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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 2: All Right, how's everybody doing today? Welcome to a Tuesday

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Speaker 2: edition a One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Chaske me

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Speaker 2: with you as always as we motor our way into

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Speaker 2: the bye week. But there are some assessments to be made,

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Speaker 2: and we'll be doing that with you here on today's show.

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Speaker 2: After the bill's very impressive nine and two start. I

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Speaker 2: think everybody should be excited about It's hard to nobody

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Speaker 2: had poking holes in this one.

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Speaker 1: Ain't nobody had them ninety's I didn't. I'm I'm like

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Speaker 1: Polly positive over here. I was like before the season started,

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Speaker 1: I was jumping through hoops like, okay, eight and three.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know that that's a you

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Speaker 1: I know, you know. I'm like, okay, maybe eight and three,

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Speaker 1: you know, just don't find themselves and then they'll get

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Speaker 1: it going late in the season, right at the bye. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good looking pretty good? Is pretty pretty good?

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Speaker 2: Indeed it is. There is some I don't know, seismic

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Speaker 2: might be a little strong, but some sizeable news in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. So we're going to jump right into around

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Speaker 2: the NFL, which is presented by Kalida Healthy, official healthcare

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Speaker 2: system of the Buffalo Bills News in the AFC East

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Speaker 2: and the Jets, my friends have done it again. After

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Speaker 2: firing Robert Sala in week seven, they have now jettisoned

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Speaker 2: no pun intended GM Joe Douglas in week eleven. I

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Speaker 2: just came up with it as I was saying, they

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Speaker 2: jettison Joe Douglas as well. He was in the final

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Speaker 2: year of his contract. But we've set it time and

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Speaker 2: time again on this show. The Jets are masters at

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Speaker 2: one thing and one thing only, and that is self sabotage.

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Speaker 2: Owner Woody Johnson pulled the ripcord on his GM. According

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Speaker 2: to some reports with people in the know, the general

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Speaker 2: consensus was that Woody Johnson had already effectively neutered Joe

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Speaker 2: Douglas with decision making, so the owner of the team

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Speaker 2: So maybe Douglas isn't all that bothered by being fired

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Speaker 2: here in this situation. As we know, the Jets are

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Speaker 2: three and eight under Douglas's five year tenure as GM.

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Speaker 2: They were thirty and sixty four. But I will say this, Steve,

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Speaker 2: and we've talked about it on this show. The Jets

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Speaker 2: went completely counter to what they had done for decades

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Speaker 2: in the draft, like picking the shiny new toy and

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Speaker 2: not building their lines and you know that all that.

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Speaker 1: Stuff, now you can I thought, we thought from here,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we got no love loss for the Jets.

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Speaker 1: do what they're doing today.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's but it's a good thing for us.

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Speaker 1: We were sitting here complimenting them, and I was making

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Speaker 1: make fun of the Jets draft anymore. They did a

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Speaker 1: nice job. Now, certainly you're not going to hit on

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Speaker 1: all the guys thought, even if you think, wow, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Jets picked that offense's a pretty good pick. That's

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Speaker 2: Well they they drafted quarterbacks. They missed out Donald was

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Speaker 2: he did draft Zach Wilson and that went up in flames.

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Speaker 1: All was at Adam Gase's quarterback coach and it and

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Speaker 2: So the years blend together, that sounds right the most.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, player development is the most overriding problem in

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Speaker 2: And we have said it here pretty much a year

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Speaker 1: We've seen it. Zach Davidson is the latest example. He

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Speaker 1: NFL. The NFL is nothing but a study in group dynamics.

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Speaker 1: It is a big, huge, important part of any team's success.

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Speaker 1: And if you've got a group in this case, you've

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Speaker 1: It's just it's it is not luck. It's everything. It's

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Speaker 2: Look at Buffalo's back seven on defense right now. Your

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Speaker 1: And you're on your way to your fifth division title,

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Speaker 1: and you've won sixth straight and you're nine to two

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Speaker 2: So to bring this all home, will reiterate it's been

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Speaker 2: is the statement from one Woody Johnson. Today, I informed

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Speaker 2: Joe Douglass he will no longer serve as the GM

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Speaker 2: Wish him and his family the best moving forward. Phil

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Speaker 2: the season, will begin the process to identify a new

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Speaker 2: to be. The Jets hit the reset button again Monday

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Speaker 2: Night football, when, as most of us expected, another embarrassing

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Speaker 2: average margin of defeat for Dallas at home, now where

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Speaker 2: they have not won yet this season, is twenty three

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Speaker 2: they have lost by thirty eight, twenty eight, and twenty four,

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Speaker 1: It's an NFL record number of twenty point losses or

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Speaker 2: The Cowboys actually had two fumbles on the same play.

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Speaker 1: I saw that. We just saw it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's how bad it is. Dak Prescott's probably

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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush gets sackstripped his offense, bounce at cherry, bounce

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Speaker 1: He tries an angry run and ball pops, gets punched

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of around the NFL, presented by Colid

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Speaker 1: From Nevito and Cooper Rush or somebody like, please, what's

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Speaker 2: What are we got to look at the schedule and

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Speaker 1: Minutes ago, I didn't care.

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Speaker 2: Now I do, well, right, because you're going to be

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Speaker 1: They'll be all right. Thursday November. No, it's not twenty

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Speaker 1: it's week thirteen.

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Speaker 2: No, it's week twelve.

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Speaker 1: It's November twenty eighth, right, is the wee? Is the Sunday?

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Speaker 2: That's November twenty eighth? Is Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's what I thought. That's what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: What I miss this Sunday? Oh this Sunday?

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Speaker 2: it's not going to be a competitive game. Who are

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Speaker 1: He's the flavor of the month. There, he's at least

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Speaker 2: That is true.

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 2: That's that's not nothing.

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Speaker 1: He may be the best quarterback they've had in two decades,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he may be their best guy. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I didn't they like Baker for a half a minute.

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Speaker 1: It's a flavor of the week, not the month. Right,

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Because the one of the websites that usually

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Speaker 2: Thursday handy capping the bill's viewing. Okay, so they're not

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Speaker 2: Sunday one o'clock. Here are your choices. Are you ready, Steve?

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Speaker 2: You tell me which one you think we are going

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Speaker 1: I know exactly which one. We're gonna get.

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Speaker 2: Patriots Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: That's it right there. Okay, don't go any further. We're

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Speaker 2: I will say the Fox game we could get could

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Speaker 1: We're gonna give eat Us Giants. We're not gonna get

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Speaker 1: the West games like the Broncos Raiders, Cardinal, Seahawks, No Way, Eagles, Rams, Nah,

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Speaker 1: you know. And then the four o'clock window it is,

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Speaker 2: The four o'clock window is not pretty either. I would

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Speaker 1: Were kind a shot at that.

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Speaker 2: we all know how that movie is gonna end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know who. We're gonna get Fox game at

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Speaker 2: You're assuming that we get a double header from them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be Cowboys, Commanders.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, you want to talk about a jumble

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Speaker 2: I mean, no other division is that tightly packed.

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Speaker 1: No, but you've got Detroit, Minnesota, Green Bay nine to one,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how one spot. Because I mean, you

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Speaker 2: For those Cats, that's it because the three wild cards

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Speaker 1: So that's the West is It's gonna be fierce. It's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's something that should be noted. Knowing the

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Speaker 1: Now San Francisco is playing the injury card. I mean

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Speaker 2: The difference is it's finally bit them in the butt.

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Speaker 2: let us know how have the Bills exceeded your expectations

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Speaker 2: Hotline as well. It's a public service that we provide

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Speaker 2: for you here at one Bill's Live. So let us

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Speaker 2: know and look, we'll figure it out for you. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we helped a couple of people a week or so ago,

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Speaker 2: maybe the most unconventional call we have received. They were

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Speaker 2: appreciative of our advice. They felt that it worked. Of course,

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Speaker 2: there was a divorce after. But the guy's back on

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Speaker 2: the horse.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't because that wasn't because of our advice.

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Speaker 2: That was not because of our advice. It was because

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Speaker 2: those people have no soul. But then, you know, the

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Speaker 2: guy's back on the horse with two girlfriends and now

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Speaker 2: he had to pick between the two, and we gave

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Speaker 2: him appropriate advice for that. With respect state as well, yea,

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Speaker 2: with respect to his football viewing priorities. So we've tackled

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Speaker 2: some of the more difficult dilemmas you won't. We're not

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Speaker 2: going to get better if football viewing advice, that's right.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna stump us, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: But the bye week and Thanksgiving Day can present football

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Speaker 2: viewing priority issues with family holiday stuff and the like.

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Speaker 2: So you got an issue, let us know. We'll be

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Speaker 2: happy to talk to this through it and give you

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Speaker 2: a solution.

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Speaker 1: We are smacking the middle too, of a four game

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Speaker 1: stretch where we never get any one o'clock games. You know,

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Speaker 1: the four to twenty five game against the Chiefs. You

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Speaker 1: got an eight twenty Sunday night game against San Francisco

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Speaker 1: coming up. You got a four to twenty five game

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Speaker 1: against the Rams, a four to twenty five game, because,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, our viewing rhythm is all askew because

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Speaker 1: of the nature of our team and how everybody, now

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Speaker 1: everybody else wants to watch them, not just us, right,

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Speaker 1: so we got to put up with the eight twenty,

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Speaker 1: the four to twenty five, and the four to twenty fives.

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Speaker 1: And you can bet that last game against New England,

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Speaker 1: I would say the week eighteen at New England is

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Speaker 1: a one o'clock game.

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Speaker 2: If your prediction for the TVD game, Yeah, yeah, Saturday

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Speaker 2: or Sunday.

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Speaker 1: M that's good. That's a good call. Uh, that I

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Speaker 1: hadn't thought of. Probably Saturday because it'll be a meaningless

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Speaker 1: game and they'll have it and they'll push all the

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Speaker 1: meaningful ones to Sunday. Okay, I think it'll be a

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Speaker 1: Saturday game, all right, Saturday, like whatever it is one

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Speaker 1: or four whatever. I think it's four. And then they

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Speaker 1: don't have one o'clock Saturday? Yeah they do?

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Speaker 2: Do they think they do?

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Speaker 6: Do they?

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Speaker 1: I can't remember that if I remember right, that's still

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Speaker 1: new to me.

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Speaker 2: I would prefer one necessarily if the road like a

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Speaker 2: home soon.

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Speaker 1: This Yeah, everybody wants to see this team play for

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Speaker 1: obvious reasons, and now we never get one o'clock games.

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tell you though, Drake May is becoming

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Speaker 2: appointment viewing. He's he's looked good, and our good friend

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Speaker 2: Alex Van Pelt's doing a nice job with him as

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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. Now that the Patriots have other problems that

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Speaker 2: are clear and readily apparent, but it's not their quarterback

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Speaker 2: right now. I mean, look, he's not devoid of mistakes.

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Speaker 2: But for a young guy learning on the fly, he's

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Speaker 2: got something to him. They might have their guys. They

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Speaker 2: might have their guy. I mean the rookie class at quarterback,

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Speaker 2: it's Boonix and Jayden Daniels at the top. Drake May's

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Speaker 2: probably third. He's probably right behind those guys in terms

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Speaker 2: if you want to rank how their rookie seasons have

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Speaker 2: gone thus far. So this was the one tiny bit

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Speaker 2: of trepidation I had with the Bills playing the Patriots

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Speaker 2: as late in the season as they were, because I

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Speaker 2: thought that the Patriots would be a much easier get

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Speaker 2: early in the season than late in the season when

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Speaker 2: they've had almost a full year under Gerrod Mayo. They've

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Speaker 2: got some ducks that they've been able to line up

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Speaker 2: in a row, namely the quarterback positions figured out at

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Speaker 2: least in terms of the direction they're going, and they're

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Speaker 2: not going to be flip flopping anymore. It makes it

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Speaker 2: a little more of an interesting and challenge lenging opponent.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion. Do I think the Patriots are going

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Speaker 2: to beat the Bills, No, but it'd be nice to

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Speaker 2: have one where you're not biting your fingernails through the

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Speaker 2: first half.

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Speaker 1: Well, particularly since it depending on how Kansas City's finishing

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Speaker 1: and how the Bills are doing in the one seed

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Speaker 1: and the seed right for the playoffs. It may have

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Speaker 1: nothing on the line, or it may have it all

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Speaker 1: on the line to get the one seed and get

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Speaker 1: three home playoff games or two home playoff games and

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Speaker 1: a bye. That's the only scenario I can think of

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Speaker 1: where Josh Allen and James Cook and kin Kate, all

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Speaker 1: these gall those jokers are playing. Otherwise it's a preseason scrimmage.

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Speaker 2: So how have the Bills exceeded your expectations with their

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Speaker 2: nine and two start? Maybe you didn't have the record

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Speaker 2: looking that good as you projected your way through the

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Speaker 2: first eleven games finishing with the Chiefs before the bye.

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Speaker 2: Be honest, where have they exceeded your expectations? Eight h

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Speaker 2: three zero five point fifty one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 2: point fifty two five point fifty And if you don't

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Speaker 2: have time to give us a phone call, you can

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Speaker 2: always hit us up on the tweetsheet at one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: We take a break here, but when we return it's

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Speaker 2: a day late. But that's okay. We're happy to celebrate

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Speaker 2: it for an extra twenty four hours. The Maddie Awards

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Speaker 2: coming your way next with Bill's reporter and our colleague

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Speaker 2: Matty Clab here on one Bill's Live presented by Colida Health.

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Speaker 3: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right. Back here on one of Bill's Live, Chris

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Speaker 2: Brown Steve Tasker joined in studio by Bill's team reporter

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Speaker 2: Maddy clab who is here for the latest edition of

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Speaker 2: the Maddie Awards, presented by Energy Mark, the official energy

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Speaker 2: supplier to the Buffalo Bills, and he was taking a

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Speaker 2: day off, had some friends in town, but that does

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Speaker 2: not keep her from doling out Maddie Awards here a

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Speaker 2: day later, not at all.

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Speaker 7: We're back on a Tuesday. We're extending this bye week

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Speaker 7: with so why not put the Maddie Awards on too.

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Speaker 2: Take twenty four hour rule to the forty eight Allen

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Speaker 2: rule on the Bible Weekly. As far as I'm concerned,

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Speaker 2: That's what I'd be doing, right, especially after a win

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Speaker 2: like that. Well, we'll begin at the top of the

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Speaker 2: heap here with the MVP Award.

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Speaker 7: Josh Allen is the MVP. Allen is the best at

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Speaker 7: what he does in the NFL, and he put that

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Speaker 7: on display against the Chiefs. Kansas City went into this

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Speaker 7: game undefeated with the fifth best scoring defense, and Alan

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Speaker 7: we knew at some point he was going to have

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Speaker 7: to take over and prove that no defense can put

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Speaker 7: me in a box. When the Bills were up by

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Speaker 7: two with just over two minutes to go, you don't

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Speaker 7: want to give Patrick Mahomes a chance at the end

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Speaker 7: of the game. So on fourth and two, Alan kicks

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Speaker 7: it into the highest gear. Can you take me higher?

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Speaker 7: I don't think so, because he had a twenty six

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Speaker 7: yard rushing touchdown to put the Bills up thirty to

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Speaker 7: twenty one. That's the stuff you dream as dream of

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Speaker 7: as a kid who wants to play in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were all we were all in this together, right,

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Speaker 1: We all know have seen this game eight times over

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Speaker 1: the last five years. You just knew that if the

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Speaker 1: Bills kicked the field goal, there, Pat Mahomes gonna drive

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Speaker 1: down and kick a field goal and they're going to

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Speaker 1: take the lead back. And whether it was zero time

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Speaker 1: on the clock or whatever time on the clock, you

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Speaker 1: just knew it. Yeah, you just knew it. You could

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Speaker 1: have had the eighty five Bears defense on the other

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Speaker 1: side and that Mahome's still gonna get down there and

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Speaker 1: getting field goal range.

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Speaker 2: I just felt it the part that I enjoyed. Secondarily

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Speaker 2: after the game was over and the next day was

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Speaker 2: Steve showing me on the All twenty two film mack

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Speaker 2: Hollins pointing to the air at the twenty when Josh

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Speaker 2: was at the twenty yard line, like he took three

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Speaker 2: steps on his scramble run and he's like he's in.

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Speaker 2: I was like, dude, there's like two guys there, and

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Speaker 2: he's just like.

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Speaker 1: Josh is in the grasp of the linebacker, just passed

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and there's two guys converging between

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Speaker 1: him and the goal line. Mac Collins on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go and look at it if you

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Speaker 2: haven't riceless. Yeah, all right, the payback.

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Speaker 7: Award, payback award, it's going to our linebacker Terrell Bernard.

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Speaker 7: Let's rewind the clock back to last year's Divisional playoff

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Speaker 7: game against Kansas City. If you remember, Bernard missed that

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Speaker 7: game due to an ankle injury, and general manager Brandon

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Speaker 7: Bean later told us that Bernard was basically in tears

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Speaker 7: about not playing in that game. He wanted to play

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Speaker 7: so badly. So that means that this game well wasn't

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Speaker 7: in the playoffs. It was against the Chiefs. It was

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Speaker 7: all about that payback. Bernard showed off he could impose

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Speaker 7: his will on the Chiefs offense led by Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 7: He had a huge third down sack in the beginning

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Speaker 7: of the game and finished off the game with an

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Speaker 7: interception that sealed Buffalo's victory. Bernard also did a great

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Speaker 7: job of acting as the spy on certain plays, making

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Speaker 7: sure that Mahomes didn't have the opportunity to be superhuman

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Speaker 7: at any time. I mean, look at his rushing statistics.

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Speaker 7: Mahomes did not have the opportunity to get out of

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Speaker 7: the pocket and and make the defense pay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't throw for a lot of yards either.

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Speaker 2: It was a supreme defensive performance by the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Bernard's presence out there, he just elevates everybody.

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Speaker 2: He's he's just on it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he seems.

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Speaker 2: He's ahead of it. Actually not, it's ahead.

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Speaker 1: Of clairvoyant as to what's going to happen.

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Speaker 7: The Spark Award the Spark is going to the defense

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Speaker 7: for setting the tone early Buffalo's defense was aggressive from

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Speaker 7: the very first play. They got after Mahomes in the beginning,

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Speaker 7: and they did not let up when the game got close.

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Speaker 7: They provided a huge spark in the first second play

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Speaker 7: of the game, I should say, with that Taylor Rapp

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Speaker 7: interception and then on the last drive that Kansas City

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Speaker 7: had Trell Bernard intercepts a pass. They finished with two takeaways,

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Speaker 7: seven quarterback hits, two sacks. They know that they can

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Speaker 7: go toe to toe with one of the best quarterbacks

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Speaker 7: in the NFL, even with injuries, no Matt Mlano, no

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Speaker 7: Dwayne Carter, no Duan Smoot, and they could.

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Speaker 1: Still do it.

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Speaker 7: I loved the defense's attitude in this one. They didn't

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Speaker 7: play afraid. They played as the Aggressor's defensive coordinator Bobby

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Speaker 7: Babbage called a great game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. They stayed aggressive and they might.

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Speaker 2: Second half.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they gave it one touchdown on the second half.

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Speaker 1: My narrative has been that they just forced Mahomes into

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Speaker 1: decisions he didn't want to make, and uh they did

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Speaker 1: it by hurrying him and harassing him and chasing him

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Speaker 1: around back there, and the pressure affected him.

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Speaker 2: They have they have an offensive tackle problem.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they guy.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a major issue for them.

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Speaker 1: They've beaten nine teams in a row with that same problem.

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Speaker 2: Right, But I think the Bill showed that that's probably

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Speaker 2: not going to work too well in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll see the heating Up award.

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Speaker 7: Heating Up is going to our wide receiver, Curtis Samuel.

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Speaker 7: In the last two games, Samuel has nine total catches

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Speaker 7: for ninety three yards and a touchdown in the last

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Speaker 7: two games. It's been a different type of wide receiver

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Speaker 7: that we've seen on the field. It's been a tough

655
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Speaker 7: start for Samuel's first season as a Bill, and he

656
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Speaker 7: hasn't played a huge piece in this offense. Hasn't played

657
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Speaker 7: a huge role in this offense. But in the last

658
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Speaker 7: two weeks, he's showing why he can have that important role.

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Speaker 7: He's heating up. He's showcasing his skills as a wide receiver.

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Speaker 7: He's a shifty player who's really tough to take down

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Speaker 7: when he has the ball in his hands. And I

662
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Speaker 7: don't care when you show up. As long as you

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Speaker 7: show up, that's what matters. And here he is doing

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Speaker 7: it two straight weeks in a row. The forty nine

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Speaker 7: ers are on deck the addition of Samuel into the

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Speaker 7: mix just makes this offense harder to defend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Josh Allen kind of intimated after the game

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Speaker 2: on Sunday that Curtis Samuel in the early stages of

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Speaker 2: the season was playing hurt.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: He had a shoulder injury, a pectoral injury, and he

672
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Speaker 2: was fighting his way through that. I remember being down

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Speaker 2: at the Jets game in Week six and he leaves

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Speaker 2: that game on the first series and he's holding his

675
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Speaker 2: shoulder and he's got the athletic training staff working on him.

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Speaker 2: So he's been battling through some stuff. And when you

677
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Speaker 2: don't feel yourself, it's hard to play your best, even

678
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Speaker 2: if you are out there suiting up for your teammates.

679
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Speaker 2: I think he finally feels good and we're kind of

680
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Speaker 2: seeing the difference. So that's what's encouraging, all right. The

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Speaker 2: TD King.

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Speaker 7: Award Touchdown King. It's running back James Cook has eleven

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Speaker 7: touchdowns from scrimmage this season through eleven games. That ties

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Speaker 7: for the second most scrimmage touchdowns by a running back.

685
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Speaker 7: Cook had just two rushing touchdowns last season. He already

686
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Speaker 7: has ten this season. The running back has made a

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Speaker 7: huge jump in his ability to find the end zone

688
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Speaker 7: this season and fight for extra yards. I love that

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Speaker 7: the coaching staff trusts him with the ball in the

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Speaker 7: red zone. Cook has shown that he's capable of running

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Speaker 7: those tough and strong yards. He's had some angry runs

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Speaker 7: where he faces contact and stays up to score. The

693
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Speaker 7: TD King is going to keep it rolling.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what I'm seeing it's great to see

695
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Speaker 1: because even in this game is the perfect example. The

696
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Speaker 1: first one he got, he beat him to the pylon

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Speaker 1: and then cut up inside. The last block, he just

698
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Speaker 1: outran the interior pursuit. And then on the other one

699
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Speaker 1: he went up between the guards and knocked and kept

700
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Speaker 1: his balance after contact safety and blasted a safety. So

701
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Speaker 1: both speed and physicality, you know, he showed both in

702
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Speaker 1: two touchdown runs there in the first half.

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Speaker 2: It was it was huge and the and the real

704
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Speaker 2: difference here is last year, all these touchdowns were being

705
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Speaker 2: run in by Josh Allen, and now they've made that switch.

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Speaker 2: Let's take some of the knocks off of Allen's body

707
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Speaker 2: and give it to a guy who's used to contact

708
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Speaker 2: like a running back. And Cook has come through for them.

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Speaker 2: But really, all season long, whether it's Cook on occasion

710
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Speaker 2: and once in a while, Ty Johnson. They're running. Efficiency

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Speaker 2: in the low red zone has been very, very good

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Speaker 2: this year. Like running it down there is the hardest

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Speaker 2: place to run the football, and they've shown an ability

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Speaker 2: to do that all season long.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say this too, it's not for nothing. It's

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Speaker 1: easier to do that when you got three hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty pounds guards and center.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they wear bigger, the shitticker and maybe a little

719
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Speaker 2: less athletic to get that straightforward pushed this year, all right,

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Speaker 2: last one the hats off award.

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Speaker 7: Hats off to Ryan Vandermark and O'sirus Torrance, two of

722
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Speaker 7: our offensive linemen who stepped up huge against the Chiefs.

723
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Speaker 7: The Bills were without their starting right tackle in Spencer Brown.

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Speaker 7: Not where you want to be as you face one

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Speaker 7: of the best defensive fronts in the NFL with Chris

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Speaker 7: Jones as a defensive tackle who can move all over

727
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Speaker 7: the place and just cause chaos. So Ryan Vandermark steps

728
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Speaker 7: in for Brown and Osiris Torrance helps hold down that

729
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Speaker 7: side of the field as well. Vandermark played every single

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Speaker 7: snap and there was no drop off. Josh Allen was

731
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Speaker 7: not sacked once against the Chiefs against Chris Jones. Torrence

732
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Speaker 7: also did a really great job of holding off Jones

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Speaker 7: on multiple snaps. The best one was when Alan rushed

734
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Speaker 7: in for that twenty six yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 7: Torrence sunk his hips and turned into a concrete wall,

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Speaker 7: allowing Alan to run through a really important gap to score.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Carl loftis too, is trying to swipe the

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Speaker 2: ball away at the other side that gap.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Carl, he made a big swipe to get the

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Speaker 1: ball out of Josh's hands right as he broke container.

741
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Speaker 1: He's working against Vandermark right there. He almost almost swiped

742
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Speaker 1: the ball, swiped the ball out of Josh's hand. Couldn't

743
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Speaker 1: get there though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Osiri's turned Chris Jones like the other way.

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Speaker 1: He's turned bazy, which you know, that's.

746
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Speaker 2: Just great handwork, great technique. And I think Jones was

747
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Speaker 2: trying to take an inside angle because inside is the

748
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Speaker 2: closest distance between and point B. He knows he probably

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Speaker 2: doesn't have enough time to go outside and get to

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Speaker 2: Josh before he throws the ball, but he was fully

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Speaker 2: expecting pass.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Some people have talked about how on the team, how

754
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Speaker 7: impressive the hand strength strength of Osirius Torrance is that

755
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 7: he's got some crazy hand strength that he can just

756
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Speaker 7: move people out of the way, even as a young player.

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Speaker 2: Not to mention. I mean we've talked about this since

758
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Speaker 2: he was drafted. He's very flat footed, so there's like

759
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Speaker 2: more surface area on the ground. You can't uproot him.

760
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Speaker 2: He anchors and then all of a sudden, before you

761
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Speaker 2: know it, he's not only not moving, but he's turning

762
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Speaker 2: you because he's anchored and they don't back him up on.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because I've seen other guards, like our former

764
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill Jerry Ostrowski was also flat foot. I remember, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it allows him to anchor. I don't know,

766
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Speaker 1: maybe it's maybe mac Hollins is right. If they're flat footed,

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Speaker 1: it gets him closer.

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Speaker 2: To the ground on our surface area.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, they and plus they both have long arms

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Speaker 1: and that huge strength. Yeah that doesn't hurt that toy thirty. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and that's what Jerry O was as well. Those guys

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Speaker 1: are prototypical, and Osiris I think, is having a very

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Speaker 1: good sophomore year in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Maddy, our topic of discussion today is how have the

775
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Speaker 2: bills exceeded your expectations with their nine and two start.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything that really stood out for you that

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Speaker 2: you think the Bills are doing even better than you anticipated.

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Speaker 7: I think it's an easy answer, But what sticks out

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Speaker 7: to me if I look back on the season as

780
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Speaker 7: a whole, from Week one to here we are in

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Speaker 7: the bye week, Week twelve, is their ability to bounce

782
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Speaker 7: back from injuries. They have faced so many injuries on

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Speaker 7: the defensive side of the football and even on the

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Speaker 7: offensive side of the football as well. Defense has definitely

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Speaker 7: been way more and it doesn't matter who's playing. It

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Speaker 7: doesn't matter who's stepping into a role. Undrafted, seventh rounder,

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Speaker 7: sixth rounder. I think all of these guys who you

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Speaker 7: may label as B players or whatever, have played at

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Speaker 7: an A grade capability when they're in there. It just

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Speaker 7: shows how much this coaching staff means to this roster

791
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Speaker 7: and how they do such a great job of developing

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Speaker 7: these players. Regardless of where they've they're drafted in the

793
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Speaker 7: NFL Draft, they get the best out of them, and

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Speaker 7: the system that has been in place since Sean McDermott

795
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Speaker 7: has walked through these doors on defense has proved you

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Speaker 7: can be you can be drafted in the seventh round

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Speaker 7: or the first round. It doesn't matter. When you learn

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Speaker 7: this and you understand it, you can excel at it.

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Speaker 7: And we've seen that time and time again out of

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Speaker 7: so many defensive players. I'm really excited for this team

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Speaker 7: to get healthier. We always say the bye comes at

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Speaker 7: the right time, but to be able to possibly get

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Speaker 7: back a Matt Mulano, maybe a Dwayne Carter, adult can

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Speaker 7: Kate a Spencer Brown, Keon Coleman, like we're it's a

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Speaker 7: great place.

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Speaker 2: To be, right about these guys.

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Speaker 1: It's a great place.

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Speaker 2: To be crazy, absolutely crazy. All right, Maddie, thanks as always,

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Speaker 2: enjoy your bye week, and uh hopefully we see you

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Speaker 2: after the next victory, which would make it seven in

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Speaker 2: a row if they can beat the forty nine ers

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Speaker 2: on Sunday Night Football in week thirteen. We will take

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Speaker 2: a break here, but when we come back, we're here

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Speaker 2: to take your phone calls, so you let us know

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Speaker 2: how you think the Bills have exceeded your expectations with

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Speaker 2: eight oh three zero five fifty one eighty eight five

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Speaker 2: fifty two, five point fifty the number to get on

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Speaker 2: board as we're asking you, how have the Bills exceeded

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Speaker 2: your expectations with their nine and two start. For me,

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Speaker 2: it has been about resortfulness in terms of tapping into

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Speaker 2: the depth of your roster to fill voids due to injury.

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Speaker 2: They've been better at that. It's funny because I was

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Speaker 2: kind of hoping at the beginning of the season. Maybe

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Speaker 2: funny is the wrong word, but I was kind of

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Speaker 2: thinking at the beginning of the season that with a younger,

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Speaker 2: more athletic roster, perhaps the injury injuries would be fewer

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Speaker 2: and further between. Because this is a team that's gone

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Speaker 2: to the end of the season and they look like

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Speaker 2: a mash unit, and then they don't have all the

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Speaker 2: bullets in the chamber for the playoff games, the most

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Speaker 2: important ones of the year. So I'm saying, oh, you know, younger,

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Speaker 2: more athletic roster bodies a little more pliable, you know,

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Speaker 2: less wear and tear.

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Speaker 1: Bounce back better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they get to the end of the season

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Speaker 2: they're fully healthy. So hopefully because the injury Rake did

843
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Speaker 2: not prove that out by any means, But hopefully the

844
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Speaker 2: timing of these injuries gets this team to the end

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Speaker 2: of the season healthy at the right time.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 1: I would say the way they've exceeded my expectations, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be a bottom line it. They

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Speaker 1: won more games than I thought they would or could

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Speaker 1: with a new roster like they had. I thought it

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Speaker 1: would take a lot more time for them to get acclimated.

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Speaker 1: But I'll say this too, they are they Early in

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Speaker 1: the year particular, they were winning games and they didn't

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Speaker 1: didn't look like they were playing their best. We've seen

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen this off. We've seen them play lights out,

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Speaker 1: We've seen you know, make plays and light people up.

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Speaker 1: They have not done that this year and continue to win.

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Speaker 1: I think the way they have run won and the

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Speaker 1: way they have run the football and changed their a

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Speaker 1: little bit of their foundational philosophy about how much they

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Speaker 1: wanted to run the ball and when they would run

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Speaker 1: it and what situations they'd be willing to run it in.

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Speaker 1: Has aided to their aided their ability to.

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Speaker 2: Win in control games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it hasn't been a high flying like like the

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions have been. They're lighting people up on the scoreboard,

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Speaker 1: big plays, I mean scored over fifty They're going crazy,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills are not doing it that way. They

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00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: are playing a little bit more complimentary football. And I

870
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 1: think that's really exceeded my expectations at nine and two.

871
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: Is I mean, there's no way I could have jumped

872
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: through enough hoops to get them to nine and two

873
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: just from the beginning of the season going down on

874
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: WLWL kind of thing. But here they are, and I'll

875
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: say it again, they are getting better.

876
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 2: Yes, And where they exceeded my expectations, I would say

877
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 2: is probably with the way the passing game production has

878
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 2: not suffered no matter who they have been without, and

879
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 2: it seems almost every week they have been without somebody

880
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: in their top five at receiver end or tight end,

881
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 2: and it has not mattered. You look up at the

882
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 2: scoreboard at the end of the game and they're still

883
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 2: right at thirty points again and you're like, how did

884
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 2: that happen? And the production remains. So kudos to the

885
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 2: to the passing game and Joe Brady and Josh Allen

886
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 2: obviously as the trigger man. They've exceeded my expectations there.

887
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 2: If I knew the kind of injuries that were going

888
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 2: to hit the receiving corps and the tight end position,

889
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 2: I would have said it's going to be a tough

890
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 2: road to hoe in the passing game then, and that

891
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 2: is just flat out not been the case at all.

892
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 2: It's almost as if their offensive philosophy, in terms of

893
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 2: their approach running the football more to your point, has

894
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 2: almost made the offense injury proof. Now. Obviously, if Josh

895
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 2: Allen gets hurt, that dynamic changes, but short of him,

896
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 2: anybody else gets hurt, and as long as it's not

897
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 2: a long season ending injury, I think the offense has

898
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 2: proven they can sustain that.

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00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, the only way they're gonna get hurt again, or

900
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,240
Speaker 1: it could the injury seem like we would worry about

901
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: them is if, like this last week, you get Cooper

902
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: and Coleman out, or Shakir and Coleman, or Shakir and

903
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: Cooper or and both tight knocks and kinkaid for two games.

904
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: If you get too many injuries at one position, then okay,

905
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: I can I can see that. But if you if

906
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: it keeps sprinkling around different parts of the roster, you

907
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,919
Speaker 1: really got At this point, we've all got a lot

908
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: more confidence in their ability to keep on chugging. If

909
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: just one guy here and one guy there have to

910
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: miss a game or two, that's the way it's been.

911
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 1: And we'll see. I mean that, this this game against

912
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: the going out and beating the Chiefs without Kincaid and

913
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: without Coleman and without Spencer Brown, it's I think it's big.

914
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: I think it's really big, and it's a really makes

915
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: you sit back and reevaluate how good this team could be.

916
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 2: I think we have to take a break here because

917
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Speaker 2: when we come back, we're going to be joined in

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Speaker 2: hour number two by our good friend dan Orlowski, ESPN

919
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 2: NFL analyst joins us every week on Tuesdays, and he

920
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 2: will do that with us next to chop up Bill's

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Speaker 2: Chiefs when we return here on One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 2: by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: This is One Bill's Live presented by Calida Health.

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00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,439
Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back to One Bill's Live. Rus Brown,

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Speaker 2: Steve tasker here and in our number two, we're meeting

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Speaker 2: with our weekly guest on a Tuesday. It's ESPN NFL

927
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 2: analyst Dan Orlovsky, and Dan's appearances on One Bill's Live

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Speaker 2: are presented by Caesar's Sportsbook and official mobile sports betting

929
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 2: partner of the Buffalo Bills and Dan. We was billed

930
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 2: as the game of the year. It did not disappoint

931
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 2: Bill's Chiefs. And you know, Josh puts the cape on

932
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 2: at the end to give them a very, very valuable

933
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 2: two score lead. I want to go inside that play

934
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 2: a little bit specifically, which I'm sure you've watched multiple times.

935
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 2: So fourth and two after a third and two inside

936
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 2: run play goes nowhere, as was the case for most

937
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 2: of the game for the Bills, running game between the tackles,

938
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 2: and so you've got fourth and two and Joe Brady

939
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 2: earlier this week said, you know, we had a man

940
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 2: call with a zone check, and Josh quickly realized it wasn't.

941
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 2: That's part of the equation on want want you to

942
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 2: unfurl for us first in terms of a quarterback's mindset

943
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 2: when they recognize that, and you know, Josh just said,

944
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 2: screw it. I'm gonna do it myself. And then the

945
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 2: second part of the question is no spy on that play,

946
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 2: which perhaps you don't really see all that often on

947
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 2: fourth and two, but maybe walk me through Spagnolo's mindset

948
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 2: of not going with a spy there as well.

949
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think first of all, I was not

950
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 4: shocked that they went for it. I'm sure there was

951
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 4: a little bit of conversation of where they going to

952
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 4: kick a field goal and kind of put it on

953
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 4: the defense, But going for it every single time against

954
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 4: Patrick is the right choice, and specifically when you have

955
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 4: a guy that can go toe to toe with them.

956
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 4: So that plays a little bit like the one I

957
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,280
Speaker 4: remember on Sunday Night Football that they throw to Cook

958
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 4: against the Dolphins. The premise of it is you're anticipating

959
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 4: man coverage, which you're gonna get ninety nine out of

960
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 4: one hundred times against a fourth and two situation, and

961
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 4: even more so against Kansas City that runs man basically

962
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 4: every play almost you know, So the fact that Joe

963
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 4: calls a play that is specifically dined designed for man

964
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 4: and to beat man is absolutely the right thing to do.

965
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 4: And then as a quarterback, I think the biggest thing

966
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 4: is you know, so back to the play, you're trying

967
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 4: to pick people to leak Shakir out from the backfield.

968
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 4: They start your cure out as his normal traditional wide

969
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 4: receiver bunch stacks, which is a huge part of that game.

970
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 4: They motion them back to the backfield and they're trying

971
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 4: to create traffic and pick them against man coverage. One

972
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 4: hundred percent the right thing to do. And Spags does

973
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 4: two things that are a little bit abnormal in that situation.

974
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 4: Number One, he just plays like a cover three So

975
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 4: zone eyes, there's four rushers, zone eyes. Everyone's kind of

976
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 4: and he's trying to outsmart the offense in that moment.

977
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 4: He's he's knowing self scouting. You guys know, I'm going

978
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 4: to call man coverage and you're gonna call a man

979
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 4: coverage beater. I'm gonna call zone. And so in many ways,

980
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 4: like you tip your hat to Spags, it's a tremendous call. Candidly,

981
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 4: there's no way that the play should work for the offense.

982
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 4: And the reason Chris there's no spy is there's there's

983
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,280
Speaker 4: seven spies.

984
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: That's why that's why that plays unbelievable. Everybody's looking at

985
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: him and yeah, he's.

986
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 4: Got everybody, He's got all kinds of eyes looking at him,

987
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 4: and so you don't necessarily have and Torrance does a

988
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 4: phenomenal job versus Chris Jones as well in that moment.

989
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 4: I think from the quarterbacks standpoint, and it's not just

990
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 4: a Josh it's definitely a Joe Brady thing as well

991
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 4: is and probably a Ronald Curry thing. Is you sit

992
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 4: down and you Josh knows why we're calling that play

993
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,320
Speaker 4: or why you're calling them play and what you're looking for. Okay, Josh,

994
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 4: if we don't get the look, what do you do?

995
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 4: And in reality, the answer is you got to go

996
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,879
Speaker 4: make a play. There's no x's and o's thing there

997
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 4: that well, if they don't give us this, then we

998
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 4: get to it's really go make a play. And I

999
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 4: think that's kind of the the mindset you see with

1000
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 4: Josh once he puts that back foot down and he realizes,

1001
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 4: oh gosh, it ain't zone and there's that seam. And

1002
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 4: that's why the Torrens back is such a big deal

1003
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 4: because he turns Chris a little bit. Now I think

1004
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 4: Chris goes inside, but just that little turn by Chris

1005
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 4: gives Josh that seam and you know it's a I've

1006
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:25,919
Speaker 4: said this many times. That's an example of why there's

1007
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 4: only so many people on the planet that are franchise quarterbacks,

1008
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 4: because you just have a guy that goes above the

1009
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 4: ex's and o's. And let me be clear to end this,

1010
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 4: the play should not work. The defense wins that rep.

1011
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 4: The only reason the play works is because the quarterback,

1012
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 4: that's right, and you're.

1013
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: Right, the defense is set up. They outsmart the coordinator

1014
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: and Joe, and Joe did the right thing, calling man

1015
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: beat her. You know, that's what the Chiefs do. The

1016
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs kind of try and beat you left handed there.

1017
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna do something they're not expected to do, and

1018
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 1: they don't have that single guy because they've got Like

1019
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,839
Speaker 1: you said, all the defenders are watching the backfield to

1020
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: read the quarterback's eyes as to where he's going, and

1021
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: because the receivers are running hard, they all have to

1022
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 1: drop back out into coverage and cover those guys. You

1023
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: see guys starting to man up as the play breaks

1024
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: down and the and the pocket breaks. Yeah, that it it.

1025
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: It's one of those plays where the quarterback sees it

1026
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: a little bit before. And I'll say this too, Karloftis

1027
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: just misses swiping that ball out of his hands and

1028
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: coming out of the pocket. You know, I mean as

1029
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 1: all these there's this much about six times on that

1030
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 1: play and all throughout that game that makes us that

1031
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: is exactly the kind of game we thought we were

1032
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: gonna get. And it's all of those this much is

1033
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 1: that make the difference? Right? I mean, give me an

1034
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: idea about what you saw overall in this game. Certainly,

1035
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: the Bills had the time of possession, they took that

1036
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: away from the Chiefs, which they'd been depending on. They

1037
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: got the quick turnover, the first turnover on Pat's first throw,

1038
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: and the turnover on his last throw, all the stuff

1039
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: in between. Give us your big synopsis about why this

1040
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: game went this way.

1041
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. There's two plays offensively that really

1042
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 4: stand out for me. Number one is the Amari Cooper

1043
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 4: kind of double move down the right sideline that he

1044
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 4: just catches essentially like that shoe string over his shoulder.

1045
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 4: The reason why that stands out for me is when

1046
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 4: you play against Kansas City's defense as an offense, there's

1047
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 4: a couple of things you have to be on a

1048
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 4: play by play basis. The situation never matters every play

1049
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 4: you have to be ready for all out zero blitz,

1050
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 4: and that play was the perfect example of they knew

1051
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 4: what they were getting. They Josh kind of controlled the

1052
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 4: protection at the line of scrimmage and they're getting zero

1053
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 4: and he drifts back and he floats it out to Amari.

1054
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 4: This is the one on one Amari. That's a beautiful

1055
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 4: throw as well. But the other one where Amari kind

1056
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 4: of catches his outside of his frame and they that

1057
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 4: play right there told me they got a plan, because

1058
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 4: you can't beat Kansas City unless you always know and

1059
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 4: anticipate some zero. That's a beautiful throwing catch. But it

1060
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 4: started with Josh and Joe Brady anticipating the zero blitz.

1061
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 4: And the second play that really stood out to me

1062
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 4: was the James cook second touchdown run, the one when

1063
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 4: he runs through the safety. That to me was a

1064
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 4: play that sent a message very clearly to like the

1065
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 4: whole team, the building, people watching. It was a physical like, hey,

1066
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 4: we are no longer going to be pushed around, not

1067
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 4: that they have been, you know what I'm saying. Like

1068
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 4: it was like a message sent like we're gonna take

1069
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 4: the game almost And so those two plays stood out

1070
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 4: to me, I think offensively, I'll go back to they

1071
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 4: had a great plan for zero. They had a great

1072
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 4: plan for all out pressure. They hit it four or

1073
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 4: five times. They used so many stacks and bunches to

1074
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 4: force miscommunication and lack of being on the same page

1075
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 4: by Kansas City's defense. They knew if watched tape, and

1076
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 4: I talked about this last week, the Nickel position in

1077
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 4: Kansas City right now is a little bit of an issue.

1078
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 4: Sneed not being there starting to show up, the injury

1079
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 4: to Watson starting to show up, McDuffie kind of having

1080
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 4: to be outside and not that. And so they attacked

1081
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 4: it with a bunch of different stacks and motions and

1082
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 4: forced communication. So that was a really, really, really big deal.

1083
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 4: And then I think defensively, number one, they played tremendous

1084
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:32,439
Speaker 4: physical man coverage more than I expected. They challenged Kansas City.

1085
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 4: We're gonna play man coverage and we're gonna create one

1086
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 4: on ones in our pass rush. We're gonna let the

1087
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 4: pass rush get home. I think the second thing was

1088
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 4: they were very strategic in walking five guys up to

1089
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage and then as the ball got snapped,

1090
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 4: and what that does is that forces the five offensive

1091
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 4: lineman the block one on one. The left tackle had

1092
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 4: to block a couple one on one. But they dropped

1093
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 4: out and played zone and had four rushers, but they

1094
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 4: still created that one on one. I thought that the

1095
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 4: the strategy behind that was really impact.

1096
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 2: One of the knocks that some fans had after the

1097
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 2: game was the persistence of running on first down, which

1098
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 2: was far too often gaining nothing or a yard against

1099
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 2: his chief's third ranked run defense. I respect staying with

1100
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 2: it as much as Brady did, but do you think

1101
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 2: they went a little too far with that? And maybe

1102
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 2: that's commitment to trying to run clock, control clock, time

1103
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 2: of possession, But over half of their third downs were

1104
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 2: third and eight or more because of it.

1105
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 4: So I think a little bit is you have to

1106
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 4: ask yourself how confident you are on third down, if

1107
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 4: you feel like you got a really good third down package,

1108
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 4: that you have a beat on what they're gonna do

1109
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 4: on third down, And again they did because you can

1110
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 4: get in. They got into so many different of those

1111
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 4: bat bunches and stacks and new men coverage was going

1112
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 4: to commerce zero. So if you're comfortable in that and

1113
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,479
Speaker 4: you believe that you're prepared for that. I'm not saying

1114
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,439
Speaker 4: you want to get there, but if you feel good

1115
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 4: about that, then you're not scared of it. And so

1116
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 4: then it affects the way you call first and second down.

1117
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 4: And if you feel confident about that third down situation,

1118
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 4: then maybe you feel a little bit better of saying no, no, no,

1119
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 4: let's believe we're disciplined on first down. We're going to

1120
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 4: control the football game. We're going to allow our offensive

1121
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 4: linemen to lean on them just a little bit and

1122
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 4: make sure that we're not because third and seven is

1123
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 4: a very different world than third and twelve, obviously, and

1124
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 4: so I understand the premise of it. It obviously worked out,

1125
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 4: But I don't necessarily hate the fact that if that

1126
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 4: was the the mindset going into it, because there's also

1127
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 4: this you knew Kansas City, Ki City's not gonna run

1128
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 4: away from anybody. So the flow of the game and

1129
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 4: making sure that you're getting the game to the fourth

1130
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 4: quarter type of mindset, I I don't have an issue with.

1131
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: Give us a little insight as you're observed as a quarterback.

1132
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 1: You know you saw Pat Mahomes back there. What about

1133
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,480
Speaker 1: the pressure that the Bills were able to get on him,

1134
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 1: I mean, sacked him a couple of times, and it

1135
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 1: certainly seemed like they forced him to throw the ball

1136
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: when he didn't want to. Yep, they forced his hand

1137
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: and he was not being able to throw the ball

1138
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 1: exactly where he wanted when he wanted to do it.

1139
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: And even so, you know, even the two interceptions, he

1140
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 1: got rid of it, but he was under duress and

1141
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: it was it was a decision he wasn't happy with.

1142
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was from it was from the

1143
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 4: start of the game. I think what that second or

1144
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 4: third snap of the game, he throws the interception, and

1145
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 4: it's it's vintage Buffalo defense, so outstanding, disciplined by all

1146
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 4: eleven guys in their zone coverage. Physical at certain points

1147
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 4: when you have to be. They were physical, you know,

1148
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 4: trying to take maybe that first guy away essentially and

1149
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 4: then forcing Patrick to move knowing Patrick Patrick's aware of

1150
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 4: the left tackle. He knows the left tackle's not in

1151
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 4: a good place, and so he's constantly playing more sped

1152
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 4: up than sometimes he has to. And so there's just

1153
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 4: that zone coverage that you sit in there saying, okay,

1154
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 4: if we take the first thought away of what they

1155
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 4: want to get to guys. I would love for somebody

1156
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 4: around your guys area to talk to Terrelle Bernard candidly

1157
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:28,040
Speaker 4: because when, like from my perspective, when you watch, it

1158
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 4: looks like Bernard knows basically everything that's coming. It looked

1159
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 4: like he was calling things out pre snap on a

1160
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 4: consistent basis. Him them using him as the spy was brilliant.

1161
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 4: I thought that they were really good with understanding that

1162
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 4: the left defensive end would go inside, Patrick would try

1163
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 4: to get out and he would spy him. But even

1164
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:52,760
Speaker 4: like the touchdown pass that he has, you know Patrick,

1165
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 4: like that two or three yarder, Bernard gets so mad

1166
01:02:56,720 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 4: at Tarren Johnson because Bernard knew what was and so

1167
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,240
Speaker 4: I would. It looked like they had a really good

1168
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 4: beat on what they were trying to get done offensively.

1169
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 4: And so I thought the plan and the understanding of

1170
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 4: how to take that first thought away and then the

1171
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 4: rush would be impactful was a big deal. He's a

1172
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 4: tremendous player man.

1173
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, super instinctive and a defensive captain. For a reason,

1174
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 2: I want to I want to just touch on the

1175
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 2: secondary a little bit, Dan, because as you know, Buffalo's

1176
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 2: secondary aside from the two outside corners underwent some change.

1177
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,320
Speaker 2: They didn't have Terran for almost a month at the

1178
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 2: start of the season, and yet here we are on

1179
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 2: the back half of the schedule. And to your earlier point,

1180
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 2: you know, they call more man coverage and it's due

1181
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 2: in part to the fact that Kansas City's explosiveness isn't

1182
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 2: nearly what it used to be, especially without Rice and

1183
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 2: Hollywood Brown in this lineup. So just the the development

1184
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 2: and cohesion of that group after losing veteran players like

1185
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 2: a Poyer and a Hide to kind of not rebuild

1186
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 2: but just kind of reload and not really look like

1187
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 2: they've missed much of a beat. I mean, there's a

1188
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 2: team that leads the league in takeaways right now.

1189
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fascinating. It should be studied when it comes

1190
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 4: to player development candidly. You know, they are a walking

1191
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 4: example of how paramount player development is and when you

1192
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 4: do it the right way. I think I've mentioned this

1193
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:30,200
Speaker 4: before that when you know, we did the Monday night

1194
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 4: game against Jacksonville and I asked because that was when

1195
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 4: Chris a bunch of those guys were out and we

1196
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 4: asked Babbitch about it, and I kind of asked it

1197
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 4: in a way of not being disrespectful, but being honest

1198
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 4: of saying, how are these guys playing so well? You

1199
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 4: have a fifth or a sixth round middle linebacker playing

1200
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 4: as well as a terreu Bernard, or you have you know,

1201
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 4: a fifth or sixth or seventh round corner in playing

1202
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 4: as impactful as a Taron Johnson or a corner from

1203
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 4: Villanova Benford playing as good as some of the corners

1204
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:02,480
Speaker 4: that have been there for the past couple of years.

1205
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 4: And you know, his response was twofold that they obsess

1206
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 4: over the second and third string players or the backups.

1207
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 4: The meetings are everything that there's no wasted moment a

1208
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,440
Speaker 4: week to week, a day to day, they're in meetings

1209
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 4: and they're on the practice field and they're going through walkthroughs.

1210
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody is paying attention to all that stuff,

1211
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 4: and they're getting reps mentally. And then I think they

1212
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 4: know they know that we as an offense, when you

1213
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 4: play against Buffalo, we know how we want to try

1214
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 4: to attack them. And I think the defender to a man,

1215
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 4: knows how they're going to be attacked, and so they

1216
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 4: know the weaknesses of their defense and that gives them

1217
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 4: a little bit more ability to protect against that rather

1218
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 4: than the strength of the defense, if that makes sense.

1219
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 4: You know, when they're playing that zone defense, those cos

1220
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 4: they know that the whole shot is the weakness or

1221
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 4: that behind that second level on that that that hash

1222
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 4: is the weakness. So they protect against it because they

1223
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 4: know that as an offense, we're gonna try to attack

1224
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 4: it and impact it. And it's it allows them to

1225
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 4: play to a great, great strength.

1226
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 1: So the Bills come out nine to two. They're headed

1227
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: into their bye week. They got San Francisco, the l A, Rams,

1228
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: and Detroit coming out of the by it with starting

1229
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs game, we knew this four game stretch

1230
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: was really gonna be a test for how good this

1231
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: team was. And and you know, you look at those

1232
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: four teams, or those three, at three of those teams

1233
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: and office the Chiefs in the AFC Championship, those are

1234
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: teams that are gonna be in the tournament as well.

1235
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 1: What is your assessment of this Bill team headed into

1236
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: this that stretching games, the Niners, the Rams, the Lions.

1237
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 1: You know, it give us a little bit of a

1238
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:57,920
Speaker 1: what's it gonna take? What's it mean? You know all

1239
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: of that stuff about this three next three game stretch.

1240
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 4: Well, I would be lying to you, Steve, if I

1241
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 4: told you before the season I thought they could win

1242
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. I thought they would win the Division.

1243
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 4: I just didn't believe that they were high end talent

1244
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 4: enough to win the super Bowl. I don't feel that

1245
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 4: way anymore. They can win the super Bowl. You know,

1246
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,200
Speaker 4: God bless if Matt Milano comes back, watch out.

1247
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 2: You know.

1248
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 4: So I think that you've you've watched them, you know,

1249
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 4: kind of their younger players continue to ascend. What's it

1250
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 4: gonna take?

1251
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: You know?

1252
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 4: I think that can this offense continue to play to

1253
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 4: the identity and the philosophy that they have through the

1254
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 4: first eleven weeks? Can they be that offense that it's

1255
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 4: it's very clear that each guy has a certain role

1256
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 4: and they want to just allow that player to thrive

1257
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 4: in that role. Joe Brady's discipline as a play caller,

1258
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 4: Josh's discipline as a decision maker. You know, we started

1259
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 4: this with Josh on the cape, but Josh didn't put

1260
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 4: on the cape in the first quarter. You know, Josh

1261
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 4: the cape three or four times. He didn't have to

1262
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 4: do it all game. Because so can that continue to

1263
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 4: be the identity? And when you're talking about San Francisco, Steve,

1264
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 4: you know they're obviously decimated by injuries as well. You

1265
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 4: know this defensive line could dominate the football game. This

1266
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 4: is not the San Francisco offensive line of old the Rams.

1267
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:19,800
Speaker 4: I think you can get after the Rams a little

1268
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 4: bit in the pass game. They got a tremendous defensive line.

1269
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 4: You gotta cover Pooka and Cooper Cup though, that'll be

1270
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 4: as big a pass game challenges maybe they've seen all

1271
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 4: season Buffalo. Defensively, the Lions is the one. You know,

1272
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 4: the Lions are the measuring stick right now for everybody.

1273
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 4: If you can go and prove that you can go

1274
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 4: blow for blow against that team in all facets, you're

1275
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:42,080
Speaker 4: as good as anybody in the NFL.

1276
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 2: Yep, Dan, thanks for the inside. Appreciate it. As always.

1277
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 2: We'll catch up with you next week. Appreciate it.

1278
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 4: Appreciate you guys.

1279
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,600
Speaker 2: Enjoy all Right. So that's Dan or Lovsky joining us

1280
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 2: as he does every week on Tuesdays here on One

1281
01:08:55,600 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 2: Bill's Live. And yeah, the Lions game looms large, but

1282
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:02,639
Speaker 2: you got some pretty important ones in front of them,

1283
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 2: starting with the Niners, who, as we said earlier, the Niners.

1284
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 2: In the Rams, they are in a dog fight. In

1285
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:11,800
Speaker 2: the NFC West five teams are five and five. The

1286
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals are six and five, and they need wins badly,

1287
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 2: so they're gonna be loaded for bear and desperate. In

1288
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 2: those games, you got to take them one at a

1289
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,120
Speaker 2: time before you get to the at the top of

1290
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 2: the NFC mountain, which is the Lions before because the

1291
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 2: Bills beat the Chiefs, because they're now in the conversation,

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Speaker 2: you win an important game, and like.

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01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: I always say, what do I always say? If you

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01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 1: win a big game, your reward is usually a bigger one. Yeah,

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01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: that Detroit game is gonna be huge. People are gonna

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01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:46,000
Speaker 1: be that's gonna be the game of the week. Yeah,

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01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:49,720
Speaker 1: it'll be the it'll be a you know, super Bowl preview,

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01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:51,799
Speaker 1: all that kind of garb people.

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Speaker 2: And there are a lot of network people that want

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01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 2: the non Super Bowl winning Lions and the never won

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01:09:57,920 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl Bills together in the Super Bowl.

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01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 1: For sure, tremendous story.

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01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people that want this. Sure

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01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 2: at the network level.

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01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 1: I get it. So I'm that's that's a huge game,

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01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: and that's and it is in large measure still a

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01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 1: big game, and even bigger game because the Bills have

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01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:19,559
Speaker 1: kept winning. And it'll be that way if the Detroit

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01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 1: Lions don't, you know, puke on their shoes, you know,

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01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 1: if they don't lose two in a row here. Yeah, right,

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01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,599
Speaker 1: so we'll see, but that game looms large.

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Speaker 2: How have the Bills exceeded your expectations with their nine

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01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 2: and two start? Eight O three zero five fifty one

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01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 2: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty number To get

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Speaker 2: on board, we go to Mark in Jersey City.

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Speaker 5: What's up Mark, we'll get afternoon, gentlemen, Thanks for taking

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01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 5: my calls always. You guys both hit on it. Actually

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01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 5: stole my thunder a little bit. The back end of

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01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 5: the roster utilization. And it's even a practice squad, Like

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01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 5: do you look at their draft statuses? Their skies are

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01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 5: six fifth undrafted. I mean, Vandermark wasn't even the swing

1322
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:07,920
Speaker 5: tackle was grable. He's on ir now he comes in,

1323
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 5: doesn't allow a sack the way cam Lewis. Cam Lewis

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01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 5: played a really good game on Sunday, and yeah, he

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01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 5: almost stealed the game. He he almost stealed the game

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01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 5: with an interception himself. He really He's a jack of

1327
01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 5: all trades the way you know JaMarcus Ingram, who's they

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01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:30,120
Speaker 5: haven't even leaned into Bishop yet. I mean he started

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01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 5: a few games. They cut a guy that was supposed

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01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 5: to be their starting safety, Milano injury, not back, and

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01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 5: the specter was on the field playing decently. He's injured,

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01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 5: but Bernard's back. They've they've really just wow. And this

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01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 5: is not the norm in the league. This is an outlier.

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01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 5: I live here in Jersey and you you know the

1335
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:54,760
Speaker 5: train wrecks that exist here, they're there. Oh my god,

1336
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 5: it's bad. And if you just turn on sports radio

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01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 5: and just have a listen, you'll hear. The Bills are

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01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 5: an extreme outlier. And it's great. Last delarations of the

1339
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 5: Bills over prior years were such, you know, almost non stories,

1340
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 5: and it was depressing. But now like having that kind

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01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 5: of game at that kind of magnitude, and just what

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01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 5: Steve said, the kind of games that they have coming up,

1343
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:20,479
Speaker 5: it's really billse fans really need to appreciate this time

1344
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,559
Speaker 5: because it feels really really good. Thanks for taking my call.

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01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 2: Down, Yeah, amail to that.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this too. The reason it's different here in

1347
01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:30,639
Speaker 1: Buffalo seems to be different at this point in history

1348
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: is because of the coaching staff, because of Sean McDermot

1349
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:37,080
Speaker 1: and his staff, and they pour into these back and

1350
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 1: into the rosters. They put some time in with them

1351
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 1: so that and they reward them. I've said it a ton,

1352
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:45,680
Speaker 1: and I'll keep saying it because it's really true. The

1353
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 1: guys on the practice squad, imagine when you're going to

1354
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 1: practice every day, you're not even on the active roster.

1355
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: He's hoping. You know, you're not hoping something bad happens

1356
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 1: to somebody, but you want a chance. And they show up,

1357
01:12:57,840 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 1: and these guys they put full throat. They're out there

1358
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 1: running hard, practicing hard, giving the defense a good look

1359
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: at what they're going to face on Sunday, giving the

1360
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:08,800
Speaker 1: offense a good look at what they're going to face.

1361
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: Trying to cover guys up, the number one guys up.

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01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: You're running hard, and all of a sudden you're going, hey,

1363
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: they keep telling you, hey, keep working hard, you're doing

1364
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 1: good in the meetings. They're trying to get you better,

1365
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:21,799
Speaker 1: and you're working harder, and all of a sudden something happens.

1366
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 1: They say, okay, hey, this is your game. You're up anything.

1367
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:28,799
Speaker 1: What no you've been working hard, you've been making plays

1368
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 1: in practice, You've been doing everything we ask you to do.

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01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:33,439
Speaker 1: We had a guy with a twisted ankle. We're not

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01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 1: going to force them to go. We want you to play.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something that's a life changer, a

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01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: life changer. It is a lesson that you will never forget.

1373
01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:49,719
Speaker 1: These guys talk to coaches when they're my age about

1374
01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 1: what happened to them when they were twenty five and

1375
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:56,400
Speaker 1: it was that moment that changes it for him. This

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01:13:56,520 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: coaching staff makes a habit of that. And I know

1377
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 1: this too. It's all about winning, and we you know

1378
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:07,640
Speaker 1: they're you know, everybody wants to put the coach on

1379
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 1: a chopping block every time that you know the end

1380
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 1: of the game doesn't go the way you wanted to go.

1381
01:14:11,400 --> 01:14:13,160
Speaker 1: All of that stuff, but let me tell you something.

1382
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:15,519
Speaker 1: There's you want to talk about everything else that goes

1383
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:21,600
Speaker 1: into this, into being an NFL coach, This staff is elite, elite.

1384
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 2: And let's not forget two new full time coordinators on

1385
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 2: offensive defense, granted guys that had been.

1386
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:29,879
Speaker 1: Here even that brownie.

1387
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:34,240
Speaker 2: Two new coaches in the secondary, I mean even they

1388
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:36,640
Speaker 2: had turnover even on the in the coach within the

1389
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 2: coaching ranks, and this is the third new defensive coordinator

1390
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 2: in three years.

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Speaker 1: That even that is a head coach who now, of

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01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: course he's established no quoe, he got four division titles

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01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:49,639
Speaker 1: under his belt. Yeah, but think about that decision, right,

1394
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 1: t having a guy who's been with his nose on

1395
01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: the grindstone for the entire seven years. You've been here.

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01:14:57,720 --> 01:15:01,640
Speaker 1: All right, bro, you're calling play, make it happen, let's go.

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01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: That That is huge, That is huge.

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Speaker 2: It's a I mean, Bobby Babbage is forty, Joe Brady

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01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 2: is thirty five years old, and he just gave him

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01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:15,200
Speaker 2: the keys and said let's go. You're ready.

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01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's you know, Joe Brady's already been an

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01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Who got who's seen He's been around the

1403
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:26,600
Speaker 1: block once, right, he's been fired once. You know, his

1404
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Bob Babbage has been an apprentice with Sean

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01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 1: McDermott for thirteen years. He's been with him from Philly

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01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: to Carolina. Started out as a quality control I mean,

1407
01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: you talk about earning your stripes. He did it. And

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01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 1: so now here it is. I'm telling you it is

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01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: a merit based building. And if you work hard. They

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01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: will do everything they can to make sure you know

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01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,280
Speaker 1: you're appreciated and give you a reward for it. And

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01:15:57,320 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 1: for players, that's getting on the field and then play

1413
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 1: in your belt.

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01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 2: And part of that is making them better in the

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01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 2: process with their expertise.

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01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:04,639
Speaker 1: That's right.

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01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 2: So it's it's all with an endgame in mind, not

1418
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:11,920
Speaker 2: only for the team, but for the individual player as well.

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01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 1: You never hear about this very much, but there are

1420
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: there are players that come and there are players that go,

1421
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,640
Speaker 1: and you say, wow, they never get that. There are

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01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: reasons for why players come and go. Sometimes it's just

1423
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 1: flat they're not good enough. Sometimes you're too full at

1424
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 1: that position, whatever, whatever. Sometimes it's they don't have their

1425
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:40,280
Speaker 1: put their nose to the grindstone. Sometimes it's not they

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01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: they're not a team first guy. Sometimes they don't like

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01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: their they don't want to be coached. Uh. Sometimes they

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01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 1: want to be left alone. They don't want to get

1429
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean that there is some of

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01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:56,679
Speaker 1: that in all of this. And yeah, it's word gets

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01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:59,439
Speaker 1: and I'm saying word gets around. Uh what kind of

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01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 1: culture they've got And we've seen evidence of that over

1433
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 1: the years of Sean mcdermot's tenure here where players are

1434
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 1: like man, that place is pretty special.

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01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 2: Break time for us here when we come back, we'll

1436
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 2: crack open the tweet sheets, see where your thoughts are

1437
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 2: there in terms of how the Bills have exceeded your

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01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:18,600
Speaker 2: expectations with their nine and two start. Back in a

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Speaker 2: flash here on one Bill's Live presented by Colida Health,

1440
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Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Now have the Bills exceeded your

1441
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 2: expectations with a nine and two start? We go to

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Speaker 2: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, where

1444
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 2: Peter says the depth on this team is scary good.

1445
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 2: Kudos to the scouting department. Didn't expect our backups to

1446
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:57,040
Speaker 2: be so good. We've kind of discussed that at length

1447
01:17:57,080 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 2: here already today, So we'll move on to Sell, who

1448
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 2: says Josh Allen is responsible and has taking his game

1449
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:07,719
Speaker 2: to another level. Defense is coming together with every new challenge.

1450
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 2: Health is the only obstacle that can prevent the Bills

1451
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 2: from reaching the Super Bowl. And I don't know if

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01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 2: I can even say that based on how they have

1453
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 2: played through the first eleven games with all the injuries

1454
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 2: they've had. Well, I know the playoffs are a different animal. Yeah,

1455
01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 2: but all shown an ability. They're still scoring thirty points

1456
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 2: with half a roster miss.

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01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:31,200
Speaker 1: The only reason you can't really say because the other

1458
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:34,879
Speaker 1: team's going to be nicked up to Nobody is immune

1459
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:38,160
Speaker 1: from it. So yeah, you can get unlucky and you

1460
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: can be the one that's all crushed with injury and

1461
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:42,720
Speaker 1: the other team could be completely healthy. But when you

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01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 1: get the playoffs, I don't know if you can make

1463
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 1: that assumption every year. You know, you get to every

1464
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: time you play the Chiefs in Kansas City at the

1465
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,600
Speaker 1: end of the year, they got two tackles that are out.

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01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 1: You know, it's been chronic with them, So even the

1467
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:57,600
Speaker 1: health thing, you really can't use that as an excuse.

1468
01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:00,840
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have used it as an excuse last year

1469
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: because the Chiefs were in the same boat. But yeah,

1470
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:09,679
Speaker 1: you go with who you got. Certainly, the Bills look

1471
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:11,640
Speaker 1: to be a team that can do it better than

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01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 1: other people when they do have injuries, and it's the

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01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: one thing nobody can control because none of them are

1474
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 1: deliberate and there's no quota, there's nothing that you can.

1475
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: It's all happenstance. That's why it's so frustrating for fans

1476
01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:28,640
Speaker 1: when your team gets finally gets to someplace they've been

1477
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:30,720
Speaker 1: working to get to, and now once they get there,

1478
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: they got nothing left because they're nicked up. That's the

1479
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: frustrating part. But you're right, you've got to believe at

1480
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:43,160
Speaker 1: this point that when the Bills are completely healthy and

1481
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 1: playing their best, nobody beats them. Yeah, that's where they

1482
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:50,519
Speaker 1: have been for like four years. Though, let me remind

1483
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: you that's where they've been for for you.

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01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 2: I've been telling since twenty twenty the Bills and the

1485
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:58,840
Speaker 2: Chiefs are first and second in point in touchdowns and

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01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:00,560
Speaker 2: first and second in point b different.

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Speaker 1: That's where they've been. They're there again. They're staying there

1488
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: with brand new cast of characters, and through the injuries,

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01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:09,720
Speaker 1: they're still where they have been and they're gonna get

1490
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:11,240
Speaker 1: another shot at it this year.

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01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 2: That's that's what you want.

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01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:16,920
Speaker 1: That's where you're kind of sitting here waiting on.

1493
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:17,519
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,680
Speaker 1: Right, and uh, it's gonna be fun getting there. It's

1495
01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch the rest of these games.

1496
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:25,800
Speaker 1: But you got the Jets, who literally this morning just

1497
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 1: ignited everything. The Dolphins are under your wheels. They're done,

1498
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 1: they're not coming back at you. And you got the

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01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: Patriots twice at the end of the season when you

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01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: know they're gonna have a fork stuck in them. If

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01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 1: they don't already, you're gonna get there. So let's enjoy

1502
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: these last games. See if we can get Let's see

1503
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: if we can get everything lined up and healthy for

1504
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:50,200
Speaker 1: the stretch run and for the playoffs. I mean, that's

1505
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 1: what this is all about now. Yeah, and the one

1506
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 1: seed and getting the one seat.

1507
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:59,120
Speaker 2: It's in play. It's one less game you gotta play.

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01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 8: But you look at all the guys again, they're all here.

1509
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 8: The Bills winning playoff game every year now it's their thing.

1510
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 8: But now then they got to go to They got

1511
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,800
Speaker 8: to Kansas City every time. Now last year they would

1512
01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 8: have had to gone to Baltimore if they'd have beaten

1513
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:13,360
Speaker 8: Kansas City.

1514
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 1: But still they're winning. They're winning a playoff game every

1515
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 1: year they have been. You need them all here.

1516
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,320
Speaker 2: Rob On the tweet, he says von Miller being down

1517
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 2: then down again and still professional and still a thread

1518
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 2: on the field. Got a sack on Sunday, so made

1519
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:34,000
Speaker 2: his presence felt Ed says, by exhibiting a team first

1520
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 2: attitude in their play, and that's probably most noticeable at

1521
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:44,280
Speaker 2: the receiver position. All different guys factoring into the production

1522
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 2: and nobody whining about not getting the ball. It's been

1523
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:50,040
Speaker 2: very democratic.

1524
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:53,800
Speaker 1: And yeah, in a room that is notoriously full of

1525
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: divas on every team, not just you know, any team

1526
01:21:57,479 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 1: you want to pick all of them. Those guys are

1527
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 1: and they put their arms around Amari Cooper too, he's

1528
01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:06,040
Speaker 1: not part of the crew. Oh yeah, and so it

1529
01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:08,320
Speaker 1: was it's been pretty cool to see.

1530
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:10,080
Speaker 2: Let's head back to the phones at eight oh three

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01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:13,679
Speaker 2: oh five fifty and we go to Stephen on a cell.

1532
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:14,759
Speaker 2: What do you got for Stephen?

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01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 6: Hi is Stephen Scott off in style and that's Stephen

1534
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 6: with a pH, Please and thank you. How are you

1535
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 6: guys doing doing?

1536
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 2: Okay?

1537
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:26,160
Speaker 6: So, I was just calling to let you guys know

1538
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:29,040
Speaker 6: that you're sill of my biggest fans and I've been

1539
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:31,000
Speaker 6: one of the biggest Bills fans for n like the

1540
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:34,760
Speaker 6: last two years, and I just want to discuss my

1541
01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:37,520
Speaker 6: concerns about the all coming schedule the next three weeks.

1542
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:39,639
Speaker 2: Okay, what are you what are you worried about?

1543
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:43,439
Speaker 6: So number one. December first, you know, coming off the

1544
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 6: bye week, that's gonna be my birthday. So I'm thinking,

1545
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 6: let's go out there, let's take care of brock Ferdy

1546
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 6: at home, and then the next two weeks, let's just

1547
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:53,280
Speaker 6: go ahead and drop those two games. Let's make this

1548
01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:56,719
Speaker 6: team hungry. Let's number seventeen to what number seventeen does

1549
01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:58,799
Speaker 6: and get mad and just come off stinging.

1550
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 1: You mean, like, just you in mind if they lose

1551
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:04,639
Speaker 1: the other two games, right? Is that what you're saying?

1552
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 1: The Detroit game and or the LA game and the

1553
01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:10,599
Speaker 1: Detroit game, those are throwaways for you.

1554
01:23:10,640 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 6: Those are absolute throws. They're both away games, they're both

1555
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 6: you know, scary teams. Especially they're Troy, who are going

1556
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 6: to face in the super Bowl eventually. So I'm just thinking,

1557
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 6: let's drop those two games. Buscuits team really hungry and

1558
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:26,720
Speaker 6: you know, just kind of let the cards play out.

1559
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting approach. I don't if you want the one seed,

1560
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 2: you can't do that.

1561
01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you never want to deliberately drop

1562
01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:41,160
Speaker 1: a game. I get it, though. As a fan, it's

1563
01:23:41,160 --> 01:23:44,840
Speaker 1: not going to kill you, Steve. It's not going to

1564
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: kill you to have him drop a couple of these games,

1565
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:49,160
Speaker 1: because then you feel like they're going to rebound and

1566
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:52,800
Speaker 1: come back strong and the one seed, and it is

1567
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:54,720
Speaker 1: and it is a shot, a long shot to get

1568
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:56,639
Speaker 1: the ones, not a long shot. It's a coin flip

1569
01:23:56,680 --> 01:24:00,160
Speaker 1: at least to get the one seed going forward. Oh,

1570
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:01,720
Speaker 1: you're not really getting caught up in it. You just

1571
01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:04,559
Speaker 1: want to listen. Just get to the playoffs, get healthy,

1572
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:07,840
Speaker 1: and be hungry to go. I can get behind that,

1573
01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 1: but I think you can. You can win every game

1574
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 1: remaining and still be that way. I've seen that. I've

1575
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:15,679
Speaker 1: been a part of teams like that, and this team

1576
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 1: would be there. This team is still the team that

1577
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:21,560
Speaker 1: can't get past the AFC chance, hasn't gotten past the

1578
01:24:21,640 --> 01:24:25,240
Speaker 1: SC championship game. This is you know, they're so they're

1579
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: gonna be hungry when they get there. Don't think you

1580
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:33,400
Speaker 1: need to pour put coal on that fire. They're gonna

1581
01:24:33,400 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 1: be there.

1582
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't need two losses to get hungry, right,

1583
01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 2: They're gonna be hungry already, right because I think what

1584
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 2: these first eleven games have shown them is we're good

1585
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:45,519
Speaker 2: enough to beat anybody, and we're going to have a

1586
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:49,280
Speaker 2: real good look at this thing and to appease Steven's

1587
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:51,559
Speaker 2: birthday wishes. I can tell him the good news for

1588
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:56,240
Speaker 2: him is under Sean McDermott, the Bills are unbeaten after

1589
01:24:56,240 --> 01:25:00,640
Speaker 2: the bye, right, So there you go. U want to

1590
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:02,519
Speaker 2: get back to the tweetsheet here because there were a

1591
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:06,639
Speaker 2: couple other interesting comments made, and the one from Jeremy

1592
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:10,520
Speaker 2: in terms of how the Bills have exceeded his expectation

1593
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:15,000
Speaker 2: said by far for a rebuilding year. This year isn't over,

1594
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:17,240
Speaker 2: but can't wait to see what we do with the

1595
01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:20,599
Speaker 2: cap money next year. They will have a lot of

1596
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 2: cap money to work with next year. Now they have

1597
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 2: some young players that they're probably going to want to

1598
01:25:24,920 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 2: get under long term contracts. Christian Benford would be under

1599
01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 2: this category. Maybe Greg Russeau, who's entering his fifty year

1600
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,479
Speaker 2: option year. Maybe you want to just tear that up

1601
01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:37,280
Speaker 2: and start over with a new long term deal for

1602
01:25:37,360 --> 01:25:41,719
Speaker 2: a guy who's only twenty four years old. You've got

1603
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:44,960
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think Terrell Bernard is going to be

1604
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:47,920
Speaker 2: a consideration here in the not too distant future. So

1605
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 2: you've got guys that are part of the young core

1606
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:53,400
Speaker 2: that you're going to need to spend your money on.

1607
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:55,600
Speaker 2: To lock up and keep in the fold for the

1608
01:25:55,640 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 2: foreseeable future. But yes, you should conceivably have more money

1609
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 2: to strategically spend in free agency next offseason.

1610
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: Right, So yeah, how did you say how much space

1611
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 1: the Bills have?

1612
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 2: I think it was close to seventy dead cap?

1613
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: Seventy million.

1614
01:26:14,280 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 2: Oh, that's the dead cap, that's right, that's what they're

1615
01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 2: eating this year.

1616
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 1: They're eating seventy million in dead cap this year.

1617
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 2: I want to say it's gonna be on the right

1618
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 2: side of fifty million in cap space. I think that

1619
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 2: was what I remember something. I haven't looked at it

1620
01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 2: in a while. But they will have more room than

1621
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 2: they had this year.

1622
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 1: We know that, Oh absolutely.

1623
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:32,879
Speaker 2: After they ate the thirty one million on Diggs contract

1624
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:37,599
Speaker 2: with the trade, Connor says, I would say Joe Brady

1625
01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 2: in the offense going into the season, I expected the

1626
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:42,679
Speaker 2: offense to look different, which it has with a heavy

1627
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 2: focus on the run game. I would have never expected

1628
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 2: that going into the bye week that Buffalo would have

1629
01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 2: scored thirty points in eight of their eleven games. Neither

1630
01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 2: did I.

1631
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:58,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody did. They're leading the league in that. Nobody

1632
01:26:58,479 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 1: thought they could score thirty and against the Chiefs. I

1633
01:27:01,280 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: thought you might have to to beat him, right, There's

1634
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:05,639
Speaker 1: some people out there thinking, I don't, you just can't

1635
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:07,719
Speaker 1: do that against his team, But the Bills did. Nobody

1636
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:08,920
Speaker 1: had done it in thirty eight games.

1637
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:13,600
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, score more than twenty eight on that.

1638
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:17,680
Speaker 1: Twenty eight Yeah, So yeah, that's a good one. This

1639
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:20,880
Speaker 1: offense has come together. And I'll say this too, it's

1640
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 1: a completely different looking offense than we've seen from Josh

1641
01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 1: Allen and from Josh Allen whoever was coordinated him over

1642
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 1: the last three or four years. It's a completely different

1643
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:31,120
Speaker 1: looking offense.

1644
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:33,720
Speaker 2: Break time for us here, some final thoughts on the

1645
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 2: tweet sheet. When we return and another former Bill goes

1646
01:27:37,280 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 2: on injured reserve and is out for the year, we'll

1647
01:27:39,080 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 2: let you know who that is next year. On One

1648
01:27:40,439 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 2: Bill's Live, presented by Kilida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1649
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 6: All right.

1650
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 2: Before we get to some final thoughts on the tweet sheet,

1651
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 2: we should tell you that Gabe Davis has been put

1652
01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:00,400
Speaker 2: on injured reserve by the Jacksonville Jaguars had a knee

1653
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 2: injury that required surgery. He is done for the season. Officially.

1654
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 2: We did mention there were reports that that could be

1655
01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 2: the case. Yesterday it is official done for the season,

1656
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:12,280
Speaker 2: and on I are rich on the tweets sheet. In

1657
01:28:12,400 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 2: terms of how the Bills have exceeded his expectations with

1658
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:18,559
Speaker 2: the nine and two start, he says, by far. Let's

1659
01:28:18,600 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 2: remember a lot of people suggested Miami and the Jets

1660
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,000
Speaker 2: to win the division. I thought we'd be around seven

1661
01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 2: and four right now. And then Brian finally says record

1662
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 2: at this point thought they need to have a strong start.

1663
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:31,800
Speaker 2: But nine and two with what I thought was a

1664
01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:34,600
Speaker 2: weaker team in general from what we lost is incredible.

1665
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:37,639
Speaker 2: Kudos to the coaching staff for preparing everyone to step

1666
01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 2: in and step up and be successful. And that's kind

1667
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:42,679
Speaker 2: of been the overriding conclusion today.

1668
01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:46,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, that we've seen guys step off off the practice

1669
01:28:46,479 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: squad and make a difference. It's been impressive. Kudos to

1670
01:28:50,400 --> 01:28:52,800
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean for putting together the roster, Kudos to Sean

1671
01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 1: McDermott for preparing him to get on the field, and

1672
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 1: kudos are the players for going lights out and keep

1673
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: on keeping on. The team does look different than it

1674
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 1: has in years past, offensively in particular, and Bobby Babbage

1675
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:12,880
Speaker 1: has it has been seamless. His transition into the big

1676
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:16,440
Speaker 1: seat and calling plays at the NFL level has been seamless,

1677
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 1: and I think he had to tip your hat to

1678
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 1: him as well.

1679
01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean exceeded expectations by far and look, still

1680
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:27,519
Speaker 2: got six games to go, some really hard ones coming

1681
01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:29,200
Speaker 2: up here the next three. Let's just see how it

1682
01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:32,439
Speaker 2: all shakes out when we get to seventeen. Jam packed

1683
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:35,519
Speaker 2: show tomorrow, including Field Yates with his ultimate fantasy lineup,

1684
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:38,640
Speaker 2: and our good friend Greg Cosell will me beating with

1685
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 2: us earlier in the week than anticipated on the bye week.

1686
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 2: We'll see tomorrow at Won