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Speaker 1: but in six other major DEFINTI categories. If you want

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Speaker 1: to see it, it's on Buffalo bills dot com right now.

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Speaker 1: I did the write up last night for this, and

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Speaker 1: it was quite comical in the postgame interview room because

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Speaker 1: I think the players, all the DBS come out together

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Speaker 1: to the press conference. They bring Tredavious White's jersey out there.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was kind of cool, and they all

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Speaker 1: sit down and I asked them the question because we

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Speaker 1: all they already knew they were the number one defense

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Speaker 1: in football, but they did not know that they were.

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Speaker 1: And I only knew they were number one in three

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Speaker 1: categories at the time. I went back upstairs afterwards and

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Speaker 1: looked everything else up after all the stats came in

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Speaker 1: through the NFL site anyway, So I say to them,

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Speaker 1: you guys were number one in total defense, you were

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Speaker 1: number one in scoring defense, you were number one in

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Speaker 1: past defense. I wanted to mention that to them because

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Speaker 1: we're talking to the DBS at the time. I believe

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Speaker 1: by Wallace and Jordan Poyer go to me, what were

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Speaker 1: we number one in? Again? Yeah? Maneat it? So I

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Speaker 1: repeat it. I'm playing along now at this point, so

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Speaker 1: I repeat it, like what was that again? I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing it three times. But I think there

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Speaker 1: is a part of this defensive contingent that still feels

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Speaker 1: even now, they have not gotten the respect. They got.

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Speaker 1: Zero Pro Bowlers, zero zero. Frazier got the number one

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Speaker 1: scoring defense, number one overall defense, number one, all that

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Speaker 1: and he got with with nobody, no Pro Bowls, no

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Speaker 1: Pro bowl They are the first number one defense in

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Speaker 1: the league to be number one in defense without a

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl player since the twenty twelve Pittsburgh Steelers. So

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Speaker 1: it's been ten years since there's been a defense that

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Speaker 1: finished number one that did not have a Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: player on that defensive unit pretty remarkable. And the fact

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Speaker 1: that they also were the number one pass defense in

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Speaker 1: football with a pass rush that really didn't come on

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Speaker 1: until the last month of the season and did not

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Speaker 1: have Tredavious White since Thanksgiving. I mean, salute, tip your hat,

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Speaker 1: do whatever you gotta do. This defense maybe the biggest

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Speaker 1: reason why this team has a deep run in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The offense, Josh Allen, they get all the headlines. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna tell you Steve. After this, Bills don't have

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Speaker 1: any more home playoff games. Okay, what travels in the playoffs?

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Speaker 1: Defense and a run game? Yeah, yeah, it's this sets. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier ends this regular season right now looking like

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Speaker 1: a genius. I mean, he's looking like he's a really

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Speaker 1: really the top defensive coordinator in the NFL. He's doing

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Speaker 1: it with guys. He rotates like eight guys through on

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Speaker 1: the defensive line. He's got a linebacker that even the

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Speaker 1: home fan you and I take calls every single week

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Speaker 1: about today Tremaine Edmonds. Did you see the pass breaking

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Speaker 1: if he had in the end zone twenty five yards

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Speaker 1: down the field? You know that's what you need in

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Speaker 1: the NFL at linebacker. Now, Hello, he's down Now, people say,

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Speaker 1: well hit him in the baggage listen, did could you

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Speaker 1: imagine a throw that would have fit? There's no throw

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Speaker 1: that would have fit in there. And you can say

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Speaker 1: what you want, but that guy yesterday, Zach Wilson's throwing

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Speaker 1: it in there. You can't even see the running back

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Speaker 1: because Tremaine Edmonds is like, he's like a pop up

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Speaker 1: tent over that guy. He's so big. Robert Salo, the

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Jets. In his press conference with

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Speaker 1: the New York Media last week, when asked about what

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Speaker 1: makes their defense, the Bill's defense so good, he talked

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Speaker 1: for three minutes about Tremaine Edmonds. He said, he is

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Speaker 1: the modern day linebacker. He is a physical freak. He

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Speaker 1: reduces the amount of space for passers to exploit underneath

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Speaker 1: and at the second level and even sometimes down the field,

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Speaker 1: as we saw last night on a twenty five yard

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Speaker 1: pass to the end zone and Zach Wilson's got an arm.

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Speaker 1: The kid can stick it in some places. The throws

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Speaker 1: in there that you know it hit Tremaine Edmonds. So

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Speaker 1: anytime you have a question about Tremaine Edmonds, go back

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Speaker 1: to the film from last night and go look at

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Speaker 1: that's getting That's what you need from the middle linebacker

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Speaker 1: in this day and age in the NFL. We talk

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Speaker 1: about you know, coaches and stuff, and coaches they all

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Speaker 1: watch the same film. They all watch it, and they

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Speaker 1: all have the same, you know, way of looking at it.

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Speaker 1: They all think about football, and all of those guys

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Speaker 1: rave about him and rave about him. And it's the

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Speaker 1: same thing when we're talking about Brian Flores and his

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. They're looking at the film. They're going, justin,

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Speaker 1: Herbert's the guy you don't want to don't take two

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Speaker 1: to take Herbert, and the you know, the business end

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Speaker 1: of it, or the pr to end of it, or

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Speaker 1: the you know, the public opinion end of it says, no, no,

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Speaker 1: we got this, we got this plan or where this line.

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Speaker 1: You can't take him? Put you can't put Tremaine Edmonds

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Speaker 1: your middle linebacker. He should have his hand on the ground.

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Speaker 1: He's too long, he said. And all the football guys

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Speaker 1: are going, oh my gosh, don't put that guy in

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Speaker 1: middle linebacker. We don't want to play against him. Run up.

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Speaker 1: How do you throw a deep over the middle with

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Speaker 1: that guy there? You can't do it. Yeah, you can't

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Speaker 1: drop it over him. I'll say that I back. It

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Speaker 1: looks like a condor. Brian Urlacher was six to five,

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Speaker 1: and you know he's obviously and played in the middle

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Speaker 1: of that Bears defense. And I remember when Peyton Manning

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Speaker 1: we were doing production meetings for Super Bowl forty two.

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning was a quarterback of the Colts and they

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Speaker 1: were playing the Chicago Bears in Miami, and we're sitting

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Speaker 1: down with him and he goes and Jim nance asked

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Speaker 1: him about what he did to prepare, and he goes,

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Speaker 1: what I called, uh, Tom Brady because they had played

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Speaker 1: him that year. The Patriots had played the Bears that year.

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Speaker 1: Sat that I talked all these quarterbacks, and just before

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Speaker 1: he hung up, Brady goes about Erlacker. He goes, hey,

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Speaker 1: don't forget how tall at sob is. He's tall, and

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Speaker 1: he just talking about they ran that Tampa two defense

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Speaker 1: or whatever, and Urlacher would run with the tight end down,

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Speaker 1: would drop down with the tight end, run through the

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Speaker 1: middle of the defense, with the tight end carrying him

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Speaker 1: down the field. You can't get it over him to

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Speaker 1: get it inside, you know, to the to the tight

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Speaker 1: that's a tight end, not a wide receiver or running back.

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Speaker 1: And that's what these guys think about. You get a

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Speaker 1: guy over there that looks like you're trying to throw

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Speaker 1: it around a telephone pole over there, It's like, how

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Speaker 1: do I get it over the telephone phone with arms right?

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Speaker 1: It's it's hard, It's hard to do. And that you know,

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Speaker 1: Tremaine is is the prototypical twenty twenty two linebacker in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. And the other coaches tell you that's not

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Speaker 1: just me saying so salute to Leslie Frazier and his

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Speaker 1: defensive staff and his players as well for an unbelievable

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Speaker 1: performance from wire to wire this season. I'll let you

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Speaker 1: know just how long they've been ranked number one in

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Speaker 1: total defense since Week four that has been unchanged. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was almost a wire to wire run as the

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Speaker 1: top defense in football, and there's some other status statistical

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Speaker 1: categories where they were number one. The coolest thing real

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Speaker 1: quick before we go to break, the Bills came into

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Speaker 1: the game last night second in the league in third

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Speaker 1: down defense, and then they have the Jets go one

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Speaker 1: for fourteen on third down conversions, puts them in the

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Speaker 1: number one spot at the end of the year. They

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Speaker 1: squeaked it out. At the end of the year, opponents

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Speaker 1: convert thirty point eight percent of their third downs. Say

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Speaker 1: that is anemic. Yeah, I know it games over and

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Speaker 1: I know the Jets really they're four and twelve team

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Speaker 1: and they were struggling, and they got a brand new

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Speaker 1: head coach and a rookie quarterback and all that. Their

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Speaker 1: offense was putrid yesterday. It was bad. It was bad,

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Speaker 1: and I and kudos the Bills defense because they didn't

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Speaker 1: have Braxton exactly. They got injuries, they got all that

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Speaker 1: Crowder goes out of the game in the first. But

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Speaker 1: I'll say that the Bill's defense did not take their

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Speaker 1: foot off the gas. They hammered those guys. That pass

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Speaker 1: rush was unbelievable. Um. You know, the guy playing left

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Speaker 1: tackle for the Jets was Connor McDermott, who couldn't make

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Speaker 1: this roster. He was well and he's the he's essentially

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Speaker 1: the fourth string left tackle exactly the Jets, and they

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Speaker 1: abused that matchup. Yes, I mean they even put at

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Speaker 1: Oliver out there. They were taking turns and it was

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Speaker 1: it was just one of those days and and games

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Speaker 1: like that, you know what, games like that last night

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Speaker 1: should have gone like that defensively for the Bills. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it did. It did break time for us here.

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Speaker 1: But of course we want your phone calls. We want

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Speaker 1: to know what's on your mind following the completion of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one regular season, or if you have

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Speaker 1: any thoughts, if you were at the game yesterday or

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Speaker 1: you're watching it at home on TV, you can tell

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Speaker 1: us your thoughts and how you feel about the Bills

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Speaker 1: going into the postseason. Along with this matchup. We got

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Speaker 1: plenty time to talk about the Patriots later in the week.

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Speaker 1: We're just trying to soak this up because the twenty

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Speaker 1: four hour rule is still in effect. It was a

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Speaker 1: late game yesterday. We still got time to be happy today.

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Speaker 1: So let's do it with you. At eight five fifty,

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Speaker 1: we're back in a moment here on one Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. They

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Speaker 1: got five six games to go many, Hey, never easy, though,

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Speaker 1: never easy this time here, man, enjoy this moment. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: this moment. Take time tonight, be safe, enjoy this moment.

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Speaker 1: You guys worked hard for this. We're really hard. I'm

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Speaker 1: too propud of you, guys. New season, four game season,

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Speaker 1: wickout us four game season, WoT us one game out

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Speaker 1: of time. We'll know more tonight, right, we don't know

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Speaker 1: much now, pay attention to your team works. We'll know

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Speaker 1: more tonight after the game in terms of who we

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Speaker 1: play and when we play. Right, stay humbling, coffee, humbling,

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Speaker 1: coffee right up time, ring up timere um time, burst

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Speaker 1: off victory Monday tomorrow. Hey, don't take this for granted, man,

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Speaker 1: this staining easy. We worked our off for this yea.

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Speaker 1: But all it's getting us is opt to do what

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Speaker 1: we want to do. We got way more, way more

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Speaker 1: love y'all. All right, locker room speech those always give

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Speaker 1: you the goose bumps. I always get the chicken skin

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00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: from that stuff. And chicken skin, yeah, just got it

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Speaker 1: right now stuff. Yeah, And it is a new season.

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Speaker 1: Opening days is coming Saturday, eight fifteen, if you haven't

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00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: heard it. Time time, short week though, the Patriots coming

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Speaker 1: to town. Um, I'm it makes my head explode just

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Speaker 1: thinking about it. I think there is. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: a short week, so the bodies have less time to

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Speaker 1: get a little rested. But it's the playoffs. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: It's win or go home time. You know, tape it up,

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Speaker 1: strap it up, ice it up, whatever you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: It's win or go home time. And it's a familiar opponent,

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Speaker 1: so that probably helps in the preparation phase. You know this,

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Speaker 1: you know what they can, they're capable of. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've got all of that along with a fan base

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Speaker 1: that probably despises this team, this franchise, this head coach

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Speaker 1: more than any other. You want to talk about energy,

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Speaker 1: it will be built in that fan base in the

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00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: stadium on Saturday night will be like putting a plug

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Speaker 1: into a wall for this team, because you don't have

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Speaker 1: to manufacture anything, right, You will have a crowd fans

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Speaker 1: in the stands sixty eight thousand plus strong that will

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Speaker 1: be out for blood. Yeah. Yeah, the energy bus is

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Speaker 1: going to get there early and like Thursday night, yeah,

638
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: people's Yeah, Friday is gonna be Friday's gonna be an

639
00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: absolute festival over here in the afternoon Saturday all day.

640
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: Um yeah, you can just envision what the parking lot's

641
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: gonna look like, and it's it's gonna be crazy. But

642
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to playing really well against a

643
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: team that's gonna come in knowing you really well. The

644
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna know the Buffalo Bills and vice versa.

645
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a hard fought game, you know.

646
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: It's gonna be one of those, and it's gonna be

647
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: a do or die situation for both these clubs, and

648
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: both of them have plenty of reason to have a

649
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: chip on their shoulder and play I forgot. I mean,

650
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:40,919
Speaker 1: playoffs are unbelievable. It's gonna be a battle. You better

651
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: have a couple extra rivets for your chin Strap this week.

652
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: I'll say this too. You think about it, this is

653
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: what Bills fans have been looking for for almost a

654
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: calendar year. They couldn't watch them playing the playoffs last year,

655
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: two fantastic home playoff games against the Colts last year,

656
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: against the Ray last year, and then to watch them

657
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: go get losing the AFC Championship game in Kansas City.

658
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: All of that angst and the draft and all the

659
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: you know, the you know boogie basham, Greg Rousseau, the draft,

660
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown, the draft, all these guys. Here we are

661
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: again on the cusp of taking it another step, and

662
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: it you know, you gotta go. You gotta enjoy it

663
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: because it's h It's hard to get here. Think about it.

664
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: It's hard to get here. Really, people who don't know

665
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: how hard it is to get here are Patriots fans

666
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: because they were horribly spoiled for the better part of

667
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: two decades. They basically had what they think was an

668
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: anomaly last year and now they're back in the playoffs

669
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: and they really feel, they genuinely feel, if you, if

670
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: you listen to, just how delusional they are up there.

671
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: They think they're just going to run rough shot over

672
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: the AFC and just coast to another postseason. They're already

673
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: talking about meeting up with Brady and the Super Bowl.

674
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the kind of talk that goes

675
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: on in New England as they've been spoiled for twenty years.

676
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you right now makes me want

677
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: to throw up, and I'm sick of it. And I'm

678
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: telling you right now, they've never met in the playoffs before.

679
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: This is the prime opportunity to not only tell every

680
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: you know what in Massachusetts, in New England, but everybody

681
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:25,240
Speaker 1: across the country. The narrative has changed in the AFC East. Okay,

682
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots aren't the big bully anymore. This is the way.

683
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 1: This is where you change that narrative forever. You beat

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00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: this team in the postseason and advance and send them home,

685
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: and then and only then, well the network announcers and

686
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: the national shows and all of that stuff finally say, oh,

687
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 1: you know what, I guess it is the Bill's division.

688
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: Now the Patriots are not the same Patriots that we

689
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: thought they were. I want that so bad I cannot

690
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: even describe it. Go back you want to if you

691
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: want to really get your your dander up and get

692
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: last night. Go back and look at the Patriot media

693
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: after the first meeting this year, the one where they

694
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:16,439
Speaker 1: they ran they um, they totally talk about Jones for MVP. Yeah,

695
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: they totally dismissed the Buffalo Bills as a franchise, as

696
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: a fan base, as a as a contender. Um, it

697
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: was all just yeah. So it doesn't take much to

698
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: get a lot of bulletin board material coming out of Boston. Um.

699
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: And and you know, the quality of their team formed them,

700
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: you know, let them evolve into that over the course

701
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: of a two decade run in the playoffs, and it's

702
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: it's ugly to look at now, Um, when you come

703
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: in there with a really good team and they you know,

704
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: they treat you the way they do. Uh. So uh,

705
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: certainly there's plenty of reason for the Bills to be

706
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: off the charts motivated to play in this game, uh,

707
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: and to win this game and to you know, just

708
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: play their best. So motivation is not going to be

709
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: a factor. Energy is not going to be a factor.

710
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: And it'll I'd be interested to see what the Patriots

711
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: coaching staff thinks, because, let's face it, the last time

712
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: they play the Bills one with two drop touch They

713
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: won by twelve with two drop touchdown passes, a third

714
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: touchdown called back on one of the two drops the

715
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: same drive, and never having to punt. Every possession they

716
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 1: had that didn't end a half ended inside the twenty

717
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: yard line of the Patriots. They were they were stopped

718
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,959
Speaker 1: three of they were successful on three or four fourth

719
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: down attempts, and the fourth down attempt that they were

720
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: unsuccessful at was one of the drop touchdown passes. I mean,

721
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: it was a It was a game where the Buffalo

722
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: Bills were unstoppable offensively by what was then the number

723
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: one defense or a top defense in the National Football League,

724
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: the league, and they beat him by twelve with all

725
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: of that stuff going on. Second in points out to

726
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: the Bills, right. Um, Now go back and look at

727
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: that game, and it's a way different game if Josh

728
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: Allen doesn't put a cape on and carry the entire

729
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: stadium and the Buffalo Bills to victory. I mean he

730
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: he absolutely willed that team to win in New England,

731
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: making play after play after play on the final two

732
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: drives of the of the game to keep it out

733
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: of reach of the Patriots. So there's there's a lot

734
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: in this game and it's gonna be one of the

735
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna dissect it all week. It's gonna

736
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. But wow, it's it's all

737
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: there and that there's a lot of there's a lot

738
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: of emotional baggage in this for Bills fans. Break time

739
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 1: for us here but John and Grand Island, Jerry and Lavonia,

740
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: Brian and Buffalo. You guys are first up. And when

741
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: we return as we're looking for your thoughts on yesterday's

742
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: game and on the twenty twenty one regular season. Now

743
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: that it's in the books, what are you coming out

744
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: of it thinking about your team. We'll get to you

745
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: guys next. Here on one Bills Live presented by Collie

746
00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Snap. Alan looks by.

747
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: It's a short one caught by Sickle. There, he's got

748
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: a few blocks headed to the ends. He is in

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00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: touchdown buff a ball touchdown Bills. All right. That is

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752
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: The Bills with their eleventh victory on Sunday twenty seven

753
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: to ten over the Jets, giving them all eleven victories

754
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: by double digits, unbelievable, lead the league in point differential. Yeah,

755
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: one ninety five is where it finished plus one ninety five.

756
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: When they lose, they barely get beat and when they win,

757
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 1: they win by double digits going away. So kudos to

758
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: both offensive coordinator Brian Dable and defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier,

759
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: head coach ja Sean McDermott. They they put together a

760
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: crew that is playing at a high level on both

761
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. How about special teams getting in

762
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: the mix. There got a block punt, Read Ferguson got

763
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: in a fight. It was it was juiced up. They

764
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: thought it is because you got them all fired up.

765
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: You just gotta love that man. The block punt was

766
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how hard that is to do.

767
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I he blocked it with his armpit that

768
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: or any gout on that. It was a shail for

769
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: me when I was playing. It is it was so

770
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 1: hard for me to block a punt because if a

771
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: guy even like looked at me, I felt like I

772
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: couldn't get home. I nothing could get in your way. Right,

773
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: You just had to go and you had to come

774
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: off the edge just totally clean. He I mean cam

775
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: lose looped on the beginning and got up through right

776
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: up through the middle and smothered that thing. Yeah, and

777
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: it's only and you know, you never know, you just

778
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: want to get a piece of it. If that, you know,

779
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: if the ball bounced once in the in the favor

780
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: of the Bills, that's a touchdown right there. Yeah, that's

781
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: the hardest thing finding it after the block right he

782
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: turned around. You couldn't even see it even on the

783
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: replay when from different angles he smothers it and the

784
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: thing disappears in like nineteen guys, and then all of

785
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: a sudden, who wasn't that covered it? Uh? I can't

786
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: remember took John right there and then he's tackled right away.

787
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just too much going on there. That

788
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: was great though, scratting the WWE. I was ready for

789
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: the elbow drop right, and then Micah Hyde after the

790
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: game was talking and saying, yeah, I was staying away

791
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: from that ball. He goes when it starts going. When

792
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: when the two ends of the ball or wobbling at

793
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: ten and four o'clock coming down, you're yeah, thanks, he

794
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: did the right thing. He did the right thing and

795
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: I'll say this took Matt Hawk took a pounding yesterday

796
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: from Bill's fans about you know, the two two bad

797
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: puns he had in a row. That's set up, Yeah,

798
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: that's set up the Jets to you know, get the

799
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 1: game close. Um. But he did later in the game,

800
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: came through big time later on and hit some really

801
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: good kicks down close. So after getting off, after being

802
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: off work for two weeks punting, he came back and

803
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: took him a while to find himself, but he did

804
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: later in the game. Let's go to the phones here,

805
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: what you have to say? We lead off with John

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00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: and Grand Island. John, what do you have for us?

807
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: You're all one. Bill's live. Hey, Chris and Steve, if

808
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: how are you good? I got two I got two comments,

809
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: if I may. The first one's regarding Josh's arm strength

810
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: across the middle. Now, we all know he's got a

811
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: good arm, but in that intermediate pass range, that seven

812
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: to ten year pass range, it just seems like he

813
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: doesn't know when to let up on the on the

814
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: pass a little bit. You know, you saw a little

815
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: bit yesterday where you know, passes the digs and basi

816
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: across the middle and almost caught these guys off guards

817
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: that Paul's coming in that past, and just want to

818
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: know you think Dorsey has his ear a little bit

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00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: on that. And secondly, uh, Steve, maybe you can talk

820
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: to this a little bit more about the peanut punch.

821
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: It seems like that's being coming more prevalent in today's game,

822
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: and I don't know if does it have a place

823
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 1: in the game. It seems like these dbs they're being

824
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: taught to punch first and tackles second. And it just

825
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: saw a couple of cases of yesterday worked. Josh got

826
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: hit up high, he looked back like, let's not part

827
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 1: of the game, and just want to get your thoughts

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00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, okay, I'll take the first one on

829
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: let's Steve take the second one. Thanks John. I would

830
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: agree with you on velocity on passes from last week's

831
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: game for Josh, he was throwing some rocket balls in there.

832
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: The guys just simply could not handle. I thought yesterday

833
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: the bigger issue for Josh was ball location. He has

834
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: tight coverage with Cole Beasley coming across the middle, and

835
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: he's got to lead him to the ball, you know,

836
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: so he can run into the pass rather than have

837
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: to reach back because if that ball is not in

838
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: front of Beasley, it allows the defender to make a

839
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: play on the ball, which is what happened, And there

840
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: was a pass breakup, and there were a couple others

841
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: like that. So I thought ball location was the bigger

842
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: issue for Josh yesterday. Velocity was the issue the previous

843
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: week against it in it, which is why there were

844
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: so many drops. Now, I'm not absolving the receivers. No

845
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: matter how hot that ball's coming in, you gotta get it.

846
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: But at the same time, Josh has it's hard, Josh

847
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: has got pressure coming. He's like, I gotta get the

848
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: ball out, and so you just instinctively, you know, whip

849
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: the pass out. The last thing you're thinking about is

850
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: other guy's only eight yards away. Maybe I should take

851
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: a little off of this. You're trying to get the

852
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: ball out in time before you get hit, right, So

853
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: it's very hard to pull off of a pass in

854
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: that situation. I mean, I don't know if you feel

855
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: differently about that. If that's ultimately on the receiver, ball

856
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: hits you in the hands, you gotta catch the ball,

857
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: whether it's coming in fifty five, you need to do it.

858
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: I think it's not so much about the velocity. It

859
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 1: is about the velocity, yes, but it's also about how

860
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: much time those guys have to get ready for that velocity.

861
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: Your head's gotta be around, you got if you get

862
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: a chance to see it come out of his hand,

863
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: you've got a better chance of catching it. But so

864
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: many times in today's game, the balls, you know, coming

865
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: out of his hand as your head comes around, it

866
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: takes you let's split second to pick it up. And

867
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: then you know that with the velocity, you just don't

868
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: have time to adjust to it. So, yeah, you're and

869
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: I agree with you, John, it's that has been the

870
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 1: cause of probably a higher percentage of Josh's passes being

871
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: incomplete than other quarterbacks. He just puts too much juice

872
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: on him once in a while, particularly early in games.

873
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: We've we've seen all right, second point, second point, the

874
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: peanut punch. Yeah, that's it's a point of contention with me.

875
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: You're right. There a lot of guys, a lot of

876
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: teams and players and defenders particularly are tackling guys high

877
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: because there's such a premium on getting a fumble, and

878
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: they try and come in and they try and punch

879
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: the football out and certainly it works, you know, on

880
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: a number of occasions. I'm with you, though, get the

881
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: guy on the ground. And it used to be that

882
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,320
Speaker 1: the first guy come in tackle the guy. The second

883
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 1: guy then can come in and punch the football out.

884
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: And I know this too. Guys are starting to use

885
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: that peanut punch as a way. It used to be

886
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: you come in, you lead with the top of your

887
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: head into the guy's chin, and on a quarterback, on

888
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: a running back, on a y receiver. It was all

889
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: legal back then. And you come in and lead and

890
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: knock that guy out. You're trying to knock him out.

891
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 1: Now you can't do that obviously for player's safety, right,

892
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: But that peanut punch. Guys are coming in and punching.

893
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: They're not gonna get They're not trying to get a

894
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 1: piece of the ball. They're trying to give that guy

895
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: a nice welt on his arm or give him, you know,

896
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: knock him loose. They're using it as a as a

897
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: way to physically punish the running back or the carrier

898
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: of the ball as well. I'm with you, Getting the

899
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: guy on the ground is more important than punching it.

900
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: Unless the ball does come out and then it's a

901
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: huge win. So you're not going to get away from

902
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: the fact, particularly given the atmosphere of players safety down

903
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: what guys can or cannot do. Teams are teaching players

904
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: these days to tackle high, get the ball out and

905
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:51,880
Speaker 1: strip it. Give up an extra yard or two. If

906
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 1: you can get the ball on the ground, nobody cares.

907
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: And that's the way they're teaching it. For me when

908
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: I was playing, and I think it up until you know,

909
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: the last ten years, maybe it was about, you know,

910
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: come in, you grab the guy, you take him low,

911
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: pull him down on top of you, or you know

912
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. You get him, you get him

913
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: off his feet first, and then if somebody else came

914
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: in later, then they could punch the ball out. It's

915
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: a philosophy. I think that's being taught in the league

916
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 1: about tackling high and getting the ball out, because it's

917
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 1: all about the ball. If you don't give him you don't,

918
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: you don't it's not right. You don't care if you

919
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: give up an extra five yards on a run if

920
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: the guy coughs it up at the end of it.

921
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 1: And that's what teams are trying to do. So I'm

922
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: kind of with you. It's always been up until recently

923
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 1: that I always said this. The best defenses in the

924
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: league are the ones that were the first guy to

925
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: the ball makes the tackle because there's no year, it's yardage.

926
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: You know, you don't get broken tackles. You don't do

927
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,879
Speaker 1: it that when when one guy gets there, one guy

928
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,399
Speaker 1: makes the tackle because defenses are designed to have one

929
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: free hitter where you're running the ball, not six, but

930
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: just one. So it's different now it's all about getting

931
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: the ball out. It's you know, they'll give you your

932
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: and like you said, they'll give you yards for Christmas,

933
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: but if you lose the ball at the end of it,

934
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: they don't care. Except for the Bills, only defense in

935
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: the league to give up fewer than three hundred yards

936
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: a game in the entire NFL two eighty nine and

937
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: change this season. So more often than not they do

938
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: get a guy on the ground and they're also plus

939
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: eight and takeaway Jerry and Lavonia, Brian and Buffalo, hang on.

940
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: More of your phone calls coming up, but we are

941
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: up against the break. You guys will be first when

942
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: we get back, and we'll have plenty of time to

943
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: get to you. We do want to remind you, Bills Mafia,

944
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: you could win a trip to the Super Bowl on us.

945
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949
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Speaker 1: on this once in a lifetime experience. We're back after

951
00:51:49,719 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: the break. We'll see in a second at a Steve

952
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

953
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role players for Steve,

954
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strated beer

955
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: of normalcy here, all right. Congratulations Bills fans. Your Bills

956
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: are AFCAST champs for the second season in a row.

957
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: Lap it up like chocolate pudding, Rub it all over

958
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: you like suntan lotion. Because this doesn't happen often as

959
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: we know, so enjoy it to the fullest and then

960
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: I don't know about eight pm tonight. That's the twenty

961
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: four hour rule. Yeah, start prepping for New England. Get

962
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: your bodies ready, get your throats in full froth, because

963
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,439
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna need your support and I want

964
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: you to rain. I want you to rain the intensity

965
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: of a thousand amplifiers down onto the field when Mac

966
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: Jones has the football. Prep yourselves early. But we got

967
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: to get to the phone because we've got some people

968
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,720
Speaker 1: that have been waiting patiently. Here we go to Jerry

969
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: in Livonia. Next, Jerry, what do you have for us?

970
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. First of all, Allelujah for

971
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: the Eastern Chants for the second year in a row.

972
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: I want to comment about some good game they played

973
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: yesterday in the great defense. I love this team. Are

974
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: you on the line with me? Okay, okay, I just

975
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: couldn't hear okay, but my comments. I want to talk

976
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 1: about the punner. I'm an over kind of guy. I

977
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: haven't watched the Bills all my life, and I think

978
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,879
Speaker 1: we've all played sports, and we all know we hit

979
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: those dry spells. And you know, at first, when he

980
00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:00,280
Speaker 1: muffed those punts, I was as upset as every Bills

981
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: fan I'm sure in America. But after the time then

982
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: he fumbled the ball and it was like then the

983
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: camera zeroed in on him and I realized, Man, those

984
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: guy's a young guy. I mean, he should be my grandson.

985
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm thinking we all had stretched like

986
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: in sports. I don't care Tiger Woods, whoever you are.

987
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: That's just the way sports are. And you know, I

988
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 1: just want to say my heart went out to him,

989
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: and I hope he doesn't think as Bills fans hate him,

990
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: because we don't. I'd love to hear the history of him.

991
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: If you could possibly talk about now, I'll hang up

992
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: and listen to you. Yeah, no problem, we can do that.

993
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: Hack was actually playing previously for Miami, so you know,

994
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's been in the league since twenty seventeen,

995
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: so still a relatively young player, but spend his entire

996
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 1: previous career with the Dolphins and then signed with the

997
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: Bills as a free agent is past year. I mean,

998
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 1: we can dive into his stats all you want. One

999
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 1: of the things that was said about him when they

1000
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: picked him up is that, and you can say what

1001
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: you want about well, he's not. He's a gifted holder

1002
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,319
Speaker 1: from Tyler Bass and a good directional punter, and he's yeah,

1003
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: he's got There are certain skill sets he has that

1004
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 1: are really good. Now, left footed obviously with banging it

1005
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:27,959
Speaker 1: out of his own end and hitting it a ninety

1006
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 1: yard or is not his strength, but getting it inside

1007
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: the twenty is, which he did later in the game right,

1008
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: and he farwell has had him hangballs up a good

1009
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: amount of the time this season as well to let

1010
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: the coverage run under And you know, we should probably

1011
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: mention this. The Bills on the season top five in

1012
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 1: kick coverage and punt coverage this year, they're the number

1013
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: two punt coverage team in the league in terms of

1014
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: punt return average against them, So they've been very good

1015
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: at it. Yesterday, though I think sometimes for fans it

1016
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,439
Speaker 1: raises a red flag for them because they're like, look,

1017
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: we're finally in the playoffs here. We want to be

1018
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: firing on all cylinders. We don't want a shanked punt

1019
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 1: to make life difficult for our defense number one or

1020
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: even worse, give the opponent a freebee, if you know

1021
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: what I mean. So there is some concern. Now I

1022
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: will say this too, and I'm not predicting anything. I

1023
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: don't know anything. But a couple of weeks ago, the

1024
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: Bills signed punter Jake gillian Away from Cleveland. Cleveland had

1025
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: released him or waived him, and the Bills picked him

1026
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 1: up and they have him on their practice squad. And

1027
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 1: he is a Scottish born punter six one two oh

1028
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:58,720
Speaker 1: seven twenty four year old guy who played his college

1029
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: ball at Arkansas Pine Love. And he's got a nickname too,

1030
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: Steve Oh, the Scottish Hammer, the Scottish Ham, Jamie Gilliam.

1031
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: All right, here's the thing. Yea Hawk is a He

1032
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,360
Speaker 1: played really well for the Dolphins, but his signature is

1033
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: putting balls inside the twenty. He holds a number of

1034
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: team and franchise records for the Dolphins. In that regard,

1035
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: he's a really good holder for Tyler Bass. I'm sure that.

1036
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: And and think about it, it's a hard decision to make,

1037
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: do you do you trust that Hawk had a bad

1038
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: game and he's gonna bounce back from it like a pro.

1039
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: And and and the coaches and Heath Farwell and those guys,

1040
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: they'll get a chance to get a you know, to

1041
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: talk to the kid face to face and look him

1042
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: in his eye and see how he's doing, how he's practicing,

1043
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: what he's saying about what happened. All of that. They'll

1044
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: get a feel for what his personality is and how

1045
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: he's handling a bad game yesterday. But here's another thing.

1046
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: Are you really wanting to go into a playoff run

1047
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: and switch holders with Tyler Bass right now? Yeah, in

1048
00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: a game where you're gonna go in, you're gonna get

1049
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: into something, go score games and every single point's gonna matter,

1050
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: And you want to do that to your kicker who's

1051
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: been fantastic. That's a hard decision to make, and as

1052
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: bad as a punter needs to play to make that happen,

1053
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: Hawk probably did it in the first half of that games,

1054
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: first half, two thirds of that game yesterday. It's hard

1055
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: to imagine a guy playing worse than Hawk did in

1056
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: that stretch before he kind of found it and got

1057
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: a couple of good punts off later in the game.

1058
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: But that's what you're looking at. It's not just about

1059
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: his punting. It's about the fact that you got other teammates,

1060
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: most notably you're leading scorer on the team that are

1061
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: depending on him. Yeah, it's tough and pass not for

1062
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: nothing has been lights out this year. He missed four

1063
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: field goal attempts all season, one from fifty three, one

1064
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: from fifty seven, one from forty nine, and one from

1065
00:58:56,080 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: thirty three. That's it. Kicking here in the weather. That

1066
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: he's kicked in here at the home games this year. Yeah,

1067
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: tip your hat to t Bass on that. Let's go

1068
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: back to the phones though. We go to Brian in

1069
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo next. What do you have for us? Brian? You're

1070
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,439
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Life by Gentleman Nice and Steve Wood.

1071
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: You sure, um yeah. It's a great day to be

1072
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: a Bills fan. But especially I like to ask Steve

1073
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: a question. What happened to the Colts? Was there a

1074
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: meltdown or what? Man? That's all I gotta say. Okay,

1075
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: well we'll wigh in on that. Thanks Brian for the call,

1076
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Meltdown or what? What do you think? Steve?

1077
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 1: Yeahs a meltdown their quarterback. I mean, there's turned the

1078
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: ball over. It's hard to lay that loss at the

1079
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: feet of any other person other than the guy that's

1080
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger on the in the pod and ask

1081
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. The absolutely imploded. And you talked to Philly

1082
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: fans and they'll say, see, we told you and all that,

1083
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: and now it looks like the Colts absolutely got robbed

1084
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: in a trade in which they gave up a first,

1085
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 1: a third, and one hundred and thirty million dollars a

1086
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: cap relief to the Eagles for Carson Wentz. Yeah, it's

1087
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: it's not pretty. Now here's here's the thing, and there's

1088
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: been still it was so bad yesterday for Carson Wentz

1089
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: that now the people are talking about how could Frank

1090
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: Reich's job maybe in jeopardy. I think that's a little overboard,

1091
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: no question, But I say this owners do stuff like

1092
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: this because there's there's a conversation that happened about this

1093
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: time last year after the Colts were exited from the

1094
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: playoffs and they knew they were losing Philip Rivers. Okay,

1095
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: who's out there? Who could we get? What did Frank

1096
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: Reichs say about Carson Wentz to make him be the

1097
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: guy the Colts went after? Were there other options? Was

1098
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: there another guy out there? How hard did Frank have

1099
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: to sell? Did they come to Frank and said can

1100
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: you save and Frank said I can save him, but

1101
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: he's not the my first choice of guys. Or did

1102
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: he say, don't even look anybody else. I got this.

1103
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: This is our guy. We're gonna go to the playoffs.

1104
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 1: He's gonna save the franchise. He's gonna be a franchise quarterback.

1105
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: We can pay him all that money and we can

1106
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: do it. What kind of what did Frank Reich do

1107
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: to sell Carson Wentz to the Colts Or did the

1108
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: Colts have to say, well, you've worked with him, he

1109
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: had some success and Frank said, well I'll give it

1110
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: a shot. Yeah. We don't know how those conversation, how

1111
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: those conversations went. We'll say a lot about how much

1112
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: Frank Reich is going to have his job on the

1113
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: chopping block at the end of the season, because I'll say,

1114
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: after that end to that season that they had just yesterday,

1115
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna be thinking about that for the entire That's

1116
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: the topic of conversation for the next eight months. You

1117
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: lost to the team that has the number one pick

1118
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 1: in the draft, to not make the playoffs, to not yeah,

1119
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: and a win an end win an end against the

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01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: bottom feeder of the end and listen, Bill's fans have

1121
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: no room to talk. We lost that team too. I mean,

1122
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 1: we get it, but that's what you're talking about. After

1123
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: salvaging an OO and three, start to come back and

1124
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 1: get in that conversation and winning in against a bottom

1125
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: feeder in your division, and you can't get it. Done.

1126
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 1: That's pretty that's got to be a gut wrencher. Yeah,

1127
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: if you, for some reason are not going to the

1128
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: game in Orchard Park on Saturday night, you will be

1129
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: listening to this broadcasting team that was announced today. I

1130
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: an eagle, Charles Davis. They'll be doing the game for CBS,

1131
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: and they did the last Bill's Patriots game up in

1132
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:41,439
Speaker 1: New England. So that broadcast team will be back here

1133
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park on Saturday night. And Steve, if you're

1134
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 1: listening on the radio side, we'll be down on the

1135
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: sidelines for Westwood One Radio. So if you're tuning in

1136
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: on the radio for some reason, driving around before you

1137
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 1: get home, or what have you, or maybe you're working

1138
01:02:57,080 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: and you don't have an access to a television, Steve

1139
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: will be down on this sidelines doing the radio broadcast.

1140
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool deal for you, man. Yeah. John Sadak

1141
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: and Ross Tucker will be in the national radio National

1142
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: radio brouth. It'd be me. I'll be down there for

1143
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 1: the national side of it. Sal Capacho will be down there,

1144
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: Murph and Eric so Sal and I'll be hobnobbing down

1145
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 1: there all day, um or all night. He was better

1146
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: at layering up. I'll put my layering game against any

1147
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: of it up against anything else. I believe me. Uh so, yeah,

1148
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: that'll it'll be fun. I'll be actually on the sidelines

1149
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 1: for this game. It's been a while since I've done that. Um, yeah,

1150
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: it'll be fun. Yeah, it'll be fun. It's uh, it's

1151
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: interesting because not for who cares, but um, when you

1152
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: do the national radio games, and I was. I was

1153
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: reminded of this just over the weekend because it was

1154
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: the anniversary of the Tim Tebow overtime win de Marius

1155
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: Thomas beat the Steelers. I was the Westwood sideline guy

1156
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: for that game. Oh nice. And I don't know if

1157
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: we've got the stomach for overtime on Saturday, don't, so

1158
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 1: don't take me there. So Tim Tebow was any of

1159
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: the hair I have. What happens the national radio the

1160
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: broadcast crew, the t V broadcast grew, CBS, NBC or ESPN,

1161
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: whoever the TV side of it gets first pick of

1162
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 1: the postgame interviews. So if they, like yesterday, CBS would say, okay,

1163
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 1: we want we want Josh post game. So Josh would

1164
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: be down there, you know, standing there with the sideline

1165
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: reporting to do the interview. On camera. The second choice

1166
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 1: goes to the national radio one. Right, so it goes

1167
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: to US. So back in the day, as this the

1168
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: last one of the games I did, not the last one,

1169
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: but one of the games I did was that overtime

1170
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 1: game in Denver, the playoff game. So who did the

1171
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 1: TV network pick? The game was an overtime, It was

1172
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: a CBS game, and they don't push sixty minutes back

1173
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: for anybody. Oh, so they were off the air, so

1174
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: they were, they were, So I got, I was, I don't.

1175
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: I told their guys, say, listen, we want we want

1176
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: t Bow if you win, and I'll take Numerius Thomas

1177
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 1: if you if you lose, if if if TV takes

1178
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: t Bow. The other side, I want Ben if you win,

1179
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: and then I want whatever Mike Wallace or Antonio Brown

1180
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: or somebody if you lose, or TJ whatever whoever. The

1181
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 1: guy was, Okay, game goes overtime, we find out, hey,

1182
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: we get first pick. So I told I told both

1183
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 1: sides I want Ben or I want Tebow. And I'm

1184
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: standing on the Pittsburgh side in overtime because Tim Tebow

1185
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: is not gonna win. This player looking good, it's not

1186
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: he can't throw right. So three plays in, three plays

1187
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: in booms slanting round to Mary's Thomastiff, I'm boom touchdown.

1188
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm on the wrong side of the field. He look

1189
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 1: back at that. You look back at it some of

1190
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 1: the game thing, bless his heart. The young pr guy

1191
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: from the Broncos is on the other side of the field.

1192
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: He sprints to me right straight across. The game's over.

1193
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: He's the first one on the field, sprints to me,

1194
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: drags me over and I'm standing there talking to Tebo

1195
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: right after that play, and I mean it is bedlam. Yeah,

1196
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there talking to him, and there's like

1197
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 1: this circle of I'm by rule, nobody can stick their

1198
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: microphone in. Yeah. So I'm standing there and there's three

1199
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 1: hundred guys with cameras and Mike's standing around Tebow and

1200
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: I get there. They're waiting to get second crack and

1201
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: you know, I'm Tebow's like radio act. I mean, he's

1202
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: like unbelievable. Yeah, I mean he's and he was just

1203
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: like Steam's coming off. I mean, so it was pretty cool,

1204
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: but it was it was pretty awesome because there were

1205
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:29,880
Speaker 1: still guys jumping up and down, you know, they it

1206
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 1: it just happened. And you know he's hugging like Van right,

1207
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: He's hugging these guys, and you know that lways down there,

1208
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 1: jumping up and down. I mean, it's like it's nuts,

1209
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: and so it's I tell people say, Messing must be

1210
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: nice to be a sideline reporter. Right, you can ask

1211
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:49,920
Speaker 1: sal I tell Salth says the same thing. Probably. I

1212
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 1: sell people like, well, you're in it, you're immersed intel,

1213
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: You're as close as you can be. Do not do it.

1214
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: Don't go down there. Do not go down and watch

1215
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,760
Speaker 1: a game from the sidelines, because if you do, you'll

1216
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 1: be ruined for life. Because it is it will never

1217
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 1: look the same to you on team. Feel even if

1218
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 1: you go in the first row, it'll feel like it's

1219
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 1: a million miles away. I mean, you can feel the

1220
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 1: ground shake when those guys tumble off the field. It's unbelievable.

1221
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the phones, though. We go to

1222
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 1: Patrick and Rochester next. Patrick, what you got for us?

1223
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 1: You're all one Bill's Live. Hey guys, good morning, good afternoon,

1224
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: sure good. I just wanted to say that I feel

1225
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: like we need to lose a roster spot. The defensive

1226
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 1: line can make things do with nine and that what

1227
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: if we just have Matt hold the kicks and we

1228
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: bring in the Scottish hammer for puns. Well thoughts, Yeah,

1229
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: I mean not. I don't think it's out of the

1230
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: realm of possibility. I'll say this, It's an enormous luxury.

1231
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 1: I'll say this, Yeah, it is a big luxury because

1232
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 1: it's for arguably four plays a game with this team

1233
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 1: doesn't punt. I mean, teams are punting less than ever.

1234
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna put two on the roster, one to hold,

1235
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 1: one to punt. I'll say this, and I think you're

1236
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:11,520
Speaker 1: Here's here's my thought on it. Number one. The coaches

1237
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: are going to meet today. Okay, they're going to review

1238
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: the game tape, the whole nine. They'll probably sit down

1239
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:17,720
Speaker 1: and have a meeting and say, what do we need

1240
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:19,680
Speaker 1: to do about pun or should it be addressed this week?

1241
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: How do we address it? Whatever decision is made, let's

1242
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 1: just say they look, we don't want to upset the

1243
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: apple cart. We're going to the postseason. The kicking operations

1244
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: working really well, snaphold, kick, etc. Let's just leave it

1245
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: as is. We have this guy on the practice squad,

1246
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 1: let's have him both punt this week and see how

1247
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 1: it looks. Could you see that happening. No, they're they're

1248
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 1: not going to go into this week with any incertain uncertainty, right,

1249
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 1: But I think the decision was probably made. The conversations

1250
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 1: began yesterday, so the decision will be finalized by today probably.

1251
01:08:57,920 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: I think they'll they'll say here's how it's going to work,

1252
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:04,679
Speaker 1: and it'll depend on what Hawk has to say about

1253
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 1: how he played, about what Tyler Bass has to say

1254
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: about switching up holders. It'll have to say. It'll have

1255
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: something to say about Heath Farwell and Sean mcdermots Williams

1256
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 1: saying he want another roster spot in a game we

1257
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,320
Speaker 1: gotta win where we're probably gonna go for it anytime

1258
01:09:18,360 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 1: outside our forty five yard line. We're gonna go for

1259
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: it anyway if it's less than five. But we know

1260
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: that coach mc dermott value special teams highly well, there's

1261
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 1: a lot of values. Just a blip on the radar.

1262
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 1: This is a major field position thing, and you know

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Speaker 1: the games are going to be closer in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Think about this. He does take it seriously. He went

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01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 1: for a block punt yesterday and Micah Hyde did all

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01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 1: the returning yesterday on punts Micah Hyde, and we know

1267
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:46,839
Speaker 1: he has he doesn't hesitate. It's not to make lineup,

1268
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,680
Speaker 1: just changes, right. He's done it on offense defense. So

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01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 1: there's that. So I'm gonna I think we're gonna have

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01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: to wait and see and when he comes and when

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01:09:57,040 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 1: his media availability for today, that's gonna be like one

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01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:07,000
Speaker 1: of the top three questions, you know, if not number one. Yeah,

1273
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,680
Speaker 1: because that's what that's what you're doing. I mean, you

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01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: go in there and to a game like this in

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01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 1: this scenario, the playoffs for a week one of the playoffs,

1276
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, what problems we got that we got

1277
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 1: to cover up or get ready for. It gets a

1278
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 1: really good team, it has to be addressed. It has

1279
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:23,640
Speaker 1: to be addressed in some way, shape or form. And

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01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 1: the Patriots aren't going to sit back and let that

1281
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:28,599
Speaker 1: guy take two point nine seconds together get the punt

1282
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 1: off either. He's always been a slow get off guy

1283
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:34,800
Speaker 1: and maybe that's why he's so good at dropping it

1284
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: inside the twenty. He takes his time, and I think

1285
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 1: the Patriots, no, they're gonna have to do a couple

1286
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:42,719
Speaker 1: of extra things to swing the balance. In their favor

1287
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: in this matchup. They're good, but on paper they are

1288
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:48,280
Speaker 1: not as good as the Bills. I think it's fascinating

1289
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: to think about how this game is gonna go with

1290
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 1: the way Josh you know, kind of carried things for

1291
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 1: the Bills in that game in New England and made

1292
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: five unbelievable plays in the last two drives to win

1293
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,519
Speaker 1: it and put it out of reach. And what the

1294
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: Patriots will think about forcing him to do that again

1295
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:15,640
Speaker 1: or forcing others to beat you. I mean, what's your

1296
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:17,240
Speaker 1: what's their philosophy on that? How are they going to

1297
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 1: do that? And the fact that this defense is playing

1298
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: with a ton of confidence. And I'll say it again, Brownie,

1299
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 1: what's the best coaching football confidence. It's fascinating what these

1300
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: two coaching staffs will do because in Buffalo we know

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01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: as well as anybody what Brian day Ball and Leslie

1302
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:38,880
Speaker 1: Frasier have to say about what their team can do

1303
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: and won't do against another team is paramount. And that's

1304
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 1: the same thing in New England. What will those guys

1305
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 1: think about what they're looking at on film with the Bills.

1306
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: I think it's fascinating to think about what these teams

1307
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 1: think about each other and how they're going to attack

1308
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 1: and defend. We gotta go back to the phones and

1309
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 1: we go to Brian and Rochester. What do you have

1310
01:11:55,280 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: for us? Brian, Hey, guys, games, Steve, I had a

1311
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: question for you as a broadcast So the Bills. I

1312
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: know there was a record I remember this is a

1313
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:09,120
Speaker 1: trivia question, the lowest yards allowing the game historically. I

1314
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: think it's minus seven in like seventies. I think it

1315
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 1: was the Seahawks. But so, but anyway, they had to

1316
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,040
Speaker 1: be in the top ten of all time yesterday in

1317
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 1: yards allowed and they weren't even talking about that on TV.

1318
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering, as an announcer, as a broadcaster

1319
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,599
Speaker 1: or as a color guy, are you sort of told

1320
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 1: to hype up the team that's getting their butt kick

1321
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 1: just to kind of help their fans feel a little

1322
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: better about things? Or that really the way Trent Green

1323
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:37,640
Speaker 1: and Kevin Harland felt when they were hyping up the

1324
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:41,160
Speaker 1: Jets defense so much the Bills had zero reason to

1325
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 1: take any chances yesterday. Yeah, here's the thing. It's hard

1326
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: for all, Brian. It's hard for a broadcaster anyway, particularly

1327
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: one that when you're trying to go down the middle

1328
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 1: of the road. You don't want to be a fanboy

1329
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:54,840
Speaker 1: for the Bills, and you don't want to be a

1330
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,800
Speaker 1: fanboy for Robert Salo on the Jets either. You got

1331
01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:00,840
Speaker 1: to be objective. It's hard when game goes the way

1332
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:02,639
Speaker 1: it did, and then certain guys do it like Chris

1333
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:05,720
Speaker 1: Collinsworth will do it. You'll see some other guys do it.

1334
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 1: But even Roma Roma won't touch this kind of talk.

1335
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:11,599
Speaker 1: Neither will Troy Aikman or any of the other top

1336
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 1: analysts they have. They have really a hard time piling

1337
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:19,639
Speaker 1: on a bad team because they know this, they're probably

1338
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:21,680
Speaker 1: gonna get him in in the future. And they got

1339
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: to go in and talk to those coaches. They got

1340
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 1: to go in and talk to those coordinators and those

1341
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 1: players after crushing them in the booth, because the word

1342
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 1: gets back. I mean, you know, obviously everybody knows. I mean,

1343
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna hear about what he said. So it's hard

1344
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 1: to go in there as a broadcaster for these as

1345
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: a broadcaster and tell you that the Jets are horrific

1346
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:43,800
Speaker 1: offensively today they're terrible. So because they gotta go in

1347
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 1: and do that that show again, they gotta do that

1348
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 1: team again, so they focus on usually what I did,

1349
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:52,280
Speaker 1: and I think other guys do as well. If the

1350
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:54,880
Speaker 1: team's playing bad, it's because they all of a sudden,

1351
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: the other team's playing well. I mean, you just kind

1352
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:58,720
Speaker 1: of focus on the team that's playing well and doing well.

1353
01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:01,200
Speaker 1: The Jets, if you're kind of throw them a bone.

1354
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:03,880
Speaker 1: That's what they were doing well yesterday. They kept they

1355
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 1: held the Bills down for a lot of that game

1356
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: and kept them out, you know, as a punt fest

1357
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,000
Speaker 1: in the second half. And you got to give the

1358
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,719
Speaker 1: Jet defense credit. You can say, Josh Allen, the offense

1359
01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:15,679
Speaker 1: didn't play well, but it's about giving the Jets credit.

1360
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 1: And that's what broadcasters do because the network guys are

1361
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:21,200
Speaker 1: going down the middle. They're not a fan of the Bills,

1362
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:23,600
Speaker 1: they're not a fan of the Jets, and all the

1363
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 1: criticism you get as a broadcaster is focused on being

1364
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: too nice to one team and not nice enough to

1365
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: the other or vice versa. Yeah, So when those things

1366
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: happen in a game gets out of town, and one

1367
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: side of the ball, and if there's four sides of

1368
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 1: the ball, offense and defense on both teams. If one

1369
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: side of the ball in this case, the Jet offense

1370
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: is so putrid they just ignore it. They just ignore it.

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01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:49,839
Speaker 1: And just so you know, the bills number one defense

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01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: this year, which gave up two hundred and seventy two

1373
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:56,799
Speaker 1: point eight yards per game. They are one hundred thirtieth

1374
01:14:57,439 --> 01:15:00,879
Speaker 1: in terms of fewest yards allowed by an NFL defense

1375
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: since the merger in nineteen seventy one, since nineteen seventy So,

1376
01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 1: just for what it's worth, we gotta take a break

1377
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: here because when we come back, it is that time

1378
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: of the week on Monday's after Bill's victories, the Maddie

1379
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: Awards coming up next with our colleague Maddi Glab. That's

1380
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 1: next year on One Bill's Line, presented by Kalaia Health,

1381
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One

1382
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:35,560
Speaker 1: Bill's Black. Chris Brown Steve's Aster with you here on

1383
01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 1: this Bills victory Monday, AFC's champions for the second straight

1384
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:45,560
Speaker 1: year and already preparing no doubt to take on the

1385
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:48,679
Speaker 1: Patriots for the third time this season in the wildcard

1386
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 1: game Saturday night. But another win by the Bills means

1387
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: another visit with our good colleague Maddie Glab, who joins

1388
01:15:56,920 --> 01:16:00,719
Speaker 1: us now for what else the Maddie Award. It's presented

1389
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: by Energy Mark, the official energy supplier to the Buffalo Bills.

1390
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 1: Welcome Mattie. Do you have your red carpet laid out

1391
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:11,080
Speaker 1: now that it's the postseason? Oh? Yeah, Welcome to the

1392
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: postseason everybody, AFC East Champions. I'm feeling good about it,

1393
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:18,360
Speaker 1: and I'm feeling good about a home playoff game. What

1394
01:16:18,479 --> 01:16:21,640
Speaker 1: would be better a third chance at the Patriots, a

1395
01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 1: chance to take him down twice this season? I mean,

1396
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:27,519
Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah, And it started out really well for

1397
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 1: the Bills the Dawson Knox since Devin Singletary had ended

1398
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: the first drive ins with your first award of the game.

1399
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 1: How did you think the game was gonna go when

1400
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: you saw this first play? The Mattie Award for the

1401
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:44,719
Speaker 1: Best Play? Well, I mean when you stepped down the field, Tasker,

1402
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:46,400
Speaker 1: I knew we were going to come out of the

1403
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 1: gates firing because you just fired everybody up in a

1404
01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: high Mark stadium. So I gotta give the kudos to

1405
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:56,040
Speaker 1: you first and foremost for that mic drop for the cigar.

1406
01:16:56,280 --> 01:17:00,280
Speaker 1: You set the scene perfectly and out comes the Buffalos

1407
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: offense and they score on their first drive. Devin Singletary

1408
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:06,679
Speaker 1: has a forty yard run to set up the best

1409
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 1: play of the game. That throw that Josh Allen had

1410
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 1: to Stefan Diggs in the end zone. I mean Josh

1411
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:14,640
Speaker 1: Allen was sideways by the time he was letting go

1412
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: of the ball as he was being tackled, and Stefan

1413
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:20,680
Speaker 1: Diggs just happened to be in the perfect place at

1414
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: the perfect time as he's heading out of bounds, able

1415
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: to get two feet in. After it seemed like they

1416
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: reviewed that play for quite some time, they rule a touchdown.

1417
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 1: I said it last night. Only one person in the

1418
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 1: world can make that throw. Only one person in the

1419
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:36,719
Speaker 1: world can make that catch, and they're both Buffalo Bills,

1420
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:40,679
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs. The crowd was going wild.

1421
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:44,320
Speaker 1: It lit up the sideline. A great way to start

1422
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 1: the game. And then they go and block a punt.

1423
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: I mean, you did a tasker. You set it all

1424
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 1: up for what would be a perfect first drive by

1425
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,439
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills offense. I wish it was. They could

1426
01:17:57,439 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: have just kept scoring and scoring and scoring, but you know,

1427
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:02,679
Speaker 1: had a little well there in the in the middle

1428
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 1: of the game. But that play was just absolutely incredible,

1429
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 1: electric probably top five this season. I've got to get

1430
01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:12,719
Speaker 1: Did you give me a Maddie Award? Yeah, you skipped

1431
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: right over it on purpose. Yeah, this is typical Steve,

1432
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 1: so I will I will tee it up. It's the

1433
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:21,840
Speaker 1: Fire Up Squad Award. Yeah, I'd like to thank you.

1434
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:25,479
Speaker 1: Fire Up Squad Award for you, Tasker. That's awesome. I'm

1435
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled. And on a day when they block a punt, awesome. Yep,

1436
01:18:30,439 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 1: you deserve it. Best Actor for twenty twenty two goes

1437
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 1: to you. And of course I got to check out

1438
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 1: that video that we dropped right after we won the

1439
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: AFC East with you and Darryl. I mean, superb way

1440
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:47,840
Speaker 1: to go You're head into Hollywood. DT was good in

1441
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, if you haven't seen it, it's good.

1442
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:53,960
Speaker 1: We'll move forward to MVP of the game. And it's

1443
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 1: not a person, it's an entire unit. Most valuable position group,

1444
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 1: not most valuable player. Here. How about the Buffalo Bills defense. Yeah,

1445
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: see what I did there? The defense allowed just ten

1446
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: points fifty three total yards. The New York Jets were

1447
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:14,040
Speaker 1: in the negative yards for the second half of the game,

1448
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 1: five passing yards. They allowed just four first downs. Four

1449
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 1: first downs is the lowest in a single game in

1450
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: team history. Fifty three yards are the second fewest in

1451
01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: franchise history in a single game. I mean, they finish

1452
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: off as the best scoring defense in the NFL and

1453
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:34,560
Speaker 1: the best overall defense. And this group is one of

1454
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 1: the biggest reasons why the Buffalo Bills are AFC East champs.

1455
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 1: They've locked it down since Week one. This has been

1456
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 1: a very consistent part of the team this year. The

1457
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: defense has always showed up. I mean, Brownie, you released

1458
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 1: a story this morning just about all the categories that

1459
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,440
Speaker 1: they lead in. They finished number one in so many categories.

1460
01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 1: A great group of guys. They did suffer some players

1461
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:04,600
Speaker 1: going out in the season, Justin zimmer Tredavious White, and

1462
01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 1: they didn't falter. They kept going. They kept allowing few

1463
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 1: points every game, few yards every game. They've had fourteen

1464
01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 1: sacks over the last two games. So they're the MVPs

1465
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: in my mind for this pass game and for most

1466
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, and you think about the Bills

1467
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 1: given up fifty nine total yards. Forty of it was

1468
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: on the touchdown pass where you know, he hit the

1469
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: slant route and he threw it at what I thought

1470
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 1: he threw it into a crowd and the guy snapped

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01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 1: off a forty yard touchdown run, which was their play

1472
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:39,599
Speaker 1: of the game, and they gave up nineteen total yards

1473
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:42,840
Speaker 1: the rest of the game before and after that. That's

1474
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:45,120
Speaker 1: a pretty big day for the Bills defense, no question, right,

1475
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: which is why they are part of the next award,

1476
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:52,720
Speaker 1: which went to the show Stoppers. Show Stoppers all right,

1477
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 1: this goes to the defensive line. I mean the team

1478
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,600
Speaker 1: as a whole. The defense as a whole finishes with

1479
01:20:57,840 --> 01:21:01,639
Speaker 1: nine sacks against Zach Willon, but the defensive line accounted

1480
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: for six of those sacks. And the defense goes and

1481
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: has five sacks against Matt Ryan. You're thinking, Okay, what

1482
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: are we going to do against Zach Wilson. He's not

1483
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 1: necessarily a pocket passer like Matt Ryan is. He has

1484
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 1: the ability to get out of the pocket. Can they

1485
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: get him down? He came into the game with thirty

1486
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:21,760
Speaker 1: six sacks and the Buffalo Bills just go and tack

1487
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: on nine more. And the defensive line I think is

1488
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: just peaking at the right time. I love what we've

1489
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 1: seen from Ed Oliver and Harrison Phillips the last few weeks.

1490
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:32,680
Speaker 1: We hear all the time that Sean McDermott says the

1491
01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: battle is won in the trenches and we're gonna need

1492
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:38,000
Speaker 1: it from that group going into the playoffs. They need

1493
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: to stay as stout as they've been the last few games.

1494
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: So big up to the defensive line and they're six sacks. Now.

1495
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:48,160
Speaker 1: You've got also a heating up award, which on a

1496
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 1: cold day like yesterday and a cold day is going

1497
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: to be this weekend. Who he's gonna be heating up?

1498
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 1: Who's going to be heating up this weekend? It's Devin's

1499
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:59,559
Speaker 1: single terry. This dude has averaged ninety seven scrimmage yards

1500
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:02,679
Speaker 1: per game over the last five games, which ranks top

1501
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:06,000
Speaker 1: fifteen in the NFL. He has a career year going

1502
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:08,880
Speaker 1: over a thousand scrimmage yards back to back games with

1503
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:12,719
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns. He's had a touchdown in four straight games.

1504
01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: He has six touchdowns over the last five games, which

1505
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:18,120
Speaker 1: ties for the most in the NFL by a running

1506
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: back over that span. He's really picked it up this

1507
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: last half of the season. If you look at his

1508
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:26,040
Speaker 1: stats from the beginning of the season compared to now,

1509
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: I mean, Devin Singletary is looking like a different running back.

1510
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:31,599
Speaker 1: It might be because they're giving him some more chances

1511
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: here and the offensive line finally has some consistency. But

1512
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary has had a great go the last five games.

1513
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:43,760
Speaker 1: They're gonna need him when we're playing on Saturday night

1514
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 1: and the temps are in the single digits. Probably so

1515
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary, he's heating up and he needs to keep

1516
01:22:51,479 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 1: heating up in the playoffs. Here been a much more

1517
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 1: decisive runner I think we can all agree to last

1518
01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: four weeks. Been getting north and South a lot faster run,

1519
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,200
Speaker 1: with a little more power behind his pads as well.

1520
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 1: And yes, the blocking has been better too, no question

1521
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:06,880
Speaker 1: about it. All right. The last Bill's Award on your

1522
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:09,960
Speaker 1: list here, Maddie best Selly, what do we got here?

1523
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,759
Speaker 1: Best celebration? Got to give it to the offensive lineman

1524
01:23:13,880 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: Deon Dawkins and Spencer Brown. After Devin Singletary rushes in

1525
01:23:17,439 --> 01:23:20,519
Speaker 1: for a touchdown, got to give the offensive line some

1526
01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 1: love soon and Spencer got in on a little spike action.

1527
01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:27,280
Speaker 1: You love to see it. The offensive line does deserve

1528
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: kudos sometimes, so I've enjoyed watching Spencer Brown and his

1529
01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 1: guys get involved in some of these celebrations. That one

1530
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:39,479
Speaker 1: was epic and earned a top five celebration on Good

1531
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,679
Speaker 1: Morning Football This Morning. There's some coordination that you gotta

1532
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 1: pull off to make that happen. That could look pretty

1533
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:46,760
Speaker 1: ugly if you don't have that rehearse. Yeah, it was

1534
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:49,640
Speaker 1: nice and Dion Dawkins laid it up. Spencer Brown goes

1535
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:51,400
Speaker 1: up with his right hand, palms it and spikes it

1536
01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: over the top as nice like an alley oop. Yeah,

1537
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: it was like an alley ooper, almost like a volleyball

1538
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 1: set spike kind of thing. That was really nice, very nice.

1539
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:00,560
Speaker 1: Then they didn't I will give him. They need to

1540
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 1: get a little more air on their jumping high you know,

1541
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:06,439
Speaker 1: chess bumping you get off the ground a three thirty

1542
01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:10,439
Speaker 1: pounds six ft eight all right, Last one game of

1543
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:16,479
Speaker 1: the night, Best Finish, Maddie, Best Finish, Raiders against the Chargers.

1544
01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:19,519
Speaker 1: Man who knew this one was going into overtime? I

1545
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,760
Speaker 1: mean all the conspiracy theorists who were like, this game

1546
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:26,120
Speaker 1: is going to end in a tie. The NFL's rigged. Well,

1547
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 1: you were almost right. They almost did end in a tie.

1548
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 1: It was getting close there, but of course the Raiders

1549
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:35,120
Speaker 1: were able to finish it. Out with a forty seven

1550
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:38,599
Speaker 1: yard field goal, the lone Steelers fan in the crowd

1551
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 1: going absolutely crazy as this game is winding down because

1552
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:44,799
Speaker 1: if the steel if they would have tied, the Steelers

1553
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: would have been held out of the playoffs. With the

1554
01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 1: Raiders end up finishing it with the field goal and

1555
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:53,000
Speaker 1: earn the win. I mean, the last four minutes of

1556
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:55,439
Speaker 1: this game seemed like it took forever, but it was

1557
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 1: some great four minutes of football. I was sitting outside

1558
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 1: in the parking lot, why this game finish on a

1559
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 1: phone with some of my colleagues, celebrating the AFC East

1560
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:07,240
Speaker 1: title and trying to figure out who the heck we

1561
01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:09,680
Speaker 1: were going to play on Saturday. But we know it's

1562
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 1: going to be the Patriots. Yeah, and it's that. The

1563
01:25:12,520 --> 01:25:15,599
Speaker 1: way that game ended and the drives that Joe Burrow

1564
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:18,200
Speaker 1: and the Charger i mean, Justin Herbert and the Chargers

1565
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 1: put together to get that game to overtime was absolutely epic.

1566
01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 1: It was the final game. It was a playoff game

1567
01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:27,719
Speaker 1: by all were for all intents and purposes. Functionally speaking,

1568
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:31,599
Speaker 1: the winner advances, the loser does not. And to see

1569
01:25:31,640 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: it end like it did with the controversy and a

1570
01:25:34,439 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: bad time out and the ramifications of just taking a

1571
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 1: knee for the Raiders, it was unbelievable to see that happen.

1572
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: And yeah, they're gonna second guess Brandon Staley all through

1573
01:25:48,200 --> 01:25:50,639
Speaker 1: the off season. But there you have it. The Raiders

1574
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs, the Chargers are not. And the

1575
01:25:52,920 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 1: Steelers literally they have it in reverse. Feelers are gonna

1576
01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:01,799
Speaker 1: be cannon fodder this week. The Steelers with the backup,

1577
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:05,840
Speaker 1: with the backup Bieber going beep beep beep. They're backing

1578
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:09,320
Speaker 1: into the playoffs? Are They're not complaining? Though? How about

1579
01:26:09,360 --> 01:26:12,680
Speaker 1: that tie helping them out? Oh yeah, the time that

1580
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:15,519
Speaker 1: they had earlier in the year. Right, Maddie, we're out

1581
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: of time, But thanks as always for this latest edition

1582
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:21,200
Speaker 1: to the Maddie Awards. Hopefully we're doing this again next

1583
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:25,320
Speaker 1: week at this time, yes, please pencil it in. Have

1584
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: a good rest of your show, guys. All right, thanks,

1585
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:30,160
Speaker 1: that's Maddie Glab with the Maddie Awards, which come your

1586
01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:34,400
Speaker 1: way every Monday after Bill's victories at one thirty pm.

1587
01:26:34,479 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 1: So glad we could get those in for you. We

1588
01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: will take a break here, but when we come back,

1589
01:26:38,479 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 1: Steve and I will talk a little bit about that

1590
01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:45,680
Speaker 1: Chargers Raiders marathon of a game that went right to

1591
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:50,000
Speaker 1: the very end, full ten minutes of overtime with playoff

1592
01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:54,519
Speaker 1: implications impacting three teams on the line. We'll discuss next

1593
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:56,559
Speaker 1: year on One Bill's Line, presented by Kalid to Health.

1594
01:26:56,600 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back one Bills

1595
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 1: Live as the show. Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you

1596
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: here on a Bills victory Monday, and already the playoffs

1597
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:24,000
Speaker 1: are six days away. Saturday night, eight fifteen, kickoff Bills

1598
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 1: Patriots here at high Mark Stadium. Buffalo's opponent was largely

1599
01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:35,519
Speaker 1: decided by the outcome of last night's Sunday night game

1600
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 1: between the Chargers and the Raiders in Las Vegas, and

1601
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: it went the distance, not only to the end of regulation,

1602
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 1: but to overtime and the full ten minutes of overtime,

1603
01:27:47,479 --> 01:27:50,320
Speaker 1: with the Raiders ultimately putting a forty eight yard field

1604
01:27:50,320 --> 01:27:51,960
Speaker 1: goal up and through. Believe it was forty eight or

1605
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 1: forty seven. And there's been a lot of consternation around

1606
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 1: the decision by the Chargers to all timeout with thirty

1607
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: eight seconds left in overtime with the Raiders just over

1608
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:11,679
Speaker 1: midfield into Chargers territory on a third and four play,

1609
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:16,000
Speaker 1: so they called time out. There was some talk that

1610
01:28:16,120 --> 01:28:18,360
Speaker 1: maybe the Chargers only had ten players on the field,

1611
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:19,760
Speaker 1: but we were looking at the tape it looks like

1612
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:22,760
Speaker 1: they've got eleven, so no reason to fall timeout for that.

1613
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley, when asked why he called timeout in the

1614
01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:28,760
Speaker 1: postgame press conference, said, we were expecting them to run

1615
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:32,120
Speaker 1: the ball again, so we wanted to get our best

1616
01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: run defense personnel grouping on the field. That's why we

1617
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: called timeout. In retrospect, it looked like and some of

1618
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:45,800
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and it's been conjectured the Raiders are gonna

1619
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:50,519
Speaker 1: kneel down, right because because the interim head coach when

1620
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 1: asked after the game, did you consider kneeling out the

1621
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 1: clock and taking the tie? And he said, during the timeout,

1622
01:28:56,320 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 1: we discussed it. Well, here's why they wouldn't might have

1623
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 1: done that. You take the if you even if you

1624
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:07,760
Speaker 1: tie the game, which you've already got sealed, if you

1625
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 1: kneel down, you're in the playoffs. If you win the game,

1626
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 1: you're the what the five seeds the five seed, sorry,

1627
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 1: the sixth seed instead of the seventh seeds. Right, you're

1628
01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:24,559
Speaker 1: the sixth instead of But here's the thing, and Chris

1629
01:29:24,640 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 1: Collins words made this point on the broadcast, is right.

1630
01:29:28,360 --> 01:29:31,760
Speaker 1: If you there's so many bad things that can happen.

1631
01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:33,799
Speaker 1: I mean you look back at things like the Miracle

1632
01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 1: in the Meadowlands, all that you know, the wrong way

1633
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:41,120
Speaker 1: with Alan Page running the wrong way in the game,

1634
01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 1: Jim Harshall running the wrong way game, all this stuff.

1635
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:45,960
Speaker 1: It can happen if you know. You can look at

1636
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:50,599
Speaker 1: even at college, where something happens and gets blocked, goes

1637
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:52,959
Speaker 1: the other way, you lose and you're out of the playoffs.

1638
01:29:53,520 --> 01:29:57,680
Speaker 1: So by knowing that you're in the playoffs, just by

1639
01:29:57,760 --> 01:30:02,400
Speaker 1: kneeling down that's on the table ball and by kicking it,

1640
01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:04,400
Speaker 1: they did take a chance that it could have been

1641
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:05,720
Speaker 1: blocked and could have gone back the other way. They

1642
01:30:05,720 --> 01:30:10,040
Speaker 1: could have lost the game, which is admittedly very remote,

1643
01:30:11,520 --> 01:30:15,439
Speaker 1: but they were considering it. And but when the clock

1644
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:19,040
Speaker 1: is ticking, and particularly when the clock is ticking, when

1645
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: you got to go out there and do all that stuff,

1646
01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:21,840
Speaker 1: helter skelter and all that. Now when you get the

1647
01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:23,600
Speaker 1: other team takes the timeout, it's like, okay, all right,

1648
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:25,720
Speaker 1: now we can let's just do our thing here. Let's

1649
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 1: run the ball, let's collect our thoughts. Run the ball.

1650
01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 1: They do. They run the ball, they get an extra first,

1651
01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 1: they get the first down plus, So it's like seven yards. Yeah,

1652
01:30:34,200 --> 01:30:36,040
Speaker 1: it's a ten yard carry off the end of the

1653
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 1: field goal that you thought you might try, or it

1654
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:41,599
Speaker 1: would have been a fifty plus yard from fifty seven

1655
01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:44,600
Speaker 1: to forty seven, right, So it went three. Yeah, it

1656
01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:48,439
Speaker 1: was a fifty three plus off a natural grass. So

1657
01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:50,720
Speaker 1: it went from a kind of a fifty fifty coin

1658
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:52,680
Speaker 1: toss of a kick to a yeah, we got this

1659
01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:57,200
Speaker 1: one right, an eighty percent kick. Um. Yeah, there's a

1660
01:30:57,240 --> 01:30:59,760
Speaker 1: lot in there, and I and a lot of I've

1661
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:01,760
Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for Brandon Staley. I've I've

1662
01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:04,360
Speaker 1: heard his press conferences, I've heard what he has said

1663
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:05,800
Speaker 1: to his team and the kind of guy he is

1664
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:07,080
Speaker 1: in front of the mic in the media, and that's

1665
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:10,400
Speaker 1: basically all I have to go by. And he's impressive.

1666
01:31:11,280 --> 01:31:13,440
Speaker 1: But you can make the argument that he was outsmarted

1667
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: himself by taking that time's a forty seven yard or so,

1668
01:31:15,960 --> 01:31:18,599
Speaker 1: it would have been a fifty seven yard or run

1669
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:20,760
Speaker 1: at least a fifty seven year I don't think that's

1670
01:31:20,760 --> 01:31:24,280
Speaker 1: why you're thinking about taking the tie. Yeah, fifty seven,

1671
01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:28,640
Speaker 1: that's different. Now, you and here's what do you have

1672
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:30,599
Speaker 1: one of the best kickers in the league though Carlson

1673
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:33,479
Speaker 1: has missed two field goals all year, But a fifty seven,

1674
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:36,719
Speaker 1: that's not I don't care who's kicking it. It's asking

1675
01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't know who. I don't care who's

1676
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:44,240
Speaker 1: kicking it. That's a that's a coin flip at best. So, yeah,

1677
01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:48,519
Speaker 1: it bit him. The time out bait him. They got

1678
01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:50,800
Speaker 1: a third and four. You knew they were gonna run. Yeah,

1679
01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:52,599
Speaker 1: they were gonna run the ball. Okay, so you take

1680
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:54,559
Speaker 1: the time out. And here's what I don't get. If

1681
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:56,559
Speaker 1: you're gonna put your best run defense out there, why

1682
01:31:56,640 --> 01:32:00,320
Speaker 1: they give up a nine yard run or ten yard run? Yeah,

1683
01:32:00,400 --> 01:32:02,439
Speaker 1: and you need that that was the play. Yeah. And

1684
01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:04,400
Speaker 1: that's the thing where you are out smarting yourself a

1685
01:32:04,439 --> 01:32:08,240
Speaker 1: little bit because we actually saw and I know you've

1686
01:32:08,280 --> 01:32:12,320
Speaker 1: talked about this coach before, Mike Vrabel is excellent in

1687
01:32:12,479 --> 01:32:16,880
Speaker 1: these kinds of situations. He knows where the pressure lies

1688
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 1: in those situations where the clock's running and right there

1689
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 1: while the pressure is an immense on the Raiders because

1690
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 1: a tie gets them into the playoffs anyway, the clock

1691
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:33,519
Speaker 1: ticking adds pressure to the decision in that moment, so

1692
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:37,400
Speaker 1: you're probably best served to let the clock run. You

1693
01:32:37,600 --> 01:32:39,960
Speaker 1: can't change what's going on because you don't have the

1694
01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:44,320
Speaker 1: ball anyway, So if by letting the clock run, that

1695
01:32:44,439 --> 01:32:46,919
Speaker 1: might be the best asset you have in that equation.

1696
01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:50,040
Speaker 1: So let it run. And if they can't make the

1697
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:53,679
Speaker 1: decision in the allotted amount of time, now you've won

1698
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 1: the play or the down or whatever you want to

1699
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 1: call it. And by calling time out, you gave him

1700
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:02,040
Speaker 1: an opportunity need to collect their thoughts, think it over,

1701
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:04,600
Speaker 1: and then decide what they were gonna even though they

1702
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 1: did run it just like Staley thought they were going to.

1703
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:11,360
Speaker 1: How do you give up a ten yard run? They

1704
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:15,200
Speaker 1: give up a ten yard and I get it too.

1705
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:17,720
Speaker 1: You almost you don't want to show cover zero man

1706
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:20,439
Speaker 1: right where you're gonna come in nine guys in the box.

1707
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 1: You're gonna pack it in because then there's always that,

1708
01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 1: you know, chance that they may say, Okay, we're gonna

1709
01:33:25,400 --> 01:33:28,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our chance and throw this thing for

1710
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:32,200
Speaker 1: the first down. But you come in late, you show

1711
01:33:32,240 --> 01:33:34,200
Speaker 1: a cover two shell. Look, then you pack then at

1712
01:33:34,240 --> 01:33:36,400
Speaker 1: this snap, you you attack the line of scrimmage and

1713
01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:39,479
Speaker 1: stop the guy. The Chargers did none of that well.

1714
01:33:39,560 --> 01:33:41,599
Speaker 1: And the reason they didn't stop him is because their

1715
01:33:41,680 --> 01:33:44,200
Speaker 1: thirtieth in the league and run defense, and they are

1716
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:47,519
Speaker 1: dead last in football in third down defense. And this

1717
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:50,000
Speaker 1: was a third and four. Yeah, it stalely takes the

1718
01:33:50,080 --> 01:33:56,640
Speaker 1: time out. Ugly. It is ugly because you know, you

1719
01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:58,840
Speaker 1: got the at the end of it. And I get

1720
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:02,640
Speaker 1: this too, and this is where we all live hindsights

1721
01:34:02,680 --> 01:34:05,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. You can and second guessing is the is

1722
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:10,120
Speaker 1: the great American sport. But yeah, that's just that's just rough.

1723
01:34:10,439 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: That's a really really rough turn of events for the Chargers.

1724
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:18,720
Speaker 1: And you know, their defense was suspect all night and

1725
01:34:18,920 --> 01:34:22,479
Speaker 1: has been throughout the season, and it cost him in

1726
01:34:22,560 --> 01:34:25,120
Speaker 1: that game last night with that final run. And Justin

1727
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:30,240
Speaker 1: Herbert had an all time performance. I think they were

1728
01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 1: six of seven on fourth down and I mean we're

1729
01:34:33,439 --> 01:34:37,120
Speaker 1: talking fourth and twenty one. Listen, he fourth and fifteen,

1730
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:40,400
Speaker 1: fourth and ten. I mean, are you kidding me? I

1731
01:34:40,479 --> 01:34:44,440
Speaker 1: saw this and I'll never find it. But the statistic

1732
01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:51,360
Speaker 1: was that Justin Herbert and across the entire league. Um,

1733
01:34:53,439 --> 01:34:54,880
Speaker 1: let's see if I can, Let's see if I can

1734
01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:57,280
Speaker 1: find it. And it was. It was unbelievable. About the

1735
01:34:57,520 --> 01:34:59,840
Speaker 1: statistics across the league about fourth down going for it?

1736
01:35:00,479 --> 01:35:06,439
Speaker 1: Uh in four on fourth down this year? Um yeah,

1737
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 1: Chargers were six of seven on fourth down six of

1738
01:35:11,280 --> 01:35:13,840
Speaker 1: sere we go here it is. This is from Roger

1739
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 1: Sherman um Er. Entering today, the NFL quarterbacks had twenty

1740
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:22,960
Speaker 1: first downs on eighty five possible attempts on fourth and

1741
01:35:23,280 --> 01:35:27,360
Speaker 1: nine or longer scenarios this last season twenty on eighty

1742
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:31,080
Speaker 1: five attempts. Herbert went five of five in the last

1743
01:35:31,160 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 1: ten minutes of that game. Last five minutes that game

1744
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:37,640
Speaker 1: last night, and in overtime he had twenty percent of

1745
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:41,800
Speaker 1: the season's fourth of long pass conversions by himself in

1746
01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 1: the last three drives of that game. Wow, that's how

1747
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:49,439
Speaker 1: that special house that game last night, I walked, I

1748
01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 1: stayed up to like twelve thirty at night watching it.

1749
01:35:51,479 --> 01:35:53,840
Speaker 1: I got home and it was unbelievable. How did and

1750
01:35:54,120 --> 01:35:59,880
Speaker 1: a couple of those throws were like Josh's touchdown past

1751
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:03,280
Speaker 1: yesterday to Diggs. He fits it in places on a

1752
01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:06,720
Speaker 1: fourth and twenty point. Yeah, unbelievable. I don't know what

1753
01:36:06,800 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 1: The Raiders were smoking on those fourth and longs, but

1754
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:13,519
Speaker 1: he was throwing it. And he had twenty percent of

1755
01:36:13,640 --> 01:36:18,519
Speaker 1: the NFL's fourth and long past conversions by himself on

1756
01:36:18,640 --> 01:36:21,719
Speaker 1: the last play of the regular season in a must

1757
01:36:21,800 --> 01:36:25,280
Speaker 1: win game, and he's going home. He's a special thrower,

1758
01:36:25,400 --> 01:36:27,599
Speaker 1: yes he I mean, next to Aaron Rodgers. He might

1759
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:32,320
Speaker 1: be the best pure passer in football. He is going

1760
01:36:32,439 --> 01:36:36,479
Speaker 1: to be. He is going to be a problem for

1761
01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:39,360
Speaker 1: a lot of teams who passed on him in the draft. Year.

1762
01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:41,240
Speaker 1: He came out big problem in the AFC. All right,

1763
01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:43,200
Speaker 1: we have to take a break because when we come back,

1764
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:46,519
Speaker 1: it's time for our weekly visit with Bills radio color

1765
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:49,080
Speaker 1: analyst Eric Wood. He'll let us know what he saw

1766
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:52,080
Speaker 1: from the radio booth last night and the Bills win

1767
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 1: over the Jets. We're back with Eric here on One

1768
01:36:54,520 --> 01:36:57,240
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1769
01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:17,040
Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields.

1770
01:37:17,120 --> 01:37:18,720
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1771
01:37:18,800 --> 01:37:25,120
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

1772
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:31,040
Speaker 1: in the straded beer of normalcy. All right. Here we

1773
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:35,200
Speaker 1: are our number three on a Bills victory. Monday, the

1774
01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:40,920
Speaker 1: AFC Wildcard Game awaits with New England the opponent for

1775
01:37:41,280 --> 01:37:44,920
Speaker 1: Round three in the twenty twenty one season, the two

1776
01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:49,160
Speaker 1: teams splitting the previous two meetings and watching it all

1777
01:37:49,360 --> 01:37:52,679
Speaker 1: yesterday from the radio booth where there are now two

1778
01:37:52,960 --> 01:37:55,560
Speaker 1: space heaters, Might I add, Steve, Yeah, I saw that

1779
01:37:55,760 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 1: was nice. Eric. I still don't think he gave Murph

1780
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:00,639
Speaker 1: enough garbage for that. I think you should have raked

1781
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:03,200
Speaker 1: him over the coals on social media even more than

1782
01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:06,400
Speaker 1: you did. But you know, you're You're a classy gentleman,

1783
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:08,280
Speaker 1: so I get I mean, you got to work with

1784
01:38:08,360 --> 01:38:11,519
Speaker 1: the guy, so I get it. But for what he

1785
01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:13,720
Speaker 1: put you through to turn around and come back with

1786
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:16,000
Speaker 1: a space heater of his own in the radio booth

1787
01:38:16,080 --> 01:38:19,000
Speaker 1: the very next week, I mean to me, that is

1788
01:38:19,200 --> 01:38:22,240
Speaker 1: free game. One hundred and fifty percent. You should have

1789
01:38:22,360 --> 01:38:25,040
Speaker 1: let loose. Yeah, and it might not be over. It

1790
01:38:25,200 --> 01:38:29,120
Speaker 1: might not be over the spaceheater dilemma there, And because

1791
01:38:29,160 --> 01:38:31,640
Speaker 1: I did catch a lot of grief, and you know,

1792
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:33,960
Speaker 1: I could have defended myself even harder too, but I

1793
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:36,120
Speaker 1: didn't want to play the I didn't want to toot

1794
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:39,719
Speaker 1: my own horman too much and say, look, I played

1795
01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: all of my career with the Bills, and I never

1796
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:45,759
Speaker 1: wore sleeves once in a game. I've proved my toughness.

1797
01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:49,720
Speaker 1: If I want to be comfortable. Now, I'm calling a game,

1798
01:38:49,800 --> 01:38:51,639
Speaker 1: trying to do my job, and I let my teeth

1799
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:55,040
Speaker 1: chatter the entire time with a little heater, I'm gonna

1800
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:57,360
Speaker 1: do it. You know what. I give props to my man,

1801
01:38:57,479 --> 01:39:00,599
Speaker 1: Greg Hardy, because that dude makes everything on the back

1802
01:39:00,720 --> 01:39:03,600
Speaker 1: end for us. And I guess he knew I was

1803
01:39:03,640 --> 01:39:06,800
Speaker 1: cold because he brought it for me. And so I

1804
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:10,160
Speaker 1: give Greg a lot of credit. Yeah, especially finding an

1805
01:39:10,240 --> 01:39:12,200
Speaker 1: extra outlet there. There's a lot of power in there

1806
01:39:12,400 --> 01:39:14,360
Speaker 1: they got. I sit in the back of your booth,

1807
01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:15,760
Speaker 1: you know, because it's kind of too There's a couple

1808
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:18,360
Speaker 1: of seats. Mattie and I sit there and and Brownie

1809
01:39:18,439 --> 01:39:21,599
Speaker 1: does his pregame stuff from there as well. And it's

1810
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:25,560
Speaker 1: interesting because the hot You've got a window right in

1811
01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:29,040
Speaker 1: front of you, right, and it opens from the bottom up.

1812
01:39:29,080 --> 01:39:31,479
Speaker 1: It raises like a garage door right the window does.

1813
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:38,360
Speaker 1: It is unbelievable how how precise the heat in that

1814
01:39:38,600 --> 01:39:42,479
Speaker 1: booth stays just above the open bottom part of that window.

1815
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 1: If it's above my I'm up, I'm two levels above you.

1816
01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:47,439
Speaker 1: If it's up above my ankles, my feet are cold.

1817
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:51,080
Speaker 1: If you could just lower it six inches now you're

1818
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:54,560
Speaker 1: putting any requests, we'd be gold in the back, be

1819
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:57,479
Speaker 1: gold because every you know, oh my god, it is.

1820
01:39:57,680 --> 01:39:59,960
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable how good the heater works in that place.

1821
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:02,640
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, you open that thing and that

1822
01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:05,759
Speaker 1: heat is gone up to the bottom of that window.

1823
01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:08,680
Speaker 1: That's good. It's a good vantage point still though, Oh yeah,

1824
01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:11,679
Speaker 1: no question, All right, Eric, So let's first talk about

1825
01:40:11,960 --> 01:40:14,559
Speaker 1: the game. You know, they get off to a hot

1826
01:40:14,640 --> 01:40:19,519
Speaker 1: start on offense, and then there's a lull where maybe

1827
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:22,360
Speaker 1: for about a quarter and a half, the offense just

1828
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:26,000
Speaker 1: looks out of sync. And this is not the first

1829
01:40:26,080 --> 01:40:28,720
Speaker 1: time that we have seen this. Now, they did get

1830
01:40:28,760 --> 01:40:31,320
Speaker 1: it together, they fought through it, and they close out

1831
01:40:31,360 --> 01:40:33,960
Speaker 1: the game and win by seventeen. So they say, okay,

1832
01:40:34,040 --> 01:40:38,320
Speaker 1: no worries. But knowing the level of competition is taking

1833
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:42,439
Speaker 1: a noticeable step up here going forward, how do they

1834
01:40:42,600 --> 01:40:47,320
Speaker 1: iron out those lulls in play? Knowing they're probably not

1835
01:40:47,439 --> 01:40:50,720
Speaker 1: going to have that kind of margin for error in

1836
01:40:50,840 --> 01:40:54,320
Speaker 1: the postseason. Right when it's one and done. From this

1837
01:40:54,439 --> 01:40:56,280
Speaker 1: point on, you just don't want to have some kind

1838
01:40:56,320 --> 01:40:58,680
Speaker 1: of lull like that hurt you. And you know, it's

1839
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:01,080
Speaker 1: great to get off on a heart staff the hot

1840
01:41:01,200 --> 01:41:04,519
Speaker 1: start that they did and really almost hopped up fourteen

1841
01:41:04,600 --> 01:41:07,920
Speaker 1: nothing but the touchdown gets called back or else or else.

1842
01:41:08,000 --> 01:41:10,519
Speaker 1: We're really talking about a hot start to start that game.

1843
01:41:10,720 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: So that being said, it's great to have that. And

1844
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:14,719
Speaker 1: that's when you're comparing it to the law. It looks

1845
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:18,400
Speaker 1: so dramatic, but that ultimately comes back on like, what's

1846
01:41:18,439 --> 01:41:20,880
Speaker 1: your identity that can pull you out of that law

1847
01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:23,080
Speaker 1: when you need it. And as the Bills have gotten

1848
01:41:23,160 --> 01:41:26,519
Speaker 1: more balanced, you know, at times it seems like when

1849
01:41:26,560 --> 01:41:29,599
Speaker 1: they're not just when that passing game isn't clicking per se,

1850
01:41:30,040 --> 01:41:32,400
Speaker 1: then they can get in a law. But I'll say this,

1851
01:41:32,520 --> 01:41:35,200
Speaker 1: of the thirty seven points scored in that game yesterday,

1852
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:38,200
Speaker 1: thirty four of them were scored when the wind was

1853
01:41:38,320 --> 01:41:41,680
Speaker 1: at that team's back. There was some circumstantial deals with

1854
01:41:41,760 --> 01:41:44,120
Speaker 1: that as well, but thirty four points. The only three

1855
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 1: points in the game that were scored into the wind

1856
01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:49,640
Speaker 1: was the Bills drive with under two minutes left in

1857
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 1: the first half, and so the wind played a factor

1858
01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:54,519
Speaker 1: in that wall. It makes it harder to throw the ball.

1859
01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:56,920
Speaker 1: The safeties can creep up so they can play tighter

1860
01:41:57,000 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. That helps take away some of

1861
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:01,840
Speaker 1: the shorter throws. It probably helped take away the run

1862
01:42:01,960 --> 01:42:04,320
Speaker 1: game a little bit more when you have that wind

1863
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 1: that you're going into it. But you know, this is

1864
01:42:07,320 --> 01:42:11,400
Speaker 1: an offense that has a ton of explosive power, and

1865
01:42:12,560 --> 01:42:14,120
Speaker 1: you know, you just hate to see them take those

1866
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:16,320
Speaker 1: laws at times because you know what this offense is

1867
01:42:16,360 --> 01:42:19,200
Speaker 1: capable of. Yeah, what what did you make of the

1868
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:22,240
Speaker 1: Jets yesterday? Their offense just couldn't get out of its

1869
01:42:22,280 --> 01:42:25,120
Speaker 1: own way. And I know, the Bills pass rush, I

1870
01:42:25,160 --> 01:42:27,800
Speaker 1: mean it was like, you know, it was like the

1871
01:42:27,920 --> 01:42:30,560
Speaker 1: beach in Hawaii. Man, they just kept crashing in. It was.

1872
01:42:30,680 --> 01:42:32,519
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. And there, you know, the run game

1873
01:42:32,600 --> 01:42:35,000
Speaker 1: was non existent. They got you know, they gave up

1874
01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:38,560
Speaker 1: a forty yard pass play for a touchdown and thirteen

1875
01:42:38,760 --> 01:42:40,760
Speaker 1: yards other than that, the entire rest of the game

1876
01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 1: net yards. It was a bad day for the Jet offense.

1877
01:42:44,320 --> 01:42:47,599
Speaker 1: And what about their defense? I mean they had taken

1878
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:50,960
Speaker 1: the world champion Tampa Bay Bucks to the wire a

1879
01:42:51,120 --> 01:42:53,760
Speaker 1: week ago before a week before they played Buffalo, So

1880
01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:56,600
Speaker 1: I don't think their defense is in as bad as

1881
01:42:56,640 --> 01:42:58,840
Speaker 1: shape as their offense appeared to be yesterday. What are

1882
01:42:58,840 --> 01:43:00,360
Speaker 1: your what's your take on both sides to the ball

1883
01:43:00,400 --> 01:43:01,920
Speaker 1: for the Jets and the quality of opponent of the

1884
01:43:01,960 --> 01:43:05,559
Speaker 1: Bills beat Well, let me first off the start off

1885
01:43:05,640 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 1: by saying, when I heard your analogy with the waves

1886
01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 1: crashing in Hawaii, I feel like, as an analyst and

1887
01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:14,320
Speaker 1: broadcaster and someone who's getting more intertwined in the media,

1888
01:43:14,320 --> 01:43:17,559
Speaker 1: I need to improve on my analogies game. I would

1889
01:43:17,600 --> 01:43:19,560
Speaker 1: listen to you call the games last year, Steve, and

1890
01:43:20,760 --> 01:43:22,559
Speaker 1: I would always crack up at some of your analogy,

1891
01:43:22,640 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: So I need to make a conscious effort in being

1892
01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:26,639
Speaker 1: better at those. Maybe I'll try and work a couple

1893
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:30,400
Speaker 1: in before the end of the show. But I'll say this,

1894
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:35,280
Speaker 1: the Jets offense they looked a lot better two weeks

1895
01:43:35,320 --> 01:43:38,400
Speaker 1: ago against the Bucks than they did yesterday. The Bills

1896
01:43:38,479 --> 01:43:41,559
Speaker 1: made them just look awful. Fifty three yards of total

1897
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:44,640
Speaker 1: offense that doesn't happen in NFL football games. And you

1898
01:43:44,720 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: know the Bills dealt with the win too, and they

1899
01:43:46,439 --> 01:43:48,760
Speaker 1: go over four hundred yards on offense. So that was

1900
01:43:48,800 --> 01:43:53,960
Speaker 1: a dominated performance. Once Crowder went out at receiver for

1901
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:56,559
Speaker 1: the Jets, they were really limited at receiver. Their top

1902
01:43:56,640 --> 01:43:58,720
Speaker 1: four receivers out at that point for them, So that

1903
01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:01,080
Speaker 1: becomes really tough on Will. But you know, when you

1904
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:03,320
Speaker 1: got the number two draft picked that you didn't face

1905
01:44:03,680 --> 01:44:05,840
Speaker 1: earlier in the year, and he's going to, you know,

1906
01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:08,240
Speaker 1: essentially be in the division as long as the Jets

1907
01:44:08,280 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 1: stick with him, you want to put a performance like

1908
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:14,120
Speaker 1: this on the board against him to kind of set

1909
01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:17,160
Speaker 1: the standard what it's going to be like, hopefully moving forward.

1910
01:44:17,320 --> 01:44:19,800
Speaker 1: When you played this Bills defense, but no, that's not

1911
01:44:19,920 --> 01:44:23,040
Speaker 1: a top notch offense by any means. But they've been

1912
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:24,960
Speaker 1: putting up points. Five out of the last seven games.

1913
01:44:25,040 --> 01:44:27,160
Speaker 1: Chris Brown said it on the pregame show. Five out

1914
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:29,800
Speaker 1: of their last seven games have been one score games.

1915
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:31,720
Speaker 1: It's not like this team is getting blown out week

1916
01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:34,080
Speaker 1: in week out, and the Bills defense just made them

1917
01:44:34,160 --> 01:44:37,120
Speaker 1: look terrible. And then the Jets defense, you know, as

1918
01:44:37,160 --> 01:44:39,800
Speaker 1: soon as they lost Carl Lawson before the year, they're

1919
01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:41,479
Speaker 1: big time pass rusher. It was going to be an

1920
01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:43,280
Speaker 1: uphill battle for them to rush the passer, and they

1921
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:45,760
Speaker 1: have not rushed the passer well this season, but they

1922
01:44:45,800 --> 01:44:48,479
Speaker 1: got some quality pieces. I thought the offensive line played

1923
01:44:48,520 --> 01:44:51,400
Speaker 1: another good game yesterday. The protection was there at times,

1924
01:44:51,439 --> 01:44:54,040
Speaker 1: the run game was there. Devin Singletary goes for eighty

1925
01:44:54,080 --> 01:44:57,360
Speaker 1: eight yards aided by one forty yard run. But if

1926
01:44:57,360 --> 01:44:59,639
Speaker 1: we're going to critique this Bills defense all year and say, well,

1927
01:44:59,640 --> 01:45:02,080
Speaker 1: you can't take out the one big run to say

1928
01:45:02,160 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 1: that their yards per carry isn't that good, then you

1929
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:06,960
Speaker 1: can't take out Devin Singletary's in this sense. Then. So

1930
01:45:07,520 --> 01:45:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, I thought the Bills took care of business

1931
01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:11,640
Speaker 1: yesterday and in a windy game where you hit some

1932
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:15,880
Speaker 1: lalls and you had the obvious special teams blunders coming

1933
01:45:15,960 --> 01:45:18,800
Speaker 1: from the punts, well, you took care of business and

1934
01:45:18,800 --> 01:45:22,280
Speaker 1: you win by seventeen points. So, Eric, let's look at

1935
01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:26,720
Speaker 1: this now looking forward, because you know, we've seen each

1936
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 1: of the last two weeks the passing game kind of

1937
01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:32,439
Speaker 1: hits a dry spell through the course of a game.

1938
01:45:33,320 --> 01:45:36,040
Speaker 1: Last week, they chose to turn to the running game

1939
01:45:36,120 --> 01:45:38,559
Speaker 1: to help them out. I think most of us would

1940
01:45:38,600 --> 01:45:41,479
Speaker 1: agree that yesterday it was the defense that kind of

1941
01:45:41,560 --> 01:45:45,479
Speaker 1: held things down until they got their rhythm back on offense.

1942
01:45:46,720 --> 01:45:51,000
Speaker 1: You hear this mantra often from veteran coaches in this league.

1943
01:45:51,600 --> 01:45:55,519
Speaker 1: Two things that travel in the playoffs are defense and

1944
01:45:55,600 --> 01:45:59,919
Speaker 1: a run game. How important is it that it appeared

1945
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:06,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense and run game are peaking right now. We

1946
01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:09,719
Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday that you know, offense sales tickets,

1947
01:46:09,720 --> 01:46:12,639
Speaker 1: in defense wins championships. So I have this defense play

1948
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:15,240
Speaker 1: the way that they have as of Layton, really throughout

1949
01:46:15,280 --> 01:46:17,640
Speaker 1: the entire season, lead the league and points given up

1950
01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:21,200
Speaker 1: per game, lead the league in yards given up per game.

1951
01:46:21,520 --> 01:46:24,439
Speaker 1: But really, to me, the way they've been rushing the

1952
01:46:24,520 --> 01:46:27,960
Speaker 1: passer lately has been extremely impressive, and that was kind

1953
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:30,639
Speaker 1: of the missing part of the defense throughout the season.

1954
01:46:30,680 --> 01:46:32,599
Speaker 1: Their pass defense is so great, but the pass rush

1955
01:46:32,720 --> 01:46:35,240
Speaker 1: wasn't even there, especially with the four man pass rush.

1956
01:46:35,320 --> 01:46:37,560
Speaker 1: Now they had some well timed blitz Matt Mulana was

1957
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:40,640
Speaker 1: extremely effective running rushing the passer, but the four man

1958
01:46:40,720 --> 01:46:43,160
Speaker 1: pass rush wasn't there. Well in the last three weeks

1959
01:46:43,200 --> 01:46:45,200
Speaker 1: it is shown up and shown up in a big way,

1960
01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 1: and I even think that second half of the Tampa

1961
01:46:47,320 --> 01:46:50,160
Speaker 1: Bay game, the four man pass rush was better as well.

1962
01:46:50,240 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: So you're trending upwards on defense from a defense that

1963
01:46:53,320 --> 01:46:55,760
Speaker 1: was ranked so high throughout this season, I feel like

1964
01:46:55,800 --> 01:46:58,519
Speaker 1: you're trending upwards on defense, especially when it comes to

1965
01:46:58,680 --> 01:47:01,160
Speaker 1: the pass rush. And I'll say the play of the

1966
01:47:01,240 --> 01:47:04,880
Speaker 1: two interior guys in the middle versus run and the pass,

1967
01:47:05,240 --> 01:47:07,640
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips and at Oliver these last three weeks have

1968
01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 1: been dominant, both of them, and they've made it hard

1969
01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:13,040
Speaker 1: for teams to run the ball. They both rushed the

1970
01:47:13,120 --> 01:47:17,160
Speaker 1: passer well for interior defensive lineman, so they've been a

1971
01:47:17,280 --> 01:47:20,439
Speaker 1: difference maker as far as this defense continuing to get better,

1972
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:22,880
Speaker 1: and then as far as the offense goes, you love

1973
01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:25,840
Speaker 1: to have that other dimension that you can fall back on,

1974
01:47:26,040 --> 01:47:28,760
Speaker 1: whether it's a rushing team that can also pass or

1975
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:31,320
Speaker 1: a passing team that can also rush. You can only

1976
01:47:31,400 --> 01:47:33,760
Speaker 1: pay so many guys your weapons are. You know, it's

1977
01:47:33,800 --> 01:47:35,760
Speaker 1: gonna be rare that you're ever going to have an

1978
01:47:35,840 --> 01:47:39,360
Speaker 1: equally strong run game and pass game. We would all

1979
01:47:39,400 --> 01:47:41,320
Speaker 1: sit here and say, with the amount of weapons that

1980
01:47:41,360 --> 01:47:43,200
Speaker 1: the Bills have on the outside and the quarterback that

1981
01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: you have, the strength of your team is going to

1982
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:48,400
Speaker 1: be the pass game. But when you face windy conditions,

1983
01:47:48,439 --> 01:47:50,639
Speaker 1: when you face the cold, maybe there's a day it's

1984
01:47:50,640 --> 01:47:52,840
Speaker 1: just not clicking. The way the Bills been able to

1985
01:47:52,920 --> 01:47:56,919
Speaker 1: run the football these last few weeks and really yesterday

1986
01:47:56,960 --> 01:47:59,680
Speaker 1: without any help from Josh Allen his only runs in

1987
01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:03,240
Speaker 1: the game or quarterbacks scrambles on pass plays. To be

1988
01:48:03,280 --> 01:48:05,280
Speaker 1: able to run the football the way they have been lately,

1989
01:48:06,520 --> 01:48:09,560
Speaker 1: it definitely encourages you with the Bills heading into the

1990
01:48:09,560 --> 01:48:12,400
Speaker 1: playoffs and as we get close now, and he turned

1991
01:48:12,439 --> 01:48:14,320
Speaker 1: the page and look ahead to you know, the rubber

1992
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:17,080
Speaker 1: match between the Patriots and the Bills. I've said I

1993
01:48:17,120 --> 01:48:19,760
Speaker 1: said a little bit ago. I think it's fascinating to

1994
01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:23,400
Speaker 1: think about how the Bills view the Patriots after the

1995
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:26,120
Speaker 1: two games they've played, what their strengths and weaknesses are,

1996
01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:28,559
Speaker 1: The way Josh put the Cape on in New England

1997
01:48:28,640 --> 01:48:30,920
Speaker 1: and won that game with those final two drives and

1998
01:48:31,000 --> 01:48:33,200
Speaker 1: put it out of reach, with the way it went

1999
01:48:33,439 --> 01:48:35,760
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo with forty mile an hour wins, and

2000
01:48:35,920 --> 01:48:38,519
Speaker 1: what these teams know about each other in the recent

2001
01:48:38,640 --> 01:48:42,320
Speaker 1: in their recent history. It's gonna be fascinating to get

2002
01:48:42,360 --> 01:48:45,040
Speaker 1: an idea of what these two coaching staffs think about

2003
01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:46,960
Speaker 1: each other's teams and what that's going to look like

2004
01:48:47,040 --> 01:48:50,640
Speaker 1: on the field. You're exactly right. And you know the

2005
01:48:50,680 --> 01:48:52,400
Speaker 1: first thing you do when you get to play in

2006
01:48:52,400 --> 01:48:55,120
Speaker 1: New England, just considering how the two games went, you

2007
01:48:55,280 --> 01:48:58,080
Speaker 1: instantly look at the weather and I guess they're projecting

2008
01:48:58,160 --> 01:49:02,720
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty five hour wins a high of twenty degrees. Well,

2009
01:49:02,760 --> 01:49:05,599
Speaker 1: that would be considerably better conditions than the first time

2010
01:49:05,640 --> 01:49:09,280
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park. So yes, because that wind and the

2011
01:49:09,439 --> 01:49:12,040
Speaker 1: cold can play a factor in your game plan. And

2012
01:49:12,320 --> 01:49:15,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots are likely a better run team than the

2013
01:49:15,240 --> 01:49:18,479
Speaker 1: Bills at this point. But that's fine. You know, we'll

2014
01:49:18,520 --> 01:49:21,439
Speaker 1: see kind of all that shakes out weatherwise, But you know,

2015
01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:25,160
Speaker 1: two totally different ball games when those two teams played,

2016
01:49:25,200 --> 01:49:28,760
Speaker 1: and you know, the performance the Bills put on at

2017
01:49:28,880 --> 01:49:32,320
Speaker 1: New England should definitely be encouraging. But this is a

2018
01:49:32,439 --> 01:49:34,760
Speaker 1: this is a quality ball club with the Patriots, and

2019
01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:37,840
Speaker 1: you know, Mac Jones gets this label as like this

2020
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:40,679
Speaker 1: game manager. But two weeks ago he looked incredible against Jacksonville.

2021
01:49:40,680 --> 01:49:42,679
Speaker 1: But he's kind of been on this roller coaster ride.

2022
01:49:42,760 --> 01:49:44,840
Speaker 1: And will he be able to put it together in

2023
01:49:44,920 --> 01:49:47,280
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Obviously he's a rookie. We've never seen him

2024
01:49:47,280 --> 01:49:49,080
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. What's he gonna look like? In a

2025
01:49:49,240 --> 01:49:51,920
Speaker 1: playoff game for New England. Now that coaching staff is

2026
01:49:51,920 --> 01:49:55,000
Speaker 1: a ton of experience in preparing quarterbacks for playoff football,

2027
01:49:55,040 --> 01:49:57,200
Speaker 1: but he doesn't, and he's going against the number one

2028
01:49:57,240 --> 01:50:00,720
Speaker 1: defense in the league in Highmark Stadium. I think they're

2029
01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:02,160
Speaker 1: gonna have to rely on that run game. And this

2030
01:50:02,280 --> 01:50:05,240
Speaker 1: Bills rushed defense has been so much better lately, and

2031
01:50:05,360 --> 01:50:07,200
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it, like I mentioned earlier,

2032
01:50:07,320 --> 01:50:10,439
Speaker 1: is from their defensive tackles. Yeah. Right, And the Bills

2033
01:50:10,560 --> 01:50:13,320
Speaker 1: right now against rookie quarterbacks this season have a record

2034
01:50:13,360 --> 01:50:15,519
Speaker 1: of two and three. But mac Jones does have one

2035
01:50:15,560 --> 01:50:18,400
Speaker 1: of those victories. That was the week three and two?

2036
01:50:18,560 --> 01:50:21,479
Speaker 1: Right or three? Is it three and two? They lost? Yes, well,

2037
01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:25,400
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson lost yesterday. So now they're oh, I'm saying

2038
01:50:25,479 --> 01:50:27,639
Speaker 1: the Bills are three and two against them, all right, Yeah, yeah,

2039
01:50:27,640 --> 01:50:29,760
Speaker 1: we're saying bookie quarterback. Yeah, we're saying the same thing.

2040
01:50:29,880 --> 01:50:33,439
Speaker 1: Rookie quarterbacks are two and three against the Bills this year. Um,

2041
01:50:33,880 --> 01:50:36,160
Speaker 1: with Zack Wilson dropping the game yesterday. But mac Jones

2042
01:50:36,200 --> 01:50:37,920
Speaker 1: has one of those two victories in which he barely

2043
01:50:37,960 --> 01:50:41,200
Speaker 1: threw the ball in a fourteen to two count. It

2044
01:50:41,320 --> 01:50:44,519
Speaker 1: doesn't in my book, but whatever. The last one I've

2045
01:50:44,560 --> 01:50:47,720
Speaker 1: got you for you, Eric, is this. I asked Josh

2046
01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:52,960
Speaker 1: Allen yesterday about Stefan Diggs looking playoff ready. It was

2047
01:50:53,080 --> 01:50:55,960
Speaker 1: the most involved we have ever seen him in a

2048
01:50:56,080 --> 01:50:59,679
Speaker 1: game this year. He had eight catches in the first half.

2049
01:51:00,080 --> 01:51:03,200
Speaker 1: It was more reminiscent of what we saw from this

2050
01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:06,320
Speaker 1: passing game last year, where Diggs just seemed to be

2051
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:10,560
Speaker 1: a part of every series, every drive, etc. That's what

2052
01:51:10,680 --> 01:51:12,439
Speaker 1: it looked like in the first half. So I asked

2053
01:51:12,520 --> 01:51:14,920
Speaker 1: Josh about it. He gave me this answer, which I

2054
01:51:14,960 --> 01:51:18,200
Speaker 1: thought was very interesting. Throughout the year, he didn't have

2055
01:51:18,280 --> 01:51:20,920
Speaker 1: as many targets and receptions as he did last year,

2056
01:51:21,280 --> 01:51:24,160
Speaker 1: and maybe that was a little bit by design, just

2057
01:51:24,439 --> 01:51:26,240
Speaker 1: to try to keep him fresh in the hopes that

2058
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:28,439
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to be in the playoffs. But

2059
01:51:28,560 --> 01:51:29,960
Speaker 1: he looks really good. I want to try to throw

2060
01:51:30,040 --> 01:51:32,519
Speaker 1: to him as much as possible. YadA, YadA, YadA. My

2061
01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:38,280
Speaker 1: question to you, Eric, by design, so they diversify the offense.

2062
01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:42,200
Speaker 1: Fortunately with the emergence of Dawson Knox, Emmanuel Sanders comes in,

2063
01:51:42,880 --> 01:51:46,439
Speaker 1: John Brown out and they did make a point of

2064
01:51:46,600 --> 01:51:49,439
Speaker 1: trying to spread the ball around more this year. Do

2065
01:51:49,600 --> 01:51:53,400
Speaker 1: you think it's a byproduct of going into the playoffs

2066
01:51:53,560 --> 01:51:57,479
Speaker 1: last year with a dinged up Stefon Diggs with an

2067
01:51:57,520 --> 01:52:00,720
Speaker 1: oblique muscle strain and a cold easily with a crack

2068
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:03,080
Speaker 1: bone in his leg because the burden was so heavy

2069
01:52:03,120 --> 01:52:05,760
Speaker 1: on those two last year. Did they take that and say,

2070
01:52:06,400 --> 01:52:09,160
Speaker 1: let's try to pace everybody and then we'll lean on

2071
01:52:09,280 --> 01:52:11,519
Speaker 1: him maybe more like we did in twenty twenty when

2072
01:52:11,560 --> 01:52:15,400
Speaker 1: we get to the postseason this year. If you're asking

2073
01:52:15,479 --> 01:52:18,240
Speaker 1: me if I think Sean McDermott is so analytical and

2074
01:52:18,840 --> 01:52:21,600
Speaker 1: put so much thought into everything about this organization that

2075
01:52:21,680 --> 01:52:24,040
Speaker 1: I think he could possibly consider that, the answer is

2076
01:52:24,080 --> 01:52:28,880
Speaker 1: one yes. The way Sean McDermott is is you know,

2077
01:52:29,160 --> 01:52:32,439
Speaker 1: any way that he thinks he can improve this team

2078
01:52:32,600 --> 01:52:35,160
Speaker 1: and improve the chances of winning a Super Bowl. The

2079
01:52:35,240 --> 01:52:38,599
Speaker 1: answer is absolutely yes. And I love that you asked that, Chris,

2080
01:52:38,680 --> 01:52:41,000
Speaker 1: and I love that Josh even was willing to give

2081
01:52:41,040 --> 01:52:43,439
Speaker 1: you more than the well, you know, just at times

2082
01:52:43,479 --> 01:52:45,880
Speaker 1: this year maybe we were attacking matchups and you know,

2083
01:52:46,439 --> 01:52:49,559
Speaker 1: you know, the zone coverage didn't dictate it. He pulled

2084
01:52:49,600 --> 01:52:51,720
Speaker 1: back the covers a little bit there. Yeah, and so,

2085
01:52:52,080 --> 01:52:54,320
Speaker 1: and I don't think Josh, would you know, blow smoke

2086
01:52:54,360 --> 01:52:57,800
Speaker 1: about something like this. So no, I definitely think there's

2087
01:52:58,200 --> 01:53:01,280
Speaker 1: potentially something real there. Now, the last time they played

2088
01:53:01,320 --> 01:53:04,240
Speaker 1: the Jets, they knew they loved their matchups with Stevon Diggs,

2089
01:53:04,240 --> 01:53:06,120
Speaker 1: and they peppered him in the last game too, And

2090
01:53:06,240 --> 01:53:08,040
Speaker 1: so it could have been a game plan thing as well,

2091
01:53:08,160 --> 01:53:11,280
Speaker 1: just knowing that you love what Stefon Diggs can do

2092
01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:14,800
Speaker 1: against that secondary of the Jets. But I love the

2093
01:53:14,880 --> 01:53:16,960
Speaker 1: fact that you can get to the playoffs now. You

2094
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:19,479
Speaker 1: never want to say, hey, we dropped a chance of

2095
01:53:19,560 --> 01:53:21,519
Speaker 1: the two seed and hosting another playoff game or a

2096
01:53:21,560 --> 01:53:23,400
Speaker 1: trance of the buy. I don't think that's the case.

2097
01:53:23,920 --> 01:53:26,360
Speaker 1: But maybe in times in the second half when they're

2098
01:53:26,479 --> 01:53:28,920
Speaker 1: crushing teams the way they have this year, all their

2099
01:53:28,960 --> 01:53:31,800
Speaker 1: wins by twelve or more points, there was probably likely

2100
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Speaker 1: some times in the second half where they said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we don't necessarily need to throw these hitch rouses Savon

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01:53:37,840 --> 01:53:40,439
Speaker 1: Diggs on the outside versus off coverage that they did

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01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:42,680
Speaker 1: so many times last year and take these shots on

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01:53:42,800 --> 01:53:46,080
Speaker 1: them because we need him come playoff time. Yeah, because

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01:53:46,960 --> 01:53:50,120
Speaker 1: he Josh said that last night when I asked the question,

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01:53:50,200 --> 01:53:52,160
Speaker 1: and then the next thing I thought of immediately was

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01:53:52,680 --> 01:53:56,200
Speaker 1: this team invests so much time in sports science. They

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01:53:56,360 --> 01:53:59,000
Speaker 1: knew they had an extra regular season game to play,

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01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:03,360
Speaker 1: and they knew that their passing games suffered last year

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01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:06,799
Speaker 1: in the playoffs with Beasley and Diggs not one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: I have to believe it's part of the plan. And

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Speaker 1: when Josh kind of clued us in, I was like, Oh,

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01:54:11,439 --> 01:54:14,080
Speaker 1: this was definitely part of the deal here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just yea makes sense. There's a there's an argument

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01:54:17,320 --> 01:54:19,320
Speaker 1: to be made for if you really think you can

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01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:23,400
Speaker 1: get a team to play them left handed and put

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01:54:23,520 --> 01:54:25,760
Speaker 1: some stuff on film that other teams have to watch

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01:54:25,840 --> 01:54:29,680
Speaker 1: and have to consider. Having teams waste time preparing for

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01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:32,600
Speaker 1: you to run plays or schemes that you have no

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01:54:32,760 --> 01:54:37,480
Speaker 1: intention of running is a plus. We used to talk

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01:54:37,520 --> 01:54:41,720
Speaker 1: about it when we played. I don't think it was

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01:54:41,760 --> 01:54:43,800
Speaker 1: as big a deal as it actually is now. I

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01:54:43,880 --> 01:54:46,000
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of that going on, where teams

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01:54:46,040 --> 01:54:50,320
Speaker 1: will run a play here and there to skew percentages

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01:54:50,720 --> 01:54:52,760
Speaker 1: to how big a red flag it throws up for

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01:54:52,840 --> 01:54:54,800
Speaker 1: the other team. All of that, and I've heard you

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01:54:54,920 --> 01:54:57,040
Speaker 1: talk about it as well, where a team gets into

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01:54:57,080 --> 01:54:59,880
Speaker 1: it late in a game where they're up by four

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01:55:01,280 --> 01:55:04,000
Speaker 1: and there's less than five minutes left in the game,

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01:55:04,040 --> 01:55:05,400
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they're doing what are they

2131
01:55:05,440 --> 01:55:07,840
Speaker 1: doing here? That's not even a sound defense that they're running.

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01:55:09,200 --> 01:55:11,560
Speaker 1: It happens. I don't know that I'd do it for

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01:55:11,640 --> 01:55:13,840
Speaker 1: sixty minutes of an NFL game, knowing what can happen

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01:55:13,920 --> 01:55:16,480
Speaker 1: on a Sunday, but certainly there is that in every

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01:55:16,560 --> 01:55:21,080
Speaker 1: team's mix. Right. Well, I'll say this, and well, we

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01:55:21,120 --> 01:55:23,600
Speaker 1: saw the obvious one yesterday, the motion Josh Alden went

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01:55:23,640 --> 01:55:28,240
Speaker 1: to a wildcat, and so to me, Brian day Ball

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01:55:28,280 --> 01:55:31,240
Speaker 1: has zero one offs in this playbook. And that's one

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01:55:31,240 --> 01:55:33,360
Speaker 1: of my favorite things about Brian day Balls and offensive

2140
01:55:33,360 --> 01:55:36,280
Speaker 1: coordinator is there's everything mirrors each other. It makes it

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01:55:36,440 --> 01:55:39,080
Speaker 1: really hard to prepare for out of each and every set,

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01:55:39,120 --> 01:55:41,600
Speaker 1: there's multiple play So in my book, I don't know

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01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:43,680
Speaker 1: if it comes out this week against New England, but

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01:55:43,840 --> 01:55:47,160
Speaker 1: there are other dimensions to that wildcat, I would assume.

2145
01:55:47,200 --> 01:55:49,360
Speaker 1: And so you put it on tape yesterday, and so

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01:55:49,480 --> 01:55:51,320
Speaker 1: now in New England this week hasts to say, okay,

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01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:54,320
Speaker 1: well now we got to prepare for the wildcat. Okay,

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01:55:54,400 --> 01:55:56,800
Speaker 1: let's go back and look at previous places where Brian

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01:55:56,880 --> 01:55:59,440
Speaker 1: day Ball has been or anywhere else, anyone else on

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01:55:59,520 --> 01:56:02,040
Speaker 1: staff that has done wildcat packages. What are the throws

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01:56:02,080 --> 01:56:03,920
Speaker 1: they've used? Are they going to throw it back to

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01:56:04,120 --> 01:56:06,839
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. We've seen Brian day Ball get pretty creative

2153
01:56:06,880 --> 01:56:09,200
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I think back to the first playoff

2154
01:56:09,280 --> 01:56:12,200
Speaker 1: game he was the offensive coordinator for with the Bills

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01:56:12,200 --> 01:56:15,120
Speaker 1: against Houston, and Josh Allen catches a touchdown pass in

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01:56:15,200 --> 01:56:17,240
Speaker 1: that game, and so you got to think, Okay, maybe

2157
01:56:17,280 --> 01:56:20,520
Speaker 1: there's some wildcat and it was just little nuances. It

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01:56:20,680 --> 01:56:23,240
Speaker 1: was that fourth that forty yard run early in the game.

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01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:26,480
Speaker 1: They had Dawson Knox lined up at tight end and

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01:56:26,640 --> 01:56:29,960
Speaker 1: Tommy Doyle outside of him on one of those, and

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01:56:30,000 --> 01:56:33,240
Speaker 1: then on another one they took Spencer Brown the right

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01:56:33,280 --> 01:56:34,920
Speaker 1: tackle and put them at left tight end and put

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01:56:35,000 --> 01:56:37,280
Speaker 1: Tommy Doyle in at right tackle. Generally, when you bring

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01:56:37,320 --> 01:56:39,360
Speaker 1: your extra offit's a lineman in. You just put them

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01:56:39,400 --> 01:56:41,640
Speaker 1: at tight end on either side. You won't mix and

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01:56:41,800 --> 01:56:45,120
Speaker 1: put guys on different sides, and so they're they're just

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01:56:45,280 --> 01:56:48,560
Speaker 1: great and to me, it shows intentionality. You make teams

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Speaker 1: prepare for it. And we've talked about on the show.

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01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:52,720
Speaker 1: But we used to watch film on New England and

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01:56:52,880 --> 01:56:55,600
Speaker 1: we'd be so far into the woods on all these

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01:56:55,680 --> 01:56:58,360
Speaker 1: blitzes and pressures, and I'd say, we wind that real quick,

2172
01:56:58,440 --> 01:57:00,360
Speaker 1: go back to the start of the play where it's you,

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01:57:01,400 --> 01:57:03,960
Speaker 1: the time of the clock left and the score. I said,

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01:57:04,040 --> 01:57:08,800
Speaker 1: this breaks the rule New England's second half two touchdown leader. More.

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01:57:09,160 --> 01:57:13,000
Speaker 1: They do unsound things defensively with blitzes at times, just

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01:57:13,200 --> 01:57:15,080
Speaker 1: so you have to spend the time during the week

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01:57:15,120 --> 01:57:17,760
Speaker 1: to prepare for it. It's just fortunate now that I'm

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01:57:17,800 --> 01:57:19,760
Speaker 1: covering the team that the Bills are so good they're

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Speaker 1: doing it the other teams. Yeah, yeah, I totally get that.

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01:57:25,160 --> 01:57:27,800
Speaker 1: And you're right, because think about what that means. They

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01:57:27,840 --> 01:57:29,600
Speaker 1: got let's wait a minute, wait a minute, they got

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01:57:29,720 --> 01:57:32,600
Speaker 1: Bencer Brown over here, they got Tommy Doyle. Doyle's playing

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01:57:32,640 --> 01:57:36,560
Speaker 1: the wing back, and Dawson Knox he was inside of them, right. So,

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01:57:36,920 --> 01:57:38,840
Speaker 1: and what that does is people are gonna, wow, that's

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01:57:38,880 --> 01:57:41,640
Speaker 1: just stupid. Well it's not, because the defense has rules.

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01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:43,440
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna throw a pass route, now, all

2187
01:57:43,480 --> 01:57:45,480
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you have the safety on the wing

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01:57:45,600 --> 01:57:51,040
Speaker 1: back and a linebacker on Dawson Knox or vice versa. Right.

2189
01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:53,400
Speaker 1: I mean, so you get the matchup you want because

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01:57:53,440 --> 01:57:55,400
Speaker 1: you line a guy up outside and the rules of

2191
01:57:55,440 --> 01:57:58,600
Speaker 1: the defense say you take him, you take him, and

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01:57:58,720 --> 01:58:00,240
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter all of a sudden, what are you

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01:58:00,240 --> 01:58:01,760
Speaker 1: gonna do if they put Steph Diggs in there with

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01:58:01,840 --> 01:58:04,720
Speaker 1: his hand on the ground a tight end and Tommy

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01:58:04,800 --> 01:58:07,960
Speaker 1: Doyle outside of him, right, So all of that because

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01:58:08,040 --> 01:58:10,320
Speaker 1: then you got a linebacker on Steph Diggs, one on

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01:58:10,760 --> 01:58:12,960
Speaker 1: all this stuff. It all goes into the mix and

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01:58:13,040 --> 01:58:17,080
Speaker 1: it's it's just like, where are you getting the weeds? Right?

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01:58:17,160 --> 01:58:18,880
Speaker 1: You get in the weeds thinking about that stuff, and

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01:58:18,960 --> 01:58:20,600
Speaker 1: you can't you forget. You got a game coming up

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01:58:20,600 --> 01:58:24,240
Speaker 1: in forty eight hours. Yep, And Devin Singletary rips off

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01:58:24,280 --> 01:58:25,800
Speaker 1: that forty yard run and that was the one where

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01:58:25,800 --> 01:58:29,720
Speaker 1: they've moved. They moved Spencer Brown over from right tackled

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01:58:29,760 --> 01:58:33,360
Speaker 1: to left tight end and had Tommy Doyle. Well, I'm

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01:58:33,400 --> 01:58:35,880
Speaker 1: watching the defense try and get lined up, and everybody's

2206
01:58:35,880 --> 01:58:38,600
Speaker 1: got a gap here. Sean McDermot talk about anytime this

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01:58:38,640 --> 01:58:42,360
Speaker 1: Bill's rushed run defense is struggled, it's gap integrity. You

2208
01:58:42,440 --> 01:58:44,160
Speaker 1: know one guy that wasn't in their gap it was

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01:58:44,240 --> 01:58:46,200
Speaker 1: in the right spot. Well, the defense is struggling to

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01:58:46,240 --> 01:58:48,440
Speaker 1: get lined up, and then you have a third and one,

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01:58:48,520 --> 01:58:50,280
Speaker 1: third and two and you rip off forty yards because

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01:58:50,280 --> 01:58:53,160
Speaker 1: they can't figure out who's got what gap. Because if

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01:58:53,240 --> 01:58:55,800
Speaker 1: it's not to get not to confuse people. I hate

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01:58:55,960 --> 01:58:58,040
Speaker 1: I hate when I get too deep at times and

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01:58:58,360 --> 01:59:00,640
Speaker 1: you know, talking over people's head. But when the tackle

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01:59:00,720 --> 01:59:02,280
Speaker 1: goes over to the other side, we call that an

2217
01:59:02,360 --> 01:59:06,640
Speaker 1: unbalanced formation. The entire defense shifts. So anytime the tackle

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01:59:06,720 --> 01:59:10,160
Speaker 1: goes over, that's what it becomes. One additional offensive lineman

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01:59:10,200 --> 01:59:13,080
Speaker 1: coming into the game doesn't necessarily addictate that. But when

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01:59:13,120 --> 01:59:15,440
Speaker 1: the right tackle moves over, then you still have an

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01:59:15,720 --> 01:59:18,280
Speaker 1: offensive lineman at right tackle. Okay, well, now is a

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01:59:18,360 --> 01:59:21,040
Speaker 1: tackle over un balanced or is this just a balance formation?

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01:59:21,360 --> 01:59:24,480
Speaker 1: And then boom there goes Devin Singletary forty yards and

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01:59:24,840 --> 01:59:28,160
Speaker 1: it's all scheme. Yeah right, Eric is always thanks for

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01:59:28,240 --> 01:59:29,960
Speaker 1: the time. We will catch up with you later in

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01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:34,080
Speaker 1: the week and again next Monday. Yep, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: See Eric wood, Bill's radio color analyst former Bill Center,

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01:59:38,560 --> 01:59:41,160
Speaker 1: joining us here as he does every Monday after football games,

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01:59:41,520 --> 01:59:44,680
Speaker 1: dicing up, chopping up the game. Another Bill's victory as

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01:59:44,680 --> 01:59:48,560
Speaker 1: they finished with four victories to close out the regular season.

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01:59:48,720 --> 01:59:50,720
Speaker 1: We will take a break, but we come back. We'll

2232
01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:52,760
Speaker 1: get some of your thoughts on the tweet sheet and

2233
01:59:52,960 --> 01:59:56,600
Speaker 1: maybe go around the locker room see what the players

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01:59:56,640 --> 02:00:00,400
Speaker 1: were saying after this big division clinching win over the Jets.

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Speaker 1: and then go back outside. I mean, that's that's like

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Speaker 1: having your house behind the stadium. Yeah. One of my

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Speaker 1: one of my former teammates, and I think I know

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Speaker 1: you're talking, has one of those. I stopped by that.

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Speaker 1: I stopped by that yesterday and hopped up inside. I

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Speaker 1: way to go. And I'm in a point in my

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Speaker 1: life where I don't mind being spoiled. Sure. I mean

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Speaker 1: there was a time in my life when I'd go

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Speaker 1: the hard road, you know, and gut it out for

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Speaker 1: the for the team. But those days are gone. Man,

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Speaker 1: give me, give me the give me the couple hundred

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Speaker 1: and kick back right before we go to around the

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Speaker 1: locker room. We want to pass along to you. It

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Speaker 1: has begun Bill's fans. The Chicago Bears, who fired head

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Speaker 1: coach Matt Naggie along with general manager Ryan Pace, have

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Speaker 1: requested Leslie Frazier for an interview for their head coaching position.

2270
02:02:02,800 --> 02:02:05,320
Speaker 1: We'll see what the Bills do here in terms of

2271
02:02:05,400 --> 02:02:09,240
Speaker 1: granting permission. I'm assuming they will. The question of timing, though,

2272
02:02:09,960 --> 02:02:12,320
Speaker 1: is at issue here with the Bills having a game

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02:02:12,800 --> 02:02:15,680
Speaker 1: in six days, so we'll have to seek You'll have

2274
02:02:15,720 --> 02:02:19,520
Speaker 1: to see where it all goes. But yes, Leslie Frasier,

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02:02:19,560 --> 02:02:22,160
Speaker 1: as we told you, a hot coaching candidate. There are

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Speaker 1: now six vacant head coaching positions to be filled, and

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears have formally asked for permission to interview

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier for their head coaching job. We go now, though,

2279
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Speaker 1: around the locker room. It is time to do that,

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Speaker 1: leading us off on clinching the AFC East and playing

2283
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Speaker 1: a home playoff game for the second year in a row.

2284
02:02:53,760 --> 02:02:58,920
Speaker 1: To play here, you know, it wasn't it wasn't even

2285
02:02:59,560 --> 02:03:02,080
Speaker 1: packed out there, but if you could feel the crowd,

2286
02:03:02,200 --> 02:03:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean playing at home, playing in Western New York,

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02:03:08,520 --> 02:03:11,440
Speaker 1: especially late late in the year. It's been a long

2288
02:03:11,520 --> 02:03:16,080
Speaker 1: time since these fans because of the situation last year

2289
02:03:16,200 --> 02:03:18,080
Speaker 1: since the fans have been able to watch the home

2290
02:03:18,160 --> 02:03:23,280
Speaker 1: playoff game in full capacity. So listen to we we

2291
02:03:23,400 --> 02:03:25,720
Speaker 1: love playing in front of our fans. It's a special

2292
02:03:25,760 --> 02:03:27,960
Speaker 1: place to play. To me, the best place in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And uh and we look forward to next weekend. I

2294
02:03:31,520 --> 02:03:33,400
Speaker 1: think they do look forward to next weekend, as do

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Speaker 1: every fan, every single fan that's gonna be attending the

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Speaker 1: game out Saturday. This place is gonna be Yeah, it's

2297
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Speaker 1: gonna be shaking. At the beginning of the game, we

2298
02:03:41,640 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: all start about how the Bills got off the fast start.

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02:03:44,040 --> 02:03:46,640
Speaker 1: I get it deep and I don't want to change

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02:03:46,640 --> 02:03:48,800
Speaker 1: the subject, except it just caught my eye again. The

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Speaker 1: coin flip. The coin flip. They flipped the coin three.

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Speaker 1: You knew it was gonna be a long day for

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Speaker 1: Zebras when they can't flip the coin. It was bad.

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Speaker 1: Oh Josh is looking at the refles half an at him.

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Speaker 1: They flips it the first time, Joshica, what we have

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Speaker 1: a coin? We have a coin. I have a second coin.

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Speaker 1: So then there was that. Then the first touchdown they

2308
02:04:13,440 --> 02:04:17,920
Speaker 1: call incomplete. Then before coach McDermott can challenge it, they

2309
02:04:18,040 --> 02:04:20,280
Speaker 1: changed the They reverse the call on the field, it's

2310
02:04:20,320 --> 02:04:23,560
Speaker 1: that I was touchdown, and then because it's a touchdown

2311
02:04:23,600 --> 02:04:25,800
Speaker 1: and a scoring play, they have to go review it

2312
02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:28,200
Speaker 1: because every scoring play is reviewed. So they flipped a

2313
02:04:28,240 --> 02:04:30,960
Speaker 1: coin three times, they checked on a touchdown three times,

2314
02:04:31,160 --> 02:04:33,760
Speaker 1: and for three quarters of the game. Head referee John

2315
02:04:33,840 --> 02:04:38,080
Speaker 1: Hussey couldn't know, didn't how to use his microphone. That's

2316
02:04:38,120 --> 02:04:40,360
Speaker 1: where we are sometimes, that's where we are in this

2317
02:04:40,480 --> 02:04:43,640
Speaker 1: league with officiates. Sometimes this league blows your mind with

2318
02:04:43,800 --> 02:04:47,040
Speaker 1: the kind of power and prestige and the things hundreds

2319
02:04:47,120 --> 02:04:50,080
Speaker 1: of billions of dollars. This league can pull off stuff

2320
02:04:50,120 --> 02:04:55,000
Speaker 1: that nobody even thought possible. And then they get can't

2321
02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:58,720
Speaker 1: even flip the d the coin, Flip the coin and

2322
02:04:58,920 --> 02:05:01,960
Speaker 1: turn your mics with it's a toggle. It's like one thing.

2323
02:05:02,120 --> 02:05:04,760
Speaker 1: It's either this way or that way. Flip the switch

2324
02:05:04,880 --> 02:05:08,360
Speaker 1: and talk. Yeah, it was terrible. The guy that runs

2325
02:05:08,440 --> 02:05:10,920
Speaker 1: the microphones, you know, they usually go out in the

2326
02:05:10,960 --> 02:05:13,280
Speaker 1: pregame and they do a microphone check. They walk all

2327
02:05:13,480 --> 02:05:15,080
Speaker 1: to all parts of the field to make sure the

2328
02:05:15,160 --> 02:05:17,720
Speaker 1: frequency is good so the referee can be heard in

2329
02:05:17,760 --> 02:05:19,680
Speaker 1: all parts of the field where everybody might be moving.

2330
02:05:20,080 --> 02:05:22,920
Speaker 1: That poor man is doing a referee mic Check for

2331
02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:25,080
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes. He must have said it fifty times

2332
02:05:25,160 --> 02:05:27,720
Speaker 1: referee mic Check one two one two check one two

2333
02:05:27,840 --> 02:05:31,000
Speaker 1: referee mic Check. He ran out onto the field four

2334
02:05:31,160 --> 02:05:33,920
Speaker 1: times to try to show him how to properly turn

2335
02:05:34,000 --> 02:05:38,720
Speaker 1: it on so we can hear you, Holy crow. I

2336
02:05:38,800 --> 02:05:40,600
Speaker 1: had to go back into my rule book and find

2337
02:05:40,640 --> 02:05:44,800
Speaker 1: out what all the signals meant. John Hussey struggled big

2338
02:05:44,920 --> 02:05:48,120
Speaker 1: time from the coin flip on. I mean, it looked

2339
02:05:48,120 --> 02:05:51,800
Speaker 1: like a preseason both teams the Bills got got penalized

2340
02:05:52,080 --> 02:05:54,920
Speaker 1: four for forty plus and the Jets four for like

2341
02:05:55,040 --> 02:05:58,160
Speaker 1: twenty five or so. So it wasn't They weren't busy,

2342
02:05:58,280 --> 02:06:02,000
Speaker 1: which wasn't very nice. Yeah, admit, but man, oh man,

2343
02:06:02,040 --> 02:06:03,920
Speaker 1: it's nice when you win. It's not nice when you

2344
02:06:04,240 --> 02:06:07,760
Speaker 1: get an egregious non call that stinks moving around the

2345
02:06:07,840 --> 02:06:11,480
Speaker 1: locker room. Josh Allen was asked what is different about

2346
02:06:11,480 --> 02:06:14,680
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one Bills in comparison to the twenty

2347
02:06:14,760 --> 02:06:18,000
Speaker 1: twenty Bills. Here was his answer on that subject. With

2348
02:06:18,120 --> 02:06:22,120
Speaker 1: the knowledge that we've gained over the last couple of years, obviously,

2349
02:06:22,640 --> 02:06:24,240
Speaker 1: like I said, I keep saying this, the main goal

2350
02:06:24,360 --> 02:06:28,440
Speaker 1: is to win a super Bowl, and you know, tooth

2351
02:06:28,480 --> 02:06:29,640
Speaker 1: and now we're going to find a way to get

2352
02:06:29,680 --> 02:06:32,200
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. And we did. And you know, it's

2353
02:06:32,240 --> 02:06:35,760
Speaker 1: fortun enough that we've won won the East, but the main,

2354
02:06:36,040 --> 02:06:37,840
Speaker 1: main thing is still in front of us, and we

2355
02:06:37,960 --> 02:06:41,320
Speaker 1: understand that. So again, we're happy, we're excited to have

2356
02:06:41,400 --> 02:06:44,760
Speaker 1: this opportunity tonight, but by no means does this feel

2357
02:06:44,760 --> 02:06:47,640
Speaker 1: like we've accomplished what we want to accomplish. I'm gonna

2358
02:06:47,640 --> 02:06:53,320
Speaker 1: ask you this, Steve last year thirteen and three, ripping

2359
02:06:53,400 --> 02:06:56,520
Speaker 1: off six wins down the stretch and blowing teams off

2360
02:06:56,600 --> 02:07:00,480
Speaker 1: the field. Yeah they they finished last year. Yeah, a

2361
02:07:00,520 --> 02:07:04,520
Speaker 1: thousand miles an hour. Right, So here's my question. While

2362
02:07:04,560 --> 02:07:07,120
Speaker 1: there is adversity every NFL season, I think we can

2363
02:07:07,200 --> 02:07:11,000
Speaker 1: agree that the hurdles they had to clear last year

2364
02:07:12,240 --> 02:07:16,320
Speaker 1: paled in comparison to the ones they've had to get

2365
02:07:16,400 --> 02:07:20,440
Speaker 1: over this year. With the setbacks they've experienced. I mean,

2366
02:07:20,600 --> 02:07:22,760
Speaker 1: there were offensive line injuries last year or two. They

2367
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:27,400
Speaker 1: were doing some juggling upfront, but the setbacks that this

2368
02:07:27,600 --> 02:07:32,000
Speaker 1: team had, you know, losing an overtime at Tampa after

2369
02:07:32,120 --> 02:07:35,120
Speaker 1: coming all the way back from a twenty one point deficit,

2370
02:07:35,640 --> 02:07:39,880
Speaker 1: slip and fall in Tennessee, the Jacksonville game. You know,

2371
02:07:41,480 --> 02:07:45,720
Speaker 1: there are multiple games forty mile hour wins, multiple games

2372
02:07:45,760 --> 02:07:47,360
Speaker 1: that you can look at and be like, oh my god,

2373
02:07:47,440 --> 02:07:50,360
Speaker 1: that was a killer, Oh that was a crusher. Is

2374
02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:55,240
Speaker 1: this team more battle tested for the postseason than maybe

2375
02:07:55,400 --> 02:07:58,720
Speaker 1: last year's team in light of the roller coaster that

2376
02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:02,200
Speaker 1: this year was. Think about it. Last year the Bills

2377
02:08:02,240 --> 02:08:05,400
Speaker 1: had it as difficult to schedule to navigate as any

2378
02:08:05,440 --> 02:08:07,960
Speaker 1: team in the league had. Last year, they ran a

2379
02:08:08,080 --> 02:08:17,240
Speaker 1: gauntlet NFC West, AFC West, the North. They played Pittsburgh

2380
02:08:17,680 --> 02:08:22,880
Speaker 1: and they played who was it since it was Pittsburgh Baltimore. Right, No,

2381
02:08:23,040 --> 02:08:27,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they played Pittsburgh last year, right, that's right.

2382
02:08:27,120 --> 02:08:29,600
Speaker 1: So they had they ran, They had a schedule that

2383
02:08:29,680 --> 02:08:33,280
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. Tennessee they played last year. They really ran

2384
02:08:33,360 --> 02:08:35,560
Speaker 1: the gauntlet last year went thirteen and three through it,

2385
02:08:36,320 --> 02:08:42,000
Speaker 1: and this year the schedule was markedly easier by the

2386
02:08:42,040 --> 02:08:44,200
Speaker 1: time they win. But by the same token that the

2387
02:08:44,280 --> 02:08:47,360
Speaker 1: whole conference was wide open. You got all these teams

2388
02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:51,040
Speaker 1: that were in it. Right until yesterday, twelve teams had

2389
02:08:51,120 --> 02:08:55,600
Speaker 1: eight wins at least. It was a tough conference to

2390
02:08:55,680 --> 02:08:58,720
Speaker 1: get to the top of and with the setbacks you're

2391
02:08:58,760 --> 02:09:06,040
Speaker 1: talking about, particularly in the offensive line. Yeah, yeah, I

2392
02:09:06,160 --> 02:09:09,520
Speaker 1: was more battle tested this year. And yes, and I'd

2393
02:09:09,520 --> 02:09:12,800
Speaker 1: say this, why all of that stuff, aside the fact

2394
02:09:12,840 --> 02:09:14,800
Speaker 1: that most of the leaders and the key guys on

2395
02:09:14,920 --> 02:09:18,640
Speaker 1: this squad went through that playoff run last year, will

2396
02:09:18,720 --> 02:09:21,920
Speaker 1: help him this year. We'll help him this year. That

2397
02:09:22,160 --> 02:09:24,480
Speaker 1: lost in the AFC Championship game last year, the game

2398
02:09:24,520 --> 02:09:27,640
Speaker 1: against Baltimore here, the game against the Indianapolis Colts here,

2399
02:09:28,720 --> 02:09:32,800
Speaker 1: and the games against Tennessee and New England of late,

2400
02:09:33,440 --> 02:09:36,560
Speaker 1: they'll all help them. I'll all help him because I

2401
02:09:36,600 --> 02:09:38,400
Speaker 1: will say the biggest difference for me, and I said

2402
02:09:38,400 --> 02:09:41,080
Speaker 1: this on our Bills Field Pass pregame show with Maddie,

2403
02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:47,040
Speaker 1: that you what's different about this team this year from

2404
02:09:47,120 --> 02:09:51,720
Speaker 1: last year. Last year, this team wrote its passing game.

2405
02:09:52,520 --> 02:09:55,360
Speaker 1: It was dominant, it was more consistent, and it was

2406
02:09:55,440 --> 02:09:58,000
Speaker 1: more precise than the passing game is this year. I

2407
02:09:58,160 --> 02:10:01,280
Speaker 1: believe the differ friends with this year's team though, is

2408
02:10:01,280 --> 02:10:04,440
Speaker 1: it's a more well rounded team. The defense last year

2409
02:10:04,720 --> 02:10:06,680
Speaker 1: was not as good as the defense is the road

2410
02:10:06,760 --> 02:10:09,680
Speaker 1: last year's statistic. The defense this year is number one

2411
02:10:09,720 --> 02:10:12,560
Speaker 1: in the league in multiple categories. They are a better defense.

2412
02:10:12,600 --> 02:10:15,760
Speaker 1: They are a dominant defense, and their run game is

2413
02:10:15,840 --> 02:10:19,440
Speaker 1: better this year than it was last year. I think

2414
02:10:19,480 --> 02:10:24,040
Speaker 1: it is a more well rounded team to navigate the

2415
02:10:24,280 --> 02:10:27,440
Speaker 1: lulls in play. You've got a defense that can backstop

2416
02:10:27,520 --> 02:10:30,480
Speaker 1: you against just about anybody if your offense isn't clicking

2417
02:10:30,560 --> 02:10:33,560
Speaker 1: on all cylinders, and you can use the run game,

2418
02:10:33,880 --> 02:10:35,680
Speaker 1: which has proven itself in the second half of the

2419
02:10:35,720 --> 02:10:39,480
Speaker 1: season to be functional enough to at least keep you

2420
02:10:39,640 --> 02:10:42,600
Speaker 1: on schedule on offense even when your passing game isn't

2421
02:10:42,600 --> 02:10:44,920
Speaker 1: clicking on all cylinders. I think that makes them a

2422
02:10:45,120 --> 02:10:47,160
Speaker 1: better team, a more well rounded team, and a more

2423
02:10:47,240 --> 02:10:51,480
Speaker 1: dangerous team this year in comparison to last year. Even

2424
02:10:51,520 --> 02:10:54,720
Speaker 1: if their passing game isn't as consistent and precise as

2425
02:10:54,760 --> 02:10:57,640
Speaker 1: it was in twenty I think this team gives themselves

2426
02:10:57,680 --> 02:11:00,480
Speaker 1: a better chance to win against a variety a bigger

2427
02:11:00,560 --> 02:11:03,520
Speaker 1: variety of opponents, you know what I mean. Last year

2428
02:11:03,560 --> 02:11:07,040
Speaker 1: their passing game was and I guess it's also in

2429
02:11:07,080 --> 02:11:13,000
Speaker 1: a wider variety of conditions. Last year's team didn't want

2430
02:11:13,040 --> 02:11:15,280
Speaker 1: to or even attempt to run the ball very much.

2431
02:11:15,960 --> 02:11:17,960
Speaker 1: This year's team has been forced to do that at

2432
02:11:18,040 --> 02:11:20,880
Speaker 1: times and has done it much better. As a result,

2433
02:11:21,880 --> 02:11:26,480
Speaker 1: this team, their offensive line seems to be cresting at

2434
02:11:26,520 --> 02:11:28,960
Speaker 1: the right moment rather than maybe a month and a

2435
02:11:29,000 --> 02:11:33,080
Speaker 1: half early. I think the games that they have faced,

2436
02:11:33,160 --> 02:11:35,200
Speaker 1: the teams they've faced this year, and the way that

2437
02:11:35,320 --> 02:11:39,840
Speaker 1: they've had to win games has forced them to be

2438
02:11:40,000 --> 02:11:43,440
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and grow in those areas. So yeah, I think

2439
02:11:43,600 --> 02:11:45,800
Speaker 1: I think it's a good point. It's it's worth discussion

2440
02:11:46,160 --> 02:11:49,240
Speaker 1: as whether this team is more versatile and able to

2441
02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:52,160
Speaker 1: win against teams by doing something other than having Josh

2442
02:11:52,240 --> 02:11:54,560
Speaker 1: throw the football forty five times. Yeah, you could make

2443
02:11:54,600 --> 02:11:56,920
Speaker 1: the argument this was a one trick pony team last year.

2444
02:11:56,960 --> 02:12:00,760
Speaker 1: They were outstanding at that one thing, but everything else

2445
02:12:00,840 --> 02:12:03,000
Speaker 1: kind of came along for the ride. There is a

2446
02:12:03,080 --> 02:12:06,560
Speaker 1: better support system around that passing game with this year's team.

2447
02:12:06,600 --> 02:12:08,400
Speaker 1: I think it makes him a more dangerous team in

2448
02:12:08,440 --> 02:12:10,920
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Hopefully that proves to be true. Break time

2449
02:12:10,960 --> 02:12:12,200
Speaker 1: for us. We're back to close it up in a

2450
02:12:12,280 --> 02:12:26,200
Speaker 1: second stay tune. Well, we told you in the last

2451
02:12:26,200 --> 02:12:29,640
Speaker 1: segment of the show. It has begun. Leslie Frazier reportedly

2452
02:12:30,000 --> 02:12:33,240
Speaker 1: has been requested by the Chicago Bears for an interview

2453
02:12:33,320 --> 02:12:36,480
Speaker 1: for their vacant head coaching position. We told you that

2454
02:12:36,600 --> 02:12:39,160
Speaker 1: front office people here in Buffalo are also going to

2455
02:12:39,240 --> 02:12:43,839
Speaker 1: be requested. That has reportedly happened. ESPN's Adam Schefter reporting

2456
02:12:43,880 --> 02:12:47,240
Speaker 1: that the Giants are requesting an interview with Bill's assistant

2457
02:12:47,320 --> 02:12:51,360
Speaker 1: GM Joe Shane for their general manager's job. It was

2458
02:12:51,440 --> 02:12:55,280
Speaker 1: reported earlier today that Giants GM Dave Gettlman is going

2459
02:12:55,320 --> 02:12:59,200
Speaker 1: to retire. If he didn't, he probably would have been fired.

2460
02:13:00,000 --> 02:13:03,800
Speaker 1: He has chosen to retire, and now Joe Shane, the

2461
02:13:04,160 --> 02:13:07,320
Speaker 1: Bills assistant GM, has been requested for an interview for

2462
02:13:07,400 --> 02:13:13,080
Speaker 1: their vacant general manager position. We've also yeah, the Dallas

2463
02:13:13,120 --> 02:13:16,680
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator has been requested by Denver dan Quinn, whose

2464
02:13:16,760 --> 02:13:21,200
Speaker 1: former Atlanta Falcon's head coach. Right right, So all those

2465
02:13:21,360 --> 02:13:24,000
Speaker 1: names are gonna start squirreling around. Bills are gonna going

2466
02:13:24,080 --> 02:13:26,920
Speaker 1: to be Bills. Bills names are gonna be around. Joe

2467
02:13:27,000 --> 02:13:31,040
Speaker 1: Shane has been a huge boost for the Bills. They

2468
02:13:31,160 --> 02:13:36,680
Speaker 1: lost Dan Morgan already to the Carolina Panthers, and now

2469
02:13:36,920 --> 02:13:40,120
Speaker 1: Leslie that Giants situations kind of messy, Like it's gonna

2470
02:13:40,120 --> 02:13:42,080
Speaker 1: be really interesting if they're holding on to Joe Judge,

2471
02:13:42,080 --> 02:13:44,200
Speaker 1: are you a GM that wants to inherit a head coach.

2472
02:13:44,200 --> 02:13:46,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's an ideal scenario, especially for

2473
02:13:46,640 --> 02:13:49,080
Speaker 1: a first time GM one questions need to be answered. Yep,

2474
02:13:49,480 --> 02:13:52,600
Speaker 1: we're back tomorrow at one. Kyle Brandt joins us. We'll

2475
02:13:52,640 --> 02:13:55,680
Speaker 1: get his thoughts on the big win and the upcoming

2476
02:13:55,720 --> 02:13:58,320
Speaker 1: Bills Patriots game. We'll see you tomorrow at one pm.

2477
02:13:58,400 --> 02:14:04,320
Speaker 1: People make sure you're there with us. L