Speaker 1: Alan's gonna run it.
Speaker 2: Brad loves it. Touch up, pressure again, runs away from it,
Speaker 2: throws on the run, put touchdown.
Speaker 3: Tulton ten k.
Speaker 2: Now it's a fourthing tent one last guest, and that
Speaker 2: is going to be caught for a touchdown by Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: The ten yard line.
Speaker 3: Five.
Speaker 1: Mayfield dance some paul around, throw it as far as
Speaker 1: you can throw it, jump ball coming, crazy stuff, not
Speaker 1: this time incomplete.
Speaker 3: Al, come on man, turn it up, Buddy Baker.
Speaker 4: Mayfield's hal mary heave in the final seconds lands unmolested
Speaker 4: in the end zone, with Pro Bowl wide receiver Chris
Speaker 4: Godwin reacting just a touch too late. It was that
Speaker 4: close to one of the craziest come from behind wins
Speaker 4: in NFL history. I mean it would have been. It
Speaker 4: would have been an absolute, massive national story if somehow
Speaker 4: the Bucks pulled that off. But they didn't, and the Bills,
Speaker 4: who badly outplayed their opponent for most of Thursday night,
Speaker 4: come out ahead twenty four to eighteen at Buffalo, with
Speaker 4: Josh Allen leading away, throwing for over three hundred yards,
Speaker 4: accounting for three total touchdowns. Bill's back on track at
Speaker 4: five and three. Bucks keep losing. Now three and four.
Speaker 4: I am Dan hanss around the NFL podcast. Mark Sessler
Speaker 4: is with me, and Mark, I guess I'll start here,
Speaker 4: and I was texting with you that absurd was twenty four.
Speaker 4: This is where it was twenty four to ten. It's
Speaker 4: midway through the fourth quarter and the Bucks are going
Speaker 4: on this marathon drive that seems like a marathon drive
Speaker 4: to nowhere. Seventeen plays, ninety two yards, three fourth down conversions,
Speaker 4: it chews up half the quarter, and it just all
Speaker 4: felt kind of sad, quite frankly. It does end with
Speaker 4: the touchdown and the two point conversion and the fact
Speaker 4: that they ended up getting the ball back and getting
Speaker 4: that ball on the end zone. I guess it's a
Speaker 4: minor victory for the Bucks, but the Bills take the real.
Speaker 3: One, I guess.
Speaker 5: So it felt like the Bucks were sort of like
Speaker 5: someone just hanging out in your living room and not
Speaker 5: refusing to leave a little bit, like it was something
Speaker 5: of a punchless long day at the office for them.
Speaker 5: But then there's there at the end and like the
Speaker 5: Chris Godwin moment in the final seconds, it's like that
Speaker 5: could have been transformative. But it was very symbolic that
Speaker 5: that drive I mean typically, like historically you know me, well,
Speaker 5: Like if I knew that there was going to be
Speaker 5: a seventeen play ninety two yard drive that chewed up
Speaker 5: seven plus minutes, I'd be overjoyed. But in this game,
Speaker 5: it kind of just was like a building block to
Speaker 5: a kind of indestructible end. And I don't know, I
Speaker 5: fee like the Bills are just they're working their way
Speaker 5: through these games. There were a couple positives for the Bills, certainly,
Speaker 5: like I thought a couple of people stepped up tonight
Speaker 5: in a way that gives you some hope.
Speaker 3: On that I mean more than a couple mark this was.
Speaker 4: That's why part of like the craziest thing about it,
Speaker 4: the way this game ended, is it tried so hard
Speaker 4: to obscure what was a tremendously positive night for the
Speaker 4: Bills and to extend what you were saying just a
Speaker 4: little bit further before I throw it back to you, buddy,
Speaker 4: you said it was like the the uninvited guest who
Speaker 4: stays till the end. It's almost like, but this guest
Speaker 4: that was staying till the end didn't say anything for
Speaker 4: the first four hours of the party and was just
Speaker 4: kind of like taking up room on the couch. Then
Speaker 4: all of a sudden it became the life of the
Speaker 4: party and it was like, this would have been great
Speaker 4: if you did it earlier. But it's like, I still
Speaker 4: don't know if I'm gonna invite you next time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not sure you're coming back, but yes you
Speaker 5: are right, Like I mean, I think that it was
Speaker 5: hopeful to see someone like Khalil Shakier have a career
Speaker 5: high in yardage like dalton Kin Kate, and you know,
Speaker 5: with Dawson knocks out dalon Ka Kate almost in a beneficial,
Speaker 5: wonderful way steps into this lead role, and tonight he
Speaker 5: made a couple of huge plays. And I don't know
Speaker 5: if it's like maybe it's it's not the most inspiring
Speaker 5: performance from the Bills, and you look back to some
Speaker 5: of their dominant weeks from you know, three or four
Speaker 5: weeks ago, and it's like, we're not getting that version
Speaker 5: of this offense. But I really loved how guys like
Speaker 5: also gave Davis too, just stepped up tonight to perform
Speaker 5: and it was a nice performance by Josh Allen. But
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't come out of this am
Speaker 5: I wrong? I come out of this feeling like the
Speaker 5: Bill Bills are sort of just there right now, and
Speaker 5: I like, they don't strike me as an AFC dominant figure.
Speaker 5: They're doing what they're doing. Like the Bucks hung around
Speaker 5: till the end tonight. A lot of that had to
Speaker 5: do with other aspects of the game, but it's just
Speaker 5: like Buffalo to me is working through some of their
Speaker 5: own issues, even though they tonight produced like four hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty yards. Like, when I think of a game
Speaker 5: where someone drops four hundred and fifty yards, it's not
Speaker 5: what I would have. I wouldn't think of this game
Speaker 5: even though there was production.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I I disagree a little bit because I
Speaker 4: thought that other than their inability to kind of close
Speaker 4: that game out and make it, it's absurd that it
Speaker 4: got to that last point. And by the way, credit
Speaker 4: to Baker, that was a beautiful hail Mary throw. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think there was so many positives for the Bills.
Speaker 4: I mean, the fact that you know, you let Josh Cook,
Speaker 4: you let Josh Allen Cook, and you let him run
Speaker 4: the football. Hey, do you have Randy Schave a big funk?
Speaker 4: Do you have Because this kind of this is earlier
Speaker 4: in the game and It speaks to some frustration that
Speaker 4: was around this team.
Speaker 3: Al Michaels even said it himself.
Speaker 4: You know, the narrative around the team is like, why
Speaker 4: isn't Josh Allen running more? Here is right before the
Speaker 4: first play of the second quarter, when it's fourth and
Speaker 4: goal at the one yard line, and the sideline interview
Speaker 4: is with Todd Bowles, head coach of the Bucks.
Speaker 6: Big fourth down coming up? What do you expect here?
Speaker 1: I expect the quarterback to run the football.
Speaker 2: Hey, you guys, so that was moments ago. You heard
Speaker 2: what he expects. Let's see what they do here on
Speaker 2: a fourth down and goal throws not the way.
Speaker 4: So like Todd Bowles is saying it, and I appreciate
Speaker 4: the candor from Todd there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's actually one of the better coaching terry's during
Speaker 5: the game because you don't get those too often.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've never get the coach actually saying what
Speaker 4: he thinks the play call he's gonna be. And you know,
Speaker 4: that's one of those things where Todd Bowles thinks he's
Speaker 4: gonna run the football Josh Allen, because that's the last
Speaker 4: thing that the Bucks want to see because that probably
Speaker 4: can't stop a giant like Josh Allen running downhill on
Speaker 4: a design play on fourth and goal, but they throw
Speaker 4: the ball and let him off the hook, and I'm
Speaker 4: like hit myself in the head, like why on those
Speaker 4: last couple of plays at the goal line is Josh
Speaker 4: Allen not finding his way into the end zone?
Speaker 3: And yet yes, they get turned.
Speaker 4: Away there, but they still still you're feeling it feels
Speaker 4: like we're missing that extra touchdown that makes it the
Speaker 4: thirty burger that makes everything make a little more sense
Speaker 4: in this game. That was it right there. They didn't
Speaker 4: punch that in. But overall, like I thought, Allan was
Speaker 4: tremendous in this game. He threw the one interception, but
Speaker 4: was really good. I'm watching James Cook and I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm having like a brain cramp, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 4: he reminds me of somebody. He reminds me of, like
Speaker 4: a young Dalvin Cook who is his brother if I'm
Speaker 4: not mistaken. So that makes sense. And then you have, yes,
Speaker 4: Khalil Shakir you mentioned but Gabe Davis like welcome back, Bud,
Speaker 4: like we need the Buffalo Bills are saying we need
Speaker 4: somebody else to step up and deliver and he was
Speaker 4: getting open and pulling the ball in all day nine catches,
Speaker 4: eighty seven yards, a touchdown in twelve targets. You mentioned
Speaker 4: kid kid as well, Mark who is going to step
Speaker 4: into a bigger role now they put Dawson Knox on
Speaker 4: the ir he has a big game, and I thought,
Speaker 4: even more importantly with Kinkaid, he looked like he's fit
Speaker 4: for the part and this is not going to be
Speaker 4: like one one game wonder in primetime. I think he's
Speaker 4: going to be a big guy for them the rest
Speaker 4: of the year. And to do it when Stefan Diggs,
Speaker 4: despite nine catches, was really quiet in this game, so
Speaker 4: they were able to move the ball without him being
Speaker 4: the guy at the center of everything. I thought it
Speaker 4: was a tremendously positive day for their offense.
Speaker 5: That's the takeaway because I yeah, it's like I think
Speaker 5: we've been talking about the Bills. It's like someone else
Speaker 5: needs to emerge as a difference maker, and it could
Speaker 5: be Kincaid, but it seemed like that would happen even
Speaker 5: earlier in the season and in these games when Stefan
Speaker 5: Diggs hasn't been almost like a wild, superfluous positive. Sometimes
Speaker 5: the Bill's offense has disappeared. What I mentioned before is
Speaker 5: just like, I guess what I wanted Buffalo to do.
Speaker 5: This would have changed my mind on the night a
Speaker 5: little bit. And you know, everything that we've talked about
Speaker 5: is true. There were a lot of positives and things
Speaker 5: you can take away and build on.
Speaker 6: But you close the.
Speaker 5: Game with four punts, four straight punts all around midfield,
Speaker 5: and it's just like, it seemed like they kept inviting
Speaker 5: Tampa Bay, a very average team of vapor really just
Speaker 5: an apparition of a team back into the game. It's like,
Speaker 5: why are we in those final moments. It's like I
Speaker 5: want to see Buffalo just acts theirn heads off, to
Speaker 5: be honest, and like put a final arrow.
Speaker 6: Into them and it ended with a sort of a whimper.
Speaker 5: It doesn't take away from the rest of it, but
Speaker 5: it's just like Buffalo to me feels like they're still
Speaker 5: kind of figuring out working through some stuff and that's okay,
Speaker 5: and people stepped up tonight, but it wasn't like, Wow,
Speaker 5: without question, they went and dropped a hammer on a
Speaker 5: much less a much lesser opponent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 4: I think this game should what you're saying I think
Speaker 4: is the game should have been thirty four to eighteen
Speaker 4: or what.
Speaker 6: Exactly what it should have been.
Speaker 5: Like, absolutely, there's no reason that it's Baker Mayfield's.
Speaker 6: Doing what he's doing it.
Speaker 4: I also think that's why, as like someone who's watching,
Speaker 4: you know, we're watching these games closely and we're gonna
Speaker 4: be talking about it, and I'm like, I'm watching that
Speaker 4: drive by the Bucks and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: this is gonna make the game seem different than what
Speaker 4: it was. And then when the Bills get one first
Speaker 4: down but not the second and punted away again, you know,
Speaker 4: all they really have to do then is burn twenty
Speaker 4: seconds off the clock and don't let the Bucks get
Speaker 4: in your midfield, and they do, which allows that Hail Mary,
Speaker 4: which again was nearly completed. So yeah, that the game
Speaker 4: broke in a certain way to make it feel maybe
Speaker 4: differently than than what it was from my perspective, which
Speaker 4: was the Bills really in control and the Bucks and
Speaker 4: a lot of ways just feeling like, for you know,
Speaker 4: fifty four minutes, they were a bit player in this
Speaker 4: and you know they score, they're less than twenty points again,
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: I think this Baker is a tough guy.
Speaker 4: That last that long touchdown drive in the fourth quarter
Speaker 4: that had that was extended by the way on after
Speaker 4: fourth down stops twice when a flag came out, including
Speaker 4: a face mask on a sack of Baker. He took
Speaker 4: a beating on that last drive, and you know, he
Speaker 4: does not quit. He's an easy guy to root for
Speaker 4: it from that perspective, But the offense has also been
Speaker 4: you know, very very very mediocre for about a month now,
Speaker 4: ever since the schedule tightened up, And I just think
Speaker 4: that's what this is. This is an NFC South team,
Speaker 4: like the rest of them, deeply flawed.
Speaker 3: So they'll hang.
Speaker 4: Around probably in that division because it's just I think
Speaker 4: eight or nine wins will probably win it. But you
Speaker 4: saw this team is you know they could they hang
Speaker 4: around in a game like this if everything breaks the
Speaker 4: right way, which I think it pretty much did. You
Speaker 4: got a goal line stop and then the silliness in
Speaker 4: the last half of the fourth quarter. But this is
Speaker 4: probably as close as they can get to a big,
Speaker 4: big time team, which I think Buffalo is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and someone had told me that, you know, with
Speaker 5: minutes to go, that Mike Evans would have seven yards.
Speaker 5: I would say the Buffalo's defensive game plan or whatever
Speaker 5: they came in hoping to do, would have been to
Speaker 5: absolute perfection because Evans is the key to that offense.
Speaker 5: And you get a little bit of Chris Godwin and
Speaker 5: Kate Odden. Outside of that, they've got nothing. We've talked
Speaker 5: about their running game, it doesn't exist. But Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 5: it's like, I will say what like I'm with you
Speaker 5: in the sense that like, I mean, I've been as
Speaker 5: frustrated by Baker Mayfield career wise as anyone because he
Speaker 5: was Cleveland's quarterback and there were so many ups and downs.
Speaker 5: But it's like he just does not Like the thing
Speaker 5: I like about him is like that insane drive, Like
Speaker 5: he doesn't care what the score is, He don't care
Speaker 5: what happening, Like he doesn't matter what the stats are.
Speaker 6: It's like he just keeps going.
Speaker 5: And like he looked to me almost like he was
Speaker 5: in physical pain during part of this game, and I
Speaker 5: think he came into the game banged up and I
Speaker 5: just don't think he was at full health. And it's
Speaker 5: like the one thing I can give Baker Mayfield credit
Speaker 5: for is like he will just he will keep toiling
Speaker 5: on and he'll keep a team like the Bucks. Like
Speaker 5: if you're not if you're hoping for the Bucks to
Speaker 5: be out of the picture, I think the problem is
Speaker 5: they're gonna be in the picture until like the second
Speaker 5: to last week of the season, and we'll find out
Speaker 5: what happens to him. They'll be average enough and just
Speaker 5: good enough to hang around. And even tonight I thought
Speaker 5: was a micro cause some of what I think their
Speaker 5: whole season will be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think he had thrown for about
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty five yards before that last drive.
Speaker 3: And the offense was just stuck in mud.
Speaker 4: And even that's still it's one of the craziest drives
Speaker 4: you'll see all season. It I mentioned that I got
Speaker 4: extended twice on fourth down on penalties. The touchdown bounced
Speaker 4: off Baker underthrew it, it hit the defender's helmet and
Speaker 4: then bounced into Mike Evans's arms. Then they go for
Speaker 4: two and it gets batted straight up in the air
Speaker 4: and right into the arms they believe Avaden for the
Speaker 4: two point conversion.
Speaker 3: It was just like bonkers. And I think the Bills
Speaker 3: and sear.
Speaker 6: Dan that blew up the spread.
Speaker 5: I believe too, Like I think there are all these
Speaker 5: people going, you know.
Speaker 3: Listen those commercials all around us. They say go do it.
Speaker 3: I say, don't do it because they will drive you crazy.
Speaker 3: And uh yeah.
Speaker 4: But I think the Bills, I guess for in terms
Speaker 4: of lessons because they came very close to again in
Speaker 4: a shocking rock the NFL world, losing this game in
Speaker 4: a stunning matter.
Speaker 3: Close out, yeah, close out.
Speaker 4: The team, like you're saying they I think they took
Speaker 4: their foot off the accelerator running out the clock, cause
Speaker 4: I think they kind of thought the Bucks were ready
Speaker 4: to go home too. And and then all of a
Speaker 4: sudden they score that touchdown, and it gets a little interesting.
Speaker 4: A couple of things. Mark the red lamps were off
Speaker 4: in the loge. I talked about the Bills had any
Speaker 4: chance of fulfilling their dreams and finally getting back to
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl and finally taking a Lombardi Trophy to
Speaker 4: Western New York. You got to shut off those heat lamps.
Speaker 4: I understand it was a bit of a mild night
Speaker 4: in late October in Western New York, but let's keep
Speaker 4: those red lamps off because I thought the offense was
Speaker 4: humming in a way. We haven't seen since the Miami game.
Speaker 4: I don't think it was a coincidence.
Speaker 5: No, I mean so yes, I believe it was at
Speaker 5: the start of the game. It could have been in
Speaker 5: the fifties or sixties, which most humans can endure to
Speaker 5: some degree. But we're dealing with again, the Buffalo elites.
Speaker 5: But you know, listen, you they've not turned those off
Speaker 5: before as far as we know, Like you issued that
Speaker 5: edict on yesterday's show, and I think Western New York
Speaker 5: or the powers that be at that stadium thought we
Speaker 5: need to listen to this wisdom and tough enough, and
Speaker 5: they did. And so you have incredible civic power over
Speaker 5: the Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Reach it this way.
Speaker 4: If those red lamps are flipped on, it might catch
Speaker 4: Chris Godwin's attention and he looks up just the split
Speaker 4: second sooner and he catches that ball in the end zone.
Speaker 4: Let's just you can't say that that's not what happen,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So Dan, like the lifelong loyal Jets fan, helps create
Speaker 5: a tremendous regular season victory for the Buffalo Bills. That
Speaker 5: is a strange legacy.
Speaker 4: It's magnanimous. I also thought we were denied something in
Speaker 4: this game. A kicker, the kicker who was the kicker
Speaker 4: for the Bucks, crazy son of the bit.
Speaker 7: Oh do you mean the helmet, dude, Chase McLaughlin. You know,
Speaker 7: he hits a fifty seven yarder and then a scrum
Speaker 7: breaks out and the guy took his helmet and took
Speaker 7: a swing. Like we were ready to give Miles Garrett
Speaker 7: the electric.
Speaker 4: Chair for this a couple of years back, and the
Speaker 4: officials and you know they have Park Avenue or whatever
Speaker 4: taking a look at these replays for these type of fouls.
Speaker 3: They come back and they're like, no penalty.
Speaker 4: I wanted a kicker to be kicked out of the
Speaker 4: game for swinging his helmet like a caveman at an opponent.
Speaker 3: We should have had that. That should have been a
Speaker 3: major storyline today. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I thought it was the punter, but I you know,
Speaker 6: like either way it should be like we've we've got
Speaker 6: to be ja Camarda.
Speaker 5: I think you're right, I think, but but you know,
Speaker 5: he's a sort of a beefy individual too.
Speaker 6: From from the replays.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I feel like we have precedent that swinging
Speaker 5: helmets on you know, island games. It's not a great
Speaker 5: idea and attracts attention and attracts punishment, And this just
Speaker 5: flew under the radar.
Speaker 3: Like they were ready to reopen Alcatraz.
Speaker 4: When Miles Garrett swung his helmet against Pittsburgh, Yeah, there's
Speaker 4: gonna ship him out there and seal the seal the gates,
Speaker 4: let's see.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: So I was bummed about that. I was bummed when
Speaker 4: I saw Green Day, little passage of time stuff going
Speaker 4: on there.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you.
Speaker 5: Look looking like you know, they were the Hobbits from
Speaker 5: Lord of the Rings next to I don't know who
Speaker 5: they were. They looked diminutive compared to the people they
Speaker 5: were standing next to.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Trey Cool looked almost embalmed and uh and
Speaker 4: then the other thing. The only thing I want to
Speaker 4: say about the game is they downplayed it. And he
Speaker 4: certainly didn't seem to struggle throwing the football, but they
Speaker 4: also were pretty conservative down the stretch. And the sideline
Speaker 4: reporter for Amazon made a note that after one of
Speaker 4: the touchdowns, Josh Allen didn't even lift his right arm
Speaker 4: to high five people.
Speaker 3: So he's clear and he went into the blue ten
Speaker 3: for a little bit.
Speaker 4: And he made it through this game and Sean McDermott
Speaker 4: downplayed it coming out of halftime, and Randy just said
Speaker 4: it gave us a little note that was two Chains,
Speaker 4: by the way with green Day, as you could tell
Speaker 4: the chemistry between two Chains and green Day, you can't
Speaker 4: reproduce that. That's like John Madden and Pat summerle is
Speaker 4: the way I thought about it, and Al Michaels called
Speaker 4: him deuce.
Speaker 6: It was an odd pairing.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know there were more than two people,
Speaker 5: but was an odd mixture of two entities.
Speaker 4: But yes, the Josh Allen shoulder situation is something to
Speaker 4: keep an eye on because this team is in a
Speaker 4: fight here for both the division and hopefully they hope
Speaker 4: the top seed and a bye in the AFC. So
Speaker 4: you need the quarterback to be healthy. So that's something
Speaker 4: to keep an eye on. Finally, saw this tweet come
Speaker 4: across my timeline and my mentions during the game. It
Speaker 4: was from Miles Thomas. Don't ask how we got here,
Speaker 4: but found some deep buried internet treasure. And this is
Speaker 4: Mark Sessler from our blogging days for NFL dot com
Speaker 4: the Around the League Blog. Colt's victory takes back seat
Speaker 4: to monkeys riding dogs and let me I got you.
Speaker 4: I got you a lead that will cook your butt off.
Speaker 4: The Indianapolis Colts deserve praise for Sunday's twenty eight to
Speaker 4: sixteen win over the Houston Texans, but let's not forget
Speaker 4: what matters here, really matters stylized with italics. That's right,
Speaker 4: monkeys riding dogs.
Speaker 6: Okay, so hold on.
Speaker 5: First of all, this was back in the days when
Speaker 5: like we'd go to work and we were just it's
Speaker 5: funny that they put my name on that, because I
Speaker 5: don't even know if I had a byline initially back
Speaker 5: in those days, and they're putting my current headshot, like
Speaker 5: I wrote this two weeks ago, like I'm a total psychotic.
Speaker 5: But we were often told like quickly listen, this is
Speaker 5: a big moment, and I do remember this like event,
Speaker 5: and it was quite visually enticing the monkey riding the dog,
Speaker 5: and like it had our whole newsroom. Watch the YouTube version.
Speaker 5: Tell me this is not cool. This is cooler than
Speaker 5: anything we saw tonight. This is a small monkey on
Speaker 5: top of a What kind of dog is that, like
Speaker 5: a sort of a labrador?
Speaker 3: I don't know, che is not a labrador.
Speaker 5: I don't think about dogs like it's like a shepherdy,
Speaker 5: a shepherdy type dog. But the monkey clings to it.
Speaker 5: Its legs are striking.
Speaker 3: The monkey is probably absolutely terrified.
Speaker 4: But anyway, this is from a decade ago, and it
Speaker 4: just was a reminder of a lot of we wrote
Speaker 4: a lot of dumb shit for this website. Now, yes,
Speaker 4: the twentieth anniversary of NFL Media, that might have been
Speaker 4: they asked us to do those little videos like talking
Speaker 4: about our time with the company and celebrating the anniversary.
Speaker 3: You could have just.
Speaker 4: Done three minutes on that article, the fifty eight words
Speaker 4: and put the slapped the video on top and check
Speaker 4: that one off the box that day.
Speaker 6: It would have taken off.
Speaker 5: It would have been, you know, celebrated the way it
Speaker 5: was when I wrote that article, So it's it would
Speaker 5: have just been, you know, I wouldn't call it redundant,
Speaker 5: but a celebration of those lays.
Speaker 3: So there you.
Speaker 4: Go, good stuff, bills, get it done.
Speaker 3: It gets scary.
Speaker 4: If Chris Godwin has the red heat lamps catched his
Speaker 4: corner of his eye, he catches the hall Mary and
Speaker 4: the Bucks win twenty five to twenty four. But the
Speaker 4: lamps were off so he didn't see it and the
Speaker 4: ball went unmolested to the turf at high Mark State.
Speaker 4: I think that is the big takeaway today, unmolested. I
Speaker 4: do feel better about the Bills than you, Mark, but
Speaker 4: I get what you're saying as well.
Speaker 5: I feel fine about them. I just like I don't
Speaker 5: know something. There's something about their energy, the journey. It
Speaker 5: feels like we're a year past the window being wide open.
Speaker 5: But you know what, Like I'm typically wrong about nineteen
Speaker 5: out of twenty things, so probably most of Buffalo can
Speaker 5: take hope in that.
Speaker 4: I guess the one other thing, because we didn't really
Speaker 4: touch on it, was they jump ahead ten nothing and
Speaker 4: then the Allen interception leads to a short field and
Speaker 4: a touchdown, and all of a sudden it's ten ten
Speaker 4: and the stadium gets a little quiet. Otherwise it was
Speaker 4: raucous there, and I did again the positives like the
Speaker 4: instead of the Bills going into a shell, which they
Speaker 4: have in different spots this year, they took control of
Speaker 4: the game, went ahead by two touchdowns before things got
Speaker 4: funky late. But I think there are very major pauses
Speaker 4: to take out it as they look to really start
Speaker 4: building some momentum and reestablish himself as a top dog
Speaker 4: in the AFC. Next week at Cincinnati Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 4: So no, not next week. They're on a bye and
Speaker 4: then they go to Cincinnati, so Josh Allen in that
Speaker 4: gets a long rest. Now if he does have shoulder issues,
Speaker 4: he doesn't play again. It's October twenty sixth as we
Speaker 4: tape this. He doesn't play again until November fifth. So
Speaker 4: that's very good news for the Bills as well. So
Speaker 4: in a lot of ways, a very good night for
Speaker 4: the Buffalo Bills, even if the final score made it
Speaker 4: feel a little bit different than that. That's it for
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Speaker 4: he the cap. I mean, the monkey's got to be scared, right.
Speaker 4: There's also sixty five thousand people there watching it, yelling
Speaker 4: they're intelligent creatures, but you know, not that intelligent.