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Speaker 1: afternoon and welcome to One bill Sive. Welcome to We

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Speaker 1: are not in our regular studio today, John Murphy and

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. We are not at One Bill's Drive today.

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Speaker 1: We are at Entercom Broadcasting in AMERUS, New York. The

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Speaker 1: reason power outages at One Bills Drive. We couldn't deal

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Speaker 1: We're just on the radio only. We apologize for that.

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Speaker 1: We got a three hour show to bring you though.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy was Steve Tasker. Good afternoon, Steve. How are

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Speaker 1: you today, Murph? I'm pretty good. Pretty good Monday only

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Speaker 1: pretty good, Steve. Well, we we're at the stadium. Walked

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Speaker 1: in getting ready, had our usual and everything was dark

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Speaker 1: and cold. Yeah, cold cold. It wasn't like it wasn't cool.

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Speaker 1: That was yeah. So then we we dashed across town

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's not too scary. We've done here before.

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Speaker 1: We did a show here. The last time we did

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Speaker 1: a show was September of two thousand and eight seven, sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, you weren't here. You weren't with a shot.

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Speaker 1: Last time we show. We did a show in this

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Speaker 1: It was after the Thursday night football game against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: There was an accident after the game. Somebody hit a

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Speaker 1: show here. We're thinking, all right, we'll just go do

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Speaker 1: over with. We're an a half hour into the show.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the Bills announced that they have

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Speaker 1: fired Greg Roman as the offensive coordinator. Threw us for

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Speaker 1: a loop. I gotta say, threw us for a loop.

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Speaker 1: But we got through it. We got That was the

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Speaker 1: game when those uh those balloons got loose, floated up

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Speaker 1: clic or no, that was I think it was a

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Speaker 1: different game. I think that. Yeah, this game, a guy

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Speaker 1: actually a traffic accident, hit a power line and different

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Speaker 1: power ball. Yeah, the game you're thinking about was against

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Speaker 1: the chargers four or five years prior to that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was. It's always it always seems to be power

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Speaker 1: issues that one bill strive You ever notice, well, always

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Speaker 1: like once every four years. Right, that's enough. What are

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Speaker 1: we living a third world country? Come on, at any rate,

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Speaker 1: We're just radio only today, no television today. We apologize

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Speaker 1: normal MSG viewers. Now that may is first break. I

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Speaker 1: gotta call mom and dad because oh, they're gonna wonder.

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Speaker 1: They're wondering where we are. Probably probably figured we got canceled, right,

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Speaker 1: that would be the logical conclusion if you're tuned on

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Speaker 1: that far fast, Yeah, they probably figure, well they've crossed

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Speaker 1: the finally finally happened. We're here. We're here for three

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Speaker 1: hours today with John Burton, ol buddy of mine old

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Speaker 1: Channel seven Comrades, is gonna join us at want a

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Speaker 1: Clock to talk about the surprising, amazing Tennessee Titans and

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Speaker 1: their victory Overballimore. A big weekend of football. Steve, I

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Speaker 1: watched one two and a half, about two and a

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Speaker 1: half almost three full games. Let's go through them a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Let's go through them. Uh if we can,

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Speaker 1: you know by the time they were actually on right,

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Speaker 1: start with Saturday afternoon. I didn't see any of that game.

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Speaker 1: I apologize the forty nine ers. Uh, I didn't see

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. Yeah, that to me. And let me just

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Speaker 1: me just call call. I told you so on these

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Speaker 1: on these divisional games, I knew that there was gonna

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Speaker 1: be tough for the road teams. Now the Titans, man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, that they roll into Baltimore, and the only

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Speaker 1: that was the difference. But you got nothing to say

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Speaker 1: that's what the Bills would like to do. They don't

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Speaker 1: Bills fans would know if think about how different the

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Speaker 1: different team now than they were six It's a good point, too, Murph,

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Speaker 1: great defense. It was interesting to see Logan Ryan's comments

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're that good. I think Derrick Henry

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Speaker 1: has been sensational, But how can you lean on a

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Speaker 1: You can't, really you can't. But he's done it the

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Speaker 1: last three weeks. Yeah, And you know what, they didn't

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Speaker 1: They have evolved very quickly in the last half of

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Speaker 1: Tannehill was seven fourteen for eighty eight yards in the

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Speaker 1: and they're hard to get. They're a hard team to beat.

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Speaker 1: You think the Chiefs are gonna see here. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see what's Andy Reid in the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: defense gonna do against the Titans because they got guys

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Speaker 1: like Reggie Raglan, who's a linebacker who's kind of built

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Speaker 1: for that. You know, They've got some big, heavy duty stuff,

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Speaker 1: and they've got Spagnola as the defensive coordinator. He's kind

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Speaker 1: of onto that probably, So it'll be interesting to see

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Speaker 1: if the Chiefs can stand up to that running game

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Speaker 1: of the Titans. And you know, if you're Andy Reid,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be sitting there in the championship game going

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Speaker 1: all right, I don't think Ryan Tannehill can beat us.

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Speaker 1: Let's see. You know, you play six defensive linemen, one

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Speaker 1: linebacker and four dbs and say, oh, let's see if

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Speaker 1: the Titans can beat us. Let's see if they can

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Speaker 1: match up in the secondary. Because you're not running it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it wouldn't surprise me. It wouldn't surprise me

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Speaker 1: if the Chiefs dress eight defensive linemen and play six

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Speaker 1: of them at a time. Two things I want to

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Speaker 1: get the generalities I guess out of this, and this

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Speaker 1: will lead us into our Twitter poll. What do we

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Speaker 1: take out of the fact that running games have become

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Speaker 1: so pre eminent in the postseason so far, it's it's

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Speaker 1: a passing league. People repeat it all the time. They

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Speaker 1: say it all the time, and yet Derrick Henry two

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Speaker 1: hundred yards rushing now a couple of games in a row,

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Speaker 1: thirty yards, thirty carries per game. There's something going on

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Speaker 1: in this postseason indicating and it's not just Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 1: There's something going on that indicates that the running game

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Speaker 1: is maybe more important than we think. I think it

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Speaker 1: has something to do with good teams controlling the ball,

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Speaker 1: controlling the offense, passing when they want to pass. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I can't put my finger on it, but

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Speaker 1: there's something going on this bla season. I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about it on the way in on the on the

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Speaker 1: drive over to hear breakneck speak, trying to get here

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Speaker 1: to do this show. I think it's one of those

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Speaker 1: things they call a trend. I think it's a trend

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Speaker 1: if you can, if you've got a good enough defense

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Speaker 1: to help to keep the other team off the scoreboard

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Speaker 1: with if they where they've got a high flying offense

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Speaker 1: or just a regular, regular NFL offense, that throws it

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Speaker 1: more than they run it. If you can keep those

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Speaker 1: guys off off the board, if you can match up

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Speaker 1: with them in the back end, and you can run

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Speaker 1: the football like that, particularly in a big, heavy set

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Speaker 1: that they're not. They don't have the personnel on their

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Speaker 1: roster to even come up against. I think you can

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Speaker 1: make Hay in a one game series. I think that's

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Speaker 1: what you see. And it's interesting to me how fast

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Speaker 1: that happens in the NFL, and I think it's a

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Speaker 1: testament to how nimble and how smart these NFL coaching

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Speaker 1: staffs are. The Titans got to this point, I mean

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Speaker 1: they were they thought they might have this, and they said, listen,

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Speaker 1: we're pulling the plug and we're gonna put this other

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Speaker 1: quarterback in and he's gonna and he did. He gave

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Speaker 1: them just enough. They were They were lost a game

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Speaker 1: in a month and a half, you know. And the

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Speaker 1: Ravens were doing it from the beginning, and they were

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Speaker 1: thinking about it. The Ravens were the only team doing

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Speaker 1: that right. They were doing it. They had a quarterback

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Speaker 1: who could make some runs faster than anybody. He's big,

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Speaker 1: and they got a running game in an offensive line

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Speaker 1: and the passing game is good because you know, Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson can sling it and they got some guys, so

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Speaker 1: they were they were hitting people hard and they could

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Speaker 1: score thirty points a game. So their defense, as good

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Speaker 1: as it was, was still a top flight defense. You

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Speaker 1: get into the regular and how far have the Titans

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Speaker 1: evolved in the second half of this season to get

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Speaker 1: to a point to where they can play good enough

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Speaker 1: defense to play offense the way they're playing and win games.

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Speaker 1: It's an evolution that we've that's happened during the regular

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Speaker 1: season that we you know that we I don't think

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Speaker 1: we anticipate, no. I think it's surprising to think about

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Speaker 1: three years ago, we had like four or five guys

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Speaker 1: almost there for five thousand yards four years ago. Now

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Speaker 1: the trend is their teams are reacting to that and

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Speaker 1: we're swinging, and it's a nimble's I think it's a

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Speaker 1: nod to the nimble nature of how fast these coaches

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Speaker 1: changed things and what they ask their players to do

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Speaker 1: and which players and rich rosters can get it done.

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Speaker 1: It gives you a lot of hope for wherever you

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Speaker 1: are early in the season to be able to evolve

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Speaker 1: quickly throughout the season and get some things going and

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Speaker 1: make a run. Here was sparked two of my big

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Speaker 1: picture question for you, Steve. What does this mean to

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Speaker 1: the Bills. What does it mean in terms of the

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Speaker 1: Bills playoff viability? What does it mean in terms of

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Speaker 1: the Bills ability to win playoff games? Maybe win a

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Speaker 1: couple at this stage. Look, they had a sixteen to

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Speaker 1: nothing lead against a bad Houston Texans defense and they

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Speaker 1: let it get away. Yeah. I would have loved to

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Speaker 1: see him play this past weekend, seen him take a

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Speaker 1: shot at Kansas City. Maybe they would have won, maybe

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have. But it just feels like the Bills

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Speaker 1: are there, and it feels like a week later, it

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Speaker 1: still feels like the Bills blew an opportunity to advance,

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Speaker 1: maybe deeply into the playoffs this year with their performance

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Speaker 1: it used to I agree, and they're not that far away,

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Speaker 1: particularly because their defense was so solid above solid, Their

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Speaker 1: defense was really I can't say spectacular because the turnovers

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Speaker 1: in the big places. They didn't score very much, and

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Speaker 1: you kind of associate that with a defense. But man

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Speaker 1: o man impossible to move the ball consistently through four

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Speaker 1: quarters on you might hit him early or you might

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Speaker 1: catch them in the third quarter, he might get him

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Speaker 1: for a series here or there, but man o, man,

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Speaker 1: they just shut you down. And that made the Bills

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Speaker 1: offense good enough. And in a game where where this

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Speaker 1: last in the in the wildcard round, where you get

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Speaker 1: a sixteen point lead and you just need something from

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Speaker 1: your offense to take the pressure off of them, like

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Speaker 1: there's a game war on they just had. They got

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Speaker 1: too many possessions on their side of the football with

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Speaker 1: too much time on the clock for the Bills to

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Speaker 1: stop them, you know, hold them off the thing. Plus

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Speaker 1: you get an unbelievable play from an unbelievable athlete and

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Speaker 1: that's the backbreaker. But you get them to overtime on

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Speaker 1: the road in the playoffs. That's how good this defense was.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, that was good enough for the regular season.

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Speaker 1: Ten and six gets you the wild card and gives

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Speaker 1: you, you you know, it gives you a chance against everybody.

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Speaker 1: But you're in more coin flip games than teams like

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Speaker 1: the Titans were at the end of the year, and

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens, the forty nine Ers, the Seahawk those

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Speaker 1: teams aren't. They're in some one score games, no question,

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Speaker 1: but those games don't seem to be like coin flips

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Speaker 1: on this player that play. You get a bigger personality

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Speaker 1: of the team all around, rather than just your defense

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Speaker 1: holding them and that other team can't do and what

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Speaker 1: it normally does. So the Bill's offense is still that thing.

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Speaker 1: I think at the end of the season, when all

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Speaker 1: is said and done, if they would have put together

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Speaker 1: one more possession of maybe seven plays with or without points,

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Speaker 1: and taken another extra three or four or five minutes

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Speaker 1: off the clock, that game goes your way. But it

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Speaker 1: falls on that side of the ball. And generally speaking,

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Speaker 1: now certainly we went down last week. We spent the

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Speaker 1: whole week going down the list of plays. This player,

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Speaker 1: that player, that player, that play, no question, but man,

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Speaker 1: is a big picture, like you're talking about. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: the Bill's offense has got to hold up it's and

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Speaker 1: take one more possession away from the other team, just

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Speaker 1: because you know, you're able to put a couple of

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Speaker 1: first downs together at the right time, whether you get

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Speaker 1: points or not. And that's how they're not far away.

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Speaker 1: They are not far away. And you'll say, and I

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Speaker 1: know you'll you know, one big wide receiver away, and

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Speaker 1: I get it, But you're still that guy at whatever

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Speaker 1: percentage of your offense that guy would be. You're still

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Speaker 1: that far away, you know, and that's where you sit

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Speaker 1: right now. Well, it takes us right into our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll question today, and here's the poll. After you watch

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Speaker 1: the division around to the playoffs, how far away are

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Speaker 1: the buff Bills? I think it's a valid question. After

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Speaker 1: last weekend's games, after watching the division around of the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: how far away the Bills? Forty seven percent of you

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Speaker 1: say really close? Next year is our year? Thirty four

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Speaker 1: percent of you say there's still a lot to do,

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Speaker 1: would need some breaks. Nineteen percent of you say it

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Speaker 1: should have been us this year. And we're interested in

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on that. How how far away are the Bills?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight O three fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty, send

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Speaker 1: it a tweet, will read them on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: You can vote in the Twitter poll as well. We've

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Speaker 1: got six hundred votes in already the Bills. How far

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Speaker 1: away are they from championship contention? It's a valid question,

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Speaker 1: even more so after this past weekend's games. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to the phone calls. We'll talk to you about it.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. We're back job for a PC chance.

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Speaker 1: Bills Dry. But we've got a show from now until

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Speaker 1: three'll talk about the Tennessee Titans with John Burton. Coming

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Speaker 1: up at one o'clock today is Steve. Did you catch

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Speaker 1: this over the weekend? It kind of snuck in Friday night,

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Speaker 1: the NFL issued to find twenty eight thousand dollars for

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Speaker 1: Bills right tackle Cody Ford for that blind illegal blindside

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Speaker 1: block called in the Texans playoff game. It was a

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Speaker 1: big call at the time. This just makes it worse.

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Speaker 1: You would think the NFL just want to walk away

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Speaker 1: from that call. Instead they make it worse. That fine,

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Speaker 1: that call, and that entire situation disgusts me. Good, It

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Speaker 1: absolutely disgusts me. How do you find a guy for

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Speaker 1: an innocuous hit that was a question a questionable call

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Speaker 1: to begin with, and to find the guy for that,

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Speaker 1: the guy the guy block didn't even hit the ground

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Speaker 1: and he didn't even make helmet to helmet contact. It was,

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Speaker 1: it was. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's it borders on NCAA bad.

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Speaker 1: It's almost as bad. It's as bad as anything the

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Speaker 1: NCAA does. That's that's how arbitrary and stupid that fine

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Speaker 1: is for Cody Ford. It was ridiculous. It's call at

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Speaker 1: the time, they and then they make it worse by

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Speaker 1: issuing to find the go along with it. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: How about the end, well, you didn't see it, but

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Speaker 1: the end of the Minnesota Green Bay or Green Bay

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Speaker 1: Seattle games the first down, Yeah, and the and the

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Speaker 1: Zepp Bruder film, Yeah, where they said we had an

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Speaker 1: extra Yeah, and nobody's seen that yet, the extra angle.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know why to us right and national team.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, they might lie to you. I don't

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Speaker 1: have as bigger problem with that. They called it a

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Speaker 1: first down on the field. Um, the yellow line. It's

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Speaker 1: important to note the yellow line that you see on

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Speaker 1: TV is not the line, and they just called it

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Speaker 1: a first down. Okay. I don't have a huge problem

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Speaker 1: with that. It was close enough they so I see

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Speaker 1: why that would be called away. If you have a

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Speaker 1: problem with that, you shouldn't watch it because they do

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Speaker 1: that every single solitary game, every single season, postseason, regular season, preseason.

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Speaker 1: They screw spots up every game multiple times, multiple times.

641
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: So he's got to get you gotta live with that.

642
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: And I know everybody says, well, we should do electronic

643
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: chip and I'm stop. You know it's not going to it.

644
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: They mess it up all the time, and I have

645
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: a hard time getting upset about it. It's happened to

646
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: the Bills against the Bills. At times, you think of

647
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: the Cole Beasley first down in the wildcard game, all

648
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: of that, So it just happens. I gotta shrug my shoulders.

649
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,479
Speaker 1: It's just it's the way it is, you know, if

650
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: it's the world we live in. That call and the

651
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: it's just kind of a mini storm after that call

652
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: indicates to me how far we've come that fans expect

653
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: perfection now when it comes to the spot of the ball,

654
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: and they expect you to look at the replay over

655
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: and over and over again to you at it perfect.

656
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: I don't expect that, and I don't think fans should

657
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,719
Speaker 1: expect that because it's not going to happen. And again,

658
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: if you get rid of replay, nobody's looking for replay

659
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: to solve those little problems. That was a little problem

660
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: in the spot of a football missed by inches maybe

661
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: a big consequence. But as you say, that happens all

662
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: the time, right, only if you get rid of replay.

663
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: Will we just walk away from that and said, well,

664
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Speaker 1: they call it a first down. Okay, you want to play,

665
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: and I get it. I mean it's a crucial point

666
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: where they can stay on the field and all that.

667
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: But if you want to see them mess up spots,

668
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: you watch kicks go out of bounds and how they

669
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: spot those You watch kicks bounce around down there and

670
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: and bounce out of bounds or go fly out of bounds,

671
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: and how they spot those balls. It's half hazard at best.

672
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: So and all those spots mean something, you know. So

673
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: that's that to me is a triviality because it's got

674
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: to come. And certainly on those downs there are crucial downs.

675
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: But the simple fact of the matter is if one

676
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: spot's important, another one is just because they are consequence

677
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: is to one and not the other. I mean, they

678
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: do it all the time. It's arbitrary and to rail

679
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: against the way they spot the football. You know, you're

680
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: just screaming into the wind. It's just not gonna There's

681
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: nothing they can do about it. Let's take some calls.

682
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: We'll get your thoughts on how close out of the

683
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: bills to actual playoff contention, championship contention, and what did

684
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: you think of the games over the weekend? Eight fifty

685
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Kenn and Buffalo. Hello, Ken, go ahead,

687
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: you're on the air, guys, how are you okay? God? Hey,

688
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: I'm listening all year and we're hearing about how Josh

689
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: is making sub strides, and then we kind of hear

690
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 1: making light of a guy like Ryan Tannehill, mister Robisky,

691
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yet we always hear about this stuff about

692
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: analytics and statistics and this type of thing. And I

693
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: look at Josh and every almost every significant category from

694
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 1: cornerback You'll look. You don't start at the top. You

695
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: looked at the bottom, and you're gonna find him pretty

696
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: close to there. Now. Years ago, when we hit Hashik

697
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: on the sabers, everybody got all upset because one of

698
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: the Canadians said, Buffalo is an average team with a

699
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: great goalie. Well, the problem is they were an average

700
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: team with a great goalie. It seems like we've got

701
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: a pretty damn good team, what a fantastic defense. But

702
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: what we want to do is convince ourselves. Then we

703
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that can throw, and apparently we don't.

704
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: The guy's tough as nails, he runs hardy, he has

705
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: that leadership. He can't throw. Well, I'm gonna dispute a second,

706
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: can hang on. I would say we're in the process

707
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: of watching josh Alla develop and you can't abide by that.

708
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: That's okay. He's played twenty eight NFL games. He's better

709
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: in Game twenty eighth than he was in Game one.

710
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: He got better this past year. He throws it better.

711
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: The numbers suggest that, you know, the touchdown to interception

712
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: ratio suggests that. So I think you're wrong on that.

713
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: I disagree with that. He can throw, and he's getting

714
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: better at go ahead, I get and not together. You

715
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: can you can compare him to those other quarterbacks you mentioned,

716
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: like Ryan Tannehill and and and Ryan Fitzpatrick. But here's

717
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: the thing, and here's the reason, and this is. And

718
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: you can say it's a little thing or a big thing,

719
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. It's it's what murth' is

720
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: alluded to. We think, and most people met and you

721
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: obviously not. Most people see Josh Allen is improving significantly

722
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: year after year, certainly year over year, over game to game,

723
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: month to month, start to start. They see him playing

724
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: better football, They see this offense. PA, everybody in Buffalo does, well,

725
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you just called and said that he's

726
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: not as good as Ryan Tannehill. And Ryan Tannehill is

727
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: an eight or nine year veteran whose ceiling has been

728
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: reached like Tannehill. Tannehill Fitzpatrid Travesty as a joke, just

729
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: like ESPN did with Josh after the playoff game. But

730
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, we want to believe he's getting better. But

731
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: I look at when we talk about he's getting more accurate,

732
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: that's all well and good, But if you look at

733
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: the time thirty two guys in completion percentage, where does

734
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: he come at thirty second? So he's getting better, Apparently

735
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: the whole league is because he's the worst in percentage.

736
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: And if you want to bring these people in and

737
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: him analytics and this is so important, it's the evolving

738
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: part of the game. Then you can't just ignore the results.

739
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: Now here's the result for are you ten and six?

740
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: And I'm saying they got a damn good team, they

741
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: got a great defense, they got a good special teams,

742
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: They've got a lot going from them, and they got

743
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 1: a quarterback who played better this year than a year ago. Ken,

744
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,479
Speaker 1: Let's face it, you disagree, but I think that's the case.

745
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: That's okay. It's just you know, like I said, when

746
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: you when you when you guys laugh at some of

747
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: these other guys, who do we laugh at? We've got

748
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: who do we laugh at? Well, here's the Ken, the reason,

749
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: the reason, the reason we feel differently about Josh Allen

750
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: than we do about Ryan Tannehill. And I don't know why.

751
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill was seven to fourteen for eighty eight yards

752
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 1: in a playoff game, and he had two tds and

753
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: zero interceptions, which was nice obviously, and he had a

754
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: one oh nine point five rating. You can bend numbers anyway.

755
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: You can say, wow, he had one hundred and nine

756
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: point five rating. That's awesome. Ryan Tannehill's great. He was

757
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: seven to fourteen for eighty eight yards. How much did

758
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: they ask him to do? Plus? Like I said a

759
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: minute ago, Ryan Tannehill has a veteran's been around for

760
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: almost a decade. His ceiling is reached. That's it. Seven

761
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: to fourteen eighty eight yards on a team that can

762
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: run the ball really well. How good does he have

763
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: to be? Not good? Apparently? And for Buffalo. The reason

764
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: you're staying with a quarterback that has, in your mind,

765
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: I guess, struggled is because he's getting better and better

766
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: and his top end down the road hopefully will be

767
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: somewhere better than seven or fourteen for eighty eight yards

768
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: in a playoff game. You know, So whatever you say,

769
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's twenty eight starts in and he's getting there.

770
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: But he's still twenty eight starts into his career. He

771
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: seems to be getting better and better and learning hard

772
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: essons along the way. The hard lesson he learned in

773
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: Week four this season throwing three interceptions in the game

774
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: where they should have beaten the New England Patriots in

775
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: their own building. That seemed to me to be a

776
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: hard lesson that he learned, because from that minute on

777
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: he went fifteen touchdowns and two interceptions. That to me,

778
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: is a guy that continues to get better. That's why

779
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: you don't shift quarterbacks in the middle of the season,

780
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: bring Matt Barkley in, or we don't make a switch

781
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: to somebody like Ryan Tannehill. We're hanging with this guy

782
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,959
Speaker 1: because he's getting better. So you can say what you want. Yeah,

783
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: the Bills aren't there yet. How far away do you

784
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: think they are? He's gone. Let's go to Dave in

785
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: his car. Hello, Dave. I wanted to talk about the

786
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: kind of inconsistencies within the infuriating officiating, cause Steve and

787
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: you guys were just talking about that blank side block

788
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: and then to find on top of that, when the

789
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: paper print is a letter of the rules, that was

790
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: the letter of the rule of that blind side block.

791
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: But now I'm going to contrast that with that kickoff

792
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: bubble where that rule called for the guy also having

793
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: to take a knee. He didn't take a knee. That

794
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: if you're going to be consistent within the letter of

795
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: the loss, that should have been a Bill's touched out

796
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: and they didn't call it. They went one way one

797
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: way and one way the other way. Yeah, good point, yep,

798
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: good point. I don't know what the answer is you

799
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: like the problem. Here's a difference the way I see it.

800
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: On the kickoff that was initially going to be ruled

801
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: a buffalo touchdown then was not. I think logic prevailed there, Steve,

802
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: I don't think it's logical to expect the guy to

803
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: kneel it down. He's clearly whether you'd given himself up

804
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: or not, he had clearly ended the play. Quit on

805
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: the play. The play was over in his mind. I

806
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 1: think logic prevailed. There was no logic involved at all

807
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: on the Cordylin, on the Coty Ford block, there's no

808
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: logic involved. It was a kind of an over officious

809
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: rule application of a rule that, yeah, it makes sense.

810
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: I guess blindside me. The guy's not even looking at

811
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: you that you surprise him because you're coming from the

812
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: wrong way. The fact that Cody Ford's shoulders were oriented

813
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: towards his own goal line, and normally those kind of

814
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: blocks would be unseen by the guy getting blocked, this

815
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: one wasn't. He was writing in full view. He braced

816
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: himself to the block and accepted demon go down. And

817
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: here's the thing too, You gotta remember you're right about

818
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: the officiating. The arbitrary nature of this and that or

819
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: continue to be the real problem. What fans want, in

820
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: my opinion, and I don't want to speak for ere,

821
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: but I'll speak for what I observe. What do we

822
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: really want, all of us really want, is to call

823
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: it the same level of tiki tacnus in every aspect

824
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: of the game, and the same way from the first

825
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: quarter of the fourth quarter, from this game to this

826
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Speaker 1: other game, from the Tennessee Baltimore game all the way

827
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Speaker 1: out to the San Francisco Minnesota game. All the rules

828
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: every game to be called exactly the same, all the time.

829
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: If we could get to that, it doesn't matter what

830
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: the rules are, we'd get used to it. We would know,

831
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: we would understand that when a certain situation happens, that's

832
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: the way it's going to be called. We'd all be

833
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: happy if they could get it the same way, the

834
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: same call, the same level of egregious nature of whatever

835
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: penalty they're calling. Just be consistent all the way around.

836
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: Nobody cares what the rules are. If you just call

837
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: the rules the same way every play, all the way

838
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: throughout the season, and they're not even close. All right,

839
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Speaker 1: we got a break. We're coming back with more One

840
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841
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Coming to you from the Entercom

842
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: Studios in Amhurst, New York. Steve telling us about the

843
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan concert last night. Yeah, pretty cool. It's really good,

844
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: very nice show. End up. And before the show, they

845
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: have these things up that say, hey, shut your cell

846
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: phones down, silence, do not use your any you know,

847
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: you can't record stuff, all of that which you know

848
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: you can understand, otherwise you'll be asked to leave. And

849
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: then the next slide is, hey, text Jim at this

850
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Speaker 1: number and he'll text you back that. So I was like,

851
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: what's so, wait a minute, don't use your cell phones.

852
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: But now I pull yourself phone out and text him.

853
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: So I texted a meme with the with the Star

854
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: Wars guy going it's a trap, right, So they're trying

855
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: to find out who's using their phones. So I did

856
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 1: it and it pops out an automatic request, an automatic answer,

857
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: and he answers you was something they've written before, says

858
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: hey that and then he sends you the contact info

859
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: for his phone and a selfie and so you've got

860
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: him in your contacts, So I've got Jim Gaffigan my contact,

861
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: along with every one with every two o'clock. We put

862
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 1: him out of two today, five thousand people that were

863
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: there and the you know, I was in Rochester, sat

864
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: he went last night. He had a show in Rochester Saturday. Man,

865
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: I don't know how three hundred shows a year. He said, Oh,

866
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: my goodness, that's that's ridiculous. Was it good? Is it everything?

867
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: Here's a problem. I go to comedians once in a while.

868
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: Was it everything that you would hear normally? Like, because

869
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 1: if you listen to comedy radio and stuff, you will

870
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: hear his most famous bits. Does he do? No, it

871
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: was all fresh to me. It was all fresh to me.

872
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: And I've heard a lot of his stuff and he

873
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: does he always ends every show with the hot pocket thing,

874
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 1: and it was it's great. I mean he changes it

875
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: and evolves, you know, so he's really good at it.

876
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: And he had an opening act, an opening guy who

877
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 1: came out and spoke for like twenty The whole thing

878
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: was maybe ninety minutes. And the first guy came out

879
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: and did twenty twenty five and he was great. His

880
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 1: name was the last name was Taylor. I can't remember

881
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: his first name, but he had a great bit and

882
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: he was very funny as well. And then Jim came

883
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: out and you know, it was one of those where

884
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: he was on for an hour plus and there were

885
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: what every six or eight minutes I was laughing hard.

886
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: Did he do a lot of them, whispering stuff like

887
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: yeah he was you know, why does it not get old?

888
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: You get monster, you know. And everybody was on the table,

889
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: everybody from you know, everybody. He made fun of everybody

890
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: and so that and it was all good stuff. I mean,

891
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, I was I was not offended by any

892
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: of it. I wasn't even uncomfortable for any of it, so,

893
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: which is really hard to do. And there were kids there,

894
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: you know, a guy people bring their kids. Um, no profanity,

895
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: uh nothing, it was. It was all family stuff. So

896
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: it was pretty hard to put together that much material

897
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 1: for most of us without you know, having at least

898
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: one off color joke, you know, or one one kind

899
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: of rough humor joke, or one something that would offend

900
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: somebody to a point where wow, I was none of that.

901
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: It was it was he he walked that line really

902
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: well and it was pretty fun. It was a great

903
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: night at the arena and a lot of people were there. Yeah,

904
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't not full, but man, oh man,

905
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: there must have been five seven thousand people together. Stevens A.

906
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: Jim Gavigan. Let's night. Let's take a phone call year

907
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: as we continue to discuss yesterday's games and the bills

908
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: in particular, Trevor in Canada. Where are you in Canada? Trevor,

909
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 1: I'm down near Trenton, Okay. Not too many people will

910
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: know over that is, I don't I'm one of them.

911
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Trevor, what's on your mind? I just wanted

912
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: to call um first time caller UM. I thought seem

913
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: an excellent point earlier when he talked about UM you

914
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: can be numbers a lot of different ways and making

915
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: the Ryan Tannehill comparison UM in regards to his you know,

916
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: his quarterback rating and what Ryan had to do in

917
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: that playoff game. UM. And I My main point is

918
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: I just UM, you know, I'm a I'm a I'm

919
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: a supporter of being patient with Josh UM. I think, UM,

920
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: you know the fact he is the twenty two or

921
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: twenty three years old twenty three years old and I

922
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: don't know a whole lot about the college game. Um,

923
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: but you know, I know he went to a little

924
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: bit of a of a smaller school. UM, and I

925
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: just think maybe, you know, maybe his level of competition

926
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: there wasn't quite you know, maybe what some of the other, um,

927
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: the rookie or younger quarterbacks in the league I've seen,

928
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: and he's just gonna need that much more time to

929
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: adapt and adjust to the NFL game. UM. That's my

930
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: thoughts anyways. And and and also another thing too, just

931
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: the fact based again on his on his age. Um,

932
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: I've played the foot game of football myself, but having

933
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: played lots of other sports, I feel like at the

934
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: age of twenty three, you still have growing to do

935
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: and and and learning. And I think he will still

936
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully refine some of these skills and get

937
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: even better as it goes along. So I'm I'm a

938
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: you know, I like everyone else, I'd like him to

939
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: be you know, great, like Patrick Mahomes in a second

940
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: year and doing great right now. But I think he's

941
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: just a bit of a different story. And and I

942
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: just want to see us be patient with him, all right, Trevor, Thanks,

943
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: Are we doing a show about Josh Allen? Here because

944
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: sounds like I get it, and I'm with you. I

945
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,399
Speaker 1: I for me where I stand on him right now.

946
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: I still think his upside is great. You're right. I

947
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: think one of the things I mentioned this last week,

948
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: mur I don't know if you remember when when I

949
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: spoke about you know, he had a lot. He had

950
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: a little further way to go than Pat Mahomes did,

951
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson and and Deshaun Watson. Josh came from

952
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: a further down the pecking order place, both in terms

953
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: of the level of competition that he was against and

954
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: what he was asked to do and was able to do,

955
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: and so he had further to develop to get to

956
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: the baseline where you know, Baker Mayfield, Sam dardenal those

957
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: guys started as rookies. Now his top end physically, he

958
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: was much He's much better than those guys in a

959
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: lot of respects. But he had further to go. And

960
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: he's also got his own specific problems that are his

961
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: unique problems, like this, his penchant to say I'm going

962
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: to win the game on this play, period, here we go,

963
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: and you can't do that at this level. He's still

964
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: learning that and he still reverts to that in crunch

965
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: time once in a while, like we saw in the

966
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: wildcard game. But my point about Josh, and I guess

967
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 1: why I say all that, My point is this, he's

968
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: still ascending, and I think we're getting to a point

969
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: now where you'd like to see him do the things

970
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: that he did, Like say in the Jet game Week one,

971
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: where they were sixteen points down, he made a couple

972
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: of throws and ran the ball in boom and they

973
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: win the game. You'd like to see him make some

974
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: throws like he did in the Pittsburgh Steeler game, in

975
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: the first half of that New England game the second

976
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: time where he hits Dawson Knox deep, some of those plays,

977
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: if you'd like to see him make a little more

978
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: of those and cut out the bad sacks and the

979
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,919
Speaker 1: bad decisions he makes. I still think we're going into

980
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: this season and we're gonna start saying the same thing

981
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: about Josh that we said last season. It's not so

982
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,399
Speaker 1: much about his physical stuff, it's about the decisions he makes.

983
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: It's about where his head's at. And I think that's

984
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: still where he's going to develop. But I still think

985
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,240
Speaker 1: this too. He had further to go when he started

986
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: and so we're still going to have to be patient

987
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: watch him grow through all these levels where you see

988
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks have already reached. He still has to reach those.

989
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't think he's there in a number of ways.

990
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: All right, Trevor. Thanks, We're gonna take a break when

991
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: we come back. John Burton, who covers the Tennessee Titans

992
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: in his hometown of Nashville, will be joining us. Come

993
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: on back for that. It's One Bills Live presented by

994
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 1: Kalaida Health. Seneca Studio is inoperable today. We're coming here

995
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: from Nercom Studios in Amherst. This is Buffalo Bills radiois

996
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports. At the update from One Bills Live,

997
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are once again the favorites to win the

998
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, with the San Francisco forty nine Ers right

999
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: in their heels. A new Caesar's Sports book line has

1000
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: the chief says the favorites at eleven to ten today.

1001
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers next at seven to five, followed

1002
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: by the Titans at fifteen to two, and the Green

1003
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: Bay Packers at eleven to two. Bill O'Brien's team suffered

1004
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: an epic collapse so immense that Texas thought it was

1005
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: too big, but Deshaun Watson says there's no doubt O'Brien

1006
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: is a right coach for the Houston Texans, despite the

1007
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: fact that they lost a twenty four point lead in

1008
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: the matter of ten minutes ten seconds of gameplock in

1009
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: the second quarter of yesterday's Division Around loss to the

1010
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Quarterback to Shaun Watson has zero questions

1011
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: that O'Brien is the right man for the job. Jadavian

1012
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: Clowney wants to play for a contender. He wants to

1013
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: he turns twenty seven next month. He headlines the list

1014
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: of Seahawks scheduled to become unrestricted free agents in March,

1015
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: who'll be one of the top available pass rushers on

1016
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: the market, and he said he does want to return

1017
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: to a contending team like Seattle. The Jacksonville Jaguars and

1018
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator John d Philippo had mutually agreed to part

1019
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,240
Speaker 1: ways after just one season. Jaguars finished in the middle

1020
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,879
Speaker 1: of the pack in yardage categories last season. Head coach

1021
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: Dug Marone hired d Philippo last January for a Jaguars

1022
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: offense that scored just two touchdowns down the stretch for

1023
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville team. Jimmy Johnson is going to the Pro

1024
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,399
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. The former Cowboys and Dolphins coach

1025
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: found out yesterday during halftime of the Packers Seattle game.

1026
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame President David Baker made the announcement yesterday. Johnson,

1027
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: the Fox analysts, won two Super Bowls with the Cowboys.

1028
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: College Football's national championship will be decided tonight. It'll be

1029
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: a battle of tigers tonight, Clemson and LSU. In a

1030
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 1: season that featured three true title caliber standouts, these two

1031
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: teams in Ohio seat it is fitting that the national

1032
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: championship in New Orleans pitched two of them against each other.

1033
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: LSU and Clem Clemson, A combined twenty eight and oh

1034
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,240
Speaker 1: sabers last night defeated the Red Wings five one in Detroit.

1035
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: Evan Rodriguez scored twice. Curtis Lazar recorded two assists. Tomorrow night,

1036
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 1: Buffalo will host the Vegas Golden Nights at key Bank Center,

1037
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 1: first meeting between the two clubs this season, seven o'clock

1038
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,839
Speaker 1: face off at key Bank Center. Jack Eichel and Rast

1039
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: Mustaline kept their point streaks alive last night, each of

1040
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: them with Eichel with three goals and five assists over

1041
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: the last seven games. The Lean five assists during his

1042
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: four games. Street And that's the update from One Bill's Lot,

1043
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio. Here

1044
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 1: is our number two and we're going to be joined

1045
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: on the line by John Burton of NBC five in

1046
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: Nashville in a moment. In the meantime, you can check

1047
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: out our Twitter poll. It's been up online for about

1048
00:51:57,840 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: an hour and a half or so now, and it's

1049
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,359
Speaker 1: an interesting question. It deals with the Bills and how

1050
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: they compare to some of those playoff teams. Yesterday they

1051
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: beat the Tennessee Titans, right, so we know that they

1052
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: could beat them. At least they could they could back

1053
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: in October after watching the division around of the playoffs.

1054
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: How far away the Bills? Forty six percent of you

1055
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: almost half say they're really close. But next year is

1056
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: our year. Thirty seven percent say there's still a lot

1057
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: to do. They would need some breaks. Seventeen percent said

1058
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: should have been us this year. Let us know what

1059
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: you think. Eight oh three five fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty on the

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Speaker 1: line with us now a good friend of mine is

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Speaker 1: the sports reporter for NBC five in Nashville, covers the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Happy to have John Burton on the show. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Johnny Burton, how are you, buddy? Well, Murph, I'm great,

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Speaker 1: But first of all, it's CBS in Nashville, News Channel five,

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00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 1: and sorry, let's not forget w NSR radio weekday mornings

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00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 1: nine to eleven Central Standard time for the Gregg Polk

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00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: and John Burton Show. How are you, Murth? I'm good.

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00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 1: I just botched the whole intro, but I'm good. Martha

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00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:02,839
Speaker 1: Tony Trade to talk to you, man. You know you

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00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: and I go back a long way. We worked together,

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00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: obviously doing TV together, and I remember my first year

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00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: covered the Bills was actually Steve's last year, and there

1074
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: were rumors Steve about your retirement and I somehow got

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00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: a hold of your phone number and I had to

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00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: call you to try to get some information. And I

1077
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: was so nervous. I'm like, I gotta call Steve Tasker.

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00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 1: This guy's alleged. Man, I'm all nervous. I'm like, and

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00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: you picked up the phone and I was like, hello,

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00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: is Steve there? And You're like, this is Steve, and

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00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: I don't remember what I said, but you couldn't have

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00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: been nicer. I've seen you, you know, at various stops

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00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: through Pittsburgh and now here in Nashville, so it is

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00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: great to be on with you guys. And I just

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00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: and before we get into it, I really want to

1086
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: say congratulations to the Buffalo Bills. Had a great season.

1087
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: You know, both teams in New York City stink, so

1088
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: it was good to see a team from New York

1089
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: actually win some games and get into the playoffs. And

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00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: you know, I've always admired and appreciated the Buffalo Bills,

1091
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: so I'm glad they had a good season. Yeah, we're interested.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I'm glad I didn't big time yet

1093
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: and say don't call this phone again. But he didn't

1094
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: say you didn't. I did that to Murf when he

1095
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,799
Speaker 1: called me about being on the radio with him. But see,

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00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: you weren't exactly happy to take my but you know

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00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: big time. I think you did big time one what

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00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 1: I probably did. I think he's skirting around the fact

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00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: that I told him never to call me again. I

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00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: gotta ask you, though, this is we were talking earning

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00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: in the show about the Tennessee Titans and how they've

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00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: evolved during the season. Tell us about what they were

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00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: in the first month of the season compared to now

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00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: what they have been that now that they become a

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00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: team that's in the AFC champion and John, keep in mind,

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00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:40,760
Speaker 1: we saw that in October sixth. They're like a totally

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00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: different team from October six right. You guys came into

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00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 1: and beat this team and walk, I mean, how long

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00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: do we have I mean, listen, this team started off

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00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: two and four. You know, they were struggling offensively, defensively,

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00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 1: they hadn't found their identity, uh yet. And keep in mind,

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00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: you know they're they're Pro Bowl left tackle Taylor of

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00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: One the midst the first four games of the season

1114
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: the first month because he was serving a ped suspension

1115
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: and their offensive line was struggling protecting Marcus Mariota. Their

1116
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: running game was sputtering. It was it was not consistent.

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00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: You know. They signed Roger Saffold as a free agent

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00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: from from the Rams for big money to be the

1119
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 1: starting right guard, and people were saying this guy was

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00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: a bust and why did we sign this guy? And

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00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,959
Speaker 1: it all kind of you know, they circled the drain,

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00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 1: if you will. And that game in Denver where they

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Speaker 1: got shut out by the Broncos, Mariota got benched. You

1124
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: know they were two and four and all it looked lost.

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Speaker 1: But since then, man, uh, you know, Lawan's come back

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00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: to steady the offensive line. You know, we know what

1127
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry has been doing running the football, and you know,

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00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: you got to say it. You know, Ryan Tannehill has

1129
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: provided a lift and a spark to this team. The

1130
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: ball comes out on time. He's hitting receivers in stride

1131
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you know, guys like A J. Brown,

1132
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,959
Speaker 1: the rookie wide receiver, he's emerged. Corey Davis has contributed.

1133
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: And you know they lost to Lady Walker mid season

1134
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: to an injury. He had to get put on ir

1135
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: He's likely you know, he's he's probably done as a

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00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titan. And you know, you get a third year

1137
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 1: tight end and John hu Smith who would suddenly emerge

1138
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: as one of the most explosive players in that you know,

1139
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: at the tight end position in the league. And now

1140
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: the defense is playing well, They're getting a consistent pass rush.

1141
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: Their interior line has been very stout at the point

1142
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: of attack, and it's all kind of come together. You know,

1143
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: they've won nine out of their last twelve games, and

1144
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: you know they're sitting here with a shot to go

1145
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl if they can win on Sunday.

1146
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: And trust me, I covered that that Denver game where

1147
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: Mariota got benched, and I thought, wow, we're thinking, you know,

1148
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: maybe six seven wins tops, and here they are. So

1149
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: the turnaround has been dramatic. You know, at least John,

1150
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: When you see a team turning around like that, you

1151
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: look for reasons, and I would think the easiest thing

1152
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: to look at is is the head coach, right, I mean,

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00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: Mike Rabol must have done a pretty remarkable job to

1154
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: keep that group together. Well, what he's done, Murphys, He's

1155
00:56:56,680 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: been consistent. You know, he started off the year basically

1156
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: being like Riverboat round two point zero. You know, a

1157
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: lot of fake punts, a lot of questionable calls going

1158
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: forward on fourth down when maybe you should kick a

1159
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 1: field goal or punt. But I liken what he's done,

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Speaker 1: merth to what Bill Coward did in two thousand and

1161
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: five when he finally won his first Super Bowl with

1162
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: the Steelers. He finally just decided to sit back, let

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00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: his coaches coach and his players play. And obviously he's

1164
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,439
Speaker 1: the head coach, he has final day and every type

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00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: of decision. But once he found out I can trust

1166
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: my coaches, I can trust my players. All I have

1167
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: to do is not screw it up. And that's exactly

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00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: what Bill Coward did in two thousand and five, and

1169
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: I think that's probably the biggest change he's made. But

1170
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: since then, he's been very consistent. And the players that

1171
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 1: bought in, you can tell that the buy in with

1172
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: this team is through the roof. You know, talking to

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00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: Taylor Lawan after the game Saturday night and this guy

1174
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: that went to Michigan and he said, you know, I've

1175
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: never been on a team with more camaraderie than where

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00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: I'm at now. I'm have a more fun now than

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00:57:57,840 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: I did in college. You know, he said, You know,

1178
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: usually you go to the pros and people tell you. You

1179
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: You know, it's different, and Steve you went through it.

1180
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: You know, guys had wives and families and in different interests.

1181
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: It's a job for them. But you know the fact

1182
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: that this team's come together. Rabel's a huge part of that.

1183
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: And again, I think it comes from just let your

1184
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: players play, let your coaches coach, don't screw it up,

1185
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: and so far it's worked. And that don't screw it

1186
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: up attitude. That's kind of what Ryan Tannehill has done,

1187
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: particular in these two playoff games. That guy's got. He

1188
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: was eight of fifteen for seventy two yards in the

1189
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: Week one win against against the I can't remember who

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00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: they played last week in the wildcare the Patriots, and

1191
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: then he was seven of fourteen for eighty eight yards

1192
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: in the in the Week two I mean, he is

1193
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: you talk about a quarterback. If it was possible for

1194
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,479
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback to stay out of the way. Ryan

1195
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: Tannehill is the poster boy. What does he have to

1196
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: do to help this team win other than just do

1197
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: what I said, just stay out of the way. I

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00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: think I think you hit the nail right right on

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Speaker 1: the head, Steve. Don't screw it up, you know. I

1200
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: like in what he's done these first two playoff games

1201
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: to kind of what Trent Dilford did in the two

1202
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: thousand Ravens run right all you had to do. You

1203
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: look back at those three playoff wins and then even

1204
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl when they beat the Giants, Dilford.

1205
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: All he had to do was make one or two

1206
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: plays in the passing game, and the defense and the

1207
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: running game did the rest. Now Tannehill is capable of,

1208
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: you know, putting his passing game on his shoulders. You know,

1209
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: he's the most I believe, the most efficient quarterback in

1210
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: the league, highest completion percentage. They've been great in the

1211
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: red zone since he's taken over. But I think it's

1212
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: one of those things where hey, and ain't broke. We

1213
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: got Derreck Henry, we got our offensive line. We got

1214
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: a defense that's causing turnovers. You saw what they did

1215
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: Saturday night. You know, the Ravens came in eight for

1216
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: eight on fourth and one, They were over four on

1217
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: fourth down. They turned the ball over three times. You

1218
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: had those four fourth down stops and that's like seven turnovers.

1219
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: So it's basically making your quarterback just and you know

1220
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: it's a term we use a lot, but just manage

1221
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: the game. Keep everybody on sched if the running game's going,

1222
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: stick with that, keep your third downs manageable. You know,

1223
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: you get into the red zone, you know you don't

1224
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: like what you see. Throw it out of bounds. Just

1225
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: simple things like that that keeps the offense on schedule,

1226
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: and that's what Tannehill has been able to do so

1227
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: far down And it's not as if the Titans have

1228
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: beaten a bunch of nobody's on their way to the

1229
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game. They've beaten arguably the top two teams

1230
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: in the conference so far. Right, Yeah, And and the

1231
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: way they've done at Murph, I think the formula has

1232
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 1: been pretty much the same for both games. Now, the

1233
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: game plans obviously are different, but it's about getting off

1234
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: to a good start, right. That's what they did Saturday

1235
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: night in Baltimore. I think the game plan going in was,

1236
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: you know, Baltimore is a different team when they're trailing,

1237
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: Let's get off to a good start. Let's get up

1238
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: by a score, a couple of scores. And you saw

1239
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: what that did. Hardball kind of panic in that game,

1240
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: and so did Lamar Jackson. And you know, Lamar Jackson

1241
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,959
Speaker 1: started playing hero ball and it backfired on him. And

1242
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 1: go back through the wildcard game against New England. You

1243
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: know they're up ten to seven, they got first and

1244
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: goal the one yard line, they're about to go up

1245
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: by ten points. They get that critical goal. Ryan stand

1246
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: there hold them to a field goal, and then the

1247
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: next possession, you know, the offense is able to drive

1248
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: seventy five yards and stick it in the end zone.

1249
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: So you go from being down ten to being up one.

1250
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 1: And I don't care if you're Belichick, Brady, John Harbaugh,

1251
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. That's gonna have a psychological effect. And they've

1252
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: been able to just do the little things to keep

1253
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: them in ball games. And they're gonna need that this

1254
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: week in Kansas City. But you know, from a psychological standpoint,

1255
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 1: from an execution standpoint, you know, you're right. They haven't

1256
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: beaten slugs. You know, they beat the Patriots in Foxborough,

1257
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: and they beat the fourteen and two twelve game winning

1258
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 1: Street Ravens in Baltimore, and that I mean they didn't

1259
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: just beat them, they beat them up. I mean, you know,

1260
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: the physicality on both sides of the ball has been

1261
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: a big factor as well. They're dominating the line of

1262
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: scrimmage on both sides right now. And let me just

1263
01:01:52,560 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: get you said slugs not thugs, right you guys already

1264
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: do Let me ask you a little bit, John, Let

1265
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: me ask you about Mike Vrabel. And certainly there's been

1266
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: a couple of obvious things that he made the quarterback

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Speaker 1: switch in the in the middle of the season to

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Speaker 1: Bryan Tannehill, which I mean, it doesn't seem it didn't

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Speaker 1: seem that obvious in the beginning, but obviously, you know,

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Speaker 1: it made a difference. Is there anything that Mike Vrabel

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Speaker 1: has done under the radar maybe that people who are

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Speaker 1: outside of Nashville aren't aware of that maybe has led

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01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:34,919
Speaker 1: this team down this road where they've gotten this deep

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, because I can't think of anybody who

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01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: had the Tennessee Titans headed to the AFC Championship Game

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of this season. Right. The biggest thing is,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's he's now willing to stick with what works.

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Speaker 1: You know before when when Tannehill took over, they were

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Speaker 1: leading it rip man, they were they were they were

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Speaker 1: throwing uh you know, pass plays going down Like I

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Speaker 1: mentioned before, you know, the folk us up this offense.

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01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 1: Steve is you know, old fashioned, run the football, make

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Speaker 1: your big plays off a play action. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he was willing to take as many deep

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Speaker 1: shots down the field with Marcus Mariota as he is

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01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:15,919
Speaker 1: now with Ryan Tannehill. Because he trusts Tannehill. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: the ball's coming out on time. And there was a

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Speaker 1: play And when they played the Raiders in Oakland, they

1289
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: were way deep in their own end there at their

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Speaker 1: own nine yard line, and they did a play action

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Speaker 1: fake and Tannehill stood in the pocket and delivered a

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Speaker 1: dime down the field to A. J. Brown and took

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Speaker 1: it for a touchdown ninety one yards. I think they

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Speaker 1: set a club record. You know, he trusted Arthur Smith's

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, to make that call. He trusted Ryan Tannehill

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Speaker 1: to hang in the pocket and wait for Brown to

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Speaker 1: get deep. Took a devastating hit on the play, but

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Speaker 1: still delivered the ball. So I think the biggest thing is,

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, just trusting the guys around him

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01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 1: to make plays. And everybody's responding and he does. He

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Speaker 1: does do little things, little motivational things. The thing he

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Speaker 1: likes to do really is you gotta remember, I Frabel's

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01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: not too far removed from being a player. So he

1304
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: likes to get out there and mix it up with

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01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: his with his d lineman on pass rush thrills and

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Speaker 1: his offensive lineman and stuff like that. You'll see him

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01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: out there putting his hands on his players, and and

1308
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: and and kind of mix it up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: No pads. You know, he's just that guy, you know,

1310
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State guys, former Steeler, former Patriot, you know, former chief,

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01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 1: all that kind of thing. So I think the biggest

1312
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 1: thing is, you know, he still coaches with that player's mentality,

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01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: which sometimes backfires on him, but the players really appreciate that,

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Speaker 1: and he'll make them make them play even harder for him.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm talking about the Tennessee Titans with John

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Speaker 1: Burton from CBS five in Nashville w NSR Radio, speaking

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Speaker 1: of Titans coaches. A lot of attention to Mike Vrabel,

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Speaker 1: But what about Arthur Smith, his offensive coordinator. He's got

1319
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Speaker 1: kind of an interesting backstory, doesn't he. John, Yeah, he

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01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 1: actually he's a guy that kind of you know, he

1321
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: was kind of born on third base. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: a guy that he doesn't really need to work if

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Speaker 1: he doesn't want to. This was a guy that was

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Speaker 1: a i think a quality control guy for a lot

1325
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: of years and then worked his way up the tight

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Speaker 1: ends coach. He survived like three different coaching changes, and

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01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: you know when Matt Lafleur left last year to go

1328
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 1: to the Green Bay Packers, and you see how well

1329
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 1: he's done. They're in the NFC Championship game. You know,

1330
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 1: instead of you know, casting a wide net to get

1331
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: his next do set, you know, he kind of played

1332
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: a hunch and said, you know what, this guy knows

1333
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Speaker 1: our players, he knows our offense. You know, he made

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Speaker 1: a star out of the Landy Walker once he got

1335
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,479
Speaker 1: here from San Francisco, got him to the Pro Bowl

1336
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: several times as a tight ends coach. You know, Grabill

1337
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 1: just liked his approach to the game and the fact

1338
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: that he's an even killed guy and game an opportunity.

1339
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: This is his first year calling plays in the NFL

1340
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: and he's got his team in the in the AFC

1341
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: Championship game. Now, when you have Derek Henry to hand

1342
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 1: off to thirty times a game, that helps you a

1343
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Speaker 1: play caller. But you know, a perfect example of kind

1344
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: of pushing the right buttons, guys. You know, the Titans

1345
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 1: get their first fourth down stop. You know, the Ravens

1346
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,000
Speaker 1: go for a fourth and one from their own forty

1347
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 1: five yard line. They didn't make it short TV time out.

1348
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Speaker 1: Very next play that, you know, Smith calls a play

1349
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: action pass, everybody thinks, you know, Henry's gonna get the ball.

1350
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 1: They take it to Henry. Kalique Raymond is wide open

1351
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 1: between you know, the secondary and catches a long bomb

1352
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: for a touchdown forty five yards and now and now

1353
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: it's fourteen nothing and you can feel the air come

1354
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: out of the stadium there in Baltimore. So you know,

1355
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:25,720
Speaker 1: he kind of knows when to push the right buttons.

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01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 1: He knows which players are on, which players may be

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Speaker 1: off a little bit. So you know, in a short

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01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: amount of time, Arthur's done a great job of understanding

1359
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 1: not only the offense that he wants to run, but

1360
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Speaker 1: his players. But yeah, he's a guy that's kind of

1361
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Speaker 1: you know, toiled into lower ranks for a while and

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Speaker 1: now he's he's emerges, you know, maybe one of the

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Speaker 1: top ocs in the NFL right now. So now the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans are gonna head to Kansas City. Um, they've

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Speaker 1: what kind of success have they had against the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and what do we expect? You know, they played actually

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Speaker 1: pretty well, Steve against the Chiefs. They beat them here

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Speaker 1: in Nashville back in early November, a wild game. They

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Speaker 1: actually blocked a kick at the buzzer to win by three.

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Speaker 1: You know, two years ago they went up there. Mike

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Speaker 1: Malarkey was a coach the AFY wildcard game. They were

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Speaker 1: now twenty one three and a half and they came

1373
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 1: back and won that game. You know, a couple of

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Speaker 1: year or two before that, they played a late season

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Speaker 1: game in Kansas City. I think the temperature was like

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Speaker 1: twenty four below zero with the windshill or whatever, and

1377
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 1: Ryan suck Up hit a field goal from like fifty

1378
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 1: two yards at the gun to defeat them. So and

1379
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Speaker 1: Ken wizen Hunt's first game as Titans head coach was

1380
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Speaker 1: a regular season opener in Kansas City. They won that

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Speaker 1: game as well, So they've had some good success against

1382
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 1: the Chiefs when you look at it from a matchup standpoint.

1383
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Speaker 1: You know Jayon Brown there inside linebacker, didn't play on Sunday.

1384
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:49,880
Speaker 1: He's dealing with a shoulder injury. And he's a smaller

1385
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: linebacker who was really good in space. He's really good

1386
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 1: at covering tight ends and slot receivers. His health is

1387
01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 1: going to be important this week because you know Travis

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01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: Kelsey in that game I met a couple of years

1389
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 1: ago in the wild card game. He got hurt just

1390
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: before halftime, but before that he was he was ripping

1391
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: through the Titans defense. They had no answer for him.

1392
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: And I know he's a little banged up, he tweaked

1393
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 1: his hamstring yesterday, but you would expect him to at

1394
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,959
Speaker 1: least try to play on Sunday. They need an answer

1395
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 1: for Travis Kelsey. He saw what he did yesterday, and

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01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 1: Jayon Brown is probably their best bet. So from a

1397
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 1: matchup standpoint, that's gonna be critical. But the Titans are

1398
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,559
Speaker 1: gonna go in doing what they've done. You know, they're

1399
01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 1: packing their defense and their running game into all these

1400
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: road playoff games. And you know, uh, Steve Spagnolo, the

1401
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs DC, he's gonna have to really figure out the

1402
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 1: way to at least contain Derrick Henry. I mean this guy,

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01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 1: you know, three three straight games, O, we're one hundred

1404
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 1: eighty yards rushing. That's never been done before since the merger.

1405
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 1: And you think, you know, I don't have to tell

1406
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:47,600
Speaker 1: buffle of Bills fans about great running backs had a

1407
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: couple and you know you've rooted for a couple in

1408
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: your day, So what he's done has been ut pretty remarkable.

1409
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: So I think as Derrick Henry goes, so go the

1410
01:08:57,120 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. If they can figure out a way to

1411
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 1: contain him and make Ryan Tannehill beat them, I'd say

1412
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,679
Speaker 1: advantage Kansas City. But you know, from a defensive standpoint,

1413
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:07,799
Speaker 1: they got to figure out how to how to contain

1414
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and Jay I'm problems going to be their

1415
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 1: best bat. We'll see if you practices this week if

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Speaker 1: he's a bet available on Sunday. Hey, John, good to

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01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:18,600
Speaker 1: talk for you. Thank you very much. I hope I

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01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 1: sounded what I I hope, I you know, sounded like

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01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: I knew what I was talking about. Mura first guy.

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01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 1: I'm just showed to do that. Yeah, that's good. Thanks John,

1421
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: the pleasure to talk to you, guys man, and much

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01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 1: love to everybody in Buffalo and upstate New York. Thanks John,

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01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: John Burton, upstate New York native and the former colleague

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01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 1: of mine from www TV channel seven and Buffalo and

1425
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:43,080
Speaker 1: I would CBS five in Nashville in w NSR Radio

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01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 1: in Nashville, thanks to John for joining us. Um, that's

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01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,360
Speaker 1: a great run they're having, Steve, and it's not just

1428
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,600
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. You know, Vaybeles playing well. Uh, Tannehill. We

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01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: talked about a lot in the first hour. Enough, yeah,

1430
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:57,800
Speaker 1: and that's and that's all that it takes it so far.

1431
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: And as I said, they're not just beating nobody here.

1432
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: They went to New England and won at New England.

1433
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 1: They won to Baltimore and one at Baltimore. Again, it

1434
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 1: kind of everything is not framed in reference to the Bills.

1435
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 1: But the Bills could haven't run like that too, right,

1436
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: They could have had a round like that this year,

1437
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: last month, last week. Statistics, and you can say, but

1438
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 1: it's kind of this is a put it in perspective.

1439
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 1: The Titans have gone on the road and beating the

1440
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:23,400
Speaker 1: number one scoring defense in the NFL. Then the next

1441
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,759
Speaker 1: week last week they beat the number one scoring offense

1442
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:28,599
Speaker 1: in the NFL on the road in two consecutive weeks.

1443
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: They're a tough out and they've got to feel so

1444
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 1: confident coming into this game. They've now they've got to

1445
01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 1: go in and beat probably the team that has had

1446
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 1: played the best single game of this playoff year, sure

1447
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 1: scoring fifty one points after being down twenty four points

1448
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: after a couple of bounces and a couple of fumbles.

1449
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 1: I think that you know, they're going into play a

1450
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 1: team that's kind of ready for this, as it should be.

1451
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 1: You got two really good, talented teams playing really well

1452
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 1: to finish out for the conference championships. Steve goes to

1453
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:07,920
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. That Chiefs Titan game looks like a

1454
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:09,960
Speaker 1: barn burner to me, and it's I don't know, we'll

1455
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:12,640
Speaker 1: see everybody's hoping it's another game. It's just like that

1456
01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 1: can't first half of that Kansas City Texans game. I

1457
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 1: don't think it'll happen, but then again, maybe it will.

1458
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 1: We'll take a break, we'll come back and talk more

1459
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 1: about that game it is. We'll talk more about our

1460
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: Twitter poll today. After watching the weekend and the division

1461
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 1: around of the playoffs. All far away are the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills right now. Give us a call eight three five

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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalaida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. It's one Bill Ride.

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Speaker 1: It's John Murphy and Steve Tasker coming to you from

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Speaker 1: the Intercom studio. We're not on MSG today, got power

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Speaker 1: issues at One Bill's Drive. So here we are moved

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Speaker 1: the show here to Amhurst. What do you want to

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01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: do the show tomorrow, Steve? I was thinking about the

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Speaker 1: nice place in Lancaster. Maybe take a spot throw it

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Speaker 1: started the map. That's where we're doing the show tomorrow.

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01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 1: Spot closer to our house. How about my living room?

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01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:12,599
Speaker 1: You want to do that? His family room with start

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01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,000
Speaker 1: a fire or something. Yeah, we could do that. We

1476
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: could do that. What are we doing here? Do whatever

1477
01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 1: we want? Let's go. Phone lines are open. The eight

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01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:25,759
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty tweet sheet is open. After watching

1480
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 1: the divisional playoffs? How do you feel about the bills?

1481
01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 1: Give us a call, Let us know what you think.

1482
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:32,639
Speaker 1: Eight three fifty and toll free one eight eight eight

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01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:35,760
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Couple of calls here, Dan

1484
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: and Leroy, New York. Hello, Dan, you're on the air

1485
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: with us. Yeah, how are you doing? Hey? I called

1486
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: before the h the playoff game against Houston, uh or Yeah,

1487
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:50,200
Speaker 1: that's what they played in Houston, the final, the final

1488
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: game of the of the regular season, Jets and up.

1489
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 1: We wouldn't play any of our starters, and unfortunately some

1490
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 1: of them got hurt I think that hurt us in

1491
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 1: the Houston game, I thought we really had the game. Uh,

1492
01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:05,560
Speaker 1: it's a shame that we saw a part. If we

1493
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 1: would have had Frank Gore in there as a as

1494
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 1: a spy on on J. J. Watt and hitting him

1495
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:14,800
Speaker 1: and kept putting a helmet in his chest every time

1496
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: he came in, we'd have won the game. But I

1497
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 1: don't think J. J. Watt was that much of a factor.

1498
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: But to your first point, who got hurt in the

1499
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 1: Jets game? That didn't come back and didn't you know

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01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: it was hampered at all? In the Texans game? Who

1501
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:33,639
Speaker 1: are you thinking of our defensive back? Um Levi Wallace? Okay,

1502
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 1: that's one, Yeah hurt and and uh I think Shack

1503
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 1: was Shack got hurt too, didn't he? Yeah? He played that.

1504
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 1: They came back and played though. All those guys they

1505
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:47,680
Speaker 1: all got nicked up. But well, Wallace didn't come back.

1506
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 1: Injuries weren't really an issue as far as I certain,

1507
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 1: I guess you see it differently. What else what else

1508
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 1: you think? Dan? Well? The other the other thing was

1509
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:59,720
Speaker 1: the fine against Ford that for that hit. It just

1510
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 1: it just exemplifies the NFL's attitude towards Buffalo. Really just

1511
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: I don't think it has as much to do with

1512
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo as it does just not getting it right too often. Well, yeah,

1513
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 1: they get it, they don't get it right. You know,

1514
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 1: I can see I with it. You guys always, you know,

1515
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:20,240
Speaker 1: you always hang your hat on that when we get

1516
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 1: the short end of the shaft, and that's okay, but

1517
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:27,720
Speaker 1: you know this is egregious, just to rub salt in

1518
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:31,719
Speaker 1: our wound. Just egregious. I'll let you guys talk about Okay, thanks,

1519
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's a it's an absolute injustice

1520
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 1: to find Cody Ford for that hit. It wasn't even

1521
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:45,720
Speaker 1: an endangering hit. It wasn't even an aggressive it was. Uh,

1522
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:50,040
Speaker 1: it's just that is the exact kind of play, even

1523
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: if there was a penalty call, that's the exact kind

1524
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,360
Speaker 1: of play where you don't call for a fine. You know,

1525
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:58,439
Speaker 1: I can't remember that there was a touchdown scored yesterday

1526
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: where it was a similar a block thrown, same block,

1527
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: same effect, and no call them the flag. Yeah that's

1528
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: because you know, one guy sees it on one crew,

1529
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 1: the other guy doesn't see it on the other crew,

1530
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,160
Speaker 1: and then you look at the thing what jadeveon Clowney

1531
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 1: did Carson Wentz in the same weekend. That was how

1532
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:16,719
Speaker 1: about that wasn't a penalty though, That wasn't a penalty.

1533
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: That was a legal hit, and that was more dangerous

1534
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 1: an illegal hit. So why can't the league step in

1535
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: and get that right where it applies. I have a

1536
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 1: theory on that. I think when they put these all

1537
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: star officiating crews together for the playoff games, everyone there

1538
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:32,840
Speaker 1: knows that they've been chosen to do this, and they're

1539
01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: all gotta this is how they make their mark. I'm

1540
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 1: gonna make my mark. I'm gonna enforce that boom. Look

1541
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: at that flag that's for the blindside block hit like

1542
01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 1: you guys called for back in the summer. I think

1543
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: that's what goes on. I'm not even talking about that.

1544
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: I'm talking about after the fact. Now three days later,

1545
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:48,599
Speaker 1: a week later, when the league sits down and takes

1546
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 1: a deep bread and says, okay, what are we looking

1547
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: at here, and the jadeveon Clowney hits it. Yeah, you're

1548
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:54,360
Speaker 1: not going in there like that on a quarterback dive

1549
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 1: into the ground. You're gonna get fined. And Cody Ford, Yeah,

1550
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: it was a tikie tack. Penalty. We're going let you know.

1551
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 1: It was a penalty. That's enough, no harm, no foul.

1552
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:05,679
Speaker 1: The guys saw it. You gave him time to brace himself.

1553
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:07,840
Speaker 1: It was a football play. You shouldn't be fine. They

1554
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:10,719
Speaker 1: got that just the they got it wrong after the fact.

1555
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean right, I mean, if you're gonna clowny fine,

1556
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: Jadeveon clowney hit is much more egregious and obviously was

1557
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: an to a player that wasn't even looking at him,

1558
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 1: compared to a bump guys two guys bumping together who

1559
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:31,760
Speaker 1: were actually looking at each other. That's that. You gotta

1560
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: get that right. I want to get that right, and

1561
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: they didn't. I wonder how the Cody Ford hit if

1562
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: it was a reaction by the league office to maybe

1563
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 1: um complaints from the Bills, because it was pretty clear

1564
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 1: based on Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean's press conference last week,

1565
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 1: that they issued a complaint about that call. And I

1566
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 1: wondered if this was a league saying, don't bother us

1567
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: with anymore with that, please. There's a fun because the

1568
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 1: league's used to that. Every team who plays every weekend

1569
01:16:57,360 --> 01:16:59,120
Speaker 1: has a list of plays, and they called the isn't

1570
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 1: common place. Maybe they felt like the bills to pay

1571
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: the bills overstepped. Maybe they got what maybe they got

1572
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,600
Speaker 1: colorful language or whatever stepped. I don't know. Maybe I

1573
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: don't know could have been. But I just can't see

1574
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:10,800
Speaker 1: that being right. It's not right. I just wondered if

1575
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 1: it was the league's reaction. There's no excuse for not

1576
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 1: getting it right after the fact. And if you're gonna

1577
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:25,559
Speaker 1: go back and find guys, suspend guys or not, there's

1578
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 1: no reason not to get it right after the fact.

1579
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: It doesn't even affect the game anymore, but at least

1580
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:32,599
Speaker 1: it sends a message to everybody out there that saying, Okay,

1581
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna, they're gonna it'll come out in the wash anyway,

1582
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 1: but now it's murkier than it was before. It's you.

1583
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:46,600
Speaker 1: There's no there's there's no after the fact, after the

1584
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 1: game's over and you're going back and reboot doing all

1585
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: this stuff, there's no excuse after the fact not saying,

1586
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 1: you know what, that was a bad call, or this

1587
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: was a right call, or this was a good call.

1588
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: There's no excuse for not getting that right. And they

1589
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 1: got it wrong after the fact, all right, they would

1590
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 1: tell you. We gotta right, and we are issuing this

1591
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 1: fine to reinforce the fact that this is a block,

1592
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 1: that we're for an illegal blindside block. He got a

1593
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 1: penalty for it, right, and the Bills complained enough about it.

1594
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:16,800
Speaker 1: So what I'm wondering if the Bills complained so much

1595
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:18,479
Speaker 1: about it that the League said, no, we're going to

1596
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: reinforce that call. We believe we got the call right.

1597
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 1: If the league all of a sudden has a vendetta

1598
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 1: because the team is so egregious, egregious by the league

1599
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 1: the guys that that is more, That is more evidence

1600
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: that the league's incompetent, not less. Yeah, well, I agree

1601
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 1: with that. I'm just I'm wondering where the fine comes from.

1602
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's where it comes. How loud with

1603
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 1: Sean Payton's complaints about the non call two years ago,

1604
01:18:42,479 --> 01:18:44,439
Speaker 1: I mean that that still hasn't gone away, and they

1605
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: you know, what have they done to him? They they

1606
01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:49,400
Speaker 1: stabbed him in the back again this year, but that

1607
01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:51,799
Speaker 1: was you know, I mean, it just never goes away.

1608
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: They never got You gotta come you gotta be honest,

1609
01:18:57,280 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: and you gotta come clean on this. You gotta get

1610
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 1: it right. Even if you can't help the team that

1611
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 1: got the short end of the stick, you gotta say,

1612
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: you know what, there was a mistake made in the game,

1613
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: but there's nothing we can do about it now. But

1614
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:08,840
Speaker 1: there's a mistake made. Not only they doubled down on

1615
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 1: a mistake they did. Here's Joe and Rochester. Joe, you're

1616
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:16,680
Speaker 1: on the air. Yeah, I wasn't going to talk about

1617
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 1: that that penalty, but I just want to say, what

1618
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: is the lineman supposed to do in that situation? Matt

1619
01:19:21,200 --> 01:19:23,240
Speaker 1: block and let the guy go after that? If it

1620
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: could have gone I can tell you that right now, Joe,

1621
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 1: what he should have done. And it's hard to do

1622
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:30,719
Speaker 1: this because it's a split second thing and nobody's nobody practice.

1623
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:33,519
Speaker 1: You should know he should have He should have turned

1624
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:36,640
Speaker 1: almost just stepped in front of the player with his

1625
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: arms up, or turned his back on the defender and

1626
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:44,560
Speaker 1: like screened him off, like from from behind. You know

1627
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that's basically what they're asking him to do.

1628
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: But I mean, how, I mean, how aware and how

1629
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 1: much time do you have to realize that after you've

1630
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 1: just been you know, counter to everything they do all

1631
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: the time, right exactly? I mean, that's a tough one.

1632
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,400
Speaker 1: And seen one person do that turn around backwards and

1633
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:04,920
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't seen that happen. Rue, it doesn't happen.

1634
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen all that often. These blind type blocks

1635
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: everybody knows. But now you'll see guys, especially on special teams,

1636
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:12,200
Speaker 1: where they're raise their arms and just try and step

1637
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:15,599
Speaker 1: in between the two players. But you know, that's what

1638
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: you gotta do. The thing I wanted to call and say, um,

1639
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:23,960
Speaker 1: I would like to see them. The thing I don't

1640
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: feel encouraged about because we really could have been the

1641
01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 1: Titans this year, but I feel like our coaching, our

1642
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:35,600
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator doesn't have the ability to It seems like

1643
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: whenever there's a close game, all he wants to do

1644
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 1: is throw the ball. Like it seems like we figured

1645
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: out our best player turned out on offense to be

1646
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 1: you know, singletary. And I mean, you look at every

1647
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:48,600
Speaker 1: close game at the end, whenever it's close, we go

1648
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:51,200
Speaker 1: five wide and we don't run. Like whenever we get

1649
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 1: in field goal range, we're still in five wide. Why

1650
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 1: don't we get a little closer and run the ball.

1651
01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: Every time we've gotten knocked down a field goal range

1652
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: it's because we're passing either a sack or a stupid

1653
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,680
Speaker 1: penalty like that. I feel like if he would have just,

1654
01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 1: you know, if we would have learned to put more

1655
01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 1: on the running game and less on Josh Allen, I

1656
01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: feel like he could have been like Tannehill too, if

1657
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: we put less on him instead of you know, he's

1658
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 1: feeling like he's got to do it all because it

1659
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: seems like you're trying to make him do it all.

1660
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 1: That's my point. A couple of things, Joe, you're right,

1661
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:22,680
Speaker 1: and something you can make it a point. Maybe they

1662
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:26,120
Speaker 1: went five wides too much at some point or points

1663
01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:27,679
Speaker 1: where it would have it didn't work, and it would

1664
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 1: have worked if we'd have done something else. And I

1665
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:31,519
Speaker 1: get all that, But if you start going back and saying, well,

1666
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 1: if we took a bad sack or if we took

1667
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 1: a bad penalty or that kind of thing, that has

1668
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:40,760
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the offensive coordinator. That has to

1669
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 1: do with that has to do with Josh, or it

1670
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 1: has to do with somebody dropping a pass or somebody

1671
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: getting a penalty. If you go back to every single

1672
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 1: close game, including the Patriot the first Patriot game, we

1673
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 1: get down into the patriot territory. There's a minute something

1674
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 1: left and we're in their territory. There's plenty of times

1675
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 1: for scoring. We don't have to go five wide with

1676
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,640
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley five white. Every play with Matt Barkley, I

1677
01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: knew he was gonna get hit, and he gets hit,

1678
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 1: ball pops up interceptions. He gives up on the run

1679
01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 1: whenever it's a close game. Every single time he didn't.

1680
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: We didn't run the ball more than one time in

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Speaker 1: overtime this weekend. Why. I just want to know why

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01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: he always he seems like he gets he's the one

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01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 1: that gets panicked, and the panic translates to Josh because

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01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:25,439
Speaker 1: then Josh fields like, well, I gotta make something happen

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01:22:25,479 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: because we gotta pass. We gotta pass and get a pass.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Joe. I mean, I hear you, and

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01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:31,479
Speaker 1: I hear the frustration in your voice. But I'll tell

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01:22:31,479 --> 01:22:33,320
Speaker 1: you this. The reason they get to these games and

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01:22:33,360 --> 01:22:36,439
Speaker 1: the same and these things happen a lot of it

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01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: is where this game, where each game evolves, and these

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01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:41,680
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinators and I know day balls like this,

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01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,519
Speaker 1: and I assume and I've seen other coordinators do the

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01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:46,439
Speaker 1: same thing. When you get into a game. By the

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01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 1: time the fourth quarter rolls around, this game has been

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01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:54,719
Speaker 1: both offensive and defensive coordinator have strategized to the point

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01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: where the offensive coordinator knows what the defensive coordinators trying

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01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 1: to hide, and the defensive coordinators knows what he's trying

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01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:05,360
Speaker 1: to get the offensive coordinator to do because they've got

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01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:08,479
Speaker 1: no defense for something else, and both those guys are

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01:23:08,479 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 1: in a battle of wits is to deploy their players

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01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:13,640
Speaker 1: in a way that attacks what the other team is

1702
01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:15,800
Speaker 1: trying to hide. So when it gets to the point

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01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: where you say it goes to this every single time, well,

1704
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 1: one of the reasons is because Buffalo, Buffalo does have

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01:23:23,479 --> 01:23:27,960
Speaker 1: some deficiencies offensively, and they're trying to hide them and

1706
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:30,200
Speaker 1: other teams are trying to exploit them. And it's the

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01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:32,760
Speaker 1: exact same thing in reverse. Buffalo is trying to take

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01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 1: advantage of what they can get done against whatever defense

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01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:37,640
Speaker 1: they're playing on that particular week. You bring up the

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01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 1: Patriots game the first round, the first meeting between the

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01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 1: two teams in the early part of the season, and

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01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,559
Speaker 1: you get into the late parts of the game, they've

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01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: run through their entire menu and they've they've found out

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01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:51,439
Speaker 1: everything they can find out about that defense, and vice versa.

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01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 1: The defense has found out everything they can find out

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01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: about the offense and they're in a battle of wits

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01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:58,800
Speaker 1: to get the guys they want with a chance to

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01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: get the ball, and the defense is exact opposite of that.

1719
01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: They're trying to cover up the guys. They don't want

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01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 1: to beat them and get a chance to put the

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01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 1: offense in a place where it has to beat them

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01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 1: left handed. And that's why it sometimes, particularly with an

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01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:16,600
Speaker 1: offense like Buffalo's that was limited, you'd get these defenses

1724
01:24:16,600 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 1: that see them in the same way. They force them

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01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:21,759
Speaker 1: into a situation where they're going to go five wide

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01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 1: that give that's what Buffalo has left to take their

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01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:29,599
Speaker 1: best shot. And that's what happens when you're limited. That's

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01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:33,679
Speaker 1: exactly why you start to get predictable. And the Bill's

1729
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:36,720
Speaker 1: offense was limited at times in this last season, no

1730
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 1: question about it. And defenses know it, and they're going

1731
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:45,639
Speaker 1: to force that those limitations to be exposed. And that's

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01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: why you know that this offense failed to score points.

1733
01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 1: They It wasn't that aunt Brian Dable didn't have those

1734
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 1: things in his toolbox or those plays that he could call.

1735
01:24:53,520 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 1: The simple fact of the matter is they didn't have

1736
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:58,719
Speaker 1: guys that could win at certain spots and their offense.

1737
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:01,040
Speaker 1: And some of that was Josh, some of that was

1738
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: the weapons around him, some of those offensive lines. Some

1739
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 1: of it was just the strength of the defense they

1740
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 1: happened to be facing on any given weeks. But that's

1741
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: why at certain times you'll see every offense, unless it's

1742
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:13,599
Speaker 1: the really good ones, you'll see him get put into

1743
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:15,479
Speaker 1: a place where they start to come a little predictable

1744
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 1: because they're playing against the defense that is good enough

1745
01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: to make them that way. We're gonna take a break,

1746
01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back, and we're gonna read some of

1747
01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 1: the tweets from the tweet. She'd take a few more

1748
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:26,719
Speaker 1: phone calls after watching the divisional playoffs this weekend. Now,

1749
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:28,600
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the Buffalo Bills? Give us

1750
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: a call eight O three fifty toll free one eight

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01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:34,679
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty one Bill Slide presented

1752
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:47,639
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome Back.

1753
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:49,920
Speaker 1: One Bill Slide, John Murphy and Steam Tasker. A couple

1754
01:25:49,960 --> 01:25:52,599
Speaker 1: of things happen over the weekend. Steve the Browns settled

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01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:55,600
Speaker 1: on their coach, Kevin Stefanski, who was offensive coordinator for

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01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:58,840
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Before that he was quarterbacks coach. He

1757
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 1: was only one year as either. Interesting stuff. Peter King

1758
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 1: wrote about it too, how the Browns in the interview process,

1759
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: in particular with Josh McDaniels, maybe clear to McDaniels, and

1760
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 1: you would think Stefanski and maybe Brian day Bole too.

1761
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 1: They expected him to employee an analytics guy, to use analytics,

1762
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:20,479
Speaker 1: to have an analytics meeting on Friday afternoons, after the

1763
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:22,679
Speaker 1: game plan was in, after the practice week was over.

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01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:26,200
Speaker 1: Let's review it from an analytics standpoint. I wouldn't be

1765
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 1: surprised if that scared off Josh McDaniels along with some

1766
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:32,639
Speaker 1: other guys. You don't want that kind of interference to you. Well,

1767
01:26:33,040 --> 01:26:35,960
Speaker 1: it's interesting to think about because they always asking, you know,

1768
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:37,640
Speaker 1: what kind of head coach you're looking at, And the

1769
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:40,599
Speaker 1: Browns we've seen them, you know, blow all over the

1770
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: map with who the which guys they bring in defensive guys,

1771
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:47,080
Speaker 1: offensive guys, they've been one and done guys, they've been

1772
01:26:47,520 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: you know, two and done guys. And they bring in

1773
01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 1: and Josh McDaniel, you would think a guy like Josh McDaniels,

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01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:58,360
Speaker 1: who has been a head coach formerly, although he was

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01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:02,439
Speaker 1: not very successful. All of these guys coming in, even

1776
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:05,360
Speaker 1: Robert Salaf from the forty nine ers, who's never been

1777
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:07,000
Speaker 1: a head coach. All these guys are gonna have really

1778
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:13,600
Speaker 1: strong ideas about how they want it to look. The

1779
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:17,639
Speaker 1: Browns have, well, I don't be blunt. Browns have had

1780
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 1: zero success doing it whatever way they think is necessary.

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01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:24,839
Speaker 1: And certainly you would like to think they're learning lessons.

1782
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:29,080
Speaker 1: But whatever lessons they're learning, bringing a head coach in

1783
01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:31,840
Speaker 1: and then putting your thumb on him or dictating to

1784
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:34,600
Speaker 1: him how he's gonna run things certainly would not be

1785
01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: a lesson I think they would have learned. Obviously not right.

1786
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: They're the Browns. I think it's a mistake. And listen,

1787
01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:47,479
Speaker 1: you can pick up the brown We can all have

1788
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:49,360
Speaker 1: fun with the Browns. You can pick them apart. But listen,

1789
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna try and they're trying to figure it out.

1790
01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 1: They're is serious about getting it right as anybody else is,

1791
01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: and they have not done it yet. This ownership group

1792
01:27:57,479 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: hasn't been in place all that long, maybe what six seven,

1793
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:02,720
Speaker 1: eight years, but let's face it, they've plowed through some

1794
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:06,720
Speaker 1: head coaches, and you would think that sooner or later

1795
01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 1: they would take a deep breath and say, what do

1796
01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:09,640
Speaker 1: we need to learn? What are we going to do

1797
01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:12,679
Speaker 1: that we haven't done all of that, and you would

1798
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 1: think that would be the tack they would go. So

1799
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,080
Speaker 1: maybe this is a result of some of the lessons

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01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 1: they've learned and some of the things where they've gotten

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01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 1: away consistently has gotten away from the Browns, and maybe

1802
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:28,120
Speaker 1: they're trying to rectify that. But once again, you gotta

1803
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:29,920
Speaker 1: shrug your shuld and say, I have my doubts. I

1804
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:32,800
Speaker 1: do too, I have my doubts hearing that. Now, if

1805
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:34,479
Speaker 1: I had not heard that, and I heard day they

1806
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: got this guy's to fans get, I was like, Okay,

1807
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 1: let's give this guy's shot, and maybe that's where we

1808
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: need to be. And as a Browns fan, I think

1809
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 1: that's where you want to be. And it's like, okay, well, fine,

1810
01:28:41,960 --> 01:28:43,760
Speaker 1: let's give this guy's shot. Let them do it. And

1811
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 1: they've got all this stuff in place, They've learned some

1812
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 1: lessons about their head coaches and what's going on. Let's

1813
01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 1: see what they do. And that's where you kind of

1814
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:53,280
Speaker 1: It's about as optimistic as you can be, right, all right,

1815
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:56,160
Speaker 1: let's just wait and see the fact that Brian Dable

1816
01:28:56,200 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: returns to the Bills is nothing but a positive for

1817
01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:00,439
Speaker 1: the Bills. And I know we get calls every day

1818
01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:02,600
Speaker 1: now about it. Just took those are too conservative and

1819
01:29:02,640 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 1: they shouldn't do they should play calling was an issue,

1820
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:09,160
Speaker 1: But no, that's the issue is Brian day Ball's relationship

1821
01:29:09,240 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen. Josh Allen made it clear last week

1822
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:14,479
Speaker 1: when he met the media that he wanted Able to

1823
01:29:14,520 --> 01:29:17,120
Speaker 1: come back. Day Ball is apparently coming back. That's a

1824
01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:18,800
Speaker 1: good sign for the Bills. It's a really good moment.

1825
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:21,040
Speaker 1: And we get and that's the way it is. And

1826
01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:23,320
Speaker 1: anytime you have a side of the ball that struggles,

1827
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:25,680
Speaker 1: you know that coordinator is going to get kind of

1828
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 1: hammered on by the fans. And that's just the way

1829
01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:33,840
Speaker 1: life is. But most of us have no, you know,

1830
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 1: depth of knowledge about how these offenses are put together,

1831
01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:40,000
Speaker 1: why they're put together, in the ways they are, how

1832
01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:42,719
Speaker 1: the players that are on the roster affect your ability

1833
01:29:42,760 --> 01:29:44,640
Speaker 1: to implement what you would love to do and what

1834
01:29:44,680 --> 01:29:47,559
Speaker 1: you do not or what you cannot do, and how

1835
01:29:47,640 --> 01:29:51,080
Speaker 1: limitations to your personnel and the skill sets those person

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01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 1: that personnel brings to the table. How that limits your

1837
01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:58,000
Speaker 1: offensive play calling, your personnel combinations, your motions, your shifts,

1838
01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:02,720
Speaker 1: your philosophy of run pass, your red zone philosophies, all

1839
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: of these things are all woven into this and not

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01:30:05,720 --> 01:30:08,639
Speaker 1: let alone. You have to have enough knowledge about an

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01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 1: offensive concepts in the National Football League to put together

1842
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 1: an entire offensive system with all the intricacies that it

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01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:23,639
Speaker 1: entails with blocking schemes and protection schemes and run blocking schemes,

1844
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:27,440
Speaker 1: and zone concepts and power concepts and lead draw concepts

1845
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:29,240
Speaker 1: and all of this stuff has to be in there.

1846
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 1: And then to take your team to a place where

1847
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: you got to meet match up against the teams that

1848
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:36,280
Speaker 1: there's no way you know your personnel can match up

1849
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:38,400
Speaker 1: with them in this concept and run it. So you

1850
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:41,519
Speaker 1: don't all that stuff. So it's easy. It's hard even

1851
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:44,879
Speaker 1: for the most ardent fans to sit in the stands

1852
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 1: or watch them on TV, even if you watch every snap,

1853
01:30:49,400 --> 01:30:51,040
Speaker 1: and even if you go back and watch all the

1854
01:30:51,080 --> 01:30:55,400
Speaker 1: film to understand. And I'm not just saying, hey, let

1855
01:30:55,439 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 1: them go, because because it's not what we do as fans.

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01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 1: You want to talk about it, but no, this those

1857
01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:06,439
Speaker 1: guys see everything that you see and more, and they're

1858
01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:09,360
Speaker 1: still like running it on third down, or they're running

1859
01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 1: it on fourth and shorter, or they're trying to throw

1860
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:14,000
Speaker 1: it on a fourth and six or whatever whatever scenario

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01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:16,719
Speaker 1: you can dream up. And it's just and it's easy

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01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:20,360
Speaker 1: to just sit back from the you know, the twenty

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01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:24,920
Speaker 1: third row and or from your couch on TV. And

1864
01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:28,920
Speaker 1: they say that offensive coordinator stinks. It's just easy to do.

1865
01:31:29,120 --> 01:31:33,520
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you right now, I agree with you, Murph.

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01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 1: I think it's a huge plus for this offense going

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01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:39,519
Speaker 1: forward to have the same guy called on the plays.

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01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:41,680
Speaker 1: And I get, you knowbody's like he's not creative enough

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01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:45,200
Speaker 1: that whatever, it's still a big plus. And I think

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01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:50,559
Speaker 1: you can the limitations and the problems this offense had

1871
01:31:50,640 --> 01:31:52,400
Speaker 1: had less to do with Brian Dable than they did.

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01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:54,840
Speaker 1: A young quarterback and a young running back and an

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01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:57,800
Speaker 1: offensive line that hadn't played much together and a wide

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01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 1: receiving corps that had there was under sized yet fast

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01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 1: and shifted all of that stuff. They were ten and

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01:32:03,120 --> 01:32:05,840
Speaker 1: six and they're pretty good team, and they were really

1877
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:08,800
Speaker 1: tough to beat. So I'm really glad that they're coming

1878
01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:10,720
Speaker 1: back with an intact coaching staff, at least on the

1879
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:12,280
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. At this point. When we

1880
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 1: come back, we're going to talk with Dunk Ferrar, NFL

1881
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:16,960
Speaker 1: editor for USA Today, the author of the book Genius

1882
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 1: of Desperation, will check with him on his thoughts on

1883
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:22,960
Speaker 1: the Divisional Round playoff games. That's when we return. It's

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01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:26,080
Speaker 1: One Bill's I presented by KLADA Health. This is Buffalo

1885
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:35,200
Speaker 1: Bills Radios Radio Network Sports Date the update from One

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01:32:35,240 --> 01:32:37,519
Speaker 1: Bill's Line. The Kansas City Chiefs once again the favorites

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01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:39,800
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl. The San Francisco forty nine

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01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:42,759
Speaker 1: ers right behind him. Chiefs are eleven to ten favorites

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01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:45,599
Speaker 1: as of this morning at Caesar's Sports Book. The Niners

1890
01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 1: next at seven to five, followed by the Titans at

1891
01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 1: fifteen to two and the Green Bay Packers at seventeen

1892
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:54,439
Speaker 1: and two. Bill O'Brien's Houston Texans suffered an epic collapse.

1893
01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 1: Even the state of Texas thought it was too big.

1894
01:32:57,080 --> 01:32:59,559
Speaker 1: The Texans lost a twenty four point lead in the

1895
01:32:59,560 --> 01:33:02,280
Speaker 1: matter of ten minutes of gameplock in the second quarter

1896
01:33:02,360 --> 01:33:04,360
Speaker 1: of their Division Round loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

1897
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:07,120
Speaker 1: It turned into a fifty one thirty one blowout loss

1898
01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:09,639
Speaker 1: in the blink of an eye. The tide turned largely

1899
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:12,280
Speaker 1: on two O'Brien decisions, the first one to kick a

1900
01:33:12,280 --> 01:33:14,360
Speaker 1: field goal on fourth and inches from the Kansas City

1901
01:33:14,400 --> 01:33:16,880
Speaker 1: thirteen yard line, up twenty one to nothing. The next

1902
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:19,960
Speaker 1: one came on the following possession, when the coach called

1903
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,599
Speaker 1: for a fake punt from his own thirty one yard line.

1904
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 1: Jadavian Clowney wants to play for a contender. He says

1905
01:33:25,439 --> 01:33:27,840
Speaker 1: his priority in free agency will be to play for

1906
01:33:27,920 --> 01:33:29,879
Speaker 1: a contender. He will be one of the top available

1907
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:32,920
Speaker 1: pass freshers on the market when free agency opens. It

1908
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,040
Speaker 1: will have to determine if LLF surgery on the core

1909
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: muscle injury that has plagued him since Week ten. Jacksonville

1910
01:33:38,400 --> 01:33:41,840
Speaker 1: Jaguars and offensive coordinator John d Philippo had mutually agreed

1911
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:44,840
Speaker 1: to part ways after just one season. D Philippo dealt

1912
01:33:44,880 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 1: with a serious injury to his quarterback, Nick Foles, was

1913
01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:49,160
Speaker 1: not able to get him rolling when he returned to

1914
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 1: the lineup in November. The Jags eventually finished the season

1915
01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:56,519
Speaker 1: with six round rookie Gardner Minshew at quarterback. Former Cowboys

1916
01:33:56,520 --> 01:34:00,240
Speaker 1: and Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson yesterday was officially named the

1917
01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:02,960
Speaker 1: second member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Centennial Class.

1918
01:34:03,200 --> 01:34:05,600
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame President David Baker made the announcement to

1919
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 1: Johnson during Fox Sports halftime show of the NFL Division

1920
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:13,879
Speaker 1: Round playoff game between Kansas or between Green Bay and Seattle.

1921
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:17,640
Speaker 1: College Football's national championship will be decided tonight. It's a

1922
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 1: battle of Tigers in the game Debo Sweeney's Clemson once

1923
01:34:21,080 --> 01:34:23,960
Speaker 1: again is here. They'll be up against LSU coach by

1924
01:34:24,080 --> 01:34:29,040
Speaker 1: Ed Ogeron. It is eight o'clock tonight on ESPN, LSU

1925
01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:32,439
Speaker 1: and Clemson for the national championship. And the Buffalo Sabers

1926
01:34:32,439 --> 01:34:34,679
Speaker 1: defeated the Red Wings last night five one in Detroit.

1927
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:38,400
Speaker 1: Evan Rodriguez scored twice, Curtis Lazarre scored a two assists.

1928
01:34:38,680 --> 01:34:41,720
Speaker 1: Jack Aichel and Rasmuss Donalin kept their point streaks live.

1929
01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:44,880
Speaker 1: Alchol has three goals and five assists over his last

1930
01:34:44,880 --> 01:34:48,040
Speaker 1: seven games. Daline has five assists during his four game streak.

1931
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:50,840
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, the Sabers will host the Vegas Golden Knights

1932
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:53,280
Speaker 1: at Key Bank Center. It's the first meeting the season

1933
01:34:53,280 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 1: between the two clubs, and it kicks it faces off

1934
01:34:56,640 --> 01:34:59,720
Speaker 1: tomorrow night at seven o'clock in downtown Buffalo. And that's

1935
01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:02,920
Speaker 1: the update. The one Bill's Live update. Joining us on

1936
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Speaker 1: the line right now with more talk about the divisional

1937
01:35:05,040 --> 01:35:08,280
Speaker 1: round playoffs. The NFL editor for USA Today, the author

1938
01:35:08,320 --> 01:35:11,519
Speaker 1: of the book which I hereby proclaimed as the best

1939
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 1: football book of twenty nineteen, The Genius of Desperation, Doug

1940
01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:16,960
Speaker 1: Ferrars on the line with us. Do thanks for joining

1941
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:20,000
Speaker 1: us today. We really appreciate it. Well, thanks, guys, very

1942
01:35:20,040 --> 01:35:22,439
Speaker 1: kind words. I mean it, I mean it. I still

1943
01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:24,320
Speaker 1: think about that book. I go back in reference a

1944
01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: book once in a while. It's a great book. It's

1945
01:35:26,040 --> 01:35:29,200
Speaker 1: a really good book, The Genius of Desperation. So, speaking

1946
01:35:29,200 --> 01:35:33,639
Speaker 1: of history, I guess Bill's fans remember another Houston playoff collapse,

1947
01:35:33,680 --> 01:35:36,719
Speaker 1: don't they? They do? They do? In fact, you guys

1948
01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:39,000
Speaker 1: have been probably talking about that all morning. Well yeah,

1949
01:35:39,040 --> 01:35:41,439
Speaker 1: that plus a lot of other stuff. I mean yeah,

1950
01:35:41,479 --> 01:35:46,080
Speaker 1: And how much of the blame does does Bill O'Brien deserve?

1951
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:50,400
Speaker 1: I think he deserves a lot of it. You know,

1952
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:55,360
Speaker 1: they have struggled to come up in big games before

1953
01:35:56,120 --> 01:35:58,559
Speaker 1: there was a point this season where O'Brien went in

1954
01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:00,080
Speaker 1: front of the podium and said he didn't have his

1955
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:04,120
Speaker 1: team prepared. The problem is, if you want him gone,

1956
01:36:04,200 --> 01:36:07,920
Speaker 1: he's the de facto GM right now. Bob mcneer passed away.

1957
01:36:08,040 --> 01:36:13,080
Speaker 1: His son is in charge now, so they don't have

1958
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:15,680
Speaker 1: draft picks for the next two years. One of the

1959
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:18,040
Speaker 1: guys they traded for they need to sign to a

1960
01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:20,559
Speaker 1: really huge contract. I mean, I think they're in big trouble.

1961
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:28,120
Speaker 1: I disagree with both of O'Brien's decisions that I heard

1962
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:30,680
Speaker 1: you guys talk about a breakthing, but I would say,

1963
01:36:30,840 --> 01:36:34,360
Speaker 1: really the guy. If you want to fit goat horns

1964
01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 1: on the Texans coaching staff, I think the go horns

1965
01:36:38,560 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: for Romeo Cornellar defensive course. And Romeo is a great guy,

1966
01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:44,720
Speaker 1: has been a great coach for a long time. I

1967
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:47,559
Speaker 1: do not know what he was thinking when he said

1968
01:36:47,880 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna play man coverage against Patrick Mahomes all afternoon,

1969
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:53,920
Speaker 1: because if you're going to do that, you might as

1970
01:36:53,960 --> 01:36:58,560
Speaker 1: well just go home. They were rubbing that man coverage

1971
01:36:58,600 --> 01:37:01,800
Speaker 1: to death. No one's going to cover Travis Kelsey in man.

1972
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:05,280
Speaker 1: You can't do it. None of your linebackers are fast enough,

1973
01:37:05,360 --> 01:37:07,920
Speaker 1: None of your safeties are big enough, and it's just

1974
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:10,120
Speaker 1: not going to work. I think it was. It was

1975
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:13,200
Speaker 1: a massive coaching failure on both sides of the ball,

1976
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:17,320
Speaker 1: as far as in game strategy and not adapting to

1977
01:37:17,360 --> 01:37:20,280
Speaker 1: what was happening. I would put more of the blame

1978
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:23,160
Speaker 1: onn Cronell than it would O'Brien. O'Brien's a head coach.

1979
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:25,280
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's the top kick. And one of

1980
01:37:25,320 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 1: the reasons you have that title and you get paid

1981
01:37:28,240 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 1: that money is you take the blame. And you know

1982
01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:34,320
Speaker 1: he's going to take the blame. What the ramifications for

1983
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:39,679
Speaker 1: him professionally will be. I think he stays and that's

1984
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:41,720
Speaker 1: you know, that's a whole different kind of story. I

1985
01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:44,080
Speaker 1: was going to ask you as well. This game got

1986
01:37:44,120 --> 01:37:45,919
Speaker 1: off to the start that it did, and the Texans

1987
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:48,519
Speaker 1: jumped out to the big league. The Kansas City Chiefs

1988
01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:51,200
Speaker 1: had like five drops that ended drives or two or

1989
01:37:51,240 --> 01:37:54,320
Speaker 1: three of them into drives. So the Chiefs really stumbled

1990
01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:57,160
Speaker 1: badly out of the blocks through uh and the you know,

1991
01:37:57,240 --> 01:38:00,439
Speaker 1: the blown coverage even on the first first touchdown a

1992
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:04,000
Speaker 1: muff punt, and then you know, so aside from that,

1993
01:38:04,120 --> 01:38:06,320
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team when the Texans show

1994
01:38:06,439 --> 01:38:09,360
Speaker 1: up in Kansas City, and when all is said and done,

1995
01:38:10,600 --> 01:38:12,680
Speaker 1: it could have it really should have been, could have

1996
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:16,040
Speaker 1: been probably would have been a lot worse than fifty

1997
01:38:16,080 --> 01:38:20,560
Speaker 1: one to thirty one without the bad bounces, without the

1998
01:38:20,600 --> 01:38:24,160
Speaker 1: Kansas Chiefs City Chiefs showing up. You know, flat the

1999
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:27,519
Speaker 1: Chiefs were just way, way better than the Texans. Let

2000
01:38:27,560 --> 01:38:29,640
Speaker 1: me just they were down twenty four to nothing. It

2001
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:32,000
Speaker 1: wasn't seven to nothing or ten to nothing. It was

2002
01:38:32,040 --> 01:38:34,679
Speaker 1: twenty four to nothing three quarters to play. Yeah, it's

2003
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:38,519
Speaker 1: twenty right, so and I my point would be it

2004
01:38:38,560 --> 01:38:40,759
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been twenty four to nothing had the Chiefs

2005
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:44,280
Speaker 1: not dropped five packs quarters. My point is they were

2006
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:48,000
Speaker 1: so good, they were so much better they it didn't matter.

2007
01:38:48,640 --> 01:38:52,320
Speaker 1: But he's called fifty one points. He was an interesting

2008
01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:57,200
Speaker 1: kind of philosophical exercise. Imagine if it was, say, I

2009
01:38:57,240 --> 01:39:01,280
Speaker 1: don't know, ten to seven Houston or fourteen to ten

2010
01:39:01,439 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: Kansas City instead of twenty four to nothing Houston. What

2011
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:08,040
Speaker 1: Houston have changed their coverage is if Mahomes came out

2012
01:39:08,080 --> 01:39:12,040
Speaker 1: and was just like spitting fire from play one, would

2013
01:39:12,080 --> 01:39:15,200
Speaker 1: Cronell and his staff have been more adaptive because you know,

2014
01:39:16,520 --> 01:39:20,320
Speaker 1: he's Patrick Mahomes straight manst his own maybe not so much.

2015
01:39:20,439 --> 01:39:24,400
Speaker 1: He Denver has done some good things against him in

2016
01:39:24,520 --> 01:39:27,840
Speaker 1: match coverage. I mean, and he's in for a real

2017
01:39:27,880 --> 01:39:30,560
Speaker 1: battle against the Titans, by the way, because dnps that

2018
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:34,479
Speaker 1: has done an incredible job scheming his defensive backs. But

2019
01:39:34,880 --> 01:39:38,640
Speaker 1: I tend to wonder, like, if at that point, you

2020
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:40,599
Speaker 1: know you're up twenty four to nothing, you don't think

2021
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:42,320
Speaker 1: you have to change anything. I wonder if the game

2022
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:45,680
Speaker 1: has been closer, maybe that would have put a bit

2023
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:49,960
Speaker 1: more rigor in the Texans coaching staff's playbooks. Maybe not.

2024
01:39:50,040 --> 01:39:51,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. Dog. I want to take you back

2025
01:39:51,800 --> 01:39:54,479
Speaker 1: to the decision to go for a field goal. They're

2026
01:39:54,560 --> 01:39:56,320
Speaker 1: up twenty one to nothing. They go for a field

2027
01:39:56,320 --> 01:39:59,200
Speaker 1: goal at the thirteen yard line. It was fourth and

2028
01:39:59,360 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 1: inches from the Kansas City thirteen. It appeared to me

2029
01:40:02,360 --> 01:40:05,479
Speaker 1: anyway that Bill O'Brien tried to get a play in

2030
01:40:05,520 --> 01:40:07,240
Speaker 1: there and just failed and that's why they had to

2031
01:40:07,240 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: settle for a field goal. Try right, did you see

2032
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:11,680
Speaker 1: that O'Brian kind of talked about not getting the right

2033
01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:14,280
Speaker 1: play in there or something. Well, he said he didn't

2034
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:17,200
Speaker 1: have a play for that, which I mean that was

2035
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:19,519
Speaker 1: what was put out, which makes it sound like I

2036
01:40:19,520 --> 01:40:21,120
Speaker 1: don't have a play for fourth and one. I mean,

2037
01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:24,360
Speaker 1: that's crazy. School coach. High school coach has a played

2038
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:29,000
Speaker 1: for fourth and one or thirteen, So what that means?

2039
01:40:29,360 --> 01:40:31,479
Speaker 1: You know, he was also he said he was talking

2040
01:40:31,479 --> 01:40:35,479
Speaker 1: about maybe challenging the spot, so when he was talking,

2041
01:40:35,520 --> 01:40:37,600
Speaker 1: it could have been that. But saying I don't have

2042
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:41,240
Speaker 1: a play for that is that's you know, first of all,

2043
01:40:41,240 --> 01:40:43,519
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I don't believe any NFL coach

2044
01:40:43,840 --> 01:40:45,800
Speaker 1: is dumbing up to not have a play for fourth

2045
01:40:45,800 --> 01:40:49,000
Speaker 1: and one of your opponent's thirteen yard line, right, But

2046
01:40:49,520 --> 01:40:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, there some coaches, there is an unpreparedness, There

2047
01:40:54,080 --> 01:40:57,879
Speaker 1: is an inability to seize the moment when it happens

2048
01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:01,640
Speaker 1: and put your foot on the their team's throat. And

2049
01:41:01,840 --> 01:41:03,639
Speaker 1: for him to say things like I didn't never play

2050
01:41:03,760 --> 01:41:05,680
Speaker 1: for that. We felt we were going to have to

2051
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:08,760
Speaker 1: score fifty. Well you're already up, you know, twenty one,

2052
01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:11,080
Speaker 1: and then twenty four to nothing. Why why are you timid?

2053
01:41:11,720 --> 01:41:13,280
Speaker 1: You know? And then why do you turn around and

2054
01:41:14,439 --> 01:41:18,960
Speaker 1: in the same second quarter try to ridiculous fake putton.

2055
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:21,280
Speaker 1: I love of how Andy Reid tried to bail him

2056
01:41:21,280 --> 01:41:23,920
Speaker 1: out of it, saying, hey, it was a good situational

2057
01:41:23,960 --> 01:41:26,760
Speaker 1: play call they were gonna in short, I just you know,

2058
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:31,439
Speaker 1: if Bill Belichick tries this stuff and it doesn't work,

2059
01:41:32,280 --> 01:41:35,800
Speaker 1: it's okay because it's him, and he has the preponderance

2060
01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:38,160
Speaker 1: of evidence on his side, so to speak. He's made

2061
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:42,120
Speaker 1: so many more successful than non successful decisions. So that's

2062
01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:47,160
Speaker 1: a different story. When you're Bill O'Brien and you know

2063
01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:49,680
Speaker 1: it's it's just going to be different. It's not going

2064
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:51,640
Speaker 1: to go well for you. He hasn't built up that

2065
01:41:51,800 --> 01:41:56,240
Speaker 1: equity in the minds of the public. So when these

2066
01:41:56,240 --> 01:41:58,880
Speaker 1: things don't go well for him, we can argue whether

2067
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:03,760
Speaker 1: they're you know, win probability and situational history and all that.

2068
01:42:04,439 --> 01:42:07,080
Speaker 1: But if you're Bill O'Brien and not Bill Belichick, you

2069
01:42:07,160 --> 01:42:09,080
Speaker 1: do these things and didn't work out, it's going to

2070
01:42:09,160 --> 01:42:11,800
Speaker 1: come back to you and that this team is going

2071
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:14,599
Speaker 1: to haunt him for the rest of the coaching life. Yeah, yeah,

2072
01:42:15,080 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 1: it's and I guess it should. But one of the

2073
01:42:17,160 --> 01:42:20,240
Speaker 1: things that is interesting about it is that I get

2074
01:42:20,240 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 1: it the fake punt didn't work, but it's a little

2075
01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:25,360
Speaker 1: bit of a reaction. There's a couple of things going

2076
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:27,040
Speaker 1: on with Bill O'Brien. First of all, we've got a

2077
01:42:27,040 --> 01:42:29,400
Speaker 1: lot of history under the bridge with him in the

2078
01:42:29,479 --> 01:42:32,360
Speaker 1: playoffs that they have one of the division four out

2079
01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:34,400
Speaker 1: of the last five seasons. They're good team, but they

2080
01:42:34,400 --> 01:42:37,800
Speaker 1: haven't been a team that's been a great team. Secondly,

2081
01:42:38,760 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 1: you start to look for things that are indicative of

2082
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:44,280
Speaker 1: bigger problems. For instance, not having a play call on

2083
01:42:44,360 --> 01:42:47,760
Speaker 1: fourth and one on your opponent's thirteen yard line. You

2084
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:50,839
Speaker 1: kind of project that into a bigger as a symptom

2085
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:54,880
Speaker 1: of a bigger problem of unpreparedness or or panic or

2086
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:58,280
Speaker 1: the moment being too big for them. I think when

2087
01:42:58,280 --> 01:43:00,040
Speaker 1: you get to the fourth down play, I mean the

2088
01:43:00,479 --> 01:43:02,800
Speaker 1: fake punt, it's a little different. I think you're criticizing

2089
01:43:02,840 --> 01:43:05,560
Speaker 1: him just because the play didn't work, right, you know that.

2090
01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:08,880
Speaker 1: To me, the fake punt is you know, somebody made

2091
01:43:08,880 --> 01:43:10,799
Speaker 1: a play you didn't work. You got a guy carrying

2092
01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:12,360
Speaker 1: the ball that doesn't know how to make a guy

2093
01:43:12,439 --> 01:43:16,559
Speaker 1: miss whatever. But that's a little bit of criticism just

2094
01:43:16,640 --> 01:43:19,240
Speaker 1: because of the result, not because of the preparation or

2095
01:43:19,280 --> 01:43:23,439
Speaker 1: the play call itself. I mean, honestly, and the process

2096
01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:26,160
Speaker 1: versus outcome argument is always fascinating personally, and I know

2097
01:43:26,240 --> 01:43:28,320
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had been sacked to play before. I thought

2098
01:43:28,320 --> 01:43:32,640
Speaker 1: the worst coaching decision yesterday was Pete Carroll's decision to

2099
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Speaker 1: punt and give the ball back to the Packers weight

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Speaker 1: in that game. I believe it was fourth and eleven.

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Speaker 1: I don't care, you're down five, Keep the ball, Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson is your quarterback, Keep the ball? What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: And they did get the ball back. It just so

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Speaker 1: you could argue your process versus outcome there. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it is a fascinating discussion. And again with O'Brien, he

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Speaker 1: just doesn't have the equity to survive stuff like that

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Speaker 1: in the minds of the public. And there is you know,

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Speaker 1: the field goal was too timid, the fake punt was

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Speaker 1: too bold. So it's like, well, which side do you want? Right?

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Speaker 1: But as as a coach, as the as the head

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Speaker 1: strategist of the organization for in game situations, it's also

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Speaker 1: your responsibility to understand, per your team, per probability, per

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Speaker 1: the opponent, per whatever, when to be bold and when

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Speaker 1: to pull back. And he you know, and and if

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Speaker 1: it had been a twenty four to twenty one game

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Speaker 1: in the Texans head one, we wouldn't be talking about this,

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Speaker 1: but now we are, so that's you know, that's where

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Speaker 1: it lands for him. Again, I would put far much

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Speaker 1: more of this blame on the defensive decisions than two

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Speaker 1: things O'Brien did. Dog Ferrars our guest, he's NFL editor

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Speaker 1: for USA Today, and the Tennessee Titans coaches have built

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Speaker 1: up some equity, haven't they with their two improbable playoff wins.

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Speaker 1: They are on a serious They're all now. Doug Well

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Speaker 1: to out Belichick. Belichick with the special team's plot training

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Speaker 1: stuff was brilliant. And Arthur Smith, Tennessee's first year offensive cordiner,

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Speaker 1: this is a fascinating guy. I think will be a

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Speaker 1: head coach in a couple of years. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: at Sean mcveigre Kyle Shanahan rising up. He gets presented

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Speaker 1: with a different quarterback halfway through the season when Marcus

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Speaker 1: Marietta doesn't work out, and the second quarterback is Ryan

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Speaker 1: Tannehill who's never done much of anything, and Tennessee has

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Speaker 1: one of the two or three most effective passing offenses

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Speaker 1: in the NFL right now. And Dan Pas who was

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Speaker 1: Baltimore's defensive coordinator for a long time. Of course, has

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Speaker 1: done a brilliant job and it was interesting. You guys

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Speaker 1: probably caught this logan. Ryan, the Titans cornerback after they

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Speaker 1: shut Lamar Jackson down, said they got a lot of

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Speaker 1: their ideas from what the Bills did to the Ravens

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Speaker 1: in Week fourteen. You know that Engage eight stuff, and

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Speaker 1: you know the linebackers flowing to outside the tackles and

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01:46:04,040 --> 01:46:07,479
Speaker 1: the new defensive backs flow to the boundary and you

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Speaker 1: forced Lamar to throw outside. Well, every other coaching staff

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Speaker 1: had a paradigm for this. The Titans just hit on it,

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Speaker 1: and they stopped the most explosive player in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, from suit to that, this is a very

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Speaker 1: dangerous team. Momentum is one thing, momentum crossed with great

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Speaker 1: coaching and kind of all your players hitting at the

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Speaker 1: same time. On the positive side, that it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a team. I like to say that every year there's

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Speaker 1: one team in the playoffs that nobody expects to do

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Speaker 1: much of anything, and then they come through the weed whacker,

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of the Tights right now. Yeah, they played,

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Speaker 1: you know, defensively, they made the top scoring offense in

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Speaker 1: the league turn the ball over on downs three times.

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Speaker 1: Three out of the last five times the Ravens had

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Speaker 1: the ball, they turned it over on downs to the Titans.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that's something that I think when you

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Speaker 1: look at that game, that that was the difference. They

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Speaker 1: just got to a point on the football field and

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Speaker 1: it was down in their own end as well. All

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Speaker 1: of those all of those uh possessions where they just

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Speaker 1: couldn't do anything when they got down to a shorter field.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to be interesting to see whether that

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Speaker 1: can be duplicated by or they can duplicate that to

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Speaker 1: the with the Kansas City Chiefs. Well, a few things happened.

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Speaker 1: Titans were up fourteen and nothing. Baltimore wasn't playing with

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Speaker 1: the lead, which they're used to. I believe Jackson threw

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Speaker 1: the ball fifty nine times. I don't think you should

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Speaker 1: throw the ball fifty nine times in two games. Not

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Speaker 1: that he is in a great quarterback because he is.

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Speaker 1: I mean he led the NFL and passing touchdowns, but

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Speaker 1: that's not their game. So they were playing from behind.

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01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:55,599
Speaker 1: That alters your strategy. Obviously, their receivers dropped multiple passes,

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Speaker 1: which has been a problem Mark Andrews, their tight end

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Speaker 1: right tight end drops a lot of passes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this has been a problem all season for him, and

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Speaker 1: mark Ingram was hurt. So you have about half your

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Speaker 1: run game effectively. Your receivers are dropping all these passes,

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Speaker 1: and before you can blink twice, you're down fourteen to

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Speaker 1: nothing because Arthur Smith is just beating up your defense.

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Speaker 1: So Lamar was playing from he was playing in a

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Speaker 1: hole and trying to get out. And you know that,

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Speaker 1: we go back to the sort of panics thing. Not

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Speaker 1: that I think he was panicking, but it alters your strategy,

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Speaker 1: It alters your equiplois at all, just your your kind

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Speaker 1: of moment to moment calm and ability to understand, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we can just play our game and win this thing,

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Speaker 1: and they really couldn't. We're live with Doug Farrar from

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Speaker 1: USA Today. A couple of other nflers before we let

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Speaker 1: you go, the Cleveland Browns. Did they did they mismanage

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Speaker 1: his coaching? Higher regardless of whether Stefancy is the guy,

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Speaker 1: there's something about the way they went up about it,

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Speaker 1: the interviews they did. Apparently, there's talk about the conditions

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Speaker 1: they put on their incoming coaches. Did they mismanage it?

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Speaker 1: Do you think there are other teams that do that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the mismanagement part, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not in the coaching rooms in Minnesota, so I don't

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Speaker 1: know who does what. But I will say that I

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Speaker 1: find Stefanski and interesting hire. I think Pat Shermer, his predecessor,

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01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:32,920
Speaker 1: was a more effective offensive coordinator on his own. This

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Speaker 1: is a guy who turned case keen him into one

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Speaker 1: of the best deep passing quarterbacks in the league in

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, which got him the Giant's job, and that

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Speaker 1: was kind of a den of vipers. But that's a

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Speaker 1: different story. But the two things that made that offense

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Speaker 1: go in twenty nineteen the Vikings offense were boot action

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Speaker 1: and outside his own those are Gary Kubiak Staples, and

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Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak is also on the staff. So what I'd

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Speaker 1: be fascinated to know are they hiring Stefanski for his

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Speaker 1: you know, coaching acumen, or his leadership or his ability

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Speaker 1: to be a CEO and kind of oversee everything, or

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Speaker 1: are they hiring him because you think they think like

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Speaker 1: a Sean McVay type and just run the offense. Most

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Speaker 1: of that offense from what I saw, the successful parts

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Speaker 1: of it came from Gary Kubiak staples that go back

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Speaker 1: to when Gary Kubiak was a player and he was

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Speaker 1: playing in Alex Gibbs system with John Elway's backup. So

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Speaker 1: I have questions, not that I think Stefanski is a

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Speaker 1: bad hire per se, but you know, it's not the

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Speaker 1: most spectacular name. And I will mention and we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the Chiefs and you know, seventh straight touchdown drives

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Speaker 1: and Eric, did you enemy get shut out? And boy,

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Speaker 1: it just makes you wonder, Yeah, who do you think? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how do you think Stefanski's staff is going to come together?

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Speaker 1: Are they going to be is he? I mean because

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Speaker 1: we've seen guys in recent years like Sean McVay in

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Speaker 1: in LA and some of these other teams, even even

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Speaker 1: down in UH in Kansas City with Andy Reid hiring

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Speaker 1: Steve Spagnola and Wade Phillips, these veteran, very very experienced

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Speaker 1: coordinators for the other side of the ball, and we

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Speaker 1: were wondering, you know, do you see that happening in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard anything about what's going to happen with

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Speaker 1: his staff? I have not heard anything specific, um, but

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Speaker 1: he's he's kind a hard road to help. This is

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01:51:30,040 --> 01:51:33,800
Speaker 1: a very talented team that did not play with any

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Speaker 1: sort of we're talking about equipoise and le Browns didn't

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Speaker 1: have it at all on either side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of talent on that team. UM, were

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Speaker 1: at me, maybe I would have gone for a more

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Speaker 1: veteran head coach who is used to dealing with that,

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Speaker 1: like difficult players, but players who know who they are

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01:51:52,560 --> 01:51:54,439
Speaker 1: and sort of you know, I'm in Seattle, so I've

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01:51:54,439 --> 01:51:59,080
Speaker 1: watched Pete Carroll deal with a lot of big personalities brilliantly. Um.

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Speaker 1: Not that anyone aspected that when he was hired, but

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Speaker 1: he has always had a gift for that. If Stefanski

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a gift for that, he's in big trouble

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01:52:07,479 --> 01:52:10,920
Speaker 1: because that's you know, the Browns have great players with

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Speaker 1: big personalities who don't really play together. He's got to

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Speaker 1: get that quarterback under Corral. I mean, he's got a

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Speaker 1: big list, so he you know, he needs to ace

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Speaker 1: his hires and go from there. Last thing I got

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Speaker 1: for you, Doug, we got three games left in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Are are we just headed for Kansas City San Francisco

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01:52:29,920 --> 01:52:33,519
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Do you think hard to bet against it.

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Speaker 1: Give him it. It's the NFL's one hundredth year. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go rogue and say it'll be a Super Bowl

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01:52:39,400 --> 01:52:42,080
Speaker 1: one rematch. Oh, that'd be cool. That'd be very cool.

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Speaker 1: Cheets Green Bay. Yeah, very nice, Doug, thanks for this.

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Speaker 1: Good to talk with you again. Thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: my pleasure. Thanks guys, Doug for our NFL editor USA today,

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Speaker 1: the author of the book The Genius of Desperation. Very

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01:52:53,479 --> 01:52:55,320
Speaker 1: good book and a very good guest to have. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: And we're in that part of the sea, and I

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01:52:56,840 --> 01:52:58,280
Speaker 1: hadn't really occurred to me that we're in. This is

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01:52:58,360 --> 01:53:00,840
Speaker 1: kind of a season almost where at the end of

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01:53:00,880 --> 01:53:02,880
Speaker 1: the season when these teams are coming you see each

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01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:05,200
Speaker 1: of these teams and it was the Bills last week,

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Speaker 1: and everybody else who didn't win last week, and I

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01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:10,679
Speaker 1: can't remember who else was in there last week, well,

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01:53:11,200 --> 01:53:15,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots, all these teams that lose last week, and

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01:53:16,920 --> 01:53:20,160
Speaker 1: now they're doing some soul searching as what are we

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01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:23,720
Speaker 1: gonna look like going forward? Are we're gonna make any

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01:53:23,800 --> 01:53:26,720
Speaker 1: changes to our staff who just wasn't good enough on

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01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 1: our roster, who has great promise that we need to

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01:53:29,439 --> 01:53:33,599
Speaker 1: support and get better. How can our coaching staff, you know,

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01:53:33,680 --> 01:53:36,600
Speaker 1: do things better? Where and what assets do we have

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01:53:36,640 --> 01:53:39,400
Speaker 1: to actually make all that stuff happen? And you know,

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01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:42,120
Speaker 1: even Bill O'Brien's come out now that the Texans they're

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01:53:42,160 --> 01:53:44,960
Speaker 1: not going to hire GM, they're gonna go without one.

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01:53:45,680 --> 01:53:50,000
Speaker 1: It comes out now that's I think that's big. You

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01:53:50,040 --> 01:53:53,160
Speaker 1: know they're going and maybe and we were talking about

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01:53:53,200 --> 01:53:55,439
Speaker 1: trends earlier, and then maybe there'll be more trends where

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01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:57,680
Speaker 1: they'll let the head coach run everything and just have us,

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01:53:57,760 --> 01:54:00,080
Speaker 1: you know, all these different staffs. And he becomes a

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Speaker 1: a CEO and he runs the college scout department, in

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01:54:03,720 --> 01:54:08,719
Speaker 1: the pro scout department, and the and the offense and defense,

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01:54:09,320 --> 01:54:11,559
Speaker 1: you know all that stuff, and he manages all these guys.

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01:54:12,040 --> 01:54:14,280
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe maybe the Texans are onto something and

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01:54:14,280 --> 01:54:16,920
Speaker 1: they're ahead of the curve, or maybe just happened by happenstance,

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01:54:17,000 --> 01:54:18,840
Speaker 1: or maybe it's gonna blow up in their face. They've

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01:54:18,840 --> 01:54:21,720
Speaker 1: won four out of the last five division titles, so

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01:54:21,760 --> 01:54:25,280
Speaker 1: they're not off the map. But all these teams, and

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01:54:25,280 --> 01:54:26,920
Speaker 1: the Bills included you and I sit here and talk

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01:54:26,960 --> 01:54:29,200
Speaker 1: about it every day, or where are these teams headed

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01:54:29,240 --> 01:54:31,800
Speaker 1: now that they're out. Do they really need to overhaul?

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01:54:31,840 --> 01:54:34,720
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns are doing it again? You know, the

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01:54:34,800 --> 01:54:37,720
Speaker 1: Bills we don't feel like here in Western New York.

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01:54:37,720 --> 01:54:40,920
Speaker 1: I mean, we dial a few knobs and we're right there.

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01:54:41,320 --> 01:54:43,720
Speaker 1: You know we're not. We don't have to rip out

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01:54:43,760 --> 01:54:46,320
Speaker 1: the whole console and bring in all an electrician and

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01:54:46,360 --> 01:54:49,680
Speaker 1: a plumber. We just need a guy to fix the doorknob,

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01:54:49,800 --> 01:54:52,200
Speaker 1: right or something. That's about how far away we are.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of it's a silly analogy, but you get

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01:54:54,360 --> 01:54:57,040
Speaker 1: my point. The Bills in Western New York, we're thinking, man,

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01:54:57,080 --> 01:54:59,200
Speaker 1: we need a couple of tweaks and we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: right there. And you got these other teams that are

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01:55:01,400 --> 01:55:03,120
Speaker 1: just out of it, like Bill, and they're like going,

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Speaker 1: we're not hiring a GM and and people are wanting

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01:55:06,720 --> 01:55:09,920
Speaker 1: they're wanting him. There's a big, loud fan base it

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01:55:09,960 --> 01:55:11,600
Speaker 1: wants him out of there. And they've won four out

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01:55:11,600 --> 01:55:16,800
Speaker 1: of the last five divisions. So I think, everybody, you

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01:55:16,920 --> 01:55:20,280
Speaker 1: gotta pump the brakes a little bit and know how

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01:55:20,320 --> 01:55:22,640
Speaker 1: and remember Bills fans remember it better than it maybe

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01:55:22,640 --> 01:55:24,360
Speaker 1: any franchise. How hard it is to get into the

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01:55:24,360 --> 01:55:27,520
Speaker 1: tournament and how important it is to get there, and

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01:55:27,680 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: just remember it's just an opportunity. When you get there,

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01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:32,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't guarantee anything, doesn't mean you're gonna look great

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01:55:32,800 --> 01:55:35,360
Speaker 1: or play great that day. But you did put together

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01:55:35,360 --> 01:55:37,680
Speaker 1: about four months of really good football. Don't forget that.

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01:55:38,080 --> 01:55:40,000
Speaker 1: And I think some of these teams kind of forget that.

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01:55:41,600 --> 01:55:43,320
Speaker 1: I gotta think about that. The Texans are not a

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01:55:43,360 --> 01:55:47,560
Speaker 1: bad team. I read you saying that you're thinking the

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01:55:47,600 --> 01:55:49,880
Speaker 1: Bills just need a few tweaks. I think they need

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01:55:49,920 --> 01:55:52,600
Speaker 1: more than tweaks. They're more than one guy away, no question.

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Speaker 1: But look at what they've got. They've got ninety million

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01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:56,880
Speaker 1: bucks to spend. They got free agents, they got a

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01:55:56,920 --> 01:55:59,240
Speaker 1: couple of guys who con contributed pretty big. Like you'd

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01:55:59,240 --> 01:56:03,080
Speaker 1: take three guys, I'll say the top three guys, Jordan Phillips,

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01:56:03,080 --> 01:56:08,360
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson, and Quentin Spain. Those are three guys. They're like, okay,

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01:56:08,360 --> 01:56:10,080
Speaker 1: we got to look at those guys. If we lose

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01:56:10,160 --> 01:56:13,160
Speaker 1: those guys, we got to replace them with either a

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01:56:13,200 --> 01:56:16,480
Speaker 1: big free agent or a quality free agent or a

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01:56:16,640 --> 01:56:19,880
Speaker 1: draft pick. But we got ninety million bucks to spend.

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01:56:19,920 --> 01:56:22,200
Speaker 1: If we can't sign one or three all three or

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01:56:22,280 --> 01:56:24,560
Speaker 1: one or two, any combination the two of those guys,

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01:56:24,680 --> 01:56:28,040
Speaker 1: we got to replace something with somebody else. So you've

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01:56:28,040 --> 01:56:29,800
Speaker 1: got and you've got the resources to do. You got

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01:56:29,840 --> 01:56:32,360
Speaker 1: nine draft picks, you have free agency, and you got

2339
01:56:32,400 --> 01:56:34,480
Speaker 1: money to spend. So you got to think, as as

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01:56:34,480 --> 01:56:36,800
Speaker 1: the Bills, you're gonna be at least able to maintain

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01:56:36,840 --> 01:56:39,640
Speaker 1: and maybe get better. Plus all the stuff that you

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01:56:39,720 --> 01:56:42,400
Speaker 1: kind of wish you had a big time wide receiver. Okay, good?

2343
01:56:43,040 --> 01:56:45,560
Speaker 1: What else? Who else is there? You know, you start

2344
01:56:45,600 --> 01:56:47,920
Speaker 1: to think that it's a pretty small piece of the

2345
01:56:47,920 --> 01:56:49,560
Speaker 1: pie not to be able to replace. You get down

2346
01:56:49,560 --> 01:56:52,280
Speaker 1: to Houston. They're talking about the head coach being deficient.

2347
01:56:53,720 --> 01:56:56,680
Speaker 1: That's a different animal than what the Bills are talking about. Then,

2348
01:56:56,680 --> 01:57:00,520
Speaker 1: Bill certainly have been there. We remember it wasn't that

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01:57:00,600 --> 01:57:03,280
Speaker 1: long ago. Look down the road three hours Cleveland. They're

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01:57:03,400 --> 01:57:06,800
Speaker 1: they're sitting there neck deep in where the Bills were

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01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:10,360
Speaker 1: five years ago and three years ago. All Right, we

2352
01:57:10,400 --> 01:57:12,040
Speaker 1: got a break. When we come back, we'll take more

2353
01:57:12,040 --> 01:57:15,640
Speaker 1: phone calls and get more more thoughts on our Twitter poll.

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01:57:15,680 --> 01:57:18,640
Speaker 1: After watching the division around of the playoffs, how far

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01:57:18,680 --> 01:57:20,720
Speaker 1: away are the Buffalo Bills? Give us a call, Let

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01:57:20,800 --> 01:57:22,880
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Eight oh three five fifty

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: It's one Bills five presented by Collada Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome Back, one goes five. John Murphy,

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01:57:39,400 --> 01:57:42,600
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, And we're in our studio at the Entercom.

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01:57:42,600 --> 01:57:44,120
Speaker 1: People are good here. People are good to us here.

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01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:46,120
Speaker 1: It's Steve. You know, we kind of just barged in

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01:57:46,200 --> 01:57:48,880
Speaker 1: on everybody can each for their studio. Yeah, for those

2364
01:57:48,920 --> 01:57:51,400
Speaker 1: don't know, we're we're not on TV today. We usually

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01:57:51,440 --> 01:57:53,760
Speaker 1: do the simulcast, and we are. There's a huge power

2366
01:57:53,800 --> 01:57:55,920
Speaker 1: out just because of the windstorm yesterday. And so we're

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01:57:55,960 --> 01:57:58,440
Speaker 1: in this at intercom up here in order. What city

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01:57:58,480 --> 01:58:01,000
Speaker 1: is this? Amhurst? All right, we're an am hurt. This

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01:58:01,200 --> 01:58:05,080
Speaker 1: place is sprawling New York State. It's sprawling, but there's

2370
01:58:05,120 --> 01:58:07,920
Speaker 1: like the hallway after hallway there's Yeah, it's unbelievable. So

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01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:11,080
Speaker 1: here we are, and it's it's a big scary place.

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01:58:11,160 --> 01:58:13,400
Speaker 1: That's all I can Say'll be afraid, Steve be out

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01:58:13,400 --> 01:58:16,880
Speaker 1: of our minutes left in the show cubicle. Afraid to

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01:58:17,080 --> 01:58:19,520
Speaker 1: do the show from Hey the Twitter pole. Today, after

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01:58:19,560 --> 01:58:21,840
Speaker 1: watching the division around of the playoffs, how far away

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01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:24,520
Speaker 1: are the bills? Forty six percent of you and by

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01:58:24,520 --> 01:58:27,920
Speaker 1: the way, seventeen hundred votes have been pretty hefty healthy

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01:58:27,960 --> 01:58:31,000
Speaker 1: response to our Twitter poll, Forty six percent of you say,

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01:58:31,040 --> 01:58:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, I think they're really clothes. Next year is

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01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:35,480
Speaker 1: our year. Thirty seven percent of you say still a

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01:58:35,480 --> 01:58:37,640
Speaker 1: lot of work to do, would need some breaks. Only

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01:58:37,680 --> 01:58:40,160
Speaker 1: seventeen percent say it should have been this year. Darn it,

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01:58:40,520 --> 01:58:43,160
Speaker 1: I put the darn it in. I wanted to see

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01:58:43,240 --> 01:58:47,560
Speaker 1: him play this week, could have waltzed into Kansas City

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01:58:47,680 --> 01:58:49,520
Speaker 1: and all you know, I mean, I get it. Kansas

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01:58:49,520 --> 01:58:51,640
Speaker 1: City's arrowhead and those guys scored fifty one on the

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01:58:51,680 --> 01:58:54,360
Speaker 1: team that that, you know, beat us. I get it.

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01:58:54,480 --> 01:58:57,440
Speaker 1: We maybe shouldn't wouldn't have probably wouldn't have beat those guys.

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01:58:57,440 --> 01:58:59,000
Speaker 1: I wanted to see the game. I wanted to see

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01:58:59,000 --> 01:59:02,520
Speaker 1: our team play those guys eyes. That's the That's what

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01:59:03,000 --> 01:59:05,600
Speaker 1: got me in a tiff. Yeah, you know, I bomed.

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01:59:05,640 --> 01:59:08,960
Speaker 1: I was that season ended all too soon for me,

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01:59:09,200 --> 01:59:10,920
Speaker 1: and I knew it too. I told you before we go,

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01:59:11,360 --> 01:59:13,320
Speaker 1: I'm really gonna miss when this sea. I'm gonna bum

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01:59:13,320 --> 01:59:15,560
Speaker 1: out when this season's overnight. And I did, I did,

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01:59:15,960 --> 01:59:17,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have bummed out as

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01:59:17,400 --> 01:59:19,400
Speaker 1: badly if they'd have gotten to the divisional round and

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01:59:19,480 --> 01:59:21,200
Speaker 1: beat have gotten beat by a really good team like

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, and that would have been easier to take.

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01:59:24,160 --> 01:59:27,520
Speaker 1: But that that Houston game, that would have been a

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01:59:27,520 --> 01:59:30,320
Speaker 1: different game than the way Houston went out. Yes, there's

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01:59:30,320 --> 01:59:32,960
Speaker 1: no way the Bills blow a twenty four point lead

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01:59:33,040 --> 01:59:36,480
Speaker 1: to anybody, including the Kansas City Chiefs. Was a sixteen pointer. Yeah,

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01:59:36,520 --> 01:59:38,640
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening in that game. They would

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01:59:38,640 --> 01:59:40,360
Speaker 1: not blow a lead in that game to the Kansas

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01:59:40,360 --> 01:59:43,160
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. No way, Yeah, I don't who knows, right.

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01:59:43,520 --> 01:59:45,760
Speaker 1: I'd like to have seen it too. I would like

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01:59:45,840 --> 01:59:49,040
Speaker 1: to have seen them the game. It wouldn't have I

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01:59:49,080 --> 01:59:52,440
Speaker 1: don't know. That's so that's that's because of our Twitter poll,

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01:59:52,480 --> 01:59:55,400
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah it was this year. It was our year. Maybe,

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01:59:55,440 --> 01:59:58,360
Speaker 1: but I would like to And it seems to me

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01:59:58,520 --> 02:00:00,960
Speaker 1: we're pretty close now. I get there's a big gap

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Speaker 1: between Houston and Kansas City, and there's maybe a big

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Speaker 1: gap between you know, Tennessee and Houston, or Tennessee and Buffalo,

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02:00:09,840 --> 02:00:13,400
Speaker 1: or Tennessee in Kansas City, whatever, But I wanted to

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Speaker 1: see our team play all those guys here too. The

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet brought to you by Cargan Moving Systems the

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02:00:20,320 --> 02:00:22,520
Speaker 1: official moves of the Buffalo Bills. A couple of responses.

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Speaker 1: Brian answering the question after watching the divisional playoffs, how

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Speaker 1: do you feel about the Bills? Bryan says at the

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Speaker 1: trade deadline, I mentioned we were more than the player

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Speaker 1: or two away. The next few years will be exciting

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02:00:32,440 --> 02:00:36,240
Speaker 1: times supporting a winning team that's changing the narrative. Then

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02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:39,480
Speaker 1: the game will slow down. For Josh Allen, here's one

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Speaker 1: from Jack. I wish we would have beaten Houston. That's

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Speaker 1: what Steve and I are saying. I know we would

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Speaker 1: have been We would have given Kansas City a better

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Speaker 1: game than the Texans did say for the first quarter. However,

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Speaker 1: I do not think that we would have had enough

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Speaker 1: offense to keep up with Kansas City. Allen needs to

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02:00:53,080 --> 02:00:55,000
Speaker 1: continue to grow, and he needs another weapon or two

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Speaker 1: to have a shot. I think I agree with all

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Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, I think they would have Kansas given

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02:00:58,920 --> 02:01:01,360
Speaker 1: Kansas City a better game, but I don't think they

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02:01:01,360 --> 02:01:03,080
Speaker 1: would have had enough offense to keep up. You heard

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02:01:03,080 --> 02:01:05,120
Speaker 1: General Brandon. Your Brandon being said the same thing is this,

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02:01:05,200 --> 02:01:06,680
Speaker 1: and we're not one player away. We're a little more

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02:01:06,720 --> 02:01:08,120
Speaker 1: than that. We got bounced in the first round. We

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02:01:08,200 --> 02:01:09,960
Speaker 1: got to get better in a couple of different areas.

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02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:12,160
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's the kind of mentality you've

2441
02:01:12,160 --> 02:01:13,840
Speaker 1: got to walk into this with. You gotta get better

2442
02:01:13,840 --> 02:01:16,480
Speaker 1: wherever you can get better, in big ways and in

2443
02:01:16,520 --> 02:01:20,120
Speaker 1: small ways. And that's that's where I said. And also

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02:01:20,160 --> 02:01:22,040
Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet from Tiffany, A couple of key

2445
02:01:22,040 --> 02:01:24,440
Speaker 1: additions to the offense puts us in place to contend.

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02:01:24,920 --> 02:01:28,360
Speaker 1: We need another running back to spell Singletary. A speedy

2447
02:01:28,600 --> 02:01:31,400
Speaker 1: pass catcher would be nice. Another playmaker at tight end

2448
02:01:31,440 --> 02:01:34,240
Speaker 1: to pair with Knox could open the field, open up

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02:01:34,240 --> 02:01:36,280
Speaker 1: the offense for Josh. I can see us making a

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02:01:36,360 --> 02:01:42,320
Speaker 1: deep playoff run next season. So I'm with it. It

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02:01:42,360 --> 02:01:44,880
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like we're that far away. But here's here's

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02:01:44,880 --> 02:01:47,680
Speaker 1: the thing, Murph, Here's why I'm so caught up in

2453
02:01:47,800 --> 02:01:53,320
Speaker 1: what a missed opportunity this season was, because there's five

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02:01:53,720 --> 02:01:58,840
Speaker 1: gazillion things that could happen this offseason, through training camp,

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02:01:58,880 --> 02:02:02,800
Speaker 1: through the draft, through agent process, five zillion things that

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02:02:02,840 --> 02:02:07,200
Speaker 1: could happen to make us worse. The wheels could come

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02:02:07,240 --> 02:02:09,760
Speaker 1: off this thing. You know, you never know. Luck. Yeah,

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02:02:09,800 --> 02:02:12,000
Speaker 1: you gotta hope everybody comes back and plays as good

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02:02:12,040 --> 02:02:14,880
Speaker 1: as they did. You hope Josh Allen works hard in

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02:02:14,920 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: the off season. You gotta hope Devin Singletary and all.

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02:02:17,320 --> 02:02:19,360
Speaker 1: You gotta hope people don't get hurt. He gotta hope

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02:02:19,360 --> 02:02:21,440
Speaker 1: he'll get hurt. You gotta hope they keep their nose

2463
02:02:21,440 --> 02:02:24,160
Speaker 1: at the grindstone. They gotta. You gotta rely on these

2464
02:02:24,160 --> 02:02:28,040
Speaker 1: twenty two year olds to turn into real pros in

2465
02:02:28,080 --> 02:02:30,800
Speaker 1: the off season when nobody's watching them. They gotta come

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02:02:30,840 --> 02:02:33,120
Speaker 1: back sharp and ready and hungry and ready to play.

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02:02:33,200 --> 02:02:35,400
Speaker 1: And you're all your coaching staff's gotta you gotta get

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02:02:35,400 --> 02:02:37,080
Speaker 1: the right players in the draft. You can't all of

2469
02:02:37,120 --> 02:02:39,120
Speaker 1: a sudden you draft a guy he's gonna be great, awesome,

2470
02:02:39,120 --> 02:02:41,280
Speaker 1: and you get into training camp and in Ana he stinks.

2471
02:02:41,800 --> 02:02:44,560
Speaker 1: All that stuff can happen. You'll waste a first round

2472
02:02:44,640 --> 02:02:46,800
Speaker 1: draft pick on a guy who turns up and he stinks,

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02:02:47,400 --> 02:02:51,440
Speaker 1: and all that stuff can happen, plus a nine hundred

2474
02:02:51,520 --> 02:02:55,960
Speaker 1: ninety nine trillion less other things could happen one hundred

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Speaker 1: You know, if those five things go right, there's a

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Speaker 1: trillion other things that could go wrong, and now we

2477
02:03:01,880 --> 02:03:03,760
Speaker 1: gotta wait till next season to find out. We gotta

2478
02:03:03,800 --> 02:03:06,120
Speaker 1: keep it between the lines with what we got as

2479
02:03:06,160 --> 02:03:09,600
Speaker 1: well as get better. I mean, we had our chance

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Speaker 1: this year. I know that you called James and Buffalo

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02:03:13,840 --> 02:03:17,640
Speaker 1: go ahead James around the year. Yeah, Steve, you know what.

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02:03:17,760 --> 02:03:20,280
Speaker 1: I share your sentiment. This was our year for sure.

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02:03:20,440 --> 02:03:22,400
Speaker 1: But um, I want to go to that Twitter poll

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02:03:22,440 --> 02:03:26,120
Speaker 1: and let you know that I think that next year,

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Speaker 1: I mean that that could very well possibly be our

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Speaker 1: year two. And I'm a first time caller, and I

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02:03:32,520 --> 02:03:37,400
Speaker 1: waited all season because I was such a downer about

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02:03:37,760 --> 02:03:42,640
Speaker 1: um Josh Hallen, and throughout the season I became more

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02:03:42,640 --> 02:03:46,839
Speaker 1: and more into him. Aside from his fourteen bumbles this season,

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Speaker 1: you know, between him and Jim Kelly, the I don't

2491
02:03:50,080 --> 02:03:52,919
Speaker 1: know if you've seen obviously you probably have the stats

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02:03:53,400 --> 02:03:56,080
Speaker 1: comparing Josh Hallen and Jim Kelly bank in eighty eight

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02:03:56,120 --> 02:03:59,560
Speaker 1: when you guys, when they made the first playoff appearance,

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02:04:00,360 --> 02:04:03,360
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen had three thousand, eighty nine yards

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02:04:03,520 --> 02:04:07,680
Speaker 1: and Jim Kelly had thirty three eighty twenty tds nine

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02:04:07,720 --> 02:04:13,040
Speaker 1: interceptions for Allen fifteen tds, seventeen interceptions for Kelly, five

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02:04:14,040 --> 02:04:17,640
Speaker 1: rushing yards for nine tds Allen and then Jim Kelly

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty three yards and with zero rushing tds.

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Speaker 1: And I agree. I think Josh Hallen, this is the

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Speaker 1: second offseason, and I think he's gonna be smarter, he's

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02:04:26,800 --> 02:04:29,600
Speaker 1: gonna work harder, and as long as he starts hitting

2502
02:04:29,640 --> 02:04:33,160
Speaker 1: those long balls. This was our season, and coming off

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02:04:33,200 --> 02:04:36,280
Speaker 1: those Super Bowl years. I'm forty one years old. I

2504
02:04:36,360 --> 02:04:38,960
Speaker 1: saw it happening, and man, this was this could have

2505
02:04:39,040 --> 02:04:43,120
Speaker 1: been a really cool run, but it really felt legitimate

2506
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Speaker 1: to me. So all right, thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: your called James, I got I hear you, jameson And

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Speaker 1: I've heard this comparison to Josh's first year too, compared

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Speaker 1: to Jim's first year or two, and there's a couple

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02:04:54,160 --> 02:04:57,840
Speaker 1: of you know, i'd caution everybody to like pump the

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Speaker 1: brakes a little bit. There's a couple of reason, big

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Speaker 1: re reasons why it's it's unfair to compare Josh to

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Speaker 1: Jim or Jim to Josh because and here's one of them.

2514
02:05:06,560 --> 02:05:08,880
Speaker 1: One of them is a different era of football. If

2515
02:05:08,880 --> 02:05:10,960
Speaker 1: you were complete in just over sixty percent of your

2516
02:05:10,960 --> 02:05:13,879
Speaker 1: passes or sixty percent of your passes in the early nineties,

2517
02:05:13,880 --> 02:05:16,840
Speaker 1: you were great. That was elite. Not too many guys

2518
02:05:16,920 --> 02:05:21,200
Speaker 1: did that at that time. And also, as you want

2519
02:05:21,240 --> 02:05:22,960
Speaker 1: to look at another nod as to why the game

2520
02:05:23,080 --> 02:05:26,200
Speaker 1: is very, very different now, quarterbacks do run for a

2521
02:05:26,200 --> 02:05:28,840
Speaker 1: half a dozen touchdowns or nine. Josh ran for nine

2522
02:05:28,880 --> 02:05:31,600
Speaker 1: touchdowns or ever many he has run. Quarterbacks do run

2523
02:05:31,640 --> 02:05:34,520
Speaker 1: for touchdowns these days. They never ran for touchdowns back

2524
02:05:34,520 --> 02:05:36,640
Speaker 1: when Jim was coming up through the league. Another thing

2525
02:05:36,640 --> 02:05:39,440
Speaker 1: and one reason why Josh is a little bit different

2526
02:05:39,680 --> 02:05:42,560
Speaker 1: in this era and this time in Buffalo than Jim

2527
02:05:42,720 --> 02:05:45,120
Speaker 1: was back then. When Jim got to Buffalo in eighty

2528
02:05:45,160 --> 02:05:48,720
Speaker 1: six and then in eighty seven as well, the team

2529
02:05:48,880 --> 02:05:53,240
Speaker 1: around him stunk. They didn't have a good team. They

2530
02:05:53,240 --> 02:05:55,080
Speaker 1: didn't have the kind of they did have Bruce, I

2531
02:05:55,160 --> 02:05:56,960
Speaker 1: get it in, Darrel, a couple of guys, but they

2532
02:05:56,960 --> 02:06:00,440
Speaker 1: didn't have the stellar defense that this team, and he

2533
02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:03,560
Speaker 1: didn't have the offensive weapons to the extent that that

2534
02:06:03,920 --> 02:06:05,800
Speaker 1: he did later in his career. He had Andre, but

2535
02:06:05,880 --> 02:06:08,840
Speaker 1: Andrea was young and still developing. It took Andre, you know,

2536
02:06:08,840 --> 02:06:10,360
Speaker 1: a handful of years to get up to where he

2537
02:06:10,360 --> 02:06:13,840
Speaker 1: became even the number one receiver on this team. They

2538
02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:17,720
Speaker 1: drafted Chris Burquette before they drafted Andre Reid, and Andrea

2539
02:06:17,800 --> 02:06:20,240
Speaker 1: kind of had to wrench that mantle away. So it

2540
02:06:20,320 --> 02:06:22,400
Speaker 1: took time for that to do that. The roster around

2541
02:06:22,480 --> 02:06:25,880
Speaker 1: Jim was poor compared to the defensive roster and even

2542
02:06:25,880 --> 02:06:29,240
Speaker 1: the offensive line of roster that's around Josh today. So

2543
02:06:29,280 --> 02:06:33,200
Speaker 1: it's it's really I see why people want to do it,

2544
02:06:34,240 --> 02:06:36,160
Speaker 1: and I and believe me, I see the potential for

2545
02:06:36,240 --> 02:06:40,200
Speaker 1: Josh to get better as well. But everything was different

2546
02:06:40,800 --> 02:06:43,760
Speaker 1: thirty years ago when Jim came into Buffalo than it

2547
02:06:43,840 --> 02:06:46,280
Speaker 1: is now with Josh. Thanks for cal. Let's go to

2548
02:06:46,680 --> 02:06:49,760
Speaker 1: John and Wheatfield a little. John, you're on the air, Hi, John,

2549
02:06:49,840 --> 02:06:53,080
Speaker 1: Steve great Shaw, thank you listen. I was just wondering

2550
02:06:53,120 --> 02:06:55,960
Speaker 1: what your feelings were. So I watched that Houston game

2551
02:06:56,440 --> 02:07:00,120
Speaker 1: and Kansas City rolling up fifty one point. I have

2552
02:07:00,200 --> 02:07:02,560
Speaker 1: to think I said, how weak or how and that

2553
02:07:02,840 --> 02:07:05,920
Speaker 1: was our Buffalo offense really shown what Kansas City can

2554
02:07:06,000 --> 02:07:08,440
Speaker 1: roll up fifty one point. Any of you take take

2555
02:07:08,480 --> 02:07:11,640
Speaker 1: half of that, half of the five twenty six points, still,

2556
02:07:11,920 --> 02:07:14,480
Speaker 1: it just showed our weaknesses on offense. If Houston could

2557
02:07:14,480 --> 02:07:17,760
Speaker 1: have been exploited as much as they were. I'm wondering

2558
02:07:17,840 --> 02:07:20,520
Speaker 1: what you're thoughts. Yeah, good point, it's valid point. I

2559
02:07:20,560 --> 02:07:22,480
Speaker 1: think it shows a different snack just between the It

2560
02:07:22,480 --> 02:07:25,680
Speaker 1: shows the inter between Kansas City's offense and the Buffalo offense.

2561
02:07:25,720 --> 02:07:28,840
Speaker 1: More than anything, the Buffalo offense the worst, I think,

2562
02:07:29,200 --> 02:07:31,560
Speaker 1: arguably and maybe not even arguably the worst offense of

2563
02:07:31,600 --> 02:07:34,320
Speaker 1: any playoff contender. Yeah, Kansas City the best, best in

2564
02:07:34,360 --> 02:07:36,040
Speaker 1: the league in a couple of years. Yeah, And I

2565
02:07:36,160 --> 02:07:38,800
Speaker 1: and it's true. And and that's really where you get

2566
02:07:38,920 --> 02:07:41,400
Speaker 1: down to it, where you know, I'm not saying I'm

2567
02:07:41,440 --> 02:07:43,640
Speaker 1: not sitting here in murfend and Bill's fans will say,

2568
02:07:43,880 --> 02:07:46,240
Speaker 1: you kind of you think, man, how good could how

2569
02:07:46,280 --> 02:07:48,160
Speaker 1: deep could we have gone in the playoffs if we'd

2570
02:07:48,200 --> 02:07:51,120
Speaker 1: just gotten those last couple of plays against the Houston Texans.

2571
02:07:51,120 --> 02:07:53,120
Speaker 1: Then you see that Chiefs game, It's like, Wow, I

2572
02:07:53,160 --> 02:07:55,800
Speaker 1: think that's it, right. I mean, but but that's where

2573
02:07:55,800 --> 02:07:57,600
Speaker 1: I thought we were headed. I thought this is a

2574
02:07:57,600 --> 02:07:59,280
Speaker 1: team was going to get to that point. I didn't

2575
02:07:59,280 --> 02:08:01,640
Speaker 1: know if they could beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead,

2576
02:08:01,640 --> 02:08:03,360
Speaker 1: but I thought that's the level of the playoffs where

2577
02:08:03,360 --> 02:08:05,480
Speaker 1: they should have gotten to and they didn't. And I

2578
02:08:06,000 --> 02:08:09,560
Speaker 1: agree with you, say what you want about the Texans

2579
02:08:09,600 --> 02:08:13,360
Speaker 1: defense and the Kansas City offense, and there's a number

2580
02:08:13,360 --> 02:08:15,240
Speaker 1: of factors that go into it, a bunch of them.

2581
02:08:15,840 --> 02:08:21,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, how could it have been that difficult for

2582
02:08:21,640 --> 02:08:25,480
Speaker 1: Buffalo to score any more points than they did against

2583
02:08:25,520 --> 02:08:27,880
Speaker 1: the defense that gave up that you know, coughed up

2584
02:08:27,960 --> 02:08:30,520
Speaker 1: fifty one the next week. Now, granted, it's a home

2585
02:08:30,600 --> 02:08:33,280
Speaker 1: game in the week the Bills played that defense, and

2586
02:08:33,320 --> 02:08:34,880
Speaker 1: it was a road game for that defense and one

2587
02:08:34,920 --> 02:08:37,800
Speaker 1: of the most difficult venues ever to play in. And

2588
02:08:37,920 --> 02:08:40,160
Speaker 1: I get that, but man, oh man, I see the

2589
02:08:40,200 --> 02:08:43,280
Speaker 1: disparity between the offensive output of the Bills and how

2590
02:08:43,320 --> 02:08:45,520
Speaker 1: far lagging behind the Kansas City Chiefs they are when

2591
02:08:45,560 --> 02:08:48,880
Speaker 1: the Bills struggled to get nineteen and the Chiefs hang

2592
02:08:49,240 --> 02:08:52,200
Speaker 1: fifty one of them in three quarters. One more call

2593
02:08:52,240 --> 02:08:54,720
Speaker 1: on Gary on a cell phone, Go ahead, Gary around

2594
02:08:54,720 --> 02:09:00,440
Speaker 1: the air, Hey guys, hoya, Okay, I'll be brief. I've

2595
02:09:00,480 --> 02:09:02,800
Speaker 1: been I've been watching the Tennessee team. I'm seeing this

2596
02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:08,000
Speaker 1: sixth rated team beat our one rated Baltimore team, and

2597
02:09:08,040 --> 02:09:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm hearing everybody on the radio, including everyone there at

2598
02:09:10,880 --> 02:09:13,520
Speaker 1: gr in the afternoon show, with Mike saying that a

2599
02:09:13,640 --> 02:09:16,040
Speaker 1: pass only league is the way it is now. You know,

2600
02:09:16,120 --> 02:09:19,840
Speaker 1: the dinosaur way of just winning the ball is gone.

2601
02:09:19,840 --> 02:09:21,440
Speaker 1: You're not going to go anywhere with that. And I

2602
02:09:21,800 --> 02:09:24,560
Speaker 1: look and I see this game that Tennessee plays maybe

2603
02:09:24,600 --> 02:09:27,000
Speaker 1: average what less than one hundred yards every playoff game,

2604
02:09:27,560 --> 02:09:31,560
Speaker 1: And I wonder, is all that garbage that we're hearing

2605
02:09:31,640 --> 02:09:34,440
Speaker 1: is it Is it feasible that you can still have

2606
02:09:34,480 --> 02:09:37,280
Speaker 1: a team that runs the ball ninety percent at the

2607
02:09:37,280 --> 02:09:39,840
Speaker 1: time in the game and can win a championship or

2608
02:09:39,960 --> 02:09:42,920
Speaker 1: is or is this the exception to the rule. It's

2609
02:09:42,920 --> 02:09:45,320
Speaker 1: an interesting question because I saw earlier in the show.

2610
02:09:45,360 --> 02:09:47,440
Speaker 1: I was talking to Murf about it being a trend

2611
02:09:47,960 --> 02:09:50,520
Speaker 1: where you've got these teams that have evolved to the

2612
02:09:50,520 --> 02:09:53,480
Speaker 1: point where they've got light, fast linebackers who can play

2613
02:09:53,520 --> 02:09:56,000
Speaker 1: in space in the passing game, and all of a sudden,

2614
02:09:56,040 --> 02:09:58,760
Speaker 1: every so often, really actually twice, if you're playing the

2615
02:09:58,760 --> 02:10:02,320
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens or you're playing the Tennessee Titans, you're running

2616
02:10:02,320 --> 02:10:04,720
Speaker 1: into these teams that hit you with a hammer, a

2617
02:10:04,840 --> 02:10:07,880
Speaker 1: big sledge hammer, and you've got to be strong enough

2618
02:10:07,960 --> 02:10:10,480
Speaker 1: upfront to withstand that and get them into a game

2619
02:10:10,480 --> 02:10:12,520
Speaker 1: where they have to throw the football. And in the

2620
02:10:12,560 --> 02:10:14,880
Speaker 1: last couple of games, or last actually month and a half,

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02:10:14,920 --> 02:10:17,080
Speaker 1: nobody's been able to do that to the Tennessee Titans.

2622
02:10:17,400 --> 02:10:22,720
Speaker 1: And until you reach a team that does that, you

2623
02:10:22,760 --> 02:10:25,680
Speaker 1: can't beat them. And that's it's that simple. Their defense

2624
02:10:25,800 --> 02:10:28,120
Speaker 1: is good enough and their offense just hangs onto the

2625
02:10:28,120 --> 02:10:30,640
Speaker 1: football and it's just powerful enough just to grind it

2626
02:10:30,680 --> 02:10:33,840
Speaker 1: down into the touch. You know, they're scoring touchdowns on

2627
02:10:33,880 --> 02:10:37,640
Speaker 1: almost every possession. So are the Tennessee Titans. So I

2628
02:10:37,680 --> 02:10:40,720
Speaker 1: think it's a trend, and certainly it's a moment, but

2629
02:10:41,000 --> 02:10:44,000
Speaker 1: in the big picture, it is a throwing league. So

2630
02:10:44,040 --> 02:10:46,840
Speaker 1: when you're doing something differently and doing it really well

2631
02:10:46,880 --> 02:10:49,920
Speaker 1: that other teams aren't built to stop, I think the Titans,

2632
02:10:49,960 --> 02:10:52,480
Speaker 1: and all through the regular season the Baltimore Ravens were

2633
02:10:52,480 --> 02:10:54,760
Speaker 1: taking advantage of that a little bit. Certainly, they've got

2634
02:10:54,760 --> 02:10:56,920
Speaker 1: great players on top of that, and there's a lot

2635
02:10:57,000 --> 02:11:00,320
Speaker 1: more that goes into it. But when you generalize, yeah,

2636
02:11:00,320 --> 02:11:02,400
Speaker 1: I think the Titans are taking advantage of a league

2637
02:11:02,480 --> 02:11:04,760
Speaker 1: that's not built to defend their type of offense. There's

2638
02:11:04,800 --> 02:11:07,120
Speaker 1: something going on with teams running the football. We've got

2639
02:11:07,120 --> 02:11:09,800
Speaker 1: to get to a break here. The NFL average forty

2640
02:11:09,800 --> 02:11:12,040
Speaker 1: one percent running plays in the regular season. This year

2641
02:11:12,080 --> 02:11:15,480
Speaker 1: average forty one percent runs, fifty nine percent passes. This

2642
02:11:15,600 --> 02:11:20,680
Speaker 1: past weekend, the four winners ran fifty seven percent. I

2643
02:11:20,680 --> 02:11:22,240
Speaker 1: don't know what it means yet, I'm thinking about it.

2644
02:11:22,280 --> 02:11:23,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what it means. So it went from

2645
02:11:23,920 --> 02:11:26,280
Speaker 1: forty one percent in the regular season forty one percent

2646
02:11:26,360 --> 02:11:30,760
Speaker 1: runs to fifty seven percent run. Now, listen, throw the listen.

2647
02:11:30,800 --> 02:11:33,839
Speaker 1: When you've got teams coughing the ball up, getting free touchdowns,

2648
02:11:33,840 --> 02:11:36,000
Speaker 1: blocking punts for touchdowns, the game gets out of hand

2649
02:11:36,000 --> 02:11:39,840
Speaker 1: in so many different levels. Has nothing to do with analytics.

2650
02:11:39,840 --> 02:11:42,440
Speaker 1: It has it has a well fifty one there's a

2651
02:11:42,480 --> 02:11:45,560
Speaker 1: reciting percentages. To me, that's I mean, that's analytics. I

2652
02:11:45,600 --> 02:11:48,200
Speaker 1: mean it's it's the ball bouncing out of a guy's

2653
02:11:48,200 --> 02:11:50,680
Speaker 1: hands when he's returning a kickoff and a guy fumbling

2654
02:11:50,720 --> 02:11:53,800
Speaker 1: a kickoff. That all's off the page. Analytics can't cover

2655
02:11:53,880 --> 02:11:55,960
Speaker 1: that stuff. And then you get these teams with a

2656
02:11:56,000 --> 02:11:57,840
Speaker 1: twenty point lead. Yeah, they're going to hand it off.

2657
02:11:58,720 --> 02:12:00,880
Speaker 1: That's the way it works. Gonna taken break one Bill's

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Speaker 1: What are we learning from today's show? We learned a

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Speaker 1: lot from our Twitter poll today and we asked folks

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Speaker 1: what they would do with um what have we learned?

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Speaker 1: he asked folks, uh, what after watching the divisional playoff games?

2665
02:12:32,720 --> 02:12:34,720
Speaker 1: What do you think of the Bills now? And forty

2666
02:12:34,760 --> 02:12:36,720
Speaker 1: six percent of you say the Bills are really close?

2667
02:12:36,760 --> 02:12:39,360
Speaker 1: Next year is our year? Thirty seven percent say still

2668
02:12:39,360 --> 02:12:40,920
Speaker 1: a lot to do, would need some more breaks, and

2669
02:12:41,640 --> 02:12:43,760
Speaker 1: seventeen percent say they should have been us this year.

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02:12:44,200 --> 02:12:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to say it should have been us

2671
02:12:46,000 --> 02:12:47,640
Speaker 1: this year, but I can't help. But Steve, I just

2672
02:12:47,720 --> 02:12:51,200
Speaker 1: keep feeling that way. Yeah, well it should have been

2673
02:12:52,840 --> 02:12:54,360
Speaker 1: that's and when you're that a close, and when you

2674
02:12:54,400 --> 02:12:56,280
Speaker 1: got a good team, when you when you when you're

2675
02:12:56,280 --> 02:13:00,600
Speaker 1: a ton of h yeah, a ton of games that

2676
02:13:00,680 --> 02:13:02,880
Speaker 1: are that close and you win a lot of those games.

2677
02:13:02,960 --> 02:13:04,880
Speaker 1: That's you know, it's it's hard to say goodbye to

2678
02:13:04,880 --> 02:13:07,000
Speaker 1: a season line. We're still struggling with it. Given the

2679
02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:08,560
Speaker 1: fact that you know, this is a team that wants

2680
02:13:08,560 --> 02:13:10,520
Speaker 1: to get deep into the playoffs. We'll see we're still

2681
02:13:10,560 --> 02:13:12,320
Speaker 1: struggling with it. We are struggling. I want to thank

2682
02:13:12,320 --> 02:13:14,480
Speaker 1: Bryton Wilson and the folks here at Entercom for helping

2683
02:13:14,520 --> 02:13:16,760
Speaker 1: us out today with our power outages in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we're back up and running next week or next

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Speaker 1: week or tomorrow at One Bill's Drive. We'll see you then,

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