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Speaker 1: in the straged fear of normalcy. Welcome to a Wednesday

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Speaker 1: edition of One Bill's Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you on a sun splash day here in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: Weather improving and we'll continue to improve all the way

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Speaker 1: where the high is forecast to be seventy degrees. What

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Speaker 1: broadcasting from the Seneca Studios here in op Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: and Steve Tasker with you as we begin to break

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Speaker 1: down this pretty big matchup on Sunday. Interconference matchup between

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Speaker 1: it's inter between his inter intra is within Okay, so

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Speaker 1: And no action on the trade deadline, which kind of

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Speaker 1: league wide. And I'm just gonna say, Quote of the

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Speaker 1: day goes to Romeo Cornell. I mean, you want to

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Speaker 1: I believe there were two deals total, and they were

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Speaker 1: minor in nature. But Romeo Crenell takes the cake, ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen. When asked today in his interview with the

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Speaker 1: Fuller Chief among them, Romeo Crenell says, we weren't going

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Speaker 1: it not just as playing peanuts. Bravo, Romeo Crenell, Well done,

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Speaker 1: Deluxe nuts, Deluxe nuts package. I think we're I think

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Speaker 1: way nuts. Yes, that was a great line by him.

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Speaker 1: I think it's I've seen it before. We've seen this

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Speaker 1: Josh is better. Josh is doing that, He's making better throws,

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Speaker 1: better reads. The offensive line is a little better than

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Speaker 1: it was a year ago. In pass pro, I think

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Speaker 1: the running game hasn't been there. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: this offense is the same as it was a year ago.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a way better. Dig certainly is as

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Speaker 1: a big addition to that, no question about it. But

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Speaker 1: so is Gabe Davis and so is Zach Moss in

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Speaker 1: relation to Frank Gore from a year ago. So I

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Speaker 1: think this offense is better, and certainly the defense is better.

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Speaker 1: Was better a year ago, played better a year ago,

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Speaker 1: had better results. So I think these teams are vastly

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Speaker 1: different on both sides of the Bowl twenty twenty compared

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Speaker 1: to twenty nineteen. All right, we have to take a break,

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Speaker 1: but we are asking you which six and two Bills

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Speaker 1: team at the midway point do you like more the

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Bills who were six and two after eight games,

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Speaker 1: or the twenty twenty Bills who were six and two

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Speaker 1: after eight games. Give us a call, let us know

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Speaker 1: which one you like more and why, or hit us

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Speaker 1: up on the tweet sheet. Eighth, three, five, fifty line

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Speaker 1: open for you. Time to step aside, but when we

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Speaker 1: get back, we'll be checking in in a little bit

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Speaker 1: with Maddy Glab on the practice field to see who's

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Speaker 1: up and who's down in the injury report. Next here

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live, presented by Kalata Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Back on one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you as Steve is enjoying some of the

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Speaker 1: best hockey fights on the internet. During the break. You

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Speaker 1: got a little carried away there all the way back

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Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy eight. We're here at the Mecca, the

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Speaker 1: world's most famous arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yes, we are

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Speaker 1: talking about the twenty nineteen bills that started six and two.

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Speaker 1: In the twenty twenty bills that have started six and two.

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Speaker 1: We're asking which team you like more and why? And

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Speaker 1: we've got time for a few more phone calls. Here

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Speaker 1: open line for you at eighth three, five fifty before

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Speaker 1: we head out to the practice field and check in

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Speaker 1: with Maddie. And we begin here with TJ in Brockport. TJ,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Welcome to one Bill's Live. Hi,

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Speaker 1: how are I guess? Good. So I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: with respect to what the Bild accomplished in twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: and specifically John Brown's success in this offense, do you

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Speaker 1: think that the Bills can move on from John Brown

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Speaker 1: this offseason if Gabe Davis continues to develop. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they want to do that. The only reason

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Speaker 1: I say that is I think John Brown's got a

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Speaker 1: unique skill set that nobody really on this roster quite matches.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a receiver that can be used at

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Speaker 1: all levels of the field. Obviously, he puts fear in

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Speaker 1: the minds of defensive coordinators and cornerbacks because he can

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Speaker 1: get behind them quite easily. And I don't know that

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis is enough of the same kind of receiver. Now,

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Speaker 1: if they don't think they need that in their offense anymore,

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Speaker 1: well then that would obviously change the conversation. But knowing

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Speaker 1: they had been trying to get him for two off seasons,

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Speaker 1: he signed with Baltimore when they were trying to get

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Speaker 1: him two years ago. Then they finally got him when

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Speaker 1: he was a free agent off a one year deal

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Speaker 1: last year, and he was a thousand yard receiver here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's nothing to sneeze at, even if he

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Speaker 1: does now take the number two role for all intents

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Speaker 1: and purposes behind Stefon Diggs. I believe John Brown is

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Speaker 1: a guy they want here, awesome teammate, team first guy,

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Speaker 1: doesn't care if he doesn't get the ball or is

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Speaker 1: targeted in a given week as long as they win.

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Speaker 1: I just think he's got to get healthy. Do I

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Speaker 1: think Gabe Davis spells him if he's out of the

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Speaker 1: lineup again this week? That's a tough ask. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I like Gabe Davis a lot, and if you watch

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis's college tape, he's got a sneaky knack of

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Speaker 1: getting behind defenses even though he doesn't have the burner

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Speaker 1: speed that John Brown does. But I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he's ready to fill those who at this point in

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Speaker 1: his career. Yeah, I don't either. It might have more

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Speaker 1: to do with Isaiah Hodgins and his development than it does.

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Speaker 1: You know, Gabriel Davis, I think, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: John Brown might be might not be the go to

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Speaker 1: guy that is the odd man out. It might be

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Speaker 1: a guy like Cole Beasley, who will be over thirty

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Speaker 1: years old. He'll be in the slot receiver, and he

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Speaker 1: may be able to move Gabriel Davis down inside and

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Speaker 1: put Isaiah Hodgins on the field um and with you know,

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Speaker 1: or Isaiah McKenzie as well. I think the league is

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Speaker 1: moving towards the trend is that you need the fast guys.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a lot of that. They don't have

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Speaker 1: enough of that, you know, So I think it's more

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Speaker 1: likely that they'll get get rid of somebody who has

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Speaker 1: a different skill set rather than a guy like John Brown.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the call, TJ. We do have to move on.

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Speaker 1: We will go to Larry and Buffalo next. Larry, you're

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Speaker 1: on one bills live. What do you have guy? Real

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Speaker 1: quick question? I would like the twenty twenty bills. And

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Speaker 1: here's my quick reason. I think they have more pieces

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Speaker 1: in plays this year then they did last year. My

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Speaker 1: quok is I wish they could just stay healthy this

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Speaker 1: year like they did last year. Amen to that, no

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Speaker 1: question about it. Yeah, it's I have a question, and

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Speaker 1: I've been watching this why do the Buffalo Bills when

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Speaker 1: there's like two minutes twenty seconds left before the two

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Speaker 1: minute warning? Why do they always let the clock run

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Speaker 1: down to the two minute warning? Is there something to that, well,

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Speaker 1: if they've got her ahead, if they've got if they're ahead,

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Speaker 1: they'll all you always do that, and that they're behind

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Speaker 1: when they do it a lot too. It depends too,

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Speaker 1: if it's the first half of the second half. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't do it if they were behind in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, they wouldn't let it run down that far.

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Speaker 1: But if the second in the first half, if they're

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Speaker 1: behind or whatever, they'll do that because of you know,

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Speaker 1: not to get the ball back to their opponents. And

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Speaker 1: if they know they're getting the second half kickoff as well,

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Speaker 1: because they're going to get that possession back start the

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Speaker 1: second half. Okay, all right, okay, got you. I'll say this.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, lawyer. You're right. There's a couple of

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Speaker 1: things about that. We're all kind of having the same conversation.

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Speaker 1: There's a ton of about the twenty nineteen bills you

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Speaker 1: wish was transposed onto this twenty twenty team. And there's

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Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff this twenty twenty team has that

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Speaker 1: you wish they had last year. And you could not

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Speaker 1: have bet me, I would have bet you any amount

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Speaker 1: of money six months ago that this team would not

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Speaker 1: be as polar opposite of a team as it was

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Speaker 1: a year ago. I mean, it's it's so different than

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Speaker 1: they were a year ago. I'm really surprised by it.

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Speaker 1: Their offense is better, they're they're doing everything. This offense

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Speaker 1: is our wildest dreams. Four months ago. Yeah, we thought, wow,

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Speaker 1: it maybe less so right now, but yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: month of the season, you're gonna tell me Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: is gonna complete sixty three sixty five percent of his passes,

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Speaker 1: is seventy percent half the time, and throw for over

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Speaker 1: three hundred yards over four hundred yards one you think

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Speaker 1: that they're gonna score five or six more points a

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Speaker 1: game like clockwork. We were to have been like, that's

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Speaker 1: that's our wildest dreams. Well, yeah, and you can make

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Speaker 1: the argument too, and Larry, thanks for the call. You

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Speaker 1: can make the argument too that the team still hasn't

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Speaker 1: really hit its stride in terms of being a true

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Speaker 1: balanced offense. I think we saw signs of it last

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Speaker 1: week with their ability to run the football. When New

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Speaker 1: England decides we're gonna put six defensive backs and sometimes

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Speaker 1: seven defensive backs on the field for almost the entire game,

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Speaker 1: daring the Bills to run, and they proved they were

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Speaker 1: capable of doing that. So now going forward, the challenge

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Speaker 1: is going to be can you maintain that balance when

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Speaker 1: defense has changed things up on you, whether it's seven

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Speaker 1: in the box or eight in the box. Can you

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Speaker 1: get back to that passing game that was so prolific

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Speaker 1: and take advantage of the matchups there. If John Brown

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Speaker 1: can go this week, that would certainly enhance the chances

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Speaker 1: of that happening. But as we understand it, he's not

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Speaker 1: going to be practicing today, so we're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: see where that goes. And I think he is that

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Speaker 1: important to this passing game. He diversifies it to a

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Speaker 1: level where they can't just key on one person all

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Speaker 1: the time because there's somebody else on the other side

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Speaker 1: that could burn them very easily. So I think it

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Speaker 1: gives a lot of it builds a lot of concern

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Speaker 1: into the minds of defensive play callers and defensive backs

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Speaker 1: quite frankly. So he is a critical component of this.

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Speaker 1: And he played all sixteen games last year as the one,

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Speaker 1: and you know, as we said, had a career season

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Speaker 1: in terms of touchdowns, receptions, receiving yards. You know, now

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00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: he's the two, but he's not healthy, and we've seen

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Speaker 1: a precipitous drop in his production. I mean, right now,

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Speaker 1: John Devin Singletary has caught more passes than John Brown

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Speaker 1: this season. That's how much he's been in and out

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Speaker 1: of the lineup the last three or four weeks, to

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Speaker 1: the point where it's affecting his production in a dramatic way,

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Speaker 1: and they need him to get healthy sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: Eighth three five fifty one eight eight five fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty Which Bills team at the midway point of

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Speaker 1: the season do you like more? Is it the twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen Bills that went six and two or the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty Bills that went six and two? Don't you know?

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Speaker 1: It's disconcerting to me, Steve, that this defense has not

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Speaker 1: been as consistent as last year's version. But I think

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Speaker 1: we can all agree that the key to long term

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Speaker 1: success in this league, being a perennial contender, being a

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Speaker 1: perennial playoff team is scoring points and having a consistent offense.

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Speaker 1: And the Bills, while they may not be playoff consistent

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Speaker 1: yet in terms of their offense, they've shown the ability

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Speaker 1: to put up the kind of points week in and

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Speaker 1: week out that you need to to win in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills were the only team in the

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Speaker 1: league last year to qualify for the playoffs that did

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Speaker 1: not score at least twenty three twenty four points a game.

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Speaker 1: They were scoring nineteen and a half, and on average,

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Speaker 1: the eleven other playoff teams averaged twenty six point six

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Speaker 1: points per game and the Bills average nineteen point six.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's different. It's different this year

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Speaker 1: in a good way, even if the defense has some

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Speaker 1: fixing to do. All right, we have got to get

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Speaker 1: to Maddie glab Out on the practice field. We understand

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Speaker 1: that practice time has been moved up a little bit,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna go to her now to get an

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Speaker 1: update as to who is and who is not participating today. Maddie,

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Speaker 1: can you hear us? Yes, I can hear you, guys.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys got me yet? You all right? So

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Speaker 1: why don't you, alrighty, why don't you start us off,

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Speaker 1: Maddie with the defensive side of the ball. It seems

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Speaker 1: like there are more people there that are not participating

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Speaker 1: or are limited in some way, shape or form today, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So on the defensive side of the ball, We heard

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott give quite an extensive injury update when he

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Speaker 1: talked to the media earlier this afternoon, right before practice started.

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Speaker 1: So I mean he said Josh Norman is out, Matt

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Speaker 1: Milano is out, Micah Hyde would be limited, and Vernon

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Speaker 1: Butler would be limited today. So out of those that

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Speaker 1: are out, Josh Norman, Matt Milano, I have not seen

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Speaker 1: them at all. There were a few guys on the

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Speaker 1: bike when they were going through stretch. I couldn't make

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Speaker 1: out exactly who they were. But Mica Hyde is out

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Speaker 1: here in red limited. Vernon Butler is out here in

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Speaker 1: a white jersey. Doesn't look to be in a non

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Speaker 1: contact jersey today, So so with Mica he's obviously doing

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Speaker 1: football related activities though in practice correct, Yes, he has

642
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: been in there in special teams right now. So the

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00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: corners and the safeties are kind of off to the

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Speaker 1: side right now anyways, So I haven't really seen them

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Speaker 1: engage in any football activities besides stretch. They are going

646
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: to break in two minutes to go into individual but

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00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: it looks like he's over by Isaiah McKenzie right now

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00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: and special team he's a backup punt return and looks

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Speaker 1: like he's participating in that. So that's a good sign

650
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: because what this means is he is in stage four

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Speaker 1: of the five step return to play protocol. You know,

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Speaker 1: it basically goes from aerobic activity, which we saw him

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Speaker 1: doing last week on the bike. That's stage three, and

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Speaker 1: then stage four is football related activity, which is where

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Speaker 1: he seems to be right now. So the good news

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Speaker 1: there is he only has to get full medical clearance.

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Speaker 1: That's the last step, so we'll have to see where

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Speaker 1: it goes through the course of the week. Steve, you

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Speaker 1: had some other people you wanted to check on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Vernon Butler, the defensive lineman who

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00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna be limited days. He have a

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Speaker 1: red jersey on No red jersey for him. Actually, the

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Speaker 1: only red jersey out here is Micah Hyde right now.

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Speaker 1: So that's a good thing because the other guys who

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Speaker 1: are limited as well that are out here today are

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Speaker 1: not in red. So Vernon looks like he is not

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Speaker 1: necessarily full practice because he's listed as limited. But definitely

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Speaker 1: a good sign for the defensive line. As Sean McDermott said,

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Speaker 1: how important that defensive front was going to be going

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Speaker 1: against Russell Wilson this week. Another defensive lineman that I

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Speaker 1: want to point out that wasn't on the injury list

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Speaker 1: and we really didn't see anything on injury list after

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Speaker 1: the game is Daryl Johnson. So he is out here

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Speaker 1: in a jersey, but he does not have a helmet

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Speaker 1: with him. Okay, so he might be a non participant today.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have to keep an eye on today's jury

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Speaker 1: report to see if he's added with a new injury designation.

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Speaker 1: Vernon Butler coming off that groin injury for those listeners

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Speaker 1: who don't remember what his ailment was, he missed last

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Speaker 1: week's game with that groin problem. All right, offensive side

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Speaker 1: of the ball, Maddie. We learned on Monday that Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morrise was officially in the concussion protocol and he is

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Speaker 1: not participating right. Yes, Mitch Morse is not out here

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Speaker 1: not participating. I did not see him at all. He

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Speaker 1: was ruled out by Sean McDermott. Cody Ford though, someone

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Speaker 1: who has been dealing with that knee injury. We didn't

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Speaker 1: see him in Sunday's game. He is out here as limited.

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Speaker 1: He is not in a red non contact jersey, so

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Speaker 1: that is definitely a positive for Cody Ford. John Feliciano's

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Speaker 1: out there, so it's good to get some of that

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Speaker 1: health back, if you can get that back this week.

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Speaker 1: We're not sure about Mitch Morse. We do know he's

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Speaker 1: had multiple concussions in his past, so we'll see how

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Speaker 1: quickly they work him back to the field. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: expect anything too quick out of Mitch Morse though, right

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Speaker 1: What about at the wide receiver position, John Brown? He

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Speaker 1: played this last week. He still doesn't seem to be

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent, but he's he certainly took a lot

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Speaker 1: of snaps. Yeah, John Brown is dealing with that knee

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Speaker 1: injury as well. He is listed as out today in practice. Again,

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Speaker 1: he's kind of been someone that's been on and off

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Speaker 1: this injury list in regards to if he's been practicing

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00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: or limited or even playing in games. So he's not

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Speaker 1: out here today. I haven't seen him on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. Again, a couple of guys were

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Speaker 1: on the bike, but I couldn't make out who they were,

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00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: so John could have possibly been one of them, but

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Speaker 1: not exactly sure. I did see Dawson Knox on the bike.

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Speaker 1: He is still in the COVID protocol, but he's allowed

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Speaker 1: to come in the building right now and do certain things,

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00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: so he's not practicing yet, but he was on the bike. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so he had to have tested negative to be allowed

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Speaker 1: back in the building and around yes to be back

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Speaker 1: in the building. Yeah, all right, Well that's good news.

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Speaker 1: So it seems like he's pretty close to returning now.

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Speaker 1: The only other thing was, if I remember right, Dawson

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Speaker 1: Knox had a calf injury and then when on the

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Speaker 1: COVID list, So we're gonna have to keep a close

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Speaker 1: eye on that because even though he's still on the

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Speaker 1: COVID list, Maddie, there could be an injury to keep

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Speaker 1: an eye on there too, right, one hundred percent. And

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Speaker 1: the only other offensive player that I can think of

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Speaker 1: that also, like Darryl Johnson, wasn't necessarily on any injury

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Speaker 1: reports that I've seen out here without a helmet, but

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Speaker 1: it has a jersey on is t J Yelden, So

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Speaker 1: another thing to keep an eye on. Okay, right, all right, Maddie,

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Speaker 1: thanks for bringing us up to speed. We appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: and we'll be looking for more reports from you if

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Speaker 1: necessary on Twitter there at mad Glab thank you. Definitely

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Speaker 1: no problem, guys. All right, that's Maddie Glab live from

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Speaker 1: the practice sidelines giving us an update on who's doing

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Speaker 1: stuff who's not participating. So potentially a couple of additions

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Speaker 1: to the injury report could be t J. Yelden and

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Speaker 1: Darryl Johnson, who don't look to be doing a whole

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Speaker 1: lot during the media viewing portion of practice. John Brown,

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Speaker 1: you know, we already talked about it because coach said

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Speaker 1: at eleven thirty that he would not be practicing today,

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Speaker 1: and I think we all just kind of hope he

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00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 1: just needs that extra day, you know, to get feeling

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Speaker 1: right to the point where he can practice in some capacity.

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Speaker 1: But short of that, you know, I just think that

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Speaker 1: this is a guy that in a week where you're

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Speaker 1: probably going to have to put up some points. I mean, Steve,

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00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: we all know about the shortcomings of this Bill's defense

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00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: this season in terms of keeping opponents off the scoreboard.

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Speaker 1: The one constant for this game, Seattle puts up points

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Speaker 1: no matter who they play. They are the number one

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Speaker 1: scoring offense in football at almost thirty five points a game.

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Speaker 1: They have scored four touchdowns at least every single game

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Speaker 1: this season. They're averaging six and a half yard six

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00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: point four yards per play. They've only played seven games,

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Speaker 1: so they're a game behind the Bills. Bills have played eight,

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Speaker 1: they've played seven. Their stats are pretty good, although the

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Speaker 1: one thing they don't play very well on third down efficiency.

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Speaker 1: They're only thirty nine percent. The Bills lead the least

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Speaker 1: at fifty one percent, so that's one thing the Bills

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00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: have over But you're right. The Seahawks play offense. Man.

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00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: They stay on the field, they snap off big chunks,

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00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: they're hard to get off the field. I think they

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00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: don't face as many third downs as some teams. They don't.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have in eight games have had ninety five

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Speaker 1: third down attempts. The Seahawks in seven games have twenty

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Speaker 1: one third downs less than that, so they don't They

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00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: don't see third down a lot because they're converting on

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Speaker 1: first and second first and second down. The actually our

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Speaker 1: second in the league in yards gained on first down

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00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: six point six seven yards on average. The Bills are

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00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: right behind them six point five one. They're third in

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Speaker 1: the league. The only team ahead of those two teams

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Speaker 1: is Minnesota. It's gonna be an offensive game, and I

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00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: think like we've been. You've got to be on point,

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Speaker 1: like we've alluded to, when you're playing defense, and even

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00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna have this has kind of gotta

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Speaker 1: be their identity. Trey White alluded to it earlier in

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Speaker 1: the season, and other teams are the same way. You

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Speaker 1: just kind of make a play once in a while

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00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: in a league like this where you know it's tough

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00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: to stand up against the run game. You got these

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that they're throwing it all over, you got speed

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Speaker 1: all over the field offensively, just so you knock away

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00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: that one pass on third down, you knock a ball

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00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: loose and get the ball out, or you just come

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00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: up with a play in the red zone, something along

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Speaker 1: the lines where your defense just makes one play even

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00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: if they look horrible. You know, even if they're going

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Speaker 1: in for a winning touchdown, you got some guy who

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00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: was just active for that week punched the ball out

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Speaker 1: of their starting quarterbacks hands, and you win the game,

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00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: like Justin Zimmer did this week. That's what your defense

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00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: has got to look like against a team like Seattle

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Speaker 1: this week. In my opinion, all right, we have to

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00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: take a break, but when we return, more on comparing

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen bills that started six and two and

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00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: this year's bills who also started six and two. We

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00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,959
Speaker 1: want to know if there's one that you like better

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00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: than the other, and if so, tell us why we

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00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: also have I want to get into this with Steve

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Speaker 1: when we return the election coverage last night. There was

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Speaker 1: some interesting things that were going on by the news

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Speaker 1: media and covering the election coverage. And I've got a

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Speaker 1: comment or two on that, you know, and there's some

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Speaker 1: guys that I really think did people did a bang

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Speaker 1: up job last night. It's not easy to do that

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Speaker 1: live as it's unfolding, but we've got some interesting comments

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Speaker 1: to make on some of the coverage we saw last

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Speaker 1: night as this election was unfolding. Back with some of

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Speaker 1: that when we return here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio First Brown

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. I don't know if anybody's short

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00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 1: on sleep from last night with the election coverage going

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Speaker 1: back and forth and states flipping back from blue to

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Speaker 1: red and red to blue, and what color is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it purple? Maybe it's unbelievable. Before you go on

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Speaker 1: with your with what you got to say about that.

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Speaker 1: I gotta say this. I was so impressed with because

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of you. The technology. Yeah, they got those

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Speaker 1: big screens that you touch on it and it tells

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Speaker 1: you what they and lose twenty five different things. You

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Speaker 1: can which yeah, which one? You know? What kind of

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Speaker 1: votes have been tabulated? Are they the same day voting?

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Speaker 1: Is it pre voting, is it early voting? Are they chatted?

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Speaker 1: They compared to four years ago? Some states are counting

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Speaker 1: their votes before the election, you know, as they run

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Speaker 1: it up, and then others are and they're just turning

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Speaker 1: it in on like outperforming four years ago, underperforming. I

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Speaker 1: was that technology and was really real. That just seemed

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Speaker 1: I wish I had one of those. I can just

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Speaker 1: do it myself. You just have fun with it, right yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean because it was really interesting. I am interesting,

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Speaker 1: and every every network had it, right I am. I

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Speaker 1: am a big fan of CNN's John King. I just

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Speaker 1: think ever since we lost Tim Russert, I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's anybody that's done it as well as John King

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Speaker 1: since Tim Russert. Because Tim Russer was able to dumb

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Speaker 1: it down to a whiteboard, so everybody in this country

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Speaker 1: can understand it to be able to do that. Was

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Speaker 1: impressed and I was watching him and I couldn't stay up.

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Speaker 1: So this one was run is scrolling through social I

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Speaker 1: was like, so what what was with wolf Blitzer? What happened? So?

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Speaker 1: So Wolf is he loves Election Night, you know, and

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Speaker 1: we love Wolf. You know, he's a Kenmore West grad

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00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: went to ub He's a Buffalo guy. We love Wolf Blitzer,

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00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: Bill's fan. Wolf I think was a little too excited.

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Speaker 1: Either he had way too much coffee before were going

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Speaker 1: on the air, or like Election Night just put him

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Speaker 1: over the cliff because he was on fire. I mean

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Speaker 1: it looked like it looked like he could not focus

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Speaker 1: for more than twenty seconds on anything. So he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's traps because they have these different screens in different

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Speaker 1: parts of the students. So he's traps and back and

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Speaker 1: let's let's go back to John King to the magic Wall,

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00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: you know, the magic wall with all the things that

853
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,280
Speaker 1: you were just talking about, and there's John very calmly

854
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: breaking things down. Well, you know, here it's early. We

855
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 1: don't want to say anything, but this is something that's

856
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: different from four years ago. Something we want to keep

857
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 1: an eye on. You know, and he's checking on all

858
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: these things. He's going district by district. Florida was a

859
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: hot topic for like an hour and a half last night.

860
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: So he was going back and forth with that this county,

861
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: that county, and I mean, I gotta say, poor John

862
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: King got interrupted by Wolf Blitzer maybe fifty times in

863
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: his span of about twenty to thirty minutes. And it

864
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: got so bad that people on social media were coming

865
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: after Wolf, like, hey, Wolf, get out of the way.

866
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: Let John do his job, because he was he I

867
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: think Wolf was just getting so excited because the overall

868
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: lead in Florida was flipping, literally flipping back and forth

869
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: by the second, you know, you know, fifty point one

870
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: to forty nine point nine or you know. It was

871
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: just it was it was literally while John King was talking,

872
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 1: it was flipping. And I understand the newsworthiness of that,

873
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: but man, just let John do his thing and then

874
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: jump in after and he was he was cutting John

875
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: Hoff left and right, and it got to a point

876
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: where social media was like on the warpath after Wolf.

877
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: That's what I saw. Somebody get a sock to put

878
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: in Wolf's It was bad, like he got nasty on

879
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: social media, somebody tell Wolf to get out of the way. Yeah,

880
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 1: somebody put a sock in his mouth. That's what I'm bad.

881
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: That's what I was bad. That's what I saw this morning.

882
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that must have been yeah, because

883
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: you can imagine, I mean, this is Super Bowl for

884
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,320
Speaker 1: these guys, right, I mean, yeah, this is big. And

885
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: then he and it is the country too, right, I

886
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: mean the whole country's and that this is like, it's big.

887
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: I mean this and this is this is not like,

888
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: this is not like for a playoff seed. This is

889
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: like and there were and there were some rates that

890
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: were very nip and tuck early in the evening, and

891
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: you could just see like Wolf was getting I mean

892
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: it was like he was getting excited, like really excited.

893
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,919
Speaker 1: And I get it. Um as you said, it's it's

894
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: like their Christmas morning, their super Bowl whatever. Um But man,

895
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: like John, poor John Kings trying to go through the nuvity.

896
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: Oh oh wait, hold on, John, the Florida has just

897
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: flipped again, like so then so then John would have

898
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 1: to stop whatever he was doing and then accommodate Wolf

899
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: and go to those numbers on the screen at the

900
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,919
Speaker 1: drop of a hat. And I mean, I know Wolf

901
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: was excited, but man, he probably did it a half

902
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: a dozen times. I was like, oh my god, just

903
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: let John King finish. Just let him finish, um, because

904
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: it's all interesting. Every state is interesting, and it's particularly

905
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: the ones that we don't know about yet and the

906
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: ones that were very close. And you know, and I

907
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: was he was particularly interesting and which votes they had

908
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: counted and which ones were coming up, like the early

909
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: vascinating the urban voting versus the rural voting, and how

910
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: that all broke down, and how many counties you know,

911
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,359
Speaker 1: would be needed in the rural areas to make up

912
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: for what they couldn't get in. It was just the

913
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: way they broke it down, county by county, district by district.

914
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: It was. It was really good. And I don't know

915
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 1: that anybody does it better than than John King right now. Again,

916
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,840
Speaker 1: you know, all respect to uh, the late great Tim Russard,

917
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 1: who I used to watch religiously, you know, every four

918
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: years when this stuff was coming up on the screen,

919
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: you know, and then we lost him, and you know,

920
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: I was left looking for somebody else. I was like,

921
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: you know what, this John King's got this stuff down here.

922
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: It's pretty darn good at it. He was impressive last night,

923
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,720
Speaker 1: for sure. We're taking a different kind of poll today.

924
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: We're asking you, and this is a lot simpler than

925
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: what those guys were dealing with last night. Those guys

926
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: were practically splitting at hims with the numbers they were

927
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: dealing with. We're just asking you, do you like the

928
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen bills at six and two more than the

929
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty bills at six and two? Those are the

930
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: only numbers we're dealing with here, and let us know why.

931
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: We'll be taking more of your phone calls in the

932
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: next hour of the show. But it's I gotta go

933
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: with this year's squad, as I was saying before we

934
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: had to go to break in the last segment, just

935
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: by virtue of the fact that I think in the

936
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: modern day NFL you need an offense that can score points,

937
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: and this offense does a better job of that than

938
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: the one you had last year. And it's for me,

939
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: it's as simple as that. Yeah, for me, last year,

940
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: the defense was great and you could always count on

941
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: them holding their opponents, you know, below their season average

942
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: for the most part. And the fun part about it

943
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: was the fact that you could feel the offense and

944
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: Josh had all this talent and momentum, and at any

945
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 1: point they could snap off a big play or Josh

946
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,919
Speaker 1: could take off running, and that was always there under

947
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: the surface. So that kind of made it fun because

948
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: you always thought, Wow, we're one Josh Allen run away

949
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: from winning this thing because the defense has kept us

950
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: this close this year. However, it's a it's a big,

951
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: huge difference saying, wasn't Josh, you gotta we need to

952
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: drive right here, man, let's go. We need you to

953
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: get down the field and do this. You know it's not.

954
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: It's a it's a completely different animal this year. And

955
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: I said it earlier in the show. You couldn't. You

956
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: couldn't have put enough money on it that I wouldn't

957
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: have to take the bet that said this team was

958
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: going to look like this this year. I thought it

959
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: was gonna be more like last year's team. I was

960
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: thinking an incremental improvement in the point scoring ability, probably

961
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: maybe I get to twenty two, twenty four somewhere in there. Right.

962
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: I still thought the defense was going to be the same,

963
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: but it would be probably a little less statistically good

964
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: because they would have teams were gonna have to really

965
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 1: push them and try and score points. So they might

966
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: have been a top ten defense rather than a top

967
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: three defense, right, Yeah, now they're struggling to be a

968
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: top half to Yeah. Yeah, you couldn't have convinced me that. Yeah,

969
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: you couldn't have convinced me that. All right, we have

970
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: to take a break. When we return, we'll have a

971
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer on the other end of the line.

972
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: It'll be one Warren Moon joining us to talk Seahawks

973
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: with us and get us prepped for Sunday's game against

974
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: that NFC West power that is putting up points at

975
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,479
Speaker 1: an alarming pace. Bills are gonna have to put points

976
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,359
Speaker 1: up this week if they want a chance in this one.

977
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: We'll try to find out just how many when we

978
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,800
Speaker 1: talk to Warren Moon on the other side of this break,

979
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health. It's

980
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radiolow Bills Radio Network Sports Date, your sports

981
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. John Brown, among the non

982
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: participants at practice today, has been dealing with a knee

983
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: injury on and off for the past few weeks. Mitch

984
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: Morse and Micah Hyde, both in the concussion protocol, but

985
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: hide participating on a limited basis in practice, which means

986
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: he's in step four of the return to Concussion return

987
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: from Concussion protocol. Not practicing Josh Norman and Matt Molano limited.

988
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: Cody four and Vernon Butler also not participating during the

989
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: media viewing portion of practice, where Daryl Johnson and t J.

990
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: Yelden will wait to see if they're listed on the

991
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 1: team's injury report later this afternoon. Dawson Knox remains on

992
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: the COVID reserve list after missing four games with a

993
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: groin injury. Seahawks safety Jamal Adams looks to return to

994
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: practice on a pitch count as he moves through the week,

995
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: and could see his return to the field on Sunday

996
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: against the Bills, the first game. It would be the

997
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: first game for the former Jets safety since Week three.

998
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: The Titans released veteran outside linebacker Vic Beasley. The former

999
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: Falcons pass rusher, signed a one year proved deal this

1000
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: past offseason, but in five games played for the Titans,

1001
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: he had no starts and just three tackles. He led

1002
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: the league with fifteen and a half sacks as an

1003
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: All Pro back in twenty sixteen. Baltimore Ravens placed eight

1004
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: total defensive players on the reserve COVID list Tuesday as

1005
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: a result of contact tracing following Marlon Humphreys positive COVID

1006
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: nineteen test. Now to day in San Francisco, they have

1007
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: reported a player tested positive there. They have closed their

1008
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: facility as a precaution today. They are slated to play

1009
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: the Packers on Thursday Night football tomorrow. And the Packers

1010
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: themselves had a positive test rookie running back aj Dillon

1011
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: testing positive on Monday, and two other players were entered

1012
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: into the contact tracing and we're placed on COVID also.

1013
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: None of those players expected to play Thursday night. That

1014
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: is your sports update, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

1015
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: here for hour number two of the program and joining

1016
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: us on the line right now to get us up

1017
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: to speed a little bit more on the Seahawks is

1018
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback and former teammate of the man

1019
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:46,720
Speaker 1: to my left one, Warren Moon. Warren, thanks for joining us.

1020
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: How's this COVID world we're all living in? Treating you sir?

1021
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: You know, I hate to say that I'm getting used

1022
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: to it, but I've adjusted to it. I'm sure, like

1023
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 1: everybody else has, but I think a lot of us

1024
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 1: have the teague as well. We're tired of it. It's

1025
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: time to get back to our normal lives, but we

1026
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: just can't do that right now. So it's really tough

1027
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: because you want to get back to being social and

1028
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: the things that we are as Americans, but because of

1029
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: this nagging virus to just keeps hanging around, we have

1030
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more diligent about it. Let

1031
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: me ask you before we get into the Seahawks and

1032
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: how great a season they're having. In Russell Wilson all that,

1033
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: I gotta ask a question to ask you, and you're

1034
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: a great one to ask. You came, you played in

1035
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: the Canadian Football League, you came to the to the

1036
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: NFL in eighty four, you played through two thousand year

1037
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback. But you see, you look around

1038
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: the league and you see guys like Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert,

1039
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 1: even Pat Mahomes and and Deshaun Watson and guys like this.

1040
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: Do you think that it is easier now to play

1041
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL than it was because of the protections,

1042
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: maybe because of the offensive schemes or what have you,

1043
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: how does it compare when you came in in nineteen

1044
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: eighty four. How difficult is it to play quarterback in

1045
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 1: the NFL now compared to then? You know, I think

1046
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: those things help a lot, Steve. There's no question about

1047
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: it being protected better and the receivers not being able

1048
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,839
Speaker 1: to be as physical. Defensive backs with receivers be as

1049
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 1: physical down the field. After five yards, you can't touch

1050
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 1: these guys. Makes it a little bit easier for releases

1051
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: and things like that. But I think the big, the

1052
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: big key why these young quarterbacks are having such successes,

1053
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: they start playing the game a lot earlier at the

1054
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,799
Speaker 1: quarterback position as far as throwing the football. They're in

1055
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 1: these quarterback camps and seven on seven camps as early

1056
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: as as junior high school, and they go all the

1057
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: way through high school. They have really good quarterback coaches

1058
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: now coaching them from the time they're in junior high

1059
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: school through high school. So they come into the league

1060
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: a lot more well prepared. And I think one of

1061
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 1: the things that the NFL has done different offensive coordinators

1062
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: around the league is they've adapted their offenses to what

1063
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: these young guys are doing in college. So when they

1064
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: come into the NFL, there's not a huge learning curve

1065
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: for them. They're basically doing the same types of things

1066
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: they did in college, and it makes it makes an

1067
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: easier transition. So I think that's that's part of the

1068
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 1: reason why you're seeing these guys come into the league

1069
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: so are prepared to play. All right, let's take a

1070
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: look here at the Seahawks Warren and I guess we'll

1071
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: start with the quarterback because who else better to evaluate

1072
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: this guy than a former one in a Hall of Famer.

1073
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: So he's pretty much tearing the cover off of point

1074
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: production here. He's got at least three touchdown passes in

1075
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: every single game that they've played. The team has four

1076
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:30,320
Speaker 1: touchdowns in every single game that they've played at least.

1077
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: You look at the Bills, they have sixteen passing touchdowns

1078
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: on the season. I mean, Metcalfe and Locket alone have

1079
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: fourteen receptions for touchdowns. So what is what has made

1080
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:47,240
Speaker 1: them so prolific a scoring team even though they're playing

1081
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 1: in a pretty tough division the NFC West. Yeah, you

1082
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: mentioned it. The quarterback Russell Wilson is just playing at

1083
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: another level this year. And it's not that he hasn't

1084
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: had the ability to play at this level. It's just

1085
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: that they haven't allowed him to play at this level

1086
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: because their offense up until the last couple of years

1087
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: has been more of a run dominated offense to go

1088
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: along with a dynamic defense. Well, they don't have that

1089
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: same type of defense no more so now they've kind

1090
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: of opened up their offense and they're having outscore teams,

1091
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 1: and it's something that's scary because you know, you just

1092
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: can't outscore everybody every week. And they ran into that

1093
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 1: in Arizona a couple of weeks ago. They scored thirty

1094
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: seven points, but they still lost the football game. So

1095
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: their defense is going to have to improve. But Russell

1096
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: is having a great year. He's throwing the ball with

1097
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: great accuracy. He's got two dynamic receivers on the outside,

1098
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: one that's really big and fast, another one that's small

1099
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: and fast, and they both are really good route runners.

1100
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: So Russell has a great chemistry going with those guys

1101
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: as well. And his offensive line is playing better this year,

1102
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: giving him much better protection, and he's getting the ball

1103
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: out of his hands when he needs to. Well, we've

1104
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: seen here in Buffalo with Josh Allen and the addition

1105
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: of Stefan Diggs along with John Brown and Cole Beasley,

1106
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: and how that one top guy being added to the

1107
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: lineup has changed things, at least statistically. Now they're scoring

1108
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: points like an NFL team, and they can move the

1109
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: football and they have a passing attack that looks like

1110
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 1: an NFL team, whereas in the last couple of years

1111
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: when Josh was developing, it didn't look that way. To

1112
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,439
Speaker 1: explain to us as a quarterback, and you just said

1113
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: about Russell Wilson. With Lockett and Metcalf out there, what's

1114
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 1: a change for you when you're taking snaps When you

1115
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: look out there and you've got a guy on either

1116
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: side that is that good, well, you know, it gives

1117
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: you options. And they also have a really good tight

1118
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: end as well in Greg Olson. And then they have

1119
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: Will Disley who came on a couple of years ago,

1120
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: had some injuries, but he's a very capable tight end

1121
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: as well. So when you've got those types of weapons

1122
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: to throw the football too, it really makes it easier

1123
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: for you as a quarterback, because we all know a

1124
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: quarterback is only as good as the people that surround him.

1125
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: Because you can't do it all by yourself. You've got

1126
00:58:55,600 --> 00:59:00,080
Speaker 1: to have good pieces and complementary pieces for yourself, and

1127
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: Russell has that. Now. He's never had a receiver like

1128
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: a DK Metcalf since he's been here. You know, his

1129
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: receivers the year they went to the Super Bowl where

1130
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: Jermaine Curse and Doug Baldwin, you know, two relatively small

1131
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 1: receivers that didn't have great, great speed. This guy six four,

1132
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty pounds and runs, you know, four

1133
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: to three in the forty to go along with Tyler Lockett,

1134
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 1: who has that same type of speed, doesn't have the

1135
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:26,439
Speaker 1: same build, but a really great route runner in excellent hand.

1136
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: So you've got a lot of different options when you're

1137
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson on this offense, and he's taken advantage of

1138
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: all of them. How would you characterize their run game? Warren?

1139
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 1: I mean, they've been a beat up, banged up group

1140
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: this season and this week is no different. I mean, heck,

1141
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: they had to turn to DJ Dallas last week to

1142
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: be their primary ball carrier in the run game. So

1143
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: how would you characterize their run game right now? Clearly

1144
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: it seems like a complimentary piece to what their identity

1145
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: is on offense, But how would you characterize that run

1146
00:59:56,120 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: game for them inconsistent, only big because like you said,

1147
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: all those guys have been banged up. Chris Carson is

1148
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: a guy who's a he's a twelve hundred yard runner

1149
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: last year, but he's had some problems this year with injuries.

1150
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: And Carlos Hyde, who they brought in, was a thousand

1151
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: yard back with Houston last year. He's a great, complimentary back,

1152
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: but he's been hurt the last few weeks too. So

1153
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: you also have Travis Homer who was a young guy

1154
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: that they think a lot of and he's been banged up,

1155
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: so now they're darn. Like you said to DJ Dallas,

1156
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: who's a rookie, he's a talented guy, but it's a

1157
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: lot to put on his shoulders to come in here

1158
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: and try and carry this football team in the running

1159
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 1: game and also staying there on third down. But he

1160
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 1: did a great job last week against the forty nine ers,

1161
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 1: score two touchdowns. But they need to get some of

1162
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: these guys back into the lineup so they, for one,

1163
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: can be a little bit more balanced offensively, so you

1164
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: don't have to throw the ball all the time, and

1165
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 1: being able to run the football helps your defense out

1166
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: that hasn't been playing that great because you eat up

1167
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: time on the clock and you control the time of

1168
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: was That's something that can help any defense out that

1169
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: might be struggling. Yeah, before the deadline, the Seahawks traded

1170
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: for Carlos Dunlap of Cincinnati Bengals. What do they hope

1171
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: Dunlap can change for their defense? Well, one of the

1172
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: biggest problems with their defense is you got to get

1173
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback, as with any defense, but definitely

1174
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: when you're playing the type of zone that the Seahawks

1175
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: have played since Pete Carroll has been here, They've always

1176
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: had good guys that can pressure the quarterback. Because when

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01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: you pressure the quarterback, they've got to get the ball

1178
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: out of their hands now, and it allows that defense

1179
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: to really rally to the football and make tackles and

1180
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: limit their yards after the catch. That's what this defense

1181
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: is predicated about. But when you have a lot of

1182
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: time back there to throw the football now, you can

1183
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: push it down the field a little bit longer and

1184
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: you get bigger plays within your offense. So Carlos Dunlap

1185
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:50,919
Speaker 1: a guy who's been in the league ten years. He's

1186
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 1: had a solid career in Cincinnati, became a little frustrated there.

1187
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: I think he'll come in and give them some of

1188
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 1: that pressure that they need off the edge to help

1189
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 1: their running, to help their their past pass rush, which

1190
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: will help this defense out. And then you get hopefully

1191
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams back this week as well, another guy who's

1192
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: very dynamic on this defense. So as they get some

1193
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: pieces back into this defense, they feel like they're gonna

1194
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 1: play a little bit better on that side of the ball.

1195
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: If they can get this defense to play somewhere in

1196
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack to go along with this offense.

1197
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: The way they're playing, they feel like they have a

1198
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: great shot of going far in the playoffs. I haven't

1199
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 1: not seen every single game Warren that the Seahawks have

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01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 1: played as if yet. Has any of their opposing defenses

1201
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 1: tried to, you know, play like an umbrella style defense

1202
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: or recover two shell and just force Russell to kind

1203
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 1: of nickel and dime his way down the field, or

1204
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 1: have they Has anybody turned to that and has it

1205
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: proven effective in any way, shape or form against this

1206
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: high powered Seahawks passing game. Well, the great thing about

1207
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: Russell this year is he's been very patient. He's taking

1208
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 1: his shots when he when he has them available, but

1209
01:02:57,720 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: when he doesn't have him available, in teams do try

1210
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 1: and plays off back there they either run the football

1211
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 1: or he's been very patient and he takes the underneath route.

1212
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 1: So he's a very smart quarterback. Doesn't turn it over

1213
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: a lot. He had a very uncharacteristic game a couple

1214
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: of weeks ago against Arizona where he threw three interceptions,

1215
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: but other than that, he takes very good care of

1216
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 1: the ball. And if you do give him time because

1217
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: you're you're not bringing pressure, he'll scramble around and wait

1218
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: for somebody to come open. And these guys are very

1219
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:28,919
Speaker 1: good at at getting open once he's on the move.

1220
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: So you're kind of damned if you do damned if

1221
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: you don't. With this offense. Right now, you've mentioned Jamal Adams.

1222
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 1: We're hearing Buffalo saw him play for the Jets, and

1223
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 1: we're really and we know that guy's a really good player.

1224
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: How does he change things in the back end, he

1225
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: said about Carlos dunlaping. They get a little more pressure

1226
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: to help the back end of the defense, and Jamal

1227
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: Adams hasn't been in there. Do Seattle fans appreciate him

1228
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 1: for the player he might be for them, because we

1229
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: hear in Buffalo saw him play really well for the

1230
01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: New York Jets. Well, he came out with a great

1231
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:03,440
Speaker 1: impact his first couple of games with us, and Kenny Norton,

1232
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 1: our defensive coordinator, has been using him in a lot

1233
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 1: of different ways, bringing him off the edge a lot

1234
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 1: of times with pressure to pressure the quarterback because we

1235
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 1: haven't had that pass rush. He's a very dynamic player,

1236
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: he's a very emotional player, and he's a great leader

1237
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:20,919
Speaker 1: on that defense and kind of gives him a little

1238
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: bit of a swag that they've been lacking. So I

1239
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: think he does a lot of things for this defense

1240
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:29,919
Speaker 1: besides the athletic abuilding. And then the other curious thing

1241
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 1: Snacks Harrison, who remains on the practice squad. Initially, you know,

1242
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 1: they signed him and they said, oh, we're going to

1243
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: get him up to speed and then we'll, you know,

1244
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: look at maybe getting him on the active roster eventually.

1245
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: But I mean, this has been a top ten run defense.

1246
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 1: That is one thing they have done well on the

1247
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Is this just an example

1248
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: of the guys that are on the roster are playing

1249
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: plenty well enough, and they don't need to bring Harrison

1250
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:57,919
Speaker 1: up to the active roster. Well, I think you'll see

1251
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: Snacks on the roster here pretty soon. But yet, like

1252
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 1: you said, they have played well against the run, but

1253
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 1: teams haven't run the ball as much against them because

1254
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 1: they've been able to throw the football successfully, especially when

1255
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: you get behind. Our offense has tended to get out

1256
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 1: to leads, so that kind of takes you out of

1257
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: your running game because you're playing catchup all the time

1258
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,160
Speaker 1: you're having to throw the football, so that those are

1259
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: running statistics might be a little bit misleading, But I

1260
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: think Snacks will really help us, not only in run defense,

1261
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: but he'll also be one of those guys that could

1262
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: push the pocket from the inside and allow those guys

1263
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 1: on the edge to have a cleaner run to the quarterback.

1264
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 1: So he can be very effective in the past game

1265
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: as well. Last one I had for you was Bobby Wagner.

1266
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:40,840
Speaker 1: There was some talk that he wasn't really playing up

1267
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: to his standards early in the season, but man, last

1268
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 1: week he was all over the place against the forty

1269
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 1: nine ers. I mean eleven tackles, three for lost, a

1270
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: couple of sacks, four quarterback hits. Is he back to

1271
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: being the all Pro linebacker they need him to be? Yeah,

1272
01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: I don't think he ever was gone anywhere. He's just

1273
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: I think he got tired of hearing some of that talk.

1274
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: And he had a great game last week. But he's

1275
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: been pretty consistent. If you look at the number of

1276
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 1: tackles that he's had, he's are leading tackler when the

1277
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: when the whole defense isn't playing well, it reflects on everybody.

1278
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: But last week their defense played really really good, except

1279
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 1: for the last you know, maybe garbage time, a couple

1280
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: of touchdowns at the forty nine ers score that that

1281
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 1: game wasn't as as close at what it is what

1282
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 1: it looked like. But but Bobby has been a consummate

1283
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: pro this year. He's playing solid football. But he just

1284
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 1: had one of those games that Bobby's capable of having

1285
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 1: when he needs to on a big stage, and against

1286
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, he needed to have that type

1287
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: of game and he rose to the challenge. Warren is

1288
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 1: great seeing you look great. I hope you stay healthy

1289
01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: during this COVID pandemic, and I hope we get a

1290
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: chance to maybe go out and have a bruskie once

1291
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:52,720
Speaker 1: or for sometime in the future. Yeah, we can do that, Steve.

1292
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: You know. And I want to tell you something, Steve.

1293
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: The reason we lost that game back in ninety two,

1294
01:06:58,080 --> 01:06:59,919
Speaker 1: of whenever it was, is because you had left our

1295
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 1: Look at that bouquet. That wow, total checks in the mail, Warrent,

1296
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:12,439
Speaker 1: that is total BS check is in the mail. Great

1297
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: seeing you man, You look great. All right, guys here

1298
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Warren Hall of Famer Warren Moon with us

1299
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: here Seahawks analysts breaking it down for us. And yeah,

1300
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, you look at final scores sometimes before you

1301
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: have a chance to look at the game tape, you're like, oh,

1302
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: that's pretty close game at the forty nine. It wasn't

1303
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: out a close now at all. There was like some

1304
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 1: garbage points there at the end, and uh, you eat

1305
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: them by ten and they had garbage touchdowns at the end.

1306
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 1: It was and that's a fightem tooth and nail division.

1307
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: It was a laugher. Um. I just think San Francisco

1308
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: is just so devoid of talent due to all their

1309
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 1: injuries that we outlined earlier in the show. I'll tell

1310
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: you this, they played at least once twice last year

1311
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: in their division. I think did they play in the

1312
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 1: in the playoffs anyway, The two games they had in

1313
01:07:56,560 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: the regular season, those things were phenomenal. Both of them

1314
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: came down to the final play in regulation and it

1315
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,200
Speaker 1: was on the goal line trying to get in kind

1316
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: of thing. It was a phenomenal matchup last year. And

1317
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: like you said, due to the injuries, that'll tell you

1318
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 1: what's happened to San Francisco. But that offense has undergone

1319
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: a transformation. I don't think there's any question about it.

1320
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:19,760
Speaker 1: This used to be one of the highest run percentage

1321
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 1: teams in the National Football League each of the last

1322
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: two years. And it's what made Chris Carson a twelve

1323
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 1: hundred yard running back in this league. And they've completely

1324
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 1: flipped the script. They've given the keys to Russell Wilson,

1325
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: and it's just like, dude, you got a couple of

1326
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: thoroughbreds on the outside, let's make it work. You know,

1327
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 1: when they added Greg Olsen to kind of keep your

1328
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: honest in the middle of the field. Will Disley is

1329
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 1: no slouch either a tight end as a pass catcher,

1330
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:50,719
Speaker 1: and they just let They've turned over the controls completely

1331
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 1: to Russell Wilson, and he is making them look good.

1332
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he is the only quarterback in the NFL

1333
01:08:57,080 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: with at least thirty touchdown passes in each the last

1334
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: three seasons, and he's clearly going to make it four

1335
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 1: straight this year with the pace that he's on right now,

1336
01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: because I think he's got twenty six already. Yeah, you

1337
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,639
Speaker 1: get And in the big picture, Brownie, you really got

1338
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: to you gotta sit up and tip your hat to

1339
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: Peak Carroll and the job they did. This is the

1340
01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:17,719
Speaker 1: This was the team that went to two Super Bowls

1341
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 1: in a row with the legion of boom well yeah,

1342
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:24,759
Speaker 1: totally rock solid and a young quarterback on his rookie contract.

1343
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: Now they have managed to completely evolve away from and

1344
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 1: then while staying competitive every year they have evolved away

1345
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:35,040
Speaker 1: from it, put that put the ball in the hands

1346
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,519
Speaker 1: of a quarterback who's now at an MVP kind of level,

1347
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:42,599
Speaker 1: and continued to be competitive doing it a completely different

1348
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:46,760
Speaker 1: way philosophically, offensively, defensively. Now they're still playing the same

1349
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: you know, defensive stuff. But man, oh man, tip your

1350
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: hat to Peak Carroll and that coaching staff and the

1351
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 1: Seahawks as well in their personnel decisions and kind of

1352
01:09:56,120 --> 01:09:59,720
Speaker 1: step by step, inch by inch evolving into what we

1353
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: see now where they're the highest flying offense in the

1354
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 1: league and their defense is struggling to hang on and

1355
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: they're still you know, they got one loss on the season,

1356
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: and they've been aggressive in adding talent where they didn't

1357
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 1: feel they had enough to make the kind of run

1358
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 1: they want to make, whether it's the Jamal Adams trade,

1359
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 1: Dunlap trade, the Snax Harrison signing. I mean, snax Harrison

1360
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 1: would start for probably sixteen teams in the league and

1361
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 1: he's sitting on their practice squad. Yeah, and he and

1362
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:29,600
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. It says something about the

1363
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: atmosphere they've got. Maybe it says something about their telling

1364
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 1: him something or whatever. But they've convinced snax Harrison to

1365
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: stay there and wait for his chance because other teams

1366
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 1: have called a lot of other teams, at least two

1367
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:42,839
Speaker 1: of others have offered him a contract to go active

1368
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: and play in a game and he's turned them down. Yeah,

1369
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: that says something, it really does. And so tip your

1370
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: hat to Pete Carol and the Seahawks for what they've

1371
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:52,720
Speaker 1: got going out there, how they've evolved, and how they've

1372
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:56,160
Speaker 1: stayed relevant while transitioning to what we see today. I

1373
01:10:56,280 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 1: still have scars from the fifty to say teen game

1374
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 1: up in Toronto, which was the last time the Seahawks

1375
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: were here, I believe, and Russell Wilson went nuts running

1376
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 1: around with the football. There wasn't anybody that could catch

1377
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,560
Speaker 1: the guy. And I'm going to be interested during the

1378
01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: break here, I want to look up the stats from

1379
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: that game because that was what year was that. I

1380
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 1: want to say two thousand, No, I'm gonna have to look.

1381
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact year, but Russell Wilson was

1382
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: the quarterback and it was up there, so I don't know.

1383
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: I'll have to look it up, but I remember fifty

1384
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: points being on the board at the end of that

1385
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 1: thing because the Bills just could not stop him, and uh,

1386
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 1: it was it was rough going, it really was. It

1387
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 1: was twenty twelve, December sixteenth, fifty to seventeen. I mean,

1388
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: I think he had three rushing touchdown. That was their

1389
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,440
Speaker 1: Super Bowl year. I think he had three rushing touchdowns.

1390
01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:59,759
Speaker 1: He wasn't the prolific passer that he is now, but yeah,

1391
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: I think he had three rushing touchdowns in that game.

1392
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:06,680
Speaker 1: If memory had three rushing touchdowns, he was it was

1393
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: nuts and a passing touchdown, Like they had no answer

1394
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: for him. When he took off with the football, it

1395
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:12,360
Speaker 1: was like, are we gonna get a spy on this game?

1396
01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:14,599
Speaker 1: They threw it. That's when they had, you know, Marshawn

1397
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:17,879
Speaker 1: Lanche he had ten rushes, Russell Wilson had nine rushes,

1398
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: and Turban had ten rushes as well. And yeah, that

1399
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: was They threw for two hundred and five yards and

1400
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 1: hung fifty points on the bills. Like Russell Wilson had

1401
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 1: ninety two yards rushing on nine carries. Three of those

1402
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 1: carry three of his nine carries went for touchdowns. I mean,

1403
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 1: it was just and this was over early, like early,

1404
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to go back to the first page

1405
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 1: and I can't find it now. But by the by

1406
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 1: the by three minutes into the second half, it was

1407
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 1: thirty seven seventeen. Yeah, it's funny. I was, I'm going

1408
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: down to just to play by play Stephen House got

1409
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: kicking for the Seahawks, hanging some about them apples. Yeah

1410
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:57,879
Speaker 1: that's yeah, I'll make you feel old. Yeah, so I'm

1411
01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:00,840
Speaker 1: still scarred from that. I worry about him when he

1412
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:04,480
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything, people forget like he's such a prolific

1413
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: passer right now. I almost think people forget this guy

1414
01:13:07,439 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 1: can run away and get it, get away from trouble this.

1415
01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: I know he's been sacked a good amount of times.

1416
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:15,960
Speaker 1: It's due to the fact that they pass so much.

1417
01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 1: But I also think people forget this guy can get

1418
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:23,080
Speaker 1: away from people and get yards with his legs. When

1419
01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 1: you see him play, he has such poise when he's

1420
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:32,640
Speaker 1: running around with the ball and such awareness. You know,

1421
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,880
Speaker 1: he's one of those quarterbacks that will look like he's

1422
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: gonna run for big yards and then back away from

1423
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and put more stress on the

1424
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 1: defense and stretch the defense even thinner, and then hitch

1425
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 1: it for the big play. Or he'll tuck it and

1426
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 1: run and he's good enough to, you know, throw moves

1427
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 1: on guys and get the extra fifteen yards when he

1428
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 1: makes a guy miss a tackle instead of running out

1429
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 1: of bounds or and then he'll do all that and

1430
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 1: slide and you don't even get to touch him. He

1431
01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:02,439
Speaker 1: is excruciatingly efficient when he runs with the football out

1432
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:05,040
Speaker 1: of the pocket, and it's a it's a crusher. That's

1433
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 1: why you know when Josh does it, it feels so

1434
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,760
Speaker 1: good for our team when you see him do it.

1435
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:12,840
Speaker 1: It's just the opposite. It's just EXCLUSI. Here are the

1436
01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 1: ten possessions for the Seahawks in that twenty twelve game

1437
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:19,600
Speaker 1: that they beat the Bills fifty to seventeen. Okay, the

1438
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 1: possessions in order, touchdown, touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown, punt, touchdown,

1439
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:30,800
Speaker 1: field goal, field goal, punt. They put it twice the

1440
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:36,240
Speaker 1: entire game. Their longest drive was a seventeen play, ninety

1441
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: eight yard drive for a field goal that ended at

1442
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 1: the Buffalo five yard line, and that was in the

1443
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:42,439
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. They were like, oh the hell with it,

1444
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: Just kick the thing, you know, from the five yard line.

1445
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: A lot of their scoring drives five plays, seven plays,

1446
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 1: three plays, five plays, two plays, I mean, just yeah,

1447
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 1: it was. It was a drubbing. Yeah, Now it was rough.

1448
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: That was the last year of and Gailey's tenure. Here

1449
01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: is head coach, and it had already gone sideways by

1450
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 1: that twenty one to thirty eight. You had a couple

1451
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:08,960
Speaker 1: of picks in that game, two interceptions, and both of

1452
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: those got turned into touchdowns. Yeah, this is when C. J.

1453
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 1: Spiller was with the club seventeen Rushes for one hundred

1454
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: and three in a touchdown to Shard. Choice was a

1455
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:20,120
Speaker 1: part of the running game there. It's it's a better

1456
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: team clearly now, and I think it'll be an interesting game.

1457
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 1: You just wonder how many points are the bill is

1458
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 1: going to have to score this week to have a

1459
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:33,599
Speaker 1: chance at victory. I mean, what's the let's do this?

1460
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:36,760
Speaker 1: What do you think the floor is? I think it's thirty.

1461
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 1: I think thirties the floor for where the Bills have

1462
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:41,040
Speaker 1: to get on offense to have a chance to win

1463
01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:44,240
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, that's the floor, don't you think? Yeah,

1464
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:46,840
Speaker 1: I think that's the number. And you think the overunder

1465
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:48,960
Speaker 1: this the game? You know if I don't bet ever,

1466
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 1: but you know, you think about it's one of those games.

1467
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:53,479
Speaker 1: It's going to be up in the mid dive fifties,

1468
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 1: right total points, right total thirties? The floor I think.

1469
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:03,600
Speaker 1: I think you have to get to thirty and that's

1470
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 1: not an impossibility this week because the Seahawks give up

1471
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: a ton of points. They give up yards and points.

1472
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 1: I mean they are twenty fourth and points allowed. It'll

1473
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:13,519
Speaker 1: be interesting to see that it because not like they

1474
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: can't do it. When the Bills and we've seen this

1475
01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: kind of got hints of it from Sean McDermott before.

1476
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: They'll think about how many possessions it kind of kind

1477
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: of happened in the game and they'll get in there

1478
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 1: there and they say, okay, now we need to bleed

1479
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:30,320
Speaker 1: this series. We need this series to be a seven

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01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 1: play series, you know, we need it to be an

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01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 1: eight play series so that at the end of it,

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01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: they're going to get the ball once more in this

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01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 1: half and we're gonna get it on once more after this.

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01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:41,680
Speaker 1: That kind of thing starts getting thought about live in

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01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: game analytics. Yeah, live in game analytics, and you'll see

1486
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: that happen once in a while. Don't know, if and

1487
01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: against a deep and it's how confident you are you

1488
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 1: in your offense that if you if you do have

1489
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,920
Speaker 1: a throwaway down on a second and one, do you

1490
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 1: you know, do you take a shot or do you

1491
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:00,639
Speaker 1: hand it off or do you put something on film

1492
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 1: that you want somebody else to see. Doesn't even care

1493
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 1: if you get the first down knowing you're gonna pick

1494
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: it up easy on the third and one, I don't know,

1495
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 1: But that's with two defenses like this, Yeah, you got

1496
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: you gotta put your foot on the floor and think,

1497
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: you man, we gotta leave it. Then we gotta school.

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01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 1: And yeah, when you get and if we're up by seventeen,

1499
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: keep going. You better get up by twenty four than

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Speaker 1: thirty one. Yeah, you know, all right, we have to

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01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:26,760
Speaker 1: take a break. But when we return, more of your

1502
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: phone calls at eight oh three, five fifty. Which Bills

1503
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:31,560
Speaker 1: team do you like more? The twenty nineteen version that

1504
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 1: started six and two or this year's team that has

1505
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: also started six and two. Give us an answer, let

1506
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: us know why phone line is open for you. We'll

1507
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:42,840
Speaker 1: also hit the tweet sheet. And there's a question I

1508
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 1: want to bounce off Steve about RPOs and the number

1509
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:50,160
Speaker 1: of plays the bills are utilizing RPOs and what that

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01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 1: might mean with respect to Josh Allen's development. We'll get

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01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 1: to that when we return here on One Bill's Live

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01:17:55,439 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio Chris Brown

1513
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, a second half of a Wednesday edition of

1514
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: One Bills Live coming your way now, as we are

1515
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 1: discussing the twenty nineteen bills that started six and two

1516
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:20,760
Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty bills that have started six and

1517
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:24,639
Speaker 1: two which Bills team do you like more? And tell

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01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: us why we are going to go to the tweet

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01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 1: sheet now, because we haven't touched that to this point

1520
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: in the program. And as you know, the tweet sheet

1521
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,960
Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment

1522
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:36,439
Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. If you do want

1523
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:38,280
Speaker 1: to call us and give us your take on this,

1524
01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 1: you can do that also at eight three five fifty

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01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We've got

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01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:46,040
Speaker 1: an open line for you there. But we lead off

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01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: with Jeremy, who says, although I love the twenty nineteen defense,

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01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 1: I love the twenty twenty offense more. The offense is

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01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: a stout lineman away from being great, looking forward to

1530
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:59,720
Speaker 1: the future looks better and better, just like we did

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01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. There aren't too many people, Steve that

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01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:06,080
Speaker 1: we've heard from today that have said, yeah, I like

1533
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:08,519
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen version. I think we had one caller,

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01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: I think it was Freddie in Rochester who said, yeah,

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01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 1: I really like the lockdown nature of the twenty nineteen defense,

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01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 1: which I can totally respect. But people love offense, man,

1537
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: and I think they know that offense is what wins

1538
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:24,240
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now it's a scoring league this year.

1539
01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 1: And you can say what you want about histories in

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01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:28,800
Speaker 1: history and all of that, and defense wins championships, and

1541
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:30,800
Speaker 1: I hear all of it too, But let me tell you,

1542
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:36,679
Speaker 1: offense is more fun. And this whole league is playing

1543
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,719
Speaker 1: offense at a higher level than it ever has before.

1544
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: And at least I end my recent memory. Yeah, I know,

1545
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: I there's a couple of teams out there that can

1546
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:49,000
Speaker 1: play some defense, but man, oh man, you lose, you

1547
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 1: lose a couple of pass rushers to injury, and you're done.

1548
01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:54,439
Speaker 1: San Francisco is a shell of its former self. Right.

1549
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 1: It's not Pittsburgh's getting it done because they, like I said,

1550
01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: they can play some defense. They've got a pass rush,

1551
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But most of the most of

1552
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:04,920
Speaker 1: the time, teams have answers for that. Offenses are just

1553
01:20:05,160 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: it's just too easy to have guys running free down

1554
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: the field and stretching the field and the quarterbacks. It's

1555
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 1: too easy for the quarterbacks to find a hole in it.

1556
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:16,120
Speaker 1: So I get it. You always have those you know,

1557
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:19,120
Speaker 1: those guys are saying I like defense because I'm you know,

1558
01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: I'm old school you know that's fine, but don't kid yourself.

1559
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 1: The offense is more fun. I wanted to bounce this

1560
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:28,000
Speaker 1: off of you so we know that Josh with each

1561
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 1: passing year, has been given enhanced abilities to make decisions

1562
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 1: on the field, whether it's calling audibles at the line

1563
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:37,400
Speaker 1: of scrimmage because he doesn't like the look or RPOs.

1564
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,519
Speaker 1: So I went and looked Steve. Through the first eight

1565
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 1: games in twenty nineteen, the Bills ran RPOs on three

1566
01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: point seven percent of their plays on offense. Only three

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01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:56,680
Speaker 1: point seven percent through the first eight games were RPOs

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01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:03,559
Speaker 1: on offense. This year, through eight games, nine and a

1569
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: half percent of their plays have been RPOs, which is

1570
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: sixth highest in the NFL. Right now, last year at

1571
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 1: this time, the RPO percentage for Buffalo was hold on

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01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 1: one minute twenty fourth. So that's a that's a sizeable

1573
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:28,639
Speaker 1: jump in percentage number one. But confidence in your quarterback

1574
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,679
Speaker 1: number two? Right, Yeah, I don't know that they didn't

1575
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 1: have confident. I think also the RPO was a little

1576
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 1: bit dictated by the fact that just needed that one extra,

1577
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: more more weapon as well. Yeah, I think you're I

1578
01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 1: think you're talking about Yeah, Diggs makes a big difference. Now,

1579
01:21:46,320 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 1: now you go to RPO, you you hope that you

1580
01:21:49,439 --> 01:21:51,240
Speaker 1: can get out of a run play that they've got

1581
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:53,479
Speaker 1: snapped off because that spreads them too thin in the

1582
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 1: back end, you know. And plus I think I don't know,

1583
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: certainly they're more confident than Josh. I mean, how could

1584
01:21:58,360 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 1: you not be from what he's shown. I don't know

1585
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: that they knew that Week one of twenty twenty, but

1586
01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:08,599
Speaker 1: they probably suspected it. And to have digs outside and

1587
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: have the weapons they have and get defenses to, you know,

1588
01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:16,680
Speaker 1: be forced to spread thinner at the snap because you

1589
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: set a time and again ten personnels where they live

1590
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:24,120
Speaker 1: these days, Yeah, ten to eleven personnel. Man, they are

1591
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 1: all about having a lot of wideouts on the field

1592
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 1: and if you can get a team that's in a

1593
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 1: run stopping defense, when you got that personnel on the field, yeah,

1594
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: make them pay. And I think that's one thing that

1595
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: leads to it as well. It does say something about Josh,

1596
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:42,479
Speaker 1: but I don't know that I could discount how much

1597
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:44,559
Speaker 1: faith they had him in him last year. I think

1598
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:47,840
Speaker 1: it's more about what the defenses are looking at. Yeah,

1599
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:50,800
Speaker 1: I see that. I don't think anybody's surprised to know

1600
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:54,600
Speaker 1: that the Baltimore Ravens lead the league an RPO percentage,

1601
01:22:55,600 --> 01:23:00,880
Speaker 1: knowing how much Lamar runs that read option attack. I

1602
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:03,559
Speaker 1: just found that the increase interesting. It's like a six

1603
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:08,000
Speaker 1: percent increase this year from last year, and you know

1604
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: at least three times though, right, and we've seen it,

1605
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 1: and yet through that we've seen Josh run less than

1606
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 1: he probably did last year through the first eight games,

1607
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:18,640
Speaker 1: all things considered, Um, I just thought it was an

1608
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 1: interesting figure. As we're discussing you know, twenty nineteen to

1609
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:24,920
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, offense is better this year, and you know

1610
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 1: the multitude of reasons why. I just thought it was

1611
01:23:28,040 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 1: an interesting figure to kind of take note of. Back

1612
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet though from Marcus twenty twenty bills,

1613
01:23:35,520 --> 01:23:39,880
Speaker 1: because now we definitely have our franchise quarterback. QB is

1614
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:42,680
Speaker 1: the toughest spot to get right. Everything else we can

1615
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 1: figure out. I'm not surprised that point. He's what's kind

1616
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:51,240
Speaker 1: of led the voting contingent for twenty twenty over twenty nineteen.

1617
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all about the quarterback. As you said

1618
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, it's a quarterback driven league. It's

1619
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 1: scoring league. And if you have your guy, you're better

1620
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:03,679
Speaker 1: or equipped to content. It makes everything else work better,

1621
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 1: and it gives you a chance in games where maybe

1622
01:24:06,280 --> 01:24:11,800
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have otherwise have a chance. So, yeah, having

1623
01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 1: Josh back there, but he, let's face it, the twenty

1624
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 1: nineteen Bills had him back there too, So I don't

1625
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: know how big a difference that is. Certainly we see

1626
01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: him playing much better this season than he did a

1627
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 1: year ago. Maybe that was a really that was that's

1628
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:31,600
Speaker 1: the result of an offseason well spent. I'm sure some

1629
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 1: of it's like that, but some of it has to

1630
01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: do with the players around him and his coming back

1631
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:43,479
Speaker 1: fresher with a with a clean slate. But yeah, he's

1632
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:46,400
Speaker 1: certainly proven he's the guy this year and going forward.

1633
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: There's no question for his foreseeable future. It's amazing too.

1634
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:55,240
Speaker 1: I don't know how long it's been, but Josh Allen's

1635
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: going to be the first quarterback for the Buffalo Bills

1636
01:24:57,120 --> 01:24:59,880
Speaker 1: in a long time. Is going to get a second contract, right,

1637
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 1: do you know? I was kind of going back and

1638
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 1: forth and comparing Russell Wilson's numbers to Josh Allen's numbers here, there, everywhere.

1639
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: I mean, you could slice it a thousand different ways.

1640
01:25:10,240 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 1: The number that just jumps off the page. And there's

1641
01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:15,360
Speaker 1: a lot of numbers for Russell Wilson that jump off

1642
01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:17,599
Speaker 1: the page. I mean, twenty six touchdowns in seven games.

1643
01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 1: That's pretty stupid. Um, But his touchdown percentage, Steve, it's

1644
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 1: ten point two percent. More than ten percent of his

1645
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: one ends up in the end zone. Yeah, that is

1646
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:35,799
Speaker 1: just to give your perspective, Josh, who has broken records

1647
01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:39,160
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo through the first eight games with sixteen touchdowns.

1648
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 1: It's gotta be like three percent. No, it's better than that,

1649
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:47,160
Speaker 1: is it. It's five point eight percent, which is really

1650
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: he's breaking records. Yeah, he's breaking team records for the

1651
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:53,519
Speaker 1: most touchdown passes through the first eight games. His touchdown

1652
01:25:53,560 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 1: percentage is five point eight percent. Russell Wilson is almost

1653
01:25:57,080 --> 01:26:02,479
Speaker 1: doubling that. That is um. Yeah, that isn't even that's

1654
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 1: not even human crazy. And I know touchdown percentage is

1655
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 1: not a familiar statistic where people's eyes will pop out

1656
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,639
Speaker 1: of their head. Your eyes should pop out of your head.

1657
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 1: One out of every ten passes that he throws winds

1658
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 1: up in the end zone. That's crazy. I gotta tell you.

1659
01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:19,080
Speaker 1: I didn't know this. I hadn't been looking at this

1660
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:23,200
Speaker 1: and we I've mentioned this earlier in the show. What

1661
01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 1: do you think about the fact that the Seahawks and

1662
01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:29,559
Speaker 1: you can say this, people say this about the Bills too.

1663
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:34,400
Speaker 1: You know, Bills played the Jets twice and the Dolphins

1664
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:36,920
Speaker 1: early in the season before they found themselves and all that.

1665
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:41,599
Speaker 1: All right, So the the the Seahawks, they beat the Falcons,

1666
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: who are all right, I'm gonna have you hold that though,

1667
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,400
Speaker 1: because they're yelling in my ear that we gotta take

1668
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 1: a break here, but we will. We will pick this

1669
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 1: conversation Seattle Strength, Scattle Strength the schedule. Let's take a

1670
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: closer look at that when we return here on one

1671
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:55,759
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Collida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1672
01:27:07,240 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Jasker with you, closing up our number

1673
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:11,880
Speaker 1: two of the program as we're with you until three

1674
01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: every Monday to Friday. And Steve, you wanted to lay

1675
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 1: out the victories by this Seattle Seahawks team, now six

1676
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:23,760
Speaker 1: and one on the season. Yeah, you always look through

1677
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:25,519
Speaker 1: to see, you know, how good are they they? And

1678
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:27,639
Speaker 1: they play what they're great. I mean, they're really good

1679
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: football team they've played. You know, they've they've beaten Atlanta,

1680
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 1: New England, Dallas, Miami, and Minnesota, San Francisco. And I

1681
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:42,000
Speaker 1: was kind of going back to see you know, so

1682
01:27:42,160 --> 01:27:48,360
Speaker 1: they say, you know who they've beaten Minnesota two wins,

1683
01:27:48,479 --> 01:27:52,439
Speaker 1: Dallas two wins, Atlanta two wins, the Giants one win.

1684
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 1: There's seven wins and they're those All of those teams

1685
01:27:56,120 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 1: are the bottom four teams in the NFC. Uh So, okay,

1686
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 1: you think that's fine, they're gonna they're gonna beat those guys.

1687
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 1: They beat Miami, who is climbing up now. They played

1688
01:28:08,360 --> 01:28:11,680
Speaker 1: Miami in Week four and then they just beat the

1689
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ersh So that yeah, you know,

1690
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:22,439
Speaker 1: two wins by Atlanta, two wins by the Patriots, two

1691
01:28:22,479 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 1: wins by the Cowboys. The Dolphins now have four. Right

1692
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:30,280
Speaker 1: looking back on it now, they're the strongest team there.

1693
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: But the Dolphins were one and three I think at

1694
01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: that point. Or Minnesota got a nice win last week

1695
01:28:34,840 --> 01:28:39,479
Speaker 1: at Green Bay. Minnesota has one one win or two

1696
01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:42,519
Speaker 1: wins on the season. One they're one five and one. No, no,

1697
01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:45,160
Speaker 1: I think they're they might be three and five right now.

1698
01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 1: I think they're I think they're win over Green Bay

1699
01:28:47,439 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: even there, Minnesota's two and five, two and five, now

1700
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:52,760
Speaker 1: after the after the nice win this last week, and

1701
01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: of course then the then the Niners are four and four.

1702
01:28:55,960 --> 01:29:00,839
Speaker 1: So now lost to the Cardinals who not Yeah, the Cardinals,

1703
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 1: and impressively the Cardinals are playing really well. Arizona is

1704
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: they're they're five and two, and that's the team they

1705
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:12,200
Speaker 1: lost to. Yeah, their game back in Seattle. You think

1706
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 1: about it that the Seahawks are looking a little bit

1707
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,919
Speaker 1: like Buffalo has looked, although they've looked more impressive offensively

1708
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 1: than Buffalo has. They've lost to a good team and

1709
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 1: beat the teams they should have beaten. And as we

1710
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:26,719
Speaker 1: heard Warren Moon tell us earlier this hour, their passing

1711
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 1: game has been such a point producer that it's put

1712
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:32,120
Speaker 1: their opponents in a position where they have to throw

1713
01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 1: the ball just to stay in the game or come

1714
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: back in the game. And that has somewhat inflated their

1715
01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 1: really strong run defense numbers. I mean, they're ninth in

1716
01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:45,400
Speaker 1: the league and run defense and say, oh, okay, well

1717
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:48,439
Speaker 1: they're stopping the run well kind of sort of because

1718
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:51,439
Speaker 1: their opponents, to a large degree are not running the ball.

1719
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 1: Because they're usually down ten to seventeen points on the

1720
01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: scoreboard pretty quickly. With as prolific as this Seattle offense

1721
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 1: has been, it has forced their opponent, it's to take

1722
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:03,080
Speaker 1: to the air to stay in the game or to

1723
01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:05,880
Speaker 1: climb back into the game. Yeah, it's interesting. And the

1724
01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:08,599
Speaker 1: reason that caught my eye was in the NFC the

1725
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:13,120
Speaker 1: number thirteen of sixteen teams thirteenth MINUTESODA, fourteenth is Dallas,

1726
01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 1: fifteenth Atlanta, and sixteenth is Giants. Those are the four teams,

1727
01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: four of the five teams that that Seattle has beaten,

1728
01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:23,919
Speaker 1: and the best team that they have beaten to San Francisco,

1729
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:27,080
Speaker 1: who are four and four, right, and they've had a

1730
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:32,960
Speaker 1: lot of stenuating circumstances with injury. But yeah, it's it's

1731
01:30:33,080 --> 01:30:36,360
Speaker 1: it's certainly worth noting. So Atlanta, I mean, if San

1732
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:39,720
Speaker 1: Francisco was four and three at the time Seattle played them,

1733
01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:41,200
Speaker 1: and then they put them before and four, So they

1734
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 1: have beaten one team with a winning record at the

1735
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 1: time that they played in the Arizona team that they

1736
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:51,559
Speaker 1: lost to that was an overtime game, and Wilson threw

1737
01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:53,880
Speaker 1: three picks in that game, three of his six interceptions.

1738
01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:56,639
Speaker 1: This season, came in that game and they only lost

1739
01:30:56,680 --> 01:30:59,600
Speaker 1: it by a field goal in overtime. In overtime, and

1740
01:30:59,720 --> 01:31:05,639
Speaker 1: they scored thirty four points. Hello, now Arizona's having trouble.

1741
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:09,000
Speaker 1: Arizona's having trouble stopping people too. But now you know

1742
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:10,880
Speaker 1: why I'm telling you thirty points this week? Is the

1743
01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:14,240
Speaker 1: fun part about this is for me, that's cool. I

1744
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:16,719
Speaker 1: was gonna be flying. I want the Bills to play

1745
01:31:16,760 --> 01:31:18,720
Speaker 1: good teams. I want to see what they stack up, right,

1746
01:31:18,920 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be seventy degrees and Sonny in Orchard

1747
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 1: Park when they come in. That's gonna be fun to

1748
01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:27,360
Speaker 1: see that. I want to see a fun game, warm game.

1749
01:31:27,560 --> 01:31:31,519
Speaker 1: Let's go that. This is a game where last game

1750
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: week on the broadcast, I said it like this is

1751
01:31:33,880 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 1: kind of one thing. You might want to watch this

1752
01:31:35,280 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 1: on the couch anyway, even if you could come and

1753
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:40,520
Speaker 1: watch it was not this one. This is a seventy

1754
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:48,120
Speaker 1: thousand seat standing room only show up on Friday. Just yeah,

1755
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:52,120
Speaker 1: just man and stay after the game. That's the kind

1756
01:31:52,120 --> 01:31:56,439
Speaker 1: of game. This is beautiful day. This is one that

1757
01:31:56,479 --> 01:31:58,880
Speaker 1: you're going this one, this one's gonna this is a coach.

1758
01:31:58,960 --> 01:32:01,599
Speaker 1: This is one that's leave scar tissue from COVID. This

1759
01:32:01,640 --> 01:32:05,960
Speaker 1: one you miss, that's this one stinks. Missing. This one

1760
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:08,599
Speaker 1: really hurts. So did the Chiefs game, you know, I mean,

1761
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: I know there was some luster taking off of that

1762
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:12,800
Speaker 1: because of the loss in Tennessee, but that was a

1763
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:17,439
Speaker 1: primetime game and man, it just sucks. Yeah, it really does. Yeah,

1764
01:32:17,479 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 1: there's nothing to do about it. Though. We're at the mercy,

1765
01:32:20,520 --> 01:32:22,080
Speaker 1: at the mercy of all but this one you can

1766
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:24,000
Speaker 1: see coming. This was gonna be this would be a

1767
01:32:24,040 --> 01:32:26,320
Speaker 1: fun game to go to, and it's gonna be a

1768
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 1: beautiful day. Yeah, and everybody's out. Oh I don't want

1769
01:32:30,080 --> 01:32:33,240
Speaker 1: to poke fun. But the atmosphere on Sunday is gonna

1770
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: be a lot like it wasn't Toronto back right? Well right,

1771
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:42,160
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean they didn't even know when to cheer. Um.

1772
01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:45,360
Speaker 1: I see it's it's third down, let's get it going.

1773
01:32:46,240 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 1: Um sitting a mile from the field, right, Yeah, it

1774
01:32:51,520 --> 01:32:54,080
Speaker 1: was uh oh yeah, you were set back really far

1775
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:57,800
Speaker 1: in that building. It was a different animal. Yep, for sure.

1776
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:00,360
Speaker 1: All right, we have to take a break. But when

1777
01:33:00,400 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 1: we return, since we are at the midway point in

1778
01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:05,880
Speaker 1: the season, Steve and I will be handing out some

1779
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:12,240
Speaker 1: midseason awards. It's our midseason superlatives and they will be

1780
01:33:12,240 --> 01:33:14,880
Speaker 1: coming your way when we return from break. Here on

1781
01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:17,559
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

1782
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Hello, Bill's Radio Network. Sports Update, Your sports

1783
01:33:34,040 --> 01:33:36,519
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. John Brown, among the non

1784
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:39,200
Speaker 1: participants at practice today, has been dealing with a knee

1785
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:41,760
Speaker 1: injury on an off for the past few weeks. Mitch

1786
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 1: Morse and Micah Hyde both in the concussion protocol, but

1787
01:33:45,360 --> 01:33:49,120
Speaker 1: Hyde was participating in practice on a limited basis, which

1788
01:33:49,160 --> 01:33:53,000
Speaker 1: means he's in step four of the Return from Concussion protocol.

1789
01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:57,160
Speaker 1: Not practicing Josh Norman and Matt Mulano limited. Cody Ford

1790
01:33:57,240 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 1: and Vernon Butler also not participated during the media viewing

1791
01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 1: portion of practice, where Darryl Johnson and t J. Yelden

1792
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:05,559
Speaker 1: will wait to see if they're listed on the team's

1793
01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:10,280
Speaker 1: injury report later this afternoon. Meanwhile, Dawson Knox remains on

1794
01:34:10,320 --> 01:34:13,840
Speaker 1: the COVID reserve list after missing four games with a

1795
01:34:13,880 --> 01:34:16,720
Speaker 1: groin injury. Sehawks safety Jamal Adams looks to return to

1796
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:19,679
Speaker 1: practice on a pitch count and could see his return

1797
01:34:19,720 --> 01:34:22,679
Speaker 1: to the field on Sunday against the Bills. He hasn't

1798
01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 1: played since Week three. The Titans released veteran outside linebacker

1799
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:30,360
Speaker 1: Vic Beasley. The former Falcons pass rusher signed a one

1800
01:34:30,400 --> 01:34:33,439
Speaker 1: year prove it deal this past offseason with Tennessee, but

1801
01:34:33,479 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 1: in five games played, he had no starts in just

1802
01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:40,040
Speaker 1: three tackles. The former twenty sixteen All Pro led the

1803
01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 1: league with fifteen and a half sacks back in twenty sixteen.

1804
01:34:44,280 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 1: A quiet NFL trade deadline Tuesday, but a couple of

1805
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:50,120
Speaker 1: moves within the division. The Pats acquired wide receiver Isaiah

1806
01:34:50,160 --> 01:34:53,120
Speaker 1: Ford from the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins later made another

1807
01:34:53,160 --> 01:34:55,599
Speaker 1: move to add to their running back room. They traded

1808
01:34:55,640 --> 01:34:58,680
Speaker 1: for Kansas City Chiefs running back DeAndre Washington for a

1809
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:02,679
Speaker 1: conditional seventh round in twenty twenty one. And the Tampa

1810
01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:06,800
Speaker 1: Bay Bucks officially activated Antonio Brown from the suspended list Tuesday.

1811
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 1: Coach Bruce Arian said Tuesday that Brown will have a

1812
01:35:09,439 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: role in Sunday Night's game against the Saints. The Bucks

1813
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:14,680
Speaker 1: signed Brown last week to a one year deal with

1814
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:19,120
Speaker 1: a big salary of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. That

1815
01:35:19,240 --> 01:35:21,679
Speaker 1: is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown

1816
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:24,240
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you our number three of the program,

1817
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:29,160
Speaker 1: and this is the time that we wanted to address

1818
01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:32,240
Speaker 1: the midway point of the season, and what better way

1819
01:35:32,280 --> 01:35:36,320
Speaker 1: to do that than with some midseason awards, you know, right,

1820
01:35:37,200 --> 01:35:40,559
Speaker 1: superlatives if you will. These are a little bit like

1821
01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:43,360
Speaker 1: the Maddie Awards. We have every one Monday, win the

1822
01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:46,400
Speaker 1: Bills win when Maddie comes on and give some awards out.

1823
01:35:46,439 --> 01:35:48,320
Speaker 1: These are for all eight games the first half of

1824
01:35:48,320 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 1: the season, and Brownie and I spent some time going

1825
01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:53,679
Speaker 1: over and just from talking about this team a week,

1826
01:35:53,720 --> 01:35:55,559
Speaker 1: cover it every day, and we talk about them every

1827
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 1: day the whole roster. So we had feel like we

1828
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:02,040
Speaker 1: have some expertise, and I didn't. I kind of surprised

1829
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: myself with some of my choices when I really got

1830
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: down and thought about how this season was going. So

1831
01:36:06,280 --> 01:36:07,760
Speaker 1: it'll be fun to hear what you had to say

1832
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:10,559
Speaker 1: about him. Okay, So we lead off Steve with the

1833
01:36:10,920 --> 01:36:14,760
Speaker 1: mid season offensive MVP. Who do you have there? I

1834
01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:18,040
Speaker 1: got Josh Allen. Okay. I think for obvious reasons his

1835
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 1: uptick and that the offense is better. He looks like

1836
01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:23,920
Speaker 1: an NFL starting quarterback and he was for the first

1837
01:36:23,960 --> 01:36:26,560
Speaker 1: month of the season he was in the MVP conversation,

1838
01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:28,639
Speaker 1: and then now they've asked him to do some different things,

1839
01:36:28,640 --> 01:36:31,680
Speaker 1: particularly this last week when they're handed it off and

1840
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:34,599
Speaker 1: he didn't throw the football all that often. He has

1841
01:36:34,640 --> 01:36:37,519
Speaker 1: been the reason as much as anybody that they're five

1842
01:36:37,560 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 1: and two. Okay, I went a little different way here,

1843
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:44,040
Speaker 1: which might surprise some people. I went Stefan Diggs. Guy

1844
01:36:44,200 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 1: leads the AFC and receptions. I think he's top five

1845
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:52,360
Speaker 1: and receptions and receiving yardage. To me, he has been

1846
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:54,879
Speaker 1: the difference maker on the offensive side of the football,

1847
01:36:54,920 --> 01:36:58,360
Speaker 1: and I don't know that Josh Allen has quite the

1848
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:01,639
Speaker 1: uptick that he has had this season without Stefon Diggs.

1849
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:04,360
Speaker 1: So because of that, by default, I kind of gave

1850
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:08,120
Speaker 1: it two digs through the first eight games of the season.

1851
01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:09,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it could slice in any way

1852
01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:12,000
Speaker 1: you want, but that's just the way I looked at

1853
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:18,120
Speaker 1: it going into the Superlative voting figures. Here's other side

1854
01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 1: of the Yeah, mid season defensive MVP. Who do you like?

1855
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:24,240
Speaker 1: For me? I like Jordan Poyer, the safety. He's the

1856
01:37:24,240 --> 01:37:28,120
Speaker 1: guy that I have seen him show up all over

1857
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: the field, certainly since the run defense has not been

1858
01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 1: as good as it was a year ago. Poyer has

1859
01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:37,719
Speaker 1: made a ton of tackles. He's been there every week.

1860
01:37:37,840 --> 01:37:40,400
Speaker 1: Last week he showed up all over the field, I thought,

1861
01:37:41,240 --> 01:37:43,400
Speaker 1: And I just think he's been the guy who has

1862
01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 1: shown leadership and been as consistently good as anybody on

1863
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:51,720
Speaker 1: the defense. And I think he's he's just the guy

1864
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:55,920
Speaker 1: for me, Brownie, he just shows up. He is the

1865
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 1: leading tackler on the team this season. Yeah, uh, far

1866
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:01,519
Speaker 1: and away. Like he's got fifteen more tackles than the

1867
01:38:01,560 --> 01:38:06,320
Speaker 1: next closest guy, sixty seven tackles in eight games. I

1868
01:38:06,360 --> 01:38:08,320
Speaker 1: think he's had three games where he's had ten or

1869
01:38:08,360 --> 01:38:14,040
Speaker 1: more tackles. He's got two sacks, four tackles for a loss,

1870
01:38:14,640 --> 01:38:17,200
Speaker 1: and he's got four quarterback hits, a forced fumble, a

1871
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,800
Speaker 1: pass defense. I think he's been the most consistent defensive

1872
01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 1: player on this roster weekend and week out. Every week,

1873
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 1: his level of performance has been the same. And he's

1874
01:38:29,280 --> 01:38:31,040
Speaker 1: a captain now on that side of the ball, and

1875
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:34,040
Speaker 1: I think he's lived up to it. So I picked

1876
01:38:34,080 --> 01:38:36,639
Speaker 1: Jordan Porter as well. For me, that was the easiest

1877
01:38:36,640 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 1: pick in this entire lot. Yeah, Jordan Poyer defensive MVP.

1878
01:38:40,479 --> 01:38:44,320
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's close. Okay, moving along, let's

1879
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:46,320
Speaker 1: get over to the third phase of the game, special

1880
01:38:46,360 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: teams MVP. At mid season, I thought about Tyler Bass.

1881
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:54,760
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. I thought about him

1882
01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:56,640
Speaker 1: even with the you know, he came in. He was

1883
01:38:56,680 --> 01:38:59,479
Speaker 1: fifty percent in his first game, He's two for four

1884
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:03,880
Speaker 1: and miss, and then went six for eight in the

1885
01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:08,640
Speaker 1: jet game. But I've been impressed with him. But I

1886
01:39:08,680 --> 01:39:10,600
Speaker 1: think no question when you get down to it, the

1887
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:12,720
Speaker 1: best special teams player on the Bills this year has

1888
01:39:12,720 --> 01:39:16,720
Speaker 1: been Andre Roberts, the punt return kick returner guy. He

1889
01:39:16,760 --> 01:39:20,280
Speaker 1: has been consistent. He's made great decisions. Even last week

1890
01:39:20,280 --> 01:39:25,240
Speaker 1: in a throwaway throwaway game or throwaway play, he let

1891
01:39:25,240 --> 01:39:27,439
Speaker 1: the ball bounce and it goes into the end zone.

1892
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:30,160
Speaker 1: It was a great play to let that happen. It's

1893
01:39:30,200 --> 01:39:32,760
Speaker 1: just those subtle decision making things that you see with

1894
01:39:32,800 --> 01:39:35,200
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts that sets him apart. The guy's a Pro

1895
01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:39,080
Speaker 1: Bowl player, and despite what numbers is, he's like fourth

1896
01:39:39,080 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 1: in the league and punt return, kick return something like that.

1897
01:39:42,240 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: His decision making is elite, and I think that sets

1898
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: him apart. He is the single greatest reason why they

1899
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:53,559
Speaker 1: are top ten in punt return average, kick return average,

1900
01:39:53,600 --> 01:39:56,639
Speaker 1: and average drive start. They're top five and two of those,

1901
01:39:57,040 --> 01:39:59,200
Speaker 1: and it's because of him. He is in the top

1902
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:01,479
Speaker 1: five in punt and kick return average. I think he's

1903
01:40:01,479 --> 01:40:03,360
Speaker 1: one of only two players in the entire league that

1904
01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:06,400
Speaker 1: can say that this year. So yeah, it was an

1905
01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:10,559
Speaker 1: easy choice there, Roberts just he makes a difference in

1906
01:40:10,760 --> 01:40:13,639
Speaker 1: starting field position for the offense. He had that fifty

1907
01:40:13,720 --> 01:40:16,920
Speaker 1: eight yard that started in the other team's territory a

1908
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:20,680
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, so he's been a difference a

1909
01:40:20,720 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: difference maker for that unit. I don't think there's any

1910
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:29,080
Speaker 1: question about absolutely. Next up is unsung hero. Now there's

1911
01:40:29,080 --> 01:40:30,880
Speaker 1: always a lot of different ways you can go with this.

1912
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:34,800
Speaker 1: You know a person that you think has gone, whose

1913
01:40:34,800 --> 01:40:38,920
Speaker 1: contributions have gone largely unrecognized. So who do you have

1914
01:40:39,000 --> 01:40:42,120
Speaker 1: for this? I put John Brown. He's been you know,

1915
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:43,920
Speaker 1: he struggled with injury in the last couple of weeks,

1916
01:40:43,960 --> 01:40:48,679
Speaker 1: but I think his presence in the offense, he went

1917
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:50,840
Speaker 1: from being the number one guy to the number two guy,

1918
01:40:50,880 --> 01:40:52,479
Speaker 1: and you haven't heard a peep out of him, and

1919
01:40:52,560 --> 01:40:55,080
Speaker 1: his production has not dropped very much. The guy when

1920
01:40:55,120 --> 01:40:57,840
Speaker 1: they throw him the ball, it's a big play waiting

1921
01:40:57,880 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 1: to happen. I think they hurt when he's not there.

1922
01:41:00,160 --> 01:41:02,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a question that Steph Diggs has

1923
01:41:02,120 --> 01:41:04,479
Speaker 1: made an enormous difference and be in the top five

1924
01:41:04,479 --> 01:41:07,240
Speaker 1: in yards and receptions kind of puts Digs out there.

1925
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:09,720
Speaker 1: But I think one of the reasons Diggs is so

1926
01:41:11,200 --> 01:41:13,439
Speaker 1: you know, so good is the fact that John Brown

1927
01:41:13,560 --> 01:41:15,120
Speaker 1: is on the other side of him bouncing out and

1928
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:17,960
Speaker 1: he has done it without complaint. So I would say

1929
01:41:18,040 --> 01:41:21,200
Speaker 1: John Brown as my unsung hero and his you know,

1930
01:41:21,280 --> 01:41:23,280
Speaker 1: the fact that he's still there making plays when he's

1931
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:25,960
Speaker 1: called on. And as Diggs has taken over the number

1932
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:29,439
Speaker 1: one spot, I thought about Cole Beasley here. He made

1933
01:41:29,479 --> 01:41:32,840
Speaker 1: sense to me, but I ultimately went with a big guy.

1934
01:41:33,360 --> 01:41:37,040
Speaker 1: I went with Darryl Williams. I don't think he's been spectacular.

1935
01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:40,840
Speaker 1: But you want to talk about the flux, the state

1936
01:41:40,880 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: of flux that this Bill's offensive line has been in

1937
01:41:44,160 --> 01:41:47,000
Speaker 1: from guard to guard. I mean it has been non stop.

1938
01:41:47,720 --> 01:41:51,679
Speaker 1: And if we remember last year, the right tackle position

1939
01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:56,320
Speaker 1: was it was a platoon position. Yet two guys rotating

1940
01:41:56,320 --> 01:41:59,000
Speaker 1: in and out for the better part of sixteen games

1941
01:41:59,560 --> 01:42:04,000
Speaker 1: for Arrol Williams to come in and solidify and stabilize

1942
01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:07,280
Speaker 1: the right tackle position, I've been great, but I think

1943
01:42:07,280 --> 01:42:10,920
Speaker 1: he's been above average, and to stabilize that position, I

1944
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:13,040
Speaker 1: think has had a very calming effect on the right

1945
01:42:13,080 --> 01:42:16,280
Speaker 1: side of the offensive line. So the edges you feel

1946
01:42:16,320 --> 01:42:19,320
Speaker 1: good about right now on this offensive line, and I

1947
01:42:19,360 --> 01:42:21,559
Speaker 1: think it's in large part because of what Daryl Williams

1948
01:42:21,560 --> 01:42:23,360
Speaker 1: has been able to do is stabilize that side. So

1949
01:42:23,400 --> 01:42:25,639
Speaker 1: I gave him the unswing here A good call. Yeah,

1950
01:42:26,479 --> 01:42:28,920
Speaker 1: what do we have best rookie Steve at the mid

1951
01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:33,519
Speaker 1: season mark, I'm saying, I'm saying Zach Moss. I've seen

1952
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:35,720
Speaker 1: enough for him. Yeah, but I'm now I'm kind of

1953
01:42:35,720 --> 01:42:39,320
Speaker 1: wishing I would have said Gabriel Davis. But I like

1954
01:42:39,520 --> 01:42:42,680
Speaker 1: Zach Moss better. He's at week eight. I don't think

1955
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:46,200
Speaker 1: he's any question. He seems to me to be RB

1956
01:42:46,400 --> 01:42:50,280
Speaker 1: number one on this team, and that's not easy to

1957
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:52,080
Speaker 1: do when you've got a guy that was as good

1958
01:42:52,120 --> 01:42:55,200
Speaker 1: as Devin Singletary was a year ago. I loved what

1959
01:42:55,280 --> 01:42:57,960
Speaker 1: I saw from him last week, his ability to break

1960
01:42:57,960 --> 01:43:01,760
Speaker 1: tackles and finish runs. And I think with the two

1961
01:43:01,800 --> 01:43:03,920
Speaker 1: of those guys back there. This is going to be

1962
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:07,840
Speaker 1: a consistent running attack. And I thought it was interesting too.

1963
01:43:10,080 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: On the media call this week, Brian Dayball was asked

1964
01:43:13,200 --> 01:43:15,120
Speaker 1: about how do they strike the balance? I mean, who

1965
01:43:15,120 --> 01:43:17,920
Speaker 1: gets the ball? Is it you know, Zach Moss? Is

1966
01:43:17,920 --> 01:43:20,200
Speaker 1: it Devin Singletary in there? And I thought there would

1967
01:43:20,240 --> 01:43:23,760
Speaker 1: be more of a plan like listen, we need this

1968
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:26,000
Speaker 1: guy in for this personnel or this down and distance

1969
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:35,240
Speaker 1: side And day Ball just said, you know what, Skipper, Yeah,

1970
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:37,400
Speaker 1: he he says he does a great job with it.

1971
01:43:37,439 --> 01:43:40,200
Speaker 1: And so it's not like they have this big It

1972
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:43,360
Speaker 1: sounds like it goes more on field. Yeah, and Kelly

1973
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:45,880
Speaker 1: Skipper makes the call. And so I thought, wow, that

1974
01:43:45,960 --> 01:43:49,280
Speaker 1: means the day Ball doesn't care who's in there when

1975
01:43:49,280 --> 01:43:54,800
Speaker 1: he's calling these plays. That's pretty big. And so now

1976
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:57,720
Speaker 1: that Zach Moss is healthy and he's contributed in such

1977
01:43:57,720 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 1: a way, in particular this last weekend we had two

1978
01:43:59,479 --> 01:44:02,080
Speaker 1: touchdown I know it's a little bit of Johnny Coomb lately,

1979
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 1: and you know, a little prisoner. I'm a little bit

1980
01:44:04,200 --> 01:44:07,080
Speaker 1: of a prisoner at the moment with the eighty yards

1981
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:09,160
Speaker 1: he put on the board. Yet last this last week

1982
01:44:09,200 --> 01:44:12,280
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say Zac Moss because of that. Yeah,

1983
01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:15,120
Speaker 1: And I think part of the reason Dabele feels that

1984
01:44:15,160 --> 01:44:18,439
Speaker 1: way is probably due to the fact that their skill

1985
01:44:18,479 --> 01:44:24,280
Speaker 1: sets are similar in terms of contact balance. Both are

1986
01:44:24,360 --> 01:44:28,560
Speaker 1: great with contact balance and getting extra yards after initial contact.

1987
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 1: I think most would agree that then Moss is probably

1988
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:35,559
Speaker 1: better suited for the tough yards inside. Not to say

1989
01:44:35,600 --> 01:44:39,920
Speaker 1: that Singletary can't work off of initial contact and get

1990
01:44:39,960 --> 01:44:42,800
Speaker 1: extra yardage, but Moss has the ability to push the

1991
01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:46,280
Speaker 1: pile if necessary. I don't know if Singletary can do that.

1992
01:44:46,320 --> 01:44:48,960
Speaker 1: He's more of an elusive guy. And I think they're

1993
01:44:49,120 --> 01:44:52,880
Speaker 1: they're similarly skilled in the past receiving game, although I

1994
01:44:52,920 --> 01:44:55,320
Speaker 1: think Singletary is just a wee bit better than him

1995
01:44:55,360 --> 01:44:59,639
Speaker 1: in that area. So I think they're similar enough where

1996
01:44:59,680 --> 01:45:01,439
Speaker 1: Dabel doesn't have to worry about it. As you know,

1997
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:04,760
Speaker 1: you were discussing. For me best rookie, I went with

1998
01:45:04,800 --> 01:45:08,280
Speaker 1: Tyler Bass even though he's only twelve of seventeen on

1999
01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:11,760
Speaker 1: the ear, he single handedly won the Jets game for them.

2000
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:15,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if there's any other rookie

2001
01:45:15,200 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 1: that you can say single handedly won a game for

2002
01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:20,439
Speaker 1: them this season. I mean maybe you argue Moss last

2003
01:45:20,439 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 1: week with the two touchdowns, but the guy scored all

2004
01:45:23,520 --> 01:45:27,200
Speaker 1: the points in a win, a division win, and I

2005
01:45:27,200 --> 01:45:29,559
Speaker 1: know it's the Jets, but and I know he missed two,

2006
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:32,120
Speaker 1: and I think you've just I think you got'ta be

2007
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:34,080
Speaker 1: patient with this kid. I think he's gonna figure it out.

2008
01:45:35,520 --> 01:45:37,640
Speaker 1: Hopefully it doesn't come to pass where he costs them

2009
01:45:37,640 --> 01:45:41,400
Speaker 1: a game. But I really think that hitting those six

2010
01:45:41,439 --> 01:45:44,600
Speaker 1: field goals, especially coming back from missus and hitting his

2011
01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 1: next kick, I think was huge for his confidence. And

2012
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:50,639
Speaker 1: seeing him talk a little garbage to the Jets sideline

2013
01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 1: after that last one in the game, it kind of

2014
01:45:53,240 --> 01:45:55,559
Speaker 1: was a signal to me, like his kid's gonna be

2015
01:45:55,560 --> 01:45:57,920
Speaker 1: okay going forward. Him he's not gonna have the yips.

2016
01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:02,320
Speaker 1: He's got the self confidence in the medal, I think

2017
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:05,559
Speaker 1: going forward. So I went with him there despite the

2018
01:46:05,600 --> 01:46:07,799
Speaker 1: fact that he's been you know, he hasn't been perfect.

2019
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:10,040
Speaker 1: So we'll see where it goes from here. We'll know

2020
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:12,000
Speaker 1: more in the next few weeks because some of these

2021
01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:16,439
Speaker 1: games could be pretty tight. Okay, next one mid season

2022
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:22,000
Speaker 1: surprise player for you. For me, it was and forget

2023
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:25,720
Speaker 1: about what we thought coming in. It's Stefan Diggs. I

2024
01:46:26,120 --> 01:46:29,960
Speaker 1: seated your expectations. I did not think a guy going

2025
01:46:30,040 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 1: from Minnesota and having all those great years coming in

2026
01:46:33,080 --> 01:46:35,240
Speaker 1: and Josh, you know, being the kind of guy and

2027
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:38,599
Speaker 1: having Cole Beasley and John Brownie other side. I just

2028
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:42,599
Speaker 1: didn't think that this, You know, that he would come

2029
01:46:42,640 --> 01:46:44,880
Speaker 1: in and be able to just pick up where he

2030
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:48,679
Speaker 1: left off and just keep rolling. And him doing that

2031
01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:51,639
Speaker 1: and being as good as he has been consistent, as

2032
01:46:51,680 --> 01:46:54,120
Speaker 1: consistently as he had not. It's not like he's had

2033
01:46:54,160 --> 01:46:56,759
Speaker 1: a great game here and then disappeared for two games.

2034
01:46:56,800 --> 01:47:00,320
Speaker 1: He's had six catchers or more and I think all

2035
01:47:00,360 --> 01:47:03,880
Speaker 1: but one of his games. Yeah, So that to me

2036
01:47:05,280 --> 01:47:08,680
Speaker 1: has been really surprising that he has been that productive

2037
01:47:08,720 --> 01:47:12,800
Speaker 1: for a new team, showing up with an abbreviated offseason

2038
01:47:13,280 --> 01:47:15,599
Speaker 1: and a quarterback who had a lot of question marks

2039
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:18,920
Speaker 1: coming into this season. I just I think he's been

2040
01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:22,360
Speaker 1: his success has been really surprising for me. Yeah. I

2041
01:47:22,400 --> 01:47:26,320
Speaker 1: went with Gabriel Davis here, and I don't think it's

2042
01:47:26,360 --> 01:47:29,479
Speaker 1: because of the production, because his productive production so far

2043
01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:33,720
Speaker 1: this season has been relatively pedestrian. He's only got fifteen

2044
01:47:33,720 --> 01:47:37,320
Speaker 1: receptions on the season, though he does have two touchdowns

2045
01:47:38,120 --> 01:47:42,440
Speaker 1: on those fifteen catches, the first of which was amazing,

2046
01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: and we can get to that later, right. The thing

2047
01:47:45,400 --> 01:47:49,400
Speaker 1: that makes him surprising for me is just how much

2048
01:47:49,479 --> 01:47:52,400
Speaker 1: this coaching staff is willing to put on his plate.

2049
01:47:52,800 --> 01:47:55,160
Speaker 1: We have found out over the last couple of weeks

2050
01:47:55,760 --> 01:47:59,000
Speaker 1: that not only does Gabriel Davis need to know all

2051
01:47:59,560 --> 01:48:04,840
Speaker 1: four receiver positions, the route concepts and responsibilities for all

2052
01:48:04,880 --> 01:48:09,080
Speaker 1: of them, the coaching staff doesn't even blink when they

2053
01:48:09,120 --> 01:48:11,200
Speaker 1: have to switch something and give him a brand new

2054
01:48:11,240 --> 01:48:14,559
Speaker 1: assignment at the drop of a hat. Perfect example is

2055
01:48:15,200 --> 01:48:20,320
Speaker 1: that game here at home against the Rams. They're in

2056
01:48:20,360 --> 01:48:23,800
Speaker 1: the huddle driving you know down what was a twenty

2057
01:48:23,840 --> 01:48:30,080
Speaker 1: nine twenty six and it's fourth down in the red zone.

2058
01:48:30,640 --> 01:48:33,439
Speaker 1: They're in the huddle and Davis is supposed to line

2059
01:48:33,520 --> 01:48:37,320
Speaker 1: up outside at the Z and in the huddle they

2060
01:48:37,479 --> 01:48:39,439
Speaker 1: change it and tell him, you know, you're on the

2061
01:48:39,479 --> 01:48:42,720
Speaker 1: left side in the slot, right, go line up over there.

2062
01:48:42,800 --> 01:48:46,880
Speaker 1: Here's the play. That is an enormous amount of trust

2063
01:48:47,120 --> 01:48:50,200
Speaker 1: with the game on the line that you're putting on him,

2064
01:48:50,240 --> 01:48:53,280
Speaker 1: and Josh targeted him on the play and he draws

2065
01:48:53,800 --> 01:48:58,040
Speaker 1: past interference. So this might be a roundabout way of

2066
01:48:58,040 --> 01:49:01,920
Speaker 1: picking a surprise player. Might be more surprised with the

2067
01:49:01,960 --> 01:49:05,880
Speaker 1: amount of responsibility they're putting out a rookie fourth round

2068
01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:10,680
Speaker 1: wide receiver than how much his performance level has surprised me.

2069
01:49:11,240 --> 01:49:14,000
Speaker 1: But you're not doing that unless you got a pretty

2070
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 1: good kid there to count on. The trust he's earned

2071
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:20,639
Speaker 1: seems that's what surprising, maybe more than anything else. That's

2072
01:49:20,640 --> 01:49:22,160
Speaker 1: why I picked him. So it's a different way of

2073
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:27,040
Speaker 1: picking surprise player. Best assistant coach at the mid season

2074
01:49:27,120 --> 01:49:30,000
Speaker 1: Mark Steve I stuck with the coordinators, but I went

2075
01:49:30,040 --> 01:49:35,479
Speaker 1: with Heath Farwell rookie kicker. He got a couple of

2076
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:37,600
Speaker 1: guys he and I think in the offseasons where he

2077
01:49:37,640 --> 01:49:39,000
Speaker 1: kind of made he said, listen, I need some guys.

2078
01:49:39,080 --> 01:49:41,080
Speaker 1: Got Taiwan Jones back in the fold. He got Tyler

2079
01:49:41,120 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: Medakevich added to the fold, and he's got Bam Johnson

2080
01:49:45,080 --> 01:49:47,599
Speaker 1: on the squad who's a really good special teams player,

2081
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:51,080
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts. He kind of lobbied for his guys and

2082
01:49:51,160 --> 01:49:53,240
Speaker 1: got some guys who can really do it. It paid

2083
01:49:53,280 --> 01:49:57,120
Speaker 1: dividends this last weekend on the surprise on sidekick Tyler Medekevich,

2084
01:49:57,120 --> 01:49:59,519
Speaker 1: one of the special teams guys. He wanted, came up,

2085
01:49:59,600 --> 01:50:01,640
Speaker 1: make the play, give him a short field, led to

2086
01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:04,240
Speaker 1: a touchdown that gave him the win. That kind of thing.

2087
01:50:04,280 --> 01:50:06,679
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna think, I'm gonna say, And also, I

2088
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:09,360
Speaker 1: think there were times last year when he struggled when

2089
01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:11,880
Speaker 1: he was he was still find himself as he was playing.

2090
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:15,439
Speaker 1: He was conservative he was playing in twenty fourteen. Yeah,

2091
01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:17,720
Speaker 1: so it's been it's been a quick rise for him

2092
01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:19,479
Speaker 1: to the coaching ranks, and I think he's made a

2093
01:50:19,880 --> 01:50:22,800
Speaker 1: big step this year. I thought he coached conservatively last year,

2094
01:50:22,840 --> 01:50:26,640
Speaker 1: which is understandable as a rookie coordinator. And talking to

2095
01:50:26,720 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: him in the offseason leading up to training camp, he said,

2096
01:50:30,439 --> 01:50:34,200
Speaker 1: you know, in reviewing my coaching, there were times where

2097
01:50:35,280 --> 01:50:38,519
Speaker 1: I noted, you know, in the game, like hey, I

2098
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:41,479
Speaker 1: think we could do this and make a big play.

2099
01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:43,479
Speaker 1: And he chose to leave the gun in the holster

2100
01:50:44,120 --> 01:50:46,599
Speaker 1: instead of pulling the trigger because I think he wanted

2101
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:49,960
Speaker 1: to not make any big mistakes and maybe in his

2102
01:50:50,040 --> 01:50:53,080
Speaker 1: first year he didn't have the complete trust in all

2103
01:50:53,120 --> 01:50:56,120
Speaker 1: eleven guys on certain things that he wanted to execute.

2104
01:50:56,880 --> 01:51:00,759
Speaker 1: And I think in reviewing it, he saw areas where

2105
01:51:01,160 --> 01:51:04,559
Speaker 1: he could have helped this team more last year, and

2106
01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:07,360
Speaker 1: because of his conservative nature as a rookie play caller,

2107
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Speaker 1: decided not to. And I'm not saying he's Bobby April,

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01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, the second coming of Bobby April, who let

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Speaker 1: it all hang out and didn't give a damn and

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01:51:16,439 --> 01:51:18,680
Speaker 1: his players played like it too. I mean they were

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01:51:18,720 --> 01:51:21,080
Speaker 1: like the Wild West here for about four or five years,

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01:51:21,400 --> 01:51:23,760
Speaker 1: where you didn't know what was coming in a given week.

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Speaker 1: Pooch kick, you know, Kamakazi kick, which has been outlawed.

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Speaker 1: Now they did anything and everything and to hell with

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Speaker 1: the consequences because they had a unit that could execute it.

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01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:38,320
Speaker 1: But I think he's a more confident play caller now,

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Speaker 1: and I think in time you'll see this group as

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Speaker 1: it gets more time together, maybe making an aggressive call

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Speaker 1: in a game where they need help from that phase

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Speaker 1: of the game. And I could see that happening here

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01:51:50,680 --> 01:51:52,320
Speaker 1: down the stretch in some of these tough games that

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01:51:52,320 --> 01:51:54,160
Speaker 1: they're going to be playing the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: For me, though, yeah, I went day ball here, This

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01:51:58,479 --> 01:52:02,639
Speaker 1: seemed like an easy call for me, not only because

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Speaker 1: of where the offense has been taken here through the

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Speaker 1: first half of this season in comparison to last year.

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Speaker 1: But the way in which he is able to diversify

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Speaker 1: and adjust his game plan in game. There are times

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Speaker 1: where you can kind of get a sense as to

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01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:22,920
Speaker 1: what the plan was coming out of the gate, but

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01:52:23,040 --> 01:52:28,080
Speaker 1: he will not hesitate to change it up completely based

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Speaker 1: on the CounterPunch from a defense. And I thought last

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Speaker 1: week was a really good example of that. You know,

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01:52:37,040 --> 01:52:39,679
Speaker 1: were they going to run to that degree last week?

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Speaker 1: Maybe so. I mean he told us in Friday's practice

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01:52:42,439 --> 01:52:45,400
Speaker 1: they only practice two pass plays. Everything else was run

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01:52:45,439 --> 01:52:47,640
Speaker 1: play reps. So I think he knew going in they

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01:52:47,640 --> 01:52:50,040
Speaker 1: were going to try to run the football and try

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01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:53,719
Speaker 1: to punish the Patriots for soft coverage to that degree,

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01:52:53,800 --> 01:52:59,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think he's shown a willingness

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01:53:00,120 --> 01:53:03,840
Speaker 1: to diversify his offense based on what he's getting from

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01:53:03,840 --> 01:53:06,000
Speaker 1: the opponent each and every week. And you cannot say

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Speaker 1: that about every single coordinator in this league. A lot

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01:53:08,600 --> 01:53:11,599
Speaker 1: of coordinators in this league believe in their system and

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01:53:11,720 --> 01:53:16,400
Speaker 1: stick to it, sometimes to their own detriment. And I

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01:53:16,760 --> 01:53:20,120
Speaker 1: think his open mindedness with players, I mean, Cole Beasley's

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01:53:20,120 --> 01:53:22,559
Speaker 1: probably given him about a hand five to six plays

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01:53:23,000 --> 01:53:24,880
Speaker 1: over the last year and a half. He said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's try that. Let's put that in. Let's see, or

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01:53:27,800 --> 01:53:30,799
Speaker 1: he might see something on film from like a future opponent.

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01:53:30,840 --> 01:53:33,240
Speaker 1: He'll be watching an imposing defense he's got coming up,

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01:53:33,240 --> 01:53:35,960
Speaker 1: and he'll see it. The offense of whatever team they

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01:53:35,960 --> 01:53:38,680
Speaker 1: were playing run some concept. Oh, I could do that

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01:53:38,680 --> 01:53:40,240
Speaker 1: with Cole. You know what, Let's see if we can

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01:53:40,240 --> 01:53:44,000
Speaker 1: put that and he'll add it. So I just like

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01:53:44,240 --> 01:53:47,840
Speaker 1: his diversification of his offense. I like his willingness to

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01:53:47,920 --> 01:53:50,559
Speaker 1: expand it at the drop of a hat. And I

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01:53:50,600 --> 01:53:52,920
Speaker 1: like the trust that he puts in his players because

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01:53:52,960 --> 01:53:55,360
Speaker 1: I think that empowers his players out on the field.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, I agree with you. I think that

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Speaker 1: this season shows what he is willing to do when

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01:54:02,040 --> 01:54:03,760
Speaker 1: he can trust the people around him, when he has

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Speaker 1: the weapons he needs to get it done. I think

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01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:07,920
Speaker 1: you were right. His ability to adjust on the fly

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Speaker 1: has shown through on a number of occasions. And I

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Speaker 1: like the fact that his offense is about matchups and

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01:54:14,360 --> 01:54:17,479
Speaker 1: we have seen him put guys out there and go

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Speaker 1: to Gabriel Davis, go to you know, obviously, Steph Diggs,

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and his handling of Josh Allen over the

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Speaker 1: last three years. In my mind, is probably gonna get

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Speaker 1: him a head coaching job sooner rather than later. Yeah,

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01:54:38,320 --> 01:54:41,000
Speaker 1: that kind of the carousel doesn't spend quite as hard

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01:54:41,080 --> 01:54:43,720
Speaker 1: this offseason, so maybe the chances of him leaving are

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Speaker 1: reduced because we want to deprive him of an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Guys who have been able to do what he's done

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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen from the place Josh Allen started to

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Speaker 1: where they've gotten him to. Yeah, take its notice. Teams

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01:54:57,400 --> 01:54:59,960
Speaker 1: are looking for guys like that. Everybody's got a young

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Speaker 1: quarterback who they want to develop. You know, Miami does uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Chargers do that, Bengals do. All these

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Speaker 1: teams have and these guys are playing well. But there's

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Speaker 1: also teams like you know, Houston and and you know

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Speaker 1: even even the guys in Baltimore with Lamar Jackson, who's

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Speaker 1: an MVP. They're all looking for somebody. And there's you

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Speaker 1: got Trevor Lawrence coming out of they've draft this year

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Speaker 1: and this and the other kids that are coming out

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01:55:24,560 --> 01:55:28,200
Speaker 1: this year. Everybody wants somebody who understands quarterbacks and who

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Speaker 1: can get the most out of them. And that puts

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01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:33,320
Speaker 1: Brian day Ball with what he's done with Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: that puts him right at the top of the list.

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Speaker 1: All right, your best play of the first half of

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Speaker 1: the season, no question, was the punch out by Zimmer

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Speaker 1: this last weekend. A defense that's been beleaguered, a guy

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Speaker 1: that's been up and down, activated, practice squad off, the team, resigned,

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Speaker 1: practice squad activated, come out and punching the ball out

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Speaker 1: in the on the the siding drive of the game

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Speaker 1: and he's out there and punches the ball out. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's the play. And you know to have was a

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Speaker 1: Marlow cover it, recover the ball. Just it's just awesome,

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01:56:10,520 --> 01:56:13,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's it speaks to the culture,

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Speaker 1: it speaks to that next man up mentality, it speaks

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Speaker 1: to uh, you know, trying to having a growth mindset

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01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:22,000
Speaker 1: and being better week to week. Um. And to be

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Speaker 1: in a position to make that play, he fought hard

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01:56:24,760 --> 01:56:26,879
Speaker 1: and worked hard to just to get on the field.

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01:56:27,720 --> 01:56:31,080
Speaker 1: So that to me, and plus what that what that

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Speaker 1: win meant? Yeah, Uh, going four no in the division,

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Speaker 1: beating the Patriots at home, that's the play for me.

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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to go that way, so

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Speaker 1: I decided to do something different. So I went with

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Speaker 1: the game Davis touchdown. I chose this play based on

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01:56:44,040 --> 01:56:48,840
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty, um, because this is a fantastic athletic

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01:56:48,880 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 1: play by the rookie wide receiver. I mean laying out

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01:56:52,560 --> 01:56:58,400
Speaker 1: completely in Week two to score that touchdown against against Miami. Um.

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01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:02,360
Speaker 1: I he made it look easy. But when you are

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01:57:02,400 --> 01:57:04,640
Speaker 1: fully extended like that, and then you have to try

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01:57:04,680 --> 01:57:07,480
Speaker 1: to tuck the ball after you catch it, knowing your

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01:57:07,520 --> 01:57:09,560
Speaker 1: full body weight is going to come down on it,

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01:57:09,840 --> 01:57:12,520
Speaker 1: and you have to secure the football to complete the catch,

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01:57:12,560 --> 01:57:15,160
Speaker 1: as the referee say for him to kind of come

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Speaker 1: down with that for me, that did it for me.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was the highest degree of difficulty play

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01:57:23,560 --> 01:57:25,680
Speaker 1: that I saw this season. There might be some others

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01:57:25,680 --> 01:57:28,840
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting, but I mean Tyler Croft's catch against the

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01:57:28,920 --> 01:57:30,840
Speaker 1: Rams to win the game. That wasn't an easy catch,

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01:57:30,920 --> 01:57:34,080
Speaker 1: but he was by himself. Yea. There was some tight

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01:57:34,080 --> 01:57:36,400
Speaker 1: traffic there on the Gabe Davis touchdown against my hand,

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01:57:36,440 --> 01:57:38,280
Speaker 1: it was great too. And Josh was, you know, working

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01:57:38,880 --> 01:57:41,280
Speaker 1: coming out to the near side and and you know

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01:57:41,280 --> 01:57:43,160
Speaker 1: he had to he had to switch the ball to

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01:57:43,320 --> 01:57:45,120
Speaker 1: his left hand, put it back in his right hand,

2232
01:57:45,240 --> 01:57:48,760
Speaker 1: throw it on the run and Gabe Davis, that's full

2233
01:57:48,760 --> 01:57:51,080
Speaker 1: extent Yeah, it was great and that was a big

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01:57:51,160 --> 01:57:52,920
Speaker 1: That was a big moment too. It was late ning.

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01:57:53,000 --> 01:57:56,640
Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact situation, third quarter, and but

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01:57:56,680 --> 01:57:58,800
Speaker 1: that was a big score because it put the Bills

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01:57:58,880 --> 01:58:02,160
Speaker 1: up big second quarter, I think, second quarter, I can't remember.

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01:58:02,480 --> 01:58:05,400
Speaker 1: I cannot remember, but I remember the playot was. That

2239
01:58:05,480 --> 01:58:08,760
Speaker 1: was one of those moments when it wasn't the Bills

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01:58:09,400 --> 01:58:12,040
Speaker 1: offense wasn't just a one game you know, like a

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01:58:12,160 --> 01:58:15,120
Speaker 1: jet jet stink and we should have beaten him this week.

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01:58:15,320 --> 01:58:17,120
Speaker 1: They made a play and they were kind of pouring

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01:58:17,160 --> 01:58:19,520
Speaker 1: it on right at that moment too. They looked solid

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01:58:19,600 --> 01:58:21,600
Speaker 1: and dependable for a change, and that was when we

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Speaker 1: first started getting a feel for maybe this offense could

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01:58:24,560 --> 01:58:26,960
Speaker 1: be something different this year. All right, best win of

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01:58:27,000 --> 01:58:29,800
Speaker 1: the first half of the season, Patriots. See I went

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01:58:29,920 --> 01:58:34,040
Speaker 1: rams just from an excitement and entertainment value standpoint, A

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01:58:34,080 --> 01:58:36,600
Speaker 1: great that was, Like, that was a heart stopper, man,

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Speaker 1: it's a great game. Um. The only reason I didn't

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Speaker 1: pick the Patriots, even though I totally respect the significance

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01:58:42,240 --> 01:58:45,160
Speaker 1: of that victory. That was a snooze fest for the

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01:58:45,160 --> 01:58:47,400
Speaker 1: first two quarters mine. Yeah, I mean it was a

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01:58:47,480 --> 01:58:54,800
Speaker 1: sleeper seven. It was a sleeper, dude, I mean sleeper. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This Rams thing, I mean it was that was like

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01:58:57,720 --> 01:59:00,840
Speaker 1: a football game on jet fuel. Bills go up twenty

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01:59:00,880 --> 01:59:04,160
Speaker 1: eight to three. Uh, and then take the league, take

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01:59:04,200 --> 01:59:06,520
Speaker 1: their foot off the gas jet or the Rams get

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01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 1: back in it, and then they come back and and

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01:59:08,760 --> 01:59:11,080
Speaker 1: they they score it. And that was a big moment.

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01:59:11,080 --> 01:59:12,800
Speaker 1: I answer no question. They go to four and oz

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01:59:12,960 --> 01:59:15,960
Speaker 1: right then right or yeah yeah yeah, so uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was tremendous, A lot of fun. Um okay. Last

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Speaker 1: one biggest improvement your biggest improvement for this team at

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01:59:24,680 --> 01:59:28,240
Speaker 1: mid season the passing game. That's been the biggest improvement.

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01:59:28,320 --> 01:59:30,560
Speaker 1: Their ability to throw the football all over the field.

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01:59:30,640 --> 01:59:34,280
Speaker 1: And also teams that go zone. They've got people that

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01:59:34,320 --> 01:59:36,200
Speaker 1: can beat them in the car and Josh all carve

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01:59:36,280 --> 01:59:39,400
Speaker 1: them up. Uh. That's that's to me. It's been really

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01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:42,400
Speaker 1: difference this year. Josh Billy stand back and have the

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01:59:42,440 --> 01:59:45,440
Speaker 1: weapons and spread out with a ten personnel eleven personnel.

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01:59:46,600 --> 01:59:49,320
Speaker 1: Their carved teams up in zone, and I think that's

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01:59:49,400 --> 01:59:51,680
Speaker 1: that's a lot of fun. Knowing that that you got

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01:59:51,720 --> 01:59:53,960
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's gonna find the open guy and hit him.

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Speaker 1: I can't I think I gave the same answer, just

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01:59:55,920 --> 01:59:59,440
Speaker 1: in a different way. I said, Alan's passing acumen um,

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Speaker 1: the fact that we're halfway through the season and he's

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Speaker 1: at sixty seven percent completion and almost a four to

2279
02:00:05,600 --> 02:00:09,440
Speaker 1: one touchdown to interception ratio, and showing an ability to

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02:00:09,480 --> 02:00:12,480
Speaker 1: move the football with a short underneath patient passing game

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02:00:12,520 --> 02:00:15,840
Speaker 1: like he did against the Jets, and being able to

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02:00:15,920 --> 02:00:18,120
Speaker 1: chuck it deep downfield to beat the Dolphins or the

2283
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Speaker 1: Rams or the Raiders, especially with fourth quarter comebacks. I

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Speaker 1: just think his decision making has taken such a giant

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Speaker 1: leap to me, that's it for me. All right. That's

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Speaker 1: midseason superlatives. We hope you enjoyed those. Maybe you agreed,

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Speaker 1: maybe you disagreed with some of them. That's fair. You're

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Speaker 1: entitled to your own opinion. We're entitled to hours. But

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Speaker 1: we do have to take a break. When we return,

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Speaker 1: we'll jump back on the tweet sheet as we're still

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Speaker 1: trying to find out which team do you like better

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Speaker 1: at twenty nineteen Bill's team at the midway mark at

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Speaker 1: six and two or this year's Bill's team six and

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Speaker 1: two after eight games. We'll get your comments on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet when we return. Maybe a little time for

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Speaker 1: some true falls as well. Here on One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio Fish

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Speaker 1: brown seedcast your final half hour of the program. And

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Speaker 1: we do want to get back to the tweet sheet,

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Speaker 1: which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, as we

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Speaker 1: get your thoughts on which Bills team do you like

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Speaker 1: more the twenty nineteen team that started six and two

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Speaker 1: or the twenty twenty team that started six and two.

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Speaker 1: I think we can all agree they are in stark

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Speaker 1: contrast from one another in terms of how they are

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Speaker 1: winning football games. So we're gonna go with Nick next

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, who says, in my opinion, the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty Bills team can be more well rounded if

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Speaker 1: the d can put it together like the second half

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Speaker 1: of the Jets game, and the O showed and ability

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Speaker 1: to be explosive in the first quarter of the season.

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Speaker 1: If both sides can get back to that steady sky's

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Speaker 1: the limit. Well yeah, good point. I mean, I know

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Speaker 1: it was the Jets, and the Jets stink, but there

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Speaker 1: have been other times when the defense has played really well.

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Speaker 1: I mean they held the you know, the Patriots to

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02:02:10,080 --> 02:02:13,880
Speaker 1: six points in the first half of a game. They

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02:02:15,080 --> 02:02:17,920
Speaker 1: completely shut down the Jets in the second half of

2320
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Speaker 1: the second meeting of the of the season four yards.

2321
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Speaker 1: But they're abysmal. Yeah, they held the Rams to three

2322
02:02:28,280 --> 02:02:32,160
Speaker 1: points and a half earlier in the season. It's in

2323
02:02:32,200 --> 02:02:34,440
Speaker 1: there somewhere that they can kind of hang in there

2324
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Speaker 1: and do that. What happens when it changes, you know,

2325
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Speaker 1: what what do teams do and can you do that consistently?

2326
02:02:40,560 --> 02:02:42,880
Speaker 1: And the same thing with the offense. Obviously we've talked about,

2327
02:02:43,120 --> 02:02:44,600
Speaker 1: you know, can the offense get back to where it

2328
02:02:44,640 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 1: was in the first month of the season as well.

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Speaker 1: I'm encouraged and I said this yesterday. I was encouraged

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Speaker 1: by the play of Harris and Phillips last week. Get

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02:02:52,000 --> 02:02:54,600
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps and I thought he was more

2332
02:02:54,640 --> 02:02:57,880
Speaker 1: effective in holding his ground and tying up blockers. And

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02:02:58,360 --> 02:03:01,400
Speaker 1: hopefully we see more of that going forward because that

2334
02:03:01,480 --> 02:03:04,560
Speaker 1: should translate into more playmaking ability for people. I get

2335
02:03:04,560 --> 02:03:08,080
Speaker 1: Oliver and Tremaine Edmonds and guys like that. Even Jerry

2336
02:03:08,160 --> 02:03:11,880
Speaker 1: hughes off the edge. So if he can continue to

2337
02:03:11,880 --> 02:03:14,680
Speaker 1: get stronger and play more effectively. Now that we're midway

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02:03:14,720 --> 02:03:17,280
Speaker 1: through the season here and he's more than a year

2339
02:03:17,320 --> 02:03:21,520
Speaker 1: removed from that injury, I think if we get closer

2340
02:03:21,520 --> 02:03:24,000
Speaker 1: to the Harrison Phillips we saw flashing early in the

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02:03:24,040 --> 02:03:27,800
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season, they may have their answer at the

2342
02:03:27,800 --> 02:03:30,480
Speaker 1: one technique. So we'll have to wait and see if

2343
02:03:30,560 --> 02:03:34,600
Speaker 1: it shows up again this week against the high flying offense,

2344
02:03:34,640 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 1: because they're gonna need help. Be pretty amazing too, because

2345
02:03:37,120 --> 02:03:40,040
Speaker 1: you know, Harrison Phillips was a healthy scratch, yeah, just

2346
02:03:40,080 --> 02:03:42,720
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, and so was Trent Murphy.

2347
02:03:44,720 --> 02:03:50,080
Speaker 1: There's no question that is a message about a coaching

2348
02:03:50,120 --> 02:03:52,120
Speaker 1: staff that's discontent with some of the play. They're getting

2349
02:03:52,200 --> 02:03:54,000
Speaker 1: up front and they want to They're sending a message

2350
02:03:54,000 --> 02:03:57,520
Speaker 1: that nobody is above getting benched, and that to me

2351
02:03:57,600 --> 02:04:00,240
Speaker 1: is big. That's really big. It'll rattle some cages, yeah

2352
02:04:00,280 --> 02:04:02,960
Speaker 1: for sure. From Nick T on the tweet sheet, I

2353
02:04:03,040 --> 02:04:05,480
Speaker 1: love the twenty twenty team and DIGS is fun to watch,

2354
02:04:05,480 --> 02:04:08,120
Speaker 1: but defense wins championships. In our defense this year is

2355
02:04:08,160 --> 02:04:10,920
Speaker 1: not very good. Even though the twenty nineteen offense was

2356
02:04:10,960 --> 02:04:13,880
Speaker 1: low scoring, the D made every game competitive with our

2357
02:04:13,960 --> 02:04:17,120
Speaker 1: D in twenty twenty I don't see us being competitive

2358
02:04:17,440 --> 02:04:20,800
Speaker 1: against the top teams. Now I understand why he feels

2359
02:04:20,840 --> 02:04:22,920
Speaker 1: that way, because you look at the Chiefs game and

2360
02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:25,120
Speaker 1: you look at the Titans game, and you say, how

2361
02:04:25,160 --> 02:04:26,560
Speaker 1: are we going to compete if we don't have a

2362
02:04:26,600 --> 02:04:30,040
Speaker 1: defense that can stop anybody? I get it, I get it.

2363
02:04:30,160 --> 02:04:32,360
Speaker 1: I guess I guess we'll get another litmus test this

2364
02:04:32,400 --> 02:04:36,240
Speaker 1: week because this Seahawks team looks like it's going place.

2365
02:04:36,280 --> 02:04:37,760
Speaker 1: If you don't think they can be competitive, you can

2366
02:04:37,760 --> 02:04:39,920
Speaker 1: get a chance to see him against competitive teams the

2367
02:04:40,000 --> 02:04:42,840
Speaker 1: top over this next five weeks. Pretty much, it's all

2368
02:04:42,880 --> 02:04:45,680
Speaker 1: these offenses score points that they're playing. This next five

2369
02:04:45,720 --> 02:04:49,320
Speaker 1: weeks is going to be. It's going to tell you that.

2370
02:04:49,480 --> 02:04:54,640
Speaker 1: And for me, the Titans game, I got to throw

2371
02:04:54,680 --> 02:04:57,360
Speaker 1: it out. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to make excuses

2372
02:04:57,360 --> 02:04:59,520
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, you were bothered by the on again,

2373
02:04:59,560 --> 02:05:01,480
Speaker 1: off again nature of the game. What day is it

2374
02:05:01,520 --> 02:05:03,160
Speaker 1: going to be played? Are you playing the Titans? Are

2375
02:05:03,160 --> 02:05:07,240
Speaker 1: you're playing the Chiefs? It sticks in your craw I

2376
02:05:07,280 --> 02:05:12,720
Speaker 1: can tell Titans showed up with no pressure. They were

2377
02:05:12,720 --> 02:05:14,280
Speaker 1: like they were on spring break. They got out of

2378
02:05:14,320 --> 02:05:18,640
Speaker 1: solitary confinement and got invited to a pizza party. That's

2379
02:05:18,680 --> 02:05:22,640
Speaker 1: how that's how good they felt. They were on death row.

2380
02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:25,800
Speaker 1: They were literally on death row. Not only did they

2381
02:05:25,800 --> 02:05:29,520
Speaker 1: get pardoned, they got pardoned and a free trip to

2382
02:05:29,560 --> 02:05:33,360
Speaker 1: the beach with their buddies for beer and wings for

2383
02:05:33,400 --> 02:05:36,200
Speaker 1: a week. That that's how good it felt for them

2384
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:38,640
Speaker 1: just to get on that game, get on the field.

2385
02:05:38,800 --> 02:05:42,040
Speaker 1: The Bills, on the other hand, was just the opposite.

2386
02:05:42,120 --> 02:05:45,360
Speaker 1: They got sent to a leper colony to roll around

2387
02:05:45,360 --> 02:05:49,400
Speaker 1: in the mud, and they didn't you know, they didn't

2388
02:05:49,400 --> 02:05:50,920
Speaker 1: know if they were gonna play that game. They didn't

2389
02:05:50,920 --> 02:05:52,800
Speaker 1: know it was gonna have. It was just completely opposite.

2390
02:05:52,800 --> 02:05:54,920
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna throw that game out for that reason.

2391
02:05:56,320 --> 02:05:59,400
Speaker 1: The Chiefs game was a one score game almost throughout.

2392
02:06:00,640 --> 02:06:03,360
Speaker 1: They can compete with those guys. Certainly they would have

2393
02:06:03,400 --> 02:06:04,960
Speaker 1: had to go things would have had to go their way,

2394
02:06:04,960 --> 02:06:07,240
Speaker 1: and you'd like to see him play better offensively against

2395
02:06:07,320 --> 02:06:10,520
Speaker 1: those guys. But that was a competitive game. And and

2396
02:06:10,840 --> 02:06:14,800
Speaker 1: I hear you know, the author of that tweet was

2397
02:06:14,800 --> 02:06:17,960
Speaker 1: a nick Yeah, I hear him saying he can't compete.

2398
02:06:18,080 --> 02:06:20,080
Speaker 1: I think they did compete with the Chiefs. They were

2399
02:06:20,120 --> 02:06:23,040
Speaker 1: in that game and gave up a ton of yards,

2400
02:06:23,120 --> 02:06:26,120
Speaker 1: but points is the thing. Certainly, they certainly they could

2401
02:06:26,120 --> 02:06:28,040
Speaker 1: have played better in the end. If they would have,

2402
02:06:28,040 --> 02:06:29,600
Speaker 1: they'd have had a chance to even win the thing.

2403
02:06:30,400 --> 02:06:32,839
Speaker 1: But they were within striking distance all the way throughout.

2404
02:06:32,920 --> 02:06:36,960
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say, listen, while I hear what you're saying,

2405
02:06:37,800 --> 02:06:39,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a chance to really stack them. They're

2406
02:06:39,680 --> 02:06:42,360
Speaker 1: gonna get stacked up against them, really good teams, Pittsburgh

2407
02:06:42,400 --> 02:06:44,520
Speaker 1: being one of them, coming down down the line here

2408
02:06:44,520 --> 02:06:46,520
Speaker 1: in the next month and a half. So these next

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02:06:46,520 --> 02:06:49,560
Speaker 1: five games, we'll see how they stack up against competitive teams.

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02:06:49,920 --> 02:06:53,960
Speaker 1: From jack A on the tweet sheet, Ugh, this is tough.

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02:06:54,560 --> 02:06:56,880
Speaker 1: I'm going with the twenty twenty Bills because even though

2412
02:06:56,880 --> 02:06:58,800
Speaker 1: the d makes me crazy, I still like the play

2413
02:06:58,840 --> 02:07:02,040
Speaker 1: calling better this year. Diggs makes us scary, and I

2414
02:07:02,080 --> 02:07:04,040
Speaker 1: feel like we look more like a modern offense this

2415
02:07:04,080 --> 02:07:06,520
Speaker 1: year than we did in twenty nineteen, and this team

2416
02:07:06,520 --> 02:07:11,720
Speaker 1: beat New England and the Hoodie all good reasons. I'm

2417
02:07:11,840 --> 02:07:15,960
Speaker 1: chiefly with him on it looks like a modern offense.

2418
02:07:16,560 --> 02:07:19,440
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time this offense was so

2419
02:07:19,600 --> 02:07:23,040
Speaker 1: high flying. Maybe twenty eleven with Fits and Chan Gailey.

2420
02:07:23,240 --> 02:07:25,400
Speaker 1: That was the last time I thought this offense looked

2421
02:07:25,400 --> 02:07:29,200
Speaker 1: like a high flying modern offense that could win in

2422
02:07:29,200 --> 02:07:33,120
Speaker 1: the passing game, run up some points in a given week. Unfortunately,

2423
02:07:33,120 --> 02:07:36,200
Speaker 1: it's looking like a modern defense too. I mean right,

2424
02:07:36,360 --> 02:07:38,920
Speaker 1: you know they're giving up yards and maybe an issue points.

2425
02:07:38,960 --> 02:07:41,760
Speaker 1: It's an issue, and they've got they've got their problems

2426
02:07:41,800 --> 02:07:44,080
Speaker 1: with it. It's it's an offensive league, that's all there

2427
02:07:44,160 --> 02:07:46,440
Speaker 1: is to it. And the Bills fit into it. And

2428
02:07:46,520 --> 02:07:48,960
Speaker 1: I think it's it's comforting for a lot of fans

2429
02:07:49,000 --> 02:07:51,080
Speaker 1: knowing how long they were on the outside looking in.

2430
02:07:51,200 --> 02:07:53,520
Speaker 1: We never had a franchise quarterback. You always had a

2431
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:55,520
Speaker 1: guy that hopefully you get a stretch a good play

2432
02:07:55,560 --> 02:07:58,760
Speaker 1: out of whatever quarterback you're getting, right, just give us

2433
02:07:58,760 --> 02:08:01,880
Speaker 1: a stretch of good play for a half or a

2434
02:08:01,920 --> 02:08:05,200
Speaker 1: game or two games, but for a season, season after

2435
02:08:05,280 --> 02:08:08,280
Speaker 1: season after season. We never had a team that consistently

2436
02:08:08,400 --> 02:08:11,600
Speaker 1: looked like it belonged. And now they do. And that's

2437
02:08:11,720 --> 02:08:13,320
Speaker 1: that's a fun place for a lot of fans to

2438
02:08:13,320 --> 02:08:15,280
Speaker 1: be and it's nice to be able to have faith

2439
02:08:15,320 --> 02:08:16,960
Speaker 1: in an offensive side of the football. It can go

2440
02:08:16,960 --> 02:08:18,480
Speaker 1: out there and say, come on, man, let's put put

2441
02:08:18,480 --> 02:08:20,720
Speaker 1: a drive together and snap off a big play. And

2442
02:08:20,720 --> 02:08:22,960
Speaker 1: get back into it, and that's a fun place to be.

2443
02:08:23,600 --> 02:08:27,160
Speaker 1: Dinah decided to ride the fence, she says, twenty twenty

2444
02:08:27,240 --> 02:08:31,480
Speaker 1: offense twenty nineteen defense. Wish we could combine them. I

2445
02:08:31,480 --> 02:08:33,800
Speaker 1: think the biggest problems with this year's team are related

2446
02:08:33,840 --> 02:08:37,520
Speaker 1: to the changes caused by the COVID nineteen virus, which

2447
02:08:37,800 --> 02:08:41,800
Speaker 1: chief among them is no starlotulae. And how about this

2448
02:08:41,840 --> 02:08:44,080
Speaker 1: Steve we have net We have not talked about this

2449
02:08:44,240 --> 02:08:47,200
Speaker 1: at all. What if E. J. Gaines didn't knoped out,

2450
02:08:47,800 --> 02:08:49,920
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have been quite as shorthanded at the corner

2451
02:08:49,960 --> 02:08:52,160
Speaker 1: position either at the beginning of the season. Well, we

2452
02:08:52,240 --> 02:08:53,800
Speaker 1: might not assuming he was healthy. We might not have

2453
02:08:53,840 --> 02:08:55,960
Speaker 1: gotten Josh Norman and that kid did I did he

2454
02:08:56,000 --> 02:08:57,840
Speaker 1: come in after or before? They were both signed in

2455
02:08:57,880 --> 02:09:00,120
Speaker 1: the off season. So that would have been one XTR

2456
02:09:00,200 --> 02:09:02,360
Speaker 1: veteran corner you would have had when he had none.

2457
02:09:02,480 --> 02:09:04,160
Speaker 1: Cam Lewis might not have been able to He might

2458
02:09:04,160 --> 02:09:05,680
Speaker 1: have been on the part practice squad. I might have

2459
02:09:05,680 --> 02:09:07,040
Speaker 1: been a hang on to him. But yeah, you're just

2460
02:09:07,080 --> 02:09:15,520
Speaker 1: one more deep guy deeper in the in the roster um. Nevertheless, Yeah,

2461
02:09:15,720 --> 02:09:19,280
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You can't do that. Dinah, you

2462
02:09:19,320 --> 02:09:21,880
Speaker 1: can't take last year's defense and this year's splitting the

2463
02:09:21,920 --> 02:09:23,640
Speaker 1: difference on it, right, And I get it. That's where

2464
02:09:23,640 --> 02:09:25,680
Speaker 1: we're at. That's why we asked. I wish we could

2465
02:09:25,680 --> 02:09:27,640
Speaker 1: have had bull Imagine if they had both of those things,

2466
02:09:27,720 --> 02:09:29,600
Speaker 1: two sides of the same five defense, they'd be like

2467
02:09:29,640 --> 02:09:32,480
Speaker 1: the Steelers right now. Yeah they yeah that. Yeah, they

2468
02:09:32,560 --> 02:09:34,680
Speaker 1: might have been the top five, might have beaten the Chiefs,

2469
02:09:35,520 --> 02:09:38,720
Speaker 1: might have beaten the Chiefs. Yeah, yeah, they Chiefs might

2470
02:09:38,760 --> 02:09:44,600
Speaker 1: have happened. Yeah, And can you imagine if wow, if

2471
02:09:44,640 --> 02:09:50,600
Speaker 1: they just had both and they'd be tough to be

2472
02:09:51,520 --> 02:09:54,920
Speaker 1: last one? From Brian twenty twenty bills, offense is more

2473
02:09:54,920 --> 02:09:56,800
Speaker 1: exciting than the defense. And I'm one of those crazy

2474
02:09:56,800 --> 02:09:59,480
Speaker 1: people who keep saying the defense can still turn it around.

2475
02:09:59,760 --> 02:10:01,720
Speaker 1: You can't have that kind of talent and just forget

2476
02:10:01,720 --> 02:10:06,640
Speaker 1: how to play. I hope you're right, Brian. Yeah, that's yeah.

2477
02:10:06,760 --> 02:10:09,040
Speaker 1: We'll see and I and the defense can still bounce

2478
02:10:09,120 --> 02:10:10,840
Speaker 1: back and do some good things in this season, no

2479
02:10:10,920 --> 02:10:13,280
Speaker 1: question about it. We've seen other teams do it on

2480
02:10:13,360 --> 02:10:16,440
Speaker 1: both sides of the football. I'd like to know what

2481
02:10:16,520 --> 02:10:19,320
Speaker 1: catalyst they're gonna use. Certainly upfront play Harrison Phillips is

2482
02:10:19,320 --> 02:10:21,320
Speaker 1: playing a little better. Maybe they will get some more

2483
02:10:21,360 --> 02:10:24,560
Speaker 1: help up front. Vernon Butler getting healthy will help them

2484
02:10:24,600 --> 02:10:26,600
Speaker 1: get him back on the field. But yeah, there's no

2485
02:10:26,680 --> 02:10:29,280
Speaker 1: question about it. There's still some reasons to be optimistic

2486
02:10:29,320 --> 02:10:31,320
Speaker 1: that they can turn it around. We've seen flashes of it,

2487
02:10:31,400 --> 02:10:33,320
Speaker 1: like we just mentioned with the you know, the Jet

2488
02:10:33,360 --> 02:10:36,040
Speaker 1: game and the first half of the Rams game, and

2489
02:10:36,320 --> 02:10:39,240
Speaker 1: they put some stretches together where they've been extremely difficult

2490
02:10:39,240 --> 02:10:42,280
Speaker 1: to move the ball on. But they gotta do it

2491
02:10:42,320 --> 02:10:45,560
Speaker 1: for a month, you know, two months. They got to

2492
02:10:45,560 --> 02:10:47,160
Speaker 1: put it together. String, they got to be let that

2493
02:10:47,200 --> 02:10:50,000
Speaker 1: become who they are, and we haven't seen that yet. Okay,

2494
02:10:50,040 --> 02:10:52,640
Speaker 1: break time for us, but when we return, it is

2495
02:10:52,800 --> 02:10:55,920
Speaker 1: time for what have we learned from today's show? Steve

2496
02:10:55,960 --> 02:10:57,640
Speaker 1: and I will get to that when we return. Here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio, Time for what have we learned from today's show?

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Speaker 1: Brought to you, as always by Skyworks, the official construction

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02:11:22,680 --> 02:11:25,560
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We had Hall

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02:11:25,640 --> 02:11:28,440
Speaker 1: of Fame quarterback and Seahawks analyst Warren Moon on the

2502
02:11:28,440 --> 02:11:35,120
Speaker 1: show today and he outlined the extraordinary Seahawks offensive production.

2503
02:11:36,560 --> 02:11:39,160
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is just playing at another level this year.

2504
02:11:39,200 --> 02:11:42,040
Speaker 1: And it's not that he hasn't had the ability to

2505
02:11:42,120 --> 02:11:44,120
Speaker 1: play at this level. Was just that they haven't allowed

2506
02:11:44,160 --> 02:11:47,280
Speaker 1: him to play at this level because their offense up

2507
02:11:47,360 --> 02:11:50,040
Speaker 1: until the last couple of years has been more of

2508
02:11:50,080 --> 02:11:53,080
Speaker 1: a run dominated offense to go along with the dynamic

2509
02:11:53,160 --> 02:11:55,640
Speaker 1: defense or they don't have that same type of defense

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02:11:55,720 --> 02:11:58,000
Speaker 1: no more so now they've kind of opened up their

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02:11:58,000 --> 02:12:01,240
Speaker 1: offense and they're having outsport teams and Russell is having

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02:12:01,240 --> 02:12:03,760
Speaker 1: a great year. He's throwing the ball with great accuracy.

2513
02:12:04,320 --> 02:12:07,720
Speaker 1: He's got two dynamic receivers on the outside, one that's

2514
02:12:07,760 --> 02:12:10,400
Speaker 1: really big and fast, another one that's small and fast,

2515
02:12:11,080 --> 02:12:14,200
Speaker 1: and they both are really good route runners. So Russell

2516
02:12:14,240 --> 02:12:16,400
Speaker 1: has a great chemistry going with those guys as well.

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02:12:16,400 --> 02:12:18,680
Speaker 1: And his offensive line is playing better this year, giving

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02:12:18,720 --> 02:12:21,160
Speaker 1: him much better protection, and he's getting the ball out

2519
02:12:21,160 --> 02:12:23,640
Speaker 1: of his hands when he needs to. It has been

2520
02:12:23,720 --> 02:12:26,920
Speaker 1: nothing short of spectacular up there in the Pacific Northwest.

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02:12:26,960 --> 02:12:28,560
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it, and it's why they're the

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02:12:28,640 --> 02:12:31,920
Speaker 1: number one scoring offense in the NFL right now. As

2523
02:12:31,920 --> 02:12:34,520
Speaker 1: we said earlier in the show. They have scored at

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02:12:34,640 --> 02:12:39,440
Speaker 1: least four touchdowns in every single game they have played

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Speaker 1: this season, and Russell Wilson has thrown at least three

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02:12:43,080 --> 02:12:46,080
Speaker 1: touchdowns in every single games the team this the team

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02:12:46,120 --> 02:12:47,360
Speaker 1: is going to be there at the end of the season.

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02:12:47,360 --> 02:12:48,720
Speaker 1: They're going to be right in the thick of the

2529
02:12:48,760 --> 02:12:51,240
Speaker 1: championship round, the division round of the playoffs. They're going

2530
02:12:51,280 --> 02:12:54,480
Speaker 1: to host a pre host of postseason game. You're gonna

2531
02:12:54,480 --> 02:12:57,560
Speaker 1: have to go into Sea Atlan beat him. They're playing

2532
02:12:57,560 --> 02:13:01,560
Speaker 1: extremely well. They're experienced, their coaching staff experienced. Russell Wilson

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02:13:01,640 --> 02:13:04,880
Speaker 1: is established, and they've built it around him, and they

2534
02:13:04,920 --> 02:13:07,760
Speaker 1: are They are maximizing what they do well and minimizing

2535
02:13:07,760 --> 02:13:10,880
Speaker 1: what they don't do well. And they've tried to shore

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02:13:10,920 --> 02:13:12,560
Speaker 1: it up more so than any other team. I think.

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02:13:12,600 --> 02:13:14,600
Speaker 1: You see them make moves they're like wow, Like the

2538
02:13:14,680 --> 02:13:17,840
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney signing didn't work out, they got rid of him. Now,

2539
02:13:17,880 --> 02:13:21,440
Speaker 1: Carlos Dunlap they trade for him. Bobby Wagner is back

2540
02:13:21,440 --> 02:13:24,720
Speaker 1: to his old self. The Seahawks are a really good

2541
02:13:24,720 --> 02:13:27,080
Speaker 1: football team, a really big test. I've already heard people

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02:13:27,120 --> 02:13:30,640
Speaker 1: friends from my being out around town. People really have

2543
02:13:30,720 --> 02:13:33,280
Speaker 1: some doubts about this game, about how Buffalo is gonna stack.

2544
02:13:33,600 --> 02:13:35,680
Speaker 1: I said, I think thirty points is the floor this

2545
02:13:35,720 --> 02:13:37,560
Speaker 1: week if you want to hang with this team, because

2546
02:13:37,560 --> 02:13:41,720
Speaker 1: they score points on anybody and everybody. We still got

2547
02:13:41,720 --> 02:13:43,680
Speaker 1: lots of talk about the radio this week. It's gonna

2548
02:13:43,680 --> 02:13:46,840
Speaker 1: be fun. Wind up to this one. Lofa Tachupu, former

2549
02:13:46,880 --> 02:13:50,040
Speaker 1: Seahawks linebacker on the show to talk more Seahawks with

2550
02:13:50,160 --> 02:13:53,200
Speaker 1: us and what's plaguing that defense. We'll talk to him

2551
02:13:53,200 --> 02:13:55,640
Speaker 1: and I'll have Mandy Glab over here because you gotta

2552
02:13:55,680 --> 02:13:58,160
Speaker 1: get some stuff taken care of. Yah. Yeah, all right,

2553
02:13:58,200 --> 02:14:00,480
Speaker 1: I'll be out tomorrow. That's right, We'll be bad tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you then. Mm hm