision.

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Speaker 2: So I get what you're where you're coming from, Warren.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 2: I think if you asked everybody on the roster, they say,

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Speaker 2: we'd rather take the victory and give us the win.

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Speaker 2: Because now you're nine and five and you're not eight

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Speaker 2: and six, and the picture looks considerably different, but you're right,

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Speaker 2: they still might have Ken Dorsey as their coordinator if

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Speaker 2: they win that game. It's very hard to fire somebody

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Speaker 2: after a win. I think maybe I could go along

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Speaker 2: with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows if they I'll say this.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they get to it the next week or the

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Speaker 2: week after that.

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Speaker 3: I get it. Whatever. Here's the thing. If they go

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Speaker 3: on a deep run, you go back and I've been

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Speaker 3: part of those runs. There's a a not a million,

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Speaker 3: a billion things you can look at and say, if

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Speaker 3: that was the cab that was you know, that was

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Speaker 3: that one little extra detail, That was the grain of

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Speaker 3: rice that tipped the scale. You know, when you got

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Speaker 3: six tons of goo and one grain of rice is

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Speaker 3: the last thing that does it. You know, there's a million,

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Speaker 3: there's a billion of them, and they're all important. And

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Speaker 3: one guy who if this guy wouldn't have twisted his

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Speaker 3: ankle and given this guy a look, he wouldn't have

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Speaker 3: got enough reps to be as good as he was

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Speaker 3: when they needed him later in the season. All of

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Speaker 3: that stuff. So you can drive yourself crazy thinking about

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Speaker 3: the ifs ands and what fors and could have been,

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Speaker 3: would have been, should have been. The simple fact of

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Speaker 3: the matter is the facts are Bill's got to beat

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Speaker 3: the LA Chargers this week or they're gonna They're gonna

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Speaker 3: run the risk of being home in a year when

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Speaker 3: they might have had a big enough engine to win

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Speaker 3: the whole thing. That's that's where you're at. That's where

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Speaker 3: you're at. Let's go to.

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Speaker 2: Don in Rochester next. We got Don.

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Speaker 14: I guys love the show, NICs see you guys every

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Speaker 14: day during training camp. Especially enjoyed yesterday sitting in the

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Speaker 14: rain next to a Dallas fan.

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Speaker 8: That was huge.

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Speaker 14: Nice, but another big another big takeaway. I thought it

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Speaker 14: was only one penalty to helmet to helmet on Dad,

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Speaker 14: I thought that was huge. You only you go from

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Speaker 14: one game they haven't ten penalties in the first half

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Speaker 14: having one penalty yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 14: And then a quick quick thinking about your show in general.

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Speaker 14: You ever think coaches and players watch the reruns, especially

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Speaker 14: when you have Urlatsky and co cell On talking about

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Speaker 14: the team, talking about plays. I know, Chris, you called

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Speaker 14: for Cooke to touch the ball at least twenty times

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Speaker 14: he got that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't speak to that.

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Speaker 14: One final thing watching Get Up this morning. Greenie is

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Speaker 14: now an unofficial member of the Bill's mafia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well how about that. Yeah, well, there's no sense

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Speaker 2: in him rooting for the Jets at this point, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: jump on the wagon there, Greenee, glad to have you,

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Speaker 2: and Don thanks for the call.

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Speaker 3: As a broadcast say this about Mike Greenberg. We're both

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Speaker 3: in a Northwestern alumni by the way, and Brown you'll

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Speaker 3: admit to this too if you you know, if he

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Speaker 3: held his feet over the fire. Broadcasters love the teams

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Speaker 3: that make him look right. Oh yeah, So when Greene

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00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 3: jumped on with Josh Allen and all that, and now

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Speaker 3: the Bill's proved him right. That's why he's a fan.

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Speaker 3: It's not because he loves the Bills. It's because we

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Speaker 3: make him look good that I believe me, I know so,

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Speaker 3: and he's right. There's nothing wrong with it. It's true.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he said it, and the Bills made it happen.

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Speaker 3: Now he's their boy. So you know, it'll last till

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Speaker 3: the end of the season, probably as long as it

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Speaker 3: keeps going.

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Speaker 2: Break time for us, but plenty of phone calls for

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Speaker 2: us to still get to We'll do that when we

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Speaker 2: return here on a Buffalo victory Monday on one Bill's

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Speaker 2: got a few here. Bill's running back James Cook had

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Speaker 2: over one hundred yards rushing in the first half against

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, becoming the first Bill since Lashawn McCoy did

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Speaker 2: so against the forty nine Ers back on October sixth

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Speaker 2: teenth of the twenty sixteen season. Sunday's game against the

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Speaker 2: Cowboys was the tenth game this season that Bill's quarterback

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen had both a rushing and passing touchdown, now

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Speaker 2: the most in NFL history in a single season, breaking

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Speaker 2: his tie with Kyler Murray, as he and Josh had

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Speaker 2: done it in nine games. Murray did it back in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Now Josh has surpassed him with his tenth

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Speaker 2: phones we go here on Buffalo victory Monday, and to

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Speaker 2: Jeff in Buffalo next. What's up, Jeff, You're on one

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live.

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Speaker 15: Oh, guys, real quick, if I may give a shout

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Speaker 15: out Leonard Floyd, He's my man. When we signed him,

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Speaker 15: I was like, there's the secret. I mean, great signing.

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Speaker 15: Was watching the game with my wife last night. She says,

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Speaker 15: who's that number seven? I says, Oh, that's Aron Johnson.

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Speaker 15: I says, you know, really underrated but a great player.

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Speaker 15: And I just wanted to give two shout outs to that. Yeah,

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Speaker 15: real quick on the uh oh real quick. On the game.

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Speaker 15: On the game plan. Even Josh, I think in the

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Speaker 15: post game said like, you know, that wasn't really the

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Speaker 15: game plan to like run two to one to passes,

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Speaker 15: and you know, but just happen to work out, And

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Speaker 15: like you guys pointed out, they didn't. They didn't make

866
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 15: the adjustment in time, and you know, going forward, I

867
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 15: still think, you know, I think is any dull stand

868
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 15: would it's still Joshingh's team this is still a passing offense. Yeah,

869
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,959
Speaker 15: if we can sprinkle that stuff in and get it working. Hey,

870
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 15: like Josh said, if I got to throw the ball

871
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,919
Speaker 15: fifteen times and complete hundred fifty percent but we still

872
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 15: win the game, I'm all in. And I mean I

873
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 15: just wanted to point out, you know, everybody's like, oh,

874
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 15: I was a game plan for them to go up

875
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 15: and beat it. It wasn't a game plan, even even

876
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 15: according to Josh. But you go with what works, and uh,

877
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 15: kudos to them forgetting it done.

878
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 3: Man Goldbill, Thanks Jeff.

879
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 2: I think you're right. It probably wasn't the plan to

880
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 2: run it that much. But if it's working that well,

881
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,720
Speaker 2: keep doing it until they convince you to do something else.

882
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 2: And the death the Cowboys never had an answer for it,

883
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 2: never had an answer.

884
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm and we've seen it happen. I mean, we

885
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 3: got they got called on it in the Kansas City game.

886
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 3: Everybody was saying, well, why didn't you keep giving the

887
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 3: ball to James Cook in the second half in Kansas

888
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 3: City he was doing you know, all that stuff. They

889
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 3: ended up winning the game and all that, and it

890
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 3: was you know, kind of and in this case, they

891
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 3: did exactly what you asked them to do. In that game,

892
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 3: they just kept on keeping on. In the the other game,

893
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 3: the Chiefs actually did make a couple of adjustments and said, okay,

894
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 3: now you're not gonna do that anymore. Plus they had

895
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 3: a couple of small drives and get a chance to

896
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 3: get Cook involved. Not so with this Cowboys game. When

897
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 3: it's there and when they have a chance, man, they didn't.

898
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 3: There was no let up. They were like a dog

899
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 3: with a bone. They were gonna chew that thing until

900
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 3: it stopped tasting good. And you know, James Cook just

901
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 3: kept going and going and going. It was And kudos

902
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 3: to the coaching staff for you know, I mean, it

903
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 3: just makes so much sense. It's easy to sit here

904
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:32,959
Speaker 3: and say, well, of course they're gonna do anything. Well,

905
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 3: you know, there's some of these games where you think, well,

906
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 3: why didn't they do that? Why don't they just keep

907
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 3: doing that? Keep doing that, keep doing that, because we

908
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 3: see games like this every once in a while. It's like, yeah,

909
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 3: let's just do that. But if it fits working, don't stop.

910
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 2: Why would you? Yeah, I mean it's i mean, you're

911
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 2: churning out yards, it's seven yards, turning out plays, it's

912
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 2: seven yards of pop right. I mean at halftime they

913
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 2: had twenty six runs and eleven passes. I mean it

914
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 2: was outright bullyball, and Dallas was not ready for the fight,

915
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 2: at least not in that way. Let's get back to

916
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 2: the phones and to Rick in north Tonawanda next. What

917
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 2: you got for us? Rick?

918
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 16: Uh, guys, it might this might sound like football one

919
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 16: oh one, but uh the same fight. When when they

920
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 16: when the builds are washing the pall, this must be

921
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 16: the real benefit of the offensive line because they're blasting

922
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 16: right ahead. They know exactly what they're going to do,

923
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 16: and now they know the time count. So the digfensive

924
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 16: line is even though they might not history the run,

925
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 16: they can't. You know, they're on two tents of a

926
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 16: second behind with the reaction time. And when they're in

927
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 16: they're passing game. The offensive line zy getting knocked on

928
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 16: their butt because the other guys where he said, you

929
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 16: can just make the pass. So, I mean, it seems

930
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 16: like a perfect plane. If we have a offensive port,

931
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 16: it gets the right mix between the pants and the run.

932
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 16: They're gonna win win momby attend. The ether team's gonna

933
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 16: be to choose.

934
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 17: The whole game.

935
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 16: I guess The second point is I just wanted to

936
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 16: ship if you think Josh makes many audibles and the

937
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 16: line of spiriture, that's that's pretty much.

938
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Rick.

939
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 3: What did he say about it? He just needs to

940
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 3: know if Josh is doing what you wants to know,

941
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 3: if he's doing audibles checking, Yeah that yeah, I mean

942
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 3: all that stuff up there that Josh says before the

943
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 3: ball is snapped is for real and mean stuff. I mean,

944
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 3: they're they're checking in and out of plays and it's

945
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 3: all different. Everything you can imagine to happen before a

946
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 3: snap that Josh may or may not be able to do.

947
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 3: He's doing all of it.

948
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll hear him come up to the line and

949
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: say kill.

950
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 3: Kill kill, right, He'll he'll switch plays. He'll usually that's

951
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 3: what happens. They'll they'll get out of this place that

952
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 3: kill that play. We're going to that other play, and

953
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 3: that they'll know what that play is.

954
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 2: Because they'll have a run or a pass called both.

955
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 3: Or he'll go up and he'll and he'll just make

956
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 3: a couple of word calls and stuff we've seen him

957
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 3: do and I can't remember some of the words they've

958
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 3: used during this this season. They'll change up words and

959
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 3: Lebron James. Yeah, they'll call Lebron James and everybody knows, Okay,

960
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 3: we're gonna run the Lebron James play. Uh. He'll do

961
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 3: that as well. He'll go out and get out of

962
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 3: one play and into another. He'll go up and say, okay,

963
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 3: let's run Lebron James against this defense. And he'll go

964
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 3: and then he'll say, Okay, if we're gonna run this play,

965
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 3: we're gonna you come in motion. Okay, now go back out.

966
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 2: I need you in for protection. I need you in

967
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 2: for protection.

968
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 3: I Yeah. He does everything at the line of scrimmage

969
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 3: that he needs to do.

970
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:35,280
Speaker 2: He's the maestro.

971
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 3: He's yeah, that's what that. You can say what you

972
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,760
Speaker 3: want about anything in professional sports. You want. Ain't nothing

973
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 3: harder than playing quarterback in the National Football League, because

974
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 3: it's as much mental as it is physical. And that's

975
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 3: why you get all these different kinds of dudes playing it.

976
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 3: You got to have the mental part of it first,

977
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 3: and then you got to have the physical part of

978
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 3: it as well. And some of these guys don't have

979
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 3: as much physical as they do mental, and they don't

980
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 3: have as much skills as they do ability. They don't

981
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 3: have as much of this as they do that, and

982
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 3: they're all mixed and all that stuff. That's why when

983
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 3: you get a unicorn like Josh Allen or Pat Mahomes

984
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 3: or Lamar Jackson, those teams, teams are hard to beat.

985
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotta take a break here, but our number two

986
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 2: will begin as it usually does on a Monday after

987
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 2: a Bill's victory with the Maddie Awards. In our number two,

988
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 2: it's coming your way next here on One Bill's Live

989
00:50:29,440 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 2: presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

990
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 1: The One Bills Live presented by Calida Health.

991
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 2: All Right, our number two on a Buffalo victory Monday,

992
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 2: after the Bills resounding thirty one to ten win over

993
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys, and we know what that means. When

994
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 2: the Bills win, we get a new edition of the

995
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 2: Maddie Awards, presented by Energy Mark, the official energy supplier

996
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 2: to the Buffalo Bills. And here to do the honors

997
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 2: as always is who else but Mattie claff Welcome, Maddie,

998
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 2: good to see you again.

999
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 18: Straight weeks here we go. Let's get this thing going.

1000
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 18: A statement win by the Bills, but it is not

1001
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 18: over yet. Because they got work to do if they

1002
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 18: want to be playing in the postseason. But we'll start

1003
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 18: off with some awards because it was a great night

1004
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 18: by the offense and the defense. We'll start with the

1005
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 18: offense here. Road Runner is my first award and it's

1006
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 18: going to James Cook. You remember the cartoon Looney Tunes Roadrunner,

1007
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 18: Remember those days? Well, that was James Cook. He could

1008
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 18: not be stopped last night. He was blowing by guys.

1009
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,720
Speaker 18: He had incredible vision on the field, quick feet, running

1010
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 18: with some spunk and some purpose. He got into a rhythm.

1011
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 18: And watch out when that happens, when this guy gets

1012
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 18: into a rhythm, because it meant two hundred and twenty

1013
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 18: one scrimmage yards, which are top three among any player

1014
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 18: in the NFL this season, two touchdowns average seven point

1015
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 18: two yards per carry. Nobody could stop him, and they

1016
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 18: just kept handing him the rock and feeding him the rock,

1017
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 18: and it was so fun to watch him get going.

1018
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 18: I mean, he had a day and he proved that

1019
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 18: he can be a weapon and a player that defenses

1020
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 18: are going to have to respect. And that's what you

1021
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 18: want out of these guys. That's what you want of

1022
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 18: your offensive weapons. And it's great to get that and

1023
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 18: hopefully we continue to see more of that as the

1024
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 18: Bills close out the regular season and get ready for

1025
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 18: the playoffs. I mean, this could be a number two

1026
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 18: guy for Josh Allen. We've got Stefan Diggs. That number

1027
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 18: two guy has kind of been hanging in the air

1028
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,399
Speaker 18: because Gabe Davis hasn't had the season that a lot

1029
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 18: of us were expecting, and Dawson Knoxcott hurt, donkin Kaid

1030
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 18: has definitely flashed last night, not as much. But here

1031
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 18: comes James Cook. Over the last five weeks and he's

1032
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 18: proved to be something that's scary for opposing defenses.

1033
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, And we've said over the last couple

1034
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,959
Speaker 3: of weeks the first half of the Chiefs game, Cook

1035
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 3: was the engine in the offense, and certainly all last

1036
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 3: night yesterday afternoon, James Cook was the engine. And for

1037
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 3: the first time now that the Bills have a second

1038
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 3: engine rather than Josh Allen, he didn't have to put

1039
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 3: the cape on and be Superman. So you also have

1040
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 3: and we saw it and we've been talking about it

1041
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 3: in the first part of the show. Maddie.

1042
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 18: The game plan yep, master planner that is Joe Brady himself.

1043
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 18: I'm sure he goes into the game, yes, with the

1044
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 18: plan to run the ball. I'm not sure how much,

1045
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 18: but I would not guess it would have been as

1046
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 18: much as the Bills did last night. But kudos to

1047
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 18: Joe Brady for sticking to it and not abandoning the

1048
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 18: run just because he had some other things that they

1049
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 18: practiced and they repped and he liked and he wanted

1050
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 18: to use it. I think it says something about your

1051
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 18: pride deciding to just stick with what's working instead of

1052
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 18: going to the plan that you worked all week on

1053
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 18: and the plan that you thought, Hey, this is going

1054
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 18: to be the master plan to beat the Cowboys. Well,

1055
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 18: the master plan to beat the Cowboys was running the football,

1056
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,280
Speaker 18: and Joe Brady stuck with it. And you heard player

1057
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 18: after player and you heard Sean McDermott say, you know,

1058
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 18: kudos to Joe. Joe deserves some of this credit because

1059
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 18: he did not abandon the run. I think that says

1060
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 18: something about the play caller that he is. I mean,

1061
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,720
Speaker 18: this team has scored more than thirty points in three

1062
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 18: of the last four games. He's uncovered something with this offense,

1063
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 18: and they need to keep it going all right, So.

1064
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 2: Up next, we're gonna flip it over to the other

1065
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 2: side of the ball with all gas.

1066
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 3: And no breaks.

1067
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,280
Speaker 18: All gas, no breaks, baby. That was the defensive line

1068
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 18: last night. It's fun to watch a defense, and a

1069
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 18: defensive line specifically get after it with a huge lead.

1070
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:20,919
Speaker 18: They had a twenty eight point lead at one point

1071
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 18: in the game. Toward the end of the game there before,

1072
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 18: the Cowboys scored their last touchdown in their first touchdown

1073
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 18: of the game, and the defensive line pinned their ears

1074
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 18: back and got after it. Three sacks, seven quarterback hits.

1075
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,240
Speaker 18: Dallas's offensive line was allowing the second lowest quarterback pressure

1076
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 18: rate heading into this game, and the Bills blee by

1077
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 18: that at Oliver, Leonard Floyd, Greg Russo had great games.

1078
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,840
Speaker 18: I mean Leonard Floyd now up to double digit sacks,

1079
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 18: the first Buffalo Bill doing so since Lorenzo Alexander had

1080
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 18: twelve and a half in twenty sixteen. Says something about

1081
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 18: the the the what's been put on the field by

1082
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 18: this defensive line, the product that they're putting on the field.

1083
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 18: They've been getting after it. They've been down bodies. A

1084
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 18: j Atpanessa was not a part of the defensive line

1085
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 18: last night. Von Miller still working his way back. And

1086
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,800
Speaker 18: it doesn't matter who's in there. Day Kwon Jones, Daikwon

1087
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 18: Jones has been out for quite some time. It doesn't matter.

1088
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 18: They still continuously are affecting the quarterback, regardless of who's

1089
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 18: a part of that line, regardless of who's rotating through it.

1090
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 18: So it was amazing last night from them, and I

1091
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 18: think they add a lot to the offense and it's

1092
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 18: fun to watch them play with that lead like that

1093
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 18: defense was, they were going to work.

1094
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the next award has something to do with

1095
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 3: the guys who gave him the lead, the offensive line.

1096
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 18: There are glue guys. You can't do it without them.

1097
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 18: That's the offensive line. Two hundred and sixty six rushing

1098
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 18: yards last night by the offense is the most in

1099
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 18: the Sean McDermott era. So the offensive line definitely deserves

1100
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 18: a lot of credit for how they were able to

1101
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 18: block and open things up for James Cook. And Cook

1102
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 18: was contacted at or behind the line of scrimmage on

1103
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 18: only one of his twenty five rushes and adverridged four

1104
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 18: point two yards per rush before contact. He's only the

1105
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 18: third player to do so in the last two seasons.

1106
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 18: That has the offensive line written all over it. That's

1107
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 18: not a stat that you can get without a great

1108
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 18: offensive line blocking in front of you. So that is

1109
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 18: why they're the glue guys. That is why we are

1110
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 18: pointing them out. They've had a great year so far,

1111
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 18: and they took another step forward last night against a

1112
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 18: good Dallas defensive line. I mean all week we were

1113
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 18: talking about Micah Parsons and the chaos that the Dallas

1114
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 18: defensive line can create at the line of scrimmage, not

1115
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 18: knowing where he's going to be lined up. And yes,

1116
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 18: he did get dinged up a little bit early on

1117
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 18: in the game, but you still had to account for

1118
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 18: him and he was not a problem.

1119
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, the offensive line has a lot to say about

1120
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: this team, being number six in rushing, number eight in passing,

1121
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 2: and number one in sacks per play alout now they're

1122
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 2: really having a fantastic season, no question about it.

1123
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 18: Best catch, oh my gosh, the one handed catch that

1124
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 18: Stefan Diggs had in the second half of this one.

1125
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 18: He only had four catches for forty eight yards, but

1126
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 18: one of those catches was a jaw dropper. It was beautiful.

1127
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 10: Uh.

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00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 18: He still continues to be a part of this team.

1129
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,439
Speaker 18: I know we haven't seen a one hundred yard game

1130
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 18: from him in quite some time, but he's a big

1131
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 18: reason why this offense is still operating on a high

1132
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 18: level because the defenses have to account for a guy

1133
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 18: like Stefan Diggs, they take him away and other guys

1134
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 18: are able to produce like James Cook. I mean that

1135
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 18: catch was incredible. He is such a great athlete. It's

1136
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 18: now six straight seasons where he's reached the one hunt

1137
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 18: one thousand receiving yard mark, fourth straight with the Buffalo Bills.

1138
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 18: The Bills have not had a receiver like him in

1139
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 18: a while, and for him to be able to be

1140
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 18: on this team doing what he's doing, I mean, he's

1141
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 18: going to continue to be a big factor going forward

1142
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 18: for this time.

1143
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 3: He's the first player in Bill's history to have four

1144
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 3: consecutive seasons without and you're receiving and that's not for

1145
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 3: I mean, Eric Moles didn't do it, Andre didn't do it,

1146
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 3: and Stevie Johnson didn't do it. He did three and

1147
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 3: it is It's something. The consistency and all the stuff

1148
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 3: that's been said about I mean, everybody and his brother

1149
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 3: wanted him out of Buffalo and all that stuff. It's

1150
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 3: he has been so consistently good for this team for

1151
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 3: all four years he's been here, and it's been it's

1152
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 3: been fun to watch. Best block. And I'll say this

1153
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 3: brownie comes in and on my timeline, the social media

1154
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 3: timeline on Twitter, this play has been on a loop,

1155
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 3: like everybody's retweeting this block.

1156
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 18: Deon Dawkins, you are one bad man. On that James

1157
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,959
Speaker 18: Cook long run that went down to the one yard

1158
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 18: line right before the half, Deon Dawkins had the best

1159
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 18: block of the evening. He blocked line linebacker DeMont Clark

1160
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 18: like twenty yards down the field.

1161
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 2: Took him on a ride.

1162
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, kidnapped.

1163
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 18: Yeah the guy, go ahead, get on, get on in.

1164
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 18: We're going for a ride down the field and you know,

1165
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 18: I'm going to have all the control of what we do.

1166
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 18: That's exactly what happened. Amazing, amazing.

1167
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 3: Caked him and he just stayed with it and is

1168
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 3: a great plock and ended up falling on him. I

1169
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 3: was just like, man, just all of that all the time,

1170
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 3: playing to please get me out of this, you know.

1171
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 3: And Clark, it shook him up too, because Deon landing

1172
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 3: on him, all of him. It was you knew was

1173
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 3: it was early in the game. It was nobody had

1174
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 3: scored yet, and the game, very early on had all

1175
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 3: the year marks of a physical conference. It was gonna

1176
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 3: get chippy. It was going to be a big boy game.

1177
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 3: And Dion set the tone. Man. I mean, he made

1178
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 3: a statement there, as they did for the.

1179
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 18: Entire in the first half behind Deon Dawkins. James Cook

1180
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 18: was averaging nine point four yards per carry when he

1181
01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 18: was running behind Deon Dawkins. That is a big, big

1182
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 18: number to be averaging in the first half. Dawkins is

1183
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 18: playing at an all pro level.

1184
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 3: All right.

1185
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 2: So those are the Maddie Awards presented by Energy Mark.

1186
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 2: While we've got Maddie here, we also wanted to talk

1187
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 2: AFC conference race a little bit. As we mentioned earlier

1188
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 2: in the show, the Bills move up from tenth in

1189
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 2: the conference to ninth with their win to improve to

1190
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 2: eight and six, while Pittsburgh and Denver slide behind them

1191
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 2: at seven and seven. But there are still three eight

1192
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 2: and six to actually four total, but Jacksonville is still

1193
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 2: the division winner. There are three other teams in wildcard

1194
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 2: positions ahead of the Bills in the conference race. Those

1195
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 2: are Cincinnati, Indy, and Houston. Cincinnati, as we know, has

1196
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 2: the head to head tiebreaker over Buffalo, so two does Jacksonville,

1197
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 2: but they are atop the AFC South right now as

1198
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 2: a division leader via tiebreaker. So if you look at this,

1199
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 2: I think probably the best way to map it out

1200
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 2: is what those three teams have left in front of

1201
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 2: them in terms of their schedule, which I happen to

1202
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 2: have handy. So let's look first at the Browns at

1203
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 2: nine and five at Houston, one of the eight and

1204
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 2: six teams against the Jets, and then at Cincinnati, so

1205
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 2: another eight and six team. So a lot of these

1206
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 2: teams are going to be handing the other one a loss.

1207
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 2: You know, come push or shove here in some way,

1208
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 2: shape or form. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh at Kansas City home

1209
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 2: against Cleveland, there's a seven and seven team in there,

1210
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 2: and there's a nine and five team there in Cleveland

1211
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 2: in week eighteen, and then the Colts at Atlanta against

1212
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 2: Las Vegas, and then Houston another eight and six team,

1213
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 2: and then the Texans obviously against Cleveland this week, then

1214
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 2: Tennessee and at Indy. So Houston might be the one

1215
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 2: holding the most cards in terms of how it impacts

1216
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 2: the Bills because they have two of those teams that

1217
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 2: are in the hunt left.

1218
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 3: And you know, if you're wondering, don't cheer for Houston,

1219
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 3: want them You want them all to take hand each

1220
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 3: other losses and have the Bills winning.

1221
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 18: Can both teams lose in a game plays maybe some ties.

1222
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 2: Indianapolis could turn to some witchcraft.

1223
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 3: Buffalom went from the eleventh seed and Denver and Pittsburgh

1224
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 3: both lost and they fell out of that log jam

1225
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 3: at eight and six. Now there are both seven and

1226
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 3: seven because their losses yesterday they help us yesterday. No Indianapolis, Well,

1227
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 3: Indianapolis had no choice. They had to beat Pittsburgh to

1228
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 3: take them out of it. Cincinnati one, Cleveland won.

1229
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 2: Maddie, what about your damn Bears? Can't they catch a

1230
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 2: ball in the end.

1231
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 18: So when I was watching the game right before our

1232
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 18: game was going to start, and we were like, can.

1233
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 3: The Bears close it out?

1234
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 18: Can the Bears close it out?

1235
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 3: Bobble the ball in the end, Tremaine Edmonds with a

1236
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 3: group pick six and the Bears can't win. And then

1237
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 3: the Jet game comes on and they're complete garbage. Yesterday, Oh,

1238
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 3: my gosh. They played. They looked so good. They looked

1239
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 3: like they found a little something they were gonna last week.

1240
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 3: Last week's scrap, Zach Wilson's throwing for three Bills. All right,

1241
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 3: all right, now now that you know what they've settled in,

1242
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 3: they kind of found them, you know, much like the

1243
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 3: Bills have evolved to this point where they're playing on

1244
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 3: the ft.

1245
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 2: They found some footing on all right, you think they

1246
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 2: did that?

1247
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 1: No, horrible, They looked horrible.

1248
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 3: And just when you need the Jets, I mean even now,

1249
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 3: Bills fans are disappointed.

1250
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 2: In the Jets were all rooting.

1251
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 18: For it, Oh my gosh, and root for the Cowboys

1252
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 18: this weekend.

1253
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 3: Cowboys Dolphins, Rat Prescott MVP. Let's go. Yeah.

1254
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 2: Steve and I were talking about this a little bit, Maddie.

1255
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 2: I think that the Dolphins and Dallas are kind of

1256
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 2: the same kind of team, high scoring, finesse kind of team,

1257
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 2: and so it's going to be interesting to see those

1258
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 2: two play one another. Miami obviously riding high after a

1259
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 2: shutout victory, Dallas probably smarting a little bit, but very

1260
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 2: much in a race where if you're the Dallas Cowboys, Maddie,

1261
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 2: and you see the difference between how you play at

1262
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 2: home and how you play on the road. You're trying

1263
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 2: to get every win you can so you can at

1264
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 2: least host a playoff game or two, aren't you.

1265
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 18: Yes, Oh yeah, you're trying to get after it. You're

1266
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 18: trying to figure out and you know, after the game

1267
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 18: against the Bills, players coaches talking about we've been talking

1268
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 18: about how we've been playing on the road. Now we

1269
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 18: need to figure out how we can change that and

1270
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 18: start playing like we've been playing at home. Dak Prescott said,

1271
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 18: there's a lot of differences between playing on the road

1272
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 18: and at home.

1273
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 5: You've got to.

1274
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 18: Figure it out because we have games on the road

1275
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 18: left on the schedule, and his passer rating is a

1276
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 18: difference of like thirty points if you look at on

1277
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 18: the road versus at home. So hopefully within a week

1278
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 18: they can find the magic formula. Bring it over to Miami.

1279
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're right back on the road, right it's

1280
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 2: at Miamis Yea.

1281
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 3: I said it this last week about the Cowboys, and

1282
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 3: you're exactly right, Brownie. I think both these team. Cowboys

1283
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 3: are elite front runners, so are the Dolphins. I don't

1284
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 3: think either one of them likes those games where it's

1285
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 3: you know, six three or seventeen fourteen, seventeen, seventeen, seventeen

1286
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 3: twenty in there. Neither one of these teams likes that

1287
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 3: or thrives in it. And it's gonna be interesting to

1288
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 3: see how this game goes. Certainly, the Cowboys are gonna

1289
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 3: have a chip on their shoulder and something to prove

1290
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 3: physically after what happened to him this week. They're gonna

1291
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 3: want to come out and say, hey, listen, that's not us,

1292
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 3: which will serve them well against Miami. But Miami's got

1293
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 3: an offense that can take advantage of the of the

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01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 3: Cowboys secondary.

1295
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to play a man that much right.

1296
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 3: And Tyreek will probably be back on the field for

1297
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:37,919
Speaker 3: Miami gives them an extra lead.

1298
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 18: Has kind of started to get too.

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01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 3: I think that I think it's gonna be a really

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01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 3: fun game to watch Dallas. I definitely give Dallas a

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01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 3: chance in that game, despite the fact that they laid

1302
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 3: an egg here in Buffalo and Miami, how do they

1303
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 3: prepare well after a big win.

1304
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 18: They've got two big weeks coming up against the Cowboys

1305
01:06:57,240 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 18: and then against the Ravens, and of course closing out

1306
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 18: the season against US. You still think in the easiest

1307
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 18: path to the playoffs is to win the division, hope

1308
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 18: for Well.

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01:07:07,080 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 2: If you win, the best thing about winning the division

1310
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 2: is you get to host a playoff game if you

1311
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 2: do that, So you know that.

1312
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 3: Yes, Plus think about it last year, if the Bills

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01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 3: win in the division or the wildcard round of the

1314
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 3: playoffs or was it I can't remember what year it was,

1315
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 3: but if they win that game, I think they got

1316
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 3: put out by the by the Bengals or maybe the Chiefs.

1317
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 3: One of those years, the AFC championship game would have

1318
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:37,959
Speaker 3: been in Orchard Park. If you win the division, you're

1319
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 3: and the wild card teams play, well, you're in the

1320
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 3: driver's seat to have the championship game in your building.

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01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 2: Yes, but we're gonna be all scoreboard watching this week

1322
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 2: because the Bills play Saturday night and then basically that

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01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 2: Dolphins Cowboys game. Is that the Sunday night game? No,

1324
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 2: it's Christmas Eve five? Wow, the main window game on Sunday.

1325
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 2: Bills play Saturday night, as we know, so that game

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01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 2: is Sunday four twenty five. Man, I'm gonna be glued.

1327
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 3: To that thing.

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01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 2: That's the I think I'm going to ten o'clock Mass

1329
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 2: on Christmas Eve, so make sure I have time to

1330
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 2: watch that. Yeah, you're ten pm Mass Christmas Eve.

1331
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:25,639
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, four twenty five on Christmas Eve. Dude, sign

1332
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:26,719
Speaker 3: me up. We're all there.

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01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,839
Speaker 18: And then Monday at one o'clock we got Raiders Chiefs,

1334
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 18: and then Monday night you got Ravens forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: In the game right before the Bills is Bengals at Steelers,

1337
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:39,560
Speaker 2: which is a game that means something now because the

1338
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 2: Bengals pulled out that victory when the Vikings failed to

1339
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 2: do us a solid on Saturday.

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Speaker 18: Steeler's got a Mason Rudolph playing quarterback this week too.

1341
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wolf, double wolf. I mean, at least it's in Pittsburgh,

1342
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 2: but you're you're pulling for the Steelers there because you

1343
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 2: want you want the Bengals to take another loss.

1344
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you want both the teams, I guess you get.

1345
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 2: I don't know, do you want the Browns to kind

1346
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 2: of take the North at this point and beat the

1347
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 2: Texans go ten and five?

1348
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 3: I think so, I don't know. Yeah, somebody's got to

1349
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:15,960
Speaker 3: win that division and he may as well. Hope everybody

1350
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 3: else tanks. So yeah, that's fine with me.

1351
01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:21,599
Speaker 2: They get the Texans down to eight and seven, right,

1352
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:24,680
Speaker 2: take another loss in the conference, because.

1353
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 3: If you if they go to eight and seven and

1354
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:28,640
Speaker 3: you can beat the Chargers, you go to you go

1355
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:31,840
Speaker 3: to nine and six and they're eight and seven, so

1356
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 3: you're ahead of the Texans, which right now you're not.

1357
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:37,760
Speaker 2: And then the Bucks, who have won three in a row,

1358
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 2: they host the Jags, and you could drop the Jacks

1359
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 2: to eight and seven if the Bucks can beat them

1360
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 2: in Tampa ice.

1361
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,600
Speaker 3: And then yeah, so then you're then you jump. You

1362
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 3: might jump all the way to the then sixth seed.

1363
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:51,880
Speaker 3: Then it gets juicy, you might jump all the way

1364
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:52,639
Speaker 3: to the sixth seed.

1365
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 2: So right now, the New York Times playoff machine has

1366
01:09:56,600 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 2: the Bills with a seventy one percent chance to make

1367
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 2: the playoffs yesterday's victory, forty two percent chance to win

1368
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 2: the division. Wow, well that's still fifty eight percent against right,

1369
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 2: Dolphins are fifty eight percent to win the division, ninety

1370
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:12,480
Speaker 2: eight percent to make the playoffs.

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01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 18: If they beat the Chargers, it jumps up to seventy

1372
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 18: six percent. Then if they beat the Patriots, seventy four percent.

1373
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:22,160
Speaker 18: So won't jump a lot in the next two weeks.

1374
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 18: But if they beat the Dolphins, you're going to see

1375
01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 18: that pretty much go all the way.

1376
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1377
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:28,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's going to be really interesting to see Maddie.

1378
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 2: Thanks for helping us with the Mattie Awards. We hope

1379
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 2: we see you again. Yeah, next week after the Christmas holiday,

1380
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,919
Speaker 2: because that means the Bills are still winning football games.

1381
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 2: We will take a break here. When we come back

1382
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls. We'll also see if we

1383
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 2: have time to go around the locker room and see

1384
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 2: what the players are saying when we return here. On

1385
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1386
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1390
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1391
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 2: back to the phones here on a Buffalo Victory Monday.

1392
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. After the Bill's convincing

1393
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:34,640
Speaker 2: thirty one to ten win over the Dallas Cowboys, and

1394
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 2: we go to Dean in Tanawanda. Next, what do you

1395
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 2: got for his dean?

1396
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 19: A good afternoon, gentlemen, and Merry Christmas. What I have

1397
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 19: is for the Bills mafia. We're not the Philadelphia Eagles.

1398
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 19: So what the Bills lines have been doing in the

1399
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:54,599
Speaker 19: past two weeks, which would be called the Toush push,

1400
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 19: should be the playoff push. We should rename it for

1401
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:02,760
Speaker 19: us so we're unique organization. We're not a copycat.

1402
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 3: I got you. You don't like that. You don't like

1403
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 3: Bills fans are saying the Bills did the Tush push.

1404
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 3: I get it.

1405
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,559
Speaker 19: No, he should be the playoff push because when they

1406
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 19: said we're every game is a playoff, they look like

1407
01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 19: they're on roller skates.

1408
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll say this, on that opening drive of the game,

1409
01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:19,880
Speaker 3: I believe it was on the opening drive of the

1410
01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 3: game when James Cook turned it up inside it was

1411
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:23,560
Speaker 3: gonna be a two yard gain, and all of a

1412
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:26,559
Speaker 3: sudden he got it. Some leverage pushed him for four

1413
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 3: yards and then five, and then guys started jumping on

1414
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 3: the back. It turned into a twelve yard gain. You

1415
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 3: knew then it might be a different kind of night.

1416
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 12: And uh oh yeah, and especially like last week when

1417
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,400
Speaker 12: when they did that with Josh I mean it's like

1418
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:45,840
Speaker 12: it's like it looked like he wasn't gonna get hand

1419
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 12: handed that. The whole line just moved like they're on

1420
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:50,280
Speaker 12: roller skates. It was beautiful.

1421
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. Thanks Dean for the call. We appreciate it.

1422
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 2: Got to get to some other people. We go to

1423
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 2: James in Mayville next. What we got for us?

1424
01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 20: James, is there any advantage opponent to have your team's

1425
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 20: wristband with your plays on it?

1426
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 3: Probably not. It's all written in abbreviations. Now, if they

1427
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 3: had time to decipher it and all of that, and

1428
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 3: you know, and plus they knew which play you were

1429
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 3: gonna call on that wristband, that might be. But I

1430
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 3: don't think it would be. I it was kind of

1431
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 3: I know you probably saw it. He probably saw it, James.

1432
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:23,960
Speaker 3: Josh's wristband comes off when he gets tackled on it

1433
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 3: and it's stuck to his behind his his shirt. Yes,

1434
01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:32,600
Speaker 3: the velcrow stuck on his T shirt on his butt,

1435
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 3: and he didn't know where it is.

1436
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:34,720
Speaker 2: You know where it was?

1437
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 3: So then and we also so then Kyle Allen comes

1438
01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:41,640
Speaker 3: running out and gives him his because they both have

1439
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 3: to have one, right, So he gives him his and

1440
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 3: runs off, and then the next play Josh takes off

1441
01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 3: and throws it because it was stuck to him and

1442
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 3: he found somebody found it pretty comical moment in the game.

1443
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,120
Speaker 3: But you're right, you don't really want him to have

1444
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,640
Speaker 3: it because you don't want to know your terminology or

1445
01:13:58,680 --> 01:13:59,800
Speaker 3: any of that. Still, you don't want to give him

1446
01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:03,519
Speaker 3: any but it would be they would be hard pressed

1447
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 3: to make heads or tails of it right out of

1448
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 3: the gate. Plus they don't know which. Like I said,

1449
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 3: there's gonna be a menu of probably thirty five or

1450
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 3: fifty items on that wristband, and plus more than that

1451
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 3: as he opens it up, So it would probably not

1452
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 3: help him, but particularly team like the Cowboys. Still, though

1453
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 3: you don't want to give him that stuff. You don't

1454
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 3: want it out there.

1455
01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:28,760
Speaker 2: Eighth three, five fifty and then I'm gonna get on board.

1456
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 2: Got a couple of open lines for you there as

1457
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:34,400
Speaker 2: we are asking for your takeaways from Buffalo's resounding victory

1458
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 2: yesterday on a Buffalo victory Monday, and we go to

1459
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 2: Charlie in Niagara Falls next. What do you got Charlie?

1460
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 21: Hi, guys, Happy holidays.

1461
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 2: First of all, yeah, Harry, Christmas.

1462
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 21: Ry Christmas. Yes, a couple of comments in that, I'll

1463
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 21: let use up. I'd like to see the Bills as

1464
01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 21: James Cook not to summersault into the end zone because

1465
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 21: that was gonna take us one bed landing, and then

1466
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 21: it would be sickening to lose your guy like that

1467
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,519
Speaker 21: because he's thum resulted into the end zone. That's just

1468
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:09,519
Speaker 21: an opinion. And a second second, I think that this

1469
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:14,479
Speaker 21: is a recipe this week for a Bills let down.

1470
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 21: They had a big win yesterday, you got the Chargers

1471
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:23,879
Speaker 21: coming up, their first string quarterbacks, hurt, got new coaches

1472
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 21: and stuff. Just maybe a recipe for that. And that's

1473
01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 21: all I had to say, And thank you very.

1474
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 2: Much, thank you, thanks Charlie. Now your points well taken

1475
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:37,080
Speaker 2: about Cook flipping into the end zone. I remember two

1476
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:40,479
Speaker 2: years ago Lamar Jackson did that and he had a

1477
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:44,000
Speaker 2: hip injury as a result and was questionable the next week.

1478
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 2: I think he played, but his mobility was compromised because

1479
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 2: of it. So I totally respect where you're coming from

1480
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 2: on that, Charlie. You'd prefer not to have him submit

1481
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:56,439
Speaker 2: his body to any more unnecessary contact by doing that,

1482
01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 2: but you know he's excited, he wants to flip into

1483
01:15:58,479 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 2: the end zone.

1484
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, mostly, Yeah, but yeah, you'd prefer he doesn't. He's

1485
01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 3: taken enough he does, just don't get hurt doing it. Yeah,

1486
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:10,240
Speaker 3: and whatever risk you take, you're on the hook for it.

1487
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 2: And you're right about you know, the danger of an

1488
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 2: emotional letdown. You had a convincing victory at home, A

1489
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 2: lot of emotion was packed into that one, and now

1490
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 2: you have what is perceived by outside observers to be

1491
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 2: a much easier opponent in an LA Chargers team that

1492
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 2: lost their starting quarterback for the season, got their head

1493
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 2: coach fired due to lack of effort and performance against

1494
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 2: the Raiders last Thursday. But they've had an extra three

1495
01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:40,080
Speaker 2: days to prepare for you because they played last Thursday night.

1496
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 2: They've got an interim coach, and they got a roster

1497
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:45,840
Speaker 2: full of players that are saying, I better put my

1498
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 2: best out there on film. So I'm not the next

1499
01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 2: one that gets fired. So I would expect to see

1500
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 2: a very motivated Chargers team full of guys looking to

1501
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 2: save their own jobs for next season.

1502
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know what kind of coach Gift Smith

1503
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:05,680
Speaker 3: is the interim head coach of the Chargers, but I'm

1504
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 3: sure he did something to deserve this, or something impressive

1505
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:10,800
Speaker 3: for the owner, or maybe he's maybe I would doubt that.

1506
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 3: He's just the first guy that had that said yes,

1507
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So I imagine he's got

1508
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:19,639
Speaker 3: a little something under his hood and leadership wise, being

1509
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:21,559
Speaker 3: able to articulate it, probably got his hand on the

1510
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:23,599
Speaker 3: finger of the pulse of the team. You would think

1511
01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:27,479
Speaker 3: as one of those guys, it's hard to know what

1512
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:29,600
Speaker 3: to expect from the LA Chargers, and that for a

1513
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 3: lot of us, that's what scares you the most. You

1514
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 3: don't want to walk in there dazed and confused and

1515
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,679
Speaker 3: get smacked in the mouth. I doubt that the Bills

1516
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:41,440
Speaker 3: will do that. They're still in their kind of playoff

1517
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:45,720
Speaker 3: mode and now they're starting to gain some momentum, and

1518
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 3: that feels good. It's easy to come in and prepare,

1519
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 3: it's easy to come in and watch film. It's easy

1520
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:52,320
Speaker 3: to come in, let's say let's go, yeah, let's do this.

1521
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 3: I still think they're in that mind frame, so that

1522
01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 3: would speak well of them if they are. But I'm

1523
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:02,560
Speaker 3: with you. Unless you're in there and you see that

1524
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 3: stuff happen, and it's always in you always wonder about

1525
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:06,600
Speaker 3: how it's going to go.

1526
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 2: Of these last three games, I would argue that this

1527
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 2: Chargers game is the hardest one for the Bills to

1528
01:18:11,360 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 2: get up for.

1529
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 3: Now.

1530
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 2: Look, their backs are still against the wall. They're still

1531
01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 2: on the outside of the playoffs looking in, so that

1532
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,200
Speaker 2: should be motivation enough. But if you look at these

1533
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 2: last three games, you could argue that the Chargers might

1534
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 2: be the hardest one to get up for. This opponent's

1535
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 2: got a backup quarterback and interim head coach. We should

1536
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,920
Speaker 2: walk in here and take them. The next week, you're

1537
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 2: playing a team that has three wins and one of

1538
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 2: them was against you in Week seven, and the Patriots

1539
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:38,160
Speaker 2: that's got internal motivation being a division opponent on top

1540
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 2: of that, And then you might be playing for all

1541
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 2: the marbles in Week eighteen against the Miami team. So

1542
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 2: those have intrinsic motivation for the team by being division opponents,

1543
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 2: and for the reasons I just explained, the Chargers are

1544
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 2: kind of just out there twisting in the wind and

1545
01:18:55,960 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 2: their season's over. That one might be the hardest one

1546
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 2: to get up for. So you hope they're internally motivated

1547
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:04,559
Speaker 2: properly for that game. You don't want them playing down

1548
01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 2: to their level of competition.

1549
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 3: Let's go to go ahead. You're good seeing, I'm goodhead.

1550
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 2: Okay, Let's go to Mark in Jersey City here next.

1551
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 2: What do you got Mark?

1552
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 22: Good afternoon, gentlemen. This game reminded me of a game

1553
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 22: in Atlanta back in ninety two. Steve. You played in it, Kelly.

1554
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 22: I think they threw five times and Davis had one

1555
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 22: hundred and eighty yards. Thurman had one hundred. It was

1556
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:30,720
Speaker 22: just crazy the way they were so similar. And everybody's

1557
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 22: hue and cry for the last two three years as

1558
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 22: Josh does too much. They depend on Josh too much.

1559
01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 22: And I think you heard the sentiment yesterday for the guy,

1560
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:44,760
Speaker 22: for people who watched him play. I think he now

1561
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:49,439
Speaker 22: has something like his own Thurman Thomas right there, and

1562
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:53,720
Speaker 22: it's such a refreshing thing. And now the narrative is, well, oh,

1563
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 22: Josh didn't do anything for the win. He just let Cook.

1564
01:19:57,320 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 22: I heard that narrative already. Well, Josh really didn't do anything.

1565
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:02,839
Speaker 22: Back had how many dropped interceptions yesterday?

1566
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:03,799
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1567
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 2: Two that should have definitely been picks.

1568
01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 22: And Josh had like five drop passes, including a touchdown

1569
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 22: that was the easiest thing Cook had to do yesterday

1570
01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 22: was catch that and he dropped it. So it's just

1571
01:20:15,240 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 22: funny how the narrative, the sin of spin goes when

1572
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 22: guys like Mike Tannebaum and all these other talking heads

1573
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 22: run their mouth and their predictions proved woefully, wolfully short

1574
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:28,000
Speaker 22: because their bitter failed GMS or whatnot. It's just it's

1575
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 22: nice to see the Bills be the bearer of that.

1576
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:33,559
Speaker 3: Yeah it is, And you're right, the Bills, you would think.

1577
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 3: And it's funny how the human mind works. I find

1578
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 3: myself doing this. So the Bills come out and they

1579
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:41,400
Speaker 3: hand the ball off James Cook and he drives this

1580
01:20:41,479 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 3: offense and they, I mean, they steamroll the Dallas Cowboys

1581
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 3: at home. Then you start thinking, well, gosh, what if

1582
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 3: they start to happen. What if somebody forces you know,

1583
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,479
Speaker 3: now they got to go back and hope Josh can

1584
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 3: pick his endo the bargain up if they go in

1585
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 3: and the.

1586
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, okay, what was it that Mike Tannerback said?

1587
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:01,759
Speaker 2: I believe he said the Dallas Cowboys will not punt

1588
01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:05,599
Speaker 2: in this football game. They will not punt once in

1589
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 2: the football game.

1590
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 3: He also said Josh would have more turnovers than touchdowns. Yeah,

1591
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:13,200
Speaker 3: so no, not so much.

1592
01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:19,360
Speaker 2: News flash. The uh, the Dallas Cowboys punted eleven minutes

1593
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:22,360
Speaker 2: into the game and then punted on five of their

1594
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:23,640
Speaker 2: first six possessions.

1595
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:27,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll say that for the analysis. You got

1596
01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 3: to know too, the Dallas. That's how high Dallas was

1597
01:21:29,920 --> 01:21:32,040
Speaker 3: flying coming in here. They're hanging forty two points a

1598
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:34,200
Speaker 3: game on people, or thirty two points a game on

1599
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 3: the whole league, and forty in the last five games.

1600
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:40,520
Speaker 3: So they were coming in and they had people convinced.

1601
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:44,639
Speaker 3: And I you know, somebody said it on social media

1602
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 3: I think was uh Andrew Brandt said it that just

1603
01:21:50,439 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 3: when you started to believe in the Cowboys, this game happens.

1604
01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 3: And then just when you stop believing in the Bills,

1605
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:02,040
Speaker 3: this game happened. So it's both ends of the spectrum

1606
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:04,960
Speaker 3: from the fans perspective of both these teams.

1607
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,680
Speaker 2: Back to the phones and to Eric in Virginia, what

1608
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:08,320
Speaker 2: do you got Eric?

1609
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 17: Hey, Chris hey, Steve. I love the show, love everything

1610
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 17: you guys are doing. And just first off, I'd like

1611
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 17: to if I can just shout out to my dad,

1612
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 17: who never misses an episode. I love your dad, and

1613
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:24,559
Speaker 17: I always watch it in Florida. Secondly, I've just wanted

1614
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:28,720
Speaker 17: to comment on the games Cook run. It seemed like

1615
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 17: at the very beginning the Dallas Cowboys, they were emphasizing

1616
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 17: on stripping the ball from him and it led to

1617
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:38,240
Speaker 17: a lot of games. But they have to know that

1618
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 17: Sel victimming benches and every time they bumble, every time

1619
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:43,560
Speaker 17: he bubbled, So it's interesting to think maybe that was

1620
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 17: their game plan to try and get him to fumble

1621
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:47,360
Speaker 17: it early on they see if they can get a

1622
01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 17: bench for the you know game or whatever. Also, I

1623
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,760
Speaker 17: was wondering if you guys had like any kind of

1624
01:22:54,880 --> 01:22:59,680
Speaker 17: historical records for introm coaches following the firing, Like I

1625
01:22:59,680 --> 01:23:02,320
Speaker 17: mean that we all kind of get the general idea

1626
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 17: that there's a bump, but I'd be curious to know

1627
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 17: what the actual recent records would be following that. And

1628
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 17: then also, I feel really confident that due to the

1629
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:20,240
Speaker 17: build adversity in losing to bad teams this year, I

1630
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 17: feel really confident that they know what that's like. They

1631
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:28,680
Speaker 17: know how the lows are, and they know what the

1632
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 17: highs are the following few weeks. I just don't think

1633
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 17: that they're gonna take their from off the gas. They're

1634
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 17: not gonna want to ever get to the low of

1635
01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:39,760
Speaker 17: losing to Denver or losing to New England again. And

1636
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:43,439
Speaker 17: with that ill thing responses, yeah, sure thing.

1637
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 2: Don't have the interim coach record handy, but we know

1638
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 2: that Antonio Pierce won his first game with the Raiders

1639
01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 2: after he was installed as the interim head coach in

1640
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:59,439
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. The Carolina Panthers interim coach whose name escapes

1641
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:03,600
Speaker 2: me now, he lost his first game, but won yesterday

1642
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 2: in his second game in a division rival game against

1643
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 2: the Falcons. What was that final? Nine to seven?

1644
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:14,360
Speaker 3: Nine to seven. I believe you're right, good lord.

1645
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it wasn't anything to write home about,

1646
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 2: but it was a victory, and the Panthers have had it. Yeah,

1647
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:22,839
Speaker 2: nine to seven, so they improved to two and twelve

1648
01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:26,840
Speaker 2: on the season. I think it's a real thing, and

1649
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:28,559
Speaker 2: we'll talk to Eric would about it a little bit,

1650
01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 2: since he's gone through it himself with a couple of

1651
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:36,400
Speaker 2: interim coaches in his time with the Bills. So it's

1652
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:39,640
Speaker 2: it's a legitimate thing because guys start fearing for their

1653
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 2: own jobs when they see the head coach lose his

1654
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:43,839
Speaker 2: and they don't want to be next in line.

1655
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 3: And it's and it sounds cliche, but it really it

1656
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 3: is true. You get this real palpable us against the

1657
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 3: world mentality. We're get this bunker mentality. Listen, we're gonna

1658
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:57,320
Speaker 3: get in his survival mode, and you get this desperation

1659
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 3: and more play better. Yeah, more often than not. You've

1660
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 3: got some talented players in your off, in your team

1661
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,400
Speaker 3: and in your room. Some sometimes you got great players

1662
01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 3: in your room. And those guys are desperate too, and

1663
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 3: they start to take chances and do things outside you

1664
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 3: know that they haven't been doing. And some of them

1665
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 3: turn out right, and it turns into a pretty good

1666
01:25:16,479 --> 01:25:19,559
Speaker 3: football team and a recipe for some good some better play.

1667
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:22,639
Speaker 3: Maybe not a win, but certainly they look better than

1668
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:26,800
Speaker 3: they have under the last coach. So all of that's

1669
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 3: in the in the recipe, and you gotta know and

1670
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 3: treat it like you're gonna have to go in and

1671
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:35,719
Speaker 3: play really well to win, just like you do every week.

1672
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,960
Speaker 3: Whether it turns out to be true or not. You know,

1673
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 3: those guys have all the excuses in the world as

1674
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 3: listen to see any of our head coach, So they've

1675
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:46,519
Speaker 3: got all kinds of excuses. They'll play last They'll play

1676
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 3: fast and free and loose and without any care about

1677
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 3: the consequences. And that's a hard team to beat. It's

1678
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 3: a hard team to play against.

1679
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 2: You know, break time for us here, but more of

1680
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 2: your phone calls when we return here on a Buffalo

1681
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 2: Victory Monday. It's one Bill's Life presented by Kalida Health.

1682
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 23: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1683
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:19,760
Speaker 2: Back here on a Buffalo Victory Monday. Chris Brown Steve

1684
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 2: Tasker with you in our number two of our three

1685
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:26,600
Speaker 2: hour program as we do every Monday. In case you

1686
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:30,719
Speaker 2: didn't know, James Cook has been nominated for the FedEx

1687
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:33,040
Speaker 2: Ground Player of the Week in the NFL for his

1688
01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:35,759
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy nine yard rushing performance that included

1689
01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 2: two touchdowns, one passing, one rushing. So you can vote

1690
01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:43,160
Speaker 2: for him. I posted the link on Twitter at my

1691
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 2: Twitter handle at Chris Brown Bill, So get on there

1692
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:49,040
Speaker 2: vote for James as he's up against some other competition

1693
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:51,320
Speaker 2: in the league. I think where Shad White was on

1694
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:52,719
Speaker 2: the list, along with a couple other people.

1695
01:26:53,360 --> 01:26:53,559
Speaker 3: Uh.

1696
01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 2: In any event, we go back to the phones though

1697
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 2: at eighth three five point fifty one eight eight eight

1698
01:26:58,240 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 2: five fifty two, five fifty to Ryan in West senecon

1699
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 2: next what's up Ryan?

1700
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, how you doing today?

1701
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 2: Doing well?

1702
01:27:07,240 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 8: Yeah?

1703
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 24: Happy victory Monday. I was at the game yesterday and

1704
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:15,240
Speaker 24: you know, it was it was impressive, really, the atmosphere

1705
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:20,599
Speaker 24: in the stadium and like watching especially that first drive

1706
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:24,120
Speaker 24: and just seeing the runs pop off and the guys

1707
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 24: sort of ascertain their will.

1708
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:26,599
Speaker 3: It was.

1709
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 24: It was fun and frankly, that's been missing since the

1710
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:35,640
Speaker 24: Dolphins game, and it really really made me feel like

1711
01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 24: we've sort of turned a corner. You know, everyone's saying,

1712
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:41,240
Speaker 24: you know, maybe it's Joe Brady, maybe it's something else,

1713
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:44,600
Speaker 24: but frankly, the team looks like what we wanted the

1714
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:46,639
Speaker 24: team to look like since the start of the year.

1715
01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:51,440
Speaker 24: And the offensive line was dominant, the defensive line was dominant, dominant,

1716
01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:54,640
Speaker 24: and frankly, as someone that questioned it, I want to

1717
01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 24: give Sean McDermott his flowers. The defense was incredible against

1718
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 24: one of the best offensive teams in the league. And

1719
01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:04,840
Speaker 24: that's two weeks in a row, and you know what

1720
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 24: the boys are playing, They're flying around, they're asserting their dominance.

1721
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:10,880
Speaker 17: I like it.

1722
01:28:11,080 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 6: So that's all I gotta say. I'm I'm back on

1723
01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:19,080
Speaker 6: the train one hundred percent. I think we can mop

1724
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:22,240
Speaker 6: the mop the table, and pop into the playoffs and

1725
01:28:22,280 --> 01:28:24,599
Speaker 6: be the team no one wants to play. All right,

1726
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 6: I'm all in.

1727
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 2: All right, sounds good, Ryan, thanks for the call. Yeah,

1728
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:33,200
Speaker 2: I mean there is something to be said about the job.

1729
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 2: This defense is done. I said it at the top

1730
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 2: of the show. I think it took them a while

1731
01:28:38,160 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 2: to adjust to the losses that they experienced all at once.

1732
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:45,680
Speaker 2: It wasn't like they lost Tredavious White, Daikwon Jones, and

1733
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,759
Speaker 2: Matt Mlano over the course of six weeks. They lost

1734
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 2: them both, and they lost all three of them in

1735
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 2: the span of seven days. That's a lot to readjust

1736
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 2: to and it took them a while, But I think

1737
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:59,400
Speaker 2: they found their footing on defense. They know what their

1738
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 2: players they have to put on the field now are

1739
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:06,680
Speaker 2: and are not capable of, and they're calling plays accordingly

1740
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:08,720
Speaker 2: to put them in a position to succeed. And you're

1741
01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 2: seeing the results. You know, whether it was using more

1742
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 2: dime package or utilizing simulated pressures, or as we saw

1743
01:29:20,200 --> 01:29:23,679
Speaker 2: yesterday and Steve referenced earlier in the show, standing Leonard

1744
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:25,719
Speaker 2: Floyd up at the line of scrimmage and putting Jordan

1745
01:29:25,760 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 2: Phillips at defensive end and then having one loop around

1746
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:32,240
Speaker 2: the other and confuse the hell out of the Cowboys

1747
01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:36,599
Speaker 2: offensive line. All of it worked extraordinarily well through the

1748
01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:39,200
Speaker 2: course of that game. And so the Bills two times

1749
01:29:39,240 --> 01:29:42,880
Speaker 2: this season have faced the number one scoring offense in football.

1750
01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:45,840
Speaker 2: They did it in Week four when they had Daikwon Jones,

1751
01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:49,080
Speaker 2: Matt Milano, and Tredavius White and won and held them

1752
01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 2: to twenty points. They did it again yesterday, which with

1753
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 2: a roster that was considerably different on the defensive side

1754
01:29:56,400 --> 01:29:59,519
Speaker 2: of the ball and gave up ten points. You gotta

1755
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 2: tip your hand to the coaching staff. There is no

1756
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:02,240
Speaker 2: question about it.

1757
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:06,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll say this too. Ryan from West Sineg is right.

1758
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:09,080
Speaker 3: The thing about this season, and you know, we all

1759
01:30:09,320 --> 01:30:12,679
Speaker 3: it started, no question, with huge expectations for the Bills.

1760
01:30:12,680 --> 01:30:15,160
Speaker 3: I mean, Bills fans thought this roster was great, and

1761
01:30:15,439 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 3: it was. It got rattled by injuries, riddled by injuries,

1762
01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:20,640
Speaker 3: and they paid a price. But I think one of

1763
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:22,120
Speaker 3: the things we talked about it in the opening of

1764
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:24,960
Speaker 3: the show, the thing that was different about this Cowboys

1765
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:27,280
Speaker 3: game for a lot of Bills fans and me too,

1766
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:32,240
Speaker 3: was how stress free this win was. I mean, you

1767
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:35,200
Speaker 3: run the ball with these guys, they got no answers.

1768
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 3: It was incredibly just incredibly comforting to see your team

1769
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:45,200
Speaker 3: physically dominate an opponent that came in high flying and

1770
01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:46,320
Speaker 3: doing all kinds of stuff.

1771
01:30:46,360 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 2: They were averaging forty points a games since the bye week.

1772
01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:51,720
Speaker 3: And this season has been filled with a bunch of

1773
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:53,960
Speaker 3: games where it's like, oh man, Like the Miami game

1774
01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:56,040
Speaker 3: that he was talking about, I'm telling you, we went

1775
01:30:56,040 --> 01:30:59,120
Speaker 3: into All of us went into that game going, bro,

1776
01:30:59,240 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 3: I don't know those guys are those guys are killing people.

1777
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:05,360
Speaker 3: So we didn't know there was another, the Giants game,

1778
01:31:05,640 --> 01:31:07,760
Speaker 3: the Denver, all these games it was up and down

1779
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:11,240
Speaker 3: whether we wanted or not. It was like, man, oh man,

1780
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:14,320
Speaker 3: it was just hard and there was just all this

1781
01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:19,360
Speaker 3: you know, these moments, and so it's been a really

1782
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:21,880
Speaker 3: stressful up and down year for the team. They were

1783
01:31:21,880 --> 01:31:27,880
Speaker 3: six and six, for goodness sake. So this win really

1784
01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 3: was kind of the tonic that Bills fans needed to get. Like,

1785
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:33,759
Speaker 3: like Ryan said, he's back on the train now. He's like, Okay,

1786
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:35,479
Speaker 3: this is this is our team. Here we go now,

1787
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:38,439
Speaker 3: and you know we still got you got three games

1788
01:31:38,479 --> 01:31:39,000
Speaker 3: you gotta win.

1789
01:31:39,439 --> 01:31:41,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go to Judy and Buffalo next.

1790
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:46,759
Speaker 25: What you got Judy, well, along with Maddy and her awards,

1791
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 25: the defensive team, and your last caller, I want to

1792
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:53,040
Speaker 25: give a shout out to the defensive line of defensive backfield.

1793
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 25: I mean they were superb, which meant that Josh Allen

1794
01:31:57,080 --> 01:32:00,280
Speaker 25: didn't have to be Superman yesterday and they were able

1795
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:02,960
Speaker 25: to play a game that they a game plan they

1796
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:07,719
Speaker 25: hadn't used before. And I'm hopeful that the defense will

1797
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:11,560
Speaker 25: take over and be dominant in these next three games.

1798
01:32:11,920 --> 01:32:13,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be nice matchups.

1799
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 2: Have something to do with the Judy, but they You're right,

1800
01:32:16,479 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 2: they have had answers for dominant number one receivers. They

1801
01:32:21,080 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 2: held Tyreek Hill to fifty nine yards receiving, They hold

1802
01:32:24,439 --> 01:32:26,760
Speaker 2: Ceedee Lamb to fifty three yards receiving. I mean he

1803
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:33,160
Speaker 2: had seven catches, but everything was underneath. And Dak Prescott,

1804
01:32:33,640 --> 01:32:37,280
Speaker 2: who people were trumpeting as an NFL MVP candidate as

1805
01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 2: little as last week, throws for one hundred and thirty

1806
01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:42,519
Speaker 2: four yards in his sack three times and has a

1807
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:47,360
Speaker 2: pick and his passer rating is fifty seven. So yeah,

1808
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:50,599
Speaker 2: you're right, tip your hat to the defense for sure.

1809
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:52,400
Speaker 3: And if yeah, and I'm thinking if they have a game,

1810
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:54,519
Speaker 3: if they have games like that going down the stretch,

1811
01:32:54,560 --> 01:32:57,800
Speaker 3: I mean, none of us have anything to worry about. Yeah,

1812
01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:00,080
Speaker 3: we got to play those games and see it.

1813
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 2: Let's go to Brandon in Ellicantville here before the break.

1814
01:33:03,320 --> 01:33:04,640
Speaker 2: What do you got for his Brandon.

1815
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:10,200
Speaker 20: Hi, Chris Hi. Steve listened to you guys every day

1816
01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:13,680
Speaker 20: and was at the stadium yesterday. I too felt the

1817
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:17,960
Speaker 20: energy that Ryan had felt. I thought the game all

1818
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:23,479
Speaker 20: around was great, special teams, defense, offense, obviously, James Cook

1819
01:33:23,600 --> 01:33:26,840
Speaker 20: was great. And I was super excited to see the

1820
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:29,479
Speaker 20: physicality that the Bills brought to the game yesterday. It

1821
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 20: just seemed like we were imposing our will and it

1822
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:35,839
Speaker 20: was something that was missing for a while. Super excited

1823
01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 20: about that. Went into the stadium not sure we were

1824
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:42,519
Speaker 20: going to win that game, and certainly left much with

1825
01:33:42,640 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 20: much joy and just listened to what you guys have

1826
01:33:45,280 --> 01:33:45,639
Speaker 20: to say.

1827
01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 8: Thanks.

1828
01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 2: I think you're one hundred percent right about that physicality, Steve.

1829
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:50,759
Speaker 2: We noticed it right away, right.

1830
01:33:50,960 --> 01:33:53,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it just gets you know, it gives

1831
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:55,599
Speaker 3: you a lot of security knowing that you've got some

1832
01:33:55,640 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 3: guys who can be bullies in an the NFL will

1833
01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:02,000
Speaker 3: win games that way. It's not something that happens very often.

1834
01:34:02,080 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 3: They certainly did it last night, and I got to

1835
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:06,200
Speaker 3: tell you, I was a little surprised by it. Not

1836
01:34:06,320 --> 01:34:08,600
Speaker 3: that our guys aren't good or whatever. Was the Cowboys

1837
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:10,080
Speaker 3: just weren't.

1838
01:34:10,520 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 2: They couldn't match it.

1839
01:34:11,280 --> 01:34:14,840
Speaker 3: They couldn't match it, And I was surprised by that

1840
01:34:15,040 --> 01:34:17,680
Speaker 3: a little bit. I really was. You know, Cowboys are

1841
01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:19,280
Speaker 3: a good team, and they're a good team today, just

1842
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:22,599
Speaker 3: like they were before the game yesterday. But the Bills

1843
01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:24,680
Speaker 3: exposed some problems they've got that they're going to have

1844
01:34:24,680 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 3: to address going forward, and we'll see if they can

1845
01:34:27,080 --> 01:34:28,960
Speaker 3: get it done. But certainly the Bills made it was

1846
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:31,920
Speaker 3: a statement win in a lot of ways yesterday. Certainly

1847
01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:33,200
Speaker 3: it was a much needed win.

1848
01:34:33,439 --> 01:34:37,200
Speaker 2: And it wasn't just the offense pounding out yards, you know,

1849
01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:39,759
Speaker 2: with their alignment on the ground. The defense was hitting

1850
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:43,000
Speaker 2: people too. I mean there were some shots, yes especially

1851
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:45,640
Speaker 2: early in that game. So it looked very evident to

1852
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:48,600
Speaker 2: me that the Bills at the top of their priority

1853
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:52,160
Speaker 2: list was to set a physical tone in this game.

1854
01:34:52,680 --> 01:34:54,760
Speaker 2: And as soon as one guy made a hit, there

1855
01:34:54,800 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 2: was another guy that wanted to make one just like

1856
01:34:56,560 --> 01:34:59,240
Speaker 2: them on both sides of the ball. And you felt

1857
01:34:59,280 --> 01:35:02,640
Speaker 2: it like just like our callers said, you felt that

1858
01:35:02,840 --> 01:35:07,280
Speaker 2: energy from the field, with the physical wherewithal that they

1859
01:35:07,320 --> 01:35:10,719
Speaker 2: were bringing to each and every play. It was noticeably different.

1860
01:35:10,920 --> 01:35:12,920
Speaker 2: And Eric Wood said, and we'll talk to him in

1861
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:15,599
Speaker 2: our number three, it's the most physical he has seen

1862
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:18,080
Speaker 2: the team play all season long, and I think he's

1863
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:20,120
Speaker 2: one hundred percent right. We do have to take a

1864
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:22,240
Speaker 2: break here because we are going to talk to Eric Wood,

1865
01:35:22,439 --> 01:35:24,640
Speaker 2: my broadcast partner on the Bills Radio Network, when we

1866
01:35:24,720 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 2: return here on One Bill's Live presented by Colida Health.

1867
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:28,479
Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bill's.

1868
01:35:28,320 --> 01:36:16,360
Speaker 1: Radio, the One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

1869
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,479
Speaker 2: Here we are our number three on a Buffalo victory Monday.

1870
01:36:19,600 --> 01:36:22,840
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and joined now by

1871
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:26,599
Speaker 2: my radio broadcast partner on the Bills Radio Network, color analyst,

1872
01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 2: former Bill Center and host of the Centered on Buffalo podcast.

1873
01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:34,439
Speaker 2: It is Eric Wood joining us here. And Eric, you

1874
01:36:34,479 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 2: said it right from the jump. You noticed it right away.

1875
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:40,360
Speaker 2: We were just talking about it last hour, the physical

1876
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:44,639
Speaker 2: nature and nastiness that the Bills brought to this game

1877
01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:48,800
Speaker 2: to set a tone early was evident to you. They

1878
01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 2: carried it throughout the course of the game, and I

1879
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:54,439
Speaker 2: don't know that Dallas ever matched it.

1880
01:36:56,120 --> 01:36:57,160
Speaker 5: No, they really didn't.

1881
01:36:57,320 --> 01:36:59,840
Speaker 26: And this was a Bill's offense that from the jump

1882
01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:02,880
Speaker 26: wanted to dictate this football game with the run, and

1883
01:37:02,920 --> 01:37:05,360
Speaker 26: they did it throughout. And honestly, I wish I was

1884
01:37:05,360 --> 01:37:08,719
Speaker 26: in their meetings last week when they were identifying these

1885
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:11,559
Speaker 26: plays in the matchups, because what they were able to

1886
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 26: do when they were flipping the back and attacking Marquise Bell,

1887
01:37:15,080 --> 01:37:19,280
Speaker 26: their two hundred and five pound linebacker, was outstanding. And

1888
01:37:19,600 --> 01:37:22,639
Speaker 26: they've done that this year by dictating the fronts. Oftentimes,

1889
01:37:22,640 --> 01:37:26,679
Speaker 26: when they bring in David Edwards as the extra offensive lineman,

1890
01:37:26,680 --> 01:37:29,280
Speaker 26: they'll put him in motion and they'll run to the

1891
01:37:29,320 --> 01:37:31,280
Speaker 26: certain side and a certain look that they wont so

1892
01:37:31,320 --> 01:37:35,920
Speaker 26: they've done this, especially under Joe Brady yesterday. They dictated

1893
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:38,640
Speaker 26: it based upon where they put the tight end and

1894
01:37:38,760 --> 01:37:41,479
Speaker 26: by flip flopping the back and the way they were

1895
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,400
Speaker 26: able to allow themselves to be able to run right

1896
01:37:44,439 --> 01:37:48,680
Speaker 26: at Marquise Bell. Oftentimes they just used Micah Parsons as

1897
01:37:48,680 --> 01:37:50,439
Speaker 26: the player they were reading, so they didn't even have

1898
01:37:50,439 --> 01:37:52,519
Speaker 26: to block him on a number of plays because they

1899
01:37:52,560 --> 01:37:55,000
Speaker 26: knew that he'd be responsible for Josh Allen on the

1900
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 26: fake of the read on the play. And then it

1901
01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:01,439
Speaker 26: comes to fruition, and I'll tell you what, they're having

1902
01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:05,320
Speaker 26: fun in meetings today watching that plan come to fruition

1903
01:38:05,400 --> 01:38:07,360
Speaker 26: as well. And then when you look at the defense

1904
01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:10,760
Speaker 26: side of the football, that Bill's defense was physical from

1905
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 26: the jump.

1906
01:38:11,280 --> 01:38:12,960
Speaker 5: I mean, some of the.

1907
01:38:12,439 --> 01:38:15,960
Speaker 26: Hardest hits that I've seen from this Bill's defense and

1908
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:18,840
Speaker 26: the physicality that they played with all three levels of

1909
01:38:18,880 --> 01:38:22,439
Speaker 26: the defense, the linebackers, the safeties, they were hitting the

1910
01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:24,760
Speaker 26: skill position players, and then up front, there wasn't a

1911
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:26,960
Speaker 26: ton of movement. Now, at times those are a great

1912
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:29,000
Speaker 26: Cowboys offensive line. At times they were able to get

1913
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:30,880
Speaker 26: some movement, but when you were beating a team as

1914
01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:32,759
Speaker 26: bad as the Bills were beating the Cowboys, they couldn't

1915
01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:35,439
Speaker 26: stick with that run game. And so, man, that was

1916
01:38:35,479 --> 01:38:36,920
Speaker 26: a fun one to watch. But I'll tell you this,

1917
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:39,439
Speaker 26: you play in the rain and you're able to dictate

1918
01:38:39,520 --> 01:38:42,040
Speaker 26: like the Bills offensive line and the run game did yesterday.

1919
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:43,960
Speaker 26: That's an offensive lineman stream.

1920
01:38:44,479 --> 01:38:47,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it really showed that they just there was

1921
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:52,680
Speaker 3: no let up and I was really surprised that not

1922
01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:54,840
Speaker 3: only the now the Bill stuck with the run game

1923
01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:57,040
Speaker 3: because it was working. I get it. Josh only had

1924
01:38:57,080 --> 01:38:59,479
Speaker 3: he had eleven throws in the first half four in

1925
01:38:59,520 --> 01:39:02,080
Speaker 3: the second half, so you knew it was really going

1926
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:06,599
Speaker 3: good for him. And to me, I gotta say it,

1927
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:10,799
Speaker 3: I was shocked that the Cowboys just didn't show.

1928
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:14,960
Speaker 26: Up, right, I'm with you. And this is a team

1929
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:17,599
Speaker 26: in Dallas. They're one of the hottest teams in football

1930
01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:20,720
Speaker 26: coming in. They won five games in a row. All

1931
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:23,320
Speaker 26: those games they scored thirty three or more points. This

1932
01:39:23,360 --> 01:39:26,120
Speaker 26: is the highest scoring offense in all of football. And

1933
01:39:26,240 --> 01:39:28,840
Speaker 26: until they gave him a touchdown late, they only had

1934
01:39:28,880 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 26: three points in the football game. Give Sean McDermott in

1935
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:35,120
Speaker 26: his defense, a pat on the back end. It seems

1936
01:39:35,160 --> 01:39:37,280
Speaker 26: like we talked about it yesterday on the broadcast, Chris,

1937
01:39:37,320 --> 01:39:41,639
Speaker 26: it seems like they're becoming better adjusted to life without

1938
01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:45,760
Speaker 26: Daikwan Jones, Matt Malona, Tredevius White. Yesterday, they're without Micah Hoyt,

1939
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:48,560
Speaker 26: a Japanessa, all these injuries on the defensive side of

1940
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:51,200
Speaker 26: the football. It was unrealistic to think that they could

1941
01:39:51,240 --> 01:39:53,040
Speaker 26: maintain the level of play that they had at the

1942
01:39:53,040 --> 01:39:56,439
Speaker 26: beginning of the season. When you don't have your you know,

1943
01:39:56,640 --> 01:40:00,400
Speaker 26: three of your most effective players on your defense, definitely

1944
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:03,680
Speaker 26: your best player on defense in Matt Mulano. It was

1945
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:06,519
Speaker 26: going to take some time to adjust, but Dotson has

1946
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:07,240
Speaker 26: filled in well.

1947
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:07,519
Speaker 21: There.

1948
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:11,080
Speaker 26: You pick up Russell Douglas at the trade deadline and

1949
01:40:11,200 --> 01:40:15,040
Speaker 26: he becomes, you know, your your lockdown corner on the outside.

1950
01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:18,280
Speaker 26: And then up front you bring in Linval Joseph who

1951
01:40:18,640 --> 01:40:22,280
Speaker 26: essentially replaces Daikwan Jones. He doesn't have the pass rush ability,

1952
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:25,479
Speaker 26: but they've been able to adapt and they've done it

1953
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:29,160
Speaker 26: schematically as well. And Sean mcdermot's bringing out different wrinkles

1954
01:40:29,240 --> 01:40:32,200
Speaker 26: each and every week. Last week against the Chiefs there

1955
01:40:32,280 --> 01:40:35,200
Speaker 26: was different four and five man pressures to use against

1956
01:40:35,200 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 26: Mahomes to try and confuse that offense. Yesterday it was

1957
01:40:38,200 --> 01:40:41,400
Speaker 26: more fore man rushes. There were some timely run blitzes,

1958
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:44,080
Speaker 26: but for the most part, it was four man rush

1959
01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:47,040
Speaker 26: against Dak Prescott because you know, you have so many

1960
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:48,840
Speaker 26: weapons on the outside, you don't want to leave your

1961
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:52,280
Speaker 26: your secondary susceptible on the back end. But just some

1962
01:40:53,000 --> 01:40:55,960
Speaker 26: awesome wrinkles I saw and me and Chris were talking

1963
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:59,080
Speaker 26: about in the broadcast, and we mentioned that Leonard Leonard

1964
01:40:59,120 --> 01:41:01,840
Speaker 26: Floyd was lined up off the ball kind of over

1965
01:41:01,920 --> 01:41:04,679
Speaker 26: the guard and Jordan Phillips is outside and I could

1966
01:41:04,720 --> 01:41:07,680
Speaker 26: not believe it. But the left tackle, Tyron Smith, well,

1967
01:41:07,720 --> 01:41:09,640
Speaker 26: he goes out to jump set because if you have

1968
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:11,840
Speaker 26: a three hundred and forty pound guy across from you

1969
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:13,920
Speaker 26: at tackle, you're thinking, okay, let me go get my

1970
01:41:13,960 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 26: hands on him quickly. Well, that removes him too far

1971
01:41:16,439 --> 01:41:18,960
Speaker 26: from the guard. It's an easy pick stunt, and they're

1972
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:22,200
Speaker 26: on Dak Prescott in about a second, maybe one point

1973
01:41:22,320 --> 01:41:26,040
Speaker 26: two seconds on the play. I mean, the coaching job

1974
01:41:26,280 --> 01:41:29,240
Speaker 26: defensively by Sean McDermot yesterday was masterful.

1975
01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:33,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's now done that against two number one

1976
01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:35,320
Speaker 2: scoring offenses in the league in the same season and

1977
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:38,120
Speaker 2: with two very different defensive lineups in light of the

1978
01:41:38,120 --> 01:41:42,160
Speaker 2: injuries that you referenced season enders, and I thought it

1979
01:41:42,240 --> 01:41:44,639
Speaker 2: was interesting. In the locker room Eric after the game,

1980
01:41:45,479 --> 01:41:50,480
Speaker 2: more than one player said, after this victory, we've found ourselves.

1981
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:54,600
Speaker 2: I don't think that speaks necessarily to the team's identity,

1982
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:57,240
Speaker 2: because this team isn't gonna run it that many times

1983
01:41:57,240 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 2: every week because they have Josh Allen at quarterback, that

1984
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:02,519
Speaker 2: might not be their a one calling card. What do

1985
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:05,200
Speaker 2: you think they were getting at when they said we've

1986
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 2: found ourselves here in this victory.

1987
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:10,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a confidence.

1988
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:14,240
Speaker 26: I think it's a confidence these last three four weeks

1989
01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:16,760
Speaker 26: with Joe Brady as OC, you come out of the

1990
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:19,800
Speaker 26: bye with your hair on fire. They've found themselves in

1991
01:42:19,880 --> 01:42:22,280
Speaker 26: a good rhythm right now. But I think they found

1992
01:42:22,320 --> 01:42:24,639
Speaker 26: their confidence again. This was a team that was ride

1993
01:42:24,680 --> 01:42:27,440
Speaker 26: and high through four weeks of the season. Our conversations

1994
01:42:27,479 --> 01:42:30,080
Speaker 26: on One Bill's Live as they're sitting there as the

1995
01:42:30,120 --> 01:42:32,240
Speaker 26: super Bowl favorite was how are they going to maintain

1996
01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:35,760
Speaker 26: this success throughout the season. It's going to be impossible

1997
01:42:35,800 --> 01:42:38,719
Speaker 26: for them to do. And then they hit this wall

1998
01:42:38,760 --> 01:42:42,519
Speaker 26: through the season of injuries and adversity and it's win

1999
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:45,240
Speaker 26: a game, lose a game, win a game, lose two

2000
01:42:45,280 --> 01:42:47,639
Speaker 26: to where they find themselves with a five hundred record.

2001
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:51,160
Speaker 26: But now confidence wise, and I think it's the way

2002
01:42:51,200 --> 01:42:54,920
Speaker 26: they're able to attack matchups and attack certain looks on

2003
01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:57,559
Speaker 26: offense where they're going into the game with a ton

2004
01:42:57,560 --> 01:42:59,880
Speaker 26: of confidence knowing what they have in the game plan

2005
01:43:00,200 --> 01:43:02,840
Speaker 26: and a ton of confidence there and then defensively, they

2006
01:43:02,880 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 26: found their confidence where they're back to playing great football.

2007
01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:10,080
Speaker 26: And so I truly think it's it's an all around

2008
01:43:10,120 --> 01:43:13,360
Speaker 26: confidence the thing with this Bills team, and that's what

2009
01:43:13,400 --> 01:43:13,960
Speaker 26: they found.

2010
01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 3: So as we kind of put that Cowboy, We're gonna

2011
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:19,320
Speaker 3: talk more about the Cowboy, I mean about the Chargers

2012
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:21,120
Speaker 3: coming up this later this week. But really, as you

2013
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:26,160
Speaker 3: turn your mind towards it, so you got this, you

2014
01:43:26,240 --> 01:43:29,000
Speaker 3: got this huge game against Kansas City, a huge game

2015
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:33,759
Speaker 3: against the Cowboys. The Chargers just fired their head coach,

2016
01:43:34,120 --> 01:43:38,320
Speaker 3: they fired their GM, and they're starting franchise quarterback is

2017
01:43:38,400 --> 01:43:41,000
Speaker 3: now you know, had certain he's out for the years.

2018
01:43:41,000 --> 01:43:45,080
Speaker 3: They got a backup quarterback, a backup head coach, and

2019
01:43:45,160 --> 01:43:52,280
Speaker 3: a backup GM. I you know, I smell a trap.

2020
01:43:52,920 --> 01:43:54,840
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? I mean this is it

2021
01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:56,719
Speaker 3: just seems too easy right now right.

2022
01:43:57,680 --> 01:44:00,200
Speaker 26: Now, And I'm with you, and you know, I think

2023
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:02,760
Speaker 26: you're saving grace with this Bill's team is that you

2024
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:05,280
Speaker 26: likely have to win out to make the playoffs. There's

2025
01:44:05,280 --> 01:44:07,599
Speaker 26: a chance that you could drop one of these last

2026
01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:09,519
Speaker 26: three and still get in, but you don't want to

2027
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:11,960
Speaker 26: leave it up to chance. And so when you're sitting

2028
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 26: there and they talked about it last week after the

2029
01:44:14,479 --> 01:44:17,600
Speaker 26: Chiefs game. Survive in advance, Survived Advance. We're gonna have

2030
01:44:17,680 --> 01:44:20,800
Speaker 26: to treat this like the NCAA tournament, where it's win

2031
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:25,960
Speaker 26: or go home, And so with that as their resounding theme,

2032
01:44:26,200 --> 01:44:28,400
Speaker 26: I think it'd be tough for them to not show

2033
01:44:28,479 --> 01:44:30,720
Speaker 26: up in LA this week. Now you have an emotional win,

2034
01:44:30,960 --> 01:44:32,880
Speaker 26: you had a lot of fun beating the crap out

2035
01:44:32,920 --> 01:44:35,680
Speaker 26: of the Cowboys, and you have a short week, You're

2036
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:37,920
Speaker 26: traveling all the way out west, and so this is

2037
01:44:37,960 --> 01:44:40,920
Speaker 26: gonna be a big week for Sean McDermott to dial

2038
01:44:41,040 --> 01:44:44,960
Speaker 26: these guys back in immediately. There's no victory Monday here today.

2039
01:44:45,160 --> 01:44:47,240
Speaker 26: When you're playing on a short week, it's right back

2040
01:44:47,240 --> 01:44:49,920
Speaker 26: to work. It's likely look at the game film today

2041
01:44:50,080 --> 01:44:53,280
Speaker 26: and already start moving on to the Chargers and watching

2042
01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:56,400
Speaker 26: film on them. And that's how we treated under Sean

2043
01:44:56,479 --> 01:45:00,679
Speaker 26: McDermott short weeks, and so I would anticipate hate Sean

2044
01:45:01,960 --> 01:45:05,280
Speaker 26: understanding that himself and really harping on these guys that

2045
01:45:05,680 --> 01:45:09,080
Speaker 26: look yesterday is the standard. Are we gonna blow out

2046
01:45:09,120 --> 01:45:11,120
Speaker 26: teams each and every week? No, this is the National

2047
01:45:11,120 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 26: Football League and you're going against a Chargers team that

2048
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:16,759
Speaker 26: still has a ton of talent, especially on the defensive

2049
01:45:16,760 --> 01:45:19,960
Speaker 26: side of the football. And so those guys, as we've

2050
01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:22,640
Speaker 26: talked about before, with interim coaches, you can kind of

2051
01:45:22,680 --> 01:45:25,720
Speaker 26: get that one game bump where everyone in the locker

2052
01:45:25,800 --> 01:45:29,320
Speaker 26: room is not saying it, but subconsciously everyone's thinking in

2053
01:45:29,360 --> 01:45:31,600
Speaker 26: their minds. We got to prove it wasn't us. We

2054
01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:33,640
Speaker 26: got to prove it was the head coach, because we

2055
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:35,960
Speaker 26: want to keep our jobs. We like living out in

2056
01:45:36,120 --> 01:45:39,080
Speaker 26: la we like our current salary. I'm not trying to

2057
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:43,000
Speaker 26: go move to another team give my salary cut in half.

2058
01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:45,840
Speaker 26: And so we got to prove it wasn't our fault.

2059
01:45:46,160 --> 01:45:49,320
Speaker 26: And so you could see some emotion from this Chargers team.

2060
01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:52,320
Speaker 26: But man, that Thursday night football game against the Raiders,

2061
01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:54,320
Speaker 26: that was about as much quit as I've seen in

2062
01:45:54,360 --> 01:45:57,280
Speaker 26: a team. And heck, they were talking about at halftime,

2063
01:45:57,280 --> 01:45:59,640
Speaker 26: the Amazon crew was talking about that they might not

2064
01:45:59,680 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 26: even let Staley come out and coach the second half.

2065
01:46:03,160 --> 01:46:03,599
Speaker 5: Of that game.

2066
01:46:03,600 --> 01:46:05,599
Speaker 26: The riding was on the wall, on the wall that

2067
01:46:05,840 --> 01:46:07,160
Speaker 26: he had lost that football team.

2068
01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:09,639
Speaker 2: Last one I've got for you, Eric, concerning this game

2069
01:46:09,640 --> 01:46:13,160
Speaker 2: coming up, What are you doing if you're the Chargers

2070
01:46:13,240 --> 01:46:17,639
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator, because you just watch the Bills tear through

2071
01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:22,240
Speaker 2: the Dallas defense, you know, like paper with two hundred

2072
01:46:22,240 --> 01:46:26,519
Speaker 2: and sixty six rushing yards and Josh Allen basically didn't

2073
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:29,000
Speaker 2: even play a supporting role until they got in the

2074
01:46:29,040 --> 01:46:32,840
Speaker 2: red zone. How do you prepare for a team that

2075
01:46:32,920 --> 01:46:36,320
Speaker 2: shows that kind of running ability knowing they also have

2076
01:46:36,400 --> 01:46:38,439
Speaker 2: a guy who can hit any area of the field

2077
01:46:38,479 --> 01:46:39,480
Speaker 2: with his arm.

2078
01:46:40,400 --> 01:46:43,639
Speaker 26: Yeah, I mean if you let the Bills run the football,

2079
01:46:43,680 --> 01:46:45,519
Speaker 26: and if you give him a six man box, I

2080
01:46:45,520 --> 01:46:48,120
Speaker 26: think the day and age of team saying ben, but

2081
01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:51,360
Speaker 26: don't break against the Bills, that's likely over, at least

2082
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:54,080
Speaker 26: for a little while. With the emergence of James cooking

2083
01:46:54,160 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 26: this running game, and shoot, you had Todd Johnson. He's

2084
01:46:57,400 --> 01:47:00,720
Speaker 26: explosive and physical as well, and LaTavia Murray plays a

2085
01:47:00,800 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 26: role as well, But it seems like Johnson and Cook

2086
01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:05,439
Speaker 26: have emerged as that kind of one to two combo

2087
01:47:05,880 --> 01:47:08,639
Speaker 26: in the backfield. But you got to try to take

2088
01:47:08,680 --> 01:47:10,920
Speaker 26: away the run and dare them to throw the football.

2089
01:47:11,200 --> 01:47:13,920
Speaker 26: Let your pass rushers, it's probably the strength of your defense,

2090
01:47:13,960 --> 01:47:16,320
Speaker 26: and then Derwin James on the back end. Let them

2091
01:47:16,360 --> 01:47:18,720
Speaker 26: try and make some plays. But you can't just let

2092
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:21,240
Speaker 26: a team run over you like the Cowboys did. Chris

2093
01:47:21,280 --> 01:47:23,400
Speaker 26: I mentioned it on the first play of the game.

2094
01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 26: The Bills only pick up two yards with the run,

2095
01:47:25,400 --> 01:47:27,719
Speaker 26: but I said, there's no way with a two hundred

2096
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:30,439
Speaker 26: pound linebacker that they can continue to play a six

2097
01:47:30,479 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 26: man box and this Bill's team not take advantage of it.

2098
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:36,040
Speaker 26: It's just gonna happen, and the Bills were able to.

2099
01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:39,200
Speaker 26: And so I anticipate we haven't seen a ton of

2100
01:47:39,200 --> 01:47:41,760
Speaker 26: big plays down the field, but I could anticipate more

2101
01:47:41,840 --> 01:47:44,679
Speaker 26: of those coming because you're gonna have to start bringing

2102
01:47:44,680 --> 01:47:48,000
Speaker 26: your safeties down near the box. Those that Nickel is

2103
01:47:48,040 --> 01:47:50,080
Speaker 26: gonna have to bring some pressure, like we see Teraron

2104
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:51,760
Speaker 26: Johnson come off the edge off the Bills are getting

2105
01:47:51,800 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 26: gashed in the run game. You gotta do some things

2106
01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:56,799
Speaker 26: or else you're just gonna die a slow death against

2107
01:47:56,840 --> 01:47:59,040
Speaker 26: the Bills, and they're gonna get up a couple scores,

2108
01:47:59,280 --> 01:48:02,120
Speaker 26: and that's when the Bills defense can then feast, and

2109
01:48:02,240 --> 01:48:04,759
Speaker 26: so they're going to have to try to take away

2110
01:48:04,800 --> 01:48:08,840
Speaker 26: the run, I would assume. And so as I was

2111
01:48:08,840 --> 01:48:11,320
Speaker 26: thinking at that game yesterday, I was thinking back to

2112
01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:13,879
Speaker 26: the last time Dallas came to Buffalo in twenty fifteen,

2113
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:16,759
Speaker 26: and I was thinking that. I was thinking to myself,

2114
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:18,600
Speaker 26: I knew we ran the football well against them, but

2115
01:48:18,640 --> 01:48:21,519
Speaker 26: the Bills said two hundred and sixty six rushing yards yesterday.

2116
01:48:21,520 --> 01:48:23,760
Speaker 26: We only put up two hundred and thirty six back

2117
01:48:23,800 --> 01:48:24,880
Speaker 26: in twenty fifteen.

2118
01:48:25,040 --> 01:48:26,240
Speaker 5: But this is a team.

2119
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:29,760
Speaker 26: And I say that because that was a team, but

2120
01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:32,720
Speaker 26: a Bills team that led the league in rushing. And

2121
01:48:32,800 --> 01:48:35,679
Speaker 26: so you know the Bills what they're doing right now

2122
01:48:35,920 --> 01:48:38,439
Speaker 26: with the ground game, you know, they look like a team.

2123
01:48:38,479 --> 01:48:40,760
Speaker 26: If they committed to it, they could be the top

2124
01:48:40,840 --> 01:48:42,960
Speaker 26: running team in the NFL if they really wanted to.

2125
01:48:43,360 --> 01:48:46,519
Speaker 26: But a balance attack moving forward, obviously, we want to

2126
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:48,320
Speaker 26: take the ball out of Josh Allen Tan's too much.

2127
01:48:48,439 --> 01:48:50,160
Speaker 3: There's us a thought. I brought it up as well.

2128
01:48:50,160 --> 01:48:51,880
Speaker 3: When you look at the next game they've got to play.

2129
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:53,920
Speaker 3: LA's got to be sitting out there. Like you said,

2130
01:48:54,680 --> 01:48:56,680
Speaker 3: the Bills are sixty. Brownie brings it up all the time.

2131
01:48:56,680 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 3: They're sixteen and o when they don't turn it over.

2132
01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:00,960
Speaker 3: So if you're the charge, you gotta do if you're

2133
01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:02,519
Speaker 3: gonna if you want the Bills to turn it over,

2134
01:49:02,560 --> 01:49:05,000
Speaker 3: they're gonna run the football. You gotta get them to

2135
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:07,760
Speaker 3: put the ball at risk, which means you almost want

2136
01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:10,559
Speaker 3: to invite Josh Allen to throw the football, packing it

2137
01:49:10,600 --> 01:49:13,439
Speaker 3: in around the box, taking the running lanes away, getting

2138
01:49:13,439 --> 01:49:14,960
Speaker 3: them in third and long if you can, or at

2139
01:49:15,040 --> 01:49:18,799
Speaker 3: least even inviting them, you know, vacating the secondary almost

2140
01:49:18,800 --> 01:49:20,920
Speaker 3: to say, listen, you got to try it in order

2141
01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:23,080
Speaker 3: to get Josh to try and make some throws that

2142
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:24,800
Speaker 3: put the ball at risk, give yourself a chance to

2143
01:49:24,800 --> 01:49:29,719
Speaker 3: make a play. It sounds crazy, but if if you need,

2144
01:49:30,040 --> 01:49:31,920
Speaker 3: if you're of the mind that you got to turn

2145
01:49:31,960 --> 01:49:34,960
Speaker 3: some turnovers out to win this game. The only way

2146
01:49:34,960 --> 01:49:36,280
Speaker 3: to get the Bills to turn it over is to

2147
01:49:36,280 --> 01:49:38,800
Speaker 3: put it in Josh's hands and help he throws it

2148
01:49:38,840 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 3: all over the yard and you can cover them up

2149
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:43,200
Speaker 3: if they.

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01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:44,400
Speaker 5: Hand it off fifty times.

2151
01:49:44,439 --> 01:49:46,720
Speaker 3: And if they hand it off fifty times, you're never

2152
01:49:46,720 --> 01:49:47,639
Speaker 3: gonna get a turnover.

2153
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:52,120
Speaker 5: I know it, I know it, and so yeah.

2154
01:49:52,160 --> 01:49:54,760
Speaker 26: So if you're sitting there and you're the Chargers looking

2155
01:49:54,760 --> 01:49:57,640
Speaker 26: at it, you're saying, I gotta apply pressure, and it

2156
01:49:57,760 --> 01:50:00,680
Speaker 26: kind of goes back to me, Chris, me, and you

2157
01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:03,120
Speaker 26: are going to be someone needs to do a cutup

2158
01:50:03,200 --> 01:50:07,200
Speaker 26: of the water Boy announcing crew from that movie and

2159
01:50:07,240 --> 01:50:10,640
Speaker 26: not holding anything back. But I'm assuming we'll have a

2160
01:50:10,640 --> 01:50:13,439
Speaker 26: few references again on the broadcast this week, because if

2161
01:50:13,479 --> 01:50:15,400
Speaker 26: you're the Charger sitting there with a five and nine

2162
01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:18,479
Speaker 26: record and you're trying to say, hey, how do we

2163
01:50:18,560 --> 01:50:20,320
Speaker 26: kind of put our best foot forward at the end

2164
01:50:20,360 --> 01:50:22,880
Speaker 26: of this season, build some amendment in next year, try

2165
01:50:22,880 --> 01:50:24,559
Speaker 26: and save a few jobs here at the end of

2166
01:50:24,560 --> 01:50:27,920
Speaker 26: the season, you can't hold anything back, so I'd expect

2167
01:50:27,920 --> 01:50:31,080
Speaker 26: to see a bunch of pressures coming from this Chargers defense.

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Speaker 2: All right, Eric, thanks as always for the insight. We'll

2169
01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:36,439
Speaker 2: catch up with you next week. Have a merry Christmas.

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01:50:36,439 --> 01:50:38,639
Speaker 5: No, yeah, merry Christmas, guys.

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01:50:38,680 --> 01:50:38,880
Speaker 3: Thanks.

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01:50:39,320 --> 01:50:41,960
Speaker 2: That's Eric Wood joining us here as he does every

2173
01:50:42,200 --> 01:50:44,640
Speaker 2: Monday after a Bills game. Next week, he'll catch up

2174
01:50:44,680 --> 01:50:48,800
Speaker 2: with us on Tuesday, since Monday is Christmas Day and

2175
01:50:48,840 --> 01:50:53,560
Speaker 2: we will not be on the air on Christmas Day. Yeah,

2176
01:50:53,240 --> 01:50:55,880
Speaker 2: I'm I know we haven't flipped the page yet to

2177
01:50:55,920 --> 01:50:57,960
Speaker 2: the Chargers, but this is going to come up quick

2178
01:50:57,960 --> 01:51:00,480
Speaker 2: with the game being on Saturday, travel day being Friday.

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01:51:03,680 --> 01:51:04,560
Speaker 3: I'm really.

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01:51:05,760 --> 01:51:07,639
Speaker 2: Eric makes a good point there right at the end,

2181
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:12,280
Speaker 2: the Chargers literally have nothing to lose. They could try

2182
01:51:12,360 --> 01:51:15,280
Speaker 2: any trick in the book they want. There are literally

2183
01:51:15,320 --> 01:51:18,320
Speaker 2: no repercussions at this point in time because they're just

2184
01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:21,639
Speaker 2: playing three free games here to do whatever they want.

2185
01:51:22,240 --> 01:51:25,519
Speaker 2: So they want to run something some Harry High school

2186
01:51:25,520 --> 01:51:28,880
Speaker 2: play or something, they could do it. Nobody's saying no

2187
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:29,400
Speaker 2: right now.

2188
01:51:29,720 --> 01:51:34,360
Speaker 3: And yeah, Gift Smith has no shot of being that

2189
01:51:34,400 --> 01:51:37,000
Speaker 3: head coach long term, so he's gonna he is a

2190
01:51:37,160 --> 01:51:39,639
Speaker 3: it's a job application for him as well, not only

2191
01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:43,280
Speaker 3: just to to you know, keep that job if there were,

2192
01:51:43,320 --> 01:51:46,360
Speaker 3: indeed was indeed a possibility of doing that, but to

2193
01:51:46,360 --> 01:51:48,960
Speaker 3: also get hired on somewhere as a coach. Because let

2194
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:50,439
Speaker 3: me tell you something, when a new head coach comes

2195
01:51:50,439 --> 01:51:52,920
Speaker 3: in there, everybody's thanks for stopping by, guys. I get

2196
01:51:52,920 --> 01:51:56,200
Speaker 3: my own staff. Nobody gets held over in that building.

2197
01:51:57,200 --> 01:52:02,479
Speaker 3: So you know, it's all it's caution to the wind.

2198
01:52:02,920 --> 01:52:05,639
Speaker 2: Yeah you want to run three flee flickers, Sure, yeah,

2199
01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:06,960
Speaker 2: we'll do it, no problem.

2200
01:52:06,720 --> 01:52:08,960
Speaker 3: Triple reverse pass, Yeah, it's in. Let's go.

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01:52:10,080 --> 01:52:12,920
Speaker 2: It's no holds bart, It really isn't yeh eight oh

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01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:15,400
Speaker 2: three zero five fifty one eight eight five point fifty

2203
01:52:15,439 --> 01:52:17,000
Speaker 2: two five fifty If you want to give us your

2204
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:22,880
Speaker 2: takeaways from Buffalo's twenty one point victory over the Cowboys yesterday.

2205
01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:25,639
Speaker 2: Gonna crack open the tweet sheet here, Steve, we haven't

2206
01:52:25,680 --> 01:52:29,040
Speaker 2: done that yet today. Tweet sheet brought to you by

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Speaker 2: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of your

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01:52:32,680 --> 01:52:35,320
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills, and Harold leads us off with the following.

2209
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Speaker 2: Let's hear it for the offensive line, especially Connor McGovern

2210
01:52:39,680 --> 01:52:43,040
Speaker 2: for helping the Bills win against his former team. Yeah,

2211
01:52:43,040 --> 01:52:46,840
Speaker 2: we were. We were giving full marks to Buffalo's offensive

2212
01:52:46,840 --> 01:52:48,800
Speaker 2: line pretty much most of the show, and you just

2213
01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:52,320
Speaker 2: heard Eric kind of compliment them as well. Sean says,

2214
01:52:52,760 --> 01:52:55,760
Speaker 2: they actually played hard and fast on defense, and they

2215
01:52:55,840 --> 01:53:00,320
Speaker 2: seem to like being a bully. I like that. Now

2216
01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:03,320
Speaker 2: do that to the Chargers like you should, and show

2217
01:53:03,360 --> 01:53:06,479
Speaker 2: some consistency. That's the test, right.

2218
01:53:07,160 --> 01:53:09,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, fans love it when your team's a bully because

2219
01:53:09,400 --> 01:53:11,400
Speaker 3: it makes you feel impervious, you know. I mean, you

2220
01:53:11,439 --> 01:53:14,640
Speaker 3: feel like you're invincible when your team is unbeatable and

2221
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:17,880
Speaker 3: nobody's gonna Yeah, nobody's gonna push him around, and you

2222
01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:19,720
Speaker 3: know they if they want to win that he's gonna

2223
01:53:19,720 --> 01:53:21,160
Speaker 3: go out there and bully it away from you and

2224
01:53:21,200 --> 01:53:22,960
Speaker 3: get it. So it's it's a lot of fun to

2225
01:53:23,000 --> 01:53:24,840
Speaker 3: be that that kind of fan and have a team

2226
01:53:24,880 --> 01:53:26,759
Speaker 3: that does that once at least once in a while.

2227
01:53:27,240 --> 01:53:30,040
Speaker 3: And uh, the Bill certainly did that last night.

2228
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:34,920
Speaker 2: This one from Bill's Mafia. Cook is a five star

2229
01:53:35,080 --> 01:53:39,080
Speaker 2: Michelin chef. Three players I'd hate to face, a pulling Dion,

2230
01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:43,720
Speaker 2: a pulling Spencer, and an unblocked Big Phil. Excited to

2231
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:48,080
Speaker 2: go see the game this weekend in LA. We'll have

2232
01:53:48,160 --> 01:53:50,240
Speaker 2: some transplants out there, just like we did in Week

2233
01:53:50,280 --> 01:53:53,040
Speaker 2: one last year. They filled up so Far. There was

2234
01:53:53,080 --> 01:53:55,479
Speaker 2: a lot of red, white and blue out there last year.

2235
01:53:56,680 --> 01:54:03,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's yeah, it'll be don't know is there. We

2236
01:54:03,760 --> 01:54:05,960
Speaker 3: make fun of the Charger fan because when they were

2237
01:54:05,960 --> 01:54:08,479
Speaker 3: in the soccer stadium in their transition to so Far,

2238
01:54:08,600 --> 01:54:10,560
Speaker 3: it was it was a home. They played on the

2239
01:54:10,640 --> 01:54:15,800
Speaker 3: road seventeen weeks for seventeen games. Their fans did not

2240
01:54:15,960 --> 01:54:19,760
Speaker 3: show up. Maybe they will this time, but I would

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01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:22,320
Speaker 3: imagine it's going to feel very nice to Bills players

2242
01:54:22,360 --> 01:54:23,040
Speaker 3: coming out of that time.

2243
01:54:23,479 --> 01:54:26,280
Speaker 2: LA is a weird city as far as pro football

2244
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:29,679
Speaker 2: is concerned. The Rams have you know now that they're

2245
01:54:29,720 --> 01:54:33,160
Speaker 2: back after being in Saint Louis for a stretch. They're

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01:54:33,280 --> 01:54:37,280
Speaker 2: kind of the the team that LA fans identify with

2247
01:54:37,360 --> 01:54:39,960
Speaker 2: the most because they had been there the longest. You know,

2248
01:54:39,960 --> 01:54:42,120
Speaker 2: the Raiders were there for a bit and then left again.

2249
01:54:43,600 --> 01:54:46,120
Speaker 2: And the Chargers are back after initially being there for

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Speaker 2: two years, then moving to San Diego, back in the

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01:54:48,320 --> 01:54:54,400
Speaker 2: AFL days, and now they're back. I don't know. I've

2252
01:54:54,440 --> 01:54:57,920
Speaker 2: talked to I have friends that live out there and

2253
01:54:58,560 --> 01:55:00,360
Speaker 2: you know, born and raised out there, and they have

2254
01:55:00,480 --> 01:55:03,720
Speaker 2: told me that more than anything else, when it comes

2255
01:55:03,720 --> 01:55:09,040
Speaker 2: to football in LA college Trump's NFL, it is UCLA

2256
01:55:09,160 --> 01:55:14,600
Speaker 2: and USC and that rivalry dominates the football landscape in

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01:55:14,680 --> 01:55:17,640
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. So when you have a team like the Chargers,

2258
01:55:17,680 --> 01:55:19,920
Speaker 2: who are what five and nine now, I think and

2259
01:55:20,040 --> 01:55:24,240
Speaker 2: totally out of it. I see people just saying, you

2260
01:55:24,320 --> 01:55:25,840
Speaker 2: know what, I think, I'm going to go to the beach.

2261
01:55:26,680 --> 01:55:29,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not getting it. I mean, yeah, I get

2262
01:55:29,960 --> 01:55:31,760
Speaker 3: people like what they like, and that's fine. In LA.

2263
01:55:31,880 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 3: That's you know, some towns are baseball towns and some

2264
01:55:35,640 --> 01:55:39,480
Speaker 3: towns are college football towns. Sometimes are pro football towns.

2265
01:55:39,520 --> 01:55:44,520
Speaker 3: You know, they kind of have that personality and and

2266
01:55:44,680 --> 01:55:47,280
Speaker 3: certainly LA, it's hard for us, you know, back here

2267
01:55:47,320 --> 01:55:50,360
Speaker 3: in the Northeast to get a handle on what makes

2268
01:55:50,400 --> 01:55:53,440
Speaker 3: them tick out there, but certainly you notice it on

2269
01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:57,640
Speaker 3: the broadcast. It is a very different atmosphere for pro

2270
01:55:57,680 --> 01:55:59,040
Speaker 3: football in Los Angeles.

2271
01:56:00,240 --> 01:56:02,839
Speaker 2: On the tweets sheet says Cook has that fast twitch

2272
01:56:02,960 --> 01:56:06,040
Speaker 2: in small space ability. He also hits the hole quick

2273
01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:08,440
Speaker 2: and has great vision. I think he's going to be

2274
01:56:08,600 --> 01:56:14,240
Speaker 2: Christian Mccaffreyish, Okay, now, I will tell you this. McCaffrey

2275
01:56:14,280 --> 01:56:15,880
Speaker 2: runs a four to three seven, or at least he

2276
01:56:15,920 --> 01:56:18,360
Speaker 2: did at the combine. Cook ran a four to four

2277
01:56:18,360 --> 01:56:21,600
Speaker 2: to two, so pretty close in terms of comparable speed.

2278
01:56:23,520 --> 01:56:26,080
Speaker 2: But fast twitch and small space ability. Yeah, I mean

2279
01:56:26,720 --> 01:56:28,839
Speaker 2: he can get up to top speed about three four steps.

2280
01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:30,600
Speaker 2: I mean he is explosive. I don't think there's any

2281
01:56:30,680 --> 01:56:34,400
Speaker 2: question about that. Yeah, Drew says. Is it safe to

2282
01:56:34,400 --> 01:56:37,120
Speaker 2: say that an efficient run game is the secret sauce

2283
01:56:37,160 --> 01:56:42,000
Speaker 2: to everything going right for the Bills? No turnovers, confident defense,

2284
01:56:42,320 --> 01:56:46,520
Speaker 2: clock management, and thirty one points. Also, the lignemen on

2285
01:56:46,560 --> 01:56:50,080
Speaker 2: both sides of the ball are absolute studs. That was

2286
01:56:50,200 --> 01:56:56,600
Speaker 2: probably the most dominant trench play on both sides of

2287
01:56:56,640 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 2: the ball that we've seen all season. Would you agree

2288
01:56:58,520 --> 01:56:58,760
Speaker 2: with that.

2289
01:56:58,720 --> 01:57:01,840
Speaker 3: Steve oh Absolute this year for sure. This year. Yeah. Yeah,

2290
01:57:01,880 --> 01:57:03,480
Speaker 3: you can go back as far as you want, and

2291
01:57:03,520 --> 01:57:06,120
Speaker 3: you can start pulling pulling games in It's they're hard

2292
01:57:06,120 --> 01:57:10,000
Speaker 3: to find games like this. They're hard to find because

2293
01:57:10,040 --> 01:57:12,960
Speaker 3: the league is so even, and you know, every team

2294
01:57:13,000 --> 01:57:14,760
Speaker 3: that's gotten, you know, you got enough big guys or

2295
01:57:14,840 --> 01:57:17,280
Speaker 3: not too many or not you know, kind of cancel

2296
01:57:17,360 --> 01:57:21,120
Speaker 3: each other out. Yeah, there was something extra in this game,

2297
01:57:21,160 --> 01:57:23,280
Speaker 3: and you'd be hard pressed to figure out what it

2298
01:57:23,400 --> 01:57:25,720
Speaker 3: was other than the fact that we didn't know what

2299
01:57:25,760 --> 01:57:27,560
Speaker 3: we were looking at when we were looking at the Cowboys.

2300
01:57:28,320 --> 01:57:30,040
Speaker 2: We got to take a break here, but we go

2301
01:57:30,160 --> 01:57:33,160
Speaker 2: around the locker room. When we return, you'll hear what

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01:57:33,200 --> 01:57:36,440
Speaker 2: the players had to say about this convincing when over

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01:57:36,480 --> 01:57:39,280
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. When we return here on a Buffalo Victory Monday,

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01:57:39,280 --> 01:57:41,480
Speaker 2: it's One Bill's Live, presented by Colid of Health. This

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01:57:41,560 --> 01:57:58,840
Speaker 2: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One

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01:57:58,840 --> 01:58:02,080
Speaker 2: Bill's Live. Chris Brown's Eve Tasker with you, and we

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01:58:02,160 --> 01:58:06,040
Speaker 2: want to remind you that Ticketmaster is the presenting sponsor

2308
01:58:06,040 --> 01:58:09,440
Speaker 2: of the Buffalo Bill twenty twenty three season. Ticketmaster the

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01:58:09,440 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 2: official ticket marketplace of the NFL Time to go around

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01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:17,320
Speaker 2: the locker room, presented by Connect Life, your blood and

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Speaker 2: organ donor network, and we begin with Josh Allen, who

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01:58:21,600 --> 01:58:24,160
Speaker 2: was all too happy to hand the ball off for

2313
01:58:24,240 --> 01:58:27,720
Speaker 2: most of the day as he had just fifteen pass

2314
01:58:27,760 --> 01:58:32,120
Speaker 2: attempts and seven completions. Here's Josh on the run game

2315
01:58:32,280 --> 01:58:33,880
Speaker 2: success against the Cowboys.

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01:58:35,160 --> 01:58:39,920
Speaker 27: We committed to it, James ran hard, Tay ran hard,

2317
01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:44,520
Speaker 27: Ty ran hard, you know, and when you can stay

2318
01:58:44,560 --> 01:58:46,040
Speaker 27: in front of the sticks like we did today. I

2319
01:58:46,080 --> 01:58:47,680
Speaker 27: don't know how many third downs we had, but it

2320
01:58:47,720 --> 01:58:50,840
Speaker 27: couldn't have been that many. I don't think I threw

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01:58:50,880 --> 01:58:53,920
Speaker 27: the ball that many times, which again, I don't just

2322
01:58:53,960 --> 01:58:55,800
Speaker 27: get it done. Let's just find a way to win.

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01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:58,600
Speaker 27: And you know, felt like the kid that didn't do

2324
01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:01,960
Speaker 27: anything in the class project but got name. But again,

2325
01:59:02,040 --> 01:59:04,280
Speaker 27: I'll do this ten times out of ten times.

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01:59:04,280 --> 01:59:05,240
Speaker 5: Man like this keep going.

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01:59:06,840 --> 01:59:08,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was the line of the night,

2328
01:59:08,520 --> 01:59:10,120
Speaker 2: Josh saying, I felt like I was part of a

2329
01:59:10,120 --> 01:59:12,080
Speaker 2: class project and I didn't do anything and I still

2330
01:59:12,120 --> 01:59:12,480
Speaker 2: got the A.

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01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:16,160
Speaker 3: Yeah that they had twenty just to know they had

2332
01:59:16,280 --> 01:59:19,280
Speaker 3: nine third downs on the night, but they had twenty

2333
01:59:19,320 --> 01:59:20,920
Speaker 3: eight first downs.

2334
01:59:20,720 --> 01:59:22,600
Speaker 2: And they converted five of the nine.

2335
01:59:22,360 --> 01:59:26,760
Speaker 3: So they got Yeah, so they got first downs. They

2336
01:59:26,800 --> 01:59:31,400
Speaker 3: got well, nineteen of their twenty eight first downs they

2337
01:59:31,440 --> 01:59:34,560
Speaker 3: got on in two downs or one down three by

2338
01:59:34,600 --> 01:59:35,480
Speaker 3: penalty as well.

2339
01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:37,640
Speaker 2: And you know, the Bills came into the game second

2340
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:39,800
Speaker 2: in the league and third down conversion rate. The Cowboys

2341
01:59:39,800 --> 01:59:43,120
Speaker 2: were number one in third down conversion rate at forty

2342
01:59:43,200 --> 01:59:46,640
Speaker 2: nine point two percent. Yesterday they go five of thirteen

2343
01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:49,240
Speaker 2: thirty eight and a half percent, so more than ten

2344
01:59:49,280 --> 01:59:54,400
Speaker 2: percent below their average for the season. Dawson Knox also

2345
01:59:54,640 --> 01:59:59,800
Speaker 2: at the post game lectern and he too commented on

2346
01:59:59,840 --> 02:00:02,520
Speaker 2: the offensive success is he took on more of a

2347
02:00:02,520 --> 02:00:04,840
Speaker 2: blocking role than a pass catching role.

2348
02:00:06,440 --> 02:00:08,480
Speaker 28: It's awesome. It's such a great feeling as an offense.

2349
02:00:08,560 --> 02:00:10,920
Speaker 28: But to a defense, I mean, they were worn out,

2350
02:00:11,040 --> 02:00:12,320
Speaker 28: they didn't want to play by the end of it.

2351
02:00:13,080 --> 02:00:15,080
Speaker 28: That's gotta be one of the best feelings as an offense,

2352
02:00:15,160 --> 02:00:18,160
Speaker 28: just to continue imposing your will nothing.

2353
02:00:17,920 --> 02:00:19,760
Speaker 5: The defense can do to stop it.

2354
02:00:20,560 --> 02:00:22,440
Speaker 28: Again, huge shout out to the guys up front. They

2355
02:00:22,480 --> 02:00:23,560
Speaker 28: were just dominating all night.

2356
02:00:23,920 --> 02:00:25,640
Speaker 11: What does it say to you about this offense that

2357
02:00:25,880 --> 02:00:28,200
Speaker 11: you can win in so many different ways and win

2358
02:00:28,320 --> 02:00:31,200
Speaker 11: where you don't have to rely on Josh to be

2359
02:00:31,320 --> 02:00:35,400
Speaker 11: Superman and throw the ball, you know, thirty something times

2360
02:00:35,480 --> 02:00:36,840
Speaker 11: or whatever, something crazies like that.

2361
02:00:37,040 --> 02:00:40,200
Speaker 28: Yeah, it just shows you that we got weapons everywhere.

2362
02:00:40,240 --> 02:00:42,120
Speaker 5: It shows you that these big boys are going to

2363
02:00:42,160 --> 02:00:43,520
Speaker 5: move the line.

2364
02:00:43,920 --> 02:00:47,200
Speaker 28: Whether it's sixty times a game or ten times a game.

2365
02:00:47,040 --> 02:00:49,160
Speaker 5: You know, we're gonna do whatever it takes to win.

2366
02:00:49,200 --> 02:00:53,080
Speaker 28: And having backsack James it's got to be a nightmare

2367
02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:54,880
Speaker 28: for a defensive scheme up. So it's really fun to

2368
02:00:54,960 --> 02:00:58,760
Speaker 28: be able to do a little bit of everything take

2369
02:00:58,800 --> 02:01:01,920
Speaker 28: some of the pressure off of Josh too. When we

2370
02:01:01,960 --> 02:01:04,680
Speaker 28: can run the ball like that, I think it just

2371
02:01:04,720 --> 02:01:05,520
Speaker 28: opens up everything.

2372
02:01:06,360 --> 02:01:08,040
Speaker 2: I think he's right. I mean, we've been talking about

2373
02:01:08,000 --> 02:01:10,280
Speaker 2: it on the show, Steve, but it's really like your

2374
02:01:10,320 --> 02:01:12,800
Speaker 2: ace in the hole. Like if your game plan is

2375
02:01:12,840 --> 02:01:14,840
Speaker 2: to have Josh throw the ball and it's not working,

2376
02:01:15,520 --> 02:01:18,120
Speaker 2: as long as you're still in the game, right, you

2377
02:01:18,160 --> 02:01:19,320
Speaker 2: could arguably turned to that.

2378
02:01:19,640 --> 02:01:21,080
Speaker 3: And we've we've talked about a lot. This is a

2379
02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:24,920
Speaker 3: team that doesn't get run off and left. They're always

2380
02:01:24,920 --> 02:01:27,080
Speaker 3: in the game, it seems, you know. They the games

2381
02:01:27,080 --> 02:01:29,360
Speaker 3: they lose, it's a single possession game, so they're never

2382
02:01:29,400 --> 02:01:31,720
Speaker 3: going to be away from being able to do it

2383
02:01:31,760 --> 02:01:35,600
Speaker 3: on the clock, run, you know, handed off, and to

2384
02:01:35,680 --> 02:01:40,160
Speaker 3: have teams know somewhere in there there's that It's it's

2385
02:01:40,200 --> 02:01:42,840
Speaker 3: got to change the way they think about preparing for

2386
02:01:42,840 --> 02:01:45,200
Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bills. That's something we haven't really thought about

2387
02:01:45,720 --> 02:01:47,160
Speaker 3: in recent years past.

2388
02:01:47,400 --> 02:01:50,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't just think about stopping Josh. There's all

2389
02:01:50,320 --> 02:01:52,120
Speaker 2: this stuff you've got to worry about now. Yeah, the

2390
02:01:52,160 --> 02:01:54,480
Speaker 2: last game and a hat's daunting. Yeah, the last the

2391
02:01:54,480 --> 02:01:56,720
Speaker 2: first half of the Chiefs game. In this game in particular,

2392
02:01:58,200 --> 02:02:00,800
Speaker 2: it wasn't about Josh Allen. That's hasn't been that way

2393
02:02:00,840 --> 02:02:05,800
Speaker 2: for six years. Yeah, I mean that's that's that's a

2394
02:02:05,800 --> 02:02:07,920
Speaker 2: little paradigm shift. And I don't know what you know

2395
02:02:07,960 --> 02:02:11,880
Speaker 2: I mean going forward, Yeah, it's it's going to be

2396
02:02:12,000 --> 02:02:14,160
Speaker 2: very interesting to see if the Bills can continue to

2397
02:02:14,280 --> 02:02:18,800
Speaker 2: exploit it and defenses continue to jump through fiery hoops

2398
02:02:18,800 --> 02:02:19,560
Speaker 2: to try and stop it.

2399
02:02:20,400 --> 02:02:20,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2400
02:02:20,960 --> 02:02:24,320
Speaker 2: Head coach Sean McDermott also commented on the run game

2401
02:02:24,360 --> 02:02:27,000
Speaker 2: effort by the Bills against the Cowboys and how they

2402
02:02:27,120 --> 02:02:30,680
Speaker 2: decided once it was working so well, to just stick

2403
02:02:30,760 --> 02:02:31,080
Speaker 2: with it.

2404
02:02:32,680 --> 02:02:34,280
Speaker 29: I Mean, you can only do so many things as

2405
02:02:34,320 --> 02:02:37,640
Speaker 29: a defensive play caller. You can only put I mean,

2406
02:02:37,880 --> 02:02:41,400
Speaker 29: so many guys in the box. At some point, you know,

2407
02:02:41,480 --> 02:02:46,600
Speaker 29: someone's got got to got to make a play. And so,

2408
02:02:47,720 --> 02:02:50,160
Speaker 29: you know, I credit our offensive line again and Joe

2409
02:02:50,200 --> 02:02:53,680
Speaker 29: giving them the touches and staying with it, you know,

2410
02:02:53,960 --> 02:02:56,520
Speaker 29: because it's easy to go, hey, run okay, it worked.

2411
02:02:56,760 --> 02:02:58,160
Speaker 29: Going to run at worked and then all right, I'm

2412
02:02:58,160 --> 02:03:02,440
Speaker 29: going to play action right here. And he's stuck with it.

2413
02:03:02,480 --> 02:03:05,440
Speaker 29: And they and they took on, they took ownership of

2414
02:03:05,480 --> 02:03:07,080
Speaker 29: that because they have to get a couple of runs.

2415
02:03:07,120 --> 02:03:07,320
Speaker 3: Hey.

2416
02:03:07,360 --> 02:03:10,120
Speaker 29: Some people like, hey, okay, that's that's good. We moved

2417
02:03:10,120 --> 02:03:12,720
Speaker 29: it now right, Hey, Joe, you know, turned to the

2418
02:03:12,760 --> 02:03:15,160
Speaker 29: pass and they stayed right with it, which is also

2419
02:03:15,200 --> 02:03:15,840
Speaker 29: a mindset.

2420
02:03:17,240 --> 02:03:19,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think maybe the biggest shock for all

2421
02:03:19,440 --> 02:03:23,560
Speaker 2: of us was Mike McCarthy never adjusted, never said well,

2422
02:03:23,600 --> 02:03:25,800
Speaker 2: let's stop that and see if they have something else

2423
02:03:25,840 --> 02:03:27,480
Speaker 2: we have to worry about. I think this is a

2424
02:03:27,480 --> 02:03:28,280
Speaker 2: problem right now.

2425
02:03:28,640 --> 02:03:31,480
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting you watch the Dallas Cowboys play

2426
02:03:31,520 --> 02:03:33,640
Speaker 3: a lot and you see Dan Quinn out of the

2427
02:03:33,640 --> 02:03:36,880
Speaker 3: coaches booth a lot, and he has been kind of

2428
02:03:36,880 --> 02:03:39,280
Speaker 3: a celebrity guy up in the booth, one of those

2429
02:03:39,320 --> 02:03:41,200
Speaker 3: core Days, got his hat on backwards, got the thing,

2430
02:03:41,200 --> 02:03:42,920
Speaker 3: and he's standing up and waving his arms. So he

2431
02:03:42,960 --> 02:03:45,360
Speaker 3: didn't see that last night, and in fact, I was

2432
02:03:45,360 --> 02:03:49,760
Speaker 3: a little surprised by it, because I want to see

2433
02:03:49,760 --> 02:03:52,400
Speaker 3: the guy under duress, you know, I want to see

2434
02:03:52,400 --> 02:03:55,080
Speaker 3: what it's like when he's getting it handed to him

2435
02:03:55,080 --> 02:03:57,200
Speaker 3: and he's trying to come up with answers. We've seen

2436
02:03:57,280 --> 02:04:00,480
Speaker 3: Robert Salah when he was before he was the Jets coaches.

2437
02:04:00,480 --> 02:04:04,200
Speaker 3: If San Francisco is forty nine ers defensive coordinator, he's

2438
02:04:04,240 --> 02:04:06,040
Speaker 3: standing over there and he's got that look on his

2439
02:04:06,080 --> 02:04:10,760
Speaker 3: eyes watching Josh Allen bust every defensive call he's made.

2440
02:04:10,960 --> 02:04:14,080
Speaker 3: He's made some perfect defensive calls and it's turned into

2441
02:04:14,120 --> 02:04:17,840
Speaker 3: a big play against him. What do you do? And

2442
02:04:17,920 --> 02:04:19,800
Speaker 3: that's that's the look on it. And we didn't get

2443
02:04:19,800 --> 02:04:21,600
Speaker 3: to see that last night with Dan Quinn up in

2444
02:04:21,600 --> 02:04:25,400
Speaker 3: the booth because listen, you you can't make your guys

2445
02:04:25,440 --> 02:04:30,520
Speaker 3: bigger and faster and stronger with a defensive play call,

2446
02:04:30,560 --> 02:04:32,840
Speaker 3: and he was he was getting pushed around.

2447
02:04:32,880 --> 02:04:34,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this wasn't flashy.

2448
02:04:34,120 --> 02:04:36,520
Speaker 3: This was just you said it too, on the way haul,

2449
02:04:36,960 --> 02:04:38,760
Speaker 3: on the way in the game, in the pregame and

2450
02:04:38,800 --> 02:04:40,960
Speaker 3: also in the early in the game. You said it,

2451
02:04:41,000 --> 02:04:43,839
Speaker 3: and you were exactly right. They're deep. That Dallas defense

2452
02:04:44,040 --> 02:04:48,600
Speaker 3: is fast. Micah Parsons, curse all those guys bell all

2453
02:04:48,640 --> 02:04:53,680
Speaker 3: those guys can really scoot well run. You better run

2454
02:04:53,720 --> 02:04:55,400
Speaker 3: fast to get up here and get blocked, you know

2455
02:04:55,440 --> 02:04:59,240
Speaker 3: what I mean. They they just are too little at

2456
02:04:59,280 --> 02:05:02,000
Speaker 3: some key spot to hold up when you scheme up

2457
02:05:02,040 --> 02:05:03,200
Speaker 3: some big guys on little guys.

2458
02:05:03,200 --> 02:05:05,200
Speaker 2: So instead of trying to outrun them, they just pushed him.

2459
02:05:05,080 --> 02:05:06,600
Speaker 3: Out of the way, they pushed him out of the way.

2460
02:05:06,720 --> 02:05:09,320
Speaker 3: And that works, and James could make Cook made a

2461
02:05:09,360 --> 02:05:13,360
Speaker 3: couple of guys missing the hole, and yeah, so yeah

2462
02:05:13,400 --> 02:05:17,800
Speaker 3: it was. It was a really really good lesson on

2463
02:05:18,040 --> 02:05:21,440
Speaker 3: the basics of I'm bigger than you and we're gonna

2464
02:05:21,440 --> 02:05:23,320
Speaker 3: push you out away and you better figure out a

2465
02:05:23,320 --> 02:05:23,960
Speaker 3: way to stop it.

2466
02:05:24,760 --> 02:05:27,520
Speaker 2: Let's give some kudos to the defense. And here to

2467
02:05:27,560 --> 02:05:31,240
Speaker 2: comment on that is Bill's defensive tackle Ed Oliver, who

2468
02:05:31,360 --> 02:05:35,480
Speaker 2: feels like the team has found itself. He talks about

2469
02:05:35,560 --> 02:05:39,320
Speaker 2: the confidence that the team has now acquired after these

2470
02:05:39,400 --> 02:05:42,200
Speaker 2: last two victories on the road against the Chiefs and

2471
02:05:42,240 --> 02:05:44,920
Speaker 2: then the big win yesterday against the Cowboys.

2472
02:05:45,600 --> 02:05:49,360
Speaker 30: I think we definitely found ourselves as a team. Were

2473
02:05:49,360 --> 02:05:51,560
Speaker 30: starting to play with a lot of swagger, a lot

2474
02:05:51,560 --> 02:05:54,520
Speaker 30: of Jews, especially when we get teams in here at

2475
02:05:54,560 --> 02:05:56,839
Speaker 30: home and it gets loud. I mean, it gets crazy.

2476
02:05:56,880 --> 02:05:59,400
Speaker 30: But I definitely think like, we're not in the playoffs

2477
02:05:59,440 --> 02:06:01,920
Speaker 30: right now, but the the main thing is just having

2478
02:06:01,960 --> 02:06:05,280
Speaker 30: that that Jews, that swagger that you know that when

2479
02:06:05,320 --> 02:06:07,200
Speaker 30: we go out there, we all is won and and

2480
02:06:07,240 --> 02:06:09,320
Speaker 30: we expect we know what to expect from everybody, and

2481
02:06:09,360 --> 02:06:11,360
Speaker 30: everybody knows, everybody gonna do their job, and everybody on

2482
02:06:11,360 --> 02:06:15,040
Speaker 30: the same page. And we playing like that. That's how

2483
02:06:15,080 --> 02:06:16,800
Speaker 30: you get into the playoffs. And that's that, you know

2484
02:06:16,840 --> 02:06:18,920
Speaker 30: what I'm saying. So as long as we keep playing

2485
02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:21,320
Speaker 30: with the same swagger, same Jews, d line coming off

2486
02:06:21,320 --> 02:06:24,080
Speaker 30: the ball lineback's coming down here, we taking the ball away.

2487
02:06:24,600 --> 02:06:28,120
Speaker 30: Thinks c B had a pig, right, So so uh like,

2488
02:06:28,120 --> 02:06:31,360
Speaker 30: when you're doing things like that, man, it's just that

2489
02:06:31,440 --> 02:06:34,760
Speaker 30: swag is contagious. So we'll be in the playoffs spot

2490
02:06:34,800 --> 02:06:37,200
Speaker 30: for long. But as of right now, as long as

2491
02:06:37,240 --> 02:06:39,040
Speaker 30: we keep playing with that swag, it make it just fun,

2492
02:06:39,080 --> 02:06:40,640
Speaker 30: even playing on Sundays.

2493
02:06:41,600 --> 02:06:44,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Ed didn't wanna go so far as to

2494
02:06:45,560 --> 02:06:48,000
Speaker 2: predict playoffs, but he seems to feel pretty good about

2495
02:06:48,040 --> 02:06:50,680
Speaker 2: them getting there with three games to play. That is

2496
02:06:50,720 --> 02:06:53,520
Speaker 2: around the Locker Room presented by Connect Life, Your Blood

2497
02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:59,080
Speaker 2: and organ Donor Network. Gotta get back to the tweet

2498
02:06:59,080 --> 02:07:02,840
Speaker 2: sheet and and we left off here with let me

2499
02:07:02,880 --> 02:07:06,640
Speaker 2: see Drew. I believe it was. No, it wasn't Drew.

2500
02:07:06,640 --> 02:07:09,560
Speaker 2: We're up to Emily who said love that we embraced

2501
02:07:09,560 --> 02:07:12,160
Speaker 2: the run game and gave Cook the opportunity to ball out,

2502
02:07:12,560 --> 02:07:15,880
Speaker 2: something both Chris and Thurman Thomas have pounded the table

2503
02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:20,160
Speaker 2: about for weeks. McDermott is stressed playing complimentary football and

2504
02:07:20,240 --> 02:07:23,920
Speaker 2: that one hundred percent was it was. It was a

2505
02:07:23,920 --> 02:07:30,000
Speaker 2: pretty complete effort outside of a protection breakdown on special

2506
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:34,280
Speaker 2: teams on one Sam Martin punt that got him collocked,

2507
02:07:34,400 --> 02:07:38,080
Speaker 2: but a penalty, Yeah, I mean it was. It was

2508
02:07:38,080 --> 02:07:39,520
Speaker 2: pretty solid all the way around.

2509
02:07:39,600 --> 02:07:41,480
Speaker 3: Yeah they did. They looked good all the way around.

2510
02:07:42,160 --> 02:07:44,840
Speaker 3: Deontay Hardy had one pretty good kick return as well,

2511
02:07:44,880 --> 02:07:45,480
Speaker 3: punt return.

2512
02:07:46,920 --> 02:07:47,160
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2513
02:07:47,160 --> 02:07:49,560
Speaker 3: They played really well all the way up and down

2514
02:07:49,600 --> 02:07:51,800
Speaker 3: the it's and it's you know we always say, and

2515
02:07:51,800 --> 02:07:54,440
Speaker 3: it's cliche, but the man you win. The one line

2516
02:07:54,440 --> 02:07:57,320
Speaker 3: of scrimmage that much by that much on both sides

2517
02:07:57,320 --> 02:08:01,040
Speaker 3: of the linus of the ball. It's hard to compete

2518
02:08:01,080 --> 02:08:03,360
Speaker 3: with that. And the Cowboys found that out last night,

2519
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:07,080
Speaker 3: and I can't get you know, it was great. We

2520
02:08:07,600 --> 02:08:09,600
Speaker 3: kind of enjoyed a watch, loved watching the game. It

2521
02:08:09,640 --> 02:08:11,600
Speaker 3: was fun to have a stress free game like that.

2522
02:08:11,680 --> 02:08:14,080
Speaker 3: As for a Bills fan, but I got to say it,

2523
02:08:14,120 --> 02:08:15,800
Speaker 3: I didn't think about it until we started the show

2524
02:08:15,800 --> 02:08:18,040
Speaker 3: today of how surprised I was that that was the case.

2525
02:08:19,160 --> 02:08:25,839
Speaker 3: This team absolutely dismantled the Philadelphia Eagles and they couldn't

2526
02:08:25,840 --> 02:08:29,560
Speaker 3: even stand They couldn't stand up to the Bills. It's

2527
02:08:29,560 --> 02:08:31,000
Speaker 3: a weird league, man.

2528
02:08:31,240 --> 02:08:33,600
Speaker 2: It's a week to week league, and they are two

2529
02:08:33,640 --> 02:08:35,920
Speaker 2: different teams at home and on the road. Yeah, I

2530
02:08:35,920 --> 02:08:38,280
Speaker 2: mean at home they were averaging something like thirty six

2531
02:08:38,320 --> 02:08:41,240
Speaker 2: points a game and on the road they're averaging twenty four.

2532
02:08:41,280 --> 02:08:44,400
Speaker 2: I mean that's two touchdowns. It's a two touchdown different.

2533
02:08:44,400 --> 02:08:45,160
Speaker 3: That's a big.

2534
02:08:44,960 --> 02:08:46,800
Speaker 2: Swing in a league where seventy eight percent of the

2535
02:08:46,800 --> 02:08:49,560
Speaker 2: games were decided by one score. And now the Cowboys

2536
02:08:49,600 --> 02:08:52,200
Speaker 2: are three and four on the road this season, seven

2537
02:08:52,280 --> 02:08:55,360
Speaker 2: and zero at home, three and four on the road.

2538
02:08:55,920 --> 02:08:58,160
Speaker 2: Garvey on the tweets, she says the ability of this

2539
02:08:58,200 --> 02:09:00,839
Speaker 2: offense to exploit a weakness like that in a defense.

2540
02:09:00,960 --> 02:09:03,960
Speaker 2: Kudos to Alan and Brady for being patient enough to

2541
02:09:04,040 --> 02:09:07,240
Speaker 2: use a ground game to that extent and only throw

2542
02:09:07,280 --> 02:09:10,280
Speaker 2: it fifteen times. Yeah, I guess you do have to

2543
02:09:10,320 --> 02:09:13,640
Speaker 2: exercise some restraint. You got one of the best quarterbacks

2544
02:09:13,680 --> 02:09:18,360
Speaker 2: in football and you still decided to go with what

2545
02:09:18,520 --> 02:09:21,640
Speaker 2: was gashing this Dallas defense and not let up.

2546
02:09:22,000 --> 02:09:23,880
Speaker 3: You think, just out of boredom you would call a

2547
02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:30,000
Speaker 3: pass play. But certainly that and they were successful enough

2548
02:09:30,040 --> 02:09:32,200
Speaker 3: in the passing game to keep them off balanced, or

2549
02:09:32,200 --> 02:09:34,880
Speaker 3: at least they threatened them with it. Certainly they dropped

2550
02:09:34,920 --> 02:09:38,440
Speaker 3: back a few more I'll look at the number right here.

2551
02:09:38,440 --> 02:09:43,880
Speaker 3: They dropped back a few more times than they they

2552
02:09:44,920 --> 02:09:47,879
Speaker 3: then they threw it, meaning Josh, you know, ran the football,

2553
02:09:48,760 --> 02:09:51,040
Speaker 3: and I get that, but this is a team that

2554
02:09:51,360 --> 02:09:56,080
Speaker 3: you know it's always a threat to throw it, and

2555
02:09:57,160 --> 02:10:00,400
Speaker 3: just it just didn't happen. So I'm I don't know.

2556
02:10:00,480 --> 02:10:03,280
Speaker 3: It's hard to even get your mind around how this

2557
02:10:03,440 --> 02:10:06,560
Speaker 3: game played out. When the Bills with Josh Allen have

2558
02:10:06,640 --> 02:10:09,080
Speaker 3: been that team, you know, and Josh has thrown for

2559
02:10:09,160 --> 02:10:12,280
Speaker 3: him and run for him, and now you just handed

2560
02:10:12,320 --> 02:10:17,400
Speaker 3: to James Cook and he does everything. Josh had eight rushes,

2561
02:10:17,880 --> 02:10:20,680
Speaker 3: he had a quarterback. How many quarterback sneaks? Three maybe,

2562
02:10:21,120 --> 02:10:26,800
Speaker 3: and the others were scrambles. Yeah, it's not that many. No, no,

2563
02:10:26,880 --> 02:10:27,160
Speaker 3: And it.

2564
02:10:27,120 --> 02:10:30,200
Speaker 2: All works, It all worked really well. We have to

2565
02:10:30,240 --> 02:10:32,360
Speaker 2: take a break here. We'll finish up with some final

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Speaker 2: thoughts on the tweet sheet and begin to turn the

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Speaker 2: page to the Los Angeles Chargers in week sixteen when

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Speaker 2: we return here on one Bill's Live on a Buffalo

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Speaker 2: Victory Monday. We'll see in a minute, all right, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 2: Steve Tasker with you. Last segment with us here on

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Speaker 2: this Buffalo victory Monday, and some final thoughts on the

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Speaker 2: tweet sheet. This one comes from Swing Sloth, who says

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Speaker 2: super discipline, execution of a game plan last night. Most

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Speaker 2: impressed with the comprehensive adjustments to any attempts at a

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Speaker 2: response from Dallas in the second half, Cook lit it up.

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Speaker 2: Props to the selflessness on display one Team one Dream. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's it's kind of where it's at.

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Speaker 3: There you go. They still got work to do, but

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Speaker 3: certainly that's one of the fight. We were sitting there

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Speaker 3: having to go five and oh to end the season. Well,

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Speaker 3: we're two and zer right now and trying to get

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Speaker 3: to three this next weekend. It's still an uphill climb.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, a lot of people thought the first two

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Speaker 2: were gonna be the toughest, and maybe that last one

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Speaker 2: against Miami will be as well. I think most people

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Speaker 2: anticipate that these two sandwiched in between those three, you

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Speaker 2: should get those. You're talking about a five win team

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Speaker 2: and a three win team, so you should get those.

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Speaker 2: Wayne says, this game reminded me of the playoff game

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Speaker 2: years ago against Kansas City. Everyone was raving about Derek

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Speaker 2: Thomas and his ferocious pass rush and the Bills just

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02:12:13,480 --> 02:12:15,560
Speaker 2: ran it right at him all day and they pulled

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Speaker 2: him from the game. You remember that, Steve, was that

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Speaker 2: the AFC title game here? That was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. No, No, Montana, Montana was here. He

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Speaker 3: left the game with an injury.

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Speaker 2: He's talking about Derek Thomas getting pulled from the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he didn't want to play anymore.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Carl says, Josh doesn't have to do it all.

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Speaker 2: Cautiously optimistic about the possibility of winning the division, if

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Speaker 2: the Bills went out cook is a weapon. That is

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Speaker 2: an understatement. Carl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if they get into

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Speaker 3: one of these games where they're throwing it okay whatever,

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Speaker 3: the defense adjustsin and whatever, and all of a sudd

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Speaker 3: udd and you do want to start handing it off

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Speaker 3: and it's still success. You don't like there's no ramp

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Speaker 3: up period, right, I mean takes takes your quarter and

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Speaker 3: a half to figure it out or whatever. Can they

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Speaker 3: run and then drop back to throw it. Are they

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Speaker 3: gonna do RPOs again? Are they gonna you know, all

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Speaker 3: this stuff that we've seen them do with some success,

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Speaker 3: some limited success, good on some weeks and bad on

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Speaker 3: other weeks. Are they gonna be able to put it together?

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Speaker 3: And that's that's gonna be fun to watch if they can.

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously there ain't no stopping them with the

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Speaker 3: defense and the offense doing all that stuff together. At

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Speaker 3: the same time, it's it's a week to week league, though. Man,

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Speaker 3: the stuff as good as it can go one week,

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Speaker 3: it can disappear in five days between the games.

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Speaker 2: And Bill's fans have seen that before from this team.

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Speaker 2: And that's why because all rdy I'm walking out of

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Speaker 2: the stadium last night and people are talking to me

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Speaker 2: on my way to my car. I'm walking to the

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Speaker 2: car and people are like, now, we just can't play

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Speaker 2: down to our level of competition next week, Like this

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Speaker 2: is how much scar tissue there is? Yeah out there

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Speaker 2: for Bill's fans, well.

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Speaker 3: You know this. We're one of the franchise that haven't

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Speaker 3: won it yet, so yeah, there's bound to be a

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Speaker 3: little bit of angst involved.

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Speaker 2: That'll do it for a Buffalo victory. Monday edition of

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Speaker 2: One Bill's Live. Thanks for staying with us here from

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Speaker 2: start to finish. We will be back tomorrow. We'll have

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Speaker 2: ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky join us as he does

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Speaker 2: every Tuesday. Steve and I'll see at one tomorrow