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Speaker 1: Friday edition of One Bill's Live. It is a special

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Speaker 1: Maddy Glad with you, coming to you live from Northtown,

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Speaker 1: to cover here as we get set for the wild

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Speaker 1: Card Playoff game. And this week's Wildcard game against the

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Maddy, good to have you with us.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing how the weather has already dominated the conversation

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Speaker 1: about this game. And I understand why we have had

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Speaker 1: but now it's gonna be a close game. So people

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Speaker 1: are already gripping about the weather forecast. You wouldn't know

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Speaker 1: it right now though it is beautiful out. It's like

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Speaker 1: know it's gonna take a turn for the worse. And

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Speaker 1: you've been glued to ACI weathers. So we're looking at

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like tonight and into tomorrow on Saturday,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna get a little bit of snow. But I

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Speaker 3: the wind that's gonna pick up over the next couple

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Speaker 3: get into game day, they're predicting over the weekend one

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Speaker 3: to two feet of snow. Now we know with Lake

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Speaker 3: to fall. It could miss the stadium completely, but we're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and usually within forty eight hours meteorologists get more

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Speaker 3: Yeah, our pr team releases notes ahead of each game,

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Speaker 1: in spades for sure. We do have some news and notes,

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Speaker 1: some of which include Buffalo Bill's front office people, because

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Speaker 1: as you know, you've got eight open head coaching jobs.

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Speaker 1: Now that's down to seven as we go around the NFL,

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Speaker 1: which is presented by Kalida Health, the official healthcare system

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills, and it begins with the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Robert Kraft in a press conference sending Bill Belichick out,

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Speaker 1: you know, in a classy way. He's asked after the

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Speaker 1: press conference, you know, when are you going to hire

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Speaker 1: a head coach. He says, we're going to move quickly.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody anticipated less than twenty four hours,

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Speaker 1: but the news broke this morning. They're higher their inside

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Speaker 1: seven open jobs, the youngest head coach in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League just thirty seven years of age. On top

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Speaker 1: of that, Maddie only five years of coaching experience in

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Speaker 1: It's a pure tear down, rebuild type project, and they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it surprised me as well. I mean, they hired

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Speaker 3: He hasn't held a coordinator position, Yet on the defensive

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Speaker 3: Bill Belichick held a lot of responsibilities when it came

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Speaker 3: when it came to free agency, they're expected to hire

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Speaker 3: you wonder what the messaging is coming from Robert Kraft

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Speaker 3: You want to go somewhere different, well, you would probably

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you can make the argument that was

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Speaker 1: and at least that's a jumping off point for you.

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Speaker 1: The curious thing is, usually you hire a GM before

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Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, the Patriots have not had

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Speaker 1: a quote unquote general manager. They've had personnel directors and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. But Belichick has had to say, in

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Speaker 1: how are they going to approach that. I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: So they're going to have to name somebody to that,

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Speaker 1: So I'm not anticipating that it's just a weird way

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Speaker 1: to the NFC, but one of the jobs has been filled. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Bill's Director of Player Personnel, Terrence Gray, is one of

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. Like usually have four to six head

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Speaker 3: because the Bills know who they have in their spot

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Speaker 1: two five fifty the number to get on board. Got

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Speaker 1: some open lines for you there. But we lead off

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Speaker 1: today with Mark and Tonawanda. What you got fors Mark?

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Speaker 1: He're on one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 5: I just been wondering as winding, excuse me, a blue

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Speaker 5: Bell's helmet? Are you aware of a blue helmet? I

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Speaker 5: mean you can go to you know, uh, you can

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Speaker 5: google Bill blue helmet.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean it's it's kind of a custom

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Speaker 1: made deal. There are people that get a hold of

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Speaker 1: NFL helmets and then custom make them for people. I've

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Speaker 1: got a neighbor who've got custom made helmets in his collection. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and he actually wears one to the stadium. But it's white,

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Speaker 1: it's not blue. And yeah, I mean I would. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it has anything to do with any future

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Speaker 1: plans regarding Buffalo's uniform scheme or anything of that nature,

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Speaker 1: if that's what you're getting at. I think it's just

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Speaker 1: kind of a cool, alternate kind of fan piece. And

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Speaker 1: I've seen them. They're like metallic blue. Have you've seen

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Speaker 1: them in the standard? There are a few here and there,

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Speaker 1: And I get why they like it. It's it's kind

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Speaker 1: of just a different spin on the logo and everything.

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Speaker 1: And I mean all the time we see blue Caps.

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Speaker 1: I know Josh war one in the return to Blue

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Speaker 1: and Red game in the summertime, which I think subsequently

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Speaker 1: sparked a lot of fans to say, oh, I want

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Speaker 1: one of those, And so I think they find somebody

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Speaker 1: that knows how to custom make those things and off

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Speaker 1: you go. It was a cool look when Josh warred.

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Speaker 1: I'll say that does look good.

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Speaker 3: Hey, a helmet might be a good thing to wear

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Speaker 3: in the stands on Sunday if you're a fan blocking

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Speaker 3: you from the wind and the snow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as long as you got one of those hat

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Speaker 1: socks nice. Yeah, advisor would be even better. That's actually

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Speaker 1: a great idea. Jim in Lancaster is next. Let me

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Speaker 1: pull him up here. What do you got for his Jim?

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Speaker 6: Hey, Chris Maddy, how are you good?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 6: I just wanted to check see if you guys know

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Speaker 6: anything about if the game you know, was going to

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Speaker 6: be moved, Like from the NFL's perspective, you know how

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Speaker 6: much time in advance has to be known if there's

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Speaker 6: a chance to be moved to Monday or is this

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Speaker 6: do you feel this is a full go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that the NFL. There were some initial

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Speaker 1: reports and rumors coming out of Pittsburgh yesterday that Cleveland

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Speaker 1: was on standby and this and that, and then the

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Speaker 1: NFL came out and refuted that. So I would say

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Speaker 1: nothing at this time. I suppose, if you want, if

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Speaker 1: the league felt it was necessary, they'd have to act

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Speaker 1: really fast here, because if you go back to the

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Speaker 1: two games that the Bills have had relocated in the

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Speaker 1: last ten years, the first one being in twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: gets relocated to Detroit. They got to play the Jets

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Speaker 1: on a Monday. They actually moved the game back a

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Speaker 1: day to a Monday, just to accommodate the Bills who

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Speaker 1: had to travel and practice in Detroit. We flew out,

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Speaker 1: if memory serves, on a Thursday afternoon. They practice Thursday evening.

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Speaker 1: Might have even been Friday, now that I think about it,

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Speaker 1: I think it was Friday. They practiced Friday five pm,

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Speaker 1: like an hour after we touched down our first practice

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Speaker 1: of the week because players couldn't get to the facility

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Speaker 1: Wednesday Thursday. And then the other time they canceled or

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Speaker 1: moved a game was last year, as we know, and

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Speaker 1: that was in advance of snow that fell mid to

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Speaker 1: late in the week. We've got sunny skies here on

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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon. So I don't know if there's enough run

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Speaker 1: up left, Maddie to make that kind of a change

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Speaker 1: on this kind of a scale that would take a

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Speaker 1: lot like it would seem to me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. And the weather reports that we have

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Speaker 3: gotten is, yes, there there will be lake effect snow

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Speaker 3: this weekend, but it's not like it's it's been a

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Speaker 3: we're gonna get seven feet of snow type of report, right,

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Speaker 3: We're supposed to get one to two feet throughout the weekend.

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Speaker 3: That count begins on Saturday and goes through Monday. There's

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Speaker 3: supposed to be snow in the early part of this

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Speaker 3: next week as well. And Brownie, like you said, a

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Speaker 3: lot of the heavy stuff is supposed to start on

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Speaker 3: Sunday night, Sunday late afternoon, so we could be well

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Speaker 3: into this game before the heavy stuff starts to fall

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Speaker 3: if it is gonna be falling on the stadium.

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Speaker 1: Right. So the uncertainty of where the snow is going

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Speaker 1: to accumulate, combined with the fact that the worst stuff

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Speaker 1: is supposed to happen long after the game has begun,

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Speaker 1: and probably mostly after the game is over. I think

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Speaker 1: kind of rules out any relocation possibility. Got to take

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Speaker 1: a break here, but when we come back, we'll have

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Speaker 1: the Wall of Famer Darryl Talley joining us here on

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Speaker 1: location at Northtown Toyota here in Amherst eleven thirty five

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Speaker 1: Miller'sport Highway. Stop by and see us. We're here till

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Speaker 1: three on One Bill's Live, presented by a lot of

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Speaker 1: health It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Back here on One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Maddie lab and the Wall of Famer Daryl Tally.

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Speaker 1: And we're out here at Northtown Automotive, North Down, Toyota

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Speaker 1: and Amherst eleven thirty five Millersport high Can we come

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Speaker 1: out and see us. We're here till three. Got some

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Speaker 1: giveaways from the good folks in Northtown, but we're here

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Speaker 1: to talk to Darryl right now. And Daryl, you've got

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Speaker 1: a couple of go rounds with the Steelers in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 4: It's like I said, it's a Northeastern team.

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Speaker 7: It's a team that's part of the russ Belt, so

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Speaker 7: it knows how to deal with cold weather.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two teams that are all too familiar with what

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Speaker 1: we could have on Sunday afternoon. At the very least,

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Speaker 1: it seems in the second half, this is shaping up,

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Speaker 1: perhaps due in part to the weather, to be one

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Speaker 1: of those gritty, grimy games that the Steelers have pretty

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Speaker 1: much played all season long, Daryl, because Tomlin, you know

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Speaker 1: they have some talent on that roster, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think the depth of talent runs as deep, perhaps as

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Speaker 1: the Bills. And so what do they do? They play

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Speaker 1: running the football, shortening the game, controlling the clock, and

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Speaker 1: then try to get opportunistic on defense, get a turnover

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Speaker 1: or two, protect the football themselves, and they find themselves

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Speaker 1: in once game they can keep running the football and

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Speaker 1: that's how they've won ten games. They're nine and two

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Speaker 1: in one score games.

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Speaker 7: I understand that that's just like a few years ago

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Speaker 7: that was the Colts Indianapolis. They did the same thing.

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Speaker 7: But what you get what I think this game is

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Speaker 7: going to turn into and I've been telling everybody it's

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Speaker 7: going to turn into a rock fight. This is going

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Speaker 7: to be a fight, a fight where it's going to

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Speaker 7: be one in the trenches. I don't care about all

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Speaker 7: of the high flyers or nothing like that. This game

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Speaker 7: is going to be one upfront, if the weather has

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Speaker 7: anything to do with it, it's going to be in

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Speaker 7: the trenches where this is one.

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Speaker 3: And I think we like to hear that the trenches

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Speaker 3: on the offensive line for the Buffalo Bills. They've been

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Speaker 3: doing a great job this season at keeping the pocket

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Speaker 3: clean for Josh Allen and allowing the running backs to

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Speaker 3: find some holes and to gain some really great yardage.

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Speaker 3: You look at what James Cook has done toward the

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Speaker 3: end of the season, and you look at what some

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Speaker 3: of the other running backs have been able to do

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Speaker 3: as well. It's nice to know that if the Bills

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Speaker 3: need to rely on the run game, they've proven already

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Speaker 3: this season that they can win games running the ball.

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Speaker 3: And you heard offensive coordinator Joe Brady, the interim offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 3: say when he took over, I want to be able

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Speaker 3: to win in different ways. And we know Sean mcderwn

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Speaker 3: has says several times when it starts to get colder,

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Speaker 3: when winter happens, when the playoffs happen in Buffalo, we've

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Speaker 3: got to be able to rely on the run game.

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Speaker 3: So what have you liked from James Cook this season?

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Speaker 7: I love the way he runs the ball because, in

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Speaker 7: my opinion, he runs the ball on an angle towards

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Speaker 7: the sideline or at the sea gap, and he's got

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Speaker 7: enough speed that he's out in front in the lineman.

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Speaker 7: When they come around or pull around, they've got clean

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Speaker 7: shots at the linebackers or whomever's coming at them. So

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Speaker 7: him being as fast as he is getting to the

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Speaker 7: line and getting to the sea gap running on an

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Speaker 7: angle away from the defense, actually he votes well for

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Speaker 7: the Bills because he's a little faster than them, so

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Speaker 7: he can get He gains a yard or two yards

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Speaker 7: before you know it. And if you're run in him

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Speaker 7: versus a linebacker, linebacker makes a bad step, he's out

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Speaker 7: the gate. It's not like anybody else where. Cooks will

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Speaker 7: hit his head on a goal post. So my thing is,

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Speaker 7: you know, we got to run him with the ball

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Speaker 7: and run him outside, not just up the gut. And

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Speaker 7: if we go run him up the gut, guess what.

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Speaker 7: Let's put two tight ends in the game. Run the

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Speaker 7: double team inside because this year are inside three guys

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Speaker 7: have played exceptionally well, I think, and run the ball

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Speaker 7: right there in the middle of the field with two

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Speaker 7: tight ends in the game.

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Speaker 4: One wide receiver and one back make them have to

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Speaker 4: stay in their lanes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, gap integrity, flipping it over Pittsburgh. They only run

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Speaker 1: about three or four run plays, but they run them effectively.

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Speaker 1: They execute it well. Douo is one of their big

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Speaker 1: play but you know, they just double team everybody. And

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Speaker 1: there's the opening and Nage Harris is running through there,

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Speaker 1: jay Len Warren's running through there. My question to you, though,

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Speaker 1: concerns Terrell Bernard. This is a kid that had to

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Speaker 1: replace Tremaine Edmonds in only his second season in a

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Speaker 1: Bill's uniform, and he is a much different type of player.

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Speaker 1: He's not a six to five condor, you know, with

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Speaker 1: an eighty inch wingspan. No, he's a six to one guy,

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Speaker 1: goes barely to twenty eight, but is easy. We're really

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Speaker 1: instinctive easy.

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Speaker 4: You're twenty eight was my way to twenty eight to

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Speaker 4: two thirty five. Okay, So don't be talking about the

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Speaker 4: guy being little bit.

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Speaker 1: Too to get out of here. You weren't too twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: You were bigger than that, weren't you.

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Speaker 7: Most of my career I played anywhere from two twenty

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Speaker 7: eight to two thirty five.

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Speaker 1: I would have had you to thirty five to forty man, Really.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I got from me to be in a hurry.

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Speaker 1: Well, in any event, I'm curious, what are your what

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the job that Terrell has done,

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Speaker 1: not only filling Edmunds Void who left in free agency

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Speaker 1: as we know, but this defense this year, I.

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Speaker 7: Think he's done an exceptional, exceptional job. I mean, he's

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Speaker 7: not made some of the plays that Tremaine made, but no,

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Speaker 7: but he makes plays in different ways. My thing is

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Speaker 7: just watching him stand up behind the line and run

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Speaker 7: and be involved in past coverage is what he's done

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Speaker 7: well at so that'll help.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got three interceptions, he's got three fumble recoveries,

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Speaker 1: he's got six and a half sacks from middle linebacker.

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Speaker 1: I know McDermott likes triggering those guys in the gaps

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Speaker 1: and all.

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Speaker 7: Basically what he does with the a gaps he's run

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Speaker 7: him through because if you've got the two tackles going

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Speaker 7: outside and the defensive ends coming inside, it's going to

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Speaker 7: open up large in the middle and somebody's got a

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Speaker 7: chance to run through before those guys fall back in.

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Speaker 4: So that's what he's doing.

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00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 7: He's hitting the gap and going because everybody else is

651
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 7: more concerned with every the tackles. Nobody's really concerned about

652
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 7: the middle linebacker because we are rarely sending, and when

653
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 7: we do sending, we're sending them in a gaps and

654
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 7: my opinion, you can run through that way. Yes, But

655
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 7: the biggest thing I think we have to do this

656
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 7: weekend is we're going to have to have some integrity

657
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 7: as far as our edge is going. We're gonna have

658
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 7: to set the edge because they're gonna try and wash

659
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 7: you out. They're either gonna try and wash you out

660
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 7: of pin you down.

661
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: Rousseau is really good at that because he's so long.

662
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, that's part of playing being on that Playing

663
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 7: outside is you got to have long levers. I mean

664
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 7: usually most outside defensive ends or outside linebackers have long levers.

665
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 7: They they have ways to keep you away from them.

666
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 7: So you know that's going to come into play. But

667
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 7: my thing is we got to get off blocks and

668
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 7: we have got to maintain blocks and finish, finish, finish, finish,

669
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 7: finish every play because if you don't finish it, something's

670
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 7: gonna sneak out the back end.

671
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 3: Speaking of the defense, when the team really turned it

672
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 3: around coming out of the bye week and started to

673
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 3: win back to back to back games, win five games

674
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 3: to finish the regular season and earn themselves the number

675
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 3: two seed. It was really the defense carrying the team

676
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 3: since Week fourteen, when that win streak began. They are

677
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 3: allowing less than seventeen points a game and have only

678
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 3: given up two passing touchdowns.

679
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: In five games.

680
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 4: I get that.

681
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 3: What has it been from this group being able to

682
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 3: put things together, starting with the defensive line, like you

683
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 3: said on Sunday, playing.

684
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 7: Together, playing as a unit, they have fixed some of

685
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 7: the holes that they were allowing to happen. And basically

686
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 7: what it is is everybody's back to more of a

687
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 7: gap controlled deal, and they're looking at where people are

688
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 7: running and not everybody's just running, and they're not getting

689
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 7: washed down as bad anymore.

690
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: You and your teammates back in ninety five had to

691
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: play the Steelers on the road in the playoffs without Bruce.

692
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: That was the Bruce flu game. Remember, Steelers got to

693
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: come here with TJ. Watt mister nineteen sacks, which led

694
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: the league Defensive Player of the Year candidate. What is

695
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: the mindset for a team when you're missing such a

696
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: big piece, Like what was it like for you guys

697
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: knowing we don't have Bruce today and we got to

698
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: find a way to win, and that's our best pass

699
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: rusher because that's what Pittsburgh's coming in here having to do.

700
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 7: The way we looked at it was no one person's

701
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 7: bigger than the whole team, the collective group. And if

702
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 7: you can't go today, then the guy behind you has

703
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 7: got to be ready. The guy behind you's got to

704
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 7: be ready to go, and you got to have everybody

705
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 7: on the same page. And that was the one thing

706
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 7: about us. We had everybody on the same page, and

707
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 7: we didn't slack off or did not call something because

708
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 7: we didn't have a certain player in the game. We

709
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 7: ran everything we did because everybody was taught everything that

710
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 7: we had to do and knew what we were doing.

711
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 7: So at that point it just became a matter of execution.

712
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 7: And that's when you have to have fine focus on details.

713
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 7: You got to know what you're reading, what you're seeing.

714
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 7: You got to know what your keys are, where they're at,

715
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 7: what they're doing, and you got to communicate. Communication. I

716
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 7: think for linebackers and defensive linemen is huge because if

717
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 7: you don't talk to them. They don't you don't know

718
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 7: where they're going to be. Yeah, you know, you know

719
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 7: where they're supposed to be, but they may have changed

720
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 7: something up front and they're running a stunt or whatever,

721
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 7: and now you've got to run the hump, or you

722
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 7: got something that's coming up that you didn't expect to see.

723
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 7: And then if they do something that they don't they're

724
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 7: not supposed to do, which you know, you have a

725
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 7: lot of guys that will go off script. I will

726
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 7: say they will go off script and try and make

727
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 7: a play. Well, they're doing a job, but they'll they'll

728
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 7: swim the gap and then try and replace themselves and

729
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 7: not be quick enough to do it because somebody.

730
00:37:59,280 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 4: All they want.

731
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 7: In today's NFL, all you need is a body on

732
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 7: a body and give a running back a yard crack

733
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 7: to jump through so a guy can get through that whole.

734
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 7: If you go the wrong way, if you're trying to

735
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 7: make a play and you figure I'm gonna swim the

736
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 7: guy this time, or I'm under on pray and just

737
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 7: put pressure on him get penetration. Well if you do that,

738
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 7: now you've taken and actually exposed your linebackers you've exposed

739
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 7: your linebackers and you've gotten in the way of the

740
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 7: other defensive people because now you're in another person's gap.

741
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 7: You're where somebody else is supposed to be. You're not

742
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 7: where you're supposed to be. And that's the biggest thing.

743
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 7: Everybody's got to do their job.

744
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 3: Every season has its own story, every season has its

745
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 3: own identity. During your playing days, it was the same

746
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 3: exact team. Not every team was different year after year,

747
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 3: even if you had a lot of the same guys

748
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 3: on the roster. Do you believe this team is peaking

749
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 3: at the right time with the potential to run the

750
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 3: table here and host a couple of playoff games.

751
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 7: I do believe they're peaking at the right time because

752
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 7: when everybody looked at them and said, oh, well, wow,

753
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 7: Buffalo's in trouble now, I'm like, okay, they came together

754
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 7: as a group and decided it was time to make

755
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 7: a run. And at that point when they decided that,

756
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,959
Speaker 7: I think you can close the door on everybody else

757
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 7: because now their only concern is getting a w That's

758
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 7: all they're concerned is. They don't care how it comes.

759
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 7: In my opinion, they don't care how it comes, just

760
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 7: as long as they get it, and right now, that's

761
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 7: the most important thing going into each week, being ready

762
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 7: to fight whoever you gotta fight and do whatever you

763
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 7: gotta do. Sometimes you may have to do some ugly

764
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 7: things in a game, but you got to get them

765
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 7: done because guess what, you've got to other fifty three

766
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 7: guys relying on you. So everybody's got to take that attitude. Hey,

767
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 7: it's all on me. It's about me. I got to

768
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 7: do my job today and I got to do it

769
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 7: better than I did it all year.

770
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 4: Because this is a losing go.

771
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: Home, right, we don't want it a home. Well, they've

772
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: kind of been in that mode the last five weeks,

773
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: but well, to your point, Josh said this week that

774
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: you know, we've been in this survive and advance mode

775
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: for the last five weeks because they had to kind

776
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: of run the table down the stretch to put them

777
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: in position to win the division, which they've done now,

778
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: but he said, we still don't feel like we've put

779
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: our best game together. How much does that help going

780
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: into the postseason knowing you got fifty three guys that

781
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: are still chasing their best collective game.

782
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 7: That's pretty good because You're always going to be chasing that.

783
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 7: I don't care how long you played a game or

784
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 7: how short you play, You're always going to be chasing

785
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 7: a perfect game. But right now they are chasing it.

786
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 7: They're chasing their best game of the year every year,

787
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 7: every week because they've elevated their play from where it was,

788
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 7: so now the standard has risen. Since the standard's risen,

789
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 7: now everybody else has to step up to the plate.

790
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 7: This is what's expected of you. This is what we

791
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 7: are asking of you. This is what we demand of

792
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 7: you if you want to play here. And basically what

793
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 7: it came down to was players holding other players accountable. Hey, min, look,

794
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 7: if you got to play, you get in a paycheck.

795
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 7: Don't back up to the pay window on Monday. Come

796
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 7: in there with your face looking at them, saying thank you,

797
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 7: and I walk out the door. So go earn your check,

798
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 7: you know, don't back up to the pay window. And

799
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 7: that's it. That's why there's fifty three guys on a

800
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 7: on a team. That's why it's called a teen. It's

801
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:52,760
Speaker 7: not called me or I, it's called team.

802
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 3: This group is four and one at home in the

803
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 3: playoffs under Sean McDermott, and Josh Allen they win home

804
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 3: games in the playoffs. What is it like you want

805
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 3: a bunch of home playoff games during your playing games.

806
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 3: What is the difference of playing at home playing in

807
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 3: front of Bill's Mafia.

808
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 7: The difference is the amount of electricity that when you

809
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 7: walk out there that you can plug into. I mean,

810
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 7: I came back after a couple a couple of years ago,

811
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 7: I came back to a game. I was standing there

812
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 7: and I was going before the game started going well

813
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 7: this is kind of dead right now. And within a

814
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 7: half hour forty minutes, you could feel the electricity in

815
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 7: the stadium outside of the stadium before you got in it.

816
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 7: And that's the one thing that I used to always

817
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 7: look at. I go, you know what, if you're having

818
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 7: a down day and you're not quite there to play,

819
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 7: when you walk out on that field, you are going

820
00:42:56,239 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 7: to get a jolt. I mean, even the most calm

821
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 7: people are going to get a joke when they walk

822
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 7: out there, because you when you go out there and

823
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 7: you got eighty thousand people and it's snowing, snowing, it's

824
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 7: up to the elbows, and it's raining. It's nasty. No

825
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 7: one wants to be there. But they're there. They've been

826
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 7: there five hours, they've been there two days before time.

827
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 7: They come to watch you play, and you know what,

828
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 7: give them their show. They deserve it. And my thing

829
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 7: is I always wanted to play because if it's a

830
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 7: nasty game, I'm in love because the master of the game,

831
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 7: the better it is for me.

832
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: You grew two.

833
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 4: And a half hours the road. What do you mean

834
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 4: I keep on the same old dirty legs.

835
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: That's what I'm telling you.

836
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 7: That's what I was looking at when they were talking

837
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 7: about moving the game from Buffalo to Cleveland.

838
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 4: I'm going that doesn't make any sense.

839
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: Daryl, Thanks for the time, Good night with us. We'll

840
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: see at the game on Sunday, because I know you're

841
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: taking that in right.

842
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, he'll be there.

843
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: Will of Famer Darryl Talley joining us here at Northtown

844
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: Toyota in Amherst eleven thirty five Millersport Highwy's going to

845
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:11,479
Speaker 1: hang around a little bit. Say hi to some folks.

846
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: If you want to stop down, say hi to Daryl.

847
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 4: Do so.

848
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: Otherwise, look for him on Sunday at the stadium. He'll

849
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: be waving a towel or something out there.

850
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 7: I don't know I'm not waving a towel. That's a

851
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 7: terrible time. Yeah, you forgot. I'm from Ohio and that's Pennsylvania.

852
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: You're not waving a town that's probably Yeah. I meant

853
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 1: I'm with the Bills thing on it. You'll be in red,

854
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 1: white and blue. Don't worry. We gotta take a break.

855
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:33,920
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Speaker 1: Bills fans here during the break, So if you want

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Speaker 1: to pop over, feel free to do so. Darryl Talley's

867
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Speaker 1: here signing some autographs, shaking some hands, taking some pictures.

868
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Speaker 1: So'll be sure to catch up with the Wall of

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Speaker 1: Famer if you do stop by here eleven thirty five

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Speaker 1: Millisport Highway and Amherst were just south of the two

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Speaker 1: ninety exit five. If you want to stop by, we're

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Speaker 1: here until three. Wanted to get over, and now I

873
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Speaker 1: got to pull it up because of course me, I'm

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Speaker 1: not prepared to the tweet sheet, because we had some

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Speaker 1: questions there that we wanted to get to, and here

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Speaker 1: they are. I think I got them, Mat, I've got

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Speaker 1: them pulled up. If you don't. Yeah, So Ed asks

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Speaker 1: which running backs we'll dress for Sunday. I think we'll

879
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Speaker 1: know more when the Friday injury report comes out. If

880
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Speaker 1: Ty Johnson is available and up, I think it's probably

881
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Speaker 1: him and Leonard Fournette along with James Cook like we

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Speaker 1: saw last.

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Speaker 3: Week, don't you think Yeah, I would say they go

884
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 3: with consistency what they've had in the last week's game

885
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 3: at least. But you know, like we said earlier, depending

886
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Speaker 3: on the weather, maybe you want a lot of options

887
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Speaker 3: at running back. Maybe that's going to be a part

888
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 3: of your game plan. Knowing that snow could be coming

889
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Speaker 3: and could be a part of this game forecast, especially

890
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Speaker 3: in the second half, as we're hearing, maybe that game

891
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 3: plan will change and you're gonna want to go with

892
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Speaker 3: fresh legs at the running back position, So use all

893
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Speaker 3: your options.

894
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess the possibility exists to dress for Yeah,

895
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Speaker 1: we'll have to see what the weather says and as

896
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Speaker 1: they get a better handle on that, Yeah, maybe that

897
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Speaker 1: decision does shift that way. Emily in the fan mail

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Speaker 1: bag asks who, in your opinion, would be the best

899
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Speaker 1: option slash next man up if Gave Davis is unavailable

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Speaker 1: this weekend, especially considering how good he is it blocking

901
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: and allowing big plays for others. I think it's a

902
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Speaker 1: t srfield job to Phil. He did that last week

903
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Speaker 1: against Miami, had the unbelievable catch on the deflected pass

904
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Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone and towed the

905
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Speaker 1: end line in expert fashion for the touchdown, and then

906
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Speaker 1: had another nice catch. I think it went for a

907
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: first down. I think it was a third down conversion

908
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: over the middle there in the fourth quarter. And he's

909
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: probably the biggest receiver stature wise after Davis, so he

910
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: would seem to make the most sense to me.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He was targeted four times, had three catches in last

913
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Speaker 3: week's game against the Dolphins twenty four receiving yards. Had

914
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Speaker 3: that incredible touchdown as we saw toe Rag Swag in

915
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Speaker 3: the end zone being able to locate that ball that

916
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Speaker 3: got tipped off of a player's helmet. I believe it

917
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Speaker 3: was and score for the Bills their first touchdown off

918
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Speaker 3: that game to tie up seven to seven. But we

919
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Speaker 3: heard from Stefon Diggs yesterday and he talked about Trent

920
00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 3: Sherfield season and how he has wanted to be a

921
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 3: bigger have a bigger effect in the game, and be

922
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Speaker 3: able to put up better numbers because going into last

923
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Speaker 3: week's game he hadn't done too much with the offense.

924
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 3: Now you go with the hot hand, you go with

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Speaker 3: who's producing. They have quite a few guys that are

926
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Speaker 3: options for this team in terms of wide receivers, but

927
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Speaker 3: maybe we will see a heavier dose of Trent Sherfield

928
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Speaker 3: with Gabe Davis out of the lineup not able to

929
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Speaker 3: play with this one, a veteran wide receiver who's played

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Speaker 3: in very important games before and who was a part

931
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Speaker 3: of the Miami Dolphins last season, played in the playoff

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Speaker 3: game against the Bills last year.

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Speaker 1: You also wonder too, knowing you have a receiver down.

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Speaker 1: Do you add another receiver from the practice squad, or

935
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Speaker 1: does the weather say, you know what, don't bother, We'll

936
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Speaker 1: go in with four and be fine. Or do they

937
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Speaker 1: call up a fifth from the practice squad. Andy Isabella

938
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Speaker 1: comes to mind here because he has been the call

939
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Speaker 1: up on a couple of occasions this season, and you know,

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Speaker 1: if the weather isn't that bad, you can use Isabella

941
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Speaker 1: on some of those underneath quick slant routes where he

942
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Speaker 1: gets expert separation. Having run a four to three one forty.

943
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Speaker 1: He is a speed demon, so he might be an

944
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Speaker 1: interesting option there. We're gonna step aside here because our

945
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Speaker 1: number two is going to begin with our good friend

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Speaker 1: Greg Crosell, senior producer from NFL Films, also co host

947
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Speaker 1: of vespn's NFL Matchup Show. We're going to talk some

948
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 1: x'es and o's with him on the Bills Steelers wildcard matchup.

949
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Speaker 1: When we return, we are at Northtown, Toyota here in

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Speaker 1: Amherst eleven, thirty five Millersport Highway. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: here we are rocking and rolling on a Friday. Chris

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Speaker 1: eleven thirty five Millersport Highway, just south of the two

955
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Speaker 1: ninety exit number five. We're here till three. Bill's Wall

956
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Speaker 1: of Famer Darryl Talley is as well. You want to

957
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Speaker 1: get an autograph from Darryl, say hi to take a picture.

958
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: Feel free to stop by or just watch the show.

959
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Speaker 1: But the person we welcome in at this time every

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Speaker 1: Friday is senior producer from NFL Films and also co

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Speaker 1: host of the Appians NFL Matchup show, Greg Cosell, whose

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Speaker 1: appearance on the show is presented by Scott Lonyard, an

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Speaker 1: official commercial site work partner of the Buffalo Bills. Well, Greg,

964
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Speaker 1: as you mentioned before we even jump down the air,

965
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: this has the potential to be a weather game. In

966
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 1: your opinion, how much could that weather level the playing

967
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,760
Speaker 1: field for the Steelers in this matchup?

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Speaker 2: I would say, meaningfully, Brownie, which you know, I hate

969
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 2: saying that because quite frankly, and I hope my Steeler

970
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 2: fan friends don't get upset with me, but I'd like

971
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 2: to see the Bills win for reasons that aren't, you know,

972
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 2: solely because I'm with you guys. I just really like

973
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 2: watching Josh Allen and I enjoy studying their tape, so

974
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:35,280
Speaker 2: it's more professional reasons. But I think if it's truly

975
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 2: snowing and it's windy, not that Josh can't throw in

976
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 2: the wind, but I mean, if it's really windy, that

977
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Speaker 2: does impact pretty much everything. So you know, who knows

978
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 2: what kind of game it'll be, but I think it

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00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 2: does level the playing field.

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00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 3: Yes, well, let's talk about the ground game for the

981
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 3: Bills in case it is going to level the playing

982
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 3: field and in case Buffalo is going to have to

983
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 3: rely on their running backs. Good thing that since week

984
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 3: ten this team has been number one in carries per

985
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 3: game as well as rushing yards per game. In terms

986
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 3: of the numbers that they've averaged about thirty five carries

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00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 3: a game since week ten and over one hundred and

988
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 3: fifteen rushing one hundred and fifty rushing yards a game

989
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 3: since week ten. Why can the Bills rely on the

990
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 3: ground game at this point in the season to carry

991
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 3: this team to a victory?

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00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 2: You know, Mannie, I think that's a little bit of

993
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 2: a catch twenty two. And I'm just being honest because

994
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 2: I think Josh Allen is a meaningful part of that,

995
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 2: and you could see him be a really meaningful part

996
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 2: of the run game if the weather is as apparently predicted.

997
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 2: But they've clearly committed more to the run game generally,

998
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see. I would assume Furnette would

999
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 2: be up again. I mean, does that seem like the

1000
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 2: case guys, that it would be Fornette who's up again

1001
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 2: with James Cook?

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00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I think Fournette over Murray.

1003
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah, I mean it could be a game where,

1004
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 2: you know, because net is obviously passed the point in

1005
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 2: his career. He's truly an explosive back, but he is

1006
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 2: a grinder and in that kind of weather, because he

1007
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 2: takes those short, choppy steps, his running style could be

1008
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 2: more effective on a slow surface or a slippery surface,

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Speaker 2: So you know, I think that that could be a

1010
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 2: factor for sure, if need be. You know, James Cook

1011
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 2: obviously is a little different kind of runner. You know,

1012
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,840
Speaker 2: he's more of the back with who's shift the elusive.

1013
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 2: Sometimes those kinds of backs and whether like that aren't

1014
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: quite as effective, So we'll see. I mean, you know,

1015
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Speaker 2: it's funny I remember watching Leonard Fournette at LSU and

1016
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 2: his next to last year at LSU, and obviously I

1017
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 2: was wrong on him, but I thought he was so

1018
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 2: good and I thought he'd be, you know, such a

1019
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 2: good pro. And it's turned out, you know, obviously not

1020
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 2: to be the case, but but he was. He was

1021
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 2: so much fun to watch in college. But I think

1022
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 2: if the game plays out like this, you could see

1023
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 2: a guy like Fournette. You know, it's not as if

1024
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,280
Speaker 2: he's going to rush twenty five times for under thirty yards,

1025
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 2: but I think, you know, you end up in games

1026
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 2: like that if it's truly what you're saying, you know,

1027
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 2: a forty yard gain is a really important play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is no question about it. Looking at the

1029
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: Steelers backs, they're two very different kinds of backs, Greg,

1030
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, the Najie Harris between the tackles pound out

1031
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: yards and Warren's got far more explosiveness. The Bill's got

1032
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: a dose of that back in the preseason to Pittsburgh

1033
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: and Warren ripped off a sixty two yard run on

1034
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: an off tackle play and went right down the sideline

1035
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,359
Speaker 1: sixty two yards for a touchdown. So they're all too

1036
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 1: well what he's capable of. How much more dangerous is

1037
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:43,280
Speaker 1: he if the conditions are a little compromised in terms

1038
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 1: of footing and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would assume that, you know, he's

1040
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 2: built a little more low to the ground. So maybe,

1041
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 2: and I don't know the answer to this, but maybe

1042
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,439
Speaker 2: it might not affect him as much as some other

1043
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 2: backs because of the way he's built with a really

1044
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 2: low center of gravity. But you're right, Brownie, he's the

1045
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:06,919
Speaker 2: explosive back in the one two punch Najee Harris. He's

1046
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 2: really been the foundation in these last three games. He's

1047
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 2: carried the ball oh a lot. I mean, I think

1048
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 2: probably about seventy times in the last three games, give

1049
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 2: or take. I believe since since Mason Rudolph has been

1050
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 2: the quarterback. I think I'm close in that number. So

1051
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 2: that's what they want to do, and certainly the weather

1052
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 2: would dictate that they would continue to do that. And

1053
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 2: the reason they want to do that as well is

1054
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 2: because Mason Rudolph is not really a drop back quarterback.

1055
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 2: I mean, he needs the run game to be effective.

1056
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 2: They need some play action to work. They you know,

1057
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph can push it down the field, no question.

1058
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 2: Speaking of do you guys have any sense of Rasul

1059
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: Douglas at this point.

1060
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 1: I think he's a giant question mark right now.

1061
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 2: Okay, so I mean they they're permitting. I think they

1062
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 2: would take their shots down the field because Mason Rudolph

1063
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 2: can throw the deep ball, and I think they might

1064
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 2: feel that they have an opportunity to make some plays. Certainly,

1065
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 2: we know George Pickens is a really really gifted wide

1066
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 2: receiver who can make contested catches as well as run

1067
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 2: by people. But for the most part, they're going to

1068
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 2: try to run the ball. That's the way they played,

1069
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 2: That's the way they have to play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, George Pickens and Najie Harris have averaged one hundred

1071
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 3: receiving yards for Pickin and one hundred rushing yards for

1072
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 3: Harris over the last three games. When you look at

1073
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 3: the Steelers defense, they'll be without TJ. Watt, a huge

1074
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 3: blow for the Steelers. How does their defense change without

1075
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 3: Watt in the lineup?

1076
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Speaker 2: I think Maddy conceptually, it won't change. They'll just have

1077
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 2: a player who's not quite as good. Now. I really

1078
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 2: like Nate Hrbek coming out of Wisconsin, and he had

1079
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 2: a big sack. Was it this past week or the

1080
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:05,959
Speaker 2: week prior? I believe against Seattle's he's a really good

1081
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 2: pass rusher. You know, he's quick, he's explosive. Obviously he's

1082
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 2: not TJ. Watt, who's clearly one of the best in

1083
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 2: the league and has been for a long time. But

1084
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll change necessarily how they play. They'll

1085
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 2: just have, you know, someone who's not quite as good.

1086
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 2: You may not have to specifically account for and that,

1087
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 2: you know, assuming you can play somewhat normal football. That

1088
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 2: may be the biggest issue and the biggest positive for

1089
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 2: the Bills in that they don't have to specifically account

1090
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 2: for her big where they would have had in certain

1091
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 2: down and distant situations. Field location situations specifically account for Watt.

1092
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we look at you know. Red zone is

1093
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a big part of this game, because

1094
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: going into last week's game, Bills were first in the

1095
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: league in red zone touchdown efficiency. They go two for

1096
00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: five against the Dolphins. They slide all the way to

1097
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. But Pittsburgh, I think

1098
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,959
Speaker 1: they lead the league in takeaways in the red zone.

1099
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: I think they have like seven or eight on the season,

1100
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: which is a fat number red zone defense wise. What

1101
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: do you think has made Pittsburgh so effective down there,

1102
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: especially knowing that Mika Fitzpatrick has been in and out

1103
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 1: of the lineup.

1104
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 2: I you know, I'm being honest, Brownie, I don't know

1105
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 2: the answer to that, and I'm just being honest. I

1106
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 2: don't want to make something up. You know, sometimes certain stats,

1107
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 2: you know, can be a function of just the way

1108
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 2: it works out in a given year. It's like turnovers.

1109
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 2: You know, people you know think, well, they had thirty

1110
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 2: five turnovers last year, they're going to get thirty five again.

1111
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 2: You know, I don't, like I said, I just don't

1112
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 2: know the answer to that. You know, obviously they can

1113
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 2: rush the quarterback really well. You know when Wat's there.

1114
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 2: They have Watton high Smith, you know, the actually the

1115
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 2: other rookie who's also from Wisconsin, Benton has been a

1116
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 2: really good player for them inside, so he's another player

1117
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 2: to watch. But you know, I don't have a specific

1118
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 2: answer as to why they've been really good in the

1119
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 2: red zone this year.

1120
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 3: Flipping back to the Steelers' offense, Mason Rudolph has been

1121
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 3: their quarterback for the last three games, at least in

1122
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 3: terms of being a starter. The Steelers have won their

1123
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 3: last three games. What have they gotten in Mason Rudolph.

1124
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 3: Is he having success because of the opponents he's been

1125
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 3: going up against, or do you think they have something

1126
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 3: in the offense that they've been able to put together

1127
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 3: with him at the helm completing over seventy percent of

1128
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 3: his passes in the last three games.

1129
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, Maddie that the key thing for

1130
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 2: their offense has been their ability to sustain offense running

1131
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 2: the football. That's the foundation when they've not been able

1132
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 2: to do that. And quite frankly, until these last three games,

1133
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 2: Niji Harris was really a week to week proposition. They

1134
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 2: could not count on a running game. In fact, many

1135
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:58,439
Speaker 2: including myself, thought that Jalen Warren was a better back

1136
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 2: than Nagie Harris. Now they were different, but I'm turning

1137
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 2: talking about just in terms of production and what he

1138
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 2: brought from a traits perspective. I thought Warren, you know,

1139
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 2: would give you more than Harris. Now the last three weeks,

1140
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 2: Harris has clearly been the foundation. They've given him the ball.

1141
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 2: You know, as I said about seventy times, I think

1142
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 2: he's got maybe in that stretch, I don't know, three

1143
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 2: hundred plus yards. I think somewhere in that range. So

1144
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 2: that's really been the focus of their offense, and in fact,

1145
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 2: Warren has carried a little less than I would have thought.

1146
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 2: It's been Harris. So Rudolph works off that Rudolph. They

1147
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 2: can't get into a drop back passing game with Rudolph.

1148
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 2: They need to be able to run. They need the

1149
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 2: game to be close or to be ahead, and therefore

1150
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 2: sort of manage Rudolph take some shots at times, you know,

1151
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 2: have the defense have to react to the run by

1152
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 2: how they align. So maybe it creates a one on

1153
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 2: one here and there. But Rudolph is not going to

1154
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 2: be the reason that they win. Let's put it. I

1155
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 2: mean when I say that, sure could he hit some plays,

1156
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 2: of course he could. But they're not going to go

1157
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 2: into this game Pittsburgh, that is with the idea that

1158
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 2: we only win if Mason Rudolph plays well. That's not

1159
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 2: going to be how they approach this game.

1160
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the complimentary piece, not the focal point. Yeah,

1161
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: we get it. Looking at looking at the Bills defensively,

1162
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: if for some reason Tyrell Dowson cannot go, he's a

1163
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: question mark two coming into this game with a shoulder injury.

1164
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: Just I'm curious for your thoughts on Baylen spector Greg

1165
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 1: because he is his strength is considered run defense. So

1166
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: if Dodson can't go, he is the odds on favorite

1167
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: to replace again this week.

1168
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 2: And I thought Brownie flashed in the run game last week.

1169
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 2: I don't know what you thought. I thought you showed

1170
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 2: up in there, Yes you are. Yeah, So, I mean

1171
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 2: I noticed him immediately on tape and I remember doing

1172
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 2: him coming out of Clemson, and you know, basically thought

1173
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 2: that's what he was. Thought that, you know, he would

1174
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 2: never be truly an NFL starter, you know, but that

1175
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: he could play in the And I think that's what

1176
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 2: we're seeing. He definitely flashed in the run game last week.

1177
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 2: If that's the way, well this game will be that

1178
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 2: way regardless of the weather. As far as pitch right,

1179
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 2: they're gonna run all So if he has to go

1180
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 2: and it becomes just a run game for the most part,

1181
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 2: I think, you know, he can handle that part quite well,

1182
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:18,919
Speaker 2: I believe.

1183
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 3: Greg Is. This team heads into the playoffs into the

1184
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 3: wild Card Round this weekend with the game against the Steelers.

1185
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,720
Speaker 3: They've won their last five games. The Buffalo Bills have

1186
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 3: what has been the difference with how this team has

1187
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 3: been able to turn things around collectively since week fourteen.

1188
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 2: Well, I know both you guys knew that when they

1189
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 2: were six and six that they'd win their last five

1190
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 2: and to get in the playoffs, right.

1191
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: Across my fingers and toes.

1192
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,919
Speaker 2: Right right right, you know, I, Maddie. I think there's

1193
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 2: probably a lot of different answers to that question. I think,

1194
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 2: and it's often overlooked because of Josh Allen, but I

1195
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 2: think the defense has been really, really good. And again,

1196
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not there, so you know, I don't

1197
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 2: know how they're coaching and how they're going about it.

1198
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 2: You have to say Sean McDermott and staff have done

1199
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 2: an unbelievable job with all the injuries. I mean, von

1200
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 2: Miller is essentially not a major part of what they do,

1201
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,439
Speaker 2: although he did play down the stretch last week where

1202
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 2: they brought Rousseau inside again, which is something they've done

1203
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:23,480
Speaker 2: and I kind of like Russeau inside. But you know,

1204
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 2: they've done an unbelievable job given who they've had to

1205
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 2: put out there. You just talk about Specter having to

1206
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 2: play meaningful snaps. We know what their situation has been

1207
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 2: at Corner. You know, Douglas has been a godsend, but

1208
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 2: he may not be able to go. Even on the

1209
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 2: D line. You know, guys have been in and out

1210
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 2: of the lineup that day. Kwon Jones is back now,

1211
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:42,919
Speaker 2: but he missed a meaningful, meaningful part of the year.

1212
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 2: So you know, to be able to put this all together,

1213
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 2: you know, still have an excellent pass rush with your

1214
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 2: down four without having to blitz a lot. And you know,

1215
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 2: this team plays a lot of split safety coverage and

1216
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 2: now it's not always cover two. They do play Cover two.

1217
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 2: It's variations of quarters, which is, you know, something that's

1218
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 2: a lot of teams do, but they've done it really,

1219
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 2: really well. I think playing dime on third down has

1220
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 2: really helped them, Brownie, I think you would agree with that.

1221
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 2: You know, getting Taylor rap in or your dime safety

1222
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 2: has really helped and made them a better third down defense.

1223
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 2: So I think there's a lot of factors, Maddie. You know,

1224
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 2: it's not just a you know, you can't point your

1225
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 2: finger at one, but this defense to me, because you know, offensively,

1226
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 2: they're still not scoring the way we would have expected

1227
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 2: them to score, and you know, and to me, that's

1228
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 2: that would be the concerning thing. Even if the Weather

1229
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 2: was okay, because the last thing you want when you

1230
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 2: played Pittsburgh is the game to be seventeen thirteen in

1231
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. You know, we spoke about this before

1232
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 2: they played the Chargers and they ended up winning that game.

1233
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 2: But Brownie, remember we talked about that that imagine if

1234
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 2: you know that game is close in the fourth quarter,

1235
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 2: you know how that stuff works. Anybody can win those.

1236
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: Games, right. I wanted to ask you because it's the

1237
01:04:56,240 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: Steelers have been victimized time and again by ty ends.

1238
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,800
Speaker 1: They have trouble defending them for whatever reason, It would

1239
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: seem that the soft underbelly of the Steelers defense is

1240
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: similar to that of the Dolphins the linebacker level in

1241
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:15,160
Speaker 1: the passing game. That says to me, Kincaide Shakir again,

1242
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 1: and both of those guys were very effective last week

1243
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: against Miami, as you know. I think they had like

1244
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: fourteen catches for one hundred and eighty nine yards between

1245
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 1: the two of them last week. But they also used

1246
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:28,640
Speaker 1: digs in the slot a great deal last week to

1247
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: kind of take advantage of that underneath area against linebackers.

1248
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: If you have Weather rolled in as well, would it

1249
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: behoove the Bills to continue to use digs inside for

1250
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 1: more high percentage throws to get the ball to him

1251
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: as opposed to outside on a windy day.

1252
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I mean just those quick throws. I mean,

1253
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 2: you know, the bottom line is, it's if the weather

1254
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:55,520
Speaker 2: is what you say it could well be. You know,

1255
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 2: you want to get Josh in kind of a rhythmic

1256
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 2: throwing where he's throwing five yard ball. If those plays

1257
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 2: matter when the weather is bad, keep digs inside. I

1258
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 2: love Shaki. You know, we talked about him when they

1259
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:07,840
Speaker 2: drafted him, and I told you I really liked him

1260
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 2: coming out of Boise, you know, Kinkaid. You know, we know,

1261
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 2: we know how good he can be. Yeah, I would

1262
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 2: do the same thing, you know, make the throws easier

1263
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 2: for Josh Allen. Let him try to get played with

1264
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 2: some kind of rhythm in bad weather, because this is

1265
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 2: not one of those games. You know, as great as

1266
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 2: Josh is and we and we know what we saw

1267
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 2: last week. You know, obviously many are saying it's the

1268
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 2: Josh Allen experience, good and bad. But a lot of

1269
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 2: people are losing sight of the fact that he was

1270
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 2: fourteen for fifteen for one forty one in the second

1271
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 2: half and a lot of those throws were just rhythm throws,

1272
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 2: quick game throws, drop back play, his back forth throw

1273
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 2: a six yard ball. You know, those plays don't appear

1274
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 2: on highlights, but as you guys know, those are really

1275
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 2: important plays in games. Obviously, he made some special plays

1276
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 2: with his legs as well, as he's always wanted to

1277
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 2: do and is more than capable of doing. But no,

1278
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 2: I agree, I think you put digs inside. You're gonna

1279
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 2: need to sustain offense. The last thing you want to

1280
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,560
Speaker 2: do in a game like this is feel like you're

1281
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 2: going three and out and punning all the time.

1282
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, Greg, you talked about the Chargers game and the

1283
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 3: game being closed for the Bills. Well, leading up until

1284
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 3: that game and really after the bye week, the Bills

1285
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 3: started to win games, like we said, but all their

1286
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Speaker 3: losses have been by six or less points. So in

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the season they were losing those close games.

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Speaker 3: They found a way to win those close games towards

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Speaker 3: the end of the regular season.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 3: I know you talked about the defense being a difference

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Speaker 3: maker in the last five weeks, but when it comes

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Speaker 3: to closing out games, winning those close games, the defense

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01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 3: has been on the field at times to close out

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Speaker 3: a game, but then the offense has as well. Can

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Speaker 3: you point to something as to why the Bills have

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Speaker 3: been able to win those close games in the last

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Speaker 3: four weeks here.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, if you know, those are hard questions

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01:07:57,720 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 2: too as to why you know you win those, you'll

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Speaker 2: lose those. I mean, look, as you know, Matty, there

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Speaker 2: were games early in the season, earlier in the season

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Speaker 2: where the offense got them the lead with you know,

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01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 2: two minutes or less to go, and at that point

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Speaker 2: the defense didn't hold. I mean, imagine if the defense held.

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Speaker 2: And I know you could say if if about with

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Speaker 2: a lot of teams, but you know, you might be

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01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 2: talking about a team that would won thirteen or fourteen games.

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Speaker 2: So you know, you never know exactly why that is.

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Speaker 2: You know. The one thing we do know is and

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01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 2: again whether permitting, you get in the fourth quarter of

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Speaker 2: games and Josh Allen, you know, he may throw some

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Speaker 2: bad balls, he may you know, make some plays that

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Speaker 2: some consider reckless earlier in games, but you normally get

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Speaker 2: into fourth quarters and he shines. I mean, he makes throws,

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Speaker 2: he makes runs, He's very difficult to defend. And you know,

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Speaker 2: we see that kind of week after a week, So

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Speaker 2: like even in those games that they lost in the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, he still did a really good job offensively

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Speaker 2: getting them putting them in a position to win. So

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, in some ways, you know, having Josh,

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Speaker 2: and my guess is the team knows that he can

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Speaker 2: do that, and they feel pretty confident that if they

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Speaker 2: get in the fourth quarter and they need a drive,

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Speaker 2: that Josh Allen is going to make the drive.

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Speaker 1: Last one for you, Greg, concerning the rest of the

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Speaker 1: playoff slate this weekend, just knowing offensive and defensive schemes,

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Speaker 1: if these respective teams, as you do, which one looks

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01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,839
Speaker 1: to be a bad matchup for one of these teams,

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01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 1: Like the team they have to face is not a

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01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 1: good draw for them based on what they do offensively

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01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: or defensively.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'm looking, you know, at the slate right now,

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Speaker 2: I believe it or not. The way that the Eagles

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Speaker 2: are playing, particularly offensively, I think the Buccaneers with their

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01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:51,160
Speaker 2: pressure concepts would pose a problem. Now, the Eagles still

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01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 2: have a lot of talent, so you know, I quantify,

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01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 2: I qualify that to some degree because they have talented players,

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01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 2: But the way they've played of late they struggled handling pressure.

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01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:05,599
Speaker 2: Hurtz has not seen things as cleanly as he needs to.

1341
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 2: You know, he's been a little quick to get out

1342
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 2: of the pocket and disrupt the timing of plays. And

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01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 2: Todd Bowles, as you guys know, I don't remember the

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01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 2: last time you played Tampa, but as you know, Todd

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01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 2: Bowles he's gonna blitz off the bus, so he's going

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01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 2: to come after them. He's going to make them have

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01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 2: to deal with that. And again, all we have is

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Speaker 2: what's happened prior. We don't know what's going to happen

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01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 2: this weekend. But based on what's happened prior, the Eagles

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01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 2: have not handled that well at all.

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01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 1: That could be a tougher game for them than maybe

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01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: some people realize. Yeah, we remember Todd Bowles from his

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01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 1: jet stays blitzing coming off the bus. Bus is right,

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01:10:41,439 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: no question.

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01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 2: No question, Greg, And he's good at it, a lot

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 2: of different concepts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Greg, thanks for the time, as always, enjoyed the

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01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: games this weekend. We'll catch up with the next week.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to it, guys, have fun. Thank you all right.

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01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,679
Speaker 1: That senior producer from NFL Films, Greg Cosel, joining us

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01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 1: he could also check him out of ESPN's NFL Matchup Show.

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01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,960
Speaker 1: It's on early in the mornings, either on ESPN or

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01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 1: ESPN two. We mentioned that last week. I had one

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01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 1: of our listeners tweet me back and he basically said, hey,

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01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 1: thanks for the tip. That show is unbelievable. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the best thing about Greg's Matchup Show on ESPN is

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01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: they break it down for the layman. They explain coverage

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01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:26,599
Speaker 1: and concepts and schemes in a way that even if

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01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: you've never played football coach football, you can understand it.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the most valuable part of that show.

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01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,559
Speaker 1: It breaks it down for the layman. You don't have

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01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:40,759
Speaker 1: to know x's and o's and names and concepts, leverage

1373
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. They explain it to you in

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01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: a very straightforward fashion. It's a really i would say,

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Speaker 1: educational football show.

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Speaker 3: And Greg Cosel does his homework. He watches so much tape.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, That's.

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01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 3: Why I really like him and respect him as somebody

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01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 3: in this field because you hear a lot of people

1380
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:04,800
Speaker 3: with crazy opinions left and right and which way in

1381
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:09,040
Speaker 3: the other way, and Greg Cosell, his facts and opinions

1382
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:11,519
Speaker 3: are based off tape in what he's seeing, which I

1383
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:14,840
Speaker 3: really appreciate when he comes on the show because he's

1384
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,280
Speaker 3: studied the tape on this team and the opponent that

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01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 3: the Bills are going to face.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so thanks to Greg for his time this week

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01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:23,400
Speaker 1: and every week for that matter. Glad to have him

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01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: on the show all season long for your listening pleasure

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01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: as much as ours. We got to get back to

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01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:32,719
Speaker 1: the obl Fan Friday mailbag, and we've got a question

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01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,680
Speaker 1: here from William who says, with the weather being such

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01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 1: an issue, perhaps making passing a difficult prospect. If Ty

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01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:42,479
Speaker 1: Johnson is available, should the Bills use all four running

1394
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:45,280
Speaker 1: backs to ground and pound. That's something that Maddie suggested.

1395
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: I think it's a possibility. I think it's really going

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01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 1: to depend on what the game plan looks like, and

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01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: I would anticipate that Joe Brady and the offensive staff

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01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 1: have contingency plans in place for what could come their

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01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:06,599
Speaker 1: way weather wise. So I think it depends on what

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01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:09,559
Speaker 1: the initial game plan is, if the conditions are okay

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01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 1: to throw the ball, and then if not, what do

1402
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:17,599
Speaker 1: they pivot to And is it necessary to have four

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01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:21,480
Speaker 1: backs up? I don't know if they feel that way. Necessarily,

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01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:25,719
Speaker 1: you have Regie Gilliam as a ball carrying option. He's

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01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: not ideal, but he's a fullback who's going to be

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01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 1: up on Sunday because of what he does for you

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01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: on special teams. So there's a give and take there,

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01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: as you know, because you can only dress forty seven

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01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 1: forty eight if you're dressing eight offensive linemen. So there's

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01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 1: a real push and pull there, you know, in a

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01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 1: playoff game, this is important.

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01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you're going to crunch the numbers, who's available,

1413
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 3: who's not where you might need a couple more bodies.

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01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 3: You look to the injuries on this team and the

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01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 3: guys who are questionable for this game that might be

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01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 3: available to go. What's the percent that you're going to

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01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 3: get from them once they're in the game. Is it

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01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 3: gonna have to be a load management type of thing.

1419
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,679
Speaker 3: Maybe then you decide to dress a little bit heavier

1420
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 3: in one of those position groups.

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01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 1: Right, So we'll just have to wait and see and

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01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:13,759
Speaker 1: obviously the Friday injury report, which should be out before

1423
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 1: we are off the AAR today, will tell us a

1424
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 1: lot because if Ty Johnson is up, you would assume

1425
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,880
Speaker 1: he you know, if he's not questionable or doubtful because

1426
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 1: he has cleared concussion protocols, so we'll have to wait

1427
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 1: and see what his official designation for Sunday's game is.

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01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:32,680
Speaker 1: That would obviously factor in as well into what we

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01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:35,639
Speaker 1: are looking at. Got to take a break here. When

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01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 1: we come back, it's collision course, we'll tell you about

1431
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 1: the matchup that we think could make the difference in

1432
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:44,400
Speaker 1: Sunday's game between the Bills and Steelers. But we will

1433
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 1: take your phone calls as we're still taking questions from

1434
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:48,599
Speaker 1: the Obel Friday fan mail bag at eight h three

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01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:50,640
Speaker 1: oh five point fifty. We'll get to those when we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live, presented by co Lot

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Speaker 1: of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back

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01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: to a Friday edition of One Bills Live, comingy Alive

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01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: from Northtown Toyota here in Amherst the eleven thirty five

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01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: Milliersport Highway. As we've been here for the entire duration

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01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 1: of the show, and we got lucky with the weather

1442
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: this afternoon. It's been nice and a lot of people

1443
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: to stop by to say hi, so thanks for doing that.

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01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:20,520
Speaker 1: We had Darryl Tally out here as well, signing some autographs,

1445
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 1: taking some pictures, shaking some hands. The Wall of Famer

1446
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:24,639
Speaker 1: going to be at the game on Sunday as well.

1447
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 1: But it is time now for Collision Course, which is

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01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:30,000
Speaker 1: brought to you by Gabes Collision. Gabees Collision is the

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01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 1: official auto collision repair center of the Buffalo Bills. Get

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01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 1: back in the game. And as far as Sunday, Maddie,

1451
01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: we've been talking about it most of the show. It's

1452
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,799
Speaker 1: pretty simple. It's Najie Harrison, Jayalen Warren against this Bill's

1453
01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 1: run defense. And you know, if you were ever happy

1454
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,599
Speaker 1: to have Daikwon Jones back in the lineup, my god,

1455
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: is it this week? Because remember, Maddie, the divisional playoff

1456
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:53,120
Speaker 1: last year, out of the game and what happened. Joe

1457
01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 1: Mixon ran wild. They had like one hundred and fifty

1458
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: something yards on the ground against us.

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01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:58,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're looking at a game that's going to

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01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 3: include snow, and really, what this Dealers do best and

1461
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 3: what they have done best in their last three games

1462
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 3: which they've won, has been their run game has been

1463
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 3: Najie Harris and Jalen Warren. And to stop those guys,

1464
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 3: it starts up front with the defensive line, with day

1465
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 3: Kwan Jones being able to plug up those holes. Since

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01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:18,080
Speaker 3: week fourteen, when Buffalo has been able to put it

1467
01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 3: together and start winning games, they rank fifth in terms

1468
01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:24,800
Speaker 3: of allowing just ninety six rushing yards per game.

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01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:27,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've tightened it up. And I think another guy

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01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 1: who was inactive last week but is probably active this

1471
01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 1: week is Lynval Joseph. This is a Lynn Vall Joseph game.

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01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:37,720
Speaker 1: I was joking about it yesterday, but I am not.

1473
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:40,759
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. He is the widest human

1474
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 1: I have seen since Ted Washington. I was walking down

1475
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: the hall at one Bill's drive. He's coming the other way,

1476
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: and I mean, nicest guy you want to meet, always

1477
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 1: has a smile on his face, always says hello to

1478
01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: you in the hallways. But I swear as he's coming

1479
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 1: up the hallway, I'm looking at myself saying, I may

1480
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 1: have to turn sideways if we're going to both fit

1481
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 1: through here, because he is He's probably three of me

1482
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 1: with wise, he is a wide body in every sense

1483
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 1: of the word. But he has been instrumental in helping

1484
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: them sure up that run front, and I would expect

1485
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 1: he is the rotational player coming in for Daikwon Jones

1486
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: this week. I think he's gonna get a healthy dose

1487
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:17,639
Speaker 1: of snaps and be big for them in the run

1488
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:19,720
Speaker 1: front this week. You got to He's got to dress

1489
01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 1: this week, right, It only makes sense.

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01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, the roster says he's six four three twenty eight.

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01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:26,960
Speaker 3: You're gonna want a body like that in the middle,

1492
01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,439
Speaker 3: and you might have to be rotating guys a little

1493
01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 3: bit more frequently, depending on what the ground actually looks like,

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01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 3: if guys are sliding around or not with snow on

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01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:36,240
Speaker 3: the ground.

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01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: So I know, I know women have sizes two, four, six, eight,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. Guys have jacket sizes for you know, sport

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01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: coats and suit jackets. I am a forty regular. I

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01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 1: would guess Livoll is a sixty. That's how much bigger

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01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:52,640
Speaker 1: and wider I think he is than me. Unbelievable, But

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01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 1: we got to jump from collision course to Tailgate Friday,

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01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: which is presented by Highmark Blue Cross, Blue Shield, the

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01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 1: official healthcare plan of the Buffalo Bills. I'm happy to

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01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:05,760
Speaker 1: report a ton of responses this week. We might have

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01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:08,599
Speaker 1: the worst weather tailgate we've had all season, and we've

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01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 1: got the most recipes subficious. So far here on good

1507
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 1: on a tailgate Friday, people are fired up to cook

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01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:18,160
Speaker 1: things up here on Sunday, let's alternate here. So Faith

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01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 1: starts by telling us she's cooking up homemade keeso for

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01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 1: the afternoon, beef not sausage, and hopefully finishing off the

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01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 1: big dub with garlic butterfilet, asparagus and candied sweet potatoes

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01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 1: for dinner. Go bills. Something tells me Faith is cooking

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01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 1: that at home, like nobody's cooking candied sweet potatoes at

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01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: a tailgate. Call me crazy. I mean, I could be wrong,

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01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:43,720
Speaker 1: but that's got to be getting cooked at dinner. I

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01:18:43,720 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: mean at home.

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Speaker 3: That sounds really good. Andrew says, probably gonna make pigs

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01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:50,120
Speaker 3: in a blanket and maybe some cinnamon rolls and hot

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01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 3: chocolate for later. Stay warm. Yeah, you wonder with how

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01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:56,160
Speaker 3: people are tailgating, whether it's at home or at the stadium.

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01:18:56,439 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 3: It's in the window of breakfast food. You want to

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01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 3: do a little brunch action.

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01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, pigs, so going from salty early to sweet later.

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01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but I'm I'm a

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01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:09,920
Speaker 1: mustard guy. With pigs in a blanket, I usually go

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01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: spicy brown mustard with my pigs in a blanket. My

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01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 1: kids just dunk him and ketchup. I was like, just

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01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:19,519
Speaker 1: a little respect for the mush, Just a little respect,

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01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 1: Jeremy says. Five pounds of cheese filled sausages, London broil,

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01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 1: chicken wings, and portable stone oven pizzas, Wow, mimosas and

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01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: breakfast sandwiches to start the day. To your point, Maddy,

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01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: that's probably only the half of it, Jeremy, I just

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01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 1: got to ask how many people are coming to your tailgate?

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01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 1: Five pounds of cheese filled sausages and then he's doing

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01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,759
Speaker 1: a London broil on top of that, with chicken wings

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01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: also and portable stone of in pizzas. It's gonna have

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01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: like thirty people at his tailgate for that much food.

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01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:55,120
Speaker 3: We might have to stop by. Jack says, it's gonna

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01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 3: be a chili one in the lot for this game,

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01:19:57,320 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 3: so we gotta heat things up, cooking up some ombres.

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01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 3: That's grilled chreeso bombers, topped with fried spicy ham and

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01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 3: vidalia onions, then smothered and melted cheddar jack, and finished

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01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 3: with some spicy salsa verde sauce. Let's get it.

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01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:19,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm Vadalia onions are very underrated when you're making

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01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:22,439
Speaker 1: a spicy when you're using a spicy meat, because Vadalia

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01:20:22,439 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 1: onions are probably the sweetest onions you're gonna find. They

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01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 1: are huge down in Georgia. Just for making some trips

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01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:31,679
Speaker 1: down there, because they grow them down there in Georgia.

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01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:35,599
Speaker 1: The Vadalia onions. You have a spicy meal and you

1550
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:37,720
Speaker 1: want to cut the spice a little bit, you use

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01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: Vidalia onions. They add a little sweet to it. Really

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01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: good combination. Jack is on the level with that one.

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01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 1: I think that's the winner this week. So good job

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01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:50,120
Speaker 1: Jack in cooking those up. So that is Tailgate Friday.

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01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 1: So thanks for all the submission. Some really good ones

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01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 1: this week. I mean I'm getting hungry just talking about them.

1557
01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:56,760
Speaker 1: But let's get to the phones because we've got a

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01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:58,640
Speaker 1: couple people we got to get to here before we

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01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:00,839
Speaker 1: run out of time. We go to Rye in Toronto.

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01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:01,760
Speaker 1: What do you got fir Ust Ryan?

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01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 9: Hey, Chris, how are you bout?

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01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:08,519
Speaker 1: Yeah? Doing good? What do you got for us?

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01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 9: Good?

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01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:10,879
Speaker 5: We're here, fat, pretty guys.

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01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 9: The Steelers and the Bills have faced off in the

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01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:17,439
Speaker 9: playoffs three times all time. The winner of each game.

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01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 9: The winner of those games ended up in a super Bowl. Yes,

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01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 9: fun fact.

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01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're right about that, because in ninety five

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01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:29,720
Speaker 1: when Thes lost to them, Neil O'Donnell went all the

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01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:30,479
Speaker 1: way to the Super Bowl.

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01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 9: So now twenty four they thinked up. I'll give your stats.

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01:21:34,439 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 9: Twenty four Bill Steelers Steelers went. Sorry, yeah, Steelers went

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01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 9: to win their first championship ninety three, Bills Winders the ball,

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01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:48,600
Speaker 9: they lost the Cowboys. In ninety six Steelers won and

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01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,920
Speaker 9: they won the Super Bowl, lost to the cow They

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01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 9: lost the Cowboys. Yep, so those are my Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's an interesting one that you found there, Ryan, That's

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01:21:57,520 --> 01:22:01,040
Speaker 1: a good one. So I guess if you want to

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01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 1: be encouraged, you say, wow, if the Bills win this game,

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01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:05,880
Speaker 1: maybe they do make a run to the super Bowl

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01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:09,520
Speaker 1: based on that past history. But yeah, that's interesting. Unfortunately

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01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:11,439
Speaker 1: they only went those two teams only went one for

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01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 1: three in terms of Super Bowl victories. The Steelers in

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01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: seventy four, which was kind of the start of their

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01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,600
Speaker 1: run as they kind of ruled the seventies with that

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01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: Steel Curtain defense. But that's an interesting note to pull

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01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 1: out of that. That really is we go to Judy

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01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. Next, what do you got for us?

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01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:30,760
Speaker 6: Judy, I think this is a.

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01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 8: Short run and no, I'm a short pass and run game.

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01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 8: And I think Leonard, I've been a whole so long,

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01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 8: I forgot this last name. I think he's going to

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01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:46,360
Speaker 8: be the best difference in this game.

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01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette. Okay, yeah, I mean the weather could kind

1597
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:55,559
Speaker 1: of put the onus on the backs in this game.

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01:22:55,720 --> 01:22:57,560
Speaker 1: So I agree with you, Judy. I mean, if we

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01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: get a snowy, windy game, the passing game is going

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Speaker 1: to be neutralized, at least in terms of taking some

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01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:05,920
Speaker 1: downfield shots. You would think unless you're going with the win.

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01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:08,640
Speaker 1: So if you're going towards the tunnel end, that's the

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01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:10,679
Speaker 1: time to call a few shot plays, if you're daring

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01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:14,320
Speaker 1: enough to do so as an offensive coordinator. Because as

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01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:17,640
Speaker 1: we had Greg on earlier, Maddie, I think people forget this.

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01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen Mason Rudolph same draft class, twenty eighteen draft class.

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01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:25,800
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph didn't go until the third round out of

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01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:29,280
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State. But the kids got an arm I mean,

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01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:30,839
Speaker 1: he can throw it down the field and I shouldn't

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01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 1: say kit he's twenty eight years old. But you're going

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01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:37,120
Speaker 1: towards the tunnel end. That's when your downfield throwing opportunities

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01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:39,639
Speaker 1: could come about, because that's the way the wind blows.

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01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 3: And Sean McDermott talked about it this morning on WGR

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01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:45,800
Speaker 3: when he was on with Tel Capaccio. He said, you know,

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01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:51,439
Speaker 3: we drafted a quarterback because of games like this. We

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01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 3: looked at who we would want in a weather game,

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01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 3: who we would want in a cold game. We paid

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01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:01,759
Speaker 3: attention to the hands, eyes of the quarterbacks and guys

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01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 3: who could really throw the ball. Josh Allen fit those qualities.

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01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:09,639
Speaker 3: They believe in Josh Allen in games like this where win,

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01:24:10,040 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 3: where snow and rain could be a factor because his

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01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 3: ball can slice through the wind with the type of

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01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 3: heat that he can put on it.

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01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:19,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, ten and a half inch hands, by the way

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01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: as well, And you're not only looking for big hands

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01:24:23,439 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 1: from quarterbacks in games like this, but from receivers as well.

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01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 1: There's one guy in Buffalo's receiving corps who has even

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01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 1: bigger hands than Josh Allen. It's dalton kin Kate ten

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01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 1: and five eighths inches. He's gotten beat by an eighth

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01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,680
Speaker 1: of an inch in terms of hand size, but those

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01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 1: big hands could come in handy no pun intended in

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01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: a weather game like this, to snatch that football out

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01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 1: of the air and at least make a difference in

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01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:49,680
Speaker 1: a passing game. And when you have a guy like

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01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 1: Allen who can cut the ball through the wind, what

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01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:57,200
Speaker 1: that gives you is it doesn't reduce your playbook because

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01:24:57,240 --> 01:25:00,280
Speaker 1: of the weather conditions. You can still maybe execut shoot

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01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:02,560
Speaker 1: some stuff in the short to intermediate areas, maybe not

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01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:05,560
Speaker 1: downfield as much, especially when you're going towards the scoreboard,

1640
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: but at least it affords you the opportunity to have

1641
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 1: most of your playbooks still open because of your quarterback's

1642
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:14,040
Speaker 1: arm strength. But I will say Rudolph's got an arm too.

1643
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:16,680
Speaker 1: He doesn't have quite the canon that Josh has, but

1644
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:18,639
Speaker 1: he can throw it downfield. He was in that wide

1645
01:25:18,680 --> 01:25:21,240
Speaker 1: open offense at Oklahoma State and College and they were

1646
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 1: chucking it all over the yard out there in Oklahoma.

1647
01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 1: So be interesting to see if they I'm not expecting

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01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:30,880
Speaker 1: them to change their spots. They're still gonna run the

1649
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:32,799
Speaker 1: ball a ton. I don't think that we're kidding anybody

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01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: with that. But Rudolph has done a good job of

1651
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 1: being a complimentary piece and doing just enough in the

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01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:40,280
Speaker 1: passing game, giving them one or two big plays a

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01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 1: game to help them shorten drives put points on the board. Bills,

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01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:47,280
Speaker 1: as we know, though, good at preventing the big play.

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01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, and those big plays from the Steelers they've

1656
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,960
Speaker 3: come toward the end of games, if they're able to

1657
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 3: hang in there, if they're able to keep things close,

1658
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:58,519
Speaker 3: and then they start to fire off those big shots.

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01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:00,800
Speaker 1: All right, we got to take it. But we'll have

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01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:03,840
Speaker 1: some final questions from the obl Friday fan mailbag when

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna tie it with the stat It's gonna

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01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:55,439
Speaker 3: be something that we haven't really talked about too much yet.

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01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say red zone efficiency. This team is two

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01:26:58,320 --> 01:27:00,920
Speaker 3: of five in the red zone against the Dults, not

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01:27:01,080 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 3: usually what we've seen from this group because they have

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01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:05,439
Speaker 3: been one of the best in the NFL at doing so.

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01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:08,120
Speaker 3: I think it comes down to scoring in the red zone.

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01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 3: One of the things it comes down to, because if

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01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 3: this game is going to be a ground and pound game,

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01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:16,080
Speaker 3: you may not see as many big plays that maybe

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01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:18,320
Speaker 3: you could score on. So it's gonna come down to

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01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:20,439
Speaker 3: getting into the red zone and what you can do

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01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 3: with that in home playoff games. Since Josh Allen became

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01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 3: the quarterback, the Bills are seventy six and a half

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01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:32,360
Speaker 3: percent is what their red zone efficiency rating is, which

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01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:35,519
Speaker 3: means they score touchdowns seventy six and a half percent

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01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:37,760
Speaker 3: of the time they enter the red zone. That's a

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01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:39,559
Speaker 3: really really good number for this group.

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01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:43,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steelers, though, they are top ten red zone defense,

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01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:45,960
Speaker 1: so something's got to give there. We'll see which side

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01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:48,320
Speaker 1: kind of gets the upper hand in that. For me,

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01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:51,800
Speaker 1: I think the biggest key for Buffalo is that intermediate

1694
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 1: passing game middle of the field. Shakir Kincaid digs I

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01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: think those guys really have to eat there at the

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01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:01,840
Speaker 1: second level in the passing game. I think even if

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01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 1: weather is an issue, I think Josh can still get

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01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 1: the ball there to those guys some higher percentage throws.

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01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:11,200
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of hoping that those three guys can

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01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:14,000
Speaker 1: factor in the most in the passing game, and then

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01:28:14,360 --> 01:28:16,639
Speaker 1: you can mix in the run effectively enough to kind

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01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 1: of keep the Steelers off balance on offense. We know defense,

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01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 1: you got to just stop the run. That's the number

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01:28:22,080 --> 01:28:24,680
Speaker 1: one thing they gotta do. Quick question coming in here.

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Speaker 1: Actually it's advice on the Obel Friday fan mail bag,

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Speaker 1: and it's from Brian who's telling fans that are attending

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01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:36,600
Speaker 1: the game where wool socks not cotton, they keep the

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01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 1: feet warm and dry because, believe it or not, wool

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01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 1: breathes better than cotton does. That might sound like a

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01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:47,000
Speaker 1: little bit of counterintuitive, but it is an effective way

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01:28:47,479 --> 01:28:49,960
Speaker 1: to keep the feet warm. As we say all the time,

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01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:52,639
Speaker 1: If your feet and your hands and your head are warm.

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01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: You can survive any Bills Winter game, so if you're

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01:28:56,200 --> 01:28:57,680
Speaker 1: going to the game, good luck with that. Get some

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Speaker 1: wool socks, Maddie. Thanks for helping us out. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: the folks at Northtown Toyota here on Millersport Highway. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the game. We'll see on Monday.