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Speaker 1: They measure a lot of data that is pretty cool

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Speaker 1: do that and they use it and listen to it.

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Speaker 1: So you have guys like random guys. You know, Harrison

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Speaker 1: White's not practicing today and it's just a veteran day.

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Speaker 1: They don't tell you the reason, but that's the reason.

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Speaker 1: Maybe other teams do that, I'm sure some of them do.

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Speaker 1: But teams who are constantly having this thing happened to them.

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Speaker 1: It is not an accident. It is an unwillingness to

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Speaker 1: or just being stubborn and saying that's just the luck

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Speaker 1: luck of the draw. There's a pattern there, but there's

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Speaker 1: the guy he rants. You know he ran a marathon.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday's probably not the best day to have him do

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Speaker 1: there is things. There are things they can do to

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Speaker 1: help their clubs stay healthier throughout an NFL season, even

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Speaker 1: though so much of it is arbitrary and happenstance, some

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Speaker 1: of it is not. And if you and to me,

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Speaker 1: other buildings don't seem to be. Yeah, it's unfortunate. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they have the horses on that roster. If you look

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Speaker 1: up and down that roster, they have the horses. But

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Speaker 1: they got to be healthy and stay on the fielders.

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Speaker 1: They're just not going to go anywhere again this year.

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Speaker 1: It's terrible. Jamar Chase misquoted. Did you see this? So

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, who has had his problems catching the ball

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Speaker 1: was basically misquoted by Pro Football Talk, which ran the

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Speaker 1: following headline, Jamar Chase colin NFL ball is harder to

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Speaker 1: catch than an NCAA ball, harder to see without white

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Speaker 1: had like NFL stamps and the commissioner's signature on and everything.

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Speaker 1: So after this story ran online, Chase had a rebuttal

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Speaker 1: Don't change my words. So good for him for chirping back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know what's gonna happen with Jamar Chase this season?

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Speaker 1: Who knows he's playing with his former college teammate Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 1: They got te Higgins on the other side, who had

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Speaker 1: Burrow upright and they should be able to score points

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Speaker 1: this year. You know you got a good back, capable

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Speaker 1: It's it's when you come out as a receiver. You

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Speaker 1: have to go back. You look at helmet colors, you

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Speaker 1: And then the pros the balls are all you know,

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Speaker 1: they're the same color. I remember when the bubble was

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Speaker 1: here way back in the day. Inside the lighting was ambient, dim. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: an offseason practice in there one day and I'm not exaggerating.

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Speaker 1: If I got thrown twenty five balls, I dropped twenty

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Speaker 1: three of them. Wow, absolutely stoned him. I could not

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Speaker 1: see him coming in the ball. You couldn't see him

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Speaker 1: coming in. I couldn't see the visual cues, the depth perception.

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Speaker 1: I was closing my hands a little too early, or

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Speaker 1: was pinching it before it was there to be pinched,

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Speaker 1: because the lighting was such that I you know, for me,

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Speaker 1: We're different than maybe what what Andre And I remember

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Speaker 1: it vividly. It was Ted Toler, the Ted Toler year.

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Speaker 1: Uh Ted was out there washing. I dropped literally of

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Speaker 1: twenty five balls. I dropped twenty three of them. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't catch anything. Anything. That had to be a rough day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was not my It wasn't. Yeah. I think I

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Speaker 1: might have put my house in the market that day,

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Speaker 1: but no tea. But that it happens, and it's all

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Speaker 1: about visual cues. And you know what you've trained yourself

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Speaker 1: to be ready for and to do, and then when

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Speaker 1: those things change, you got to adjust to it. And

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Speaker 1: you know, Jamar Chase is he's gonna be all right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, come out. Yeah, he's a talent. Twitter conversation

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Speaker 1: today concerns the Bills Steelers game obviously on Sunday. Which

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Speaker 1: matchup do you think will have the biggest impact in

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Speaker 1: a Bill's victory? Choices are there for you at one

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Speaker 1: two five fifty. We do have to take a break here,

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Speaker 1: but Judy and Buffalo hang tight, will get to you

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

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Speaker 1: know what matchup we'll have the biggest impact in a

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Speaker 1: Bill's victory. Choices are there for you at one Bills

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Speaker 1: where we go now we go to the phones. Leading

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Speaker 1: us off today is Judy and Buffalo. Judy, what do

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Speaker 1: you have for us? You're on one Bills Live, Judy,

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Speaker 1: are you there? Ye? Hey, how we doing. Okay, First,

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Speaker 1: you know, we cannot afford to lose the Pittsburgh because

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Speaker 1: if we do weekly three three at the end of

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Speaker 1: six games. Second, I think our breakout player of the

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Speaker 1: year will be Gabriel Davis. Okay. And third, I think

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Speaker 1: the game of the week is Cleveland Kansas City. That

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Speaker 1: is a big That is a big game. You want

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Speaker 1: to talk about a measuring stick game right out of

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Speaker 1: the box for Cleveland. Go back to where you're lost

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Speaker 1: in the plane. Right, thank you well, Judy, I gotta say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right, it would be. It'd be a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a gut punch. I telling this is somebody else

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Speaker 1: is the Pittsburgh game is not a must win game.

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Speaker 1: And if the Bills did get beat by Pittsburgh, it

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Speaker 1: might be the best thing for him to bring him

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Speaker 1: back and say listen those expectations. You know, we got

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Speaker 1: to earn him again. The way it happened last year

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Speaker 1: with the Hail Murray touchdown that kind of catapulted them

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Speaker 1: to the end of the season. They it kind of

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Speaker 1: made him mad. Um. It was a it was a

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Speaker 1: gut punch for him. I don't think any game except

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Speaker 1: the last one is a must win. And and I

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Speaker 1: don't you know it. If you're saying the Chiefs the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh game is gonna put him at three and three,

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Speaker 1: I think you're getting putt in the cart a little

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Speaker 1: bit ahead of the horse because he's already in weeks six. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've already you've already decided the other five games as well.

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Speaker 1: So uh yeah, let's let's play it. And let let's

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Speaker 1: just hope the Bills play their best. If they play

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Speaker 1: their best, we can live with it, all right, Um,

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Speaker 1: take one week a take it one week at a time.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I and also Gabriel Davis, I'm all about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many opportunities Gabriel Davis is gonna get,

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Speaker 1: but that's the only thing that could hold him back. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's really the only thing. And the and the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Kansas City game, I would agree with you. That is

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Speaker 1: the game I would like to see. And I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what, love it if Cleveland showed up big, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would love it. We'll see. So thanks, Judy, that's appreciate,

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Speaker 1: appreciate the call. Yeah it is. And you know it's

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Speaker 1: interesting that you were we were referencing what Judy had

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Speaker 1: said with respect to you know, can't afford to lose

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Speaker 1: this game, otherwise we're gonna be three and three after

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Speaker 1: six games. I mean, that's some major paper shooting. But

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Speaker 1: when we were when we were doing our podcast this week,

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Speaker 1: which will be out I believe tomorrow One Bill's Light

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Speaker 1: were talking about fast starts, which is a subject of

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Speaker 1: conversation on our podcast this week, and you were mentioning

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Speaker 1: how Joe Gibbs Washington teams led the league. What'd you

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Speaker 1: say led the league? And say, number one, number one

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Speaker 1: of offense, number number one defense. They were owing five

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Speaker 1: to start the season, start the season. That's fascinating. I

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Speaker 1: got to look up what year that was. That was

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Speaker 1: on NFL Films and he was there. He goes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he goes, you know, you talk about statistics being for losers.

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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't. That wasn't part of the interview,

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Speaker 1: but he said that, and I that always struck me.

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Speaker 1: It's like, what because I kind of remember it because

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Speaker 1: like that for Washington, going, wow, they're good, but man,

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Speaker 1: they keep going beat you know. And I can't remember

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Speaker 1: the circumstances of it. But later on I saw that

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Speaker 1: video from NFL Films saying, yeah, we're number one. You

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Speaker 1: talk to the owners about how we're doing. The owners

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Speaker 1: So I don't think that would ever happen again. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I can't even remember how it happened to

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Speaker 1: the to the you know, the Washington team, but you know,

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Speaker 1: that one would stupefy me that a team that's that

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Speaker 1: well they do it by yards, right, so yeah, you

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Speaker 1: of that. I suppose they were awful on the turnover department,

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Speaker 1: and it was maybe theirs was early eighties where you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: handing it a different game the other team's not track team,

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Speaker 1: you know, rolling it up on you. So let's go

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Speaker 1: matchup will have the biggest impact in a Bill's victory?

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Speaker 1: Nick says, in my opinion, it has to be the Bills.

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Speaker 1: D We saw them get run over last year. That

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Speaker 1: so many points, the season would have went much different.

635
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: I hope with the addition of Boogie and Rousseau they

636
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: are able to apply pressure and contain the run. If

637
00:34:53,840 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: they can, it ought to be a fun ride. Defenses

638
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: are rois a game change, a game changer. I mean,

639
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: the games are close when you got a good defense. Yeah,

640
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: And that's usually the way it works. And that's why

641
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has been so good for so long. They have

642
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: always had a stellar defense and a good pass rush.

643
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: I voted Bill's defensive line against Steelers O line. I

644
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: think that is the difference making matchup in this game.

645
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: And with that revamped Steelers O line, they've got to

646
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. They just have to. They had

647
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: a rookie at left tackle, another one at center with

648
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: a bad thumb, with a bad thumb, so and and yeah,

649
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: all five are playing different spots than they did that

650
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: we four because a core of four started at right

651
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: tackle last year, but they moved them to left. And

652
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: then Zach Banner, they're projected starting right tackle, went on

653
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: ir so they had to move it back to the

654
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: right side. And they're starting a rookie at left tackle,

655
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: and not a rookie first round pick Dan Moore Junior

656
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:14,959
Speaker 1: who was the third Day three pick. Attention, Jerry Hughes

657
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: and Mario Addison, Yeah, take that guy to school. Well yeah,

658
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: and maybe that's what will happen. Maybe Naji Harris spends

659
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: some of his day pass protecting instead of running the football,

660
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: helping them chipping on the left tackles Guy and on

661
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes and the group. But yeah, it's that we

662
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: said it yesterday. Bill's fans have been here a lot

663
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: coming into seeing you during the drought. They were here

664
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: a lot where there were a lot of question marks

665
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,240
Speaker 1: and you're just hoping that some of these questions are answered,

666
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: like oh, yeah, okay, we found our guy. That kind

667
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: of thing. But so many times when you get into

668
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: the season with question marks like the Steelers have about

669
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: their offensive line and stuff, and you know the T. J.

670
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: Watt thing, those questions aren't answered positively, and you know

671
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: that's where that's where this fan base and this team

672
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: lived for you know, seventeen years. We just couldn't get

673
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: over that hump. But it has happened in a positive

674
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: way for some teams, and certainly, even if it doesn't

675
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: start well for either of these teams on Sunday, there's

676
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: a lot of football to be played, and I think

677
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: both of these teams will be much much different, just

678
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: like they were last year in Week fourteen, fifteen sixteen,

679
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen. Then they were Latin at the beginning of

680
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: this season. You know, they were so much different last

681
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: year going into Week fifteen, sixteen seventeen than they were

682
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: in the first three weeks. The Steelers, you know, on

683
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: the bad end of that, stumbling to the finish for

684
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: their season, and the Bills starting fast and ending at

685
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: a dead sprint, really hitting the gas. Yeah. I was

686
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: just while you were talking there, I was looking up

687
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 1: the profile on Dan Moore Junior, who went to Texas

688
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: A and M. They had a good offensive front there.

689
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: He was a fourth round pick of the Steelers. He's

690
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: got ten and an eighth inch hands, thirty four and

691
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: a half inch arms. It was a long arm six

692
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: to five and a half three eleven. I mean I

693
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: remember watching tape of this kid, you know, thinking, oh,

694
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they get a guy leader in the draft.

695
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: I mean they ended up getting Spencer round around three,

696
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: and then Doyle and round five, So my thoughts were correct.

697
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: I just had the wrong guy that I was looking

698
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: at here in Dan Moore. A lot of people projected

699
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: him inside to guard because he's not a major feet athlete.

700
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: He's kind of a more of a getting the way

701
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: guy tackle, but with that kind of length, yeah, he's

702
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: not out of place. Still, you don't look out of

703
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: place with play. Still gonna be his first career NFL

704
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: start on the road, you know that kind of thing.

705
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be keeping my eye on that part

706
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: of the game for sure, because I really think that's

707
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: where the Bills can make some hay defensively up front.

708
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: Here's the thing too, the kid might be a better

709
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: run blocker than a pass blocker to begin with anyway,

710
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: And you gotta think the Steelers are going to come

711
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: out with Naji Harris and the Bills offense being what

712
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: it seems like it might be, thinking they might just

713
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: grind it a little bit and put together long drives,

714
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: keep the Bills offense cold and the cooler over on

715
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 1: the sidelines. Oh yeah, I mean, there's gonna be a

716
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: lot of teams that are gonna try that approach, especially

717
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: if they don't feel like their passing game can go

718
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: toe to toe with what the Bills have to offer.

719
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: And in many cases that yeah, it will be the

720
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: situations changing now though, now the analytics people are starting

721
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: to go, you swing the pinchel on the other way.

722
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna play a team like Buffalo or

723
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: Kansas City or one of these teams, there's out you

724
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: get in LA. That's what you gotta do. You want

725
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: to throw, you gotta throw it. You gotta throw it

726
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: and put their defense on a lot of pressure on

727
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: their defense and stretch them out throwing and hoping for

728
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: three takeaways or running and hoping for three takeaways to

729
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: get extra possessions and shorten the game. That that's less

730
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: likely to happen. You're better off trying to find a

731
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: quarterback they can just throw it around, just sling it

732
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: and go. Veto on the tweet sheet says d Other

733
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: it's the Bills receivers against the Steelers secondary. Their secondary

734
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: has some questions. Sure they have a star safety in corner,

735
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: but we have Dick Sanders, Beasley, Davis Knox and running

736
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: backs who can catch. Most secondaries won't have that depth.

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00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,439
Speaker 1: It's a problem for everyone this year, all caps, exclamation point.

738
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: Let's just hope it's not a problem for the Bills.

739
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: I mean they have had some turnover there. I mean,

740
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: let's not sugarcoat that Stephen Nelson is gone starting corner

741
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: for them, Mike Hilton, the other safety is or the

742
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,919
Speaker 1: nickel guy has gone. So they've got some issues back there.

743
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: They're patching some holes. They just picked up a Kello

744
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: Witherspoon in a trade with Seattle to try to fortify

745
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: their depth a little bit. But they're gonna be relying

746
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: on some young, unproven guys along with a veteran and

747
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: Joe Hayden who as he lost his step I don't know, yeah,

748
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: earlier ten year event. In his remarks yesterday, Ben Roethlisberger

749
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: said as well that you know there's there may be

750
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: some growing pains in this offense. Um. You know, certainly

751
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: nothing everybody wants, but it's how fast can we get acclimated? Um.

752
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: He said it may his quota is saying it may

753
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: not be pretty early, but how we handle like anything,

754
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: there's gonna be growing pains. Roethlisberger said this from an

755
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 1: article by Josh alper Um. You know, so Roethlisberger knows

756
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: or maybe you know, he's couching the expectations for Steeler

757
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: fans about what their offense may be. To me, however,

758
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: it is nineteen year VET or seventeen year VET or

759
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:43,720
Speaker 1: sixteen year at whatever he is, I think that's that's gamesmanship.

760
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: I think he's I think they've got to feel really

761
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: good about their plan. I mean, they came in here

762
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: last year with half an offense, and now we've added

763
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: the stud running back in the in the draft. This

764
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: past year was fresh legs and a revamped offensive line.

765
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: I think they probably got a really good plan and

766
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: feel good about it. Um. I think that's gamesmanship by

767
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger to be to me, playing down themselves, playing down

768
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: themselves like, don't expect too much. That is that is

769
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: quintessential Ben Roethlisberger you know. He used to do that

770
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: better than anybody I've ever seen in my life. Lou Holtz.

771
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: Lou Holtz when he was coaching Notre Dame, Oh my god.

772
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: That guy had maybe five of the test bet ten

773
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: best athletes in the entire country. And he'd be like, well,

774
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: you know, we're playing in Florida State. I mean, we're

775
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: gonna be lucky just to kind of get ten points

776
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: on the board. And I'm like, are you kidding me?

777
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: You've got Tim Brown rocketness smile. Ricky Waters Like I

778
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: was ridiculous. I mean I would actually burst out laughing.

779
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: Watch he was a partner in the booth. Was was

780
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: Steve Burlin, who's a quarterback for him. Oh my gosh.

781
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: And he does the quintessential Lou Holtz impersonation with everything, yes, everything,

782
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: and he and he says that Lou was great. He

783
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: loved Lou and still does. And he would say he

784
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: when Lou Holtz got the job. He was there when

785
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: Lou Holtz got the job, right, so he'd been recruited

786
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: by somebody else. He sat down and lou Holz said, Steve,

787
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: I was wanting to know. He goes, You're not gonna

788
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: he says, you, I promise you're gonna play really well

789
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: this year. We're gonna plan for you kind of season.

790
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: You won't you won't throw more than three interceptions because

791
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: as soon as you throw the third one, you're gonna

792
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: be sitting next to me, you know that kind of

793
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: So he was he's a priceless guy, right, and he's

794
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: you know, and but yeah, that's it's happened since time immemorial,

795
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: guys played down their own team. Ben Roethlisberger's notorious for

796
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: on a Friday practice and you'll be watching it may

797
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 1: happen this week. Roethlisberger may he hasn't done it for

798
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: a while, but when early in his career he was

799
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: kind he kind of felt the pressure. It's like Jim

800
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: Kelly used to puke before games. Yeah, Roethlisberger on a

801
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: Friday practice with a has come down with something, got

802
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: a sore, he's got an ankle, He've stepped off the

803
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: curt his ankles really hurt. Don't you know He's really

804
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: gonna be hampered this game where he comes in on

805
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: a Friday. He can't talk. He's got Laron Giants who

806
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: has to whisper. You know, you know the backup quarterback

807
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: has to call the plays in the huddle, and Ben

808
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: has to eat because he can't talk all this stuff

809
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: that happens late in the week that that is some

810
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: sort of extra obstacles slash excuse for him not to

811
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: play well Quintessential Ben. So don't believe it. The guy's

812
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: gonna show up, and he's gonna show up big fair enough,

813
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: we won't. We'll take a break here. When we come back,

814
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit about the elimination of

815
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: the cut block and how that might impact the screen game,

816
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively. We also got a dd kN

817
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: kabala from NFL Network coming up in the second hour

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00:44:48,440 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: the show. Stay tuned here. On one Bill's Life, Connect

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Speaker 1: here on display on the set for the whole week.

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Speaker 1: A couple of weeks. Now, a couple of weeks. Now,

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Speaker 1: we'll just leave him there. Sure, I'm game for that, Steve.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to discuss among the points of emphasis the

832
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: rule changes, the one that interests me the most, that

833
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: I'm going to be keeping an eye on, is the

834
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: elimination of the cut block if you are five yards

835
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: from the line of scrimmage or more than I think

836
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: two yards outside the tackle box. So this not of

837
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,280
Speaker 1: people are anticipating. Oh okay, so I want to screenplay

838
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: aligneman can't cut a linebacker or a dB. It goes

839
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: both ways. I want to remind people it goes both ways.

840
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: That means the dB coming up can't cut block the

841
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: aligneman on the screenplay, so neither side can cut the other.

842
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: It's outlawed completely. How do you see that going? I

843
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,919
Speaker 1: said this, and we had this discussion before the show

844
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: that I think it's one of the few rule changes

845
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: we've had that limits and makes it tougher on offenses

846
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: for a change, rather than defenses. Because I'll give you

847
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: an example on the play that Josh Allen ran into

848
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: the end zone going toward the near side of the

849
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 1: field against these Seattle Seahawks, and you get two blocks

850
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 1: out in front of him where the guys just both

851
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: and both defenders get chopped down by cut blocks. Really

852
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: nice play. That's illegal now. So it's going to force

853
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: your runner to put his foot in the ground and

854
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: cut up inside those because those blockers are gonna have

855
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: to go out and just keep pushing those guys to

856
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,919
Speaker 1: the sideline, and the runs is gonna have to cut

857
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: back inside to where the pursuit is. It's also, as

858
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 1: you said, it's gonna make it impossible for a corner

859
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: like Trey White or Levi Wallace to come up and

860
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: submarine a guy the size of John Feliciano or Cody

861
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: Ford coming out there to kick him out on a

862
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: screen pass. They can't come in and take him out

863
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 1: and cut the cut the field off that way. They're

864
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: gonna have to start coaching different techniques and right now,

865
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you what they're gonna do, but they

866
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: gotta have a plan for that. How do you want

867
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: a corner to come up and take on a guy

868
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: that's massively bigger than he is, because you're not going

869
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: to be able to hold your ground. But I think

870
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: the key is and what I was walking through it

871
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: in my own mind. I think they're gonna have these

872
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: dbs and corners get to the offensive lineman as fast

873
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: as they can and pick a side. I wants the

874
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 1: back to stop and put his foot in the ground

875
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: and make a cut. I just wonder if there is

876
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: going to be a decided advantage for one side or

877
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: the other in these instances. And the reason I say

878
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: that is because you have a team that's good at

879
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: executing screens. San Francisco has been good at that in

880
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: the past. There are other teams that are good at

881
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: executing screens, usually those that have some mobile alignment. Are

882
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 1: they going to have an advantage here because we always

883
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: hear coaches say you can't run around blocks and expect

884
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: to make plays. Right. That's right, And I don't know

885
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,720
Speaker 1: what else you're doing. If you're a one hundred ninety

886
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: pound corner and you got to force the play back

887
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: inside and you can't cut the lineman coming out in

888
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 1: front of a convoy on a screenplay, it's all about

889
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: timing now, certainly at the line of scrimmage, down inside

890
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: the tackles, you can't jump around blocks expect to do

891
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: it because the back is right there. He just steps

892
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: to the other side if the if the defensive lineman

893
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: hops to his left, you just hop to your left

894
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: on the other side of the offensive lineman and the

895
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: hole is there. When you're out in space, it's not

896
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: quite that easy because the timing has to be there. Friends,

897
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: and I used to do this covering kicks, and I've

898
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: seen it happen in games. Out on the edges of

899
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: the formation. A dB will get to that lineman so

900
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: fast the back's not there to cut off the block,

901
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,439
Speaker 1: so he can hop around that block and still get

902
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: back there to make a play. Hard to do, but

903
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: that puts the onus on the defender to get to

904
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman and get past him before the back

905
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: is ready to make the break. Because the way it

906
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: is now, and you can all we can all picture this,

907
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,760
Speaker 1: who've watched a lot of football. You see this corner

908
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: out there and he's waiting on the defensive lineman to

909
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: come out there and kind of planting his feet or

910
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: at least to go down and take him out, so

911
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: he'll chop the offensive lineman to the ground, and the

912
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: back has to run around the pile of the two

913
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: of them one way or the other. That's not ideal.

914
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: It's not ideal. Now the back, the lineman is forced

915
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: to take that dB on up high. The DPA has

916
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,800
Speaker 1: got no shot, no shot of holding his ground against

917
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: a three hundred pound guy running at him, so that

918
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: the play to be made is to miss, make the

919
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: guy miss, or to get gained confusion as to which

920
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: side the blocker is gonna go to, so the back

921
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: has to wait to decide where the guy's gonna miss.

922
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: So if if I make the offensive lineman miss miss

923
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: me on one side, the back wants to go to

924
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: that same side around them. And if you make him

925
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: to miss the outside, he's got to go out. So

926
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: I don't know how you're faking somebody out, though, because

927
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: the rule of thumb there defensively is to force to

928
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 1: play back inside where your help is, yeah, unless you're

929
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:54,720
Speaker 1: right at the edge, and force him out of bounds

930
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: for you know, for a lot that kind of thing.

931
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: So there has to be the defense, and the defenders

932
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: will have rules and ways to do it, and maybe

933
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: it'll depend on the defensive call. But if they come

934
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: out there, the key has always been and still is

935
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: you the dB and the defenders have to read it

936
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: fast and get on the other side of the line

937
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: of scrimmage to defend it and force the back to

938
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: stop make a cut in a different direction, because if

939
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: you let him just gain speed, the pursuit from the

940
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: inside is going to have a hard time catching him.

941
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 1: If you make him stop, then you know, the pursuit's

942
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: gonna get there quicker, and it's a harder play to make.

943
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 1: It comes down to the inside linebackers and the defensive

944
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: lineman trusting that that corner is there to force that

945
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: back to stop and back come back towards them because

946
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: it changes their angles. But they gotta you know, it's

947
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: all about pursuit. They got they gotta get there fast.

948
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: It is going to make a difference, and there have

949
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: been plays where you can see that that cut block

950
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: is a perfect weapon and they can't use it anymore.

951
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: This is gonna be very interesting to see who has

952
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: the edge. Is it going to be an offensive play

953
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: that is going to be turned to all the more

954
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: because without the cut block, advantage offense or will there

955
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: be a way to defensively neutralize that play, even without

956
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: the benefit of being able to cut that lead blocker

957
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: who is alignman. Knowing he outweighs you probably buy one

958
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: hundred pounds, maybe twenty pounds. I'm very interesting to see

959
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: the balance of power in the screen game with the

960
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: cut block now removed. We have to take a break here,

961
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: but when we come back, A d D King Kabwala

962
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: from NFL Network will join us. She's had her ear

963
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: to the ground on the TJ. Watt situation all week,

964
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: so we'll catch up with her next. Here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, it's Buffalo Bills

966
00:52:42,520 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: Radio Steve Tasker, who has been all over her fields.

967
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

968
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: player for you. St Steve a blimp. We're not even

969
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: in the stratisphere of normalcy, all right. This week's game

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971
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,879
Speaker 1: New York, the official health plan of the Buffalo Bills.

972
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: Welcome to our number two, Chris Brown. Steve Tasker with

973
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: you here on One Bill's Live. Time now to link

974
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: up with NFL Networks, A D D King Gabwallah, who

975
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: is based in Pittsburgh, covers the Steelers a lot during

976
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: the football season and in the off season for that matter,

977
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: So time to join her now to get the latest

978
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: on t J. Watt. All right, a DD, so, thanks

979
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: for givving us some time and what has become probably

980
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: a busy week for you leading up to Week one

981
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: with the TJ. Watt Watch. I think the contract, though,

982
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: is what the biggest question is, maybe more so than

983
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: his availability. Knowing he returned to practice, right, he did

984
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: return to practice, and he is under contract, and you

985
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: can't imagine someone like t J. Watt ever not playing

986
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: the game he has. And the point to be made

987
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: here is he has indeed been a practice every single day.

988
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: He has indeed worked. He's gone to every walkthrough and

989
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,439
Speaker 1: team meeting. The only things that he didn't do were

990
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: the team drills or the live action, which he did

991
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: indeed do today. The question, though, is the contract, because

992
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: t J. Watt certainly has a very very strong case

993
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: to be the highest paid defensive player in the league,

994
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: and the Steelers have they somewhat archaic way of doing

995
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: all their contracts. They were confused to fully guarantee a

996
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: deal after year one, and that's just it didn't work

997
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: with Levion Bell. That's what ultimately sunk an he sort

998
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 1: of negotiation with Bell, and from what I am being told,

999
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: that's what is threatening these negotiations with t J. Watt

1000
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: and the argument that someone may be something different somewhere else,

1001
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter. This player is perfect for what

1002
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,320
Speaker 1: you are trying to do as an organization, as a scheme.

1003
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: This player perfectly fits the identity that you have as

1004
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: a club. So what's better? I mean, what is more

1005
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,320
Speaker 1: worth paying for? And that's basically what Ben Mossa said

1006
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: this morning as well. What did the Steelers think or

1007
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: what might they do? Because they've been down this like

1008
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: you said, they've been down this road with Levion Bell

1009
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 1: and if the player won't budge, they're out. How much

1010
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: did that? And I get it, it's trying to compare

1011
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: apples and orange as a running back versus an edge

1012
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: rusher in the NFL is a little bit different. But

1013
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,879
Speaker 1: how much did that cripple the Steelers when they were

1014
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: trying to put a season together with Levion Bell in

1015
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: essence holding out? And how will it cripple them if

1016
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: a guy like TJ. What holds in. I think it's

1017
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: so first say, it's an interesting exercise, but I think

1018
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,760
Speaker 1: it's sort of moves because t J. Watt is indeed

1019
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: going to play. He's not going to not play. But

1020
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: you want someone who is a leader of your club,

1021
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: who you see taking you into the next generation. I mean,

1022
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: this is a guy that you expect to be a

1023
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: cornerstone of your club for a good period of time.

1024
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: You don't want him to be frustrated and angry and

1025
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: happy and feel disrespected and undervalued and underappreciated. So I

1026
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: think that that's something in terms of what he means

1027
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: on the field. He's a guy that is, he's a playmaker.

1028
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: He's the one, he's the biggest playmaker on that defense.

1029
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:44,879
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin loves to talk about splash plays. In fact,

1030
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: when he's talked about the previous two meetings with the Bills,

1031
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: it's that the Bills have had more splash play the

1032
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 1: four interceptions against Duck Hodges two years ago and then

1033
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: of course that huge pick six before the half last year.

1034
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 1: T J. Watt makes more splash plays than anybody else

1035
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 1: this defense, and really then just about anybody in the NFL.

1036
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: You look at where he ranks since quarterback hits and

1037
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures and stacked and forced fumbles. T J. Watt

1038
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: is that guy. So adity looking at the other parts

1039
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: of their defense and we realize, you know, we're talking

1040
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: about a top five defense here. There has been a

1041
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: little bit of turnover at in the secondary. We know

1042
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: Making Fitzpatrick and Joe Hayden are still back there, but

1043
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: there's been some turnover at linebacker two, although Devin Bush

1044
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: is back in the fold. So what do we make

1045
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: of the back seven? Assuming t J. Watt is in

1046
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: place as anticipated? I think that Distillers lose something and

1047
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: always having Mike Hilton as their slock corner who would

1048
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: touch a physical, aggressive blitzer. He of course is now

1049
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, but Distillers have a lot of versatile guys

1050
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: down there. So Cam Sutton, who can play outside, may

1051
00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: also play inside. He doesn't necessarily have the same physical

1052
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: but he's a very heavy player who can indeed play inside.

1053
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: I think he'll see a lot more of naked Fitzpatrick

1054
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: moving around and not just playing center field. And I

1055
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: think Minka is someone who can play well in the box.

1056
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: I think that you'll definitely see a little bit more

1057
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: of trying to create confusions. Although you know Josh Allen

1058
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: now has won three years in this offense, I don't

1059
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: necessarily expect him to be an easily confused guy. I

1060
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: just think that that's sort of part of the play

1061
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 1: here and after linebacker. The Steels have been very, very

1062
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: happy with Joe Schobert, Joe Shoulbert. They made a trade

1063
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: for him just a few weeks ago. He's very quickly

1064
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: come in, He's understood the defense, and he's a guy

1065
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: who's actually wearing the green dots, the headset helmet and

1066
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: making the defensive play calls. And when we asked my

1067
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: comment about him this week, he just talked about how

1068
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: heavy he's been and how well it is. Yeah, that's

1069
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: a big step. Getting a guy that you can believe

1070
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: in that quickly can What do you think about his

1071
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: ability to, you know, obviously step in that quick and

1072
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: be the option. Does that give you pause that a

1073
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: guy who's available like that could come in and make

1074
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: a difference like that? I know, you know again, I

1075
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: think that this is one of those When I used

1076
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: to cover college football, Grecciano with the head coach of Vectors,

1077
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: and he used to always talk about one eleventh, one eleventh.

1078
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: As long as everybody does their one eleven, she'll be okay.

1079
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: And I think that that's what the Steelers defense really is.

1080
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: You know, Devin Bush is the splashy sideline, the sideline

1081
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: linebacker who's going to come up with these the dynamic plays,

1082
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: and it takes one thing off his plate if Joe

1083
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: Schobert is helping the set the defense is making some

1084
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: defensive calls. And I don't think that you need Joe

1085
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: Schobert to do everything you want Devin Bush to do,

1086
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: or you don't need Joe Schobert to do what you're

1087
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: counting on Tyson A La Lalu the nosecackle to do

1088
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: and helping the clog up the run a little bit.

1089
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: I think that there are some new pieces to the defense.

1090
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: I think not having step onto it and instead having

1091
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 1: to play with Chris Wormley or Isaiah Bugs is a

1092
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: little bit of a step down. I think that t J. Watt,

1093
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he comes in and play sixty stops

1094
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: because he is indeed an exceptional player. Maybe they kind

1095
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: of have to rotate him a little bit. But that's

1096
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: okay because Ingram's actually been better than expected. Flipping it

1097
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 1: over to the offense adity. I was stunned. You could

1098
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: have knocked me over with a feather. During the draft

1099
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: when the Steelers are on the clock there, I believe

1100
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: it was picked twenty four, and knowing their offensive line departures,

1101
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, here we go, Taylor made offensive tackle.

1102
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: Here we go. Mark it down in ink with the Steelers.

1103
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: They go running back and then double down in round

1104
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: two with a tight end. And I know that the

1105
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: early returns on friar Mouth have been positive, as have

1106
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: they been for Nagi Harris, and I realized they drafted

1107
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: a couple of kids later in the draft who are

1108
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: going to start, at least as it looks right now,

1109
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. But four out of five new

1110
01:00:56,640 --> 01:01:00,120
Speaker 1: people on an offensive front is a hard thing to

1111
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: put together, even in a regular offseason. What is your

1112
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 1: assessment as to how it has come together through preseason evidence?

1113
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. On a wing and a prayer, I mean,

1114
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: it's really, you know what, Naddie Harris has been everything

1115
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: that he was advertised to be and then some. He

1116
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: is not only a fine, fine fine player who can,

1117
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:27,920
Speaker 1: indeed who promises to be able to make something when

1118
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: there is nothing. Pat friar Muth, as you said, also

1119
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: has been a tremendous pass catcher. He's looked really tough.

1120
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: He's not the blocker that Heath Miller was, He's not

1121
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 1: quite as big, but I think he can be a very,

1122
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 1: very promising player and a bit more complete than any

1123
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: other tight end currently on the roster. So yeah, two

1124
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: very nice skilled position players. I am still of the

1125
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: mind that everything starts up front, everything starts with the line.

1126
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 1: And you know, my goodness, I remember watching poor Baker

1127
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 1: Mayfield run for his life just a years ago, and

1128
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 1: then see what a big difference it was for him

1129
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: last year when he could actually trust his offensive line

1130
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: and feel that he had some time to do something,

1131
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: and how he looked like a completely different quarterback. Now

1132
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: you've got thirty nine year old Ben Roethlisberger back there.

1133
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: He's got a new offensive coordinator who's demanding he go

1134
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 1: under center, that who's planning on implementing play action, and

1135
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: he's got a rookie at left tackle, and he's got

1136
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: a rookie center after what a decade of playing with

1137
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 1: arguably one of his best friends in Marquis County. So

1138
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: and the thing with the rookie starting at left tackle,

1139
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: he hasn't spent training camp there. Troops over four was

1140
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: the guy that played at left tackle during the spring.

1141
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 1: But then Zack then or the projected right tackle was

1142
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: put on ir last week, and so they moved Troops

1143
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 1: who played right tackle last year back to right tackle,

1144
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: and they're playing the rookie at left tackle. You know,

1145
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 1: it's a very to me. This is the key matchup

1146
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: come Sunday because the Bill sent this offseason, and you

1147
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,479
Speaker 1: guys know this better than I do, so please feel

1148
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: it's great to explain this for me. But as far

1149
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:04,439
Speaker 1: as I know from AFAR, the build sent this off

1150
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: season trying to rebuild that defensive front, or if not rebuilt,

1151
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: shore up that defensive front, to build a defensive line

1152
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: that could pressure the likes of a Patrick Mahomes or

1153
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: even a team like the Brown that do have such

1154
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: a great offensive line. So now Week one, these guys

1155
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: that you know have sort of been a focus in

1156
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: building this team get to line up and tee off

1157
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: against two rookies and two guys that are playing new

1158
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: positions for this particular team. Certainly seems like a mismatch.

1159
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: I'll say that well, now, you know, it may be

1160
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: a mispatch up front. What it really comes down to,

1161
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: and we've from here in Buffalo, we're looking at it.

1162
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: And we saw Ben Roethlisberger come in and at the

1163
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 1: end of last season it looked like he declined. I mean,

1164
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: it looked like he didn't want to throw the football

1165
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 1: down the field. He didn't have much choice. He had

1166
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: to get the ball out of their fast How has

1167
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: been Roethlisberger both looked on the field and what have

1168
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: you been able to find out about his relationship with

1169
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator? How's that going? Well, you know,

1170
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 1: so far, And I say that to someone who has

1171
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 1: I am there's nobody that could ever accuse me of

1172
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: prettying up anything as related to Ben Roethlisberger or being

1173
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 1: way too gentle and kind with him. And so having

1174
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: said that, by all accounts so far and from everything

1175
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 1: we have seen, he has completely bought into what is

1176
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: going on. He you know, on days off of practice,

1177
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 1: he would be out on the field huddled with his

1178
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: new quarterback coach or with his new offensive coordinator. He's

1179
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 1: reading his wristband, He's watching all his backups through their reps.

1180
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 1: He's constantly talking to people about what is going on.

1181
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 1: You never know if it doesn't work, But right now

1182
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: he is definitely buying into this being absolutely necessary. That's

1183
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 1: number one. Number two, I think said you sort of

1184
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: you trust him when he says he feels fresher. It's

1185
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 1: a very very valid point that a year ago he

1186
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 1: was coming off major elbow surgery and he had spent

1187
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: the entire offseason rehabbing that arm, which meant throwing thousands

1188
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,919
Speaker 1: and thousands and thousands of balls. So by the time

1189
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:21,959
Speaker 1: you get to the season, you've already put more wear

1190
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:23,959
Speaker 1: on your arm than you have in it at any

1191
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: point in the last ten years. And then the Steelers

1192
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: had a really really crazy season. You know, there wasn't

1193
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: really a proper bye week. There was well this mishigas

1194
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: is related to COVID. You know, their Tennessee game got

1195
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 1: titled a Tennessee game got canceled at the last minute,

1196
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: and the Ravens game kept getting pushed back. So when

1197
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:42,640
Speaker 1: he says that he kind of cropped out at the

1198
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: end of the season and he was just physically tired,

1199
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: you can buy it. I mean, there's real reasons for that.

1200
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: And when he says that he didn't throw this off

1201
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:53,439
Speaker 1: season other than the throw in his backyard to his son.

1202
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 1: You have to think that that will have some sort

1203
01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 1: of an impact. And Mike Falwin has indeed always taking

1204
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 1: care of Ben Roethlisberger. You know he doesn't he practices.

1205
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 1: He gets just about every third day off. Gotcha talking

1206
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: to NFL Networks at DDY King Kabulla and add what

1207
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 1: should I know you touched on it briefly there in

1208
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: describing what Matt Cannon is going to be asking Ben

1209
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: to do from an offensive standpoint under center and the like.

1210
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: But what should we anticipate from Matt Canada as OC

1211
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: this year? I mean, should we anticipate a much more

1212
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 1: balanced attack after the Steelers threw the ball more than

1213
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 1: anybody else in football last year? I mean, what is

1214
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 1: the anticipation? Yes, I mean everybody from Art Muney on

1215
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: down has committed to the fact that the Steelers absolutely

1216
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:45,320
Speaker 1: need to get back to running the football. And that's

1217
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: why they did exactly what he talked about earlier, drafting

1218
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: a running back in the first round. They wanted Bell

1219
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: cow This is what Pittsburgh Steelers football is, and in

1220
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 1: the last three years they absolutely got away from that.

1221
01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: The Steelers are not going to win with thirty nine

1222
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: year old Ben Roethlisbergers throwing the ball fifty times. Game

1223
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 1: just not a formula for success. Even when Ben Lsis

1224
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:05,959
Speaker 1: was twenty three years old and winning all the time,

1225
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 1: he had a great defense and a great run game.

1226
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: That's the formula that works, and that's what there is

1227
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: certainly attempting to do. But again, this is, you know,

1228
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:16,959
Speaker 1: an offensive line that has quite a bit to still

1229
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: show us. What do you think the key matchup is

1230
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: this Sunday. That's exactly what I think it is. I

1231
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: think it's the builds, defensive fronts against the guards offensive line.

1232
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: May not be texty, but that will decide the game, right,

1233
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: add We thank you as always for the time. Hopefully

1234
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 1: this t j WAT thing comes to an end so

1235
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: you can just cover regular football, but it's going to

1236
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 1: be interesting, to say the least. Definitely, definitely really appreciate it.

1237
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, and I'm really looking forward to

1238
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:51,920
Speaker 1: this game and the fans the stand. That's rights in

1239
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 1: the stand as are we. Yeah, it should be an

1240
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: electric atmosphere. Thanks again, Addie. We'll catch up with you

1241
01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: down the line. Sounds great, Take care all right, that's

1242
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 1: a d can't while from NFL network, joining US covers

1243
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:05,600
Speaker 1: the Steelers most of the time, although she will get

1244
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: around to some other NFL venues and teams and provide

1245
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 1: her expert reporting in those areas as well. But yeah,

1246
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard not to agree with her, Steve.

1247
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:18,559
Speaker 1: You're looking at offensive line for the Steelers, which is

1248
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 1: brand new and revamped, defensive line for the Bills. How

1249
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 1: good is the pass rush and can they get to

1250
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: obvious passing downs by stopping that run that you know?

1251
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: And can they hold up against the run, particularly if

1252
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: Starlotu Leley is injured, his calf's not right, if he's

1253
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 1: not able to go, if he you know, he's trending

1254
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 1: in the right direction, how good is he gonna be

1255
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a hundred percent? Is he's going to

1256
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 1: feel one hundred percent? He hasn't taken any you know

1257
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 1: what a handful of snaps and not that at all

1258
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 1: hinges on him, But certainly you want the big bodies

1259
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 1: in there. So that is a huge matchup and I

1260
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: think I worry more about it in the run game

1261
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 1: than I do anything else, because if you know, if

1262
01:08:57,560 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: the Steelers are able to open it up and gash

1263
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: the bills for some runs. We used to say it

1264
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, We're standing over there. If a team's

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Speaker 1: gashing it with the runs, man, you almost feel defense less.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's that's a bad place to be. The

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01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 1: Steelers did draft two offensive linemen. Both of them are

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01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: going to start. One is going to start at left tackle,

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01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: Dan Moore. The other, Kendrick Green, is going to start

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Speaker 1: at center. And you're gonna be asking a lot of

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Speaker 1: that group in the atmosphere that we are going to

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01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:33,839
Speaker 1: see here on Sunday, Kendrick Green calling making line calls

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01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:38,800
Speaker 1: amidst that noise in his first career NFL start with

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Speaker 1: potentially Star Latoula and at Oliver staring back at him.

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01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 1: I mean, have fun with that. I'm telling you, I've

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01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 1: said this for about three months now, Steve. All the

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Speaker 1: changes that this team has to make on the offensive line,

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01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:54,719
Speaker 1: you cannot expect it to be a well oiled machine

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01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 1: in week one. And that's why they may lean on

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01:09:57,400 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 1: that run game as much as they can to make

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01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:01,720
Speaker 1: life easy year for their guys up front. Yes, it's

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01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 1: gonna be a you know, a new day. These guys

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01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: are gonna be news. They're the first live game where

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01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna play the whole game and all that, and

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01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:10,040
Speaker 1: the atmosphere that they're gonna be in is gonna be

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01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:13,120
Speaker 1: as hostile and environment as they're gonna witness in the

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01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: NFL on any opening day in Buffalo. In a year

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01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:18,479
Speaker 1: where the team went to the SC Championship game, it

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01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:22,679
Speaker 1: looks to be even better this year after not having

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01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: fans for an entire season. It's gonna be an explosion

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01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:29,400
Speaker 1: of emotion and noise and everything that goes with it.

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01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: And those guys gotta line up and play in It's

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01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 1: it's hard and tip your hat to them because they're

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01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: gonna you know, they're probably looking forward to the opportunity.

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01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but I mean, if you're that coaching staff,

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01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 1: there is some blind faith going on going into that

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01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 1: game because they were shuffling that whole thing around through

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01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: the course of the preseason. I was looking at their

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01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 1: lineups for each of the four preseason games they played

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01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: because they were in the Hall of Fame game and

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01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,400
Speaker 1: they were juggling stuff around the whole time. It's not

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01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: like they said, all right, let's try this five and

1303
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 1: go with it throughout the preseason, get them four games

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01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,599
Speaker 1: of experience together, and hope it's better. Come Week one.

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01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 1: They were still you just heard didiot. They're juggling stuff.

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01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: Like last week they had to take the guy that

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01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,160
Speaker 1: played right tackle last year that they were hoping would

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01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 1: be their left tackle and moving back to right because

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01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: Zach Banner's on ir It's it's a mess. Yeah, they're

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01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: they're in for it, man, it could be ugly. Yeah,

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01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 1: it comes Sunday. If they can't run the football, yeah,

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01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: they need to run the football. And even if they

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01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:21,639
Speaker 1: don't run it, well, they need to kind of hang

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01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: with it, you know what I mean. I mean they

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01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 1: got to force the Bills not to be able to

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01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: just start rushing Ben. And last year their offensive line

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01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: was bad and it got old in a hurry. It

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01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:38,240
Speaker 1: was an offensive line that had been dominant a handful

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01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: of years before, and they all got kind of long

1320
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: in the tooth at the same time, you know, round

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01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 1: week twelve, and they started throwing the foot that the

1322
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 1: bend would take the snap, drop back one step and

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01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: just throw it to the flat or to the slant

1324
01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 1: or to the screen pass or whatever. And that was it.

1325
01:11:57,479 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 1: He got rid of it and it was gone and

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01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:01,600
Speaker 1: that was their offense. And that's which could make for

1327
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 1: an interesting discussion in terms of the bills pass rush.

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01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 1: Do the Steelers trying to neutralize it that way if

1329
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: they're not certain about the protection that can be something

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01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: we discussed after the break. We have to step aside here,

1331
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:16,240
Speaker 1: But more coming your way here on One Bill's Life,

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01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: presented by Collot of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

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01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 1: I could catching up with a DD king kabwalla. Those

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01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:34,639
Speaker 1: are stuffed down. They're covering the Steelers. We'll see, We'll

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01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: see what happens this weekend with j JJ t J Watt.

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01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:42,759
Speaker 1: I did hear an interesting comment about the contract concerning

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01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:44,840
Speaker 1: t J Watt. I believe it was NFL Network seeing

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01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 1: Rappaport that brought up the fact that his older brother

1339
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 1: JJ Watt, when he signed his big deal, there were

1340
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 1: some loopholes in that contract that did not benefit JJ,

1341
01:12:56,600 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 1: and Rappaport said that TJ. The reason this has gone

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01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 1: on so long is he wants to get this contract right.

1343
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 1: He doesn't want any loopholes in there that are gonna,

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01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 1: you know, kind of be disadvantageous to him as a

1345
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 1: player going forward. So it sounds like he wants to

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01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: cross all his ts down all his eyes and that's

1347
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:21,879
Speaker 1: you know, we hear, we hear why Pittsburgh is dragging

1348
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:23,760
Speaker 1: their feet on getting this deal done. You know their

1349
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: policy of no guarantees beyond your one. I think. On

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01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: the other side, though, there are some things that TJ

1351
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: want is staunch on, like I am not signing this

1352
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 1: unless it has a B and C in it, whether

1353
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 1: it's guarantees or other things that we're perceived as loopholes.

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01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:43,800
Speaker 1: And his older brothers deal years ago. Yeah, exactly, get

1355
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,360
Speaker 1: get the discrepancies out of it. And if if if

1356
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:49,799
Speaker 1: this happens, then this will not happen. Right, if this happens,

1357
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 1: then this must happen. All that that kind of language

1358
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:55,599
Speaker 1: in there, and and it's not obviously it's it's only

1359
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: to go. Everything's negotiated and as a standard players contract

1360
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 1: and you just fill in the numbers. These contracts are

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01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: getting a little beyond that goes a little bit beyond

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01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 1: paragraph five. Yeah, we want to get back to the

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01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:09,799
Speaker 1: tweet sheet to get your comments on what you feel

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01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: which matchup will have the biggest impact in a Bill's victory. Sunday,

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01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 1: you heard of dd king Kawallas. She thinks it's Bill's

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01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:20,560
Speaker 1: D line against Pittsburgh's old line, and that's where I

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01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: voted as well. But there are other options. We had

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01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 1: a good tweet earlier from veto who shows other thinking

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01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:29,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Bills receivers against the Steeler secondary, which

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01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 1: we talked to add about as well. And look at

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01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:35,760
Speaker 1: this balanced polling, Steve. People think it's gonna be a

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01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: trench battle, top top notch, top notch. Yeah, it's gonna Yeah,

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01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:44,200
Speaker 1: it's the big guys win it, and the little guys

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01:14:44,520 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 1: kind of celebrate, you know, so basically, and that's coming

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01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:50,720
Speaker 1: from a little guy. That's the way it is. Uh.

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01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 1: If if you can't protect Josh Allen, if you can't

1377
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:56,719
Speaker 1: protect Ben Roethlisberger, and if you can't run the ball,

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01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: you can't run your offense. And then there's and then

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01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:04,559
Speaker 1: there's Brian who is shamelessly pandering to Steve Tasker when

1380
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 1: he tweets. I think that the special teams of each

1381
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 1: team will be the most intriguing to me. Being able

1382
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:11,559
Speaker 1: to flip the field on a kicker a punt return

1383
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 1: could play a huge role. In addition to bass bombing

1384
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 1: long field goals if necessary. I think the Bills clearly

1385
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 1: have an advantage within this unit. Um brings up an

1386
01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:27,919
Speaker 1: interesting point because you talk about the changeover in rosters

1387
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:30,960
Speaker 1: and change over in in you know how that happens.

1388
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,719
Speaker 1: Most of the bottoms of all these rosters are different,

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01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: and that's where special teams guys come from. Mostly now

1390
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:41,640
Speaker 1: there's guys like you know, Metakevich and who used to

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01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 1: all those guys. There's some core guys in there, but

1392
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 1: the fringe guys are all new and different, and those

1393
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 1: are you know, Mackenzie's going to be different for the

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01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills other than yeah, So all that stuff's up

1395
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,640
Speaker 1: for grabs. And you talk about questions of the Pittsburgh

1396
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: offensive line, you know, there's questions probably for them about

1397
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,559
Speaker 1: how their return game's gonna go. No matter who's catching it,

1398
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,680
Speaker 1: who's up front of them, it's a former Bill, it's Ray,

1399
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:08,599
Speaker 1: Ray McLeod. That's right, you know, you those are questions

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01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:13,320
Speaker 1: that you know, the phase of the game that is

1401
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: transformed usually the most every offseason is the special teams.

1402
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: You always have core guys coming back, but there's a

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01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:22,679
Speaker 1: ton of guys that are going to fill in around

1404
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:25,720
Speaker 1: those guys that may or may not be better or

1405
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: worse than they were a year ago. The guys that

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01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:32,719
Speaker 1: filled those roles. Alan pulls no punches with this tweet.

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01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 1: He voted c a young, hungry defense feeding off the

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01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:41,200
Speaker 1: Bill's mafia versus and over the hill. QB, wow, why

1409
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:43,639
Speaker 1: don't you tell us how you really feel? Yeah, Alan

1410
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:48,800
Speaker 1: is yeah, coming out swinging here. I don't think I

1411
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 1: thought add Steve pointed out a very interesting thing with

1412
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: respect to Ben Roethlisberger. Everybody thought he got old in

1413
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:58,520
Speaker 1: a hurry last year, and he's washed up. She astutely

1414
01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 1: pointed out he spent the entire offseason last year rehabbing

1415
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:07,479
Speaker 1: a throwing elbow injury, and to strengthen his arm again,

1416
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 1: he had to throw tens of thousands of passes to

1417
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 1: get his arm back to where it was. So you

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01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,799
Speaker 1: have all of those throws leading up to the season,

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01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:21,200
Speaker 1: then you're a team that's throwing it more than any

1420
01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 1: other team in football because your running game sucks. By

1421
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:28,040
Speaker 1: the time he got to week twelve, he had probably

1422
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 1: thrown the equivalent of twenty games and he still had

1423
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:36,680
Speaker 1: he still had four to play. Okay, I mean, I

1424
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 1: think you can at least make the argument that he

1425
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: might have looked prematurely worn down because of all the

1426
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 1: rehab he had to undergo. Now he may come out

1427
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 1: on Sunday and look like hot garbage. Who knows. I'm

1428
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: not betting on that. I think he'll look rejuvenated and refurbished.

1429
01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:57,639
Speaker 1: I think he'll be able to throw the football down

1430
01:17:57,640 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: the field. I think they'll actually try to do that.

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01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 1: I think, you know, everybody's looking for these guys to

1432
01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:03,559
Speaker 1: come out and grind it out and Naji Harris to

1433
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 1: carry this offense the way your own Bettis did at

1434
01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 1: the end of his career and they won a Super

1435
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 1: Bowl with him. They may do that. I know this,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect our team to do that. I would

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01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: expect our team to be that because I'm doing the

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01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 1: thing that the Pittsburgh Peters do not expect. You know,

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01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,840
Speaker 1: I said that on the preseason games and was you know,

1440
01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:28,720
Speaker 1: everybody expects the Bills to kind of do this right here,

1441
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 1: in this right here, you always do day Ball always

1442
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 1: does that which you do not expect in a way

1443
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:35,599
Speaker 1: that you do not expect him to do it, so

1444
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 1: that maybe maybe they come out and run the darn

1445
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: thing fifteen straight times to start this Steelers game in

1446
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:44,799
Speaker 1: a season where their quarterback is supposed to be the MVP.

1447
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: Certainly that's not what anybody expects, right, And I don't

1448
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:55,120
Speaker 1: think we should dismiss the step the fact that you

1449
01:18:55,160 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 1: know Stefan too it is not going to be out

1450
01:18:57,439 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 1: there for them. But I mean he's been bothered by

1451
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:06,680
Speaker 1: a knee injury and because of that, he was in

1452
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 1: camp and overweight, and it does not look like he is.

1453
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna play. I think he's an

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01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 1: i R right now. Um, that's a loss for them

1455
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:18,760
Speaker 1: on that front. Three Yeah, I mean that is a

1456
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:21,759
Speaker 1: big loss. I mean, Chris Warmley is a nice player.

1457
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: But when it's Tyson Alu Alu, Cameron Heyward and Stefan Too,

1458
01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: it that's a threesome, you know what I mean. That's

1459
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: a trio of defensive linemen that are gonna hold that

1460
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. What happens if Tmley's a nice player,

1461
01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 1: TJ doesn't show up either, Yeah, yeah, then they're a

1462
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 1: different group. But I see it. And if they if

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01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 1: t J doesn't play, that that throws a wrench. Not

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01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 1: forget about Pittsburgh Steeters defensive game plan. Their game plan

1465
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:50,280
Speaker 1: may be the same. Without t J. Watt, they just

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01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:51,880
Speaker 1: won't be able to do it as well because he

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01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:53,760
Speaker 1: won't be you know, they won't have as good a

1468
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 1: player there whoever it's going to be. But without t J. Watton,

1469
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:02,200
Speaker 1: the game, the Bill's offensive game plan changes. I mean,

1470
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 1: they're you know, that's a difference. They're gonna make play

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01:20:07,520 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: selections based on that. And if you got two it

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01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: out and t J. Watt out, wouldn't you want to

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01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 1: find out if those guys can hold up in the

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01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:20,320
Speaker 1: run game. I think he would. I think he would,

1475
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 1: But he's on I R now, so he's done for

1476
01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 1: the first three games at least, so he will not

1477
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: be a factor in this one. He's a damn good player,

1478
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:31,759
Speaker 1: So they're already down that guy on their defensive front.

1479
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 1: So that's what that's I thought of that when you said, oh,

1480
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 1: you know, Brian Dabele might do something you at least

1481
01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:39,080
Speaker 1: expect them to do. And I'm thinking to myself, I

1482
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,639
Speaker 1: wonder if they think they can run on these guys, right,

1483
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 1: you know that's curious to me. Now Devin Bush is back,

1484
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:50,840
Speaker 1: you know, they're super talented inside linebacker, he's fantastic, and

1485
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 1: now he's paired up with Joe Schobert, who, as we

1486
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:56,680
Speaker 1: heard from add that guy's calling the plays back there.

1487
01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:59,439
Speaker 1: He's running the show. Yeah, he's got communication with the

1488
01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: DC so that that will be interesting. But there is

1489
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: a lot of turnover. They're missing some quality players. No

1490
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 1: Stephen Nelson from last year's top five defense, no Stefan

1491
01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:16,880
Speaker 1: too tomorrow or Sunday, excuse me, and no Mike Hilton,

1492
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 1: who was their best nickel corner last year. So they

1493
01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:23,600
Speaker 1: gotta fill some voids there. Yeah, there's more than the

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01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 1: Bills have to. Like I say that, you know, they've

1495
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:27,920
Speaker 1: got some questions coming in and they may have some

1496
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:30,080
Speaker 1: answers for it, and they're certainly not going to lay down.

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01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:32,840
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger is going to be able to get some

1498
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: things down. He throws the ball too well, even at

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01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: this advanced age, and I know that at the start

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01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:41,120
Speaker 1: of this season you can expect his arm to be fresh.

1501
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 1: And they've got some guys, so they're gonna have a

1502
01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:46,360
Speaker 1: really good plan. Matt Cannada is a big unknown, the

1503
01:21:46,479 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: play caller offensive coordinator for the Steelers. The Bills admitted

1504
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:52,920
Speaker 1: they don't know much about what he's going to be

1505
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 1: like as a play caller. So there is a lot

1506
01:21:56,560 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 1: of big margin of error for knowing exactly what you're

1507
01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 1: going to be able to get away with as a

1508
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills team. Certainly there is some of that as

1509
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: the Steelers as well, but you know, it's week one,

1510
01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 1: man what nobody knows what they're looking at yet, So

1511
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. Jack believes the matchup that will

1512
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: determine victory for the Bills is other. It's Alan against

1513
01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 1: the Steelers secondary. Yes, the line will need to help

1514
01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 1: keep him clean, and Fitzpatrick is a stud back there.

1515
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: He's talking about Minca Fitzpatrick. But by many reports, their corners,

1516
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 1: especially Nicol Dime, is their weakness. Josh will need to

1517
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:40,040
Speaker 1: identify the zone. I mean Goldie easily could have a

1518
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:42,840
Speaker 1: big day. I mean Nicol might be Cam Sutton who

1519
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 1: would move from the outside corner inside and then they

1520
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:47,320
Speaker 1: bring somebody else on the field, whether that's Justin Lane

1521
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:52,040
Speaker 1: or James Pierre, I don't know. Yes, all that, yes,

1522
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:55,680
Speaker 1: but the simple fact that matters is it starts with

1523
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:59,000
Speaker 1: protecting them. The Steelers rush the passer t J. Watts

1524
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 1: as good as it gets they came after Josh big

1525
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 1: time last year and they got and I said this,

1526
01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: and I Howard Simon's been filling my timeline I was on.

1527
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: I said, they got we got some guys. We got guys,

1528
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 1: So do the Steelers. They've got guys that rushed the passer.

1529
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:19,679
Speaker 1: That's if Josh can stay upright and deliver the football

1530
01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: on time, the Bills have got a chance against anybody,

1531
01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:27,440
Speaker 1: not just the Steelers, not just the Chiefs, not just anybody.

1532
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:31,680
Speaker 1: They're good. The Steelers will know that. That's what they

1533
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: came in here doing last year. They're gonna have to

1534
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,760
Speaker 1: get Josh Allen off his spot and running around or

1535
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,639
Speaker 1: on the ground. That's what it's gonna take to beat

1536
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 1: the Bills. Josh Allen can't deliver the ball on time.

1537
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 1: If he does, Manuel Sanders, Cole Beasley, Stefan Diggs, Gabriel

1538
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 1: Davis Dawson, Knox, Devin Singletary or Zach whoever, they're gonna

1539
01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:57,240
Speaker 1: get open and Josh will find them. They have got

1540
01:23:57,280 --> 01:24:00,840
Speaker 1: to make sure that Josh Allen cannot deliver the football. Yeah,

1541
01:24:01,439 --> 01:24:04,120
Speaker 1: Daniel says, do not take the Steelers for granted. The

1542
01:24:04,120 --> 01:24:06,400
Speaker 1: Bills could have easily lost to the Colts last year.

1543
01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:09,040
Speaker 1: You're never as good as people say you are. Championships

1544
01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 1: are not one on paper. We have a good team,

1545
01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:13,679
Speaker 1: but let's remember that we haven't accomplished a thing. Stay

1546
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 1: humble and focused. Is that coach McDermott posing as Daniel,

1547
01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:20,639
Speaker 1: he's not a lot of coach. Forget all the matchup,

1548
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: Daniel says, forget all the matchups. Listen to me. He's

1549
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,640
Speaker 1: lot of coach speaking there. Sure, yeah, he may have

1550
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:30,760
Speaker 1: his own team in a helmet sometime, but yes, you're right,

1551
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 1: he may be coaching at some level of football. He's right,

1552
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:40,559
Speaker 1: but he can say that to us. Sean McDermott doesn't

1553
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 1: need to hear it, neither as anybody else over there.

1554
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: They know they're they're watching the film of the Steelers,

1555
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: and they got a lot of respect for those guys.

1556
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 1: Herbs says, I picked a Everything starts up front. We

1557
01:24:50,479 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 1: need to disrupt their offensive line, which will disrupt Big

1558
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:56,519
Speaker 1: Ben's throwing lanes and hopefully get his butt on the ground.

1559
01:24:56,560 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 1: Bills land three sacks on Sunday. Okay, he's got the

1560
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:07,160
Speaker 1: over under on the sacks. Thanks for telling me, he's right.

1561
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: I'm who knows they got They gotta do it. They

1562
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,720
Speaker 1: gotta get him on the ground. Ben is not going

1563
01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: to run around, but he's hard to sack. He's he's huge.

1564
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 1: They don't call him Big Ben because of the clock

1565
01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:22,680
Speaker 1: in London, right. They call him big Ben because the

1566
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 1: guy's big. Um. He won a couple of he won

1567
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:30,720
Speaker 1: a super Bowl, like lifting guys off him, you know.

1568
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:37,600
Speaker 1: So he's yeah, he's he's a problem. He's a real problem.

1569
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:39,519
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but when Steve

1570
01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:42,680
Speaker 1: and I return, we close up a Thursday edition of

1571
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Maybe there's something we learned here. I'll

1572
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 1: take a look during the break and we'll find out

1573
01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 1: we actually learned anything from today's show. That and some

1574
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: more when we come back here on One Bill's Live

1575
01:25:53,160 --> 01:26:08,040
Speaker 1: Presentybody Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. There's a

1576
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 1: sense of objectivity we have to maintain here in Good

1577
01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:12,840
Speaker 1: Morning Football. There's teams that we like and teams that

1578
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,839
Speaker 1: we want to win. And I can't believe that Michael Robinson,

1579
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: like mister Buffalo Bills, just took the Kansas City Chiefs.

1580
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 1: But I respect it because you are a professional and

1581
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:23,800
Speaker 1: it's not about being a cheerleader is about who you

1582
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:27,640
Speaker 1: think is really going to win. And guys, I have

1583
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: to be a professional. And I'm gonna say right here,

1584
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 1: who on the Travis Kelsey jersey. No one beats the Chiefs,

1585
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: No one takes them out. They're the best thing going

1586
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 1: in order to beat this team. You got a ball up,

1587
01:26:42,320 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: you got a man up. You gotta rise up, you

1588
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:53,960
Speaker 1: gotta mound up. You got a mound up. You're going

1589
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:56,479
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. Get this out of here. No,

1590
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:59,559
Speaker 1: no this on paper stuff on the field. It will

1591
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:07,480
Speaker 1: be Buffalo takes over Los Angeles. Start the parade. We'll

1592
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:10,080
Speaker 1: probably in the end the week with that tomorrow as well.

1593
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 1: That was Kyle Brown on Good Morning Football. Or we'll

1594
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 1: be with us next Tuesday. Yeah, he'll be with us

1595
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. And what a hoot to see him do that.

1596
01:27:18,479 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 1: It's uh, we'd haven't even do with it, obviously, but

1597
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:24,720
Speaker 1: we're all we're all over it. He might be like

1598
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:29,320
Speaker 1: the number one hype train guy in media. I can't

1599
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:32,200
Speaker 1: think anybody that well. He First of all, he starts

1600
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:34,559
Speaker 1: and he's likest thing. You know, we're supposed to be professionals,

1601
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: are not supposed to pay. And then he does that

1602
01:27:36,640 --> 01:27:39,639
Speaker 1: total just like the wrestling, He's like Monday Night raw

1603
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: version of hype media. Oh, it's absolutely great. Yeah, he's

1604
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: a fun, talented guy and he was He was on

1605
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 1: the ride with us last year when no fans were

1606
01:27:49,200 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 1: in the stands and and enjoyed it. And if I remember,

1607
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:53,920
Speaker 1: right out of the gate, he picked the Bills to

1608
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:57,360
Speaker 1: be twelve and four. Last year they wound up being

1609
01:27:57,360 --> 01:28:00,800
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, So he was right there from the jump.

1610
01:28:02,439 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: We don't we haven't really done this. Maybe we'll do

1611
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:06,160
Speaker 1: it tomorrow. But I'm you get to this and it's

1612
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:08,880
Speaker 1: seventeen games, it's kind of weird. And I think if

1613
01:28:08,920 --> 01:28:11,360
Speaker 1: you're thinking, like if you're gonna go if you're gonna

1614
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:13,639
Speaker 1: go ten and seven, that's like a nine and seven

1615
01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 1: or an eleven and six, right, I mean it could

1616
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:22,439
Speaker 1: be you know, ten, ten and seven, nine and eight,

1617
01:28:23,960 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 1: eleven and six. That's kind of where you're at. So

1618
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: if you get up to where you're thinking the Bills

1619
01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 1: are gonna go thirteen and four, it could easily be

1620
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 1: fourteen and three or twelve and five, because the twelve

1621
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:36,000
Speaker 1: and five is kind of like an old eleven and

1622
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 1: five team, and you can flip the coin at the

1623
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 1: seventeenth week. Yeah, so you're kind of in this three

1624
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 1: game window where you get, you know, these games and

1625
01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 1: what you think their team's gonna be good enough, and

1626
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:49,240
Speaker 1: it's that seventeenth game. If you coin flip it, you

1627
01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:54,280
Speaker 1: go anywhere from like I said, ten and seven to

1628
01:28:54,479 --> 01:28:58,479
Speaker 1: like thirteen and four. Yeah, and it could be the

1629
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:01,439
Speaker 1: same team. It's it's so joyable watching you do mental

1630
01:29:01,520 --> 01:29:04,679
Speaker 1: math live on the air. Seventeen is a prime number,

1631
01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 1: and you can tell just by the way you're doing

1632
01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 1: the win and lost column that you and everybody else

1633
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:12,360
Speaker 1: in the universe is not used to coming up with

1634
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: wins and losses that equals seventeen. It's like, we all

1635
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:18,280
Speaker 1: have to think about it. We're not gonna predict him today.

1636
01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 1: Maybe we will at some point, but yeah, it's gonna

1637
01:29:20,280 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 1: be fun. Greg co Sell from NFL Films tomorrow to

1638
01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:25,639
Speaker 1: dial in on the matchups for Sunday's game. We'll see

1639
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 1: you then,