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Speaker 1: in the strated fere of normalcy. Welcome to a Thursday

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Speaker 1: are two. How do the coaches get Josh to calm

428
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: down right before the game? Yeah, that's a good question,

429
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: and it's and it's a it's something we've thought about

430
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: as well. Here. We talked. We had a little conversation

431
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: about it yesterday and I told I related the the

432
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: the theory of one of my friends to Brownie about it,

433
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, one of the reasons Josh

434
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: was so improved this year is because he didn't play

435
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: in front of people. There was nobody to hype him

436
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: up past the point of where it was counterproductive. Yeah,

437
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 1: it's a thing. It's a thing we've seen. We've all

438
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: seen teams get out there one or two or maybe

439
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 1: the whole team is a little bit too amped up

440
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: and they get penalties post snap penalties, extra cricketers, they're

441
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: pushing guys after the play. They're just too jacked up.

442
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: And and let's face it, with a guy like Josh,

443
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: where we've seen him come through and play that hero

444
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: ball and lateral the ball and you know, not throw

445
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 1: the ball away and trying to get the extra yard,

446
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You kind of worry about it. Yeah,

447
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: I'm not terribly worried about it, especially after we talked

448
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: to Jordan Palmer on the show earlier this week. He

449
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: talked about Josh being in the right head space physically, mentally,

450
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: and emotionally, and Josh I even heard this relayed on

451
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Speaker 1: the broadcast for the last road game, which was the

452
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: Patriots Monday Night game. The Monday Night crew was talking

453
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Speaker 1: about their conversation with Josh and you know how he

454
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 1: has compartmentalized getting too hyped for a game and this

455
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,479
Speaker 1: and that, and he said one of the things that

456
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 1: he has done different from last year is instead of

457
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: listening to you know, hype up rap music or hype

458
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: up heavy you know, you know, hard rocks or heavy metal,

459
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: he said that would get him too jacked up for

460
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: the game. He listens to Sinatra now just kind of

461
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 1: keeps him nice and cool and level headed before the game.

462
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: I think I think find you know, like so now

463
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: he's just chill. So he's just chill coming out there.

464
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: They gotta, you know, they gotta put that on the

465
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Speaker 1: pregame sound. So I'm not worry right, Yeah, well sure, hey,

466
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 1: why not. I'm not gonna say no to that. Um,

467
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: but yeah, I think he, like we've said, Steve a

468
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 1: lot for a guy in this playing this position in

469
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: this league, he's got to be one of the most

470
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 1: self aware of twenty four year olds I have ever

471
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Speaker 1: been around, and to have the presence of mind to

472
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Speaker 1: say to himself. Because when you're a teenage athlete or

473
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: even a college athlete, the testosterone is flowing like you

474
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 1: are just you're an animal, you know what I mean,

475
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: You're an animal? And oh you want to hype me

476
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: up more? Yeah, let's do it. What do you got

477
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: like anything? I'm all about? Sure, you know, pour some

478
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 1: hot sauce down my throat, like you'll do anything when

479
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: you're a high school and a college athlete for him

480
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: to kind of get to the maturity level, that's the key. Yeah, Oh,

481
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: it'll only make me better. Do it, do it, It'll

482
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: only make me better. You know, that's how you are.

483
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: You're an idiot. You're an idiot when you're a teenage

484
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: when you're a high school or college actor, the testosterone

485
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: is over. You know, you're over the cliff. You're nuts.

486
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: So at age twenty four to have the maturity to

487
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: look at himself and say, I got a little too

488
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: much juice buzzing through me here, I gotta I gotta

489
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: dial this back. You know, what are ways that I

490
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: can do that? Obviously, he's worked with Palmer in the

491
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: off season about getting in that emotional state where he

492
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:26,199
Speaker 1: can just lock in on identifying defenses, setting protections so

493
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: he can do his job, and then also saying, well,

494
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: it's not just when I'm in the game, it's leading

495
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: up to the game. What can I do to kind

496
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: of help myself there? I mean it sounds silly, but

497
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: it's all part of the process of getting ready for

498
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: a game. And Sinatra is working for him, so let's

499
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 1: stick with it. The Elevator music playlist. I gotta tell

500
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: you my father in law is going to be very

501
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: happy when I tell him that Josh Allen is listening

502
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: to Sinatra before games. So yeah, yeah, he listens to

503
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: a lot of that. And listen, you can we can

504
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: make fun of him, laugh at it. It's work. I'm

505
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: making fun of it. It's worked. I don't stand in

506
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: the way anything that's working. It don't work, they broke,

507
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: don't fix it. Absolutely Yeah, all right, so let's let's

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00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: get a quick we have time. Yeah, let's do one

509
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: one or two from the tweet sheet before we bust away,

510
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: which under the bill, which under the radar Bills player

511
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: will make a difference Saturday's playoff game with the Colts

512
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: from c He says this, I think Milano, Cline and

513
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: Edmunds are gonna be key and stopping the run game

514
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: and locking down receivers. I'm calling an i NT and

515
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: one or two sacks for Tremaine. I hope this young

516
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: guy makes some big waves these playoffs. I think he's

517
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: the light Well, I mean, they're linebacking corps. They gotta

518
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: they gotta play well if your defense is gonna play well.

519
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, um sacks. Maybe Rivers ain't going anywhere. He's

520
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: not gonna outrun Tremaine. And and it's interesting that he

521
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: mentions Milano, Cline and Edmonds. I wonder because we saw

522
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: this against the Patriots in Week sixteen. Bills play a

523
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: little bit more bass personnel against that against that offense, though,

524
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: And they really aren't a threat to throw the ball

525
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: all that much. They run the ball now, obviously, India

526
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: is a greater threat to throw the football, But twenty

527
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: seven percent of the top the Colts line up in

528
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen personnel, two or three tight end sets,

529
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: they will throw out there more than a quarter of

530
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: the time. That's a heavy load in this era of

531
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: NFL football, and not very not a big percentage of

532
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: their throws go to wide receivers. It's a lot of

533
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: tight ends and a lot of running backs. Three tight

534
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: ends have caught between the three of them. Yeah, that's

535
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: like one guy. So you yeah, the guys down inside

536
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: around the ball are the ones catching it. The wide receivers,

537
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: certainly they're a factor, but you've really got to mind

538
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: your p's and ques. When they got all those tight

539
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: ends rotating in and out, and you got a couple

540
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: of running backs that are that are big parts of

541
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: their passing game, it does change your philosophy. I think

542
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: when you defend them, about which guys are on the

543
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: field for you. Break time for US, Greg and West

544
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: Seneca hang tight, you'll be first after the break is.

545
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: We're checking in with you to see which under the

546
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: radar Bills player you think will make a difference Saturday's

547
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: playoff game with the Colts. We've got Colts beat reporter

548
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: Stephen Holder joining us in about a half hour's time

549
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: from the Athletic to talk more about this Colts matchup,

550
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: and then coming up in the final hour the program

551
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: about an hour and a half from now, Pete Prisco

552
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: from CBS Sports as he waxes poetic and one of

553
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: the guys that early on said Josh Allen was going

554
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: to be a stud in this league. We'll check in

555
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: with Pete Prisco a little bit later on in the show.

556
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Speaker 1: More coming up with your phone calls. Next here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Collata Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: the color blue to celebrate the Bills in the playoffs.

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564
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: of One Bills Live and I was in here like

565
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,959
Speaker 1: so early this morning. My eyes snapped open at like

566
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: five am. It's playoff week. I am like, oh you can't,

567
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: You're already restless. I'm absolutely struggling absolutely struggling. I just

568
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: want this game to happen so much, it's unbelievable. I'm

569
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: such a I'm such a Well it's a good thing.

570
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: It's Saturday, that's one less day. You have to wait,

571
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: I know it's such an eight year old thing. Serious. Well,

572
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: you've always accused yourself of looking like a twelve year old,

573
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: so if only it were true. Well, yeah, yeah, I'm

574
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: telling you though I was my I was like, I

575
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: was walking through that. My wife's an early riser. I

576
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: am not. You can ask my my mom. Normally, my

577
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: mom ninety years old. You ask her and she was like,

578
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, she sleeps all the time, right, even

579
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: as a kid, right, I was a big napper and

580
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And my wife will tell you. Now

581
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm this morning, I walked through that. I'm walking over

582
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: to get coffee and I'm all disheveled. Yeah, I can't

583
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: function early, right, So I'm walking over and she looks

584
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: she's doing something at the county. She looks up at me,

585
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: like what are you doing? Who are you and what

586
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: have you done with my husband? Right? Kind She's looking

587
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: at me, and I'm all I could do is look

588
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: at her. Just shrug my shoulders, like, what can I

589
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: do is playoff week? Yeah, She's like, yeah, gives me

590
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: the eye roll. That's true. I am like totally shot

591
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I am beside myself waiting for this game.

592
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: I can't you imagine think about it. One of my

593
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,479
Speaker 1: lifelong buddies is coaching the other team, right, you know

594
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: I needed kept that guy right now? Right, I mean like,

595
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: whack wow, you and you and Kevin. I don't love Frank.

596
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: He'd laugh if a year and you say it is right.

597
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: I mean it's just that kind of weak, right, It's like,

598
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: I don't care. Maybe you need to listen to some

599
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: that Sinatra before the game. Yeah, maybe maybe like the

600
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: old remember the old Irish females at Enya the girl

601
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, you know in the Memory of Trees,

602
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: those kind of songs. That's what I That kind of

603
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: music makes you feel like you're floating in a bathtub exactly.

604
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: That's kind of music. Need it. You might need that.

605
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: I might have for getting at least before Saturday, right,

606
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: you might get too. Wait till pre game when I'm

607
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: on with Mr. Hey, He's gonna make it. Yeah. I

608
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: can't get over that. That the game hasn't started yet. Yeah,

609
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: I laugh at that could happen listen. Yeah, I wouldn't

610
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: put it pastor I I've always said, you know, one

611
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: of the things I've struggled with doing the radio this

612
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: year with murfh is stepping on him during a call. Yeah, right,

613
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: because it's customary. And I've said this a bunch on

614
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: the show has to marry because you know, I particular

615
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: a playoff game like this, this is like historic, like

616
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: the ninety like ninety January third, nineteen ninety three, the

617
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: comeback game. You go back, you listen to Van Miller's call, right,

618
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: So the last thing you want on an historic call

619
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: is some wah who going. I's gonna make it right.

620
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: But I will say this. That fumble recovery return by

621
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes in the Denver game was I laugh every

622
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: time I see it. It was absolutely phenomenal. I absolutely

623
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: loved it. He got him because I couldn't help it.

624
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: It was like fifteen yards out and it seemed like

625
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: the longest fumble I've ever seen. It was like watching

626
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: it was like watching a glacier crumble, right, It was like,

627
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: oh wow, oh yeah, it was unbelievable. It's fun the

628
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: ocean and he's got he gets like the fifteen I

629
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: got now, yeah, and Murphy's like calling it you know, uh,

630
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: just just so fun. And I laugh every time I

631
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: hear it now because I could not help you could

632
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: not have shut me up with a club over the head.

633
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: I mean, it was so unbelievable. I did. I did

634
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: talk to the newspaper this year and I that I

635
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: was asked, if you know when you do the games,

636
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: do you you you know biased or what you know?

637
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: I am a homer. Yeah, I am a homer radio

638
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Speaker 1: call bro sleep and I ain't apologizing for it. I

639
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: am with our team. I can't help you, do you.

640
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 1: I am not even gonna. I can't even if they

641
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: don't like it, they're gonna they can fire me because

642
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: I'm only It's a one year deal anyway, right, So

643
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't help it. Uh So we are taught,

644
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: and this this week is driving me absolutely wackers. Yeah,

645
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: uh okay. With that, we'll transition back to the subject

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Speaker 1: of discussion today, which is which under the Radar Bills

647
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: player you think is going to make a difference in

648
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: Saturday's playoff game. And we go back to the phones

649
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: and lead off with Greg and West Seneca as promised

650
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: to open line for you there at eight three five

651
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: fifty Greg, how are you doing? How you doing? I

652
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: was just, um, just watching the show and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: when I can't watch it, I try to listen to

654
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: it as much as possible. Um I can't. I'm forty

655
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: four years old. I've been a bill stay in all

656
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: my life. I can remember when I was four years

657
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: old being in front of the TV. Asked my dad,

658
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: how did they get in that TV? I mean, there's

659
00:35:55,280 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: a little door behind good stuff to find out how

660
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: they got in there. I wanted to be in there

661
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: with him, but um no, my I think I have

662
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: two players that are going to be difference makers. And

663
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: I think on the offensive side it's going to be

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00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox and on the defensive side, it's gonna be

665
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds because of the Colts run and I think

666
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: he's going to play a big part. And along with Milano,

667
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: I think they're both going to be a big part

668
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: as to whether their run offense doesn't do you know

669
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: what it has in the last few games or actually

670
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Speaker 1: all the season. And my real question is I believe

671
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Speaker 1: that Josh Allen's last year and his contract is up

672
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 1: next year, and I was wondering, do you think that

673
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: he is going to be up for a contract extension

674
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: or do you think that it's going to play all

675
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: throughout that season and then they're going to work on

676
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: it afterward. And what type of contract do you think

677
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: that he will get? Yeah, Josh's third year in a

678
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: five year deal. Well, no, it's isn't it. Well hold on, Yeah,

679
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: he's a first round pick top ten. You get a

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00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: five year, fifty year option. They have to decide on

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00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: his option. They're going to pick. They got another two

682
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: years to do it. Now. There is a decision to

683
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Speaker 1: be made, though, and I think it in a normal year,

684
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: you would openly consider both options, the first option obviously

685
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: being let's pick up the fifth year option, so it

686
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: extends an extra year on his contract, and you do

687
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: that usually around May, I think is the deadline, and

688
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: they usually do that with first round picks. They want

689
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: to retain the other option, and some teams have done this.

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00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: They sign them to a long term extension sooner rather

691
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: than later, knowing that the numbers are only going up

692
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Case, in Point Philadelphia with Carson Wentz.

693
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Speaker 1: They signed him to a long term deal. I think

694
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Speaker 1: I don't even think they did the fifth year option.

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00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: They signed him to a long term deal instead of

696
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Speaker 1: picking up the fifth year option. Today, you're our guy,

697
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: Let's go sign him to a long term deal. Unfortunately,

698
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like it's working out too well, and

699
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: then they proceed to throw away the five best guys

700
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: around him true and make sure they don't have any

701
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: draft picks to help him out next year. So the

702
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: potential issue with being open to those two considerations is this,

703
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: you have a salary cap that is not going to

704
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: be where teams projected it would. It usually goes up

705
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: ten to twelve million dollars on average every single year.

706
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: We know this year that is not going to happen. Now.

707
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: We also are hearing that if the new media contracts

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00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: between the league and the networks goes through between now

709
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: and the opening of free agency, that the number that

710
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: was only going to be at around one hundred and

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00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: seventy five million instead of two, ten or twelve might

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00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:08,959
Speaker 1: be massaged and might be closer to one eight number

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00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: that's being floated around. If it's one seventy five. It's

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00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: the fifty yeer option because you're not signing your quarterback

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00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: to a mega second contract as the franchise guy, sooner

716
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: rather than later. On a cap situation, you might be

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00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: able to if you can get the guy to do it.

718
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: You can say listen, you can wait a couple of years,

719
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: or you can sign this deal now. And think about this.

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00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: The five hundred million dollars. I can't believe that the

721
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars contract that Pat Mahomes signed, they

722
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: don't really pay out any real money until twenty twenty seven.

723
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: So think about that. It's a big it's a big contract.

724
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: He's getting good money all the way through it, but

725
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: there's like a sixty seven million payout dollar hat hit

726
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: on the cap in twenty twenty seven. So if you

727
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: structure it, if you can get the guy to take it,

728
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: the five year or a ten year deal or a

729
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: seven year deal. If you're a guy like and you're signing,

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00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen, you sign it out there and

731
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 1: you say, listen, do this. You're only gonna make about

732
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five million a year for like four years,

733
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: but two hundred million of it's guaranteed on a ten

734
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, So you can say you

735
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: can do it. You can push it down the road,

736
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: no question, and by that time it'll be a significantly

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00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: smaller percentage of the cap that you're given up, because

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Speaker 1: by then the CAP's gonna be what two seventy five

739
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: million or three hundred million or two sixty And then

740
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: you can afford to do that. So you can sign

741
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Speaker 1: a guy however you want, and a guy like Josh

742
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: would probably listen to that, right, you would know what

743
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean, You would like to think his Asian might

744
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 1: have other ideas. At the same time, the front office

745
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 1: is going to have to discuss all of the other

746
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: free agents that need to be resigned that aren't under contract,

747
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: whether you're talking about John Feliciano, Darryl Williams, Matt Milano.

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00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 1: I mean, there is a long list. And let's not

749
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: forget this. You had two first round picks in twenty eighteen.

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00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: It might not only be a fifty year option on

751
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, it's also a fifth year option on Tremaine Edmonds.

752
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: So signing him to a long term contract extension this

753
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: offseason in a year where the cap is not going

754
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: to be where it was projected to be. I think

755
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: becomes a little more complicated. Not impossible, but I think

756
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: it's certainly more complicated because of the salary cap constraints

757
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: with it being lower than anticipated, and two of them

758
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: with all the free agents you have to take care

759
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: of along with the other first round pick in the

760
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: same exact draft class. Right, so you got two of

761
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: those guys to think about. So that's that's the best

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00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: reason to say, Hey, one of these gotta wait a year,

763
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: and you got to pick which one it is we're

764
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: gonna sign. We're gonna sign you. Here's the deal we're

765
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: offering both of you. You know, first in get signed.

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00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: The other one's got to wait for a year, right,

767
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: And and it's all fine and dandy because you know,

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00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: either of those two guys know that the club's sticking

769
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: with them and they're gonna have you know, but what

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00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,479
Speaker 1: if they come out and it is not quite as good?

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00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: You know, what if they if they stumble, if you know,

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00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: if they you know, have an Alex Smith injury, then

773
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: you got a different Then you've you've done something, um

774
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: that did wasn't in your best interest. And I wonder

775
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: and I know we got to get the break. I

776
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: wonder if the Carson Wentz situation gives more NFL franchises

777
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: pause to wait until the rubber does meet the road.

778
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: There's two ways to look at this. You got Dak

779
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: Prescott where they're waiting, waiting, waiting, and now they might

780
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: lose them, or Carson Wentz where they did it early

781
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: and now they may not even want them, Like what

782
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: do we do? So there's a lot to discuss, and

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00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 1: well we'll unpack more of that in the offseason. We'll

784
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: take a break right now, but justin and Colden hang

785
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: on your first up after the break. Here on One

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00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: our MSG viewers are getting to look at that flag

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Speaker 1: right now. It's the one family flag which has got

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Speaker 1: the Bills logo on there obviously, and so head down

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Speaker 1: snag one of those and wave it around your front

795
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: lawn after the Bills playoff victory. Do you have a

796
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: flag thing in your house? Yes? We do, do you?

797
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: And we fly the Bills flag. Yeah, I got a

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00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 1: house full of fans. I really don't know. Well, yeah,

799
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 1: I mean, so join the club. So yeah, it's out there.

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00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: It's getting a little faded. I'm gonna have to update it. See.

801
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,919
Speaker 1: I have a big flagpole as well. I gotta fly

802
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: the stars and stripes and then under it all fly

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00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: an appropriate flag of some sort of peels flag or something.

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00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 1: I hear you get the double one. Yeah, it's nice

805
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,439
Speaker 1: on a game day. Yeah, we got, uh, yeah, we got.

806
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: We have one of those little stands off the front

807
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: porch right, that's um on the post. We actually, at

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00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: a charity event we got I think it's must be

809
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: like twenty five feet twenty five foot flag pole. You

810
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: know they came and installed the thing. Wow. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not it's not for the faint of heart. Yeah,

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00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: that's that's serious. I tell you this too. It's gotten

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00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: me a couple of times. It's dark at night and

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00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: it's not a it's it's out off the you know,

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00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: it's off the you know, kind of price away from

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00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: our porch, right, Yeah, you kind of forget about it,

817
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 1: and you know it, come out dark at night, taking

818
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: the dogs out or whatever, and be out there and

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00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: you hear the wind quit through. That scares them. Scares

820
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: me to like a dozen times where that thing was

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00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: like that. It's bad. Yeah, that's just me. That's an

822
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: old man. That's such an old man thing. I forgot

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00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: the flagpole. I forgot we had a flagpole. Yeah, let's

824
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: go back to the phones. We go to Justin and Colden. Justin,

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00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,479
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys,

826
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 1: how are you doing good? Great? Great, great show? And

827
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: thanks thanks for accepting my call. Sure, sure, so I

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00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: got it. I got a bit of a statement and

829
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: then I'll let you guys go on with thoughts afterwards

830
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: and stop. But as far as under the radar player,

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00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna flip this a bit. I want to see

832
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: under the radar coach um osci dable has he's matured

833
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: a great deal. I think he struggled being a grossive

834
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: against Case and then started to learn at killer instinct

835
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: against the higher scoring Cardinals game, and since then he's

836
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: matured into a finisher. I like dabeles maturation as well

837
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: as Alan's, and I think that his play calling and

838
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: early season was a bit frustrating, almost Belichicks like trying

839
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: to control a game with ball session and opposed to

840
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: running it up. I understand our better d play UM

841
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: now now exists with this as well though, So just

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00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: one of what you guys thoughts aren't and Belichicks are

843
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: on stable the dables. Yeah, Dabeles on maturation and obviously

844
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,359
Speaker 1: was toot to learning Belichicks it likes to control games

845
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 1: and stuff. But I think he's learned that withoutur team,

846
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: he's got to put his foot on the gas. I'm

847
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: just curious as you guys. You know, like I said

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00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, there was some frustrating calling,

849
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Speaker 1: and I think he's just learned as well as Alan's learned.

850
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,240
Speaker 1: It's two of mature together. Your thoughts would be great. Yeah,

851
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: that's a good It's it's true. I mean, when you

852
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: watch the team play, there's no doubt that you get

853
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 1: after that UM that Arizona game, and the players will

854
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: tell you that they were angree it themselves and bitter

855
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: at the disappointment they had a given up that play

856
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: that won the game and they then they from there.

857
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: You had a chance for them to look back and think,

858
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: there's been like three games where we had to defend

859
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,479
Speaker 1: an onside kick to put the game away. Certainly they did,

860
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: but you know, these games were still in doubt, and

861
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: losing a game like that really lit a fire under them.

862
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: And don't make no mistake, Brownie, I'll tell you this

863
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: same thing with the coaching staff. It's hard enough to

864
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: win a game in this league, let alone when you

865
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: win it and then give it back. And since that

866
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: game at Arizona game, they have Justin's right. They have

867
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: had a killer instinct and there is no let up

868
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 1: on any of these seven. We haven't seen a four

869
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: minute drill. Sean McDermott has been I mean when he

870
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: first got here, he was big about killing the game.

871
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: Now they did four minute drill. They did against Pittsburgh,

872
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: but they did it with seven minutes left, and they

873
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: did it. I mean that that's pretty cool. But they

874
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: already had had a you know anymore, No, the last

875
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: three weeks, they they when I'll tell you what they've

876
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: started to when the team started to say, okay, you're

877
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: gonna running their four minute drill. It's like Matt Barkley

878
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: over the top. It's like, you know, fifty yards down

879
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: the sideline to Diggs from Josh Allen, it's like, you know, yeah,

880
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: they take advantage. If you're gonna start playing that four

881
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 1: minute offense, they'll hit you again. That's and I think

882
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: that's what you gotta do. Break time for us when

883
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: we come back. We'll be joined by a Colt speed

884
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: reporter from the Athletic Stephen Holder, as we get some

885
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: details on how the week has moved along for the

886
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: Colts and head coach Frank Reich. He'll join us next

887
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's

888
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:49,919
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bill's Radio Network. Sports date, your

889
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Good news for the

890
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: Bills on the practice field today as both Stefan Diggs

891
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,959
Speaker 1: and Cole Beasley are back participating in practice. We won't

892
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: know their level of participation until the injury reporters released

893
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: later this afternoon. Beasley, trying to return from a knee

894
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 1: injury suffered in Week sixteen against the Patriots, Digs dealing

895
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: with a strained oblique muscle, Though the receiver told the

896
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: media on Wednesday that he will be five. Josh Allen

897
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: named AFC Offensive Player of the Month for December. Alan,

898
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: who also won the Player of the Month award in September,

899
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: joins Thurman Thomas in nineteen ninety one and Bruce Smith

900
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six as the only player to win

901
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: the award twice in one season. Alan had one hundred

902
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: and twenty nine completions on one hundred and eighty four

903
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: passes for fifteen hundred yards, fifteen touchdowns and two picks

904
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: during the five games since the beginning of December all

905
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Victories. Also rushed for one hundred and ten yards

906
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns for the Colts. Defars Buckner earned AFC

907
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Month, but missed practice on Wednesday

908
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: with an ankle injury. He is expected to be ready

909
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 1: to go on Saturday. Cornerback rock yus Sin, however, miss

910
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: practice as he's still in the concussion protocol and could

911
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: miss his second great game. Jonathan Taylor limited with a

912
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 1: shoulder injury, but should be good to go for Saturday.

913
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: Taylor named AFC Offensive Rookie of the Month for December,

914
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: and the Steelers have announced there will be only friends

915
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: and family in hines Field for Sunday night's playoff game

916
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: against the Browns. They were hopeful to get permission for

917
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: a small number of fans and season ticket holders, but

918
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: the state order in Pennsylvania will only allow twenty five

919
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: hundred people total at hines Field in the stands. That

920
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown,

921
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you our number two of the program

922
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: and joining us on the line right now, a Colt's

923
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: beat reporter for the Athletic One, Stephen Holder joining us

924
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: on the program, Steven, how you doing? First question, how

925
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: are you and your family here during the pandemic? Everybody

926
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: all right? Yeah, just hanging in there. No complaints relative

927
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 1: to the situation, you know, so I think you know

928
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: we're all counting our blessings over here. That's good. Wait,

929
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: give us a little rundown on, give us a little

930
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: synopsis of how this Colt's season is gone. I mean,

931
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: they're an eleven win team team and they're the seventh seed.

932
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 1: I mean, the conference is absolutely stacked with double digit

933
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 1: win teams. It's amazing how deep it runs. This year

934
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: the Colts would and a normal year they'd be a

935
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:12,959
Speaker 1: division winner and they'd be the two or the three

936
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: seed at eleven and five. How what's the what's the

937
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: vibe about their team been all year? Yeah, it is

938
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: kind of bonkers. I think the AFC this year, it's

939
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,760
Speaker 1: kind of a really unprecedented year. We have seven teams

940
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: in the playoff field in each conference, and yet the

941
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: Colts needed several matchinations, you know, to make the playoffs

942
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen with eleven wins, So you know, it

943
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: just bizarre. Anyhow, I would say this Colts team is

944
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,760
Speaker 1: one that I think is a little mystifying at times

945
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: and that at other times is a team that threatens

946
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: to be, you know, very very good. It just kind

947
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: of depends on when you catch them. Sometimes it depends

948
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: on what quarter you catch them. You know, they can

949
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: really be inconsistent for a moment to moment, but at

950
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: their best they're really good on defense and really good

951
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: potentially in some places on offense. I think, what have

952
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: they been this year? I think they've been a team

953
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: that's been evolving. They had a new quarterback certainly, and

954
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers getting signed this year, so it took them

955
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: a while. I really think without the offseason and preseason

956
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: to really develop into what they wanted to be. They

957
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: did not have, I felt, an offensive identity until the

958
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: latter half of the season. They have now gotten back

959
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: to being a team that can run the football like

960
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: they did the last couple of years, and in combining

961
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: that with some timely passing and play action passing and

962
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: then on defense some big plays really not as consistent

963
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: lately though, And I think that is one thing that's

964
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 1: concerning heading into a game against Buffalo. Yeah. I was

965
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: going to ask you about that, Stephen, because this is

966
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: not a team that blitzes a lot. They rely on

967
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: their front to get home to get pressure on the quarterback.

968
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: But I was looking at some of the numbers from

969
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: their play down the stretch. I mean, since Week thirteen,

970
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: given up a completion rate of almost to opposing quarterbacks.

971
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: What has been the fly in the ointment there for

972
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: the Colts defense in terms of allowing the passing games

973
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:14,359
Speaker 1: of their opponents to flourish. So it's interesting. Earlier this

974
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,800
Speaker 1: season we were having conversations, and I think very warranted

975
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: conversations about whether this defense was a leade. You know,

976
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: through maybe eight or nine games. I mean, they were

977
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: doing things like shutting down the Tennessee Titans. You know,

978
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: it was very impressive, and I think what we've seen

979
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 1: lately though, is their lack of consistent edge rush has

980
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: really come home to roost. And they have a superb

981
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: defensive tackle in the Forrest Buckner. I mean he has.

982
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: It's one of the best trades in franchise history that

983
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: they made to get him. He has been everything they

984
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: have hoped had hoped he would be. The problem is,

985
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 1: you know, you can double a defensive tackle, you can

986
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: really slide that protection to him. It's a little tougher

987
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: to do that out on the edge. They don't have

988
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: that kind of talent on the edge that can really

989
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. You know, Komoco Terrey, who I

990
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: think is their most athletic, most gifted sort of edge player,

991
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: He's coming off a devastating ankle injury and just hasn't

992
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: been the same guy right now. So he's played limited

993
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: staffs justin Houston is I believe, about to turn thirty

994
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: two years old. You know, so he's more of a

995
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: run stopper at this point, and then you just kind

996
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,919
Speaker 1: of have you know, sort of role players beyond them,

997
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: and it hasn't been enough. So that's what I think.

998
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: I think these corners and these defensive backs have been

999
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,720
Speaker 1: asked to do too much at times, and the system

1000
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: doesn't work. If you're gonna play his zone, you've got

1001
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 1: to get some heat on the quarterback because eventually those

1002
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: receivers are gonna find the soft spots. The other thing

1003
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: I would say is they have played more manned defense lately,

1004
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: but they haven't held up there either. I think the

1005
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:55,800
Speaker 1: same issue applies there. It's it's about the pass rush.

1006
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: But hopefully getting carry Willis back this week at strong

1007
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: safety will be some help. He missed most of that

1008
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: Steelers game and missed Week seventeen, and that I think

1009
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: really set them back. He's a great player. One of

1010
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: the things that we've seen the Colts team defense particularly

1011
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 1: criticized for is they struggle with a mobile quarterback. But

1012
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, every team struggles with a mobile quarterback,

1013
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: and they've played maybe a couple of the best ones

1014
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: in Deshaun Watson and Lamar Jackson certainly, so there's nothing

1015
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: new under the sun there. But what did is that

1016
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,360
Speaker 1: a true statement? Do they do they struggle with quarterbacks

1017
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 1: who can buy time in the pocket they can at times.

1018
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 1: I think they offset that with really great speed on defense.

1019
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: And they'll take the Lamar Jackson example for instance, they

1020
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 1: really really held him in check for the first half

1021
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 1: of that game. I thought Baltimore made some great adjustments

1022
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: and was able to get him free at times. And

1023
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: you know, it only takes a couple of breakdowns against

1024
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: a guy like that, and of course you can have

1025
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,720
Speaker 1: a disaster on your hands. So that's kind of what happened.

1026
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: The Shaun Watson kind of the same thing. I really

1027
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: gained a new appreciation for him this year, just in

1028
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: terms of what he was able to do against the

1029
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,959
Speaker 1: Colts with the team that he has, because he doesn't

1030
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: have much and so I really think this you're talking

1031
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 1: about two incredible individual efforts is really what that boiled

1032
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: down to. Now, they do do some things like, for example,

1033
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: against the Shawn Watson, they will use Darius Leonard to

1034
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: spy him at times. I don't know if that's a

1035
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: tactic they'll go to against Josh Allen, but it's definitely

1036
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,839
Speaker 1: something they have history doing, and a guy like that,

1037
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: you know, if you make the call at the right time.

1038
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Darius Lennard is a superb athlete and really

1039
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: is great at those kinds of matchups. So we'll see

1040
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: if they do anything inventive. But but they do get

1041
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to say out of character, but they

1042
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: do sort of mix things up on defense in particular matchups.

1043
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: I mean, just depending on who they're facing. If it's

1044
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: sort of a run out of the mill opponent, they

1045
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: probably won't. But against against Ben Roethlisberger, for example, they

1046
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: were terrified against or of playing zone against him, so

1047
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: they played man or more man defense. Against Aaron Rodgers,

1048
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: they kind of did the same thing. They didn't want

1049
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: to give him open spaces, so they played man defense.

1050
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: They ended up winning that game, So you know, it depends.

1051
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: I think this is one of those matchups where they

1052
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: will have to consider doing some things they don't normally

1053
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: do and then Stephen. Just with respect to the passing game,

1054
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: I think one of your colleagues, Shield Capatia, put the

1055
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: stat out in one of his write ups about how

1056
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: they've been relying on the screen game and how Philip

1057
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 1: Rivers I think, since like week ten, has more passing

1058
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: yards off screenplays than any other quarterback in the league

1059
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: right now. And you see I mean eighty two combined

1060
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: catches for the tight ends. Naheim Hines is the leading

1061
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: receiver in receptions. What has made their screen game so

1062
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: effective because I have to believe second half of the season,

1063
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: everybody's got a book on what you like to do

1064
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: when yet they've still been successful with So tell me

1065
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: why that's been the case. Well, I think the first

1066
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: thing is it goes back to a tenant of Frank

1067
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 1: Reich's sort of belief system, which is you spread the

1068
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: ball around, so they're really hard to predict in terms

1069
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: of who's going to get the ball when you're game

1070
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,439
Speaker 1: planning against the Colts. One thing that I'm sure off

1071
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: excuse me, opposing coaches will find is they don't know

1072
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: who to focus on. And that's by design. So it's

1073
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: not t Y Hilton. It's not this guy or that guy,

1074
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: or Jack Doyle. It could be literally anyone. I don't

1075
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: think they have a ton of dynamic skill players outside

1076
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: of Jonathan Taylor and at times t Y Hilton, but

1077
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: they have a lot of guys who can contribute. So

1078
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 1: so when you're talking about the screen game, that screen

1079
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: game involves a lot of guys in nihiem Hinz certainly

1080
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: is a sort of a joker type of running back,

1081
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: you know, as John Gruden called those types of guys

1082
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: when I covered him years ago. Then you've got the

1083
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: tight ends who they will also use in the screen game.

1084
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: Moli Cox's at sixty pounds tight end. He's gotten a

1085
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 1: handful of screens this year and has made big plays

1086
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: out of those. And then certainly the wide receivers. And

1087
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: then you've got now Jonathan Taylor getting involved in the

1088
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: passing game, and he has been just a wonderful edition

1089
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: there because getting him the ball in the short passing

1090
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: game is not that much different than getting him a

1091
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: toss to get to the perimeter, and he's able to

1092
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: get You're able to get him in space with that

1093
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: speed at that size. So they scheme it up pretty

1094
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: well and they execute it well. You get you got

1095
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: athletic offensive lineman who can get down the field and

1096
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 1: make their blocks and that those are the ingredients to

1097
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: a great screen game. I really think it took them

1098
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: a long time, but I'm they're finally starting to kind

1099
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: of get in sync there. I thought they'd have been

1100
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: better at it earlier in the season. Honestly, what does

1101
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers do well? At this point of his career,

1102
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: and what is he struggling with. You know, one thing

1103
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: he still does well and I still find myself in

1104
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: awe of even at thirty nine, is the guy's just accurate.

1105
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: He puts the ball on the money. Now, look, he

1106
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 1: doesn't have the arm anymore, he just doesn't. I mean, no,

1107
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 1: nobody does right at thirty nine, but he can still

1108
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: he understands what throws he can make at this point

1109
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: and I think that's been a great development to see

1110
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: from Philip Rivers, which is him staying within himself, you

1111
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like throwing that ball across the

1112
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: field across your body maybe not the way to go,

1113
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 1: and so he's avoided those kinds of situations, stayed within himself.

1114
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: But when there's a throw he's confident making he puts

1115
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 1: the ball on the money. And I think that's really

1116
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 1: helped their receivers. They have kind of an average group

1117
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: of receivers. You know, t Y Hilton's thirty one. He

1118
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: was once a very I think he was once an

1119
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: elite player. Now he's probably just above average, and the

1120
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Speaker 1: rest of their receiving corps is just, you know, kind

1121
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: of okay. But if you have a receiver, If you

1122
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,479
Speaker 1: have a quarterback who can put that ball on the money,

1123
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 1: and you have guys who who do a good job

1124
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: of running routes and understanding concepts, he can make that

1125
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: group better. So I think that's what he's done well.

1126
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,439
Speaker 1: And then secondly, just his knowledge of the game. I mean, look,

1127
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: it's not that different. What he does at the line

1128
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Isn't that different than Peyton Manning. I'm learning

1129
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 1: that now. It's not that different. He sees things that

1130
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: no one sees, and that's just been a boon for

1131
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: his young teammates around him, rock us In in concussion protocol.

1132
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 1: If he does not get out of concussion protocol by

1133
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: you know, Saturday, where you can play how shorthanded does

1134
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: that leave that group knowing that the Bills are either

1135
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: an eleven or ten perconnel most of the game. Yeah,

1136
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: I really noticed that watching the film. It's like, man,

1137
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 1: I mean, how many times are gonna run five wide here?

1138
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, they have been sort of platooning

1139
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: Rocky Usin with backup T J. Carey, who's a veteran

1140
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: of several teams, most recently with the Browns, a really

1141
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: good depth player, and rock Essen had been struggling a

1142
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: little bit, really getting flagged quite a bit lately for

1143
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: holding and pass interference, some of them tiki tack, but

1144
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: I think mentally, I think they realized he needed some

1145
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: help and needed a break and needed to take some

1146
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: of the pressure off of him. So they have been

1147
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: rotating him with with t J Carey even before the concussion.

1148
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is t J Carey has been

1149
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: playing a lot anyway. On the other side, though, I

1150
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 1: will tell you Xavier Rhodes, I have been stunned at

1151
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: how good he has been. He has been spectacular this year,

1152
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: and teams are not throwing at him, they're avoiding him. Now.

1153
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: Part of that is they have a vulnerable corner on

1154
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: the other side at times, or have had. But I'm

1155
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: just telling you, I mean he's he's limited completion percentage

1156
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 1: to about forty eight percent I think this year. I

1157
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: mean just unbelievable play from Xavier Rhodes, which I never expected.

1158
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: I thought the guy was done, and he's been. He's

1159
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: been one of their best players on defense. It just

1160
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 1: I never saw it coming. But they're a little vulnerable, yes,

1161
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: for sure. On the other side, the safeties. I do

1162
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: like the safeties, but Julian Blackman, who got off to

1163
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,439
Speaker 1: a really great start was rookie year. I think what's

1164
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: happened lately is I think quarterbacks are seeing some things

1165
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: on tape and they're seeing that they can fool him

1166
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 1: with hump fakes and manipulating him with their eyes, and

1167
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 1: that has had some some negative effects for the Colts

1168
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: in recent games. So you know, got two young safeties

1169
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: back there, so that's something to watch as well. Your

1170
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator in Matt Eberflus, is getting, you know, getting

1171
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: asked about in head coaching circles and you know for

1172
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: the next this hiring cycle. What's been the rhetoric coming

1173
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 1: out of the Colts coaching staff for Frank Riich and

1174
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: Matt himself about those prospects. Yeah, they've been pretty low

1175
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,240
Speaker 1: key about it and obviously not wanting to make that

1176
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: a story. I don't think it really has been a distraction.

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01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 1: The interviews will happen on Sunday. We'll see if I mean,

1178
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: if the Colts were to win, I don't know if

1179
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: that changes, but but right now the idea is they

1180
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: would conduct he will up those interviews on Sunday, So

1181
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: it hasn't really been a big topic of conversation. I know,

1182
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:10,440
Speaker 1: as players, they've been through this before with him, because

1183
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: two years ago he got some head coaching interest during

1184
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: their playoff run and was able to handle that. The

1185
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: Colts won their playoff opener and went to Kansas City

1186
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: and loss, and it really wasn't a factor for them

1187
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 1: in that sort of two week period. So they've been

1188
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 1: through this before with Maggie Refluce, and he's a veteran

1189
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: as well and a pro, and I don't think it's

1190
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 1: going to be a factor. I do think though, that

1191
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: this is a little bit of a resume tape for him.

1192
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,919
Speaker 1: You know, if he's able to put together a plan

1193
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: to slow the Bills win or lose, I think that's

1194
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: going to be something that you're gonna really want to

1195
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 1: emphasize in interviews. So he's I think this is also

1196
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: part of his interview process, honestly, you know, what can

1197
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: he do against this high powered Bills offense? Steven, We

1198
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,720
Speaker 1: appreciate the insight here and getting us ready for this

1199
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: one from a Colts perspective. Thanks for giving us some time, Hey,

1200
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: no problem, looking forward to the game. Guys, all right,

1201
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,960
Speaker 1: that's Stephen Holder, Colts beat reporter from the Athletic breaking

1202
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 1: it down for us on the cold side of the ledger.

1203
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 1: And yeah, he gave us some good insight with respect

1204
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: to their secondary. I wanted to get a sense as

1205
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: to how they would look. They are a big, physical secondary, yes,

1206
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 1: and rock us In is a physical corner that likes

1207
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: to get up in your face. Same thing with Xavier Rhodes,

1208
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 1: who's one of the tallest corners you're going to see

1209
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: in the league. I think he's like almost six two

1210
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 1: and had a really good career in Minnesota and also

1211
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 1: is very familiar with Stefan Diggs. Diggs was actually asked

1212
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 1: about him this week on his media conference call, and

1213
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 1: you know, he said, I used to go against him

1214
01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: every day in practice when I was a rookie. I

1215
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: was on the show team a lot of the time,

1216
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: and I had to go against him every day in

1217
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: practice getting him ready for games. Yeah, he's listed six one,

1218
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 1: but he's two eighteen. He's a big dude. Yeah, he's

1219
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: a big dude. It'll be interesting to see here. Interestingly enough,

1220
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: he's the top corner for the Colts. He's the same

1221
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: number at the top corner for the Bills. He's number

1222
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Yeah, I mean, but a lot of people

1223
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 1: in Minnesota thought he was washed up. I think he's

1224
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 1: pushing thirty now. He's been in the league for a while.

1225
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: He's thirty now, former first round pick out of Florida State,

1226
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: and he's he's kind of resurrected his career in Indie

1227
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: this year. And as you heard Steven say, he's a

1228
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 1: he's had a good season. He's been one of the

1229
01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 1: most valuable players on the back end and so and

1230
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 1: you better believe he's going to be motivated if he

1231
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 1: gets lined up opposite his old teammate in Stefan Dick.

1232
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: So that'll be an interesting matchup to watch if and

1233
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:37,840
Speaker 1: when it happens. Through the course of Saturday's game. We

1234
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: do want to get back to the phones at eight

1235
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty. We do have an open

1236
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 1: line for you there, but we also have some people

1237
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 1: waiting patiently as we've been asking you what under the

1238
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,840
Speaker 1: radar Bills player you think will make a difference in

1239
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 1: Saturday's game. And we go to Derek in cheek da

1240
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: Wagga here, Derek, what do you have for us here

1241
01:06:56,120 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live, Derek is gone. Okay, we move

1242
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 1: along and we go to Ryan and North Carolina. Ryan,

1243
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Well, I have a

1244
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: question in a comment. Sure. My first question is actually

1245
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 1: more of a concern for this Bills team. I mean,

1246
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 1: the last four or five weeks have been really exciting.

1247
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 1: We've been blowing teams out, but I'm we just haven't

1248
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: had to play a full sixteen minutes, you know. I mean,

1249
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: we haven't been playing from behind at all. I'm just

1250
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: a little worried, you know. I got a lot of

1251
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:28,960
Speaker 1: scar tissue built up, and I'm wondering how you guys

1252
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 1: feel about you know, what's going to happen if they're

1253
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: down ten points early in the fourth quarter. I mean,

1254
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 1: they haven't been under that kind of pressure. What do

1255
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, I know, Steve's probably not worried about it.

1256
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 1: I'm not terribly worried about it either. This team has

1257
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:47,160
Speaker 1: gotten out in front of people in a hurry. Now.

1258
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: I will say this, and Steve can probably vouch for

1259
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 1: me on this. When it comes to opening drives and

1260
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: scripting your first fifteen plays, Frank reiks as good as

1261
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 1: just about anybody in the league. At do in that,

1262
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: and I don't think you should be alarmed if the

1263
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: Colts offense comes out and goes right down the field,

1264
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:10,960
Speaker 1: because he is really good at those opening ten to

1265
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: fifteen plays. He's as good as scripted as anybody else.

1266
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 1: And we've seen instances this season where the Bills defense

1267
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:20,639
Speaker 1: kind of has to gather themselves after that first series

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Speaker 1: and then everything seems to be better from there. They

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Speaker 1: adjust and off they go and they do a better

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Speaker 1: job of slowing things down. But Frank is as good

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Speaker 1: as anybody at the beginning of games in terms of

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01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:35,599
Speaker 1: drawing it up. Yeah, it really It's a good question,

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01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: and you're right, they haven't been behind, but I think

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01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 1: this they have played. I think their mindset has been

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01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: that like they've played like they were behind a lot.

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01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 1: They have had their foot on the gas and doing things.

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01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 1: You think back to the last game they lost, and

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01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:54,080
Speaker 1: I believe if the Bills had won that game, Josh

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01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,680
Speaker 1: Allen maybe the MVP, because what got lost in that

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01:08:56,800 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 1: game was the last minute drive in side of two

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01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: minutes where Josh took the Bills down the field against

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01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and threw that pass to Steph Diggs in

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01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: the back corner of the end zone for the win.

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01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: What that looked like the win with twenty four seconds

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01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: left on the clock. That that drive jot washed away.

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01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: Nobody saw it. If that game holds up and the

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01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 1: hail Mary falls short, this team is that team. You know,

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01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 1: it's one nine in a row, right, that's big. All

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01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:33,639
Speaker 1: of that stuff got washed away because of the hail Mary,

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01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 1: good or bad. I think that's that's what I see

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01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: in this team. There's still the ability, particularly now with

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01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:42,040
Speaker 1: Josh playing the way he's playing and the guys he's

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01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:45,680
Speaker 1: got out there, you know they've got the firepower to

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01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: come back and play and do it um And so

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01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: I am not. You don't never want to be down

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01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 1: by ten points at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: But this is a team that's that's talented enough to

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01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: come to climb out of a hole like that. And

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Speaker 1: Josh last year had five fourth quarter comebacks, tied for

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01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:06,360
Speaker 1: the league lead in that staff last year in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: I forget, it's not foreign territory for him. I forgot

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01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 1: about that. But was tied for the league lead last

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01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: year with five fourth quarter comebacks, and obviously he had

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01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 1: the other one against the Rams in Week three when

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01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 1: they blew the twenty eight to three lead. So talking

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01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 1: about here's the thing and this is what doesn't have

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01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: me nervous. First of all, I don't think the Bills

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01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:29,719
Speaker 1: passing game is a good matchup for this Colts defense.

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01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:32,719
Speaker 1: Maybe they dial it up and decide to start blitzing.

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01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 1: It's the Colts' that's what I mean. Yeah, it's They're

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01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 1: one of the lowest blitz rate teams in the league

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01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 1: nineteen percent. They rely on their front to get home

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01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: and justin Houston sounds like a washed up player. Even

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01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 1: Stephen Holder was saying he's a run defender. Now, he's

1315
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: not a premier pass rusher anymore. At age thirty two,

1316
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 1: Buckner is the guy you got to worry about. He's

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01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: coming from the inside. That should leave an outside escape

1318
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,599
Speaker 1: lane for Josh Allen unless they draw it up differently.

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01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,040
Speaker 1: And I don't think they're secondary man for me and

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01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:04,200
Speaker 1: can hang with this passing game. And I don't think

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01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna be behind. Maybe early they'll be down three,

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01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: down seven. No, there's no way either not. And we

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01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: heard Stephen Holder just a minute ago saying, hey, sometimes

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01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: they spy Darius Leonard on the quarterback like a Lamar

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01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 1: Jackson or Deshaun Watson. I don't think they'll do that

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01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: against the Bills because the Bills are going to be

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01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 1: in three and four wides. If they go three and

1328
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: four wides and they waste a guys standing around, lingering

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01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: around the pocket, just kind of watching Josh Allen, that's

1330
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:36,559
Speaker 1: one less guy they've got covering, covering or rushing. He's

1331
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: just standing there, and that's a recipe for disaster with

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01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: this offense that they're facing. So maybe they'll spy Josh

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01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: if they have three wide one tight end, or the

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01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: tight end stays in that kind of thing, or do

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01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: something else. But if they go four wide, you can't

1336
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:56,160
Speaker 1: spy him because then you're spread too thin. And what

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01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:57,920
Speaker 1: a spy is is a guy who's kind of waiting

1338
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: around for the quarterback to break contain. Well, the more

1339
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: you wait for as long as you wait, that's how

1340
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:08,040
Speaker 1: thinly your defense is spread to that amount of time,

1341
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: because you got one guy doing nothing and you can't

1342
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 1: get away with that with Josh and this receiving corps.

1343
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 1: Break time for us, But when we return, it's time

1344
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 1: to play that game. You all know, and love Doll Fan,

1345
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: Jets Fan, Pats Fan. We'll read you some tweets from

1346
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:27,719
Speaker 1: those three fan bases. You tell us which fan base

1347
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 1: the tweet comes from. And there are some doozies this week,

1348
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 1: Holy Crow, as we have the Bills playoff fanbox shirt

1349
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: on the line for you if you can guess correctly,

1350
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:39,720
Speaker 1: get on the line at eight oh three oh five

1351
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: fifty or one eight eight five fifty two five fifty

1352
01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: to see if you can guess correctly. Steve Tasker, Chris

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01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 1: Brown back in a flash Here on One Bill's Live

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01:12:48,200 --> 01:13:02,639
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,400
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live, Thursday edition. Second half of

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01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: the show under way, and it is that time in

1357
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: the program where we play the game known as dolphan

1358
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:16,719
Speaker 1: Jets Fan Pats Fan, and we have our contestants waiting

1359
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:18,680
Speaker 1: eagerly on the line at eight oh three oh five

1360
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:22,879
Speaker 1: fifty and we will have you and I think everybody

1361
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: by now knows how to play the game, but we

1362
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: do encourage you to go to Buffalo Bills dot com

1363
01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:32,440
Speaker 1: slash ob l contest for all the rules and regulations.

1364
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:37,679
Speaker 1: On the line to win is the Bills playoff fan

1365
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 1: box t shirt, which we have one right here and

1366
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 1: for our MSG viewers, they're looking at me holding up

1367
01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: a shirt. Oh, there we go. We got a graphic

1368
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 1: for it and everything. Wow. It's basically the caricatures of

1369
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:53,679
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Tradevious White, Dion Dawkins, Stefan Diggs, and Jordan

1370
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 1: Poyer and on it it says Buffalo Bills twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: AFC East Division Champions. For those of you that are

1372
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: on social media, you may have seen Jim Kelly wearing

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01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 1: one yesterday. There was a photo of him in the

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01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 1: Bills parking lot. I think he was across the street

1375
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 1: at ECC get we go to the game. Yeah, so

1376
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 1: there's that. But basically, Steve or I will read you

1377
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 1: a tweet that is coming from either a Dolphins fan,

1378
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: a Jets fan, or a Patriots fan, and you have

1379
01:14:23,280 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: to guess which fan base you believe that tweet is

1380
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 1: coming from. And our fans have been really good about

1381
01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:33,560
Speaker 1: staying up to speed on what the fans of the

1382
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 1: other AFC's teams are grousing about, because we've had some

1383
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 1: pretty quick correct answers each of the last few weeks.

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01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:44,719
Speaker 1: So leading us off today for This contest is Doug

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01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: on a cell. Doug, Welcome to one Bill's Live. Are

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01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:53,080
Speaker 1: you ready to play dolphin? Jets fan Pats fan? Oh yeah,

1387
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 1: I'm ready? Okay, So here is tweet number one. This

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01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: is from a guy with a Twitter handle named Chairman

1389
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: Limb nineteen ninety and he tweets the twenty twenty season

1390
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: has been weird. Hopefully they can bounce back in twenty

1391
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:15,759
Speaker 1: twenty one. I'm going to miss football for another long

1392
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 1: seven to eight months. Is that a dolphin, a Jets

1393
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:24,680
Speaker 1: fan or a Pats fan? Man, that's tough. You're making

1394
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: these are tough. I'm gonna go Patriots fan. And why

1395
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:34,719
Speaker 1: do you think it's a Patriots fan? Because he's saying

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01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: that he's got a long off season that they're not

1397
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 1: used to, and it was just it was just weird

1398
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: for them. They weren't used to this kind of season. Doug,

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01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: I am happy to say you are a one hundred

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01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 1: percent correct for the second week in a row. The

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01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: first person has gotten it right. Congratulations. I thought another

1402
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 1: long seventy eight months would throw some people off thinking, oh,

1403
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 1: it's a team that doesn't make the playoffs. It's probably

1404
01:15:58,160 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: the Dolphins of the Jets. But you are a hundred

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01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 1: percent correct, Doug, So good on you for guessing that right.

1406
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:07,560
Speaker 1: So hang on the line here because they have to

1407
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,800
Speaker 1: get your information so they can get that fan box

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01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 1: shirt out to you. Man, I really thought we had

1409
01:16:12,560 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 1: a good one there. People are getting smarter. They are

1410
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: getting smarter. I mean you have a thirty three percent

1411
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: chance of getting it right right off the jump. And

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01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: I'll say this. The first week we did this, it

1413
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 1: took like we were running out of them. Yeah, and

1414
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 1: so we thought, wow, we're gonna change. No, now they're

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01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 1: honing in. Yeah, we got some loyal listeners. I think

1416
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:32,760
Speaker 1: they listened every week. They're getting they're getting too good.

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01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 1: I was hoping to string it along a little bit

1418
01:16:34,479 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: because we had some funny ones this week. Now my

1419
01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 1: favorite one is the third one we're gonna get to

1420
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 1: And he says this. I've read it to Brownie twice,

1421
01:16:45,240 --> 01:16:48,720
Speaker 1: like he didn't hear it the first time, says Colossal

1422
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: News before the show. The false hope of yesterday has

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01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:59,000
Speaker 1: been corrected. Yeah, I was from a dolphin before the

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01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 1: Bills game obvious this last week. Yeah, the false hope

1425
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 1: has been corrected. That was that was just that was

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01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:08,639
Speaker 1: a great one. There was another one from a Dolphins

1427
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:10,840
Speaker 1: fan that said, I knew this would happen. Let's freaking go.

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01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 1: And uh, you say, well, why is the guy excited?

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01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:18,720
Speaker 1: He's excited because chan Gailey resigned. There are not a

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01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:20,640
Speaker 1: lot of Dolphins fans that were all that thrilled with

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01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 1: chan Gailey, who I thought did a pretty good job

1432
01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 1: in light of the hand he was dealt down there

1433
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: this year. I've said, I said it to you about

1434
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: Greg Roman in Baltimore, and I'm sure it chan Gailey.

1435
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 1: It fits as well. And Brian Dable was a victim

1436
01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,599
Speaker 1: of this early on in his tenure here in Buffalo.

1437
01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:38,600
Speaker 1: They everybody thinks it's you know, when this offense is

1438
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: sputtering and not going too well, they think that it's

1439
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:42,880
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator's fault for not calling this player that

1440
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 1: called it. Most at the NFL level, most of the

1441
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 1: problems are offensively are due to one scenario, and it

1442
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 1: is this. An offensive coordinator feels limited by the players

1443
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 1: that he's coaching, and he does not want to call

1444
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: a play they can't execute or can't carry out even

1445
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 1: on a good day. So he's doing what they do best.

1446
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: And when your players are limited in what they can

1447
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: do best. You become predictable at some level, and that's

1448
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:20,400
Speaker 1: what limits most offensive coordinators and they take a ton

1449
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:23,559
Speaker 1: of heat for that. But the mindset isn't that they're

1450
01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 1: not good enough, they can't think of plays or they

1451
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:27,840
Speaker 1: don't have other plays to call. Is that they just

1452
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 1: don't believe in their heart that the guys they see

1453
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: every day on the field are going to be able

1454
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:33,720
Speaker 1: to do it. And that's what limits them. And that's

1455
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: probably especially true with a rookie quarterback. Absolutely with Tuah,

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01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, and he's a different guy than fits,

1457
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 1: He's a different guy than any other guys he's had.

1458
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 1: I mean, he's brand new. You gotta get them and

1459
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:51,639
Speaker 1: you want them to be successful too. Give him something

1460
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: he can do well. And that's the mantra of all

1461
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:56,880
Speaker 1: NFL coaches. You're not going to ask your players to

1462
01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: fit your scheme. You're gonna build your scheme around their

1463
01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:02,200
Speaker 1: talents and what they do well. That's why you get

1464
01:19:02,200 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: a guy like Jamal Adams safety New York Jets, wanted

1465
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,719
Speaker 1: out of there, didn't like goes to goes to Seattle.

1466
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: He's got more as any sacks and stuff he's got.

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01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 1: You know, he's having a great year because they let

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01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 1: him do what he does best. He rushes the passer

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01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 1: from the safety spot. So that's what coaches at the

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Speaker 1: NFL level do, and that's you know, Chan Gaily here

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Speaker 1: taking some heat in Miami. It's it's typical. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's typical. So it Congrats to jug for winning this

1473
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: week's edition of Doll Fan, Jets Fan, Pats Fan. Steve,

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01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you give the first clue next week.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's me, Maybe I'm too revealing in the way

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01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 1: I really like. It's you can point yourself the finger

1477
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 1: at yourself always first. But in this case, I doubt

1478
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:49,200
Speaker 1: that that's correct. But I admire your next one. I

1479
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: admire your team attitude. Yeah, um, it's yeah, there will

1480
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 1: I and I will say, as far as the fan

1481
01:19:56,120 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: bases go for the other teams in the division, with

1482
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: all of them sitting at home, the blowback at the

1483
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: Bills I thought would be in far greater quantity from

1484
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:12,639
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans. Now, I know there was some blowback because

1485
01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: they thought the Bills were running up the score on

1486
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,639
Speaker 1: them at the end of the game, but by that point,

1487
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: the Bills backups are in. If you can't stop their backups,

1488
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: that's not Buffalo's problem, that's your team's probably. Yeah, and

1489
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:26,680
Speaker 1: I and for me, and I said this Monday too,

1490
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: I get where the Dolphins players were defensively. You know,

1491
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: they got a rookie quarterback that there was no fits

1492
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 1: flying to the rescue to see if they could score,

1493
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 1: you know, get a spark and score points. So they

1494
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: were done and the defense wasn't going to be able

1495
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: to score enough points to catch up. And they had

1496
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:41,760
Speaker 1: no faith in their offense that they were going to

1497
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 1: be able to hold it up and get back in

1498
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:49,759
Speaker 1: the game. So they they started just playing. They resigned

1499
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: themselves to the defeat. And once you do that, the

1500
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 1: Bills backups could beat you. I found in searching for

1501
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:00,960
Speaker 1: some tweets from Patriots fans what was most interesting sifting

1502
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 1: through some of their social media commentary. They really believe

1503
01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:08,599
Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to bounce back next

1504
01:21:08,680 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: year and be right back in the thick of things.

1505
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 1: And while if if my team's head coaches, Bill Belichick,

1506
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:20,719
Speaker 1: I would feel good about that, the most important position

1507
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: is unsolved right now for them. Yeah, it's a mystery,

1508
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:27,599
Speaker 1: like it's even more of a mystery than what Miami

1509
01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: and the Jets have to do with that position. When

1510
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 1: you think about it, I'll say this, it's the most

1511
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 1: wayward franchise at the quarterback position in the division, maybe

1512
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 1: in the conference. I mean you think about it. The

1513
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,479
Speaker 1: guys in the box the only other thing that comes close,

1514
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have an answer. Yeah, they've got an

1515
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:45,040
Speaker 1: answer right away. Right, they've got an answer. Right, and

1516
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:47,600
Speaker 1: so do so do the Dolphins. If you don't like

1517
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: TWA because you're picking third, picking justin fields or vice versa,

1518
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, whichever. But you know they're all those teams

1519
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,200
Speaker 1: are kind of sitting where they want to sit. One

1520
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 1: two three, Jacksonville Jets, Miami. Do you think we see

1521
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks one two three? No, I don't see Miami

1522
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 1: doing h I don't see Miami doing it. I don't

1523
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: know that the Jets do it. I don't know that.

1524
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it if I was the Jets. You

1525
01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 1: got to build around Darnold. Darnolds can play, and let's

1526
01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:20,840
Speaker 1: not forget this. When he got drafted in twenty eighteen,

1527
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: he was twenty one, right, I mean he's only twenty

1528
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:27,720
Speaker 1: three years old right now. Yeah, and he's seen a

1529
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:30,560
Speaker 1: lot of football, yeah, at this level. And we've we

1530
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:34,800
Speaker 1: spoke to him about him briefly to Jordan Palmer, Josh

1531
01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: Allen's mentor, and Jordan Palmer's high on him. Likes his

1532
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:41,240
Speaker 1: skill set, likes what he does in the pockety's his athleticism,

1533
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: everything he's got, you know, he like like Josh he said,

1534
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 1: you know, Sam Darnold's got you know, no ceiling either.

1535
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: But that franchise, there's no question they've stunted his growth,

1536
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:56,799
Speaker 1: if not completely derailed it. And that's the real question.

1537
01:22:57,280 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: What's the next head coach going to have to work

1538
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 1: with when they get in there. And Sam Darnold is

1539
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 1: a wreck of a human being because he's been abused,

1540
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:08,160
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be on his third offensive system, he's

1541
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: gonna be he's gonna have all kinds of problems you're

1542
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 1: picking up a new system or whatever. But yeah, that's

1543
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 1: that's a real interesting thing. And I think who they

1544
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: hire at head coach will tell you what they're gonna

1545
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 1: do with their quarterback tool will be on a new

1546
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 1: system as well. With chan Yalley resigning, So unless they

1547
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 1: hire from within, yeah, but they would have to run

1548
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: the same system the chan ran, and I don't know

1549
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:32,840
Speaker 1: that they will. I get the sense down there that

1550
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: now with this opening, they will drift more towards the

1551
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 1: college type offenses. Knowing too has proven he can execute

1552
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 1: that with success. Although you could argue it's somewhat of

1553
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 1: a pro style at Alabama, but it keeps changing. I

1554
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:53,839
Speaker 1: mean Steve Sarkisian left to take the job at Texas.

1555
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:57,919
Speaker 1: The offensive coordinator down there, I mean, the offensive coordinator

1556
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 1: at Alabama each of the last three years has left

1557
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,960
Speaker 1: for a head coaching job or a job in the NFL.

1558
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:06,680
Speaker 1: Dable comes to the Bills to be offensive coordinator after

1559
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:11,960
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, Mike Locksley leaves after succeeding Dabele and goes

1560
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:14,680
Speaker 1: to be the head coach of Maryland. And Steve Sarkisian,

1561
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:17,680
Speaker 1: who's succeeded Locksley, is now after one year, going to

1562
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 1: Texas to be a head coach there. It's crazy. And

1563
01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 1: now they're talking about Adam Gase possibly replacing Sarkasan as

1564
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator at Alabama. And I'll say this, you

1565
01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:32,280
Speaker 1: know why Adam Gase got looked at by that by

1566
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:36,679
Speaker 1: Alabama's because Bill Belichick threw some praise toward Adam Gase.

1567
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: So if if Bill Belichick, Nick Saban asked Bill Belichick

1568
01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: who he thought would work, and Bill Belichick said, I

1569
01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 1: gotta tell you the stuff that the Jets were doing,

1570
01:24:49,920 --> 01:24:51,600
Speaker 1: if they had some guys to run into whatever, I

1571
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 1: like what they were doing it they're they're hard to

1572
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:56,559
Speaker 1: you know, gives you some problems that Saban's going pick

1573
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 1: up the phone call that guy. Yeah, there was an

1574
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: other NFL coordinator they were considering too. I can't remember

1575
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:05,760
Speaker 1: the name now, but I know Gays was one of

1576
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:08,639
Speaker 1: the two that they mentioned being up for the Alabama

1577
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:13,080
Speaker 1: OC job, which seems like a pretty good springboard position

1578
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: yea these days, and also a three different guys make

1579
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:20,280
Speaker 1: no mistake either. Anytime you can connect your college program,

1580
01:25:20,360 --> 01:25:24,120
Speaker 1: even a college program that with the prestige and clout

1581
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,599
Speaker 1: that Alabama has. When you can bring a guy who

1582
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:28,120
Speaker 1: was a head coach at the next level in the

1583
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:33,600
Speaker 1: NFL down to be your offensive coordinator, that is a

1584
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: young kids, that is a real magnet for recruiting. You're

1585
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 1: gonna get coached by a guy who's coached Peyton Manning,

1586
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:44,720
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold and the rest you know, Ryan Tanney, all

1587
01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:47,280
Speaker 1: of those, you're gonna you're gonna get it. So that

1588
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 1: that's why a guy like Saban gets that, right, I mean,

1589
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:53,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna use that as a leverage. Say, listen, you're

1590
01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 1: gonna get got coached by some guys that coach at

1591
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 1: the highest level and coach you know, Hall of famers.

1592
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: So if you want to come here and get coach

1593
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: like that Bill O'Brien, that's the other right there you go,

1594
01:26:03,600 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 1: which obviously has ties to Belichick and having coach there

1595
01:26:07,040 --> 01:26:09,519
Speaker 1: and no Saban and you know that whole thing. So

1596
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:12,519
Speaker 1: those are the two NFL coaches that have been mentioned.

1597
01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:14,800
Speaker 1: You also have Hugh Freeze, Charles Huff who is on

1598
01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:18,640
Speaker 1: the Alabama staff, and Major apple White who spent a

1599
01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 1: short time as coordinator for Alabama as well. So Saban,

1600
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 1: I'll have his pick of the litter. People come running.

1601
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: Don't work for that guy, because you can turn it

1602
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:33,080
Speaker 1: into a more affluent job, a more prestigious job. You

1603
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:35,479
Speaker 1: have to be in there for just one year if

1604
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 1: you have success, which you probably will. Ye. Yeah, they

1605
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:42,800
Speaker 1: have two first rounders at wide receiver every year. Yeah.

1606
01:26:43,400 --> 01:26:45,439
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we only get four and five stars here

1607
01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:49,040
Speaker 1: the No. Three stars on this roster. Let's be serious

1608
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:51,560
Speaker 1: break time for us when we come back, more of

1609
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:54,280
Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet and at eight oh

1610
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty about the under the radar player

1611
01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: you think can make a difference for the Bills in

1612
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:01,639
Speaker 1: the game on Saturday, and then coming up in about

1613
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes time Pete Prisco from CBS Sports, as we

1614
01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:09,080
Speaker 1: talked a little bit more about Josh Allen's breakout season

1615
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: with him. Stay tuned. It's One Bill's Live, presented by

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01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, Chris Brown,

1617
01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 1: Steve Casker. Our number two of the program, coming up

1618
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,120
Speaker 1: in about ten minutes will be one Pete Prisco from

1619
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:36,320
Speaker 1: CBS Sports. I've been singing the praises of Josh Allen

1620
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:41,240
Speaker 1: almost since he's been drafted. Guy that was early on

1621
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:45,640
Speaker 1: Josh even when nobody else was. So he gets he

1622
01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:47,880
Speaker 1: gets some extra strikes for that. I'll ask him if

1623
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 1: he's been gloating over it, Alds, so we'll see if

1624
01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: that's the case. But as we make our way to

1625
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:56,680
Speaker 1: the top of the hour, we want to get to

1626
01:27:56,760 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, which, as you know is brought to

1627
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

1628
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. And we are up to Nick

1629
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 1: t on the tweet sheet, who says gotta go with

1630
01:28:08,160 --> 01:28:10,840
Speaker 1: McKenzie or Gabriel Davis, especially if we don't have all

1631
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,760
Speaker 1: our wide receivers healthy. They're not under the radar to fans,

1632
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: but opposing teams will focus on Diggs Brown in Beasley,

1633
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 1: I definitely expect to see multiple gadget plays involving McKenzie.

1634
01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:24,639
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? You think that could happen? Good?

1635
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:28,720
Speaker 1: This is a pretty athletic yet, let's face it, he

1636
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:31,200
Speaker 1: was like the Swiss army knife this last week as well,

1637
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 1: and he showed why you know they they got him

1638
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:38,080
Speaker 1: on the active rosters opposed to somebody like Kumero or

1639
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 1: Duke Williams or anybody like that. His ability to return

1640
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:44,439
Speaker 1: kicks which by the way, he busted one for eighty

1641
01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 1: two yards or eighty four yards this last weekend, two

1642
01:28:48,040 --> 01:28:50,719
Speaker 1: touchdown pass receptions, and his ability to run the football

1643
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,519
Speaker 1: and his whip around screens, whip around end a rounds.

1644
01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:59,880
Speaker 1: He's yeah, that could happen easily by the same Toke

1645
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:01,840
Speaker 1: and it may be that the Colts have to prepare

1646
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 1: for him now and they'll he'll open it up for

1647
01:29:04,479 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 1: somebody else. But this is a this is a This

1648
01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 1: offense is a juggernaut. Man. They're scoring points like nobody's business.

1649
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:17,800
Speaker 1: And there's one team in the league that has scored

1650
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:20,160
Speaker 1: more points than them, and that's the Green Bay Packers.

1651
01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 1: They scored eight more points than this team did. They're

1652
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:26,400
Speaker 1: getting it done. So it's going to be interesting to

1653
01:29:26,439 --> 01:29:29,360
Speaker 1: see who scores touchdowns for this team. And it's one

1654
01:29:29,400 --> 01:29:30,840
Speaker 1: of the things too, we've said and it's going to

1655
01:29:30,880 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 1: be one of my pregame analysis about this Colts team.

1656
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:39,000
Speaker 1: They design their offense not to have a go to guy.

1657
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 1: Everybody catches just as many footballs as everybody else. Now,

1658
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:44,920
Speaker 1: certainly they've got a leading receiver, but they're leading receivers

1659
01:29:44,920 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 1: are running back, they're leading yardage guys. As a wide receiver,

1660
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:51,920
Speaker 1: they spread it around a ton. Three different tight ends

1661
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:54,640
Speaker 1: combined for eighty catches. He's got like six guys with

1662
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:57,280
Speaker 1: at least thirty catches on this roster, right, so you

1663
01:29:57,400 --> 01:30:01,280
Speaker 1: got to guard everybody. And it's a little bit different

1664
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: than the Bill's offense, and that the Bills feel like

1665
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:08,360
Speaker 1: they got three maybe four guys that you can't guard,

1666
01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:12,200
Speaker 1: so they'll take their pick no matter what you do.

1667
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:14,800
Speaker 1: So that's that's a different philosophy and it's a different

1668
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:17,839
Speaker 1: mindset than this Colts team, but they both present problems

1669
01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:20,720
Speaker 1: and Isam McKenzie it's a good one. Yeah, it's a

1670
01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:23,599
Speaker 1: good one from Tiffany. I'm not sure if Jerry Hughes

1671
01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 1: is under the radar, but I have a feeling he's

1672
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:26,800
Speaker 1: going to have a huge game against the team that

1673
01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:30,320
Speaker 1: traded him, probably one of the best moves in Bill's history.

1674
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:34,160
Speaker 1: It's funny Jerry was asked on his Zoom media call

1675
01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:39,360
Speaker 1: this week about the Digs trade and then his trade,

1676
01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 1: which I think most fans would say are the two

1677
01:30:43,040 --> 01:30:45,760
Speaker 1: best trades in recent memory that this team has made.

1678
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:48,200
Speaker 1: And then he was asked which one would you pick,

1679
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:51,080
Speaker 1: and he goes, I got a roll with the Digs trade.

1680
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:56,519
Speaker 1: It got us to thirteen and three. So it's a

1681
01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 1: good point. At least he was honest, I think, because

1682
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:00,519
Speaker 1: I think everybody would agree with them, you think, and

1683
01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:02,400
Speaker 1: I at this point, I don't know that there's a

1684
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:04,880
Speaker 1: player on the cult roster that was there when he

1685
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:10,840
Speaker 1: was there, there probably is maybe one, although that's twenty thirteen. Yeah,

1686
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:13,040
Speaker 1: it was a while, it's a long time ago. It's

1687
01:31:13,040 --> 01:31:17,240
Speaker 1: like two average careers, So yeah, maybe maybe not. But

1688
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:20,720
Speaker 1: for him it's a little bit. I was the same

1689
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:23,120
Speaker 1: way when they then the Bills played the Oilers and

1690
01:31:23,280 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 1: Slash Titans. Uh, not too much, not too much left

1691
01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: in the tank there as far as like or dislike

1692
01:31:30,960 --> 01:31:32,720
Speaker 1: of the team, is just another game to me at

1693
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:37,200
Speaker 1: the end. So from Josh, he says, I like Tarn

1694
01:31:37,320 --> 01:31:39,640
Speaker 1: Johnson for this. He's active and run support, and I

1695
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:41,400
Speaker 1: think he'll be the first defender to the ball on

1696
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:43,920
Speaker 1: a lot of the short throws the Colts try. His

1697
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:48,559
Speaker 1: tackling will be key. Yeah, I don't mind that pick.

1698
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:50,479
Speaker 1: If he's on the field, that's pretty good. That's a

1699
01:31:50,520 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: pretty good call. He may not even be on the

1700
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:56,280
Speaker 1: field because right because they throw a lot of big

1701
01:31:56,360 --> 01:31:58,920
Speaker 1: bodies on the field with tight ends, and if they

1702
01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:02,439
Speaker 1: go to two tights and two wides, you're not in

1703
01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 1: nickel anymore. You're in basse. And the Bills have played

1704
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:08,160
Speaker 1: some bass lately, or they play big nickel in which

1705
01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:12,200
Speaker 1: you'll see San or Dean Marlow on the field, depending

1706
01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:15,360
Speaker 1: on what they like, So, yeah, that's I like your

1707
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:18,479
Speaker 1: where your head's at, But that maybe not this week.

1708
01:32:18,560 --> 01:32:21,120
Speaker 1: That may put Dean Marlow or Serrand Neil as the

1709
01:32:21,200 --> 01:32:26,479
Speaker 1: undergeratar guy. Yeah, from Rachel, someone in our front seven

1710
01:32:26,560 --> 01:32:28,639
Speaker 1: needs to step up and make a difference and run defense.

1711
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:31,080
Speaker 1: Now would be the perfect time for a breakout game

1712
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:33,439
Speaker 1: by one of our d tackles since they've been pretty

1713
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:37,200
Speaker 1: quiet this year's statistically time to rack up the TfL's

1714
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:40,120
Speaker 1: tackles for a loss and maybe a forced fumble or two.

1715
01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: So she Rachel's taken anybody to me that points that

1716
01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:50,400
Speaker 1: points to Ed Oliver. The defense or the offensive line

1717
01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 1: of the Colts really athletic, and they're they're kind of

1718
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:55,439
Speaker 1: nasty downside. Quentin Nelson is a really he's kind of

1719
01:32:55,479 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 1: like the the John Feliciano of the Colt line. He's

1720
01:32:59,560 --> 01:33:01,200
Speaker 1: got a little bit of an edge on him, right.

1721
01:33:01,280 --> 01:33:03,559
Speaker 1: He's the guy that, like I always say, if there's

1722
01:33:03,560 --> 01:33:06,240
Speaker 1: a fight on the field, if Feliciano's not in the

1723
01:33:06,280 --> 01:33:08,360
Speaker 1: middle of it, he's getting to the middle of it.

1724
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:13,879
Speaker 1: That's what Quenton Nelson is for the Colts. Down inside

1725
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: is where Ed Oliver's going to have some ability to

1726
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:21,760
Speaker 1: make some difference because I think he's a different type

1727
01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 1: of defensive tackle and they've seen a lot of He's

1728
01:33:24,240 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 1: a penetrating, fast moving, explosive athlete, and that may give

1729
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:31,479
Speaker 1: him an edge where I don't know that they faced

1730
01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:35,439
Speaker 1: as many defensive tackles like that, So I would say,

1731
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:37,559
Speaker 1: if they're gonna looking for a guy crunter, that might

1732
01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:40,640
Speaker 1: be the guys at Oliver. Yeah, I like it, I

1733
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:45,240
Speaker 1: think leverage wise. I remember his first ever preseason game

1734
01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 1: was against Quenton Nelson here it was Bills Colts right,

1735
01:33:49,560 --> 01:33:51,960
Speaker 1: and Ed held his own against him because he's just

1736
01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:54,360
Speaker 1: as low to the ground and squatty as Nelson is.

1737
01:33:55,120 --> 01:33:57,479
Speaker 1: Nelson just drives people off the ball because he's the

1738
01:33:57,520 --> 01:33:59,840
Speaker 1: low man and he's always winning. But Ed was holding

1739
01:33:59,880 --> 01:34:02,519
Speaker 1: his own against him. So I'll be interesting matchup to

1740
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:04,800
Speaker 1: revisit now two years later. Ed's a little bit better

1741
01:34:04,880 --> 01:34:07,200
Speaker 1: now too. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We're sure Nelson

1742
01:34:07,320 --> 01:34:11,680
Speaker 1: is too, But yeah, it'd be interesting bowl from the

1743
01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 1: word go. But yeah, and plus Ed can be moved

1744
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:19,960
Speaker 1: over to the other side and play the three technique

1745
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:21,519
Speaker 1: on the other side of Nelson, I think is the

1746
01:34:21,640 --> 01:34:24,240
Speaker 1: left guard. Ed will be over on the right guard

1747
01:34:24,280 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 1: as well, so it'll be you know, they can move

1748
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:28,720
Speaker 1: him around and pick a matchup they like. All right,

1749
01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:31,799
Speaker 1: break time for us. But when we return from CBS

1750
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:35,320
Speaker 1: Sports One, Pete Prisco will join us, one of the

1751
01:34:35,800 --> 01:34:39,040
Speaker 1: first people on the Josh Allen train way back in

1752
01:34:39,160 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. He's looking like a genius. Now we'll talk

1753
01:34:44,280 --> 01:34:47,200
Speaker 1: to Pete about Josh and about this matchup as he

1754
01:34:47,320 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: made some playoff predictions at CBS Sports dot Com. That's

1755
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:52,479
Speaker 1: coming up next Here on one Bills Live, presented by

1756
01:34:52,520 --> 01:35:05,759
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Mills Radio Network

1757
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:10,160
Speaker 1: Sports Update. Bills back on the practice field today. Both

1758
01:35:10,200 --> 01:35:13,600
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs and Cole Beasley were participating. We all know

1759
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:16,800
Speaker 1: their level of participation until the updated injury report is

1760
01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:20,640
Speaker 1: released later this afternoon. Beasley trying to return from a

1761
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:23,639
Speaker 1: knee injury suffering in Week sixteen against the Patriots. Diggs

1762
01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:26,519
Speaker 1: dealing with a strange oblique muscle, though the receiver told

1763
01:35:26,560 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: the media on Wednesday that he will be fine. Josh

1764
01:35:29,400 --> 01:35:31,760
Speaker 1: Allen has been named AFC Offensive Player of the Month

1765
01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:35,040
Speaker 1: for December. Allen, who also won the Player of the

1766
01:35:35,080 --> 01:35:38,719
Speaker 1: Month award in September. Joins Thurman Thomas in nineteen ninety

1767
01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:41,760
Speaker 1: one Bruce Smith in nineteen ninety six as the only

1768
01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:44,560
Speaker 1: players to win this award twice in one season, and

1769
01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:47,840
Speaker 1: we should mention Thurman one MVP in ninety one and

1770
01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:51,840
Speaker 1: Bruce one Defensive Player of the Year in nineteen ninety six.

1771
01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:54,320
Speaker 1: Allen completed one hundred and twenty nine and one hundred

1772
01:35:54,320 --> 01:35:56,799
Speaker 1: and eighty four passes for over fifteen hundred yards, fifteen

1773
01:35:56,880 --> 01:35:59,920
Speaker 1: touchdowns and two picks in the five games since the

1774
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:03,000
Speaker 1: beginning of December, all Bills victories. He also rushed for

1775
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:05,479
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten yards and two touchdowns for the Colts.

1776
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:08,919
Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner named AFC Defensive Player of the Month for December,

1777
01:36:09,240 --> 01:36:11,519
Speaker 1: but he missed practice on Wednesday with an ankle injury.

1778
01:36:11,560 --> 01:36:15,880
Speaker 1: He is expected to play on Saturday. Cornerback rock Ya Sin, however,

1779
01:36:16,320 --> 01:36:20,160
Speaker 1: miss practice still in the concussion protocol and could miss

1780
01:36:20,200 --> 01:36:23,200
Speaker 1: a second straight game this weekend. Jonathan Taylor limited with

1781
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:25,600
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury, but should be good to go for Saturday.

1782
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:29,759
Speaker 1: Taylor was named AFC Offensive Rookie of the Month for December,

1783
01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:33,559
Speaker 1: and the Steelers have announced they will only be hosting

1784
01:36:33,680 --> 01:36:36,880
Speaker 1: friends and family at hines Field for Sunday night's playoff

1785
01:36:36,920 --> 01:36:39,559
Speaker 1: game against the Browns. They were hoping to get permission

1786
01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:41,800
Speaker 1: from the State of Pennsylvania for a small number of

1787
01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: fans end season ticket holders, but the state order will

1788
01:36:45,400 --> 01:36:48,840
Speaker 1: only permit twenty five hundred total people at hines Field

1789
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:52,559
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. That is your sports update from One

1790
01:36:52,640 --> 01:36:56,000
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you for our

1791
01:36:56,160 --> 01:37:00,320
Speaker 1: number three of the program as we are broadcasting from

1792
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:03,599
Speaker 1: the Seneca Studios here in Orchard Park and joining us

1793
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:07,800
Speaker 1: on the line right now, CBS Sports senior NFL writer,

1794
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:11,479
Speaker 1: host of the Pick six podcasts, covered the NFL for

1795
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:14,880
Speaker 1: over three decades. It is one Pete Prisco joining us

1796
01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:17,040
Speaker 1: on the line. Pete, how you doing? Chris and Steve

1797
01:37:17,120 --> 01:37:21,320
Speaker 1: with you here. You and your family well during the pandemic. Yeah,

1798
01:37:21,560 --> 01:37:25,519
Speaker 1: doing well and everything's you know, season I completed. That's

1799
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:28,760
Speaker 1: amazing in itself, but kudos to the NFL. Kudos to

1800
01:37:28,840 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: the players and the owners for spending the money to

1801
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:35,120
Speaker 1: make sure it was as safe as possible season. So

1802
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:37,720
Speaker 1: you look, people had their doubts. I never did. I

1803
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:39,760
Speaker 1: thought they'd get through it, and I'm glad they did. Yeah,

1804
01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:43,200
Speaker 1: no question, And it seemed like an insurmountable feat about

1805
01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:45,519
Speaker 1: three and a half four months ago, particularly like around

1806
01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:47,920
Speaker 1: week four or five when Tennessee had their route breaking,

1807
01:37:47,960 --> 01:37:49,680
Speaker 1: we thought, how many times is this going to happen? Well,

1808
01:37:49,720 --> 01:37:53,320
Speaker 1: that was really aside from others, and certainly there were

1809
01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:55,200
Speaker 1: some a lot of bad breaks for some teams, and

1810
01:37:55,320 --> 01:37:57,439
Speaker 1: some teams had multiple bad breaks. But to get two

1811
01:37:57,520 --> 01:38:00,760
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six regular season games in when every

1812
01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:03,360
Speaker 1: other professional sports team either had to suspend play or

1813
01:38:03,479 --> 01:38:06,200
Speaker 1: bubble up to get it done, what kind of what

1814
01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:09,360
Speaker 1: kind of accomplishment is that for the NFL? Oh, it's

1815
01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:13,160
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible, Steve. I mean, look, you know again, and

1816
01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:15,599
Speaker 1: you know what they found out along the way they

1817
01:38:15,720 --> 01:38:18,160
Speaker 1: can play some Tuesday and Wednesday games if they want to,

1818
01:38:19,120 --> 01:38:20,880
Speaker 1: and you know, people laugh and that I had a

1819
01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:22,560
Speaker 1: couple of people in the league say, hey, we just

1820
01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:24,200
Speaker 1: found out that if we really want to play a

1821
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:27,599
Speaker 1: Tuesday or Wednesday game, we can. And so I think

1822
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:31,200
Speaker 1: that this was the challenge a big way for the

1823
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:35,120
Speaker 1: entire league. The owners spent a lot of money to

1824
01:38:35,200 --> 01:38:37,559
Speaker 1: make sure their facilities were safe as safe as can

1825
01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:40,360
Speaker 1: be and weren't getting a lot back. So they deserve

1826
01:38:40,360 --> 01:38:42,120
Speaker 1: a lot of credit, but the players deserve the most

1827
01:38:42,160 --> 01:38:46,280
Speaker 1: credit for following the guidelines and adhering to most of

1828
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:48,360
Speaker 1: the protocols for most of the players in this league.

1829
01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:52,040
Speaker 1: And I think, look, most people thought they'd end the season.

1830
01:38:52,080 --> 01:38:54,120
Speaker 1: They would talk before this season where they's even play it,

1831
01:38:54,479 --> 01:38:56,639
Speaker 1: and here we already for the playoffs. So it's it's

1832
01:38:56,840 --> 01:39:01,120
Speaker 1: it's a really an amazing accomplishment. Talking with Pete Prisco

1833
01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:05,439
Speaker 1: from CBS Sports and you know, Pete, I know you

1834
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:09,599
Speaker 1: were on the Josh Allen train way early. How good

1835
01:39:09,640 --> 01:39:13,760
Speaker 1: does it feel now? Are you gloating, Pete? Oh yeah,

1836
01:39:13,760 --> 01:39:16,120
Speaker 1: I've gloaded. I've taken some victory lapse on that one.

1837
01:39:16,160 --> 01:39:18,840
Speaker 1: And again when he came out, I was one of

1838
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:20,800
Speaker 1: the few people out there that actually thought he was

1839
01:39:20,840 --> 01:39:22,840
Speaker 1: the number one quarterback in that draft class. So I

1840
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:25,040
Speaker 1: thought he you know, when you put on the tape

1841
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:27,560
Speaker 1: and watched him throw to I joke around he was

1842
01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:30,160
Speaker 1: throwing the bouncers and bartenders the balls from bouncing off

1843
01:39:30,240 --> 01:39:33,840
Speaker 1: their chest. They couldn't catch him. His completion percentage was

1844
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:35,679
Speaker 1: a problem, of course when you looked at the numbers,

1845
01:39:35,720 --> 01:39:38,599
Speaker 1: but if you look deeper inside the numbers, it wasn't

1846
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:40,840
Speaker 1: nearly as bad as it should. You know, his numbers

1847
01:39:40,840 --> 01:39:43,240
Speaker 1: should have been better than what they were. So and

1848
01:39:43,520 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 1: he had that big Army's a big kid, he's a

1849
01:39:45,080 --> 01:39:46,800
Speaker 1: tough kid, and he's an alpha male. I mean, what's

1850
01:39:46,840 --> 01:39:49,200
Speaker 1: not the like. And so I'll be honest with you,

1851
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 1: though I didn't think he would get to what he

1852
01:39:52,360 --> 01:39:56,000
Speaker 1: is now this fast. And the reason I say that,

1853
01:39:56,200 --> 01:39:58,160
Speaker 1: I think there was going to be a growing, you know,

1854
01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:02,320
Speaker 1: growth time for him, and there has been. But where

1855
01:40:02,400 --> 01:40:05,280
Speaker 1: he is right now, he's playing as well as any

1856
01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:08,360
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league. And that includes Patrick Mahomes, which

1857
01:40:08,479 --> 01:40:11,439
Speaker 1: is and Aaron Rodgers, which is you know, high praise.

1858
01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:14,120
Speaker 1: But he comes to the line of scrimmage, he identifies things,

1859
01:40:14,200 --> 01:40:16,960
Speaker 1: he sees it, he reacts to it. He just seems

1860
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:19,760
Speaker 1: so calm and cool right now that he's on top

1861
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:23,160
Speaker 1: of his game. And so, yeah, am I bloating a

1862
01:40:23,200 --> 01:40:26,519
Speaker 1: little bit? Yes, because I been around this for a

1863
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:28,160
Speaker 1: long time, as you know, Steve and you guys know,

1864
01:40:28,720 --> 01:40:31,719
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen many quarterbacks come into the league

1865
01:40:31,800 --> 01:40:34,160
Speaker 1: take a beating like that kid did when he came in,

1866
01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:36,720
Speaker 1: and it was unwarranted. And I think a lot of

1867
01:40:36,800 --> 01:40:38,840
Speaker 1: people are eating crow and you know, maybe they'll put

1868
01:40:38,880 --> 01:40:40,640
Speaker 1: some buffalo wing sauce on it to make it go

1869
01:40:40,760 --> 01:40:43,360
Speaker 1: down easier. Yeah, before we get around to all the

1870
01:40:43,439 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 1: matchups on Wildcard week, and I want to talk to

1871
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 1: you about this Bill's Colts matchup. This is something now. Certainly,

1872
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 1: the Bills at the number two seed playing the seventh seed,

1873
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:53,280
Speaker 1: and in a normal year there is no seven seed.

1874
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:56,080
Speaker 1: They're not in the playoffs. But an eleven win team

1875
01:40:56,280 --> 01:40:59,040
Speaker 1: that barely gets into the playoffs is a little bit

1876
01:40:59,120 --> 01:41:01,679
Speaker 1: different than a seven and nine team in the NFC

1877
01:41:01,840 --> 01:41:04,120
Speaker 1: East that does get into the playoffs. How do you

1878
01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:07,400
Speaker 1: see this Colts Bills game? Certainly the Bills are favored,

1879
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:09,720
Speaker 1: but you know the Colts are an eleven win team

1880
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: with a Hall of Fame quarterback. Yeah, this is gonna

1881
01:41:12,520 --> 01:41:14,120
Speaker 1: be a tough matchup for the Bills. And the reason

1882
01:41:14,160 --> 01:41:15,840
Speaker 1: it will probably be a tough matchup is because they

1883
01:41:15,840 --> 01:41:18,200
Speaker 1: can run the ball, and you know that's been their

1884
01:41:18,240 --> 01:41:20,160
Speaker 1: problem all year. It has been better in the last

1885
01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:21,800
Speaker 1: five weeks of the season. I think they've showed a

1886
01:41:21,840 --> 01:41:24,680
Speaker 1: lot of growth. They're getting guys back healthy Milano and

1887
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:27,160
Speaker 1: I think Edmonds is back all the way healthy again too.

1888
01:41:27,280 --> 01:41:31,080
Speaker 1: So it's gotten better, but you know what they want

1889
01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:33,920
Speaker 1: to do. The Colts want to run Jonathan Taylor, control

1890
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:37,280
Speaker 1: the clock, and keep Josh Allen off the field. That's

1891
01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:39,720
Speaker 1: all well and good until you look up. It's a

1892
01:41:39,760 --> 01:41:41,360
Speaker 1: great plan until you look up in your down four

1893
01:41:41,400 --> 01:41:45,000
Speaker 1: team uphing. So you know, but the same token, the

1894
01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: Colts defense hasn't been as good in the last six

1895
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:50,360
Speaker 1: seven weeks of the season. They were really good early

1896
01:41:50,400 --> 01:41:52,400
Speaker 1: in the season, they kind of tailed off in the

1897
01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: second part of the season. So I think there's gonna

1898
01:41:54,240 --> 01:41:56,080
Speaker 1: be opportunities for the Bills to put up a number,

1899
01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:58,280
Speaker 1: and you know, when if you can score and put

1900
01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:00,439
Speaker 1: the pressure on them, that takes a matter of what

1901
01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:02,760
Speaker 1: they want to do. So I think this is it's

1902
01:42:02,800 --> 01:42:05,200
Speaker 1: a tough matchup for Buffalo, but I think in the end,

1903
01:42:05,240 --> 01:42:07,439
Speaker 1: I think the way Josh Allen and that offense is playing,

1904
01:42:07,439 --> 01:42:09,000
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be too much for Indie

1905
01:42:09,160 --> 01:42:11,479
Speaker 1: before we get to the other games on the dock.

1906
01:42:11,520 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 1: At this weekend, I found an interesting right up by

1907
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:18,679
Speaker 1: one of your colleagues, Jared Dubin, who kind of ranked

1908
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:23,400
Speaker 1: the fourteen coaching staffs currently in the playoffs, and he

1909
01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: had the Bills as the third best coaching staff in

1910
01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 1: Tier One, behind only Kansas City in Baltimore, which obviously

1911
01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:35,639
Speaker 1: have two veteran staffs. I'm wondering where you come down

1912
01:42:35,760 --> 01:42:39,519
Speaker 1: on that. And obviously a staff this good is gonna

1913
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:42,400
Speaker 1: be the victim of some poaching buy some teams that

1914
01:42:42,479 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 1: are in the head coaching hiring time right now. Well,

1915
01:42:46,400 --> 01:42:48,840
Speaker 1: I have nothing but high praise for Sean McDermott. And

1916
01:42:49,360 --> 01:42:52,840
Speaker 1: you know, you could tell this team was coming. I

1917
01:42:52,880 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 1: think it was a year ago, two years ago. I

1918
01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:56,160
Speaker 1: told him that the combine. I said, you can see

1919
01:42:56,640 --> 01:43:00,439
Speaker 1: your team has taken on your personality. They're feisty, they're tough,

1920
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:03,000
Speaker 1: they play hard, they seem to respect you. And that's

1921
01:43:03,040 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 1: the sign of a good coach. And Sean's done a

1922
01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:08,160
Speaker 1: great job there. But he also has good coordinators. You know,

1923
01:43:08,240 --> 01:43:10,280
Speaker 1: when you look at those two coordinators, they both do

1924
01:43:10,400 --> 01:43:13,240
Speaker 1: a really good job. And Brian dave All will be poached.

1925
01:43:13,400 --> 01:43:14,840
Speaker 1: I think he's going to get a job. I wouldn't

1926
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 1: shock me to see him go to the Chargers. He's

1927
01:43:17,160 --> 01:43:19,920
Speaker 1: really good friends with Tom Talsco. He's done a great

1928
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:21,680
Speaker 1: job with a young quarterback. I think it makes a

1929
01:43:21,760 --> 01:43:23,040
Speaker 1: lot of sense to see what he can do with

1930
01:43:23,080 --> 01:43:25,439
Speaker 1: another young quarterback at Justin Herbert, who by the way,

1931
01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:28,639
Speaker 1: is off to a blazing fast start. So yeah, it's

1932
01:43:28,720 --> 01:43:31,400
Speaker 1: it's a tribute to Sean McDermott to hire those people,

1933
01:43:31,439 --> 01:43:33,280
Speaker 1: but it's also a tribute to a lot of hard work.

1934
01:43:33,920 --> 01:43:36,519
Speaker 1: What did your thought on, you know, some of the

1935
01:43:36,640 --> 01:43:39,360
Speaker 1: openings in what's what's your sense on this hiring cycle

1936
01:43:39,400 --> 01:43:42,680
Speaker 1: and what do you think is going to characterize it? Well?

1937
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:44,960
Speaker 1: I think everybody's looking for the offensive guys. I mean

1938
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:48,240
Speaker 1: that's ideally, that's what they want. They want to get it,

1939
01:43:48,479 --> 01:43:50,240
Speaker 1: particularly when you look at like the Chargers they have

1940
01:43:50,360 --> 01:43:52,400
Speaker 1: a young quarterback, they want an offensive guy. You look

1941
01:43:52,439 --> 01:43:54,639
Speaker 1: at the Jaguars, I can draft Trevor Lawrence. They want

1942
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:57,799
Speaker 1: an offensive guy. The Jets need to fix Sam Darnold,

1943
01:43:57,800 --> 01:44:00,800
Speaker 1: they probably want an offensive guy. Doesn't mean that a

1944
01:44:00,880 --> 01:44:02,720
Speaker 1: guy like Robert sala is not going to get a job,

1945
01:44:02,760 --> 01:44:04,280
Speaker 1: because I think he will, and I think he's going

1946
01:44:04,320 --> 01:44:05,720
Speaker 1: to be a heck of a heck coach. But when

1947
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:08,439
Speaker 1: you send him in the room, the question becomes, Okay,

1948
01:44:08,680 --> 01:44:10,960
Speaker 1: explain your offensive philosophy to me, and how's it going

1949
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:13,080
Speaker 1: to work? I think he's gonna take, you know, Matt

1950
01:44:13,120 --> 01:44:15,479
Speaker 1: Lafloor's brother with him wherever he goes, and they will

1951
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:17,240
Speaker 1: run that forty nine ers system. So I think it

1952
01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:20,160
Speaker 1: will be okay. But most of these teams I think

1953
01:44:20,200 --> 01:44:24,759
Speaker 1: are looking ideally for offensive coaches. Yeah, I don't disagree

1954
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:26,479
Speaker 1: with that because and that's why I think Dabel is

1955
01:44:26,520 --> 01:44:28,760
Speaker 1: going to be such a hot commodity. Because if you

1956
01:44:28,840 --> 01:44:32,400
Speaker 1: can develop a quarterback, and I mean, you're gonna get hired,

1957
01:44:32,439 --> 01:44:35,639
Speaker 1: because that's what that's what the going deal is now.

1958
01:44:35,760 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 1: And do you think, I don't know if anybody's done

1959
01:44:37,439 --> 01:44:39,280
Speaker 1: a better job than Dabele has with Allen. Let me

1960
01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:41,240
Speaker 1: ask you this, Pete, which which of the jobs is

1961
01:44:41,320 --> 01:44:45,600
Speaker 1: more attractive? Is it's the LA Chargers or the Jacksonville Jaguars.

1962
01:44:45,720 --> 01:44:49,880
Speaker 1: LA's got a little bit more fully formed roster. But

1963
01:44:50,160 --> 01:44:52,880
Speaker 1: if you're gonna build this thing your way, you may

1964
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:56,360
Speaker 1: have some really good players that you don't like. They

1965
01:44:56,400 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 1: have eleven draft picks in Jacksonville and Jacksonville you can

1966
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:01,200
Speaker 1: get going, and right off the bat, you got seventy

1967
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:04,040
Speaker 1: five million bucks in cap space, the number one pick

1968
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:08,600
Speaker 1: of the draft. Which one's more attractive to you? You know?

1969
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:12,000
Speaker 1: It's probably Jacksonville. But I can understand where people would say, Okay,

1970
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:14,639
Speaker 1: you've got a known commodity now in justin Herbert where

1971
01:45:14,680 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 1: you don't know. You think Trevor Lawrence is going to

1972
01:45:16,560 --> 01:45:18,400
Speaker 1: be just like that, but you don't know for sure,

1973
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:20,640
Speaker 1: So I could understand. Plus, you have Boats is a

1974
01:45:20,720 --> 01:45:23,240
Speaker 1: great pass rusher. You have Derwin James when he comes

1975
01:45:23,280 --> 01:45:25,479
Speaker 1: back from injury, so you've got a lot of big

1976
01:45:25,560 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 1: time talents there, Keenan Allen at wide receiver. So you know,

1977
01:45:29,000 --> 01:45:30,760
Speaker 1: I could see where people would say the charges. But

1978
01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:33,639
Speaker 1: me personally, if I was going into a situation, I'd

1979
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:35,560
Speaker 1: want the Jacksonville job. And the reason I say that

1980
01:45:35,680 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 1: is for a couple of reasons. One, the owner is

1981
01:45:38,160 --> 01:45:40,960
Speaker 1: willing to spend and he's got a ton of cap room. Two,

1982
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:43,000
Speaker 1: you're getting a number one overall pick and he's a

1983
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:45,200
Speaker 1: generational quarterback who's going to be a star for a

1984
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:48,120
Speaker 1: long time. Three you have four picks in the first

1985
01:45:48,479 --> 01:45:51,679
Speaker 1: forty five as of right now, four and forty five.

1986
01:45:52,200 --> 01:45:54,800
Speaker 1: If you can't fix that team with that cap room,

1987
01:45:54,880 --> 01:45:57,880
Speaker 1: that capital, and that quarterback coming in, then you don't

1988
01:45:57,880 --> 01:45:59,720
Speaker 1: know what you're doing. As it relates to football, so

1989
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:03,200
Speaker 1: I think that's an easy fix. And a one more thing.

1990
01:46:03,560 --> 01:46:07,519
Speaker 1: There's no state income tax in Florida. There's a heavy

1991
01:46:07,600 --> 01:46:11,320
Speaker 1: tax in California. Yeah, you gotta pay more in California

1992
01:46:11,320 --> 01:46:12,880
Speaker 1: if you want the same money. You're right, that's a

1993
01:46:12,880 --> 01:46:18,040
Speaker 1: good point, Pete. The playoff matchup that interests me the

1994
01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:22,439
Speaker 1: most is Baltimore Tennessee. Obviously a rematch at the overtime

1995
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:25,920
Speaker 1: game won by Tennessee during the regular season, but if

1996
01:46:25,960 --> 01:46:28,360
Speaker 1: you like old school football, I just see these two

1997
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:30,120
Speaker 1: teams just trying to beat the tar out of each

1998
01:46:30,160 --> 01:46:33,639
Speaker 1: other this week. Yeah, and look, this is a big

1999
01:46:33,680 --> 01:46:35,479
Speaker 1: game for Lamar. Jackson's gonna prove the people that you

2000
01:46:35,520 --> 01:46:38,000
Speaker 1: win a playoff game going too. You know, last year

2001
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:39,680
Speaker 1: they were a heavy favorite, the number one team. They

2002
01:46:39,720 --> 01:46:41,840
Speaker 1: got dumped on their home field and it wasn't all

2003
01:46:41,920 --> 01:46:43,800
Speaker 1: his fault. But he's got to win a playoff game,

2004
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:45,960
Speaker 1: so it's an enormous game for him. It's also a

2005
01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:48,760
Speaker 1: great matchup. That Titans defense is pathetic. I mean, they're

2006
01:46:48,800 --> 01:46:51,400
Speaker 1: they're awful there. They can't stop anybody. So I think

2007
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great opportunity for him to do

2008
01:46:53,400 --> 01:46:56,040
Speaker 1: some things. But you mentioned it number one ranked run

2009
01:46:56,120 --> 01:46:58,040
Speaker 1: team in the league with the number one ranked rusher

2010
01:46:58,080 --> 01:47:00,880
Speaker 1: in the league, Derrick Henry. Two hours and forty five

2011
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:03,599
Speaker 1: minutes game time, maybe, and get out of there quickly.

2012
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:05,639
Speaker 1: But you know, we said that about a month ago.

2013
01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:08,640
Speaker 1: Remember when Cleveland went in there. They were like the

2014
01:47:08,760 --> 01:47:10,680
Speaker 1: one and two team rushing team in the league at

2015
01:47:10,760 --> 01:47:13,360
Speaker 1: the time, and we thought, okay, this will We joked

2016
01:47:13,360 --> 01:47:15,479
Speaker 1: around about it all week two hours and forty five minutes.

2017
01:47:15,640 --> 01:47:17,719
Speaker 1: And remember it was it was one of the highest

2018
01:47:17,720 --> 01:47:20,519
Speaker 1: scoring games of the year and Cleveland jumped all over them.

2019
01:47:20,560 --> 01:47:23,599
Speaker 1: So I think I leaned to the lower scoring game

2020
01:47:23,640 --> 01:47:25,479
Speaker 1: this week, and I think that the Ravens will play well.

2021
01:47:25,479 --> 01:47:27,400
Speaker 1: I think they win that game. They're not. You know,

2022
01:47:27,760 --> 01:47:30,559
Speaker 1: they're favored as a five seed, which is interesting because

2023
01:47:30,560 --> 01:47:34,439
Speaker 1: both five seeds are favored this weekend. Let's talk about

2024
01:47:34,479 --> 01:47:37,000
Speaker 1: the other five seed. Is it the Browns against the

2025
01:47:37,120 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: steel Steelers? Are the three and the four? No, it's

2026
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:42,360
Speaker 1: the Bucks in the other conference. Oh, I got you.

2027
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:46,280
Speaker 1: The Bucks are favored of course over the Washington football team. Well,

2028
01:47:46,280 --> 01:47:48,000
Speaker 1: when you get in the playoffs with a seven and

2029
01:47:48,120 --> 01:47:51,519
Speaker 1: nine record or a six and town, yeah, you're gonna

2030
01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:54,439
Speaker 1: be an underdog. Talk to us about the Washington football team.

2031
01:47:54,479 --> 01:47:56,280
Speaker 1: Do they have a puncher's chance with their pass rush?

2032
01:47:57,320 --> 01:47:59,360
Speaker 1: I think they do. You know, you guys have been

2033
01:47:59,400 --> 01:48:01,680
Speaker 1: around the AFCs for a long time. What is the

2034
01:48:02,120 --> 01:48:04,559
Speaker 1: kryptonite for Tom Brady? Is this for any other quarterback?

2035
01:48:04,960 --> 01:48:07,360
Speaker 1: A lot? For him? Is a quick pressure A great yeah,

2036
01:48:07,439 --> 01:48:09,760
Speaker 1: a great front four. And you go back to those

2037
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:11,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowls he lost. The Giants could get pressure right

2038
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:14,720
Speaker 1: inside on him and they could attack the quarterback. So

2039
01:48:15,160 --> 01:48:18,840
Speaker 1: if you start getting him seeing ghosts early in the game,

2040
01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 1: then I think he got a big advantage. I don't

2041
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,320
Speaker 1: know if Washington can score enough to win the game,

2042
01:48:23,640 --> 01:48:25,559
Speaker 1: but I think it's going to be tighter than people think,

2043
01:48:25,600 --> 01:48:27,559
Speaker 1: and I think that that defensive line will allow him

2044
01:48:27,600 --> 01:48:30,280
Speaker 1: to hang around. I don't know, Pete, if it's to

2045
01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:33,960
Speaker 1: the degree that we saw Detroit's struggle against Tampa Bay

2046
01:48:33,960 --> 01:48:36,480
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago when their coaching staff was decimated.

2047
01:48:37,040 --> 01:48:41,280
Speaker 1: But no head coach for Cleveland going into Pittsburgh along

2048
01:48:41,360 --> 01:48:44,479
Speaker 1: with one or two other assistants. How hamstrung are they

2049
01:48:44,600 --> 01:48:47,960
Speaker 1: going into that without their head coach? You know, I

2050
01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:50,200
Speaker 1: don't think I'm in the minority on this. I don't

2051
01:48:50,240 --> 01:48:52,200
Speaker 1: think it's going to be as bad from that standpoint

2052
01:48:52,240 --> 01:48:54,240
Speaker 1: as you would think it would be. And part of

2053
01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:58,320
Speaker 1: that is because, look, he's installing, he's doing the work,

2054
01:48:58,479 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 1: he's working this week, he's just doing virtually, he's just

2055
01:49:01,200 --> 01:49:03,519
Speaker 1: not on the field making sure it happens the way

2056
01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:05,400
Speaker 1: he wants it to happen. But it's it's all getting

2057
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:07,519
Speaker 1: put in the way he wants it to be put in.

2058
01:49:07,960 --> 01:49:09,680
Speaker 1: And so when you get out there, somebody calls the

2059
01:49:09,760 --> 01:49:13,400
Speaker 1: plays on the script and then you adjust. Now there's

2060
01:49:13,439 --> 01:49:16,519
Speaker 1: a feel to it, don't get me wrong. And Alex

2061
01:49:16,600 --> 01:49:18,800
Speaker 1: van Pels the guy you guys know, I mean, he's

2062
01:49:18,840 --> 01:49:21,800
Speaker 1: more than capable of getting a field for the game

2063
01:49:21,840 --> 01:49:24,519
Speaker 1: and seeing what he calls. That's not the problem for Cleveland.

2064
01:49:24,560 --> 01:49:27,479
Speaker 1: The problem for Cleveland is history. They haven't won there

2065
01:49:27,560 --> 01:49:31,040
Speaker 1: since two thousand and three. I mean, you know, people say, oh,

2066
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:32,840
Speaker 1: so you can't look at this team as one of

2067
01:49:32,880 --> 01:49:34,840
Speaker 1: those other tho, Well, no, but it's in your mind.

2068
01:49:34,920 --> 01:49:37,639
Speaker 1: It's in Steelers know that they've owned the Browns there.

2069
01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:42,519
Speaker 1: And this Steeler's offense was bad for most of the seasons.

2070
01:49:42,600 --> 01:49:45,960
Speaker 1: And I say that in scheme too. I didn't think

2071
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:48,080
Speaker 1: they did a great job of trying to get guys

2072
01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:50,679
Speaker 1: down the field, and they did that in the second

2073
01:49:50,720 --> 01:49:52,840
Speaker 1: half of the game against the colt and they lit

2074
01:49:52,920 --> 01:49:55,880
Speaker 1: him up. Beante Johnson had a big day, Jujusus Schuster

2075
01:49:55,960 --> 01:49:57,960
Speaker 1: made a couple of big plays down the field. That's

2076
01:49:58,000 --> 01:49:59,760
Speaker 1: what they're going to get back to. And I think

2077
01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:01,760
Speaker 1: the going to advance and beat the Browns no matter

2078
01:50:01,760 --> 01:50:04,360
Speaker 1: who was coaches. Kevin Stefanski's on the sideline and he's

2079
01:50:04,400 --> 01:50:06,720
Speaker 1: done a great job or you know, whether it's Mike

2080
01:50:06,800 --> 01:50:09,160
Speaker 1: Pree for the Steelers are going to advance in that game.

2081
01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:11,800
Speaker 1: That's a huge crippling blow. We saw what happened to

2082
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:13,840
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Of course, it was a little bit

2083
01:50:13,840 --> 01:50:16,479
Speaker 1: different where they had eight coaches on of half their

2084
01:50:16,560 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: staff and a lot of the third of their staff

2085
01:50:18,920 --> 01:50:24,080
Speaker 1: was sidelined, and they got absolutely run steamrolled. A head

2086
01:50:24,120 --> 01:50:26,000
Speaker 1: coach and ma and a couple of assistants. If they're

2087
01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:29,880
Speaker 1: the right assistance, you've got big problems in adjustments and

2088
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:32,519
Speaker 1: your pregame message and all of that stuff. Do you

2089
01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:35,640
Speaker 1: think you know it's Cleveland in a hole here that

2090
01:50:35,640 --> 01:50:37,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a hard time climbing out of. Forget

2091
01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:39,680
Speaker 1: about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Cleveland's got to get out of

2092
01:50:39,720 --> 01:50:41,760
Speaker 1: their own way and figure out, you know, how they're

2093
01:50:41,800 --> 01:50:43,640
Speaker 1: going to work this on game day as well, don't they.

2094
01:50:44,360 --> 01:50:46,240
Speaker 1: You know, Steve, they can have had a combination of

2095
01:50:46,400 --> 01:50:49,800
Speaker 1: Shula and Vince Lombardi and their prime coaching that Lions team,

2096
01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:52,080
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't have computed. They think they were a

2097
01:50:52,120 --> 01:50:55,720
Speaker 1: bad team, you know, and so um yeah, but they

2098
01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:57,479
Speaker 1: wouldn't have you know, they quit that day too, So

2099
01:50:57,680 --> 01:50:59,599
Speaker 1: maybe that had something to do with the coach. Wasn't there.

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Speaker 1: Plussy was in term coach to begin with, and they

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Speaker 1: quit that day. I think the Browns will be fisy.

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Speaker 1: I think Stevanski will get his message to them, and

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01:51:07,560 --> 01:51:09,080
Speaker 1: we know what they are. They want to run the ball.

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01:51:09,240 --> 01:51:11,320
Speaker 1: What hurts them is Joel Patonio is not going to

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01:51:11,400 --> 01:51:13,800
Speaker 1: be there. You know, that line when healthy from tackle

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01:51:13,880 --> 01:51:17,320
Speaker 1: to tackle might be the best in football. And without

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01:51:17,439 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 1: him and there at left guard, and he's, you know,

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01:51:19,200 --> 01:51:22,519
Speaker 1: arguably an all Pro type of player, then they're gonna

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01:51:22,520 --> 01:51:24,320
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a tougher time trying to

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01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:26,120
Speaker 1: run the ball in the Steelers and that's what they want.

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Speaker 1: They want to run it, run it, run it and

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01:51:27,840 --> 01:51:30,000
Speaker 1: then boot and get outside and throw off of that.

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01:51:30,320 --> 01:51:32,120
Speaker 1: If you can't run the ball, you're gonna have problems.

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01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:37,360
Speaker 1: MS Seahawks third times a charm. You know, the Rams

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01:51:37,439 --> 01:51:41,880
Speaker 1: defense statistically looks great, but Seattle somehow usually seems to

2116
01:51:41,960 --> 01:51:45,800
Speaker 1: find a way, especially in their own building. Do you

2117
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:48,120
Speaker 1: think the Rams can summon it up? Or is Jared

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01:51:48,200 --> 01:51:50,559
Speaker 1: Gough and his thumb too much of an issue here

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01:51:50,600 --> 01:51:53,120
Speaker 1: to really hang with the Seahawks. Oh, I think they're

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01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:55,000
Speaker 1: gonna hang with him. They always hang with him. And

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01:51:55,120 --> 01:51:57,519
Speaker 1: you know, you go back to the left five years

2122
01:51:57,560 --> 01:51:59,680
Speaker 1: and look at the games. Even in Seattle, they've hung

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01:51:59,720 --> 01:52:01,960
Speaker 1: with him and there's no crowd, so it really gives

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01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:03,439
Speaker 1: them a little bit of the van to be able

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01:52:03,479 --> 01:52:05,920
Speaker 1: to hang in and in the game two weeks ago

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01:52:05,960 --> 01:52:09,320
Speaker 1: when he heard his Tom jerikoff, you know they were

2127
01:52:09,360 --> 01:52:11,400
Speaker 1: in that game, they were it was tied and they

2128
01:52:11,439 --> 01:52:13,719
Speaker 1: were driving for what should have been a go ahead touchdown,

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01:52:13,720 --> 01:52:15,560
Speaker 1: and he threw a terrible interception in the middle of

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01:52:15,560 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 1: the field. There wasn't a receiver near him, And then

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01:52:17,960 --> 01:52:19,920
Speaker 1: they still hung around in that game after he heard

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01:52:19,960 --> 01:52:22,479
Speaker 1: his thumps. So that defense is good enough to keep

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Speaker 1: him in the game. And remember about a month ago

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01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:27,880
Speaker 1: the Giants went there. A little over a month ago,

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01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,679
Speaker 1: the Giants went there with their four. They got after

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01:52:30,800 --> 01:52:32,840
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and he didn't like it, and he's eye

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01:52:32,920 --> 01:52:34,960
Speaker 1: level came down and they kind of, you know, won

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01:52:35,120 --> 01:52:37,320
Speaker 1: that game and a big upset with a backup quarterback.

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01:52:37,439 --> 01:52:39,920
Speaker 1: So I think with that defense, they're capable of winning,

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01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:42,200
Speaker 1: and it'll be close. I think they're capable of winning

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01:52:42,240 --> 01:52:46,160
Speaker 1: in Seattle and go well across to the other coast,

2142
01:52:46,200 --> 01:52:49,280
Speaker 1: over the East Coast on Lake Michigan, the Bears at

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01:52:49,320 --> 01:52:52,559
Speaker 1: the Saint set, the Saints are really rolling. I mean,

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01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:55,000
Speaker 1: I think they feel like this is maybe the last

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01:52:55,280 --> 01:52:57,640
Speaker 1: chance they had with Drew Brees, with Sean Payton and

2146
01:52:57,720 --> 01:52:59,600
Speaker 1: that crew. How do you think this is going to

2147
01:52:59,680 --> 01:53:01,479
Speaker 1: go for the not only in this first round, which

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01:53:01,680 --> 01:53:03,599
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win, but how do you see

2149
01:53:03,640 --> 01:53:06,880
Speaker 1: him filling out the playoffs? Yeah? There? I mean, look,

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01:53:06,920 --> 01:53:08,880
Speaker 1: I think it's between them and Green Bay in the NFC,

2151
01:53:10,400 --> 01:53:13,160
Speaker 1: and when you look at them, you know, it's all

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01:53:13,240 --> 01:53:15,400
Speaker 1: Their defense has been phenomenal and that's gonna be a

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01:53:15,520 --> 01:53:18,320
Speaker 1: challenge for Chicago. But how good are they on offense?

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01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:20,200
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna get Kamara back. He's gonna play

2155
01:53:20,200 --> 01:53:23,519
Speaker 1: in the game. Michael Thomas, probably not or if he

2156
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:26,120
Speaker 1: And that takes the way to mention in their offense,

2157
01:53:26,400 --> 01:53:28,439
Speaker 1: is Breeze the same guy? Can he drive the ball

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01:53:28,439 --> 01:53:30,559
Speaker 1: when he needs to drive the ball. And we've seen

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01:53:30,680 --> 01:53:32,600
Speaker 1: him in this role before where they're the favorite at

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01:53:32,680 --> 01:53:36,280
Speaker 1: home against it. You know, last year was another NFC

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01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:38,240
Speaker 1: nor team and the Vikings went in there and beat him.

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01:53:38,320 --> 01:53:40,400
Speaker 1: So they need to be careful. I think they'll win,

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01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:42,559
Speaker 1: but for some reason, I think the Bears are going

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01:53:42,600 --> 01:53:44,640
Speaker 1: to hang around in the game. I think defensively, the

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01:53:44,680 --> 01:53:46,720
Speaker 1: Bears will be able to stay in the game. I

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01:53:46,760 --> 01:53:49,360
Speaker 1: don't think they'll win it, but they'll hang around. And then,

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01:53:49,720 --> 01:53:53,840
Speaker 1: just finally for me, Pete, what is the Bill's trajectory

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01:53:54,240 --> 01:53:56,160
Speaker 1: in this postseason here? I mean, I think a lot

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01:53:56,200 --> 01:53:59,639
Speaker 1: of people believe they'll win this game this week. If

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01:53:59,720 --> 01:54:02,240
Speaker 1: things shake out the way you've kind of called these

2171
01:54:02,479 --> 01:54:05,880
Speaker 1: playoff matchups we've thrown at you, it means Pittsburgh's probably

2172
01:54:05,920 --> 01:54:09,360
Speaker 1: coming here next week, assuming it all plays to form.

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01:54:10,120 --> 01:54:13,439
Speaker 1: How far can this Bill seem get? Oh? I think

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01:54:13,479 --> 01:54:15,240
Speaker 1: they can get to the super Bowl. I mean I

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01:54:15,360 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 1: think it's going to be one of those situations. I

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01:54:17,160 --> 01:54:19,960
Speaker 1: think they'll beat Pittsburgh when they play him. The Ravens

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01:54:20,000 --> 01:54:22,240
Speaker 1: can beat you know, the Ravens can beat the Chiefs.

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01:54:22,280 --> 01:54:24,280
Speaker 1: The question becomes, do you rather play the Ravens or

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01:54:24,320 --> 01:54:27,439
Speaker 1: the Chiefs? You know, and you'd rather be at home,

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01:54:27,479 --> 01:54:29,479
Speaker 1: so you'd rather play the Ravens. But I think they

2181
01:54:29,520 --> 01:54:32,920
Speaker 1: can go to Arrowheads because I think the ultimately that

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01:54:33,120 --> 01:54:36,280
Speaker 1: the Chiefs destroy the Ravens when they blitz them, because

2183
01:54:36,280 --> 01:54:38,520
Speaker 1: he kills the blitz and that's all the Ravens do.

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01:54:38,600 --> 01:54:40,360
Speaker 1: He's killed him every single time he plays them. So

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01:54:40,400 --> 01:54:44,440
Speaker 1: I think they'll go there, and you know, the Chiefs

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01:54:44,480 --> 01:54:46,880
Speaker 1: will play the Bills in the AFC Championship game and

2187
01:54:47,080 --> 01:54:50,480
Speaker 1: first one to forty three wins. How about that something?

2188
01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:52,680
Speaker 1: You know, it would be the only bad thing in

2189
01:54:52,760 --> 01:54:55,920
Speaker 1: that scenario is if they went to Arrowhead and played

2190
01:54:55,920 --> 01:54:58,960
Speaker 1: in the championship game and it was thirty five mile

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01:54:59,000 --> 01:55:02,480
Speaker 1: an hour win. That would that would stay because it

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01:55:02,520 --> 01:55:03,960
Speaker 1: would take the fun out of the game. Because I

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01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:06,760
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen versus Patrick Mahomes would be a heck

2194
01:55:06,800 --> 01:55:08,440
Speaker 1: of a way to see two teams trying to get

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01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:10,160
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. I see a replay of that

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01:55:10,320 --> 01:55:13,680
Speaker 1: Monday night game between Sean McVay and La Rams out

2197
01:55:13,720 --> 01:55:16,400
Speaker 1: in the Coliseum against the Kansas City Chiefs on that

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01:55:16,480 --> 01:55:19,120
Speaker 1: Monday night game when it was fifty three, fifty two

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01:55:19,280 --> 01:55:22,360
Speaker 1: or fifty one something like that. Yeah, that was that

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01:55:22,840 --> 01:55:25,240
Speaker 1: was fun. Yeah, let's do that. That was a little better,

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01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:27,560
Speaker 1: a little better weather. I think that what you'll see

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01:55:27,560 --> 01:55:30,000
Speaker 1: in Kansas City in a couple of weeks. Yeah, Pete,

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01:55:30,040 --> 01:55:32,360
Speaker 1: thanks very much for the time. Enjoy the playoffs and

2204
01:55:32,640 --> 01:55:35,200
Speaker 1: we appreciate you giving some insight on the playoff picture.

2205
01:55:35,720 --> 01:55:37,720
Speaker 1: You know what the best thing about this weekend is, guy,

2206
01:55:38,120 --> 01:55:40,839
Speaker 1: it's going to be build Mafia fans in the stands

2207
01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:43,640
Speaker 1: this week. That's one of the best things going. Yeah, yeah,

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01:55:43,920 --> 01:55:46,280
Speaker 1: that's fantastic. Not too many of them, not like the

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01:55:46,360 --> 01:55:50,120
Speaker 1: old days, but they'll be heard. That's good. Thanks past

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01:55:50,600 --> 01:55:53,560
Speaker 1: Take care all right. Pete Priscoe from CBS Sports dot

2211
01:55:53,640 --> 01:55:56,600
Speaker 1: Com cover the NFL for over thirty years. I mean

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01:55:56,640 --> 01:55:59,640
Speaker 1: he's been added a while, knows his stuff and was

2213
01:55:59,720 --> 01:56:02,920
Speaker 1: early on the Josh Allen train, like, yeah, he was

2214
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:04,840
Speaker 1: from the Chris Rookie year. Was over from the get

2215
01:56:04,880 --> 01:56:07,040
Speaker 1: go guys on him. Yeah, yeah, and there were others

2216
01:56:07,120 --> 01:56:10,640
Speaker 1: as well. But I had my buddy Phil Simms, you know,

2217
01:56:10,720 --> 01:56:14,600
Speaker 1: the the guy in the studio show at CB NFL

2218
01:56:14,640 --> 01:56:16,800
Speaker 1: and CBS. He liked Josh from the get go to

2219
01:56:16,960 --> 01:56:19,640
Speaker 1: watch Chris Sims. They both like him and and for

2220
01:56:19,720 --> 01:56:21,480
Speaker 1: the same reason. They were watching film of him and

2221
01:56:21,520 --> 01:56:23,240
Speaker 1: the way they see think. You know, they're both quarterbacks,

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01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:26,160
Speaker 1: so they see things differently. So yeah, um, Dan Orlovsky

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01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:28,360
Speaker 1: has been on him, high on him for for a

2224
01:56:28,400 --> 01:56:31,120
Speaker 1: while too. But funny how the quarterbacks like him. Isn't

2225
01:56:31,120 --> 01:56:34,640
Speaker 1: that funny how that works? Yeah, a little bit. Well,

2226
01:56:35,440 --> 01:56:37,840
Speaker 1: when you see the guy throw it, it's well right,

2227
01:56:37,960 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, um right, it's hard not to be at

2228
01:56:40,720 --> 01:56:42,800
Speaker 1: least a little envious of the arm strength. Anyway, I

2229
01:56:42,840 --> 01:56:45,600
Speaker 1: am fascinated by that Titans Ravens game because I just

2230
01:56:45,720 --> 01:56:47,760
Speaker 1: think they are just gonna beat the snot out of

2231
01:56:47,800 --> 01:56:52,720
Speaker 1: each other. Well certainly, you know, running teams that are

2232
01:56:52,800 --> 01:56:56,840
Speaker 1: just gonna be leaning on each other for three hours.

2233
01:56:57,000 --> 01:57:00,920
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, because Tennessee, he's gonna have to score

2234
01:57:01,000 --> 01:57:03,280
Speaker 1: some points. They've shown an ability to do that. They

2235
01:57:03,360 --> 01:57:05,680
Speaker 1: finished the season averaging over thirty a game, and I

2236
01:57:06,040 --> 01:57:07,600
Speaker 1: haven't looked at it and I'd like, I'd like, no,

2237
01:57:07,640 --> 01:57:09,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. I have to look at how

2238
01:57:09,640 --> 01:57:11,440
Speaker 1: many points they score in the second half of games,

2239
01:57:11,480 --> 01:57:13,520
Speaker 1: because Tennessee strikes me as a team that scores a

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01:57:13,600 --> 01:57:16,520
Speaker 1: lot late because guys just get sick to death of

2241
01:57:16,640 --> 01:57:20,840
Speaker 1: tackling Henry. Right, it's all right, you come in there

2242
01:57:20,880 --> 01:57:22,960
Speaker 1: all all hyped up and stuff and whack him up

2243
01:57:22,960 --> 01:57:24,840
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, and then the second quarter it's like, wow,

2244
01:57:24,880 --> 01:57:26,320
Speaker 1: that's you know, he's a load, you know, and then

2245
01:57:26,320 --> 01:57:29,000
Speaker 1: the third quarters like oh man, all right, fourth quarters

2246
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:30,560
Speaker 1: like oh, I don't want any part of it, right,

2247
01:57:31,200 --> 01:57:33,800
Speaker 1: and you just kind of give up points that way.

2248
01:57:33,840 --> 01:57:36,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see. I mean, they're just gonna

2249
01:57:36,200 --> 01:57:38,360
Speaker 1: be a battle of attrition. They score a lot of

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01:57:38,400 --> 01:57:42,000
Speaker 1: points for a running team. Right. There is news out

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01:57:42,080 --> 01:57:45,880
Speaker 1: of the Colts camp. The Colts will not have starting

2252
01:57:45,960 --> 01:57:49,200
Speaker 1: cornerback Rock You since Saturday. He will remain in the

2253
01:57:49,280 --> 01:57:52,280
Speaker 1: concussion protocol and will not be cleared in time for

2254
01:57:52,400 --> 01:57:56,480
Speaker 1: Saturday's game. So that means backup Tjkerry, We'll have to

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01:57:56,520 --> 01:57:58,880
Speaker 1: step in for him against a team that goes three

2256
01:57:58,920 --> 01:58:00,960
Speaker 1: and four wide as much as the Bills do. That

2257
01:58:01,160 --> 01:58:05,720
Speaker 1: is a critical subtraction from the starting secondary for the

2258
01:58:05,800 --> 01:58:09,200
Speaker 1: Colts carry Willis Curry. Willis is officially cleared he's there

2259
01:58:09,280 --> 01:58:12,240
Speaker 1: starting strong safety him is last week's game and is

2260
01:58:12,280 --> 01:58:15,760
Speaker 1: considered kind of that anchor in their secondary. They're gonna

2261
01:58:15,760 --> 01:58:17,600
Speaker 1: have to go deep because you know, the first thing

2262
01:58:17,640 --> 01:58:19,680
Speaker 1: you do if you're the Bills coaching staff is saying, Okay, now,

2263
01:58:19,720 --> 01:58:22,360
Speaker 1: who's their next guy in And we got to like

2264
01:58:22,560 --> 01:58:26,440
Speaker 1: him against Gabe Davis or fourth guy or against whoever

2265
01:58:26,520 --> 01:58:29,760
Speaker 1: else we've got in there. Yeah, you're gonna have to

2266
01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:32,600
Speaker 1: You're gonna see how how thin they can go, how

2267
01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:36,840
Speaker 1: deep they go in their coining, their secondary zone or man,

2268
01:58:38,040 --> 01:58:40,200
Speaker 1: if they zone it, that just means that they're not

2269
01:58:40,240 --> 01:58:42,080
Speaker 1: going to have that many guys to rush the passer,

2270
01:58:42,800 --> 01:58:45,280
Speaker 1: and and like and like Pete says, and like we've

2271
01:58:45,320 --> 01:58:46,960
Speaker 1: said a million times on this show, we all know,

2272
01:58:47,360 --> 01:58:49,360
Speaker 1: if you can get pressure with just four guys, you're

2273
01:58:49,360 --> 01:58:51,520
Speaker 1: gonna win the game because your defense is gonna be solid.

2274
01:58:52,440 --> 01:58:54,520
Speaker 1: But this offensive line of the Bills has been playing

2275
01:58:54,600 --> 01:58:58,640
Speaker 1: extremely well and protecting extremely well. That's it' that's a

2276
01:58:58,880 --> 01:59:02,160
Speaker 1: it's an uphill battle without being one hundred percent physically

2277
01:59:02,200 --> 01:59:05,520
Speaker 1: in the secondary, yeah, I mean maybe against this team

2278
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:07,960
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs more than any other in the AFC.

2279
01:59:08,320 --> 01:59:10,879
Speaker 1: Maybe Pittsburgh because they can throw some pretty good receivers

2280
01:59:10,920 --> 01:59:13,600
Speaker 1: out there too. But man, you're not healthy on the

2281
01:59:13,680 --> 01:59:16,280
Speaker 1: back end. Once you get to the player, that's tough. Yeah,

2282
01:59:16,520 --> 01:59:18,640
Speaker 1: that is tough. Well, you still got to play, man

2283
01:59:18,800 --> 01:59:21,760
Speaker 1: that You're right, You're right. But yeah, so that is

2284
01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:24,360
Speaker 1: the news. No Rock us in starting cornerback for the

2285
01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:27,440
Speaker 1: Colts on Saturday. He is out of the lineup still

2286
01:59:27,480 --> 01:59:30,360
Speaker 1: in the concussion protocol. They will have their starting strong

2287
01:59:30,480 --> 01:59:34,720
Speaker 1: safety back out of concussion protocol officially cleared. Cary willis

2288
01:59:35,120 --> 01:59:39,640
Speaker 1: ready to go. That is from Zach Kiefer, the reporter

2289
01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:42,560
Speaker 1: for the Colts for the Athletic Break Time for us

2290
01:59:42,600 --> 01:59:44,160
Speaker 1: when we come back. More of your comments on the

2291
01:59:44,200 --> 01:59:46,400
Speaker 1: tweet sheet in terms of the under the radar player,

2292
01:59:46,480 --> 01:59:49,160
Speaker 1: you think we'll step up with a big performance for

2293
01:59:49,280 --> 01:59:52,600
Speaker 1: the Bills on Saturday against the Colts. It's One Bills

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Speaker 1: also to this week's game sponsor, Pepsi, the official soft

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Speaker 1: drink of the Buffalo Bills. They are the game sponsor

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Speaker 1: this week for the wild Card Player contest. Earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: I was pulling into work here in the morning and

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Speaker 1: you drive in, you know how, it's the place has

2312
02:00:59,800 --> 02:01:02,680
Speaker 1: been vacant for months, right, nobody showed, right, it's a

2313
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Speaker 1: skeleton crew. Yeah. So I'm pulling in and sure enough,

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Speaker 1: there's a Beard truck in the parking lot, right, because

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02:01:09,160 --> 02:01:11,160
Speaker 1: there will be some fans and there will be a

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Speaker 1: concession stands. Yeah, and we want they want to remind

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Speaker 1: fans that are going to the game all concession stands

2318
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Speaker 1: will have identical offerings on purpose because they don't want

2319
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Speaker 1: people wandering around to other areas of the stadium. They

2320
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Speaker 1: want you kind of staying in your section with the

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Speaker 1: concession stand closest to your seat location. Um, even if

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Speaker 1: you have a fan that even if you have a

2323
02:01:35,040 --> 02:01:36,560
Speaker 1: buddy that you found out at the game on the

2324
02:01:36,640 --> 02:01:38,760
Speaker 1: other side of the stadium, they don't want you walking

2325
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Speaker 1: around and commiserating with them. They want you in your

2326
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Speaker 1: own area, restricting, you know, wandering around. They just don't

2327
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Speaker 1: want it. All right, let me ask you, just between us,

2328
02:01:47,160 --> 02:01:50,240
Speaker 1: no nobody else is listening. How do you think that's

2329
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Speaker 1: going to go the game? Well there with the fans,

2330
02:01:52,840 --> 02:01:55,879
Speaker 1: you think just saying there's a tag tracing and the testing.

2331
02:01:56,160 --> 02:01:59,160
Speaker 1: There's gonna be ushers there watching people's movements. What do

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Speaker 1: they do though, shepherding people? And are they gonna be like, hey,

2333
02:02:01,880 --> 02:02:04,200
Speaker 1: put your mask up and then your debt or yes, listen,

2334
02:02:04,240 --> 02:02:06,720
Speaker 1: you gotta go, or you know they're gonna escort you out.

2335
02:02:06,800 --> 02:02:11,800
Speaker 1: We gotta remember this is a state enacted plan and

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02:02:11,920 --> 02:02:14,920
Speaker 1: the bills, it's on the bills to execute this plan

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02:02:15,520 --> 02:02:18,720
Speaker 1: to the letter. Right, Um, it's I know the governor

2338
02:02:18,840 --> 02:02:20,440
Speaker 1: is not going to be here, but you better believe

2339
02:02:20,640 --> 02:02:22,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna His people are gonna be I heard they're

2340
02:02:22,680 --> 02:02:26,160
Speaker 1: gonna send thirty state inspectors like health inspectors. I'm telling

2341
02:02:26,200 --> 02:02:28,960
Speaker 1: you they're gonna be watching. Like telling you. If you

2342
02:02:29,160 --> 02:02:32,840
Speaker 1: want fans at the next playoff game, assuming the Bills

2343
02:02:32,840 --> 02:02:37,280
Speaker 1: win this one, just adhere to all the guidelines and

2344
02:02:37,480 --> 02:02:41,360
Speaker 1: protocols please. Yeah, that's because that will give the opportunity,

2345
02:02:41,360 --> 02:02:44,600
Speaker 1: that will open up the opportunity for hopefully another sixty

2346
02:02:44,640 --> 02:02:46,680
Speaker 1: seven hundred fans to go to the next game. Right,

2347
02:02:46,800 --> 02:02:49,000
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe you're right by your fellow fans.

2348
02:02:49,080 --> 02:02:51,000
Speaker 1: Give them you're lucky enough to go to this one,

2349
02:02:51,440 --> 02:02:53,280
Speaker 1: give them the opportunity to go to the next one.

2350
02:02:53,520 --> 02:02:57,280
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Just Bills fans are great

2351
02:02:57,280 --> 02:03:00,440
Speaker 1: at pulling together. Pull together this week for the benefit

2352
02:03:00,480 --> 02:03:03,920
Speaker 1: of the greater fan base. Um, we'll see. Yeah. I

2353
02:03:03,960 --> 02:03:05,960
Speaker 1: think it's going to be really interesting. The contact tracing

2354
02:03:06,040 --> 02:03:09,600
Speaker 1: is what I'm going to be interested in. How and why?

2355
02:03:09,720 --> 02:03:13,080
Speaker 1: And I mean how does that work? Do they call

2356
02:03:13,160 --> 02:03:14,360
Speaker 1: you on the phone and say where have you been

2357
02:03:14,440 --> 02:03:18,720
Speaker 1: for three days? Well? I think it goes into action

2358
02:03:18,800 --> 02:03:21,120
Speaker 1: if there's some positive that they discover, so or is

2359
02:03:21,120 --> 02:03:26,320
Speaker 1: everybody mandatorily going to get tested later? Well, I would say,

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Speaker 1: I am just guessing you're getting into an area that right,

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02:03:30,120 --> 02:03:32,520
Speaker 1: You nor I are qualifying because I have no idea.

2362
02:03:32,600 --> 02:03:36,160
Speaker 1: I'm asking because I want to know. I think inquiring

2363
02:03:36,200 --> 02:03:39,840
Speaker 1: minds want to know. Yeah, I mean, I think it's work.

2364
02:03:41,760 --> 02:03:43,680
Speaker 1: They're just gonna watch and see if there's an outbreak

2365
02:03:43,880 --> 02:03:46,040
Speaker 1: for them to what that's what will happen somebody. They'll

2366
02:03:46,080 --> 02:03:47,600
Speaker 1: wait and if they get a positive, say, were you

2367
02:03:47,680 --> 02:03:53,000
Speaker 1: at the game? Mh yeah? Right? Um. It looks like

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Speaker 1: the Chargers are interviewing former Cowboys head coach and current

2369
02:03:58,840 --> 02:04:03,800
Speaker 1: Giants OC Jason and Garrett tomorrow. He's being interviewed tomorrow

2370
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Speaker 1: by the Chargers. That can happen because the Giants are

2371
02:04:07,440 --> 02:04:12,040
Speaker 1: not playing football anymore. For those wondering, when is the

2372
02:04:12,160 --> 02:04:15,280
Speaker 1: earliest that Brian Dable could interview for one of the

2373
02:04:15,360 --> 02:04:18,840
Speaker 1: head coaching jobs he has been requested for, namely the

2374
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Speaker 1: Jets of the Chargers, it would be next week, starting

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Speaker 1: next Monday, that could happen and January tenth. When is

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02:04:26,680 --> 02:04:30,760
Speaker 1: the tenth? What's today the seventh? So eight nine, ten, oh?

2377
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Speaker 1: He could start as early as Sunday. Sunday is Saturday,

2378
02:04:34,680 --> 02:04:37,440
Speaker 1: he could do a virtual interview with either the Chargers

2379
02:04:37,520 --> 02:04:42,160
Speaker 1: or the Jets as early at Sunday Marvin Lewis and

2380
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Speaker 1: I would assume that because you would want to as

2381
02:04:45,800 --> 02:04:47,680
Speaker 1: no one, he's still got work to do here. Assuming

2382
02:04:47,720 --> 02:04:53,000
Speaker 1: the bills went on Saturday, I think coach McDermott would say, Okay,

2383
02:04:53,040 --> 02:04:56,040
Speaker 1: here's your day to take care of that, and he

2384
02:04:56,040 --> 02:04:58,720
Speaker 1: would have to probably presumably do both interviews the same day.

2385
02:04:59,280 --> 02:05:03,560
Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis, former Cincinnati Bengals head coach, just finished an

2386
02:05:03,560 --> 02:05:06,840
Speaker 1: interview with the New York Jets, an experienced head coach,

2387
02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:09,920
Speaker 1: that'll be. So he's on making the rounds. I know

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Speaker 1: he also interviewed with the Texans, I believe, Yeah, that's right,

2389
02:05:15,640 --> 02:05:17,480
Speaker 1: or maybe it was Atlanta, I can't remember, but he's

2390
02:05:17,560 --> 02:05:19,360
Speaker 1: that's the second interview I've heard of him getting. I

2391
02:05:19,440 --> 02:05:22,080
Speaker 1: think it was the Houston Texans, now the New York Jets.

2392
02:05:22,880 --> 02:05:25,520
Speaker 1: So guys are getting it done who are free to

2393
02:05:25,640 --> 02:05:28,880
Speaker 1: do so. And that picked up pace after Sunday's teams

2394
02:05:28,920 --> 02:05:30,840
Speaker 1: after the regular season ended, and there's only you know,

2395
02:05:31,400 --> 02:05:33,600
Speaker 1: there's fourteen teams that are that are still in it,

2396
02:05:33,680 --> 02:05:39,600
Speaker 1: and so yeah, that's this is an interesting hiring site.

2397
02:05:39,600 --> 02:05:42,720
Speaker 1: Well most of all for Bills fans. The Jets are

2398
02:05:42,760 --> 02:05:47,560
Speaker 1: getting a new head coach and they're in the division

2399
02:05:47,960 --> 02:05:52,080
Speaker 1: and they got I just think that's what's gonna happen

2400
02:05:52,120 --> 02:05:54,680
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Yeah, and the Dolphins just parted ways

2401
02:05:54,720 --> 02:05:58,760
Speaker 1: with their defensive line coach, right as coaches are going

2402
02:05:58,840 --> 02:06:01,120
Speaker 1: to be tinkering with their staff. Further tweaks are made

2403
02:06:01,160 --> 02:06:04,160
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins coaching staff. Jane Gailey resigned and now

2404
02:06:04,160 --> 02:06:07,560
Speaker 1: their defensive line coach as parted ways with the team.

2405
02:06:07,680 --> 02:06:09,680
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott did that for a couple of years too.

2406
02:06:10,040 --> 02:06:14,280
Speaker 1: There's also Browns news. The Browns have placed safety Ronnie

2407
02:06:14,360 --> 02:06:17,960
Speaker 1: Harrison on the COVID reserve list, so he is the

2408
02:06:18,160 --> 02:06:20,520
Speaker 1: latest player to be taken out of the mix for

2409
02:06:20,680 --> 02:06:27,160
Speaker 1: the game against the Steelers on what is that Sunday night? So, man,

2410
02:06:28,040 --> 02:06:31,320
Speaker 1: they did get a player off the COVID reserve list.

2411
02:06:31,360 --> 02:06:35,600
Speaker 1: Safety andrews Hendejo has been activated. So it's kind of

2412
02:06:35,680 --> 02:06:40,800
Speaker 1: a wash there at the safety position, but still it's

2413
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Speaker 1: it's still an issue there in Cleveland, and they haven't

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Speaker 1: been in their building this week yet. I don't believe.

2415
02:06:47,000 --> 02:06:50,000
Speaker 1: So you're preparing for a playoff game for the first

2416
02:06:50,040 --> 02:06:52,320
Speaker 1: time in eighteen years and you can't even get on

2417
02:06:52,400 --> 02:06:57,720
Speaker 1: a practice field. That is tough. Yeah, that's first. They

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02:06:57,720 --> 02:07:00,720
Speaker 1: haven't won a twenty six years since they won a

2419
02:07:00,760 --> 02:07:03,560
Speaker 1: playoff game. Won a playoff game last in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: in O two. I want to say that was the

2421
02:07:05,360 --> 02:07:10,720
Speaker 1: drought for them. Yeah, so they ended that, but it

2422
02:07:10,880 --> 02:07:12,320
Speaker 1: is gonna be a tough road to hold for them

2423
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:16,120
Speaker 1: to come up with a victory in Pittsburgh, you know,

2424
02:07:16,200 --> 02:07:17,880
Speaker 1: and they won't have their head coach, probably gonna be

2425
02:07:17,920 --> 02:07:21,920
Speaker 1: down a few players at least. Yesh Man, I've say

2426
02:07:21,920 --> 02:07:24,560
Speaker 1: it again. I am absolutely just sitting here looking at

2427
02:07:24,600 --> 02:07:27,720
Speaker 1: the clock waiting for time to pass until Sun Saturday.

2428
02:07:27,760 --> 02:07:32,080
Speaker 1: I just I am so done with this wild card

2429
02:07:32,720 --> 02:07:35,320
Speaker 1: week leading up to the game. I'm so glad we're

2430
02:07:35,320 --> 02:07:38,080
Speaker 1: the first ones out of the blocks too. Love it,

2431
02:07:38,560 --> 02:07:42,520
Speaker 1: absolutely love that. There is another um development with the

2432
02:07:42,600 --> 02:07:46,560
Speaker 1: Jets head coaching search. They've requested permission to speak with

2433
02:07:46,760 --> 02:07:50,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn, who is a former first round pick of

2434
02:07:50,120 --> 02:07:53,720
Speaker 1: the Jets in the nineties. I played against him and

2435
02:07:53,960 --> 02:07:57,000
Speaker 1: he is a secondary coach for the Saints right now.

2436
02:07:57,560 --> 02:08:00,880
Speaker 1: So there's not even a coordinator. It's not to me. Guys,

2437
02:08:00,880 --> 02:08:05,440
Speaker 1: I can say this about I lit Aaron Glynn, Um yeah,

2438
02:08:05,480 --> 02:08:08,800
Speaker 1: I had the book on him. Was a great athlete,

2439
02:08:09,240 --> 02:08:13,040
Speaker 1: Tue sound Todd Collins threw me a touchdown pass, no kid, Yeah,

2440
02:08:13,360 --> 02:08:16,480
Speaker 1: I love it. How about that? He's a and I'm

2441
02:08:16,520 --> 02:08:19,920
Speaker 1: saying he's a good player, fifteen year player, played for

2442
02:08:20,000 --> 02:08:22,080
Speaker 1: them very well, was a first round draft pick. He's

2443
02:08:22,120 --> 02:08:25,040
Speaker 1: been a coach, was a scout and has moved up

2444
02:08:25,160 --> 02:08:28,080
Speaker 1: very quickly. He's he's got a lot of leadership qualities,

2445
02:08:28,080 --> 02:08:30,400
Speaker 1: and that the first thing you look at for these things.

2446
02:08:30,440 --> 02:08:32,760
Speaker 1: Coach a pretty good secondary right New Orleans. That's right,

2447
02:08:32,840 --> 02:08:34,960
Speaker 1: he's a he's got leadership qualities, and he's been in

2448
02:08:35,000 --> 02:08:37,960
Speaker 1: New Orleans with a head coach that is a go

2449
02:08:38,160 --> 02:08:45,960
Speaker 1: getter guy who's high energy, hands on, program oriented, culture oriented. Um,

2450
02:08:46,160 --> 02:08:49,080
Speaker 1: so he's probably pretty primed to start getting into the

2451
02:08:49,160 --> 02:08:53,120
Speaker 1: loop for head coaching opportunities. That's pretty interesting to me.

2452
02:08:53,200 --> 02:08:57,520
Speaker 1: Plus he's as a POSIIP guy too. Well. Yeah, secondary

2453
02:08:57,560 --> 02:09:00,760
Speaker 1: coach with the Saints has never been a coordinator to

2454
02:09:00,840 --> 02:09:05,240
Speaker 1: my knowledge. So interesting that they might they're considering him

2455
02:09:05,360 --> 02:09:09,160
Speaker 1: to be a head coaching can if if you can

2456
02:09:09,200 --> 02:09:11,400
Speaker 1: find the guys, and I say it again, you find

2457
02:09:11,440 --> 02:09:13,360
Speaker 1: the smartest guy you can find, and you support him

2458
02:09:13,440 --> 02:09:16,760
Speaker 1: till he figures it out. And if Aarren Glenn is

2459
02:09:16,840 --> 02:09:21,280
Speaker 1: cut from that cloth, you know, give him the Job's

2460
02:09:21,320 --> 02:09:23,360
Speaker 1: young guy, give him the job and let him figure

2461
02:09:23,360 --> 02:09:27,040
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, you know, just support him. You'll get there.

2462
02:09:27,120 --> 02:09:29,280
Speaker 1: He'll get there, your team will get there. And naturally,

2463
02:09:29,320 --> 02:09:31,720
Speaker 1: Bills fans are interested in who the other candidates are

2464
02:09:31,760 --> 02:09:33,680
Speaker 1: for the Jets because they know the deable is going

2465
02:09:33,760 --> 02:09:35,120
Speaker 1: to be in that mix as well. Let's take the

2466
02:09:35,120 --> 02:09:38,200
Speaker 1: requested permission to speak with him. Same thing with the Chargers,

2467
02:09:38,440 --> 02:09:42,720
Speaker 1: who are supposed to interview Jason Garrett Tomorrow. Last one

2468
02:09:42,800 --> 02:09:45,720
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet to get to from Max. I'm

2469
02:09:45,800 --> 02:09:49,040
Speaker 1: saying Tyler Croft, the man has sure hands and he's

2470
02:09:49,080 --> 02:09:51,480
Speaker 1: dependable in big moments. I could see him making a

2471
02:09:51,520 --> 02:09:54,280
Speaker 1: crucial play at some point during this game. If Dane

2472
02:09:54,400 --> 02:09:56,920
Speaker 1: Jackson was going to get any reps, i'd say him,

2473
02:09:56,960 --> 02:09:58,880
Speaker 1: but I doubt he is. I've been impressed with him

2474
02:09:58,960 --> 02:10:01,520
Speaker 1: so far. He's a baller. I like Dan Jackson too.

2475
02:10:01,840 --> 02:10:04,920
Speaker 1: I am a Dane Jackson fan, and I think that's

2476
02:10:04,960 --> 02:10:06,720
Speaker 1: a kid that's going to be pushing people for a

2477
02:10:06,800 --> 02:10:10,080
Speaker 1: starting job opposite Tradavious White next year. Yeah, I'm saying

2478
02:10:10,080 --> 02:10:11,640
Speaker 1: he'll get it. I think he's gonna push for it.

2479
02:10:11,720 --> 02:10:14,320
Speaker 1: I agree he The only box he doesn't check for

2480
02:10:14,440 --> 02:10:17,600
Speaker 1: me is size. He's under some little it's a little slight.

2481
02:10:17,960 --> 02:10:22,200
Speaker 1: But he's aggressive, he's a willing tackler, and he's athletic,

2482
02:10:23,360 --> 02:10:25,600
Speaker 1: and he's an incredi and he plays with an edge.

2483
02:10:25,680 --> 02:10:28,560
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm totally with you, and I've i've you know,

2484
02:10:28,720 --> 02:10:31,000
Speaker 1: he's if he earns it, he'll get an opportunity. But yeah,

2485
02:10:31,040 --> 02:10:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm totally with you, Brownie. That's a great call by Max.

2486
02:10:34,240 --> 02:10:36,880
Speaker 1: Max Ye break time for us back in a moment

2487
02:10:36,920 --> 02:10:38,760
Speaker 1: here to close it up with what have we learned?

2488
02:10:39,200 --> 02:10:41,280
Speaker 1: Back in a moment On One Bill's Live, presented by

2489
02:10:41,360 --> 02:10:58,720
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio time for what

2490
02:10:58,960 --> 02:11:02,120
Speaker 1: have we learned from today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks,

2491
02:11:02,160 --> 02:11:06,360
Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills

2492
02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:10,080
Speaker 1: and Steve. We learned that both Cole Beasley and Stefan

2493
02:11:10,200 --> 02:11:14,280
Speaker 1: Diggs are questionable for Saturday's game. Injury report coming out

2494
02:11:14,280 --> 02:11:17,240
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago. Both of those players limited in

2495
02:11:17,400 --> 02:11:24,640
Speaker 1: practice today and questionable for Saturday's game. Yeah, that's concerning,

2496
02:11:24,680 --> 02:11:27,360
Speaker 1: no question about. You don't want you lose both those guys.

2497
02:11:28,080 --> 02:11:31,880
Speaker 1: The game is in doubt. You think it's that big

2498
02:11:31,920 --> 02:11:34,640
Speaker 1: of a swing. Yeah, yeah, I do. You go from

2499
02:11:34,720 --> 02:11:40,320
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley's Stefen and Stefen Diggs to John Brown Gabe Davis. Yeah,

2500
02:11:40,600 --> 02:11:42,480
Speaker 1: that's that's a drop. And then you also, you know

2501
02:11:45,000 --> 02:11:47,480
Speaker 1: McKenzie is talking two tight ends on the field instead

2502
02:11:47,520 --> 02:11:49,720
Speaker 1: of four wides. Yeah, that's a big difference. I think

2503
02:11:49,800 --> 02:11:52,400
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie on the injury report but listed as good

2504
02:11:52,480 --> 02:11:55,320
Speaker 1: to go as he got through the practice week coming

2505
02:11:55,360 --> 02:11:58,120
Speaker 1: back from an ankle ailment, so he will be up

2506
02:11:58,240 --> 02:12:02,120
Speaker 1: and ready to play. But yeah, the needless to say

2507
02:12:02,200 --> 02:12:06,120
Speaker 1: people will be biting their fingernails on Saturday at eleven

2508
02:12:06,320 --> 02:12:11,000
Speaker 1: thirty when the inactives are announced. Yeah, we're gonna be,

2509
02:12:11,120 --> 02:12:14,360
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, I mean this is uh for fans,

2510
02:12:14,920 --> 02:12:17,200
Speaker 1: um it's different for players. But for fans you have

2511
02:12:17,360 --> 02:12:19,080
Speaker 1: no control of. You gotta wait till these guys play,

2512
02:12:19,080 --> 02:12:21,040
Speaker 1: and you gotta hope your team shows up and plays well.

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Speaker 1: And for the Colts players, you know they're on the road,

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Speaker 1: they're playing against the team that's on fire. You hope

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Speaker 1: you can go out and make hay against them. For

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Speaker 1: Bill's fans, you just hope that they can keep on

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Speaker 1: keeping on where what they've been doing. And because you know,

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Speaker 1: quite frankly, last year they got off to a great

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Speaker 1: start in their playoff game and they couldn't finish it.

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Speaker 1: That the finality of it is frightening for fans. For players,

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Speaker 1: not so much. It shouldn't be for so much. They're

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Speaker 1: looking forward to it. They you know, if you play

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Speaker 1: your game, which you're going to, let's go, you know

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Speaker 1: you'll take your chances. And that's the players mentalities a

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Speaker 1: much more positive and fans who have no control. Here's

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Speaker 1: here's a here's a temperature gauge on where fans are at.

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Speaker 1: So I tweeted out the injury report, explaining that Diggs

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Speaker 1: and Beasley are questionable for the game on Saturday. The

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Speaker 1: first retweet of my injury report in all Caps the

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Speaker 1: fan says, I am not worried about Stefon Diggs. I

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Speaker 1: am not worried about Stefan Diggs. I am not worried

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Speaker 1: about Stefon Diggs. They're gonna grip a little bit over

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Speaker 1: the next forty eight hours. Hey, it's all been fun. Ride.

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Speaker 1: It don't mean anything if it doesn't continue. Right now,

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Speaker 1: the Colts will be without their starting cornerback rock you

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Speaker 1: Sin still in concussion protocol. He is out for Saturday's game,

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Speaker 1: not even questionable, so they will be down to man

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Speaker 1: in their starting secondary as well, although they will get

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Speaker 1: that starting strong safety back carry Willis. He is out

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Speaker 1: of concussion protocol after missing last week's game with a concussion.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for Steve and I for this

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Speaker 1: Thursday edition of One Bill's Live. Thanks for listening, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for watching jam Packed. Friday tomorrow the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: Tasker's teammate Lorenzo Alexander and Greg Cosell, along with the

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Speaker 1: O b L Fan mail Bag. Get your questions ready,

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Speaker 1: We'll see you then,