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Speaker 1: These One Bill's Live presented by called Light Health. All right,

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Speaker 1: here we are on a Tuesday. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live is the show, and we all know

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Speaker 1: that one Steve Tasker is a foodie. Much like I am.

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Speaker 1: His wife's out of town. This guy is on a

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Speaker 1: junk food bing total nobody's I mean, can possibly imagine.

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Speaker 1: I ate trash for supper last night, but I did

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Speaker 1: polish it off with a pine ice cream well, and

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Speaker 1: then followed it up with lunch today with a hot dog. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: hot dog fry, the whole thing. I man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: I'd almost ordered a milkshake for lunch today and I

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Speaker 1: instead went healthy. Well, so I got water way to

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Speaker 1: be a modicum of I got a bottle of water.

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Speaker 1: So I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now. It's

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Speaker 1: like getting a triple cheeseburger with a dice. I'm asking

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Speaker 1: for chest pain. I was. I thought about it this

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Speaker 1: didn't you know, I actually slept good last night. I

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Speaker 1: thought I was probably in a food call. I thought

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Speaker 1: ate garbage for just totally I'm even gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: what it was. I will not ever tell you what

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Speaker 1: it was. It was garbage, Okay, that was you know,

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Speaker 1: but it was like like junk food. Supposed to be cheese,

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Speaker 1: that would have been a step up. But wow, it

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Speaker 1: was mostly preservatives and you know, all that stuff, everything

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling pretty good today actually in spite of that,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna try and clean it up from now on. Okay,

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Speaker 1: good for you, But I'm still though, well, I get it.

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Speaker 1: Just everything everything in moderation. I was everything in moderation.

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Speaker 1: Don't be a glutton stuff in your life. Not all

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Speaker 1: the time, but once in a while they're like, man,

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Speaker 1: I look in the mirror and you say, you just

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Speaker 1: disgusted me. That's where I was this morning. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: discussed me. Okay, fair enough, fair enough, all right, try

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Speaker 1: to get on the clean train here for a little while.

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Speaker 1: Be good to your colon. Okay. Yeah, we we have

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Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff to get into today as we

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Speaker 1: are still sifting through the remnants of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two season for the Bills, which as we all know,

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Speaker 1: ended in the AFC Divisional Playoff round with a loss

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Speaker 1: to the Bengals, where the Bills just simply did not

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Speaker 1: look like the team we had watched all season long.

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Speaker 1: And the more you sift through the commentary from the

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Speaker 1: players yesterday on locker clean out day, and maybe to

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Speaker 1: a lesser extent, from head coach Sean McDermot, who addressed

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Speaker 1: the media late yesterday afternoon, and we'll have some of

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Speaker 1: his more notable comments for you here on the show shortly,

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Speaker 1: it's hard not to come away with and again not

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Speaker 1: using this as an excuse, I think it's just a fact.

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Speaker 1: And Steve and I talked about this even before we

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Speaker 1: came on the air today. If you look at the

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Speaker 1: last three games, the two leading up to Cincinnati in particular,

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Speaker 1: there were elements of Buffalo's game that were uncharacteristic and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to call them chinks in the armor.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's a proper description, but maybe warning

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Speaker 1: signs would be the right phrase to use. And what

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Speaker 1: really may it hit home for me was when Trudavious

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Speaker 1: and he basically characterized the week following the Damar Hamlin

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Speaker 1: cardiac event as an expletive show. This operation, this daily

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Speaker 1: operation here at one Bill's Drive, is one that is

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Speaker 1: revered around the league in terms of how things are

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Speaker 1: run here in Orchard Park on a daily basis. You

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Speaker 1: just heard Jamison Crowder say it yesterday in his locker

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Speaker 1: clean out interview. He basically said I would like to

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Speaker 1: this is the best run operation I've ever been around. Now,

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Speaker 1: terms of how they run things with distractions and other problems,

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Speaker 1: bigger media, whatever. But Jamison crowd Are just reiterated what

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Speaker 1: attracts people here is not only some of the premier

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Speaker 1: in a dog fight with a third string quarterback, Skyler Thompson.

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Speaker 1: So those kind of gave me pause. But I thought

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Speaker 1: I don't even recognize this team playing the Bengals today.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was it was different. It was different.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about this a lot about, you know,

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Speaker 1: the media. We didn't really we're not it's not our

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Speaker 1: even even now. I'm I'm a little hesitant to to,

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Speaker 1: plus I feel bad. You know, nobody wants to say,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's Damar's fault. Um no, because of what happened. Um,

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Speaker 1: I hope Damar's all right. Yeah, And there were stuff

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Speaker 1: All of that was going on, and I think there

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Speaker 1: don't care who. I don't care about the Cincinnati game,

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Speaker 1: and rightfully so, absolutely the whole country was there. But

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Speaker 1: So the way life is, the things you experience affect you,

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Speaker 1: and they should. That's how you learn. But I think

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Speaker 1: it just they had nothing there. There was no emotion there.

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Speaker 1: You need to bring even more come the postseason as

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Speaker 1: a home run like a fifth round Matt Milano All

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Speaker 1: Pro linebacker turned out to be. But certainly they got

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Speaker 1: some solid players. And in fact, notwithstanding the caller we

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Speaker 1: just had Blaine from Williamsville, there's a lot of people

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Speaker 1: calling for those players to play more like Khalil Shaker.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, let's see more of him, let's see

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Speaker 1: more of James Cook. So it's you know, I think

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Speaker 1: The point is this, they built this roster using a

436
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Speaker 1: formula and a process that has worked really well. Just

437
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Speaker 1: keep doing that. Certainly, you want to hit on every

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Speaker 1: draft pick, but you only get a draft that's not

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Speaker 1: realistic though. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The draft as a coin

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Speaker 1: flip at best for most of these clubs, even at

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Speaker 1: the highest rounds, in the highest picks. But they've had

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Speaker 1: a really good track record the way they scout these guys,

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Speaker 1: what they look for, how they look for it has

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Speaker 1: been proven to be pretty reliable and turned over some

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Speaker 1: really good gems. So they can keep on. Brandon being

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Speaker 1: in his career, just gonna do the same thing they do.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna build this thing the way they see fit

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Speaker 1: to build it, and because it's gotten them to the

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Speaker 1: point where they're a super Bowl favorite, and it took

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Speaker 1: a conglomeration of a ton of negative impact things out

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Speaker 1: of their control to derail the season, a derail of

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Speaker 1: thirteen and three season. So let's just they can keep

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Speaker 1: doing exactly what they're doing, just try and do it

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Speaker 1: a little better. Make sure of some of the draft picks.

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Speaker 1: Do some of that. I mean, you're not going to

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Speaker 1: hit on all these draft picks. But there's no reason

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Speaker 1: to change the way they do things or go in

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Speaker 1: and say, listen, no matter how good this guy is,

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Speaker 1: we're not taking him because he's a defensive player, or

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna take this guy because we've all were

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Speaker 1: full of it. They're gonna take the guy that they

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Speaker 1: think can have the best pro career when that comes out,

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Speaker 1: and if it's a and if it's a corner, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna take him, and if it's a wide out, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna take him. So certainly they've got a premium on

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Speaker 1: certain positions, and you and I have talked about it,

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Speaker 1: but don't don't go into a draft season thinking this

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Speaker 1: has to happen at this position or will never amount

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Speaker 1: to anything, because let's not forget they just had to

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Speaker 1: put together a pretty good roster with a you know,

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Speaker 1: with all the problems that we say they have. Now

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Speaker 1: they went thirteen and three with those problems, right, and

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Speaker 1: they're trying to work on it as well. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get it, and we all get caught up in Wow,

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Speaker 1: this need to be different, This need it's gonna be different.

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Speaker 1: Next year. It's absolutely gonna be different. Next year. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a different team. There's gonna be different players

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Speaker 1: on it. There's gonna be a core guys back that

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00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: you know of. But this team this year is vastly

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Speaker 1: different than the one they've ended last year with in

481
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Speaker 1: division round of playoffs. So don't get caught up in

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Speaker 1: this has got to happen or that's got to happen,

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Speaker 1: because things change fast in the NFL. You build your roster.

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Speaker 1: Just let them build the roster the way they've been

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Speaker 1: building it for the past six years. Let's get back

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Speaker 1: to the phones and we go to Phil in South

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Speaker 1: Buffalo next. What do you got for us, Phil? Hi?

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Speaker 1: How are you good? Just some observations on my mind.

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Speaker 1: Belief to marry him when you know what happened to him.

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Speaker 1: You know, my prayers are with him. I hope the

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Speaker 1: guy could play again if that's his choice. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he will with that. I pray for him, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think that was the cause of anything for

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Speaker 1: the Bills dropped him through like they did. I think

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Speaker 1: what it comes down too. I'm not knocking McDermott. I

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Speaker 1: think he's a great coach, but I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: an angry coach. For him now to address Stefen Diggs.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the end of that game and

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen is sitting there trying to figure a way

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Speaker 1: to get the ball team back into the game, and

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00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: he's looking at his tablet, and Stefan Diggs is acting

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Speaker 1: like a two year old, waving his arms and screaming.

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Speaker 1: If that was Little League, you'd have his But Phil, Phil,

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Speaker 1: what was Stefan saying to Josh? I have no idea? Well,

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Speaker 1: how can you make a decision about whether it was

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Speaker 1: right or wrong if you don't even know what he

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Speaker 1: was talking about. How do you know he wasn't cheering

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00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: josh on? How do you know he wasn't telling Josh

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Speaker 1: you keep playing, you're doing great? Because from what I read,

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Speaker 1: he immediately stormed off the field before the game was over,

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Speaker 1: and he was stopped leaving the locker room. I can't

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Speaker 1: think of his name. How do you know he was

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00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: mad at Josh. I'm not saying he was mad, But

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Speaker 1: if you're not saying he was mad, listen, don't don't

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Speaker 1: get on stuff. Steph Diggs did nothing wrong. There's nothing

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00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: wrong with Steph Diggs. Steph Diggs was not even out

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Speaker 1: of line. Steph Diggs is fine, and Josh, Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and Steph Diggs are buddies, and Steph Diggs can say

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Speaker 1: things to Josh Allen that would curdle your tod, curdle

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Speaker 1: the milk on your cereal in the morning, don't worry

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Speaker 1: about That's ridiculous, Phil, It's ridiculous to think that is

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Speaker 1: even a blip on the radar for the offseason. That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: You cannot imagine the conversations that go on in an

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Speaker 1: NFL locker room. You can't even imagine that. Even if

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Speaker 1: Josh had leaped off the bench and they started going

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00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: toe to toes screaming at each other, it's it doesn't

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Speaker 1: five minutes later, Josh gonna throw him a touchdown pass.

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Speaker 1: It don't matter. That stuff is ridiculous. People project their

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Speaker 1: own everyday lives onto what it's like to be on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines of an NFL game, and they got no

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Speaker 1: idea how stupid that is. It's come on, these guys.

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Speaker 1: The media catches it on camera and then they blow

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Speaker 1: it up as something, well, the media's are idiots to

534
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: guys like you and me are idiots because you can't

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00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: you guys, that that is totally dumb. That is, that

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00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: is making an assumption and an observation about something you

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00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: have no idea about. You don't even know the parameters

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Speaker 1: of the conversation. I mean, I've heard that Steph was

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00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: yelling at I'm telling him not to listen to Dorsey anymore.

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00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,479
Speaker 1: There's some of that going around. Wow, like they created

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Speaker 1: everything they're trying to make. He's trying to get Josh

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Speaker 1: to call his own plays, right, So you're telling me

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Speaker 1: Josh would be insulted by that. Come on, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter what Steph said. Man, They're trying to win a game.

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00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: They are trying to win a game, and they are

546
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: in a fight and they are getting They're getting it

547
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: handed to him pretty good yesterday on Sunday. So man,

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00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: oh man, to take that little snapshot and to project

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00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: it into a wider scope of where their season was.

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Speaker 1: Steph Diggs had one of the great wide receiving years

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00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: of all time in franchise history. He's okay, Josh's okay.

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00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: That's that's just people. I know. It's it's the disappointment

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00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: and the frustration of fans using that to vent their

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00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: own frustrations. Don't It's not worth it. Steph and Josh

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00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: are good. They're fine. I don't even talk to him.

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00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: They're fine. They're they're they love and respect each other,

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00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be They're gonna be laughing and drinking

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00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: whiskey and smoking cigars when they're sixty. They're fine. They're

559
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: gonna they're lifelong buddy. And that in a yelling match

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00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: when Steph comes off the few, when they're gonna laugh

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Speaker 1: about it. It is not a big deal. And that's

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Speaker 1: not It's not a big deal just because it was

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00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: Steph and Josh. It's not a big deal when usually

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00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: when any of that happens on any sideline. And the

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Speaker 1: best and the closest thing you can equate it to is,

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Speaker 1: you know, these guys consider themselves like brothers practically, that's

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Speaker 1: how close those two are. Now, ask yourself, if you

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Speaker 1: have a brother, do you ever fight with your brother?

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Speaker 1: Don't think you know what I mean, and don't have

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Speaker 1: arguments and believing with the people that are closest to you.

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Speaker 1: It happened. Sean McDermott is very good at having uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: conversations with his players. Yeah, if there was an uncomfortable conversation,

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott wouldn't. He's not going to shy away. Very direct,

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Speaker 1: he's not going to shy away from it. And if

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Speaker 1: he said he spoke to Steph, which he did yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and Steph said, hey, here's where I was at, and

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Speaker 1: John said, will listen, and Sean would have they would

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Speaker 1: have had a conversation about it, and it's and that's it.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, have a good off I seen a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about him. Break time for us here when

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Speaker 1: we come back. We'll hear from head coach Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: as we play some of his more notable comments from

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Speaker 1: yesterday's press conference as he wrapped up the season with

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Speaker 1: the media. That's coming your way next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to one of Bill's Live. Here

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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday. Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you and

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Speaker 1: wanted to play some of the more notable comments from

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Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott from his press conference yesterday when

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Speaker 1: he had his season wrap up session with the media

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Speaker 1: and thought of a good jumping off point would be

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Speaker 1: coach McDermott's assessment of the most pressing areas to focus

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Speaker 1: on this offseason. Specifically, he had you know, a data

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Speaker 1: kind of decompressor if you watch the film, that sort

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Speaker 1: of a thing. What areas do you think you need

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Speaker 1: to redress? Well, and I'll know more because today was

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Speaker 1: really for the most part, Adam meeting with players, exit

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00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: interviews and whatnot, and a team meeting at the end

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Speaker 1: of it all. But just overall, I mean, you look

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Speaker 1: at like we talked last night. You know, the game's won.

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Speaker 1: It starts, you know, and ends at the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: and so we've got to you know, look at that.

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00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: And then you look at the quarterback play. I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've got a quarterback that we feel really

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00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,760
Speaker 1: good about and should feel good about. But we all,

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Speaker 1: myself included and Josh and the leaders of this football team,

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00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: we also have to improve in certain areas to move

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Speaker 1: this organization forward. Yeah, I mean, no surprise there. And

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Speaker 1: they'll be doing hard and fast evaluations here over the

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Speaker 1: next couple of days. And then after that, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Brandon Bean and Sean McDermot will huddle up with

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Speaker 1: the personnel department and they'll chart a course for the

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Speaker 1: off season in terms of what needs to be added,

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00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: what needs to be subtracted, and what needs to be improved.

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Speaker 1: Coach McDermott was asked specifically about his evaluation of their

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Speaker 1: defensive line. They played seven games without Von Miller after

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Speaker 1: he went down on Thanksgiving with a season ending injury.

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00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: There were other injuries across the defensive front, most notably

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Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips at Oliver missed some time at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the year. So even Tim Settle missed some time

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Speaker 1: with a calf injury early in the season. So here

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Speaker 1: is coach McDermott's assessment of the play of Buffalo's defensive

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Speaker 1: line this season. Second first broad strokes. Satisfied with what

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00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: you got. I thought we were probably more more inconsistent

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Speaker 1: than I would have liked to have seen this year,

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Speaker 1: and particularly after Von went down. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: thought each one of those guys had their games where

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Speaker 1: they played well. Um, just overall as a group, I

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Speaker 1: didn't feel like or I felt like we were a

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Speaker 1: little bit too inconsistent, and yesterday being the latest example

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Speaker 1: of that, A little inconsistent, And I think that's a

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00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: fair assessment. Quite frankly, I mean, I mean, there weren't

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Speaker 1: many times where they got run over at the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage, but unfortunately their last game was an example

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00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 1: of that, and I think it was particularly tough for

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Speaker 1: Bills fans to take knowing there were three backups on

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00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's offensive line. Yeah, and you can make a case

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00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: for the conditions and the slippery footing and the style

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Speaker 1: of play that the Bills defensive ends or defensive lineman

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00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: used as compared to Cincinnati. Why Cincinnati wasn't as as

641
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: affected or seemingly as effected as the Bills were. Whatever. Yeah,

642
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: just nobody on Sunday this last Sunday was good enough

643
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: in the Cincinnati game. And while there was some moments

644
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: where they did some good things. You know, they put

645
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: together fifteen play drive seventy five yards for a touchdown,

646
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: one where Josh snuck it in and you know, Josh

647
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: made a nice throat of Gabe Davis for that touchdown

648
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: in the in the corner, but um or down the sidelines. Yeah,

649
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 1: the previous week. You know, they did some nice things

650
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: at different times, even during the Cincinnati game, but it

651
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: was just too little, too late and too sporadic to

652
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: make a difference in that game. So yeah, he's it'll

653
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: be a while, it'll be a minute before the I

654
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,919
Speaker 1: don't know what the contamination of the way that season ended,

655
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: But where then get an objective analysis even, I think

656
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: even for coaches who kind of know the ins and out,

657
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: say what every guy was supposed to be doing and

658
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: how well they were doing it. To get that out

659
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: of your get that out of your system as to

660
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: along with the disappointment of how the season ended, It's

661
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: gonna take some time. So even McDermott yesterday after they

662
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 1: watched the film, probably wasn't one hundred percent dispassionate about

663
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: what he had seen. Injuries, for the first time in

664
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: three seasons, played a significant role in player availability or

665
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: lack thereof, through the course of the twenty twenty two campaign,

666
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: certainly more so than in previous two years when the

667
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: Bills were one of the healthiest teams in football over

668
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: that two year stretch, and he had an interesting comment

669
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: in particular about the injuries across the defensive line. So

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00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: here is coach McDermott on how injuries will factor into

671
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: the roster evaluation and the plans to avoid such injuries

672
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: going forward. Yeah, that's probably the evaluation process. You know,

673
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 1: we've been pretty good over the years with that. Alatt

674
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: goes into that, and I think a lot goes into

675
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: it that we have to look at this year. We've

676
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: got to turn over every leaf and make sure that hey,

677
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: our schedule, what we're doing in the training room, what

678
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: the rehab looks like, what our strength and conditioning program

679
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: looks like. Oh, that has to We've got to put

680
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: it all on the table and say, hey, what's what's working,

681
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: what isn't working, and why we had the injuries we had.

682
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: There were some patterns in there as well, in particular

683
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: the calf injury at the defensive line position, and so

684
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: just like on the field, when patterns happened, we have

685
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: to look look into those patterns and figure out why. Yeah,

686
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: the calf injuries were interesting on the defensive line. It

687
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: proved costly in this last game because de Kwon Jones

688
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: came down with a calf injury coming out of last

689
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: the previous week's game, and though he was able to

690
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: practice on a limited basis, he could not go on Sunday.

691
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: It was the first game he missed all season, and

692
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: they missed that dude. That was the He was the

693
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: most valuable and consistent interior defensive lineman on this roster,

694
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 1: and when he was not on the field, you saw

695
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: a major difference. Yeah, he was a big body who

696
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: played with a high motor. Him along with Jordan Phillips

697
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: before Jordan Phillips dislocated his shoulder, those two were really

698
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: an upgrade and really was as good a defensive tackle

699
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: situation as the Bills had had since Sean McDermott started.

700
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: And then he sprinkling out at all over with that

701
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: and those guys and at Oliver's play really elevated as well,

702
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: so they missed him big time. We were We saw

703
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: it coming a couple of days before when they started

704
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: elevating Elion kop and Kingsley Jonathan, we thought, oh man,

705
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,240
Speaker 1: it doesn't look good. And sure enough, those guys weren't

706
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: able to go Tim Settleman's time with a calf injury

707
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. It's right, So the

708
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: calf injuries are going to be under the microscope for

709
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: those defensive linement because they don't want to run into

710
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: that problem going forward. You got time for one more

711
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: here from coach McDermott, and it deals with the subject

712
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: we let off the show with today. A lot of

713
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 1: the players in their exit interviews with the media basically

714
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 1: talked about how they felt the team emotionally ran out

715
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: of gas in this last game against the Bengals. Coach

716
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: McDermott was posed the same question. I mean, you could

717
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: always look at them and say, as you talk about hey,

718
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: the wise, right, you could. I'm not going to discount that,

719
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,240
Speaker 1: but I'm also not going to use that as an excuse.

720
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: Mark this is you know, we got beat on the

721
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: football field, and sometimes your energy he's taken from you

722
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: when the game's not going your way and they're having

723
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 1: their way the other team. And so we were playing

724
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: from behind early and we had a hard time catching up,

725
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: and so that gets to be a drange of your

726
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: energy after a while when you're playing from behind the

727
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: way we were. So you know, this other piece over here,

728
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,439
Speaker 1: I think there's there's always things, right, There's always things

729
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: that come up through a season, and our team did

730
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: a phenomenal, phenomenal job of handling those areas, probably more

731
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: than any team I've been around, or any team in

732
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: terms of what they've gone through this season. But that said,

733
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: they're not excuses as to why we get the result

734
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: we got. And that's kind of an answer you expect

735
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: out of a head coach, because a head coach never

736
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: makes excuses. But it was interesting that a handful of

737
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: players just felt like they didn't have anything left in

738
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: the tank to give, especially when they got off to

739
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: such a rough start down fourteen nothing. Yeah, I've been there.

740
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: Does take more when you're down, I have to come

741
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: back into a game, right, they've been there. Yeah, they

742
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: they had dug a hole for themselves, and and and

743
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 1: to their credit, I mean, the first thing you got

744
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: to do when you've dug yourself a hole, the first

745
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: thing you got to do is stop digging, right. Uh.

746
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: And then when they finally got that seventy five yard

747
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: drive and they got back on a fourteen seven, Okay,

748
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: here we go again. You know, we got we're back

749
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: into it. And then the half ends and they go,

750
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, then it's seventeen seventeen ten. It's like, Wow,

751
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: they were just couldn't get any traction. And I think

752
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: this too, one of the things that happens in games

753
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: like that when your team and we don't know for sure,

754
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: we've conjectured you and I were talking about, you know,

755
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 1: how much the damar Hamlin, how much what had happened

756
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,879
Speaker 1: to them, and all the adversity they've gotten thrown at

757
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 1: him weighed on them in this one game. But when

758
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: you're in a game like that, what you need to

759
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,280
Speaker 1: happen is to something for somebody defensively or off pensive

760
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: leads to do something superlative out of the blue, Um,

761
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: make a great run and catch a big angry run

762
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: or a a you know, an incredible tackle or a

763
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: sack or a tipped interception, something to spark your team

764
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: to get the momentum and the emotion back where you

765
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: can all kind of rally around that thing. In this case,

766
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: it looked to me like one of the rare occasions

767
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: where it might have taken two or three of those plays.

768
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: You know, they might have had to go on a

769
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: run of just wow, we really got you know, before

770
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: they would have really woken up um to use that phrase. Uh.

771
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: But having you know, in all of that, the simple

772
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: fact remains they were lacking in that game in a

773
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 1: lot of way, and you know they just uh energy, execution, attitude, grit.

774
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: It looked like they you know, they were they were

775
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: just kind of going through the emotions and that's why

776
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: you and that's why I feel the way I do

777
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: about you know, the way or season ended. Yeah, we

778
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: have to take a break here. A lot of you

779
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 1: who phoned in your opinions yesterday and today so far

780
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: believe that an influx of talent is needed at the

781
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. Coach McDermott was asked about his wide

782
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 1: receiver group, will tell you what he thought of their

783
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: performance through the course of this past season. Next here

784
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00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: pass along one more comment from Coach McDermott that we

792
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: thought fans would be of, you know, find interesting. I

793
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are clamoring for an influx

794
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball of some receiving talent.

795
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott was asked about the production he saw from

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00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: the wide receiver group this season. Here was his assessment

797
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: on that position group. You know, I think that's a

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00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: It depends on the game overall. You know, like some

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00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: games I thought we did, some games I thought maybe

800
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: not enough. You know, Steph is always gonna, you know,

801
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: our be our main guy out there in terms of

802
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: what he did this year for us and the guy

803
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: that we want to get the ball to um. But overall,

804
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: probably more than anything, just too many drop balls overall.

805
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: I think those those came to came to haunt us

806
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: at times. Coach McDermott is not wrong, Steve. This team

807
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: was second in the league and dropped past as green

808
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: Bay was the only team that had more than them.

809
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,280
Speaker 1: Believe green Bay had thirty on the regular season. Buffalo

810
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: had twenty eight and let's not forget they played in

811
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: one less game. Yeah, we harped on a lot during

812
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: the season. It was like something was in the water

813
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: sometimes with the drops they had and they and drops

814
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 1: are never good, but they always, you know, you always

815
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: seem to remember the ones that were in crucial moments

816
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But everybody's gonna if you're gonna throw

817
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: the ball sixty percent of the time, which most of

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00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 1: the teams do at least that much. You're gonna have drops.

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00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna say this, Josh sometimes throws the

820
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: ball's hard to catch. But yeah, drops are drops and

821
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: you gotta work on it. Well, you don't want to

822
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: drops are gonna happen for every team in the league.

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00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: You just don't want to be at the top of

824
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 1: the league in that category. You want to be middle

825
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: to lower third exactly. I mean, you don't want to

826
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: be leading the league or right there at the top.

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00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: And as we said, the Bills were second in the

828
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,439
Speaker 1: league and drop passes, it's your only green Bay had more,

829
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: and did you well, it's the other end of the

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00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: Who do you know who had the fewest. I'd have

831
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 1: to look at it, look that up. That that would

832
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: be interesting because it might be teams like Seattle or

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00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: you know that don't throw it as much, Houston or somebody,

834
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: or Baltimore, you know kind of thing. I don't know

835
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:16,439
Speaker 1: that's interesting, but it's always the most glaring. It's the

836
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,760
Speaker 1: biggest mistake most people see because we all watch the ball.

837
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:25,800
Speaker 1: Right was Atlanta with nine Chicago was second. See what

838
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 1: I'm saying, the ball right, that's that's yeah. So you're

839
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: gonna it's a little bit like living with the interceptions

840
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: you get with Mahomes, Burrow and Josh. It's like, okay,

841
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: you know, try not to make him in the red

842
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: zone kind of thing, but you're gonna You're gonna have those,

843
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: and you know what, that's fine because for every one

844
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: of those, you know, Josh makes one of those, falling

845
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: out of bounds, getting hit side arm to the middle

846
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 1: of the field, touchdown things, something and zone. That happens.

847
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: So that's fine too. They got to take those as well.

848
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here because when we

849
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: come back, our number two us off we'll be NBC

850
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: Sports Peter King, who had some thoughts on the end

851
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: of Buffalo season and where things go from here for

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Speaker 1: the franchise. He'll be joining us next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio three. Are our number two. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

855
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: with you, and we'll be joined by Peter King from

856
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: NBC Sports in just a moment. In the meantime, we

857
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: go to the phones and leading us off here in

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Speaker 1: our number two is Marie in Amhurst. We got for

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00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: us Marie. Hey, guys, so see, I understand you when

860
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: you talk about overreactions toward the roster, but when is

861
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: enough enough? If I'm the GM Brandon being a day,

862
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: I'm talking straight to the Bills mafia to day. I'm

863
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: telling on that with high risk on big rewards, changes

864
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: start coming and he needs to back his statements up.

865
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: We need to retool this roster. Whatever we put together

866
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: this year or a great season, that's got nothing to

867
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: do with what's coming next year because of all the

868
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: up and coming teams. So I'm not paying day Davis.

869
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: I'm sending him to Atlanta for a second round pick

870
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 1: in this draft. We watched vib Miller get traded. He's

871
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: a legend. I like Tremaine, but I'm sending him to

872
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: Seattle for a twentieth overall pick in his draft, and

873
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: then I'm going to get I'm going to you gotta

874
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: get some more pieces. I'm going to Kansas City. Take

875
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: one of the tight ends, Jody Fortune from Buffalo, New York.

876
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: He is, He runs through defenders, blocking in the run game.

877
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: He cleared length for Kelsey. He gets touchdowns and so

878
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 1: we got extra picks there, extra money and straight to

879
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean. He needs to know that we want George

880
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: Boyer to retire a bill like, we stop letting our

881
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: legendary players go away. I keep watching legends of the

882
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 1: game when we at the game or if we're watching

883
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: on TV. They bringing back players like Marshawn Lynchell. We like,

884
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: he's a Seattle He's a Seattle guy. He won a

885
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: super Bowl there. Let's bring let's make our own legends

886
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: and bring our players act because I think that's just

887
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: it was just too much this season, so we need

888
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 1: to make some changes Sean McDermott. Then here's the twenty

889
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: seventeen You know, okay, he's been to a Super Bowl.

890
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: He let a defense there with Carolina Panthers, so he

891
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: knows what it takes to get to the super Bowl

892
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,439
Speaker 1: on the defensive side. But something's just not clicking there

893
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: on that side because they haven't got it done. And

894
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: then we watched two or three year players back to

895
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: back at Cincinnati. They going to the AFT Championship Game,

896
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: two three year players back to back. So the youth

897
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: maybe it is some formative with getting younger players in here.

898
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: And building around them and create in more. But we

899
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: gotta make them change some trades. We got it. We

900
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,359
Speaker 1: gotta cotton all right, Thanks Marie. And I'll say this.

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00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: I'll say this for you, and I don't disagree with

902
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: most of what you said. And I said it before

903
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: next year's team when they when they this offseason starts,

904
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: and he'll probably say, you know a lot of stuff,

905
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: everything's on the table, and you're right, there are certain

906
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: things you gotta make. It's a business. Jordan Poyer knows

907
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: that Tredavious White knows that Gabe Davis knows that all

908
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: those guys you know, like and and I know that

909
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: you kind of do this to yourself. And I don't

910
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 1: want to bring it up, but you said you need

911
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: to keep Jordan Poyer a bill. You need to make

912
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: your great players stay great and keep them in house.

913
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: But you already traded away Tredavious White to the You

914
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: traded away Tredavious White to Seattle. So I'm with you.

915
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: The thing that nobody gets and why it's always so sad,

916
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: particularly for the players and the coaches when the season's over,

917
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: sows that team there's gonna be a lot of new

918
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: faces on this team because we got we there's a list,

919
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: we got a whole We've got a graphic on our

920
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: screens right here. There's twenty one free agents and restricted

921
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: free agents on the roster, twenty twenty one. That's a

922
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: lot of guys on a forty seven man roster on

923
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: game day. It's gonna be a different team next year. Yeah,

924
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: they'll be you know, Josh will still be here. You

925
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: know that's gonna happen. Dig's gonna be here. I get that,

926
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be some guys that you love and

927
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: respect it aren't gonna be here. And these guys that

928
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 1: are gonna be here have to learn to include and

929
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:49,720
Speaker 1: make the family different in the locker room. So Marie,

930
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: you're right, whatever moves are out there and we can

931
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: conjure up, you know, like you said, trading Gabe Davis

932
00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: to Atlanta and Tradevius White to Seattle and who else

933
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,280
Speaker 1: was the other one? I can't remember, you know, Okay,

934
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: I'm not even You're way ahead of me in that game.

935
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: She wanted to trade Tremaine. Actually Tremaine, Tremaine gonna be

936
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: under contract, so so I'm you know, so, yeah, it's

937
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: gonna be a different team, and you're right. If they

938
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: feel there's neat change that needs to be done, they

939
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: it's their responsibility to do it, whether it's comfortable or not. Yeah,

940
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Speaker 1: let's welcome in now NFL Inside for NBC Sports Peter King,

941
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: who also is got his weekly Football Morning in America column, Peter,

942
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: how you doing, I'm doing okay? Are you guys all right?

943
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: Or I'm worried about that? Yeah, we're we're weathering always.

944
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 1: We've been here before, We're yeah, yeah, unfortunately, Yeah, we've

945
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: been here before. So you know how it goes how

946
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: you coodn't see if Peter, thanks for coming on. What

947
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: are your thoughts about this this playoff tournament so far

948
00:53:55,719 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. Well, I said in my column

949
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: yesterday that this is really the first time that I've

950
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: really thought about the Bills. As you know, the sand

951
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: in the hourglass is starting to fall out, you know,

952
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: and I've not thought of it to that point exactly

953
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: like you know, before this, to that point exactly like this.

954
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: And the reason is because I think this is the

955
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: fourth year that Josh Allen has taken this team to

956
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Shot mc dermott, Brandon Bean Josh Allen, I

957
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: mean the core and you know, just other than maybe

958
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: that first year of twenty nineteen when they lost to Houston,

959
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: this is the first year where I say that they

960
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: look like they might be a little bit away, you know.

961
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: You know, I remember last year was just this week

962
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: last year, after the Kansas City playoff game that I

963
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: just said, man, the Bills next year, they're gonna be

964
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: my team. They're gonna be the team, and I'm going

965
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: to pick to win the Super Bowl. And you know,

966
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: to me, the difference between last year and this year,

967
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: when last year, I think they scored eighty three points

968
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: in the two playoff games and this year they scored

969
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: whatever it was, forty six, forty seven points. It's it's

970
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 1: just a different It's a different team, first of all.

971
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: And you know, Steve, you're talking about the looming free agents.

972
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: It's a different team every year, there's no question about it.

973
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: But I think what is different about this team this year,

974
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: particularly from last year, is that last year's team at

975
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: the end of the year just looked like a juggernaut

976
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: that needed a few tweaks on defense. That isn't the

977
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: case now. This is a team that looks like it

978
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: really does need some help on offense. I think it

979
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: appears that we're wrong about Gabe Davis. I was certainly

980
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to be one of the five,

981
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 1: six seven best number two receivers in football, and he

982
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: wasn't that this year. And you know, I also think

983
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott's going to have to look at his team,

984
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: and I think he's going to have to look at

985
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of his game day management and look

986
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: at his team and say, I might have to be

987
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: a little bit bolder, particularly late in games. Yeah, I

988
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:50,240
Speaker 1: might have to go for things that in the past

989
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: I really haven't gone for per se. You know, say

990
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 1: fourth down, the fourth and two at the end of

991
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: the first half, that maybe even the fourth and ten

992
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: at the end of the second half. You know, there's

993
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 1: just a bunch of things I think that all aspects

994
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: of this franchise can look at and examine and say,

995
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: how are we going to get better for twenty twenty three.

996
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: It looks to me, Peter, and you can tell me

997
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: what you think of this theory. You know, to your

998
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: point about investing in the offense, the Chiefs have clearly

999
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: done that year over year, even last offseason when they

1000
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: trade away Tyreek Hill. You know, they go out and

1001
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: they get valid As Scandling, they get Smith Schuster, and

1002
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: then before the trade deadline they get Cadarius Tony. I

1003
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: mean constantly adding you know, talent and weapons around Patrick Mahomes.

1004
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: They also made some heavy investments in their offensive line

1005
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: the last couple of off seasons Joe Tuney and free

1006
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: agency or Lando Brown. They draft Creed Humphrey. They insulate

1007
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: the quarterback and give him every opportunity to succeed. You know,

1008
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: we know the Bengals top three receivers are tough to

1009
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: top two in terms of talent. Buffalo has really got

1010
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: to go all in on offense here in this offseason

1011
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: because even if you sacrifice talent on the defensive end,

1012
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: it seems if you're going to get to the Promised

1013
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: Land in the AFC, you got to outscore teams and

1014
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: then hope your defense can just hold it together enough

1015
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 1: to have the opponents score for three or four less

1016
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: points than you do. I would totally agree, I think that. Yeah.

1017
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: I remember it was now almost two years ago when

1018
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals, I think I thought they were crazy

1019
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: to not take Pinay Seul instead and instead not crazy,

1020
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: I just I didn't like them taking Jamar Chase over

1021
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: Pinay Seul well obviously, and look, Pinay Seul might have

1022
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: been a great Bengal, but Jamar Chase since that pick

1023
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: has been a huge ad to this franchise, and I

1024
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: do think that's correct. I think what happened in Kansas City,

1025
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: I think it's such an interesting way to look at

1026
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: how to build your team because I think everybody thought

1027
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: that Kansas City was going to take a step back

1028
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: this year. I thought if they were eighty five percent

1029
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: on offense of what they were last year, we'd be fine,

1030
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 1: and instead they were one hundred and ten percent of

1031
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: what they were on offense with you know, with Tyreek Hill.

1032
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons is I think you really

1033
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: have to know your team well. And Andy Reid and

1034
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: Brett Veach knew their team. And look, this is my opinion,

1035
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: this is not them. But look, I think that Tyreek

1036
00:59:56,680 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: Hill became a problem in twenty twenty one. We didn't

1037
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: see that at the time, but I think he became

1038
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: a problem. He wanted the ball a lot more. He

1039
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: was an incredibly squeaky wheel, and so the Chiefs went

1040
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: out and they said, Okay, we'll trade you if we can,

1041
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: and they did that. And the reason that they can

1042
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: do that is that they could then trust Patrick Mahomes

1043
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: to bring new guys into the fold. You know, And

1044
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: it's amazing, it's amazing, But forty three percent of Patrick

1045
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: Mahomes's passing yards maybe it was forty seven percent, but

1046
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: it's in the forties were all of those new wide

1047
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: receivers this year. And you know, you know, their new

1048
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 1: wide receivers gave them more yards than the wide receivers

1049
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: who left last year, obviously by Tyreek Hill. So if

1050
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: you trust your quarterback to bring new guys into the fold,

1051
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 1: then Juju Smith, Schuster and Mark Kesvaldi's scantling, they're going

1052
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 1: to be able to get the job done. You just

1053
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: have to trust your quarterback to be able to get

1054
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:23,439
Speaker 1: those guys up and running. And Andy Reid and Brett

1055
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 1: Beach trusted Patrick Mahomes and their trust was well placed.

1056
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: Well the Bills, it seems the Bills trust Josh Allen

1057
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: everybody as much as the Chiefs trust Mahomes. But Josh

1058
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: is working, it seems, and to our surprise, we're like you,

1059
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: we everybody had high expectations of this wide receiver room.

1060
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 1: Certainly Steph Diggs didn't disappoint this season. But are the

1061
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 1: Bills in a position where they're asking too much of

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01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: Josh Allen at this point because of the roster around him,

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01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: And if so, and they do go the way that

1064
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: Brownie suggests, that starts to tilt the table towards offense,

1065
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: not just in the draft, but in free agency and

1066
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: everything else. You know, my feeling is that, you know,

1067
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: every team is different, but I do agree with you, Steve.

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01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 1: I think that probably as as you look in retrospect

1069
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: now Brandon Bean, Sean McDermott, they might have trusted Josh

1070
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 1: Allen a little bit too much. I mean, you saw

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01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 1: at the end of this year they have to go

1072
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: back and they have to go get Cole Beasley to

1073
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: come back. You know, they have to get John Brown

1074
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: to come back. You know. It's ironic, isn't it that

1075
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: at the end of this season they really could have

1076
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: used Isaiah Hodgins, you know, who was really good for

1077
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: the Giants. And the Giants think they have an absolute

1078
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: keeper in Isaiah Hodgens, and so they were they were

1079
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 1: happy that the Bills tried to you know, sneak him

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01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 1: off the roster and then back onto the practice squad,

1081
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 1: because clearly they they used a resource that you know,

1082
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and that coaching staff found and developed. So

1083
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: and I think there's more of that. They can do

1084
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 1: more of that. But I also think that you really

1085
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 1: may have to look at the market this year and

1086
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: go out and get at least one proven good receiver

1087
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: to come in this year. Who might that be. I

1088
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of names. One guy I would

1089
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: look into a lot if I were the Bills, as

1090
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson, who went to the Rams last year and

1091
01:03:56,160 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: they really didn't make that work very well. Who knows.

1092
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 1: The Rams are very interested now in trying to build

1093
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 1: through the draft a little more than they have in

1094
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: the past. Maybe you can get Alan Robinson. I mean, look,

1095
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a bunch of guys out there. There

1096
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 1: always is. But I think the biggest thing is you

1097
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: do have to build that offense back up, because you

1098
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: have to look at what your competitors are doing in

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01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: Kansas City and Cincinnati both overall right now have better

1100
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 1: weapons than Buffalo does. Let's look at the final four

1101
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:36,400
Speaker 1: teams standing here a little bit. Peter as we you know,

1102
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: are closing in on championship weekend. And I don't know

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01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: about you, but as high flying as as the Chiefs

1104
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: in Bengals game could potentially be Eagles and Niners, is

1105
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: just gonna be it just rings of an old school

1106
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 1: slug fest, does it not that that's going to be

1107
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: one of these games that Honestly, at the end of

1108
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: that game, you say, man, I'm glad we got the

1109
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 1: extra week before the Super Bowl because you know, there

1110
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 1: was the stat this year that teams when they play

1111
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: the Niners the next week, they've got an awful record,

1112
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: And I think that is going to be the case.

1113
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: You saw at the end of the San Francisco Dallas

1114
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 1: game that you know, Jimmy Ward, the safety, just demolished

1115
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: Kavante Turpin, the Dallas receiver on that weird flute play

1116
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:38,919
Speaker 1: at the end of that game. That's really what That's

1117
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: really what San Francisco has done. They are a physical,

1118
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 1: very very tough team to play. But on the other hand,

1119
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: one of the things that I like about what Howwie

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01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 1: Roseman has done in Philadelphia. You know, I was at

1121
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: the game on Saturday, and you know, I just kept

1122
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 1: looking and they have waya after wave. They have so

1123
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: many defensive linemen. It turns out they rotated twelve defensive

1124
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:13,240
Speaker 1: linemen in this game. Twelve guys played at least ten snaps.

1125
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham's thirty five years old. He played twelve snaps

1126
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: in that game and got a sack of Daniel Jones

1127
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. So they figured out a way

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01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: to have a bunch of older guys getting older, like

1129
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham. They play less, but they

1130
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:35,439
Speaker 1: still produce. I think it's gonna be a terrific game.

1131
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 1: I'd probably take the Eagles. I just have a lot

1132
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:43,439
Speaker 1: of belief right now, and Jalen Hurts, but it would

1133
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 1: not surprise me one iota if the forty nine ers

1134
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 1: won in nineteen seventeen game. And you look at the

1135
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks that are in this round, these championship rounds,

1136
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 1: Brock Purty, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, and Pat Mahomes. Pat

1137
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: Mahome Holmes is the oldest one at twenty seven. And

1138
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: you look at the quarterbacks in the AFC with Pat Mahomes,

1139
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, Justin, Herbert Lamar, Jackson,

1140
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: Tutona Vloa when he started and healthy for the Miami Dolphins,

1141
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: and then the NFC. Of course you got Jalen Hurts,

1142
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 1: Brock Purdy, Cousins, Brady who was there, Dak Prescott, and

1143
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:32,440
Speaker 1: then Daniel Jones. It is it. I don't know what.

1144
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: Give me an idea, you're pop what you think of

1145
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 1: this population at the top of the conferences of these quarterbacks,

1146
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: certainly start with the AFC. These guys are young, they

1147
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: seem really good, they seem to have a lot of

1148
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:45,840
Speaker 1: staying power. They seem like they're the real deal. Not

1149
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: this one, you know, not a one year wonder. I mean,

1150
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: these guys are good and they look like they're gonna

1151
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 1: be good for a very long time, I would agree.

1152
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean the one X factor areas Lamar Jackson. You

1153
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: don't really know what's going to happen to him. You

1154
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: don't know where he's going to end up. I will

1155
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 1: not be shocked if either Lamar Jackson or Aaron Rodgers

1156
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: ends up with the Jets. You know, in Rogers case

1157
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: short term, in Lamar's case long term. I just sense

1158
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: that the owner of that team probably has a little

1159
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:25,880
Speaker 1: bit of quiet desperation versus some of the other teams.

1160
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 1: But I think that Lamar I think there's a good

1161
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: chance Lamar will be on the move. Now that's not

1162
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 1: a certainty, but I do think the top three guys

1163
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, you could also make

1164
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 1: the case that they're the top three in all of football.

1165
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: I do think that you know, Jalens is a top

1166
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: five player as well. I think Jalen Hurts is both

1167
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 1: work ethic and ability to get guys around him to

1168
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:08,920
Speaker 1: play at a higher level is something that every team

1169
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: looks for in every quarterback. And so I think right now,

1170
01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, the way I sort of look at the

1171
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:20,080
Speaker 1: Bills now is that you guys are both right in

1172
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: what you've talked about in the last few minutes. The

1173
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:26,240
Speaker 1: Bills are in an arms race with Cincinnati and Kansas City,

1174
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 1: and that is going to be what will determine which

1175
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 1: team survives every year. Which teams are the ones that

1176
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: look at the landscape and say we have to do X,

1177
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,680
Speaker 1: Y and Z and then go out and actually do it.

1178
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: That is going to be something that is really going

1179
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 1: to help determine who wins a very very stacked AFC

1180
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:55,720
Speaker 1: in the next four or five years. Last one I've

1181
01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: got for you, Peter, you touched on it already. The

1182
01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 1: Jets and addressing the quarter back position. If you had

1183
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 1: to handicap an either or situation with Rogers and Lamar,

1184
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 1: which would you put odds on to land more? Who's

1185
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: more likely to land in New York? You think because

1186
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:14,719
Speaker 1: a lot of people and I believe you were talking

1187
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:17,200
Speaker 1: about this too in one of your columns about how

1188
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 1: it might take two ones to get Rogers away from

1189
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 1: Green Bays. So what ay Johnson willing to part with

1190
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:26,800
Speaker 1: that kind of currency? I would be if I were him?

1191
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: Why not? I mean, what are draft choices really? What

1192
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:33,160
Speaker 1: are they? There are means to help you get better?

1193
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: If I told you right now you're the Jets, you

1194
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:38,639
Speaker 1: haven't had a quarterback in a hundred years. You really

1195
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 1: haven't had a quarterback and a half century. And that's

1196
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: not an exaggeration. I mean you've had guys who played

1197
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 1: the position. But if you had a top five quarterback

1198
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: on your team in the last fifty years since Joe Namath, no,

1199
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:56,160
Speaker 1: So let's say that you can get Aaron Rodgers to

1200
01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 1: commit to you absolute total minimum for two years. You know,

1201
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 1: you ask yourself this question, would I do that? I

1202
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: would do it. I would put Zach Wilson in the

1203
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:14,160
Speaker 1: room with him, and I would just say, Okay, Zach,

1204
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:17,560
Speaker 1: soak it in. You know, learned from this guy, and

1205
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 1: then let's see what happens in a couple of years.

1206
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 1: But look, I don't know what they're going to do.

1207
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 1: When I wrote about Aaron Rodgers in my column, I said,

1208
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:30,719
Speaker 1: I guess that it would be my guess that green

1209
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 1: Bay would look for two ones. I don't know anything.

1210
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: Haven't stalked to a soul about it in green Bay.

1211
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: But that's just that's that's my guess. And you know,

1212
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:45,040
Speaker 1: to me, you know, the whole Lamar Jackson thing makes

1213
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: me a little nervous quite honestly. He missed five and

1214
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: three quarter games a year ago. He missed six and

1215
01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 1: three quarter games this year. And you're talking about a

1216
01:11:56,560 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: guy who makes a lot of his explosive plays with

1217
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 1: his legs. Do you want a guy who's missed thirty

1218
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,080
Speaker 1: four percent of the snaps the last two years, a

1219
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: guy that you'd put everything on his plate? And do

1220
01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:14,720
Speaker 1: you want to trust that over the next eight to

1221
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 1: ten years he's going to be a healthy player. I mean,

1222
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:24,679
Speaker 1: he might be, but recent history says he's not going

1223
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 1: to be, so that's a difficult thing for me. It's

1224
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 1: difficult with Rogers too because of you know, if it

1225
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: would you know, the compensation you'd have to pay. I

1226
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: get it, but I don't know. The Jets just look

1227
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: like they're going to be on the hamster wheel of

1228
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 1: devastation in the next couple of years unless they do

1229
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,920
Speaker 1: something bold. Pete, it's always great to talk to you.

1230
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:49,960
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking some time for us. Good luck and

1231
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 1: I hope we see it down the road. That's great, guys,

1232
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for having me. Thanks Peter. That's an

1233
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: NFL inside for NBC Sports. Peter King joining us here

1234
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: on the show. And yeah, it's it's a verified arms

1235
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:06,679
Speaker 1: race in the AFC, and the Bills have to add

1236
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: a few more weapons to their arsenal um. Yeah here,

1237
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: because you know Bengals one through three at receiver, it's

1238
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 1: better than than what Buffalo has. And you could argue

1239
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:20,800
Speaker 1: the same thing for the Chiefs and and not far

1240
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:24,599
Speaker 1: behind because they're gonna get Calvin Ridley off suspension next

1241
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:29,639
Speaker 1: year or the Jackson's Bille Jaguars. He did say something

1242
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 1: they're about the Jets that they're gonna be on the

1243
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:35,559
Speaker 1: hamster wheel of destruction. That is it's a great line.

1244
01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 1: That is a great I wrote it down, hamster wheel

1245
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:42,240
Speaker 1: of destruction. Let's not let's not get our let's not

1246
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 1: get our ticket punched to the hamster wheel of destruction.

1247
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: Let's try to avoid that at all costs. Wow. Um, good,

1248
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: that's where the Jets live more often than not. But

1249
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: good hearing from Pete. Though they get Aaron Rodgers or

1250
01:13:56,000 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: they get Lamar Jackson, this division is going to be

1251
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 1: supremely interesting. Yeah, how because my look at your own division.

1252
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:10,320
Speaker 1: We're talking about Kansas City and Cincinnati. Steve Miami's got

1253
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 1: a top two set of receivers that are better than

1254
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: what Buffalo has here. And all of a sudden, you're

1255
01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: going you kind of get quiet thinking about what it

1256
01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:20,680
Speaker 1: would mean to have Aaron Rodgers in the Jet in

1257
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:25,040
Speaker 1: The Jets have a championship caliber defense, they have a

1258
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:28,240
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver in Garrett Wilson. They gotta fill

1259
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:30,639
Speaker 1: in after that, but they got they got a game

1260
01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:32,800
Speaker 1: breaker in Breece Hall in the backfield too. Yeah they

1261
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: do so, Yeah that they're right there they get a

1262
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 1: quarterback of that caliber, they're right there. Yeah they are.

1263
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 1: That's that's no fun to think about, no, because then

1264
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:46,160
Speaker 1: you can't make fun of them anymore. Yeah, I know,

1265
01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 1: it's so disappointing. Yeah, all right, we'll take a break here,

1266
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:53,640
Speaker 1: we'll get back to your phone calls, because we're asking you,

1267
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,600
Speaker 1: you're the GM of the Bills today, what are you

1268
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 1: saying when you address the media in your season wrap

1269
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: up press conference? You let U at eight five fifty.

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Speaker 1: We're back with your phone calls next year on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Stay tuned. All right, welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. We've got

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Speaker 1: to get back to the phones. Now. You've been asking you,

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01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 1: you're the Bills GM today, what do you say at

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01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,640
Speaker 1: your press conference? We go to the phones and we

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Speaker 1: lead off this segment with John in Buffalo. What do

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Speaker 1: you go first? John? Well? I was thinking about all

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01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: and talk about keeping Josh Hammond some more, some more

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01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:39,639
Speaker 1: weapons in the wide receiver corps. Have the Bills even

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01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 1: thought about signing Odell Beckham? And another thought with all

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01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: the stuff that went on towards the end of the

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01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 1: season with the snowfall and the blizzard and moving back

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01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:55,800
Speaker 1: to the fourth to Detroit and then watching their brother,

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01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 1: basically guy on the field. What if they could possibly

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01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:03,519
Speaker 1: be suffering from a little bit of PTSD years of

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01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: cold Clinton Art Chuck Buffalo Savers Ye caught a skate

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01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 1: on his throat and almost bled to death on the ice,

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01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 1: and I know that dat affected the whole team for

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01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 1: almost a month. They were really terrible. He was just

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Speaker 1: my thoughts and I'll hang up and listen to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks, John, appreciate the call. We know that

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Speaker 1: you know, Obj did visit like he did the other

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01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: clubs that were interested in him when the season was

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Speaker 1: still going on. I was back in November, and you know,

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01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:40,120
Speaker 1: everybody entertained thoughts of what it would take. Probably here,

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01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 1: probably in Dallas was a thirteen that was interested in him.

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Speaker 1: I don't even remember. In any event, I think Obj

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01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:50,519
Speaker 1: knew he wasn't going to be ready to play, knowing

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Speaker 1: you just had ACL surgery and at the end of February,

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01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,640
Speaker 1: and so he chose to wait until this offseason and

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01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:59,920
Speaker 1: enter the free agent market a year removed from search,

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01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 1: which is probably a much better situation for him. Quite frankly, Yeah,

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01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 1: what's he gonna cost? Then will the demand for him

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01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:08,839
Speaker 1: be higher with thirty two teams vying for his services

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01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: or who knows, five or six teams vying for his services?

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01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: Perhaps we also have to remember there's also going to

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01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 1: be a flood of other players available at the receiver position.

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01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 1: It's not just him, it's the whole pool of the

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01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 1: free agent market. So maybe the price comes down. And

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01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 1: if that's the case, maybe he is an option. I

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01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 1: don't know. Von Miller said he wasn't writing him off yet. Nobody,

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01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: nobody is signing ob j until he's good enough to

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01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 1: work out for him and pass a physical. And he

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01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:38,639
Speaker 1: was not subjecting himself to a physical at the time

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01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 1: when you know, the bills were looking at him and

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01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:43,559
Speaker 1: he was talking and when he had gotten cleared to play,

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01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 1: so that was off the table for most of it.

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01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,720
Speaker 1: And you're right as for their bills and how that

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01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 1: affected him, I was, yeah. I remember the Clinton Mallard

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Speaker 1: Chuck incident. They had people in the stadium that that

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Speaker 1: were falling passing out. They had like six or seven

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Speaker 1: people I remember the number was six or seven people

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Speaker 1: in the stadium had chest pains when Clint mlarchuck went down.

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Speaker 1: It was it was shocking stuff. It was shocking what

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Speaker 1: happened to Clint mlarchuck, and people reacted to it in

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Speaker 1: the stand. So you can imagine what it was for

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Speaker 1: the players and Clint Mlarchuck. I happened to be around

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01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: him the day after that he did some media interviews.

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Speaker 1: Was I was interning and he didn't feel you know

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Speaker 1: when it happened. He put his hand up to the

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Speaker 1: where he got cut on his neck and he said,

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01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:45,640
Speaker 1: I was okay. And then I got up onto my

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Speaker 1: knees and I looked towards the bench, and then when

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Speaker 1: I saw the look on all my teammates faces, I

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01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:56,760
Speaker 1: got terrified. Yeah, and you know, so there you have it.

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Speaker 1: So that really affected those guys on that team, and

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01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 1: you can imagine what it was like. You saw the

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01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: pictures on Monday Night Football of Josh and Steph Diggs

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01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: and Tredavious White and all those guys who watched them

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01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: resuscitate damar. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that they had that.

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Speaker 1: And unlike the old days where like even in my day,

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01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 1: where it would be like the guy's patting on the

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01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 1: back and say, hey, suck it up. You know, let's

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01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 1: go strap it on. Now, there's healthcare professionals in the building.

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01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:31,599
Speaker 1: They went out and got outside help and the additional

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01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:33,840
Speaker 1: help they have people on staff, but they also got

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01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: additional people in to talk because all of them were

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Speaker 1: dealing with it. All these guys were struggling with it.

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Speaker 1: Are we were in this building and then in our

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01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: end of the building, in our control room, and here

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01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: with us. I was struggling with it. Yeah, it was rough.

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01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:51,640
Speaker 1: So it's no surprise that it affected the way they

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01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 1: played because it affected the way they prepared, It affected

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01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 1: their everyday life. Davis White said in his first interview

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01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:02,479
Speaker 1: after the incident, he said, I when I closed my eyes,

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01:20:02,520 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 1: I can't see anything. I can't unsee what they had

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01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 1: to do to Damar to get him. He was trying

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01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 1: to watch television to be a distraction. He said, every

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01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 1: time a commercial comes on, that's all he sees. It's

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01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 1: all he could think about. So, yeah, it was bad.

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Speaker 1: It was bad. So Brownie and I spent the whole

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Speaker 1: first segment of the show talking about what we think

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01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,680
Speaker 1: and the contributing factors to the performance. We saw the

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01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: bills put on last Sunday, and we both of us

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01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: believe in our heart of hearts that they're still dealing

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Speaker 1: with it. And I tell me I still they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be dealing with it. Even when they come back for training.

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Speaker 1: Some of these guys are not gonna be the same

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01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 1: because of what happened to it to Damar. Yeah, just

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01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:46,439
Speaker 1: like Damar doesn't seem he's not going to be the same.

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Speaker 1: So it's I think it's a real thing. And I

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Speaker 1: know it sounds like, you know, they're gonna be the

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01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 1: cynics who say it's an excuse and you know whatever,

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01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:59,639
Speaker 1: they just weren't good enough. That's fine, But I believe

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01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 1: it's real. I believe it's a real thing. And then

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Speaker 1: and it affected the outcome of the season for this club.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones and we go to

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Speaker 1: Mark in Jersey City. What do you got first? Mark

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01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live. How you're doing Chris good

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01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 1: good spurst point three points yesterday for you, buddy? Um damn.

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Speaker 1: I think this team needs just a little bit of

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01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:22,040
Speaker 1: a style change offensively. And what I mean by that

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01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 1: is you look at the forty nine ers. No matter

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01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: what they do, you know what they're gonna do. Their

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01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,080
Speaker 1: core Tenants. They run, they play good, they're good upfront,

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01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 1: and they make it easy on their quarterback. And in

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01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 1: Northeast football, when the first flies, it's like they don't

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01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: have like what the Bengals had the Patriots all those years.

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01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: No matter how you can attribute it to Brady, they

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01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 1: could always either control the line of scrimmage or reset it.

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01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:50,160
Speaker 1: And they had big backs that ran behind their pads.

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01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: The Bills have not had that in could say Marshawn Lynch,

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01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 1: but I never really consider them a Bill. Maybe Derek Holmes,

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01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: like behind your pads, Fred could run with power a

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01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, I know what you're saying, something

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01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:09,200
Speaker 1: like that, like just something to change it up, to

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01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: allow Josh to relax and people, so you don't want

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01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:15,080
Speaker 1: to have redressed really bore. Like Peyton Manning came in

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01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,719
Speaker 1: and had Marshall fault, they traded him and drafted Edgering

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Speaker 1: Jeans Like that was Peyton Manning. Tom Brady in his

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01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 1: early parts of his career. They were a running team. Yeah,

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01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:32,080
Speaker 1: Antoine Smith, right, you know the big big back I

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01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:34,679
Speaker 1: mean for this first and then you know la Garrett Blunt.

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01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:36,439
Speaker 1: I mean I remember the one game he had against

1405
01:22:36,479 --> 01:22:38,600
Speaker 1: the Bills. It was just always had that guy that

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01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: could really just drill people, and the Bills just don't

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01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 1: have that. And I know people say that's an old,

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01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:49,400
Speaker 1: tired idea, but he can also catch passes too, pick up,

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01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: you know, much better on third down Blizz pick up

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01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,720
Speaker 1: as opposed to the facts they have. Now. One other thing,

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01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:58,240
Speaker 1: you know, just having a different personality type on this team.

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01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:00,040
Speaker 1: I know they have the you know, humble at and

1413
01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: greed do it with love. They have the guys get

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01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:04,920
Speaker 1: up and speak. I think, you know, Steve will attest

1415
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:08,439
Speaker 1: this and those teams like the guy the caller with Diggs.

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01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 1: You need more Diggs on this team. Need more guys

1417
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:14,479
Speaker 1: that are gonna get pissed during games like that on defense,

1418
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: maybe on the offensive line. Just there's I think there's

1419
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:22,439
Speaker 1: just a Richie Incognito missing on this team. And the

1420
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: teams Steve play on had a lot of those guys

1421
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 1: thoroughly nasty, played with an edge. They weren't out there

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01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: to swap jerseys at the end of the games. Yeah,

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01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:35,320
Speaker 1: all right, Mark, thank you. That's that's there's a lot

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01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:39,760
Speaker 1: in there, and you're right, um. I think one of

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01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,439
Speaker 1: the reasons they kept John Feliciano around. It was because

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01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 1: he was one of those guys that I said, if

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01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: he's not in the fight, he's trying to get to

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01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 1: the middle of it. Um, need we need some guys

1429
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 1: that might. The teams I had on were notorious for

1430
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 1: having a couple of guys like that. Darryl Tallett was

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01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:56,040
Speaker 1: one of them, and so was Leonard Smith Smith. Yeah, Um,

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01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 1: you had some guy and Jimmy Richard was like that.

1433
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 1: Yet from guys who were not afraid to throw some

1434
01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: punches in a fight and the other team knew they would.

1435
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,560
Speaker 1: So you know in Miami, you look at them in

1436
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:12,719
Speaker 1: those teams they had with Dan Marino, they had Brian

1437
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 1: Cox and that guy would fight the officials for crime outis.

1438
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:20,599
Speaker 1: So you needed guys. There's a there is a school

1439
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:22,640
Speaker 1: of thought in the National Football Again, it's not just

1440
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 1: me and you talking on there's a school of thought

1441
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL where you need some guys on your

1442
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:31,680
Speaker 1: team that you just hope show up on time. You know,

1443
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 1: I mean they got there. They are angry guys. They're

1444
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: angry man. Steve Smith Senior, the wide receiver from Carolina,

1445
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:43,560
Speaker 1: was one of Marcus Peters for the Ravens. Yes, so

1446
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:45,600
Speaker 1: you can go down and listen look at guys like that,

1447
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: and it gives your team an attitude and someone they

1448
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:52,679
Speaker 1: can depend on to be that guy, so that everybody

1449
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:54,840
Speaker 1: doesn't like, we're not looking for somebody like all right,

1450
01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:56,640
Speaker 1: it's my turn. Okay, I'm gonna try and be a

1451
01:24:56,720 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 1: bad guy this, you know, trying to be the you know,

1452
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:01,880
Speaker 1: the grid guy this week. You need a guy who

1453
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:05,799
Speaker 1: is like that. Maybe the Bills lack some of that. Certainly,

1454
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 1: you kind of get the feeling that they look for

1455
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 1: guys like that with a little bit of that in them.

1456
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: And I get that. I get that mindset. That's a

1457
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:16,720
Speaker 1: school of thought. That's that's I think accepted around the

1458
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 1: national football But I'll also say this, I think they

1459
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 1: were trying to get some kind of a powerback element

1460
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 1: to their game when they drafted Zach Moss. It just

1461
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:28,679
Speaker 1: didn't pan out. Um, they took a swing, it didn't work.

1462
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:31,719
Speaker 1: Do they take a swing again. We'll see and maybe

1463
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 1: there is something. And let's face it, I mean, I

1464
01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:38,920
Speaker 1: wish if and I like Ken Dorsey, I'm not gonna

1465
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 1: you know, and I know that we're in that mode

1466
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:42,960
Speaker 1: and right now we're evaluating our coordinators and all that.

1467
01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:47,759
Speaker 1: But Kyle Shanahan is as good an offensive play caller

1468
01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: and offensive mind as there is in the NFL. So yeah, yeah,

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01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,080
Speaker 1: we'll take him, right, I mean, that's what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: The forty nine ers do it the right way. Well, okay,

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01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: but they've got a different, completely different offense than the

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01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:01,519
Speaker 1: buff Little Bills run said one of the best left

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01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:03,600
Speaker 1: tackles in football. Right, They've got some things that the

1474
01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:08,479
Speaker 1: Bills don't have. And Kyle Shanahan is a cut above

1475
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:10,840
Speaker 1: most guys, as you know, they say Sean McVay is

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Speaker 1: a cutabo of most guys. But even those guys are

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Speaker 1: limited by the players they have on hand. So it's

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Speaker 1: not to say that if Kyle Shanahan had Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: they might not be running that offense. I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: So that's just the way it is. That You're right though,

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Speaker 1: Whenever things go don't go your way, you're always looking

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Speaker 1: for a different way to do it. And they will

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Speaker 1: explore all those things that you mentioned about running game

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Speaker 1: and powerbacks and pass protection and running back catching the ball,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Yeah, we take a break here, but

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Speaker 1: Steve and I with one more segment to go. We'll

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Speaker 1: see if we can squeeze in a phone call or

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Speaker 1: two next to here on One Bill's Live. All right

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Speaker 1: back here on One Bals Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna squeeze one more phone call in here, and

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Speaker 1: we lead off here with Sean in Hamburg. Sean, what

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Speaker 1: do you got for us? You're on One Bills Live. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. I was one of those

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Speaker 1: guys who was not surprised by the defeat. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: my heart was with the Bills, but my head was

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Speaker 1: with the Bengals. You know, I knew from that Dolphins

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Speaker 1: game the Bills had had just given up so much

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Speaker 1: in terms of pressure against Josh Allen, and they sort

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Speaker 1: of wrote the script for the Bengals to pursue. And

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Speaker 1: I wrote about this in my blog. I write, you know,

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Speaker 1: a free blog. It's a tonch of town sports at WordPress.

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Speaker 1: But I wrote about it, and I said, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals got the Bill's number. You know, they they

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Speaker 1: know how to pressure Allan, how to get in his

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Speaker 1: face and disrupt the timing of the offense, and we

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Speaker 1: just don't have the offensive line to hold them in

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Speaker 1: check and then on defense. Um, you know, we just

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Speaker 1: don't play physical like the Ravens. Wrote the script for

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Speaker 1: the to beat the Bengals, and the way the Ravens

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Speaker 1: did it is they ran the ball. They ran the

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Speaker 1: ball on offense to control the clock, and they were

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Speaker 1: physical upfront with their offensive line and the defense. They

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Speaker 1: were physical on the press and they got um, they

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Speaker 1: got to Burrow and they disrupted Burrow. So we we

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Speaker 1: just aren't built. We aren't built like the Ravens, so

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Speaker 1: we were at a disadvantage. So the matchup it was

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Speaker 1: just it was a Mitch mismatch, you know. The matchup

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Speaker 1: between the Ravens and the Bengals worked out better for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens and they won that game had it not

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Speaker 1: been for that fumble, Whereas you know, the Bills didn't

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Speaker 1: match up that well against the Bengals because the Bengals

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Speaker 1: just have a more physical and more complete team. Understood,

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Speaker 1: we got to run it out of time here, thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call, um, Coach McDermott said it. We got

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Speaker 1: beat at the line of scrimmage on the offensive end

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Speaker 1: of defense, which means if it was that and that's

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Speaker 1: when they start talking like that. You always get to

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Speaker 1: the point where it's, well, it's about physicality, and you're right.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Bills were didn't have an edge

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Speaker 1: or physicality. I don't think they played their best game.

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Speaker 1: So however physical they could be, I don't think they

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Speaker 1: were in a position to be able to show it anyway.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's a question we'll never have answered. I

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Speaker 1: don't think no, but it's something they'll undoubtedly address in

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Speaker 1: the offseason. We'll take a break, we're done for the day.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow at one