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Speaker 1: was I think that was kind of one of those.

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Speaker 1: It was a vision quest for Derek Carr and John Gruden.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen the Dolphins play competitively, I think as

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Speaker 1: we expected them too. They routed the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: so much so that Garoppolo got benched yesterday and they

433
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Speaker 1: went going away in San Francisco. I mean there was

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Speaker 1: a blowout, right, They just outclassed them, which they close.

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Speaker 1: I know the Niners have a lot of injuries, particularly

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Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, I mean Nick Bosa,

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Speaker 1: Solomon Thomas. It looks like the forty nine ers they're

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Speaker 1: experiencing a hangover from all the injuries they suffered in

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Speaker 1: that Giant's game a couple of weeks ago. They haven't recovered. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they you know, Garoppolo got picked three times in

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Speaker 1: the first half. He's going to the bench. So San

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Speaker 1: Francisco is like, right now, they're bailing. They're they're taking

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Speaker 1: on water right now, and they're bailing out fast. They're

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Speaker 1: really trying to save their season here in the first half,

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Speaker 1: and and the rest of the NFC West isn't waiting

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Speaker 1: for him. Because Seattle won again on the last ditch

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Speaker 1: comeback effort. By Russell Wilson again, they win with fifteen

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Speaker 1: seconds left, get the game winning points to pull it

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Speaker 1: out of the fire again as Russell Wilson again stakes

450
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Speaker 1: his claim to early MVP voting. My god, I mean,

451
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Speaker 1: what has that guy not done? Cardinals crushed the Jets

452
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Speaker 1: and then La Ram's crush Washington. Yeah, those are two

453
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Speaker 1: on the NFC. Yeah, identical scores. Yet thirty to ten

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Speaker 1: for the Raiders for the Rams and the Cardinals over

455
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: their opponents say, you know, they just hunging up on them. Um,

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Speaker 1: So that division is that's a big test, and you

457
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Speaker 1: drop a game or two that people think you shouldn't,

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00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: it almost feels like you're two games back, right, not

459
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Speaker 1: lost a game The Bills are want to know on

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Speaker 1: that division, but they've got you know, they got the

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Speaker 1: rest of the three to play. Yeah, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a tough road and who knows where those teams

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Speaker 1: will be. And really a lot of times, you know,

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Speaker 1: they always say it's a week to week league. It

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Speaker 1: really does depend on who you're playing and win. Because

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Speaker 1: you know that Dolphins team plays the Niners at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the year where they got all their horses

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Speaker 1: on defense. Maybe it's a different story, but you lose

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Speaker 1: two of your best defensive lineman. Fitz has got all

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Speaker 1: day to throw. I mean he's playing pitch and catch

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Speaker 1: back there. Yeah, and it's and it's a totally different game.

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Speaker 1: And there's other things too. Right before we go to

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Speaker 1: you know, take a break here, first of all, I

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Speaker 1: want to you know, you think in the Cowboys game yesterday,

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Speaker 1: everybody saw what happened to Dak Prescott and how tragic

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Speaker 1: that was and how how much you feel for that

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Speaker 1: guy what he's been through and the and the stuff.

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Speaker 1: And then on the other side of that, the Washington

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Speaker 1: football team. Alex Smith played quarterback for the Washington football

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Speaker 1: team yesterday after seventeen leg surgeries. After his seventeen his

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Speaker 1: lower leg and I'm not almost lost his leg, this

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Speaker 1: is not hyperbole. His left lower leg, I think it

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Speaker 1: was left lower leg was shattered in front of everybody

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Speaker 1: on that field. And Alex Smith got back onto the

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Speaker 1: field after what two full years, and he's going against

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, right, and he said, he said after the game,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald actually sacked him. And the way it worked out,

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Speaker 1: Donald ended up on his back and was and Alex

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Speaker 1: Smith was like carrying him piggyback for like three or

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Speaker 1: four steps as the play developed and they went down,

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Speaker 1: and Alex Smith said, I knew I was gonna be

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Speaker 1: okay when I did that. But that was and his

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Speaker 1: and his family was in the it was in the stands,

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Speaker 1: his wife and three kids. I'm just gonna say this

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Speaker 1: unbelievable story. His wife was a wreck. You could say

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Speaker 1: she was cheering and everything. She was a wreck. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, I felt so. I mean, I think about

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Speaker 1: what she's just think about what she's thinking. It's been

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Speaker 1: two years to get back to this point. His leg

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Speaker 1: really can't take another injury. It can't. It just can't.

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Speaker 1: And he's got to go out there and the best

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman in football is on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. He got sacked six times in

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Speaker 1: that game. Steve and listen, she's got to know too

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Speaker 1: in her heart how good or slash bad the Washington

506
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Speaker 1: football team is around Mile Smith. Yeah that she's seen

507
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Speaker 1: enough football to know that and to see him go

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Speaker 1: back in there like that after the starting quarterback got

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Speaker 1: his bell rung. Uh, that's she had to be on

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Speaker 1: pins and oh my, pins and needles she was, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's but congratulation to Alex Smith was great to see, phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: They win the game, but it is an absolute motion

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Speaker 1: picture waiting to be He's already comeback Player of the Year.

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Speaker 1: It's done, it's voting. Fantastic, congratulations to him. Are you

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Speaker 1: know our heartfelt, you know, sympathies for Dak Prescott going

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Speaker 1: through what he did. There's a guy that just sucks

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Speaker 1: because you know, years ago we saw Joe Flacco bet

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Speaker 1: on himself in a contract year and win the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl and his MVP of the game. Yeah, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: always go that way. Dak Prescott bet on himself this

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Speaker 1: year and he end up with a compound fracture dislocated ankle. Now,

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Speaker 1: his career is far from over. Dak Prescott's gonna come

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Speaker 1: back from this and he's gonna play well. But and

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if he and I and I

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Speaker 1: would advise him this. I said, you bet on yourself once,

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Speaker 1: you're no worse off now than you were, then do

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Speaker 1: it again. You're a great football player to do it.

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Speaker 1: And I'm and are my sympathies and condolences go out.

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Speaker 1: I've been on that side of it where you get

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Speaker 1: you know, hauled off or can't continue. And uh so

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Speaker 1: both those guys won on both ends of the spectrum yesterday,

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Speaker 1: both quarterbacks. So good luck to both of them, and

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Speaker 1: congratulations to Alex Smith and our say a quick prayer

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Speaker 1: for Dak Prescott. All Right, we have to take a break,

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Speaker 1: but when we return, we will have NFL works Judy

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00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: Batista joining us as she helps us navigate our way

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Speaker 1: through this whole COVID rescheduling that the NFL had to

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Speaker 1: undertake on the fly over the weekend. Back with that

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Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, this is Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker heading into the second half of our number

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Speaker 1: one of a Monday edition of One Bills Live, a

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Speaker 1: very different one since the Bills are not playing until

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night. Usually this is a recap Monday on Sunday's game,

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Speaker 1: but not the case. And joining us now to kind

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Speaker 1: of make heads or tails of some of what's gone

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Speaker 1: on with the COVID adjustments that the league has made.

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Speaker 1: Is NFL Media's NFL and you see our on NFL

549
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: Network all the time. She does a great job as

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Speaker 1: one of their national reporters. Judy Battista joining us on

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Speaker 1: the show one of our favorites. So Judy, thanks for

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00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: making some time for us here on will undoubtedly be

553
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Speaker 1: a busy recab Monday for you as far as the

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Speaker 1: league goings on our concern. Thanks for joining us, my pleasure. Guys.

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Speaker 1: Great to see again. I know it's kind of a

556
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Speaker 1: weird week with the game on a Tuesday, but you know, yeah,

557
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Speaker 1: here we are. So we want to begin with basically

558
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Speaker 1: the Titans being the boulder rolling down the hill and

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00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: the league's schedule having to dip, duck, dodge and dive

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Speaker 1: to get out of the way of something that was

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Speaker 1: just unavoidable. And they finally pull the trigger on probably

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Speaker 1: around two thirty on Sunday with adjusting a series of games.

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Speaker 1: This isn't just let's move this game here and move

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Speaker 1: that game there and chew up this team's bye week

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Speaker 1: and that team's bye week. This was one that had

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Speaker 1: a noticeable ripple effect throughout the league. So just maybe

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Speaker 1: spell out how they kind of made their way through

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Speaker 1: all these decisions they had to make with the schedule. Well,

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Speaker 1: the first thing is they're trying to stay as on

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Speaker 1: schedule as they can. That's sort of been their philosophy

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Speaker 1: really since everything shut down back in March. That's why

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Speaker 1: they did free agency when they did, and why they

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Speaker 1: did the draft when they did. They want to stay

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Speaker 1: as close to the schedule as they can. So given

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Speaker 1: what's happened with the Titans and you know, more recently

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Speaker 1: with the Patriots right that they had to move games around,

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Speaker 1: they are not at the point yet where they want

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Speaker 1: to just say, all right, you're not going to be

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Speaker 1: able to play sixteen games. And they're lucky, if you

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Speaker 1: can say this, They're lucky that this is happening in

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Speaker 1: the early part of the season when everybody still has

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Speaker 1: their bye week open, because then you can sort of

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Speaker 1: move games into bye weeks and shuffle. So that's what

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Speaker 1: they're doing. They're trying not to. They really don't want

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Speaker 1: to have to add an eighteenth week to the season.

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Speaker 1: They want to stay on schedule. They want to keep

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Speaker 1: the playoff schedule as it is. They want to keep

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl scheduled as it is. So as a result,

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Speaker 1: they are moving things around using the bye weeks while

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Speaker 1: they have them. The question, of course, is what happens

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Speaker 1: if something like this happens in the back end of

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Speaker 1: the season, when everybody has used up their bye weeks,

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Speaker 1: then what do they do? And you know, then they're

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Speaker 1: going to have to make a decision of do they

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Speaker 1: want to add a week to the back end to

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Speaker 1: the regular season or are they comfortable with the idea

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Speaker 1: that maybe some teams don't play sixteen games in the

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Speaker 1: regular season. So we'll see where they are if it

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Speaker 1: gets to that point. What is the what is off

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Speaker 1: the table? Obviously, right adding an eighteenth week of the

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00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: season is the last resort, and certainly I think even

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Speaker 1: a further last resort is having teams play some teams

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Speaker 1: play fifteen or fourteen games, others playing sixteen games. That

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Speaker 1: seems to be a non starter or two. But other

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Speaker 1: than those two things, it seems that everything is on

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Speaker 1: the table. I mean, we got a Tuesday game we

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Speaker 1: had there was talk about the Bills game being on

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Speaker 1: a Saturday, and then an you know, so all this

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Speaker 1: other stuff about days, like you could have teams making

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Speaker 1: up games maybe midseason, like playing Sunday Thursday, Wednesday Sunday

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Speaker 1: kind of or Tuesday Sunday kind of thing in order

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Speaker 1: to get more games in So is there anything like

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Speaker 1: that that's off the table. Well, I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: not going to have teams playing, you know, multiple times

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Speaker 1: in one week, right, I mean, they still have to

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Speaker 1: be worried about the safety of the teams. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you've already seen, right, they're willing to have like Monday

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Speaker 1: night doubleheaders. Would they have a Thursday night doubleheader if

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Speaker 1: if they needed to? I think they will move the

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Speaker 1: games around. I mean, you saw what they did to

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Speaker 1: the Charger schedule. They basically just like through it in

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Speaker 1: a quison art and you're a whole new schedule podcap.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's clear that they will move games

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Speaker 1: around as much as they have to to preserve the

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Speaker 1: sixteen games. They obviously would prefer that they get through

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Speaker 1: the entire two hundred and fifty six game regular season.

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Speaker 1: But look, you know at the outset of this in

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Speaker 1: the offseason, they told the teams, they told the owners

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Speaker 1: and you know, the general managers and the team presidents

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Speaker 1: like a competitive imbalance might be a thing this year

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Speaker 1: that everybody's going to have to deal with. Right, It's

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Speaker 1: not going to always be fair. We've sort of seen

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00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: that already, Right, Teams, are you know, losing their buys.

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Speaker 1: They they find out that they're in a bye week

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Speaker 1: after they've already practiced all week. It's rough, you know,

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Speaker 1: but this is what you have to put up with

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Speaker 1: if you hope to get through the season again. I

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Speaker 1: think the real critical moment will be after we get past,

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Speaker 1: you know, this first half of the season, when there

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Speaker 1: are no more bye weeks to move things into. Then

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Speaker 1: they're going to have to make a decision. The league

642
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: office will have to make the decision. Remember they created

643
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: that council to sort of advise Roger Goodell on competitive issues.

644
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: They're going to have to make a decision of do

645
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: you prefer adding an extra week on the back end

646
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: of the season if you need it, or or can

647
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: you get comfortable with the idea that maybe some teams,

648
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, play fifteen games. Hopefully it doesn't come to that,

649
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: you know, it only comes to that if you have

650
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: an outbreak situation like they had in Tennessee, and certainly

651
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: they're hoping not to have anything that serious again, Judy,

652
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: do you think that there is any part of preserving

653
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: the sanctity of the playoff by that only one team

654
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: from each conference is going to benefit from this year,

655
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: so it arguably makes it an even more coveted thing

656
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: to have. That could fall by the wayside too, if

657
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: you plug in a Week eighteen conceivably and one of

658
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: those playoff buy teams may have clinched the buy or

659
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,280
Speaker 1: anybody still have to play a game, and I suppose

660
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: they could try backups on the field all they want

661
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: to try to mitigate that. But I've seen it floated

662
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: out there that you take a proposed Week eighteen, put

663
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: it into Week seventeen, and then play your regular Week

664
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: seventeen schedule in Week eighteen to preserve the sanctity of

665
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: the buys. Now that's that could be somebody just with

666
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: some cockamamy idea out there in the ether, But I

667
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: don't know if that's been raised at the league level,

668
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: and maybe it has, but it seems as though that

669
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: is something that's being talked about. How how much do

670
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: they even care about this playoff by sanctity if at all? Well,

671
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: I think it's all going to have to be weighed

672
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: again against you know what you're coming down to. Are

673
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: you talking about you know, multiple teams that have games

674
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: to make up, Then you're probably going to try to

675
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 1: make those games up, especially if those games are going

676
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: to impact playoffs. You know, so much depends on what

677
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: situation you're in. And again, hopefully they don't get into

678
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: this situation. All of this, this whole thing was started,

679
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: you know, because the Titans had a serious situation, not

680
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: just an individual player. Because we've seen that if a

681
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: team has one player test positive, they'll go ahead and

682
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: play the game, right. I mean, they feel like they

683
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 1: can still do that. But if you have a serious

684
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: outbreak like that where you have to shut a team

685
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: down for two weeks, they're certainly hoping they don't have

686
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: anything quite like that happen again, which is why you're

687
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: hearing them emphasize so much. Everybody's got to follow the

688
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: protocols where a mask coaches be careful and you have

689
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: to wear a mask because they want to avoid that

690
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: because it is totally disruptive to the entire schedule. So

691
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: look all of those things that all of those scenarios,

692
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,479
Speaker 1: I need a flow chart to follow them. I can't

693
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: even you know, it's like a slide rule and a protractor,

694
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: right like you need an abacist to figure out what

695
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: to do. Um, you know, I think they will take

696
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: it as they go week by week and they'll figure

697
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: it out. And again, I think, you know, at some

698
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: point they're probably going to have to make a decision.

699
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: What are they most comfortable doing. You said you've reported

700
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: that the owners are going to meet tomorrow, either with

701
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: a call or it's a virtual meeting or whatever the ome.

702
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: Now I got a question is it gonna be Are

703
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: they going to ask permission for this stuff? Or are

704
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: they gonna just inform the owners of what they're doing.

705
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: What's the what's the content? I mean, this is the

706
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: regular October meeting. They have an October meeting every year.

707
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: Usually it's in person. This is going to be you know,

708
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: by zoom, but um, they you know this. I think

709
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: they're going to go over the whole range of COVID issues, right.

710
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're going to talk about what their revenue

711
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 1: looks like. They're going to talk about the schedule. They're

712
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: going to talk about the health and safety, what are

713
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: the are the protocols working, how's the testing working? So

714
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna go over the whole thing. Um. Again, I

715
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: think they're taking it week by week on the schedule. Um,

716
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to make a decision now.

717
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: They don't have to make a decision now on whether

718
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: to add week to the schedule. They'll address that if

719
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: it comes up, but they they have been very strict

720
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: about don't make a decision until you have to make

721
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: a decision. So you don't have to add a league

722
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: gain team. Now, why wreck the postseason schedule if you're

723
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: not sure you're going to need direct the postseason schedule.

724
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: So that's I think you will just see they'll get updates, um,

725
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: you know, and they'll they'll talk about how they feel

726
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: about how the protocols are going and do they feel

727
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: like they've got the Tennessee situation under control now and

728
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: maybe what they've learned from the Tennessee situation. But I

729
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to get, you know, any bombshell

730
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: news coming out of this meeting about like that, you know,

731
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: the schedule is changing, the Super Bowls moving. Talking to

732
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: NFL Media's Judy Batista, you can find her on NFL

733
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: dot com, where she's a columnist, also on the NFL

734
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: Network all the time. And Judy, that's my next question.

735
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: Do you have any semblance or an inkling or are

736
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: you hearing anything about when the investigation for the titans

737
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: will be closed and when punishment or discipline may be

738
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: handed down. No, the short answer is no. It's you know,

739
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: it's a joint review by the union and the league,

740
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: and they're looking at everything. You know, They're they're looking

741
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: about how it started, how how did it spread. We've

742
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 1: all reported it about, you know, were their unauthorized workouts

743
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: when they were specifically told not to gather after the

744
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: facility was shut down. If there were those unauthorized workouts,

745
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: who knew about them? You know, did coaches or administration

746
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: know about them? And then they're going to have to

747
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: decide on discipline. Look, I'm told that they really don't

748
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: want forfeitures. That doesn't really do any good for anybody.

749
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: That means you've lost a game and you're not playing

750
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 1: a game, and that's a loss of revenue, and that's

751
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: bad for everybody's and that definitely sort of upsets their

752
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: competitive balance. So I don't think they would go that route,

753
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: although you know, the league sort of raised that possibility

754
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: to threaten teams to sort of get in line and

755
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: stick to the protocols. But you know, I I would

756
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: assume if they find some sort of wrongdoing here, that

757
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: and breaking of protocols that led to this. I would

758
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: assume there's going to be some discipline, and it might

759
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: be quite severe, you know, huge fines. You know. I

760
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: guess it's possible they suspend people. You know. I think

761
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: we're going to seek discipline of some sort, no question. Well,

762
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: it seems as though the league is going to plow

763
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: through the season, particularly when they only have a team

764
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: with one positive, you know, like the like the like

765
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots have done, you know, or the Raiders they

766
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: had a guy test positive. Falcons, right, the Falcons had

767
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: player test positive on a Saturday, and they and they

768
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: played and they never had spread. One. One point that

769
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: was made to me late last week was that the

770
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: league has had sixty cases where a single player or

771
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: member of an organization tested positive and then there was

772
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: no further spread. That was it. It never went anywhere.

773
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: So in that case, you you know, you can keep

774
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: playing through that. I mean, you know, hopefully you test

775
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: the guy, you you get that person identified, and you

776
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: isolate him so he doesn't spread, and you treat him

777
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: obviously so he gets out healthy, but you play on.

778
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: Unto those conditions. The condition they really have to try

779
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: to avoid is the Tennessee situation where there's an outbreak

780
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: and you just have to shut the doors for a

781
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: few weeks. All right, during the midst of all this

782
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: stuff going on there, you know, the football kind of

783
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:24,240
Speaker 1: takes over. A couple of head coaches. Well, Bill O'Brien

784
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: got fired, and now so dan Quinn. Dan Quinn has

785
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: now gotten fired. So people, ownership, fan bases, they still

786
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: expect results in the midst of all of what's going

787
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: on aside from football. Well, what are your thoughts about,

788
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: you know, those two franchise where they're had and Bill

789
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: O'Brien obviously the head coach and general manager, he can't

790
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: fire himself, so the ownership stepped in to do that.

791
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm struck by the NFL traditionally is

792
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: not a league where you fire a lot of coaches

793
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,919
Speaker 1: mid season, because you know, it's a relatively short there's

794
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: not It's not like Major League Baseball where there's all

795
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: those games you can make up four. So I think

796
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: this is like sort of a fascinating new trend that

797
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: now you're starting to see coaches get fired not just

798
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: mid season, early in the season. You know, I think

799
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: they're two very different cases as you said in Houston,

800
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean he was the general manager. I would argue

801
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: that the you know, Bill O'Brien, the general manager, got

802
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien the coach fired, right. I mean he made

803
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: some deals that raised a lot of eyebrows at the

804
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,720
Speaker 1: time he made them, and certainly you saw the results

805
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: on the field. So I think that's one case. The

806
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: dan Quinn situation, you know, and Thomas Dmitrov too, the

807
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: general manager. They were in place a long time and

808
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: they built something good, right, I mean, they were literally

809
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: right on the doorstep of winning a Super Bowl. If

810
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: I feel like from the outside that franchise never recovered

811
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: from what happened in the Super Bowl, that they just

812
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: could never get back the mojo they had that was crushing,

813
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 1: and I feel like psychologically it took a huge toll

814
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: on those players and that coaching staff. It's fairly clear.

815
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: I think they're clear, you know, their cleaning house. Arthur

816
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: blank is a famously patient owner, very good owner to

817
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: work for, and I think it's pretty clear that now

818
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: that he's blown two people out, that you know, we're

819
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 1: going to see a rebuilding here. To me, the big

820
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: question now is what happens with Matt Ryan. Right. I mean,

821
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: there's going to be a new general manager and a

822
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: new head coach and he's thirty five years old, and

823
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: you know, does a new general manager and head coach

824
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: want to rebuild around a thirty five year old quarterback?

825
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: And what happens if they have the first overall pick

826
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: in the draft, right, little Trevor Lawrence. Perhaps, Judy, we

827
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: are out of time, but thanks very much as always

828
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: for lending your insight to the league's landscape. We appreciate

829
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 1: it and we'll be keeping an eye on you on

830
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,959
Speaker 1: Twitter at Judy Batista. That's two teas in the middle,

831
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: one t at the end. Thanks Judy. Thanks Judy, stay safe.

832
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: Great to see you guys. Thanks all right. Judy Batista

833
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: from NFL Media. She's a columnist on NFL dot Com

834
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: and all over the place on NFL Network, and really

835
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: I still think, even to this point an underrated league reporters,

836
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: So we always are happy to have her on to

837
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: give us the landscape of the league, especially at a

838
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: time like this when you know COVID is right now

839
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 1: wreaking some havoc on the league's schedule, and for those

840
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: people that you know, I think there were a lot

841
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: of Bills fans over the weekend waiting for, you know,

842
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: the schedule to be finalized, not only for this week,

843
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: but for the Chiefs game. When is it going to

844
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: be played? And I think a lot of Bills fans,

845
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: like myself, when they saw those schedule changes come out,

846
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: they just quick or looking for Bills, Bills, Bills, where's

847
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: the Bills on the schedule? What what's different? What's different?

848
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: What's different? And you see, okay, well the Bills are

849
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: playing Monday night and they're still playing on Tuesday. Okay,

850
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: good to go. If you didn't take a second to

851
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: look at that rundown of the schedule changes, the Chargers

852
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: have five games changing. Because of this, you you can

853
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: literally take up the millions of Charger schedules that were

854
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,280
Speaker 1: printed up and tear them up and throw them away,

855
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: and you have to reprint the whole thing over. You

856
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: cannot keep track of what's going on. And there's there's

857
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,240
Speaker 1: some games that have been impacted in the AFC East. Also,

858
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: I know the Jets had a move game, the Dolphins

859
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: had a game moved. So there's there's a bunch of

860
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: moving parts here, and you know it's gonna and Hey,

861
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: if you've got those and we got a break here,

862
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: but if you've got those fantasy rosters, who better check

863
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: this schedule because you're gonna have a guy that's not

864
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: playing that you thought was playing because his game got moved.

865
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,439
Speaker 1: So you better keep a close eye on that too.

866
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: Right now, I think going forward you can just count

867
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: that nobody's gonna have a buy going forward. Yeah, that's

868
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: probably going to It's just right, you're just done. There's

869
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: not gonna be any buys. We have to take a break.

870
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: But when Steve and I come back, we'll take your

871
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: phone calls at eight oh three, five fifty. Your biggest

872
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 1: concern heading into Tuesday night's game with the Titans, So

873
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: hit us up there or on the tweet sheet at

874
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: one Bills Live, which we'll get to next when we

875
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 1: return here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

876
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio, Miss Brown Steve Tasker with

877
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: you our number one of a Monday edition of One

878
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: Bills Live. As we are still waiting for the Bills

879
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: Week five game to take place that will happen tomorrow

880
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: in Nashville, and uh we will game of the weekend,

881
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: last game of the weekend. It's Tuesday part of the weekend. Now,

882
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: I wish it. That'd be nice work. What do we

883
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: think about all these games on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

884
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: You know, people are laughing, like, hey, we're gonna have

885
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,479
Speaker 1: a Wednesday game night. You can laugh and make jokes

886
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: about it. It may happen. Yeah, anything's possible. Now. Nobody

887
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: can predict what's going to happen. I mean, we're asking

888
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: poor Judy Batista questions about, well, what do you think

889
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: about this? And what do you think about this later

890
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: on this season? And she's like, and I can't answer that.

891
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the heck COVID's gonna do to

892
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: this league. And listen, we get calls all the time,

893
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: and we had one. You know, everybody says, well, they

894
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: should think about this, and they should do this, and

895
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: they should think about that. They've thought about it. I mean,

896
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: they got experts thinking about it. They they are thinking.

897
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: They're jumping through every hoop they can possibly jump through

898
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: to make sure they get two hundred and fifty six

899
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: regular season games in before Week eighteen has to be

900
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: on the table. And that's all there is. And I'll

901
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: tell you this too. If they get this Tennessee game

902
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: in with Buffalo, no further outbreaks, the week goes along,

903
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: Bill's Chiefs happen all through next weekend. There Listen, forget

904
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: that they've scrambled the schedule going forward, absolutely, but they're

905
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: back on schedule in as long as they can keep

906
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: a Tennessee tighten outbreak from happening to another team, they're

907
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Oh yeah, they're gonna get it. They'll jump,

908
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: they'll jump through whatever hoops they have to jump through

909
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: to protect the inventory, right, which is the two hundred

910
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: and fifty six guns. Right. And like Judy Patissa said,

911
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: and like we've all noticed, you had a couple of

912
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: positive tests, like day before the game. That's that guy's

913
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: Patriots playing without Cam Newton last out. They're back in

914
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: and they're and they're on the schedule, and that's you

915
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: know it's gonna happen. I mean, they're gonna plow through this,

916
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: you get because and it's not going to be fair

917
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: the way yourself. They have got the protocols set up

918
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: is that if a guy comes in positive with the virus,

919
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,760
Speaker 1: he should not have been in close proximity to anybody

920
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: else in the building, even during their daily routine throughout

921
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: the day, when they get on the practice field open air,

922
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: whatever masks all everybody else got masks on, They're not

923
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 1: in close enough proximity to each other for long enough

924
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: periods of time to be infected. And like we've said

925
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: time and time again, through five weeks now five weeks

926
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: minus one game, nobody has passed it to the other

927
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: team during a game. So they're gonna keep on going on.

928
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: If they can get this Titan thing, put the lid

929
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: back on it. And now if everybody, all the other

930
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: clubs have learned a lesson from the Titans doing whatever

931
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: it was they weren't doing, or doing not doing what

932
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: they were doing, they can keep a lid on it.

933
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: They got a chance to go forward with a brand

934
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: new schedule and get it in. It's not going to

935
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: be fair. And certainly from looking at it from this

936
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: end going forward, it's like, wow, it was completely different.

937
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: Let's get let's get to see. Let's get a phone

938
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: call in real quick. We go to John and Florida. John,

939
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's Live. Thanks for joining us. What

940
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: do you have? Hey, guys, thanks for having me just

941
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: a couple of things. I'm curious why doesn't the NFL

942
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: use the rapid tests in general, and certainly why don't

943
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: they test on game day? Right? I know I do

944
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: test on game They have changed that. They have since

945
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: changed that, John, and thanks for the call. We are

946
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: up against the break um. They are testing now on

947
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: game day. I know the bills are going to be

948
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: tested tomorrow in the morning on game day. So that

949
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: is a change that's been enacted by the league. I

950
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: don't believe that was a temporary change in the wake

951
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: of the Titans outbreak. I think they saw the non

952
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: testing on game day as a potential loophole by which

953
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: an infection can kind of get to get started and

954
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: can almost get like a two day head start on

955
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: a club because you're completely unaware because you don't have

956
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: any testing results from that day. And I think what

957
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: happened with the Titans kind of prompted the league to say, hey,

958
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: you know what, we got to test seven days a week,

959
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 1: and guys on bye weeks, you gotta still test every day.

960
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: You can't leave town. You got to stay in town,

961
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: test every single day. Now, with all the schedule restructuring,

962
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: almost nobody has a bye week. Nobody's going to get

963
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: a bye week this year, I don't think, but you're right,

964
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: and they have. And John, thanks for the Steelers who've

965
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: got one last week? Right. They they are testing every day,

966
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: and the reason they don't the point of care tests.

967
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: And I couldn't tell you the ins and outs of it,

968
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: other than maybe probably there's an added expense or maybe

969
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: it's not as accurate as the I believe it is,

970
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: because I if I'm right about what I read, the

971
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: point of care tests is a blood test, so that's

972
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: why they at the results back so quickly. And here's

973
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: another thing too. Having these tests go to a centralized

974
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: lab also keeps everybody on a competitive nobody's gonna be

975
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,919
Speaker 1: able to, you know, hide positives or anything like that either.

976
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if they would, but you know what

977
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: I mean. If it's totally on your watch. You saw

978
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: what the Titans did and how they botched it, that

979
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: just opens a loophole for something to go under the

980
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: under the radar. If they're testing every day, Yeah, I'm

981
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: good with it. I'm good with it. Yeah, all right,

982
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: we have to take a break. But when we return,

983
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,240
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls at eighth three, five fifty.

984
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: We'll also get to the tweet cheet get your thoughts

985
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,240
Speaker 1: there and One Bills Live on what your biggest concern

986
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: is regarding this Titans game on Tuesday evening. There's a

987
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different layers to it. Tell us what

988
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: has you most concerned and to see if the Bills

989
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 1: can remain undefeated against another undefeated team as the Titans

990
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: very quietly are three and oh this season. More and

991
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. This

992
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio, Hills Radio Network Sports Update. Your

993
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bills Drive. No new positive tests

994
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: in Nashville leads us to another positive step as the

995
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: Bills and Titans look to kick off their Week five

996
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: matchup in Tennessee tomorrow night. Matt Milano already ruled out

997
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: for the game, and seven Bills players questionable for the contest,

998
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: including starting cornerback Tradavias White with a back injury. For

999
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: the Titans, wide receiver A J. Brown and offensive tackle

1000
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:44,280
Speaker 1: Taro Lawan are also listed as questionable. The NFL continued

1001
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: tinkering with their schedule Sunday afternoon. The Denver Broncos and

1002
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: New England Patriots game, already rescheduled for Monday night, has

1003
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: now been postponed after another Patriots player tested positive for

1004
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen on Sunday. In total, eight games were rescheduled,

1005
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: including the Pats Broncos game has now been moved to

1006
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,720
Speaker 1: Week six. The lineup change also includes the Chiefs Bills

1007
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: game moving from this Thursday to Monday, October nineteenth, at

1008
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: five pm, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott under one successful surgery

1009
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: Sunday night after suffering a compound right ankle fracture and

1010
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: dislocation in the third quarter of the cowboys thirty seven

1011
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: thirty four win over the Giants, Prescott carted off the

1012
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: field as many of his teammates offered him encouragement. He's

1013
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,320
Speaker 1: expected to miss the rest of the season with a

1014
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: four to six month recovery. Following an Owen five start,

1015
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons fired head coach Dan Quinn and GM

1016
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: Thomas Demitrof, and Blanta announced on Monday that Raheem Morris

1017
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: will take over for Quinn. Morris has been with the

1018
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 1: Falcons's twenty fifteen as an assistant coach. He also spent

1019
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 1: three years as the head coach of the Tampa Bay

1020
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: Bucks from two thousand nine to two eleven, and the

1021
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers made a big splash in free agency over

1022
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: the weekend, signing left winger Taylor Hall to a one year,

1023
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: eight million dollar contract, haul the most coveted unrestricted free

1024
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: agent four ward available this offseasons. He spent the weekend

1025
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: listening to pitches from at least half a dozen NHL

1026
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: clubs expected to play on the wing with Jack Ico,

1027
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: and the move reunites him with Sabers head coach Ralph Krueger,

1028
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: who was an assistant in Edmonton during Hal's rookie season.

1029
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: And that is your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1030
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you our number two of

1031
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: a Monday edition of One Bills Live. And we are

1032
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: taking your phone calls at eight oh three oh five

1033
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,399
Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight fifty two five fifty as we're

1034
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: asking you what your greatest concern is with Tuesday nights

1035
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: matchup between the Titans and the Bills. Obviously a lot

1036
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: of unknowns with respect to the Titans in terms of

1037
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: a what to expect from a team that's been off

1038
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: for the better part of two weeks be the players

1039
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: that are coming off the COVID list, how effective will

1040
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: they be? And see the injured players on Buffalo's long

1041
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: injury list, several of whom are questionable for the game.

1042
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,919
Speaker 1: Who can play, how long can they play? And how

1043
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: effective will they be? All pertinent questions that need answers,

1044
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 1: and they probably won't be answered until we have off

1045
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: at seven pm on Tuesday evening. But for our MSG viewers,

1046
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: there's a look at the injury report and it is

1047
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 1: lengthy in terms of questionable players. The only sure thing

1048
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: is we know that Matt Mulano is out for Tuesday

1049
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: night's game. We're expecting Tyrell Dotson to largely fill his

1050
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: role on Tuesday Night alongside Tremaine Edmonds at the linebacker level.

1051
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: You think about the unknowns going into this game, most

1052
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 1: of them have to do with how Tennessee's going to

1053
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: show up and play two walkthroughs in two weeks. Is

1054
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:31,919
Speaker 1: I mean coaches would pound on the table and say

1055
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: that's unfair in any other circumstances. But there's been so

1056
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: much going on, and you know every you kind of

1057
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: know what it's gonna be. A weird year. There's gonna

1058
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: be some unfair things. There's gonna be some weird games,

1059
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 1: some different scheduling that you never know what it's gonna be.

1060
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: And then you have this pop up. It's like wow,

1061
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: it's like it's crazy. You gotta say, well, we we

1062
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: warned you that this might happen. And in the large

1063
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: part a lot of people who are not fans of

1064
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:02,879
Speaker 1: Tennessee will say it's largely your fault anyway, and not

1065
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: that whether it is or whether it isn't, what the

1066
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: ever whatever the investigation shows to have happened to Tennessee. Okay, fine, Nevertheless,

1067
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: you knew it was gonna be weird. The the New

1068
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: England Patriots have got to be livid that they postponed

1069
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: a game when one team had a positive but they

1070
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: had to play without their starting quarterback. Yeah, they've got

1071
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, why where did the rules? Whoa?

1072
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: What about? You know, they get caught with Cam Newton

1073
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: having a false positive test and then they're gonna go

1074
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: in and play. The other team has a positive test

1075
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: and they're gonna postpone the game. Yeah, well, how did

1076
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: they get that? Break? Well, the Patriots had another positive

1077
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: it was ya right, right right? So you're saying, wait

1078
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: a minute, you know, why are we postponing this one? Right?

1079
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: Why this one and not that that one? Yeah, would

1080
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: have preferred to postpone the game against the defending Super

1081
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: Bowl champs. That would have been nice so we could

1082
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 1: have our quarterback. Right. But as the league said from

1083
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: the beginning, and Judie Batista reiterated it earlier in the show,

1084
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: they told owners, GMS coaches, this is going to be

1085
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: a year where the playing field is not going to

1086
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: be level at times, and you're just gonna have to

1087
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: deal with it because we've got to Number one is

1088
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: getting through the season and through the inventory of two

1089
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six regular season games, and come hell

1090
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: or high water, they're gonna try to ramrod this thing

1091
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: through amidst the pandemic. Let's go to the tweet sheet,

1092
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

1093
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Max leading

1094
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: us off today, he says, I'm worried about losing focus

1095
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,879
Speaker 1: and losing the game. The game is the only thing

1096
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: within your control. You can't control the other circumstances. What

1097
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: happened has happened, and now you play within the rules

1098
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: as usual. We need a big win for five and oh,

1099
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:48,760
Speaker 1: the Titans will be ready. I know this, and I'll

1100
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 1: say it again. I'm gonna say it all the way

1101
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,359
Speaker 1: up until kickoff on tomorrow Tomorrow night. It's the over under.

1102
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: And how much you're gonna say this, I expect the

1103
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: Titans to come out and play high flying, inspired football.

1104
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna come out and really punch the

1105
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: Bills in the mouth early. And you can call me

1106
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: crazy or whatever and all that, but It's happened to

1107
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: me in my career, and I've seen it happen to

1108
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: other teams in their career. When you come in without

1109
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: with with a million excuses as to why it's unfair

1110
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 1: or why you shouldn't be ready to play this game,

1111
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: and it takes all the stress off of you, and

1112
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: that mindset promotes an enormous emotional impact in the game.

1113
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: The game I point to here in Buffalo two and

1114
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: fifteen with Rex Snovember game Bills Jets in Buffalo, Coach,

1115
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 1: but yes, Maron Doug Maron Bills Bills Jets here in town,

1116
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: Snovember Snovember, the game, Who's gonna What's gonna happen? Who's

1117
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: gonna late in the week and say, okay, the Bills

1118
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: Jet game is now going to be in Detroit on

1119
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: Monday night. And it's like, fine, Bills fans, you can

1120
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: go get there with a ticket. It's open seating. Just

1121
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: show them the ticket. You're in sit wherever you want.

1122
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: I did the sidelines for that game, and I and

1123
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: I said this to executives with the Bills. I Goodell

1124
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: was there. I told Roger, I said, the Bills are

1125
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: gonna lump these guys up. They are gonna crush this team.

1126
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: Rex was involved, he was just on the other side, right.

1127
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: I said, they're gonna they're gonna beat this team senseless

1128
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: because they hadn't been in the office all week. Everybody

1129
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: was snowed in, right, So what happened was the team

1130
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,919
Speaker 1: travel to Detroit so they could practice. So they flew

1131
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: out on Wednesday, Wednesday or Thursday's Thursday, and they didn't

1132
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: even make practice. They practice late Thursday afternoon. Because I

1133
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 1: remember I was covering practice in Detroit's indoor practice facility.

1134
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is weird. You know, the Lions are

1135
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: leaving work for the day, the Bills are coming in. Yeah,

1136
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 1: it was. It was bizarro world. It was real. It

1137
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: was a crazy four days in Detroit. And that's when

1138
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: that's when the Bills they couldn't even get to the office.

1139
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: They were getting rescued by the staff here. They had

1140
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 1: everybody had their players getting here on snowmobiles from their

1141
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: neighbors to get on the bus to go to the airport. Right,

1142
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: so they got snow machines everywhere, just spreading out, going

1143
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: to get the guys. And listen, think about it, you're

1144
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: going to get them on snowmobiles. They get them. They

1145
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: had to come packed for four days for the four days,

1146
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: right on a snow machine. They come here, then they

1147
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: get they get to the airport and they fly over

1148
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: and so think about that. So that's the game where

1149
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: they beat him thirty something. That, yeah, they just crushed them.

1150
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 1: That's the kind of mentality that Bill's team had is

1151
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: going to be the same mentality that Tennessee Titans have

1152
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: this weekend. And we've already seen this. I've been reading,

1153
00:59:58,000 --> 00:59:59,919
Speaker 1: you know, up on the Titans from down there. They're

1154
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: local reporters, and what they're covering, they've already made this

1155
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: COVID thing a rallying cry. You've seen it. We've seen

1156
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: it in interviews with Ryan Tannehill and some other players.

1157
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: They are basically saying, we have read everything that people

1158
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: around the league have said about us and how we're

1159
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: to blame and it's our fault and we're wrecking the

1160
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: league and we're costing people money and you know, and

1161
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: they're maintaining that it's nobody's fault. This is COVID and

1162
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: this is the way it operates, and we're victims of it.

1163
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 1: We should not be to blame. They're taking that as

1164
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: they're rallying cry onto the field tomorrow. So I think

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Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent right. They are going to be

1166
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 1: supremely motivated to take out their frustrations of being having

1167
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: the finger pointed at them for the better part of

1168
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: the last two weeks and say, oh, you want to

1169
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: point the finger at us, We're gonna go punch you

1170
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: in the mouth. Let's see how you feel about that.

1171
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:57,479
Speaker 1: You don't believe in us as a three and o team.

1172
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: You think we're deep six in this league? Yeah, we're

1173
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: to play and that's what's gonna happen. So the Bills

1174
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 1: have to be ready to take that early shot and

1175
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 1: respond themselves it's gonna be a very even though the

1176
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,479
Speaker 1: Bills haven't said anything bad about them at all this week,

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01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: for the record, it's gonna be a very, very physical game,

1178
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: very physical game on both sides of the ball, on

1179
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:22,439
Speaker 1: both ends of both ends of it. And it's yeah,

1180
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on. I mean, the Titans are gonna

1181
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: show up and they're gonna, like you said, they're gonna

1182
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: be ticked. And you know, you can say what you

1183
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: want about the Bills. The one thing you can't do

1184
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: if you're the Bills is going there saying, gosh, I

1185
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: hope we don't get COVID right, you can't think about that.

1186
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: It's you forget that well. And it's like a lot

1187
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: of the players have said when they've been asked about

1188
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: that very point, a lot of them have said, look,

1189
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: we trust our coach and we trust our organization. They're

1190
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: they're protecting us with respect to the health risks, so

1191
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: we can just focus on football and that's what I'm

1192
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 1: gonna do. Stefan dig said it, Josh Allen said it,

1193
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer said it. We're trusting our organization to protect

1194
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: us that way, so we can just focus on football

1195
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:06,959
Speaker 1: and what we have to do on the field, and

1196
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: hopefully that runs from top to bottom on the roster,

1197
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 1: because if it does, they will be squarely focused on

1198
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: the task at hand and not worried about somebody breathing

1199
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: on them or coughing on or whatever. Also this from

1200
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: the from the tweets head First from Axis from Matt

1201
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: mostly concerned with how our injury report is going to

1202
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: look headed into the game. If Tredavius is out along

1203
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: with Milano, we're gonna have be in some deep trouble

1204
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: as it makes Tennessee's mediocre passing game look way better

1205
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 1: than they are. Also concerned we may overlook this game

1206
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: as Kansas City is coming up. I think they've been

1207
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 1: waiting so damn long to play this game. I can't

1208
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: imagine they're over plus plus. It's been a coin flip.

1209
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 1: Is like, is are we playing it now? Yeah? Maybe

1210
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 1: we're playing it now. We're gonna we're gonna leave you

1211
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: in maybe land for about three days for a while.

1212
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna leave We're gonna put it in maybe land

1213
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: for about three days, and then we're gonna decide on

1214
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon whether you're gonna play and if you don't.

1215
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: Then you're gonna take on the World Champions on Thursday.

1216
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 1: So here's a great big I don't know for you

1217
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: to look forward. It's a big old if then experiment, right,

1218
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,520
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's where they sat for a while. Uh,

1219
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 1: that's an issue. How how do you get motivated to

1220
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: play when you know when or who you're playing? That's hard?

1221
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: Eight oh three oh five fifty. Let's go to the

1222
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: phones to Dave in Florida. We go, Dave, you're on

1223
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for joining us. What do you have?

1224
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: How you doing, guys? Good? Good? All right, listen. I'm

1225
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: just concerned about this whole COVID thing. And I'm living

1226
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 1: in Miami, and you guys are I lived in Buffalo,

1227
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: so she didn't ticket holder for years. Blah blah blah.

1228
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: I just think the NFL's going overboard is for the money.

1229
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: It's for the TV rights, and I don't think that

1230
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 1: the concern for the players or the fans especially. I

1231
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: don't understand why Buffalo can't put in a few people

1232
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: in the stands. They do it down here in Miming,

1233
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: for Christ's sake, and we're to we leave, we leave

1234
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: this country in COVID you know, and I just think

1235
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: this stinks. What what do you think stinks? What do

1236
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:01,800
Speaker 1: you think stinks? Think, Dave Ticket, I think they're shoving

1237
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 1: it down your throat. I think they're shoving it down

1238
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 1: our throat and the fans get nothing out of it

1239
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: other than watching it on TV. So so we're talking

1240
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: about the fan experience. Are you stadium? I guess you're

1241
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 1: you're mad that they're not letting fans in the stadiums.

1242
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 1: That's it. Well as I think it's the NFL. I

1243
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: think it's the NFL just pushing these games too, Like

1244
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 1: you just go off the air with the lady from

1245
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: New York. In the NFL, Yeah, come on, they don't

1246
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 1: have any fans buying fans down here. They have fourteen

1247
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: thousand season season tickets, tickets and they were charging the

1248
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 1: men one hundred dollars a ticket, and there were bills

1249
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: fans in that seat and then you degree heat in humidity.

1250
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 1: So what they're pushing it? I don't get what pushing what?

1251
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you upset about? I can't

1252
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:46,320
Speaker 1: understand what you're upset about. I'm upset about Buffalos to

1253
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 1: get a home game where the fans deserve to see

1254
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: you a good team live. Okay for all these years?

1255
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, I got you. Yeah, Yeah, you're right,

1256
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 1: And I get it. It's because some of these fans

1257
01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 1: um because now that they're they were you know, you

1258
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 1: get college fans that they're in the stands and stuff.

1259
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: You know what, I get it. You're right, Dave. It's

1260
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 1: it stinks. It stinks that there's not gonna be any

1261
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: fans and some fans can they will let them in.

1262
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: They won't let them in as long as the state

1263
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 1: caps of the gatherings I think it's fifty people. Yeah,

1264
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: as long as that cap stays in place by New

1265
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 1: York State, nothing is changing here. Don't forget the way

1266
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: it is. Don't forget though. Here's my take, and I'm

1267
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'll double down on it, well like quadruple down.

1268
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: Now that I've said about there's not gonna be any

1269
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: fans in the stands until December, maybe January, and then

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01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: when they get to the playoffs, it'll be the lid

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01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 1: will come off and they'll say, okay, you can ever,

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01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna open things back up in New York. They

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01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:47,160
Speaker 1: got a vaccine or they got this they got that

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01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: that about that, about whatever it is. And I think

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01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna let fans in the stands for the Bill's

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01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: first home game playoff game in two decades. Then it'll

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01:05:56,840 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: be all worth it. That's Steve, I want to believe.

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01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 1: That's so badly. I do too, That's why I keep

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01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 1: saying it. Yeah, you're going to speak it into exists.

1280
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: I'm going to speak it into existence. First home gave

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01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 1: me happy if you do. But the first home game

1282
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 1: with the stands is going to be a sellout crowd

1283
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: on the divisional round of the playoffs. I would be

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01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 1: awesome this year home game here in Buffalo bill Stadium.

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01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 1: All right, back to the phones to Mike and Rochester. Mike,

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01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: you're on one Bill's Live. Thanks for joining us. What

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01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: do you have? Christ and Steve good to be on

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01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 1: with you. I'm going to keep the guys. Matt Morle

1289
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: being out on the lineup not good. I think Derrick

1290
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 1: Henry's a absolute monster with the football, and that's the

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01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:41,680
Speaker 1: one thing that makes me nervous about this game tomorrow

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01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: all night. But other than that, I think the secondary's

1293
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: going to show it up. Hopefully Josh Norman can have

1294
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 1: a matter great to day, and I'd like to get

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01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: your guys opinion on what you think the Bills are

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01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:55,840
Speaker 1: going to do in the linebacker position to try and

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01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: slow down there. Ken. You're staying up and listen now, thanks,

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01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 1: right man? I'm mad. I mean, Mike, I agree with you.

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01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 1: Milano be announced not good. But here's what I think.

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01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 1: I think Milano's in there. I think his presence in

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01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 1: the lineup gives him more help in the passing game

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01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: because I think it's harder for to find a linebacker

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01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: who's good in the run game and also great in

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01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: the passing game, which Milano is. He's also a pretty

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01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:22,720
Speaker 1: good pass rusher in a blitz position. Now, I think

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01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: Dodson or Klein or Meta Kevitch, they're all okay in

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01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 1: the run game. I think that's not the problem. I

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01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 1: think when you get one of those other guys trying

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01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 1: to do what Milano does in the passing game, I

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01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: think you run into problems. So I think against this

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Speaker 1: Tennessee game, this may be the one game where Milano's

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01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 1: presence isn't felt as much as it would be if

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Speaker 1: it was a team that didn't run it like that.

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Speaker 1: If you're playing a team like Kansas City or whatever. Yeah,

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01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: you need Milano in there. But with Dodson, with Klein,

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01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 1: you know whoever, Metakavitch, even those guys can stop the run.

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01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: I have full faith in their ability to stop the run.

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01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 1: With those guys in there, the problem is can you

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01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: stop the run and the pass? And that's what Milano

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01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 1: gives you that maybe the other guys don't. I worry

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01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: about the play action. Yeah, that's what I worry about.

1322
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: And they use it a lot, as most teams do

1323
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: nowadays in the NFL, and Tannehill is good at it,

1324
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: and he's got good tight ends that operate in that

1325
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 1: play action pass game. John who Smith chief among them.

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01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:22,400
Speaker 1: Doesn't look like they'll have Michael Pruitt, which is a

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01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: loss in the blocking game. But they play a lot

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01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 1: of two tight end sets, play even some three tight

1329
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 1: end sets, a good number of twenty one personnel. I'm

1330
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: very curious to see how their personnel uses changes, if

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01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 1: at all, based on who they have and don't have,

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Speaker 1: because Michael Pruitt, as we've mentioned, is a tight end

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Speaker 1: who's on the COVID list and it's not going to

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Speaker 1: be available for this game, and neither is their fullback

1335
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 1: from all indications Kari blasting games. So now you've got

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01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:50,640
Speaker 1: two of your primary blockers in the run game not

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01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 1: available to you, one of which is you're one of

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01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 1: your top two tight ends. So in a situation where

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Speaker 1: they have not played in two weeks, Steve Logic would say,

1340
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna go with what they know they're good at.

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01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: Let's go with our bread and butter stuff and see

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01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 1: if the bills can stop it, because we haven't been

1343
01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: able to practice anything else really, right, So let's stick

1344
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: to what we do best and stick to that as

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01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 1: much as possible. But can they do what they do

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01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 1: best without all these players? Right? That's the question that

1347
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: I'm wondering about the most as I watched this game

1348
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 1: unfold tomorrow night. Are they going to still use heavy

1349
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:29,959
Speaker 1: twelve personnel? Are they still going to use twenty one personnel,

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01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 1: which they like to lean on in their run and

1351
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 1: play action game. I don't know, based on the horses

1352
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 1: they have coming into this thing, if they can definitively

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01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: do that, And that's what I'm really wondering about. I'm

1354
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:42,759
Speaker 1: really curious to see how they deploy their personnel packages

1355
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,720
Speaker 1: this week. I know I've said We just went off

1356
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: a minute ago about how well I think the Titans

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01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 1: can play this at least emotionally. Now, the Axes and

1358
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: Noose may stuffer, but they Let's make no mistake, they're

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01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:56,040
Speaker 1: in a tough spot. They're playing an undefeated team and

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01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:59,640
Speaker 1: they're shorthanded, and they haven't They've had two walkthroughs in

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01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, two plus weeks. They're in a

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01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: tough spot, no question about it. But they are a

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01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: month into the season and they you know, the plays

1364
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: are gonna be called, They're gonna know what they're doing.

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01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna hear the plays and understand. It's not like

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01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 1: they're not gonna know what's going on. But how big

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01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 1: their menu of plays is gonna be is gonna be huge.

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01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: How big how well they're executing is gonna be big.

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01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna come in with some emotional content in this game,

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01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: no question about it. But they haven't banged anybody for

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01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: two weeks. You know, they haven't banged into anybody or

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01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 1: tackling anybody or gone to the griming in the past.

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01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: Timing and the passing game is going to be crucial.

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01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 1: Receivers haven't been running routes on guys, all that stuff

1375
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 1: you kind of need to stay up and sharp with

1376
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 1: on a day to day, week to week basis. So

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01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 1: they are gonna be up against it, but they are

1378
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:53,839
Speaker 1: gonna play with an enormous amount of pent up energy.

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01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:56,839
Speaker 1: And as you said, Brownie, they've been reading what everybody's

1380
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: been saying about them, how they're this pariah all of

1381
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: a sudden, they're going to use it at them. They

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01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 1: are gonna they are gonna use it for a huge

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01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:07,639
Speaker 1: amount of emotion to bring into this game. And that's

1384
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:12,679
Speaker 1: a that is a bigger part of the difference between

1385
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 1: good teams and bad team is the emotional content you

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01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 1: bring to the game on that week. You look at

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01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins last week against the Niners, you look

1388
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:24,120
Speaker 1: at the Raiders last week against the Chiefs. Those two

1389
01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 1: teams when you watch them, the Dolphins and the Raiders

1390
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,759
Speaker 1: that played against the Bills didn't have near the emotional

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01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: content they did this last weekend in big wins. That's

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01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:35,519
Speaker 1: what the Titans are gonna bring to the table this week.

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01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 1: Eight oh three, oh five fifty to get on board

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01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:40,559
Speaker 1: and join us to Brian and north Tonawanda. Brian, thanks

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01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 1: for joining us. You're on one bills Live. Hey, Yeah,

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01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Sure, Hey, I just want

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01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: to ask you, as the COVID chases keep on going up,

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01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 1: is there any instance of the NFL totally shutting down?

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01:11:57,479 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? Yeah? I would say

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01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: that is not gonna happen. Well, I mean it's hard

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01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 1: to say unequivocally no, it's not going to happen. The

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01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: only reason I say that is because you're right, Brian,

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01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: the number of positive cases are going up worldwide. I

1404
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 1: know Europe's got a bad problem right now with numbers

1405
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 1: spiking there. Numbers are going up here in a number

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01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 1: of different states, and we haven't even hit the quote

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01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: unquote second wave yet that medical experts fear is going

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01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 1: to grip, you know, not only this country, but probably

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01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 1: the entire globe, you know, come late October early November.

1410
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 1: So it's hard to really predict where the NFL season

1411
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:35,559
Speaker 1: is going to go in reaction to whatever comes down

1412
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: the pike with respect to COVID. What we do know

1413
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 1: is this, they have rescheduled a number of games now.

1414
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 1: I think what it was at eight in total over

1415
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: the weekend, Steve, I think it was a total games

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01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: that the Chargers are involved in five of them, and

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01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 1: they're running out of bye weeks to use as a

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01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 1: new placeholder for rescheduled games. If this gets bad and

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01:12:57,280 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: there are other teams that have outbreaks like the Titans have,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can rule it out as a possibility.

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01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 1: It is certainly the last thing that the NFL wants

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01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: to do cancel games or god forbid, put the season

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01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,639
Speaker 1: on pause. It is unequivocally the last thing they want

1424
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:16,599
Speaker 1: to do. But I don't think we can decidedly rule

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01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: it out because we don't know where COVID is going

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01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 1: to take this season. We just don't know, Just like

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01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:24,559
Speaker 1: all the medical experts when they get asked questions like hey,

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01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,680
Speaker 1: do you think that the death rate is going to

1429
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: go down? Do you think that this is going to happen?

1430
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:31,799
Speaker 1: Or that's going to happen. Nobody knows. There's no roadmap

1431
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:33,639
Speaker 1: for this thing. One of the things that you got

1432
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 1: to know this is this, if it continue, here's the thing.

1433
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 1: If if nothing changes after they get the lid on

1434
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:42,559
Speaker 1: the Titans outbreak, then yes they will they will not

1435
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 1: need to pause or get through. But the problem is this,

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01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:47,760
Speaker 1: every time you say you know we're okay. As long

1437
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:51,280
Speaker 1: as something doesn't happen. Something always happens, something has always

1438
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:56,400
Speaker 1: happened in whatever sports you want to name. So that's

1439
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: the problem. So you can get a lid on this

1440
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: Titans outbreak, and that is zero guarantee that you're not

1441
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:08,679
Speaker 1: going to have another team get another outbreak, including the Bills,

1442
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:11,840
Speaker 1: including the Jets, include whatever other team, even the Titans. Again,

1443
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,160
Speaker 1: so all of that stuff is on the table. So

1444
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: as long as the protocols work and nobody breaches them,

1445
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 1: then yeah, you can say they're probably not going to

1446
01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,759
Speaker 1: do that. And they've told us time and time again

1447
01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:25,200
Speaker 1: they do not want to pause the season. They do

1448
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 1: not want to cancel games, they do not want to

1449
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 1: force teams to forfeit games as punishment. They do not

1450
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 1: want to do any of that stuff. They want two

1451
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six games to get into the regular season,

1452
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, and they've got a reason to think

1453
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: as of now they've got an outside chance of getting

1454
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: it done. But you know this too, we are far

1455
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:50,040
Speaker 1: from through this thing, and it doesn't mean that something

1456
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:53,639
Speaker 1: very quickly can materialize and COVID backs the NFL into

1457
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: a scheduling corner where they've got no other alternative that

1458
01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: can happen. There's no reason, there's no way we can

1459
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,679
Speaker 1: rule any of that out. With the way we've seen

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01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: this virus operate at times, it is fierce and to

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01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:09,680
Speaker 1: this point, it is undefeated. That's all I got to

1462
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:12,640
Speaker 1: say about COVID. It is is the only undefeated in

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01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I know we got the Bills at four

1464
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:16,599
Speaker 1: and Ozero and four other teams that haven't been beaten.

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01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,639
Speaker 1: COVID's been running a longer string than that since March,

1466
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: and it hasn't been beaten to this point. Eight oh three,

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01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,799
Speaker 1: oh five fifty to join us stand in Buffalo, Dennis

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01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: and Rochester, Nick and Buffalo hang tight. We will get

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Speaker 1: to you in the next segment when we return here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio, second half of a Monday edition

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Speaker 1: of One Bills Live. Now under away Chris Brown, Steve

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01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:51,799
Speaker 1: Tasker with you as we're asking you your greatest concern

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01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: heading into this Bills Titans matchup that was on again,

1475
01:15:55,680 --> 01:15:57,960
Speaker 1: off again, on again, off again, put this team in

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01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:00,640
Speaker 1: limbo for a span of about three days. Are we

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01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 1: playing the Titans were playing the Chiefs first. Who's coming

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Speaker 1: up next? It is Tuesday night, seven pm kickoff. The

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Speaker 1: team lead it. Leaving later this afternoon to travel down

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01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:13,040
Speaker 1: to Nashville for this game tomorrow. And we'll get some

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01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:15,680
Speaker 1: more of your comments on the tweet sheet in a

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01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: little bit, but we are going to go to the

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01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: phones first and waiting there patiently. Is Stan in Buffalo

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01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: to lead a soft stand. You're on one Bill's Live.

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01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Thanks guys. What are you guys

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01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 1: doing today? Doing? Okay? What do you got for us?

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01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:31,759
Speaker 1: All right? Excellent? Listen. Obviously we know Derrick Henry's a beast.

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01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 1: He's a big concern tomorrow. I like Steve's comments about

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01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:38,200
Speaker 1: how they're going to come out to play. It's next

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01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 1: man update, right, you're fighting for PT. You're getting more

1491
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:43,560
Speaker 1: PT than you ever got in the season because the

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01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 1: guy's being out. So next man up is going to

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01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 1: come and fire it out. And I think we need

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01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:52,839
Speaker 1: to stack the line. Just put our safeties, our corners

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01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 1: on islands by themselves, stack Henry at the line and

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01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 1: let Tannehill beat us. Look forward to hearing what you

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01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: guys think. Yeah, I mean, certainly I think they'll probably

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01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 1: do that at times. I don't know that they're going

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01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:07,479
Speaker 1: to do that every single snap, but certainly they're gonna

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01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: pick their spots doing that. I listen, I Brownie's in

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01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 1: the same thing with me. We've seen Ryan Tannehill. We've

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01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:17,760
Speaker 1: seen him down in Miami for seven years before he

1503
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: got to Tennessee. It's a different world in Tennessee for him.

1504
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 1: I think you need to help him get back to

1505
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:26,280
Speaker 1: what he was in Miami. A guy, you know, he

1506
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:29,679
Speaker 1: can't drop back and throw it. He can play action

1507
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 1: really well, but when you force him to drop back

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01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:36,559
Speaker 1: and throw it, maybe you get the old guy who

1509
01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 1: didn't take his team to the AFC Championship Game. I

1510
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 1: think you've got to do a lot of different things

1511
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 1: to confuse him. I think he got to do some

1512
01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 1: things to confuse their offensive line. I think he got

1513
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 1: to do a lot of things to make them think

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01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:51,720
Speaker 1: that their run game is not going to be able

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01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: to carry the day. I'm encouraged by the fact that

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01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: they played this team just last year and they held

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01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 1: Derreck Henry to eighty one yards on the ground, which

1518
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: I think against that team and him, that's a win. Yeah,

1519
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,920
Speaker 1: they held that group down. I felt as though this

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01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:14,679
Speaker 1: Bill's defensive front front was rounding into form. Last week.

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01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 1: They held Josh Jacobs to forty eight yards rushing. You

1522
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: saw what he did to the Chiefs yesterday. I mean,

1523
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 1: Jacobs is a good back and the Bills held him

1524
01:18:24,320 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 1: down last week to forty eight yards. So I think

1525
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 1: this Bills run d is rounding into form. Losing Milano

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01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: certainly hurts, but as you said, Steve Tyrell Dotson, who's

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01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 1: expected to be the fill in for Milano, is a

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01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:40,759
Speaker 1: better run defender than pass defenders. So against this team

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01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 1: this week's probably you probably lose a little bit less

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01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 1: than you would worry about losing by putting Dotson on

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01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: the field and play a Milano. So the bottom line

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01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 1: is this, though Derreck Henry leads the NFL and rushing

1533
01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:57,320
Speaker 1: yards per game one hundred and six and change per

1534
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 1: game through the first three weeks, he is a load.

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01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 1: You gotta get him moving sideways because once he sticks

1536
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: his foot in the ground starts going north south. That's

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01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: where the problems happen. So hopefully they can get him

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01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:11,120
Speaker 1: while he's still moving east west, because once he turns

1539
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:13,559
Speaker 1: it upfield he is he's gonna fall forward for at

1540
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:15,920
Speaker 1: least four or five and you better wrap him up

1541
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,719
Speaker 1: real good and gang tackle or he's gonna be going.

1542
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:23,759
Speaker 1: And I think two, let's let's remember who the Bills

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01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 1: are right at this moment. This is a team that's

1544
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:29,720
Speaker 1: hanging thirty points on people, and they're getting out and

1545
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: they're getting a lot of it in the first half. True,

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01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: that may be the thing that takes. That may be

1547
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 1: a better run defense than even you know, their defense

1548
01:19:39,439 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: can provide the fact that you can run it all

1549
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 1: you want to, but you're going to run out of

1550
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:47,000
Speaker 1: possessions here pretty quick because you gotta score. You got

1551
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: to score three times to catch up to us. You know,

1552
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 1: we're up seventeen. I mean, that's who this Bills team

1553
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 1: has been, and that is that's the strength right now

1554
01:19:57,120 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: the league. Now, the league may evolve away from it

1555
01:19:59,320 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 1: the rest of the season, but that's where they're at

1556
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: right now. And proof of that is the Titans have

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01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:05,760
Speaker 1: won all three of their games by the skin of

1558
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: their teeth. I mean, they are not a team that

1559
01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:11,680
Speaker 1: blows other teams off the football field with their offensive firepower.

1560
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: They grind you out, They grind out wins. This is

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01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: not a prolific air it out and hang thirty burgers.

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01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: On Week one, they won sixteen fourteen over the Broncos,

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01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: Week two thirty three thirty over Jacksonville, Week three thirty

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01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:29,320
Speaker 1: one thirty and eighteen of those points came on field goals,

1565
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 1: right right, the Minnesota they had eighteen points one field goals.

1566
01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:37,639
Speaker 1: So they're one of those teams. You know who they are.

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01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:40,080
Speaker 1: You know who they are, Brownie, who are they, Steve?

1568
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 1: They are the Buffalo Bills in twenty nineteen. Yeah, grind

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01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 1: it out. They got to have defense, and they got

1570
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:49,639
Speaker 1: to have that running game going, and you know, everything's

1571
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: got to go for them. They got to win some

1572
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 1: turnover battles, that kind of thing. So that's who the

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01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: Bills were lash and that's you know, the Bills and

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01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,639
Speaker 1: the Titans have played their last three meetings all just

1575
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 1: like that, all of them two one pointers and then

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01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: fourteen seven last year. Right, the Bills have won those three,

1577
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: all three of them. But man oh man, that's the

1578
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:13,120
Speaker 1: kind of games that they were looking at. Now, this

1579
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:18,160
Speaker 1: Bills team is not those three Bills teams, right, So

1580
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:21,559
Speaker 1: let's see that's why, you know, that's why we love

1581
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:24,320
Speaker 1: this team. I want to see these guys play right.

1582
01:21:24,479 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: And as much as fans may have been put off

1583
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:30,080
Speaker 1: by the game getting moved to Tuesday, these extra two

1584
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,880
Speaker 1: days could be critical for people like Trudevious White, John Brown,

1585
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: some of these questionable players. Those extra two days might

1586
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 1: be the extra forty eight hours they need to be

1587
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 1: up and ready to play and at least give you something.

1588
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:46,040
Speaker 1: Zack Moss, Zach Moss, perfect, you know I mean that? Yeah,

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01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:47,640
Speaker 1: I mean that could it could be a could be

1590
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 1: a benefit in the grand scheme. We always have a

1591
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:52,400
Speaker 1: lot of player availability. We always have a lot of

1592
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: unknowns going into games. Man, oh man, you want to

1593
01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 1: talking about putting that two tenth power? Yeah, there's like,

1594
01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 1: why do you think Vegas had the game off? The

1595
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:01,839
Speaker 1: light had off the board? How about it? Here's Vegas

1596
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:04,880
Speaker 1: making billions to get it. You know what, We'll catch

1597
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:08,599
Speaker 1: you next week's We'll catch you next week off the board?

1598
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:12,800
Speaker 1: What is going on? That's it's just crazy fifty to

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01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:14,800
Speaker 1: join us, Nick and Buffalo? Nick, what do you have

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01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:17,960
Speaker 1: for us? Thanks for joining One bills Live. Hey Chris,

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01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:21,280
Speaker 1: Hey Steve, good afternoon. How are you good? I know

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01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:22,720
Speaker 1: we got to go quite a baze back to your

1603
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:25,560
Speaker 1: point you made earlier, Steve, but I gotta completely disagree

1604
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: with you on comparing the Jets game in Detroit to

1605
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:31,400
Speaker 1: this game. You know, that's when I take a look

1606
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 1: back to that twenty fourteen game. That Jets team was horrible.

1607
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they might have had two wins

1608
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 1: coming into that game. You know, we also had an

1609
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:43,479
Speaker 1: old front defensive line and they were coached by Rex.

1610
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to try and throw a shade

1611
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: at Rex by any means, but you know, I think

1612
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 1: Sean mcdermot's a more levelhead, get your guys approach to

1613
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:51,760
Speaker 1: this than the Recks. That would, you know, hype the

1614
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 1: guys up to the Patriots only to give up five

1615
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:56,679
Speaker 1: hundred yards a game. For that second, off, the Bills

1616
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: are the best team in the league over the past

1617
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: ten games on the road. They are eight and two

1618
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:04,559
Speaker 1: over the past ten games on the road, only losing

1619
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 1: in New England and Cleveland, which to me is outstanding,

1620
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: you know, having a road record like that, So I

1621
01:23:09,320 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 1: think that's a big benefit as well. And three, we

1622
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:14,559
Speaker 1: know how the Bills mafia shows up in Tennessee. Now

1623
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: that being said, with the limited attendance, it might not

1624
01:23:17,040 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: be the same thing. I think the Bills are really

1625
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:23,599
Speaker 1: well suited for this game. Tennessee defense ranks dead last

1626
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 1: in the league in rush defense, and they're given up

1627
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one hundred. I mean, they're not

1628
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:31,559
Speaker 1: playing world beaters at QB either. They played Gardner, Minshew,

1629
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:34,760
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, and then Drew Locke, three guys that are

1630
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: often ranked the bottom third of QBS. Once again, no

1631
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 1: shadd them. I love me some Minshew mania, but they

1632
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 1: haven't seen an offense like this offense to the Boat

1633
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: right now. And I mean, come on, You've got three

1634
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:51,600
Speaker 1: receivers in John Brown, Ole Beasley, and Stefon Diggs that

1635
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 1: are lighting up the league. Stefon Diggs coming in a

1636
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:56,679
Speaker 1: week five leading the league or tied for the league

1637
01:23:56,840 --> 01:23:59,880
Speaker 1: lead and yards John Brown, you know, was the number

1638
01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:02,600
Speaker 1: one last year. And Whole Beasley he's just killing it

1639
01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 1: in the slot. He's on pace for a thousand yards.

1640
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: So to me, you know, this game really lines up

1641
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 1: for our offense really really well. And you know, until

1642
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 1: a team can stop our offense, you know, I don't

1643
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 1: think you can just this count this team. I'm not

1644
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:19,519
Speaker 1: saying you guys are, but any means. But I feel

1645
01:24:19,520 --> 01:24:21,320
Speaker 1: like we're at the point where we can talk about

1646
01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 1: this team being up there with the top five offense

1647
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:25,960
Speaker 1: in the league, like how you would talk about Mahomes

1648
01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, the Rams have only given up

1649
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 1: five passing touchdowns a whole year. I just saw the

1650
01:24:31,280 --> 01:24:34,280
Speaker 1: stat four of them. We're to Buffalo. I mean, this

1651
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 1: team is on fire now. They figure out some of

1652
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 1: the defensive who was last week, especially in the run defense,

1653
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 1: and I think that's great. Went in Tennessee, who's also

1654
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:47,360
Speaker 1: has Humphreys on their COVID list. They have what's Corey

1655
01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: Davis and they they might get a j brownback, which

1656
01:24:50,040 --> 01:24:52,439
Speaker 1: would be huge for them. So you know, it's gonna

1657
01:24:52,479 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 1: think that we don't have Mulano and it doesn't look

1658
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:58,840
Speaker 1: good for Trey White, but you know this and the

1659
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:00,960
Speaker 1: Bills were eight and a half point favorites before Vegas

1660
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 1: scrubbed this game. I just really think that we match

1661
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:05,920
Speaker 1: up really well with this despite what the media might

1662
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 1: be seeing. They might be pumped up, but you know,

1663
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 1: this is the NFL. If you don't come pumped up

1664
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 1: to play, you're gonna lose ten out of ten times.

1665
01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 1: So I think equally the Bills have been licking their

1666
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:16,360
Speaker 1: chops to play a game. They got their head on

1667
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: a swivel. With coach McDermott, who you know, like, I

1668
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 1: don't think he gets enough credit for keeping his team

1669
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 1: level headed through all. Like the hype that goes around

1670
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:26,800
Speaker 1: in the league. He's often so well spoken, compared to

1671
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan, who came in here in twenty fourteen that

1672
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:31,840
Speaker 1: just wanted to, you know, throw his mouth around, and

1673
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: it might be a world of difference, but I'll hang

1674
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:35,400
Speaker 1: up and listen. Those are just the points I wanted

1675
01:25:35,439 --> 01:25:36,760
Speaker 1: to make and I'm looking forward to seeing what you

1676
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: guys have to say. The Eagle get you in the

1677
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:40,160
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame one of these years. Yeah, good luck

1678
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 1: with that, Nick. I agree with everything he said. You're

1679
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: you're right. And when you look at this game, despite

1680
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 1: the fact that the Tennessee's undefeated, the Bills have looked

1681
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 1: more impressive throughout the season. And for Bills fans and

1682
01:25:56,080 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: we hear one Bills like, we think the Bills are

1683
01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:02,840
Speaker 1: better than Tennessee. They have played extremely well offensively. There's

1684
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:05,519
Speaker 1: two things though, that worry me about this game. One

1685
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: it's the emotional emotional impact through the Titans are gonna

1686
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,599
Speaker 1: bring to this game. They are gonna be fired up

1687
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 1: like nobody's business to win this game. They are going

1688
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:19,439
Speaker 1: to make a point in this game, and every team

1689
01:26:19,960 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 1: is ten times more dangerous when that's the case two,

1690
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:27,600
Speaker 1: the unknown of this last week and the up and

1691
01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:31,800
Speaker 1: down roller coaster of Casey or Tennessee, and now it's

1692
01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:33,760
Speaker 1: gonna be Tennessee, and then maybe we'll move the Kansas

1693
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: City game. That wait a minute, now we're gonna play

1694
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:37,679
Speaker 1: the Tennessee game, but it's gonna be moved back. All

1695
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:43,040
Speaker 1: of that unknown to me, the Bills run the risk

1696
01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: of having that be a bucket of water on them

1697
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,320
Speaker 1: being on fire like we've seen him in the first

1698
01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:49,840
Speaker 1: four weeks of the season. That to me can be

1699
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:52,120
Speaker 1: a big fat bucket of water on what they're doing

1700
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 1: because they didn't know they did know. What are we doing?

1701
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:58,400
Speaker 1: Are we playing arguably in the same boat though right, yes,

1702
01:26:59,439 --> 01:27:02,120
Speaker 1: yes we are. We even didn't even know if they

1703
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 1: were getting in the building. Forget about playing different, though different,

1704
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:10,439
Speaker 1: everybody's all over the Titans. Nobody's even talking about Buffalo.

1705
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:14,160
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this. Those are That's what I worry about.

1706
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 1: I do believe the Bills are a better football team

1707
01:27:16,200 --> 01:27:19,240
Speaker 1: than Tennessee because I think they can force Tennessee out

1708
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:20,920
Speaker 1: of their game plan and out of what they are

1709
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:23,720
Speaker 1: in their DNA. They can get up. And there's just

1710
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 1: in Tennessee's gotta be looking at the scoreboard going, you know,

1711
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:29,080
Speaker 1: are we it's third and six and we're down seventeen

1712
01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 1: in our own end? Are are we really going to

1713
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 1: run this? Keep handing it to Henry? Are we really

1714
01:27:33,240 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 1: gonna play action this? Um? You know that kind of thing.

1715
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:40,240
Speaker 1: But I still, you know, I still think this game

1716
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:43,280
Speaker 1: is going to be really, really competitive, And I do

1717
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:45,360
Speaker 1: think Bill the Bills are better. Like Nick said, they've

1718
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:47,080
Speaker 1: got a ton of stuff going for him and I

1719
01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 1: and I love the leadership, like he pointed out of

1720
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot, He's gonna navigate this team through this. Uh.

1721
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 1: But it the greatest thing, the thing that SAPs your

1722
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 1: confidence more than anything is walking into something where you

1723
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen, where you're the unknowns

1724
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 1: outweigh your preparation. And the Bills are right in that,

1725
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: right in that mix. They didn't know, you know, when's

1726
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:15,320
Speaker 1: this game out? They didn't know till yesterday afternoon that

1727
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:18,160
Speaker 1: this game was going to happen, and that's a hard

1728
01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 1: place to confidently preparing. All right, we have to take

1729
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:24,639
Speaker 1: a break, but when we return more of your phone calls,

1730
01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: John and op Alice in Springville and Kevin in Utica.

1731
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:30,080
Speaker 1: Hang type, We'll get to you when we return. Here

1732
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:31,880
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. This

1733
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:46,439
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Back on One Bills Live, Chris Brown,

1734
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 1: Steve Casker. Right back to the bones we go as

1735
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:52,960
Speaker 1: we're asking you your greatest concern entering Tuesday nights game

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01:28:53,040 --> 01:28:57,080
Speaker 1: between the Bills and Titans, and we begin with Alice

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01:28:57,160 --> 01:28:59,400
Speaker 1: in Springville. Alice, what do you have for us? Thanks

1738
01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:02,799
Speaker 1: for joining the show. Well, thank you very much, mister tasker.

1739
01:29:02,840 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make a comment. I'm not an

1740
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 1: expert the boy. When I watched the Buffalo Bills games,

1741
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:11,599
Speaker 1: I love them, and I see number forty nine does nothing.

1742
01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: Every team knows go right down the middle because he

1743
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:17,880
Speaker 1: isn't going to do a thing to stop them, and

1744
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 1: he makes an effort after everybody's done all the work

1745
01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:24,400
Speaker 1: and then takes the effect that he did something, but

1746
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:27,559
Speaker 1: he really shouldn't be there. You may have anybody else

1747
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:30,280
Speaker 1: to put in there, put a Milano. If he's not

1748
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:34,599
Speaker 1: playing this week, we are we are in trouble. Thanks Alice.

1749
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 1: You're talking about Tremaine Edmonds, right, Yes, I am. I

1750
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 1: don't even know his name. I just know it's forty nine.

1751
01:29:40,120 --> 01:29:42,880
Speaker 1: And he just walks away from all the work. He

1752
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:45,360
Speaker 1: doesn't want to get his uniform dirty. Navy. I don't know,

1753
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 1: but I'm really I feel bad because he's letting the

1754
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:52,559
Speaker 1: team down. All Right, we appreciate the opinion. You're entitled

1755
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:55,799
Speaker 1: to it. I will say this, there are some reads

1756
01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:59,799
Speaker 1: in the run game that he seemed a little rusty

1757
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:03,200
Speaker 1: when he missed the week in Miami and then came

1758
01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:05,320
Speaker 1: back the following week against the Rams. I thought he

1759
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:08,280
Speaker 1: was a little, you know, a little bit hesitant on

1760
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:10,599
Speaker 1: some of the run reads in terms of where his

1761
01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 1: fit was and where he needed to be. I think

1762
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,000
Speaker 1: the Rams misdirection kind of get got his eyes going

1763
01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:19,639
Speaker 1: into the wrong place sometimes, and that's going to slow

1764
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:21,960
Speaker 1: you down. That's what that offense is designed to do.

1765
01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:24,559
Speaker 1: I thought he was better last week against the Raiders,

1766
01:30:25,400 --> 01:30:27,600
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be half. He's gonna have to be

1767
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:29,840
Speaker 1: on point. He's gonna have to play his best game

1768
01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:32,479
Speaker 1: because his you know, the Batman and Robin Combo is

1769
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:35,920
Speaker 1: not going to be together. And I'm not saying I'm

1770
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:37,479
Speaker 1: not saying he's been a one hundred percent since he

1771
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:39,840
Speaker 1: got his shoulder hurt against the Rams. I don't know

1772
01:30:39,840 --> 01:30:41,320
Speaker 1: if I don't know that he is. It was against

1773
01:30:41,320 --> 01:30:43,840
Speaker 1: the Jets game. I think it was the Jets or

1774
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:47,640
Speaker 1: was the Dolphins that he hurt his shoulder. No, he

1775
01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:51,439
Speaker 1: did not. It was play Jamison Crowder. Right, it was

1776
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:53,640
Speaker 1: week one when he got right, Dad, it was the

1777
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:55,640
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder play that he got dinged up. So he

1778
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:57,920
Speaker 1: didn't play against the Dolphins and then he came back.

1779
01:30:58,320 --> 01:31:01,000
Speaker 1: So I don't know, he's whatever, whatever, I get it.

1780
01:31:01,680 --> 01:31:04,519
Speaker 1: I'll say this, there's a lot of linebackers in the

1781
01:31:04,560 --> 01:31:06,560
Speaker 1: league that are looking pretty bad now because everybody in

1782
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 1: the league's given up thirty points a game. I think

1783
01:31:11,080 --> 01:31:14,640
Speaker 1: I have seen now in the last this last weekend yesterday,

1784
01:31:16,040 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 1: that there are now getting to be some teams that

1785
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:22,479
Speaker 1: have started to figure some things out defensively and they're

1786
01:31:22,479 --> 01:31:24,880
Speaker 1: starting to hold teams down to a little bit less

1787
01:31:24,880 --> 01:31:27,760
Speaker 1: than what we've seen them. Yeah earlier on I mean,

1788
01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:30,120
Speaker 1: you got I think of teams. You got a bunch

1789
01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:33,480
Speaker 1: of teams scoring under twenty points, the Bengals, the Falcons,

1790
01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, and you can say, hey, they're you know,

1791
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:42,160
Speaker 1: the Jets, Washington, the Niners. You know, there's a lot

1792
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:43,920
Speaker 1: of team and then there's some scoring in the twenties

1793
01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 1: as well. But you know, up until this time, everybody

1794
01:31:46,400 --> 01:31:48,719
Speaker 1: was scoring high in the twenties or in the thirties

1795
01:31:48,720 --> 01:31:51,400
Speaker 1: and even higher. So I think defenses are going to

1796
01:31:51,439 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 1: start to catch up. You're starting to see the holding

1797
01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:56,559
Speaker 1: penalties come back a little bit, and I think that

1798
01:31:56,640 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: makes a lot of defense defenders look bad. I don't

1799
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:03,200
Speaker 1: know that whether it's shoulder injury or not, I don't

1800
01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:06,479
Speaker 1: even know. I don't see Tremaine Edmonds shine away from

1801
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:10,720
Speaker 1: contact like that. But if you say you've seen it, all, okay.

1802
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: But and Tremaine Edmonds is a great football player. I'm

1803
01:32:15,040 --> 01:32:17,000
Speaker 1: glad he's in the middle of our defense. I'mlike, I

1804
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:19,760
Speaker 1: know I disagree with you there, Alice, but I'm not

1805
01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 1: gonna deprive you of your opinion, all right. Eight three

1806
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 1: five fifty we go to John and Orchard Park. John,

1807
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Thanks for joining the show.

1808
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:31,640
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, John Wind. Good afternoon, Steve. I

1809
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:35,759
Speaker 1: got a little bit with the adrenaline. Well, I agree

1810
01:32:35,760 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 1: with you that early in the game. I think the

1811
01:32:38,439 --> 01:32:42,000
Speaker 1: adrenaline is gonna be big for Tennessee. I think if

1812
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:45,439
Speaker 1: the offense goes and scores a touchdown and the kicks

1813
01:32:45,520 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 1: field goal, I think the adrenaline's gonna end up getting

1814
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:55,520
Speaker 1: sucked out of them. And also I believe that conditioning

1815
01:32:55,680 --> 01:32:58,840
Speaker 1: is going to become a major factor later in the

1816
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:04,240
Speaker 1: game for all the players on the TENNESSEEA side, because

1817
01:33:04,280 --> 01:33:07,200
Speaker 1: they haven't had the ability to work up to speed

1818
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:12,639
Speaker 1: to game speed in the last two weeks. And one

1819
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:15,360
Speaker 1: of the things, you know, those boys might be eating

1820
01:33:15,439 --> 01:33:19,240
Speaker 1: some really good food down there because the commissaries closed.

1821
01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:23,639
Speaker 1: And that's what I got. Enjoy the day, great show,

1822
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:26,680
Speaker 1: all right, Thanks John, appreciate it. Yeah, I mean I

1823
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:29,080
Speaker 1: will agree with him there. I think if the Bills

1824
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: can weather the emotional ride that Titans team is going

1825
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:36,360
Speaker 1: to be on over those first ten minutes of regulation,

1826
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:39,840
Speaker 1: they can weather that and be okay on the scoreboard

1827
01:33:40,360 --> 01:33:43,760
Speaker 1: advantage Buffalo after those first ten minutes. Because I do

1828
01:33:43,800 --> 01:33:46,759
Speaker 1: agree that conditioning will be a factor in the fourth quarter,

1829
01:33:46,880 --> 01:33:49,400
Speaker 1: not only because these guys haven't been properly conditioning with

1830
01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 1: their team and their strength and conditioning staff for the

1831
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:54,320
Speaker 1: better part of the last two weeks, but also because

1832
01:33:54,439 --> 01:33:57,320
Speaker 1: their down bodies, whether it's the COVID list or the

1833
01:33:57,360 --> 01:34:00,080
Speaker 1: injury list, they don't have a lot of people that

1834
01:34:00,160 --> 01:34:03,360
Speaker 1: they feel comfortable playing significant minutes, especially on the defensive

1835
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:05,120
Speaker 1: side of the ball. And as one of our callers

1836
01:34:05,120 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, Steve, this is a defense that's thirtieth in

1837
01:34:08,240 --> 01:34:11,439
Speaker 1: league and yards allowed. They're thirty first against the run,

1838
01:34:11,920 --> 01:34:15,759
Speaker 1: they're thirty second in yards per carry allowed, and against

1839
01:34:15,760 --> 01:34:19,240
Speaker 1: the pass they're twenty third, and on third down they

1840
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:22,120
Speaker 1: are thirty first. I mean, they're not stopping a lot

1841
01:34:22,160 --> 01:34:24,639
Speaker 1: of people right now, right and I think it does,

1842
01:34:25,280 --> 01:34:27,680
Speaker 1: you know, I think John's got a point. The adrenaline

1843
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:31,760
Speaker 1: does carry you through. But when you're adrenaline, if when

1844
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:34,240
Speaker 1: you get to the adrenaline, you get to the end

1845
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 1: of it, you're shot for a while. I mean, it's

1846
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:40,920
Speaker 1: hard to bounce back after you get off as now. Conversely,

1847
01:34:40,960 --> 01:34:43,600
Speaker 1: if the Bills come out and hit Tennessee in the

1848
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:45,960
Speaker 1: mouth and go down and they score or touchdown, then

1849
01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:48,200
Speaker 1: they get a fieldal or touched down in their second possession,

1850
01:34:48,240 --> 01:34:51,760
Speaker 1: and they've gotten a stop on Tennessee, and then Tennessee's

1851
01:34:51,760 --> 01:34:55,000
Speaker 1: adrenaline and that emotional punch wears off because now they're

1852
01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:59,879
Speaker 1: down fourteen points to me the game goes away for Tennessee.

1853
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,040
Speaker 1: I have no shot at that. I don't think it's

1854
01:35:02,040 --> 01:35:05,360
Speaker 1: a team that is built to come back, particularly after

1855
01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:07,479
Speaker 1: two weeks off like they've had. And he's right, the

1856
01:35:07,600 --> 01:35:12,599
Speaker 1: conditioning is gonna take take advance, take effect. The lack

1857
01:35:12,640 --> 01:35:14,400
Speaker 1: of condition he's going to take effect late in this

1858
01:35:14,439 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: game for Tennessee's. It's a good point. Buffalo you would

1859
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 1: think would not be in that state. So if you

1860
01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:22,559
Speaker 1: can weather for Buffalo, if you can weather the storm

1861
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:25,000
Speaker 1: early and hang in there and get up on them later,

1862
01:35:25,600 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 1: you should be able to put some distance to your

1863
01:35:27,760 --> 01:35:30,000
Speaker 1: between you and them late in the game. Or if

1864
01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:32,840
Speaker 1: you do get off to a fast start, you kind

1865
01:35:32,840 --> 01:35:34,200
Speaker 1: of know that you're gonna be able to do that

1866
01:35:34,280 --> 01:35:35,599
Speaker 1: same thing at the end of the game, and it'll

1867
01:35:35,640 --> 01:35:37,960
Speaker 1: get it could turn into a laugher. I have a

1868
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 1: hard time seeing this game turn it into a laugher

1869
01:35:40,160 --> 01:35:43,960
Speaker 1: for Tennessee in their favor, because I think Buffalo's offense

1870
01:35:44,040 --> 01:35:46,839
Speaker 1: is just too good. But there's a couple of scenarios

1871
01:35:46,920 --> 01:35:48,680
Speaker 1: you can conjure up and say, yeah, this game is

1872
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:50,439
Speaker 1: going to go in favor of Buffalo because if they

1873
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:54,240
Speaker 1: can weather that storm early, they'll they're conditioning a Tennessee

1874
01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:58,280
Speaker 1: is gonna show up later in the game. Or if

1875
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: they have no answer for Buffalo's offense, like a lot

1876
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: of teams have not in the first half, they're gonna

1877
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:05,360
Speaker 1: be out of their element and have to throw it

1878
01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:07,400
Speaker 1: to catch up. Yeah, we have to take a break.

1879
01:36:07,439 --> 01:36:11,000
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll be joined by ESPN Titans

1880
01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:14,400
Speaker 1: beat reporter Tehron Davenport, who's gonna give us the lowdown

1881
01:36:14,400 --> 01:36:16,160
Speaker 1: on who might be up and who might be down

1882
01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:20,040
Speaker 1: for this Titans team come Tuesday night for that seven

1883
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:23,160
Speaker 1: pm kickoff. We'll get the lowdown from him out of

1884
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 1: Nashville when we return. Here on One Bills Live presented

1885
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:37,639
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health, this is Buffalo Bills Radio, Hello,

1886
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Date Here a sports update from

1887
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 1: One Bills Drive. No new positive tests in Nashville leads

1888
01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:47,439
Speaker 1: to another positive step as the Bills and Titans look

1889
01:36:47,479 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 1: to kick off their Week five matchup in Tennessee. Tomorrow night.

1890
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:53,959
Speaker 1: Matt Mlano already ruled out, and seven Bills players questionable

1891
01:36:53,960 --> 01:36:57,200
Speaker 1: for Tomorrow's game, including for Davious White for the Titans.

1892
01:36:57,200 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 1: Wide receiver A J. Brown and offensive tackle Tear Lawan

1893
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:05,360
Speaker 1: also listed as questionable. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott underwent successful

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Speaker 1: surgery Sunday night after suffering a compound right ankle fracture

1895
01:37:09,720 --> 01:37:13,280
Speaker 1: and dislocation in Dallas's thirty seven thirty four win over

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01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:16,519
Speaker 1: the Giants. Prescott expected expected to miss the rest of

1897
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Speaker 1: the season following an owen five start. The Atlanta Falcons

1898
01:37:19,560 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: fired head coach Dan Quinn and GM Thomas Demetroff. Atlanta

1899
01:37:23,120 --> 01:37:26,519
Speaker 1: announced on Monday that Raheem Morris will take over for Quinn.

1900
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers make a big splash in free agency on Sunday,

1901
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Speaker 1: signing left winger Taylor Hall to a one year contract.

1902
01:37:32,920 --> 01:37:36,000
Speaker 1: Haul was the most coveted unrestricted free agent fourward available

1903
01:37:36,360 --> 01:37:39,679
Speaker 1: this offseason. And finally, the Lakers won their first NBA

1904
01:37:39,800 --> 01:37:41,800
Speaker 1: title in over a decade last night with their one

1905
01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 1: oh six ninety three win over the Miami Heaton Game six.

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Speaker 1: Lebron James grabbed his fourth NBA title and was named

1907
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 1: Finals MVP, becoming the first player in NBA history to

1908
01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:56,040
Speaker 1: win that award with three different franchises. And that is

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Speaker 1: your sports update here from One Bill's Drive, our number

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Speaker 1: three of the program here with Chris Brown and Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker and joining us on the line to talk a

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Speaker 1: little Titans as we get set for this game on

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday night of all evenings. Is ESPN Titans Beat

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01:38:10,520 --> 01:38:13,200
Speaker 1: reporter to Ron Davenport joining us. He's been tweeting an

1915
01:38:13,200 --> 01:38:16,000
Speaker 1: awful lot over the weekend here and we understand why. Heck,

1916
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:18,559
Speaker 1: for the last two weeks, it's been covid watch in

1917
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:21,599
Speaker 1: Nashville for the better part of two weeks. And toron

1918
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:23,760
Speaker 1: how's it going now? Has it died down a little bit?

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Speaker 1: At least? Yes, died down a little bit, you know,

1920
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Speaker 1: a little intended nights the figures we make happy? What

1921
01:38:32,439 --> 01:38:34,439
Speaker 1: is the what's the mood or the vibe coming out

1922
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Speaker 1: of the locker room? Well, since I know the locker

1923
01:38:36,520 --> 01:38:39,400
Speaker 1: room's empty kind of, but what's the vibe coming out

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Speaker 1: of the team, from the players, the coaches and all

1925
01:38:41,640 --> 01:38:43,439
Speaker 1: of that. I know Mike Vrabel has been you know,

1926
01:38:43,479 --> 01:38:46,519
Speaker 1: pretty available to you guys, But what is he what

1927
01:38:46,600 --> 01:38:48,559
Speaker 1: have you been able to glean from those interviews about

1928
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:52,360
Speaker 1: what the players are going through? Yeah, well, I've actually

1929
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:54,640
Speaker 1: talked to some of the players, including one who was

1930
01:38:54,680 --> 01:38:59,120
Speaker 1: on the cod He joked excuse me that he had

1931
01:38:59,160 --> 01:39:02,400
Speaker 1: to laugh to keep crying because of the situation. But

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Speaker 1: a lot of the guys have had a positive mindset.

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Speaker 1: The players that I spoke to that will play on Tuesday,

1934
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:12,000
Speaker 1: they were frustrated as far as not being able to

1935
01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:15,080
Speaker 1: get into the building, and then when you had the

1936
01:39:15,160 --> 01:39:19,479
Speaker 1: positive test yesterday, it was, oh, here we go again

1937
01:39:19,760 --> 01:39:22,639
Speaker 1: type of mindset. But they're really happy to get back

1938
01:39:22,640 --> 01:39:25,639
Speaker 1: to work. So that's a really good thing just from

1939
01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:29,080
Speaker 1: a mental side of things for the player. So, Tron,

1940
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: how are we looking at this from a conditioning standpoint

1941
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:37,120
Speaker 1: for this team? Because despite the player's best individual efforts,

1942
01:39:37,640 --> 01:39:40,240
Speaker 1: they can't replicate what they're doing in practice, let alone

1943
01:39:40,280 --> 01:39:43,160
Speaker 1: in a game. And we're going on fourteen days here

1944
01:39:43,560 --> 01:39:46,599
Speaker 1: that they are removed from real, live practice to get

1945
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Speaker 1: ready for a game. Do you sense that there's a

1946
01:39:49,120 --> 01:39:52,320
Speaker 1: real possibility that, in what is expected to be a

1947
01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:55,200
Speaker 1: very physical football game, as has the last few matchups

1948
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:57,400
Speaker 1: been between these two teams, that we get to the

1949
01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:00,599
Speaker 1: latter stages of the third quarter, fourth quarter, and they

1950
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: and they're missing players due to the COVID list and

1951
01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:05,880
Speaker 1: some injured guys. There's some tongues that could be hanging

1952
01:40:05,880 --> 01:40:10,080
Speaker 1: out tomorrow night right, oh, without a doubt. And that's

1953
01:40:10,120 --> 01:40:12,559
Speaker 1: something that I think is a major factor. And that's

1954
01:40:12,600 --> 01:40:16,160
Speaker 1: why this Titans team, if they want to win against

1955
01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:18,760
Speaker 1: the Bills, they have to jump out early and get

1956
01:40:18,760 --> 01:40:21,760
Speaker 1: out to an early lead because I have no doubt

1957
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:24,200
Speaker 1: that there's going to be some fatigue that's going to

1958
01:40:24,280 --> 01:40:26,800
Speaker 1: set in as you mentioned later in the third quarter

1959
01:40:26,840 --> 01:40:30,040
Speaker 1: and especially into the fourth quarter. That's a major factor

1960
01:40:30,200 --> 01:40:34,120
Speaker 1: for them, and it's something you can't replicate. As you mentioned,

1961
01:40:34,160 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 1: you can't replicate the preparation that you get on a

1962
01:40:38,520 --> 01:40:40,960
Speaker 1: standard week, let alone not being able to do that

1963
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:44,520
Speaker 1: for two weeks. In addition to that, there's a classroom

1964
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 1: aspect of learning, but that's enhanced, but being able to

1965
01:40:47,200 --> 01:40:49,920
Speaker 1: go out onto the field and execute the things that

1966
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Speaker 1: you're taught. One last thing on that note, in addition

1967
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Speaker 1: to kids conditioning, is these guys are the coaching staff.

1968
01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:01,360
Speaker 1: They really they say can they look at at game

1969
01:41:01,439 --> 01:41:05,160
Speaker 1: field and they put together techniques and different things and

1970
01:41:05,240 --> 01:41:07,840
Speaker 1: whether it be matching hands with the quarterback or with

1971
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:11,240
Speaker 1: a guy like Josh Allen making sure that your past

1972
01:41:11,320 --> 01:41:14,519
Speaker 1: rushing lines. They execute these things on the football field

1973
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:17,280
Speaker 1: in practice to transfer to games, and not being able

1974
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:19,800
Speaker 1: to have that, I think it's going to be detrimental. Yeah,

1975
01:41:19,800 --> 01:41:23,680
Speaker 1: the coaches could probably do most of their work remotely,

1976
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:27,840
Speaker 1: as they probably have, but you're right they can't. I

1977
01:41:27,840 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 1: mean they did, they did in the off season. I mean,

1978
01:41:30,280 --> 01:41:32,439
Speaker 1: everybody was playing Zoom and doing the Zoom meetings in

1979
01:41:32,439 --> 01:41:34,800
Speaker 1: the off season all that, But once you got on

1980
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:36,760
Speaker 1: a training camp, guys could meet, they could talk, they

1981
01:41:36,760 --> 01:41:39,240
Speaker 1: could you know, watch each other's body language, they could do.

1982
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:42,519
Speaker 1: It is and we've all yet Zoom's great, but it

1983
01:41:42,560 --> 01:41:47,360
Speaker 1: ain't perfect. And now they've gotten like, what two walkthroughs

1984
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:50,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna have roughly yesterday and today before they go

1985
01:41:50,680 --> 01:41:53,559
Speaker 1: in after after what amounts to what eleven or twelve

1986
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:57,320
Speaker 1: day layoff between practice, their last practice or the last

1987
01:41:57,320 --> 01:42:00,840
Speaker 1: time in the building to their game. What do you

1988
01:42:00,880 --> 01:42:03,680
Speaker 1: anticipate their ability to game plan and they execute a

1989
01:42:03,720 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 1: game plan and do the things that we take for granted. Yeah,

1990
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:10,320
Speaker 1: and that's that's what I was alluding to with the

1991
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:13,280
Speaker 1: not being able to go out there and enhance your

1992
01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:16,880
Speaker 1: classroom learning. It's going to be an issue and it's

1993
01:42:16,960 --> 01:42:19,000
Speaker 1: something that they're going to have to figure out a

1994
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:21,280
Speaker 1: way to work through, especially when you look at this

1995
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Speaker 1: Bills team. Just from my offensives standpoint, Brian Dable is

1996
01:42:26,280 --> 01:42:29,240
Speaker 1: absolutely fabulous with what he's been able to do, especially

1997
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:32,400
Speaker 1: with those crossing routes and how he's able to attack,

1998
01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:35,479
Speaker 1: whether it's it's man or his own coverage. They're killing

1999
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Speaker 1: teams with that. So that's something that they're going to

2000
01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:40,439
Speaker 1: have to figure out a lot of times when you

2001
01:42:40,520 --> 01:42:43,600
Speaker 1: have those crossing routes to safety, he's putting a bad predicament.

2002
01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:45,760
Speaker 1: He doesn't know, Okay, am I going to drop back

2003
01:42:45,800 --> 01:42:48,280
Speaker 1: on this deep crosser and leave this under one? Or

2004
01:42:48,280 --> 01:42:51,320
Speaker 1: what am I going to do? And that subtle hesitation

2005
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: to lead to a big play. So definitely going to

2006
01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:56,960
Speaker 1: be some issues as far as game planning. I will

2007
01:42:57,000 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 1: say this, they'll be mentally prepared, but being able to

2008
01:43:00,479 --> 01:43:03,800
Speaker 1: match the physical, getting your body to do with your

2009
01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 1: mind is telling it to do in a quick moment

2010
01:43:07,040 --> 01:43:10,840
Speaker 1: like that, it's going to be an issue. Talking to

2011
01:43:10,840 --> 01:43:14,960
Speaker 1: Toronto Davenport from ESPN Titans, beat reporter for them, and

2012
01:43:16,080 --> 01:43:19,000
Speaker 1: I need to ask you about player availability here because

2013
01:43:19,000 --> 01:43:22,120
Speaker 1: it's a little murky with respect to the COVID list.

2014
01:43:22,280 --> 01:43:25,080
Speaker 1: I think I've seen it written seven players won't be

2015
01:43:25,160 --> 01:43:28,479
Speaker 1: available from the COVID list. I mean, it's pretty obvious.

2016
01:43:28,479 --> 01:43:31,519
Speaker 1: We know guys like Michael prud and Corey Davis are

2017
01:43:31,600 --> 01:43:33,360
Speaker 1: not going to be off that COVID list in time

2018
01:43:33,400 --> 01:43:36,439
Speaker 1: for tomorrow night's game. There are a few other question marks.

2019
01:43:36,439 --> 01:43:40,320
Speaker 1: So who's maybe give us the shortest list who's been

2020
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:42,320
Speaker 1: able to come off that COVID list that you know

2021
01:43:42,439 --> 01:43:45,479
Speaker 1: will be playing for the Titans tomorrow. Because there's been

2022
01:43:45,560 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: some guys on the list so long they're ready to

2023
01:43:47,200 --> 01:43:51,240
Speaker 1: come back already, right. It's it's been a crazy process.

2024
01:43:52,439 --> 01:43:56,240
Speaker 1: It went full circle right before it even completely worked

2025
01:43:56,240 --> 01:43:59,080
Speaker 1: to sell out. So to your point, de Kwon Jones

2026
01:43:59,680 --> 01:44:03,280
Speaker 1: a very underrated run stuffer, he's gonna come off. He

2027
01:44:03,400 --> 01:44:06,839
Speaker 1: actually had his off already. The long snapper, Bow Brinkly

2028
01:44:07,280 --> 01:44:10,280
Speaker 1: and Steve, I'm sure you could assess to the importance

2029
01:44:10,360 --> 01:44:12,960
Speaker 1: of having a long long snapper, you know, and having

2030
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:18,280
Speaker 1: that relay continue to be consistent. So that's a good

2031
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:21,920
Speaker 1: one for them. There's still names that are on there

2032
01:44:22,040 --> 01:44:27,839
Speaker 1: that are very significant, Adam Humphries, Jeffrey Simmons, Christian Foton.

2033
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:31,640
Speaker 1: These are guys that won't likely play and that's a

2034
01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:35,200
Speaker 1: huge thing for a Titans defense that has already struggled.

2035
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:37,920
Speaker 1: And then what about some guys that were on IR

2036
01:44:38,120 --> 01:44:41,519
Speaker 1: Dory Jackson, Isaiah Wilson. I think they've they've already come

2037
01:44:41,600 --> 01:44:44,080
Speaker 1: through the three week minimum window, but are they ready

2038
01:44:44,080 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 1: to return yet. Yes, Isaiah Wilson was actually on the

2039
01:44:48,400 --> 01:44:52,400
Speaker 1: reserve COVID list twice. He just finished his second tour

2040
01:44:52,400 --> 01:44:55,599
Speaker 1: of duty on the list and they took him off

2041
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:59,160
Speaker 1: and there and he took part in practice on Sunday,

2042
01:44:59,240 --> 01:45:02,760
Speaker 1: So that's a part. But even when he was in

2043
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:06,280
Speaker 1: training camp, there was still a lot to be improved

2044
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:09,280
Speaker 1: upon for him. He was actually taking thirteen reps. You know,

2045
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:12,439
Speaker 1: he had Tyson Brell as well as Dennis Kelly ahead

2046
01:45:12,479 --> 01:45:15,000
Speaker 1: of him. So it's good to have him back, but

2047
01:45:15,080 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 1: that won't be huge for the team. Um a door.

2048
01:45:18,080 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 1: Jackson is not likely to be back for this game,

2049
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:24,880
Speaker 1: and that's something that that will continue to hurt this team,

2050
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:27,760
Speaker 1: especially going against a Bill Say, I mean, I look

2051
01:45:27,840 --> 01:45:30,840
Speaker 1: at that Bills receiver group and It reminds me kind

2052
01:45:30,880 --> 01:45:33,519
Speaker 1: of the last time they had an awesome group of

2053
01:45:33,560 --> 01:45:36,840
Speaker 1: guys and eighty nine was in that group too, and

2054
01:45:37,160 --> 01:45:40,880
Speaker 1: that's great, you know what I mean? And James Lofton,

2055
01:45:41,040 --> 01:45:43,599
Speaker 1: So they need all the corners that they can get

2056
01:45:43,840 --> 01:45:47,800
Speaker 1: to be able to stop this Bill's offense that is

2057
01:45:47,840 --> 01:45:50,800
Speaker 1: reminiscent of that K gun. Yeah. Well, yeah, I had

2058
01:45:50,840 --> 01:45:52,760
Speaker 1: watched a lot of great football from the sidelines to

2059
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:55,920
Speaker 1: that group. But lets I want to ask you this,

2060
01:45:56,600 --> 01:45:59,040
Speaker 1: So a lot has been made outside of Tennsee about

2061
01:45:59,120 --> 01:46:02,080
Speaker 1: what happened with the unauthorized workouts. The guys wanted to

2062
01:46:02,120 --> 01:46:03,960
Speaker 1: work out, and I get it, everybody want kind of

2063
01:46:04,080 --> 01:46:06,800
Speaker 1: would be normal in earn circumstances of guys getting together

2064
01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 1: on their own if they were held out of the meat.

2065
01:46:08,439 --> 01:46:11,680
Speaker 1: But now saying what has Mike Vrabel said about what

2066
01:46:11,720 --> 01:46:14,760
Speaker 1: the league has told him? And Tannehill has said, they've

2067
01:46:14,800 --> 01:46:17,160
Speaker 1: been very transparent with the league when the league has

2068
01:46:17,160 --> 01:46:20,320
Speaker 1: been asking them questions, where does it stand with whatever

2069
01:46:21,400 --> 01:46:24,519
Speaker 1: penalties find punishments that the Tennessee Titans are gonna get

2070
01:46:24,560 --> 01:46:29,520
Speaker 1: because of either broken protocols or broken rules even inadvertently

2071
01:46:29,520 --> 01:46:32,200
Speaker 1: about getting together and working out when they maybe they

2072
01:46:32,280 --> 01:46:34,559
Speaker 1: knew they were supposed not supposed to. I mean, what's

2073
01:46:34,560 --> 01:46:37,599
Speaker 1: going to happen with all of that. Yeah, it's it's

2074
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 1: a huge miscommunication, and it's unfortunate because the league is

2075
01:46:41,400 --> 01:46:45,240
Speaker 1: saying that they let the Titans know along with the Vikings,

2076
01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:48,280
Speaker 1: there were to be no in person activities outside of

2077
01:46:48,320 --> 01:46:51,200
Speaker 1: the facility when it was shut down, and that supposedly

2078
01:46:51,320 --> 01:46:54,040
Speaker 1: came down on the twenty nine. These players worked out

2079
01:46:54,080 --> 01:46:57,439
Speaker 1: on the thirtieth. It was primarily quarterbacks and receivers. And

2080
01:46:57,479 --> 01:47:01,800
Speaker 1: it's confusing because Ryan Tannehill in his press conference, he

2081
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:06,200
Speaker 1: alluded to working out outside of his home, So you

2082
01:47:06,320 --> 01:47:09,599
Speaker 1: just think, Okay, if he knew that that was the case,

2083
01:47:09,680 --> 01:47:13,320
Speaker 1: like you couldn't work out in person, why would he

2084
01:47:13,360 --> 01:47:16,719
Speaker 1: say that on the press conference. And then on October first,

2085
01:47:16,760 --> 01:47:19,840
Speaker 1: Mike Career came out and said, regardless of protocols, we

2086
01:47:19,920 --> 01:47:24,719
Speaker 1: have told players not to gather in person. So there's

2087
01:47:24,720 --> 01:47:29,400
Speaker 1: a lot of discrepancies for lack of better word, and

2088
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:32,200
Speaker 1: they have to figure that out. As you mentioned, Ryan

2089
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: Tannehill said, they've been very transparent. Mike Rabel said they

2090
01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 1: have made literally every player and every coach available to

2091
01:47:39,200 --> 01:47:42,920
Speaker 1: the NFL, and NFLPA, and there has been communication there

2092
01:47:43,200 --> 01:47:46,400
Speaker 1: and he just maintains that they followed protocol and they

2093
01:47:46,400 --> 01:47:49,000
Speaker 1: did the things that they needed to do, and they

2094
01:47:49,040 --> 01:47:51,439
Speaker 1: just say, Okay, it's just going to come out. We're

2095
01:47:51,479 --> 01:47:53,720
Speaker 1: not going to comment on any further that. That's the

2096
01:47:53,760 --> 01:47:57,799
Speaker 1: feedback that we've got talking with ESPN Titans bid reporter

2097
01:47:57,880 --> 01:48:01,400
Speaker 1: to Ron Davenport, And you know, I know I'm probably

2098
01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:03,679
Speaker 1: asking you up and down with this with this roster,

2099
01:48:03,800 --> 01:48:06,200
Speaker 1: but we just there's so many unknownes going into this game.

2100
01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:07,800
Speaker 1: It's like, I feel like I got to tap into

2101
01:48:07,840 --> 01:48:09,920
Speaker 1: your expertise down there to find out what's going on.

2102
01:48:10,160 --> 01:48:14,400
Speaker 1: A very peculiar knee injury for a J. Brown. It's

2103
01:48:14,400 --> 01:48:18,519
Speaker 1: been described as a bone bruise and it's lasted multiple weeks,

2104
01:48:18,520 --> 01:48:23,560
Speaker 1: and he's questionable for Tuesday also, and with walkthrough practices,

2105
01:48:23,600 --> 01:48:25,760
Speaker 1: it's hard to gauge what his availability is truly going

2106
01:48:25,800 --> 01:48:28,479
Speaker 1: to be for Tuesday night. But what do you make

2107
01:48:28,479 --> 01:48:31,599
Speaker 1: of this injury? I know bone bruises can be very painful,

2108
01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:34,080
Speaker 1: and you know it's on a major joint there, but

2109
01:48:34,120 --> 01:48:36,719
Speaker 1: what have you been able to gather from his injury

2110
01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:39,680
Speaker 1: description and the feedback, if any that you've gotten from

2111
01:48:39,720 --> 01:48:43,280
Speaker 1: the Titans on it. Well, I'll say this, he missed

2112
01:48:43,320 --> 01:48:47,360
Speaker 1: a few days in training camp due to a knee.

2113
01:48:47,880 --> 01:48:50,720
Speaker 1: It was never released what it was, but when he

2114
01:48:50,800 --> 01:48:54,839
Speaker 1: came back, he had one of those elastic bands around

2115
01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:59,360
Speaker 1: his knee, like just under the knee cap something that. Yeah,

2116
01:48:59,479 --> 01:49:02,400
Speaker 1: and that's something for ten to night. It is that

2117
01:49:02,439 --> 01:49:06,080
Speaker 1: type of symptom, So that's something to take note of.

2118
01:49:06,439 --> 01:49:09,360
Speaker 1: Apparently the injury happened when Kareem Jackson came down and

2119
01:49:09,439 --> 01:49:12,240
Speaker 1: bank them in the knee while he was blocking. And

2120
01:49:12,920 --> 01:49:15,960
Speaker 1: it's for a guy like a J. Brown who relies

2121
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:18,080
Speaker 1: so much on him being able to put that foot

2122
01:49:18,120 --> 01:49:20,840
Speaker 1: in the ground, explode a field after he catches the

2123
01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:23,360
Speaker 1: football and running through the catch those type of things

2124
01:49:23,360 --> 01:49:26,400
Speaker 1: and get yards after it, it's definitely something to be

2125
01:49:26,479 --> 01:49:29,040
Speaker 1: concerned about. I just wonder if it's going to take

2126
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:32,920
Speaker 1: away from his explosiveness and physicality because that's really his

2127
01:49:32,960 --> 01:49:36,040
Speaker 1: calling card. That's what he's known for. He established himself

2128
01:49:36,080 --> 01:49:38,400
Speaker 1: as one of the better yards after catch receivers. Is

2129
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:40,760
Speaker 1: there any word coming out of guys like like a J.

2130
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:43,880
Speaker 1: Brown or Taylor Laue who have gained huge benefit from

2131
01:49:43,920 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 1: not having the practice not being on their feet, not

2132
01:49:45,960 --> 01:49:48,080
Speaker 1: having a game to miss that kind of thing, that

2133
01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:50,559
Speaker 1: they might be able to use this as a way

2134
01:49:50,600 --> 01:49:54,479
Speaker 1: to give him complete rest until they can get back

2135
01:49:54,479 --> 01:49:57,240
Speaker 1: in the building. Got like, give us a low down

2136
01:49:57,240 --> 01:49:59,360
Speaker 1: on Taylor Lauan and tackle is he going to be

2137
01:49:59,360 --> 01:50:01,920
Speaker 1: in on this wad? And it seems to me like

2138
01:50:01,960 --> 01:50:03,760
Speaker 1: a ton of guys would get healthy over the last

2139
01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 1: two weeks. Right, a lot of guys did get help

2140
01:50:07,080 --> 01:50:08,800
Speaker 1: you over the last two weeks. I'm pretty sure that

2141
01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:11,679
Speaker 1: the wine will play a j Brown is very likely

2142
01:50:11,680 --> 01:50:13,960
Speaker 1: that eight plays too. But one thing that was lost

2143
01:50:13,960 --> 01:50:16,280
Speaker 1: in all this is the building was shut down. The

2144
01:50:16,320 --> 01:50:19,840
Speaker 1: facility would shut down. Now, initially they were able to

2145
01:50:19,920 --> 01:50:23,599
Speaker 1: have up to four players in the athletic training room

2146
01:50:23,640 --> 01:50:27,000
Speaker 1: to work with the athletic trainers. That's not the case,

2147
01:50:27,880 --> 01:50:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, once they had befur the outbreak. So the

2148
01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:33,559
Speaker 1: guys really just got back into the building to fully

2149
01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:38,400
Speaker 1: get their treatment on this past weekend. So they may

2150
01:50:38,439 --> 01:50:41,320
Speaker 1: have healed up some, but they still didn't get that

2151
01:50:41,439 --> 01:50:44,360
Speaker 1: full treatment that you need in order to get to

2152
01:50:44,600 --> 01:50:46,800
Speaker 1: exactly where you want to be. So we'll see what

2153
01:50:46,840 --> 01:50:49,040
Speaker 1: happens or listen. It's questionable, but I think they both

2154
01:50:49,080 --> 01:50:52,840
Speaker 1: play and then turn. What fascinates me is how this

2155
01:50:52,920 --> 01:50:56,320
Speaker 1: personnel usage is going to operate for this Titans team

2156
01:50:56,360 --> 01:50:59,479
Speaker 1: on offense. We know Michael Prue it's not playing. Even

2157
01:50:59,479 --> 01:51:01,760
Speaker 1: if AJ Brown plays, how much does he play? You

2158
01:51:01,840 --> 01:51:04,600
Speaker 1: probably don't have a slot receiver to line up with

2159
01:51:04,680 --> 01:51:07,760
Speaker 1: Humphreys and Davis both out. I know this is a

2160
01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:11,840
Speaker 1: team that plays a good deal at twelve personnel. I

2161
01:51:11,880 --> 01:51:14,320
Speaker 1: know they even play some thirteen from twenty two from

2162
01:51:14,360 --> 01:51:18,519
Speaker 1: twenty one. How limited is that going to be without

2163
01:51:18,520 --> 01:51:21,960
Speaker 1: a guy like Blasting Game available, and without Preuit available,

2164
01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:24,880
Speaker 1: who's probably one of your primary blocker guys who also

2165
01:51:24,920 --> 01:51:26,920
Speaker 1: lines up in the backfield from time to time. How

2166
01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 1: much is that lack of availability going to change some

2167
01:51:29,320 --> 01:51:33,479
Speaker 1: of their personnel usage on offense. That's a great point,

2168
01:51:33,520 --> 01:51:36,439
Speaker 1: and I've mentioned a few times and other shows and

2169
01:51:36,560 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 1: things that I've done, a Blasting Game not playing. It's

2170
01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:41,280
Speaker 1: gonna be big for them because they really like to

2171
01:51:41,360 --> 01:51:44,560
Speaker 1: use that fullback to leave block for Derrick Henry and

2172
01:51:44,760 --> 01:51:47,640
Speaker 1: he's a catcher. He's a pass catcher out of the backfield.

2173
01:51:48,120 --> 01:51:50,320
Speaker 1: As far as the tight ends are concerned, you'll see

2174
01:51:50,360 --> 01:51:52,639
Speaker 1: them go a lot of thirteen personnel. They'll have one

2175
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:56,000
Speaker 1: receiver on the field, Calif Raymond, and that's when they

2176
01:51:56,080 --> 01:51:59,280
Speaker 1: play actually bombs over back. Then they're going deep and

2177
01:51:59,640 --> 01:52:02,280
Speaker 1: they if you watch the Vikings game, that's that's where

2178
01:52:02,280 --> 01:52:06,639
Speaker 1: they did that. So without pro that's definitely a factor

2179
01:52:06,720 --> 01:52:10,040
Speaker 1: for them. But Jeff Swain, they signed him during camp.

2180
01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:13,880
Speaker 1: He formerly of the Cowboys. He'll come in and be

2181
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:15,880
Speaker 1: a guy that they'll count on in that place. So

2182
01:52:15,920 --> 01:52:19,080
Speaker 1: I expect to still see thirteen personnel. You may not

2183
01:52:19,160 --> 01:52:21,800
Speaker 1: see as much twenty two personnel. But let me drop

2184
01:52:21,840 --> 01:52:25,960
Speaker 1: this nugget for you. Practice squad linebacker Darren Bates has

2185
01:52:25,960 --> 01:52:29,120
Speaker 1: played fullback for them before. He did it last year,

2186
01:52:29,320 --> 01:52:31,960
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be surprised if he's caught up and

2187
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:34,920
Speaker 1: they use him at certain times because you know, no

2188
01:52:35,000 --> 01:52:39,240
Speaker 1: offense to quarterback, corner fullback. Excuse me, but essentially you

2189
01:52:39,240 --> 01:52:41,280
Speaker 1: know they use those guys as crash tests tell me.

2190
01:52:41,360 --> 01:52:43,439
Speaker 1: So you just gotta be a little crazy and willing

2191
01:52:43,479 --> 01:52:47,040
Speaker 1: to go in there and throw your nose at those linebackers,

2192
01:52:47,040 --> 01:52:50,040
Speaker 1: and Bates is exactly one of those guys. What Tennessee's

2193
01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:51,920
Speaker 1: had a couple of road games they've got they only

2194
01:52:51,960 --> 01:52:54,880
Speaker 1: had one home game that was against Jacksonville thirty three

2195
01:52:55,040 --> 01:52:57,000
Speaker 1: thirty win. This is their second home game, gonna be

2196
01:52:57,080 --> 01:52:59,160
Speaker 1: fans in the stands, I think, is that not the

2197
01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:02,439
Speaker 1: case or does that somehow change the philosophy with the

2198
01:53:02,479 --> 01:53:06,920
Speaker 1: team coming off of a COVID outbreak. I from what

2199
01:53:07,200 --> 01:53:10,080
Speaker 1: everything that I've been told, it's still the same. They'll

2200
01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:13,400
Speaker 1: operate at fifteen percent capacity. The goal is over the

2201
01:53:13,439 --> 01:53:16,280
Speaker 1: next couple of games, because they have two more home games,

2202
01:53:16,439 --> 01:53:19,600
Speaker 1: the goal is to get up to twenty two percent capacity.

2203
01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:23,000
Speaker 1: Fifteen percent takes them right around the seven thousand mark.

2204
01:53:23,400 --> 01:53:26,840
Speaker 1: So that'll be interesting seeing you know, the fans in there.

2205
01:53:26,880 --> 01:53:28,920
Speaker 1: I know the guys really want the fans back in

2206
01:53:28,960 --> 01:53:31,400
Speaker 1: there because they love the fact of being able to

2207
01:53:31,439 --> 01:53:34,240
Speaker 1: feed off of the energy. You know, they've kind of

2208
01:53:34,439 --> 01:53:38,000
Speaker 1: byoe brought there, brought you bring your own energy, and

2209
01:53:38,280 --> 01:53:41,519
Speaker 1: that's something that you know won't have to happen as much.

2210
01:53:41,760 --> 01:53:43,720
Speaker 1: We have the fans in there. Last one for you,

2211
01:53:43,800 --> 01:53:45,680
Speaker 1: and we've gone about twenty minutes. We haven't even ask

2212
01:53:45,680 --> 01:53:49,200
Speaker 1: you about Tannehill. You know, off off to a good start.

2213
01:53:49,240 --> 01:53:51,519
Speaker 1: I know he's one of the top four in passing

2214
01:53:51,600 --> 01:53:54,200
Speaker 1: yards off of play action and he's only played three

2215
01:53:54,240 --> 01:53:57,760
Speaker 1: games and he's still in the top four. What is

2216
01:53:57,800 --> 01:54:02,679
Speaker 1: it about his game this year that may, in your opinion,

2217
01:54:02,720 --> 01:54:05,240
Speaker 1: be even better than when he looked like he caught

2218
01:54:05,320 --> 01:54:07,800
Speaker 1: lightning in a bottle last year. People were unsure if

2219
01:54:07,800 --> 01:54:09,639
Speaker 1: that was just a one year thing, but he's carried

2220
01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:13,840
Speaker 1: it into this year. What's been the difference for him? Well,

2221
01:54:13,880 --> 01:54:15,880
Speaker 1: the thing that you have to realize and a lot

2222
01:54:15,880 --> 01:54:19,080
Speaker 1: of people overlook, is the fact that all of these

2223
01:54:19,120 --> 01:54:21,719
Speaker 1: guys at the NFL level are talented, but the ones

2224
01:54:21,760 --> 01:54:25,840
Speaker 1: that really elevate themselves, they are very confident players. There's

2225
01:54:25,840 --> 01:54:28,639
Speaker 1: so much of a mental aspect to it. And Ryan

2226
01:54:28,720 --> 01:54:32,640
Speaker 1: Tannehill right now, he has extreme confidence and he's making

2227
01:54:32,720 --> 01:54:35,840
Speaker 1: tight window throws and he's trusting his pass catchers that

2228
01:54:35,920 --> 01:54:38,440
Speaker 1: you see in that play right there to John and Smith.

2229
01:54:38,680 --> 01:54:41,240
Speaker 1: So that's really what's been the difference. And then you

2230
01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:45,560
Speaker 1: have the ultimate marriage of offensive coordinator and quarterback. These

2231
01:54:45,560 --> 01:54:48,400
Speaker 1: guys are thinking at one and you really see a

2232
01:54:48,400 --> 01:54:49,960
Speaker 1: lot of the things that happen as far as the

2233
01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:53,840
Speaker 1: play calling is concerned, it's just the perfect timing, whether

2234
01:54:53,840 --> 01:54:56,240
Speaker 1: it's a screen pass or as I mentioned, the play

2235
01:54:56,240 --> 01:55:00,040
Speaker 1: action of the thirteen personnel. Whatever is happening Ryan and

2236
01:55:00,160 --> 01:55:04,160
Speaker 1: Tannehill is in a comfortable place, and that's allowing his

2237
01:55:04,280 --> 01:55:07,520
Speaker 1: natural ability to really come out of it. I likened

2238
01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:12,320
Speaker 1: it to when Anthony Joshua and Reeves fort and Reeves

2239
01:55:12,360 --> 01:55:16,640
Speaker 1: got not to the canvas and at that point he said, man,

2240
01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:18,680
Speaker 1: I got nothing to lose, and he got back up

2241
01:55:18,720 --> 01:55:21,000
Speaker 1: and he was swinging Haymakers and he ended up knocking

2242
01:55:21,120 --> 01:55:23,560
Speaker 1: josh forever. This is the same thing that happened with

2243
01:55:23,680 --> 01:55:27,320
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill. He said, I had my starting job taking away.

2244
01:55:27,480 --> 01:55:30,600
Speaker 1: I've been humbled to the point where I'm a backup quarterback.

2245
01:55:30,880 --> 01:55:32,480
Speaker 1: I have nothing to lose. I'm going to go out

2246
01:55:32,560 --> 01:55:34,760
Speaker 1: and play to the best of my ability. And that's

2247
01:55:34,760 --> 01:55:37,280
Speaker 1: how he got that mindset as far as that confidence,

2248
01:55:37,520 --> 01:55:40,040
Speaker 1: because he was just letting it rip and now he's

2249
01:55:40,080 --> 01:55:43,360
Speaker 1: just comfortable as well. So it's definitely James Toronto. Thanks man,

2250
01:55:43,480 --> 01:55:45,400
Speaker 1: that's awesome stuff, and look forward to the game and

2251
01:55:45,920 --> 01:55:47,880
Speaker 1: wish you the best. Stay safe down there. We all

2252
01:55:47,920 --> 01:55:50,120
Speaker 1: think that all of a sudden, Nashville is this cesspool

2253
01:55:50,160 --> 01:55:53,600
Speaker 1: of tuck covid, so we we wish you the best,

2254
01:55:53,720 --> 01:55:58,120
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, I appreciate that. I'll definitely stay stated.

2255
01:55:58,200 --> 01:56:01,040
Speaker 1: I want to say I was always a fan of

2256
01:56:01,120 --> 01:56:04,920
Speaker 1: the ninety Bills, you know, throughout that whole decade. So

2257
01:56:05,200 --> 01:56:08,600
Speaker 1: that's why I made those, uh correlations. I appreciate the

2258
01:56:08,640 --> 01:56:11,720
Speaker 1: stuff he did. I definitely respect that I played receiver,

2259
01:56:11,960 --> 01:56:14,680
Speaker 1: didn't play special teams, but you went all out man,

2260
01:56:14,800 --> 01:56:18,880
Speaker 1: and you definitely well, that's nice to you say. I

2261
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:21,680
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Ron, thanks so much. All right. Ron Davenport

2262
01:56:21,800 --> 01:56:25,600
Speaker 1: from ESPN dot com covers the Titans and clearly a

2263
01:56:25,720 --> 01:56:28,600
Speaker 1: fan of the nineties Bills. Wow, Sharon's showing the love

2264
01:56:28,680 --> 01:56:32,000
Speaker 1: for Steve and the K gun and all of it. Yeah,

2265
01:56:32,640 --> 01:56:35,000
Speaker 1: the names too. Oh yeah, they're reading all those guys.

2266
01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:36,360
Speaker 1: He had it. He had it right on the tip

2267
01:56:36,400 --> 01:56:39,320
Speaker 1: of his tongue there. It's as it gets further into

2268
01:56:39,360 --> 01:56:42,840
Speaker 1: the past, it takes an older and older person to

2269
01:56:42,960 --> 01:56:45,640
Speaker 1: remember those days. Let me just say, hey, it's on,

2270
01:56:45,840 --> 01:56:50,120
Speaker 1: it's on. It's on reels, film reels somewhere right. Yeah, yeah,

2271
01:56:50,200 --> 01:56:54,800
Speaker 1: you can YouTube, but yeah, uh so. Yeah. It's it's

2272
01:56:54,880 --> 01:56:58,760
Speaker 1: interesting because you hear all the names that Tarn listed

2273
01:56:59,000 --> 01:57:03,320
Speaker 1: and you you quickly come to the realization that the

2274
01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:06,760
Speaker 1: Titans really do in many ways have the deck stacked

2275
01:57:06,760 --> 01:57:10,080
Speaker 1: against them, a motion aside that Steve's mentioned as what

2276
01:57:10,280 --> 01:57:12,440
Speaker 1: he thinks will be a positive and a plus for them.

2277
01:57:13,440 --> 01:57:16,240
Speaker 1: There are a lot of bodies missing here for the Titans,

2278
01:57:16,360 --> 01:57:19,200
Speaker 1: either due to the COVID IR list as we see

2279
01:57:19,240 --> 01:57:23,200
Speaker 1: on the screen for our MSG viewers, or due to injury.

2280
01:57:24,040 --> 01:57:25,760
Speaker 1: Now he said, it looks like A. J. Brown and

2281
01:57:25,800 --> 01:57:28,160
Speaker 1: Taylor Lauan are both going to suit up. What they

2282
01:57:28,280 --> 01:57:31,360
Speaker 1: get out of those guys remains to be seen. But

2283
01:57:31,520 --> 01:57:34,480
Speaker 1: I think the conditioning is a real factor in this game.

2284
01:57:34,880 --> 01:57:37,120
Speaker 1: And if the Bills are up on the scoreboard, you know,

2285
01:57:37,200 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, advantage Buffalo, because I think they're

2286
01:57:40,320 --> 01:57:43,880
Speaker 1: going to start to wear those guys out, especially when

2287
01:57:43,880 --> 01:57:46,880
Speaker 1: you think about the defensive backs. And if the Bills

2288
01:57:46,880 --> 01:57:49,520
Speaker 1: are going three and four wide for most of this game,

2289
01:57:49,560 --> 01:57:52,520
Speaker 1: which I think everybody anticipates will be the case, they're

2290
01:57:52,560 --> 01:57:55,080
Speaker 1: shorthanded at the corner position. Dorry Jackson's not going to

2291
01:57:55,160 --> 01:57:57,920
Speaker 1: play still on IR. You got Christian Fulton on the

2292
01:57:57,960 --> 01:58:02,200
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list, so real quickly, your cornerback contingent gets

2293
01:58:02,360 --> 01:58:04,680
Speaker 1: very thin, very fast. Yeah, And if they're out there

2294
01:58:04,760 --> 01:58:07,960
Speaker 1: on the field for fifty sixty snaps after not playing

2295
01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:10,000
Speaker 1: for two weeks. That's a lot of running. Yeah, it's

2296
01:58:10,040 --> 01:58:11,840
Speaker 1: a lot. It's gonna take its toll. It'll sin be

2297
01:58:11,920 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 1: the same thing for the defensive line rotation that the

2298
01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 1: Bills run through there as well. Those offensive linemen are

2299
01:58:16,040 --> 01:58:20,280
Speaker 1: gonna be sucking wind and yeah, if if, if, if

2300
01:58:20,360 --> 01:58:23,480
Speaker 1: they can get this game through that opening adrenaline rush,

2301
01:58:23,560 --> 01:58:26,760
Speaker 1: the Titans are gonna you know display, I think, yeah,

2302
01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:29,520
Speaker 1: the Bills should be Let's face it, that's the reason

2303
01:58:29,600 --> 01:58:31,280
Speaker 1: I think the Titans are gonna play so well. They've

2304
01:58:31,320 --> 01:58:33,200
Speaker 1: got every excuse in the world not to play well

2305
01:58:33,240 --> 01:58:35,080
Speaker 1: in this game, and not to not to play hard

2306
01:58:35,120 --> 01:58:37,120
Speaker 1: and not to have some success in this game. So

2307
01:58:37,200 --> 01:58:40,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna cut loosen and like like Tehron just said,

2308
01:58:40,680 --> 01:58:44,160
Speaker 1: Dron Davenport, they they're they're gonna take a puncher's chance.

2309
01:58:44,960 --> 01:58:47,720
Speaker 1: They're gonna come out swinging and swinging hard and see

2310
01:58:47,720 --> 01:58:49,720
Speaker 1: if they can't get the Bills off their game. Mike

2311
01:58:49,760 --> 01:58:51,920
Speaker 1: and Rochester, time and lack of wanna hang type will

2312
01:58:51,960 --> 01:58:54,080
Speaker 1: get to you after the break. Gotta step aside. Here

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Speaker 1: back in a moment Here on one Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio final

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Speaker 1: half hour of the program, a Monday edition of One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Back to

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Speaker 1: the phones. We go at eight O three five fifty,

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Speaker 1: where we are asking you your greatest concern heading into

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Speaker 1: this game with the Titans on Tuesday night. We go

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Speaker 1: to Tom in Lackawanna. Tom, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. A couple of things. First, if

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Speaker 1: they win the coin flip, I would not defer this week.

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Speaker 1: I would take the ball and try to score because

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Speaker 1: with all the guys we got hurt on defense and

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Speaker 1: whatever amount of fans they let in over there or whatever, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they want to, you know, try to grab some momentum

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Speaker 1: and definitely, you know, keep our defense off the field.

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Speaker 1: And someone had called, I don't know a while back

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01:59:56,960 --> 02:00:01,480
Speaker 1: about bringing the safeties and putting more guys in the box.

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Speaker 1: Well that's great, except you got you b grad from

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Speaker 1: the practice squad and a guy who played one game

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Speaker 1: this year. I don't think you want to leave those

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Speaker 1: guys out on an island. I do it. They do

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02:00:14,120 --> 02:00:17,800
Speaker 1: have to shut down Henry and John U. Smith, But

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Speaker 1: you know that's what the other nine guys are there for.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can, you know, throw those guys

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Speaker 1: and who leave them out there, because even somebody like

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Speaker 1: tannen Hill, with whatever kind of receivers they'll have, can

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Speaker 1: still change the game. Well, here's the thing, Tom, if

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Speaker 1: they do that is because they think the matchups in

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Speaker 1: their favor. They're not going to do it thinking they're

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Speaker 1: going to get worse. So they're going to see something

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02:00:41,880 --> 02:00:45,560
Speaker 1: on film that gives them. They think the idea that

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02:00:45,640 --> 02:00:47,560
Speaker 1: they're guys and what they see in them every day

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02:00:47,560 --> 02:00:49,640
Speaker 1: in practice is better than what they see on film.

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Speaker 1: So we bring that up as an option because we

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Speaker 1: know that Tennessee's a different kind of offense than the

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Speaker 1: ones they usually see. We don't know what they see

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Speaker 1: game plan wise, and certainly, while you know it seems

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02:01:01,040 --> 02:01:03,840
Speaker 1: you can kind of conjure up the logic of making

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02:01:03,880 --> 02:01:06,040
Speaker 1: a move like the one we're talking about. We don't

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02:01:06,080 --> 02:01:08,160
Speaker 1: see the game plan and we don't see what they

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02:01:08,280 --> 02:01:11,120
Speaker 1: see on film. So it may be that the Bills

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02:01:11,160 --> 02:01:13,680
Speaker 1: just go out, go and nickel like they do all

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Speaker 1: the time and play, but you can certainly conjure up

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Speaker 1: the logic for doing something different against a team like Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, you know, for all of us, we

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02:01:24,760 --> 02:01:27,400
Speaker 1: don't have any reason to think that the guys that

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Speaker 1: don't play all the time, like Cam Lewis, Dean Marlowe's

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02:01:30,160 --> 02:01:33,520
Speaker 1: Kwon Johnson are good enough to play. But they're on

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Speaker 1: They're on the team and on this roster for a reason,

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Speaker 1: and the and the coaching staff knows what they can do.

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Speaker 1: So if they're out there as a part of the

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Speaker 1: game plan package is because the Bills think they're the

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Speaker 1: best matchup. So take heart, and I get what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: but this is a different kind of team they're facing

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Speaker 1: this week, and the Bills are facing some injury problems

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Speaker 1: that they aren't end usually eight three, five fifty to

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Speaker 1: join us to thanks for the call, we go to

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Speaker 1: Mike and Rochester. Mike, you're on one Live. What do

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Speaker 1: you have for us? Hey, good evening guys or an

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Speaker 1: afternoons um. I got a few things to say a

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Speaker 1: little bit about the defense obviously Milano. This is a

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Speaker 1: big loss, which hurts us in the middle. But I

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Speaker 1: think you know, the last game they started to show promise,

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Speaker 1: you know, in their defense, the running game. Obviously they're

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Speaker 1: pretty strong at Milano. Did get hurt come out a

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Speaker 1: little early in that game, so we didn't really have

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Speaker 1: a much you know against the Raiders. But being said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I feel this game is going to be

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Speaker 1: a real tough game in the trenches. Obviously, Derrick Henry's

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02:02:41,360 --> 02:02:44,560
Speaker 1: a horse we gotta we gotta worry about on that

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Speaker 1: offensive side. Plus you don't like you say, they got

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Speaker 1: the tight ends and he's Tanning Hills a great um

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02:02:51,240 --> 02:02:54,280
Speaker 1: you know, play extra quarterback. I also believe that you

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02:02:54,400 --> 02:02:57,600
Speaker 1: gotta watch Tanning Hill with his legs. I think he's

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02:02:57,760 --> 02:03:00,200
Speaker 1: he could be you know, he runs the ball, you know,

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Speaker 1: very sparingly, but the gifts got to make sure we

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02:03:04,280 --> 02:03:06,440
Speaker 1: keep him in a pocket and no one heard on

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02:03:06,560 --> 02:03:09,080
Speaker 1: the outside and run. But those from short first sounds

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Speaker 1: that they're going to need. Yeah, that's that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a valid point. Thanks for the call. Yeah, I mean,

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02:03:14,200 --> 02:03:16,080
Speaker 1: I think people forget he is a pretty good athlete.

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02:03:16,080 --> 02:03:18,240
Speaker 1: He played receiver at one point in time in college,

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02:03:18,240 --> 02:03:19,920
Speaker 1: but well for the first couple of years of his

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02:03:20,000 --> 02:03:22,160
Speaker 1: career in the NFL he had still played more receiver

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02:03:22,240 --> 02:03:24,880
Speaker 1: than he had quarterback. So yeah, there is that and

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02:03:26,040 --> 02:03:27,560
Speaker 1: one of the reasons one of the things they like

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Speaker 1: to do in their play action passing game is to

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Speaker 1: bootleg him and get him out because he's got the

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Speaker 1: wheels to get outside that backside to end and give

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02:03:38,200 --> 02:03:40,320
Speaker 1: himself some time and get his momentum going towards a

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02:03:40,360 --> 02:03:42,160
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and he can either you know, tuck

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02:03:42,240 --> 02:03:43,840
Speaker 1: it and run and get some good yardage or whatever.

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02:03:43,880 --> 02:03:46,200
Speaker 1: But he's good enough athlete to do that, and he's

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02:03:46,240 --> 02:03:48,520
Speaker 1: pretty good when he does throw on the run as well.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's not you know, he's not like Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady who who struggles when he when he's running with

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Speaker 1: a football trying to throw. Tannehill is one of those

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Speaker 1: guys that can throw it pretty good. Like's not I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's not Pat Mahlomes or anything like that, but he

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Speaker 1: doesn't shy away from that. And it's part of their

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Speaker 1: arsenal that they use a lot. So he's right. He's right.

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Speaker 1: To Kevin in Utica, we go, Kevin, thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: the show. What do you have for us? Hey? So, um,

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Speaker 1: I know with all the emotional hype with the Titans

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02:04:16,640 --> 02:04:19,400
Speaker 1: and Steve talking about how that could be a good

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Speaker 1: driving factor, but I was wondering if we could play

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Speaker 1: a little um taster picks the Bills. Who do you

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Speaker 1: think actually wins the game? They want a game prediction, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I'm picking the Bills. Yeah, okay, I am too. I

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Speaker 1: think they'll win by a touchdown. Yeah. Everything's gotten so

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02:04:37,920 --> 02:04:42,320
Speaker 1: scared right now, just because of all um distractors. I

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02:04:42,360 --> 02:04:44,040
Speaker 1: guess you could say there's a lot of unknowns in

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Speaker 1: this game. And Kevin, I'll just tell you this for

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Speaker 1: the next let's see, we got four games under our board.

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Speaker 1: For the next twelve games, I'll probably pick the Bills

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02:04:51,720 --> 02:04:55,800
Speaker 1: in each one of those two. So that sounds good.

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Speaker 1: Same here, man. I appreciate the call, Kevin, Thank you much.

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Speaker 1: We move along. We go to Mike calling us from

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Mike, what do you have for us? Thanks

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02:05:03,760 --> 02:05:07,720
Speaker 1: for joining us. Hey, gentlemen, listen, I just want the

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Speaker 1: Bills to win because I still have a bitter feeling

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02:05:11,520 --> 02:05:18,320
Speaker 1: regarding that ladder all that many years ago. Yeah, home

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02:05:18,440 --> 02:05:22,240
Speaker 1: run throw forward, as Wade Phillips used to call it. Yeah,

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02:05:23,040 --> 02:05:25,680
Speaker 1: uh yeah. I you know, they went down there last

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02:05:25,760 --> 02:05:28,200
Speaker 1: year and beat him, and they've won each of the

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02:05:28,280 --> 02:05:30,880
Speaker 1: last three meetings between the two teams. They've been a

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02:05:30,920 --> 02:05:33,839
Speaker 1: lot of close games between these two clubs. Twenty seventeen

2440
02:05:33,960 --> 02:05:37,360
Speaker 1: was a one point game. Twenty eighteen was a one

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02:05:37,440 --> 02:05:41,040
Speaker 1: point game, so you know, and then last year they

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02:05:41,080 --> 02:05:45,680
Speaker 1: win by a touchdown in a very hard fought I

2443
02:05:45,760 --> 02:05:50,040
Speaker 1: mean that was a physical game last year and were

2444
02:05:50,080 --> 02:05:53,000
Speaker 1: thankfully Kiro Santos went over four on field goals, otherwise

2445
02:05:53,000 --> 02:05:55,080
Speaker 1: it would have been a different game. Dad, And Duke

2446
02:05:55,160 --> 02:05:57,760
Speaker 1: Johnson catches the game winner and maybe one of his

2447
02:05:57,840 --> 02:06:01,880
Speaker 1: major Williams, Duke Williams, would you said, Duke Duke Williams

2448
02:06:02,040 --> 02:06:04,240
Speaker 1: catches the game winner on the on the nice slant route,

2449
02:06:04,240 --> 02:06:06,360
Speaker 1: which is probably the highlight of the season for him,

2450
02:06:07,120 --> 02:06:09,200
Speaker 1: although he did have some nice catches too, even so

2451
02:06:09,320 --> 02:06:11,960
Speaker 1: far as in the uh in the playoff game, even

2452
02:06:12,040 --> 02:06:16,840
Speaker 1: but uh, this is gonna be under normal circumstances is

2453
02:06:16,880 --> 02:06:22,320
Speaker 1: a tough game. And with all the unknowns and problems

2454
02:06:22,360 --> 02:06:24,520
Speaker 1: that they've had with this game, getting it on the schedule,

2455
02:06:24,640 --> 02:06:29,920
Speaker 1: getting it played, you really don't know how it's gonna

2456
02:06:29,960 --> 02:06:33,080
Speaker 1: turn out. And so you can you can make generalizations

2457
02:06:33,120 --> 02:06:35,240
Speaker 1: and all that, even and but we don't know yet.

2458
02:06:35,320 --> 02:06:38,200
Speaker 1: So that's why you can't just say, well, there's gonna

2459
02:06:38,200 --> 02:06:39,840
Speaker 1: be another game, just like all the others. The Bills

2460
02:06:39,840 --> 02:06:42,440
Speaker 1: are gonna score week league as week to week league.

2461
02:06:43,040 --> 02:06:45,720
Speaker 1: Now it's a week week till week week league, a

2462
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Speaker 1: nine day week league. They're playing on Tuesday, eight h

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty to Keith in cheek to waga, Keith,

2464
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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Thanks for joining us?

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02:06:54,920 --> 02:06:57,720
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was just wanting in uh with Matt

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Speaker 1: Milano if we listen, just maybe eighty or eighty ye

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02:07:01,720 --> 02:07:05,440
Speaker 1: present and they might be holding them out, you know,

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02:07:05,600 --> 02:07:08,160
Speaker 1: and you know because they're probably going to need him

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02:07:08,240 --> 02:07:13,560
Speaker 1: Morgans Kansas City. Uh yeah, yeah, sort of don't want

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02:07:13,640 --> 02:07:15,440
Speaker 1: him to get hurt together. Yeah, from a from a

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02:07:15,480 --> 02:07:18,520
Speaker 1: coverage standpoint, Keith, that's a valid point. They probably wouldn't

2472
02:07:18,520 --> 02:07:21,160
Speaker 1: need him more in coverage in the Chiefs game than

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02:07:21,240 --> 02:07:23,400
Speaker 1: they would here in the Titans games. I mean, John H.

2474
02:07:23,480 --> 02:07:26,120
Speaker 1: Smith's a nice tight end and Malana usually draws the

2475
02:07:26,200 --> 02:07:29,600
Speaker 1: tight end coverage assignments in many cases. Kelsey is a

2476
02:07:29,760 --> 02:07:34,280
Speaker 1: much different animal than John HU Smith. So yes, you

2477
02:07:34,360 --> 02:07:36,320
Speaker 1: could certainly make the argument that they would need him

2478
02:07:36,320 --> 02:07:38,000
Speaker 1: more for the Chiefs game than this game. So let

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Speaker 1: him rest this one up. But this peck injury, we

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02:07:40,960 --> 02:07:43,360
Speaker 1: don't know the severity of it. So it's hard to

2481
02:07:43,440 --> 02:07:46,400
Speaker 1: really gauge, you know, where he's at. Is he at

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02:07:46,440 --> 02:07:49,240
Speaker 1: sixty percent, is he at eighty percent recovered? Is he

2483
02:07:49,320 --> 02:07:51,560
Speaker 1: at forty percent recovered? And has no I mean, coach

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02:07:51,680 --> 02:07:54,640
Speaker 1: McDermott called him week to week, which makes it sound

2485
02:07:54,760 --> 02:07:57,360
Speaker 1: as though the injury is carrying more severity than the

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02:07:57,400 --> 02:08:00,120
Speaker 1: typical one to two week injury. So we'll have to

2487
02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:04,200
Speaker 1: see where it goes. But yeah, all we'd know definitively

2488
02:08:04,360 --> 02:08:07,680
Speaker 1: is he is not playing tomorrow. From what I've noticed

2489
02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:11,400
Speaker 1: about how the Bills handled injuries, and you know, thankfully

2490
02:08:11,440 --> 02:08:13,760
Speaker 1: there haven't been that much in twenty nineteen, we didn't

2491
02:08:13,760 --> 02:08:16,000
Speaker 1: seem too you know, they've stayed very relatively healthy. This

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02:08:16,120 --> 02:08:17,680
Speaker 1: year seems to be a little different than that. But

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02:08:18,160 --> 02:08:20,240
Speaker 1: it's been my observation that they give these guys a

2494
02:08:20,360 --> 02:08:22,000
Speaker 1: chance to be one hundred percent before they throw them

2495
02:08:22,040 --> 02:08:25,360
Speaker 1: back out there. They don't put guys out there half ready.

2496
02:08:25,360 --> 02:08:28,840
Speaker 1: And now, certainly Tremaine Edmonds, you can make the argument

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02:08:28,920 --> 02:08:31,560
Speaker 1: that they weren't one hundred percent. He or Milano either

2498
02:08:31,600 --> 02:08:33,760
Speaker 1: one were one hundred percent when they got back out

2499
02:08:33,800 --> 02:08:37,040
Speaker 1: there after the early season injuries. But I will say

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02:08:37,080 --> 02:08:40,480
Speaker 1: that there are a wide range of injuries. And this

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02:08:40,680 --> 02:08:43,960
Speaker 1: was true when I played, and I can only suspect

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02:08:44,040 --> 02:08:46,640
Speaker 1: that it's true now that as long as the player,

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02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:48,840
Speaker 1: you can tell the player definitive, the doctors will say, listen,

2504
02:08:48,880 --> 02:08:53,600
Speaker 1: you can play, and you're not gonna hurt it worse

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02:08:54,680 --> 02:08:56,760
Speaker 1: by playing. It's not more at any more risk. If

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Speaker 1: you can play with the pain, you're gonna be fine.

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02:09:00,520 --> 02:09:02,760
Speaker 1: You won't be any more susceptible to reinjuring it or

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Speaker 1: injuring it further than you were Otherwise. You can say

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02:09:05,280 --> 02:09:08,440
Speaker 1: it's crazy, but it's really true, and they and that's

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02:09:08,480 --> 02:09:10,920
Speaker 1: how the league kind of operates. So if the player

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02:09:10,960 --> 02:09:14,880
Speaker 1: can stand the pain, you'll go out and play. Now,

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02:09:16,200 --> 02:09:21,720
Speaker 1: not very often does that happen that that is the case.

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02:09:21,880 --> 02:09:24,000
Speaker 1: Usually it's like, yeah, you're a little more susceptible to

2514
02:09:24,000 --> 02:09:26,480
Speaker 1: injury unless you put this will help you put this

2515
02:09:26,560 --> 02:09:29,400
Speaker 1: shoulder brace on, or if you wrap your leg, or

2516
02:09:29,400 --> 02:09:31,240
Speaker 1: if you tape your knee, or if you tape your

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02:09:31,240 --> 02:09:33,400
Speaker 1: ankle better, or if you use a special tape job,

2518
02:09:33,480 --> 02:09:35,720
Speaker 1: you're toe will be better. You know, that kind of

2519
02:09:35,760 --> 02:09:38,600
Speaker 1: stuff happens as well. But it's been my observation this

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02:09:38,720 --> 02:09:41,440
Speaker 1: club makes sure the player is comfortable with his physical

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Speaker 1: body before they ask him to even play or other

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Speaker 1: that's even on the table. So we've seen guys take

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Speaker 1: an extra week or two or game or two to

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Speaker 1: come back from a hammy. Yeah, so I would say

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Speaker 1: that they're being very They're on the cautious side of

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Speaker 1: the injury front when it comes to players and putting

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Speaker 1: them back out out there quickly. To Ben in Amherst, Ben,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Thanks for joining us. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you probably covered this at length this week,

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Speaker 1: but today's the first day I was able to tune in.

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Speaker 1: What happens if one of the Titans players test positive tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: Do they postpone the game? Yeah? We well probably would.

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Speaker 1: It would depend on the tracing that they would trace

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Speaker 1: with the player. If they can determine that the player

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Speaker 1: was within close proximity based on the tracing technology with

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Speaker 1: one of the guys that recently went on the COVID list,

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Speaker 1: like Michael Prud who just went on the list October eighth,

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Speaker 1: and this guy was in close proximity to him, you know,

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Speaker 1: over that period of time, and he tests positive, then

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Speaker 1: I think you do run the risk of seeing the

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Speaker 1: game being postponed again. If it's a coach or somebody

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Speaker 1: that was not in close proximity to any of these

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Speaker 1: other guys that recently tested positive, then I think it's

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Speaker 1: one of those isolated cases like we saw with Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: where they still play the game. I think those that's

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02:10:59,360 --> 02:11:00,960
Speaker 1: what you're looking at. It's based it's going to be

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Speaker 1: based on the tracing, right, that's right, and but the

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Speaker 1: league is going to do everything they can to go

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Speaker 1: ahead and get this game on. Now you can say,

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02:11:08,640 --> 02:11:10,320
Speaker 1: and I've heard this, you know, you get the stuff

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02:11:10,320 --> 02:11:12,840
Speaker 1: on social media. Well, you know it's criminal that they're

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02:11:12,880 --> 02:11:15,200
Speaker 1: putting this guy. These guys out there. Listen, they signed

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02:11:15,280 --> 02:11:16,520
Speaker 1: up for it. They know what they're doing. They had

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02:11:16,520 --> 02:11:18,480
Speaker 1: a chance to opt out. They knew they were going

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02:11:18,520 --> 02:11:20,320
Speaker 1: to be in proximity to teams who had had an

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Speaker 1: outbreak or two teams who had had a positive here

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02:11:23,200 --> 02:11:25,880
Speaker 1: or there, however you want to slice it. This was

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Speaker 1: part of the up the signing up for this season,

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Speaker 1: and the league, along with the union, has put together

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02:11:33,320 --> 02:11:37,240
Speaker 1: some strict protocols that the players are responsible for following

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02:11:37,360 --> 02:11:41,160
Speaker 1: and holding the clubs accountable for following as well. So

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02:11:42,040 --> 02:11:44,480
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the Titans. You can make whatever case

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02:11:44,600 --> 02:11:47,520
Speaker 1: you want about not following it or not being communicated

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Speaker 1: with properly. Most of the teams have been able to

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02:11:51,960 --> 02:11:54,080
Speaker 1: keep on keeping on when they get this one guy

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Speaker 1: who comes in and he's positive in the morning, he's

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02:11:56,760 --> 02:11:58,560
Speaker 1: out of the building without ever coming in, and they

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02:11:58,640 --> 02:12:01,400
Speaker 1: just keep on going. So if that's kind of the case,

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Speaker 1: you can bet that if that happens tomorrow, the game's

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Speaker 1: going to happen. One more segment to go here on

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live back in a second with what have

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Speaker 1: we Learned? Brought to you by Kalid to Health. This

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02:12:11,000 --> 02:12:26,240
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio, or what have we Learned? Brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company

2575
02:12:29,440 --> 02:12:32,839
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills. We had NFL Media's Judy Batista

2576
02:12:32,960 --> 02:12:35,200
Speaker 1: on the show earlier today and she was given us

2577
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Speaker 1: a lay of the NFL landscape and the league's plans

2578
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Speaker 1: to try to stay on schedule and avoid a Week

2579
02:12:41,320 --> 02:12:45,640
Speaker 1: eighteen at all costs. I think the real critical moment

2580
02:12:45,680 --> 02:12:47,880
Speaker 1: will be after we get past, you know, this first

2581
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Speaker 1: half of the season, when there are no more bye

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Speaker 1: weeks to move things into. Then they're going to have

2583
02:12:53,400 --> 02:12:55,560
Speaker 1: to make a decision. The league office will have to

2584
02:12:55,600 --> 02:12:58,240
Speaker 1: make the decision. Remember they created that council to sort

2585
02:12:58,240 --> 02:13:01,960
Speaker 1: of advise Roger Goodell on competitive issues. They're going to

2586
02:13:02,040 --> 02:13:04,840
Speaker 1: have to make a decision of do you prefer adding

2587
02:13:04,880 --> 02:13:06,640
Speaker 1: an extra week on the back end of the season

2588
02:13:06,680 --> 02:13:08,680
Speaker 1: if you need it, or can you get comfortable with

2589
02:13:08,720 --> 02:13:12,400
Speaker 1: the idea that maybe some teams play fifteen games. Hopefully

2590
02:13:12,440 --> 02:13:14,280
Speaker 1: it doesn't come to that, you know, it only comes

2591
02:13:14,320 --> 02:13:17,360
Speaker 1: to that if you have an outbreak situation like they

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Speaker 1: had in Tennessee, and certainly they're hoping not to have

2593
02:13:19,520 --> 02:13:23,360
Speaker 1: anything that serious. Again, they're running out of bye weeks fast,

2594
02:13:23,640 --> 02:13:25,680
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have to get even more creative than

2595
02:13:25,680 --> 02:13:28,480
Speaker 1: they've already been if they have another outbreak or some

2596
02:13:28,600 --> 02:13:30,800
Speaker 1: other teams have to get their games moved around. And

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02:13:30,920 --> 02:13:33,480
Speaker 1: this ain't it's we're not done yet. This is going

2598
02:13:33,560 --> 02:13:35,480
Speaker 1: to go. This is gonna be a week to week thing,

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Speaker 1: and they'll be guys, Hopefully they can keep the lid

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Speaker 1: on this Titans thing and nobody else has an outbreak

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Speaker 1: at least for a little bit. Right, So tomorrow's show

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Speaker 1: is going to be like an extended pregame edition of

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Speaker 1: One Bill's live as we get you set for the

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02:13:49,720 --> 02:13:52,120
Speaker 1: Tuesday night game between the Bills and Titans, and we'll

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Speaker 1: have Jay Feeley on, former NFL punter. He'll be on

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Speaker 1: the show tomorrow. Join us then Steve Task or Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown One. Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, has been

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