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Speaker 1: They about their business and you know what, it means

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Speaker 1: we benefit from basically three real head coaches on one's

428
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Speaker 1: team because the adjustments we made a high time was

429
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: was brilliant. Man, I'm just happy to be a Bills fan.

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Speaker 1: Go Bills Mafia, man one love peace. All right, thanks

431
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: for the calling, Teddy, appreciate it. Yeah. I think that's

432
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,479
Speaker 1: that's how a lot of people are feeling today. I

433
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 1: think they went into last night's game still with that

434
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: tiny bit of trepidation, a little bit of concern, like, hey,

435
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: we're on the big stage again. We were just on

436
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: national TV last week. It was great. Josh lit him up.

437
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: This is the Steelers. They're eleven and One'm a little

438
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: bit concerned, and I think their concerns were allayed by

439
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Speaker 1: the fact that this just in This team's pretty dang good.

440
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, there. The Steeler defense is legit. Their secondary

441
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 1: is very good. They play physical brand of football. Their

442
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: their pass rush is really good. They are very good

443
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Speaker 1: against the Bills run game as well. Even though the

444
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 1: Bills ended up rushing for one hundred and four yards

445
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: or something like that, their defense is still the kind

446
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Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh defense that we're used to seeing year after year.

447
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: Their offense was the thing that led him down last night.

448
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 1: It's inability to move the football. They could not convert

449
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Speaker 1: a third down one of ten on the night, like

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Speaker 1: he said, Brownie, And you knew going in it was

451
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Speaker 1: going to be a struggle because you know, you got

452
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Speaker 1: to score points in this league to win, and it

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Speaker 1: looked like it was going to be hard for the

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Speaker 1: Bills to do that. And then, of course the thing

455
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Speaker 1: that said it open was the pick six by tarn Johnson.

456
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Speaker 1: Then the two straight drives for touchdowns to open the

457
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Speaker 1: second half that really put that game away, and that

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00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,919
Speaker 1: once that happened, it began to really wear on the

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Speaker 1: Steelers themselves about how deep a hole it was for

460
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Speaker 1: them to dig out of, and you could see their

461
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: lack of faith in their ability to do it. The

462
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: broadcast team for the game on Saturday has just been

463
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Speaker 1: announced because it's going to be airing on NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: Adam A. Meine, Mark Schlareth and Lindsay Zarniact to call

465
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Speaker 1: the Bills Broncos game at four thirty on Saturday. This week.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones and we go to

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Speaker 1: Joe in North Collins. Joe, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to one Bills Live. Yeah, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to make a comment on the offense and

470
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Speaker 1: listen to what you guys feel about it. In years past,

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Speaker 1: when we were in the lead, we wouldn't know what

472
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Speaker 1: was coming up. It would be run, run, run, run,

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Speaker 1: and we tended to give up a lot of leads

474
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Speaker 1: that way. It's so nice to see the confidence that

475
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Speaker 1: they have in the offense that that's not what's happening. Now.

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Speaker 1: We'll throw in a run, but we'll stay with our

477
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Speaker 1: foot on the pedal and we'll continue to throw the

478
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Speaker 1: ball and continue to do what's working best. We kept

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Speaker 1: our offense true to the identity of what they are

480
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: now and it's paying off. And like I'm going to

481
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Speaker 1: hang up and just listen to what you got to say.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, no problem. So I

483
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: think I don't know where you sit on this, Steve,

484
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: but I think that if you want to look at

485
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Speaker 1: the biggest difference between this year's offense and last year's offense,

486
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Speaker 1: it's two things. It's obviously Josh Allen's improvement, but I

487
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Speaker 1: think a byproduct of one of the main reasons for

488
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Speaker 1: that improvement is you have an elite receiver who can

489
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Speaker 1: win against press man consistently and is open and while

490
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Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to take anything away from John

491
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Speaker 1: Brown and Cole Beasley and their contributions to this team

492
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Speaker 1: last year, let loan this year, but Diggs takes it

493
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Speaker 1: up two more notches and it just raises the level

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Speaker 1: of this offense from a decent offense to a top

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Speaker 1: five offense. And that's the difference that he has made

496
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Speaker 1: this season because what it has allowed the rest of

497
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Speaker 1: the offensive personnel to do is to take on complimentary

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Speaker 1: roles to support Diggs in the passing game, like Cole

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Speaker 1: Beasley in a supporting role. He's one of the best

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find. If you need him to do more

501
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Speaker 1: than that, that's where you run into problems. John Brown,

502
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not taking anything away from John Brown.

503
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Speaker 1: Smoke had a thousand yards season last year as the

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Speaker 1: number one, the de facto number one. But Diggs is

505
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Speaker 1: at another level and so now Brown can play the

506
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Speaker 1: number two role when he's healthy, You're gonna be hard

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Speaker 1: pressed to do much better than John Brown is a

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Speaker 1: number two, you know what I mean. So I just

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Speaker 1: think the trickle down effect of Diggs presence in this

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Speaker 1: lineup has been seismic and it's why. It's one of

511
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Speaker 1: the main reasons why. And last night was a perfect example.

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Speaker 1: This offense is in neutral in the first half and

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Speaker 1: Diggs is in the locker room at halftime saying, it's

514
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Speaker 1: time to let me carry this offense. Get me the

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Speaker 1: damn ball. Now, I don't know that he was that demonstrative,

516
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Speaker 1: but it was. It was basically explained by Josh that

517
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: at halftime he said, I think it's time to look

518
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Speaker 1: for me and get me the ball so we can

519
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: move the offense and get some points on the board.

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00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: And that's what they did. I mean back to back

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Speaker 1: scoring drives. In the third quarter, he catches six passes,

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Speaker 1: including a touchdown, and it's back to back touchdown drives

523
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Speaker 1: and the game's essentially over after that. It's twenty three

524
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Speaker 1: to seven. Yeah. Yeah. It's the difference in this offense

525
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Speaker 1: as opposed to years past, is they are you've got

526
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Speaker 1: a dependable quarterback who's gonna hit the make the throw,

527
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Speaker 1: and you've got a guy like like Stefon Diggs. And

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Speaker 1: here's the different and this is it's been a long

529
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Speaker 1: time since we've had a guy like this a receiver

530
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Speaker 1: who when the defense attempts to take him away, can't

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Speaker 1: get it done. That's a number one. You can throw

532
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Speaker 1: it to him anytime you want, if you want to,

533
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: and he's gonna make the play. Yeah, And we said

534
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: that all last year, Like people are like, well, what

535
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Speaker 1: is the number one receiver? A number one receiver is

536
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Speaker 1: a guy you target twelve times every week. Everybody knows it,

537
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Speaker 1: and he still produces for you. That's right now, John

538
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: see John a touchdown right now. Got players of other

539
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: calibers and we've had it here. It's like you know

540
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: when Stevie Johnson was the number one guy, and you

541
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Speaker 1: can take it for what you want. They take him

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Speaker 1: away and they disappear for a game because the defense says, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna beat us, you're not gonna beat us

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Speaker 1: with this guy. How many times did the Patriots? The

545
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: Patriots make a living doing that. Now with a guy

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Speaker 1: like Digs, like, you try and take me away, I'm

547
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: still gonna get my targets. You watch and he's productive

548
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Speaker 1: in the midst of a defensive game plan that is

549
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: meant to take him away, you can still target him.

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Speaker 1: That is a big Number one doesn't mean he's gonna

551
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: make every player score three touchdowns or score touchdown like

552
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: he did yesterday, but there stretches the game when he doesn't.

553
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: He never disappears the quarterback. You may call somebody else's number,

554
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: but that guy never disappears. And Steph Diggs hasn't disappeared

555
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: at all this year. You got at least four catches

556
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: in almost every single game this season. He's got a

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Speaker 1: string of like eight games where he's got at least

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Speaker 1: six catches, and he's got four games with ten receptions

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00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: this season out of the first third. He never disappears.

560
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: And you know, great receive. You know everybody, you know,

561
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: everybody tries to take guys away. That's that's just solid

562
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: and absolutely you know, defining what a number one receiver is.

563
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Speaker 1: He just never disappears. Yeah, that's Steph Diggs. Break time

564
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Speaker 1: for us. But hang on the line. We'll get to

565
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Speaker 1: more of your phone calls when we return. Roger and Arcade, Willing, Buffalo,

566
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Speaker 1: Rag and William Bill. Hang on the line. You guys

567
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: are up first when we return. Here on a Bills

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Speaker 1: victory Monday. It's one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Chris Brown, Steve Tasker Bills

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Speaker 1: victory Monday edition of one Bills Live as the Bills

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Speaker 1: with an eleven point win over the Steelers to improve

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Speaker 1: to ten and three on the season. Weird fact the

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00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: Bills have never had a ten and three record after

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00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: thirteen games. They've either been ten two and one or

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00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: eleven and three when they've been in the vicinity of

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Speaker 1: this kind of a one loss record. Just kind of

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00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: a weird anomaly. Never eleven and two went to eleven

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Speaker 1: and three. Yeah, yeah, so they've never been ten and three,

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00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: which is kind of crazy when you think about it,

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00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: but whatever, just kind of a weird, kind of stupid fact.

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Speaker 1: One of the year we were eleven and two was

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Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety regular season. That's one of the recent

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Speaker 1: seasons I remember. And we played the New York Giants

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00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: at eleven and two and the Giants were eleven and two.

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Speaker 1: We played him in the Meadowlands, we beat them seventeen ten.

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Speaker 1: Six weeks later, we meet him in the Super Bowl

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00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: and they beat us nineteen twenty, and that's you know,

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00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: you think about these games and what they mean. Last

589
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: night's game for the Buffalo Bills against the Steelers. That

590
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: was an enormous, enormously important game. It proves something to

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00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: you as a player when you meet it, beat a

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Speaker 1: good team or a team with a really good record

593
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Speaker 1: who's having a really good season. It gives you a

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00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: huge sense of confidence, but it also strengthens your resolve

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00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: of how difficult it's going to be to go keep going.

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00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: So I was big game. And that thing I remember

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Speaker 1: about that game, that eleven and two game against eleven

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Speaker 1: and two back in the day, even with AFC championship wins,

599
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: in that those locker rooms, that locker room in that

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00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: regular season game and a victory over the Giants eleven

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Speaker 1: and two against eleven and two and we come out

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00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: twelve and two and they're eleven and three, was the

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00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: happiest locker room I've ever been a part of. Wow,

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00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: really more than the AFC title games. Yeah, why because

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00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: you knew you'd beat a really good team. Like what

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Speaker 1: I why was it different? How was it different? It

607
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: was different because that game everybody thought, you know, hey, okay,

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00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: we'll see how you're doing. When we beat that team

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Speaker 1: in their stadium, we proved it to ourselves that we

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Speaker 1: were a good team. Yeah, we had because that team

611
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Speaker 1: had already won a Super Bowl under Parcels in eighty

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Speaker 1: seven and they had Phil Simms had you know, lt

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Speaker 1: was on that team, Jim Burt was on that team.

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Speaker 1: That had some guys and good players, Carl Banks, Martin,

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00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: so they had some guys and to beat that team

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00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: in their stadium was as big a win as we

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00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: could have imagined at the time, having never been to

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00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. Okay, and I get it even and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't just the players either, that coaching the coaching

620
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: staff was also giddy. I remember Teddy Marcha brod to

621
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Speaker 1: Nick Nickolau, all those guys, Marv even where you could

622
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: tell they were really wow. I'll never forget that was

623
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Speaker 1: that was something that really struck me. Good stuff. Yeah,

624
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Speaker 1: all right, so that's you beat a good team. It Hey,

625
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: it feels better. And I for for all their offensive problems,

626
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: Steelers are a good team. This just in they're really

627
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: good and they're good year in year out, and uh yeah,

628
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm pretty sure the Bills felt really really

629
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Speaker 1: good after this win. Last night, asking you at eight

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Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty your biggest takeaway from yesterday's victory.

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Speaker 1: We go to Roger n Rka to lead us off

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Speaker 1: in this segment. Roger, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bills Live. Hey, how you gentlemen doing today?

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Here. The biggest takeaway from last night,

635
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: I suppose as Josh Allen, I really think he matured.

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00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 1: He didn't run it when he got all that pressure

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00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 1: in the first half. He didn't. You know, He's not

638
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 1: flipping balls out trying to get it to somebody. He's

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Speaker 1: not running around like his hair is on fire. He

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Speaker 1: kind of hung in there until they figured out what

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Speaker 1: to do in the second half, and he kept his

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Speaker 1: boys and just kept on going and going. And I'm

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00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: just plus the front office. I mean, you got to

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Speaker 1: kind of start with him, you know, the Pagola's hiring

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Speaker 1: McDermott and being and the coaches are doing a great job.

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Speaker 1: And you know, that's about it for me. And I

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Speaker 1: really like Dawson Knox, even though he's not catching the

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Speaker 1: ball real great, But the guy's a bulldozer when he

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Speaker 1: gets it. You know, I just give him some of

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Speaker 1: them short passes and let him run with it, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, so that's all I got guys. Sorry, all right,

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Speaker 1: thanks Roger, appreciate the phone call. Yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 1: just consistency for Dawson Knox. He has to add that

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Speaker 1: into his game. There's no question he's athletically gifted. There's

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Speaker 1: no question that he can be a mismatch in the

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Speaker 1: passing game. But his hands have to get more consistent,

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Speaker 1: and his ball security has to get more consistent. Not

658
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Speaker 1: saying he doesn't work at it, but it's it's cropped

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Speaker 1: up more than once again this season. Drops were a

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Speaker 1: problem for him last year. Ball security has been an

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Speaker 1: issue for him this year. It's it's tough because you

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Speaker 1: know in the playoffs, these games are going to get

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Speaker 1: even tighter, and you can't have mistakes of that magnitude

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Speaker 1: deep in your own territory. Our mistakes gonna happen in

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Speaker 1: a game. Yes, it's very hard for any NFL team

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Speaker 1: with the level of competition on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage to play the perfect game. But

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Speaker 1: when these things rear their ugly head, it's noteworthy and

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Speaker 1: you better believe that the way this coaching staff operates

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Speaker 1: in as methodical as they are, they will be addressing

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Speaker 1: it with the player to try to improve the player,

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Speaker 1: but if the improvement doesn't happen in an allotted amount

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Speaker 1: of time, a change will be made. The change is

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Speaker 1: made is the moment they have a better option. Yep,

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Speaker 1: that's it. And would you say that Tyler Croft is

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Speaker 1: more surehanded than Dawson Knox. I would strikes me as that, Yes,

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Speaker 1: And there's got there's probably some other things that make

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Speaker 1: Knox more as more of an athletic mismatch. I think

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Speaker 1: you can say that. Yeah, But I know this that

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Speaker 1: the guys who give them the best chance to win

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Speaker 1: are the ones who play, period, end of story. And

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things I think the players in

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Speaker 1: the locker room respect about this coaching staff. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if you're a rookie, undrafted free agent like Levi

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Speaker 1: Wallace or a highly touted draft pick like Ed Oliver

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Speaker 1: or aj Epenessa. You're gonna sit until you're or you're

687
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Speaker 1: gonna play until there's a moment when they've got a

688
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: better option than you're out. Trent Murphy great is an

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Speaker 1: active That's one of the things that plays very well

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Speaker 1: in the locker room, very well in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: because every guy out there knows that no matter what

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Speaker 1: his contract says or what his draft status says, if

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Speaker 1: he's not producing, he's not playing. And that means everybody

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Speaker 1: on the field knows they're earning it. It's really empowering

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Speaker 1: and it's motivating during the week. So it's a great culture,

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Speaker 1: and it's I've seen it. It's hard. It's a hard

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Speaker 1: thing I think for coaching staff stay on top of

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Speaker 1: as well. They've got to constantly be evaluating and communicating

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Speaker 1: their assessment to their own players on both both the

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Speaker 1: guy that might lose his spot and the guy that's

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Speaker 1: really working hard to get it. It's really motivating for

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Speaker 1: both those guys, and they both have to know where

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Speaker 1: they stand all the time. And coaching staff's willingness to

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Speaker 1: beat honest with them and Frank is an enormous strength,

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Speaker 1: an enormous strength. Back to the phones and to Will

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, Will, what do you have for us? You're

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Speaker 1: on one bills live. Hey, guys, I hope you're enjoying

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Speaker 1: victory Monday as much as I am. Oh yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was a great one. I just wanted to call and

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Speaker 1: show some love for Daryl Williams. I spend most of

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Speaker 1: my week worried about what TJ. Watt was going to

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Speaker 1: do to us, how much of a disruption he was

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Speaker 1: going to be. And by the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: I was looked over at my father, I said, TJ. Who.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna hang up now and just hopefully listen

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Speaker 1: to you guys. Just we had a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: praise up Darrell Williams for just a complete, beautiful game yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Thanks well, thanks for bringing him up. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: Daryl Williams deserves the tip of the hat, I said

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. You know, I had to

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Speaker 1: put together a story for Buffalo Bills dot Com where

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Speaker 1: you just call it, you know, twenty twenty midseason superlatives

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Speaker 1: where we're kind of recognizing players in their contributions to

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Speaker 1: the roster, and I had Daryl Williams in there as

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Speaker 1: an unsung hero because I think he has been that.

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Speaker 1: You think about the right tackle position last year, it

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Speaker 1: was largely a platoon position between Cody Ford and Tie

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Speaker 1: and Secky until in Secy got the high ankle sprain

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Speaker 1: and basically missed the last six weeks of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: He has been a stabilizing force for the right tackle

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Speaker 1: position in a season where guard to guard has been

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Speaker 1: a shuffle almost every single week. To have the right

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Speaker 1: tackle and left tackle spots locked down by the same

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Speaker 1: two players all season long, I think has been a

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Speaker 1: boon to the success of the offensive line that we're

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Speaker 1: seeing from them now now that they have guard to

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Speaker 1: guard relatively settled. And yeah, I mean I thought his

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Speaker 1: job against You didn't hear t J. Watt's name every series.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about a guy who's up for

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year, and I thought Williams did

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Speaker 1: a more than commendable job last night. I would agree,

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Speaker 1: And it's certainly Darryl Willa has played extremely well, but

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Speaker 1: so did the all five of those guys up front.

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Speaker 1: In a time when Mitch Morris comes out, goes back in,

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Speaker 1: Feliciano gets shuffled to the center spot away from the

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Speaker 1: guard spot, Winners comes in, Butcker gets shifted. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was it was all hands on deck, and and

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Speaker 1: because of that, you know, you'd think, well, how are

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Speaker 1: they going to handle this? Well? They handle it really well.

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Speaker 1: They did extremely well. And the Steelers got a sack.

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Speaker 1: A sack, and usually that's not enough. Usually that's sounded.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team that's on pace to

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Speaker 1: have over sixty sacks this season, and they lead the

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Speaker 1: league and quarterback pressures. T J. Watt came into the

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Speaker 1: game with sixty four quarterback pressures that was number one

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Speaker 1: in the league, and I thought he was effectively neutralized

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Speaker 1: for stretches of that game, not the whole game. And look,

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Speaker 1: when you're going against a guy the caliber of t J. Watt,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna win his share of plays. That's just that's

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Speaker 1: just the way it is. The competition is too steep

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Speaker 1: in this league to win every down. Coming into this game,

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Speaker 1: t J. Watt led the NFL with twelve sacks. He

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Speaker 1: had thirty seven quarterback hits. No other player in the

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Speaker 1: league has twenty four. More than twenty four. He's got

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Speaker 1: thirty seven. You're talking a top shelf player, nineteen tackles

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Speaker 1: for loss. He's on pace for a sixteen sacks season

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Speaker 1: and forty nine quarterback hits this season. Ten players in

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Speaker 1: the entire league have eight sacks in the NFL this season.

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Speaker 1: Three of them are Steelers. Yeah, and they're led by

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Speaker 1: t J. Watt. That's a team, that's what you were

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Speaker 1: going in there last night, thinking right, and they did.

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Speaker 1: In that first half. It was a punt fest, Josh.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have he didn't have time to throw it,

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Speaker 1: he didn't have space to throw it. He rolled out

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Speaker 1: a couple of times. There were no options. And their

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Speaker 1: secondary compliments their front pressure very well. They're a really

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Speaker 1: good defense. But as this game wore on and you

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Speaker 1: got into the second half and the Steelers had the

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Speaker 1: ball for eight minutes the entire second half, seven minutes

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Speaker 1: the entire second half, that defense just ran out of gas. Period.

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Speaker 1: As all there is to it, they ran out of

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Speaker 1: gas because they were on the field the entire second half,

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Speaker 1: and that seven to eleven drive to finish the game

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Speaker 1: was at work. Was a work of art. Break time

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Speaker 1: for us, RAJ and Williamsville, Tremaine and Buffalo. Hang on,

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Speaker 1: you guys will lead us off in the next segment

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Speaker 1: as we take more of your phone calls. What was

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Speaker 1: your biggest takeaway from the Bills eleven point went over

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Speaker 1: the Steelers last night eight oh three, oh five fifty

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Speaker 1: or hit us up on the tweet sheet at one

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Speaker 1: Bills live back in a moment, stay with us, I'm

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00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: would be done. Josh Allen fires it quickly caught at

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Speaker 1: the fourteen yard line by Diggs, digs inside the five

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Speaker 1: headed to the inn. Tony is in touchdown Buffalo step

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Speaker 1: on Diggs touchdown a slint panted off the left side

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Speaker 1: Joge Allon got to do him in a hurry and

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Speaker 1: takes to the rest of the work for the touchdown.

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Speaker 1: That is your Hunt red Zone player. The game is

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Speaker 1: it Hunt real estate dot Com to score on all

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Speaker 1: your real estate needs. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

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Speaker 1: on A Bill's victory Monday edition of One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Back to the phones into Rage in williams Ville, Rage.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live. Yes, Hi,

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Speaker 1: thank you for taking my call today. So yesterday, before

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00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:28,439
Speaker 1: the game, Chris Collins was saying about Joss Allen, if

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Speaker 1: he wants to be called the best, then he needs

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Speaker 1: to start beating the best. And I thought, Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: just did that last night, you know, in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter with seven minutes and forty seconds left in the game. Jock,

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Speaker 1: the way he played against that grassive defense never allowed

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Speaker 1: Ben to even get back on the field, while doing so,

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Speaker 1: converting the third and eleven after taking get time out

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Speaker 1: I mean that was a statement win in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: and I can't be any app here. Well, I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed it. I agree with Rage. You're right. There

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Speaker 1: are things and we've seen and you're right, Raj. Bills

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Speaker 1: fans and Josh Allen fans and all of us who

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Speaker 1: are have been on this i'll call it bandwagon from

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Speaker 1: you know, for two years now. The things that people

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Speaker 1: bring to our attention, like, hey, Josh Allen's got to

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Speaker 1: beat the best, He's got to do this. He's got

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Speaker 1: to do a B, C, D, E F. Listen, they're

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Speaker 1: going to run out of letters in the alphabet, you know,

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Speaker 1: when they start throwing one more thing. Josh Allen's got

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Speaker 1: to check in the one more thing he's got to do.

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Speaker 1: They always say one more thing, and every time and consistently.

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Speaker 1: Now this season he has checked every single box. And

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Speaker 1: you're right, Raj. He's playing as well as any quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the league right now, and the team is playing

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Speaker 1: that much that well around him as well. So it

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Speaker 1: is a good day for Buffalo Bills fans. It's a

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Speaker 1: it's a huge drink of water after a long, long desert.

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Speaker 1: Back to the phones. Let's go to Tremaine in Buffalo, Tremaine,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Hey going, thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me on the show. I want to talk Our

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Speaker 1: offense has been lights out this whole season, you know,

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Speaker 1: being bottomed, But I want to talk about the defense.

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Speaker 1: And our defense has been struggling all year, and that

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Speaker 1: hell Murray, it kind of embarrassed us, but it woke

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Speaker 1: our defense up, and our defense have been playing lights

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Speaker 1: out ever since. That pick six yesterday turned the whole

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Speaker 1: game around. So in short words, I want to say,

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, if you're listening, thank you for waking our

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Speaker 1: defense up. Because our defense have been balling and like

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Speaker 1: this defense, this team is dangerous. So Kansas City, watch

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Speaker 1: out there you go. Thank you. Dree appreciate the phone call.

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Speaker 1: I would argue that the Bill's defense started to kind

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Speaker 1: of turn it around even before the Arizona game. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I just I think we started to see

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00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: signs that things were changing a little bit. I mean

851
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: the defensive effort in the Seattle game. AJ Klein's effort

852
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 1: in that game. I know it was forty four, thirty four,

853
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: I get it, but I thought they were signs that

854
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: the defense was stepping up their level of play. They

855
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: got pressure on Russell Wilson of all quarterbacks, one of

856
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: the more mobile guys in the league. They you know,

857
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: sack strip fumble, as I mentioned by aj Cline, So

858
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: I thought we were getting signs. And then even the

859
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: game against New England the week before that, I mean,

860
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,240
Speaker 1: they're holding that New England team down and tight game.

861
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: They did what they needed to do, got the forced

862
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: fumble at the end of the game. So you know,

863
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: we heard Tradevious White talking about how he thought this

864
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: was going to be a defense that was rooted in

865
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,919
Speaker 1: takeaways to help their offense. And that's when that thing

866
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: started to gain some momentum Week eight, nine, ten, and

867
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: then you know, the Arizona thing happens. Did it maybe

868
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: take them a step further to really put the pedal

869
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: to the floor. Maybe, but we're talking fourteen takeaways in

870
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: their last seven games. Now, yeah, this has been happening

871
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: for a while. I'll tell you exactly when the thing

872
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: started to turn. They got right, they out on track

873
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: against the Jets, they gave him ten point, then they

874
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: got they gave three touchdowns up to the Patriots, and

875
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: then they beat the Seahawks with a great offensive output.

876
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: Then they got beat by that defensive play by the

877
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, and that kind of I think I think

878
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: Tremaine's right that did light them up. That that that

879
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: Cardinals play. The Hail Murray was a big moment for

880
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: this defense and it kind of re energized. And then

881
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: they gave up only seventeen points to a Chargers team

882
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: that was at a young quarterback was lightning up. They

883
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: beat the Niners, gave up twenty four points, and then

884
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,479
Speaker 1: the Steelers they gave them fifteen points. They are doing

885
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: it much better job, and it hurts to look back

886
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: at I've been doing it for weeks now, looking back

887
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: at that Hail Murray and just can't I just can't

888
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: get rid of it. I think the defense of this

889
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: Bills team thinks the same way that bothers them. But

890
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: they are a Hail Murray away from being on a

891
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 1: seven game winning streak and they're playing really well. The

892
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: defense has begun to show up the way we had

893
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: hoped it would. Matt Milano played a significant if I

894
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: don't even know what the snap numbers are, he was

895
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: out there a lot. It was almost fifty fifty between

896
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: him and aj Clin. Clin got fifty three percent of

897
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: the snaps. Milano got forty seven percent of the snap

898
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: so his role did noticeably increase last night, and I

899
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 1: think that's an enormously positive thing going forward. They'll get

900
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: more flexible defensively because they'll have a J. Klein and

901
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: Matt Milano ready to go in. They can play both

902
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: of them. They can do more things flexibly with down

903
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,760
Speaker 1: a distance and personnel packages defensively, so that's a plus

904
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: going forward. But I think he's right. This defense is

905
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: really playing well and that he's the pick six last

906
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: night by Tarn Johnson. It came from no It's been

907
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: so long, it came from nowhere, and I'm telling you

908
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: what it was like. It was a huge moment. I

909
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: know Bill's fans felt I felt, we felt it in

910
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: the booth, Murph and I felt it. It was. It

911
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 1: was surprising when it happened because the Steelers are so

912
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: good at that short passing game with Broethlisberger is so experienced,

913
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: Their offensive line and their receivers are so deep and

914
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: so talented. Taren Johnson jumping that route and picking that

915
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: ball off and going the distance, that entire game ended

916
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: right there for the Steelers as in retrospect and there's

917
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: a lot of football to play, but man, oh man,

918
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: that was that was the moment for sure. Hard to

919
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: believe it's been three seasons, Like it's crazy. The last

920
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,879
Speaker 1: interception returned for a touchdown Jordan Poyer Week sixteen off

921
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in New England. That's crazy to me that

922
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: has been that long. But came at a good time

923
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: because it was an offensive stalemate and so and that

924
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: and the other thing too about Tarn Johnson real quick,

925
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: he had the hardest matchup. He had Juju in the

926
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: slot and they said, he's your guy. We're not moving

927
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: Tradevious White around to take Juju. That's your guy, that's

928
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: your assignment. Make it happen. And that wasn't the only

929
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: thing he was asked to do, you know. And I

930
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: asked coach about this last night after the game and

931
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, you know, between him aj Milano, we

932
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: kind of moved those guys around based on the look,

933
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 1: the alignment, the assignment, but filling in the run front,

934
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: blitzing off the edge and pass pressure. I mean, Taren

935
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: Johnson has really turned his game around. Because it was

936
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: only two months ago when this guy got benched, lost

937
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: his starting job to cam Lewis going into the Chiefs game,

938
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 1: and the only reason he got back on the field

939
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: was because cam Lewis had a wrist injury. But you

940
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: want to talk about making the most of your second opportunity,

941
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 1: Taron Johnson did it and it culminated in last night's effort,

942
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: So good on him. Break time for us, But when

943
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: we returned, more of your phone calls and coming up

944
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: in about twenty minutes time the Maddie Awards. Another victory

945
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 1: means more awards to hand out, so our colleague, Maddie

946
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 1: Glad will be joining us about twenty minutes. But more

947
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: of your phone call when we return here. On One

948
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills

949
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: Radiofalo Bills Radio Network Sports. You're a sports update from

950
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. A sweet victory Monday for the Bills

951
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: following their twenty six fifteen win over the Steelers last night.

952
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: And the win, the Bills improved to ten and three.

953
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: They're best to start a season since nineteen ninety one.

954
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen with two touchdown passes in the second half,

955
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: past Hall of Famer Jim Kelly for most total touchdowns

956
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: in a season with thirty five. Buffalo can clinch a

957
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: playoff spot with a Ravens loss to the Browns tonight

958
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football. They can clinch the AFC East

959
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: with a win next week in Denver or a Dolphins

960
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: loss to the Patriots in week fifteen. One injury note

961
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: from last night. Following his pick six interception to give

962
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 1: the Bills their first touchdown, cornerback Terren Johnson left the

963
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: game in the third quarter with a concussion. Keep an

964
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:00,720
Speaker 1: eye out on that and a possible return of wide

965
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: receiver John Brown off of ir when the team gets

966
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 1: back on the practice field later this week. Following a

967
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: forty four to twenty seven loss to the Colts in

968
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: which they allowed more than forty points for the second

969
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: time in three weeks, the Las Vegas Raiders have fired

970
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Paul Gunther. Rod Marinelli takes over as interim

971
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. The Washington football team sits atop the NFC

972
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: East Division this morning at six and seven. Some good

973
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: news following their win over the forty nine ers. Starting

974
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: quarterback Alex Smith left the game with a calf injury,

975
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,280
Speaker 1: but X rays were negative. It is Smith's right calf,

976
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: which is the same leg that Smith underwent seventeen surgeries

977
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: on after his brusome knee injury in twenty eighteen. Head

978
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: coach Ron Rivera said Smith could have returned if Washington

979
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: needed him. The team right behind Washington, the Eagles used

980
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: rookie Jalen Hurts to lead them to a twenty four

981
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: to twenty one win over the Saints. Doug Peterson on

982
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: Monday named Jalen Hurts over Carson Wentz as the teams

983
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:57,280
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for this Sunday's game against the Arizona Cardinals.

984
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: And finally, a baseball note that Cleveland Indians are following

985
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: the lead of the Washington NFL franchise and changing their

986
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: team name after one hundred five years. No replacement has

987
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: been named yet, but decision to drop the name is

988
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 1: consistent with the preference expressed by Native American groups that

989
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: they not be used as mascots. That's your sports update

990
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive Chris Brown Steve Tasker, hour number

991
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: two of a Bills Victory Monday edition. What a beautiful

992
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: day it is in Buffalo. It might be drizzling, it

993
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: might be freezing rain. Outside. It's all good as the

994
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: Bills are now ten and three after beating the Steelers

995
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: by eleven on Sunday Night Football. So back to the

996
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:36,959
Speaker 1: phones because we want to know what you think about

997
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: it and your biggest takeaway from the game. And for that,

998
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: we lead off with Bob and Williams. Bill, who's been

999
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: waiting patiently. Bob, what do you have? Thanks for joining us.

1000
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: What a great day to be a Bills fan. It's

1001
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: been a long time coming. And you know the players

1002
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 1: that we have, I mean, the next man up mentality.

1003
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: I mean, we're playing without John Brown, We've played without

1004
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 1: Terrell Edmonds, We've played without Matt Miott Milano and it's

1005
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: just been great. And I think a lot of it

1006
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: goes back to Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott. When Sean

1007
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 1: McDermott came here, he brought Leslie Fraser as his defensive

1008
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: coordinator and he said that he brought him because he's

1009
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: going to be the most important man for him because

1010
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 1: he had the experience, the head coaching experience, and it's

1011
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: it's he's become such a good head coach now and

1012
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: I just wonder if he just I it's if he's

1013
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 1: still the most important man on his staff, or Brian

1014
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: Dabel is and and it just looks I'm seeing I'm

1015
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 1: seeing similarities to New England, where they can bring people

1016
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,280
Speaker 1: on their staff up where they don't have to hire

1017
00:55:54,719 --> 00:56:00,280
Speaker 1: outside the organization anymore. And I think that's that's we've got.

1018
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:04,319
Speaker 1: We've got the foundation for years to come, I think.

1019
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,320
Speaker 1: And I just I like to hear what your thoughts

1020
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: are on that and the you know we're gonna lose

1021
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: them as head coaches. I mean Brian Dable for sure.

1022
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: I don't know about Leslie Frazier, but I'd just like

1023
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on that. Okay, Bob, thanks for

1024
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: the call. We appreciate it. Yeah. I mean, I think

1025
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: that Dabele and Frasier are both gonna gets consideration for

1026
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: head coaching jobs. I don't think there's any question about that.

1027
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: It seems that the hotter commodity these days is the

1028
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: offensive play calling mind. Sean McVay started that trend, sparked it,

1029
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: and it continues even now. And I think one of

1030
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: the reasons why is for the very pitfall that could

1031
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: be facing the bills in the very short near term

1032
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: future and that's the loss of your offensive play caller. Well,

1033
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: if you hire an offensive play caller as your head coach,

1034
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: you don't lose them. So if you have a young quarterback,

1035
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: you want that guy to work with and he's your

1036
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: head coach, he's not going anywhere. So I think that's

1037
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 1: why owners of late for the most part, have leaned

1038
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: to the offensive side of the football. There's exceptions. You know,

1039
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: Ron Rivery gets hired again in Washington and he's comes

1040
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: from the defensive side of the ball. Joe Judge comes

1041
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: from the special team side of the ball. John Harbaugh

1042
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 1: a special team's coach, so you know they was a

1043
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: defensive and Vic Fangio and Denver got hired a couple

1044
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: of years ago and he's a defensive coordinator by trade.

1045
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: But you also have the Matt Naggies, the Kevin Stefanskis

1046
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: all these guys, Yeah, Matt, Lady McVeigh, Yeah, Kingsbury. So

1047
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: you can list. I mean, you've got you've got guys

1048
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: to fill every kind of head coaching qualification you want.

1049
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: But I think what Dabele has done, and Steve has

1050
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: mentioned this on the show, what Dabele has done to

1051
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: help develop Josh Allen is the number one calling card

1052
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,479
Speaker 1: that he has, and as we heard Chris collins Worth

1053
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: say on our last week, the number one thing from

1054
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: what he's hearing that owners in this league are looking

1055
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: for is a coach that can develop a young quarterback,

1056
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: because you need the quarterback if you're going to be

1057
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: a perennial contender in this league. And Brian Dable has

1058
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: done that, I mean to a degree that I don't

1059
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: even know anybody thought was possible with Josh Allen in

1060
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: year three. I mean, the seismic jumps in his performance

1061
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: that he has made. It reflects very well on Brian Dable. Now,

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00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: the question he was asking was do they have guys

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00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: in the pipeline to replace these people? And we mentioned

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00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: some of these names last week. You know, John Butler,

1065
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: the secondary coach, has been a defensive coordinator in this league.

1066
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: One year in Houston. Ken Dorsey is a guy that

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00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 1: people look at and say, look, guy was a quarterback

1068
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: in the league. Sharp guy, really good in the teaching

1069
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: aspect of the game. I mean, I would think he

1070
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: would be the prime candidate for offensive coordinator in terms

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00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: of the in house candidates if Dable leaves. But I

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00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: don't think the search is going to stop there. If

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00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot has shown us anything Steve, it's that he

1074
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: will leave no stone unturned if he believes it's in

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00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: the best interest of the club. And so I think

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00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: the search if it comes down to that and they

1077
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 1: lose Abel to some other team as a head coach,

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00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna look more than just in house. Yes, I

1079
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: would say, and I would not be surprised if they've

1080
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: got a list made up of both likely candidates offensively

1081
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: and defensively for both coordinators jobs, as well as the

1082
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: guys they've got in house that they would interview for that.

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00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: But of all the tests that Sean McDermott has had

1084
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: to pass as a head coach, can he assemble a ross?

1085
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: Can he build the team? Can he develop young players?

1086
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: Can he pick a quality roster? Can he motivate the team?

1087
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 1: Can he get him to show up every week? Can

1088
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: they win games? He's passed all of those tests, But

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00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: the one test he hasn't faced yet is replenishing a

1090
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: staff that's been gutted by head coaching hires. Are great

1091
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: coaches getting hired away? We don't know that has yet

1092
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: to be experienced by this coaching staff. I know this.

1093
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: You ask Doug Peterson of the Philadelphia Eagles how hard

1094
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: it has been to replace a guy like Frank Reich

1095
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: and John d. Philippo coming going to Philadelphia where they

1096
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: want us world championship with that crew? How hard it

1097
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: is to keep that atmosphere and that coaching staff and

1098
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: that chemistry in the quarterback room with the right backup quarterback,

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01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: with the right third string quarterback along with the starter,

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01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: with the right quarterbacks coach, with the right offensive coordinator,

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01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: with the right head coach. That is a lot of

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01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: ingredients to a soup that needs to be perfect. And

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01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 1: you miss one of those ingredients, it's not going to

1104
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: be what you hope it would be. And that's why

1105
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: something it's it's hard to maintain. It's hard to sustain

1106
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 1: success like that when you get great coaches who move on.

1107
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: All right, we will get some more of your phone

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01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 1: calls in a little bit here, but right now it

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01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: is time for the Maddie Awards, brought to you by

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01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: Energy Mark, the official energy supplier of the Buffalo Bills.

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01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: And here to do the honors, of course, is our

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01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: colleague Maddy glab who's got her list ready, and Maddie,

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Speaker 1: is it a long list because that first half was

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01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: a little squirreling and then things got interesting in the

1115
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: second half. Yeah, you know, it is actually a longer

1116
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 1: list than the first half may tell you the first

1117
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: quarter in the second corner. But this team was able

1118
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: to get it together in the second half, something they

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01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 1: weren't able to do against the Titans. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's one of the biggest differences in this team in

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01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: the first half of the season versus now is those

1122
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 1: halftime adjustments they were able to make. So got some awards,

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Speaker 1: all right, so give it? Start us out. Who's your

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01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: I guess what is offensive MVP? Who's that? All? Right?

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01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: Offense MVP? I just tipped it off, not giving it

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01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 1: to a player. I'm giving it to the halftime adjustments

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01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 1: that the team was able to make. So it could

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Speaker 1: go to Brian dave Ball, it could go to Josh

1129
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: Allen or Stefan Diggs. I mean, we saw how much

1130
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: the Steelers defense was pressuring Josh Allen in the first half,

1131
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 1: and everybody talked about how it was going to happen

1132
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 1: because of the defensive line and the linebackers, the front

1133
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: seven that the Steelers present that is just so scary

1134
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,919
Speaker 1: for quarterbacks to face. And Josh Allen the offensive line,

1135
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: they were feeling it in the first half. The second half,

1136
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: you make those adjustments, Josh Allen starts to get the

1137
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 1: ball out quicker. You have some easy passes for him.

1138
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: It strings things together. He gets working with Stefan Diggs.

1139
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: What a thing to think of. You know what, Let's

1140
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: just feed our best wide receiver and have him make plays.

1141
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: The Steelers were without Joe Hayden yesterday, one of their

1142
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: best corners, and so it was great to see Stefan

1143
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: Diggs get involved play after play after play, which resulted

1144
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: in two touchdowns. In the second half. They outscored the

1145
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 1: Steelers in the third quarter, they had two touchdowns. They

1146
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 1: outscored the Steelers in the third quarter four team to zero.

1147
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was perfect in the third quarter, ten of

1148
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: ten for one hundred and sixteen passing yards versus his

1149
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 1: first half where he was ten of twenty three for

1150
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: seventy six passing yards. And you look at the halftime

1151
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 1: adjustments and just think about how tough it is to

1152
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: actually make halftime adjustments. This is not something that's easy

1153
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: to do. This team I think makes it seem easy

1154
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 1: because we see them do it time and time again

1155
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: on offense and on defense. But to change up the

1156
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: game plan, to go with something a little bit different

1157
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:45,439
Speaker 1: and to see success in it, that's not something that's

1158
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: easy to do. That's not something that coordinators can do

1159
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 1: very easily either, And I think Leslie Frazier and Brian

1160
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: day Ball make it look probably a little too easy

1161
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: for our fans and myself watching games. How did you

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01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: have an honorable mention also in that category, Manny, Yeah,

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01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: I do have an honorable mention. It goes to a

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01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 1: player who I think in the beginning of the season

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01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if we thought he would play as

1166
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 1: much as he has played, just because of the offensive

1167
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 1: line shift in injuries. I'm giving it to Daryl Williams

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01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 1: for holding his own against t J. Watt. This is

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01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,800
Speaker 1: a guy who led the league in sacks going into

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01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 1: this game with twelve. They weren't necessarily double teaming t J.

1171
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: Watt all game. A lot of the times it was

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01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: just Daryl Williams on his own going up against t J.

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01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: Watt and Josh Allen. While he didn't have all day

1174
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: in the pocket to make throws. He had enough time

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01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: to find his receivers to string plays together to move

1176
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. So good job, Daryl Williams.

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01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: He started in every single game this season. I looked

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01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: at his career and he started in fifty four out

1179
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:54,280
Speaker 1: of his sixty nine games that he's played in. This

1180
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 1: is a really solid offensive lineman. And I think Brandon

1181
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: Bean and Sean mc nam knew what they were going

1182
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: to get out of this guy. Yeah, and it was

1183
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: once they made those halftime adjustments. And really t J. Watt,

1184
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: while he was effective player and he was played well,

1185
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 1: he didn't wreck the game. I mean, maybe perhaps the

1186
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: Bills learned their lesson from the Joey Bosa game against

1187
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Having an elite pass rusher that moved around

1188
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 1: it kind of got him to settle in against a

1189
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: guy like t J. Watt. Certainly he didn't wreck the

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01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 1: game for the Buffalo Bills. Another so much for the

1191
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: offensive side, what about the defensive MVP. Defensive MVP, just

1192
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: like the offense, I'm not going to give it to

1193
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: a certain player. I'm going to give it to something

1194
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 1: that the defense was able to do, and it's their

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01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 1: third down defense. The Steelers were one of ten on

1196
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 1: third down. That's why they only scored fifteen points is

1197
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 1: because they could not convert against the Bills defense. This

1198
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 1: Bill's defense in the first six weeks, guys, they ranked

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01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 1: thirtieth against third downs. They were allowing teams to complete

1200
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 1: and convert third downs at a rate of fifty three percent.

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01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: They've fixed it now in the last several games. They

1202
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: now are in the middle of the pack, only allowing

1203
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: conversions at a rate of forty one percent of the time.

1204
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: And the Steelers simply couldn't find the end zone because

1205
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:16,120
Speaker 1: they could not convert on those third downs, and the

1206
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 1: defense did a great job of swarming the ball. The

1207
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: Steeler's offense, we knew they like those short chunk plays.

1208
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 1: Those ten yards are underplays, and they live on the

1209
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,880
Speaker 1: gyack yards. That's how they find the red zone. That's

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01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: how they find the end zone. And this defense didn't

1211
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 1: let them get close because so many defenders were always

1212
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: around the ball. Yesterday. And then there was a spark

1213
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 1: Plug Award that you had this week. I think we

1214
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 1: can all guess this one, but why don't you tell

1215
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 1: us who it is? Yeah, the spark Plug. It's a

1216
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: guy named Tarn Johnson. I'm sure you're all very shocked

1217
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 1: that I'm saying his name and spark in the same sentence,

1218
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: But the pick six is what got this team going

1219
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: heading into the locker room at half time. The offense

1220
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: was flat in the first half. The defense played a

1221
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 1: decent game in the first half two. I mean, they

1222
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:09,400
Speaker 1: were up nine to seven going into the second half

1223
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: going into the locker room, and I think it was

1224
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: so important that the defense, that the team is a whole,

1225
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 1: got some juice heading into halftime. I think it's really

1226
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: tough on this defense without fans, they have to create

1227
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: their own noise, they have to create their own juice.

1228
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 1: And for Tarn Johnson to do that, for him to

1229
01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:30,800
Speaker 1: get a pick six, I mean, this guy has had

1230
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: his fair share of struggles this season. We've seen him

1231
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: go in and out of the lineup. We've seen him

1232
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 1: not play his best, and as of late, he's been

1233
01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 1: playing some great football in that nickel role. He also

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01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: had seven tackles for the defense, was second on the

1235
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: team in tackles. That pick six, I think is really

1236
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: what turned this game around for this team. They now

1237
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 1: have takeaways in eight straight games. They have multiple takeaways

1238
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: in four of the last five. When turnovers come, they

1239
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 1: come in bunches. Yeah. And one of the other things

1240
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: about this game, one of the things that's one of

1241
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: the positives about COVID is they've got the celebration cam.

1242
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 1: Who gives it? Who gets the award for the best celebration? Oh?

1243
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 1: The defense by far. One thing I was so excited

1244
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:19,719
Speaker 1: about for this game is to have that celebration cam.

1245
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:22,720
Speaker 1: I hope they keep it for next season because it's

1246
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: so fun watching the defense go over and celebrate. I mean,

1247
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:29,719
Speaker 1: every guy had their take on the Chris Collinsworth slide

1248
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: last night. Micah Hide started it off after that pick six,

1249
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: sliding into the end zone right where the camera is,

1250
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 1: and then the defense as a whole slid together. So

1251
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 1: fun watching them celebrate. They're such a great group. They

1252
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 1: also did a lot of celebrating on the sidelines. So

1253
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 1: my Celli award goes out to the defense for completely

1254
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 1: taking over that showtime cam. I hope they keep it

1255
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 1: next year too. Okay, next award here is best catch,

1256
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: but it's not from an offensive player. It's not from

1257
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:02,839
Speaker 1: one offense play. And hey, Tara Johnson leave by Wallace.

1258
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: They had some great catches in the game last night,

1259
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: but I think the best catch of yesterday's performances in

1260
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 1: all games has to go to Kenny Moore on the Colts.

1261
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 1: He has an incredible one handed catch in the back

1262
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 1: of the end zone against the Raiders. This guy makes

1263
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:23,640
Speaker 1: it look easy like a wide receiver. Look at that

1264
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,719
Speaker 1: he was going up against um one of their tight

1265
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: ends on the Raiders completely gets up, gets that air

1266
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: and hauls in a one handed interception. The Colts ended

1267
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 1: up winning that game of forty four to twenty seven victory.

1268
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: An amazing catch and for a defender to do that,

1269
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 1: that's how wide receiver guys. It's so many odd defense

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Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, and I'll give an honorable mention to

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01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 1: Javian Howard who had almost the exact same kind of interception. Oho.

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Speaker 1: I think Kenny Moore's might have been a little bit

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01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 1: more different. I don't know. It was pretty left handed.

1274
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: Is he a lefty though? That's the that's the question

1275
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:04,400
Speaker 1: of that was great to two almost identical one handed

1276
01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 1: catches by defensive back a fantastic job, and I do

1277
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Kenny Moore's was just a little

1278
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: bit better working against Darren Waller the Raiders awesome. Now

1279
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 1: give one more reward. You're talking about some young players

1280
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: who actually played extremely well or have been playing extremely well, Maddie.

1281
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: What's this award called? Yeah? So there were quite a

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01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 1: few rookies who had some great days. Yes, guy, I

1283
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 1: just want to point out their stat lines. One to

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01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,840
Speaker 1: say good job, but also to say, if you guys

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01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 1: are still in fantasy, like, here's some players that you

1286
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,719
Speaker 1: could pick up that may still be available or worth

1287
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 1: trading for. Jonathan Taylor had twenty carries for one hundred

1288
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: and fifty rushing yards two touchdowns for the Colts in

1289
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: that forty four to twenty seven win. I mean, this

1290
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: is somebody who's talked very highly about coming out of

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01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:54,800
Speaker 1: college into the NFL, and look at him proving it

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01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: there with a long run. Twenty carries on hundred and

1293
01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:00,759
Speaker 1: fifty rushing yards. Wow, those are like Dalvin Cook numbers

1294
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:03,640
Speaker 1: that he's been putting up. Another rookie who had a

1295
01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: really great performance is somebody that we actually play next week.

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01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:11,719
Speaker 1: It's Denver's kJ Hamdler. He had two receptions for eighty

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01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: six yards, both of them were touchdowns. The Broncos ended

1298
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: up beating the Panthers thirty two to twenty seven in

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01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 1: a tight game. So somebody to look out for next week.

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01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:25,720
Speaker 1: kJ Hamdler, Jerry Judy. They have some talented rookies who

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01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:30,000
Speaker 1: have been making plays helping Drew Lock on that Broncos offense.

1302
01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 1: Another rookie, another running back who's been bawling and had

1303
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: a good performance yesterday is on the Rams cam Akers

1304
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:41,160
Speaker 1: had twenty nine carries for one hundred and seventy one

1305
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Didn't score touchdown, but that's a lot of

1306
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,960
Speaker 1: rushing yards to put up in one game. The Rams

1307
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots twenty four to three. And then my

1308
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:54,639
Speaker 1: final rookie, it's gotta be Jalen Hurts in his first game.

1309
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 1: His numbers weren't crazy amazing, but the Eagles beat the same.

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01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: The Saints have been playing some great defense as of

1311
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:07,640
Speaker 1: the last five or six weeks. They've been putting up

1312
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:10,839
Speaker 1: crazy points for me on my fantasy team, the Saints defense.

1313
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: But Jalen Hurts in his first game goes seventeen to

1314
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: thirty for one hundred and sixty seven passing yards a touchdown.

1315
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 1: He had eighteen carries for one hundred and six rushing yards.

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01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 1: It was a twenty four to twenty one win over

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01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 1: the Saints. It was the Eagles first win after four

1318
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:28,800
Speaker 1: straight losses. So kudos to Jalen Hurts. And he's going

1319
01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 1: to start again next week. Yeah, we just heard Doug

1320
01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: Peterson made that announcement today that it will be Hurts

1321
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 1: again and hard to go against the guy that's beat

1322
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 1: the number one defense in football and his first career,

1323
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 1: first career start. Yeah that bad. Yeah, good start. And

1324
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:48,200
Speaker 1: we said the same thing. It was like, well, congratulations Jayalen,

1325
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:50,240
Speaker 1: you got what you always wanted your starting quarterback in

1326
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:52,759
Speaker 1: the NFL as your first starts against the best defense

1327
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: there is in football. So good now. But yeah, hey,

1328
01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:57,880
Speaker 1: he made it happen. So all right, Maddie, thanks very

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01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 1: much for the awards. We appreciate it. We hope talking

1330
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 1: to you next Monday because that would mean another Bill's

1331
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:07,679
Speaker 1: victory and an AFC's title. Thanks, mad That sounds good,

1332
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:09,719
Speaker 1: No problem, guys, have a good rest of the show.

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Speaker 1: All right. That's Maddie Glab joining us here on the

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01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: Maddie Awards, which are provided after every Bill's victory and

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01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: presented by Energy Mark, the official energy supplier of the

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01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills break time for us. But when we return

1337
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,040
Speaker 1: back to your phone calls at eight oh three oh

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01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty

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01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 1: because we want to know your biggest takeaway from sunday

1340
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 1: night's victory. Mark and Buffalo will lead us off when

1341
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 1: we return here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health.

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01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Second half of the Bills at Victory.

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01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 1: Monday edition of One Bills Live now under way and

1344
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:56,320
Speaker 1: thrown back to the phones as we're asking you, what's

1345
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: your greatest takeaway from the win last night? Was and

1346
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:03,880
Speaker 1: us off? There is Mark in Buffalo, So let's punch

1347
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:05,559
Speaker 1: Mark up here. Mark, what do you have for us?

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01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:08,200
Speaker 1: You're on one Bills Live. Hey Chris, Hey Steve? How

1349
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,719
Speaker 1: are you good? Doing good? Mark? Yeah, I just figured

1350
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 1: I joined the love fest. I know it's only a

1351
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:16,599
Speaker 1: regular season win, but spent long time coming. I just

1352
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: want to talk about what I call the Buffalo Bills trilogy,

1353
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 1: which is our what I consider the leadership group of

1354
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 1: our team, which starts with Brandon being down to McDermott

1355
01:14:27,200 --> 01:14:30,799
Speaker 1: and then of course Josh Allen on the field. There's

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01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 1: an a franchise in better hands. When you look at

1357
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:37,719
Speaker 1: these three men together, Brandon Bean has earned the right

1358
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 1: of any benefit of the doubt on any moves he makes. McDermott.

1359
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: Look what he's done with the defense this year. These

1360
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 1: two have to be considered arguably the two best at

1361
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: what they do at young men, at what they do

1362
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 1: in the league right now. And then maybe Steve you

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01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: can comment on this comment. I thought last night's win

1364
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 1: was probably the most galv anizing win for the team.

1365
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 1: In looking at Josh Allen as our true leader, this

1366
01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: team lives and breathes with him. To struggle the way

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01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 1: the offense did yesterday, and for him to come back

1368
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:15,800
Speaker 1: and keep swinging that thing and stand in there the

1369
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:18,920
Speaker 1: way he did and leave that team the way he

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01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:22,679
Speaker 1: did in the second half, I think really galvanizes those

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01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: men in the locker room supporting him. I think it's

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01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 1: probably the most important victory, especially against such a tough,

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01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: good team like Pittsburgh. So yeah, I catch what you're saying, Mark,

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01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:35,839
Speaker 1: and I'll agree with it. Maybe a couple of aspects

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01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: of what you said. I for this team this year,

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01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: and every team's different every year, so you can't really

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01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,600
Speaker 1: go back and say, like for me, I you know,

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01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,879
Speaker 1: I thought he was the franchise quarterback when he beat Miami,

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01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: or almost when he lost to Miami on the last

1380
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: game of the twenty eighteen season, I thought that was

1381
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 1: as big or wasn't the last game of the season,

1382
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 1: but I thought that was a game when I thought, Okay,

1383
01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: this is the guy. But for this team this year,

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01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:03,679
Speaker 1: you might be right. For this reason. In the Rams game,

1385
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: in the Seattle game, in the early games in this season,

1386
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 1: the Bills, you know, the Raiders, you know, even the Dolphins, Jets,

1387
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: those games they kind of jumped out on them. They

1388
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: were good right from the get go. They were never

1389
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: really uh you know, struggling to move the football. And

1390
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 1: I think this game against the Steelers against a really

1391
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: good defense, like they were. The Niners were good defense too,

1392
01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 1: but this is when they wasn't going well. They hung

1393
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: in there and came back and won it. Now, they

1394
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:36,800
Speaker 1: did it in the Arizona game and they didn't get

1395
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 1: any reward for it, but that that's kind of what

1396
01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: I see in this game. It was a whole half

1397
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 1: of struggling and punting it away and a couple of turnovers,

1398
01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 1: and then when they finally did get it. They came

1399
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:56,759
Speaker 1: back and you know, won the game. They still haven't,

1400
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 1: you know, they still you know, they had the lead

1401
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 1: at halftime thanks to the defense, but I get their

1402
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 1: offense straight. Yeah, I think he might be right about that. Yeah.

1403
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:09,679
Speaker 1: I thought he was Jim Kelly like yesterday, and he

1404
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:12,760
Speaker 1: was just so hard nosed and played so tough and

1405
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 1: nothing made him waver from the job at hand in

1406
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: front of him. And you know, when push came to shove,

1407
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: he made the plays he needed to make. And I mean,

1408
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 1: I love the kid. I've loved him from day one.

1409
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,040
Speaker 1: I believed him in him from day one. Sounds a

1410
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 1: little self serving, but he was a guy I wanted

1411
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:31,719
Speaker 1: when he was a junior and he had the bad season,

1412
01:17:32,479 --> 01:17:33,760
Speaker 1: or he had a good season and he had a

1413
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:36,640
Speaker 1: bad season as a senior, just because I liked his

1414
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:40,840
Speaker 1: physical stats. But when you look at the intangibles of

1415
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 1: what that kid brings to not only our team but

1416
01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 1: our community. Now, I think by the time his career

1417
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 1: is over, he's going to own this city and be

1418
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 1: standing right next to Jim. So I hope he continues question.

1419
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:56,840
Speaker 1: We move on, we go to Bob and Corfu Bob,

1420
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live.

1421
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I like, yes, hey, well listen, I have

1422
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: three quick things. First, Steve ordering the blimp. He's making

1423
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 1: fun of my blimp comment at the beginning of the show. Yeah,

1424
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:16,000
Speaker 1: put him into College Football Hall of Fame. It's still ridiculous.

1425
01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:19,040
Speaker 1: I'm telling yeah, Well, you know. The other thing is um.

1426
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, Steve, I couldn't. I couldn't.

1427
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:24,799
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. I was listening to you a Brownies.

1428
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:28,599
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, your your voice finally changed. Oh yeah,

1429
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:31,559
Speaker 1: when your voice slowed down, remember on the connection, Oh yeah,

1430
01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:33,960
Speaker 1: when we were doing it the show like Verry White

1431
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,160
Speaker 1: because of COVID, when the when the mic went back.

1432
01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And I said to my wife, look at that,

1433
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: Steve Taster's voice finally changed. That's right, it's perfect. Wow.

1434
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:47,640
Speaker 1: I finally reached puberty at fifty eight. Yeah, there you go. Yeah,

1435
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:50,680
Speaker 1: why did it seventy five? Anyway, you know, I was

1436
01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: been watching for a long long time. I was listening

1437
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:57,160
Speaker 1: to all these national Um people are commented about a build.

1438
01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:01,800
Speaker 1: I'm not really getting aspect. Josh not ready until he

1439
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: beats like two good ones after yesterday when he Pittsburgh

1440
01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 1: got to get that watershed moment, just a Rolland all

1441
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 1: I could think of as they watched that game last

1442
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: night was that for who I thought four years ago

1443
01:19:17,439 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 1: all right and then for those seventeen years of misery.

1444
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:27,920
Speaker 1: All I can say after last night is a day

1445
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: all right, Robb, thank you for the phone call. Yeah.

1446
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:33,760
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that with the media, and I think

1447
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:35,680
Speaker 1: all of us kind of know this. You understand this,

1448
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 1: the national media and other market medias like in here

1449
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. When when the Miami media, when this New

1450
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: England media, when the New York Jet media, when the

1451
01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:50,880
Speaker 1: rest of the AFC media. When when the Bills play

1452
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:53,719
Speaker 1: and they see Josh Allen play like he has played

1453
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:57,640
Speaker 1: more and for a longer period of time, more consistently

1454
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: and more consistently and more constantly, meaning he keeps like

1455
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 1: he is playing longer and longer time. Then when they

1456
01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: start predicting things, they feel more comfortable counting on those

1457
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: players who have been consistent. I think there's still Josh

1458
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: has been so such an improving player for so long now,

1459
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:20,639
Speaker 1: for like three years, and he's had his ups and downs.

1460
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:25,000
Speaker 1: No question. But until this team, you know, keeps going,

1461
01:20:25,120 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 1: keeps going, keeps going, the media who talk about them,

1462
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 1: it'll take that long for them to get more and

1463
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 1: more comfortable predicting their success. Right now, nobody outside of

1464
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo wants to go out on a limb and predict

1465
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen's going to be successful. Now more and

1466
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:42,920
Speaker 1: more people are doing it now because of the last

1467
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 1: couple of weeks and certainly this season. But coming into

1468
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 1: this year, nobody wanted to go out on a limb

1469
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, the Bills are going to be successful

1470
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 1: because it just didn't trust the success that they have

1471
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 1: seen Josh Allen have. I think there's a lot more

1472
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: people who have some faith in him now. Eight oh

1473
01:20:57,080 --> 01:20:59,120
Speaker 1: three h five fifty. Back to the phones, we go

1474
01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:01,880
Speaker 1: to Burning Williamsville. Bernie, what do you have for us?

1475
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:05,200
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Thanks for taking my call, guys,

1476
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 1: bet Um. The first thing, kudos to the offensive line

1477
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,560
Speaker 1: Um in the first half, Cameron Hayward, he was a

1478
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 1: one man wrecking crew and he basically kept less in

1479
01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 1: the pocket and because of that, you know, you know,

1480
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 1: reflected on Josh's poor half. But there's the second half

1481
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: they really come together. And you keep talking about the

1482
01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 1: middle three, how they keep rotating in and out. They were.

1483
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:35,719
Speaker 1: They were very stout that second half, and I believe

1484
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:39,800
Speaker 1: they only had two penalties in the second half, So

1485
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:43,839
Speaker 1: did off of the line pretty much played air free football,

1486
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:46,679
Speaker 1: and uh, by the end of the game, the Steelers

1487
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: defense is line with just gassed. They had enough lift

1488
01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:54,240
Speaker 1: in the tank. Yeah, and so kudos for the offensive

1489
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:57,600
Speaker 1: line that I enjoyed that, but I definitely wanted to

1490
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 1: given that a boy to Levi Wallace. The Steelers first

1491
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:10,479
Speaker 1: touchdown pass Juju jujuicist Schuster beat Levi pretty good, but

1492
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 1: for him to get that interception that pretty much wrapped

1493
01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:18,000
Speaker 1: up the game. I was very happy for Levi. Yeah,

1494
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: no question about it, Bernie, and thanks for the call.

1495
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:24,400
Speaker 1: I think it's like coach Leslie Fraser has said, Levi

1496
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:27,760
Speaker 1: Wallace has to go into every single game knowing he's

1497
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:30,600
Speaker 1: going to be targeted because nobody's throwing the tradevious the

1498
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:32,800
Speaker 1: side of the field, So he's got to go into

1499
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:36,759
Speaker 1: the game knowing the ball's coming to him, right, And

1500
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: that's an I don't know, it's a little bit of

1501
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,080
Speaker 1: an added burden going into every game, you know, you're

1502
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:46,040
Speaker 1: gonna get action. Now. Some guys get up for that

1503
01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:49,599
Speaker 1: and are eager to make plays, and some other guys

1504
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:52,519
Speaker 1: might shrink from that. Levi doesn't shrink from it. And

1505
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:55,280
Speaker 1: I think the fact that he's able to bounce back

1506
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 1: from getting beat for a touchdown and make a play

1507
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: the other way says a lot about Levi Wallace, and

1508
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 1: I think it's an indication as to why Leslie Frazier

1509
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 1: and that coaching staff has the faith in Levi that

1510
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 1: they do, because they know he's not gonna crumble if

1511
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 1: he gets beat on a given play. They know that

1512
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:15,759
Speaker 1: this guy is gonna still go to work every single

1513
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 1: down and every so often he's gonna make a play

1514
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:22,720
Speaker 1: for you. He had a pass breakup right at the

1515
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:24,840
Speaker 1: start of the game two on the first series, first

1516
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:27,759
Speaker 1: pass of the game, broke the pass up, reached around,

1517
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:31,679
Speaker 1: knocked the ball away. Is he an elite athlete that

1518
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 1: can hang with anybody in the league in terms of

1519
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: foot quickness, lateral movement, change of direction. No, but he

1520
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 1: does have other assets to his game. He's got length,

1521
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 1: he's got smarts, and there are times where he's opportunistic

1522
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:48,880
Speaker 1: and we saw that last night, and I think That's

1523
01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: why this is a player who, while he may not

1524
01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:54,240
Speaker 1: be at the deep end of the gene pool in

1525
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 1: terms of elite athleticism, he's a capable cornerback in this league.

1526
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:05,280
Speaker 1: And now he's experienced. This is his his third year, right,

1527
01:24:05,320 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's been there for a while and

1528
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 1: they've tried to replace him a couple of different ways

1529
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 1: and they can't get it done. That says a lot

1530
01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:17,720
Speaker 1: about his work ethic and his intelligence. And the caller's right,

1531
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:24,600
Speaker 1: you know, Bernie's right. It's an added burden for a

1532
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 1: player to go into a game knowing he's perceived as

1533
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:32,240
Speaker 1: the weak link and you got to be ready to

1534
01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 1: embrace that and jump on it. And I like he's

1535
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:39,599
Speaker 1: one of the few dbs, a few few defensive players

1536
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:41,599
Speaker 1: that you know, every every game he's going to get

1537
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 1: a chance to get into the floor of the game

1538
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: because he's gonna get a lot of action. And he has.

1539
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:49,439
Speaker 1: He has thrived in that role. I mean, there's no

1540
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 1: other way to say it. Certainly he's given up some plays,

1541
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:53,640
Speaker 1: no question, give up a touchdown last night, but he

1542
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 1: also countered it with a pick. He has thrived in

1543
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: this defense and playing the role he has opposite of

1544
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 1: Tradavious Wide, and I agree with you. Got to tip

1545
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:05,920
Speaker 1: your hat to the guy for the role he's played

1546
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 1: and the job he's done. One more here before the break,

1547
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: we go to chet in Hamlin, Chet, what do you

1548
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:15,000
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, what's up?

1549
01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:21,240
Speaker 1: Talking about Cole Weaveley here? Yeah? What do you got? Um?

1550
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:24,519
Speaker 1: Like eight hundred yards? Like poor jos Year But like,

1551
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: I love how he just interacts with Josh Allen like

1552
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:32,559
Speaker 1: I love you. Dad liked my favorite part. But like,

1553
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 1: is he a Pro Bowl? Sure enough? Well, I mean

1554
01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:38,840
Speaker 1: it's tough to make the Pro Bowl, um at the

1555
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 1: receiver position because what they only take three, right, Steve,

1556
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 1: and there's five of them because they gotta have that

1557
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:49,360
Speaker 1: many guys. Um, yeah, it's you. I mean it's usually

1558
01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:51,320
Speaker 1: five number ones that go out there. Yeah, I mean

1559
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:56,080
Speaker 1: think about this. Receptions alone. Stefan Diggs leads the AFC

1560
01:25:56,280 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: and the league in receptions with one hundred. Keenan Allen's

1561
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:02,479
Speaker 1: got ninety nine. And I'm not saying catches are the

1562
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 1: only reason you go, but those guys are number one

1563
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 1: receivers who are undoubtedly going to be going to the

1564
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, which by the way, would be Stefan Digg's

1565
01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:13,479
Speaker 1: first career Pro Bowl, which would be great for him.

1566
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 1: But I mean, you can run down the list of

1567
01:26:15,520 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 1: the number ones across the AFC, and more often than not,

1568
01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:25,320
Speaker 1: those are going to be the guys. You know, Julian

1569
01:26:25,439 --> 01:26:28,640
Speaker 1: Edelman's probably an exception because he was kind of the

1570
01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:31,639
Speaker 1: default number one receiver in New England for a couple

1571
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:35,559
Speaker 1: of years and that's how he got there. But more

1572
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:38,280
Speaker 1: often than not, it's the outside guys, you know, the

1573
01:26:38,320 --> 01:26:40,439
Speaker 1: twelve targets that we think about it. Do you think

1574
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is going to make the Pro Bowl? Yeah,

1575
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:46,439
Speaker 1: you think he's got sixteen touchdown So you think Tyreek Hill,

1576
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, Stefan Diggs. That's three right there, that's three.

1577
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:54,760
Speaker 1: And then you go down the list and look around

1578
01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 1: the the AFC and you've got i mean, DeAndre Hopkins

1579
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 1: is no longer in the conference, that hell, but right,

1580
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:04,599
Speaker 1: it's still I mean, you got a long list of people.

1581
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 1: The guy down in in uh in Tennessee, uh Aj Brown,

1582
01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: A J. Brown. He's going right, So there's four and

1583
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:18,640
Speaker 1: that run out of room. Really, it is a crowded,

1584
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 1: crowded table but there's no question. I mean, he's had

1585
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: a career season. I think if he hasn't done it already,

1586
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:29,320
Speaker 1: he's very close to breaking his single season receiving yardage

1587
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:33,160
Speaker 1: high for his career. I think he already surpassed his

1588
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: catch total UM. Yeah, coming in, he's he had uh

1589
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 1: for his career. His career high was. I mean, Beasley's

1590
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:42,720
Speaker 1: got seventy one for eight thirty eight right now on

1591
01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 1: the season with four touchdowns. So yeah, if he hasn't

1592
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 1: broken it, he's right there right now, and he you know,

1593
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 1: provided he stays healthy, he will break it. So does

1594
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: that mean he goes to the Pro Bowl? I would

1595
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:57,880
Speaker 1: say probably not. But he is a he is a

1596
01:27:57,880 --> 01:28:01,840
Speaker 1: an integral part of what this asking game does and

1597
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:05,679
Speaker 1: he has a huge safety valve for Josh underneath break

1598
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:07,840
Speaker 1: time for us. But when we come back, we'll get

1599
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:09,920
Speaker 1: to more of your phone calls, and we've got Eric

1600
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 1: Wood coming up in the third hour of the program

1601
01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes away, so stay tuned for Eric's take

1602
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: on the game. I'm sure we'll have a lot of

1603
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 1: comments on the offensive line play last night, as the

1604
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 1: Bill's biggest task was to handle that Steeler's pass rush.

1605
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:27,040
Speaker 1: We'll see what he thinks about that a little bit

1606
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:29,000
Speaker 1: later on in the show. Stay tuned. It's One Bills

1607
01:28:29,040 --> 01:28:32,080
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio,

1608
01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Chasterer, One Bills Live. As we are

1609
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:51,360
Speaker 1: closing up our number two of the program, We've got

1610
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:54,200
Speaker 1: Eric Wood on the other side to begin our third

1611
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:57,000
Speaker 1: hour of the show, and Steve, one thing I wanted

1612
01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 1: to talk to you about was the contributions of one

1613
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:06,719
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis in the absence of John Brown. It seems

1614
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 1: as though three straight three games that John Brown has

1615
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 1: now missed. He will be eligible to come off ir

1616
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:17,120
Speaker 1: this week if he is healthy enough to practice, you know,

1617
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:19,519
Speaker 1: and get back into the swing of things. If not,

1618
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:22,200
Speaker 1: it'll take a little longer. But you want to talk

1619
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:24,959
Speaker 1: about being in pretty good hands with a rookie. Gabriel

1620
01:29:25,040 --> 01:29:27,679
Speaker 1: Davis has three touchdowns, one in each of his last

1621
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 1: three games. I mean it's an understatement to say this

1622
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:37,040
Speaker 1: guy has made a contribution to the effort. He's been

1623
01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 1: good and I know that a lot of people were

1624
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:43,320
Speaker 1: pumping his tires in training camp, and how he's wise

1625
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:45,800
Speaker 1: beyond his years. He doesn't play like a rookie, doesn't

1626
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:50,120
Speaker 1: think like a rookie. Has had to handle some of

1627
01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:55,759
Speaker 1: the dirty work at the receiver position, blocking, running routes

1628
01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 1: where he knows he's probably the third option and not

1629
01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:03,800
Speaker 1: getting the football kind of thing. But he's been a

1630
01:30:03,880 --> 01:30:07,120
Speaker 1: downright godsend for this passing game. Knowing what this team's

1631
01:30:07,120 --> 01:30:09,599
Speaker 1: identity is. Yeah, and particularly in a year when John

1632
01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:12,599
Speaker 1: Brown hasn't been one hundred percent since probably one week four,

1633
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:16,639
Speaker 1: that has been a huge, been a huge difference. Mager.

1634
01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 1: He's he's got what five touchdowns on twenty five catches

1635
01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:23,000
Speaker 1: something like that, six on twenty eight, six on twenty eight,

1636
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:27,960
Speaker 1: got a touchdown percentage of over twenty one percent. That's

1637
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: pretty good. That's very good. The contributions he's made have

1638
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:35,920
Speaker 1: been great, uh there, And I think the contribution's made

1639
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 1: certainly he's got the ability and the and the obviously

1640
01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:40,960
Speaker 1: he's got the ability and he's got the skill set

1641
01:30:41,040 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 1: that that helped this team. I think one of the

1642
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:45,599
Speaker 1: things that's really impressive to me, knowing what I know

1643
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,799
Speaker 1: and my experience is being a wide receiver for a second.

1644
01:30:49,960 --> 01:30:52,160
Speaker 1: It's hard to win the trust of a coaching staff

1645
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:55,519
Speaker 1: to get them to plug you in and to go

1646
01:30:55,680 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 1: a ten personnel because of you. And that's what Gabe

1647
01:31:00,520 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: Davis did during training camp. He earned the trust of

1648
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 1: the Bill's coaching staff, this coaching staff so much during

1649
01:31:11,160 --> 01:31:14,719
Speaker 1: an abbreviated, truncated preseason with no preseason games. He earned

1650
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:18,160
Speaker 1: their trust to the point where they inserted him into

1651
01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:22,360
Speaker 1: the lineup on more with ten personnel, with four wide receivers,

1652
01:31:22,360 --> 01:31:25,800
Speaker 1: one running back on the field, far and away more

1653
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:28,479
Speaker 1: than any team in the National Football League when John

1654
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,639
Speaker 1: Brown was healthy. Gabe Davis did that for this coaching

1655
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 1: staff and he earned their trust. That is an incredible accomplishment.

1656
01:31:35,520 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 1: Number the catches and touchdowns. Earning that trust of a

1657
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 1: coaching staff whose jobs are on the line to make

1658
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:43,680
Speaker 1: the right decisions is think think about the role they

1659
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:47,000
Speaker 1: gave him. His role was to know all four receiver positions, right.

1660
01:31:47,040 --> 01:31:49,479
Speaker 1: I mean, you remember back in Week three when he

1661
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:51,920
Speaker 1: drew the pass interference to set up the game winning

1662
01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 1: touchdown passed Tyler Croft against the Rams when they were

1663
01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:57,400
Speaker 1: in the huddle, they switched his assignment in the huddle.

1664
01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:00,720
Speaker 1: You're gonna go line up over there, not where you

1665
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,000
Speaker 1: thought you were gonna line up. That would scramble the

1666
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:06,400
Speaker 1: eggs of a lot of rookie players in a spot

1667
01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: like that fourth and goal game on the line. I mean,

1668
01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 1: some guys, you know what I mean. He drew. He

1669
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 1: drew a penalty, no question about it and all that.

1670
01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:17,559
Speaker 1: But just knowing we're just lining up and knowing you

1671
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:21,799
Speaker 1: had an assignment. It's amazing that and that last that's huge.

1672
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:26,839
Speaker 1: Last three games, nine catches, one hundred and sixty six yards,

1673
01:32:27,200 --> 01:32:31,639
Speaker 1: three touchdowns from your number three rookie wide out filling

1674
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:35,439
Speaker 1: in for John Brown. Well done well, exactly the role

1675
01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:37,920
Speaker 1: you want him to have, because you know, when you

1676
01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 1: get down close and none of these touchdowns were you know,

1677
01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:44,759
Speaker 1: sixty five yard bombs. But when you get down close

1678
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:46,639
Speaker 1: and you've got a guy like Cole Beasley and Steph

1679
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 1: Diggs and the defense has got to cover those guys,

1680
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:53,800
Speaker 1: particularly Digs, and you've got a big, tall tight end,

1681
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:56,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna think about it. Yes's like, okay, the rookie

1682
01:32:56,520 --> 01:32:59,320
Speaker 1: ride deceive. Okay, you know what, the defense itself will

1683
01:32:59,320 --> 01:33:01,160
Speaker 1: take care of that. Whoever gets matched up on him

1684
01:33:01,160 --> 01:33:07,320
Speaker 1: will feel good about when he's winning consistently and catching touchdowns.

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01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:11,639
Speaker 1: That's a huge. That's a huge contribution when the defense

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01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:13,960
Speaker 1: dictates who Josh Allen's gonna throw too, and he has

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01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:16,719
Speaker 1: no hesitation thrown to the rookie wide out and getting

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01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:19,559
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in three games, Yeah, that's big. I asked

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01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:22,840
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs in the postgame press conference last night about

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01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:29,479
Speaker 1: Davis and some of his contributions, and he said it

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01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:32,200
Speaker 1: was pretty funny because he was talking about the ones

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01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:35,080
Speaker 1: that got called back. He's got two touchdowns called back

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01:33:35,120 --> 01:33:36,640
Speaker 1: on penalty and he's got a dropped one in the

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01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 1: end zone also, But he says he's stepped in and

1695
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 1: stepped up as a young player. His maturation process is

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01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 1: beautiful to wash from a different perspective, just to see

1697
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 1: his approach. And he's been doing all the right things.

1698
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised he's scoring touchdowns. He's supposed to

1699
01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:54,960
Speaker 1: have like ten, but he's had some called back on penalty.

1700
01:33:55,320 --> 01:33:57,679
Speaker 1: He's going to get back in the lab, get back grinding.

1701
01:33:57,680 --> 01:34:00,080
Speaker 1: He's a guy that wants to grind and just get

1702
01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:02,360
Speaker 1: all the time. So I'm looking forward to his success.

1703
01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:04,840
Speaker 1: And I asked Josh about him also and Josh said this,

1704
01:34:05,360 --> 01:34:08,559
Speaker 1: he just finds the paint. That's what he does and

1705
01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:10,400
Speaker 1: he doesn't get a whole lot of targets, but what

1706
01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:12,439
Speaker 1: he does is he makes the play more often than not.

1707
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 1: He's a guy that I have supreme confidence in. We

1708
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:17,320
Speaker 1: have a really good relationship, and it makes you want

1709
01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 1: to keep throwing him the ball. That's the trust that

1710
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:23,960
Speaker 1: a rookie receiver has already put in his quarterback. And

1711
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:26,720
Speaker 1: that's hard. That's hard to get a quarterback to say, yeah,

1712
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:29,360
Speaker 1: I just want to throw him the ball. That's that's

1713
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:32,040
Speaker 1: what every wide receiver. And this just in He's got Digs,

1714
01:34:32,040 --> 01:34:34,000
Speaker 1: Beasley and Brown to throw to and he's saying this

1715
01:34:34,040 --> 01:34:37,479
Speaker 1: about Gabriel Davis, right, I mean that says something that

1716
01:34:37,479 --> 01:34:40,080
Speaker 1: that Yeah, he seems like an old soul. You know,

1717
01:34:40,160 --> 01:34:43,840
Speaker 1: he's he's a guy who is into the grind. He's

1718
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:50,439
Speaker 1: into the preparation, the film study, the body work that

1719
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:52,719
Speaker 1: you gotta do a week to week you know, weekend,

1720
01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:55,120
Speaker 1: week out, getting your body ready, keeping it ready, getting

1721
01:34:55,160 --> 01:35:00,280
Speaker 1: it healthy, resting and knowing what you're supposed to and

1722
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:02,080
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to win and where you're supposed to

1723
01:35:02,120 --> 01:35:04,200
Speaker 1: line up, and your techniques of running each route and

1724
01:35:04,200 --> 01:35:05,920
Speaker 1: the reeds that you have to run with each route,

1725
01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:07,680
Speaker 1: and the checks that you have to have in your

1726
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:10,040
Speaker 1: head with each route and the snap decisions you have

1727
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: to make, and then all the while doing all of

1728
01:35:12,360 --> 01:35:17,120
Speaker 1: that stuff the way you think the guy that quarterback

1729
01:35:17,280 --> 01:35:21,519
Speaker 1: wants you to do him. There's a lot in there. Oh,

1730
01:35:21,560 --> 01:35:25,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot in there, and he's seemingly handled all

1731
01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:29,479
Speaker 1: of it very capably so far this season. Break time

1732
01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:32,120
Speaker 1: for us. When we return, it's time to check in

1733
01:35:32,240 --> 01:35:35,600
Speaker 1: with Eric Wood, our colleague will be breaking down his

1734
01:35:35,720 --> 01:35:39,759
Speaker 1: thoughts on the game from Sunday night. A big victory

1735
01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:41,559
Speaker 1: for the Bills as they moved to ten and three

1736
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:46,680
Speaker 1: on the season and within a Cleveland Brown's victory of

1737
01:35:46,800 --> 01:35:50,679
Speaker 1: clinching a playoff berth the Brown's taking on the Ravens tonight.

1738
01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:52,559
Speaker 1: Back with Eric Wood in a moment here on One

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01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:54,759
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo

1740
01:35:54,840 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 1: Bills Radioffalo Bills Suadio Network Sports Update. Sports Update from

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01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:13,599
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. A sweet victory Monday for the Bills

1742
01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:17,160
Speaker 1: following their twenty sixteen twenty six fifteen win over the

1743
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:19,800
Speaker 1: Steelers last night. In the win, the Bills improved to

1744
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:21,800
Speaker 1: ten and three, their best start to a season since

1745
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:24,759
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. Josh Allen, with a pair of touchdown

1746
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:27,400
Speaker 1: passes in the second half, passed Hall of Famer Jim

1747
01:36:27,479 --> 01:36:30,040
Speaker 1: Kelly for the most total touchdowns in a season with

1748
01:36:30,080 --> 01:36:32,519
Speaker 1: thirty five. Buffalo can clinch a playoff spot with a

1749
01:36:32,600 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 1: Ravens loss to the Browns tonight. They can clinch the

1750
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 1: AFC East with a win next week in Denver or

1751
01:36:38,240 --> 01:36:41,639
Speaker 1: a Dolphins loss to the Patriots in week fifteen. Injury

1752
01:36:41,680 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: note from last night, following his pick six interception to

1753
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:47,720
Speaker 1: give the Bills their first touchdown, cornerback Terren Johnson left

1754
01:36:47,720 --> 01:36:49,800
Speaker 1: the game in the third quarter with a concussion. Will

1755
01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:52,439
Speaker 1: keep an eye on his progress through the course of

1756
01:36:52,479 --> 01:36:55,880
Speaker 1: the week and the possible return of wide receiver John

1757
01:36:55,920 --> 01:36:58,840
Speaker 1: Brown when the team gets back on the practice field

1758
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:01,719
Speaker 1: later this week. Following a forty four to twenty seven

1759
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:03,880
Speaker 1: loss to the Colts in which they allowed more than

1760
01:37:03,920 --> 01:37:06,800
Speaker 1: forty points for the second time in three weeks, the

1761
01:37:06,880 --> 01:37:10,519
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders have fired defensive coordinator Paul Gunther. Rod

1762
01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:15,559
Speaker 1: Marinelli takes over as interim defensive coordinator. Washington football team

1763
01:37:15,640 --> 01:37:17,840
Speaker 1: is a top the NFC East at six and seven.

1764
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:20,120
Speaker 1: Some good news following their win over the forty nine

1765
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:23,360
Speaker 1: Ers quarterback Alex Smith left the game of a calf injury,

1766
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:26,759
Speaker 1: but X rays were negative. It is Smith's right calf,

1767
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,760
Speaker 1: which is the same leg that Smith underwent seventeen surgeries

1768
01:37:29,800 --> 01:37:33,120
Speaker 1: on after his gruesome knee injury in twenty eighteen. The

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01:37:33,240 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 1: team right behind Washington, the Eagles use rookie Jalen Hurts

1770
01:37:36,479 --> 01:37:38,080
Speaker 1: to lead them in two or twenty four to twenty

1771
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:41,280
Speaker 1: one win over the Saints and their number one ranked defense.

1772
01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:46,040
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson today named Jalen Hurts their starting quarterback for

1773
01:37:46,320 --> 01:37:50,400
Speaker 1: next Sunday's game against the Arizona Cardinals. Finally, a baseball note,

1774
01:37:50,439 --> 01:37:52,759
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians are following the lead of the Washington

1775
01:37:52,880 --> 01:37:56,439
Speaker 1: NFL franchise. They're changing their team name after one hundred

1776
01:37:56,520 --> 01:38:01,360
Speaker 1: five years. No replacement named, but the decision to drop

1777
01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:05,240
Speaker 1: the name is consistent with the preferences expressed by Native

1778
01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:08,639
Speaker 1: American groups that they not be used as mascots. That's

1779
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:11,639
Speaker 1: your sports update from One Bill's Drive, hour number three

1780
01:38:11,760 --> 01:38:15,120
Speaker 1: of A Bill's Victory Monday edition of One Bills Live.

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01:38:15,200 --> 01:38:17,679
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and as promised, joining

1782
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:21,879
Speaker 1: us making his weekly appearance is the former Bill's Center

1783
01:38:22,600 --> 01:38:25,720
Speaker 1: and current Bill's analyst Won Eric Wood joining us on

1784
01:38:25,720 --> 01:38:28,840
Speaker 1: the program to talk some of that Sunday night football game.

1785
01:38:28,880 --> 01:38:32,840
Speaker 1: And we want to begin by alerting you Bills fans

1786
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:36,320
Speaker 1: and anybody else interested in being a part of it

1787
01:38:36,360 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 1: that the Eric Wood and Friends Live Virtual event is

1788
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:44,120
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, and a twenty dollars donation which goes to

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01:38:44,160 --> 01:38:48,160
Speaker 1: O'shi Children's Hospital, gains you access to the virtual event,

1790
01:38:48,200 --> 01:38:52,080
Speaker 1: which will include people like Jim Kelly and Brandon Bean

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01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:56,960
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen. So certainly a fun event. And Eric,

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01:38:57,000 --> 01:38:58,679
Speaker 1: why don't you tell us a little bit more about

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01:38:58,680 --> 01:39:03,040
Speaker 1: what fans and those interested in participating can expect on

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01:39:03,080 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 1: the docket tomorrow night. Well, first, I appreciate the plug, Chris,

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01:39:07,560 --> 01:39:11,240
Speaker 1: and um, it'll be a fun conversation between me and Sal.

1796
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:15,559
Speaker 1: Will get questions from people throughout the night, people logged

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01:39:15,560 --> 01:39:19,040
Speaker 1: in that are attending, and then me and Sal will

1798
01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:22,120
Speaker 1: grill the best we can. Bean and Josh and Jim

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01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:26,360
Speaker 1: Kelly and pre star studded line up there. Sorry, if

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01:39:26,360 --> 01:39:28,120
Speaker 1: we had more time. Both of you guys were like

1801
01:39:28,280 --> 01:39:35,639
Speaker 1: just next in line. Yeah right, yeah, I don't know. Yeah.

1802
01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:37,439
Speaker 1: If you go to my if you go to my

1803
01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:42,639
Speaker 1: Twitter Eric Wood's e Wood seventy at Ewood seventy or

1804
01:39:42,680 --> 01:39:45,839
Speaker 1: Sal's been posting it a bunch of Shy Children's Hospital

1805
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:48,640
Speaker 1: as well. You can find a link to purchase. But

1806
01:39:49,120 --> 01:39:51,519
Speaker 1: we'll have a lot of fun and your twenty dollars

1807
01:39:51,520 --> 01:39:55,240
Speaker 1: will go straight to helping families in Western New York

1808
01:39:55,520 --> 01:39:59,080
Speaker 1: that have children with disabilities or severe illness, and every

1809
01:39:59,320 --> 01:40:02,439
Speaker 1: dollar will go to those families there. This does not

1810
01:40:02,520 --> 01:40:05,519
Speaker 1: cover overhead, This does not cover anything else. We were

1811
01:40:05,560 --> 01:40:08,439
Speaker 1: unable to have our big Flights and Bites Flights and

1812
01:40:08,520 --> 01:40:11,519
Speaker 1: Bites event that we generally have. This will not cover

1813
01:40:11,600 --> 01:40:13,960
Speaker 1: all of that. But we'll have some fun tomorrow night,

1814
01:40:14,040 --> 01:40:17,479
Speaker 1: raise some awareness for some great people as well. Sounds

1815
01:40:17,520 --> 01:40:19,320
Speaker 1: like a cool event, and yeah, I know it is

1816
01:40:19,439 --> 01:40:22,519
Speaker 1: challenging in these times, these COVID times. You're still trying to,

1817
01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:24,920
Speaker 1: you know, raise money for a good cause. You got

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01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:26,680
Speaker 1: to get creative, and this sounds like a fun way

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01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:29,800
Speaker 1: to do it. So good luck with that tomorrow night.

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01:40:29,840 --> 01:40:31,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun for a

1821
01:40:31,280 --> 01:40:33,600
Speaker 1: lot of people, So make sure you get online and

1822
01:40:34,040 --> 01:40:35,960
Speaker 1: put a donation in and be a part of what

1823
01:40:36,040 --> 01:40:39,120
Speaker 1: should be a fun event. All right, Eric Sunday Night Football.

1824
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:44,719
Speaker 1: I was very interested in how the line of scrimmage

1825
01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:47,800
Speaker 1: battle was going to unfold in this one. We knew

1826
01:40:47,800 --> 01:40:50,879
Speaker 1: that the Steelers were coming in having trouble running the football.

1827
01:40:51,400 --> 01:40:56,280
Speaker 1: Fourteen carries against Washington in their prior game, seven go

1828
01:40:56,439 --> 01:40:59,719
Speaker 1: for less than a yard, So the problems were evident,

1829
01:41:00,479 --> 01:41:03,800
Speaker 1: and coming in they didn't seem to change for them.

1830
01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:05,639
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take anything away from the Bill's

1831
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 1: defensive effort, but I'm curious, just from a trained eye

1832
01:41:09,640 --> 01:41:13,599
Speaker 1: such as yourself, what is the biggest bugaboo with this

1833
01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:16,800
Speaker 1: Steeler's offensive line right now and why they can't move

1834
01:41:16,840 --> 01:41:21,800
Speaker 1: anybody off the line of scrimmage. You know, it's it's

1835
01:41:21,840 --> 01:41:24,040
Speaker 1: a number of things, really. You know, they've had different

1836
01:41:24,080 --> 01:41:27,479
Speaker 1: guys in and out of the lineup, you know, a

1837
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:29,719
Speaker 1: bunch of injuries up front, but they just haven't committed

1838
01:41:29,760 --> 01:41:31,920
Speaker 1: to it. And at times this year it's been the

1839
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:35,240
Speaker 1: same case with the Bills. It takes time, and it

1840
01:41:35,280 --> 01:41:38,920
Speaker 1: takes reps in games to wear down a defensive line,

1841
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:42,160
Speaker 1: to get your fits against guys that aren't your practice

1842
01:41:42,200 --> 01:41:44,479
Speaker 1: squad and that aren't the guys you're going against each

1843
01:41:44,560 --> 01:41:47,040
Speaker 1: day in practice. It takes time in the game and

1844
01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:49,760
Speaker 1: then you see towards the end of the game. And

1845
01:41:49,800 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 1: I know that from experience. I've played on two teams

1846
01:41:52,560 --> 01:41:55,080
Speaker 1: that were number one in the NFL and rushing, and

1847
01:41:55,200 --> 01:41:57,599
Speaker 1: it wasn't like we were rushing for one hundred yards

1848
01:41:57,640 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 1: in the first quarter every week. It was similar to

1849
01:41:59,720 --> 01:42:02,080
Speaker 1: a box or is a bunch of body blows. But

1850
01:42:02,160 --> 01:42:04,679
Speaker 1: we were getting our footing, we were getting our fits

1851
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,440
Speaker 1: the running backs, We're seeing how the safeties, the linebackers

1852
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:10,920
Speaker 1: were fitting, and eventually you take off. And when we

1853
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:13,600
Speaker 1: were leading the league in rushing in fifteen and sixteen,

1854
01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:16,840
Speaker 1: a lot of times it would be the third quarter

1855
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:19,560
Speaker 1: we'd have seventy five yards, the fourth quarter we'd have

1856
01:42:19,560 --> 01:42:21,320
Speaker 1: one hundred. We end of the day with two hundred

1857
01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:24,360
Speaker 1: and forty yards rushing, and we went into the halftime

1858
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:26,920
Speaker 1: with maybe under one hundred and neither of the teams

1859
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 1: in the Bills and the Steelers right now are that

1860
01:42:29,439 --> 01:42:33,000
Speaker 1: interesting in committing to the run. Fully, when we look

1861
01:42:33,040 --> 01:42:34,880
Speaker 1: at the Buffalo Bills, the times that they've been able

1862
01:42:34,920 --> 01:42:37,519
Speaker 1: to establish the run this year, it hasn't always been

1863
01:42:37,520 --> 01:42:40,000
Speaker 1: extremely pretty early in games, but they've stuck with it

1864
01:42:40,640 --> 01:42:43,640
Speaker 1: both times. Once against the Chargers was dictated by the

1865
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:45,960
Speaker 1: pass rush of the Chargers, not by the weather, and

1866
01:42:46,000 --> 01:42:48,559
Speaker 1: against the Patriots it was truly dictated by the wind.

1867
01:42:48,960 --> 01:42:51,719
Speaker 1: And as you look at what Orchard Park games could

1868
01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:55,840
Speaker 1: look like in December and in the playoffs, it may

1869
01:42:55,920 --> 01:42:58,479
Speaker 1: be a deal where the Bills need to rely on

1870
01:42:58,520 --> 01:43:00,400
Speaker 1: the run game. And when you look at who will

1871
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:03,519
Speaker 1: be hosting playoff games likely when you look at Buffalo,

1872
01:43:03,680 --> 01:43:07,479
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Pittsburgh, you're thinking, here we go, We're probably

1873
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:10,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to run the football. And you know, I

1874
01:43:10,280 --> 01:43:13,400
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting last night Chris and Steve early

1875
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:15,320
Speaker 1: in the game, drops on both sides of the ball

1876
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 1: and some arid passing, but guys weren't able to catch

1877
01:43:18,760 --> 01:43:20,880
Speaker 1: the ball super well early in the game. It made

1878
01:43:20,920 --> 01:43:24,639
Speaker 1: me nervous, honestly, because I wasn't sure that the Bills

1879
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:27,160
Speaker 1: would get it going in the pass game like they

1880
01:43:27,200 --> 01:43:30,000
Speaker 1: had prior. But they were. They were able to complete

1881
01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:33,080
Speaker 1: some balls and maybe Stefon Diggs was using something to

1882
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:36,519
Speaker 1: dry his gloves that the other guys weren't. Yeah. Well,

1883
01:43:36,520 --> 01:43:38,120
Speaker 1: one of the things about you know, you talk about

1884
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:40,800
Speaker 1: how this game evolved. You get into the second half

1885
01:43:40,800 --> 01:43:43,600
Speaker 1: where the Bills started to make some Hay, give us

1886
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:45,479
Speaker 1: an idea of what you've noticed too. When you're in

1887
01:43:45,479 --> 01:43:47,479
Speaker 1: a game like the Bills were, and you get in

1888
01:43:47,520 --> 01:43:50,800
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and the Bills end up having the

1889
01:43:50,800 --> 01:43:53,960
Speaker 1: ball in the second half twenty one and change out

1890
01:43:53,960 --> 01:43:56,840
Speaker 1: of thirty minutes, and that defense with that last drive

1891
01:43:56,920 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 1: with seven to eleven left to go. It's been talked

1892
01:43:59,439 --> 01:44:02,200
Speaker 1: about a lot today. The Bills put the game away

1893
01:44:02,200 --> 01:44:06,800
Speaker 1: with one seven minute and eleven one minute. What am

1894
01:44:06,800 --> 01:44:10,120
Speaker 1: I saying here? One drive of seven minutes and eleven

1895
01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:13,559
Speaker 1: seconds to end the game. And talk about how gas

1896
01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:17,360
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh defense was by then, They had no chance.

1897
01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:21,040
Speaker 1: They looked absolutely spent and disinterested at the end of

1898
01:44:21,040 --> 01:44:24,320
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, I don't want to take anything away

1899
01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:26,040
Speaker 1: from what the Bills did, but this is their third

1900
01:44:26,080 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 1: game in twelve days. That's what the Bills should have

1901
01:44:28,280 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: did to them at the end of the game. But

1902
01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:33,920
Speaker 1: that final drive was one of my favorite moments of

1903
01:44:33,960 --> 01:44:37,760
Speaker 1: this entire season. Honestly, to put a game away in

1904
01:44:37,800 --> 01:44:41,320
Speaker 1: that fashion against the franchise that prides themselves on being

1905
01:44:41,600 --> 01:44:45,320
Speaker 1: the most physical team week in and week out. And look,

1906
01:44:45,360 --> 01:44:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to take anything away from him. They

1907
01:44:47,240 --> 01:44:51,320
Speaker 1: are there. I mean, while really well known as the

1908
01:44:51,400 --> 01:44:54,200
Speaker 1: number one defense in the NFL right now, number one scoring,

1909
01:44:55,320 --> 01:44:59,439
Speaker 1: top five and most statistical categories defensively, and then to

1910
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:01,439
Speaker 1: do that to them at the end of the game,

1911
01:45:01,479 --> 01:45:04,519
Speaker 1: to break their spirit to where not that they were

1912
01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:07,519
Speaker 1: disinterested in tackling at the end, but it wasn't one

1913
01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:09,840
Speaker 1: of those situations where they're saying, hey, let's let them

1914
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:12,559
Speaker 1: drive down the field and then we'll give our offense

1915
01:45:12,640 --> 01:45:15,160
Speaker 1: the ball back. You know, it's a two score game,

1916
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:18,439
Speaker 1: and there's no better feeling as an offensive line. And

1917
01:45:18,760 --> 01:45:22,320
Speaker 1: to your original question QUI Chris about the battle upfront

1918
01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:25,360
Speaker 1: between these lines, I thought both both offensive lines early

1919
01:45:25,400 --> 01:45:30,360
Speaker 1: struggled in pass protection. That can happen with wet players

1920
01:45:30,439 --> 01:45:32,760
Speaker 1: you're going against when you have defensive linemen that have

1921
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:36,280
Speaker 1: perfect fitting jerseys and you're trying to get a hold

1922
01:45:36,280 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 1: of something and your hands are sliding off of them.

1923
01:45:38,880 --> 01:45:42,719
Speaker 1: And you have two really dynamic defensive linemen in Cam

1924
01:45:42,800 --> 01:45:46,519
Speaker 1: Hayward who can go through you or around you, and T. J. Watt,

1925
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:49,799
Speaker 1: who's one of the quickest, most athletic and also strong

1926
01:45:49,920 --> 01:45:53,360
Speaker 1: himself defensive linemen in the game. That makes it tough,

1927
01:45:53,560 --> 01:45:57,880
Speaker 1: especially early on when these defensive linemen, look, Steve nosed

1928
01:45:58,080 --> 01:46:00,519
Speaker 1: defensive linemen. You play under the lights, and it's a

1929
01:46:00,600 --> 01:46:04,080
Speaker 1: nationally televised game. They jumped their game even further. And

1930
01:46:04,160 --> 01:46:07,519
Speaker 1: so now you're going against guys that are just truly

1931
01:46:07,600 --> 01:46:10,080
Speaker 1: laying it all out there, and both offensive lines, I

1932
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 1: thought struggling to pass pro early. But when you talk

1933
01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:16,040
Speaker 1: about who gets the last laugh, if you're an offensive line,

1934
01:46:16,080 --> 01:46:19,439
Speaker 1: there's literally no better feeling in football than ending the

1935
01:46:19,439 --> 01:46:22,640
Speaker 1: game the way they did talk about, you know, the

1936
01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:26,160
Speaker 1: second half and the way the Bills kind of attacked

1937
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:30,080
Speaker 1: the second level area of the defense of the Steelers

1938
01:46:30,080 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 1: coming out of the locker room after the break, chiefly

1939
01:46:32,360 --> 01:46:35,240
Speaker 1: with Stefan Diggs, because going into the game, you know,

1940
01:46:35,280 --> 01:46:37,080
Speaker 1: Steve and I were on the round table last night

1941
01:46:37,120 --> 01:46:40,560
Speaker 1: and thinking to ourselves, look, they've got Vince Williams on

1942
01:46:40,600 --> 01:46:44,200
Speaker 1: the COVID list. They lost Robert Spillane, who was already

1943
01:46:44,200 --> 01:46:46,880
Speaker 1: filling in for Devin Bush. Those are their main play

1944
01:46:46,880 --> 01:46:50,080
Speaker 1: callers in terms of running the defense, and they basically

1945
01:46:50,120 --> 01:46:53,519
Speaker 1: have a safety hybrid player playing linebacker for them, which

1946
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:55,639
Speaker 1: may help from a coverage standpoint, But I just thought

1947
01:46:55,640 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 1: that there could be good voids to exploit at the

1948
01:46:58,400 --> 01:47:01,639
Speaker 1: second level of the defense and Stefan Diggs that did

1949
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:04,120
Speaker 1: that in spades in the second half on those back

1950
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:08,720
Speaker 1: to back touchdown drives. You're right, And they did a

1951
01:47:08,720 --> 01:47:11,640
Speaker 1: great job of protecting for those plays to develop to go.

1952
01:47:11,720 --> 01:47:14,960
Speaker 1: If heavy receivers go across the middle, um, uh, you know,

1953
01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:17,839
Speaker 1: the protection's got to be there, and it was um

1954
01:47:17,960 --> 01:47:19,840
Speaker 1: And then you know, they did a great job of

1955
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:23,559
Speaker 1: of of attacking those zones. And when they left Stefan

1956
01:47:23,640 --> 01:47:25,960
Speaker 1: Diggs one on one and man, he made I think

1957
01:47:25,960 --> 01:47:28,880
Speaker 1: it was Nelson fall twice. You know, you hate it

1958
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:31,519
Speaker 1: to happen to someone except for when they act extremely

1959
01:47:31,520 --> 01:47:33,840
Speaker 1: cocky early in the game. Then then you don't mind

1960
01:47:33,880 --> 01:47:36,439
Speaker 1: them falling on their button making a full of themselves

1961
01:47:36,439 --> 01:47:39,679
Speaker 1: on Monday night football. But um, you know, Stefan Diggs,

1962
01:47:39,680 --> 01:47:42,559
Speaker 1: what a game he had, And you know, he just

1963
01:47:42,640 --> 01:47:47,760
Speaker 1: plays so under control but also so explosive and he

1964
01:47:47,800 --> 01:47:52,360
Speaker 1: makes guys miss um you know to me. I mean,

1965
01:47:52,400 --> 01:47:55,240
Speaker 1: he's just so impressive week in and week out, and

1966
01:47:56,640 --> 01:47:59,760
Speaker 1: when the Bills need a play they can go to.

1967
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:02,000
Speaker 1: And this right here for those that are able to

1968
01:48:02,000 --> 01:48:04,920
Speaker 1: watch right now, it was the third in three play

1969
01:48:04,960 --> 01:48:07,479
Speaker 1: where the Bills had not scored that you know, they

1970
01:48:07,479 --> 01:48:09,680
Speaker 1: were really struggling to move the ball, and he jumps up,

1971
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 1: catches the ball, gets hit him at airs, keeps his

1972
01:48:12,120 --> 01:48:15,840
Speaker 1: footing and scampers for twenty or plus more yards. I

1973
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:18,960
Speaker 1: mean that play got the momentum going for the Bills

1974
01:48:19,040 --> 01:48:22,000
Speaker 1: in the game. The thing that amazes me about him,

1975
01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:25,200
Speaker 1: and I think you're just references a little bit here,

1976
01:48:26,080 --> 01:48:30,760
Speaker 1: is he doesn't look like he's ever straining to make

1977
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:34,800
Speaker 1: a play. He just looks like he's just so under control,

1978
01:48:35,280 --> 01:48:39,320
Speaker 1: which is so hard for me to conceptualize, only because

1979
01:48:39,920 --> 01:48:42,800
Speaker 1: the talent level in this league is so good at

1980
01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:46,280
Speaker 1: at the positions like corner and receiver that you have

1981
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:48,800
Speaker 1: to think like, oh, well, you know, some weeks he's

1982
01:48:48,840 --> 01:48:52,120
Speaker 1: gonna really have to like strain to get consistent separation.

1983
01:48:52,200 --> 01:48:56,320
Speaker 1: But he is so precise and so consistent with his

1984
01:48:56,439 --> 01:49:00,799
Speaker 1: route running. It's just a not only separates him physically

1985
01:49:00,800 --> 01:49:03,400
Speaker 1: so he can make plays, it separates him from a

1986
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:05,880
Speaker 1: lot of other receivers in the entire league in terms

1987
01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:09,600
Speaker 1: of ability. Oh yeah, and in the studio where you

1988
01:49:09,600 --> 01:49:14,080
Speaker 1: guys are out, there so many talented editors and one

1989
01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:15,720
Speaker 1: video edit I'd love to have at the end of

1990
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:19,760
Speaker 1: the season would be all the games he plays with

1991
01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:22,040
Speaker 1: the corners that are covering him, Like half the time,

1992
01:49:22,200 --> 01:49:24,360
Speaker 1: he like half flicks the ball on him. After the play,

1993
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:27,040
Speaker 1: he's talking trash to him. The next time they both

1994
01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:29,559
Speaker 1: get tackled and he helps the guy up like that

1995
01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:32,920
Speaker 1: guy's got to be just mentally and shambles after the game,

1996
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:35,720
Speaker 1: like do I hate Stefon Diggs or do I love him?

1997
01:49:35,720 --> 01:49:38,040
Speaker 1: Like he helped me off off the ground, he patted

1998
01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:40,640
Speaker 1: my head one ball when he knocked one away, but

1999
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 1: then he drops the ball on me. He talks trash

2000
01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:44,920
Speaker 1: to me the whole game. He tells me I stink

2001
01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:49,320
Speaker 1: in more or less words. And it's like he's constantly

2002
01:49:49,360 --> 01:49:52,519
Speaker 1: playing with these defensive backs. To your point, he can

2003
01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:55,760
Speaker 1: go out there and perform go over ninety yards and

2004
01:49:55,880 --> 01:49:59,040
Speaker 1: what eight games this year and just be so incredibly

2005
01:49:59,080 --> 01:50:02,679
Speaker 1: consistent while messing with the defensive backs. He's constantly talking

2006
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:05,040
Speaker 1: to Josh on the sidelines. I mean, what a stud

2007
01:50:05,080 --> 01:50:08,880
Speaker 1: that dude is. Yeah, the touchdown that he caught, when

2008
01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:10,400
Speaker 1: you go back and look at it, you'll see that

2009
01:50:10,439 --> 01:50:12,719
Speaker 1: the corner that has guarded him gave him a big cushion,

2010
01:50:13,400 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: stumbled and fell, slipped and fell, and you can't. When

2011
01:50:18,360 --> 01:50:20,040
Speaker 1: you do that against him, you give up a big

2012
01:50:20,040 --> 01:50:22,120
Speaker 1: one that was a touchdown. You know, the guy falls down.

2013
01:50:22,160 --> 01:50:24,400
Speaker 1: If the defense makes a mistake against Steph Diggs, he

2014
01:50:24,520 --> 01:50:29,360
Speaker 1: really consistently makes him pay. He runs this, the dB

2015
01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:31,920
Speaker 1: tries to do a baseball roll and turn out of

2016
01:50:31,920 --> 01:50:34,080
Speaker 1: it away from him and kind of keep his momentum

2017
01:50:34,479 --> 01:50:37,320
Speaker 1: plants the inside foot goes down on the turf and

2018
01:50:37,439 --> 01:50:39,200
Speaker 1: Digs is in the end zone before he can even

2019
01:50:39,240 --> 01:50:42,880
Speaker 1: stop him. It's just it's an illustration of how consistent,

2020
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:46,439
Speaker 1: how great he is all the time when you make

2021
01:50:46,520 --> 01:50:48,880
Speaker 1: one mistake in him on him and he's in the

2022
01:50:48,960 --> 01:50:53,000
Speaker 1: end zone. We had this conversation earning the show about

2023
01:50:53,080 --> 01:50:56,080
Speaker 1: a number one receiver as a guy he just never disappears.

2024
01:50:56,920 --> 01:50:59,920
Speaker 1: And that's what Steph Diggs has been for the Bills, consistently,

2025
01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:04,000
Speaker 1: a factor every play, every game. Yeah, it's amazing to

2026
01:51:04,080 --> 01:51:06,960
Speaker 1: me too, going back after the games and looking at

2027
01:51:07,040 --> 01:51:10,519
Speaker 1: targets and catches for him, and weekend and week out

2028
01:51:10,600 --> 01:51:15,080
Speaker 1: it's eleven targets with nine catches. You know, it's amazing.

2029
01:51:15,720 --> 01:51:18,320
Speaker 1: That's your number one receiver. That's the guy they're trying

2030
01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:21,680
Speaker 1: to take away at all times, and it's amazing the

2031
01:51:21,760 --> 01:51:24,560
Speaker 1: chemistry without a true offseason than him and Josh have.

2032
01:51:25,160 --> 01:51:28,400
Speaker 1: We were also talking Eric about Gabriel Davis in the

2033
01:51:28,479 --> 01:51:31,000
Speaker 1: job he's done to fill the void left by John Brown,

2034
01:51:31,040 --> 01:51:34,080
Speaker 1: who was on IR. I mean we're talking three games now,

2035
01:51:34,600 --> 01:51:38,120
Speaker 1: nine catches, one hundred sixty six yards and three touchdowns

2036
01:51:38,120 --> 01:51:40,720
Speaker 1: over those three games to fill in for a guy

2037
01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:43,200
Speaker 1: who was a one thousand yard receiver last year. I mean,

2038
01:51:43,320 --> 01:51:45,320
Speaker 1: I don't think people were looking for miracles, but this

2039
01:51:45,400 --> 01:51:48,800
Speaker 1: is pretty darn good production for your third receiver in

2040
01:51:48,840 --> 01:51:52,559
Speaker 1: the absence of one of your better players who's on IR. Yeah.

2041
01:51:52,600 --> 01:51:55,320
Speaker 1: I remember looking at quotes during training camp and them

2042
01:51:55,360 --> 01:51:58,600
Speaker 1: talking about how mentally far along Gabriel Davis is, and

2043
01:51:58,680 --> 01:52:01,400
Speaker 1: I was thinking, how far along can he'd be? He

2044
01:52:01,479 --> 01:52:05,240
Speaker 1: comes from that Josh Hypel offense down at Central Florida,

2045
01:52:05,280 --> 01:52:07,679
Speaker 1: and I've covered one of their games this year, and

2046
01:52:07,960 --> 01:52:09,920
Speaker 1: you know, it's just a it's not even close to

2047
01:52:09,960 --> 01:52:13,639
Speaker 1: an NFL offense. Those receivers run phenomenal routes, they block,

2048
01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:15,439
Speaker 1: they're tough and all of that. I don't want to

2049
01:52:15,439 --> 01:52:17,880
Speaker 1: take anything away from him, but that's the farthest thing

2050
01:52:17,960 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 1: from an NFL offense. So when they were saying how

2051
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:23,639
Speaker 1: far along Gabriel Davis is, you know, I'm like, well,

2052
01:52:23,880 --> 01:52:26,400
Speaker 1: that's kind of like when we would take an offensive

2053
01:52:26,400 --> 01:52:28,640
Speaker 1: lineman out of Baylor when they had our Briles and

2054
01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:32,439
Speaker 1: we'd say, yeah, he's coming along. He's getting a lot

2055
01:52:32,520 --> 01:52:36,160
Speaker 1: better intellectually, but he started with such a low iq

2056
01:52:36,360 --> 01:52:38,960
Speaker 1: of what an NFL offense would be, Like, that's what

2057
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:41,720
Speaker 1: I was thinking. And then he comes out in week

2058
01:52:41,800 --> 01:52:44,599
Speaker 1: one and he's starting, and I'm like, whoa, And that's

2059
01:52:44,760 --> 01:52:46,480
Speaker 1: that's what you get when you don't have a preseason

2060
01:52:46,640 --> 01:52:49,360
Speaker 1: and most practices aren't really open, So come out and

2061
01:52:49,479 --> 01:52:51,479
Speaker 1: start the year and they're in four wides with him,

2062
01:52:51,760 --> 01:52:54,439
Speaker 1: and then he just gives you just a little something different.

2063
01:52:54,800 --> 01:52:57,240
Speaker 1: You know, you got Beasley who's smaller and shift here

2064
01:52:57,320 --> 01:53:00,639
Speaker 1: and Stefan Diggs is probably the best combination, and Gabe

2065
01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:03,960
Speaker 1: Davis gives you a lot of size, and you know,

2066
01:53:04,040 --> 01:53:06,559
Speaker 1: the way he's blocked on the perimeter this year. I mean,

2067
01:53:06,560 --> 01:53:09,600
Speaker 1: he's just what a great draft pick that is in

2068
01:53:09,640 --> 01:53:12,599
Speaker 1: the fourth round. Yeah, and I think we've we've talked

2069
01:53:12,640 --> 01:53:16,639
Speaker 1: about that as well, the role he has played has

2070
01:53:16,680 --> 01:53:18,920
Speaker 1: been impressive. But I think, and I said this to

2071
01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:21,200
Speaker 1: Brownie minute ago, you can and you just spoke to this.

2072
01:53:21,479 --> 01:53:24,639
Speaker 1: The most impressive thing was his ability, in a shortened offseason,

2073
01:53:24,640 --> 01:53:26,880
Speaker 1: with no preseason games, to earn the trust of a

2074
01:53:26,920 --> 01:53:29,200
Speaker 1: coaching staff to go four wide just because of his

2075
01:53:29,280 --> 01:53:32,920
Speaker 1: presence on the field and his ability to have everything

2076
01:53:32,960 --> 01:53:35,280
Speaker 1: under his belt and they can call whatever they want,

2077
01:53:35,439 --> 01:53:39,880
Speaker 1: he'll run it as a wide out. That that's gone

2078
01:53:39,880 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 1: flown under the radar to this point of this season.

2079
01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:43,680
Speaker 1: The fact that he has been such a factor from

2080
01:53:43,720 --> 01:53:47,439
Speaker 1: week one with this coaching staff who like your number

2081
01:53:47,439 --> 01:53:49,840
Speaker 1: one draft pick and aj Epenesa, he didn't get on

2082
01:53:49,880 --> 01:53:52,840
Speaker 1: the field week one and he's a D lineman, right,

2083
01:53:52,880 --> 01:53:55,040
Speaker 1: I mean we just rushed the passer, right, I mean

2084
01:53:56,040 --> 01:53:59,320
Speaker 1: that guy didn't get on the field. You know, you go,

2085
01:53:59,439 --> 01:54:02,280
Speaker 1: you down the list of guy Zach Moss didn't get

2086
01:54:02,320 --> 01:54:05,439
Speaker 1: on the field. A lot other draft picks have had

2087
01:54:05,520 --> 01:54:08,000
Speaker 1: to wait their turn at times, certainly Ed Oliver and

2088
01:54:08,080 --> 01:54:11,240
Speaker 1: Tremaine and Josh. Even Josh was gonna have to wait,

2089
01:54:11,640 --> 01:54:14,280
Speaker 1: but man for him to carve out a starting spot

2090
01:54:14,320 --> 01:54:17,439
Speaker 1: at that with Steph Diggs, Cole Beasley and John Brown.

2091
01:54:19,720 --> 01:54:23,680
Speaker 1: That's really impressive, it is, And what a crew to

2092
01:54:23,800 --> 01:54:26,880
Speaker 1: learn from. What a selfless group of receivers in a

2093
01:54:26,960 --> 01:54:30,679
Speaker 1: day and age where you know wide receivers aren't nearly

2094
01:54:30,920 --> 01:54:34,320
Speaker 1: is selfless. Is fun to be around a throw the

2095
01:54:34,320 --> 01:54:37,440
Speaker 1: ball to that guy he's open. You know, what a culture.

2096
01:54:38,400 --> 01:54:41,560
Speaker 1: And I actually thought about this during the broadcast last night.

2097
01:54:41,560 --> 01:54:43,760
Speaker 1: When I came on today, I said, man, I've got

2098
01:54:43,760 --> 01:54:45,960
Speaker 1: to give a shout out to Chad Hall. I mean,

2099
01:54:45,960 --> 01:54:49,480
Speaker 1: what a remarkable job he's done as the wide receiver coach.

2100
01:54:49,720 --> 01:54:52,480
Speaker 1: Wide receiver coaches and Steve's been in a wide receiver

2101
01:54:52,600 --> 01:54:54,920
Speaker 1: room and so he could speak on it probably better

2102
01:54:54,960 --> 01:54:57,480
Speaker 1: than I can. But what a dynamic that is. I mean,

2103
01:54:57,520 --> 01:55:03,240
Speaker 1: you're blending incredible per personalities and all players that don't

2104
01:55:03,360 --> 01:55:06,440
Speaker 1: keep their job unless they get the ball. So they're

2105
01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:11,200
Speaker 1: constantly complaining about why is in display? For me? Why

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01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:13,840
Speaker 1: am I running the decoy here? And for Chad Hall

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01:55:13,960 --> 01:55:16,440
Speaker 1: to take these big person out. You know, you got

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01:55:16,560 --> 01:55:18,920
Speaker 1: two guys in Cole Beasley and John Brown that were

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01:55:18,920 --> 01:55:22,120
Speaker 1: extremely productive last year. Now you draft two guys to

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01:55:22,240 --> 01:55:26,400
Speaker 1: the room, and you add a guy in Stefan Diggs,

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01:55:26,720 --> 01:55:30,200
Speaker 1: and for all of them to keep that chemistry. That's

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Speaker 1: a remarkable job by Chad Hall, a young stud coach

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01:55:33,640 --> 01:55:36,320
Speaker 1: in this league. Last one from us here, Eric, Because

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01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 1: we're just about out of time, I'd be remiss if

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01:55:38,760 --> 01:55:41,240
Speaker 1: I didn't ask you for your take on the performance

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01:55:41,280 --> 01:55:44,360
Speaker 1: by Darryl Williams and containing TJ. Watt. There were a

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01:55:44,400 --> 01:55:46,440
Speaker 1: good number of times where he was left in one

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01:55:46,480 --> 01:55:49,720
Speaker 1: on one situations with him. Just you your thoughts, at

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01:55:49,800 --> 01:55:54,760
Speaker 1: least from TV copy of his performance. Yeah, heavy worried

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01:55:54,960 --> 01:55:57,800
Speaker 1: honestly early on, Not that I thought they would have

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01:55:57,840 --> 01:56:00,280
Speaker 1: to do with the whole game, but early on game

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01:56:00,280 --> 01:56:01,920
Speaker 1: I thought they would at least put a tight end

2123
01:56:01,960 --> 01:56:04,520
Speaker 1: over there. Even if he didn't chip him, he'd released

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01:56:04,560 --> 01:56:06,880
Speaker 1: through him. Um. I thought Daryl did a great job.

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01:56:07,200 --> 01:56:09,640
Speaker 1: Like I said, when it's wet and it's slick like that,

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01:56:09,960 --> 01:56:12,920
Speaker 1: it's tough to grab onto those guys. And you know,

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01:56:12,960 --> 01:56:18,400
Speaker 1: I thought he did an admirable job over there consistently

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01:56:18,520 --> 01:56:21,200
Speaker 1: keeping him away from Josh Allen. Thought Josh Allen did

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01:56:21,200 --> 01:56:23,880
Speaker 1: a great job as well. Of you know, early on,

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01:56:23,960 --> 01:56:26,440
Speaker 1: I think he rushed some throws, but that's way better

2131
01:56:26,480 --> 01:56:29,560
Speaker 1: than doing the opposite and taking sacks. Letting a guy

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01:56:29,600 --> 01:56:31,880
Speaker 1: like that get going, letting him tip a ball out

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01:56:31,880 --> 01:56:35,160
Speaker 1: of your hands whatever it may be. So um, you know,

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01:56:35,280 --> 01:56:38,760
Speaker 1: credit Daryl Williams. Credit Josh Allen as well for getting

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01:56:38,840 --> 01:56:40,440
Speaker 1: rid of that ball early and helping him out a

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01:56:40,480 --> 01:56:43,640
Speaker 1: little bit. And you know that that was that was

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01:56:43,640 --> 01:56:46,880
Speaker 1: a great job by the offensive line. You know, Cam

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01:56:46,880 --> 01:56:49,920
Speaker 1: Hayward is an extremely tough matchup inside too. That's a

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01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:52,840
Speaker 1: guy I've gone against and as the game went on

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01:56:53,040 --> 01:56:55,960
Speaker 1: he became less and less of a factor as well. Eric,

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01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:58,200
Speaker 1: good luck with your virtual event to marrow. Eric Wooden

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01:56:58,280 --> 01:57:02,040
Speaker 1: Friends for the Children's Hospital appreciate and good luck with

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01:57:02,120 --> 01:57:05,800
Speaker 1: it and hope it goes well. I appreciate it, guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: seven pm to eight thirty tomorrow night, a live virtual

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01:57:09,480 --> 01:57:13,240
Speaker 1: event fundraising effort for O'shi Children's Hospitals called Eric Woods

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01:57:13,280 --> 01:57:17,200
Speaker 1: and Friends Live, Eric wood and Friends Live and Jim Kelly,

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01:57:17,480 --> 01:57:21,360
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, GM Brandon being among those who will be

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Speaker 1: in attendance in that virtual event. And as you heard

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01:57:25,080 --> 01:57:28,600
Speaker 1: Eric say, he and Salib cracking jokes on those guys

2150
01:57:28,600 --> 01:57:31,360
Speaker 1: and probably telling a couple of stories out of school

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01:57:31,400 --> 01:57:34,960
Speaker 1: that you won't normally hear at their expense, but all

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01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:37,280
Speaker 1: for a good cause. So if you have time tomorrow

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01:57:37,360 --> 01:57:40,280
Speaker 1: night between seven and eight thirty, a twenty dollar donation

2154
01:57:40,320 --> 01:57:43,840
Speaker 1: will get you access to that event. Break time for us.

2155
01:57:43,840 --> 01:57:46,320
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we're gonna go around the

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01:57:46,400 --> 01:57:49,800
Speaker 1: locker room and get the thoughts of the players on

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01:57:49,840 --> 01:57:52,880
Speaker 1: this big win from Sunday Night Football. Back in a moment.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown, One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker Won Bill's Live.

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01:58:12,280 --> 01:58:16,040
Speaker 1: Time to go around the locker room, and it's presented

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Speaker 1: by kennect Life, your blood and organ donor network. And

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Speaker 1: we'll begin with head coach Sean McDermott, who you know,

2163
01:58:26,080 --> 01:58:29,760
Speaker 1: was asked a lot about where the momentum in this

2164
01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:33,080
Speaker 1: game changed, and I think most of us felt it

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01:58:33,200 --> 01:58:36,600
Speaker 1: happened on the Terren Johnson interception returned for a touchdown,

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01:58:36,680 --> 01:58:38,960
Speaker 1: the first touchdown that the Bill scored in the game.

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01:58:39,040 --> 01:58:42,880
Speaker 1: So here is coach McDermott commenting on the momentum swing

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01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:47,120
Speaker 1: that that play had on the game. Yeah, that was big.

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01:58:47,800 --> 01:58:49,400
Speaker 1: You know, I thought our defense was playing well up

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01:58:49,440 --> 01:58:52,440
Speaker 1: to that point. But you know, Ben has Ben and

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01:58:53,240 --> 01:58:55,640
Speaker 1: he's seen a lot of defenses and he has not

2172
01:58:55,720 --> 01:58:57,840
Speaker 1: turned the ball over a lot this year, and he's

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01:58:57,840 --> 01:59:00,280
Speaker 1: hard to get to when you're rushing them, and and

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01:59:00,360 --> 01:59:03,080
Speaker 1: so I thought that that was a pivotal moment the game.

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01:59:03,120 --> 01:59:06,240
Speaker 1: And you know, and then also no one how we

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01:59:06,240 --> 01:59:07,920
Speaker 1: were going to get the ball out for half right,

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01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:10,600
Speaker 1: and went back and got another seven after half. There

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01:59:10,640 --> 01:59:13,880
Speaker 1: was was big as well. That was a double dip

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01:59:14,200 --> 01:59:17,800
Speaker 1: situation for them. You know, they deferred and the reason,

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01:59:18,000 --> 01:59:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people ask, well, why do

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01:59:19,680 --> 01:59:23,360
Speaker 1: they always defer? The number ships The reason the numbers

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01:59:23,360 --> 01:59:25,560
Speaker 1: show that more often than not, when you defer the

2183
01:59:25,640 --> 01:59:29,720
Speaker 1: opening kick and you know the other team receives, Usually,

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01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:33,040
Speaker 1: the way the possessions tend to work out, you usually

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01:59:33,120 --> 01:59:35,320
Speaker 1: get the last possession in the first half and then

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01:59:35,320 --> 01:59:37,880
Speaker 1: you've deferred, so you're automatically getting the first possession in

2187
01:59:37,880 --> 01:59:40,840
Speaker 1: the second half. And people like the double dip option

2188
01:59:40,920 --> 01:59:43,240
Speaker 1: there because if you score on both of those, those

2189
01:59:43,320 --> 01:59:46,600
Speaker 1: are unanswered points essentially, which is exactly what happened. The

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01:59:46,640 --> 01:59:49,760
Speaker 1: Bill scored twenty three unanswered in this game. After giving

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01:59:49,840 --> 01:59:52,200
Speaker 1: up the touchdown to Juju Smith Schuster down in the

2192
01:59:52,400 --> 01:59:55,000
Speaker 1: in the tunnel end of the stadium, they came back,

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01:59:55,520 --> 01:59:59,200
Speaker 1: got a field goal, held the Steelers to a punt,

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01:59:59,600 --> 02:00:04,080
Speaker 1: or maybe that was the interception that or the Yeah,

2195
02:00:04,200 --> 02:00:06,280
Speaker 1: they came back, got a field goal, then came back

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Speaker 1: and got an interception pick six to go up nine

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02:00:10,120 --> 02:00:14,360
Speaker 1: to seven after the extra point was missed. Then the

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Speaker 1: Steelers get after the interception. They get back with fifty

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Speaker 1: one seconds left. Run the clock out, they would, They

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02:00:19,240 --> 02:00:21,200
Speaker 1: kind of stopped trying and just let the clock round,

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Speaker 1: win into halftime, Bills come out, get the ball, bang

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Speaker 1: bang bang, touchdown, and all of a sudden, it's sixteen

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Speaker 1: to seven. How puzzled were you that they didn't even try?

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02:00:30,520 --> 02:00:32,440
Speaker 1: You knew you weren't getting the ball to start the

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02:00:32,480 --> 02:00:34,600
Speaker 1: second half. You got fifty one seconds to work with.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know it was a it was tough sledding,

2207
02:00:37,640 --> 02:00:40,880
Speaker 1: but you gotta try try, right, I think that's it.

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02:00:41,080 --> 02:00:44,440
Speaker 1: You're down two points, you're not getting the ball to

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Speaker 1: start the second half, you got fifty one seconds to

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Speaker 1: work with. I think they had a time out left.

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02:00:49,520 --> 02:00:52,680
Speaker 1: Try something. Yeah, I mean it's like they're waving a

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02:00:52,720 --> 02:00:56,440
Speaker 1: white flag. Yeah, I think that is. I didn't understand that.

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02:00:56,480 --> 02:01:01,400
Speaker 1: It maybe that they don't believe Ben can throw the

2214
02:01:01,440 --> 02:01:05,280
Speaker 1: football down the field. Obviously not on the field. You

2215
02:01:05,320 --> 02:01:07,600
Speaker 1: gotta get chunkyard. Fifty one saying he gotta get chunk

2216
02:01:07,640 --> 02:01:10,800
Speaker 1: yard and you got to throw the ball to the boundaries.

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02:01:11,880 --> 02:01:15,360
Speaker 1: Try anything, hook and ladder, I mean, do something your

2218
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Speaker 1: offense is in reverse. I would agree with that. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, I couldn't believe they just We're just gonna

2220
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Speaker 1: go to the locker room. We're good, We're good over here.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that. That flies in the face of

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Speaker 1: what I've seen Pittsburgh representing this league for a long time.

2223
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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that. You could have knocked me over

2224
02:01:32,840 --> 02:01:36,120
Speaker 1: with a feather when that happened. I think that's I

2225
02:01:36,160 --> 02:01:39,080
Speaker 1: think that's about the quarterback. Well, if that is not

2226
02:01:39,920 --> 02:01:44,760
Speaker 1: a statement on where how wayward that franchise is from

2227
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Speaker 1: an offensive perspective, Yeah, that's the picture right there. This

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Speaker 1: is the same head coach. He used to do that

2229
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Speaker 1: all the time. He used to go for it a lot,

2230
02:01:52,560 --> 02:01:54,160
Speaker 1: you know that kind of I think they would nod

2231
02:01:54,240 --> 02:01:57,280
Speaker 1: towards where they're at offensively, where they're at, well, personnel,

2232
02:01:57,360 --> 02:01:59,680
Speaker 1: that's a bad place. I think that's a really really

2233
02:01:59,680 --> 02:02:03,360
Speaker 1: bad place. They have got first round playoff loss written

2234
02:02:03,480 --> 02:02:05,800
Speaker 1: all over them. I don't even care what happens in

2235
02:02:05,840 --> 02:02:09,320
Speaker 1: these next three games for them. H Josh Allen asked

2236
02:02:09,360 --> 02:02:13,040
Speaker 1: about what changed in the second half that, you know,

2237
02:02:13,120 --> 02:02:16,560
Speaker 1: kind of sparked them offensively. Here's Josh's take on that.

2238
02:02:18,320 --> 02:02:20,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I started completing it to the right guys,

2239
02:02:20,280 --> 02:02:22,800
Speaker 1: and guys did a good job of getting open. But

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Speaker 1: I think he saw it written he came out it's

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Speaker 1: start Union four. UM knew that we liked our match

2242
02:02:27,480 --> 02:02:30,400
Speaker 1: up out there, and I could say it's a lot

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02:02:30,440 --> 02:02:32,040
Speaker 1: of confidence. I think I'd like any match up before

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02:02:32,040 --> 02:02:34,240
Speaker 1: and fall. You know, he's one of the best stuff,

2245
02:02:34,280 --> 02:02:36,680
Speaker 1: not the best guy in the league, but supreme confidence

2246
02:02:36,720 --> 02:02:38,520
Speaker 1: in him. You know, he had a lot of jeers

2247
02:02:38,520 --> 02:02:40,920
Speaker 1: at halftime. Um, he wanted the ball and we gave

2248
02:02:40,960 --> 02:02:43,520
Speaker 1: it to him. He he take over for us, He

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02:02:43,600 --> 02:02:45,760
Speaker 1: really did. UM. Our guys did a good job of

2250
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Speaker 1: doing their job up front, Cobe Easley getting open, and

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02:02:49,960 --> 02:02:53,200
Speaker 1: you know gave Davis Farm and Paynton. Um. We persevered

2252
02:02:53,200 --> 02:02:56,000
Speaker 1: and obviously the numbers aren't gonna be super pretty, and UM,

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Speaker 1: I think they at the end of the day, though,

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Speaker 1: we got to win that our defense play fantastic and

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Speaker 1: he was a reface winart. It really was the defense

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Speaker 1: that held him in it early. You know, you can

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Speaker 1: talk about the Steelers struggles all you want, you still

2258
02:03:10,520 --> 02:03:14,160
Speaker 1: have to stop them, and the defense did that in

2259
02:03:14,200 --> 02:03:17,480
Speaker 1: a big way. When Buffalo's offense was struggling, even when

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Speaker 1: they were turning the ball over, the Bill's defense was

2261
02:03:20,440 --> 02:03:24,680
Speaker 1: getting stops and it was critical to giving the Bills

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Speaker 1: offense the opportunity to take control of the game in

2263
02:03:26,880 --> 02:03:29,080
Speaker 1: the second half because of how close they kept it.

2264
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Speaker 1: The way they're constructed now, I think the Bills defense

2265
02:03:33,480 --> 02:03:35,800
Speaker 1: is there to make plays like they did, certainly when

2266
02:03:35,800 --> 02:03:38,840
Speaker 1: they can, but it's also to enlarge the margin of

2267
02:03:38,960 --> 02:03:43,120
Speaker 1: error for this offense. This offense is a throwing and

2268
02:03:43,320 --> 02:03:45,800
Speaker 1: this higher risk offense than we've seen in a long time.

2269
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Speaker 1: Now we come to trust at Josh has shown that

2270
02:03:48,720 --> 02:03:52,480
Speaker 1: he can handle that. But you know they're gonna be

2271
02:03:52,520 --> 02:03:54,960
Speaker 1: times when the ball does get tipped off the top

2272
02:03:55,000 --> 02:03:56,920
Speaker 1: of a guy's helmet and get picked off. There is

2273
02:03:56,920 --> 02:03:59,160
Speaker 1: a time when Josh Harlin's gonna arms gonna get hit

2274
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Speaker 1: in the delivery and it gets intercepted like it did yesterday,

2275
02:04:02,760 --> 02:04:05,640
Speaker 1: or you know, Dawson Knox or some other player fumbles

2276
02:04:05,640 --> 02:04:07,840
Speaker 1: it away like Zach Moss did last week Dawson Knox

2277
02:04:07,920 --> 02:04:11,760
Speaker 1: did this week. The defense's job is to enlarge the

2278
02:04:12,080 --> 02:04:15,720
Speaker 1: offense's ability to not let it get out of hand

2279
02:04:16,160 --> 02:04:18,960
Speaker 1: when bad things happen to this offense. Certainly this offense,

2280
02:04:18,960 --> 02:04:22,560
Speaker 1: when it finds itself during these games, it's gonna jump

2281
02:04:22,560 --> 02:04:24,960
Speaker 1: back and it's got a big engine. So when it

2282
02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:27,280
Speaker 1: gets a chance to rev, you can bet it's gonna happen.

2283
02:04:27,400 --> 02:04:30,320
Speaker 1: So this defense's job. The way this team's constructed this year,

2284
02:04:30,600 --> 02:04:33,960
Speaker 1: unlike last year, this defense doesn't have to be the engine.

2285
02:04:35,080 --> 02:04:36,640
Speaker 1: They just got to give the engine a chance to

2286
02:04:36,680 --> 02:04:38,680
Speaker 1: rev and stay in it close. And that's what this

2287
02:04:38,760 --> 02:04:42,440
Speaker 1: defense didn't really well last night. Stefan Diggs with his

2288
02:04:42,560 --> 02:04:46,720
Speaker 1: fourth game this season with ten receptions or more and

2289
02:04:46,960 --> 02:04:50,640
Speaker 1: reached a hundred receptions on the season to tie Eric

2290
02:04:50,720 --> 02:04:54,160
Speaker 1: Mould's franchise record for most catches in a season. And

2291
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Speaker 1: he's done it in thirteen games, so almost certain to well,

2292
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Speaker 1: it's a virtual certainty it's gonna break Er molds record,

2293
02:05:01,160 --> 02:05:03,920
Speaker 1: which has stood since two thousand and two. Here is

2294
02:05:03,960 --> 02:05:08,680
Speaker 1: steph on his success this season. More so, give on

2295
02:05:08,760 --> 02:05:11,120
Speaker 1: the credit to the people around me, especially Josh Allen

2296
02:05:12,000 --> 02:05:15,640
Speaker 1: young quarterback. He put his fut faith in his trusting

2297
02:05:15,720 --> 02:05:17,600
Speaker 1: me to make plays and make plays for him with

2298
02:05:17,680 --> 02:05:19,720
Speaker 1: the ball in my hands and catching the ball, and

2299
02:05:20,040 --> 02:05:22,200
Speaker 1: coach day Ball. You know, he calling the right stuff.

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02:05:22,520 --> 02:05:24,480
Speaker 1: You know, he drawing it up upstairs and put him

2301
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Speaker 1: in the best position to make plays. And then my

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Speaker 1: receiver coach my Harve Reciper, coach chat Hall. We put

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Speaker 1: in a lot of work in practice. You know, we

2304
02:05:31,920 --> 02:05:34,760
Speaker 1: rep a lot of stuff that's more game like than anything.

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Speaker 1: I could be a lot better, So you know, I

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02:05:37,160 --> 02:05:38,600
Speaker 1: don't think too much of it. I'm just trying to

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Speaker 1: chase these wins. And there it is. I mean, and

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Speaker 1: this is what we've heard about Stefan Diggs from his

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Speaker 1: teammates since he got here. He's been selfless. He's been

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Speaker 1: quick to praise others, and so even in the game

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02:05:51,960 --> 02:05:54,200
Speaker 1: where he's clearly the spotlight and one of the major

2312
02:05:54,200 --> 02:05:57,480
Speaker 1: reasons the offense got on track in the game last night,

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02:05:58,200 --> 02:06:02,440
Speaker 1: he's still deflecting that credit. He also has. You know,

2314
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Speaker 1: he's played his role and done the dirty work as well.

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02:06:05,480 --> 02:06:08,600
Speaker 1: He's blocking free, he's unselfish, he's blocking for his fellow receivers.

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02:06:09,000 --> 02:06:12,800
Speaker 1: Last he threw another one this yesterday as well. He

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02:06:12,840 --> 02:06:15,720
Speaker 1: had another block on a screen pass for two. I

2318
02:06:15,720 --> 02:06:20,160
Speaker 1: think it was Beasley just an unselfish and he looks

2319
02:06:20,200 --> 02:06:23,920
Speaker 1: fully engaged all the time. He's never looking around saying,

2320
02:06:23,960 --> 02:06:26,000
Speaker 1: I hope these guys get there, get it together. Whatever.

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02:06:26,040 --> 02:06:28,920
Speaker 1: He's trying to help guys play better, and it has

2322
02:06:28,960 --> 02:06:32,680
Speaker 1: been he's been. He's been the bell cow for this offense,

2323
02:06:32,760 --> 02:06:35,360
Speaker 1: no question about it, for Josh Allen, for the running game,

2324
02:06:35,440 --> 02:06:38,120
Speaker 1: for the passing game, and it has begun and ended

2325
02:06:38,160 --> 02:06:41,680
Speaker 1: with Steph Diggs and his ability to contribute in every

2326
02:06:41,720 --> 02:06:45,880
Speaker 1: situation consistently throughout the year. The more we talk about it,

2327
02:06:45,880 --> 02:06:47,160
Speaker 1: the more I can keep going back to it. The

2328
02:06:47,160 --> 02:06:50,480
Speaker 1: guy never disappears. How many guys have we had on

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02:06:50,520 --> 02:06:52,880
Speaker 1: this team where well he couldn't well, they were taking

2330
02:06:52,960 --> 02:06:55,360
Speaker 1: him away and then and then there was nobody else there. Yeah.

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02:06:55,400 --> 02:06:58,720
Speaker 1: I mean there were even games where I remember Belichick

2332
02:06:58,760 --> 02:07:00,720
Speaker 1: and the Patriots taken Eric Holds out of the game,

2333
02:07:00,760 --> 02:07:03,640
Speaker 1: bracket coverage, whatever it is, they would take him out

2334
02:07:03,640 --> 02:07:05,720
Speaker 1: of the game. We just have anybody else. Yeah. Now

2335
02:07:05,800 --> 02:07:10,200
Speaker 1: with Beasley and John Brown and Gabe Davis, now you know,

2336
02:07:11,520 --> 02:07:14,160
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley last week had what ten catches last week?

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02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:18,200
Speaker 1: They'll crush you're doing that, and that that is as

2338
02:07:18,240 --> 02:07:20,960
Speaker 1: big a factor in Steph Digs staying engaged in a

2339
02:07:21,080 --> 02:07:25,200
Speaker 1: part of it as anything. It's it's a it's a

2340
02:07:25,200 --> 02:07:27,440
Speaker 1: pretty fun offense to watch, no question, and it is.

2341
02:07:27,600 --> 02:07:29,920
Speaker 1: It is right on the cusp of everything that is

2342
02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:32,880
Speaker 1: the modern NFL, no question. All right, let's go to

2343
02:07:32,920 --> 02:07:35,000
Speaker 1: the tweet sheets since we've yet to do that through

2344
02:07:35,040 --> 02:07:37,960
Speaker 1: the course of today's show, and as you know, the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. We begin

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02:07:43,640 --> 02:07:46,360
Speaker 1: with Marty when we're asking about the biggest takeaway from

2348
02:07:46,360 --> 02:07:49,440
Speaker 1: the Bills win over the Steelers. I had two takeaways.

2349
02:07:49,440 --> 02:07:52,680
Speaker 1: He says, defense played physical and secondly, the offense settled

2350
02:07:52,680 --> 02:07:55,160
Speaker 1: down in the second half. The first half felt like

2351
02:07:55,200 --> 02:07:58,600
Speaker 1: we had the Chiefs game offensively. The second half showed

2352
02:07:58,640 --> 02:08:01,360
Speaker 1: how much we've grown since then. When you think about

2353
02:08:01,360 --> 02:08:06,840
Speaker 1: that assessment, the growth in adjusting at halftime and taking

2354
02:08:06,880 --> 02:08:09,160
Speaker 1: control of the game, which was something they were unable

2355
02:08:09,200 --> 02:08:12,280
Speaker 1: to do in Week six against the Chiefs. Yeah, because

2356
02:08:12,280 --> 02:08:14,480
Speaker 1: it was still right. It was still relatively close in

2357
02:08:14,480 --> 02:08:16,560
Speaker 1: that Chiefs game at halftime. Let me just say this,

2358
02:08:17,760 --> 02:08:21,960
Speaker 1: does it not feel like the Buffalo Bills this season

2359
02:08:22,040 --> 02:08:26,000
Speaker 1: is going to be incomplete unless they meet the Chiefs

2360
02:08:26,000 --> 02:08:28,960
Speaker 1: and the playoffs. These two teams are starting to look

2361
02:08:29,000 --> 02:08:31,320
Speaker 1: like they are on a collision course at the top

2362
02:08:31,320 --> 02:08:34,800
Speaker 1: of the bracket, the Bills and the Chiefs. I would

2363
02:08:34,840 --> 02:08:38,240
Speaker 1: not I'm still hesitant to dismiss the Titans. That is

2364
02:08:38,240 --> 02:08:43,400
Speaker 1: a gritty, down and dirty, grind it out. They'll beat

2365
02:08:43,440 --> 02:08:46,160
Speaker 1: you sixteen fourteen and not even think twice about it.

2366
02:08:46,840 --> 02:08:50,040
Speaker 1: And that's the only other team in the entire AFC

2367
02:08:50,280 --> 02:08:52,960
Speaker 1: that really worries me. I think another dark horse that

2368
02:08:52,960 --> 02:08:56,200
Speaker 1: could surprise some people are the Colts because of their

2369
02:08:56,200 --> 02:08:58,880
Speaker 1: offensive line and their ability to run the football. What

2370
02:08:58,920 --> 02:09:01,560
Speaker 1: did Jonathan Taylor do yesterday? Two hundred and fifty yards

2371
02:09:02,520 --> 02:09:05,880
Speaker 1: off a bunch of whole crap? That guy came back

2372
02:09:05,880 --> 02:09:08,280
Speaker 1: into its two hundred and twenty five pounds steven he

2373
02:09:08,360 --> 02:09:11,720
Speaker 1: runs four three nine. YEA, that ain't right. I'll tell

2374
02:09:11,720 --> 02:09:14,400
Speaker 1: you though. Talking about the Bills and where they've come

2375
02:09:14,520 --> 02:09:17,880
Speaker 1: and a team that looks like it's in the same

2376
02:09:17,960 --> 02:09:20,000
Speaker 1: league with the Kansas City Chiefs, the Bills are the

2377
02:09:20,000 --> 02:09:23,480
Speaker 1: only ones. The Titans are completely different and that can

2378
02:09:23,560 --> 02:09:26,720
Speaker 1: have answers consistently like the Titans as we saw last

2379
02:09:26,800 --> 02:09:29,400
Speaker 1: year there, what were they up ten points on the

2380
02:09:29,480 --> 02:09:32,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs in the AFC title game, right, might have been

2381
02:09:32,200 --> 02:09:35,040
Speaker 1: more than ten, and all of a sudden it evaporates

2382
02:09:35,120 --> 02:09:38,160
Speaker 1: and they don't have the wherewithal to climb back into

2383
02:09:38,160 --> 02:09:40,840
Speaker 1: the game. I think they were up like seventeen, yeah,

2384
02:09:40,880 --> 02:09:43,000
Speaker 1: in the first half, and then they gave up twenty

2385
02:09:44,800 --> 02:09:47,880
Speaker 1: twenty four. The Chiefs ran off twenty four points. Now,

2386
02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:51,440
Speaker 1: I will say this, I think Tannehill has advanced his

2387
02:09:51,480 --> 02:09:54,440
Speaker 1: game even further this year. A J. Brown is now

2388
02:09:54,480 --> 02:09:58,320
Speaker 1: a stud receiver, a true number one in every sense

2389
02:09:58,360 --> 02:10:00,720
Speaker 1: of the word. And they have a supporting past and

2390
02:10:00,760 --> 02:10:03,160
Speaker 1: they still have Henry. So the key with the Titans

2391
02:10:03,200 --> 02:10:05,480
Speaker 1: if you're coming up against them in the playoffs is

2392
02:10:05,520 --> 02:10:09,200
Speaker 1: to not fall behind, to allow them to just pound

2393
02:10:09,240 --> 02:10:11,680
Speaker 1: the tar out of you with Derrick Henry, Right, you

2394
02:10:11,760 --> 02:10:13,800
Speaker 1: got to get up on them early, forced them to

2395
02:10:13,880 --> 02:10:16,680
Speaker 1: throw and not run as much, and then hope you

2396
02:10:16,720 --> 02:10:19,040
Speaker 1: have the secondary to hold them down. Right, That's how

2397
02:10:19,040 --> 02:10:21,160
Speaker 1: you got to play that. Yeah, that's and you know

2398
02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:23,320
Speaker 1: those are two different animals. I think the culture a

2399
02:10:23,360 --> 02:10:25,680
Speaker 1: different animal. The Tennessee Titans are a different animal. You're

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02:10:25,680 --> 02:10:27,440
Speaker 1: talking about the teams at the top of the bracket.

2401
02:10:27,480 --> 02:10:32,240
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to the Bills or that team,

2402
02:10:32,240 --> 02:10:35,040
Speaker 1: and it feels to me like this team is on

2403
02:10:35,080 --> 02:10:37,520
Speaker 1: a collision course with Kansas City. This last one I'm

2404
02:10:37,520 --> 02:10:39,840
Speaker 1: going to read is from a fan who I think

2405
02:10:39,880 --> 02:10:42,800
Speaker 1: represents every fan under the age of thirty five. It's

2406
02:10:42,800 --> 02:10:45,280
Speaker 1: from Gabby. She says, my biggest takeaway is these are

2407
02:10:45,320 --> 02:10:47,600
Speaker 1: not the Bills that I grew up with ever since

2408
02:10:47,640 --> 02:10:50,800
Speaker 1: I was little. The Bills build you up just for disappointment.

2409
02:10:51,360 --> 02:10:53,680
Speaker 1: Every week, this squad gets better and better, and I

2410
02:10:53,720 --> 02:10:55,960
Speaker 1: feel like I have been waiting for this team for

2411
02:10:56,120 --> 02:10:59,200
Speaker 1: my whole life. We had a twenty nine year old

2412
02:10:59,240 --> 02:11:01,840
Speaker 1: guy on the show last week and he said, I'm

2413
02:11:01,920 --> 02:11:04,440
Speaker 1: used to being disappointed. He goes, this is all new

2414
02:11:04,520 --> 02:11:08,480
Speaker 1: territory for me, and I'm trying to enter games with

2415
02:11:08,560 --> 02:11:11,320
Speaker 1: a completely different perspective than I've been conditioned to have

2416
02:11:11,720 --> 02:11:14,360
Speaker 1: for the better part of the last seventeen years. It's

2417
02:11:14,360 --> 02:11:16,440
Speaker 1: spend a long time waiting for the other shoe to drop,

2418
02:11:16,560 --> 02:11:20,160
Speaker 1: or for that all come crashing down. To earth. And

2419
02:11:20,240 --> 02:11:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that that's you know that, you know,

2420
02:11:22,280 --> 02:11:24,840
Speaker 1: we may not end this season short of the super

2421
02:11:24,880 --> 02:11:27,440
Speaker 1: Bowl and all that, but certainly this is a team

2422
02:11:27,480 --> 02:11:29,920
Speaker 1: that it is fun to watch and you feel like

2423
02:11:29,920 --> 02:11:32,200
Speaker 1: they've got a shot in every game and there's there's

2424
02:11:32,240 --> 02:11:34,680
Speaker 1: no holes. You know, you've run out of holes to

2425
02:11:34,760 --> 02:11:37,919
Speaker 1: poke and what they're doing. Yeah, and they're getting healthier,

2426
02:11:38,120 --> 02:11:40,760
Speaker 1: which is another thing. We have to take a break.

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Speaker 1: When we return, it'll be what have we learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show? That's next here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio time for

2430
02:12:05,920 --> 02:12:08,560
Speaker 1: what have we learned from today's show? Brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And I think we learned that the Bills

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Speaker 1: are one of the top teams in the conference and

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02:12:20,240 --> 02:12:23,560
Speaker 1: they'll continue to try to climb their way up to

2435
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Speaker 1: the number two seed. Now, a game off of that

2436
02:12:26,480 --> 02:12:31,040
Speaker 1: number two seed, and with where the Steelers appear to

2437
02:12:31,080 --> 02:12:34,600
Speaker 1: be headed, you win at least two of your next

2438
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Speaker 1: three games, maybe all three. You might get two home

2439
02:12:38,120 --> 02:12:43,920
Speaker 1: playoff games, not just one. Yeah, that's that would be huge.

2440
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Speaker 1: No question about it. If the Bills could go in

2441
02:12:46,720 --> 02:12:49,320
Speaker 1: this season thirteen and three, you gotta think one of

2442
02:12:49,320 --> 02:12:51,000
Speaker 1: those teams are going to come back to you, particularly

2443
02:12:51,000 --> 02:12:55,280
Speaker 1: if it's the Steelers. You got the tiebreaker on them,

2444
02:12:55,320 --> 02:12:57,160
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're the two seed behind

2445
02:12:57,240 --> 02:13:00,600
Speaker 1: Kansas City. It's hard hard to imagine Kansas City in three,

2446
02:13:01,040 --> 02:13:02,880
Speaker 1: and that's what would have to happen. They've got the

2447
02:13:02,880 --> 02:13:05,360
Speaker 1: tiebreaker on Buffalo, so if they both end up thirteen

2448
02:13:05,400 --> 02:13:08,800
Speaker 1: and three, then you know, Kansas City still gets the

2449
02:13:08,880 --> 02:13:11,560
Speaker 1: number one seed. But if you get the number two seed,

2450
02:13:12,160 --> 02:13:14,560
Speaker 1: you're all the way to the AFC Championship at home.

2451
02:13:15,240 --> 02:13:18,880
Speaker 1: And that's a help. That is a help. I know

2452
02:13:18,960 --> 02:13:23,160
Speaker 1: you were hoping that come January the Bills would be

2453
02:13:23,200 --> 02:13:27,400
Speaker 1: in a position like that. I still don't think maybe

2454
02:13:28,120 --> 02:13:30,720
Speaker 1: there would be fans in the stands to see it. Well,

2455
02:13:30,720 --> 02:13:32,800
Speaker 1: if you get two of them, you got a better chance.

2456
02:13:32,840 --> 02:13:35,960
Speaker 1: But here's the thing too, you know, I still don't

2457
02:13:35,960 --> 02:13:38,040
Speaker 1: think that Dolphins game is gonna mean anything. Now that

2458
02:13:38,120 --> 02:13:41,200
Speaker 1: Dolphins are two games back, that game's gone. So I

2459
02:13:41,240 --> 02:13:43,520
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a worthless exercise and we may

2460
02:13:43,560 --> 02:13:45,520
Speaker 1: not have to push too hard to win it, or

2461
02:13:45,560 --> 02:13:47,480
Speaker 1: to lose it. Even that's all for us. On a

2462
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Speaker 1: Bills victory Monday. We'll see you tomorrow when we have

2463
02:13:49,720 --> 02:13:52,640
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football's Kyle Brandt. Be sure to join us

2464
02:13:52,640 --> 02:13:54,920
Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon. We'll see you then. It's One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. This has been Buffalo Bills Radio

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Speaker 1: in the bat expensive in sting emplacements