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Speaker 1: And we're seeing that. Yeah, it's it's yeah, it's hitting everybody.

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Speaker 1: del Shan Phillips. I mean they're good athletes as well.

431
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Speaker 1: In fact, they're probably better athletes than aj Klein. But

432
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 1: you got to find a way to get somebody on

433
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: the field who can run, because that's been killing them

434
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Speaker 1: in this defense. And I want to get to Micah Hyde,

435
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: who is now at a concussion protocol and it looks

436
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Speaker 1: like he'll be good to start on Sunday going against

437
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Speaker 1: this passing attack. How big of a boost is that?

438
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 1: I think it is big. I now, I don't I

439
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: like what Dean Marlow is doing. Dean Marlow made some plays.

440
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,919
Speaker 1: I like he seemed confident out there. Certainly he should be.

441
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 1: He's been there for three years, right, I mean, well

442
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,400
Speaker 1: he's been he's been with Sean McDermott for five years, right,

443
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: so he knew what he was doing out there. But

444
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: I think the confidence that Micah Hyde plays, within the

445
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,679
Speaker 1: understanding he has that scene here he seems to have

446
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: over Marlow is the fact that Micah Hyde kind of

447
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: knows what quarterbacks are looking at and knows how to

448
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: confuse their thought process. That's the whole thing. Yeah, there,

449
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Speaker 1: the way he works with Poyer two, I think right.

450
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: I mean those two guys together are arguably one of

451
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Speaker 1: the top three tandems in the league. So having those

452
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Speaker 1: two backs together back there against this receiving corps, particularly

453
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 1: the two outside threats you know in Metcalf and lock

454
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Speaker 1: It that that's a big get this week to have

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Speaker 1: him back in the lineup. I think so too. I

456
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,400
Speaker 1: think there's no question you got to try and keep

457
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: a lid on the defense, no question you want you

458
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 1: don't want DK Metcalf or Locket going down the sidelines.

459
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: Hyde certainly helps that. I do think I saw a

460
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Speaker 1: lot of good things from Marlow in the in the

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Speaker 1: games that he played, though, in the in the snaps

462
00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 1: that he got because he's seeing he and Poorer were

463
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: out there roaming around pre snap they were you could

464
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: deliberately it was so obvious. I mean, you see kids

465
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Speaker 1: doing it like they couldn't decide where they were going

466
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: to walk to, and that's basically because they want the

467
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: quarterback not to be able to know where they're gonna

468
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: walk to. After the snap. Marlow was doing a nice

469
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: job of that during during the during this last game.

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Speaker 1: So I I know Marlow is good, but Micah Hyde

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Speaker 1: You're right. I think Micah Hyde brings some ball skills

472
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Speaker 1: and some confidence to the deep back end of the

473
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Speaker 1: defense that is gonna help them. And I think when

474
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Speaker 1: you've got a quarterback like like the one we're facing

475
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: this week and Russell Wilson, that's that's that's crucial to

476
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Speaker 1: being effective. They've got to make sure Russell Wilson has

477
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Speaker 1: to wait till after the snap to understand what defense

478
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Speaker 1: he's gonna sae well. And not only that, I mean

479
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 1: you're dealing with one of the best deep passers in football.

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Speaker 1: And knowing that Micah Hyde, you know, even now, can

481
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Speaker 1: still cover that deep half. You know that that's a

482
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Speaker 1: guy that can be a deterrent back there on deep balls,

483
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Speaker 1: even if he's singles safety high. I mean, he can

484
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: cover that much ground. So I feel a lot better

485
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Speaker 1: about him in that role this week against this team

486
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: and this quarterback because of what he's capable of doing.

487
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I still remember in twenty seventeen, I mean

488
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Speaker 1: he came from the far hash against Atlanta down at

489
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: Mercedes ben Stadium and picked off Matt Ryan on a

490
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: sixty yard bomb and I was like, how did he

491
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Speaker 1: cover all that ground? That was what said to me,

492
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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy can't only cover the deep hath

493
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Speaker 1: he can cover more than the half. I mean coming

494
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Speaker 1: from the far hash. To make an interception like that

495
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: on a pass that deep, I mean, that was just

496
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: like that made my eye My eyes almost fell out

497
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: of my head. And I know that's three years ago,

498
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: but that's what he does. It comes from experience, it

499
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 1: comes from film study, and it comes from recognizing stuff

500
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: in front of you. And that's what Mica has done

501
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: so well and poorer as well. They you gotta get

502
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: have safeties to get out ahead of the play, and

503
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: even if corners are out there, the corners kind of

504
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: focus on the guy that's in front of him, particularly

505
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 1: in man, and the safeties kind of have to see

506
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Speaker 1: the whole picture. So they know if they got a

507
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,239
Speaker 1: slot guy that's doing a B or C, they know

508
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: that that shuts down or limits what the outside guys

509
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: are gonna do. It's because they know if that slot

510
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: does this, they're not doing that on the outside. So

511
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: that gives and that understanding and awareness gives them the

512
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: ability to get a jump on where the quarterback may

513
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: or may not throw it. It's all you know, it's

514
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: all cat and mouse, there's no question about it. But

515
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: you know the experience and we've seen it. Michael Hyde

516
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: plays at a high level, and these safeties have been

517
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: you know, called out by opposing coaches, Bill Belichick being

518
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: one of them, saying they do it better than anybody else.

519
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: So getting him back out there, it's gonna help, particularly

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00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: against a guy like Russell Wilson, who not only is good,

521
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: but also he doesn't see these guys twice a year

522
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: like Belichick does. He doesn't see him twice a year.

523
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: He sees him once every four years, three years. So

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00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 1: that lack of experience going against these two safeties may

525
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: work to the Bill's benefit. All right, we have to

526
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Speaker 1: take a break, but when we return, it will be

527
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: the latest installment of Tasker's teammate. Steve will have to

528
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: put on his tinfoil hat and try to jar his

529
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 1: memory see if he can remember this teammate with some

530
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Speaker 1: very vague and cryptic clues coming his way. Next here

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to one, Bills Live, Chris Brown,

533
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: Steve Jasper with you, and every Friday we get to

534
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: do this where we asked Steve to reach into the

535
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: deeper recesses of his memory to see if he can

536
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: guess via a series of cryptic and vague clues, what

537
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: former teammate of his we are describing. So it's time

538
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: queue it up for Tasker's Teammate, Brought to you by

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540
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Speaker 1: app today. Steve, are you ready? I am so ready.

541
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Speaker 1: Let's go. Okay, here we go Tasker's teammate Clue number one.

542
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: I was a teammate of Steve's with the Bills for

543
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: two seasons, but had a twelve year playing career with

544
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Speaker 1: the Bills and two other NFL clubs. Chris Spielman, It

545
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: is not Chris Spielman. That's not a bad guest. Though

546
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: in college I was an accomplished return man, as I

547
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: led the NCAA and kick return average in my junior

548
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: season with a mark of thirty two point eight. JD. Williams,

549
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: it is not j D Williams. Not a bad guest.

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Speaker 1: Clue number three. I also dabbled in basketball at the

551
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: major college level, playing in the SEC. Joe Johnson. It

552
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: is not Joe Johnson. I go to clue number four. Steve.

553
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: I began my Bill's career as a return man before

554
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: breaking into the lineup at my normal position. Jeff Burrows.

555
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Speaker 1: It is not Jeff Hurst. This is I'm a enjoying

556
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Speaker 1: this one. Okay, here we go. You should probably get

557
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: it on this one. A year after Steve retired, I

558
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: had a breakout season, setting a Bill's single season record

559
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Speaker 1: while also being named to my first Pro Bowl. It's

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Speaker 1: Eric Moles. There you go, Well done, Steve. Eric Moules

561
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: is this week's edition of Taskers Team, and I believe

562
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: we've got him on the line. Emoles, how are we

563
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: doing doing great? Man? How you guys doing good? I

564
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: couldn't make it too easy for him. I can't say

565
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: first round pick. I can't say loose Dale, Mississippi. The hoop.

566
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: Think I forgot you? Played hoops man. I knew that

567
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: now that I said I should have gotten you on

568
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: the second clue. Yeah, and uh, here's something that a

569
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know. When Eric got traded to

570
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: the Texans. The Bills got a fifth round pick and

571
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: that pick became Kyle Williams. How about that? That was great? Yeah? Yeah,

572
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: Eric was Yeah. Eric is one of the all time

573
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: great Bills receivers. Absolutely, and that's that's awesome. Yeah. Where

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00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: are you living, Eric? Are you in local or where

575
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: are you at? I'm in Charlotte. I live in Charlotte,

576
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Yeah, okay, good stuff. Yeah, that's that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: What when you think back about your times with Buffalo

578
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: what let me ask you this. Maybe it's dangerous for

579
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,959
Speaker 1: me to ask you, what do you remember about our

580
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: me being your teammates? Well, you know, you know se

581
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: Steve was always a great teammate. You know, when I

582
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: came to the Bills as a first round pick, I

583
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: was it was really the last of the teams like

584
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Dallas Cowboys. We had a lot

585
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: of veterans who had double digit years, fifteen years, sixteen years,

586
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: and so it was one of those situations where I

587
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: just sit back and just learned from Steve, Andre Reid Quinn. Early.

588
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: We had so many veteran players, so as a rookie

589
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: coming in with Thurman and all those guys and Bruce,

590
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: I just sit back and just watch those guys and

591
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: try to emulate what they did. You know, obviously I

592
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: didn't get to play a lot on offense, so I

593
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: really really just watched Steve Tasker a lot because I

594
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: was on special teams. And you know, Steve, coming in

595
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: as a rookie, you're gonna play special teams. So what

596
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: not to do is learn from the best players that

597
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: I obviouslyeen played special teams and just to watch them go.

598
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: And I didn't. I didn't get to the clue, Steve,

599
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you're gonna remember this. I was going

600
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: to get to this clue, which probably would have been

601
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: a giveaway too, But Eric was the victim of a

602
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: joke at the hands of Thurman Thomas correct at a

603
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: practice one day. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I think you would.

604
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: I think you would have got that clue if you

605
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: gave him that clue. Yeah, because uh Thurman brought in

606
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Speaker 1: a pizza. Do we remember this, Because there was this

607
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:27,719
Speaker 1: running thing that people were wondering how dedicated uh Emolds

608
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: was to football because he ordered a pizza to a

609
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: practice one time in college. So Thurman thought it would

610
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: be hilarious if he brought a pizza to practice and

611
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: gave it to Eric, do you what would do you

612
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: remember the reaction from the team that day, Like, I'm

613
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: sure everybody had a big laugh at your expense. Is

614
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Speaker 1: he still there, Eric? Do we still have him? Do

615
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: we lose him? And we might have lost Eric. He

616
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: might have got mad at you for bringing up that

617
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: joke about Yeah, So that was the running So that

618
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: was the big thing. Like people were actually wondering about

619
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Speaker 1: his dedication to football because he ordered a pizza to

620
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Speaker 1: practice one time, like, oh, this guy doesn't take it seriously,

621
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And I Thurman kind of had a

622
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Speaker 1: way of kind of breaking the tension with stuff like that,

623
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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, oh yeah, And listen, Eric was a

624
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: great player, and I was gonna say this while he

625
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: was on I'll say it's now that he's off as well.

626
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: One of the injustices that was done to him was

627
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: Marv's kind of reticence to play young players. And like

628
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: he said, there was a ton of veterans on that

629
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Speaker 1: team and he wanted Eric to kind of get acclimated

630
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Speaker 1: before he actually plugged him into the lineup. I thought

631
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 1: it was an injustice for him not to play a ton.

632
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: He was a phenomenal athlete, a great player. And I'll

633
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Speaker 1: tell you this too, Eric had a supreme confidence when

634
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: he came in, even as a rookie. He he was

635
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: a little bit he was a little bit like that

636
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: Darryl Talley kind of guy, a little bit like John

637
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: Feliciano type of guy. He didn't back down, and he

638
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: was a guy that would, you know, get into it

639
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: with a defensive back and come back and let's do

640
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: it again. He had. He played with an edge that

641
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: was very, very effective in the NFL, and at that

642
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: level you have to be a special athlete to be

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Speaker 1: able to do that. Eric was. He was a phenomenal athlete. Well,

644
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: if you talked to you talk about how great a got.

645
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams was a great player. And all the great

646
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Speaker 1: players who had been a part of the Bills organization

647
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: that were a little bit of a victim of the

648
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Speaker 1: era in which they played, you know, didn't get to

649
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Speaker 1: the playoffs that much. You know, Kyle Williams who had

650
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: played in one playoff game, Aaron Schobel no playoff games,

651
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: Chris Kelsey, no playoff games. Eric Molds was an elite

652
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: player who played for an organization that couldn't get over

653
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: the hump for his almost his entire career. I think

654
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: that was a real injustice. And we have Eric back

655
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Speaker 1: on now. I remember I had to go to Eric's

656
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Speaker 1: house in the middle of July to go do an

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Speaker 1: interview for the team paper that I was writing for

658
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,479
Speaker 1: at the time. And Eric's got like ten guys there,

659
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: and they're on his basketball court in his backyard. He

660
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: had like this all weather basketball court out there, because

661
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, I mean, you better have you can't have

662
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: hardwood outside. So yeah, this all weather basketball court outside.

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Speaker 1: It was sweet. But I'm watching them play, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you're watching Travis Henry play basketball, It's like okay, buddy.

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Speaker 1: But then you know you're watching Eric out there and

666
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: he's just tooling people, and so it's just like, good lord,

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Speaker 1: is this even fairst? Do you remember that, Eric, like

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Speaker 1: being out on the backyard with all your teammates. Oh? Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I had many basketball sessions in my backyard. A lot

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00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: of college players canisius players. You'd be players who would

671
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: have guys come from from everywhere and players. So it

672
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: was fun. It was it was really good for me

673
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Speaker 1: because of my condition and I wanted to get away

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Speaker 1: from football a little bit. So my second conditioning was

675
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Speaker 1: getting on the basketball court and play as many games

676
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Speaker 1: as he's possible could. Yeah, that's always a great thing

677
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: when you get hoops is a great way to run. Now,

678
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: certainly there's always a risk when you start competing with guys.

679
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: You start you know, the and he starts raising and

680
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: everything's a little bit different now whereverybody. All these guys

681
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: hire their trainers or they go to these specialized places

682
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 1: and they don't take risks with their body. But back then, goodness,

683
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: the Bills had an offseason basketball team that would go

684
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Speaker 1: out and play charity games and stuff. So it was

685
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: a it was a different atmosphere where guys would take

686
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: would do that in order to stay sharp. And basketball

687
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,479
Speaker 1: is a great way to do it. I mean, guys,

688
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: you get a good run in, you get a little

689
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: competition in coordination and quick stop start. It was great

690
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: for skill players to go out and play hoops and

691
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: the other A lot of guys did it. And the

692
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Speaker 1: other thing that was that Eric had to endure in

693
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Speaker 1: his time here was the three year quarterback SOCCA between

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Speaker 1: Flutie and Johnson, I mean, and he was immersed right

695
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. I mean, I can't imagine,

696
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if I've ever I don't think

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Speaker 1: I ever asked you this question, Eric, And during that

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00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: time where you know, it could have been Flutie, it

699
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: could have been Johnson in any given week. I can't imagine.

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Speaker 1: What was it like as a receiver who is so

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00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: dependent on a quarterback for his own product to help

702
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: a team win. How difficult was that for you to

703
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: navigate as a receiver during that time? It was very difficult.

704
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Steve could probably tell you this.

705
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: You know, he was with Jim and Andreas with Jim

706
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: his whole career, so you know exactly what that quarterbacks thinking.

707
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 1: You know exactly how he throws the football, what he likes,

708
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: what plays he don't like. It was always a getting

709
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: game for me. So I had always adjusted my game

710
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: and say, okay, Fluti likes to do this, I would

711
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: likes to do this. So it was one of those

712
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: situations that I was always trying to figure those two out.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I figured Flute out the way he

714
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Speaker 1: likes to play, and Rob I did a little bit,

715
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: but a lot of times Rob was hurt, so I

716
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: never got really got that chance to get that receiver

717
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: quarterback duo like a lot of guys do it. Yeah,

718
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: because you had to stay alive for Flute because the

719
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: play was never over. But Rob rarely left the pocket

720
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: and usually took big shots, which is why he didn't

721
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Speaker 1: stay in the lineup. So you want to talk about

722
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: different different ways of playing, Yeah, receiver in a big way, right,

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Speaker 1: Oh definitely. I mean that's why I say Josh Sallen

724
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: is similar to a guy two guys that I played with.

725
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,720
Speaker 1: He had the size and arm strength and Drew Blesso,

726
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: but he can scramble and make guys miss and keep

727
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: plays alive sort of like Doug Flutie did. So yeah,

728
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 1: those guys, those guys are two quarterbacks that I kind

729
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 1: of look at John Sallen say, you know what he

730
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: reminds me of those two guys. Yeah, Eric, give it.

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Speaker 1: Give the fans or people who are watching a little

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Speaker 1: sense of because you're right, everything changes when the quarterback changes,

733
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Speaker 1: particularly guys who are so different in their style of

734
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: play as Rob Johnson Doug Flutie were. Give us how

735
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Speaker 1: big a percentage or what kind of change in the huddle. U.

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Speaker 1: There are certain times, and I know this when even

737
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: when you're in meetings away from the field during the

738
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: week getting ready, coaches will say, listen, if if Flute's

739
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: playing this and this and this, and if Rob Johnson's playing,

740
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this and this and this. How big

741
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 1: it change is it? When you change quarterbacks in the

742
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: manner of the Bills were doing back in the late

743
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: nineties and early two thousands, it was a big change.

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00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: I mean you look at you look at Rob Johnson.

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00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: He's a traditional drop back passing quarterback. He could scramble,

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00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: but rarely he didn't do that. But Flutie, when you

747
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: came into the game plan, we always say, you know what,

748
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: the flute is in there, and the play is dead.

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Speaker 1: Is never really dead because Fluti can scramble. And we

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Speaker 1: would always tell the receivers if you're deep, you come

751
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: back short. If you're the short receiver, you go deep.

752
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: So we'd always had our scrambler rules and Flutes is

753
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: in there because it felted like Josh Allen right now

754
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: with Diggs. I mean, everybody says that Diggs has made

755
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,479
Speaker 1: Josh Allen a better quarterback, but it's been vice versus

756
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: being both of the guys making each other better because

757
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Josh Allen when a play breaks down, he buys those

758
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: receivers time to get open. And I can guarantee if

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Speaker 1: you go back and look at the percentages, probably thirty

760
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: percent of Diggs passes that he's caught this year has

761
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Speaker 1: because of Josh Allen breaking tackles and keeping plays a lot.

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Speaker 1: And then the last one for me, Eric, I know,

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Speaker 1: I believe it was at the combine or maybe at

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Speaker 1: your pro day you timed at four five one in

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Speaker 1: the forty, which, you know, whatever you want to make

766
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: of that. But I'm watching all these highlights right now,

767
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: and I'm just watching your pull away from DBS A

768
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: long touchdown passes. What was your fastest clocked forty times? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what my fastest. The story behind my forty

770
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: at Missisipian State, I actually had a slight fool hamstring.

771
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: So my fastest forty time a mission the stable was

772
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: a four three nine and I knew coming in that

773
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: the scouts were coming in, and my agent told me

774
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: you shouldn't run, you shouldn't run, but I knew that

775
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: I wanted to show them that I could run what

776
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: I end up running the four five one for the scouts,

777
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: and I felt bad about it, but I always knew

778
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: I was faster, So I think what you're seeing is

779
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: that a guy that could run that. People thought maybe

780
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: thought I was a four or five one. And then

781
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: when it got in filled with me, I had a

782
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: lot of guys tell me, man, there's no way you're

783
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 1: four or five. I'm just watching the tape. You're four

784
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: five one in house slippers. Yeah. It was one of

785
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: those things that happened that way. But you know, I

786
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: told the bills, don't change it, you know, let let

787
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: him know that I run a four or five and

788
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: one and and I will get more press coverage. And

789
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: then by the end of the game, guys, we're playing

790
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: off with a safety over the top. Though it kind

791
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: of helped me. So fourth. So's four three nine, your

792
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: best four three nine with my bed, Okay, all right.

793
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: I just I was curious because you know, I never

794
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: got that double checked. I'm kind of second guessing myself

795
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: during my reporting days here that I didn't ask these questions.

796
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get them all in now. But

797
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: we are we are at a time because we are

798
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: up against the break. But we appreciate you calling in

799
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: and being part of Tasker's teammate this week. Eric, it's

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00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: it's always good to talk to you. Hope everything's well

801
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: with you and your family during COVID here. Thanks guys,

802
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 1: I appreciate hey Man, tell those people to put Steve

803
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, as nobody ever did it

804
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: even better. Maybe Slater in New England is good, but

805
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: he's not on Steve's level, so let's get him in

806
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. And enough this ridiculous stuff that

807
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: they're doing. Fair enough, we'll take your We'll take your

808
00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: recommendation under advise kage Man. All right, Eric Olds, I'm

809
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: telling you, man, the thing I mean, he's probably one

810
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: of the favorite players I've covered here in the twenty

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Speaker 1: plus years i've covered this team. Yeah, like always humor,

812
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: great teammate Edgy on the field, Steve, he played with

813
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: a mean streak. Yeah, wide receiver, which is unusual. And

814
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: when you and your crew were done, there were a

815
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: lot of lean years here and he had to kind

816
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: of he was kind of the first group that had

817
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: to deal with a lot of that. And this guy

818
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: always faced the music every single week. Whether the team

819
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: won lost, he had a good game, he had a

820
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: bad game. Everybody was coming to his locker after every game,

821
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: and that guy answered every question every single week, never

822
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 1: shied away from facing the music. Um, And you're right

823
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: about the sense of humor. There is a very very

824
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: subtle sense of humor that he has. But man, when

825
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: he would bust one on somebody, the entire locker room

826
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: would be roaring. I mean, he had a really good

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00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: sense of humor. Great locker room guy, probably one of

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00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: the one of my favorite Bills to cover here in

829
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: his time with this team. Certainly he was certainly a

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00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: force on the field, and he's one of those guys

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Speaker 1: that you would love to see a guy like that

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00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: get more personal recognition for the for the years he

833
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: put on in for this franchise. He was an absolute

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00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: elite athlete and a just a stud on the football

835
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: field and just a guy that you you know, you

836
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: hit the field, you're going you think, man, I'm you know,

837
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: you're just glad that guy's on your team, and it was.

838
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: He's just one of those guys, truly one of the

839
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: great Bills of all time who may never because of

840
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: the air in which he played get the credit he

841
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: deserves for the kind of player he was and the

842
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: quality of player he was. All Right, we have to

843
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: take a break, Steve, and I'll be back in a

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Speaker 1: moment here on an OBI L fan mail Bag Friday,

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00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:24,160
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Speaker 1: this point in time. The Bills and add Pro Sports

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Speaker 1: the best coaches that Western New York has to offer.

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Speaker 1: Through the twenty twenty high school football Coach of the

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Speaker 1: Pro Sports and this week in Section six, it's Eric

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Speaker 1: Rupp from Lancaster High School. Rupp is coach the Legends

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Speaker 1: for four seasons and won the Section six Class Double

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Speaker 1: A title all four years, with a record of thirty

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Speaker 1: nine and seven over that span. Off the field, rup

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Speaker 1: the community. The Legends team has volunteered at the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Ronald McDonald's house. They're involved in the Western New York

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Speaker 1: Back to School Backpack program and the Kids Escaping Drugs program.

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Speaker 1: In addition to his community work, coach Rupp has also

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Speaker 1: been very supportive of youth football participation in Lancaster so

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Speaker 1: a salute to him and the legends out there, and

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00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: we'll be naming one of these each and every week

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the football season. So good on

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Speaker 1: them and all the good work they're doing out there

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Speaker 1: in Lancaster. We do want to get to the Obel

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Speaker 1: fan mailbag and begin there, and leading us off today

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Speaker 1: is Nick t who asks for thoughts on Ed Oliver.

888
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: I know stats don't tell the whole story, but to me,

889
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: he's not playing like the difference maker we expected from

890
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: a top ten pick. Does he need a big guy

891
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: like star next to him in order to be effective

892
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: or could he possibly be moved to defensive end all

893
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: valid questions, I will say this, I feel from what

894
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Speaker 1: I've seen on the tape the last two weeks that

895
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Speaker 1: Ed is playing better and better with each passing week.

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00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: I know people are expecting sacks, and really that sacks

897
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: are down across the league, and it's due in part

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Speaker 1: to the fact that quarterbacks do get the ball out

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Speaker 1: so quick, quicker than ever on average as a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, So I don't know if he's going to

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Speaker 1: ever be a giant sack guy. I do agree with

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Speaker 1: you that some of his effectiveness has been impacted by

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Speaker 1: the fact that there isn't a true nose tackle or

904
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Speaker 1: one technique defensive tackle next to him gobbling up two

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Speaker 1: when he gets in one on one matchups, he is

907
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Speaker 1: still a terror. We can go back to his Week

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Speaker 1: four play on fourth down where he basically threw alignment

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Speaker 1: to the side and got a fourth down stop for

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Speaker 1: a turnover on downs. That was the series after the

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Speaker 1: Josh Norman fumble recovery, which gave the Bills another possession

912
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and removed any threat of the

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Speaker 1: Raiders scoring on their drive. And then he's made a

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Speaker 1: couple of plays in each of these last two games.

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Speaker 1: I liked what he did in the Jets game. I

916
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Speaker 1: thought he was effective there and was a big part

917
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Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage effort in the second half

918
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Speaker 1: when they only gave up four total net yards to

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Speaker 1: the Jets. And I know it's the Jets. And then

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Speaker 1: the following week against the Patriots, I thought he was

921
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Speaker 1: just eruptive upfront. Was he finishing plays with sacks? No,

922
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Speaker 1: But I think he is coming along. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he's living up to the billing of a ninth

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Speaker 1: overall pick. So I understand where you're coming from. But

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Speaker 1: I think as we move forward here and some of

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Speaker 1: these new pieces upfront get more accustomed to playing with

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Speaker 1: one another, Oliver with Quentin Jefferson, for example, I think

928
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Speaker 1: we'll start to see more of what we expect to

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Speaker 1: see from Ed Oliver going forward. As far as moving

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Speaker 1: to defensive end, I don't know if that's the best

931
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Speaker 1: idea because I just don't think he's long enough to

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Speaker 1: play out there. Knowing offensive tackles usually have anywhere from

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Speaker 1: thirty four to thirty six inch arms, Oliver does not

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Speaker 1: have that, and so they'll be able to get their

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Speaker 1: or to keep them off him. And I think if

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Speaker 1: he put him out on the edge, he'll get neutralized

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Speaker 1: more effectively by taller, longer tackles than you usually see inside.

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Speaker 1: All right, we have to take a break, but when

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Speaker 1: we return, we'll do more of the obil fan mail bag.

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Speaker 1: We'll get Steve back online here and carry into our

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Speaker 1: number two, where coming up about twenty five minutes from now,

943
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Speaker 1: will be one Greg Kosell, senior producer from NFL Films,

944
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Speaker 1: to help us with the XS and o's in this

945
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Speaker 1: game coming up against the Seahawks on Sunday. Back on

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Speaker 1: the other side, here on One Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health, this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello Bills Radio

948
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Speaker 1: Network Sports Update, Your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Hit.

949
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Speaker 1: Coach Sean McDermott officially ruled out Matt Milano and Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morse for Sunday's game against the Seahawks. Milano has been

951
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: dealing with a peck injury didn't practice all week, while

952
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Speaker 1: Mitch Morrise remains in the concussion protocol after leaving last

953
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Speaker 1: week's game against the Patriots. Josh Norman and Taiwan Jones

954
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Speaker 1: also ruled out for Sunday. No word if we could

955
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Speaker 1: see a call up for Aaron Lee, who was signed

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Speaker 1: to the practice squad earlier this week, but coach McDermott

957
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Speaker 1: did not rule out that possibility today. The good news

958
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Speaker 1: is safety Micah Hyde is officially out of the concussion protocol.

959
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: He is expected to start on Sunday. The Atlanta Falcons

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00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: are shutting down in person operations today following a positive

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Speaker 1: COVID test within the organization. The test came from a

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Speaker 1: member of the football staff, according to the team, which

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Speaker 1: led to the organization conducting all operations virtually. The Miami

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Speaker 1: Dolphins also in the intensive protocol following a positive COVID

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Speaker 1: test from an assistant coach. The Dolphins are conducting a

966
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Speaker 1: walk through practice later today before facing Arizona as scheduled

967
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. And then this was just announced last hour.

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Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Bengals are shutting down operations today after two

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Speaker 1: players tested positive for COVID. Fortunately for the Bengals, they

970
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Speaker 1: have a bye this week. The NFL is finding the

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders five hundred k and coach Gruden one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to stripping the

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Speaker 1: franchise of a sixth round draft choice for COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: protocol violations related to Trent Brown's positive coronavirus test in

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Speaker 1: late October. The escalated fines and loss of a draft

976
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Speaker 1: pick were due to the Raiders being repeat offenders in

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Speaker 1: terms of failing to meet COVID nineteen protocols. The Steelers

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Speaker 1: are also in hot water. That team has been fined

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Speaker 1: a total of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for

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Speaker 1: mask violations in the win against the Baltimore Ravens two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty K for not wearing masks, while coach

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Speaker 1: Tomlin find a hundred K for not wearing his mask.

983
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Speaker 1: And Week nine in the league kicked off Thursday night

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Speaker 1: last night as the Packers routed the injury ravaged forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers thirty four to seventeen. And that is your

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Speaker 1: sports update here from One Bill's Drive Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker our number two of the program, and we do

988
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Speaker 1: want to get back to the obl mailbag. And I

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Speaker 1: began at late last hour with Nick t but we

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Speaker 1: follow up with Beulah Joe, who asks Will Bates or

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Speaker 1: Feliciano plays center since the passing game is expected to

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Speaker 1: take precedence. I don't know about you, Steve, but I

993
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: don't know that the passing game really has anything to

994
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: do with who plays center. It has more to do

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00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: with who's the better fit there. Yeah, it has nothing

996
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: to do with whether they're gonna throw more pass more.

997
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: It has to do with who the best five guys are.

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00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: And I think they feel with Feliciano its center, it

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00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: gives him a better five on the field with Buttker

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Speaker 1: at the left guard, assuming Cody Ford can't play. Yeah, yeah, right,

1001
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: if Cody Ford can't go, so that's that's the way.

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00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: Feliciano's the backup center. So if Morse can't go, they

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Speaker 1: like Feliciano inside right, and then matter if they're going

1004
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: to throw it or passage. Yeah, and then and then

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Speaker 1: I think, and tell me what you think about this,

1006
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: but I believe that Ryan Bates is a player that

1007
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,359
Speaker 1: offers so much versatility. I mean, he can essentially play

1008
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Speaker 1: any position on the line. When he first came in here,

1009
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 1: he was working a tackle and then they worked him

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00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: at center, so he's primarily a tackle in a center.

1011
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: But I think if they needed him to play guard

1012
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: in a pinch, he could do that. But I think

1013
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: they kind of like him in the swing role. And

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00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: I think that's why you see a player like Butcker

1015
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Speaker 1: on the field before him, and why you see a

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Speaker 1: player like Feliciano in the pivot before him. They kind

1017
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Speaker 1: of like to have him as their utility guy, so

1018
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Speaker 1: to speak. Yeah, I don't know that Bates is I

1019
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Speaker 1: would think he might be if you had Baits on

1020
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Speaker 1: your squad and gave him a spot where he was

1021
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 1: going to play and not move I think he's a

1022
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Speaker 1: starter quality player. I don't know if he can play

1023
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: premier left tackle, but right tackle, whatever, but he can

1024
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 1: certainly play all five positions. If you give him a chance,

1025
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: he would hold his hone at all five positions. Yeah.

1026
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Speaker 1: I don't know that he would be elite or Pro

1027
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Speaker 1: Bowl level at any of those five positions, but he

1028
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Speaker 1: can play all of them. And that's why I mean

1029
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: they got him in that trade last year as an

1030
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Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free agent. The Bills traded for him about

1031
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: halfway early in the season or there's a preseason or

1032
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: somewhere back in their preseason. Last year. Yeah, they traded

1033
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Speaker 1: Eli Harold. Right. He's been up in active most games,

1034
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Speaker 1: if not all the games since he's been here, and

1035
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: he's had snaps to take. So I think they really

1036
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Speaker 1: like him, and I think you're right, Brownie. You get

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Speaker 1: solid play from him wherever you plug him in, and

1038
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Speaker 1: on game day, when you know, all of a sudden,

1039
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Speaker 1: you get one maybe then two guys hurt. He's valuable,

1040
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:32,280
Speaker 1: extremely valuable because he can play all the interior positions

1041
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: as well as either tackle. So, yeah, Bates is a

1042
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 1: good player, maybe not an elite player at any position,

1043
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: but he plays all of them at a solid pro level. Yeah,

1044
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Speaker 1: I mean he's like, he's like the jose A Kendo

1045
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: of the offensive line. I mean, who I knew you

1046
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: weren't gonna get the baseball reference. So Jose Jose Kendo

1047
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 1: played for the Saint Louis Cardinals, and he was capable

1048
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: of playing all nine positions, and actually did when he

1049
00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: finally got to pitch, like the ninth inning of some

1050
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: blow out game. So he played every position on the field.

1051
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 1: So anytime somebody's like uniquely versatile, baseball fans or baseball

1052
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,720
Speaker 1: historians will say, oh, he's the jose A Kendo or whatever.

1053
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: So yeah, Ryan Bates is the jose A Kendo of

1054
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: the Bills offensive line. Let's go back to the obil

1055
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: fan mail bag from Rick. Here's an interesting one. Is

1056
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: John Brown's knee injury worse than we think? He only

1057
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: had one reception on two targets last Sunday and he'll

1058
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: need to play a much bigger role against Seattle. Do

1059
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: we think he's up to it? I don't know that

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00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:33,240
Speaker 1: he is. I think people got encouraged last week, Steve

1061
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: when they saw Wednesday no practice, Thursday full practice and

1062
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,320
Speaker 1: the same thing happened this week Wednesday, no practice, Thursday

1063
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,800
Speaker 1: full practice. But he has not looked the same on

1064
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,280
Speaker 1: the field. And I know this is hard for Bills

1065
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: fans to see, being restricted to only watching the game

1066
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: on television. If you were in the stadium, like Steve

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Speaker 1: and I are for home games anyway, you can see

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00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: him running routes and you can tell he's he's not

1069
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: quite right right, Steve. Yeah, And especially even like between plays,

1070
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: you get an idea of what a guy's feeling between

1071
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: plays as much as during the play, when the guy

1072
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: doesn't have to hustle, when he doesn't have to jog

1073
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: back to the to the huddle, when he doesn't have

1074
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: to jog on and off the field fast, when he

1075
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: doesn't have to, you know, be ready to go, and

1076
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: when the plays the ball's not alive. That tells you

1077
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: how the guy feels when he's up and running around

1078
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: and and you know, enthusiastic. It tells you something about

1079
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: how he feels physically. And John Brown has not been,

1080
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 1: you know, a bouncy, bubbly athlete. Between plays. He's walking

1081
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: around every place and stuff. I don't think he's one

1082
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: hundred percent now, certainly He made a nice play in

1083
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: this last game against the Patriots. You know, he caught

1084
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: that whip scream when Josh Side armed it out there

1085
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: to him and made a nice run after the catch.

1086
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: So I think he's getting on top of it. But

1087
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: I think, like we've seen so many athletes over the

1088
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: course of you know, the seasons past and present. You know,

1089
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: he's trying to get on top of an injury that

1090
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: was pretty serious when it happened, and he's getting better

1091
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: little by little. And every time you play a good

1092
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: game and you get out of it, sometimes you get

1093
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: it whacked and it sets you back, and sometimes you

1094
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: get through unscathed and you can make some progress the

1095
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: next week. That's where Milano is. That's where John Brown

1096
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: is and other guys as well. So you know, I

1097
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: think John Brown's on his way back. He may improve

1098
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: this game, but I think there's no question he's going

1099
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: to be on the field. But I think it's a

1100
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: good question is he one hundred percent? And I have

1101
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: to say probably not. Yeah, I would say probably not too.

1102
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: The difference between him and Milano, though Steve is John

1103
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: Brown has been out there for almost all the offensive snaps,

1104
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: or at least he was last week, and so you're

1105
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: saying to yourself, well, if he's good enough to be

1106
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: out there running this many routes, you know he must

1107
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: be closed to one K. But I don't know how

1108
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: the defense perceives him. Yeah, I mean I thought he

1109
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 1: was running routes as it decoy option last week, pure

1110
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: and simple. I mean it was only I think he

1111
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: was targeted twice one catch. I think they know you

1112
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: can ask. You could ask just look over and ask

1113
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser, your defensive guys, like, what do you think

1114
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: when John Brown's in the lineup as opposed to when

1115
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: he's not, And that'll tell you what the defense on

1116
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: the other side, The Seahawks, the Patriots, you know, the Chiefs,

1117
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: all these teams. I'll tell you what they think about

1118
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,439
Speaker 1: your offense. If that guy's on the field, they play

1119
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: you different. And it's better if he can go and

1120
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't get targeted to have him out

1121
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: there for what it does for Steph Diggs and Cole

1122
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,479
Speaker 1: Beasley that it does to have him off the field,

1123
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: and you plug, you know, Isaiah McKenzie or you know

1124
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: Duke Williams in and Josh Even said after last week's game.

1125
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: He made a point of saying, Hey, I gotta tip

1126
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: my hat to John Brown. He's running routes out there

1127
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: and fighting through some things. But he did the job

1128
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: for us today. And you say to yourself, well, man,

1129
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: the guy got targeted twice called one pass. But it

1130
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 1: seemed pretty obvious based on what Josh had said that

1131
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: he was out there to draw attention even if he

1132
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: was not up to snuff in terms of what he

1133
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: can deliver on the field. Yeah, and the catch that

1134
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: he did have was, like I said, it was like

1135
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: a one step hitch right, was a screen with guys

1136
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: getting out in front of him. It was a whipped screen,

1137
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: and you know, he made the most of it. Was

1138
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: a great play. Turned out to be a really productive play.

1139
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 1: But and it does say, Okay, he's out there and

1140
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: he's going to get a look, so the defense has

1141
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: to play it honest. But yeah, that two targets for

1142
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: John Brown. Yes, you'd think something's not right. So we'll

1143
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: see where it goes today, you know, much like last week,

1144
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: did not practice Wednesday full Thursday. We'll see what they

1145
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: have for him today and we'll see if he's any

1146
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: more effective, you know, in executing his routes this Sunday

1147
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: from Steve in the obl mail bag with Milano out,

1148
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: how fast can the Bills coaching staff get Darren Lee

1149
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: up to speed? Based upon his tweets, he really wants

1150
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: to fit into the seven one six. He has not

1151
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: excelled this far in his career thus far in his career,

1152
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: but has it been scheme and lack of coaching. We've

1153
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: kind of addressed this already a little bit, Steve. I

1154
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: do knowing he's a consideration for call up this week,

1155
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: based on which coach coach McDermott said this morning, I

1156
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: would tend to believe that he has some semblance of

1157
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: familiarity with this scheme from playing last year in Kansas

1158
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 1: City with Steve Spagnolo. Scheme probably not terribly different from

1159
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 1: this one. Knowing Spagnolo and McDermot both came out of

1160
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: that Philadelphia coaching tree under Andy Reid. Right, and like

1161
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: we said, I think he's gonna come in. They'll have

1162
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: him ready to play some if he's up in active,

1163
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: They'll think they can get him in hopefully probably just

1164
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 1: to finish the game, if you know what I mean.

1165
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: I mean, in an emergency situation, he'll be able to go,

1166
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: and they'll they will do their best to you know,

1167
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: get him ready and have him in the right spot,

1168
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: covering the right guy. But that's the big question. If

1169
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: he if they can, they will if they feel confident

1170
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: in his ability to step in now. Certainly athletically, I

1171
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: think the guy is a no brainer. H's a He's

1172
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 1: a good athlete. That's what he brings to the That's

1173
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table as a player. This

1174
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: is athleticism out of Ohio State. Yeah, but this is

1175
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, he's been in a league

1176
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,959
Speaker 1: five years and has had trouble you know, finding a place.

1177
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 1: So we'll see if if that's the you know, he's

1178
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: with He started out with the Jets for three years,

1179
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: then he's with the Chiefs last year. This is his

1180
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: fifth year. Um, yeah, I don't know, we'll see. I

1181
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: think the Bills, I think the telling. The only way

1182
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: to answer that is watched the active roster on Sunday.

1183
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: If he's up, they'll have confidence that they've got him

1184
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: ready to play. Yeah. And the other guy that watches, Yeah,

1185
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: the other guy to watches del Sean Phillips, who is

1186
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: on IR as of now, but is eligible to come off,

1187
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 1: and he has been practicing this week. So we'll have

1188
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: to see where that goes, because it could be an

1189
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: either or it could be a combination of both. Will

1190
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 1: have to just wait and see where it goes at

1191
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: the end of the week, certainly before four pm on Saturday.

1192
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 1: All Right, we went off the grid here for this one.

1193
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 1: Steve out of the obl fan mail bag from Nate,

1194
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: who is more likely to rock a pair of short

1195
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 1: shorts like my man fits magic. For those of you

1196
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: that missed this this week, this was somewhat of a

1197
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: homage to Isaiah Ford, the wide receiver they got traded

1198
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: from Miami to New England this week. He routinely wore

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01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: very short football pants to practice, and so the general

1200
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: consensus was Fits did this as an homage to Isaiah

1201
01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 1: Ford wore extremely short short football pants to practice and

1202
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: shall we say, was letting the leg hair and the

1203
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: thighs hang out in a plentiful supply. So, um, what

1204
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 1: do you think, Steve? He did trim his beard and

1205
01:03:55,920 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 1: got a haircut. Our MSG viewers are seeing the image there.

1206
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: You know, I think, uh, I think I could do

1207
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of that. I mean, I think

1208
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: I could still do that. I could pull it off

1209
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't look bad. I can't pull that off.

1210
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 1: Oh come on, you can do that. I don't even

1211
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: pull that off in my house when nobody's home. I well,

1212
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: I don't make it a habit to wear shorts that

1213
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: short either. I mean I don't in the mirror like that.

1214
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: I would be discussed. Well yeah, but you know, if

1215
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: you got if it's a situation where you have to

1216
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: own it, you got to own it. I think I

1217
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: think you could pull it off. Steve Um, you know

1218
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: you've got you've got athletic muscles under there. You know

1219
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: from your playing days, they're still They're not dormant, they're

1220
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 1: they're still there. And I get it. I mean I

1221
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 1: used to. I'm like one of those guys. I used

1222
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: to be bulletproof. Yeah, I get it. But those days

1223
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: are long gone. So I don't think I could pull

1224
01:04:56,120 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: off the short short football pants like fits Ra. Yeah,

1225
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: this weekend soccer players can do it. Man. They got

1226
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 1: a good set of a good set of pipes. So yeah,

1227
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: I get it. It could happen. If pressed, I would,

1228
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 1: I could do it. I think I don't know if

1229
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 1: I'd look great. I don't know if i'd look as

1230
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: good as fits, but I could, you know, I could.

1231
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: I could do it. His wife's was a really good

1232
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,440
Speaker 1: soccer player. I don't know if you knew that. She

1233
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:21,520
Speaker 1: played soccer at Harvard and uh, yeah, she was a

1234
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,880
Speaker 1: really good soccer player. Um was she as good as

1235
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: soccer player as he is a football player? Um? Well, no,

1236
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 1: she didn't go pro, Um, but no, she was. She

1237
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 1: was pretty good Ivy League soccer player. So yeah, um,

1238
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: because I remember talking to a couple of times about

1239
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: soccer and yeah, good player. So uh she So he

1240
01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: might not be the only one in the family that

1241
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: could rock short shorts. So there it is. Here's a

1242
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: great question. What what ball player has the best chance

1243
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: of having one of his kids outdo him in the

1244
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 1: sport that he played professionally? Got a chance? He got

1245
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: like six kids, right, the wife who is a great athlete.

1246
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 1: So the genetics are there, yeah, deep end of the

1247
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: gene pillow Rivers has got nine children. Well, yeah, the

1248
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 1: odds alone help him. Okay, the odds are there. The

1249
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:13,200
Speaker 1: odds right, yeah, you got nine kids, You got pretty

1250
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: good odds. We have to do some research about the

1251
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: next generation Lebron James kids. He's got two boys, I

1252
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 1: think and a girl. Yeah, so he's he could be

1253
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: in decent shape there. His kids are already playing at

1254
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 1: high level AAU programs. So so it's interesting. It's an

1255
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: interesting thought. All Right, we gotta take a break. We'll

1256
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: get some We'll get to more of the ob L

1257
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: fanmail bag in due course here through the rest of

1258
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: the show, but we have to take a break because

1259
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 1: when we return, senior producer from NFL Films, Greg coast Cell,

1260
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: we'll be joining us. Give you up some x's and

1261
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: oh's for this Seattle Buffalo matchup on Sunday Back in

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01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: a moment here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collat

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01:06:53,880 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One

1264
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: Bills five. Chris Brownski cast with you on a Friday

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01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: and joining us to make his weekly visit as he

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01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,920
Speaker 1: does every Friday. Is the senior producer from NFL Films.

1267
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 1: Also you can catch him on the ESPN NFL Matchup

1268
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: Show weekend mornings on ESPN and ESPN two. It's Greg

1269
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: Cosell Ready to talk Seahawks bills with us. Greg, how

1270
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 1: are you doing? Chris, Steve, what's going on today, big

1271
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 1: one this weekend, Yes, very big one, all big, Greg.

1272
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 1: There's only sixteen of them, Steve, and we hope they'll

1273
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: be sixteen of them this year. So you're right there,

1274
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 1: all big. Yeah. Why don't we start here, Greg, m

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Speaker 1: because I was I was intrigued by this, you know.

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Speaker 1: I was just kind of going through the stats that

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Speaker 1: we kind of get from the league and whatnot, and

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Speaker 1: I was looking to see if Seattle had played any

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01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 1: teams then used a lot of ten personnel like the

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01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: Bills do. And I was surprised to see that the

1281
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals have used ten personnel even more than the

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01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 1: Bills this year. They're the only team, those are the

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01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 1: only two teams that really use it to that degree.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if you can go back a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks for me and just describe maybe what

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Speaker 1: Seattle's defensive approach was to Arizona, knowing they have a

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Speaker 1: mobile quarterback like the Bills do, and they use ten

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01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: personnel in a lot of the same way as the

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Speaker 1: Bills do. Yeah, ten personnel is I mean, that's a

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01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:38,280
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury thing. When he got to the league last year,

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Speaker 1: in his first year He started this season through the

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Speaker 1: first five or six weeks using that as his foundation

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01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:47,639
Speaker 1: because that's what he is, that's what he did in college.

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Speaker 1: And then he kind of evolved into playing less ten

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01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 1: personnel because he found out that you can't just live

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Speaker 1: on that in the NFL. Seattle is they're a team

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01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 1: that normally do is not play a lot of dime,

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01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 1: although they will play dime based on down and selected situations,

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Speaker 1: but that's not a foundational approach for them. Cover three

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01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:16,800
Speaker 1: is kind of their standard, but it depends on the game,

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01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 1: so they will play a lot of man coverage. But

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01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 1: it's funny you mentioned Arizona. They played very little cover

1303
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 1: one versus Arizona, less than ten percent of the past

1304
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 1: plays the dropbacks by Kyler Murray. With Seattle, they played

1305
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 1: cover one, so they were very conscious of Kyler Murray's

1306
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 1: ability Chris to get out of the pocket and make

1307
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 1: plays with his legs. My senses, they would think the

1308
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 1: same way about Josh Allen. Yeah, I was also sorry, Steve,

1309
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: I just wanted to follow up on this real quick.

1310
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 1: I was. I also found it interesting that, you know,

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01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: you look at the Bills defense, they play nickel like

1312
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 1: eighty eight percent of the time this year, it's the

1313
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: highest percentage I've ever seen from that defense far and

1314
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,879
Speaker 1: away leads the league. And then you look at Seattle,

1315
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 1: They're only in nickel fifty three percent of the time.

1316
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: They played bass thirty seven and a half percent of

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01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,600
Speaker 1: the time is the third highest figure in the league. Now,

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01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: I know they have great linebackers and that's probably part

1319
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:18,480
Speaker 1: of the reason they can do that, but the contrast

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01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: in defensive personnel usage I thought was fascinating coming into this. Yeah, well,

1321
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 1: Steve knows zone teams can certainly play in their bass

1322
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 1: if they like their linebackers, because if you're going to

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01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: play let's say Cover three as a foundation, obviously a

1324
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:37,760
Speaker 1: flat defender can be a linebacker. But no, you're right,

1325
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:42,680
Speaker 1: and actually Seattle played almost seventy percent base a year

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01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: ago nineteen, so this is something that they do. They

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01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 1: like their linebackers, but obviously that will be dependent on

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01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 1: how the Bills line up. The Bills have been playing

1329
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:58,200
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons because Dawson Knox has been unavailable. They've

1330
01:10:58,240 --> 01:11:00,280
Speaker 1: been playing a lot out of eleven person and all

1331
01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: the last number of weeks. So you see the Seattle

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01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: Sears team coming in and their schedule has not been

1333
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 1: a gauntlet in the first six or eight games of

1334
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 1: the season, but they've played extremely well. Who's had the

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01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:18,639
Speaker 1: most success against Russell Wilson and why Well, Wilson really

1336
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: has not had what you'd call a bad game. I

1337
01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 1: think it was the game they lost. I'm trying to

1338
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 1: remember Arizona. It was Arizona interception, right, right, right, right, Yeah,

1339
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if that necessarily is representative

1340
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:35,800
Speaker 1: of anything. Arizona is not a defense that did and

1341
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: I remember that game now, Arizona is not a defense

1342
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 1: that necessarily did anything where you went, oh my god,

1343
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 1: to look what they did. He's played extremely well this year.

1344
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 1: They've clearly morphed into an offense that is not built

1345
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: on running the ball first as they have been in

1346
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: the last two years. This year it's clearly a past game.

1347
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:56,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what the first down numbers are, but

1348
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: over the last two years, not counting this year, they

1349
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:02,400
Speaker 1: were among the highest percentage in the league on first

1350
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: down rushes. That is not true this year. So they

1351
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: throw the football. They've got really really good weapons, as

1352
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: you guys know, which really raises the matchup question in

1353
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: this game. You know, we've seen over the last oh,

1354
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how many weeks, but certainly a month

1355
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 1: that Tredavious White has not been used as a matchup corner.

1356
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:26,400
Speaker 1: He's been the boundary corner. So we'll see how Buffalo

1357
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 1: chooses to play this week. Because Metcalf does line up

1358
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: as their boundary X, the single receiver to the short

1359
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,759
Speaker 1: side of the field, but this year they are moving

1360
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 1: him around even more and we'll see. So we'll see

1361
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,840
Speaker 1: what Buffalo does. Yeah, Seattle passes on first down Greg

1362
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,599
Speaker 1: thirty nine percent of the time. That's the fourth highest

1363
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: percentage in the league. So yeah, they are not a

1364
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:51,720
Speaker 1: run first team anymore, or at least not to the

1365
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:55,080
Speaker 1: degree they used to be for sure. I also found

1366
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 1: it interesting that they had a sharp spike in the

1367
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:01,559
Speaker 1: amount of times they blitzed last week against San Francisco. Now,

1368
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 1: San Francisco was a kind of a wounded animal, but um,

1369
01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that they that they throw that much

1370
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: blitz at Josh knowing his mobility this week. No, Well, again,

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Speaker 1: that's that's a great point you made, Chris, because that's

1372
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 1: a function of who they played against. Obviously, Garoppolo did

1373
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: play three quarters. So that was based game plan based

1374
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,760
Speaker 1: on Jimmy Garoppolo and that offense. Jimmy Garoppolo is a

1375
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 1: pure pocket quarterback, so to me, that was purely a

1376
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 1: function of who they were playing. I doubt very much

1377
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: they will do that to the Bills and Josh Allen

1378
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 1: because they blitzed a lot last week and they played

1379
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:42,759
Speaker 1: some man coverage. They'll play man. Everybody plays some man coverage, obviously,

1380
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 1: but I would imagine this week that they're they're blitzing

1381
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:48,679
Speaker 1: will be much more selective, you know, based on down,

1382
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 1: based on field location. They will blitz because they do

1383
01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: do that. Bobby Wagner has become a really, really good

1384
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: blitzer as his career has progressed. And they line up

1385
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:00,720
Speaker 1: and what a lot of team teams do now I

1386
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:03,679
Speaker 1: called a tilted front, where they line up with three

1387
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: defensive linemen to one side of the center and they

1388
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 1: normally stunt to that side, and then Bobby Wagner is

1389
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 1: kind of the wildcard who lines up opposite the tilt

1390
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 1: and he could blitz, he could drop out, he could

1391
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: be part of his stunt. He's become very very good

1392
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 1: at that. So I think you'll see that for sure,

1393
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 1: but the high percentage blitz, Chris, I'd be very surprised

1394
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 1: if be we're anywhere near that against Josh Allen. You

1395
01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: know before we talked a little bit about how big

1396
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 1: a win it was for Buffalo over New England this

1397
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:36,200
Speaker 1: last week. We can get to that in a minute,

1398
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:38,280
Speaker 1: but you know, a lot of Bills fans are wondering.

1399
01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:39,920
Speaker 1: You know, the Bills were throwing it all over the

1400
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:42,240
Speaker 1: yard in weeks one through four. Then they went to

1401
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:44,320
Speaker 1: Tennessee in that game, I kind of throw that game

1402
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:46,759
Speaker 1: out because of the emotions of COVID and the Tuesday

1403
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: game and right, all of that. It's a little different emotionally,

1404
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: But the Kansas City game the same thing. Right, tell

1405
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:57,479
Speaker 1: us about what teams are How do teams do you

1406
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 1: feel in their defenses, what do they perceive this Buffalo

1407
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: offense to be, and what are they doing generally speaking

1408
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,640
Speaker 1: to Buffalo to keep them off the scoreboard like they

1409
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: were getting on the scoreboard in weeks one through four. Yeah,

1410
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,760
Speaker 1: generally speaking, Steve, I mean you go back to let's

1411
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:14,880
Speaker 1: say Buffalo against Miami. I think it was Week two

1412
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: when Miami literally played man coverage. You'd seemed on every

1413
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:21,120
Speaker 1: snap and buffalo ate him up. But I think what

1414
01:15:21,240 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: we've seen over the last what it's been three weeks

1415
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 1: a month, give or take, his teams have done a

1416
01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 1: lot of disguise and late movement to get to zone

1417
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: coverage concepts and what you're trying to do. You know,

1418
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is still a young quarterback, even though he's

1419
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 1: highly talented and clearly has improved, You're dealing with a

1420
01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: young quarterback who's still at times has to kind of

1421
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 1: decipher what he sees. And you know, guys in the NFL,

1422
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: it just takes half a beat and that's a win

1423
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 1: for the defense. So they're trying to make Josh have

1424
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:55,719
Speaker 1: to think through things from pre snap to post snap

1425
01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:59,560
Speaker 1: and you know, just slow down his decision making or

1426
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 1: what I called elimination and isolation, eliminating what's not there

1427
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 1: and isolating what is there within the timing of the

1428
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: drop and the play design. So I think that's what

1429
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 1: you've seen over the last three weeks or so. Are

1430
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: you kind of anticipating Greg This is kind of what

1431
01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:17,799
Speaker 1: I'm thinking going into this game. Defensively for the Bills,

1432
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: I mean, Metcalf and Lockett are not a good matchup

1433
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 1: for just about any cornerback tandem in the league. So,

1434
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:28,760
Speaker 1: knowing the challenges those two guys present outside, I have

1435
01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 1: to believe that we're looking at another week of soft coverage,

1436
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:36,519
Speaker 1: you know, nothing cheap, nothing deep, And knowing how banged

1437
01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:40,120
Speaker 1: up their running back contingent is in Seattle, maybe they

1438
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 1: just say, hey, if we're if you're gonna beat us,

1439
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: you're gonna beat us with your third and fourth string

1440
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 1: running back, not with your two high flying receivers. Well,

1441
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:52,679
Speaker 1: you know, I hate to bring up bad memories for Steve,

1442
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 1: but maybe it's the old Bill Belichick approach in the

1443
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. You know, if you want to hand the

1444
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 1: ball off, have at it. You know we're going to

1445
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: take away the big plays and you want to hand

1446
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 1: it off to DJ Dallas. Although I guess Chris Carson

1447
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 1: may go. I don't know if you have any report

1448
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 1: on that, but even if he does go, and I

1449
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 1: like Carson, but but it could be. I mean, look,

1450
01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:12,080
Speaker 1: as you guys know, Buffalo plays more man coverage than

1451
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,519
Speaker 1: people probably think because they think of Leslie and Shawn

1452
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: his own guys, but they play more man than people think.

1453
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:20,640
Speaker 1: So the question is, as you just suggested, Chris is

1454
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,280
Speaker 1: this a game where they don't play as much man

1455
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: because of the nature of the wide receivers on Seattle,

1456
01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 1: and they go back to playing more zone with the

1457
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 1: idea that you just suggested, Let's at least play with

1458
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 1: eye discipline, assignment, discipline, leverage, discipline, keep everything in front

1459
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:38,559
Speaker 1: of us, and you know, if we don't give up

1460
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: a big play, sure you still have a really good

1461
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:44,080
Speaker 1: offense and Wilson's great, but let's make you go twelve

1462
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 1: plays and score. Well, the Bills have got their safety

1463
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 1: tan and back intact. Now Micah Hyde will be back

1464
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: on the field for them. It looks like he's been

1465
01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 1: cleared from the concussion protocol. Those two safeties Pluster Davis White,

1466
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: and now it looks like Levi Waltz will be back in.

1467
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: How does this secondary stack up against Tyler Lockett and

1468
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf Well, I don't think it sets up well

1469
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:06,479
Speaker 1: if they're gonna play man. I mean, we know Tradavious

1470
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:09,560
Speaker 1: White's very good and he can match up certainly, but

1471
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 1: like I said, he's played boundary corner. He has not

1472
01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 1: been a matchup corner of the last month or so,

1473
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:17,639
Speaker 1: So I would I would bet bet they'll play more zone.

1474
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: To me, a big loss though, is Matt Milano, because

1475
01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 1: I think Milano and Edmonds are as you know, a

1476
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 1: top three to five in the league as far as

1477
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: sub nickel linebackers and and A J. Klein certainly a veteran.

1478
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:31,640
Speaker 1: He's been in the league a long time. You know.

1479
01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:34,439
Speaker 1: It's not as if he's a weakness. But I just

1480
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: I'm a big Matt Milano fan, as you guys know,

1481
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 1: and I think in a game like this that his

1482
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: loss it could dictate some just changes in approach. When

1483
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Speaker 1: I say oh, I don't mean overall approach, but certain situations,

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01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:49,840
Speaker 1: because I think Milano is just a really good player

1485
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: with respect to Russell Wilson and all of his passing exploits.

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01:18:54,439 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 1: I think what's been lost on some people anyway, is

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01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,759
Speaker 1: the fact that this team second in the Egan Scramble

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01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: yards by Wilson. Of course, It's almost like people are like, oh, yeah,

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01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:07,680
Speaker 1: he can run too, I forgot about that. What has

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01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:11,960
Speaker 1: been the general defensive approach from teams with respect to

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01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:14,839
Speaker 1: their rush are they are they trying to just squeeze

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01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,280
Speaker 1: the pockets so as to keep you know, the escape

1493
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: lanes closed down? What are they doing with Wilson this year. Well,

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01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 1: it depends on the team. I mean, some teams will

1495
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,160
Speaker 1: spy him. Some teams will do just what you suggested.

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01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 1: It's tough to play man to man, you know, a

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01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 1: heavy dose of man to man because you do present

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01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 1: the running opportunities. I think Wilson he's a very good runner,

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01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:41,200
Speaker 1: as we know, but I think he looks and I

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01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 1: know the yards are there, Chris, but I think he

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01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: looks to run less than he did earlier in his career.

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01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: I think you really have to, you know, set him

1503
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 1: up to run. You know, if it's third and nine,

1504
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: he's not just going to drop back and look for

1505
01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:56,640
Speaker 1: green grass. He's gonna look to throw the football. But

1506
01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 1: he certainly can run, and you do have to account

1507
01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: for that. I don't think the Bills will spy. I mean,

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01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,800
Speaker 1: if they play zone, they won't spy, you know, and

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01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: I my senses they're not going to play a ton

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01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: of man, so I don't think they'll spy. I think

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01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: they'll look to play zone, and obviously you've got the

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01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:18,639
Speaker 1: underneath defenders looking back in at Wilson. But again there's

1513
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:20,679
Speaker 1: probably gonna be third and twos and third and threes

1514
01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 1: and those are manned down, so at some point you

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01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:26,200
Speaker 1: do have to play man coverage. So we've talked about,

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01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:28,679
Speaker 1: you know, Russell Wilson and his ability to run the football,

1517
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:32,599
Speaker 1: and how the Seahawks have evolved to this past first

1518
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:35,160
Speaker 1: offense where even last year and the year before they

1519
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: were run first always. How big a compliment does their

1520
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:41,479
Speaker 1: run game need to be going forward? Oh, I think

1521
01:20:41,479 --> 01:20:43,719
Speaker 1: it'll be a factor. I think when Chris Carson is healthy,

1522
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:48,080
Speaker 1: he fits them to a t. In some ways, it's

1523
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: what I think the Bills are trying to get to.

1524
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 1: You don't need an explosive, big play back. What you

1525
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,720
Speaker 1: want is a back that keeps you on schedule. And

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01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 1: I know every team says that, and it's a cliche

1527
01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: to some degree, but think of it this way, guys.

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01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: When you have quarterbacks like Russell Wilson and Josh Allen

1529
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:07,840
Speaker 1: who have that running ability and put that kind of

1530
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: pressure on a defense, they are super hard to defend

1531
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 1: when it's third and three because you know you just

1532
01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get. So with a back

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01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: like Carson, ideally with a back like Zack Moss who's

1534
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 1: getting more carries, we'll see as we go forward. How

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01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:25,040
Speaker 1: that plays out with Singletary. Obviously they each had fourteen

1536
01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:29,000
Speaker 1: last week. But with those kinds of backs, they're grinders,

1537
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: They're sustaining grinders. They keep you on schedule, so you

1538
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:35,439
Speaker 1: get to third and three and third and four as

1539
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:38,799
Speaker 1: opposed to third and nine, and those downs with mobile

1540
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:42,679
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are very hard for defenses. All right, so let's

1541
01:21:43,439 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 1: move around the league here. In Week nine, the one

1542
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 1: that jumped out at me was the quarterback battle that will.

1543
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:53,799
Speaker 1: I believe it's the games in Miami Tua and Kyler Murray,

1544
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:57,800
Speaker 1: two of the smaller statured quarterbacks, but certainly this has

1545
01:21:57,840 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 1: got some marquee billing here. What do you kind of

1546
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:03,920
Speaker 1: say in that game? Yeah, I mean, look at too

1547
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: didn't have to do much. He wasn't really challenged last

1548
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 1: week because the nature of that game, because the Dolphins

1549
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: had such a good tactical game plan against the Rams

1550
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 1: that TOA was not really challenged to make throws that

1551
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 1: he'll have to make going forward. But even with that,

1552
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 1: I think you saw what they want to do with them,

1553
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: play action, boot action, timing, rhythm throws. He's an accurate thrower.

1554
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:29,680
Speaker 1: He had one throw that was really good where he

1555
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:32,800
Speaker 1: eliminated what was not there, which was the primary read,

1556
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:35,120
Speaker 1: and came back to the other side of the field

1557
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:39,439
Speaker 1: within timing and structure. So overall I thought he looked solid,

1558
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:41,920
Speaker 1: but again, it was tough to get a great feel

1559
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 1: simply because he did not have to make many challenging throws.

1560
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:47,120
Speaker 1: One of the teams I want to ask you about

1561
01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:49,519
Speaker 1: as well as the Patriots, And first of all, tell it.

1562
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:51,280
Speaker 1: You said it was a big win for the Bills

1563
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 1: last week, certainly going four and own the division and

1564
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 1: all of that. Were there other reasons why that was

1565
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 1: such a big game? And what do the Patriots do

1566
01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: going forward? At quarter? Well, it's still Cam. I mean

1567
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:05,560
Speaker 1: they haven't announced anything otherwise, right, I mean, yeah, so

1568
01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:08,799
Speaker 1: it's Cam. I mean he's um. Look, he's still struggling.

1569
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,759
Speaker 1: He's still struggling with what he sees. He's still struggling

1570
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 1: to throw, with timing, His ball placement has been erratic.

1571
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:18,960
Speaker 1: It's he's not played very very well. I mean, he's

1572
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 1: that's what the film shows. You know, obviously he's the quarterback.

1573
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 1: They obviously feel he's their best guy. And we'll see

1574
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:29,400
Speaker 1: going quote, Look, they run him a lot, as you

1575
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: guys saw last week. I think they'll continue to do that.

1576
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 1: I think that's a strength of his game as we

1577
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:39,200
Speaker 1: speak right now, and they'll continue to work on the

1578
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:43,160
Speaker 1: other parts. But to me, they're best offensive player right now.

1579
01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:44,720
Speaker 1: And I think you saw that last week. And I

1580
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:47,559
Speaker 1: mentioned this to someone three weeks ago. Is Damien Harris.

1581
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 1: I thought he ran really well, really effectively. I loved

1582
01:23:51,080 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 1: him coming out of Alabama. I think he's a better

1583
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:56,439
Speaker 1: back than Sony Michelle, and it wouldn't surprise me if

1584
01:23:56,479 --> 01:24:00,160
Speaker 1: he supplanted Sony Michelle. What do we, uh, what do

1585
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:03,639
Speaker 1: we think about the Ravens Colts game from this standpoint? Greg?

1586
01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: I mean, the Ravens offense isn't what it was last year.

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01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:09,640
Speaker 1: A lot of people blame that on them jettisoning one

1588
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:12,240
Speaker 1: of their three top tight ends, and that the offense

1589
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 1: hasn't looked the same ever since. I know mark Ingram's

1590
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 1: nicked up too. And now you have the number two

1591
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: run defense in the league coming in in Indianapolis. How

1592
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 1: do you see that that run game battle shaping up

1593
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:29,040
Speaker 1: between those two squads. Well, I think the Ravens are

1594
01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:31,600
Speaker 1: built on the run game. They ran very well against Pittsburgh.

1595
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 1: Their issue has been the passing game, it's not been

1596
01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: very good. You know, when you have a quarterback like

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01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:39,679
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and I know he's coming off an MVP

1598
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 1: year and he's already been, you know, being talked about

1599
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 1: as being great. But there's a balance between quarterbacks who

1600
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: are so athletically special and their ability to move and

1601
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,080
Speaker 1: their ability to throw. And I'm not saying I know

1602
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:58,040
Speaker 1: the balance, but there is a balance. And I think

1603
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:02,760
Speaker 1: right now he's starting to move immaturely out of the pocket. Yes,

1604
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,280
Speaker 1: will he make special runs on occasion, of course he will,

1605
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 1: but he's leaving throws on the field. He's a little frenetic,

1606
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:12,519
Speaker 1: a little undisciplined. If you watch him as I do, obviously,

1607
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of side on throws, a lot

1608
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 1: of things that you know, I don't think make for

1609
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:22,240
Speaker 1: consistent quarterback play. And it took him a thirty yard

1610
01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 1: completion to Snead on a busted coverage at the end

1611
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:27,840
Speaker 1: of the game last week to get over two hundred yards,

1612
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 1: and that was the first time he'd been over two

1613
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:33,160
Speaker 1: hundred yards passing in five weeks. So they're not throwing

1614
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 1: the ball particularly well. Last one. For me, how much

1615
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 1: of an impact does Antonio Brown have with the Tampa

1616
01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. I mean, he's a great player, no question,

1617
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 1: very play. What's that change for them? And how good

1618
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:49,599
Speaker 1: does it make him? Well? I think it makes him

1619
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: pretty darn good, Steve, because I think you'll see him

1620
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 1: both outside and in the slot, because Godwin can also

1621
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 1: ligne up outside and in the slot. And Godwin, I guess,

1622
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:00,479
Speaker 1: we don't know if he's playing this week, but he

1623
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:03,280
Speaker 1: will be back. It's it's just a finger injury. So

1624
01:26:03,479 --> 01:26:06,800
Speaker 1: if you talk about Godwin, Brown and Evan Steve, I mean,

1625
01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:09,679
Speaker 1: is there a better trio of receivers in the NFL

1626
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 1: than those three guys? And Brady and and Gronk has

1627
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 1: become a factor of the last three four weeks, and

1628
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 1: Brady's clearly developing some rhythm, So I think that offense

1629
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:22,720
Speaker 1: could just really take off as the season progresses. It

1630
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:27,960
Speaker 1: is an embarrassment of Riches for sure. Greg. Is there

1631
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:32,320
Speaker 1: any chance that Buffalo Seattle makes the matchup show? There

1632
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:35,080
Speaker 1: is and it is in and H But I hate

1633
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 1: to inform you guys actually did a piece on Seattle's

1634
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 1: offense this week. But the game is in the show,

1635
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,680
Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's Look, it's one of the best

1636
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:45,439
Speaker 1: games on the schedule. Yeah, right, honestly, so it's I'm

1637
01:26:45,479 --> 01:26:47,760
Speaker 1: really excited to see this game and how it plays out.

1638
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously i'll see it on tape Sunday. I

1639
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:53,280
Speaker 1: probably won't want, you know, Sunday, I tend to just

1640
01:26:53,360 --> 01:26:55,680
Speaker 1: sit at home and watch Red Zone and let it

1641
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:58,200
Speaker 1: roll all over me. But but I will watch the

1642
01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:00,320
Speaker 1: game in great detail on tape, and I think I

1643
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 1: think it's a fascinating tactical game. All right, Well, we

1644
01:27:03,439 --> 01:27:05,680
Speaker 1: look forward to you. Yeah, we look forward to you

1645
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:07,760
Speaker 1: and Matt Bowen breaking it down this weekend on that

1646
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 1: matchup show. So thanks very much as always for the time,

1647
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: Greg appreciate it. Guys. Thanks all right. Greg co Sell,

1648
01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 1: senior producer from NFL Films and also one of the

1649
01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 1: co hosts on The Edge NFL or the ESPN NFL

1650
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 1: Matchup Show, which airs on ESPN on the weekends early

1651
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:26,600
Speaker 1: in the morning, so you gotta get up early for that.

1652
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:29,560
Speaker 1: But they'll be breaking down Seahawks bills and if you

1653
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:32,360
Speaker 1: want to get the lowdown on how that Seahawks offense functions,

1654
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 1: they'll be getting into that. Specifically, we have to take

1655
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:38,519
Speaker 1: a break, but when we return more OBL Fan mail

1656
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:41,799
Speaker 1: Bag and then coming up and about oh about fifteen

1657
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: minutes time, we'll be checking in with one Lorenzo Alexander

1658
01:27:45,280 --> 01:27:48,920
Speaker 1: for his weekly appearance and delivery of the lowdown. It's

1659
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 1: all coming up here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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01:27:51,720 --> 01:28:04,480
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Miss Brown Stechaster

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Speaker 1: with you closing up our number two of the program

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01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 1: here on a Friday, as we are taking your questions,

1663
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:15,920
Speaker 1: your queries, your comments on anything Bills at eight O

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01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty five fifty two five fifty end

1665
01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at the OBL fan mail Bag

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01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:25,799
Speaker 1: at One Bills Live. And at this point in time,

1667
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:29,880
Speaker 1: we are up to Kevin in the mail bag and

1668
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 1: he asks, with so many starting quarterbacks seriously injured this year,

1669
01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: and Matt Barkley having very little on field game action,

1670
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be a good idea to have a seasoned

1671
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:42,280
Speaker 1: veteran as a great insurance policy just in case Josh

1672
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:45,559
Speaker 1: would ever be out for an extended period of time.

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01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:49,000
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Steve, but I think they

1674
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:54,960
Speaker 1: see Matt Barkley as a seasoned veteran. Absolutely. I don't

1675
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:57,000
Speaker 1: think there's a question. They have a lot of confidence

1676
01:28:57,040 --> 01:28:59,040
Speaker 1: in Matt. They like his skill set, they like as

1677
01:28:59,040 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: a command of the offense. Uncertainly a backup quarterback role.

1678
01:29:03,320 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: Some guys are more fit for that than others, and

1679
01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 1: met Markley certainly fills that role exactly the way the

1680
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:14,599
Speaker 1: Bills want him to. I mean, I'm trying to I'm

1681
01:29:14,640 --> 01:29:16,400
Speaker 1: trying to pull up his stats to see how many

1682
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:19,439
Speaker 1: career games he's played, and he's played in fifteen career games.

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01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:22,840
Speaker 1: I mean, so he's been a backup largely for the

1684
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:25,880
Speaker 1: balance of his career. So I guess you look at

1685
01:29:25,920 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 1: that and you say inexperienced. But I mean he's been

1686
01:29:29,880 --> 01:29:33,320
Speaker 1: in the league since what twenty fourteen? I think twenty thirteen,

1687
01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:36,000
Speaker 1: So I mean, this guy has been around football for

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01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 1: six NFL seasons. I don't know. I I think you've

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01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:46,439
Speaker 1: seen enough and been around enough to come in and

1690
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:49,240
Speaker 1: capably lead your offense. And a perfect example of that

1691
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:54,519
Speaker 1: is the week eleven games Steve in twenty eighteen. If

1692
01:29:54,560 --> 01:29:58,519
Speaker 1: you remember that, the game at the Jets, Derek Anderson's hurt,

1693
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's hurt, and Matt Barkley has a concussion right

1694
01:30:03,560 --> 01:30:05,920
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley had like five days to get ready for

1695
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:10,200
Speaker 1: the game. They win in forty one to ten, and

1696
01:30:10,280 --> 01:30:13,360
Speaker 1: he's throwing bombs down the field to Robert Foster. The

1697
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: first game he shows up, He's there for less than

1698
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: a week, shows up, starts, and I think that solidified

1699
01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 1: his place. The way he handled that pressure and that

1700
01:30:24,240 --> 01:30:27,479
Speaker 1: responsibility of showing up and giving your best effort and

1701
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:31,520
Speaker 1: leading the team to a win. I think that cemented

1702
01:30:31,680 --> 01:30:34,560
Speaker 1: him as their choice for backup. I think his relationship

1703
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:37,320
Speaker 1: with Josh is Josh is huge. It's very good. I

1704
01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:43,000
Speaker 1: think anybody you can't expect any any cours. You name it,

1705
01:30:43,320 --> 01:30:48,120
Speaker 1: Josh McCown, Bryan Fitzpatrick, you go down the list of

1706
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:50,920
Speaker 1: qual you know, great backup guys or guys who are

1707
01:30:51,040 --> 01:30:55,880
Speaker 1: veterans who would come in. Nobody expects that guy to

1708
01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:58,360
Speaker 1: come in and play and have this team win as

1709
01:30:58,400 --> 01:31:00,800
Speaker 1: often as it would with Josh Allen had. Yeah, I mean,

1710
01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a drop off anyway, but at least

1711
01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:05,320
Speaker 1: you need a guy who is in the offense knows it.

1712
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:08,280
Speaker 1: The players know him, They're used to hearing him call plays.

1713
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:14,760
Speaker 1: That's why Barkley is here and remains here. Is all

1714
01:31:14,800 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 1: of those things put together. He's not Josh Allen, doesn't

1715
01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:19,760
Speaker 1: expect to be in the club, doesn't expect him to

1716
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:24,320
Speaker 1: be Josh Allen. But when they need him, hopefully and

1717
01:31:24,400 --> 01:31:27,360
Speaker 1: the plan would be Brownie, they just want him to

1718
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:29,599
Speaker 1: get him out of a game, you know. They don't

1719
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:32,120
Speaker 1: want him to have to start. Nobody wants their backup

1720
01:31:32,240 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 1: quarterback to start. If he does, at least everybody else

1721
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:37,760
Speaker 1: on the team can have a full menu of plays

1722
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:39,760
Speaker 1: and they can come in with whatever game plan they want,

1723
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: and all other the other eleven guys on offense are

1724
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:45,439
Speaker 1: going to get a chance to carry the day and

1725
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:49,719
Speaker 1: not the quarterback. So no, I I see the logic

1726
01:31:49,840 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: of it. But at this point, listen, you're way deep

1727
01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:56,639
Speaker 1: in this thing. You're not gonna have a no matter

1728
01:31:56,720 --> 01:31:59,000
Speaker 1: what veteran it is, you're not gonna have a guy

1729
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:01,240
Speaker 1: come in here and be as effective as Matt Barkley

1730
01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:04,680
Speaker 1: is unless he's here for like two months, which is

1731
01:32:04,720 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: the end of the season here. And that's why, I mean,

1732
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:09,680
Speaker 1: that's why I can't imagine who Kevin might have been

1733
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:12,599
Speaker 1: thinking of as an alternative, Like who do you think

1734
01:32:12,640 --> 01:32:14,960
Speaker 1: you're going to grab here? Like do you like Josh

1735
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:17,360
Speaker 1: McCown better than this guy, Like, I mean, I don't

1736
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:20,040
Speaker 1: I don't know who you're turning to. You know, if

1737
01:32:20,080 --> 01:32:23,880
Speaker 1: you don't think Barkley's capable, I don't know. I was

1738
01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:29,320
Speaker 1: a little con miffed by that one from John. Are

1739
01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:33,000
Speaker 1: the Bills interested in looking at Don Tari Poe or

1740
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:36,559
Speaker 1: another double team earning nose tackle to get some relief

1741
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:39,680
Speaker 1: for Edmonds? I think his fans perhaps we underestimated how

1742
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 1: valuable Star is and how selflessly he does his job.

1743
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:44,680
Speaker 1: We seem slow in our run fits, which may be

1744
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:47,479
Speaker 1: by design, but big bodies do help. Well. I don't

1745
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 1: disagree with John that big bodies help. I will say this,

1746
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:53,280
Speaker 1: and we mentioned this earlier in the week. Coming out

1747
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 1: of the Patriots game, I thought Harrison Phillips showed some

1748
01:32:57,200 --> 01:33:00,639
Speaker 1: signs that he's coming around from a strength an endurance

1749
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:05,040
Speaker 1: standpoint and is starting to look more like the encouraging, young,

1750
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: you know, defensive tackle we saw last year in the

1751
01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:10,439
Speaker 1: first three weeks of the season before he suffered the

1752
01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:14,320
Speaker 1: knee injury. Hopefully that continues on the upward trajectory. Because

1753
01:33:14,840 --> 01:33:16,799
Speaker 1: they did not really do it. They didn't do anything

1754
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:22,760
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline to address that position. The Bills didn't,

1755
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:26,320
Speaker 1: neither did really anybody else. Yeah, and Dontari Poe was

1756
01:33:26,360 --> 01:33:29,680
Speaker 1: out there for everybody. Right, we got we got deep

1757
01:33:29,720 --> 01:33:31,400
Speaker 1: in the weeds in this last week. And I still

1758
01:33:31,439 --> 01:33:34,080
Speaker 1: I'm still sitting there, Brownie. Those guys are so rare

1759
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:36,720
Speaker 1: in the league right now because all of them opted out. Yeah,

1760
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:39,200
Speaker 1: that was the great point by you. Everybody's hanging on

1761
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:43,120
Speaker 1: to him. You know, they're not getting they're not getting crazy.

1762
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:47,479
Speaker 1: You know. You know you're looking at at a position

1763
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:49,599
Speaker 1: that is at a premium right now all over. Yeah,

1764
01:33:49,600 --> 01:33:53,880
Speaker 1: you have to overpay, right and so, and if you've

1765
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:56,160
Speaker 1: got one, you're not gonna let him go for nothing.

1766
01:33:57,240 --> 01:34:01,880
Speaker 1: And teams, really, you get into this thing where y'all

1767
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 1: all these criteria and then all of a sudden, you

1768
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:05,719
Speaker 1: got like two teams that fit the criteria. They gotta

1769
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:07,200
Speaker 1: be out of it. They're not going to trade away

1770
01:34:07,200 --> 01:34:08,960
Speaker 1: a guy who's going to help them win a championship.

1771
01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:12,120
Speaker 1: So that takes off what the upper seven teams and

1772
01:34:12,240 --> 01:34:15,320
Speaker 1: every remember seven or eight teams whoever's buying for the

1773
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:18,439
Speaker 1: playoffs in each conference, So that cuts the league in half.

1774
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:22,160
Speaker 1: Then you gotta get guys who teams who are in

1775
01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:23,840
Speaker 1: the mood to get rid of the guy. He's not

1776
01:34:23,840 --> 01:34:26,000
Speaker 1: a high draft pick. The general manager and head coach

1777
01:34:26,080 --> 01:34:28,639
Speaker 1: don't have a job vested interest in keeping the guy.

1778
01:34:28,720 --> 01:34:31,680
Speaker 1: There's that cuts the rest of that in half. Now

1779
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:34,720
Speaker 1: you're down to like eight teams, five teams, and if

1780
01:34:34,760 --> 01:34:36,439
Speaker 1: you call on those guys and they say no, need

1781
01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:39,160
Speaker 1: a one or two, you're not gonna do it. The

1782
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:41,679
Speaker 1: Bills are sitting at six and two, not because they stink,

1783
01:34:41,800 --> 01:34:44,519
Speaker 1: but they're pretty good the way they are, so yeah,

1784
01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:46,800
Speaker 1: they could get some help at D line, but they'd

1785
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:48,840
Speaker 1: much rather coach the guys up they have now and

1786
01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:51,120
Speaker 1: get some better production there and do what they're doing

1787
01:34:51,240 --> 01:34:53,920
Speaker 1: better than try and revamp things. And I know you

1788
01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:56,800
Speaker 1: even liked some of the things that practice squad call

1789
01:34:56,840 --> 01:34:59,280
Speaker 1: a Brandon Bryant did in limited snaps last week, so

1790
01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:01,800
Speaker 1: we'll have to see that continues and if he's a

1791
01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:04,560
Speaker 1: practice squad call up again this week. All right, we

1792
01:35:04,640 --> 01:35:07,280
Speaker 1: have to take a break. When we return, it is

1793
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:11,240
Speaker 1: time for the Lowdown, our weekly visit from former Bills

1794
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 1: linebacker Lorenzo Alexander as he talks Seahawks Bills next here

1795
01:35:16,479 --> 01:35:19,479
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

1796
01:35:19,520 --> 01:35:32,640
Speaker 1: Bill's Radioalo Bills Radio Networks your sports update from One

1797
01:35:32,680 --> 01:35:35,679
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Coach McDermott is officially ruled out Matt Milano

1798
01:35:35,720 --> 01:35:38,559
Speaker 1: and Mitch Morse for Sunday's game against the Seahawks. Milano

1799
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:40,799
Speaker 1: had been dealing with the peck injury did not practice

1800
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:44,559
Speaker 1: all week, while Mitch Morse remains in the concussion protocol

1801
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:47,960
Speaker 1: after leaving early in last week's game against the Patriots.

1802
01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:51,560
Speaker 1: Josh Norman Taiwan Jones also ruled out for Sunday. No

1803
01:35:51,720 --> 01:35:54,720
Speaker 1: word if we could see a call up for Darren Lee,

1804
01:35:54,840 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 1: who was signed to the practice squad earlier this week,

1805
01:35:57,240 --> 01:36:00,479
Speaker 1: but coach McDermott did not rule out the possibility in

1806
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:03,880
Speaker 1: his press conference today. Good news is safety Micah Hyde

1807
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:07,400
Speaker 1: is officially out of the concussion protocol and is expected

1808
01:36:07,439 --> 01:36:11,559
Speaker 1: to start on Sunday. Atlanta Falcons shutting down in person

1809
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:16,200
Speaker 1: operations today following a positive COVID nineteen test within the organization.

1810
01:36:16,280 --> 01:36:19,400
Speaker 1: The positive test came from a member of the football staff,

1811
01:36:19,439 --> 01:36:22,439
Speaker 1: according to the team, which led to the organization conducting

1812
01:36:22,520 --> 01:36:27,400
Speaker 1: all operations virtually. The Dolphins also an intensive protocol following

1813
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:30,639
Speaker 1: a positive COVID test from an assistant coach. The Dolphins

1814
01:36:30,720 --> 01:36:34,479
Speaker 1: will do a walkthrough practice today before facing Arizona as

1815
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 1: scheduled this weekend, and this was just announced earlier today.

1816
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Bengals shutting down operations today after two players

1817
01:36:42,160 --> 01:36:45,840
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID. Fortunately, the Bengals have a bye

1818
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 1: this week. Speaking of COVID, the NFL finding Las Vegas

1819
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:53,519
Speaker 1: Raiders five hundred thousand dollars and coach John Gruden one

1820
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:56,479
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand, in addition to stripping the franchise

1821
01:36:56,520 --> 01:36:59,960
Speaker 1: of a sixth round draft choice for COVID nineteen protocol

1822
01:37:00,200 --> 01:37:04,599
Speaker 1: violations related to Trent Brown's positive coronavirus test in late October.

1823
01:37:04,880 --> 01:37:07,479
Speaker 1: The escalated fines and loss of a draft pick were

1824
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:10,840
Speaker 1: due to repeated violations and failing to meet the COVID

1825
01:37:10,960 --> 01:37:14,320
Speaker 1: nineteen protocols. Meanwhile, the Steelers are in hot water too.

1826
01:37:14,439 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 1: They've been fined three hundred and fifty grand for mask

1827
01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:20,120
Speaker 1: violations in the win against Baltimore, two hundred and fifty

1828
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:22,840
Speaker 1: grand for not wearing masks, and Mike Tomlin find a

1829
01:37:22,960 --> 01:37:26,559
Speaker 1: hundred grand for not wearing his mask properly. Final note

1830
01:37:26,560 --> 01:37:29,160
Speaker 1: from Baseball, the Red Sox are naming Alex Cora their

1831
01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 1: new manager again. Cora has held the Red Sox job

1832
01:37:33,080 --> 01:37:36,519
Speaker 1: for two seasons, then was dismissed in January in response

1833
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:40,160
Speaker 1: to his role in the Astros sign stealing scandal. Cora

1834
01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 1: led the Red Sox to a World Series title in

1835
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:45,240
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and now returns after a year away from

1836
01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:48,280
Speaker 1: the club following his punishment for his role in not one,

1837
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:53,920
Speaker 1: but two cheating scandals. Unbelievable. That's your sports update here

1838
01:37:54,000 --> 01:38:08,280
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. And it is that time of

1839
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:11,880
Speaker 1: the week where we have Lorenzo Alexander in for the lowdown.

1840
01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:14,640
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to hijack this segment, guys, but

1841
01:38:15,240 --> 01:38:18,120
Speaker 1: can you think of a time in professional sports where

1842
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:21,360
Speaker 1: somebody who was found guilty of cheating in two separate

1843
01:38:21,479 --> 01:38:26,920
Speaker 1: scandals returns to the team that he last managed. That's insane.

1844
01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:33,479
Speaker 1: What is going on in baseball? What the hell is

1845
01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:37,519
Speaker 1: going on? You break unwritten rules? It's like an unwritten

1846
01:38:39,840 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: I can't even think of anything remotely close to that though.

1847
01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: That just defies logic. I'm sorry, I just I had

1848
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:48,760
Speaker 1: to go off on a tangent for a brief second

1849
01:38:48,840 --> 01:38:51,000
Speaker 1: here I'm sorry to take up your time here, Lorenzo,

1850
01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:54,080
Speaker 1: but thank you for joining us as always. Um a

1851
01:38:54,240 --> 01:38:59,360
Speaker 1: marquee matchup this week. Zoh yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be

1852
01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 1: a fun game. You know, watching all the Seattle's teyalls

1853
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 1: games kind of leading them to this moment. Every single

1854
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 1: game has really been a shootout. They scored a lot

1855
01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 1: of points this season, and so it's going to be

1856
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:12,040
Speaker 1: a fun game to see how Josh and the offense

1857
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:15,680
Speaker 1: rises to this occasion and really compete, because that's what

1858
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:18,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna probably end up coming down to. Yes, I

1859
01:39:18,439 --> 01:39:20,200
Speaker 1: believe the defense will be able to get some stops

1860
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:23,439
Speaker 1: against Russell Wilson, but nobody has quite been able to

1861
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:25,759
Speaker 1: do it quite yet. You had they you know teams

1862
01:39:25,760 --> 01:39:27,280
Speaker 1: if you look at like the Arizona Cardinals and will

1863
01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 1: come up with some opportunistic interceptions and then you know

1864
01:39:31,400 --> 01:39:33,200
Speaker 1: the game when the overtime they kick the field goal

1865
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:35,000
Speaker 1: to beat them. But nobody's quite figured them out. So

1866
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:37,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see how the defense attacks them.

1867
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:40,080
Speaker 1: But Josh in the offense need to put their you know,

1868
01:39:40,160 --> 01:39:43,640
Speaker 1: eat their wheaties, bring their big boy pass and you know,

1869
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:46,720
Speaker 1: at least you know twenty eight to thirty points to

1870
01:39:46,840 --> 01:39:48,400
Speaker 1: make sure that they can walk away with this game

1871
01:39:48,439 --> 01:39:52,559
Speaker 1: with a victory. Well, Seattle's defense has had trouble stopping people.

1872
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:57,559
Speaker 1: Where are they struggling everywhere the front end, the back end.

1873
01:39:57,920 --> 01:39:59,839
Speaker 1: They haven't been able to put any pressure on anybody

1874
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:03,719
Speaker 1: all year. That's why you see the trade with Dunlap

1875
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:06,320
Speaker 1: bringing it man and you'll see how he integrates to

1876
01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 1: the system. And so that's going to be a new

1877
01:40:08,040 --> 01:40:10,800
Speaker 1: caveat that nobody's ever having made the same. But the

1878
01:40:10,840 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 1: back end is giving up a significant amount of deep

1879
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:17,680
Speaker 1: balls and so Dunlaps addition may be neutralized by their

1880
01:40:17,720 --> 01:40:20,400
Speaker 1: inability to cover on the back end. And so we're

1881
01:40:20,400 --> 01:40:23,040
Speaker 1: going to see how it continues to work to Jamal Avenues,

1882
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:25,080
Speaker 1: a guy that they expected to do a lot for him.

1883
01:40:25,080 --> 01:40:27,400
Speaker 1: It's being out of the lineup for a significant amount

1884
01:40:27,439 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 1: of a piece of the season as well. And they're

1885
01:40:29,880 --> 01:40:32,240
Speaker 1: just not the same defense that we, you know, think

1886
01:40:32,280 --> 01:40:35,200
Speaker 1: about of you know, the legion of Boom and who

1887
01:40:35,280 --> 01:40:38,559
Speaker 1: they were. They're completely different unit now and team wise,

1888
01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:43,040
Speaker 1: they really rely on Russell Wilson, Locket and DK Maycalf

1889
01:40:43,160 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 1: to really leave from the front and put a pressure

1890
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:47,920
Speaker 1: on other teams by scoring a lot of points, so

1891
01:40:49,680 --> 01:40:52,479
Speaker 1: knowing that no one's really stopped them. I mean, everybody

1892
01:40:52,560 --> 01:40:56,200
Speaker 1: talks about how Arizona got three interceptions off him. He's

1893
01:40:56,200 --> 01:40:58,200
Speaker 1: still at four hundred and sixty eight yards of total

1894
01:40:58,320 --> 01:41:04,280
Speaker 1: offense like this, anybody, they just got three picks. Yeah,

1895
01:41:04,439 --> 01:41:07,160
Speaker 1: and it was and it was uncharacteristic stuff of Russell

1896
01:41:07,200 --> 01:41:10,800
Speaker 1: Wilson too. He overthrew DK on one of them, which

1897
01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:12,800
Speaker 1: you really see most of the time he's either putting

1898
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:14,160
Speaker 1: it on him or throwing it out of bound because

1899
01:41:14,160 --> 01:41:17,080
Speaker 1: he's under pressure. And then another time it looked like

1900
01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:19,560
Speaker 1: him and his receiver weren't on the same page, so

1901
01:41:20,680 --> 01:41:23,519
Speaker 1: they brought you know, and that's how you can affect somebody,

1902
01:41:23,560 --> 01:41:25,799
Speaker 1: and you're not always necessarily faking the quarterback because Arizona

1903
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:28,360
Speaker 1: was looked like they were bringing zero pressure, and then

1904
01:41:28,400 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they dropped out and he threw

1905
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:32,560
Speaker 1: the ball. Looked like he was trying to throw a

1906
01:41:32,640 --> 01:41:35,240
Speaker 1: hot route, but the receiver didn't notice it, and so

1907
01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:38,080
Speaker 1: it was an intercepted by Za Simes, where ultimate leaded

1908
01:41:38,160 --> 01:41:40,479
Speaker 1: to the Arizona Cardinals kicking the last minute field goal

1909
01:41:40,560 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 1: to win that game and so you know, he went

1910
01:41:43,280 --> 01:41:45,519
Speaker 1: back and watched the film, understood what teams were, what

1911
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:48,360
Speaker 1: the Cardinals did to him, because understanding that future teams,

1912
01:41:48,479 --> 01:41:51,519
Speaker 1: especially this Bill's defense, were probably going to implement maybe

1913
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: some of the same blitzes, some of the same disguises,

1914
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:56,200
Speaker 1: and so you can't necessarily count on him making the

1915
01:41:56,240 --> 01:41:59,000
Speaker 1: same mistakes. But this team will have to figure out

1916
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:01,120
Speaker 1: a way to limit his sessions, whether it's the offense

1917
01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:03,920
Speaker 1: controlling the ball, the defense coming up with some type

1918
01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:06,519
Speaker 1: of turnovers to remove some of those possessions because they've

1919
01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:11,639
Speaker 1: been on fire. When you think about Locket, Dk metcalf

1920
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:14,679
Speaker 1: and as well as Russell this year, could you see

1921
01:42:14,920 --> 01:42:17,439
Speaker 1: or do you anticipate could we see a repeat of

1922
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:20,160
Speaker 1: what the Bills thought they could do against the Kansas

1923
01:42:20,160 --> 01:42:23,000
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Let them shorten the game with third invite

1924
01:42:23,040 --> 01:42:24,800
Speaker 1: them to run the football, then try and get a

1925
01:42:24,840 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: stop on get them to third down and get a

1926
01:42:26,600 --> 01:42:29,679
Speaker 1: stop there. You give yourself a lot of third downs

1927
01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 1: to get a stop, get them off the field, and

1928
01:42:32,120 --> 01:42:34,920
Speaker 1: just take Russell Wilson out of it because he checks

1929
01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:37,800
Speaker 1: to a run because of the look of the defense. Yeah,

1930
01:42:38,560 --> 01:42:40,080
Speaker 1: but when they check to a run, they're gonna have

1931
01:42:40,120 --> 01:42:42,840
Speaker 1: to stop. And I think with the running back core

1932
01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:45,559
Speaker 1: of the Seattle Seahawks being banged up a little bit

1933
01:42:45,640 --> 01:42:48,479
Speaker 1: this week and not being full force that maybe the

1934
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:52,920
Speaker 1: route they go, you know, playing split safeties, making it

1935
01:42:53,320 --> 01:42:55,479
Speaker 1: making it making Russell feel like he should he should

1936
01:42:55,560 --> 01:42:57,479
Speaker 1: check to a run and maybe doesn't have the numbers

1937
01:42:57,520 --> 01:42:59,160
Speaker 1: on the back end to maybe go to a DK

1938
01:42:59,360 --> 01:43:02,200
Speaker 1: Metcalf for try to lock it down the field. But

1939
01:43:02,360 --> 01:43:05,000
Speaker 1: when that happens, everybody has to do their job as

1940
01:43:05,040 --> 01:43:07,479
Speaker 1: far as stopping to run, minimizing it and are not

1941
01:43:07,640 --> 01:43:10,120
Speaker 1: allowing them the game you know, four or five yards

1942
01:43:10,160 --> 01:43:12,240
Speaker 1: to pop. And if they can execute that game plan

1943
01:43:12,479 --> 01:43:15,600
Speaker 1: much like as you mentioned, Steve that they have for

1944
01:43:15,680 --> 01:43:18,080
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and do it at a higher level,

1945
01:43:18,640 --> 01:43:20,720
Speaker 1: it's going to put them in a better chance of

1946
01:43:20,840 --> 01:43:24,439
Speaker 1: winning this game. And then also obviously again you know,

1947
01:43:24,600 --> 01:43:26,679
Speaker 1: Josh and the offense has to get rolling once again

1948
01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 1: and getting back into that early half the season that

1949
01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:32,320
Speaker 1: we saw. Guys are coming back being healthy and really

1950
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:34,760
Speaker 1: exploiting all the mitch matches that they'll have on the

1951
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:36,760
Speaker 1: back end because they'll be able to throw the ball

1952
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:39,080
Speaker 1: or running. I mean, even like we saw Zach Moss

1953
01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:42,960
Speaker 1: in singletary last week. Five point eight yards to carry.

1954
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:45,040
Speaker 1: Another one has six point one yards to carry. If

1955
01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:46,559
Speaker 1: they come out and be physical like that and run

1956
01:43:46,640 --> 01:43:49,000
Speaker 1: this ball, control the clock, and score points at the

1957
01:43:49,080 --> 01:43:53,599
Speaker 1: end of drives in touchdowns, that is I think, ultimately

1958
01:43:53,680 --> 01:43:55,240
Speaker 1: the way you want to win this game, and ultimately

1959
01:43:55,280 --> 01:43:57,280
Speaker 1: how you can really dictate because you can never count

1960
01:43:57,320 --> 01:44:00,240
Speaker 1: on turnovers, but you can dictate if you can run

1961
01:44:00,320 --> 01:44:03,880
Speaker 1: the ball, control the clock, and score touchdowns minimizing the

1962
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:06,400
Speaker 1: time that Russell Wilson and that offense is on the field. Yeah,

1963
01:44:06,400 --> 01:44:08,800
Speaker 1: because that was gonna that was gonna leave me. Oh sorry, Steve,

1964
01:44:08,840 --> 01:44:11,280
Speaker 1: go ahead, follow up. No, I was gonna say, So

1965
01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:14,320
Speaker 1: you've got that happening. Matt Milano is out. You You've

1966
01:44:14,360 --> 01:44:16,439
Speaker 1: played a long time in the league, and you've had

1967
01:44:16,840 --> 01:44:20,320
Speaker 1: maybe seasons or small stretches of seasons where you had

1968
01:44:20,360 --> 01:44:23,200
Speaker 1: this luggage you're dragging around. It's this injury that's getting

1969
01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:24,880
Speaker 1: a little better, then it gets a set back. Then

1970
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:26,720
Speaker 1: you've got to drag it around for an extra week,

1971
01:44:26,760 --> 01:44:28,600
Speaker 1: and then it you're almost done and you got to

1972
01:44:28,600 --> 01:44:31,320
Speaker 1: set you know, Yeah, Matt Milano's in that right now,

1973
01:44:31,479 --> 01:44:33,599
Speaker 1: and I yeah, I gotta I'm with you. I kind

1974
01:44:33,640 --> 01:44:35,439
Speaker 1: of feel for the guy. I've been there where you got.

1975
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:38,800
Speaker 1: You're trying to drag that around for a season? Or

1976
01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:40,960
Speaker 1: is he ever? I mean with a peck injury, is

1977
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:44,439
Speaker 1: he gonna get better? Yeah? You know, a peck injury

1978
01:44:44,560 --> 01:44:46,599
Speaker 1: is hard. I mean it's hard to hide it. Um,

1979
01:44:46,760 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, even like a hamstring. I know that's kind

1980
01:44:48,960 --> 01:44:51,599
Speaker 1: of bothering him as well. And so he's he's he's

1981
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:54,200
Speaker 1: hit on the top end the bottom, and so it's

1982
01:44:54,240 --> 01:44:57,280
Speaker 1: really no way that you can maybe for nass or

1983
01:44:57,360 --> 01:45:00,200
Speaker 1: get out there and make it work because you're him

1984
01:45:00,200 --> 01:45:02,200
Speaker 1: with two different injuries, and as soon as you compensate

1985
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:06,760
Speaker 1: for one, you increase the chances of aggravating the other one.

1986
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: And so it's just one of those years where he

1987
01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:12,519
Speaker 1: just hasn't been healthy. But it's unfortunate because Matt has

1988
01:45:12,560 --> 01:45:15,400
Speaker 1: done a great job of making steady progressions and incremental

1989
01:45:15,720 --> 01:45:18,320
Speaker 1: games in this game every single year, and to see

1990
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:22,880
Speaker 1: him being hampered by these injuries this year, it's really been,

1991
01:45:23,560 --> 01:45:26,519
Speaker 1: you know, just very disappointing from my perspective, knowing all

1992
01:45:26,720 --> 01:45:29,479
Speaker 1: of the ability and the value that he brings to

1993
01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:32,720
Speaker 1: this defense. Joe, you really need to be hitting on

1994
01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:35,800
Speaker 1: all cylinders, right, you have to, especially where the game

1995
01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:38,240
Speaker 1: is played now, I mean it's a space game flying around,

1996
01:45:39,280 --> 01:45:41,880
Speaker 1: especially where he plays. He's also physical. He's a big hitter,

1997
01:45:42,439 --> 01:45:44,040
Speaker 1: and so it really gets him at both ends. He's

1998
01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:45,760
Speaker 1: an athlete linebacker, so he got a hammer he gotta

1999
01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:47,160
Speaker 1: deal with. And then also he can come up and

2000
01:45:47,280 --> 01:45:49,920
Speaker 1: hit you. But now he's worried about a pet. So

2001
01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:53,800
Speaker 1: it's taken away both aspects of his game. You know,

2002
01:45:53,920 --> 01:45:56,120
Speaker 1: sometimes if you know one is taken away, well, at

2003
01:45:56,200 --> 01:45:58,360
Speaker 1: least I can be physical. At least I can well

2004
01:45:58,360 --> 01:46:00,519
Speaker 1: I can't be physical, at least I can run. And

2005
01:46:00,720 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 1: right now it's kind of being hit him at both

2006
01:46:03,439 --> 01:46:05,559
Speaker 1: ends of the spectrum, and he's just you know, trying

2007
01:46:05,600 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 1: to fight. Hopefully, this team is going to continue to

2008
01:46:07,479 --> 01:46:10,120
Speaker 1: put themselves in a place to where maybe potentially who

2009
01:46:10,240 --> 01:46:13,640
Speaker 1: knows they have a buy obviously still haven't had their buy.

2010
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:16,200
Speaker 1: So maybe he can get healthy there man, maybe continue

2011
01:46:16,200 --> 01:46:18,720
Speaker 1: to win and maybe find a way to get a

2012
01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:21,120
Speaker 1: first round buying the playoffs, but at least get to

2013
01:46:21,160 --> 01:46:23,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs and give some time to continue to heal

2014
01:46:23,439 --> 01:46:25,719
Speaker 1: to where he doesn't feel like he has to play,

2015
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:27,280
Speaker 1: but they can be in a position to where he

2016
01:46:27,320 --> 01:46:30,040
Speaker 1: can get health and help him win when everything is

2017
01:46:30,040 --> 01:46:32,439
Speaker 1: on the line and when it goes up another knock. Yeah,

2018
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:34,880
Speaker 1: that's why I think they're shutting him down until the

2019
01:46:34,960 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 1: buy in week eleven, because you've got two NFC games

2020
01:46:38,120 --> 01:46:40,000
Speaker 1: here these next two weeks that aren't gonna hurt you

2021
01:46:40,080 --> 01:46:43,519
Speaker 1: in the AFC playoff race per se. Knowing where the

2022
01:46:43,600 --> 01:46:46,760
Speaker 1: tiebreakers come in and conference record, division record, that kind

2023
01:46:46,800 --> 01:46:48,880
Speaker 1: of thing. I wouldn't be surprised that they said, look,

2024
01:46:48,960 --> 01:46:50,840
Speaker 1: let's just shut him down this week, next week, then

2025
01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:53,280
Speaker 1: we have the buye week after that. That's like three

2026
01:46:53,400 --> 01:46:55,400
Speaker 1: solid weeks to let him try to heal up and

2027
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:57,920
Speaker 1: see if we can't get that thing fixed. So when

2028
01:46:58,000 --> 01:46:59,720
Speaker 1: we come back in week twelve and we have the

2029
01:47:00,080 --> 01:47:02,600
Speaker 1: argers on the schedule, you know he can give us

2030
01:47:02,680 --> 01:47:05,240
Speaker 1: more than thirteen snaps a game. I'm hoping that's kind

2031
01:47:05,280 --> 01:47:06,800
Speaker 1: of the plan that they've got in place here, and

2032
01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:08,720
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if it is. But what I

2033
01:47:08,800 --> 01:47:11,080
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about, Zoe was you reference the

2034
01:47:11,160 --> 01:47:14,760
Speaker 1: running game, and a lot of the fans here, you know,

2035
01:47:15,120 --> 01:47:19,240
Speaker 1: are disappointed that the high flying passing game went away

2036
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:21,320
Speaker 1: after the first four weeks, and we know it's due

2037
01:47:21,360 --> 01:47:23,640
Speaker 1: in large part to the way they've been played defensively.

2038
01:47:24,439 --> 01:47:26,760
Speaker 1: You know, teams are not giving them anything cheap or deep,

2039
01:47:28,040 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 1: and so they've had to take what the defense has

2040
01:47:29,920 --> 01:47:33,080
Speaker 1: been giving them. But can you just speak to how

2041
01:47:33,160 --> 01:47:35,880
Speaker 1: if they continue to run the ball as effectively as

2042
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:40,639
Speaker 1: they did last week, those opportunities for deep shots should

2043
01:47:40,720 --> 01:47:43,880
Speaker 1: open up all the more because they may convince these defenses,

2044
01:47:43,920 --> 01:47:45,640
Speaker 1: Oh man, we gotta pull a safety down in here

2045
01:47:45,640 --> 01:47:48,960
Speaker 1: to help stop this run game, right, yeah, I mean

2046
01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:51,960
Speaker 1: most definitely, And you have to do that at some

2047
01:47:52,080 --> 01:47:55,280
Speaker 1: point because you definitely you know, as a defender, you

2048
01:47:55,360 --> 01:47:57,280
Speaker 1: never just want a team and I will say this

2049
01:47:57,360 --> 01:47:59,040
Speaker 1: for coordinator, you never want a team just to hit

2050
01:47:59,080 --> 01:48:01,280
Speaker 1: you in the mouth over over, you know, five yards

2051
01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:04,439
Speaker 1: six yards, five yards six yards and just take it

2052
01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:06,479
Speaker 1: down the field because it's not going to help you.

2053
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:08,880
Speaker 1: You can't get the ball back, you can't stop them,

2054
01:48:09,040 --> 01:48:11,920
Speaker 1: you can't create turnovers, you can't help your offense get

2055
01:48:11,960 --> 01:48:14,000
Speaker 1: more possessions. And so yes, you can continue to run

2056
01:48:14,040 --> 01:48:15,800
Speaker 1: the ball at a high rate and then convert those

2057
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:19,760
Speaker 1: into touchdowns. Defensive coordinators and teams are gonna make a

2058
01:48:19,880 --> 01:48:23,599
Speaker 1: an adjustment, and even if they may not, players are

2059
01:48:23,600 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 1: gonna say, well, we can't let them keep run the

2060
01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:28,240
Speaker 1: ball like this. And it only takes one one time

2061
01:48:28,360 --> 01:48:29,880
Speaker 1: for a guy to bite up, and it's a player

2062
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:32,679
Speaker 1: that you pass, you know, Josh turns around and finds

2063
01:48:32,760 --> 01:48:34,880
Speaker 1: Digs down the field, or John Brown taking the top

2064
01:48:34,880 --> 01:48:37,160
Speaker 1: off the defense, and almost say one other thing. As

2065
01:48:37,240 --> 01:48:39,960
Speaker 1: these guys continue to get healthy because since the first

2066
01:48:40,400 --> 01:48:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, three or four weeks, I mean, they really

2067
01:48:43,160 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: haven't been full strength, you know, as far as guys

2068
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 1: and everybody. When we talk about Dawson, talk about Brown,

2069
01:48:48,960 --> 01:48:52,040
Speaker 1: Digs and Cole and everybody being out there collectively every week,

2070
01:48:52,080 --> 01:48:54,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of been something, especially when you throw COVID

2071
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:56,280
Speaker 1: in the mix, where guys have had to sit out,

2072
01:48:56,360 --> 01:48:58,280
Speaker 1: and so it's good to kind of see them finally

2073
01:48:58,360 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 1: and kind of get every of the game back together,

2074
01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:02,880
Speaker 1: everybody out there flying around, and here you can maybe

2075
01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:06,519
Speaker 1: start seeing some of these things come back to the forefront.

2076
01:49:06,600 --> 01:49:09,040
Speaker 1: And Seattle is a great time because you're playing a

2077
01:49:09,080 --> 01:49:11,120
Speaker 1: team that can't stop the past even if you can't

2078
01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:13,519
Speaker 1: run the ball, so it doesn't really matter this We'll

2079
01:49:13,560 --> 01:49:15,400
Speaker 1: just be a great time to really get back in

2080
01:49:15,439 --> 01:49:17,320
Speaker 1: the rhythm of being able to throw the ball down

2081
01:49:17,400 --> 01:49:19,400
Speaker 1: the field, because obviously that's what they it's one of

2082
01:49:19,439 --> 01:49:22,960
Speaker 1: the things the Bills do well. But never I think

2083
01:49:23,040 --> 01:49:25,439
Speaker 1: look past the effective of the run game and how

2084
01:49:25,479 --> 01:49:28,640
Speaker 1: important that is to a team, especially as you get

2085
01:49:28,720 --> 01:49:30,720
Speaker 1: to colder months of the year, and be able to

2086
01:49:30,760 --> 01:49:34,080
Speaker 1: just physically dominate teams and control the ball and take

2087
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:36,680
Speaker 1: chunkyards five or six like we saw last week, and

2088
01:49:36,800 --> 01:49:38,839
Speaker 1: be able to convert those those drivers in the touchdown.

2089
01:49:39,240 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 1: We had this conversation earlier in the show, and it

2090
01:49:41,439 --> 01:49:43,920
Speaker 1: was about John Brown not being one hundred percent but

2091
01:49:44,040 --> 01:49:46,400
Speaker 1: still being on the field. He had two targets last

2092
01:49:46,439 --> 01:49:50,680
Speaker 1: week and one reception. Tell us, as a defender, how

2093
01:49:50,760 --> 01:49:54,000
Speaker 1: does it change when say, for instance, John Brown may

2094
01:49:54,040 --> 01:49:55,759
Speaker 1: not be a one hundred percent but he's on the field,

2095
01:49:56,360 --> 01:49:58,040
Speaker 1: and if you're a defense you gotta think, man, that

2096
01:49:58,080 --> 01:49:59,880
Speaker 1: guy's you're good to go. We gotta defend him. So

2097
01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:02,600
Speaker 1: how does that change just having him out there with

2098
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:04,800
Speaker 1: the threat that he would be if he was healthy. Yeah,

2099
01:50:05,040 --> 01:50:09,200
Speaker 1: how does it change at all if he's I think

2100
01:50:09,240 --> 01:50:11,880
Speaker 1: it changes throughout the game. So if you see John

2101
01:50:11,920 --> 01:50:14,400
Speaker 1: Brown is out there, Okay, well he's out here. Let's

2102
01:50:14,400 --> 01:50:16,559
Speaker 1: see what they're gonna do. Let me play things honest,

2103
01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:19,519
Speaker 1: let me, you know, be good with my eyes, especially

2104
01:50:19,560 --> 01:50:22,320
Speaker 1: as a safety. But once you start feeling okay, he's

2105
01:50:22,400 --> 01:50:24,599
Speaker 1: really not the same guy. I don't really feel him

2106
01:50:25,240 --> 01:50:28,599
Speaker 1: burning like we know we can, Josh or the offense

2107
01:50:28,680 --> 01:50:32,120
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily going to him, you know, throughout the course

2108
01:50:32,160 --> 01:50:34,080
Speaker 1: of a game. Then you start picking up on the

2109
01:50:34,160 --> 01:50:37,760
Speaker 1: little adjustments that players and coaches are making, saying, okay, well,

2110
01:50:37,920 --> 01:50:40,920
Speaker 1: let's go back over here and really focus on maybe

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01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:44,719
Speaker 1: stopping cold and digs and not really worrying about smoke

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Speaker 1: as much because we feel that he's not as healthy.

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01:50:47,960 --> 01:50:50,280
Speaker 1: But it does make a difference, especially initially and if

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01:50:50,280 --> 01:50:51,840
Speaker 1: he runs a couple of routes and they have to

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01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:54,280
Speaker 1: honor it early in the game. But as a progression,

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01:50:54,280 --> 01:50:55,880
Speaker 1: I think you kind of get away from that because

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01:50:55,880 --> 01:50:58,519
Speaker 1: you're aware that he's not the same guy. But good

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01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:01,080
Speaker 1: to see him out there last week. Hopefully he comes

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01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:03,639
Speaker 1: back into its healthy this week, and if people don't

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01:51:03,720 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 1: kill on him early in the game, you can see

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01:51:05,040 --> 01:51:07,200
Speaker 1: him making some early big plays. All right, Joe, So

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01:51:07,400 --> 01:51:09,559
Speaker 1: give us some lowdowns here as to what it's gonna

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01:51:09,600 --> 01:51:12,599
Speaker 1: take for the Bills to get a big, big win,

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01:51:12,840 --> 01:51:16,680
Speaker 1: maybe their biggest of the season. Yeah, yeah, it'd be significant,

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01:51:16,760 --> 01:51:18,840
Speaker 1: right because you're playing one of the top tier teams

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01:51:19,000 --> 01:51:21,120
Speaker 1: in the league right now, and if you want to

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01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:23,080
Speaker 1: have a statement game, this is the time to do it.

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01:51:23,520 --> 01:51:27,240
Speaker 1: And as we mentioned earlier Seattle Seahawks, every game has

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01:51:27,240 --> 01:51:29,880
Speaker 1: been a shootout game, and so Josh in the offense

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01:51:30,080 --> 01:51:32,599
Speaker 1: has to be be able to control the clock, put

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01:51:32,640 --> 01:51:35,920
Speaker 1: the run the ball, but ultimately score touchdowns when they

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01:51:35,960 --> 01:51:37,960
Speaker 1: get down in the red zone. I think that's going

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01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:40,000
Speaker 1: to be significant in this game. And then with that

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01:51:40,200 --> 01:51:45,800
Speaker 1: having these explosive plays. This defense has not proved to

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01:51:45,800 --> 01:51:48,240
Speaker 1: anybody that they can stop a deep ball or explosion play.

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01:51:48,400 --> 01:51:52,200
Speaker 1: So the key to winning this game ultimately is having

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01:51:52,280 --> 01:51:54,240
Speaker 1: six or more explosive plays, whether that comes in the

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01:51:54,320 --> 01:51:57,320
Speaker 1: run game or going deep to John Brown and Diggs

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01:51:57,360 --> 01:51:59,760
Speaker 1: and whoever, like everybody wants to see in the evening

2140
01:51:59,800 --> 01:52:03,519
Speaker 1: game Broal Davis right, taking advantage of that secondary that

2141
01:52:03,680 --> 01:52:05,559
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to stop anybody, and having some biggest

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01:52:05,560 --> 01:52:08,360
Speaker 1: closing players on the back end. Number two, because of

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01:52:08,479 --> 01:52:10,880
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and who he is and would locket and

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01:52:11,560 --> 01:52:14,640
Speaker 1: DK Medcalf has consistently done throughout the year as far

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01:52:14,680 --> 01:52:18,360
Speaker 1: as put up big plays, have to steal possessions, have

2146
01:52:18,520 --> 01:52:21,040
Speaker 1: to come up with some turnovers and take points off

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01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:25,120
Speaker 1: the board and limit those guys opportunity to score touchdowns.

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01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:28,320
Speaker 1: They've been very dynamic, I think, as we've seen a

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01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:30,600
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf as a grown man, and so it's going

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01:52:30,640 --> 01:52:33,559
Speaker 1: to be interesting even to watch that dynamic, but trying

2151
01:52:33,560 --> 01:52:36,240
Speaker 1: to impact not only Russell Wilson but the guys around

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01:52:36,320 --> 01:52:40,479
Speaker 1: him so you can steal a couple of turnovers. Was interceptions, strips,

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01:52:40,760 --> 01:52:42,960
Speaker 1: force phones as we saw it came up big last

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01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:45,439
Speaker 1: week with Zimmer on Cam Newton at the end of

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01:52:45,439 --> 01:52:48,160
Speaker 1: the game. It's going to be even more significant this week.

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01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:53,120
Speaker 1: And then lastly, special teams. I think they've been doing

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01:52:53,160 --> 01:52:55,000
Speaker 1: a great job all year. I know he has them

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01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:58,439
Speaker 1: pumped up, flying around, juice, smart, physical. They have to

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01:52:58,520 --> 01:53:01,320
Speaker 1: bring that and set the tone early and often, especially

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01:53:01,400 --> 01:53:05,120
Speaker 1: to coverage teams, whether it's punt or kickoff turn you know,

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01:53:05,120 --> 01:53:07,519
Speaker 1: if they decide they want to return these balls, making

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01:53:07,560 --> 01:53:10,280
Speaker 1: sure that you pin them back, minimize the yards and

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01:53:10,479 --> 01:53:13,400
Speaker 1: make Russell Wilson in that offense have to drive the ball,

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01:53:13,800 --> 01:53:18,240
Speaker 1: you know, eight eighty five ninety yards and being able

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01:53:18,280 --> 01:53:19,920
Speaker 1: to fit the field. So you know, you gotta have

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01:53:20,080 --> 01:53:23,960
Speaker 1: war Quays back there kicking great punks, coverage units coming down.

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01:53:24,320 --> 01:53:26,800
Speaker 1: And then lastly, because every point matters, because we're talking

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01:53:26,800 --> 01:53:30,080
Speaker 1: about special teams field goals. If you have if you

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01:53:30,280 --> 01:53:31,960
Speaker 1: end up having to kick a field goal, you have

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01:53:32,080 --> 01:53:36,320
Speaker 1: to convert because every point matters, and you don't want

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01:53:36,360 --> 01:53:39,240
Speaker 1: to go into an overtime game or give Russell Wilson

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01:53:39,280 --> 01:53:43,639
Speaker 1: another opportunity to go down and and have and put

2173
01:53:43,960 --> 01:53:45,880
Speaker 1: the team on his back and win the game. So

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01:53:46,000 --> 01:53:48,439
Speaker 1: every point matters. So you know, trying to be as

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01:53:48,479 --> 01:53:50,960
Speaker 1: close to perfect as possible in this game when it

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01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:53,280
Speaker 1: comes to kicking field goals. So you called you called

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01:53:53,360 --> 01:53:56,200
Speaker 1: dk Metcalf a grown man. He's a man and a half.

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01:53:56,439 --> 01:53:59,040
Speaker 1: I mean he's chasing down Buddha Baker two weeks ago.

2179
01:53:59,120 --> 01:54:02,120
Speaker 1: He looked like a train former, feeling like optimist. Prime

2180
01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:04,840
Speaker 1: was like running down. That's what he is. He is

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01:54:04,880 --> 01:54:07,240
Speaker 1: a grown man, you know. But we respect all and

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01:54:07,360 --> 01:54:09,280
Speaker 1: fear none, you know, And so it'd be interesting to

2183
01:54:09,320 --> 01:54:12,280
Speaker 1: see if tra Davids White tracksie he can be stopped.

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01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:14,519
Speaker 1: But he's he's a grown man, but you have to

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01:54:14,600 --> 01:54:17,280
Speaker 1: play physical. He's he's a guy that wants to not

2186
01:54:17,439 --> 01:54:19,560
Speaker 1: only beat you with his athleticism, but even on this

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01:54:19,600 --> 01:54:21,160
Speaker 1: play with the forty nine is you see the dB

2188
01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:24,160
Speaker 1: right there getting given up. Forty one's slowing down. You

2189
01:54:24,280 --> 01:54:26,120
Speaker 1: can't play like that with a guy that has this

2190
01:54:26,240 --> 01:54:29,439
Speaker 1: athleticism and this type of mindset. When he plays the game,

2191
01:54:29,720 --> 01:54:32,680
Speaker 1: he plays to destroy you. He's a Hall of Fame

2192
01:54:33,200 --> 01:54:35,240
Speaker 1: caliber player in this and this is what I mean.

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01:54:35,320 --> 01:54:37,600
Speaker 1: Obviously he hasn't played long enough to be mentioned with

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01:54:37,680 --> 01:54:40,160
Speaker 1: some of the greats, but he has off the charge

2195
01:54:40,320 --> 01:54:44,480
Speaker 1: talent and off the charge work ethic and mentality. And

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01:54:44,560 --> 01:54:46,520
Speaker 1: when you blend those two together, the guys that I've

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01:54:46,560 --> 01:54:49,040
Speaker 1: been around that have achieved Hall of Fame are going

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01:54:49,120 --> 01:54:52,280
Speaker 1: to be future Hall of famers. He has that DNA makeup,

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01:54:52,880 --> 01:54:56,000
Speaker 1: both talent wise and mentality wise. And the only way

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01:54:56,040 --> 01:54:58,000
Speaker 1: you can stop guys like that is compete with them

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01:54:58,040 --> 01:55:00,440
Speaker 1: every single down. Don't give him nothing when they get

2202
01:55:00,480 --> 01:55:03,480
Speaker 1: their catches, hit them, chase him down. You have to.

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01:55:03,600 --> 01:55:05,440
Speaker 1: You have to rise your game up to that mentality.

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01:55:05,800 --> 01:55:07,760
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm looking forward to it. You know,

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01:55:07,760 --> 01:55:09,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if your Davis. I know in the

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01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:11,800
Speaker 1: past he's tracked some of guys, but your Davis also

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01:55:11,880 --> 01:55:14,400
Speaker 1: has that DNA makeup, and it'll be a great matchup

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01:55:14,440 --> 01:55:16,720
Speaker 1: to see how they go at it that week. And

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01:55:16,840 --> 01:55:20,440
Speaker 1: obviously having Micah and Jordan on the back end disguising

2210
01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:23,120
Speaker 1: and helping out in that past game as well. So

2211
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:25,240
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun game. I'm looking towards the

2212
01:55:25,280 --> 01:55:27,760
Speaker 1: matchup and seeing how it all turns out. Yeah, I

2213
01:55:27,920 --> 01:55:30,440
Speaker 1: and I agree with you. That's it's a huge matchup.

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01:55:30,600 --> 01:55:33,000
Speaker 1: And DK it's one of those guys that you know

2215
01:55:33,040 --> 01:55:35,680
Speaker 1: you're getting an eye full of him here early in

2216
01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:39,640
Speaker 1: his career. But you're, like you said, the truly great

2217
01:55:39,680 --> 01:55:42,840
Speaker 1: ones are this guy that he is now eight years

2218
01:55:42,920 --> 01:55:45,160
Speaker 1: from now as well. Right, you know, he puts together

2219
01:55:45,240 --> 01:55:47,640
Speaker 1: a decade of domination like he has, and with a

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01:55:47,720 --> 01:55:49,680
Speaker 1: quarterback like he has, there's no reason to say he

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01:55:49,800 --> 01:55:51,520
Speaker 1: can't do it. I also like what you said in

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01:55:51,560 --> 01:55:53,680
Speaker 1: your lowdown about special teams. I think what it is

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01:55:53,720 --> 01:55:56,720
Speaker 1: about this game, the special teams can really help. Obviously,

2224
01:55:57,520 --> 01:56:00,680
Speaker 1: you can't make any mistakes, you can't end a play

2225
01:56:00,720 --> 01:56:02,360
Speaker 1: where you were they were kicking the ball to you

2226
01:56:02,480 --> 01:56:04,800
Speaker 1: and they end up with the ball again somehow, some way,

2227
01:56:05,120 --> 01:56:08,200
Speaker 1: a surprise on side i'd like we saw against New England,

2228
01:56:08,280 --> 01:56:09,920
Speaker 1: or a fumble or a muff kick or something like that.

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01:56:10,440 --> 01:56:14,640
Speaker 1: Those go without saying. But also Andre Roberts, if he

2230
01:56:14,920 --> 01:56:18,200
Speaker 1: can gain if it's a punt return, can gain ten yards,

2231
01:56:18,320 --> 01:56:20,480
Speaker 1: get a first down for the offense before they come

2232
01:56:20,520 --> 01:56:22,520
Speaker 1: on the field, or a first down and a half

2233
01:56:22,640 --> 01:56:24,880
Speaker 1: on a punt return, or get him out past the

2234
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 1: twenty five to the thirty five or the forty yard

2235
01:56:27,160 --> 01:56:30,680
Speaker 1: line with a kick return. And conversely, if by or

2236
01:56:30,800 --> 01:56:33,600
Speaker 1: kids can get him inside the ten, the kickoff team,

2237
01:56:34,320 --> 01:56:36,800
Speaker 1: if something happens, you get a kick outside the numbers

2238
01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:41,160
Speaker 1: and inside the five yard line, pin him inside the twenty,

2239
01:56:41,240 --> 01:56:45,840
Speaker 1: pin him inside the fifteen. Those yards add up, And

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01:56:46,240 --> 01:56:48,720
Speaker 1: those are kind of things where special teams, over the

2241
01:56:48,840 --> 01:56:51,880
Speaker 1: course of the twenty five twenty seven plays you'll get

2242
01:56:51,960 --> 01:56:54,840
Speaker 1: on special teams really contribute to the fact of your

2243
01:56:54,920 --> 01:56:57,280
Speaker 1: defense does get a couple extra chances to stop him

2244
01:56:57,280 --> 01:57:00,360
Speaker 1: and makes good on one or two of those chances. Yeah,

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01:57:00,400 --> 01:57:05,000
Speaker 1: because all right, so listen, we appreciate you're breaking this

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01:57:05,120 --> 01:57:06,960
Speaker 1: one down for us. We look forward to talking to

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01:57:07,000 --> 01:57:10,600
Speaker 1: you next week for that Bill's Cardinals matchup, because we

2248
01:57:10,640 --> 01:57:12,160
Speaker 1: know you've been keeping your ear to the ground on

2249
01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:14,520
Speaker 1: that Cards team, so we're we're looking for the inside

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01:57:14,560 --> 01:57:19,320
Speaker 1: scoop on that crew out there. All appreciate you guys,

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01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:21,560
Speaker 1: See you later. All right, that's Lorenzo Alexander giving us

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01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:24,720
Speaker 1: the lowdown here on One Bills Live. We will take

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01:57:24,760 --> 01:57:27,720
Speaker 1: a break, but when we return, we'll wrap up things

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01:57:27,800 --> 01:57:31,000
Speaker 1: on the obl fan mail bag and maybe a little

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01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:33,560
Speaker 1: time for true false. We'll see on the other side

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live.

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01:57:48,400 --> 01:57:52,000
Speaker 1: Time Now for our team reporters segment of the week,

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01:57:52,120 --> 01:57:55,839
Speaker 1: Mandy Glab caught up with Seahawks beat reporter Jen Mueller

2260
01:57:56,240 --> 01:57:59,480
Speaker 1: as she'll break down the Seahawks from the Seattle perspective

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01:57:59,560 --> 01:58:03,360
Speaker 1: here now, Jen, thanks for being with us today taking

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01:58:03,440 --> 01:58:06,000
Speaker 1: the time. I know you're prepping for this game just

2263
01:58:06,240 --> 01:58:09,160
Speaker 1: like I am. So many storylines to look forward to

2264
01:58:09,440 --> 01:58:11,360
Speaker 1: in this one. You've got a six and one team

2265
01:58:11,400 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 1: in the Seahawks, a six and two team in the

2266
01:58:13,960 --> 01:58:18,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and this six and one Seahawks team. It's

2267
01:58:18,160 --> 01:58:21,600
Speaker 1: their second time in franchise history starting the season six

2268
01:58:21,680 --> 01:58:23,600
Speaker 1: and one. Last time they were six and one was

2269
01:58:23,640 --> 01:58:26,160
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen when they won the Super Bowl. This

2270
01:58:26,280 --> 01:58:28,640
Speaker 1: team looks a little bit different than the Super Bowl

2271
01:58:28,680 --> 01:58:31,320
Speaker 1: team from twenty thirteen and that they're doing it with

2272
01:58:31,400 --> 01:58:34,840
Speaker 1: their offense this season. So how is the Seahawks team

2273
01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:38,840
Speaker 1: able to collect six wins in twenty twenty. Well, I

2274
01:58:38,960 --> 01:58:40,960
Speaker 1: think you just hit it on the head, Maddie. It

2275
01:58:41,080 --> 01:58:44,280
Speaker 1: really has been the offense, which is unusual for a

2276
01:58:44,400 --> 01:58:48,440
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll coach team. Pete Carroll is a defensive minded coach.

2277
01:58:48,600 --> 01:58:51,040
Speaker 1: Defense has always been the strength if you go back

2278
01:58:51,080 --> 01:58:53,600
Speaker 1: to the Legion of Boom during that Super Bowl run,

2279
01:58:54,120 --> 01:58:56,120
Speaker 1: and this year it has taken a bit for the

2280
01:58:56,280 --> 01:58:59,560
Speaker 1: defense to come together. Now a lot of that is injuries,

2281
01:59:00,000 --> 01:59:02,680
Speaker 1: but I also think it would be overshadowed by the

2282
01:59:02,920 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 1: offense in any case. This year, DK Metcalf year two

2283
01:59:07,120 --> 01:59:11,680
Speaker 1: has made an incredible improvement. Tyler Lockett has always been

2284
01:59:11,760 --> 01:59:14,240
Speaker 1: there as a steady go to wide receiver. But I

2285
01:59:14,320 --> 01:59:17,280
Speaker 1: think the biggest difference and the reason the Seahawks are

2286
01:59:17,360 --> 01:59:19,240
Speaker 1: out in front the way they are in the NFC

2287
01:59:19,840 --> 01:59:21,880
Speaker 1: is because of the points and the yards that they

2288
01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:24,960
Speaker 1: put up per game. There is this phrase in Seattle,

2289
01:59:25,280 --> 01:59:28,320
Speaker 1: let Russ cook, which means just let him do what

2290
01:59:28,480 --> 01:59:30,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna do with his arm, And it looks like

2291
01:59:30,960 --> 01:59:33,440
Speaker 1: that's what the Seahawks have done. I would say this,

2292
01:59:33,680 --> 01:59:37,400
Speaker 1: they are utilizing the passing game earlier in the game

2293
01:59:37,480 --> 01:59:41,480
Speaker 1: and earlier in downs than they were before. Usually in

2294
01:59:41,560 --> 01:59:43,480
Speaker 1: the past, they would have tried to be establishing the

2295
01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:46,280
Speaker 1: run on first and second down. This year, they're opening

2296
01:59:46,320 --> 01:59:48,680
Speaker 1: it up early. It has led to early points in

2297
01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:51,800
Speaker 1: games and a lot of yards per game. Yeah, the

2298
01:59:51,880 --> 01:59:55,240
Speaker 1: team's averaging thirty four point three points per game. That

2299
01:59:55,360 --> 01:59:58,200
Speaker 1: leads the league. Russell Wilson also leads the league in

2300
01:59:58,320 --> 02:00:01,800
Speaker 1: his passer rating one tw point eight. You're scoring touchdowns

2301
02:00:02,680 --> 02:00:05,360
Speaker 1: number one rated in the league, doing eighty eight percent

2302
02:00:05,440 --> 02:00:07,360
Speaker 1: of the time when you're in the red zone. So

2303
02:00:07,520 --> 02:00:11,280
Speaker 1: this team is very efficient at getting into the red

2304
02:00:11,400 --> 02:00:13,680
Speaker 1: zone and scoring once they're in the red zone. But

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02:00:13,880 --> 02:00:17,640
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson specifically, you've covered this team for quite a

2306
02:00:17,720 --> 02:00:20,880
Speaker 1: few years, so you've seen him turn into this quarterback

2307
02:00:20,960 --> 02:00:24,760
Speaker 1: that he's become. What specifically can you point to as

2308
02:00:24,840 --> 02:00:28,600
Speaker 1: being different about him this year? You know, I think

2309
02:00:28,760 --> 02:00:32,880
Speaker 1: what we are seeing is just a new appreciation for him,

2310
02:00:33,120 --> 02:00:37,240
Speaker 1: and he has receivers that he trusts in even the

2311
02:00:37,400 --> 02:00:41,760
Speaker 1: tightest windows. Dk Metcalf could be double covered and he

2312
02:00:41,920 --> 02:00:44,440
Speaker 1: can still fit it into that one little window that

2313
02:00:44,640 --> 02:00:47,240
Speaker 1: only DK can go up and get it in. Tyler

2314
02:00:47,360 --> 02:00:49,400
Speaker 1: Lockett might be at the back of the end zone,

2315
02:00:49,600 --> 02:00:52,080
Speaker 1: but Russ knows that he can put it right there

2316
02:00:52,240 --> 02:00:56,440
Speaker 1: and expect that toe tap, touch and catch should be

2317
02:00:56,560 --> 02:00:59,160
Speaker 1: good for the touchdown. I would say this, The thing

2318
02:00:59,200 --> 02:01:01,960
Speaker 1: about Russell and the reason why it appears that he

2319
02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:04,760
Speaker 1: has burst onto the scene right now is because of

2320
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Speaker 1: the playmakers, not what he has changed. He has been

2321
02:01:08,880 --> 02:01:12,240
Speaker 1: consistent from day one now. Yes, of course he understands

2322
02:01:12,280 --> 02:01:14,600
Speaker 1: the game in a different way. He's always studying. He

2323
02:01:14,760 --> 02:01:17,880
Speaker 1: never stops preparing. But I do think when you allow

2324
02:01:18,000 --> 02:01:20,600
Speaker 1: him to showcase his arm and he has a great

2325
02:01:20,960 --> 02:01:24,000
Speaker 1: deep ball. Right we spend a lot of time talking

2326
02:01:24,080 --> 02:01:26,680
Speaker 1: about the plays that the wide receivers make. Watch the

2327
02:01:26,800 --> 02:01:28,880
Speaker 1: plays that he's going to make on Sunday, and watch

2328
02:01:28,960 --> 02:01:31,840
Speaker 1: how he just puts it right in their hands so

2329
02:01:32,000 --> 02:01:34,040
Speaker 1: that they never break strides, so that they never have

2330
02:01:34,200 --> 02:01:38,400
Speaker 1: to look back. Russ has always been this high level player,

2331
02:01:38,840 --> 02:01:41,280
Speaker 1: and it's the playmakers on the other side I think

2332
02:01:41,360 --> 02:01:43,680
Speaker 1: that are causing people to look at Russ in a

2333
02:01:43,840 --> 02:01:47,520
Speaker 1: very different way. Yeah, Bills head coach Sean McDermott said,

2334
02:01:47,560 --> 02:01:49,880
Speaker 1: this game is going to be so important for our

2335
02:01:49,960 --> 02:01:52,640
Speaker 1: defensive line because we know what Russ can do. But

2336
02:01:52,760 --> 02:01:54,960
Speaker 1: it's going to be difficult because he can run just

2337
02:01:55,120 --> 02:01:57,520
Speaker 1: as much as he can throw. Thankfully, the Bills have

2338
02:01:57,680 --> 02:02:02,080
Speaker 1: a pretty stacked up secondary health wise. We'll see how

2339
02:02:02,160 --> 02:02:04,120
Speaker 1: it works out for Sunday, but I think they'll have

2340
02:02:04,240 --> 02:02:07,520
Speaker 1: Tredavious White, hopefully they'll have Micah High back. But this

2341
02:02:07,760 --> 02:02:10,960
Speaker 1: matchup in general, I mean, you've got a top three

2342
02:02:11,120 --> 02:02:14,440
Speaker 1: offense in the Seahawks going up against a defense who

2343
02:02:14,560 --> 02:02:17,080
Speaker 1: is ranked top three last season in the Bills. Now

2344
02:02:17,160 --> 02:02:19,640
Speaker 1: they've fallen a little bit, I think, still trying to

2345
02:02:19,720 --> 02:02:22,840
Speaker 1: figure out their identity, allowing twenty four point nine points

2346
02:02:22,920 --> 02:02:25,560
Speaker 1: per game. And then you've got the Bills offense, who's

2347
02:02:25,640 --> 02:02:30,320
Speaker 1: definitely improved similar to the Seahawks. It's Josh Allen's weapons

2348
02:02:30,400 --> 02:02:32,880
Speaker 1: around him that are adding to the success of this

2349
02:02:33,080 --> 02:02:36,760
Speaker 1: Bill's offense. And they're going up against the Seattle Seahawks defense, who,

2350
02:02:36,880 --> 02:02:38,960
Speaker 1: like you said, is not what they used to be.

2351
02:02:39,240 --> 02:02:42,320
Speaker 1: But you get some pieces back this week, definitely in

2352
02:02:42,440 --> 02:02:45,640
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams and you add someone like Carlos Dunlap. But

2353
02:02:45,960 --> 02:02:48,840
Speaker 1: the matchup in general. What sticks out to you about

2354
02:02:48,920 --> 02:02:52,520
Speaker 1: these two teams facing each other in week nine? You

2355
02:02:52,600 --> 02:02:54,360
Speaker 1: know I would see this if I was going to

2356
02:02:54,520 --> 02:02:58,800
Speaker 1: drill down. It is the third down percentage and conversion rate.

2357
02:02:58,920 --> 02:03:01,320
Speaker 1: As you know, the Bills are the best in the NFL.

2358
02:03:01,800 --> 02:03:04,680
Speaker 1: One of the reasons for that, and everybody was talking

2359
02:03:04,720 --> 02:03:07,240
Speaker 1: about it during press conferences this week with the Seahawks

2360
02:03:07,640 --> 02:03:10,360
Speaker 1: was Josh Allen and his ability to make the right

2361
02:03:10,480 --> 02:03:13,680
Speaker 1: decision on third down and the use of his legs

2362
02:03:13,760 --> 02:03:16,560
Speaker 1: when he needs to topicck up those short yards. And

2363
02:03:17,160 --> 02:03:21,680
Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense has yet to figure out that really

2364
02:03:22,120 --> 02:03:26,080
Speaker 1: the most efficient defensive line combination. Now part of that

2365
02:03:26,440 --> 02:03:29,600
Speaker 1: is due to injuries, but we don't know how Jamal

2366
02:03:29,680 --> 02:03:31,400
Speaker 1: Adams is going to work in there, and how much

2367
02:03:31,440 --> 02:03:33,560
Speaker 1: pressure they're going to bring and how much they want

2368
02:03:33,600 --> 02:03:36,800
Speaker 1: to bring when Josh Allen can do so many different things.

2369
02:03:37,200 --> 02:03:39,800
Speaker 1: On the flip side of that, the Seahawks are coming

2370
02:03:39,840 --> 02:03:42,800
Speaker 1: off their best week at converting on third downs, but

2371
02:03:43,040 --> 02:03:45,720
Speaker 1: that has been a struggle for them, and as you

2372
02:03:45,840 --> 02:03:48,880
Speaker 1: pointed out, you have some pretty nice pieces in the

2373
02:03:48,960 --> 02:03:51,680
Speaker 1: secondary taking away some of those options. So if I'm

2374
02:03:51,720 --> 02:03:54,320
Speaker 1: looking at just one matchup, I am going to be

2375
02:03:54,520 --> 02:03:58,160
Speaker 1: really tuned in to the third down conversions on both

2376
02:03:58,200 --> 02:04:01,040
Speaker 1: sides of this one. Yeah, that'll definitely be interesting. The

2377
02:04:01,120 --> 02:04:04,440
Speaker 1: Bills have been so great at converting third downs on offense.

2378
02:04:04,560 --> 02:04:08,320
Speaker 1: On defense, they have definitely struggled with third down defense.

2379
02:04:08,680 --> 02:04:11,200
Speaker 1: They rank at the bottom of the league in that

2380
02:04:11,360 --> 02:04:13,920
Speaker 1: category and have been trying to get better. Hopefully they

2381
02:04:14,000 --> 02:04:16,520
Speaker 1: can figure it out a little bit for this game,

2382
02:04:16,600 --> 02:04:19,840
Speaker 1: but we'll have to see. Speaking of Seahawks defense, you

2383
02:04:19,960 --> 02:04:23,960
Speaker 1: mentioned Jamal Adams Carlos Dunlap. What do you think these

2384
02:04:24,040 --> 02:04:26,800
Speaker 1: two players can do in this game to make an

2385
02:04:26,920 --> 02:04:31,760
Speaker 1: impact this Seattle Seahawks defense has been struggling, ranked at

2386
02:04:31,800 --> 02:04:34,120
Speaker 1: the bottom of the league, allowing about four hundred and

2387
02:04:34,240 --> 02:04:38,320
Speaker 1: sixty yards a game twenty eight point four points per game.

2388
02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:41,560
Speaker 1: They're really good against the run, but that's probably because

2389
02:04:41,600 --> 02:04:43,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people like to throw the ball against

2390
02:04:43,800 --> 02:04:46,080
Speaker 1: Seattle because they know they're going to have to run

2391
02:04:46,160 --> 02:04:48,400
Speaker 1: up the scoreboard to even have a chance to beat

2392
02:04:48,480 --> 02:04:51,240
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. So how do you see these two players

2393
02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:55,680
Speaker 1: maybe playing an impact helping this defense out in week nine. Yeah,

2394
02:04:55,760 --> 02:04:58,520
Speaker 1: so I would see this easy answer to your question.

2395
02:04:58,600 --> 02:05:01,680
Speaker 1: They're going to bring some juice in, some energy. Jamal Adams,

2396
02:05:02,840 --> 02:05:05,400
Speaker 1: he was on the sidelines last week. He wasn't suited up.

2397
02:05:05,440 --> 02:05:07,280
Speaker 1: He was coming back from the groin injury. He'd had

2398
02:05:07,320 --> 02:05:09,800
Speaker 1: an illness. During the course of the week, he was

2399
02:05:10,040 --> 02:05:14,320
Speaker 1: as active as any player not playing the game could

2400
02:05:14,400 --> 02:05:17,440
Speaker 1: be without actually being on the field. He is chomping

2401
02:05:17,520 --> 02:05:19,240
Speaker 1: at the bit to get back out there, and you

2402
02:05:19,360 --> 02:05:21,560
Speaker 1: know that he's going to have some fresh legs. Same

2403
02:05:21,640 --> 02:05:24,400
Speaker 1: thing with Carlos Dunlap, As Pete Carroll said. You know

2404
02:05:24,480 --> 02:05:26,840
Speaker 1: it's not that he can't play football right now. He's

2405
02:05:26,840 --> 02:05:29,120
Speaker 1: not coming off an injury. He's coming off essentially a

2406
02:05:29,280 --> 02:05:31,920
Speaker 1: week off as you go through COVID protocols when you

2407
02:05:32,200 --> 02:05:35,320
Speaker 1: enter a new facility. So he is ready to go,

2408
02:05:35,480 --> 02:05:37,280
Speaker 1: and you could just tell when we talk to him

2409
02:05:37,360 --> 02:05:40,040
Speaker 1: this week he is so excited about joining a team

2410
02:05:40,120 --> 02:05:42,200
Speaker 1: that wants to use him, that wants to use him

2411
02:05:42,240 --> 02:05:44,920
Speaker 1: a significant amount during the games, and that wants to

2412
02:05:45,120 --> 02:05:49,160
Speaker 1: use him to really maximize his strength. I would expect

2413
02:05:49,280 --> 02:05:51,960
Speaker 1: him to bring a lot of pressure. I would expect

2414
02:05:52,000 --> 02:05:55,080
Speaker 1: to see Jamal Adams a lot in blitzing. We've seen

2415
02:05:55,200 --> 02:05:57,600
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner do that, But I wonder if you don't

2416
02:05:57,680 --> 02:06:00,200
Speaker 1: leave Bobby back there just a little bit and bring

2417
02:06:00,320 --> 02:06:02,840
Speaker 1: Jamal a few more times. One more thing about the

2418
02:06:02,960 --> 02:06:05,400
Speaker 1: yards given up for the Seahawks. So they are coming

2419
02:06:05,480 --> 02:06:08,720
Speaker 1: off their best defensive performance where they allowed three hundred

2420
02:06:08,720 --> 02:06:11,000
Speaker 1: and fifty yards against the forty nine Ers. Now I

2421
02:06:11,160 --> 02:06:13,560
Speaker 1: realize that was a really banged up club. Here's what

2422
02:06:13,600 --> 02:06:15,800
Speaker 1: I'd like to point out. They allowed one hundred and

2423
02:06:16,000 --> 02:06:19,720
Speaker 1: twelve total yards through three quarters in that game against

2424
02:06:19,720 --> 02:06:22,520
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and then there were some things that happened

2425
02:06:22,560 --> 02:06:24,600
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. But part of it is the

2426
02:06:24,680 --> 02:06:27,600
Speaker 1: Seahawks offense is jumping out to such big leads or

2427
02:06:27,720 --> 02:06:30,680
Speaker 1: scoring first. You're playing a lot of ketchup. The Seahawks

2428
02:06:30,720 --> 02:06:33,440
Speaker 1: are content to play a very soft zone late in

2429
02:06:33,520 --> 02:06:36,440
Speaker 1: the game, just keep everything in front of them without

2430
02:06:36,600 --> 02:06:40,720
Speaker 1: scoring the points. Right, So those numbers get a little

2431
02:06:40,760 --> 02:06:43,120
Speaker 1: bit skewed and it makes it look like it's the

2432
02:06:43,280 --> 02:06:46,480
Speaker 1: worst defense in history. And I totally get that, but

2433
02:06:46,640 --> 02:06:49,680
Speaker 1: when you watch them play, you know that that's not

2434
02:06:49,840 --> 02:06:52,480
Speaker 1: the case. It's part of the philosophy that they're playing

2435
02:06:52,560 --> 02:06:56,240
Speaker 1: with right now, and it's come back to bite them

2436
02:06:56,320 --> 02:06:58,440
Speaker 1: once or twice at the end of games when you

2437
02:06:58,680 --> 02:07:01,840
Speaker 1: can't get that critical stuff. But some of those yards

2438
02:07:01,920 --> 02:07:05,720
Speaker 1: get taken a little bit out of context if you're

2439
02:07:05,840 --> 02:07:09,520
Speaker 1: not watching kind of how they have allowed those yards

2440
02:07:09,560 --> 02:07:13,200
Speaker 1: to get racked up. Definitely, that soft zone that you

2441
02:07:13,360 --> 02:07:16,240
Speaker 1: point to is something that Josh Allen and his offense

2442
02:07:16,320 --> 02:07:20,160
Speaker 1: have experienced really the last few weeks in that they

2443
02:07:20,240 --> 02:07:22,920
Speaker 1: came out with a hot start, scoring a lot of points,

2444
02:07:23,000 --> 02:07:24,880
Speaker 1: putting a lot of points on the scoreboard, and then

2445
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:28,120
Speaker 1: defenses start to play you differently, trying to slow you down,

2446
02:07:28,320 --> 02:07:31,680
Speaker 1: make you have those long drives, play some soft zone,

2447
02:07:32,240 --> 02:07:34,640
Speaker 1: keep everything in front of you, and Josh has really

2448
02:07:34,720 --> 02:07:38,040
Speaker 1: had to learn how to take what the defense gives

2449
02:07:38,120 --> 02:07:41,000
Speaker 1: him and find success in that, which they've been doing

2450
02:07:41,040 --> 02:07:43,600
Speaker 1: a little bit better job of getting to the red

2451
02:07:43,720 --> 02:07:47,000
Speaker 1: zone by streaming together some pretty long drives. But we've

2452
02:07:47,080 --> 02:07:50,600
Speaker 1: mentioned a lot of these big name players on the Seahawks,

2453
02:07:50,760 --> 02:07:56,800
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, Jamal Adams, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett,

2454
02:07:56,840 --> 02:07:59,680
Speaker 1: who are some not so big names that the Bills

2455
02:07:59,720 --> 02:08:02,600
Speaker 1: need to look out for on Sunday. I'm going to

2456
02:08:02,680 --> 02:08:04,640
Speaker 1: give you two, one on each side of the ball.

2457
02:08:04,800 --> 02:08:08,000
Speaker 1: On defense, DJ Reid, it looks like he is going

2458
02:08:08,080 --> 02:08:10,800
Speaker 1: to be playing nickel again. Ugo Amadi has been dealing

2459
02:08:10,880 --> 02:08:14,720
Speaker 1: with a hamstring. DJ Reid, while a newcomer to the Seahawks,

2460
02:08:14,800 --> 02:08:17,440
Speaker 1: actually has a few years in the league. He had

2461
02:08:17,520 --> 02:08:21,560
Speaker 1: a really nice game on Sunday. He is an explosive

2462
02:08:21,640 --> 02:08:24,720
Speaker 1: player and while you might not recognize the name, I

2463
02:08:24,760 --> 02:08:27,560
Speaker 1: would absolutely watch out for him to be a playmaker

2464
02:08:27,960 --> 02:08:32,120
Speaker 1: in the secondary. On offense, it's Travis Homer. The Seahawks

2465
02:08:32,200 --> 02:08:35,280
Speaker 1: running back situation is really up in the air right now.

2466
02:08:35,480 --> 02:08:38,720
Speaker 1: Carson will probably be a game day decision. Carlos Hide

2467
02:08:38,800 --> 02:08:41,240
Speaker 1: is dealing with a hamstring, and the more you hear

2468
02:08:41,280 --> 02:08:43,920
Speaker 1: them talk, the more it seems unlikely that he's going

2469
02:08:43,960 --> 02:08:47,280
Speaker 1: to be able to make it back. Homer is typically

2470
02:08:47,440 --> 02:08:50,480
Speaker 1: the third down back for the Seahawks. He was injured

2471
02:08:50,600 --> 02:08:53,160
Speaker 1: last week and really only suited up in an emergency

2472
02:08:53,240 --> 02:08:56,320
Speaker 1: behind the rookie DJ Dallas. But I would expect that

2473
02:08:56,480 --> 02:08:58,880
Speaker 1: Homer is going to get a significant number of carries.

2474
02:08:58,920 --> 02:09:00,760
Speaker 1: I would also expect he's going to be on the

2475
02:09:00,840 --> 02:09:04,040
Speaker 1: field quite a bit because he is tremendous in pass

2476
02:09:04,160 --> 02:09:07,520
Speaker 1: pro when you see him. He is not a big

2477
02:09:07,840 --> 02:09:11,400
Speaker 1: running back like Chris Carson or Marshawn Lynch, who we

2478
02:09:11,560 --> 02:09:14,200
Speaker 1: know and who Bills fans know, right, but he is

2479
02:09:14,200 --> 02:09:17,240
Speaker 1: an explosive runner. He's got great hands and again that

2480
02:09:17,320 --> 02:09:19,880
Speaker 1: pass pro. And I'll also say this, for all the

2481
02:09:20,000 --> 02:09:22,800
Speaker 1: injuries that the Seahawks have dealt with, the one place

2482
02:09:22,920 --> 02:09:25,680
Speaker 1: that they have not dealt with many injuries is the

2483
02:09:25,880 --> 02:09:29,000
Speaker 1: offensive line. And that has been a conversation here in

2484
02:09:29,120 --> 02:09:32,000
Speaker 1: Seattle for years. And just you know, how come the

2485
02:09:32,080 --> 02:09:35,000
Speaker 1: offensive line is allowing so many hits on Russell Wilson.

2486
02:09:35,560 --> 02:09:38,760
Speaker 1: That's not really happening this year. He's taken some coverage

2487
02:09:38,760 --> 02:09:40,600
Speaker 1: sex and he hasn't gotten the ball out quite as

2488
02:09:40,680 --> 02:09:42,720
Speaker 1: quickly as he should have a few times. But that

2489
02:09:42,880 --> 02:09:45,720
Speaker 1: offensive line has been pretty stout. Travis Homer is going

2490
02:09:45,800 --> 02:09:48,520
Speaker 1: to help with that. Pass pro. Offensive line is so

2491
02:09:48,880 --> 02:09:51,360
Speaker 1: important in this game. The Bills have been dealing with

2492
02:09:51,480 --> 02:09:54,000
Speaker 1: some issues on the offensive line, just getting a couple

2493
02:09:54,120 --> 02:09:58,360
Speaker 1: players back from IR one player specifically back from IR. Recently,

2494
02:09:58,880 --> 02:10:01,760
Speaker 1: our center has been deal with a concussion, so we're

2495
02:10:01,800 --> 02:10:04,080
Speaker 1: not sure about his status for the game. When your

2496
02:10:04,160 --> 02:10:07,520
Speaker 1: offensive line isn't strong, it's really tough to protect the

2497
02:10:07,680 --> 02:10:10,880
Speaker 1: quarterback in a matchup. But Jen, thank you so much

2498
02:10:11,000 --> 02:10:13,680
Speaker 1: for the time. We definitely appreciate it. This game this

2499
02:10:13,800 --> 02:10:15,840
Speaker 1: weekend is one that a lot of people have been

2500
02:10:15,920 --> 02:10:19,040
Speaker 1: looking forward to. It'll be interesting to see if a

2501
02:10:19,120 --> 02:10:24,120
Speaker 1: team can finally slow down in this Seahawks offense. It

2502
02:10:24,280 --> 02:10:27,920
Speaker 1: will be a fun matchup for sure. Thanks for having me, Mattie.

2503
02:10:29,760 --> 02:10:33,000
Speaker 1: All right, that's Maddie Glab with Seahawks by reporter Jen Mueller.

2504
02:10:33,040 --> 02:10:35,360
Speaker 1: Will take a break, but when we return, it's time

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Speaker 1: for what we learned from today's show. Steve and I'll

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02:10:39,240 --> 02:10:41,120
Speaker 1: have that when we return and wrap up the week.

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Speaker 1: the Bill's final injury report came out today prior to

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Speaker 1: the end of our show. Usually it comes out around

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Speaker 1: three fifteen the afternoon on Friday, but it is out already,

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Speaker 1: and we already knew the Taiwan Jones Matt Milano, Mitch Morris,

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02:11:19,360 --> 02:11:22,040
Speaker 1: and Josh Norman were out. There's one more player who

2516
02:11:22,160 --> 02:11:24,960
Speaker 1: is out for Sunday. That's t J Yelden, who came

2517
02:11:25,040 --> 02:11:27,440
Speaker 1: down with a back injury this week. Did not practice

2518
02:11:27,520 --> 02:11:30,400
Speaker 1: all week, so he is not part of the equation either,

2519
02:11:30,480 --> 02:11:32,640
Speaker 1: but he probably would have been a healthy and active

2520
02:11:32,680 --> 02:11:36,920
Speaker 1: if healthy. And then our MSG viewers, Steve, are seeing

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Speaker 1: the four questionable players Vernon Butler, Cody Ford, Darryl Johnson,

2522
02:11:43,400 --> 02:11:46,560
Speaker 1: and Dawson Knox, who is out of the COVID protocol

2523
02:11:46,640 --> 02:11:50,480
Speaker 1: but is dealing with a calf injury. Yeah, that must

2524
02:11:50,520 --> 02:11:52,840
Speaker 1: have been quite the calf injury. He's been nursing that

2525
02:11:52,960 --> 02:11:54,520
Speaker 1: thing for a long time. And I know this, two

2526
02:11:54,600 --> 02:11:56,600
Speaker 1: calf injuries are hard. You can't do anything if you've

2527
02:11:56,600 --> 02:11:58,720
Speaker 1: got an injured cast, not like a broken finger where

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02:11:58,720 --> 02:12:01,080
Speaker 1: you can kind of tape it up and go. But

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Speaker 1: certainly Vernon Butler and Cody Ford are two guys that

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02:12:04,360 --> 02:12:07,600
Speaker 1: if they are healthy, they're big parts of what they're

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02:12:07,640 --> 02:12:09,960
Speaker 1: doing up front for both the offense and the defense.

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02:12:10,040 --> 02:12:13,280
Speaker 1: So Daryl Johnson is certainly a special teams player and

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02:12:13,360 --> 02:12:16,840
Speaker 1: a role player on the defensive line. But I don't

2534
02:12:16,840 --> 02:12:19,120
Speaker 1: know I was kind of hoping Dawson Knox would be

2535
02:12:19,600 --> 02:12:23,320
Speaker 1: back in It looks like that may be a question mark.

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02:12:23,400 --> 02:12:25,800
Speaker 1: Though this is an offense. I think, like we said

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02:12:25,800 --> 02:12:28,760
Speaker 1: with Lorinzo Alexander Brownie, they got to hit on all

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02:12:28,800 --> 02:12:31,160
Speaker 1: cylinders this week. Yeah, I'd be a little more encouraged

2539
02:12:31,160 --> 02:12:35,160
Speaker 1: about Butler and Ford being on the favorable side of questionable,

2540
02:12:35,200 --> 02:12:38,560
Speaker 1: mainly because Butler practice full go Thursday and Friday, so

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02:12:39,240 --> 02:12:41,480
Speaker 1: I think there's a pretty good chance he suits up.

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02:12:41,640 --> 02:12:43,960
Speaker 1: Maybe less so for Ford, who didn't become a full

2543
02:12:44,040 --> 02:12:48,200
Speaker 1: participant until today, and that could cause some more shuffling

2544
02:12:48,720 --> 02:12:51,240
Speaker 1: on that offensive line. We already know Feliciano is probably

2545
02:12:51,280 --> 02:12:53,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to play center, and if Ford can't go

2546
02:12:53,480 --> 02:12:58,840
Speaker 1: at left guard, it's probably Ike Butker. Yeah, and barring

2547
02:12:58,920 --> 02:13:01,760
Speaker 1: setbacks and getting activated to day like Cody Ford was

2548
02:13:01,880 --> 02:13:05,360
Speaker 1: full participant, it's a Friday practice, right, Well, I mean

2549
02:13:05,520 --> 02:13:07,400
Speaker 1: you and I could take part in that practice fully.

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02:13:07,480 --> 02:13:10,120
Speaker 1: I mean, because they don't do anything right. Tomorrow will

2551
02:13:10,120 --> 02:13:13,160
Speaker 1: be a walk through. Today is situations. They're not in pads,

2552
02:13:13,200 --> 02:13:17,000
Speaker 1: they're not doing anything. They may have helmets, but the

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02:13:17,160 --> 02:13:20,320
Speaker 1: Friday practice is you know you're starting to taper off

2554
02:13:20,400 --> 02:13:22,520
Speaker 1: so you can be fresh on Sunday on a Friday,

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02:13:22,600 --> 02:13:25,240
Speaker 1: and so you know, I don't know that that makes

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02:13:25,280 --> 02:13:28,720
Speaker 1: me more optimistic or kind of doesn't change me at

2557
02:13:28,760 --> 02:13:31,360
Speaker 1: all in my optimism that Cody Ford's going to be in.

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02:13:31,520 --> 02:13:33,640
Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for Steve and I this week.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned. We'll be back on Sunday eleven am on

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Speaker 1: the Bills Radio Network with the roundtable. Otherwise we'll see

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Speaker 1: them Monday. Enjoy the game,