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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

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Speaker 1: We're not even in the straded beer of normalcy. All right,

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you here on One Field's Live, getting ready

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Speaker 1: for a Week eighteen matchup. We finally made it to

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Speaker 1: the end of the regular season. Steve. I wasn't sure

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Speaker 1: Who knew one extra game would do so much to

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Speaker 1: a grind. Can you say? That's all? It's all the

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Speaker 1: like Groundhog Day. Although every game is different and every

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Speaker 1: I would say, all things considered. Ryan Bates, according to

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Speaker 1: Imagine that is that illegal? So it's pretty remarkable. And

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Speaker 1: bring that to you as soon as it's made available. Steve,

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Speaker 1: You know when you see things so often, whether it's

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Speaker 1: beginning of the year, Robert Sala might be the best

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Speaker 1: head coaching higher the Jets have made in a long

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Speaker 1: long time, maybe since Herm Edwards. Yeah, I think best

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Speaker 1: coaching hire since Herm Edwards for them. Well, here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: and we've seen it here in Buffalo, a ton where

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Speaker 1: you might have the head coach be pretty good, the

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Speaker 1: GM's not right, or vice versa, the GM's not right

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Speaker 1: and the head coach is whatever. So I like Robert Sala,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that they're going to be able to

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Speaker 1: pick the right players for him. I gotta see that

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Speaker 1: jury is still out. They had seven or eight rookies

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Speaker 1: on this roster that made the team, and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: and they play, and slo put him on the field,

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Speaker 1: and as they were his best options, so they picked

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Speaker 1: those guys. Whether those guys are gonna seven or eight

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Speaker 1: starters from this year opening day are gonna be back

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Speaker 1: next year and back in the startings position is another thing. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. The contributors. Obviously, you have

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, Okay, Elijah Vera Tucker looks like a good guard.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna play for a long time. Then you have

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Speaker 1: the running back, Michael Carter established himself as the primary back.

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Speaker 1: He's a multifaceted kid. Can catch out of the backfield,

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Speaker 1: can run between the tackles, can run outside, can make

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Speaker 1: people miss. Looks like a good young player. Then you

448
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Speaker 1: have their nickel corner who's also named Michael Carter. Pretty

449
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Speaker 1: good Nickel corner took some lumps early in the season,

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Speaker 1: but he's playing better now. And then their seventh round

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Speaker 1: draft choice, Brandon Eccles starting corner and making plays, picked

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Speaker 1: off Brady last week and is having a nice rookie season.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a handful of guys right there

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Speaker 1: from this year's draft. Yeah. I've said this before. I

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Speaker 1: feel think look back at teams who have done that

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Speaker 1: through the draft, like and gone to the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: go back to like twenty twelve, almost a decade ago.

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Speaker 1: Now that you think about, it's the it's the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: They got four starters in two consecutive drafts, two four

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Speaker 1: really good solid starters and two consecutive drafts, and it

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Speaker 1: went from just Seattle Seahawks to the Legion of Boom

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Speaker 1: and two super Bowls within Three's tell you get good.

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Speaker 1: Let's tell you do it because they're on rookie contracts

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Speaker 1: and they're big contributors and you can sprinkle in some

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Speaker 1: real talent around them. And I didn't even mention Elijah Moore,

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Speaker 1: the slot receiver that they draft in the second round

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Speaker 1: out of Old Miss who's on ir now but was

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Speaker 1: having a good season as well. He looks like a

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Speaker 1: future playmaker for them as well, and probably the air

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Speaker 1: apparent to Jamison Crowder, the veteran slot guy. So Elijah

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Speaker 1: Moore was a guy the Bills like the lock two

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Speaker 1: right Beckton McKay. Beckton will be back next year at

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Speaker 1: left tackle. That'll help. So yeah, it all depends. They've

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Speaker 1: got to continue to build a lot of work. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of lot to do. But I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: I like Robert sala. I think he's an outstanding leader

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Speaker 1: and a really good coach. I like his persona from

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Speaker 1: you know, we're five hundred miles or literally five hundred

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Speaker 1: miles away, so you know, what do we know? But

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Speaker 1: it's always it's a it's a vastly different environment playing

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Speaker 1: for the New York Jets and it is playing for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills or Cleveland Browns or the you know,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers or whoever. The New York atmosphere with that

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Speaker 1: franchise and what it deals with is different, and it's

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Speaker 1: much more difficult outside the lines. So we'll see if

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Speaker 1: they can get it together and you know, and continue

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Speaker 1: to grow. We have the Fan Friday mail bag open

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Speaker 1: for you. Courtesy of our show One Bills Live. Any

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Speaker 1: questions you have about the league at large or the Bills,

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Speaker 1: fire them off on Twitter, add one Bills Live or

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Speaker 1: fifty first hour of the show is open for you

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Speaker 1: because our number two we will have Greg co Sell

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Speaker 1: from NFL Films to break down some of the x's

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Speaker 1: and o's in this matchup. And then final half hour

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Speaker 1: of the show former Bill's offensive tackle Jonas Jennings, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be joining us. He is currently working for the

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Speaker 1: University of Georgia, his alma mater, in the player development

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Speaker 1: area for the football team. We're gonna get a little

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Speaker 1: National Championship preview, which, as you know, is coming up

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Speaker 1: on Monday between Alabama and Georgia, the rematch from the

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Speaker 1: SEC title game, which was won by Alabama. So it'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to catch up with Jonas and get his

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the game, as biased as they might be.

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Speaker 1: That it'll be good to catch up with Jonas. I

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Speaker 1: was just telling Steve I haven't talked to him probably

508
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Speaker 1: in about fifteen years. He was a good young tackle

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Speaker 1: when he was here. And then unfortunately he got so

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Speaker 1: good that when the Bills did not resign him to

511
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: a second contract and he went into free agency, people

512
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: were throwing money at him and he got big money

513
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: to go and play out in San Francisco after that,

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00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: and never saw him again in a Bill's uniform. So

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00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: it was kind of unfortunate. After his rookie contract was up,

516
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: he was gone, put together a nice career. Injuries did

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Speaker 1: kind of cut his career short a little bit, but

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Speaker 1: be good to catch up with him again, see how

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Speaker 1: he's doing down there in Athens. We also have tailgate Friday. People, Hey, look,

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00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: last regular season tailgate of the year. There's snow on

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Speaker 1: the ground. How do you morph and adjust your tailgating

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Speaker 1: plans and menu? We would like to know, so send

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Speaker 1: your submissions into us to tell us what your tailgate

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Speaker 1: plans are for this Sunday, whether you're here in the

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Speaker 1: parking lot at one Bill's Drive, on your couch, in

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Speaker 1: your kitchen, on your back patio. I got people in

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Speaker 1: my neighborhood, Steve, Yeah, they're out on their driveway every Sunday.

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Speaker 1: They got a fire pit on the in the driveway.

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Speaker 1: They got a big TV in the garage. They're local,

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Speaker 1: they know, you know, and people are walking up, they

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Speaker 1: come down the block, the whole neighborhood comes down to

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00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: their house in the driveway and they watched the game

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Speaker 1: on the big screen in the garage. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: the weather. They are out there. Yeah, I'll say this

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Speaker 1: interesting tail game I do post game. Oh you're because

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Speaker 1: I after I do your post game host, right, I

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Speaker 1: have people come over the house. The group come over

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00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: the house, and we're outside as well, because that's you know, okay,

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Speaker 1: I can't smoke cigars in the house. So I got

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Speaker 1: a TV out there and we watched the night We

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Speaker 1: get out there and we watched like the first half

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Speaker 1: of the night game, okay, like that twenty game. Then

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Speaker 1: we called it a night. We get out done early.

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Speaker 1: I was just telling my wife yesterday, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: officially chili season. I gotta I gotta get on the

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Speaker 1: ball with that. Yeah. I usually have cooked by this

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Speaker 1: time of the year, two batches of chili and I've

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Speaker 1: only cooked on so I am behind on my quota.

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Speaker 1: I pulled some out of the freezer the other day.

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Speaker 1: How does it keep in the freezer keeps well? Yeacause

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Speaker 1: I worry about freezer birth because that hurts so that

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Speaker 1: but no, it's good, Okay, it's good. I've never done that.

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Speaker 1: You got first of all, it doesn't last long enough

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Speaker 1: between me and my son. How you got to put

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Speaker 1: it in a in a airtight bag. You can't have

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Speaker 1: any you can't put it in a container words where Nah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta like air tight it vacuum seal so you

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Speaker 1: don't get the freezer. Freezer bag is the best way

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Speaker 1: to got you, okay, and you and make sure that

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Speaker 1: it barely fits in there. All right? Oh you mean

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Speaker 1: the chili in the bag like right to the brim

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Speaker 1: nowhere and then you find okay, and when you then unfreezing,

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Speaker 1: you cut that bag off. I got you. Yeah, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's no freezer. But all right, I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: remember that. Like I said, the chili usually does the

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Speaker 1: last very long in the house. It's usually gone right

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Speaker 1: pretty quickly in two or three days whatever's left over.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that may that may be something I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have to look into in the future if I make

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Speaker 1: a big batch and it doesn't all go in one shot.

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Speaker 1: All right, we have to take a break here, But

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Speaker 1: when come back We're gonna get some of your questions

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet to answer from obl Friday fan

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Speaker 1: mail bag, and if you have any feel free to

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Speaker 1: very questions, and Steve and I will do our best

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Speaker 1: all inclusive. Yeah, get on the Bills appen maybe you're

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Speaker 1: maybe you get lucky on getting out to the big Game,

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Speaker 1: which would be all the better if the Bills are

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Speaker 1: playing in it. But we go to the Obil Friday

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Speaker 1: fan mail bag Steve, question number one from Kyle. Do

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Speaker 1: you guys think that if the Jaguars beat the Colts

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Speaker 1: the Raiders Charters game will end up in a mutual tie,

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Speaker 1: putting both teams into the postseason? I say no, I

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Speaker 1: don't think so either. I mean, it's funny to think about,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's fantastic to think there would be.

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Speaker 1: It would be some real pushback from teams. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to play the game. And let's put

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Speaker 1: it this way. Say, for instance, if they did want

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Speaker 1: to get a tie, you have to go and go

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Speaker 1: from the first play of the game, because if something

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Speaker 1: happened opening kickof boom guy goes the distance, all that's off. Yep,

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Speaker 1: that's all off. That's all it'll take. That's all one field,

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Speaker 1: like a turnover in their A ten on the thirty

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Speaker 1: you get a field goals three nothing, Well, now what

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Yeh? Can't you see the coaches

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Speaker 1: on the aid say, hey, I thought, what what happened

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Speaker 1: to the tie? What are we doing? And that's when

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Speaker 1: you get the sideline shot of the coaches pointing at

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Speaker 1: each other. Then it's on. Yeah, it's on. So I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see it though, wouldn't you just like to

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Speaker 1: see it, just just to see how it plays out,

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Speaker 1: if the two teams can kind of hold to the agreement.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just think about this, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: it would be one guy. It's all it take one guy,

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Speaker 1: like yeah, and then they're interviewing him after the game.

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't do the tie. I'm not about ties. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: do the tie. I had to go for it. I

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Speaker 1: could see, you know. I don't know why I put

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Speaker 1: a New York accent on the one, you know, so

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, it's just impossible to see.

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Speaker 1: It would be fascinating to watch them. It's a it's

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Speaker 1: a real fascinating study on human behavior and what it

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Speaker 1: you know, how it makes them feel and what they're

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Speaker 1: willing to do. Right. And I know I said this

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Speaker 1: the other day on the show because we had been

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Speaker 1: knocking this around. We talked to Kyle brandt about it

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Speaker 1: for like ten minutes on Tuesday. I do think it's possible,

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Speaker 1: possible that one of these two coaches, in a tight game,

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Speaker 1: you know, just kicks the extra point to tie it,

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Speaker 1: knowing a tie gets me into the playoffs. So they

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00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: may not necessarily be playing for the tie, but a

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Speaker 1: game situation very well could surface at the end of

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Speaker 1: this game. You know, it's twenty one, uh fourteen, chargers

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Speaker 1: get a late score, extra point to tie with thirty

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Speaker 1: seconds left, or do you go for two in the win?

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Speaker 1: If you trust your kicker, you're probably kicking it and

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Speaker 1: playing for the tie. The problem you got to get

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Speaker 1: through overtime, right, so that it may not end right.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying it may not end in a tie

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Speaker 1: because overtime could lose you the tie. Fascinating because it

648
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: goes deep the close game. The depth to which you

649
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 1: have to go to make that happen is almost insurmountable,

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Speaker 1: right to the point where you might just say, screw it,

651
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: We're just playing a win like we do every week. Right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's easier because here's here's the thing you

653
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: gotta and it's it's I've said a million times NFL

654
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Speaker 1: locker room. That's a tough crowd, and as head coach,

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Speaker 1: you're trying to lead and get these guys to jump

656
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Speaker 1: all on board, to go in there and say, guys,

657
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Speaker 1: you know we're here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna kneel

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Speaker 1: down with the ball every every series because you know

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Speaker 1: they're gonna because you're gonna have somebody out there, one

660
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: of your players is gonna go out. They ain't gonna

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00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, it flies in the face of everything

662
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Speaker 1: you ask. If your players every week play to win, absolutely,

663
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Speaker 1: you can't compromise. And I'll say this too, and and

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Speaker 1: I'll it's fascinating also because it's the physical. The thing

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Speaker 1: that sets football apart other than any other sport is

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Speaker 1: the actual hundred percent physical risk that is involved with

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Speaker 1: playing a game. Yeah hard. So the aspect of a

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Speaker 1: player going down and covering a kick, going up for pass,

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Speaker 1: rushing the passer, stopping the run, short yardage, goal line,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna hurt, right if you can say listen, if

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Speaker 1: you don't, let's not go. You know, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to risk it. You don't have to blow your knee out,

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Speaker 1: twist your ankle exacerbate an existing injury. None of that

674
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: has to happen. If you want to just kneel down

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Speaker 1: for the day and we can take this and go

676
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Speaker 1: on move on with our day, Patty Kake tackle people like,

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Speaker 1: what are we doing it? It's fascinating to think about,

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00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: but it completely flies in the face of everything a

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Speaker 1: football player has been told at the professional levels, unless

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00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: you can convince them that it's it's beneficial, mutually beneficial,

681
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: and think about it on the one percent one half

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Speaker 1: of one percent chance that those two teams meet and

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00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 1: the conference championship, well, because it could happen. Right, here's

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00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: another thing to think about. Okay, these are two AFC

685
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: West clubs that don't particularly like each other. That's number one.

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Speaker 1: Number two, they're both wholly familiar with the problem that

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00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have been in their own division. Where you

688
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: finish in the seating Sunday night, those other seeds are

689
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: going to be determined by then. Yeah, so forget about Ty,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be playing the Kansas City Chiefs. One of

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Speaker 1: those teams will be playing the Chiefs in all likelihood,

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Speaker 1: the other will not. And I wonder if theoretically right,

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Speaker 1: And I wonder if that impacts how one of those

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Speaker 1: teams plays. Nah, win, you gotta win to get in. Yeah,

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00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: if you don't win, you're out. You don't get to

696
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Speaker 1: play that you get to play. You're gonna play either

697
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: or you gotta win to get in. Man, you don't

698
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: want to play the Chiefs again. If you're one of

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Speaker 1: those as, I don't know, you might why because you

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00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: know them so well and you're not intimidated by just,

701
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: you know, play them twice. You gotta know what you're

702
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: gonna do. You gotta know what you're gonna You gotta know,

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Speaker 1: and and I it is, it is fascinating, it's fascinating,

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Speaker 1: But I just it's not gonna happen. JT from the

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Speaker 1: O b L mail bag asks what's the chances the

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00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: NFL will get rid of punts? He says, also, it's

707
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: time to leave it all out on the field from

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00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: here on out, starting with the Jets. Staying discipline throughout

709
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: the playoffs will be key, and the turnover battles as well.

710
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: Bills will be popping the bubbly on Sunday afcast Champs

711
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: exclamation point, what's the chances the NFL will get rid

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00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: of punts? Steve zero zero, because well, it's a respected

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00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: part of the game, right yeah, And they when there

714
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: is a real sentiment at the highest levels of the

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00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 1: game to keep the foot on the ball in the game.

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00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 1: It is called football. They want to keep the foot

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Speaker 1: in the game, and so I think they there will

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Speaker 1: be no I think you have a better chance of

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Speaker 1: getting rid of kickoffs than you do punts, because there

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Speaker 1: has to be has to be an orderly way to

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Speaker 1: shift field position from your end to their end unless

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Speaker 1: unless there is no point, you can't punt it or anything.

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Speaker 1: And the idea is to you got four downs. Every

724
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: time four downs you kick the ball off and you

725
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: got to move the ball or else. Now you know,

726
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: we do have an update on Jets player availability. We

727
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: already mentioned at the top of the show it wasn't

728
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: looking good for Braxton Barrios to play on Sunday, and

729
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: Robert Salo said exactly that quote, not looking good for

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Speaker 1: Braxton Burrios to play on Sunday. He said the same

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Speaker 1: thing with slot receiver Elijah Moore, the rookie from Old

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Speaker 1: miss who is quote trending south as he puts it.

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Speaker 1: He also apparently Steve talked up Tremaine Edmonds. Much maligned

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Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds in the eyes of the Bills fan base.

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Speaker 1: You know, we get a lot of phone calls every

736
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: week criticizing his play. Here's someone from the other sideline

737
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: commenting on Tremaine Edmonds. He said he's like a unicorn

738
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Speaker 1: in the linebacker world. He has ridiculous speed, length, and rain.

739
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: He said the space he takes away on the field

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Speaker 1: is the best he has seen since Brian Erlocker, who

741
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: incidentally is in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Erlocker is

742
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: kind of like Tremaine two. Erlocker was a tall dude,

743
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: too very tall, who could really really strot. Yeah, he

744
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: could really scoot. He was a safety at New Mexico. So, um,

745
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: that's yeah. I mean that's coming from the other side

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Speaker 1: of the field. And it's a defensive coach, mind you

747
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: you know, a guy who cut his teeth in this league,

748
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: coach on the defensive side of the ball. Yeah. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tremaine's a difference maker. And i we've said it. I mean,

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00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: I know, that's why he gets voted, That's why he

751
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 1: gets voted to the Pro Bowl and all that stuff,

752
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: because the opposing coaches have votes and so do the

753
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: opposing players. And they know he's a problem. And I

754
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: get it too. We sit here and do this all

755
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: the time. They got one of the best defenses, if

756
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: not the best defense in the National Football League right now,

757
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,439
Speaker 1: number one last night, and he sits in the middle

758
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: of it. So, no, they're not gonna change it. They're

759
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: not gonna switch his position. I'm not gonna do any

760
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: of that stuff. That's that's crazy talk. That's that's just

761
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: the way it's gonna be. So when when this defense

762
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: is playing the way they wanted to play, Tremaine is

763
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 1: the guy and they they are the number one defense

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00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: in the league. So yeah, and Robert Salah sees the

765
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: same thing. We have to take a break here. We'll

766
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Speaker 1: get to more of your obl fan mail bag questions

767
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: when we come back, along with the early list of

768
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: coaching candidates to fill the head coaching position that is

769
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: currently vacant in Jacksonville. We'll tell you the first three

770
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: assistants in the league who are lined up for interviews. Next.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back. One Bills Live

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Speaker 1: is the show Chris brownstecask with you, and the Friday

774
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: injury report is out for the Bills. Fa Obada is

775
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: out for Sunday's game against the Jets, and Emmanuel Sanders doubtful.

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00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: Neither of those players practice today, as we mentioned earlier.

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00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: Everybody else though, good to go, including Ryan Bates who

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00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: was limited earlier in the week. So all things considered,

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00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: pretty healthy bunch here going into Week eighteen. Hopefully that

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00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: continues coming out of this game against the Yeah, I

781
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: mean there's a ton of guys listed all the way

782
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: from Mario Addis and Ryan Bates, Cole Beasley, Dion doc

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00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: and Stefan Digs, Jerry Hughes. Then a lot of those

784
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: guys had veteran rest days that you're right, they were

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00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: all full practice or whatever. Fa Obada was out, did

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Speaker 1: not practice all weekends out, and Emmanuel Sanders did not

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Speaker 1: practice all the way up through Friday and is doubtful.

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Speaker 1: Everybody else is full or whatever and didn't practice because

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Speaker 1: of a veteran rest day, like they gave Digs the

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00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: whole you know, Friday off, he practiced full, took Friday off,

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00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: He's full practice. So yeah, just those are the only

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00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,439
Speaker 1: two that are even a whisper of a problem. Pretty

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Speaker 1: good shape all things consider. Time now for Tailgate Friday,

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Speaker 1: New York, the official health plan of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: As we check out your plans for this final regular

797
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: season game, Tailgate Wives that is Faith chimes in with

798
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: this submission. Steve barbecue meatballs in the crock pot. Maybe

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Speaker 1: my famous chicken wing dip? All from my own home,

800
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Speaker 1: relaxing this Sunday. Can't wait to see a big dub

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00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: my famous chicken wing Do you find that it's just

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00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: about everybody in Western New York has a famous chicken

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00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: wing tip? Does anybody not have a chicken wing dip

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00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: that is face not famous like my chicken wing dip,

805
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: but it's not very good. I'm sure there are some

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00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: people that concocted a few different ways. You know, are

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00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: you are you grilling up chicken? Are you are you

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00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: shredding chicken? Croot? Just dip the wings in and they're

809
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: talking you take for corn chips, but if you take

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00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: chicken breasts, just drop them in a crock pot with

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Speaker 1: some francs and just a little bit of water and

812
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: you leave them in there for four hours, five hours.

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00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: You've got shredded chicken. You just hit it with a

814
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: four yea and you can just shred it right up.

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Speaker 1: Sure that let me say that that is high end.

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00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: There's for chicken wing dip. There's this a faster way

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00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: to do it too, if you get one of those

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Speaker 1: uh now, I can't think of it where no, no,

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Speaker 1: the pots that are the compression thing, the press. There's

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Speaker 1: a new what is it called, I can't remember anyway,

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Speaker 1: we've got one and it's it does the same thing

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Speaker 1: as a crock pot, but in twenty minutes. Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. That's a fishing. That's it's really nice.

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Speaker 1: But from it takes pressure, you know, yeah, from the

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00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 1: bruner well the game time almost mess this up. Doing

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Speaker 1: an Irish breakfast brunch traditional Irish sausage, hash browns, beans,

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Speaker 1: grilled tomatoes, soda bread, an Irish black bacon. Do you

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Speaker 1: want to know why that's Irish? And I can say

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Speaker 1: that because I have Irish in my blood. There isn't

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Speaker 1: a vegetable to be to be seen. There Sausage, hash browns,

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Speaker 1: beans grilled to the tomatoes, soda bread, an Irish back bacon,

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Speaker 1: all to be washed down with a wee bit of

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Speaker 1: an Irish baby or two. It's nicely done. I like that.

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Speaker 1: I like Irish breakfast. I'm I'll sign me up for that.

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Speaker 1: See I'm are you a hash brown guy? Oh? I

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Speaker 1: like hash browns alive. I'm both anything potato related. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my Irish heritage comes out full force, my hash brown guy.

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00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: I will eat home fries, but I'm a hash brown guy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right? Uh one more real quick, Nicole, Are you

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Speaker 1: ready for this? All I've done so far is prepare

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Speaker 1: my vodka gummy bears. Oh, unbelievable good submissions there for

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Speaker 1: Tailgate Friday. We have to take a break because when

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Speaker 1: we come back, it is time for Greg ko Sell,

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Speaker 1: senior producer from NFL Films, gonna dice up the x's

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Speaker 1: and oh's for us on the Bills and the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kaloid of Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

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Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

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Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve

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Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the stragedyre of normalcy here.

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Speaker 1: All right, our number two here on a Friday, and

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Speaker 1: that can only mean one thing. Senior producer from NFL Films,

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Speaker 1: Great Cosell, joining us to break down Bills Jets Week eighteen.

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00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: I can't believe we've made it. The marathon of the

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00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,439
Speaker 1: regular season has ended. Greg, who knew one extra game

856
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: would feel so long? And I think that's kind of

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00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: the way I'm feeling right about now, Chris. But you know,

858
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: maybe it's just this particular Friday, But yeah, it seems

859
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: like the regular season was about ten games longer than

860
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,919
Speaker 1: just one week longer. I've got this as we start

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Speaker 1: to as the playoff tournament starts to formulate, I've been

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00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: touting a theory of mine as to which teams to

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00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,919
Speaker 1: really watch out for. And one of the things I say,

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00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: and I want to get your take on it, my

865
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: thought is that the teams with a really top notch,

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00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: elite quarterback are the one that give more problems. Even

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Speaker 1: with Tennessee as the one seed in the AFC, and

868
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: would I would, I would assert that Ryan Tannehill is

869
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: not an elite quarterback. But the two seed with Mahomes,

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00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: the three seed with Cincinnati, and the four seed with

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Speaker 1: Buffalo do have one of those guys. New England does not,

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00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: Indianapolis does not end. Whether vegas or charges you get in.

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00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: You can make your own assertion about whether those But

874
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: my thought is when the playoffs start, greg the teams

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00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: to really watch out for the ones that have that guy.

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00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 1: What do you think, Yeah, because I think what you're

877
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: really saying is the teams that can throw the ball

878
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: when they have to throw the ball. Because you know,

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00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: one thing I learned a long time ago, and I

880
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 1: think it's really true. And actually it was Bill wall

881
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: Steve who told me this is when you get into

882
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: important games, and obviously playoff games are important. You have

883
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: to be able to operate each part of your offense

884
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: independent from the other because you don't know how a

885
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: given game is going to play out. So you know,

886
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: if you're a team who's offensive foundation is the run

887
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: and your pass game really only works well off the run,

888
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: then what happens when that doesn't happen in a given game.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you mentioned Tennessee because they that

890
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: actually happened to them last year in the playoffs when

891
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: they played Baltimore, and I think Baltimore held Derrick Henry

892
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 1: to about sixty yards and they always scored thirteen points

893
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 1: because their pass game doesn't really work for the most

894
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: part as an independent entity from their run game. So

895
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: you need to be able to throw the ball for

896
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: the most part in the playoffs. There's always exceptions, but

897
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: for the most part, you need to be able to

898
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Speaker 1: throw the ball proactively in the playoffs and want to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball proactively in the playoffs. So with that

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Speaker 1: in mind, the point you made about Bill Walls saying

901
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: the different parts of your offense have to work independent

902
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: of each other. Do we have more confidence now that

903
00:49:55,320 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo's run game can act independently from its pass game. Well,

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Speaker 1: I would say this was the first game, and correct me,

905
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Speaker 1: Chris if I'm wrong, But I think this was the

906
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Speaker 1: first game in which the run was featured in a close,

907
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Speaker 1: competitive one score game. I don't remember another game this

908
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: season in which that was the case, do you. I'd

909
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: have to go back and think about it with each

910
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: of the opponents. Off the top of my head, Yeah,

911
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: I can't really think of one, per se. I mean,

912
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:30,320
Speaker 1: they got up, they got up on New England seventeen seven,

913
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Speaker 1: and then they did have some effective runs in that game.

914
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Speaker 1: Although Josh kind of carried the load for the most part.

915
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Speaker 1: But but, but I would say that the Bills clearly

916
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Speaker 1: focused on the run game in the second half against

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Speaker 1: the Falcons and a game in which I believe they

918
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Speaker 1: were losing at the half, were they not, Yes, fifteen fourteen, Yeah,

919
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: they were down fifteen fourteen, and they came out in

920
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: they scuck. They started the third quarter. Think of this.

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Speaker 1: When have you seen this, guys? They started the third

922
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Speaker 1: quarter trailing fifteen fourteen. They started with six offensive linemen

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Speaker 1: and a Singletary inside zone run for five yards. The

924
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: second play was also a run. It happened to come

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00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: out of eleven personnel, but it was also a run.

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Speaker 1: That was the run where he ran over Singletary ran

927
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Speaker 1: over the safety Williams. I'm sure you recall that play

928
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: very well. But they clearly focused on the run game

929
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Speaker 1: in the second half, and they featured multiple concepts. You know,

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00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,280
Speaker 1: we saw a zone, we saw a number of different

931
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Speaker 1: pull schemes. We even saw wham on the first play

932
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Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter. We saw trap, we saw a counter.

933
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was truly a multiple run game, which

934
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: is something we're really not used to seeing from the Bills. Clearly. Yeah,

935
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: they went those two drives because Josh just didn't have

936
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Speaker 1: it in the passing game. So David said, Okay, we're

937
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: just going to go to the ground here. And granted

938
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: it's against the twenty second ranked run defense going into

939
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: that game in Atlanta, they're nothing to write home about

940
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Speaker 1: against the run. But ten out of eleven plays end

941
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Speaker 1: up on the ground on that first touchdown drive, and

942
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: then ten out of twelve on the next drive are

943
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Speaker 1: on the ground. Now, Josh made some decisions to take

944
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Speaker 1: off with the ball. Maybe it's an RPO when he throws,

945
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: but you're talking twenty out of twenty three plays. Yeah, No,

946
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Speaker 1: this was clearly a game where there was a conscious

947
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: decision made that wasn't done on a whim. That there

948
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: was a conscious decision made to run the ball and

949
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: to really go into the playbook with multiple run game concepts. Look,

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00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: the final two possessions, counter was a featured run. I

951
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: don't remember seeing a ton of counter this season, but

952
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 1: you know, I can't remember everything, obviously. Look, the Bills

953
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: had fifteen snaps with six offensive line personnel. Fourteen of

954
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: those fifteen snaps were called runs. They got the ball

955
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: with five forty two remaining in the game, and they

956
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: ran out the clock. No, the run game was a

957
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: significant factor. So the question you're ultimately asking, and there's

958
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: really no no answer to it because we don't know,

959
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: is if this is something that they'll do more up,

960
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: because the reality is they started the Falcons game not

961
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: running the ball, right, I mean, they came out playing

962
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: what would be considered I guess, typical Bills football. They

963
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: did not come out running the ball, And you could

964
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: make the arguable look, they started their first possession Chris

965
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: what they called passes. Their first called run came on

966
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: their ninth offensive play. So the beginning of the game

967
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: was no different than what we've seen for the large,

968
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: large majority of the season. Yeah, it came out and

969
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: Josh was throwing darts until he started throwing until he

970
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: started throwing him a little too hard. He had like

971
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: three drops in a row where the ball went. He

972
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: threw it just too hard. He was throwing he was

973
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: throwing rocketball, Steve, he was throwing it a little too hard. Yeah, exactly.

974
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: I think we saw a little bit of it was

975
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: one of those games where he's trying to do it

976
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: all with his arm and make some throws that he

977
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: had no business trying to make even him so. And

978
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: I think the coaching staff just started making decisions for

979
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 1: him when they went to the second half and said

980
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the football. I think that was I

981
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: think that was as much about Josh as it was

982
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: about anything else that or anything that the Falcons were doing. Yeah,

983
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: although you could make the argument, and I'm going to

984
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: make it now that I that the interceptions were really

985
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,799
Speaker 1: not on him. I love your thought on the one

986
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: by A. J. Terrell, which was the one late in

987
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 1: the second quarter he threw the seam to Beasley versus

988
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: Cover three. Beasley was actually contacted behind five yards, but

989
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: that's neither here nor there. But Beasley slowed his route

990
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: due to that, and he didn't get into the scene.

991
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,280
Speaker 1: And I thought Josh expected him to be into the scene.

992
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I was watching that and the only thing

993
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: that I could think of after looking at that play

994
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: a second and the third time, Greg, was that Beasley

995
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: saw the safety coming over from the far hash and

996
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: instead of running to him and making the window even smaller,

997
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,720
Speaker 1: thought he would hold his route there and sit down.

998
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: And Josh thought he's going to continue his route. Maybe

999
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 1: because he didn't see the same safety that Beasley did. Yeah,

1000
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: it was covered three. So normally what you get against

1001
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: cover three on when when the seam route is so

1002
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: close to the outside route, is you get the corner

1003
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: that's able to play kind of both, which is kind

1004
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: of the way it's taught anyway, as Steve knows, you know,

1005
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: the corner is really playing both. He's taught to kind

1006
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: of play the midpoint if you're playing cover three and

1007
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: and to a twins formation and then those two receivers

1008
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: run vertically. The corners taught to play the midpoint between

1009
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: one and two. But I thought Josh. I thought watching

1010
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 1: the tape that Josh thought that Beasley would be in

1011
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 1: the scene, So I didn't really view that as a thrower.

1012
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: It looked bad, but I don't think the whole process

1013
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: was bad. Yeah, you're right there. As the deeper that

1014
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: route goes, if you get those two verticals on the

1015
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 1: safety on the outside, the deeper it goes, the less

1016
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: chance you have a converting it because this corner that

1017
00:55:58,280 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: takes the longer for the ball to get there in

1018
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: there has more time to get to either guy you

1019
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: throw too, and the one guy can cover both so yeah,

1020
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: So unless you got a guy with an arm like

1021
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 1: Josh who can outrun you can outthrow the DB's ability

1022
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 1: to break on it, or guy like Mike Vick. I've

1023
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,479
Speaker 1: seen him do that back in his heyday. He could

1024
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: make that throw up. But that's what happened. I mean,

1025
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: I was I'm with you. I think it was the

1026
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: contact that messed the whole thing up rather than any

1027
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: decision interption which ended the first third quarter possession. That Actually,

1028
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: I thought Josh read that perfectly because the Falcons did

1029
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: disguise and late movement to get to cover two, which

1030
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: is a Dan p staple. He's been doing that for years,

1031
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: and I thought Josh knew exactly where to go with

1032
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 1: the with the ball it was it was basically what

1033
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: I call dagger. I guess people might have different names

1034
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: for it. It was dagger, which is an inside vertical

1035
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 1: and a dig right underneath it. And Diggs was the

1036
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: right guy to throw too, and Walker was kind of

1037
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: a spy on that play and he got his hand

1038
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: on it. But I didn't think that was a had decision.

1039
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: It was just one of those things. Let me ask

1040
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,479
Speaker 1: you about the Jets, Greg, because in five of their

1041
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: last seven games, they've been within one score of their opponent.

1042
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: They've won two of those games Jags in Houston, But

1043
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: they've played teams close in the second half of the season.

1044
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: Here what is noticeably improved from the film you watched

1045
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: this team in the first half of the season compared

1046
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: to now, Well, let's start with the quarterback. I thought

1047
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: that Zack Wilson played his best game in the season

1048
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: this past week, and that was against the Bucks, obviously

1049
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: a quality football team. You know, there was a stretch

1050
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: there going back even two three weeks. I thought Zack

1051
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: Wilson was just not seeing things at all where I

1052
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 1: thought he shouldn't even be on the field. And I

1053
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 1: know that most believed that a quarterback needs to play

1054
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: to learn, but I thought that it was so bad

1055
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: that he probably needed to sit. But obviously, he was

1056
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: the second pick in the draft, so he's going to play.

1057
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 1: But this week I really thought that he settled in.

1058
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: He was much more settled in the pocket. It seemed

1059
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: as if things were slower for him. He was much

1060
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: more decisive with his reads and throws. I thought he

1061
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: was far less hesitant and uncertain in the pocket. Now

1062
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: he's still at times does show a tendency to get

1063
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: a little fast and a little frenetic when there are

1064
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: people around him. And that's why it's so critically important

1065
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: for the coaching staff, the offensive coaching staff to do

1066
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: as good a job as possible as defining the reds

1067
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: and the throws with their route concepts, and then to

1068
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: get to this particular matchup. Chris, I thought, actually that

1069
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 1: the defensive front for the Bills got pretty good consistent

1070
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: pressure on Matt Ryan. I mean, I can't remember the

1071
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: number of sacks, but I thought they generated consistent pressure

1072
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: and that Ryan was throwing out of a hole and

1073
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: playing out of a hole quite a bit. What do

1074
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: you think I was going to ask you about the

1075
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: matchup between the Bills defense and the Jets offense. What

1076
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: do you think the Bills defense shows Zach Wilson that

1077
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: maybe he hasn't seen or that he struggled with. You know,

1078
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: I think you'll see some disguise, some late movement, because

1079
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson is still at the point in his career

1080
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: where if he hits his back foot and doesn't see

1081
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: it or doesn't feel he sees it, he starts to

1082
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: get a little frenetic. It really needs to be clear

1083
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: for him. And it did show a bit this past

1084
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: week against the Bucks that things looked a little more clear.

1085
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: But I think you have to try to make him

1086
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: think through the play after the snap of the ball.

1087
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: I think that's critical with Zach Wilson. You can't define

1088
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: the look defensively for him before the snap because he's

1089
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: he's actually a good throw of the football. He's got

1090
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: a loose live on, he's got athletic feet. So you

1091
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: want to you want to show him one thing before

1092
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: the snap and something else after the snap. Rookie quarterbacks

1093
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: against the Bills under Sean McDermot three and six record,

1094
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 1: four passing touchdowns, fifteen picks, fifty six point eight rating.

1095
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: Yeah wait, is that just does that go back to

1096
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: his time as a decoordinator? Is that since twenty seventeen

1097
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 1: when he got here? Oh? Wow? Rookie QB's three and

1098
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 1: six record. Two of those wins came this year Trevor

1099
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: Lawrence and Mac Jones in the first game, so one

1100
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 1: dude to weather and the other due to a horrible

1101
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: offensive performance by the Bills. Nine. Yeah, and you know

1102
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: one thing I've noticed about the Bills, and I'm sure

1103
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: you've noticed it as well. I think there was a

1104
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: narrative built up about Sean McDermot and Leslie Fraser through

1105
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: the years that they play a lot his own and

1106
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 1: I think they play more man than people think. But

1107
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: I think they've also become much more opponents specific, Like

1108
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: they didn't play a lot of man this past week,

1109
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: and they obviously they felt they didn't need to. They

1110
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: felt this was the best way to go against the Falcons.

1111
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: But I feel like they'd become much more opponents specific

1112
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: Chris and how they play, because if you just look

1113
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: at the breakdown and you watch the tape of what

1114
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: they do with their coverages, they play a lot of

1115
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: different coverages. They're not one staple that they play it,

1116
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:30,959
Speaker 1: you know, and say, hey, that's what they do. There's

1117
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: about four things that you know you're gonna get. You

1118
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: just don't know what the percentages will be any given week. Yeah,

1119
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: and it's the same on the front end too, because

1120
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: I mean, Steve can verify this for me, but there'll

1121
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: be times where they won't send a dB as an

1122
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: extra rusher for three games, and then last week against

1123
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, where you have a guy where you know

1124
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: he's gonna be here, comes Tarren Johnson on the first series,

1125
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: you know, and then they know and off they go.

1126
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: That's a great point. So I think they'd come and

1127
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: maybe they were always this way, or maybe I'm just

1128
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: noticing it more now. I don't. I don't know, but

1129
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: it seems to me like they've become much more opponents

1130
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 1: specific in how they play any given week. One of

1131
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: the things we've noticed about the Bills, and you know,

1132
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: they've got one of the top defenses in the league

1133
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 1: and a lot of categories, points given up, yards given

1134
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 1: up there, they're really tough to move the football on

1135
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: and they look good on the Why is this? Why

1136
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 1: do they look so good in the rankings of all

1137
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: these different categories at the top one or two or

1138
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: three in all or a bunch of major categories, But

1139
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: they don't have this. They don't have a pro bowler,

1140
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 1: They don't have a spectacular defense. You know what I'm saying.

1141
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 1: They don't. You know. Yeah, that's a great point, because

1142
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: I think when I watched the Bills defense, I feel

1143
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 1: like they're really sound in everything they do, and they

1144
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: do a number of things as we talked about in

1145
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 1: the secondary, but I'd never come away watching their defense

1146
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 1: seeing why that is an absolutely dominant defense. And I

1147
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: think that's what you're saying, Steve right. You know, you

1148
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: know you played in your career against some dominant defenses.

1149
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: And I don't think when you watch the Bills tape

1150
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: you feel that way. I think their past rush is

1151
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: kind of week to week. You don't feel, hey, every

1152
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: week they're going to have a great pass rush. You know,

1153
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: you don't feel that way. Um, I think they're Look,

1154
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 1: I love their safeties, you know that. I think Sayer

1155
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: and High are a really good safety duo. Um, But

1156
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 1: I don't think either one and and I don't want

1157
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: any you know, hopefully they're not listening and they don't

1158
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 1: think I'm I'm being you know, malicious here, because I'm not.

1159
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 1: But I don't think either one would be considered in

1160
01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 1: the NFL is one of the top two or three safeties.

1161
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: Would you think that player has been awfully productive the

1162
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: last three years. I mean, I love them, I love them.

1163
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: I think they're I think the way I think there's

1164
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: as a tandem, they may be as good as any

1165
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: in the league. In the league, But and I think

1166
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: that's very fair. I think they are really really good

1167
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: as a tandem. Um. But you know, I think I

1168
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 1: think if you said to I don't want to say

1169
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: a casual fan, but you know, to a fan, and

1170
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about a Buffalo fan. I'm talking about

1171
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,440
Speaker 1: just like even to a writer. Let's say in Kansas City,

1172
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: who's the best safeties in the NFL? Do you think

1173
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 1: that the name the two names they'd come up with

1174
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: right away would be Jordan Ployer and Michael Hyde Right now?

1175
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I think they're really good players.

1176
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 1: And by the way, I think those two guys allow

1177
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: Sean and Leslie to do a lot of things they do,

1178
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: so I think they're absolutely critical to what the Bills

1179
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: do on defense. Right Yeah, I would, I would agree

1180
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: with that, and I think that's why that's why I

1181
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 1: asked the question about And I get it too. They

1182
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 1: rotate a ton of guys up front, so there's not

1183
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 1: any there's not a fixture up there where you're always

1184
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: going to see this guy rushing the passer or that

1185
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: guy rushing the passer. They faced a lot of teams,

1186
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: particularly that the Patriots that they're middle of the road

1187
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:47,479
Speaker 1: run defense. The way that the way the statistics fall

1188
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: so that's not one of the things they're dominant at doing.

1189
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 1: So it's hard. And Tremaine Edmonds has always been this

1190
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: and Robert Sala called him this unicorn guy in their

1191
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 1: middle linebacker where he does a lot of things really

1192
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: really well, but he's not dominant in any one thing.

1193
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: So it lends this defense lends itself to looking pretty

1194
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: good on the stat sheet, but you think back, it's like, well,

1195
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, did they really do a spectacular job

1196
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:17,920
Speaker 1: in this game? Well, you know, you end up like

1197
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 1: even the game they lost, they gave they gave up

1198
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 1: fourteen points to the New England Patriots, and it's like

1199
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: they got crushed because they couldn't stop that. I know

1200
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 1: exactly what you mean. You know, you don't feel like

1201
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 1: there's a dominant part to the defense, even though the

1202
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: numbers say that they are right. That's pretty frustrating. I

1203
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: think for Bill's fans to get a handle on what

1204
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 1: they can expect out of this defense on a week

1205
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: to week basis. Like you said, they are very multiple

1206
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: and they do a lot of different I think they're

1207
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 1: very confident in being able to do a ton of stuff.

1208
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, what kind of identity

1209
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: would you give this defense? That's a great question, because

1210
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: they're not a heavy blitz percentage defense. They'll blitz on occasion,

1211
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: they can be very good at it, but but they're

1212
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: not one of those teams. They're not a hey, let's

1213
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 1: line up and play press man and we're gonna lock

1214
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 1: you down. They're not one of those teams. They do

1215
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: a lot of things well, and I think what you're

1216
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 1: saying is they do a lot of things well, but

1217
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: they don't seem to have that one specific thing that

1218
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: you hang your hat on. Let me ask you this, um,

1219
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 1: have you noticed any sort of transformation since Tredavious White

1220
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 1: left the lineup? Have they started to try and do

1221
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: things differently as his absence been felt or shown in

1222
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: their tactics? Um? To me, no, I don't know. What

1223
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: do you guys don't I don't think. I don't think so.

1224
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: I don't think that they have played significantly differently at

1225
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: all with Dan Jackson playing corner as opposed to Trudavious White.

1226
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about tactically, right, and that's what I mean. White.

1227
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: It's a great player. But I don't think they've changed

1228
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 1: their defense. To you, I think I'm surprisingly so yeah, yeah,

1229
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: so yeah. It's interesting. But and Dan Jackson's done a

1230
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 1: good job holding down the fort with Davis out as

1231
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: well as Levi, who has taken on more responsibility Wallace

1232
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: on the other side. I wanted to ask you Greg

1233
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: about red zone on offense for the Bills the last

1234
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: four games fifteen of twenty two on red zone conversions

1235
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 1: in terms of scoring touchdowns, that is a noticeable uptick

1236
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:25,440
Speaker 1: in their efficiency down there. They have been running it

1237
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: better down there, to the tune of almost three quarters

1238
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 1: of a yard per carry better in those last four games.

1239
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: Is it's solely just the effectiveness of their running and

1240
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 1: that's setting up the passing opportunities down there. Why do

1241
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 1: you think there has been an uptick in touchdown scoring

1242
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 1: efficiency in the red zone for Buffalo the last four weeks. Well,

1243
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:48,919
Speaker 1: I think there's always a number of reasons for that,

1244
01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: and I think you're seeing the run game being a factor,

1245
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: Josh being a big part of it. I think you're

1246
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 1: seeing the execution of staple plays be better. Look, Josh

1247
01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: drew a rocket ball to Digs this week that should

1248
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 1: have been a touch down. That's been a staple play

1249
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: for them. We've seen that where you know, they do

1250
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 1: the quick fake and the quick throw. Um that's been

1251
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: a staple play. Um you know, I think there's also

1252
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 1: been a few more improvisational plays which are always part

1253
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: of red zone when you have a quarterback that can

1254
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: move because they do tend to move because they can.

1255
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 1: Um So. But those plays, of course you can't count on,

1256
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 1: but they've there have been a few more of those.

1257
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 1: But I think the just that, to me, the run

1258
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: game part would be the biggest part. Chris, and what

1259
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 1: about Singletary in the what's at and what about Singletary

1260
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:41,879
Speaker 1: within that? Oh well, look they had two Singletary touchdowns

1261
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,639
Speaker 1: this week in the red zone. Um So I think, yeah,

1262
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 1: that's that's important. Um Look, you can go back to

1263
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, really good teams over the years.

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Speaker 1: I mean I can even think back and Steve will

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01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,720
Speaker 1: remember this with the Cowboys, the great Cowboy teams. You know,

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01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman never threw a lot of touchdown passes because

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Speaker 1: they get inside the ten and the smith would score,

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01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: you know, and you have to be able to run

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Speaker 1: the ball when the field is condensed. It's just too

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01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: hard because then what happens is you have to steam,

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Speaker 1: you have to try to scheme pass plays, and you

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Speaker 1: can do that, but it's hard to do. And to me,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan. I don't know, you know, Steve,

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Speaker 1: if you are, I'm not a big fan of those phades.

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Speaker 1: You know from the three yard line That to me

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Speaker 1: is not a high percentage play. Yeah, yeah, you may

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01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: as well. I think it's easier to complete a ball

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Speaker 1: out in the field and throwing it down the sideline

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Speaker 1: rather than in the red zone. I mean, it's he's

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Speaker 1: They don't do a lot of that. No, they don't

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Speaker 1: have the guy. But I'm saying just in general, I'm

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Speaker 1: not but I think the run games Steve and Chris

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01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 1: has been the most critical part of this and that

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Speaker 1: includes Josh. Yeah, I would agree with that as well.

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Speaker 1: One thing I want to ask you about some of

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Speaker 1: the other teams around the league, Tennessee in particular Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry on the horizon getting back in the lineup. And

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01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:54,639
Speaker 1: I've been talking to Brownie like this off the air

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Speaker 1: and when we're getting ready for the show about how

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Speaker 1: nice a job Mike Vrabel has done under the circumstance

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Speaker 1: he lose the best player in the league and Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry and they continue to win games. His clock management,

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01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 1: his time out usage, all of that is just spot

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Speaker 1: on from the sidelines in Tennessee. Has really been a

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Speaker 1: team that's put it together as a team. What do

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Speaker 1: you think it means with Henry coming back? Well, here's

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Speaker 1: the question to me, is their profile as a team.

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Speaker 1: Is that a deep into the playoffs, super Bowl type team?

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Speaker 1: Because even when Henry comes back, what's their profile? Run

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01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: the ball, play, really good defense, obviously all those other

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01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: things you said, the coaching element that's critical, but they

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01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 1: really haven't shown a pass game. They've not been very

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01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:42,320
Speaker 1: good on third down, with the exception of the forty

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01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 1: nine Ers game a few weeks ago when Tanney Hill

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01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 1: was really good, but other than that, they've not been

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01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:49,960
Speaker 1: good on third down. Is that profile you know you

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01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 1: started off by asking me about quarterback play, Steve? Is

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Speaker 1: that profile? Is that these days in the NFL today

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01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 1: a super Bowl profile? Most people? And I'm not saying

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01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 1: they can't get there, but I think most people would

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01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:04,960
Speaker 1: say no, that you need much more from your pass

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01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: game to get there. Do you think it takes too

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01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 1: much of a perfect storm with your defense playing just right?

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01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,760
Speaker 1: Your run game, playing just right and making just enough

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01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 1: plays in the passing game. Is it just too hard

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01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: to put all that together in the playoffs to have

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01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: that be a formula for winning? I mean, percentage wise,

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01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:27,600
Speaker 1: i'd say yes, can it be done? Of course? You know,

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01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 1: one thing I learned early on in my career is

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01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 1: there's many ways to win. So there's no it's this

1321
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,719
Speaker 1: is not a mathematical equation that hey, they can't win.

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01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 1: But I think most would say that your pass game

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01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: and your quarterback if you're going to get to the

1324
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 1: super Bowl, have to be big factors in your offense.

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01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, as always, thanks for chopping it up

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01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:50,800
Speaker 1: with us here XS and os and likewise, been a

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Speaker 1: pleasure eighteen weeks. I can't believe we got through it,

1328
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: but we did. And playoffs on the horizon, in playoffs

1329
01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 1: on the way, come on, enjoy a man playing next week?

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01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: Who are playing next week? Do we know? No, it's

1331
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:07,639
Speaker 1: too much has to happen this week Sunday. You know, well,

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01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: the Bills, when everything holds, will probably get a home

1333
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots. Oh boy, back to that, that's

1334
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 1: the highest percentage likelihood of happening. If the Bills win

1335
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 1: the division. Oh wow, well we'll be chopping that up.

1336
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 1: Might be a segment on the Matchup Show. Who knows

1337
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:28,400
Speaker 1: well that all the playoff games we're in the Matchup Show.

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01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, thanks as always. We appreciate it. All right, guys,

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01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks all right, that's great co sale from

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Speaker 1: NFL Films. We have to take a break here because

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01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:41,200
Speaker 1: when we come back, former Bills offensive tackle and current

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01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 1: director of player Development at the University of Georgia for

1343
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 1: those Bulldogs, Jonas Jennings will join us. He's gonna give

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01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: us a little taste of a national Championship preview which

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01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:56,679
Speaker 1: is coming on Monday night. Jonas Jennings coming up next

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Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live, presented by Collid to Health,

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01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One

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01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Chappion with you. Please to

1349
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:19,679
Speaker 1: be joined now by a man who started fifty two

1350
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: games for the Bills at offensive tackle right from the

1351
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 1: jump in his rookie season in two thousand and one.

1352
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: Played right tackle his rookie year, then flipped over to

1353
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: the left side for the next three It's number seventy

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01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 1: five in your program and the current director of player

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01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 1: Development at the University of Georgia. It is Jonas Jennings,

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01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: the pride of College Park, Georgia, joining us here on

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Speaker 1: the show. Jonas, how the heck are you doing? Man?

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01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 1: It's good to see you. Man. I'm good, man. I'm

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01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 1: alive and doing a service, hippy young man, reaching and

1360
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,360
Speaker 1: teaching some of the things that we're talking to me

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01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 1: when I first got in Buffalo by some of the

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01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: great guys there. So I'm enjoying it. You know. I

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01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: feel good. Got a five year old now kind of

1364
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,679
Speaker 1: started late, so he keeps me on my toes. Also,

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01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 1: congratulations on the successored football teams having down there. I

1366
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 1: know you guys have got just a little bit of

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01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 1: a big game coming up this kind of this coming week,

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01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:20,799
Speaker 1: and I know that there are a ton of Bills

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01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:24,640
Speaker 1: fans who watch all of your games. They watch all

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01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: the SEC games, all the college games, because there are

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01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:30,679
Speaker 1: players out there that Bills fans seem to think would

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01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:34,400
Speaker 1: be a perfect puzzle piece for the next player drafted

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01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: by this team. Give us a little thumbnail of some

1374
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: of the things that you're going through with your players,

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01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 1: what you try and tell your players about what they

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01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:43,599
Speaker 1: are and maybe give us an insight as to which

1377
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 1: of the players and what you look for in a

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01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 1: young guy that says, you know what, this is a guy.

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01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:51,160
Speaker 1: It's not just the physical ability, obviously, but it's something

1380
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:52,640
Speaker 1: else about the guy that says, you know, this is

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01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: a guy that's destined for the next level, right, and

1382
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: I mean University Georgia. We were talking earlier about the

1383
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:02,600
Speaker 1: kid coming down the top thirteen public university. So the

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01:15:02,680 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 1: kid's got to be able to have the wherewithal and

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01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:08,480
Speaker 1: the aptitude to actually make it as a student athlete

1386
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: before you get into all the physical attributes and things

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01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 1: that they can do as athletes. So we got to

1388
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: look for that, right, there's a margin that you gotta

1389
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: reach and you're here. Coach Smart said all the time.

1390
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: Elite is elite, and that's what we go for. Usually

1391
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:24,400
Speaker 1: we top five every year. It's got to be the

1392
01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 1: kid that can handle that grind on both sides the

1393
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:31,799
Speaker 1: books and also the field, which makes them properly usually

1394
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 1: prepare for the NFL is which what I get from

1395
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,559
Speaker 1: a lot of the scouts from the last eight years

1396
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:39,920
Speaker 1: i've been here. My guys come in very mature, know

1397
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 1: what to look for and know what to say and

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01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: that sort of nature. So I just kind of get

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01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: them from what I've learned and from my time from

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01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:49,600
Speaker 1: being there and being a captain everywhere I've been. I

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01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: just try to pass that down and teach them the

1402
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 1: expectations because the expectations don't change on you guys level. Right.

1403
01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:00,839
Speaker 1: And then it's funny because you talk to Bills fans

1404
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 1: and you talk to Georgia fans. If there's one thing

1405
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: they have in common, they've each got a major nemesis.

1406
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 1: The for twenty years, it was the Patriots and Tom Brady.

1407
01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 1: You experience the very beginning of that up here in Buffalo,

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01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 1: as you know, Jonas and Georgia fans. I don't even

1409
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:21,760
Speaker 1: have to tell you, but it's Alabama. You got a

1410
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: big rematch coming up on Monday. What has to change

1411
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: the second time around for the Dogs to come out

1412
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 1: on top in this one? I just stay they got

1413
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:36,320
Speaker 1: to relax and play football like you seen them play

1414
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 1: against Michigan. I think the first game, you guys and

1415
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 1: everybody in the media all said they didn't look like

1416
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 1: the same team that had been gone through the regular season,

1417
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 1: and everybody that's been in football, know there's EBB and

1418
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: flow of the game that can control how the game go,

1419
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: time and possession. We can get into all of that,

1420
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 1: but just letting them play free, Let the kids go,

1421
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 1: let them play. You've got the athletes, as you just mentioned.

1422
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 1: Just let them go play ball. Give us an idea

1423
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,160
Speaker 1: of what your team's doing. What are they're you know,

1424
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:05,479
Speaker 1: what's their schedule like over the next six or seven days.

1425
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:07,960
Speaker 1: When do they When do they get to the stadium,

1426
01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:09,560
Speaker 1: When do they get to the city. I mean, is

1427
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: there a lot of festivities are these guys. Are they

1428
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 1: gonna you know, give these guys an experience that they'll

1429
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 1: remember from a National championship game or is it like

1430
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: an NFL game where they fly in fly out? No,

1431
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 1: we're actually gonna be there. We're actually flies out today,

1432
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: So we'll be there this evening. You get the eighth,

1433
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:30,639
Speaker 1: then when the ninth hit, that's the day before the game. Right,

1434
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 1: it's always a business trip, So my guys know it's

1435
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: time to lock in. So they're very good at giving

1436
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: themselves curfews and understanding why we're there to do what

1437
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 1: we gotta do. Along with COVID and those type of things,

1438
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 1: we got to be extra careful with the extracurriculum activities anyway,

1439
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: So we want to stay on top of that and

1440
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 1: understand the focus on why we're there on the trip.

1441
01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:52,640
Speaker 1: Just want to last quite how Like, how big is

1442
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 1: the crew you guys take down there? I know the

1443
01:17:54,640 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 1: roster is enormously much bigger than an NFL roster coaching staff,

1444
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 1: it's all big. How many people travel with the Georgia

1445
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: Bulldogs any idea? Oh man, it's a lot of people.

1446
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 1: I can't give you a head count, but I know

1447
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna take three planes. So you know, you have administration,

1448
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 1: You get everybody that's you know, everybody that's deserving, just

1449
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 1: worked hard all year, right, that help everyone get to

1450
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: this moment. You'd like to give them a shot, right.

1451
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 1: You have the presidents, the ads, everybody that has a

1452
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 1: part of it. I mean, this is what you worked

1453
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: a whole year for to get to this point, and

1454
01:18:29,520 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 1: everyone is there to be celebratory hopefully an outcome. Knowing

1455
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: that you you know, consult and basically counsel a lot

1456
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 1: of these guys on the roster. You know, the mental

1457
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: part of the game can mess with young kids, especially

1458
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:49,639
Speaker 1: when you have a team that keeps you from getting

1459
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:52,639
Speaker 1: over the hump time and again, like in Alabama, how

1460
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:57,680
Speaker 1: have you kind of kept the boys kind of focused

1461
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:00,759
Speaker 1: on just the task at hand rather than getting wrapped

1462
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: up in the series history the SEC title game just

1463
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. How do you kind of keep

1464
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:10,320
Speaker 1: them on the straight and narrow Jonas, But we've been

1465
01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 1: here before, so you remember our last championship run. We

1466
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: had to play a team twice in the SEC West

1467
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:18,799
Speaker 1: that that's not your right. We had to go through Auburn,

1468
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 1: lose one, comeback, get one. So you keep that mentality, man,

1469
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: one week out a time, regardless of who it is.

1470
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:29,679
Speaker 1: Everybody know that injuries and everything is inevitable. Not saying

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01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the same team both ways each time,

1472
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:34,880
Speaker 1: because there can be some different pieces. So don't worry

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01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 1: about the politics of it. Let's go out and line

1474
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:40,920
Speaker 1: it up and play ball, taking away the opponent that

1475
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna face on the tenth what's the biggest challenge

1476
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: for you and you're young and you know getting your

1477
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:49,559
Speaker 1: young guys ready to go, what's the biggest challenge handling

1478
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: young athletes or the biggest challenge is keeping the focus

1479
01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:58,600
Speaker 1: of understanding what's at hand, right, what's your why? You

1480
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:01,400
Speaker 1: got guys that are freshman saw more as junior seniors.

1481
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: You got different core hearts, so what they're playing for

1482
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 1: at that particular time, So you know, it's surrounding circle.

1483
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 1: You gotta keep these guys here, keep them motivated to

1484
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:12,800
Speaker 1: keep going. You gotta be training the guys that are

1485
01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 1: headed to the draft and then the guys that are

1486
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:16,840
Speaker 1: up next. You gotta kind of teach them how to

1487
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 1: be leaders for as the leadership, so it's an involving

1488
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:22,559
Speaker 1: thing man to have like one hundred and thirty of them,

1489
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 1: including the walk Ons. But it's knowing them, getting to

1490
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,400
Speaker 1: knowing them, getting inside of them. And of course you

1491
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:31,559
Speaker 1: know what's how creed, that's how I walked teaching them

1492
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 1: to Georgia Waite, and guys usually get in line because

1493
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: we have good results of making young men. And then Jonas,

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01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 1: I'm just curious. I know you split your career between

1495
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo and San Francisco, but do you still keep one

1496
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:46,840
Speaker 1: eye on what's going on up there in the pros?

1497
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: You keep your eye on the bills at all and

1498
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:55,560
Speaker 1: see how they're doing. Yeah, man, you see how nice? Yeah? Yeah,

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01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:57,600
Speaker 1: I said, I put this on for Jeremy so he

1500
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:02,439
Speaker 1: can send me some more stuff. But yeah, I definitely

1501
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:04,840
Speaker 1: keep up. I root for you, guys man. Buffalo was

1502
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 1: definitely a changing time and place for me in my life.

1503
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:12,320
Speaker 1: I would always love Buffalo. I always said, catapulta me

1504
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 1: to place. I call it rough buff because a lot

1505
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 1: of people don't want to do four straight years there

1506
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 1: and I signed up to do that right out of

1507
01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:23,680
Speaker 1: the draft. Four years and didn't ask for a thing.

1508
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 1: And I love the city. I appreciate everything was there

1509
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 1: and that was my best ball. Still. I look at

1510
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 1: some of the games now because they all on YouTube

1511
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:35,720
Speaker 1: and things. But best fans man, like you say, they're

1512
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: very close to Georgia fans because they're they're real fanatics,

1513
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:43,320
Speaker 1: like they're out there and I love them. Ye go Bills, Yeah,

1514
01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 1: no question about it. Well, Jonas, we wish you the

1515
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:49,759
Speaker 1: best of luck on Monday night because Bills fans can relate.

1516
01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:53,120
Speaker 1: I mean last year was the first time they really

1517
01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:55,960
Speaker 1: got over on the Patriots and swept them for the season.

1518
01:21:56,479 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: We know that Alabama got the first shot in luck

1519
01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 1: getting the t KO on Monday. Hey man, I appreciate that.

1520
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:06,559
Speaker 1: And to answer your first question, man, I wouldn't pass

1521
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:11,639
Speaker 1: on any of my God, I wouldn't pass on any

1522
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: of my guys. Yeah, I got a couple we've we're

1523
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: watching CLI. Thank you so much, Jonas, appreciate it. Jonas

1524
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 1: well anytime. All right, that's Jonas Jennings, former Bills offensive tackle,

1525
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:25,519
Speaker 1: current director of player development at the University of Georgia.

1526
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:28,559
Speaker 1: They got a big game, it's time to slay the

1527
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 1: Dragon's defensive tackle. Name for George Jordan Davis. Yes, get

1528
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: that three hundred fifty pound boy who by the time

1529
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 1: the Bills pick. Yeah, it's interesting. The reason I'm saying

1530
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:42,960
Speaker 1: that if those of you don't know he's six six,

1531
01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:45,960
Speaker 1: three sift sixty or three fifty. He's huge, and he's

1532
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:51,280
Speaker 1: he can run, he cannot he can run circles around me. Right. Um, Yeah,

1533
01:22:51,479 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: he's a talent. He's a space eater. Um, he's at

1534
01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 1: least and at this point they're sucks saying he's kind

1535
01:22:57,840 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 1: of a two down defensive tack right, So a lot

1536
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: people are one. Yeah, people are wondering, you know, if

1537
01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:06,400
Speaker 1: he slides down into the twenties, you know, the high twenties.

1538
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:09,639
Speaker 1: You know, hopefully thirty two is where the Bills are drafting,

1539
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:11,559
Speaker 1: but I don't know if he gets down there. But

1540
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:15,640
Speaker 1: people are thinking, because some teams view him only as

1541
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:19,680
Speaker 1: a two down defensive tackle, that he could slip to

1542
01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 1: the bottom quarter of the first round. So if he's

1543
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: in striking distance and you want to make a move

1544
01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:29,759
Speaker 1: up a few slots to go get him, that kid

1545
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:32,680
Speaker 1: against the run, he's a game wrecker, right, But and

1546
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: that's he's just one of them. I mean they you

1547
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: can tell both Alabama and Georgia and this group. They

1548
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: there's a double digit number of players who are going

1549
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:45,479
Speaker 1: to be playing on at the professional level for different teams,

1550
01:23:45,479 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 1: and you know, take your pick. I guess yeah. And

1551
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 1: we know Isaiah McKenzie will be glued to that game

1552
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 1: Monday night being a UGA lum. You gotta wonder if

1553
01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:56,840
Speaker 1: he and LEVI are doing any smack talk this week

1554
01:23:56,880 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 1: about is it an amazing how much the college trash

1555
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 1: talk in NFL locker rooms? I mean, oh, it gets

1556
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: in ten. I remember, I'd ever took you because I

1557
01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 1: went to Northwestern thirty four and thirty one. When I

1558
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:18,600
Speaker 1: got there, it was a record and we went to

1559
01:24:18,600 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: oh and thirty four before we won a game, right,

1560
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:22,960
Speaker 1: so you know, I didn't really have that, but we'd

1561
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 1: be I'd be sitting on a Monday morning team meeting

1562
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: or you know, during a week and you could always

1563
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 1: tell how the last weekend's game went, because I remember

1564
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: Gail Gilbert comes walking in. He's a a cow guy. Yeah,

1565
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: he comes in totally decked out in Stanford gear. Oh

1566
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:44,400
Speaker 1: because he lost a boy. Yeah yeah, so yeah, you

1567
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: could see when bets were being paid that. Oh and

1568
01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:49,080
Speaker 1: that and the guys too. It wasn't like just wearing

1569
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:53,680
Speaker 1: a hat. They had shorts, t shirt, shoes, they the

1570
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:55,799
Speaker 1: whole thing. You had to wear the whole thing, sweat outfit,

1571
01:24:56,320 --> 01:25:00,839
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah that they take it seriously, not seriously,

1572
01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:04,720
Speaker 1: but it's it. But debts are paid. Yeah, oh we've

1573
01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: seen it. I remember Sammy Watkins got somebody to wear

1574
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: Clemson gear. I can't remember who it was now, but

1575
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: somebody from the other school lost a friendly wager with Sammy,

1576
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:18,800
Speaker 1: and Sammy had a whole uniform of purple. Yeah. He

1577
01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:20,599
Speaker 1: didn't even make him wear the orange. He made him

1578
01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:22,960
Speaker 1: wear purple. Same thing. I mean, you get the Ohio

1579
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:24,840
Speaker 1: State Michigan stuff going on. If you got a couple

1580
01:25:24,840 --> 01:25:27,720
Speaker 1: of those guys on your roster and co would do

1581
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 1: it with Penn stayed a lot. Right, Yeah, it's never ending,

1582
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:35,960
Speaker 1: and it's amazing the because then because it's not only

1583
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:40,160
Speaker 1: about that, it's about it's about debating which team is

1584
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 1: better and you guys aren't gonna last and this I

1585
01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 1: mean right, he did exchanges like the passion coming out.

1586
01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:50,800
Speaker 1: It's like, guys, college was like five years ago, right,

1587
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: it get it does cool down longer there in the league.

1588
01:25:53,120 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: It lasts though, because there's always fresh guys coming out

1589
01:25:57,160 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 1: of the out of college talking it and h you know,

1590
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:04,679
Speaker 1: think about and I think about this, what would happen

1591
01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 1: if remember twelve years ago whenever it was when app

1592
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 1: State beats Michigan. Could you imagine the alumni in that

1593
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 1: locker room. And I'll say this, when Northwestern Wildcats beat

1594
01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Jeff Burruss heard it from your boy. Oh

1595
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: I was giving it to him. I was giving it

1596
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:26,680
Speaker 1: to him Northwestern. Oh my gosh. So I got to

1597
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:28,760
Speaker 1: take advantage of those. You gotta jump on them when

1598
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,719
Speaker 1: you can. You get your Yeah, you take your wins

1599
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 1: when you get them, and you suck it up when

1600
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:35,840
Speaker 1: you lose. You put your tail between your legs when

1601
01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:38,360
Speaker 1: you don't get it. But yeah, it's it makes for

1602
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 1: some interesting debates and arguments in NFL locker rooms. That's

1603
01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:44,680
Speaker 1: been around forever and it's never changing. We have to

1604
01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:46,760
Speaker 1: take a break here, Steve and I back with some

1605
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 1: of your final questions from the OBL fan mail bag.

1606
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 1: Next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

1607
01:26:52,800 --> 01:27:06,280
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, Welcome back to One

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01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:09,160
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve task it with you. Final

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01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:14,320
Speaker 1: question from the OBIL fan mail bag from Christopher do

1610
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:16,439
Speaker 1: you think that the recent play of the old line

1611
01:27:16,479 --> 01:27:18,600
Speaker 1: has something to do with Dable making more of a

1612
01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:21,479
Speaker 1: commitment to running the ball. It seems to me like

1613
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: those guys get fired up when they know they're going

1614
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,519
Speaker 1: to get to hit some d lineman. What do you

1615
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:32,679
Speaker 1: think of that? Yeah, offensive lineman, people like to hit people,

1616
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: and it's it's much more fun and easy to fire

1617
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 1: out and push guys around rather than retreat and hold

1618
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:41,519
Speaker 1: them off to a different mentality. Often it's more fun

1619
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:43,439
Speaker 1: to do it. Offensive linemen get fired up when they

1620
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:45,639
Speaker 1: get called on to do it. That's why running games

1621
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:48,240
Speaker 1: are better. When you go to it. Often they get

1622
01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:51,400
Speaker 1: better at doing it. They get more enthusisation. It's just better.

1623
01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:57,200
Speaker 1: It's more aggressive mind state, state of mind. So yeah,

1624
01:27:57,240 --> 01:28:00,000
Speaker 1: the offensive line is probably playing better because they're getting

1625
01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: more reps. They also have some stability up front that

1626
01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 1: they haven't had in a long time. But it's a

1627
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: throwing team. I don't think it's going to change their philosophy.

1628
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:09,719
Speaker 1: It does give them a little bit of a boost

1629
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:12,240
Speaker 1: and probably the next game or two because they've shown

1630
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:16,559
Speaker 1: the willingness to hand it off a ton. So we'll

1631
01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:18,400
Speaker 1: see how far that gets them. We'll see what the

1632
01:28:18,439 --> 01:28:19,960
Speaker 1: Jets can do about it. They're not a good run

1633
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,600
Speaker 1: defense team. Maybe the Bills go into the playoffs running it.

1634
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:25,880
Speaker 1: To finish the regular season. Jets have run the ball

1635
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:28,519
Speaker 1: well each of the last two weeks. They are one

1636
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:31,720
Speaker 1: of the top rushing teams over the last two games

1637
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 1: across the league, so they've been productive there and they

1638
01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 1: did it last week against a top five run defense.

1639
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:41,120
Speaker 1: So I would anticipate to help Zach Wilson as much

1640
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:43,320
Speaker 1: as possible. They're going to try to run that thing,

1641
01:28:43,400 --> 01:28:47,000
Speaker 1: especially getting Michael Carter and Tevin Coleman back. They got

1642
01:28:47,080 --> 01:28:49,960
Speaker 1: Coleman back from the COVID reserve list, and they'll have

1643
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:53,000
Speaker 1: Michael carter back. He's out of the concussion protocol right.

1644
01:28:53,040 --> 01:28:56,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, it seems like that running game is a

1645
01:28:56,920 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 1: great help for a young quarterback Zach Wilson has. It

1646
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:03,719
Speaker 1: will help solidify or you know, make clear his reads

1647
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:05,360
Speaker 1: in the secondary if they can get some run play

1648
01:29:05,360 --> 01:29:08,200
Speaker 1: action going. But he holds onto the ball longer than

1649
01:29:08,200 --> 01:29:10,880
Speaker 1: anybody on average. He's one of the slowest quarterbacks in

1650
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:13,160
Speaker 1: the league to get rid of the football. That spells

1651
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 1: good things for Bill's pass rush. But all this is

1652
01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:17,120
Speaker 1: up in the air because these are two new teams.

1653
01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: They haven't faced each other. Zach Wilson hasn't faced this team,

1654
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:21,600
Speaker 1: even though they met earlier in the year. We'll be

1655
01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:25,160
Speaker 1: here to chop it up on Monday at noon. In

1656
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: the meantime, check out our Bills by the Numbers podcast

1657
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:31,880
Speaker 1: out on all your podcast platforms. We'll see you next week.