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Speaker 1: stay out there as long as he did. Diggs addressed

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Speaker 1: that and why he made that decision last January yesterday,

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Speaker 1: just for reasons. That's like, you know, you put a

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Speaker 1: lot of effort, you put a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of time into your craft, A lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of my time goes into things that I love, and

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Speaker 1: I love his game. So as far as like you know,

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Speaker 1: being being in a moment and you know, embracing that

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Speaker 1: the you know, things don't go your way and you

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Speaker 1: kind of still got to deal with them. Him saying,

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to run. I didn't want to run

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Speaker 1: from defeat. I've lost before, um, and I'm still looking

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Speaker 1: look at it in the same way you'm saying, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna keep my chin up and I'm gonna keep my

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Speaker 1: head high. So for me, I just felt like you'd

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Speaker 1: be still, you'd be in it. You embraced a moment,

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Speaker 1: taking for what it is, and you know, um move forward.

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Speaker 1: So for me, I took that as a moment as

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Speaker 1: you came up short, get back in the lab, and

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Speaker 1: you got to get back to the ground. So there

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Speaker 1: was a there was a purpose to that. He wasn't

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Speaker 1: trying to draw attention to himself. For him, he wanted

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Speaker 1: to remember that feeling what it felt like you come

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Speaker 1: up short and kind of just make sure it was

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Speaker 1: cemented in his memory bank. So maybe every time this offseason,

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Speaker 1: maybe on a day where the mojo wasn't flowing, you know,

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Speaker 1: he references that and all of a sudden, you're a

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Speaker 1: little bit more motivated to get your work done that

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Speaker 1: day in preparation for this season. Yeah, those games hurt.

456
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Speaker 1: I've won and lost AFC championship games, and I've obviously

457
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Speaker 1: lost Super Bowls as well, and it is if. Yeah,

458
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Speaker 1: there's nothing that fills your tank with fuel to grind

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Speaker 1: it out and come back better than a tough loss

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Speaker 1: to end the season before Digs is experience that I've

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Speaker 1: experienced that there's a ton of players out there who

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Speaker 1: have experienced it, and it's great job by him, is

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Speaker 1: great thought by him to put himself through that, because

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Speaker 1: it's not easy to stand there and watch those guys

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Speaker 1: have all that fun on their own stadium and knowing

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Speaker 1: that you know, you were that close to being there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's I applaud him for his mindset, and I know

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Speaker 1: that that kind of situation fuels you for a long offseason,

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Speaker 1: for a hard offseason. It's not easy to go out

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Speaker 1: and work out, it's not easy to go out and

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Speaker 1: put your body through, you know, some some pain and

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Speaker 1: suffering to get better and get up in the morning

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Speaker 1: and do all the things you have to do in

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Speaker 1: the sacrifices that you make to be a great professional athlete.

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Speaker 1: It's not easy all the time, but having that vision

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Speaker 1: in your head and what that was like in that

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Speaker 1: moment does help motivate you at times when otherwise you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have anything to draw upon. That's yeah, that there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of fuel in losing a game like that

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season like the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: had last year. So I think it's a great thought

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Speaker 1: by him to use it to keep himself going for

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Speaker 1: this season. I'm all about the hostile environment. Oh okay, good,

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Speaker 1: Well that was a tease for what else Stefan Diggs

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Speaker 1: will address in a layer segment in the show. Is

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Speaker 1: we'll get some more of this sound he a little

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Speaker 1: bit later on. We have to take a break here

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Speaker 1: because when we come back, it'll be ESPN's Field Yates

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Speaker 1: with his ultimate fantasy lineup for this week, presented by FanDuel.

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Speaker 1: We'll get that from Field when we return here. On one,

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Speaker 1: Bill's line presented by a lot of health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Okay, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker back with you

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Speaker 1: here on a Thursday, and please to be joined now

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Speaker 1: by ESPN, NFL insider and fantasy football expert, and he's

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Speaker 1: the host of the Fantasy Focused Football podcast. It is

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Speaker 1: Field Yates making his weekly appearance to provide us with

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Speaker 1: his ultimate fantasy lineup, presented by FanDuel Make every moment

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Speaker 1: more Field. How are we doing? How tough were the

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Speaker 1: decisions here in week five? Well, first of all, it's

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Speaker 1: great to be on with you guys. Steve. Good to

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Speaker 1: catch up with you, and I know that Steve is

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Speaker 1: normally the fantasy expert on this show. I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: segment for The decisions are always difficult, I must tell you.

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Speaker 1: But what you ultimately do, at least what I do

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Speaker 1: in fantasy a daily fantasy is I try to find

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Speaker 1: my value plays first, so I figure out the players

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Speaker 1: that I like that are at low price points. Because

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Speaker 1: at the top of the food chain, the most expensive players,

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Speaker 1: you find a lot of guys with comparable value. But

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Speaker 1: those guys who are less expensive can be the real

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Speaker 1: areas where you differentiate. Okay, So it makes a lot

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Speaker 1: of sense, and it's how much do you get into that?

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Speaker 1: How much can these players and teams defenses and stuff

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Speaker 1: very how much? How wide can they move? I mean,

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Speaker 1: aren't they pretty consistent? Or is there's how much can

516
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Speaker 1: the matchup and make a difference. Yeah, So that's why

517
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Speaker 1: daily fantasy is so unique, is that, hey, like Travis

518
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Speaker 1: Kelsey is always going to be good in productive, Stefon

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Speaker 1: Digg is always going to be good in productive. The

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Speaker 1: question is, if you like Stefon Diggs this week, which

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Speaker 1: I will every week, do you like him at a

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Speaker 1: cost that, let's say, three thousand dollars more than another

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Speaker 1: wide receiver that you think is going to be solid.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be where you find your winning matchups in

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Speaker 1: daily fantasy. And it's often why I begin with defenses,

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Speaker 1: where it is very much matchup based, A good reason

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Speaker 1: for me to always look at the defensive options first

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Speaker 1: before I dive into the running backs of wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's begin with the quarterback position, where

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Speaker 1: you're going with one of the rookies who looks like

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Speaker 1: he's going to get a ton of playing time with

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Speaker 1: the veteran not healthy right now, Yeah, that's Trey Lance

533
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Speaker 1: of the forty nine ers. And obviously, if Jimmy Garoppolo starts,

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Speaker 1: then you can't justify this option of Trey Lance. But

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Speaker 1: if you look at where he stands salary wise this

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Speaker 1: week as opposed to other quarterbacks, he's in a very

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Speaker 1: competitive spot. And Trey Lamps last week played not even

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Speaker 1: the entire game, and it wasn't a game that was

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Speaker 1: scripted for him. The playbook was different for him than

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Speaker 1: it would be if it was Jimmy Garoppolo. He had

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Speaker 1: over twenty Fantasy points last week, and yes, there was

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Speaker 1: the wide open touchdown that you're actually seen on your

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Speaker 1: screen right now, but he had seven rushes for forty

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Speaker 1: one yards. And if I'm San Francisco and I'm playing

545
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Speaker 1: Arizona this weekend, I want to have my quarterback run

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Speaker 1: the football a ton to keep Kyler Murray off the field.

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Speaker 1: At sixty nine hundred dollars if he starts, I think

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Speaker 1: there's good value in Trey Lance. Yeah, and not only that,

549
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Speaker 1: he's playing against the twenty six rank run defense, So

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Speaker 1: go get him. Yeah, this is the opportunity if if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get them, if you're gonna get them somehow,

552
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Speaker 1: some way, this is the way to get the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna be to try to you know, they

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Speaker 1: have an inexperienced secondary, but one that has played very

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Speaker 1: very well so far this season. As you move on

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Speaker 1: down and you've got a couple of running backs, the

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Speaker 1: first running back on your list is Austin Eckler. Tell

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Speaker 1: us about how that comes to be in his value

559
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Speaker 1: at seventy seven hundred. Yeah. So Eckler has been so

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Speaker 1: good this season. You guys saw it this past Monday night.

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Speaker 1: And it's not that I love the matchup against Cleveland,

562
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Speaker 1: who is good defensively, but Austin Eckler is one of

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Speaker 1: the few running backs that can get to the points

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Speaker 1: you need to justify the investment just through the air.

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Speaker 1: He had a receiving touchdown this past Monday Night. He

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Speaker 1: now has more receiving touchdowns than any other undrafted rookie

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Speaker 1: running undrafted running back in the Super Bowl era. He

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Speaker 1: is so good as a pass catching and running back.

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Speaker 1: And one thing that we've seen from the Chargers is

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Speaker 1: a willingness to make Austin Eckler their guy week in

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Speaker 1: and week out. Early in his career, he was the

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Speaker 1: backup he was the change of pace back. Now he's

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Speaker 1: the man in Los Angeles, and Damian Williams is going

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Speaker 1: to benefit with Montgomery's knee injury. Obviously, that's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So David Montgomery for the Bears is out four to

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Speaker 1: five weeks. It sounds like, so the next man up

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Speaker 1: in that backbuild is Damian Williams, and you're getting get

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Speaker 1: starting running back at a non starting running back price

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Speaker 1: five thousand, eight hundred dollars of the salary for Williams.

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Speaker 1: He's had just six games in his career. Of those

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Speaker 1: six at win in which he's had twelve or more carries.

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Speaker 1: In those six games, he's averaged over twenty one fantasy

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Speaker 1: points per game. Damian Williams is at his best when

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Speaker 1: he's catching passes. The Bears are going to turn the

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Speaker 1: football over full time now as a starter to Justin Fields.

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Speaker 1: I think Damian Williams could have fifteen eighteen touches this Sunday,

587
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Speaker 1: and most importantly, six of them could be catches, as

588
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Speaker 1: what he does best. If you get a catch in

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Speaker 1: draft King Store and Vanduel scoring, you are getting an

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Speaker 1: extra point as well. So give me Damian Williams to

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Speaker 1: return on investment for the Chicago Bears. I think Steve

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Speaker 1: got muted there, Steve, I think I muted myself. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: I save you the trouble. Hi. As we get into

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Speaker 1: the wide receivers, it this is where you're pretty is right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is where you kind of spend the money, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is where I'm spending big. Steve Tasker wasn't available

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Speaker 1: this week, so I instead turned into Vante Adams to start.

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Speaker 1: He's priced at eighty two hundred dollars. But the matchup

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00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: is just right. The Bengals have struggled so much in

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Speaker 1: terms of raw passing yardage allowed, and you know, Davante

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Speaker 1: Adams had a couple of unbelievable games this year, a

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Speaker 1: couple of quieter games this year, but the Packers finding

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Speaker 1: their groove offensively. Davante Adams is my first wide receiver

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00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: and I might as well just take it right from there.

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Speaker 1: Stefawn Diggs in my second one. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: tell you guys about Stefawn Diggs, but the matchup with

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Speaker 1: Kansas City is a really, really good one. I know

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Speaker 1: you guys have been talking about this all week. Is

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Speaker 1: this Chief's defense right now? They can't stop anybody, especially

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Speaker 1: through the air. So Stefon Diggs, who has not been

611
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Speaker 1: on the same pace as he was last season, but

612
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Speaker 1: obviously he still Stefan Diggs still playing at a high

613
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Speaker 1: level in the Bill's offense right now, is simply humming.

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Speaker 1: And the third wide receiver I'll put into my wide

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Speaker 1: receiver spots is Deebo Samuel. Deebo Samuel, who currently leaves

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Speaker 1: the NFL in receiving yards. He's been awesome. Priced this

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Speaker 1: week is seven thousand and seven hundred dollars. My weekly

618
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Speaker 1: reminder that what you're looking to do in terms of

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Speaker 1: return on investment is you want to have three times

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Speaker 1: the amount you're paying. So a guy at seven thousand,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars, you're looking for a little over twenty

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Speaker 1: three Fantasy points for him. Deebo Samuel, I mean, he

623
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Speaker 1: can get you that without breaking a sweat. He's been

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Speaker 1: so good this year, even with Trey Lance moving into

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Speaker 1: the lineup though field. I mean, it gives me a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a concern, but it's not like Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo is lighting things off as a passer this year.

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Speaker 1: And then we saw that busted coverage play last week

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Speaker 1: where Diebo. Samuel was the recipient Kyle Shanahan. In that offense,

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Speaker 1: you know what they can do. They can turn you know,

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Speaker 1: they can run those little almost like they're really bunts, right.

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Speaker 1: You know, the quarterback just takes the ball and shotgun

633
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Speaker 1: and just sort of pushes it forward to the wide receiver.

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00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: It in effect serves as a jet sweep, but it

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Speaker 1: goes down as a catch. It's a great way to

636
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Speaker 1: pick up some easy fantasy points. So with tight end

637
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Speaker 1: and your flex spot, you got two guys who could

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Speaker 1: be on the All Hair team here. These guys got

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00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: some major salad under the helmet they do. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with t J. Hawkinson, who I know he's a little

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Speaker 1: bit banged up this week, so I'm monitoring that, but

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Speaker 1: I do think there's a chance of play on Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Vikings, and at tight end, there are so

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00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: few options you can count on week in week out.

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Speaker 1: Hawkinson was so good in the first two weeks of

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Speaker 1: this season. Quieted down a little bit since that time.

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Speaker 1: But the Lions really are I mean, they are almost

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Speaker 1: devoid of reliable veteran wide receivers. It's pretty much all

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Speaker 1: t J. Hawkinson plus the two running backs. So Hawkinson

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Speaker 1: at sixty four hundred dollars feels good smart value to me.

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Speaker 1: And then, as you were getting alluding to Chris, Robbie Anderson,

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00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: who has the single best head shot in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: he is I don't know how to describe it other

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Speaker 1: than one of the most disappointing players in fantasy football

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Speaker 1: so far this year is Robbie Anderson. This is a

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Speaker 1: gut call, though. This is one of those where squeaky

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Speaker 1: wheel can get Greece. And I'm not saying that Robbie

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Speaker 1: Anderson has been speaking at about his role, but all

659
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: of us collectively have been talking about where is Robbie Anderson?

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Speaker 1: And how about the matchup Philly? Who you think the

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00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: Chiefs are struggling on defense right now? Philly is they're

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Speaker 1: allergic to defense at the moment. They've allowed over eight

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Speaker 1: hundred yards and eighty points in the past two games.

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Speaker 1: They can be had down the field and at some

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Speaker 1: point the Panthers, who worked hard in terms of targets

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Speaker 1: to get the ball to Robbie Anderson last Thursday night

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Speaker 1: and the last Sunday, I should stay against Dallas. At

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Speaker 1: some point they're going to connect online if you've watched

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Speaker 1: the Panthers games this year, you know that it's been

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00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: like a couple of just missed calls for Robbie Anderson.

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Speaker 1: I think Sunday is a day that he sort of

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Speaker 1: exacts some revenge and looks like the player that we

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Speaker 1: know him to be. And then the last one on

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Speaker 1: the list of defense was a surprise for both Brownie

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Speaker 1: and myself, the New York Football Jets as your defense.

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Speaker 1: Of course they're only costing thirty six hundred bucks. Nevertheless, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Jets, the Jets who have been frisky on defense.

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Speaker 1: We saw it this past week. Now I get it.

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Speaker 1: The Titans we're playing without a j Brown and Julio Jones,

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Speaker 1: but they play Atlanta this week, who has had such

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00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: a difficult time getting consistent offense. Now, within the time

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Speaker 1: that we started this show, we learned that Calvin Ridley,

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Speaker 1: the Falcon's best wide receiver by a mile, is out

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. He is not traveling to London because of

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Speaker 1: a personal matter. So you're facing a Falcon's offense, they'll

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Speaker 1: have no Calvin Ridley, no Russell Gage, really no player

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Speaker 1: at wide receiver that's going to scare you. As a result,

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00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: of that. Matt Ryan has struggled at times this year.

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Speaker 1: This Jets defense has found some gems in the secondary.

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00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: They've generated a better pass rush and some people would

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Speaker 1: have thought after they lost Carl Lawson in a preseason injury.

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Speaker 1: Very impressed by the way that they've competed so far

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Speaker 1: this year. And the number is so good, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's about as cheap as you can fine

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Speaker 1: on the defense of slate. Give me the Jets defense

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Speaker 1: this Sunday morning, which I can't wait to wake up

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Speaker 1: and you start watching football at nine thirty on Sunday. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: nine thirty football is pretty good. Just have your coffee

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Speaker 1: and bang, it's already on. So that is fields ultimate

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Speaker 1: fantasy lineup presented by fan Duel make every moment more.

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Speaker 1: We'd be remiss Field if we didn't get your take

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Speaker 1: on the big Sunday night matchup Bill's Chiefs arguably the

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Speaker 1: game of the week, and what you feel is going

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Speaker 1: to be the biggest factor in the outcome. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot of stuff that can go into that,

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Speaker 1: including injuries this week, but is there something that stands

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Speaker 1: out to you that you think could be an X factor?

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Speaker 1: In this one, the Chiefs defense is the X factor

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Speaker 1: and whether they show any signs of improvements, which they

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Speaker 1: have not in recent weeks. The Chiefs are especially week

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Speaker 1: on the second level of their defense. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that these linebackers are going to scare anybody. Now the

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Speaker 1: Bills is you guys obviously know the strength of their

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Speaker 1: passing game is the wide receivers, which are typically not

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Speaker 1: the ones responsible for the running for linebackers typically not

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Speaker 1: responsible for covering wide receivers. I should say, but as

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not like Zach Moss and Devin Singletary

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Speaker 1: are routinely the primary targets in the passing game. Dawson

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Speaker 1: Knox has been great over the past few weeks, but

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Speaker 1: still it's Stefon Diggs, It's Cole Beasley, it's Emmanuel Sanders,

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00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: who the Fountain of Youth apparently was his offseason training program.

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Speaker 1: He's looked great. The Chiefs defense, though, can they get

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Speaker 1: anything going? If not, then you know the Bill should

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Speaker 1: go into this game with a tremendous amount of confidence.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is a game where you go

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Speaker 1: they're hoping to win twenty four to twenty one. This

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Speaker 1: is one of those games where you go there and

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Speaker 1: you say it to yourself, we're gonna hang thirty five

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00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be good enough defensively to win. But

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Speaker 1: if they win on Sunday, you know, there's always the

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Speaker 1: death the deference that you pay to the reigning champion

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Speaker 1: of each conference. Hey, it's the Chiefs Conference, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: AFC to lose, until it's not. If the Bills win

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Speaker 1: on Sunday night, the narrative on Monday morning, across all platforms,

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Speaker 1: all TV shows will be the Bills are the biggest

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Speaker 1: threat to win the super Bowl in the AFC and

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Speaker 1: maybe in the whole league. All Right, I know it's certainly,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to put you on the spot,

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Speaker 1: but you know, the season's a month old now, and

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Speaker 1: we always have these young rookie players who come in

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Speaker 1: and everybody kind of thinks they're gonna be good, and

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Speaker 1: then we don't know. Is there been a rookie who

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Speaker 1: has like hit it out of the hit it out

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00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: of the park, looks like he's going to be a

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Speaker 1: fantasy monster for a while. And then is there a veteran,

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Speaker 1: a guy who we've seen before but who's in a

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Speaker 1: new situation or different offense or whatever. Maybe the same team.

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Speaker 1: A veteran player who's not been a fantasy monster who

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Speaker 1: absolutely is these days. Yes, so I would say the

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Speaker 1: rookie is Jamar Chase for the Bengals. He's been the

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Speaker 1: best by far amongst the rookie wide receivers. He opened

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Speaker 1: the season with three straight games with a touchdown. He

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00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: has just been a big play waiting to happen. It's

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00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: been really remarkable. And then the veteran who has been

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Speaker 1: the biggest surprise is Correl Patterson for the Atlanta Falcons. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm skeptical it's going to keep up hee pre touchdown

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Speaker 1: this past week, but Patterson such an electric player for them.

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Speaker 1: We've seen Patterson all over the that before Minnesota, he

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00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: played for the Raiders, he played for the Patriots, he

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Speaker 1: played for the Bears. Now is in Atlanta. And part

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Speaker 1: of the reason why he has been moving around a

762
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Speaker 1: lot is that you know, he's a tantalizing player, but

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Speaker 1: it's hard to find a specific and consistent role for

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Speaker 1: him on offense. They found it for right now. And

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Speaker 1: I mentioned off the top that there's no Calvin Ridley,

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Speaker 1: no Russell Gage on Sunday. Don't be surprised if Cordorrell

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00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: Patterson's role only increases for this week. The interesting thing

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Speaker 1: for him is some leagues allow you to add him

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Speaker 1: to your roster as a running back. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: been a returner obviously in a receiver at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of his career, But a lot of people like the

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Speaker 1: fact that that's kind of a roster flexibility you don't

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Speaker 1: often get to find in a player. And I just

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Speaker 1: find it interesting that most fantasy services allow you to

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Speaker 1: put him in there at that position. Yeah, the ESPN

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Speaker 1: we made the decision he's only a running back. He

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Speaker 1: plays in an overwhelming majority of his snap running back.

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Speaker 1: Other services allow you to put him at running back,

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Speaker 1: world wide receiver, And to your point, Chris, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of a cheap code, right. It's like, you know, if

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00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: your team week at one or the other, you've got

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Speaker 1: a guy that can handle both responsibilities for you. But

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Speaker 1: I will say I think he is a classic in

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Speaker 1: fantasy we called as a cell high where I just

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00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to sustain at the level that

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Speaker 1: it has. It's not going to crater to nothing. But

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Speaker 1: he is like one of the top ten running backs

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Speaker 1: in fantasy right now in terms of total points. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be that by the end

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Speaker 1: of the season. All right, good stuff fields, So give

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Speaker 1: us a little idea of what you think the trend

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Speaker 1: is in fantasy this year is has it changed, as

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Speaker 1: it evolving at all, or as some things to think

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Speaker 1: about it going forward. Two things I think have been

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Speaker 1: a little bit noteworthy so far this year that are different. One,

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Speaker 1: running quarterbacks aren't running as much. Deak Prescott had barely

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Speaker 1: run prior to last week. You know, Josh had that

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdown against That was Washington, not this past week,

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Speaker 1: but the week before. I think I've seen less, and

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Speaker 1: you guys could tell me if I'm completely wrong here

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Speaker 1: from Josh running wise, and I have in previous years.

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Speaker 1: Those are just two of several examples of quarterbacks aren't

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Speaker 1: running quite as much, And then we've seen less of

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Speaker 1: running backs the passing game. You know, we've seen guys

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Speaker 1: like Chris Carson in the past be big factors in

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00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: their own passing game, not so much this year. It

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Speaker 1: sort of underscores the reasons why someone like Christian McCaffrey,

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Speaker 1: when he's healthy, is the best option in fantasy football

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Speaker 1: running back. All right, that's ESPN NFL insider Field Yates

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Speaker 1: helping us out with a fantasy Ultimate Fantasy lineup presented

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Speaker 1: by fan Duel. Thanks as always, Field, we'll catch up

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Speaker 1: with you next week. Good luck with your lineup. Thank you, guys,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Enjoy the game Sunday night. Yeah, we will

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Speaker 1: for sure. All right, that's Field Yates joining us here.

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Speaker 1: We take a break, but when we come back. More

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Speaker 1: comments from the players who address the media, including Tremaine

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Speaker 1: Edmonds and Dawson Knox. That's coming up next year. On

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: I welcome back to One Bill's Live here on a Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Chris brad Gasker with you, and I wanted to get

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Speaker 1: to some more of the comments from the players when

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Speaker 1: they addressed the media. First one coming here from Dawson Knox, who,

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Speaker 1: as we remember, went to tight end you in the

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Speaker 1: off season. Basically was a gathering of the league's tight

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Speaker 1: ends in Nashville, and Dawson, being a Nashville native, was

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Speaker 1: right around the corner, showed up and among the guys

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Speaker 1: that kind of gave him some pointers was the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. So here is Dawson Knox on what he

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Speaker 1: learned from Travis Kelsey, who will be facing this weekend

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Speaker 1: at tight End. You he was one of the main

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Speaker 1: guys there. He was helping put the whole show on.

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Speaker 1: You know, his personality on TV is as advertising person

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes too. He's loves to have a great time.

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Speaker 1: Awesome guy. I learned a lot from him in terms

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Speaker 1: of I mean he probably broke on film for two

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Speaker 1: hours on one route for us. He's you know, he

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Speaker 1: kind of called himself the Picasso of routes. You know,

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Speaker 1: it might look like a certain type of route, but

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a little different. Like Picasso used

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Speaker 1: to draw humans. You know, a little things might be different,

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Speaker 1: but it's still a human. So he's he kind of

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00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: puts his own twist on stuff. But when he gets

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00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: on the right timing with his quarterback, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: hard to it's hard to cover that matchup, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's something fun to me and Josh have been able

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Speaker 1: to work on too, just putting a little twists on

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Speaker 1: different routes that can work out with us timing wise

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Speaker 1: and I think we've seen some of that on field

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Speaker 1: chemistry Steve, But I don't know Kelsey calling himself the

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Speaker 1: Picasso of routes. It's pretty lofty praise he's heaping on himself. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, why not? You know, But yeah,

852
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,959
Speaker 1: it's I think one of the things that I've seen

853
00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: most young players do that. You know what I'm is

854
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: never you know that good I was never known as

855
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: a route runner, you know, but the really good players

856
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: And this is why, you know, fast players sometimes don't

857
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: run good routes, and slow players can run even better routes.

858
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: It's about the It's about how efficient you are in

859
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: and out of your breaks. Can you get in and

860
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: out very quickly? Can you explode out of the break?

861
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: Plus it's being patient as well. Guys are so worried

862
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: about going fast they don't put an extra jab step

863
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: in or an extra move at the top of their route.

864
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: That would really be the last key component to getting

865
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: the defender to take one false step. And as you

866
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: come out of a break, it gives you that separation.

867
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: Getting guys to run the route with some patients knowing

868
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: that separation is the is the It's not just showing

869
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: up where you're supposed to show up on time. It's

870
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: showing up where you're supposed to show up by yourself

871
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: on time and taking all and taking the time you

872
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: need to get there makes a difference. And it's just

873
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 1: in you. You talk about the chemistry with a quarterback

874
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: and a receiver, what it comes down to is those guys,

875
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: those two, the quarterback and the guy he's thrown to

876
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: having such a chemistry that when the quarterback watches the

877
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: tight end or the wide receiver the running back run

878
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:24,959
Speaker 1: that route. Before the route is finished, the quarterback gets

879
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: body language that tells him exactly what his friend is

880
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: going to do. His teammate, he goes, oh, I see it. Okay,

881
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it when I see the defender,

882
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: I see the receiver, I see the tight end, I

883
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: see my guy. I know exactly what he's gonna do.

884
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw it right there, and that right there

885
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: might be a little different than the right there he

886
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: would throw it to the other tight end, you know

887
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So that kind of chemistry and familiarity

888
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: it counts. Now there is a timing sense there. You

889
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: don't have all day to go out there and run

890
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,280
Speaker 1: six different breaks and finally show up where you're supposed

891
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: to show up and the quarterback has already tossed the

892
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: ball to the official right, I mean, because he's on

893
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 1: his back, you know. So you've only got a set

894
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: amount of time to get there, but taken all the

895
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: time that you need and changing the route in a

896
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: way that makes it better for you to show up

897
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: alone is huge, and every guy has a different skill

898
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: set to do it, and to watch other guys talk

899
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: about it and think about it is huge for guys,

900
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: you know, like I used to be. To see the

901
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 1: best guys do it and to give you their insight

902
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: as to what they're thinking. It's huge because it frees

903
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: you up. And you know, Travis Kelsey has a mindset

904
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: on a route that you've never thought about. That's a

905
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: big learning It's a big lesson to learn about what

906
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 1: you can get away with as a tight end and

907
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: a running back. So I mean you you can go

908
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: on and on about what this means about out running

909
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: and all of that, but you've it's it's huge to

910
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: get input from one of the best guys in the

911
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: league and that gives you the confidence. Yeah, it's okay.

912
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: For me to think like this and do this, my

913
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: quarterback will be fine with it. Yeah, it's a big

914
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: It's a big thing, and I think it's really you

915
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: see so many players do it at their positions, the

916
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: pass rushers, the tight ends, the running backs, in quarterbacks,

917
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: you know, the young quarterbacks and stuff. It's big and

918
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: I think the shared knowledge that these guys are getting

919
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,439
Speaker 1: now from some of the best players at their spot

920
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: at the time they're playing is huge. Yeah. And I

921
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: mean this is the fourth season together for Kelsey and Mahomes.

922
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: It's the third season together for Alan and Knox, So

923
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,240
Speaker 1: maybe some of that stuff can translate knowing the familiarity

924
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: that the quarterback tight end relationship has here in Buffalo,

925
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: it's almost as lengthy as the time Kelsey and Mahomes

926
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: have had on the field in Kansas City. We have

927
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: to break here. But when we come back. Former ESPN,

928
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: NFL analysts, current Pro Football Talk and Westwood One NFL

929
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 1: analyst Mike Golick Senior will be joining us when we return.

930
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: It's got some stuff to tell us about USA football,

931
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: and we're also going to pick his brain on his

932
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: thoughts about Bills Chiefs. On Sunday night. That's coming your way.

933
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: Next here on one Bill's Line, presented by Kalid to Health,

934
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

935
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: been all over the field. Kind of unique. He was

936
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve

937
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the stratore of normalcy.

938
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,760
Speaker 1: All right. Here we are our number two on a Thursday.

939
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Casker with you and happy to have

940
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: along with us now Pro Football Talk, Westwood One, NFL

941
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: analyst and former draft classmate of one Steve Tasker nineteen

942
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: eighty five draft both Houston Oiler draft choices. It's Mike

943
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: Golix Senior joining us here. Mike, thanks for giving us

944
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: some time. How are you doing, man? You look good.

945
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. It's so nice to reunite with Steve

946
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: because him going into and I believe it was a

947
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: ninth round. He was drafted right before me. I went

948
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,720
Speaker 1: in the tenth round. We weren't. We weren't of the value.

949
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: Where the private plane was flying us in you know

950
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: it was I got I got my call like on

951
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,760
Speaker 1: midnight that I was drafted, and I was like already drunk,

952
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: already hung over and probably drunk again, going Okay, I'm

953
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 1: glad we're getting this over with. I'll see in Houston

954
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: at some point. Yeah, the private plane I don't think

955
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 1: came for either one of us. Steve, Oh, It's absolutely true.

956
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: And in fact, I was like, well, who's the head coach. Yeah,

957
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: I was like, and yeah, we show up, we show up.

958
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. Back in the day was different. We

959
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: got drafted late April, like what like three days later,

960
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: we're in Houston, right, We're like a mini camp. We

961
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 1: got shorts and cleats and helmets on. We're running around

962
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: three days later. It was pretty fast back then. Yeah. Yeah.

963
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,359
Speaker 1: The biggest difference is is that we went our separate Well,

964
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: you left I think they're in eighty six and you

965
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: played through eighty six. I left in the middle of

966
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: eighty seven for Philly. You went to Buffalo and you

967
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: basically have had, I mean, a Hall of Fame career.

968
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 1: If they start doing it for special team players, they should.

969
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: And I just you know, eked out nine years and

970
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: felt good about myself. Twelve operations later. I'm just trying

971
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: to survive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe me, Mike. I'm

972
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: still cashing the lottery ticket of getting picked up on

973
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: waver midway through eighty six is when I left, And yeah,

974
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: I'm still cashing that lottery ticket. I walked into a

975
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: team with five Hall of famers right there in the room,

976
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: the head coach, the general manager, and three players, and

977
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: I was the first new guy for the new head coach.

978
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 1: So I rode that wave and I'm still riding it.

979
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: So it's been fun. It's pretty wild. You and I

980
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: both got to play for who are considered two of

981
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: the best at their position. You were spending time with

982
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith, who was the first pick of our class

983
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, right, and the second pick of

984
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 1: that draft was actually my teammate Childress going to But yeah,

985
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: I had Reggie White in Philly and you had Bruce

986
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: Smith in Buffalo. So we certainly got to watch some

987
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: great players, that's for sure. Yeah I had great seats.

988
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: Yeah I did too. Right next to him, somebody had

989
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:19,320
Speaker 1: to help Regie up after he shacked the quarterback. That

990
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: was my job. Yeah, that's exactly right, exactly right. And look,

991
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: I hate to interrupt this trip down memory lane, but

992
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: we did want to give Mike a pat on the

993
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: back here for his volunteer efforts now as a USA

994
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: Football board member, so good on you for doing that. Um,

995
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: I guess we should start there, Mike, because as the

996
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 1: sports national governing body, I mean, you guys have a

997
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 1: pretty big responsibility. So maybe just talk about how USA

998
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: football has kind of morphed and changed because there's a

999
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: lot you know, the teaching techniques are a lot different now,

1000
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: heads up football, all that stuff. Where what is kind

1001
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: of at the top of the priority list for for

1002
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: USA football. Well, I think, as Steve even knows, the

1003
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 1: game has changed a lot from what we were asked

1004
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: to do and what players of today are asked to

1005
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: do and how we're trying to change it. And my

1006
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: wife and I really wanted to get involved at the

1007
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: at the youth level because all these players we see

1008
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: on Sunday, I'll play youth football. So you know, this

1009
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: is where the change needs to start. Where we need

1010
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: to keep our head out of tackling or heads of

1011
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: football or see what you hit. They'll see what you

1012
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: hit has been around forever. It's not like that's anything new.

1013
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 1: But I think what USA Football did, I mean, first,

1014
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 1: they certify close to one hundred thousand coaches a year,

1015
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: and flag football has over the last five years has

1016
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: been up a tick. Tackle football has been down a

1017
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 1: little bit. We're trying to bring that back. But I

1018
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: think the key thing is the way the game is taught.

1019
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: So not only do the players need to learn a

1020
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: little different, but the coaches need to coach it a

1021
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: little different. You know, when Steve and I were young,

1022
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: it was the old you know, toughness drills and you know,

1023
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: earn your water and all that kind of ridiculous stuff

1024
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 1: that you look back on, you're like, how were we,

1025
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, until we kind of figured out where we

1026
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: need to go. So the beauty of USA football is

1027
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: it's not just it used to be flag football right

1028
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: to tackle football. Now it's in between. The fields are smaller,

1029
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: you can be out of two point stance in full pads,

1030
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: you don't have to go all the way to the ground.

1031
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: They have tackle bars to help learn to wrap up.

1032
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: So there's different phases. So for families, i e. Moms

1033
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: you're trying to convince your kid to be able to

1034
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: play football. There are different levels now for the young

1035
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: men and young women to play, not just one or

1036
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: the other. And they're teaching it better. So, like I said,

1037
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: the coach has to buy in. That's one of the

1038
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: biggest things. And then I think the thing is you

1039
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: got to make it fun enough to where they want

1040
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: to come back and do it the next year and

1041
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: maybe bring their friend. That's how you get the longevity

1042
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: of it. And you can't do it without help from

1043
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:53,760
Speaker 1: around the bills. What Senior Director of Community Relations Preston

1044
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: Tigue is very involved in the in the USA Football.

1045
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: He's helped tremendously. We need people to help in their

1046
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:04,840
Speaker 1: regions with you youth football, to kind of tell everybody

1047
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: how we're doing it now and how we feel the

1048
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: game is safer and how it's being coach better for

1049
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: the youth. I've always said too that there's no question

1050
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,800
Speaker 1: you can't get around the fact that football has a

1051
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: physical element that is different than baseball, that is different

1052
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: than tennis or basketball, hockey, whatever. Um, it's different. And

1053
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,240
Speaker 1: and I've said this too, that the value that football

1054
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: brings to a young person is somewhere in there where

1055
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: you see, you know where you're you're expected to play.

1056
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: You know it's not going to feel good all the

1057
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: time because it's it's difficult to get to the point

1058
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: where you push some another another little kid against their

1059
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: will and the conflict is part of the game rather

1060
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: than something that is you know, like a fight in

1061
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: school or something like that. And the and the mental

1062
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: gymnastics young kids have to get go through to get

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00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: themselves to do that, and not only do it, but

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00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 1: do it for the right reasons because they've got people

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00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: depending on them. You know, you got to practice a

1066
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: lot with no guarantee you're gonna win a game. It's

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00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: not like other sports where they practice once a week

1068
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: or you practice football every day during the season. It's

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00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: a big, big commitment that's not always easy to live

1070
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: up to, and getting kids to do that and stick

1071
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: with it is a great lesson, I think for them

1072
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: and their families. And I think one of the big

1073
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: things is is because we all understand that, you know,

1074
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: Steve and I are in quite honestly exceptions to the rule.

1075
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: We're the small percentage that make it from Little League

1076
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 1: all the way to the NFL. Now, it doesn't mean

1077
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 1: you can't have that as a dream and as a goal.

1078
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 1: That's absolutely you should. I get it. But we also

1079
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: have to understand after Little league football, some kids careers

1080
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 1: maybe over after high school. Some kids careers maybe over,

1081
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: and if they are not fortunate enough to go to college,

1082
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 1: it maybe over after that. But I think what football

1083
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: does even from that young age, just what Steve was

1084
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: talking about. It builds camaraderie, It builds teamwork, It built

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00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 1: old work ethic, it builds you have to sacrifice, It

1086
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: builds a fact that you've got to reach down and

1087
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: help your teammate up, and every now and then, your

1088
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: teammates got to reach down and help you up. So

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00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: these are all things that could go on after football

1090
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: is over. It's a fun sport, it's a hard sport,

1091
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: but it teaches a lot of life lessons as well.

1092
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: So that's what I think the beauty of it is

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00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: of little league football is And why do kids want

1094
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: to do it? They want to do it with their

1095
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: friends at first, and then you want to learn and

1096
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: it's a tough game, but you want to want to

1097
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: learn the right way now. And I think that's been

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00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: the biggest change for USA Football is bringing to youth football.

1099
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: But man, it teaches such great life lessons that you

1100
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: can carry on even when your football career is over.

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00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: And for those parents out there that have kids that

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00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: may want to take a step up from just throwing

1103
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: the ball around in the backyard. Find a League dot

1104
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Speaker 1: Com is USA Football's league finders, So you just go

1105
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: online find a League dot Com and it'll help you

1106
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: find a league in your area so you can get

1107
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: your kid signed up. The coolest thing I read about,

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00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: Mike uh, you know when a lot of the information

1109
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: at USA Football was you know, you mentioned flag already

1110
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 1: in the popularity of that they're trying to get it

1111
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: into the LA Olympics for twenty twenty eight. That that

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00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: is a cool deal. I did not expect that. So

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00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: I was at a few months ago Grand Park in Indianapolis,

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00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: right where the Colts have there. They were just getting

1115
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: ready to start training camp, and they had a national

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00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: flag football tournament. The athletes playing this for boys and girls,

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00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: men and women. The athletes playing it are incredible. Yeah.

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00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: I was actually talking to and interviewing some of the

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Speaker 1: some of these sixteen year old girls from a Texas team,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the best teams in the country,

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Speaker 1: who literally age perfectly to where if it is a

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Speaker 1: Olympic sport in twenty twenty eight. There were some of

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Speaker 1: those young women I talked to that are going to

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Speaker 1: be on that Olympic team, and that's their goal. That's

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00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: one of their goals, you know, is to play it

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Speaker 1: in college. More and more colleges are starting to accept

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00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: it as well and give you parcel scholarships for it

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00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: as well. So imagine if that were to be an

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Speaker 1: Olympic sport, how cool that would be. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I remember, and I'm sure Steve does, when you're young

1131
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: it was like flag football all you know, that's for

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00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 1: kids who don't want to hit. Now, flag football is

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00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 1: so popular and again just one of the more than

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Speaker 1: a few avenues you can go in USA football. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, it's not just flag right to tackle smaller fields,

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00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of different variations of it

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00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: where where the you know, because we know there could

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00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: be a big difference in talent at that age. One

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00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: fast kid turns a corner in tackle football and you're

1140
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: not catching them, you know, and then you kind of

1141
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: get disheartened. It's it's tough on your morale. But you

1142
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: make the field a little smaller in some of the

1143
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: leagues and then you can catch them and things can

1144
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: be a little different. So I really do like the Avenue.

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00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: They're going first and foremost with the safety aspects of hitting.

1146
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: We got to get our head out of tackling, like

1147
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks are doing with the rugby type tackles.

1148
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: We look at rugby. Rugby it's one of the toughest

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00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: sports there is. They don't put their head in on

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01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: a tackle because they don't have helmets on. Now we're

1151
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: not taking helmets off in football. That's not going to happen.

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01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: But we're sure as hell can learn to tackle without

1153
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: the helmets by shoulder, wrap up and run through somebody.

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Speaker 1: I think it's one of the most surprising things I had.

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01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: I was part of the kickoff summit when the NFL

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01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: changed the kickoff rules and did some things on the

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Speaker 1: special teams. I was kind of in the room. I

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01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 1: talked a little too much, but still I was there.

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Speaker 1: But the thing about it is is the amazing part

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Speaker 1: about this whole thing. Football has been around since way

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Speaker 1: before you and I were around, Mike, and it's still

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Speaker 1: evolving quickly and changing and growing and becoming I think,

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Speaker 1: in a lot of ways much much better than it

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01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 1: was in decades past. And I think it's becoming even

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01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: more attractive to a wider range of people through flag football,

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Speaker 1: through youth football, through the quality of you know, the

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Speaker 1: quality of coaching, the rule changes, and the emphasis that

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Speaker 1: they're putting on players safety, kids safety, youth safety. But

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Speaker 1: I think the recognition of what it does offer as

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Speaker 1: a sport and as a as a mindset and a

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01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: and a life lesson teaching tool. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun to be part of an applaudia for

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01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: being on the board of USA Football because it's a

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01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: lot of fun to watch the game be alive and vibrant,

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01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: particularly at the lower levels. You know, and let's take

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Speaker 1: it to you know, the NFL now, the NFL and

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Speaker 1: college now you see what they've been trying to do

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Speaker 1: over the last few years of getting you know, I

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01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: think the toughest position to play is defensive back. I mean,

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01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: where the hell do you hit somebody? You have your

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01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: aming point at the spot you want it, and the

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01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: level changes on the receiver and all of a sudden

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01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: you catch them in part of the head. You gotta flag,

1184
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: you gotta fine. And you know the way they protect

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01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,439
Speaker 1: the quarterback in college, the targeting rule where they toss

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Speaker 1: a guy. I hate the rule. I get the fifteen

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Speaker 1: yard penalty. But to toss a guy, you know, for

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01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: some of these just incidental helmet to helmet hits drives

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Speaker 1: me nuts. So I think they went too far in

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Speaker 1: some cases, but I understand it. It's the old you

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01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet, So

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01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: they went a little far to try and get their

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Speaker 1: point of costs. So I think it was most tough

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Speaker 1: on the NFL players who had learned to tackle one

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Speaker 1: way and now all of a sudden, it was like,

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Speaker 1: now you can't tackle that way anymore because you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get a fifteen yarder and you're gonna be fine. So

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Speaker 1: these guys on the fly had to change the way

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Speaker 1: they've tackled and hit, especially over the middle or hit

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. I'm still not in love with some of

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Speaker 1: the calls that are going on, but I understand why

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Speaker 1: they're doing it. And it's got to be very difficult

1203
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: for dbs of today or really over the last few

1204
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: years in the NFL to try and shift their train

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01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: of thought on how they were taught to tackle. Yeah, Mike,

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Speaker 1: go look with us here on one Bills Live, and

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Speaker 1: we'd be remiss if we didn't get your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: what is arguably the game of the week here Mike

1209
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: Bills a Chiefs Sunday night, and it's I guess if

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Speaker 1: you look at just the numbers on paper, and I

1211
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: know that's not how you play the games and how

1212
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 1: scores are determined at the end. But the Chiefs defense,

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01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: I mean, Spags came in and fixed it in twenty nineteen,

1214
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: but now here in twenty twenty one, it's almost like

1215
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: the wheels have come off and they've been down some

1216
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: guys because injury, Frank Clark, Willie Gay Junior and the like.

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01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, I mean they're languishing at the

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01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: bottom of the league in almost every defensive category. They

1219
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: can't stop anybody. So you talk about games are played

1220
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: on paper. You're going into the season. Everybody looks at

1221
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Speaker 1: the Washington football team and said that's going to be

1222
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Speaker 1: one of the best defenses in the NFL, and then

1223
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: you go to practical application down the field and it's like,

1224
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 1: I got Chase Young, I don't think as a sack yet.

1225
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: It's a struggling defense right now. And that was a

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Speaker 1: part of the team. People thought they had a chance

1227
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Speaker 1: to win the nfcast because of their defense, and their

1228
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: defense has not been there at all. So the Chiefs

1229
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 1: as well. Now we always knew they could score, but

1230
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: the defense it is somewhat head scratching with some of

1231
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: the talent they have for the yards and the points

1232
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: that they're giving up. To me, that's the difference in

1233
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: this game I have seen. You know, I go back

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01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: to the late great Fritz Shermer, one of the great

1235
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators whoever coached in the NFL. I remember him

1236
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: telling me, you know, when the league started, when teams

1237
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: started to draft bigger wide receivers, kind of the Randy

1238
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: Moss era started, you know, doing some of that. He

1239
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: would go in when they were going to draft for

1240
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: the teams he were on and say, we need to

1241
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: draft bigger cornerbacks. We need to match what's going on.

1242
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 1: It's in our division and in our conference. Well, I

1243
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: see that. That's what's going on in football, and the

1244
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:27,479
Speaker 1: matching is now scoring. You gotta score. If you can't

1245
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: score close to thirty points or more a game, you're

1246
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:32,640
Speaker 1: you're not going to be in it because too many

1247
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: teams can score. Look, hell, we've seen Kansas City be

1248
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 1: down double digits and just start rattling off points or

1249
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 1: reminds s Steve. I'm sure you know remember the old

1250
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: Greatest Show on Turf, the Rams where Kurt Warner they

1251
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: didn't care if they turned the ball over. They didn't

1252
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 1: care with their defensive because they know they were putting

1253
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: up thirty five forty points a game. That's what you

1254
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: have to do now. So that's the teams I look

1255
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 1: at in the ASC who can score points and then

1256
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 1: the added bonus. And I think the difference in this

1257
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 1: game the Bill's defense. Bills defense is playing to the ball.

1258
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 1: What are they giving up their number one in the lea?

1259
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it reminds me of my old

1260
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: Philly days, you know, playing with that that defense. So

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01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: to me, that's a difference. Are you ever gonna stop

1262
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes? I think it's difficult, but you can slow

1263
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 1: him down some Uh. You know when a guy to

1264
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 1: slodon is gonna be Travis Kelsey. I know he had

1265
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 1: a big game in the in the playoff game last year,

1266
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 1: but I think to me, Buffalo offense can score a

1267
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: lot of points. That first week was still kind of

1268
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,040
Speaker 1: a wacky one, but you know that's one of those

1269
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: what you are on week one and what you're on

1270
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 1: week four or five or two different things. And we've

1271
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 1: seen the Bills offense just are churning it out like

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01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: we knew they could. But to me, the difference in

1273
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: this game, I think it's going to be the defense.

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01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to seeing this Bill's defense and

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01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 1: what they're going to do against this Chief offense. Yeah,

1276
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. But you're right. The way it

1277
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 1: is in the old days, back in the dark ages,

1278
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 1: when you and I broke in, it was all about well,

1279
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 1: if you know, if you if you run the football

1280
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:01,240
Speaker 1: and keep mahomes on the side line, you know, that's

1281
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 1: how you be. It's not working like that anymore. You

1282
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 1: gotta snoke. You just gotta like, listen, we're gonna cut loose.

1283
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: You gotta go for it on fourth down, right, you

1284
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,960
Speaker 1: don't punt in there into the field. You you know

1285
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 1: you you just you gotta take all the lid off

1286
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 1: your offense and turn it on. And if you don't

1287
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 1: have that ability to do it, you better get there fast.

1288
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,080
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to score points to beat this Chief's team.

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01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 1: I think back three years ago in the Monday Night game,

1290
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: again from between Jared Goff and Sean McVay in his

1291
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: first year on that Monday night game in the Coliseum

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01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. Whereas fifty five, fifty one or fifty two,

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01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: that's kind of the that's kind of the blueprint. I

1294
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: hate to say it like that, but it really is.

1295
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 1: It's really is like the un LV basketball team. First

1296
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: open shot, take it, you gotta go. And I think

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01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 1: that's where the Chiefs if you're gonna beat him and

1298
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: beat him consistently, that's what you gotta do. Yeah, you

1299
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,919
Speaker 1: gotta score the points. Um you know, well, we'll see

1300
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 1: if an offense like look in the AFC Cleveland. Cleveland

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01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: lives on the run, right between Chub and Hunt. I mean,

1302
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 1: they absolutely live on the run. Their defense is another

1303
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: really good defense. They can get after the quarterback because

1304
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, you know, he's not lighten it up passing

1305
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 1: this year. So even I think though they're scoring about

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01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 1: twenty five points or so, and they played Kansas City

1307
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: really well in Week one, and I actually picked Cleveland

1308
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: maybe more with my heart because that's where I was

1309
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,960
Speaker 1: born and raised to be in the Super Bowl this year.

1310
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 1: But I think we all know the top three teams

1311
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,640
Speaker 1: to have that shot, or Kansas City, Buffalo and Cleveland

1312
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: if you want to throw the Chargers in there, the

1313
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 1: way Herbert is playing right now. But again, it has

1314
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: to be a team that can score some points. You'd

1315
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: love to have a great defense to go along with it,

1316
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,000
Speaker 1: like the Bills are doing right now. But man, you

1317
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:49,160
Speaker 1: have got to be able to match scores right now.

1318
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: So that's where I kind of cut off in the AFC.

1319
01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 1: How many points can you score? Can you score quickly?

1320
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: Then I'll put you in the conversation. That's why this

1321
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: game should be so good looking elsewhere around the league, Mike,

1322
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 1: and kind of asking you to put your creskin hat on.

1323
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 1: You know, I think we all agree this is probably

1324
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: the last dance for Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. So

1325
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: already people out there want to speculate, whoa where could

1326
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: he go? Where could he end up? And I know

1327
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: Denver was a popular place before the season started, but

1328
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: with the way Roethlisbergers looked in Pittsburgh, people are already

1329
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:25,840
Speaker 1: talking about that being a potential destination. I know there

1330
01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 1: were some glances exchanged between Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin

1331
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: last week everybody was making that all lovey dovey, who

1332
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: who should put in and jump in quickly sooner rather

1333
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,560
Speaker 1: than later in the Aaron Rodgers sweepstakes when that you know,

1334
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 1: comes down the pike. Here, well, here's the thing. You

1335
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: want him to go to a team that's gonna be

1336
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 1: in it, right And a lot of those teams already

1337
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 1: have their quarterbacks. So what's a team that's right on

1338
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: that brink and pittswork certainly not that team right now.

1339
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 1: They as I just talked about, they can't score points.

1340
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 1: Ben can't get the ball on the field anymore. Their

1341
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:04,560
Speaker 1: defense is pretty good, but they're a lot put on

1342
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,760
Speaker 1: their shoulders because the offense can't do a whole lot.

1343
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:10,559
Speaker 1: Denver's defense is really good, and listen, Denver's future quarterback

1344
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:12,720
Speaker 1: is not on the roster. It's not Teddy Bridgewater and

1345
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 1: it's not True Lock. So I think those are the

1346
01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: two teams that are just a tier below but what

1347
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 1: they have. So let's start with Pittsburgh. You know Naja Harris.

1348
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: I like what he's doing out of the backfield, not

1349
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 1: running too well because of that old line, but I

1350
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: like him catching a ball and as a runner. Their defense,

1351
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 1: I like their defense a lot. You look at the

1352
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: three wide receivers, they have definite targets for Aaron Rodgers

1353
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 1: and their defense is tough, but they got to fix

1354
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 1: the old line. They have to do more for that

1355
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:46,200
Speaker 1: offensive line went through just a complete like more than

1356
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:48,480
Speaker 1: a few teams did this year. They kind of overhauled

1357
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: their offensive line and it's been a struggle for them there.

1358
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: And Ben as a statue, we know Aaron, while they're

1359
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: close to the same age, certainly can move better than

1360
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: than Ben. And I'm not sure how much younger Aaron

1361
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: is than then, but I do think that would be

1362
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: a great fit in a in a tough division where

1363
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: Cleveland's playing well, Baltimore is playing well, young quarterbacks, good defenses,

1364
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:15,560
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's starting to come up a little bit. Or you

1365
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:18,600
Speaker 1: go to Denver where the Raiders were just undefeated and

1366
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: got knocked off. The Chargers look good and certainly the

1367
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: Chiefs are there, but Denver's got a heck of a

1368
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,680
Speaker 1: defense as well. You know, I like no offense is

1369
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: getting more and more involved in the offense as well,

1370
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 1: so I think they both both those teams could be

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01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 1: landing spots. But yeah, the Google eyes that were made.

1372
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean, my son Mike tweeted, dudes, get a room.

1373
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 1: I mean, what you know what's going on. There's part

1374
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: of me that kind of leans toward the Pittsburgh Steelers

1375
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: on this one, but I could see either one Denver

1376
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:53,559
Speaker 1: or Pittsburgh. Who's gonna Who's gonna however the transaction has

1377
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: to go, you know who's gonna be the one most involved.

1378
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 1: I know it's a long way off, well not a

1379
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: long way but eight months months or so off away.

1380
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:04,480
Speaker 1: But if you look at it from this distance, Pittsburgh's

1381
01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 1: the one with the cap space. Yea, you know they

1382
01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,759
Speaker 1: got they got some space. They can just like slide

1383
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: him in and it won't they don't have to cut guys,

1384
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:13,880
Speaker 1: and you know they'll be able to sign guys even

1385
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 1: to help him around him. So I think Pittsburgh makes

1386
01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:18,599
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Plus for green Bay, he's out

1387
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:20,920
Speaker 1: of the division, out of the conference. They won't care

1388
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:22,720
Speaker 1: about it, not that they have to, you know, give

1389
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: their rubber stamp and any way, shape or form, but

1390
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,719
Speaker 1: it makes a ton of sense getting into that division.

1391
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: I got one other thing I wanted to ask you.

1392
01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 1: We spoke about Cleveland and their defense and how you

1393
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: know and how you picked him to be in the

1394
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: super Bowl and you know a little bit with your heart.

1395
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 1: But what about Baker. He's got a sore shoulder on

1396
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: the off shoulder We've talked about a little bit on

1397
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:46,440
Speaker 1: our show earlier. What of the likelihood that does Cleveland

1398
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 1: do anything to make to give him an option to

1399
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 1: leave Cleveland after they went so many decades without a

1400
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:56,680
Speaker 1: guy that can pull the trigger to have a guy

1401
01:11:57,120 --> 01:12:00,760
Speaker 1: Baker's quality, I mean, he can't leave. They gotta get

1402
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:04,200
Speaker 1: him signed, correct, Yeah, because you asked. You know, I

1403
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 1: remember when teams were doing this or people were doing

1404
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 1: it with Tony Romo. Oh god, the Cowboys got to

1405
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:10,920
Speaker 1: get rid of. But then it's like, well who are

1406
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: you getting? Listen, you struck gold with Dak getting him

1407
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 1: in the fourth round and being what he is. It's

1408
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: like doing that with Russell Wilson not in the first round,

1409
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 1: any non first round quarterback that hitch. You strike gold there.

1410
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:23,720
Speaker 1: But that's what I would say, Well, all right, if

1411
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: you're going away from Baker, and again we see bad Baker,

1412
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:29,600
Speaker 1: we've seen really good Baker. But where are you gonna go?

1413
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:34,280
Speaker 1: Because I give that organization and a with how what

1414
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: the team they've built. I mean, they have done a

1415
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 1: great job, from offensive line to defensive players to weapons

1416
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 1: for Baker. They have done a great job. So they're

1417
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: right in it. So if you feel like you're gonna

1418
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: move on for Baker, yeah, who the hell are you getting?

1419
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: And they'd better be a veteran ready to go and

1420
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 1: lead this team because it's gonna be tough for Baker.

1421
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:57,560
Speaker 1: Part of Baker's magic is while you have to be

1422
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 1: able to throw from the pocket, he makes plays on

1423
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:02,679
Speaker 1: the go and man, when you got that torn labor

1424
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:04,840
Speaker 1: um even I know it's in your off shoulder, like

1425
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 1: he can throw it can throw. Yeah, that's cool. But

1426
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: that dude likes to take off, likes to move around.

1427
01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:12,640
Speaker 1: He's gonna get hit. You know. How can he keep

1428
01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: doing that? You know? Is he just jacking that thing

1429
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: with a needle every week so he doesn't have the pain?

1430
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,800
Speaker 1: How bad is it? You know? So how much does

1431
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 1: it affect his kind of freelancing every now and then

1432
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 1: when he goes Because this is a team and I

1433
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: talked about earlier and they would have been anyway. They're

1434
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:29,879
Speaker 1: a team that lives off the run in the defense,

1435
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: and you can live on that so far until a

1436
01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: team gets ten points, fourteen points ahead yet then you

1437
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: have the ability to come back. And that's Cleveland. And

1438
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:42,680
Speaker 1: again they played Kansas City very well in that first game,

1439
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But yeah, if Baker's gonna play

1440
01:13:46,479 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 1: through the torn laborum, you know what, it's not gonna

1441
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:52,280
Speaker 1: get during the season any better. Yeah, it's it's gonna

1442
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: be there. It's probably gonna get worse. So how is

1443
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: he able to play with that? Yeah, Mike, we're unfortunately

1444
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 1: at a time we could talk all afternoon with you,

1445
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: But thanks very much for the time, and best of

1446
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: luck with USA football going forward. Glad we were able

1447
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: to relive the late day two of the eighty five

1448
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:13,439
Speaker 1: draft there. That was great. I enjoyed it. Thanks. All right.

1449
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 1: That's Mike Gold from Pro Football Talk, Westwood one NFL analysts.

1450
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:18,519
Speaker 1: We have to break here, but we come back. We'll

1451
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:21,280
Speaker 1: hear from Micah Hide, who's fresh off to practice field.

1452
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: We'll hear from him next here on One Bills Live

1453
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:37,640
Speaker 1: presented by Klaud of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

1454
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:40,000
Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris perhaps keeps faster

1455
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 1: with you, but without further Ado, we go out to

1456
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,920
Speaker 1: the practice field where Micah Hide has just finished practice

1457
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 1: for the day and is addressing the media. Let's go

1458
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:55,280
Speaker 1: to Mica and everyone has their job. And what is

1459
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 1: the impact of the defense, especially in the back end

1460
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:02,599
Speaker 1: if Matt can't go against this offense in particular obvious

1461
01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:06,640
Speaker 1: electric offense been for years. UM, top players in the

1462
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 1: league get their positions. Top offense in the league. You

1463
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 1: know obviously this, UM, I've been a multiple Super Bowls.

1464
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 1: You know that can go on along about their about

1465
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: their offense. But I think at the end of the day, UM.

1466
01:15:17,720 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 1: You know we saw last week that our backups always

1467
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 1: got to be ready. UM. And if that's the case,

1468
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 1: then it's next man in Travis Kelsey or Tyreek Hill,

1469
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: both both a huge threat. UM, huge that. I think

1470
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:33,479
Speaker 1: Kelsey's been doing it for a long time. Just work

1471
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 1: in the middle, UM. I think him and him in

1472
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:38,760
Speaker 1: fifteen just have you know, they can reach other's minds.

1473
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: They've been doing it for a long time about where

1474
01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 1: to where to go, what to do based off leverage

1475
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 1: of the players, all that type of stuff. And then

1476
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 1: obviously Hill can just take the top off any defense.

1477
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:49,400
Speaker 1: I always gotta know where he's at UM at any

1478
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: given time, whether if it's UM down the field, behind

1479
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: a line of scrimmage, UM anything. To be honest, these games,

1480
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: if you look at it, if if an opposing defense

1481
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: limits one of their production, see that the other one

1482
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:07,719
Speaker 1: has a big day. Have you kind of seen that? Yeah, film,

1483
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what happens when you have, you know,

1484
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 1: a two headed monster and not not just two for them.

1485
01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: You know they got some other weapons too, um, some

1486
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 1: other receivers. I can get it done. So you know,

1487
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 1: it's just uh, once again, it's the NFL. You gotta

1488
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 1: you gotta challenge each and every week. And um, this

1489
01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 1: is the next challenge that we have after the game's

1490
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: past week about the emotional limfence getting fourth down stops

1491
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:33,479
Speaker 1: can be for defense. You guys have done that pretty

1492
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:36,519
Speaker 1: well here early this season. Dr Jerry yesterday and he

1493
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 1: had mentioned that Leslie talk to you guys, maybe it

1494
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: was in the spring, maybe at the beginning of camp

1495
01:16:41,040 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 1: about being prepared for those situations in the sense that

1496
01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 1: more and more offenses might go for it. Yah. Um

1497
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 1: have you seen that? I mean, I guess you know

1498
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 1: for sure, I feel like every game we've had multiple

1499
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: um fourth down stops and they're going for it a lot.

1500
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you see around the league, you know

1501
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 1: it's a um statistically, you know, they they talk about

1502
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: going for it on fourth down and and all that

1503
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 1: type of stuff. You have, um a better chance of

1504
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:11,000
Speaker 1: getting it. I don't know all that type of stuff,

1505
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: but I mean, I feel like we just got to

1506
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: go out there and bow up on fourth down, and

1507
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:16,920
Speaker 1: we've been able to make some stop so far, and

1508
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:20,680
Speaker 1: hopefully we continue that. What's it like for you as

1509
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:22,599
Speaker 1: a defensive player winning the shoes out of the other

1510
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: foot and in your offenses out there in those situations

1511
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 1: where maybe they're gonna go for it, And Jerry said that,

1512
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, you guys are rooting them on because it's

1513
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: also in a way of vote of confidence for you

1514
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: in the chance that the offense doesn't get you know,

1515
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: you guys are left on maybe a short field. But

1516
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: that's a vote a confidence the defense to go for it.

1517
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:42,479
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Um. You know, obviously when the offense

1518
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 1: is going for on fourth down, and you know we're

1519
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 1: all standing up, you know, we just always always yell

1520
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 1: on defense get ready just in case they don't. But um,

1521
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, I think that. Uh, it's definitely. UH. This

1522
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:55,920
Speaker 1: game is about momentum, and when you can convert on

1523
01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 1: on fourth down, it's huge no matter what team. UM

1524
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: obviously room for offense to do it, and if they

1525
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 1: don't get it, then you know, like I said last week,

1526
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:05,640
Speaker 1: we're always trying to defend a blade of grass and

1527
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:07,600
Speaker 1: if they get good feel pision out of it, then

1528
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:16,040
Speaker 1: we gotta gott a force field goal to takeaways. UM.

1529
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 1: Anytime you're losing this league, it's it's painful. UM, just

1530
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 1: because each and every week you put a lot of

1531
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:25,200
Speaker 1: effort and hard work into the game plan, UM, into

1532
01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:27,840
Speaker 1: practicing and to all that stuff. UM, losing in the

1533
01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game is it's not ideal hurts a little more. UM,

1534
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 1: just because I understand obviously this is year nine, been

1535
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:37,840
Speaker 1: to uh that was my third championship game. Haven't made

1536
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:39,639
Speaker 1: it to the super Bowl yet. I know how hard

1537
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:41,879
Speaker 1: it is to make it back. UM, So it's painful.

1538
01:18:42,479 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 1: But anytime you're losing this league, it's it's it stings

1539
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: a little bit, and UM always out there trying to

1540
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:55,759
Speaker 1: chase and win. But everybody says, is that what everyone's saying, Well,

1541
01:18:56,600 --> 01:19:02,680
Speaker 1: you guys were staying year. Um, the Kansas Chiefs. That

1542
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 1: was the team that was a team that beat us

1543
01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 1: to go to the Super Bowl. So UM, yes they

1544
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 1: were they were standing in our way. But I think

1545
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: this season, you know we have is the next opponent

1546
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 1: to uh that we got to play against a very good,

1547
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:16,640
Speaker 1: very good opponent. We understand that it's a very good

1548
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 1: football team. Um. Anytime you get into the into the

1549
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,679
Speaker 1: playoffs and um, I mean you know that you're gonna

1550
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:23,720
Speaker 1: have to run into the Kansa City Chiefs because what

1551
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 1: they have on on on offense and just the team

1552
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 1: in general. UM, So we understand that. But I think

1553
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know we had

1554
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,880
Speaker 1: to prepare accornity to to go out the playo best

1555
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:33,599
Speaker 1: game no matter who it is, um, and this week

1556
01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:37,760
Speaker 1: is kans Chiefs. You did you did try I shut

1557
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 1: it down quick interrupted you to shut it down. I know,

1558
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: like when we talked to you after the last game

1559
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 1: and you said, since you started playing football in seventh grade,

1560
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:50,680
Speaker 1: you always are thinking about shutting the team out. Does

1561
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: the mindset it all change when you're playing against such

1562
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 1: a dynamic offense and maybe accepting that every once in

1563
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:57,400
Speaker 1: a while they're gonna hit on a big play and

1564
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:00,439
Speaker 1: that's okay as long as you bend. But don't is

1565
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:03,400
Speaker 1: that fair or still? Like? For sure? I mean you

1566
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 1: want to go into the game and uh and and

1567
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 1: have a shout out. How realistic is it to shut

1568
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:10,640
Speaker 1: out the Kensity Chiefs. Has that ever happened with the

1569
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: mahomes era? I don't. I don't know how that's for

1570
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:15,960
Speaker 1: you guys to look up. But um, you know, I

1571
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:18,600
Speaker 1: think what you said best is Ben don't break. Um.

1572
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:20,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna get their yards, are gonna get their plays

1573
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:22,840
Speaker 1: have they have dynamic players all over the field. They

1574
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: can take the top off. We gotta make them nickel

1575
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,559
Speaker 1: the diamonds the whole way down the field and try

1576
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 1: to try to force and takeaways or field goals. Um.

1577
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:31,680
Speaker 1: I think that's how we're gonna, um, you know, get

1578
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:33,599
Speaker 1: out of Ken City with a win. All right. That's

1579
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 1: Micah Hyde addressing the media after practice today, and your

1580
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:41,479
Speaker 1: practice update is as follows. Matt Malano did not practice

1581
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 1: for a second straight day with that hamstring injury. Gregor

1582
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:49,839
Speaker 1: Rousseau was back participating after missing yesterday with a toe injury.

1583
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:54,280
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones a non participant as well for the second

1584
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 1: straight day. Today. Um Cole Beasley back from a day

1585
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 1: of rest, as was Mario Nison and some of the

1586
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: other players that appeared on the injury report were practicing.

1587
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:10,040
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer Tradevious White, so those guys were practicing for

1588
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:14,679
Speaker 1: a second straight day. So that's certainly an encouraging sign. Steve.

1589
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: We heard Micah Hyde address a couple of things there

1590
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: fourth down. They're seeing a lot more plays on fourth

1591
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 1: down defensively to this point, they've only allowed a twenty

1592
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 1: five percent conversion rate on fourth down Defensively, two for

1593
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:33,920
Speaker 1: eight their opponents have been on fourth down to try

1594
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: to extend drive, So that's six turnovers on down, Steve,

1595
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know that it gets calculated

1596
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:43,679
Speaker 1: all the time, but that's a huge benefit in field

1597
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:46,360
Speaker 1: position because now that team's not kicking it away, they're

1598
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:49,680
Speaker 1: just giving it to you wherever they are. If you

1599
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:53,680
Speaker 1: can get the stop. Yeah, but teams go for it

1600
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:56,680
Speaker 1: because the odds say they're gonna get it. I think

1601
01:21:56,680 --> 01:22:00,400
Speaker 1: it's on a regular basis, its fifty fifty whether they

1602
01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: get it or not, depending on the distance. The fourth

1603
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:05,240
Speaker 1: down is one of the fourth down stops they got.

1604
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:08,639
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, one of the fourth down conversions they gave

1605
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:13,439
Speaker 1: up as a defense last week to Houston happened in

1606
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of a game that's already decided. So

1607
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: you know, even who cares about that one, you're already up,

1608
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 1: you know, thirty seven or thirty six whatever it was,

1609
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 1: thirty yeah, thirty six to nothing. Give up a fourth

1610
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:32,120
Speaker 1: down conversion in that situation. So it does depend on

1611
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:35,479
Speaker 1: when the other team decides to do it. But it's huge,

1612
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 1: and the Bills have started to go for it more

1613
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 1: on fourth down as well. You saw that a number

1614
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:42,560
Speaker 1: of times now, certainly playing against a Houston team that

1615
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: was struggling defensively, and you feel like you've got a

1616
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:46,720
Speaker 1: matchup where you can take advantage of it. And a

1617
01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: quarterback that can bounce a quarterback sneak for fifteen or

1618
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: sixteen yards makes a difference in your play calling and

1619
01:22:55,240 --> 01:22:58,680
Speaker 1: your ability and your confidence to go for it. But

1620
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 1: the whole league is going that way. It's not This

1621
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 1: is not just the Buffalo Bills opponents. It's a trend

1622
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:07,080
Speaker 1: in the league that's going to happen. It's going to continue,

1623
01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:08,760
Speaker 1: so you've got to be ready for it. You know,

1624
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:12,599
Speaker 1: we've always talked about third down efficiency and situational football

1625
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 1: on third and short, third and medium, third and long

1626
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 1: goal line, short yardage. Fourth down as a situation we've

1627
01:23:21,240 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: never really had to think about before. Now, I think

1628
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:28,519
Speaker 1: it's a regular part of your defensive game plan, and

1629
01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:30,439
Speaker 1: when you have a defense like the Bills do, you're

1630
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:33,560
Speaker 1: probably even a little more confident in going forward on

1631
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:35,640
Speaker 1: fourth down because even if you don't get it, you

1632
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:39,720
Speaker 1: trust this defense. Bills three for seven on fourth down

1633
01:23:39,800 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 1: conversions offensively this season. Let's get to the tweet sheet though,

1634
01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 1: what we'll have the biggest impact on Sunday's game against

1635
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

1636
01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:52,720
Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and

1637
01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 1: Jack says, we have to score early and often. Allen

1638
01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:57,680
Speaker 1: needs to be efficient and stay on the field, move

1639
01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 1: the ball, keep it away from fifteen, take pres you're

1640
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:02,680
Speaker 1: off r D and put points up because it may

1641
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: need to be a track meet of a game, and

1642
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:09,800
Speaker 1: if it is, you hope that your defense, which is

1643
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:14,240
Speaker 1: statistically ranked far superior to what the Chiefs have been

1644
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 1: able to do statistically, you would hope that they would

1645
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: be more successful in slowing down the Chiefs and the

1646
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs defense slowing down the Bills. Yes, there's two ways

1647
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: to look at it, Brownie. The Bill's defense has been great.

1648
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:29,600
Speaker 1: I mean they've They've held their two of their opponents scoreless,

1649
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:32,240
Speaker 1: no question about it. The Bill's offense has done enough.

1650
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 1: It hasn't been as good as it was a year ago.

1651
01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that it scored thirty five and forty

1652
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:43,880
Speaker 1: three points and another forty points as well, still doesn't

1653
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: look exactly like the offense they put out on the

1654
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:51,400
Speaker 1: field a year ago. But here's the thing. This game

1655
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,599
Speaker 1: is going to be a track meet. You cannot play

1656
01:24:54,680 --> 01:24:56,600
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and not think you're going to have to

1657
01:24:56,640 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: score a ton of points and have to take some

1658
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:04,599
Speaker 1: risk to beat them because their their offense is so good.

1659
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: That's just the way it's gonna be now. Defensively, I

1660
01:25:10,240 --> 01:25:12,320
Speaker 1: think the Bills have done a lot of good things.

1661
01:25:12,479 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 1: They've been solid against the run and all of that.

1662
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 1: But I think the thing that's gonna win this game

1663
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:20,640
Speaker 1: defensively for the Bills is playmaking. You got to you

1664
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 1: gotta hit the ball back, you gotta get a pass

1665
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 1: defense at the right time. You gotta knock a pass down,

1666
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: you gotta force a turnover, you gotta get an interception,

1667
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:30,880
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to get a second a hand

1668
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:32,639
Speaker 1: on the Homes to get him on the ground. It's

1669
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,720
Speaker 1: not gonna be about holding the Chiefs to, you know,

1670
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety yards a total offense, zero touchdowns

1671
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 1: and all that. It's gonna be about a play at

1672
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:47,960
Speaker 1: the right time. And while that's great for the Bill

1673
01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: and it makes it seem easier that you don't have

1674
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 1: to worry about holding them off the scoreboard or keeping

1675
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: them to no yards, that's also the way it's gonna

1676
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 1: be for the Chiefs. If they get a tipped pass

1677
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 1: at the right time, a knockdown pass, a batted pass,

1678
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 1: or a pass defense or a fumble at the right time,

1679
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:07,519
Speaker 1: they win the game. It's not like their defense has

1680
01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 1: to do anything special either, because their offense is so potent.

1681
01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:13,400
Speaker 1: So I think in a game like this, the defenses

1682
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:18,840
Speaker 1: have a different mindset. It's not about stuffing the run completely.

1683
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:21,680
Speaker 1: They're not gonna run the ball that much. It's not

1684
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: about holding Mahomes to a thirty five percent completion percentage

1685
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 1: or a fifty percent completion percentage. You're not gonna be

1686
01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 1: able to do that. It's about making a play when

1687
01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 1: you get a chance to get them off the field

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01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 1: or getting the ball back for your offense in an

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01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:39,360
Speaker 1: unexpected moment. That's what defense is going to be in

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01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 1: this game. It's not going to be a statistical masterpiece.

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01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:45,719
Speaker 1: It's going to be a play here and a play

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01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: there that makes the difference, right, and hopefully the Bills

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01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:50,760
Speaker 1: get the takeaways they need. That was instrumental when the

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01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 1: Chargers beating the Chiefs in Narrowhead by just six. They

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01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,200
Speaker 1: won thirty to twenty four, but they forced the Chiefs

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01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:00,920
Speaker 1: to commit four turn overs in the game and they

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01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:03,479
Speaker 1: still only won by a single score. Bills may have

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01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: to do the same thing on Sunday night break time

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01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: for us. Steve and I close it up next here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned all right back on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live Here on a Thursday, Steve and I

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01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 1: are about ready to close this thing up just reading

1703
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:31,240
Speaker 1: through the rest of the comments on the tweet sheet, Steve,

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01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:35,599
Speaker 1: people are just hoping the defense is not a paper tiger.

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01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 1: Having lumped up some lower rung teams in the league,

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01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:42,760
Speaker 1: and there are others that feel that turnovers are an

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01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:46,200
Speaker 1: absolute key if they're gonna beat the Chiefs. You really,

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01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 1: that's what you gotta do. You gotta give your offense

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01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:54,439
Speaker 1: extra possessions to keep pace with the Chiefs offense. Yeah,

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01:27:54,479 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: we're scoring every possession, which is you know, you can't

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01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:01,200
Speaker 1: do you can't really export to do this. Yeah. Yeah,

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01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:03,679
Speaker 1: there's no question that the Bills defense is good. They've

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01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 1: done what they're supposed to do against weaker opponents. They've

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01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:09,320
Speaker 1: absolutely dominated them. That doesn't mean they're gonna dominate the

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01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:11,960
Speaker 1: Kansas Cheese. I would expect they won't, but they'll play

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01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:14,800
Speaker 1: well against them. They'll make some plays against them. It

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01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: has you have to beat the Chiefs as an entire unit,

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01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: as an offense and a defense. You're not gonna just

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01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:23,920
Speaker 1: do it with defense. It's it's gonna be a tough game.

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01:28:24,240 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 1: Bills gonna have to play well on both sides of

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01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 1: the ball to win. But they're no flute. The Bills

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01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:30,599
Speaker 1: are a good football team. Whether they win this game

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01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:34,840
Speaker 1: the interesting interesting to see knowing Patrick Mahomes is four

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01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 1: and oh against top rank scoring defenses and two and

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01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:41,960
Speaker 1: oh against top ranked total defenses in the last two years.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty Crazy Greg co Sell tomorrow, along with obl

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Speaker 1: fan Friday Mailbag and Tailgate Friday. We'll see you there.