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Speaker 1: Welcome to Know your Foe Oncolts dot com and in

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Speaker 1: depth book at the upcoming matchup. Here's Casey Valier, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to know your foe on Colts dot Com. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Casey Valiat. The Colts travel to Buffalo to take on

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Speaker 1: the Bills on Sunday, and to get us up to

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Speaker 1: date on the Bills is Vick Carucci, who covers the

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Speaker 1: Bills for w g r Z, the NBC affiliate in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: and he's also on Sirius XM NFL Radio. Vic. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for taking us time to talk with us,

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Speaker 1: My pleasure, Casey. Now, the Bills are one of the

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Speaker 1: heavy favorites to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and I want to start with the offense. Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: made huge strides in twenty twenty, earn him a huge

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Speaker 1: payday this past offseason. When you look at his play

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Speaker 1: to this point here in twenty twenty one, is it

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Speaker 1: on par with the expectations of that contract? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think when you when you get those kinds of deals,

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Speaker 1: there's always an inflated sense of what the player can

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Speaker 1: do or what he's expected to do. But I would

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Speaker 1: say this that the Bills, even though I think they

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Speaker 1: would for to have fewer than three losses at this point,

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Speaker 1: they do have to feel good with, you know, having

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Speaker 1: a pretty a strong sense of ability to compete for

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Speaker 1: the AFC title. It is competitive in the entire conference,

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Speaker 1: as you know, and in their division, New England, which

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Speaker 1: started out slow, all of a sudden is right there

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Speaker 1: on their tail. And you know, once Tom Brady left

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Speaker 1: the division, the sense was that, hey, the worm is

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Speaker 1: turned and now this will belong to Buffalo. Well maybe

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Speaker 1: with mac Jones and that defense, it'll it'll be a challenge.

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Speaker 1: But to your point about the contract, I mean it

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Speaker 1: was well deserved. He I think he has proven himself

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Speaker 1: to be a franchise quarterback, a guy that they can

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Speaker 1: come for a long time. And I think at the

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Speaker 1: end of it all as far as the values go,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we can't I've gotten long ago. I

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Speaker 1: stopped doing real world comparisons to what athlete contracts are,

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Speaker 1: or or actors or whatever entertainment people, because they are

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Speaker 1: what you can get with the market. Old bear for you.

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Speaker 1: So in his case, you know you're going to pay

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Speaker 1: the top. You drafted this guy in hopes of having

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Speaker 1: a second contract to pay him because he's delivering for you.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, the Bills, in my mind, were

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Speaker 1: right smart to tie him up for you know, the

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Speaker 1: six years with that extension. One of the things that

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Speaker 1: helps is when you give a guy weapons and it

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Speaker 1: seems like he's got plenty of weapons at his disposal.

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Speaker 1: You got the reigning guy who had the most receptions

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Speaker 1: and receiving yards in the year. Last year with Stefan Diggs,

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley was an All Pro for the first time.

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Speaker 1: But they went also out and added Emmanuel Sanders in

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Speaker 1: the offseason. What is his addition meant to that office? Yeah, Sanders.

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Speaker 1: Sanders addition for the Bills has been huge. He is

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Speaker 1: definitely I wouldn't call him a consistent game breaker at

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Speaker 1: the level of a Diggs, but he is right there

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Speaker 1: deliver over that big play. He was an upgrade over

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Speaker 1: veteran who knows how to run routes, who who has

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Speaker 1: one of a couple of guys on that team who's

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Speaker 1: who's understood and won a Super Bowl and understood what

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Speaker 1: that means. Uh. And he can I think he can

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Speaker 1: Davis duson Knox. You look at that array of targets

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Speaker 1: and that's the pressure that they usually put on defenses.

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Speaker 1: Who are you going to cover? Joined by Vic Carucci

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Speaker 1: covers the bills for w g r Z NBC affiliate

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo and also for Sirius XM NFL Radio. You

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Speaker 1: can catch him there. He just brought up Dawson Knox.

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Speaker 1: He's a guy that is kind of becoming more of

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Speaker 1: The final thing on the offensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: So a poor or struggling run game, which is what

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Speaker 1: You've got a you know, a Jalen Ramsey with the Rams.

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Speaker 1: the Bills for a long time. Linebacker Tremaine Edmonds, one

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Speaker 1: that great stuff right there. Vick Carucci of w g RZ,

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Speaker 1: I didn't mention. Vic has joined up with Bill Pollian

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Speaker 1: to write a book. It's called Super Bowl Blueprints. He

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Speaker 1: and Bill dive into the keys to the greatest football

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Blueprints with Vick Carucci and Bill Pollian. You

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Speaker 1: can pre order your copy right now. It's available on

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Speaker 1: November thirtieth. Thanks again, Vic, really appreciate all the time.

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Speaker 1: The Colts head to Buffalo on Sunday take on one

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Speaker 1: Next week, the Colts return home following Thanksgiving to host

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Speaker 1: be Rick Strout of the Tampa Bay Times. Before that

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Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern kick until next week. I'm kay Sagalia, go

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