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Speaker 1: I'm not sold on the Raiders, especially after that performance yesterday,

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Speaker 1: almost lost to a team without twenty two players. Are

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Speaker 1: you kidding me? That's that's a bad loss. I don't.

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Speaker 1: They don't. It's well, it's a it's kind of an

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Speaker 1: It's the ugliest of ugly wins, that's for sure. So

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Speaker 1: who are you? Who are your contenders? Steve, Like, do

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Speaker 1: you have a feel for this? I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: look at the teams in the playoff position, you feel

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Speaker 1: good about Kansas City, you feel good about New England.

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Speaker 1: Tennessee is a little bit of an enigma right now.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to get healthier, but Julio Jones is out

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Speaker 1: again with a hamstring. They just got a j brownback.

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Speaker 1: Looks like he'll play this week, which is, you know,

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Speaker 1: a big ad for them. They're turning the ball over

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Speaker 1: though lately, which is not it's very uncharacteristic of them.

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Speaker 1: But yet there they are at nine and five. They

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Speaker 1: hold the head to head edge over Indie via the

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Speaker 1: season sweep. They beat them twice early in the season.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I think there's a chance that's saying

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Speaker 1: that the Titans could lose two coming down the stretch

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Speaker 1: here of the three they have left. San Francisco could

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Speaker 1: beat them, Yes, and I think so could Miami the

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Speaker 1: way their defense is playing. So and think about that

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Speaker 1: if they go, if they drop two right here in

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Speaker 1: the next two weeks, the shine is off and Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: is going to be the team. You know, that's a possibility.

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Speaker 1: And I think I think the Titans, while they are

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Speaker 1: so they're well coached. I think the Tennessee Titans are

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Speaker 1: very well coached. So I don't know that they're going

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Speaker 1: to all in their face, but they got such mileage

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Speaker 1: out of you know, they're a beat up group. To

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Speaker 1: they're a beat up group, but I think they've done

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Speaker 1: too much so far in the year to think you're

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Speaker 1: they're not going to be there at the end in

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Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. Okay. I think the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: except for their schedule, I would say the Chargers are

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Speaker 1: a contender or a pretender. A pretender, okay, because they

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Speaker 1: can't stop anybody on defense. Is that your issue? That? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. And I think that their homes through

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Speaker 1: for over fours against them, that's right. And you know,

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Speaker 1: a team like Denver could give them real problems with

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Speaker 1: their defense, and a team and even a team going

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Speaker 1: on the road into Houston maybe of Vegas. You know

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Speaker 1: they've got Houston, Denver, Vegas. Yeah, the Charger You're gonna

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Speaker 1: lose one of those games, I think so, okay, and

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Speaker 1: that you know, and that that that still gets to

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Speaker 1: tenants that could put that could put their wild card

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Speaker 1: chances um in jeopard question. Yeah, Baltimore, I don't think

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Speaker 1: Timar is going to be there. Their number eight spot.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh I do not think is going to be there.

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Speaker 1: They're there by virtue of their tie. I think a

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Speaker 1: tougher team to get out off of the field or

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Speaker 1: the ten we're all the way down, looking how far

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Speaker 1: down we go. Miami and Cleveland I think are more

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Speaker 1: are playing better football right now than any of the

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Speaker 1: three teams in the Hunt. Above them Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: I think Miami and Cleveland are playing better than their

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Speaker 1: record would indicate. Yeah, I have already seen the Bills

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Speaker 1: mafia community on social media already putting together a Christmas

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Speaker 1: wish list which includes the following Bills win out and

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Speaker 1: win the division, Patriots lose out and miss the playoffs

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Speaker 1: because Miami wins out and gets in and New England

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Speaker 1: is out for two years in a row. Be careful

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Speaker 1: what you wish for because it's very hard to beat

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Speaker 1: the same team three times in one season. And the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins that are playing right now are not the

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Speaker 1: same Miami Dolphins the Bills saw just a month and

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Speaker 1: a half ago. I'll say this that when I was

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Speaker 1: doing going through all the scenarios and a different win,

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Speaker 1: who wins this game, and go all the way through

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Speaker 1: the whole league. I did the whole schedule and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. The key game, the key team for me,

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Speaker 1: comes down to the Baltimore Ravens for the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: If the Ravens struggle down the stretch, that's the team

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Speaker 1: that has the most to do with the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: getting in. Because I do not know all I'm saying

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Speaker 1: is when I when I predicted, when I when I

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Speaker 1: tinkered with the Ravens games, those swung the Bill like

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Speaker 1: Afiator with this playoffs simulator, the Baltimore Ravens had the

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Speaker 1: biggest effect on what the Buffalo Bills chances were well

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Speaker 1: because they play Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and right, and

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Speaker 1: they play the Rams as well, which is a you know, tough,

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Speaker 1: tough game to win, so thumbs up thumbs down on

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Speaker 1: all of those games. If it's I, I think the

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Speaker 1: Bills chances hinge on. And this is regardless of what

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Speaker 1: the Bills do against New England Patriots, win or lose,

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Speaker 1: it does come down to what the Baltimore Ravens, the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, and the Pittsburgh Steelers do well. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into this more after the break, but the Bills, if

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Speaker 1: they're unable to come up with a victory this week,

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Speaker 1: the division is obviously off the table, and then you

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Speaker 1: are going to probably need some assistance from some other

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Speaker 1: AFC clubs to find a way in via the wild

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Speaker 1: card and through tie breakers scenarios, so that that could

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Speaker 1: get very tricky, very quickly if they don't win this week.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, but when we

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Speaker 1: come back, we'll get to your thoughts on the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet as well as on the phone lines eight oh

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Speaker 1: three five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty got Kyle Brandt from Good Morning Football making

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Speaker 1: his weekly appearance coming up in the second hour of

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Speaker 1: the show, So stay tuned for that. But we'll be

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Speaker 1: going to be asking you you're playoff contenders and pretenders

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Speaker 1: in the AFC. Now that Week fifteen for AFC clubs

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Speaker 1: has been put to bed, We're back in a moment

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio lined up a shotgun snap. Allen

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Speaker 1: takes a look, looks Ridicus now changes his direction, fire

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Speaker 1: straight down the middle. It is caught in the ends

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Speaker 1: of touchdown Buffalo Gabriel Davis touchdown Bill a twenty yard

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Speaker 1: strength from Josh Allen. I thought it was gonna be

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Speaker 1: able a little bit earlier, but then I'm not meaning

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Speaker 1: he had to scramble a little bit and just hoping

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Speaker 1: for just a World War throop, And then he did

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Speaker 1: it and I was able to make play on him.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of trust in him. He continues

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Speaker 1: to make plays. Like you said, um, he's a strong,

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Speaker 1: physical dude. And today I thought, I think he saw

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Speaker 1: it again where he produced for us and made some

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Speaker 1: big plays. That's here Freedol a Crunch Time play of

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you one Bills Live here

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Speaker 1: with you until three. Got Kyle Brand from Good Morning

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Speaker 1: Football coming up in about twenty five minutes from now.

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Speaker 1: But we want to go to the phones at eight

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Speaker 1: oh three, oh five fifty one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty open line for you there. Who

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Speaker 1: are the playoff contenders and pretenders in the AFC. We

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Speaker 1: lead off with Carmine in Ohio. What do you have

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Speaker 1: for us? Carmine, You're on one Bills Live. First off,

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Speaker 1: I just want to tell you guys, Marry Christmas, and

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Speaker 1: I'm finally glad that we gave Gabriel Davis what he

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Speaker 1: deserves and he's he's a great wide receiver and last year,

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Speaker 1: all year he was in the game and we had

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Speaker 1: a lot of big plays. And I think that's a

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Speaker 1: great choice that they were using Gabriel Davis more since

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Speaker 1: unfortunately Emanol Sanders isn't a plan. Yeah, it'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see what it looks like going forward. If Sanders

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Speaker 1: gets back on the practice field this week. We'll know

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Speaker 1: more about that tomorrow. But yeah, it is. It is undeniable, Carmine,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for the call and Marry Christmas to you too.

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Speaker 1: It is undeniable that Davis has made an impact four

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in the last three games, and in every game

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Speaker 1: this season when he has gotten more than fifty percent

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Speaker 1: of the snaps, he has either provided a touchdown or

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Speaker 1: one hundred yards receiving one or the other. That's production one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people it's he's I don't

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Speaker 1: want to I'm not trying to be flipping, right. He's

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Speaker 1: the flavor of the month right now. He's been He's

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Speaker 1: the one guy offensively in an up and down six

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Speaker 1: weeks where the Bills of one one lost, one lost,

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Speaker 1: one one one. He's been the guy that's been the

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Speaker 1: constant bright spot in the Bills offense when everybody else

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Speaker 1: has been going up and down. Every time he gets

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Speaker 1: on the field, he has produced. And that's I think

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Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons. People say, you know, let's

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Speaker 1: if he's so dependable, let's rely on him more. And

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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with it at all. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a good move. Yeah, and I would anticipate

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Speaker 1: that he's going to continue to be on the field

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Speaker 1: even if Emmanuel Sanders is healthy. I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: see how he can take him off, Like, wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: be doing your offense at disservice if you took him

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Speaker 1: off the field? I mean, with what he's been able

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Speaker 1: to do heat they played the number one pass defense

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Speaker 1: in the NFL last week and hung thirty one points

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Speaker 1: on him, and Gabe Davis was a big producer and

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Speaker 1: five catches for eighty five yards and two touchdowns. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just give him a chance to do more. It's

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Speaker 1: that simple. Eight oh three, oh five fifty the number

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Speaker 1: to get on board. We also want to get some

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Speaker 1: of your thoughts off of the tweet sheet, which is

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Speaker 1: where we're going right now. Tweet sheet brought to you

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and Kevin leads us off there and says,

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Speaker 1: in the best case, Bills went out, Dolphins went out

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Speaker 1: and the Pats miss the playoffs. I told you people

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Speaker 1: were coming out of the woodwork hoping for that scenario.

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Speaker 1: Let's just worry about the Bills. We can figure everything

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Speaker 1: else out later. Focus all of your energies on positive

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Speaker 1: vibes for the Bills. We'll worry about the Patriots and

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins later. Although I would subscribe to that scenario,

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Speaker 1: but they'd be careful. You gotta be careful here, um

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Speaker 1: I would say that. And and the what makes it

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Speaker 1: all the more tantalizing, Steve is the Patriots play the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins in Week eighteen, and the Dolphins beat them in

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Speaker 1: Week one, albeit by one point, that they beat them,

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Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are playing better now and they did,

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Speaker 1: but so are the Patriots thinking about how far mac

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Speaker 1: Jones has come, so that that'll be an interesting game

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Speaker 1: on Week eighteen, no question if, particularly if the Bills

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Speaker 1: managed to win this Sunday at one pm and Foxborough,

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Speaker 1: that's the game. But and of course, for Bills fans,

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Speaker 1: if we win this weekend, I mean, it's all but

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Speaker 1: assured that they're going to get into the playoffs so

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Speaker 1: and win the division. So that's um, yeah, that it's

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Speaker 1: interesting that Bills fans are going down that road so far.

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Speaker 1: I'm I can't look past this weekend, right, I really

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Speaker 1: have a I'm struggling to get get past this weekend.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough game, it is. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a really tough game. Yeah, it should be nip

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Speaker 1: and tuck. The problem is you've played them once and

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Speaker 1: didn't learn anything about what they needed to do or

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Speaker 1: wanted to do against you. Yeah, that was really that's

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Speaker 1: really a setback I think for a coaching staff to

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Speaker 1: go in there and game planning effectively. And they've only

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Speaker 1: they had this last the Colts. Right, They've they've only

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Speaker 1: had one game since them. The Bills have played two.

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Speaker 1: That's twice. The film that the Bills have evolved into,

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Speaker 1: and that they can go back and study the Bills,

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Speaker 1: you know, they can't study them on a bye week. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things like that. This small there's

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Speaker 1: small things like that are working against them. Plus this

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Speaker 1: the COVID thing in the back of everybody's mind as well. So, um,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots put four guys on the list yesterday. To me,

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Speaker 1: not too many guys of consequence one maybe, but um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the way this game this weekend is for the division title. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Bills don't win it. They can't win the division

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Speaker 1: because you lose the tiebreaker to the Patriots. They go

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Speaker 1: back two games in front of you and you only

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Speaker 1: have two games to play. You've lost the head to head.

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Speaker 1: It's over. It's over. Let's go back to the phone

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Speaker 1: and see who you think are the AFC contenders and pretenders.

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Speaker 1: Now that week fifteens in the books for the AFC

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Speaker 1: clubs across the league. We go to Frank and Clarence. Frank,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bills live.

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Speaker 1: I just said a quick question. You know, a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, Spencer Brown looked terrific and then obviously

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Speaker 1: he had his issues the other day. What do you

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Speaker 1: guys think it was because he moved to the left

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Speaker 1: side and he's just you know, uncomfortable there because on

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Speaker 1: the right side he looked, you know, pretty good a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. I mean, well, what can they

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Speaker 1: do to put him back on the right side, and

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Speaker 1: who would they put on the left side? Well, you

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Speaker 1: basically need Dion Dawkins to come off the COVID reserve list.

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Speaker 1: That's number one, and that's the whole reason he was

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Speaker 1: over there in the first place. And yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it was a big ask because that was not the

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Speaker 1: plan until Friday after Dion went on the COVID reserve list. Thursday.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is to play offensive line

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Speaker 1: at all, never done, and not even when I was

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Speaker 1: a kid. But Eric Wood has said this week in

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Speaker 1: a couple of different places that, yeah, that's a tough thing,

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Speaker 1: including our show. It's a tough thing to ask a

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Speaker 1: guy go from right to left. Everything is mirrored in

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Speaker 1: your right hand. You're left, and your muscle memory is shot.

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Speaker 1: You can't do anything. Everything seems it's backwards. So your

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Speaker 1: instincts tell you one thing and they're the opposite of

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Speaker 1: what you should do. You really have to work hard

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Speaker 1: at concentrating to flip yourself from one side of the

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Speaker 1: offensive line to the other. That calls everything. So I

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Speaker 1: think it was a big ask, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: and there's no question Spencer Brown struggled some and he

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Speaker 1: was thrown in against as good affront as you're going

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Speaker 1: to see. They're fourth in the league and sack percentage.

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Speaker 1: So they're round picking Brian Burns, and when he wasn't

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Speaker 1: going against him, he was going against a son Reddick,

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Speaker 1: who has ten and a half sacks this season. It

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Speaker 1: was a big ask. And not to mention he's never

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Speaker 1: played next to Ike Butcker before either, and he's and

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Speaker 1: he's got seven starts in his NFL career. I mean,

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Speaker 1: roll all of that out there. I mean, that's all

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Speaker 1: part of It's a tough spot. It is a tough spot.

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Speaker 1: And you're right, he does look really good on the

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Speaker 1: right side. He's and certainly he's had his moments, but

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Speaker 1: he's got a long career ahead of him as a

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Speaker 1: right tackle, maybe a left tackle if he gets enough

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Speaker 1: reps at that. But you know, he's just starting out.

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Speaker 1: And to put him in the spot that he was

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Speaker 1: in last Sunday and to expect him to go out

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Speaker 1: there and just kill it is big ask. It's a

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

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Speaker 1: go to Mark and West Seneca. What do you have

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Speaker 1: for us? Mark? Hey, guys, Horry today, good good, good,

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Speaker 1: that's good. Merry Christmas. Step Yeah you too, okay, thank you? Um. Pretenders, contenders.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to put it at the top of my

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Speaker 1: pretender list, and I can know i'm biased. Is that

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Speaker 1: New England Patriot team. I don't believe that team is

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Speaker 1: built and is ready to beat real playoff teams, especially

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Speaker 1: late in the playoffs. I've watched several of their names

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Speaker 1: this year, that defense that's supposed to be so good,

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Speaker 1: and numbers will tell you that which numbers lie a

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Speaker 1: lot of the times they I've seen them run on

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Speaker 1: by good teams. I've seen them thrown on by good teams.

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Speaker 1: And I've yet to see Matt Jones win a game

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Speaker 1: when he was in a position that he has to

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Speaker 1: throw them to a win. So their formula to me

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Speaker 1: is not a playoff winning team, not yet. They got

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Speaker 1: some good parts, canna admit that, and maybe their future

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Speaker 1: is bright, but I would put them at the top

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Speaker 1: of the list along with Baltimore and Tennessee. As far

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Speaker 1: as pretenders, the contenders for me are still the Bills

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Speaker 1: because and again I'm biased in Kansas City obviously, But

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Speaker 1: what two teams that really scare me and they can

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Speaker 1: beat any team on any given Sunday is the Chargers

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati because of their quarterbacks. I think both of

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Speaker 1: those guys cannot only throw a team to a win,

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Speaker 1: but they've shown they can will a team to a win.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I had to say about pretenders contenders,

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Speaker 1: and Steve he made a comment, and I love you, buddy,

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Speaker 1: and I pretty much always agree with you. But the

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Speaker 1: flavor of the month comment, I'm not sure exactly how

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Speaker 1: you meant that about Gabe Davis. But Gabriel Davis is

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Speaker 1: not somebody that's the flavor of the months who just

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Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. Not with the body of work

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Speaker 1: he put together last year. Granted he wasn't having ten

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Speaker 1: catch games, but he was having three and four touch

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Speaker 1: games with touchdowns where he was at the top of

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Speaker 1: the list in the league last year. And in the

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Speaker 1: yardage where he was getting a sixty eighty yards pretty

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Speaker 1: close fe hundred and in some instances yards a game.

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Speaker 1: And to me, this is the biggest misstep the team

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Speaker 1: has made this year was not making sure they had

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Speaker 1: packages where he was a go to guy more often

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Speaker 1: than three to four times, maybe five to six times

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Speaker 1: in a game, because I think he's a difference maker,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's the biggest miss step. All right,

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Speaker 1: good call, MARKO. Mark gave us a lot to unpack there.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break first, but we will

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Speaker 1: get to all that Mark addressed, including his pretenders and

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Speaker 1: his contenders, and his comment about Gabe Davis, which I

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Speaker 1: think that's true. I think he's on the market that

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Speaker 1: when I say flavor of the month, I'm talking more

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Speaker 1: about fan interest and fan attemption. Okay, I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about the production on the field. Not production on the field.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the way fans perceive him and want

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Speaker 1: more of him. All right, fair enough, we'll dissect a

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Speaker 1: lot of what Mark had to offer in just a second.

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Speaker 1: Here on one Bills Live presented by Collot of Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio Milestones presented by Reid's Jen's the

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Speaker 1: official jeweler of the Buffalo Bills. With three passing touchdowns

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Speaker 1: against the Panthers, Josh Allen became the only Bill in

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Speaker 1: franchise history with thirty passing touchdowns are more in consecutive seasons.

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Speaker 1: Alan currently has thirty one passing touchdowns this season, after

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Speaker 1: throwing thirty seven in twenty twenty. He's a He's a

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Speaker 1: company of one. I gotta statistical cadoc at the statistics overall,

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Speaker 1: like how many times they throw, how many times they

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Speaker 1: pass on what all that, it's almost identical to twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: And one of the differences is, I think though, is

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Speaker 1: their scoring percentage in the red zone. And there's another

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Speaker 1: static is a little different, but most like how many

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Speaker 1: times they throw, the percentage of times they throw, the

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Speaker 1: yards per run. Yet all the way down the line,

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Speaker 1: they're almost all identical to twenty twenty. The numbers so

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Speaker 1: all right, so contenders and pretenders. He is afraid of

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati and the Chargers because of their quarterbacks and believes

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Speaker 1: that those two players can bring their teams back from

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Speaker 1: any deficit. Both of those quarterbacks have done that multiple

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Speaker 1: times this season. I'll say this, I get it, no

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Speaker 1: question about it. Um Cincinnati and the charge of their

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks or young, they're gonna be around for a while.

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Speaker 1: They're like Josh, they're gonna be around for another decade

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Speaker 1: at least. Right. The difference is this, the Chargers, they

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Speaker 1: can't stop anybody. Their defense is different. The Bengals not

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Speaker 1: bad on defense, are not bad. They're a little bit

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Speaker 1: like the Buffalo Bills were last year. Their offense is

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Speaker 1: good enough, so their defense doesn't have to be outstanding.

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Speaker 1: But I think when you get deep in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: or in the playoffs at all, and you start playing

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Speaker 1: these teams at the top half of the conference, you

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Speaker 1: gotta stop somebody once in a while. You gotta have

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Speaker 1: something on both sides of the ball that you can

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Speaker 1: lean on, even if it's just something as unpredictable as turnovers.

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Speaker 1: That's why. And he said he did not believe in

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Speaker 1: the New England defense. I do they You get the

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Speaker 1: idea of this, He said, Well, I've seen the people

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Speaker 1: throw on the New England Patriots and I've seen him

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Speaker 1: run on New England Patriots. To me, that's New England

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Speaker 1: Patriots working out there. Give up yards all the time.

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Speaker 1: They give up yards, don't give up points. They'll give

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Speaker 1: you yards. They don't care. Have all the yards you want,

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Speaker 1: but you can't score on us. Yeah, and here's the difference.

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Speaker 1: They're third in yards allout, they're the third in total defense.

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Speaker 1: They're not even given up yards this year, and they

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Speaker 1: are still the number one defense in points allout. They're

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Speaker 1: they're good defensively, So I run the football. They play

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Speaker 1: good defense that gets you to the playoffs. How much

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Speaker 1: they'll win there they're gonna they're gonna run into a

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Speaker 1: team that can score light up some points. Now they

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Speaker 1: have never and by design they do not ask and

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Speaker 1: have not asked mac Jones except in the second half

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Speaker 1: of the Indianapolis game this last week. They asked him

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Speaker 1: to like, let's go, we need something outie. Now we're

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Speaker 1: down twenty to nothing. We haven't done anything all day.

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Speaker 1: We got to start letting it loose a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and they did. They got right back in it and

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Speaker 1: he kind of came through for him, but he did

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Speaker 1: throw the bad pick once in a while. Right, that's

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Speaker 1: a young quarterback Cincinnati. I like their defense is eleventh

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Speaker 1: or defense is fifteenth. Overall, they're top five against the run,

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Speaker 1: they're twenty sixth against the pass. That's the issue there.

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Speaker 1: Now they are a leven and points allowed, and they

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Speaker 1: have had a tough schedule playing in the AFC North

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Speaker 1: and they had to play the NFC West this year.

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Speaker 1: They are battle tested. Yeah, I think they're a little

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Speaker 1: bit like the team we were a year ago. Quarterback

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Speaker 1: bust loose, really good, got some things going. Their defense

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Speaker 1: is kind of playing against OUs fences. They're a little

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Speaker 1: bit desperate because they're playing against a really good quarterback

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden. So their offenses are airing it

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Speaker 1: out and throwing it around, taking some chances that you

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Speaker 1: know in this league, if you do, you're gonna come

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Speaker 1: through on a number of them and look pretty good

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Speaker 1: at times. So I think their defense and Cincinnati's faced

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Speaker 1: some offenses like that, coming up with a with a

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Speaker 1: tough schedule, I think Cincinnati's a lot like the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills were a year ago, same same schedules. Yeah North, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: f C West. So that's I think that's where they're at.

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Speaker 1: Um I agree. I think Cincinnati is a legit team

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Speaker 1: this season. And I'm not so sold on the Chargers

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Speaker 1: like our like our friend Mark was. But yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm all about it. I'm Cincinnati and the Chargers are.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're sitting there looking good because both interesting teams.

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Speaker 1: For sure. Cincinnati I think it's got a little more

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Speaker 1: staying power than the Chargers, and it's because of their defense.

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Speaker 1: I'm interested. We've gotta take a break. I'm surprised. I'm

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Speaker 1: surprised you didn't mention the Colts. I think the Colts

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Speaker 1: are The Colts terrify me. The most physical team in

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Speaker 1: the AFC as far as I see it, we have

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Speaker 1: to take a break here. When we come back, it's

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Speaker 1: the weekly visit with Good Morning Football's Kyle brand We'll

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Speaker 1: see what he thinks about AFC contenders and pretenders and

849
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: sev he has any extra thoughts on the Bills after

850
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: their win over Carolina this past week. Kyle brand coming

851
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: up next here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalid

852
00:47:44,840 --> 00:48:00,919
Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio at s Tasker who

853
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: has been all over the field. Kind of unique. He

854
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: was kind of a dual role player for you state

855
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:11,919
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strated here

856
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: of normalcy here, all right, here we are our number

857
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: two on a Tuesday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

858
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: Week fifteen is not yet in the books. There are

859
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: two more games left to play, none of which will

860
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: impact the AFC playoff picture. But here to dice it

861
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: all up with us making his weekly appearance is one

862
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt from Good Morning Football, whose Christmas shopping is done.

863
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: And dude, you are in the wheelhouse of Christmas enjoyment

864
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: because of your kids ages. Man, I am way past

865
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: that window, so dude, soak it up, be a sponge

866
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: because it's it's fleeting. It really is. I'm aware of that,

867
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to have perspective on that Brownie. It

868
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: is truly a magical week. I have an eight year

869
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: old son and a five year old daughter, and listen,

870
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: we got there. There's elf sightings around the house. Last year,

871
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: there were there were reindeer prints in the snow. We

872
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: only don't don't even know what's going to come to

873
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 1: the brand house this weekend because they're both on the

874
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: nice list for sure, So it's a super exciting week.

875
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: I do have one bone to pick. I will say

876
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 1: this right now. I'm very angry with the community right

877
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 1: now I live in because apparently there was an intelligence

878
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: breach in the second grade circuit about some things that

879
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: some people don't believe in and that may not be real,

880
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 1: even though we all know that they are. And my

881
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: kid came home saying, well, so and so said this

882
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: because his older sister said this, And I'm like, listen,

883
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: keep that at home. If you have kids who have

884
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: all these conspiracy theories about things that aren't real, which

885
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: they are real, keep that in your house. Do not

886
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: bring that to school. Do not bring that to my house.

887
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: And now I got to re explain why it is real.

888
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: So I'm a little angry about it right now because

889
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: some one of these kids was running their mouth. Yeah,

890
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: we always say, and we've said it here actually this

891
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: week with some of the guys in the control room.

892
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: Nothing good happens on the school bus for things, for

893
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: things like that, and god knows what else, but yeah,

894
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: nothing good happens on the bus. That's where conspiracy theories

895
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: breed and thrive. That's right, So in keeping I mean, look,

896
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: I remember a couple of times in the seventh grade

897
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: in the backseat of the bus. It wasn't all terrible,

898
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: but in terms of intelligence, absolutely right, You're right in

899
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: that side. I got you. So what are some of

900
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 1: the what are some of the brand household traditions that

901
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: you cherish the most that maybe we'll transcend the generational tis.

902
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: I love the question. First of all, I want to

903
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: put my cards on the table right now because I

904
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: remember we spoke about a month ago and I was

905
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 1: telling you, which is that the Turkey is absolute garbage.

906
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: And I'm a am guy, so I want to go also,

907
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: and I know Brownie that there's a lot of sensitive

908
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: opinions about that. Well, I'm gonna double down every single

909
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve without fail. I will sit down, I will

910
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: put on Chevy Chase and National Influence Christmas Vacation. I

911
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: will quote every line, and I will have myself a tall,

912
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: ice cold glass of eggnog with nutmeg on top, and

913
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: I will down that thing like I was born to

914
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: do it. I'm anog guy, and the nog nation out there,

915
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: I hear you. I know we have a lot of

916
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,280
Speaker 1: people we don't agree with us, but I'm in okay.

917
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: I'm a big knog guy as well. In fact, I'm

918
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: a fat right Steve. Here's the thing for me. I'm

919
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: and I'm an older guy, so I'm that are different.

920
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna place in my life that a little different

921
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: than you. I'm half eggnog, half Bailey's. Oh that's good,

922
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,919
Speaker 1: and I don't it's good. I just do not care.

923
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: And I'm I am the more and the more gets more.

924
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: It's like twenty five percent eggnog and seventy five percent Bailey. Yeah,

925
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: we're all out of noog. I do not care. I

926
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: do not care, especially at Christmas wearing. Nobody's going anywhere, right,

927
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: I mean you're there for three days or something. You're

928
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: you're in that. That's it, man, I am all in

929
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: on that. We did have a spirited discussion the other day,

930
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: Kyle about Christmas specials. Um Steve has not been a

931
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: viewer of Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas, which kind of

932
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: surprised me, especially since he's got grandkids. You should have

933
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: seen bills fans coming out of the woodwork saying Steve,

934
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: how could you have not viewed this program in any way,

935
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: shape or form? Are you? Kyle? Do you know what

936
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas is? Do I know it?

937
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: I practically sing the songs in the shower and the

938
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: boy there's like a there's a heavy metal band in

939
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: that thing. Yes, there is hard and it's like they

940
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: really set this beautiful scene in sort of on the

941
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: swamp and Emmett and his jug band they hit hard

942
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: and when that, when that, how does it goes? It?

943
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: Don't aren't they Brownie? Like wait, don't brush shark teeth

944
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 1: and all that. Yeah they're oh yeah they're bad boys,

945
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: the river Bottom Boys. Yeah it's awesome. Yeah. All right.

946
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,240
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. So you've already, you've already outed

947
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: your Chevy Chase Christmas cart. My gout super all time

948
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: favorite is the Muppet Christmas Carol is one of my

949
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: is my all time favorite. It's one of my top

950
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: five movies ever of anything, like all genres outside of

951
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: Christmas for him. But I get so what other like,

952
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: what about your getting that transcends Christmas? Yeah, that's what

953
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: he told me yesterday. Good Fellas Christmas question. Oh that's good. Yeah,

954
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 1: it's high on steers. So what about what's the hot

955
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 1: topic for your two at home? Um? Well, listen, I've

956
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: started to take over the Great American tradition as of

957
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: weaponizing Santa Claus as a behavioral enforcer. So I do

958
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: a lot of that, like normally you know, Um, I

959
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: would say eleven and a half months out of the year.

960
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:44,760
Speaker 1: It's just a lot of yelling, and I'm gonna counter

961
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,240
Speaker 1: three and I will just do it right now. If

962
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: if my son Calvin, who's eight, now, if I say,

963
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: you know, pick up your toys and I don't want

964
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: to pick up my toy, I just say I'll call him.

965
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: I got his number right here, I will call No. No,

966
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: I'll pick up my toys. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So

967
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,800
Speaker 1: we're constantly saying that Santa Claus is not going to

968
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 1: come and that we will we will have you put

969
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: on the naughty list if you not do a B

970
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: and C. Sometimes a B and C including you know,

971
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: pick up my clothes and get me a beer. But

972
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: that's just part of the Yeah. Well, no, every parents

973
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: got to take advantage of that while they can, YEA.

974
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 1: I will say this, though, you look at this AFC

975
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: playoff race, Kyle, and there are going to be some

976
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: teams with lumps of coal in their stocking in a

977
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: week or so, and you know, the Raiders may be

978
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: staved off elimination, but you watch that team play an

979
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: injury or an injury, a COVID riddled roster of the

980
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns what they had not have like ten starters,

981
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 1: and you barely beat them on a last second field goal.

982
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: How do you feel good about the Raiders even though

983
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 1: they won last night? I don't see how you can

984
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, you know you don't feel good about the Raiders.

985
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: As always were most intrigued by the quote unquote in

986
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: the hunt column that is always on the far right

987
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: of your graphic and our graphic and we're sort of

988
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,240
Speaker 1: com held to talk about those teams. But no, you don't.

989
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 1: You don't feel good about the Raiders. I mean, they're

990
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: kind of a feel good story in the sense that

991
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: they're still alive but what they've been through, but you

992
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: don't feel good about them doing anything. I mean, I

993
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: think every Raiders conversation right now is kind of whitewashed

994
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: in this do they blow it up in the offseason

995
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: inevitable thing? Um. I remember when they beat the Ravens

996
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,839
Speaker 1: to start this season, really impressive win, really good, and

997
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: Derek Carr had this great quote and I'm paraphrasing loosely,

998
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: but he basically said, it's kind of I've been the

999
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: story of my career. It's like yes, oh crap, and

1000
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: that was his words, and I thought it was really honest.

1001
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: But yes, last night was just the yes. And then

1002
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: I think we know what was coming next week. There

1003
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: there are many good teams in the AFC, but even

1004
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: in this year's goulash of no one wants to decide

1005
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: to be great, it's still hard to get excited about

1006
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Even after that win. I do think, though

1007
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: this this race in the AFC is really good goulash

1008
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: seven wins, slapping it up, and they're the AFC North

1009
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: all plays this incestuous schedule rolled down the stretch where

1010
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: they all play each other, every game's gonna be massive.

1011
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: And then you've got the teams in the East where

1012
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: Miami has fought its way back into the conversation. Now

1013
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: it needs him help, obviously, But the massive game this

1014
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:16,479
Speaker 1: week between Buffalo and New England, and then out west

1015
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: where Kansas City was gone and now as the number

1016
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: one seed. Um, I just think it's I just think

1017
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: it's an awesome race coming down the stretch in the

1018
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: AFC conference. And I'm and we've you know, we're asking

1019
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: our viewers today that it pretenders and contenders. The contenders

1020
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: I think are obvious. Is there anybody at the top

1021
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 1: that you think is not gonna be there? You're talking

1022
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: about Look Tennessee, Yeah, Look Tennessee is brutal. That that

1023
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: guy that loss was bad. And I hesitate to even

1024
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 1: bring it up because I know Brown is a huge

1025
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 1: Tannehell fan, but he had a tough, tough fourth quarter,

1026
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's my guy. That team is

1027
00:56:56,680 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: that seems supposed to be on the varsity. Steve like Tennessee.

1028
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 1: He's been there, They've battled, They've knocked Brady out of

1029
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:07,240
Speaker 1: New England, They've beaten the Lamar MVP season. I didn't

1030
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: figure them for a team that would turtle in December

1031
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: and have I think it was three turnovers in the

1032
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I think they might have showed their hand there.

1033
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: And listen, their whole team is built around Derrick Henry.

1034
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: So I don't relish saying it, but they might have

1035
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: done something that just completely got them out of this.

1036
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: But I have to say the most I think the

1037
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: most shocking thing that's transpired in the AFC in a

1038
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: long time came yesterday. I think it was yesterday when

1039
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: Belichick started his media conference in the media session apologizing,

1040
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: I mean, let's get this was crazy. So he starts

1041
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: out Belichick, who's been a curmudgeon for I don't know

1042
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: forty years, apologizing to the local media in the room

1043
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: because he felt his answers were too kurt. Following the

1044
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Boston even went on to say, has nothing to

1045
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: do with you. I was shocked by that. I think

1046
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 1: it's what I say I was gonna say. My suspicion

1047
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: is he watched him up at Christmas Carol and realized

1048
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: he was screwed. Oh my god, that's great. Remember when

1049
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: a point Remember when Cindy Leu who gives the Grinch

1050
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: the prisons and his heart grows by. Don't get me

1051
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 1: started on the grind bracket. That was it. And I

1052
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: think it has something to do with Indianapolis. I think

1053
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: that the Colts had Belichick so flummixed and so pissed

1054
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: off and so confused in which they completely dominated Carson Wentz,

1055
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: and that they still lost on national television. I think

1056
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: Belichick was out of his sorts after that loss. And

1057
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: certainly people in Western New York know what it's like

1058
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: to go up against this Colts team. So it's one

1059
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: of the most unique teams because we have everybody. We

1060
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: have the best running back in the world, and we

1061
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: have a team that really has a going and a

1062
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: coach that we believe in. And I still take a

1063
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: quarterback that no one believes in. Yet we're still here

1064
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: being like, maybe they could knock everybody off. Yeah, that's

1065
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: the thing as well. There's a lot of there's always

1066
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: a segment of Bill's fans that whenever they here here

1067
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick speak, they envision a deep dark conspiracy about

1068
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: the game that's gonna come up, like he is posturing

1069
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 1: for a Buffalo Bill game this week. It has nothing

1070
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: to do with Indianapolis. It has nothing to do with him.

1071
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: It has to do with what the Bills see him,

1072
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: and he will you know that that he thinks. So

1073
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: what's the posturing though? If he's apologizing, I think I

1074
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: think he's hoping that the Bills. I think Bills fans

1075
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: are thinking he's he's they're vulnerable. He wants Bills. He

1076
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: wants people to think vulnerable and that they're just not

1077
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: all there. Wow, and just to lull him into a

1078
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: sense of security. This is a team that the Bills

1079
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: are the you know, they swept him last year, that

1080
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: lost by four points in a forty mile an hour

1081
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,919
Speaker 1: win a couple of weeks ago. That's a Bills fans

1082
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: always think he's posturing to subvert culterior motives. Yeah right, so,

1083
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: and and let's face it, this is the guy that

1084
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: did the whole press conference said that we're onto Cincinnati.

1085
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and he didn't apologize for that. Yeah. So

1086
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 1: you think there's a motive to the Colts game. If

1087
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: I'm a part of the Patriots press corps. I'm like, Bill,

1088
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: that was like a three. I don't one to ten?

1089
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: Are you what are you even talking about? I don't know.

1090
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: Does he even need to posture when he's about to

1091
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: play a team that he beat by throwing three passes? Like?

1092
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, I should he keep that in his

1093
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: back pocket or something? And maybe I don't know, but

1094
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: that's what it builds. I think there's a session about that.

1095
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 1: Are that still or will always look at him with

1096
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: suspicion until they see him with a steak through his

1097
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: heart They will away said, we thought that was last year,

1098
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: But then remove the steak from his heart and throw

1099
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: the thing into the river. Brownie, Jeff, you do we

1100
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: know any like really early forecasts for Foxboro this weekend,

1101
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 1: whether it's not supposed to be terrible, Um, it's certainly

1102
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: not going to be anything like it was here a

1103
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:54,919
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Okay, I don't believe there's pre sip

1104
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: in the forecast either. Now, if you've ever been to

1105
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: that stadium, there is always a little bit of a

1106
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: breeze that comes through the open end, but it's not

1107
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: going to be anything like what we saw here where

1108
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 1: we were just waiting for the locusts to show up.

1109
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: So um, you know, I think I think they'll be

1110
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: okay to exact a game plan that they initially intended

1111
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: to go with in the first place. But we shall

1112
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: see off the schedule for a minute. And I just

1113
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: want to ask you this. Last Thursday, we had a

1114
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: football game. We also had a couple of games on Saturday,

1115
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 1: we had a bunch on Sunday, had two games last night,

1116
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: got two games tonight, and in two days got another one. Yep,

1117
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 1: Can I sign up for that again? Yes? Because that

1118
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: was You have to understand Steve's got a giant man cave.

1119
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: I want to know why. I listen. I worked very

1120
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: hard to craft my life the way I wanted. And

1121
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: here's the thing I wonder, why are they putting these

1122
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: two games tonight like like they're at the same time.

1123
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: They're two games both at seven o'clock. Why can't we

1124
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 1: have it like last night? What's going on? I don't know,

1125
01:01:57,840 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know why we don't always

1126
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 1: every single week have a Monday doubleheader, like every single

1127
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: every week. We're good like that? Why not? It's awesome?

1128
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: We have it. You know, they'll do it on Christmas,

1129
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: and they'll do it on the Thursday night kickoff and

1130
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: then some other times. But you have like a six

1131
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: pm game and then a nine pm game. It's glorious.

1132
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: It's a double feature, like you used to go to

1133
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: the drive in and see two movies. Listen. I'm not

1134
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: in part of that camp that says, screw it, let's

1135
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: have NFL every single night, which we kind of have

1136
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: this week. But I gotta say, Steve, that Monday double

1137
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,480
Speaker 1: feature was tasty. It really was. I was I was rubbing.

1138
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:33,439
Speaker 1: I was like the old time rubbing in on my face.

1139
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: I loved it. I just absolutely loved me. Yeah. Well

1140
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: that was the Bailey's I think, yea, yeah, the egglog,

1141
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 1: you know, the Bailey's. I drank gig nog, I rubbed

1142
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 1: on my face. The official forecast for Sunday is a

1143
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: high of forty am, snow showers, wins about nine miles

1144
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: per hour. So it looks like Josh and company will

1145
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: be able to do presumably what they want to do

1146
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: game plan wise. And you know, the big talk here

1147
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: is people are kind of holding their breath, Kyle, because

1148
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: after seeing what happened to the Rams, the Washington football team,

1149
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears to a certain extent, and the Browns.

1150
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: Every other team in the league is like, are we

1151
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 1: gonna be able to avoid that? Or are we going

1152
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 1: to have the same trickle down rosters subtractions that they

1153
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 1: experienced at the exact wrong time. The Bills only have

1154
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 1: four players on the COVID reserve list right now. They

1155
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: probably stand a good chance to get in half of

1156
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: them back before the next game. But this is a

1157
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 1: fear that all these teams have now, like the wrong

1158
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: time we need a game. I mean, you're in this

1159
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 1: AFC race and you lose that many. I mean, the

1160
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: brown season may have gone up in flames because of that. Well,

1161
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: the Browns, let me, I'm trying to have this right, Brownie,

1162
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 1: you probably help me out with this. If the Raiders

1163
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:50,400
Speaker 1: missed that field goal, the Browns are in first place, yes, division,

1164
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: I think they're the four in the playoffs. Yes, And

1165
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 1: since the Raiders made it, they're the twelve. Yes. And

1166
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 1: that was without their star quarterback and their head coach

1167
01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 1: and the star received It's terrifying. Yeah, I mean like that,

1168
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 1: you know, in the Power rankings world number one right

1169
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: now in the Power rankings, it is not the chiefs

1170
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: of the packers. It's COVID. So I think the Bills

1171
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: fans should be should be satisfied or not satisfied. It terrified,

1172
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: not satisfied at all. So it's like you we all

1173
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: want we all follow these Ian Rappaports and these schefters

1174
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: and everything, and we wait to see, if you know,

1175
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: if our fantasy player is going to be ready. Now

1176
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god, no, did Rappaport tweet again?

1177
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: And there's like twelve names below it, and then you know, frankly,

1178
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: never mind football for a second. We all kind of

1179
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 1: are feeling that in our home lives too, because I

1180
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 1: don't know about you guys, but I was having a

1181
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people come in from Chicago who are

1182
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: going to see their grandkids, their nieces and nephews. That's

1183
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: canceled now because you know, we've had people tested positive

1184
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: and all that. So it's it's life imitating football. I'm

1185
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: worried about what tight ends and running backs are gonna play.

1186
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm also worried about which cousins and nats and uncles

1187
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 1: are gonna show up, right, And that's yeah, it's about

1188
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 1: we're all living in I mean, hopefully it stays afloat

1189
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 1: from some point. I know. Did you see Also one

1190
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: of the things that I warmed the hearts of Bill's

1191
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: fans everywhere was Tom Brady getting shut out and heaving

1192
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 1: the surface in frustration, which has become really the new benchmark.

1193
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 1: Last year Bill Belichick slamming the phone down the Monday

1194
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 1: night win Buffalo thirty eight to nine over the Patriots.

1195
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:18,360
Speaker 1: Let me just relive that for a minute. And now

1196
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:22,919
Speaker 1: this year, Tom Brady slamming the surface. I mean, they're

1197
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: getting He shattered that thing, right, That was a good

1198
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 1: thrown he did. He got all his money's worth on

1199
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, yeah, they're not. I mean they're not

1200
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: scratching the surface, they're shattering. Look at that that as

1201
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: a left handed pass. I'm surprised when he threw it

1202
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 1: that none of the Saints intercepted it, but then normally

1203
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: they would have. Um, there's a whole run now of

1204
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 1: people smashing their surfaces. Rogers has smashed it, Belichick has

1205
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: thrown the surface in addition to the phone, and I

1206
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: have to say, good morning football. I used the surface

1207
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 1: for three hours and have for over over thirteen hundred episodes.

1208
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: It hasn't failed me once. It's a hell of a device,

1209
01:05:56,160 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: which I like. But there's Brady smashing the thing. Pretty

1210
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: petulant move by a guy who just got shut out.

1211
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: Brady got outscored by the Bears this week by nine

1212
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 1: points and the Bears are awful. Look, yeah, it's funny

1213
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 1: too because he threw it after it was already broken,

1214
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: So I think he smashed it on the ground, picked

1215
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: up it's already broken when he throws it, so it

1216
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 1: was like the double whammy. I just it just warms

1217
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 1: my heart that these guys that are so so good

1218
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 1: can still be frustrated in a game that they've played

1219
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 1: for so long. Rogers, Belichick, Brady, all of them. Some

1220
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,800
Speaker 1: guys you never see do that. And I don't know,

1221
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 1: I just I just think it adds a little something

1222
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: to the game that needs to be Week A, week two, Steve,

1223
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 1: you know you think, okay, well the Bucks of the Bucks,

1224
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 1: and you know Brady was pretty magnificent and certainly in

1225
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 1: overtime against the Build, and then the very next week

1226
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: you can't even score a single point. The Saints lost

1227
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 1: five games in a row, at one point, five games

1228
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 1: in a row, and now they shut out Brady for

1229
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: the first time since I think two thousand and mix

1230
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, they do it played rugby. It's a

1231
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,840
Speaker 1: crazy thing. Yeah yeah, Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, And

1232
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 1: I is this this may be a really special year

1233
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 1: when we've talked about the AFC and there's twelve or

1234
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 1: thirteen teams in the mix, and they are in the mix.

1235
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: I don't they say like all back in two thousand

1236
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: and two or whatever. I don't remember any year where

1237
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: there was twenty seven teams with a shot at the

1238
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: playoffs in week fifteen or week sentventeen. And it's not

1239
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 1: like there's ten teams that are mathematically still alive. I

1240
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 1: mean you just outlined it with what happened with Cleveland.

1241
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 1: I mean four to twelve. I mean that was the

1242
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 1: range in where they could have ended up based on

1243
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: the outcoming yesterday's game. I know, it's crazy, and you

1244
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 1: know it just I had an idea that occurred to

1245
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 1: me on the Christmas list this week. You know, there's

1246
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: always this big to do. When Brady throws touchdown six

1247
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: hundred or seven hundred and someone runs and gets the

1248
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: ball and if a fan gets it, you know, they

1249
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: have to pay him in jerseys and stuff. Can we

1250
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: as anyway we could get that broken surface to give

1251
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker for Christmas because we needed someone to get

1252
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: their hands on it. Someone out there. You get that

1253
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay ball boy, that Tampa Bay ball boy, he's

1254
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 1: on it like white on right. Give him. Yeah, we

1255
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: could do that. You've got a spot for that, all right.

1256
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,640
Speaker 1: Last last thing for you, Kyle, And again we go

1257
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: back to the Christmas movie genre because we know you're

1258
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,280
Speaker 1: a big movie buff. So Steve and I were talking

1259
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: about the Gringe. I'm not a fan. The guy's an

1260
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 1: outright criminal. Um, you know, breaking and entering, grand larceny,

1261
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,720
Speaker 1: you know, run down the list. And granted, you know

1262
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 1: the guy is a loner and everything, well, don't live

1263
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Speaker 1: on a mountaintop away from everybody. The guy's got the

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01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 1: most fiercely loyal dog going. Yes, Steve would argue, and

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Speaker 1: he was arguing this point yesterday. Number one cartoon dog ever, like,

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Speaker 1: even outside of Christmas movies. I mean, pound for pound,

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Speaker 1: he's got to be the strongest dog going. I mean

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Speaker 1: you see the size of that play he's pulling up

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01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: a mount Max is maybe the great greatest dog everything.

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Speaker 1: Snoopy is good Scooby Doo's okay, he's kind of a

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Speaker 1: scaredy cat. But I'm telling you, Max of the Grinch

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Speaker 1: maybe the number one cartoon dog of all time. It's

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Speaker 1: a great take because, first of all, let's think about this.

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01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:18,799
Speaker 1: The Max has to live in solitude. There's no other pets.

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01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:21,559
Speaker 1: I'm not sure the Grinch is even regularly feeding him,

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01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:24,040
Speaker 1: let alone loving him. And then in addition and making

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01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: him pull the sleigh, he straps that horn to his head,

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01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: why is it really tight? Is going to weigh him

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01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:34,719
Speaker 1: down here? And then he just absolutely verbally berates the dog.

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Speaker 1: I'm in on team Max, and I'm trying to think

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01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: of even some dog, you know. Scooby Doo is just

1282
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,679
Speaker 1: hopped up on goofballs. We don't know what he's about.

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01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:46,640
Speaker 1: Snoopy was always boring. I'm not a Peanuts fan. I

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01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:48,639
Speaker 1: found him a bunch of self loathing children. I don't

1285
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 1: like that thing. And Max is all spirit despite living

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01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:53,599
Speaker 1: with the worst people in the world. It should be

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01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: Max who goes down to Whoville and sings Lahudore. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's number one, absolutely, yeah, no question. Go to the phones.

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01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: Name a better animated dog than last one from me

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Speaker 1: last one for me and this one, this one another

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Speaker 1: reason why this year is so special, has been so great.

1292
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 1: And as we're nearing Christmas time less remember all this

1293
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:19,800
Speaker 1: m How about the the Detroit Lions giving the big

1294
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 1: SmackDown bizarre Arazona Cardinals. That to me is what it's

1295
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: all about. Man, it's so tried, but it is so true.

1296
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: Has proven any given Sunday, Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions with

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01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 1: Jared cough can beat up the number one seed in

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01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 1: the number one two seed in the NFC. I just

1299
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 1: thought that was great. It's awesome. And you know what, Steve,

1300
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:48,639
Speaker 1: it wasn't like, well, they got three or four bounces

1301
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: and they won on a last second field goal. The

1302
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:52,960
Speaker 1: Cardinals were never in that game, They never were close.

1303
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:55,640
Speaker 1: They got dominated from start to finish. And it was

1304
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,639
Speaker 1: this thing of like, oh, these posers in the NFC,

1305
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: with these young, flashy players in this cool flashy coach,

1306
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:04,360
Speaker 1: Lions didn't give a damn. And I think in this

1307
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: era of Urban Meyer where not one single player is

1308
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:09,639
Speaker 1: coming out in support of all the stuff going on there,

1309
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:12,600
Speaker 1: you see the scene afterwards for a two ten and

1310
01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 1: one or two eleven one, whatever the hell their record

1311
01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:17,559
Speaker 1: is the Lions fans love Campbell and they're hugging him

1312
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:19,679
Speaker 1: and their tears of joy. That is not the last

1313
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,760
Speaker 1: game the Lions will win this year. And they say, oh,

1314
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: they give up the number one pick. Who cares? This

1315
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 1: is an awesome Can you win coach of the Year

1316
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 1: if you're a two win team? I know, I almost

1317
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 1: feel like the Lions games would be comeback coach of

1318
01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:34,679
Speaker 1: the Year too, all the awards. Are you sure, Brownie,

1319
01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: that the Lions can't somehow make the playoffs? Are Are

1320
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: they somehow eligible? Because I want Tomin Yeah, they're one

1321
01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 1: of the few teams that said are not. But they

1322
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: play hard for him, man, they play hard for him.

1323
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:48,839
Speaker 1: You got to give him credit for keeping that band together.

1324
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:51,799
Speaker 1: And that's a good win for them. And I'm wondering

1325
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:55,640
Speaker 1: about Arizona. Are they a little softer than maybe we anticipated?

1326
01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: They've never been there, They've and listen, DeAndre Hopkins is

1327
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 1: really huge. You know, they got this reputation. I'm even

1328
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: saying it myself, Well, they're so young, and there's I'm

1329
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 1: watching the game and Kyler's throwing passes, the zach Ertz

1330
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 1: and aj Green that's the two guys every past goes through.

1331
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:13,479
Speaker 1: Those guys are a lot of things, a lot of positives,

1332
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 1: and they're not young, and they it's just that's all

1333
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 1: of a sudden, this team has changed, and I don't

1334
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 1: think they haven't. There's no J. J. Watt, there's no

1335
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald. The coach hasn't been there, the quarterback hasn't

1336
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: been there. I don't know if there's a player in

1337
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: the NFL right now who has worst body language than

1338
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:29,200
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. It's just all these headshakes and this. Oh

1339
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: I got listen. They stink like quick out right now.

1340
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 1: And I hope I'm wrong because I like what Kim

1341
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 1: and Bidwell build there. They stink like quick out well.

1342
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: And they got Indie this week, so I have fun

1343
01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 1: with that. Lots lots of stuff, a ton of stuff.

1344
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 1: Other stuff. I wanted to talk about doing how much

1345
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:45,760
Speaker 1: time for Christian Wilkins, the Miami guy who did the

1346
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 1: great celebration. Also the Giants who were giving out free

1347
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:51,720
Speaker 1: sodas to a few of their season ticket holders. They

1348
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 1: have last We got to do this though we didn't

1349
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:55,600
Speaker 1: do it last week. Give us a prediction. They the

1350
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:58,760
Speaker 1: most massive game on the schedule so far for the

1351
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Bills at Patriots one PM on Sunday. Let's winning. Well,

1352
01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:06,559
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a real game. Last last time, I

1353
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: take nothing away from the Patriots. They were better and

1354
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 1: they won. It was a farcical set of conditions that

1355
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: they played that game in Patriots came into Buffalo and won.

1356
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo is going in New England and win that. They're

1357
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 1: gonna win twenty four to twenty and this thing's gonna

1358
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: be on fire. Let's go, all right, man, Kyle, enjoy

1359
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: Christmas with your family. Will catch you up with the

1360
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: next week, guys. I hope everyone has so much happiness

1361
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 1: this week, as much happiness as I get from Steve

1362
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: trying to get us to believe that the ratio of

1363
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: egg Nog to Bailey's was actually fifty to fifty, which

1364
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: is pure bs and that's why we loved this. It

1365
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:39,680
Speaker 1: was an egg it was an egnog floater to be

1366
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:45,720
Speaker 1: a sprinkle chaser. You're the best. Yeah, all right, man,

1367
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,679
Speaker 1: take care, Kyle. Enjoy your right guys Christmas. Yes, that's

1368
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 1: Kyle Brand from Good Morning Football joining us and calling

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01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 1: for a Bill's win twenty four twenty yeah, you heard it.

1370
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: Good stuff. I think it is their heart's gonna be

1371
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: tight the outrunner. The Bills did it last year late

1372
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 1: in the year and the Monday night game where they won,

1373
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: but that game got out of hand quick and the

1374
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:09,519
Speaker 1: Bills were I mean clicking, um well, they were low.

1375
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 1: It's gonna take it's gonna take a great comprehensive game

1376
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 1: plan on both sides of the ball, and it's gonna

1377
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: take one where you've got. You've got to adjust all

1378
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 1: game long to keep out in front and an up

1379
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:21,880
Speaker 1: to date with the Patriots. Their coaching staff does a

1380
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: really good job of that. I think this is gonna

1381
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:25,679
Speaker 1: be a real battling. It's gonna be a close game.

1382
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 1: Break time for us here. More of your thoughts on

1383
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:32,320
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet when we come back, and your calls

1384
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 1: as well. Eight oh three, oh five fifty. We'll get

1385
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 1: to all of that when we return here on one

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01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:48,080
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Speaker 1: Bills wide receivers to find. Digs has joined Andre Reid

1391
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 1: as the only players in team history with eight plus

1392
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns in two straight seasons. Andre did it in

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01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:12,120
Speaker 1: three straight seasons. Diggs also became just the second Bills

1394
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 1: receiver in team history to produce one thousand yard receiving

1395
01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: yard one thousand receiving yards in back to back season.

1396
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 1: Stevie Johnson did that three consecutive years from twenty ten

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01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:24,839
Speaker 1: to twenty twelve. Diggs has now done it in twenty

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01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:26,559
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty twenty one. We'll see if he can

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01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:29,679
Speaker 1: do the same next year. Steph Diggs coming over from Minnesota.

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01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: You see the Minnesota game last night, and late in

1401
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: that game, Kirk Cousins drops back and throws one deep

1402
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:43,400
Speaker 1: and there is absolutely positively nobody there, well except for

1403
01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: the Chicago except for this. Yeah. Well, the problem was

1404
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson got held on the play and actually fell down.

1405
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 1: He got low call right, got he's got his legs

1406
01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: tangled up. I thought, I get it. I mean you

1407
01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 1: could call a penalty, and so why you know he

1408
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:01,840
Speaker 1: threw that. He was anticipating Jefferson to fill that on

1409
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 1: the I was bad throw. I thought he threw that.

1410
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:07,519
Speaker 1: There's no way if Justin Jefferson went off against air,

1411
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:09,680
Speaker 1: he's getting to that ball because he lobbed that thing.

1412
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: He didn't bullet at all. He put a lot of

1413
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:14,719
Speaker 1: air under it. The guy could have called a fair catch.

1414
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,759
Speaker 1: It was. It was horrible. He looked like a center fielder.

1415
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:20,200
Speaker 1: And that's what I was thinking when they still won.

1416
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: No wonder, Steph Diggs was like puking his way out

1417
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: of the Minnesota and he didn't have theelan last night.

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01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,040
Speaker 1: Who was out for the game, Jefferson was That was Jefferson, right,

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01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 1: he was there. Yeah, So, oh my gosh, it is

1420
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 1: what it is. We got Vincent in north Tonawanda, who

1421
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,599
Speaker 1: has been waiting patiently. Let's go to the phones at

1422
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,160
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty. What do you have

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01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 1: for us? Vincent, Hey, guys, listen now, just one quick question.

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01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: I hope you can explain it. It seemed like this year,

1425
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 1: my friends and I have been watching TV and seeing

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01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: the receiver will successfully catch the ball running out of bounce,

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01:16:56,840 --> 01:17:02,600
Speaker 1: and or a running back well successfully run out of bounds,

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01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:05,879
Speaker 1: and yet the clock keeps kicking. I thought the clocks

1429
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:09,719
Speaker 1: should stop I've noticed that a little bit too. Vincent

1430
01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 1: officials are now much more in tune with keeping the

1431
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:19,400
Speaker 1: clock running when a receiver goes backwards out of bounds,

1432
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: or if his knee touches before he goes out of bounds.

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01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 1: They were really lax with watching exactly when a player

1434
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 1: was down, so like, for instance, and I think there

1435
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:32,400
Speaker 1: was a play last night in the Minnesota game where

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01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: the receivers trying to get out of bounds, two minutes

1437
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:36,599
Speaker 1: to go in the half or whatever. He goes down,

1438
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:38,639
Speaker 1: and it looked like Cole Beasley did it this last

1439
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: week where it looked like when he landed, the ball

1440
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:42,759
Speaker 1: came down, he was out of bounds, his upper torso

1441
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:45,280
Speaker 1: was out of bounds, but his knee touched before the

1442
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: ball came down out of bounds. So they have decided

1443
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 1: they want the clock to keep running in those situations

1444
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: and make it more difficult for the offense to stop

1445
01:17:55,120 --> 01:17:57,240
Speaker 1: the clock. You got to get out of bounds. Plus,

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01:17:57,880 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: if you tackle the guy and you're dragging him or

1447
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,040
Speaker 1: he's dragging you and he goes sideways out of bounds

1448
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: or backwards out of bounds, they don't call that out

1449
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 1: of bounds either anymore. I've noticed exactly what you and

1450
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 1: your friends have vincent that they're much more in tune

1451
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:17,200
Speaker 1: with the fine point of inbounds out of bounds at

1452
01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: the sidelines on these pass plays, particularly late in the game.

1453
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:23,759
Speaker 1: I've noticed it as well, and I don't think you're wrong,

1454
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 1: but they are. I think for the most part, they're

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01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: getting it right. In order to be ruled out of bounds,

1456
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: a player must be making forward progress until he goes

1457
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 1: out of bounds. That's what Steve's getting, and he can't

1458
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 1: be down before he does. And these guys are kind

1459
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 1: of diving for the pylon, and if their foot touches

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01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,719
Speaker 1: out of bounds, I get it. If their foot touches

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01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:44,519
Speaker 1: out of bounds before the ball goes across the first

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01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: down marker, and we see it all the time there,

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01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 1: and it's all about when your knees are touching. They're

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01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 1: really particularly because of replay these days, they're really trying

1465
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 1: to find put a fine point on whether the guys

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01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,360
Speaker 1: inbounds or out of bounds before they stop the clock

1467
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:03,240
Speaker 1: or not. So I think in some cases we've seen

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01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: plays this year and in recent years that are called

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Speaker 1: running clock and vice versa. Stopped clock where other times

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Speaker 1: we've seen it called one way or the other because of,

1471
01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:17,120
Speaker 1: you know, the lack of a fine point on it.

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01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes I think and there's also we're

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01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: getting used to more of the fact that the sky

1474
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:25,640
Speaker 1: judges are fixing stuff on the field before before we

1475
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 1: all have to see it and do this and do that.

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01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 1: In the other I think that's happening as well. So

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01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: you're right, Vincent, they are putting a finer point on

1478
01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: what you have to do to get the clock stopped

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01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:37,639
Speaker 1: than they have in the past. And sometimes it looks

1480
01:19:37,680 --> 01:19:40,800
Speaker 1: like plays that we've seen with where the clock would stop,

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01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:43,920
Speaker 1: they continue to run it. You're right. We should mention

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01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:47,639
Speaker 1: that the officiating crew for Sunday's game has been named.

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01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: It will be Sean Smith's crew and entering this week

1484
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:58,200
Speaker 1: or entering week fifteen action anyway, his crew averaged a

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01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: little under fourteen penalties per game, which ranked eleventh out

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01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: of the seventeen officiating crews in the league. He did

1487
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:10,000
Speaker 1: already officiate one Bills game this season. It was the

1488
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:13,680
Speaker 1: second matchup between the Bills and the Dolphins, and his

1489
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:19,640
Speaker 1: crew called eighteen assessed penalties in the game, nine for

1490
01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: the Dolphins nine for the Bills. The Bills penalties cost

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01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 1: more in yardage nine for eighty the Dolphins nine for

1492
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 1: fifty eight. So just something to chew on heading into

1493
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: Sunday's game. He's a relatively young official too. I think

1494
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,680
Speaker 1: this is a seventh season as a head referee. I

1495
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: remember his first year as a head official. He actually

1496
01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 1: came to Bills training camp and you know, was talking

1497
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 1: to people, you know, first year as a head official

1498
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,360
Speaker 1: and what that's like after you know, spending many years

1499
01:20:52,360 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 1: as you know, one of the other assistant officials. But

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01:20:57,520 --> 01:20:59,400
Speaker 1: you could do a lot worse than Sean Smith, I think,

1501
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:03,759
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying here, because they're gonna I'm interested

1502
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 1: to see how the game's gonna be called. I mean,

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01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 1: that's it's become a thing now as we all as

1504
01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: we all start to get into analytics and we all

1505
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:15,320
Speaker 1: see these you know, research sites and frequent those and

1506
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:17,639
Speaker 1: talk about how the nuances of the game are different.

1507
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:20,760
Speaker 1: You gotta play that way on Sunday. You got to

1508
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 1: figure out what they're gonna allow you to do and

1509
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:24,080
Speaker 1: what you're not they're not going to allow you to do.

1510
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:27,320
Speaker 1: There's just not that much difference between teams that you

1511
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:29,760
Speaker 1: can't pay attention to that stuff and have it make

1512
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: a difference. I Uh, I'm trying. I don't know why,

1513
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:37,680
Speaker 1: but like early in the week here, I don't have

1514
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: a feel for what this game is gonna look like. Um,

1515
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: the weather looks like it's going to be fine to

1516
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 1: allow the Bills to play their brand to football, And

1517
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's because of my concerns with

1518
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: more players going on the COVID list, maybe, you know,

1519
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 1: because that's always something that's out there and could happen.

1520
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to be chicken little here, but you know,

1521
01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 1: it's a concern that sits in the back of my

1522
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:08,320
Speaker 1: head that they're missing a key player for Sunday's game.

1523
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,760
Speaker 1: We know that four on the COVID list now the

1524
01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:15,479
Speaker 1: Patriots are. They don't have Kendrick Bourne, who went on

1525
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 1: the COVID list yesterday along with a couple other players,

1526
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:21,680
Speaker 1: but he's really the only player of note for the

1527
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 1: Patriots that went on their COVID reserve list. So I

1528
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:26,639
Speaker 1: think we just have to let the week play out

1529
01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:29,840
Speaker 1: and see where it is. Hopefully the Bills can get

1530
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: a couple of the guys back on their COVID reserve list.

1531
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 1: I mean Deon Dawkins has been on there since Thursday.

1532
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: I believe Tyrell Dotson has been on there since Tuesday

1533
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: or Wednesday last week. So hopefully those guys can test out.

1534
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:46,519
Speaker 1: Tyrell Dotson said on Instagram he has fully vaccinated and boosted.

1535
01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:49,800
Speaker 1: We know Dion Dawkins has vaccinated because he was in

1536
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:52,400
Speaker 1: the process of getting fully vaccinated when he caught COVID

1537
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:57,720
Speaker 1: the first time. And John Feliciano today on Twitter, I

1538
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 1: believe it was said that he is vaccinated. So we'll

1539
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:05,120
Speaker 1: have to see where it goes. Hopefully those guys can

1540
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 1: test negative sooner rather than later. How you have to

1541
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 1: get one test negative or you have to go two

1542
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:11,600
Speaker 1: and twenty four hours, right, twenty four hours apart? That

1543
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 1: is yes, yeah, that's still that's still the norm for

1544
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: getting out. Problem is nobody can get out even if

1545
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 1: they don't feel bad, right, which you know, I I'm

1546
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:25,720
Speaker 1: not going to pretend to know all of these things

1547
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:31,799
Speaker 1: inside it out because the asymptomatic players can have a

1548
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 1: greater chance of testing out sooner, but the gott to

1549
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: be negative. Yeah, even if you yeah, and all these

1550
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:42,599
Speaker 1: guys aren't like It's crazy too because guys like we've

1551
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:44,679
Speaker 1: heard it from Baker Mayfield and some of the guys

1552
01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: on the Browns, they never they still don't feel they

1553
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 1: didn't feel symptomatic when they got tested and tested positive

1554
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:53,200
Speaker 1: and then retested to make sure, you know, to double check,

1555
01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:56,760
Speaker 1: they still feel fine. So there's no reason for them

1556
01:23:56,840 --> 01:24:03,320
Speaker 1: to even you know, there's no change they're gonna it's

1557
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:06,160
Speaker 1: just gonna be the test to tell that's that's frustrating, man,

1558
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:14,000
Speaker 1: that's frustrating. Yeah, we'll see where it goes. You think

1559
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:18,439
Speaker 1: we're gonna see another change in protocols, like a further Yeah,

1560
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

1561
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: We know what the Players Association wants. They want more testing.

1562
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: The league doesn't want to really incur that cost. It

1563
01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 1: spent one hundred and fifty million dollars in testing last year. Well,

1564
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 1: I think the league is and I you know, I'm

1565
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 1: I know it's cynical, but you know, the league they

1566
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:37,599
Speaker 1: don't want to test because if they test, there might

1567
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 1: be everybody might come down with it and then they

1568
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:41,760
Speaker 1: can't play, and then they start then it starts. Forget

1569
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:44,240
Speaker 1: about the cost of the tests. It affects the games

1570
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: which make the money. It affects the ability to even

1571
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:49,599
Speaker 1: actually feel the team to play the game. And then

1572
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: that's when they start having to cancel games. That's enormous money.

1573
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 1: That's not just that's not just test money. That's big money. Right,

1574
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: And the NHL has on that. The NBA has postponed

1575
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 1: games already this year. You know, the NFL doesn't want

1576
01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 1: to do that, especially after getting through last year abs

1577
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,880
Speaker 1: into vaccine and playing all two hundred and fifty six

1578
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:14,080
Speaker 1: regular season games and a full playoff schedule in the

1579
01:25:14,080 --> 01:25:17,679
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They want to do that again, and probably

1580
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,240
Speaker 1: believe they should now that a vaccine is readily available.

1581
01:25:20,320 --> 01:25:23,200
Speaker 1: It's harder to do now because this is so contagious,

1582
01:25:23,200 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 1: this virlin, this new variant. Right, Yeah, and no, I

1583
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:29,559
Speaker 1: don't think I don't think they're going to change things

1584
01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 1: again unless they unless we see more of what we

1585
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:39,719
Speaker 1: saw last week with the Rams, the Browns, the Washington

1586
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: football team, the Bears. If that happens to another handful

1587
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: of teams, well yeah, maybe they will reassist. Short of that, though,

1588
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: and short of another variant popping up that we don't

1589
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: even know about, I don't know that they change it again.

1590
01:25:55,920 --> 01:26:00,680
Speaker 1: But as we have learned, Steve, the virus runs the

1591
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:04,719
Speaker 1: agenda here. Yeah, that they set the agenda. The virus

1592
01:26:04,720 --> 01:26:07,120
Speaker 1: sets the agenda, not anybody else. They We all just

1593
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:09,600
Speaker 1: react to it. Break time here, Steve and I to

1594
01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:12,200
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Speaker 1: We've got two games tonight, Steve, as you know, both

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Speaker 1: NFC matchups Eagles and the Washington football team Rams and

1606
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 1: the Sea Hawks. Looking unlikely that wide receiver Tyler Lockett

1607
01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:06,719
Speaker 1: will be activated off the COVID reserve list in time

1608
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:09,719
Speaker 1: for tonight's game four Seattle. He is one of nine

1609
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:13,920
Speaker 1: Seahawks on the list. The Rams will have Von millerback,

1610
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:16,600
Speaker 1: but it does not look like too many others on

1611
01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:18,880
Speaker 1: the COVID reserve list will be back in time for

1612
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:23,240
Speaker 1: the game tonight. The Washington football team did yet one

1613
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:27,640
Speaker 1: player who cleared protocol, defensive tackle Tim Settle. We'll be

1614
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:29,960
Speaker 1: back tonight off the COVID reserve list, but it looks

1615
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:33,880
Speaker 1: like their quarterbacks won't good football tonight. It's a good

1616
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:35,439
Speaker 1: day to day. It's the shortest day of the year.

1617
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 1: We're all climbing out of the darkness the winter solstice.

1618
01:27:38,479 --> 01:27:42,160
Speaker 1: Let's go, baby, it's gonna be bright and sunny coming up. Well,

1619
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:45,519
Speaker 1: we're gonna gain about three minutes a day three weeks,

1620
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: three weeks. Every three weeks, we're gonna gain an hour

1621
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:51,600
Speaker 1: daylight now all the way out until June twenty four. It.

1622
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: I'm all about it. So I hate when the days

1623
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 1: get shorter near the end of the summer. Yea. So

1624
01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 1: now we're back on the way up the hill. We

1625
01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:01,600
Speaker 1: are back out pretty soon. We'll be setting our clocks forward.

1626
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:05,000
Speaker 1: And that's a ways off, bro, that's a way off

1627
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:10,840
Speaker 1: Christmas to us. Yeah, And we learned today that if

1628
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 1: five PM is the new midnight these days, that Steve's

1629
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:17,960
Speaker 1: eggnog is more like Bailey's nag um, which you know,

1630
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:19,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if I had you pegged as a

1631
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:22,479
Speaker 1: supernog guy. Yeah, don't you know. Don't knock it till

1632
01:28:22,479 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 1: you've tried it. You can play with your own mix. Yeah,

1633
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:26,600
Speaker 1: as the night rolls on, you know, you need to,

1634
01:28:26,760 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 1: you know, depending on you be, depending on what kind

1635
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:34,680
Speaker 1: of night's sleep do you want. Yeah, right, Plus, if

1636
01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:36,800
Speaker 1: you got pants, it'll fit. Yeah, if you're overdone with that,

1637
01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:39,280
Speaker 1: you know, that's right, that's the way it goes. Yeah,

1638
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:40,599
Speaker 1: it's gonna be good. This is gonna be a good

1639
01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:43,840
Speaker 1: week man, big game on Sunday, Football tonight, football day

1640
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 1: after tomorrow, football last night. Yeah, this let's just let's

1641
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 1: just enjoy the holidays. Here. Bill's back on the practice

1642
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 1: field tomorrow. We'll have all the updates for you in

1643
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 1: terms of who's there, who's not, who's still on the

1644
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 1: COVID reserve list, and we'll hear from head coach Sean McDermott.

1645
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,360
Speaker 1: We'll have all of that for you on tomorrow's show.

1646
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:18,840
Speaker 1: Steve and I will see you at one pm.