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Speaker 1: lineman and there, yeah, and now they're starting a poem.

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Speaker 1: We haven't had polling guards or anybody pulling lately, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's what makes the difference in the run game.

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Speaker 1: I would well, let me say this, tom and thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call. I think the sixth offensive lineman, which

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Speaker 1: most recently has been Tommy Doyle, for the most part,

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Speaker 1: has been effective. It was effective against the Jets last week.

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Speaker 1: The week prior against Atlanta, it had a little bit

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Speaker 1: more mixed success, But I think they believe they have

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Speaker 1: something there that's number one and to prove it. The

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Speaker 1: reason you didn't see two true tight ends on the

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Speaker 1: field last week is because Tommy Sweeney was inactive. They

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Speaker 1: only had one tight end on the active roster. It

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Speaker 1: was Dawson Knox. So if you wanted to go twelve

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Speaker 1: personnel with two tight ends, quote unquote, you had to

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Speaker 1: use the sixth offensive lineman. You had no other choice.

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Speaker 1: And I thought they were pretty creative with that, Steve,

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Speaker 1: because I know you talked about it with We talked

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Speaker 1: about it with Eric Wood on Monday how they put

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Speaker 1: Tommy's Dawson Knox at the tight tackle position, at the

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Speaker 1: tight end at the tight end position, and then Tommy

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Speaker 1: Doyle at the wing position, yeah, outside of him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's really interesting, which was creative because it kind of

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Speaker 1: messes up how you defend all that, right, because if

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Speaker 1: you're a defensive coordinator and you got a tight end

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Speaker 1: it can really run out and go get passes like

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox can. And you got an offensive lineman out there,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna say, Okay, the offensive lineman, we can match

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Speaker 1: up with just about anybody on our defense. We don't care.

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Speaker 1: So if they get out in this and the spot

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Speaker 1: will do this. Well, if you switch the spots, all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you got the offensive lineman at a

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Speaker 1: spot where you've got your better defender and your bad

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Speaker 1: defender is on your better pass catcher. It's a really

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Speaker 1: it's a really interesting ever it's a really interesting idea

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Speaker 1: to do that, and it's you know, you got to

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Speaker 1: get ready for that if you're the Patriots and anybody else.

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Speaker 1: It's it's really interesting thing. And Brian Dable showing some

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Speaker 1: creativity and and you know, like you said, there's never

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Speaker 1: just a one off up there where you're gonna try

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Speaker 1: that and throw it out there and have him stop

466
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Speaker 1: and do something else. You're gonna have a menu of

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Speaker 1: plays short or long out of that set. And I

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Speaker 1: would respectively say you have not had guards pulling to

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Speaker 1: a great degree, because that's not what Darryl Williams does

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Speaker 1: exceptionally well. You're more likely to have one of the

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Speaker 1: two Tackles and Mitch Morse pull because those are three

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Speaker 1: of your three most mobile linemen. I haven't seen enough

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Speaker 1: of Ryan Bates to you know, decide whether he is

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Speaker 1: of that variety either. But more often than not, when

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Speaker 1: you have lineman pulling, it's Dion Dawkins, it's Mitch Morse,

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Speaker 1: and it's Spencer Brown. The guards more often than not

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Speaker 1: have been more of the drive blocking ILK here in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think that has changed for the most part.

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Speaker 1: We go to Shane and ROLEI next, what do you

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Speaker 1: got for a Shane? You're on one, Bill's Live Brownie

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Speaker 1: and Tasker. I hope you guys during the day. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so um. I just wanted to make a point about

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Speaker 1: the last year's Nancy Championship game that I hope the

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Speaker 1: team learns from UM. Last year, I noticed that m

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Speaker 1: McDermott he was a little bit too conservative. Um he

486
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Speaker 1: went for or he went for all field goals when

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Speaker 1: it was fourth and three at the forty fourth and

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Speaker 1: goal at the time, and then with three nineteen left

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Speaker 1: in the game he went for another field goal when

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Speaker 1: I was fourth and twenty eight. I just hope that

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Speaker 1: you know, he learns from that going into the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and that he has a little bit more of an

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Speaker 1: aggressive attitude, which I've noticed that he has had these

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Speaker 1: last few weeks. So you know, I just hope that

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Speaker 1: they can keep that going. UM, And that just another point.

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Speaker 1: I know they've been kind of bouncing back between Marquis

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Speaker 1: Stevenson and Isaiah McKenzie. In my opinion, I think McKenzie

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Speaker 1: just gives them a little bit more juice at both

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Speaker 1: the punt and the kick return game. So that's my

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Speaker 1: thoughts on that. And just my wife, she's a Patriots fan,

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Speaker 1: so in the a house divided on Saturday night, but

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Speaker 1: she's been I'm a good sport about it all, and

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Speaker 1: we're both looking forward to the game. Hope you guys

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Speaker 1: enjoy the game and go Bills. All right, Thanks Shane,

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Speaker 1: good call and good luck in your neutral corners on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night. I was divided, we've heard of those before. Um. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott has been more aggressive on fourth downs this year.

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Speaker 1: I believe I saw the number. Don't quote me on it,

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Speaker 1: but I believe the Bills are almost ten percent increase

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Speaker 1: in going forward on fourth down from last year alone.

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Speaker 1: And here's another thing, Steve, because I looked this up.

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Speaker 1: Last year, Andy Reid, obviously Sean mcdermot's mentor in the

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Speaker 1: coaching profession, was one of the more aggressive fourth down

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Speaker 1: offensive play callers in the league. In the regular season,

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Speaker 1: it was somewhere around forty something percent. Last year. In

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Speaker 1: the playoffs he goes for it on fourth down sixty

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Speaker 1: percent of the time. He gets more aggressive in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: not less. So Yeah, I think when you get into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and generally speaking, you've got to know that

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Speaker 1: you can trust your players more than you can in

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Speaker 1: the first month of the regular season, over the course

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Speaker 1: of a long season, and during the playoffs in a

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Speaker 1: stretch rundown. To get into the playoffs, they proved to

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Speaker 1: head coaches, and I think head coaches come to know

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Speaker 1: they got some guys, they know who they can depend

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Speaker 1: on them when you can put the ball in their hands,

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Speaker 1: trust them. And I think head coaches are willing to

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Speaker 1: do it. Plus the fact that there ain't no going back.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's no tomorrow. You gotta win today, so

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Speaker 1: you may as well go down swinging. And I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of coaches are learning a couple of things. One,

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Speaker 1: you get second guests a lot less when you go

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Speaker 1: for it. I mean, and we look at that last

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Speaker 1: regular season game of the entire season, the Raiders versus

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Speaker 1: the Chargers in Las Vegas. Joe Burrow and the Chargers

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Speaker 1: get back in that game by going for it and

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Speaker 1: going five for five on fourth down in the last

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Speaker 1: three drives of that game to get it to overtime.

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Speaker 1: That emboldens a lot of coaches and the way they're

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Speaker 1: treating coaches are treated, in the way they're they're thought of,

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Speaker 1: and the way their players think about them, the way

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Speaker 1: the media handles them, and ownership as well. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to criticize somebody for going for it. Even in the loss.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Staley got crucified for taking a time out, not

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Speaker 1: going forward on fourth and three on his own eighteen

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Speaker 1: and not getting it because they still got the game

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Speaker 1: to overtime. So there's a lot of things in the

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Speaker 1: current I guess in this economy, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: things pointing to the fact that you should go for

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Speaker 1: it on fourth down a lot more often, and in

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Speaker 1: these playoffs if you're if you're anywhere out on across midfield, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I think no matter what the fourth down is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we have to take a break here. More of your

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Speaker 1: phone calls coming up, so be sure to hang on

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Speaker 1: the line if you're waiting at eight oh three, five fifty.

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Speaker 1: We will get to you as we are discussing with

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Speaker 1: you today what needs to happen for the Bills to

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Speaker 1: get a win over the Patriots. Back with more of

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Speaker 1: your phone calls. Next, our number two today, Ross Tucker,

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Speaker 1: who will be calling the game on Westwood one Radio

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Speaker 1: on the National Radio Network for Saturday night's game. We'll

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Speaker 1: catch up with Ross, a former Bills offensive lineman, to boot,

563
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Speaker 1: we'll catch up with him in the second hour. But

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Speaker 1: more of your phone calls coming next. Here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you. We got Ross Tucker coming up in the

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Speaker 1: second hour of the program. Be sure to stay tuned

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Speaker 1: for that, as he'll be doing the game on Westwood

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Speaker 1: One with John Sadak and Steve Tasker will be down

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines. So if you're out of town and

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Speaker 1: you don't have access to the Bills radio network, you

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00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: can catch Steve on Westwood one, the national radio broadcast,

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Speaker 1: which happens for all playoff games. But let's get back

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Speaker 1: to the phones where we've got some people waiting patiently

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Speaker 1: and leading us off. Here is Dennis in Lewiston. What

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? Dennis, you're on One Bill's Live. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing today? Good? Good? All right? First off, love,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm lifetime Bills fan, longtime listener of the show,

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00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: and Steve in my heart you are a Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer and you'll always be and I have your jersey,

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Speaker 1: so here you go. All right? Thanks? Well, law well,

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Speaker 1: you know, gett into the question. I think the Bills

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Speaker 1: really started running the ball really well, buying us Josh

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Speaker 1: Hamill and running the ball all the time. Motor has

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Speaker 1: kicked his motor going and he's doing good, and I

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Speaker 1: think we need to continue doing the same thing. Just

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Speaker 1: keep running the ball, keep running the ball, keep the

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Speaker 1: pressure off of Josh, don't have him run all the time,

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Speaker 1: let motor go. And I think we're going to be okay. Defense.

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Speaker 1: We got the number one defense in the league. So

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Speaker 1: you know, the one thing that does scare me is

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Speaker 1: that the whole Belichick factor. You know that he is

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Speaker 1: coming back to Buffalo for our home game, and I

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Speaker 1: think we should just to stay the course, man, keep

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Speaker 1: playing bad you know, really good defense, badass defense. Sorry

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Speaker 1: for the language, but you know, I think we're going

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Speaker 1: to be okay. I really do. I think this is

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Speaker 1: going to be the year. You know, I had the

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Speaker 1: privilege to watch mister Tasker and the four straight Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm forty three years old, so you know

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Speaker 1: I was a kid watching the glory years. And now

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Speaker 1: we're back to the glory years. Let's achieve what we

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Speaker 1: need to achieve. Let's get to the Bowl. I don't

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Speaker 1: care who we're playing, but we can do it. We

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Speaker 1: have a better squad than I think than anybody in

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Speaker 1: the AFC, it certainly, and let's just get to the

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Speaker 1: ball man. Yep, thanks Dennis appreciate the call. I said

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Speaker 1: on the show yesterday, I think this is a more

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Speaker 1: well rounded team than the one that entered the playoffs

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Speaker 1: last year. The defense was kind of a middle of

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Speaker 1: the pack group last year. It was a down year

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Speaker 1: for the defense last year, and I don't think that helped.

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Speaker 1: And this year you've got a defense that is playing

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Speaker 1: absolutely lights out. I mean they are number one across

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Speaker 1: the board, and their pass rush is peaking right now

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Speaker 1: to go with their stellar play on the back end.

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Speaker 1: So even if the Bill's offense cannot get off to

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Speaker 1: a hot start on Saturday night, I'm not worried because

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Speaker 1: that defense is going to hold you in games. Right.

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Speaker 1: That's the difference between this year's team and last year's.

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Speaker 1: And plus when you add in a running game that

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Speaker 1: has emerged over the last month, you got to feel

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Speaker 1: really good about where you're at. There's no question the

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Speaker 1: team sits right where they wanted to be sitting outside

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Speaker 1: of being the one seed coming into the playoffs. They

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Speaker 1: running games, clicking, they're healthy. They've got nobody on the

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Speaker 1: COVID list, or nobody of consequence on the COVID list.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to depend on they are right where

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Speaker 1: they want to be, and so the only thing left

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Speaker 1: for them to do is go out and execute a

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Speaker 1: game plan and their own in their home stadium. So

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Speaker 1: as good as they have played, you know, let's pump

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Speaker 1: the brakes on saying they're gonna sweep through all of

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Speaker 1: this stuff because they're playing the New England Patriots, and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots have a really good defense as well, and

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Speaker 1: they have a really good ability to execute a game

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Speaker 1: plan better than probably any team in the league week

639
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: to week. So it's still you still got to play

640
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: well on game day. Like I've always said, you can

641
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 1: be better than the other team, but you gotta play

642
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: like it on game day. And that's what's left to

643
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: be done for the Buffalo Bills. And the Patriots have

644
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: no reason to come in here think and they can't

645
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: get this done either. So you're playing against teams that

646
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: are really confident at this time of year, and the

647
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: Bills are just one of them. So it's it's gonna

648
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: be I think it's gonna be a fantastic run. But

649
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: you gotta play well on game day to advance in

650
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: these playoffs. We go back to the phones, and we

651
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: go to Dan and Rochester next, what you got for us? Dan? Hey, Chris,

652
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: I feel like you did it. After I heard the

653
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: replay in New England, I feel like took it all week.

654
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: I can't see in any of their teams. Yeah, I

655
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: know England, all the sports teams. I think they're just spoiled.

656
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: They are, and I think we should be physical with them.

657
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: Knock him out there, you're no watch and just knock

658
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: him down. Beat the crap out of them. Yeah. I'm

659
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: sucking tired of hearing vout New England. Yeah we all are, Dan,

660
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: And thanks for the call. And I think you bring

661
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: up a good point as well, because if you look

662
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: at the last two meetings between these two teams, the

663
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: more physical team won the game. The first game, windy conditions,

664
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: granted it impacted how things went, but that Patriot's offensive

665
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: line took it to Buffalo's defense and said, hey, we're

666
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: going to run the ball the whole game. Try to

667
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: stop it. And they couldn't because they didn't meet they

668
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: didn't match the physical intensity of that New England offensive line.

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00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: You fast forward to week sixteen, Josh Allen walks into

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00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: the locker room and says, I woke up with violence

671
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 1: on my mind right. That jacked everybody up. You saw

672
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: the difference in intensity on that field, and the Patriots

673
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: flat out did not match it in Week sixteen, and

674
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: it was a huge decider. It was a huge factor

675
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: in the game that has to come back again on

676
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: Saturday night. You have to be the more physical team. Yes,

677
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: that's true. We talk about them off and on throughout

678
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 1: and I tell you you know, every team needs an edge.

679
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 1: And and you mentioned too in the in the post

680
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: game after the Raiders Chargers game, how Rodney Harrison said,

681
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: you know, the La Chargers were soft mentally, They just

682
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 1: weren't soft mentally. You gotta be you gotta have an

683
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: edge and be and be like stepping into a fight.

684
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: In these games. You gotta be really willing to compete. Angry, discipline,

685
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: but angry. You gotta just not back up. But you

686
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: can't give them anything. And that's what the way the

687
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: attitude of these guys all is in these In these games,

688
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: you've got to be willing every game to you know,

689
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: scuffle if you need to. And the team that is

690
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: more willing to play like that and get ready for

691
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: that is the team's going to have an edge throughout

692
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, and you know that it's going to

693
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: be ratcheted up. The intensity for the playoffs. The speed

694
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: at which everybody plays is taken up a notch. The

695
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 1: physicality has to come with it. And I think that's

696
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: a lesson that this Bills team has learned over the

697
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: last four or five weeks of this season. You remember,

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00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: back in the middle of the season, Steve coach McDermott

699
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: was very frank about this. We have to play more

700
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: physical at the line of scrimmage. He demanded it from

701
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: his offense and his defense. You know, they got run

702
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: over by the Colts. His comments after the game, we

703
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: got to play more physical. We didn't match the physical

704
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,959
Speaker 1: intensity of our opponent today and we got flat out beat.

705
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: He demanded they play more physical. Over these last five

706
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: weeks they have and shocking, they've won four in a row.

707
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: That's not the only reason they've won four in a row,

708
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: but it's a big reason, right, and they got to

709
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: continue that. If you show up and don't play like

710
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: that in the playoffs, you're giving away something to your team.

711
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: It's your opponent and and it shows. It shows now

712
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: you know all these teams are gonna be very talented

713
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: and all of them are going to be, you know,

714
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: executing at a high level and have some great players

715
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: on their squads, but you've it's got to be the

716
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: collective attitude of your team has got to be something

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00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 1: that the other team is forced to match or they're

718
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: gonna or they're gonna fold. Yeah, all right, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a break here, Mike and Tonawanda, Tom and Fairport,

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Speaker 1: Hank Tight We'll get to you after the break. Step aside.

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00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,840
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Speaker 1: open flame, you know, a firebox. Right. We saw reports

743
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: that Bill's assistant general manager Joe Shane was interviewing with

744
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 1: the New York Giants for their vacant GM job. Today

745
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: the Giants have just announced in the last hour that

746
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 1: that interview with Joe Shane is complete. So Joe Shane's

747
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: interview with the Giants has taken place today. It is

748
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: over and done with, and we'll see where they go

749
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: from here. I'm sure they'll be interviewing some other candidates

750
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: Joe Shane and name that has also come up in

751
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: Chicago for their vacant general manager's position. We go back

752
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: to the phones though, and Tom and Fairport has been

753
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: waiting the longest here. What do you have for us? Tom? Good,

754
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: good afternoon, How you doing good? Dress? Good? Couple of

755
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: points and then I'll hang up and listen. Let you

756
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: say a couple of callers have already mentioned this offense

757
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: and defensive line. We just got to be out as

758
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: we got to just destroy them, go out and just

759
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,919
Speaker 1: punch him in the face. Now they want, they want

760
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: to blitz us. You were talking about them loading up

761
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: and trying to shake Josh up. We go three or

762
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: four wide. What I've seen in the past few weeks

763
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:18,399
Speaker 1: is uh, Josh using the checkdown a lot. And I

764
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: think with like you said, they're linebackers, slow Singletary's been

765
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: a motor for us right now, check it down and

766
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: let him. Let him get what he gets, take what

767
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: week they give us. Yeah, and uh, you know, it's

768
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: just uh that's what I That's what I think. And

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00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: uh you know God Bills, Yeah, yeah, I think I

770
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think in this uh and in

771
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: the way this game shakes out, I think it's going

772
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: to come down to the Patriots kind of keeping everything

773
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: in front of him and forcing Josh Allen not to

774
00:43:54,360 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: be Superman and checking down to Devin's Singletary and checking

775
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: down to Isaaa McKenzie or Cole Beasley or whatever taking

776
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,720
Speaker 1: a short passes. If you think back to the second

777
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 1: game between him in Foxborough, that's what he did early.

778
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: I mean it's Devin Singletary had I think five of

779
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: the first six plays they were two two or three

780
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: checkdowns and in one called route and the other play

781
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,240
Speaker 1: went to Steph Diggs who dropped it on the sideline.

782
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: Right at the beginning of the game, it was all

783
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary run here, a quick pass there, a check

784
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: down there, and another run. Those were the first five

785
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: plays of the game, and the Bills went off and

786
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: not a single drive in the entire game except for

787
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: the end of the halves didn't get inside the twenty

788
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 1: of the Patriots. They moved the football down the field

789
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: like nothing. At the end of the half, they ran

790
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: the clock out, and at the end of the game

791
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: they knelt down. Other than that, the only time the

792
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: Patriots stopped the Bills from scoring was on the fourth

793
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: and one on the one yard line of the Patriots

794
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 1: that Emmanuel Sanders dropped a touchdown. That's what you got

795
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: to think about, and that's what you've got to think about,

796
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots thinking about, how are they going to do

797
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: it differently because the Bills they couldn't stop him the

798
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: last time, and it started with just a couple of

799
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: dinks and dunks. It was the fastest I've ever seen

800
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: Josh go to the checkdown in a game ever, because

801
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: Josh would often fall victim to yeah, I know the

802
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: checkdowns there, but let me wait an extra half seconds,

803
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: see if something a bigger play opens up down field.

804
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: And then by the time he looks back to the checkdown,

805
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: it's closed. It's not available, and now he's got to

806
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: run around and hope he can make something happen without

807
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: losing yardage. In that game, as soon as the checkdown

808
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: was there, bang, he went to it. And as you

809
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: pointed out, it helped them move the ball, stay on

810
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: schedule and they were finishing drives with points. And what

811
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: that did was it allowed the Bills to get up

812
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard early. And even though New England ran

813
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: the ball well in the game they average five and

814
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: a half yards to carry, that wasn't a stable approach

815
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 1: because they were too far behind on the scoreboard. Now

816
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: you got to put it on Mac Jones, and that's

817
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: when they had problems. You got fourteen of thirty two,

818
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: you got one second. They started have to catch count possessions.

819
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: That's when they got it within six and then okay,

820
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: here we go, and then they got it within then

821
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: the Bill scored again and put it back to thirteen

822
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: or twelve or whatever it was, and then they had

823
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: to score again, and that's when Josh just answered it

824
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: and went down and scored again, put it up thirty

825
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: three twenty two or or something like that, and Patriots,

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00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: it was too late. Yeah, it was too late. They

827
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: couldn't keep up. They were down double digits and all

828
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: of a sudden they ran out of possessions at the

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Speaker 1: end of the game. So you can say what you

830
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: want about that doing that. It took them all the

831
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: way to the end of the game to get there,

832
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,280
Speaker 1: but they did have a comfortable lead up to that point.

833
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: And you throw in a couple of drop touchdowns, and

834
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: Patriot fans will tell you they had a bunch of

835
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: drops in that game too, particularly the pick six on

836
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,240
Speaker 1: that last drop Jacy Jackson. Yeah, my contention is before

837
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 1: Josh put the cape on, they were dropping touchdown passes

838
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,720
Speaker 1: in the first half that that game would have gotten.

839
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: That would have been a laugher. And I said it

840
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: after the game. This was a half step from a

841
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: beat down in Foxborough and that was before Josh ever

842
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: put on the cape. Yeah, so they're gonna come in

843
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: with a completely different game plan that they had that

844
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: game because Jo it was just too easy for Josh

845
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: and this offense to take that check down and be

846
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: content and move the football, and move the football, move

847
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: the football, and then you get down to the red zone,

848
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, let's let's see if you can keep

849
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: us out. One more call here before the break, we

850
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: go to Mike on a cell. What do you have

851
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: for us? Mike here on one Bill's Life. Yeah, I

852
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,479
Speaker 1: think that the defense played outstanding against them last time

853
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: they had the first quarters, they had them stopped with

854
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: the run for the one long one. I mean, if

855
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: they can play that way for the rest of the

856
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: arrest of the game for this game coming up, there's

857
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: no way the Patriots score. Yeah. The problem the Patriots have,

858
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: and Mike, thanks for the call. The problem the Patriots

859
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: have is the way they are built offensively is to

860
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: run the football. And mix in some play action with

861
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. They put they put the bulk of the

862
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: responsibility on their run game. Well that's all well and

863
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 1: good if you can get on ahead on the scoreboard early,

864
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: but as soon as you fall behind by ten points

865
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: or more, it becomes supremely difficult with that approach to

866
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: climb back into the game effectively. And that's what happened

867
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: in the last meeting. Bills are up seventeen seven at

868
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: the half. You can't run it all day anymore. You

869
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: gotta have Mac Jones do more for you. And that's

870
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: when he gets into trouble. I mean, it happened again

871
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: in Miami last week. Throws a pick, no touchdowns. They

872
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: were behind and they had to rely on him to

873
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: climb back into the game and they flat out couldn't

874
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, it's they're not built for it. They

875
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 1: they want to run the ball and play defense, and

876
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: we've seen it. I mean, they'll come out. This is

877
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: a this is a you know, winner take all game.

878
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: So they may be in a position here where for

879
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: the first time this season or one of the things

880
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna say, Okay, you've come this far, Mac, now

881
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna ask you to do some things in this game.

882
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: We want you to try, and we're gonna support you

883
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: as best we can. And they'll come out and they'll

884
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: do some things we haven't seen them do before. Like

885
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 1: may think they come out throwing it and slinging around

886
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 1: in the first half or whatever, but they know they've

887
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: got to do something either to keep pace with Bills

888
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: offensively or run the ball well enough and play defense

889
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 1: well enough to get them off the field. And I

890
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: know I wouldn't be I wouldn't put it past them

891
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: to ask to do things offensively they haven't done all year,

892
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: like lean on mac Jones and try it. I think

893
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: they got to change their spots in the postseason. Okay,

894
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: but I think they may do some of that. I mean,

895
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna lean on it, but they're gonna do enough

896
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: to keep the Bills on their heels defensively because they

897
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: got to. Yeah, they got to. All Right, we gotta

898
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: take a break here because coming up next, the guy

899
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: that's going to be calling the game on national radio

900
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 1: on Westwood One with John Sadak It is Ross Tucker,

901
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: former Bills offensive lineman. We'll catch up with him next

902
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: to Dice up Bill's Patriots Here on One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Add a

904
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Speaker 1: Steve Taster who has spent all all over the fields.

905
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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

906
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: player for Steve. Steve a blimp. We're not even in

907
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Speaker 1: the stragger of normalcy. All right, here we go our

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Speaker 1: number two, Chris Brown, speed chanker with you. One Bill's

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Speaker 1: How are we doing, mister Westwood one Radio? You know

915
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: what we are doing? Awesome. I'm excited. I'm coming home.

916
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: I will be up there Saturday for the game. Can't wait.

917
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: You know, I just it's funny. You guys know we've

918
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: talked about it before. I have a great affinity of

919
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: the five teams I played for. My favorite team was

920
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: Buffalo for a bunch of different reasons. But I love

921
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: being able to go to these playoff games. The Ravens

922
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: won last year this one Saturday night, because we didn't

923
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 1: get there when I was a player, you know, we

924
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: got very close. There's a part of me that's a

925
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: little jealous because I would have loved to have been

926
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: a part of, you know, playing a home playoff game

927
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,879
Speaker 1: in front of those folks up there in Western New York.

928
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: But I'm living vicariously through this year's team and the

929
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: great run these guys have been on the last couple

930
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: of years. It's still a little bit of a first

931
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: because last year, when they've played those two playoff games,

932
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: there's only sixty five hundred people in the stands, and

933
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: you know, it's not the same. And now there's a

934
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: lot of fans here in Western New York, just the

935
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: first time in decades that they've had a chance to

936
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: do this. A lot of fun and you're right, the

937
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,240
Speaker 1: weather notwithstanding, this is gonna be a special a special

938
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: day for not just former players like you who kind

939
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,280
Speaker 1: of are happy for the fans, happy for the team,

940
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: but also the fans who've been waiting on a long time. Yeah,

941
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: it's funny, Steve, I can't remember how much. If you

942
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: say it's sixty five hundred, I believe you. I tweeted

943
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: last year in the divisional round, you know, being there

944
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,919
Speaker 1: for that Ravens game, that was the loudest sixty five

945
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: hundred people in the history of the world. I mean,

946
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: when who was it Johnson? Was it Johnson had the

947
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 1: pick six? That place went that's allowed to sixty five

948
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,760
Speaker 1: hundred people. Ever, that place went crazy. It's a terrific point, Steve.

949
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that. You know, what is the

950
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: fifty five thousand people that are gonna be there, sixty thousand,

951
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: most of them have probably never seen a home playoff game,

952
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: a lot of them that is awesome. Can't wait to

953
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: be up there. I can't wait to be working with

954
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: you on the side, with you being on the broadcast

955
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: on the sideline. I gotta tell you, though, Steve, I

956
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: am so glad that you're on the sideline. And I'm sorry, dude.

957
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you'll for the listeners. When you're

958
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: a sideline reporter, the only thing you care about is

959
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: the weather. And I'll be on the sideline, by the way,

960
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 1: Monday night for the Cardinals at the Rams in LA

961
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: with the Dome. I think I'll be a little back. Yeah,

962
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you know what I'm gonna get

963
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 1: because you've done the sideline thing too, and it's it's

964
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 1: no joke. I mean you're there walking around. You can

965
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: walk around and stuff, but it's it's like five hours

966
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: six hours of you know, relentless weather. And yeah, and

967
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 1: not only that. So so a couple of things standing

968
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: up that long. Yeah, I just get stiff. You know.

969
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: I had to back surgery from doctor Cappuccino when I

970
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: was up there in Buffalo. So standing is like the

971
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: worst thing for me. So I don't like that. The

972
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: other thing is, I don't know about you, guys. I

973
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: don't know what the heck is going on with Every

974
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,879
Speaker 1: year I get older, I swear I get like five

975
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: degrees colder. When I played in Buffalo, I was like

976
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: between three ten and three eighteen. Maybe I don't care

977
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: how cold it was. Pregame warm ups, shorts and a

978
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: T shirt, no problem. Yeah, I was big and I

979
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: was young. I guess I had the blood flowing. Now

980
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 1: I'm forty two, I'm telling you guys, I'm a whimp.

981
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm free I get freezing, like I don't know what

982
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 1: happened to me. Yeah, well, you're right. I mean, I'm

983
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: right there, and I'm like fifteen sixteen years ahead of

984
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: you too, So I'm yeah, I don't know who you

985
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: know ross that you get to draw the LA sideline card. Yeah,

986
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you know somebody in a high place to

987
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: get that draw. That's pretty good. Yeah, you know what,

988
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: That's the only stadium in the NFL I haven't been to,

989
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: so I'm looking forward to that. I will say this though,

990
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,280
Speaker 1: and I'm curious what you guys have been talking about

991
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: this week and what some of the fans up there think.

992
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I'm not a huge fan of

993
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:35,240
Speaker 1: divisional matchups in the wild card round. Both the games

994
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 1: all be a part of Bills, Patriots, Cardinals, Rams are

995
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: exactly that. Look, there's nothing you can do about it, right.

996
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: The seating is the seating. But I don't know, I'd

997
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: like to see the Bills kind of play somebody else.

998
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,439
Speaker 1: Let's see the Patriots play somebody else as opposed to

999
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,279
Speaker 1: the third time in seven weeks. I just think it's

1000
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 1: a little bit awkward. It is what it is. Obviously,

1001
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: you got to go out there and win, and you

1002
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: might have to beat them any way at some point,

1003
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: even if you didn't play in the in the wild

1004
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: card round. But if I was czar, somehow I would

1005
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: try to make it so that that couldn't happen, right,

1006
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: like a restriction or something. Yeah, I hear you. The

1007
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: ironic thing is this is the first time in the

1008
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: Super Bowl era the Bills and Patriots are meeting in

1009
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,880
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They've just never been good at the same

1010
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,480
Speaker 1: time until now, so it's it's pretty wacky. The only

1011
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: other time they met in the playoffs was in the

1012
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: AFL days in nineteen sixty three in an AFL Eastern

1013
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: Division playoffs. It's nuts to think that we've gone fifty

1014
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: eight years and these two teams have never squared off before. Yeah,

1015
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: I'm curious. What has been the reaction, like the reaction

1016
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: of the fan base about playing New England. Are they like, awesome,

1017
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: let's beat him again, or is there a little bit

1018
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: like we just beat them in the last one when

1019
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: we had to we won the division? Can we play

1020
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: somebody else? I mean already that plays are gonna be

1021
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 1: bananas Saturday. I think I think it'd be in the

1022
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 1: Patriots just ratchets up even more yet, question about it.

1023
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: There's a lot of ants with the Patriots always that

1024
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: there's still a generation of people who view them as

1025
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 1: the ultimate evil. But also I think most of the

1026
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: ants comes from if it was seventy five and Sonny

1027
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: and no wind, the people would feel a little bit

1028
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: more confident about the Bill's ability to run their offense. Normally,

1029
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: when you get into the cold, and you know this

1030
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: ross the cold isn't really as much as a factor

1031
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: as the wind and the rain is. If it's windy,

1032
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: that's a problem for the Bills, and if it's if

1033
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: it's rain and it's obviously a problem. I think the

1034
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: Patriots are built better for conditions like this than the

1035
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: Bills are at the current moment. Well, yeah, I mean

1036
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: they run the ball better, certainly, although the Bills have

1037
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 1: been running the ball a little bit better more recently.

1038
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I remember this distinctly from playing in Buffalo.

1039
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: I think in oh four I started four games at

1040
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: center when Trey Tigue went down. The colder it is,

1041
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: the harder the ball gets, and like the bigger the

1042
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: ball feels. I can remember I'd have to go over

1043
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: and like that ankle spray stuff that they spray on

1044
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: your ankles before they tape your ankles. I would act

1045
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: like I was spraying my ankle and like get some

1046
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: of that on my hand, just so I had a

1047
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: little bit of a better grip because the ball would

1048
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: get so hard it would like balloon up, which by

1049
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: the way, makes sense if you're in a cold environment

1050
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: to maybe take a little bit of air out of it.

1051
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: Somebody might have done that at some point. I don't know. Yeah,

1052
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: I wonder who that could be. Wow. So Ross, let

1053
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: me ask you this because Steve and I were knocking

1054
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: this around yesterday. You know, quarterbacks, a lot of old

1055
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: school quarterbacks would often lick their hand to get a

1056
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: little bit better grip. But when it's zero degrees, I'm wondering,

1057
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: are we going into like the triple dog dare tongue

1058
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: on the pole situation there with a football if you're

1059
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: licking your hand and I don't know if it's gonna

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00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: give you anything when it's that cold, So they might

1061
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: have to go looking for some spray or tan actin

1062
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: or something to spray on their hand. I don't know

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00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: what else you'd do to maintain your grip so you

1064
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: can spin the football. Yeah, I mean I think you

1065
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: can still lick your hand. I do I think that

1066
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: you'll get enough moisture for a little bit. I think

1067
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: you can put the spray stuff on. You know, some guys,

1068
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: the colder it gets, they go with the gloves because

1069
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: the gloves are naturally tacrified. I don't think people don't

1070
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: realize that. But there's some natural tacifications that even a word.

1071
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. The gloves are naturally tacrified. So I

1072
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 1: used to love it. I mean I used to like it.

1073
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: Gave you a little bit of a grip there. I

1074
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: didn't like it if I was playing center though, because

1075
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: I wanted to be able to feel the ball, and

1076
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: I used I don't know about you, Steve, I used

1077
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 1: to try to get the smallest gloves I possibly could

1078
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: on my hand, like it'd be like I almost had

1079
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: to have the trainer like it look my gloves looked

1080
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: like they were like, you know, glued on, because I

1081
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: didn't want there to be any extra material. I just

1082
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to feel, you know, the defender,

1083
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: the ball, whatever it was. But yeah, I mean, who knows,

1084
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: maybe Mac Jones or all. I will say this, Josh

1085
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: has a lot more experience in this kind of weather

1086
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 1: than Mac Jones does being a Florida kid who went

1087
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: to Alabama. This will be the coldest game he's ever

1088
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: played in. The last time he played in the Windy Game,

1089
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 1: they had him throw the ball three times. He hasn't

1090
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: really been playing as well as of late. And I

1091
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: also think, you know, with the ball being harder, all

1092
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: that stuff, it's just a little bit different for Mac

1093
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: Jones and that should be an edge for the Bills,

1094
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: just the familiarity. And I don't know this, I have

1095
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: to look it up, but I'm sure Josh has bigger

1096
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: hands than Mac Jones as well. Yeah, and I said

1097
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: this yesterday. It really helped the homes he Now Patriots

1098
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 1: can do this in New England because it's not that

1099
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: much different weather than Buffalo. But if you get like

1100
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 1: teams like LA or like Miami New Orleans who come

1101
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: into Buffalo on a day like it's gonna be on Saturday,

1102
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 1: the fact that you can practice in it and get

1103
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 1: your gear kind of wired and kind of dialed in

1104
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: as to what you want to do on game day,

1105
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: like you know, get the get the right basse layers,

1106
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,919
Speaker 1: trim your T shirts the right way, your bass layer

1107
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: on your legs the right way, get all that stuff

1108
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: lined out, so you know, I got a plan. Then

1109
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: you can kind of set it aside and think about

1110
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:24,920
Speaker 1: what the game's gonna do. And I remember back in

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01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: the day, and there's been a lot of a list

1112
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 1: of cold games that have been here in Buffalo. Other

1113
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: teams would come in and they make a big deal.

1114
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 1: It's a big distraction for them because they don't really

1115
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 1: know what they want to wear on game day and

1116
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: how they're gonna wear. And I made the thing yesterday

1117
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: for the coldless game in Bill's history, our offensive linemen

1118
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: went out sleeveless. The Raiders guys see our guys in

1119
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: sleeveless without sleeves and warm up and they say, okay,

1120
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: if those guys know they can, you can go sleeveless

1121
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:53,920
Speaker 1: in a cold day. Then our guys went back in

1122
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: for right before the pregame and put the sleeves on right.

1123
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: So there's some gamesmanship there as well. So there's a

1124
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: lot to it knowing exactly the distraction of not knowing

1125
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: exactly how to handle it with your gear that you're

1126
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 1: gonna wear for the game. Yeah, So two thoughts Number one,

1127
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: I think the Las Vegas Raiders in the game before Bills.

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01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: Patriots are in for a wake up call in Cincinnati

1129
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: because I think it's supposed to be really cold, and

1130
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 1: Cincinnati as well. And the Raiders to your point, you

1131
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 1: know they play in Las Vegas, they play indoors. They

1132
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: haven't played a game like that. And then in terms

1133
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: of knowing the facility and the weather, when I played

1134
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 1: for New England, guys, after the Bills cut me after

1135
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: my back surgery. Terrible decision by them, by the way,

1136
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: But after my back surgery and the Bills cut me,

1137
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: I got picked up by New England, and I was floored.

1138
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:52,320
Speaker 1: Do you know. We practiced on the game field every day.

1139
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: It was middle of the year, every day, and their

1140
01:02:56,200 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 1: game field was terrible. And I remember the coach is

1141
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: being like, Yeah, why do you think we do that?

1142
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: So that ay, we want the field to be terrible,

1143
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 1: and we know where it's terrible, we know what cleats

1144
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 1: to wear, we know whatever. Meanwhile, the Dolphins come up

1145
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: and before the game, the guys are like, what is

1146
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 1: this is garbage? Like they're thinking about it. They're not happy.

1147
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: They gotta put different cleats on. That's a very real thing.

1148
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 1: By the way. The Patriots back then, their groundskeeper got

1149
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: so much criticism, but Belichick wouldn't let him fix it,

1150
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't let him water it. It was just basically painted

1151
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: mud that the guy eventually quit. He resigned because of

1152
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: all of the criticism he would get, like in the

1153
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: paper and on the radio. Meanwhile, he was just doing

1154
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: his job. He wasn't allowed to help the field. Belichick

1155
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: wanted the field to be crappy. Yeah, I don't. I don't.

1156
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised by that at all, being an old

1157
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 1: lineman Ross. I need to break down the run games

1158
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: here respectively between these two clubs. Obviously, Damian Harris and

1159
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 1: Romandre Stevenson have been a nice one two punch for them.

1160
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 1: Brandon Bolden has kind of taken over the James White

1161
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: roll so to speak, with him being out for the

1162
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: year from a long time ago earlier in the season.

1163
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 1: What would you say are their bread and butter run

1164
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: plays that just about everybody has had trouble stopping this season. Yeah.

1165
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: So one of the thing is interesting about the Patriots,

1166
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:31,959
Speaker 1: and this has been the way since I was there.

1167
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: Watch when they have short yardage your goal line in

1168
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: this game, they only run one play. They only run

1169
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 1: either zone left or zone right, or quarterback sneak or

1170
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak, but primarily people are on. Everybody knows it's coming,

1171
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: but you don't know which way they're doing it, and

1172
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 1: they might dress it up a little bit with the

1173
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 1: backfield action, but it zone like. You will not see

1174
01:04:56,960 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: them pull alignment short yardage or goal line because of

1175
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: the concern they have about that creating penetration. They don't

1176
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 1: believe in gap blocking or pulling alignment on the goal

1177
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: line because they think it's too easy to give up

1178
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 1: penetration and have the puller getting knocked off. Everything they

1179
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 1: do is zone left, zone right. That's still a big

1180
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 1: part of who they are. That was a Dante Scarneckia thing.

1181
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 1: They've got a right guard in Shack Mason that is

1182
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: really a good drive blocking player, and they're much better

1183
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: when Trent Brown, the right tackle, is out there. I mean,

1184
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: it's been a significant difference when he's been out there

1185
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:42,919
Speaker 1: verse when he hasn't. But there, you know, I don't

1186
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: know Carriss left guards just okay, and I think Isaiah

1187
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: Wynn got banged up in the last game. That's something

1188
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on as well. They're left tackle.

1189
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: He's got an ankle injury it spending it around to

1190
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: the Bills, though, as you mentioned earlier, their run game

1191
01:05:57,160 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 1: has certainly picked up. It looks like it's thing that

1192
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: they can lean on if Josh is a little out

1193
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: of sync with his receiving corps. We've seen several times

1194
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: this year Ross people ask us what's what's How are

1195
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: the Bills different this year compared to last year? Would

1196
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 1: I would say, in my opinion, the passing game isn't

1197
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: quite as dominant or precise as it was last year.

1198
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 1: They'll have lulls in play in the course of a game,

1199
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: and these last four or five weeks they've been able

1200
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: to turn to their running game and it's carried them

1201
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: through those down times with their passing game until they

1202
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: can click it back into rhythm. I don't know if

1203
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: there's anything that stood out to you in terms of

1204
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: what has worked well for them in the run game

1205
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 1: playwise per se. Yeah. You know, Um, it's interesting that

1206
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: you say that, Chris, because when I watched them, it

1207
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: feels like they really struggle, at least until recently. If

1208
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: Josh isn't play in lights out, or if Josh is struggling,

1209
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: and it feels like Keith struggled more this year than

1210
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: he did last year. To your point, more of the

1211
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: turnovers that you don't like to see, more of them

1212
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 1: not being on the same page. And that's really where

1213
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: I'm at right now with the Bills in the postseason,

1214
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: you know, whereas last year, I feel like they could

1215
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: still win a game or two even if Allan didn't

1216
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 1: play at MVP caliber level. And I don't know that

1217
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: he did against the Ravens last year. I'm trying to

1218
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: remember the Colts game. I think he played well. I

1219
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 1: don't know that he was unbelievable in their game. Yeah,

1220
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:40,120
Speaker 1: their passing game struggled because you had Digs nicked up

1221
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 1: with an oblique muscle injury and you had Cole Beasley

1222
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 1: playing with a crack bone in his leg. Now they've

1223
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 1: tried to pace those two guys through the season, so

1224
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: they're raring to go in the playoffs. And that is

1225
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: the case now, but you also have the emergence of

1226
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:56,439
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox and Isaiah Mackenzie tooled this team the last

1227
01:07:56,480 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: time they played him in Week sixteen, and now Ross,

1228
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen this, but they're shorthanded.

1229
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: The Patriots at cornerback right now. They just put Jalen

1230
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: Mills on the COVID reserve list yesterday. They've got another

1231
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: reserve corner on the COVID list. They may have to

1232
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: play Juwan Williams outside. That's not the best place for him.

1233
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 1: And Miles Bryant got completely undressed by Isaiah McKenzie in

1234
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: the last game. Right, Mills going on the list on

1235
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: a Tuesday, five days, he can be back for sat. Could. No,

1236
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: he's out. He could. He's got a test out though. Okay, yeah, okay,

1237
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:36,840
Speaker 1: so he could. I'm just trying to do the math

1238
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:42,640
Speaker 1: here Wednesday, because that's Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Okay, that

1239
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 1: would be significant. Yeah, Jalen Mills would be significant one

1240
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 1: way or the other. And you're right, they didn't have

1241
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 1: Beasley for that last game, and McKenzie was awesome. It's

1242
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:55,679
Speaker 1: nice to know that they can have that weapon. But again,

1243
01:08:56,479 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 1: Josh was incredible in that game. The one thing I

1244
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: think I'm still frustrated about, speaking of the run game,

1245
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: is that they didn't run Josh Allen at all in

1246
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 1: the first matchup between these two teams, at least not

1247
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:12,080
Speaker 1: designed runs. I'd like to think that will be a

1248
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:15,960
Speaker 1: bigger part of this game plan. Look, it's the playoffs,

1249
01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 1: and you know, Josh is an absolute weapon with his legs,

1250
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: which I do think is sort of the fallback option

1251
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: for the Bills if the passing game isn't clicking or

1252
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 1: firing at all cylinders. It's nice to have a six five,

1253
01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 1: two hundred fifty pound quarterback that can roll. I think

1254
01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 1: one of the other things that makes this team different

1255
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:39,719
Speaker 1: than last year's edition is the fact that their defense

1256
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 1: is number one and scoring number one in yards given up.

1257
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:45,760
Speaker 1: They're harder to move the ball on Statistically. Last year

1258
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: they were middle of the road, like sixteenth ranked team

1259
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 1: in the league. Literally this year they are not a

1260
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 1: couple of notches better than that almost on every spot,

1261
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 1: and over the last four games they've gotten nineteen sacks.

1262
01:09:57,439 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 1: Their pass rushes coming live. Now again, granted it was

1263
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 1: the Jets, it was the Falcons and the Panthers. Let's

1264
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: not you know, there's still NFL teams and you've still

1265
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 1: got a lot of sacks, a lot of pressure. I

1266
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,719
Speaker 1: think your point's well taken. Yeah, So, I think that's

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01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 1: one of the things that helps this team win games.

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01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:20,839
Speaker 1: When Josh isn't Superman. Right, They've got the defense whereas

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01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:23,599
Speaker 1: they didn't last year. It's funny, isn't it. It's like

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01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: the EBB and the flow, the passing games a little

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01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 1: bit lower, the defense a little bit better. Now we

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01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: got the run game comer a little bit. They just look,

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01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: they just need three or four in a row to

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01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: have everything fire just enough to get these wins. Yeah,

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01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:43,200
Speaker 1: there's and I think that's too Statistically their top offense's tically. Statistically,

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01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: they're a top defense if they If the Bills play

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01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 1: their best, even including the Chiefs, including the Packers, they're

1278
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: running up with anybody. But the problem has been the

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01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: roller coaster they've been on this season. Who's gonna play

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01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:58,920
Speaker 1: well today is compared to who didn't play well last week?

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01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: The roller coast or is really the thing that they've

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01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:02,679
Speaker 1: got to get off of. Because if they can play

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01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: as well as they can play, they're the team. Yeah.

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01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:08,720
Speaker 1: I think there as good as anybody. I think they

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01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 1: can be anybody I don't have. It's hard to watch

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01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 1: them this year and think that they would go on

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01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 1: a four year, four game run, right, but they can,

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01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:22,599
Speaker 1: right like if they play that they played at Kansas

1289
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:25,559
Speaker 1: City earlier in the year or at New England a

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01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. They're beating anybody right, last thing here, Ross,

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01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,679
Speaker 1: This was a request by Kyle Brandt. He basically wanted

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01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: you to do his impression of you. He says, don't

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01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 1: have him do himself, have him do my impression of

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01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 1: Ross Tucker. So can you duplicate Kyle Brandt's impression of

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01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: Ross Tucker? How does he do you? I guess, oh man,

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01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:56,719
Speaker 1: so by the way, he would deny during college, throughout

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01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:01,479
Speaker 1: college that he even he even, um, you know that

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01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: he even did an impression of me. But it probably

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01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 1: goes something like, um, just just shut up. We're gonna

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01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 1: get ingling, okay, and everything's gonna be fun. Just yingling

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01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: and everything will be fine. I gotta say, when he

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01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: imitates you, for some reason, his eyes get very big,

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01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,280
Speaker 1: and I don't know why that is, but it's just

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01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: something that happens when he when he turns, because that's

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01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:35,800
Speaker 1: the opposite of me. I got. I know it is

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01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: the eyes that's bad on his impressions. I'll have to

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01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 1: critique him on that. But thank you for playing a

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01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:45,000
Speaker 1: long Ross. We look forward to seeing you up here. Uh,

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01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 1: bring your layers, my friend, bring your layers. I will.

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01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I'm gonna try to keep the thing

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01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:54,680
Speaker 1: shut though until right before. I'm not surprised. I don't

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01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: blame you. There is no shame in that, Ross, trust me.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thanks very much, Ross, I appreciated time. All right.

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Speaker 1: have to get to the tweet sheet here, Steve. We

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01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 1: also have Jerry Hughes and Ed Oliver so Ed and

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01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:10,560
Speaker 1: Jerry will come your way first as they address the

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Speaker 1: media following practice today. So west the west. The focus

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01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: on just having that that I discipline with gap integrity. Uh,

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01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 1: you know going into this week, H well, it's you know,

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01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: it takes all the level to play defense, especially against

1353
01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:28,680
Speaker 1: this group. They very fundamentally sound. They're gonna come in

1354
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:30,960
Speaker 1: here and give us their best shot, and we just

1355
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: gotta take it and handle that. And everybody has to

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01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 1: be in their gap. Uh. And then when they do

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01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:38,560
Speaker 1: decide to pass, I don't know how much depending on

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01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:40,760
Speaker 1: the weather. Last time they came out here, they didn't

1359
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 1: throw worth the leg. So this time they come out here,

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01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:44,600
Speaker 1: they might switch it up and it might be a

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01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,600
Speaker 1: different game. But whatever they decide to do, we just

1362
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,680
Speaker 1: gotta be owning. We just gotta be dialed in, locked in.

1363
01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: Whatever they call on defense, we've got to execute them, uh,

1364
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 1: I have and not leave. You gotta protect that reputation.

1365
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 1: Some some instances in that game, he was trying to

1366
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: manipulate the edge there go twin sets when the call

1367
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 1: Harry out there seeing go backstyle and it was doing

1368
01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 1: like some reverse counters on one DRIVEE. They was able

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01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:11,080
Speaker 1: to find some success. You know, during that I'm quite

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01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 1: sure you guys would be well prepared for that you know,

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01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: but I mean more hindsight. Yesterday was the fifth year

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01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: anniversary of coach McDermot being the head coach here. Question

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01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 1: for both of your guys, what does coach mean to

1374
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 1: both of you? Oh? Man, he means everything, just the

1375
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 1: way he's changed the mentality in the building, in the organization,

1376
01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 1: you know, bringing that championship playoff caliber that we so

1377
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,080
Speaker 1: desperately needed here. You know, we got plenty of guys

1378
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 1: that got the talent. It's all about leadership, and you

1379
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:43,200
Speaker 1: have the right leadership, the right captain on the boat. Man,

1380
01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:45,200
Speaker 1: it makes things a lot easier and we can go

1381
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 1: out that play fast and have fun and give our

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01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 1: fans the result that they need. I just think I

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01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:55,560
Speaker 1: just think for me, well, McDermot bringing me here and

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01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 1: giving me here, Like, I just can't say enough about

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01:16:57,760 --> 01:16:59,120
Speaker 1: that right there. I could have been a whole bunch

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01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 1: of other places and would not have been in this situation.

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01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 1: I've been in the league but going on three years now,

1388
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 1: and every year I've been to the playoffs, and uh, like,

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01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: the coaching here is just good. They say a lot

1390
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: of other places around the league, like talking to older

1391
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 1: guys and just not like this. So for me, he

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01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say save my life and he there, I'm

1393
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: so save my career. Coming to a place with a

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01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,599
Speaker 1: good atmosphere and me learning how to be a pro

1395
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 1: here versus somewhere else where. It's not so you know,

1396
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:29,519
Speaker 1: not so family already anything and things like that. Absolutely, Jerry,

1397
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 1: Before I'll let you go, man, give us your playoff message.

1398
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:36,600
Speaker 1: A playoff message. Man, We're gonna do what we always do.

1399
01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:39,280
Speaker 1: We're coming out here. We're playing fast and playing physical,

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01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: especially a front. You know, we hear all the churt

1401
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:44,720
Speaker 1: when we hear guys talking about his headthing like that,

1402
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:47,800
Speaker 1: that ain't nothing because we're gonna shrap it up. You know,

1403
01:17:47,920 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna let them pass. Talking comes out of that.

1404
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 1: That's right. Get shot back up in here, man, Yeah,

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01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 1: scene appreciate just uh. And this is for eight of

1406
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: you guys. What are the challenges in facing the same

1407
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:11,760
Speaker 1: team for a third time. It's incredibly rare. Uh. You know,

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01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:16,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a very detail oriented discipline game. You know,

1409
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:20,280
Speaker 1: field positions gonna be key for us. It's all about

1410
01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: population to the ball, getting off blocks, and you know,

1411
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 1: trying to just come out there swinging. So I think

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01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,800
Speaker 1: Russia's just going to be an old school slava. You know,

1413
01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:32,280
Speaker 1: you've seen them two times this year, They've seen us twice,

1414
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: you know, the third time. You know, like Alice said,

1415
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:39,920
Speaker 1: it's it's that whole trilogy, that whole thriller in another

1416
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 1: type thing. You know, it's gonna be fun. The ice

1417
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:43,639
Speaker 1: is gonna be there, the call is gonna be, it's

1418
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: gonna be Buffalo Bill, school balls, whatever, gonna be really tough.

1419
01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:49,360
Speaker 1: They're gonna be physical. That's gonna be the outcome. So

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01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:52,840
Speaker 1: we're excited for ront ready for that challenge, right. I

1421
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:55,760
Speaker 1: would say, it's kind of like it. I don't know

1422
01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:57,600
Speaker 1: if you ever had a brother or somebody that was

1423
01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: closing age, y'all go outside and play one of basketball

1424
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 1: and he know everything you're gonna do. You know everything

1425
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: they're gonna do, and some somebody got to win, and

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01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:07,880
Speaker 1: it's gonna be physical. It's gonna be you know, an

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01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:10,840
Speaker 1: extra you know. But it's just that we know who

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01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 1: they are, they knew who we are. It's just gonna

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01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 1: be who want them more appreciate you guys. Thinks Hey,

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01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: guys it sal here. I got a question one for

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01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:23,600
Speaker 1: each of you. First with ed, I think from a

1432
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:25,800
Speaker 1: lot of us looking on the outside end, you're playing

1433
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 1: the best football of your career. Would you say you're

1434
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: playing the best football of your career right now? I

1435
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: would say I'm playing some good football right now and

1436
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 1: hopefully to continue that into the playoffs at the end

1437
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:38,800
Speaker 1: of the year. You want to be rolling, and right

1438
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 1: now we're just rolling. Man, We're just going taking the

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01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:44,720
Speaker 1: day by day. And I could say that for a

1440
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: lot of guys in the toil, just playing a basketball

1441
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: the most doubt. And we've been all week. And I

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01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 1: kind of alluded to that in the getting of the

1443
01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 1: year thing, like after the Taxans game. I like, playing

1444
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 1: good defense right now doesn't necessarily mean as much as

1445
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 1: playing good defense in the end of the December early Jane.

1446
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: Where So with us playing good defense right now, it's

1447
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:05,840
Speaker 1: a good time to be at our best. And Jerry,

1448
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:07,840
Speaker 1: you just said it. I just said. The only thing

1449
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:09,800
Speaker 1: he knows his playoffs, that that's not the case with you.

1450
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:12,240
Speaker 1: You've been here long enough, you're the longest tenured player.

1451
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 1: You are here, but for a lot of the years

1452
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: without the playoffs. What is different about it? What does

1453
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 1: it mean to you to be in this position with

1454
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 1: the urgency and what can you implore on the young

1455
01:20:21,160 --> 01:20:24,680
Speaker 1: guys now that you've you've experienced both of this. You know,

1456
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 1: I can add a lot of wisen to it. But

1457
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: I think a lot of guys on the team, like

1458
01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: Ed said, you know, all they know since they came

1459
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,760
Speaker 1: into the NFL is the playoffs, and like I told him,

1460
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: once we won that game on Sunday, claim the whole

1461
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:41,160
Speaker 1: AFCs and all that stuff. You know, make this part

1462
01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:43,719
Speaker 1: of your legacy. You know, you guys are very familiar

1463
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:46,879
Speaker 1: with winning. Winning is now a tradition, So let's continue

1464
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:48,880
Speaker 1: that in the post season. You know, there's no reason

1465
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: why we can't go back to the AFC Championship and

1466
01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 1: then and then something. So I think a lot of

1467
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 1: these guys understand that the moment won't be too big

1468
01:20:57,479 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 1: on Saturday. We'll just either go out there and that

1469
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:02,720
Speaker 1: we can't play football and let everyone know that we

1470
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 1: are postseason organization. All right. That's Ed Oliver and Jerry

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01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:12,960
Speaker 1: Hughes addressing the media following practice today. Not surprised to

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Speaker 1: hear both of them echo the message that coach McDermott

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01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: is probably preaching in the meetings this week. You have

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01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:23,599
Speaker 1: to be the more physical team, especially against a team

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01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 1: that relies on running the football. So yeah, you've got

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01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:28,719
Speaker 1: to stand up to that. Yeah, and Jerry was pretty

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01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 1: adamant about that. He said, let the pads do the talking. Yeah.

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01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: It was also quoted Bill Belichick today was asking his

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01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: press conference about, you know, meeting a team for the

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01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 1: third time in a season. He is, we just started

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01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 1: from scratch, yeh, you know, so they're they're approaching this

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01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:48,760
Speaker 1: game probably the way they do every game. Where is

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01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: that team now? And where are we now? And let's

1484
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 1: see what we do and they build it from the

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01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:56,680
Speaker 1: ground up. So it's amazing what that tells you and

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01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:59,639
Speaker 1: amazing what it doesn't tell you. And well that's probably

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01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,880
Speaker 1: by design. Yeah, exactly, with every one of his answers, exactly. Yeah.

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01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,560
Speaker 1: So let's go to the tweet sheet. What needs to

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01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 1: happen for the Bills to get a win over the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Tweet sheet brought to you by Koregan Moving Systems, the

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01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 1: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Steve leads

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01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:15,680
Speaker 1: us off with there is no doubt the Bills are

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01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:17,320
Speaker 1: the better team. The only team that can beat the

1494
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 1: Bills Saturday is the Bills themselves. Turnovers, penalties and crucial

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01:22:21,479 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: moments and a lack of execution. Drop passes in parentheses

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01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:28,320
Speaker 1: are my only worries if it becomes a field position game.

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01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:34,560
Speaker 1: Punting worries me. Yeah, I expect Hawk to have a

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01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 1: bounce back performance here right, I mean, well, there is

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01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:40,800
Speaker 1: not supposed to be any wind right the Saturday night

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01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,240
Speaker 1: that should have the wins negligible. It'll be look more

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01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:45,320
Speaker 1: like a normal football game for Buffalo, and you're not

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01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 1: going to have, you know, the wild kicking when we're

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01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 1: out here. For last week's game against the Jets, watching

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01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 1: those guys punt in the pregame warmups was a fiasco.

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01:22:56,360 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: You know, the ball would well, it was headed up

1506
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:00,479
Speaker 1: into the scoreboard ind on the visitor side and it

1507
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 1: just got you know, just got hammered. We should mention

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01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: they are going to be kicking the equivalent of a

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01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 1: rock though Saturday night. It's not gonna be. Yeah, it's

1510
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 1: not gonna feel the same, that's for sure, and it's

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01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:11,479
Speaker 1: not gonna fly. As far as you're not gonna fly

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01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: good Jamad says have to play mistake free score when

1513
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 1: given the opportunity and hopefully get up two scores do

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01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 1: that and Mac has to pass more than three times. Also,

1515
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 1: hope that the refs don't try and give New England

1516
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 1: this game. That's why it's key to score on as

1517
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:29,680
Speaker 1: many opportunities as they get. The good news here is

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01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:32,720
Speaker 1: Brad Allen is the head referee that's been assigned to

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01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 1: this game. His crew is not a big penalty flag crew.

1520
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:40,840
Speaker 1: I think that gives you even more license to play physical. Yeah,

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01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to be it's gonna come down

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01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:46,479
Speaker 1: to upfront. I mean, if the Patriots can you know

1523
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: they're snapping off seven yard runs on first down, seven

1524
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:53,080
Speaker 1: yard plus runs on first down, you're in for a

1525
01:23:53,160 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: long night. And that's what they did. They did. They

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01:23:56,360 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 1: played extremely well on first and second down in both

1527
01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:02,360
Speaker 1: matchups with Bills on both on their offense and on

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01:24:02,439 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 1: their defense. If you look at those last couple of

1529
01:24:05,200 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 1: drives against the Bills offense, they were physical upfront and

1530
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 1: the Bills were converting third and seven, third and nine,

1531
01:24:13,439 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 1: third and eleven, third and seven time after time after

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01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 1: time in those last two drives. Now, they did it

1533
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:22,760
Speaker 1: thanks in large part to Josh and some heroics, but

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01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 1: that's you know, they were really successful on first and

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01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:26,800
Speaker 1: second down. I think that's been the key in both

1536
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:29,320
Speaker 1: of these games. When they got into that game where

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01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 1: they didn't have to throw, it's because they were going

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01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:34,880
Speaker 1: third and one, third and two, third and one and

1539
01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:37,600
Speaker 1: a half, third and two and they were converting it.

1540
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: They never had to throw the football in that first

1541
01:24:41,200 --> 01:24:44,280
Speaker 1: game because they were so successful on first and second down. So,

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01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, Brad Allen will be the referee for

1543
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: Saturday night's game. He's in his eighth season of being

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01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 1: a head referee former ACC head referee. This is his

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01:24:56,200 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 1: fourth postseason assignment, including three wild cards playoffs and a

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01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 1: divisional playoff, so relatively young official, but has playoff experience

1547
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:10,479
Speaker 1: and as I said, his cruise typically do not call

1548
01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: a ton of penalties. They let them play for the

1549
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:18,960
Speaker 1: most part. So we'll see where that goes. Jay Doogie says,

1550
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:23,600
Speaker 1: Bills run d must perform. Linebackers must maintain gap integrity.

1551
01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:26,280
Speaker 1: The old line has to maintain its recent stability, both

1552
01:25:26,360 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 1: protecting Josh and making holes for the run game. Take

1553
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: what the Pats D gives you. Don't overthink this. Bills

1554
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: are the better team. Be the better team, which goes

1555
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:37,880
Speaker 1: back to what you say all the time, be the

1556
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:41,360
Speaker 1: better team, play your best on that day. Jack says,

1557
01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: don't make mistakes, everybody. This is kind of a running

1558
01:25:44,560 --> 01:25:47,839
Speaker 1: theme here, Steve. Just don't kill you, don't beat yourself,

1559
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:52,000
Speaker 1: don't turn it over and play well, you're you're gonna win.

1560
01:25:52,760 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah. He also says, let Alan be Allen,

1561
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: and if all that happens, we may still need to

1562
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 1: battle the Zebras all so we will have to overcome

1563
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 1: the Shenanigans. The Patriots get away with. People are wary

1564
01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:08,560
Speaker 1: of us. It is Shenanigan's suspicious, A history of Shenanigans,

1565
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: Shenanigans galore. Cody says, Macaroni Jones and his noodle arm

1566
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:18,719
Speaker 1: don't stand a chance in this weather. Bill bella fraud

1567
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:21,920
Speaker 1: will be exposed. I will be posted up in front

1568
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: of their hotel playing the shout song all night. I

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01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:30,679
Speaker 1: love it, Go Cody. I get a little I sense

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01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:33,719
Speaker 1: a little bitterness from Cody. Hey down. If they're gonna

1571
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 1: do Shenanigans, We're doing Shenanigans Toogan. You know he's gonna

1572
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 1: be standing out there like John Cusack and say anything,

1573
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 1: blasting the shout song through his boombox. I love it

1574
01:26:45,479 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 1: from Misha, stay with our strength pass The last meeting

1575
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:51,320
Speaker 1: in Buffalo with the weather was an atrocious first half,

1576
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 1: trying to run different story. Second half, even with the wind,

1577
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 1: we were much better passing receivers. Wear those sticky gloves

1578
01:26:57,320 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: and let's go. And finally from Team Man, solid play

1579
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:03,960
Speaker 1: with the offensive and defensive lines wins it all the

1580
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:06,200
Speaker 1: way through. Been great to watch the last couple of weeks.

1581
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:09,880
Speaker 1: Hope they can stay healthy. Those are your comments on

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01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: the tweet sheets. Steve and I will take a break here,

1583
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: close things up and let you know what you can

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01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 1: look for right here tomorrow. That's coming up next here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's

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01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:33,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to one Bills Live.

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01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:35,880
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve task with you. Brad Allen, as we mentioned,

1588
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 1: will be the head referee for Saturday night's playoff game,

1589
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: and I looked it up. Steve his crew has called

1590
01:27:44,200 --> 01:27:50,400
Speaker 1: the fourth fewest penalties per game on average. They average

1591
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 1: just a shade over ten penalties per game, and they're

1592
01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: pretty balanced on average between the home and the away

1593
01:27:56,280 --> 01:28:01,000
Speaker 1: team five point one nine to five. Okay, so they

1594
01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:03,880
Speaker 1: probably drew one of the better crews you could get,

1595
01:28:04,640 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 1: so hopefully they don't play a role in the outcome

1596
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:10,439
Speaker 1: in a way that nobody would want to see. Call

1597
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:12,799
Speaker 1: which you can call that gives one team an advantage

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01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:14,879
Speaker 1: over the other. Like if the team has a penalty

1599
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,160
Speaker 1: that's borderline, it gives them a big advantage over the other.

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01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 1: Call it, you know what I mean. If there's a

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01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:22,640
Speaker 1: holding penalty at the point of attack. Okay, if a

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01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 1: guy's throwing the football at him and he's he can't

1603
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:28,639
Speaker 1: get to it because the guys hold him, call it. Okay,

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01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 1: that's about the extent of it. Yeah, we'll see where

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01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 1: it goes. But you spot the ball right and let's go.

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01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:36,840
Speaker 1: You know, Like we've talked about in the past, Baltimore,

1607
01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:39,439
Speaker 1: when we were getting ready for the divisional playoff last year,

1608
01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:42,320
Speaker 1: we talked about how they dare the officials to throw

1609
01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 1: the flag defensively, particularly in crucial downs right, because officials

1610
01:28:47,439 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: just don't want to get involved five plays in a row,

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01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:52,240
Speaker 1: you get it, you get them down inside the inside

1612
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: your own end zone, or you get him down close.

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01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 1: Officials don't want to make a call that affects the

1614
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:59,080
Speaker 1: outcome of the game. So defenses know that and they

1615
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:02,760
Speaker 1: play ultra aggressive knowing that the official is going to

1616
01:29:02,800 --> 01:29:07,040
Speaker 1: get tired of calling penalties. Yeah, so be interesting to

1617
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:11,920
Speaker 1: see how they're officiating history impacts how this game is played.

1618
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:15,439
Speaker 1: We've been hearing nothing but physicality needed to win this game,

1619
01:29:15,840 --> 01:29:18,240
Speaker 1: and they get more physical than usual with an officiating

1620
01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:20,040
Speaker 1: crew that doesn't call a ton of penalties. We'll have

1621
01:29:20,120 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 1: to see more on this game tomorrow, because one day

1622
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:26,760
Speaker 1: simply is not enough. Steve and I back tomorrow one

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01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 1: we'll see that