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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, newer Afield. The tarp on the field

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Speaker 1: for the holiday. The Bills got one more game there

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Speaker 1: John Urfy alongside Steve Tasker. Are you ready to go? Steve?

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Speaker 1: You don't look at this was me, yester yesterday when

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Speaker 1: Then I had to do a quick invury with coach.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's Fridays are like this. We should

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Speaker 1: because we've been on this roller coaster between realizing that

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Speaker 1: one o'clock today. We're gonna be joined by did I

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Speaker 1: we'll have a little Matt Chatham from Boston. He does

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Speaker 1: like they're in right now. Greg Cosal joins us a

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Speaker 1: little bit after that, about one twenty or so. Greg

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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander. We're running out of lowdowns. I'm sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: I know that's it's great having him in here. You know,

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Speaker 1: beat themselves, they don't turn the football over. They took

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Speaker 1: fourteen penalties last Sunday against the Steelers. That's right, and

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Speaker 1: they and they got beat. Yeah, and they got beat.

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Speaker 1: So when they you know, it's it's a different They're

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Speaker 1: a different animal than a lot of teams that have

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Speaker 1: been over the last decade and a half. I I

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Speaker 1: disagree with your assertion that they do everything right. Well,

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Speaker 1: they drafted Malcolm Brown first round like four or five

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Speaker 1: years ago. Malcolm Brown can't stop anybody in the run

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Speaker 1: game anymore. Nine, what do you see? Let me restate it.

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Speaker 1: Let me restate it more accurately. Okay, they do things

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Speaker 1: slightly different than everybody. Maybe it's not right, but they

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Speaker 1: do do a lot of things slightly different than everybody else,

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Speaker 1: and that slight difference, and their willingness to do that

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Speaker 1: in a in a league that is that is dominated

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Speaker 1: by physically gifted guys, they're willing to set that aside

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Speaker 1: in a lot of cases and get more production out

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Speaker 1: of less gifted guys who have whatever traits they look

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Speaker 1: for and evaluate. And so with the best quarterback of

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Speaker 1: the generation covering up all their nois and you can

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Speaker 1: say that I and it's true, but they went three

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Speaker 1: and one with two different quarterbacks when Brady was suspended.

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Speaker 1: They went eleven and five with a quarterback that can't

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Speaker 1: even play in matt Castle. They have done it with

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Speaker 1: lesser players consistently, and that's so you can't So that

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Speaker 1: flies in the face of the fact that it's all

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I think it is Tom Brady. I really

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Speaker 1: do know whatever percentage most of it. Listen, you can't

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Speaker 1: you can't deny that. And I said it yesterday that

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Speaker 1: the quarter the conversation about the greatest quarterback of all

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Speaker 1: times starts with number twelve in New England. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can make your things about You can make your argument

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Speaker 1: about Joe Montana, about Peyton Manning, John John Elway, Jim Kelly,

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Speaker 1: Dan Marino, Drew Brees, all the guys in the league, now,

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, you can go down the list of all

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Speaker 1: the guys who have been the greatest. You can pick

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Speaker 1: your you can take your pick. But Tom Brady is

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Speaker 1: the guy you're up against. Am I right? You're right,

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Speaker 1: that's my point. And so that you know that says

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Speaker 1: a lot about what the guys accomplished and what he's

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Speaker 1: meant to the league, and certainly you know what he's

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Speaker 1: meant to that organization. Goodness, gracious, we've I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: so good. Everybody hates him. Who's not a fan? I mean,

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Speaker 1: so here we are with the Bills and the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and you know the numbers. You know how much they've

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Speaker 1: dominated the Bills. Uh since the NFL realigned in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and two of the Patriots twenty nine wins four

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Speaker 1: losses against the Bills, the most one sided divisional matchup

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Speaker 1: in all the NFL in that span. So our Twitter

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Speaker 1: question today, it's a poll today. Thank god. I love

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Speaker 1: the Twitter pole. I'm not I'm not a fan of it.

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you this fall, I'm I'm not though

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Speaker 1: I don't like the way it was worded, but I'm well, now,

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Speaker 1: you just you poisoned the water for those two. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna like it. If Steve doesn't like it,

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Speaker 1: how can I like it? How can I embrace the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll that Steve's not sold that? That's what every

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Speaker 1: listener is thinking to himself, embracing something that I don't like.

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Speaker 1: Steve doesn't like it, I don't like is your wheelhouse?

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Speaker 1: That is his right in your wheelhouse. If I don't

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Speaker 1: like it, it's all right, go ahead. It's a question

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Speaker 1: and it's about how you feel. Does this Patriots Bills

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Speaker 1: matchup feel different to you? There is no right answer.

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Speaker 1: Does this feel different? Um? You can vote on our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll at one Bills Live. You can tweet something

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Speaker 1: and where you like you read it on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: We'd like when you call us up to eight oh

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty and outside the local area eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Does this Bills

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Speaker 1: Patriots matchup feel different? We want you to let us

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Speaker 1: know if it doesn't. If so, why On the Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll we're talking pole right here. Fifty two percent of

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Speaker 1: you say you know what, it does feel different because

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Speaker 1: it's Josh Allen against the Patriots, his first crack at

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Speaker 1: Bill Belchick and the Patriots. Thirty three percent of you

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Speaker 1: that's substantial. The third of you saying you know it

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Speaker 1: does not. It's still the Bills and the Patriots. Eleven

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Speaker 1: percent say yes it feels different because the Patriots have

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Speaker 1: lost too in a row. Four percent have something else

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Speaker 1: in mind. Let's get your opinion on that. Does this

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Speaker 1: Bills Patriots matchup feel different? And if so, why why

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Speaker 1: do you not like this? Pole? Steve I would have

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Speaker 1: made different choices instead of saying, you know, it does

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Speaker 1: not make it. I gotta put that in it. Does

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Speaker 1: it feel different? No, it doesn't, I get that. But

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Speaker 1: does it feel different because the Bills are headed in

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Speaker 1: the right direction and the Patriots seem to be faltering?

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Speaker 1: Does that make a difference for people? And doesn't make

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Speaker 1: a difference that Josh Allen gives, you know? Is that

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Speaker 1: the difference is that Josh Allig is Tom Brady. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot more choices, and there's a lot of nuances

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Speaker 1: in this, and I think the wording of the choices

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Speaker 1: I would have done differently. Here's the thing on the choices.

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Speaker 1: And we asked the question, yes, because the Patriots are

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Speaker 1: we offered this, uh, this opinion is this why? Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots on the two game skid they're faltering. Is

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Speaker 1: it's a little heavy hand because lost two in a row.

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Speaker 1: One of them was a seven point loss to one

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Speaker 1: of the better, if not one of the best offensive

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Speaker 1: assemblages in the NFL last week, an Hinsfield. Right, that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty powerful place to win. Yeah, and they lost

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Speaker 1: by seven. The win before that, and the two game

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Speaker 1: skid was a miracle finish in Miami. It was a fluke.

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Speaker 1: So are they faltering. They've lost two in a row,

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Speaker 1: which is unusual. They have a losing record on the road,

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Speaker 1: so there's they're they're there to be had there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: certainly they played better obviously they're six and oz at home.

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Speaker 1: But they're a team that that people have have found

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Speaker 1: a way to play well again. Um, that's an issue.

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Speaker 1: I think. That's so the choices on the pole today

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Speaker 1: or what's bothered me? Is that the one because you listen,

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Speaker 1: you know what I like about I want if there

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Speaker 1: are four choices, I want it to be twenty five percent,

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent, twenty five percent, twenty five, fifty two

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Speaker 1: thirty three. I know it's not bad, but it's certainly

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Speaker 1: not in the top ten of our poles of all time,

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Speaker 1: I think. So it's falling it what it is. It's

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Speaker 1: an okay pole, we'll see. That doesn't mean your opinions

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Speaker 1: are not just okay. They're they're fine, and Danny, you

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Speaker 1: can call us in with your opinions, but that's I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about our Now Jay's going to come out and okay,

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Speaker 1: slapping around right, you can fight the storm out of

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Speaker 1: the control room, say I wrote that, and I'm if

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Speaker 1: you can fight through Steve's disdain for our Twitter poll,

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Speaker 1: please participate to three one. Let me say this too.

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Speaker 1: There's a reflection here, I believe, Steve, of where Bills

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Speaker 1: fans minds are right now, and that's really what we

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Speaker 1: do every day, right and here is where it is.

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Speaker 1: But fifty two percent more than half of you say yes,

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Speaker 1: it feels different because it's Allen versus the Patriots, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's where Bills fans heads are right now.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Josh Allen, Oh Josh goes up against Sam

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Speaker 1: Darnel two weeks ago, Oh Josh gets a chance now

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Speaker 1: to go up against Bill Belichick in that defense, I

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Speaker 1: think that's where Bills fans heads are, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's what's reflected in that fift I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: and I confess, yes, this does feel like a much

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Speaker 1: different matchup than years past. Even though everything on the

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Speaker 1: surface statistically wins, losses, point of the year, place in

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Speaker 1: the schedule, it all looks the same. If you go

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Speaker 1: over there, it all looks the same. But there's something

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Speaker 1: very different about this. Josh Allens has given the Bills

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Speaker 1: a real competitive chance in every game he has started

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Speaker 1: for them. You look at the games he started and finished.

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Speaker 1: You take the Houston game out of it because he

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Speaker 1: came out with the injury. The Bills are right in

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Speaker 1: the mix all the way through that game, all the

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Speaker 1: way deep into the end, and sometimes they win. That's

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Speaker 1: different when he's on the field. Now. Also, at this

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Speaker 1: point of the season, this is an offense that's starting

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Speaker 1: to grow with very young, talented, hungry, young players. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll actually happen. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: even picking guy this Victor Bolden I pick up. I

574
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: don't even know if he's Shauna even it's a question

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00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: Marcus whether he's even gonna be on the field or not.

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Speaker 1: But still it's that's indicative of where they're at and

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Speaker 1: their roster. Isaiah McKenzie has not only you know, got

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00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: pulled off the practice squad, that guy's been plugged in.

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Speaker 1: He plays almost every snap. Robert Foster has certainly changed everything.

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Speaker 1: Zay Jones is still a young receiver who, up until

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Speaker 1: Robert Foster's immersion, was the guy. Right, There's a lot

582
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Speaker 1: of things about this team, and now Shady McCoy is

583
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: going to be back on the field. They've changed the

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Speaker 1: offensive line in front. So all this stuff about the

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Speaker 1: Bills offense playing with the number two defense in the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills in the entire league, A lot of things

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Speaker 1: are different about this matchup that haven't been present in

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Speaker 1: the past, and most of it is the positive direction

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Speaker 1: the offense is going now. Having said all of that,

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Speaker 1: they're going into Foxborough for against a nine and fourteen

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Speaker 1: that's undefeated in that building this year, since a year

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Speaker 1: ago last October. I mean, people don't don't go waltz

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Speaker 1: in there and win with a rookie quarterback and a

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Speaker 1: bunch of young kids playing and a team that's desperate

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00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: season here, I asked Sean McDermott that, And I don't

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Speaker 1: want to sound like I'm being disrespectful of the team,

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Speaker 1: because I'm not. I want to see how they measure

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Speaker 1: up against a team that does it right all the time,

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Speaker 1: like we've been talking about the Patriots. I want to

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Speaker 1: see what they look like going into that place where

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Speaker 1: it's impossible to win, and I want to see him

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Speaker 1: give him a game, you know, maybe have a chance

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Speaker 1: to win it, keep it within one possession until the end,

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Speaker 1: when maybe they do, you do throw the desperation pick

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Speaker 1: six that, you know, I mean, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: lose by double digits of that team up there, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to see how they measure up. I want

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Speaker 1: to see how Josh Allen does fresh out of the

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Speaker 1: box in his first year, late in the season, after

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Speaker 1: he's had a few starts, to go in there and

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Speaker 1: see I measures up that team, that team in Foxboro,

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Speaker 1: whether we all like it or not, that's the standard.

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Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh going into Pittsburgh Steelers, that's kind of a

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Speaker 1: standard too. You're going on the road in the NFL

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Speaker 1: against a team that's pushing, and the Patriots need this game.

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Speaker 1: They want this game. It means something to let's see,

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Speaker 1: let's see, let's line up, and let's go. And I

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Speaker 1: know that's what those guys are. I mean, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: and I start to get a little bit carried away

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Speaker 1: and starts to get you know, my former player comes

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Speaker 1: out there, let's go, let's line up, let's see. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: We may not win, but I want a chance to

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Speaker 1: hit you in the mouth. You did ask the question, right,

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Speaker 1: we got I did answer. So the question was is

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Speaker 1: your team looking at this game as a measuring stick right.

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Speaker 1: Is that for the youth? I mean, is there a

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Speaker 1: message to the young guys, Hey, listen, what you want

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Speaker 1: to go into a place? This is where it is.

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Speaker 1: This is a playoff team that needs this game late

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Speaker 1: in the season. Let's see how you measure up. And

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Speaker 1: he answered us. Here's Sean's answer to Steve's question. Listen up,

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Speaker 1: They've been where we're trying to go for a number

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Speaker 1: of years. Um. You know, I I've just arrived here

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Speaker 1: on the scene last year with my staff, and but

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Speaker 1: I've gotten a field for the history and the way

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Speaker 1: in the division and the way they've had the stranglehold

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Speaker 1: on the division and m So you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of respect for that in terms of the greatness

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Speaker 1: that they've achieved. You know, at the same time we're

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Speaker 1: trying to do We're trying to go where they've been

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Speaker 1: and build this team the right way. And part of that, Steve,

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Speaker 1: to your question goes first is the mindset. You know,

643
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Speaker 1: usually the belief precedes the results. So it's important that

644
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Speaker 1: our young guys get a good feel for what it's

645
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Speaker 1: like to play up there, what it's like to play

646
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Speaker 1: not only just up there, but against a good football team.

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Speaker 1: And and that we continue to improve on our end.

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Speaker 1: Did you like the an answer your question? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's a little disrespectable to say, hey, how

650
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Speaker 1: do you measure up with the good teams? Because it

651
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: terms right, because but that's not it. I mean the

652
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: mindset is this you want. It's a chance for you

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00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: to show that you not only do you measure up,

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00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: you're close, you know, or better. I mean what happened,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, imagine the ripples and we talked

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Speaker 1: about this. There you going, and I'm not saying it's

657
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Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibility. They go in there

658
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: and catch lightning in a bottle for a game and

659
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: get those guys on the ropes and beat them. It

660
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: can happen. It happens all the time in this league.

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00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: The Bills went into Minnesota as as an all time

662
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: worst offense to that point of the season in history

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Speaker 1: of the league. And they go in there and they

664
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Speaker 1: lump those guys up, I mean lump them up. It happens. Yeah,

665
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: we'll see good happen. We're gonna talk about more about

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Speaker 1: this game, Bills, New England. Does it feel different to

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00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: you and if so, why give us a call. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna discuss eight three fifty and toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Well that's the

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Speaker 1: question to Mark Kelso, color analyst on the Bills Radio

671
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Speaker 1: Network and my partner on the game on Sunday, former

672
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Speaker 1: Bills safety Mark Kelso standingbody to join this in studio today.

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Speaker 1: That's coming up next One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radios up in the Polla. It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive.

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00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker joined in studio. Special appearance by

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Speaker 1: Mark Kelsel, the coloradlod is on the Bills Radio Network,

678
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: longtime Bills safety and I'll be there in Foxborough on

679
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Speaker 1: Sunday to call the Bills and the New England Patriots.

680
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Speaker 1: When you say I am so people don't like when

681
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Speaker 1: you say this, I don't think, but I have to

682
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: say it from a broadcast perspective. This is my favorite

683
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Speaker 1: road stadium in which to work, not because of the

684
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Speaker 1: Patriots or the fans, because of the view with the

685
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Speaker 1: sight lines and the atmosphere there. Mark, right, it's a

686
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Speaker 1: great place to work. Yeah, Well, there's no question to say, No,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a great atmosphere, and yeah, I don't

688
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Speaker 1: know if it's my favorite. I'm not the atmosphere. He

689
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: likes it. He gets rose right in center field. Well

690
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: he does, and it's it's it's blowing off. It's a

691
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: great vantage point, there's no question about that. And it's

692
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: it's important. That's really important. And I know that. You know,

693
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Speaker 1: some of the other stadiums are a little bit more

694
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Speaker 1: frustrating because they they kind of stick you in a

695
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Speaker 1: shoe box somewhere at the corner of the end zone,

696
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: and that gets a little bit difficult. What happened? You

697
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: got to see this invariably Sunday, at some point in

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00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: the game, Mark will have a and it's not an

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Speaker 1: angry it's a pleasant but I'll have an internacious conversation

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Speaker 1: with that interact. It was literally this for our way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, five feet in front of him, Mark will

702
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Speaker 1: get into the same guy. No, no, he a different guy.

703
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: And it always wanted to marks on him. Yeah. Mark.

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Speaker 1: It always ended up with Kelso saying how should you

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Speaker 1: pay for that seat? And they'll say four hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars. Mark. You know that that seat in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: costs eighty five dollars, right everything, then they just know said, well,

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Speaker 1: we know why it comes eighty five dollars every game

709
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Speaker 1: they's got there. Well there, they are interactive and they

710
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: kind of turn around and look at you when you're

711
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: broadcasting as well, when when they egg you on a

712
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,959
Speaker 1: little bit when a when a good play is uh

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Speaker 1: is proliferated by the by the patrol. But they're six

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Speaker 1: and all at home. I mean, they enjoy a huge

715
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: home field advantage, there's no question about that. So bills

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Speaker 1: are certainly are certainly understanding of that fact. Well, it's

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00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: different in different cities. I remember too, in Baltimore, we

718
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Speaker 1: are doing it and the guy in front of us goes,

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Speaker 1: he turns around and looks and gives me this look.

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Speaker 1: He's a great you know, the guy a little older

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Speaker 1: than me, and he's like, he looks at me like

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00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: he's got a real problem. I go, what's up? He

723
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: holds his phone up with a cord, So I take

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Speaker 1: his phone put and plug it in so I can

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Speaker 1: charge his phone for him while we're doing the game. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: fans are nice everywhere, but listen, see you guys, they

727
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: are they're also the other way everywhere, and they enjoy themselves.

728
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Speaker 1: What do you end? Sometimes they enjoy themselves a little

729
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: bit too much. We got this Twitter thing going on,

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Speaker 1: and I'm I've been critical of it the way we

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Speaker 1: worded it. But is this in the state of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and the current state of things in New

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Speaker 1: England and these two teams where they're at with the

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Speaker 1: forty one year old quarterback and we've got a twenty

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Speaker 1: two year old rooms he twenty two? I guess, okay,

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Speaker 1: a young quarterback, first year quarterback. Does this matchup in

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Speaker 1: New England between the Bills and the Patriots? It is

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Speaker 1: it somehow different this year because of where the Patriots at,

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Speaker 1: where the Bills are at, where the quarterback is, where

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00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: their quarterback is, where our team is, where their team is.

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Speaker 1: All that is this different? I don't think. I don't

742
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: think it's particularly different. Quite frankly, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: the Bill's trajectory offensively has been improving and improving in

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00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: in uh in some really some really giant steps. And

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Speaker 1: I think that they've they've they've changed the schematic of

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Speaker 1: the offense because of the speed they were able to

747
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: add the offensive line is beginning to come together, and

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Speaker 1: and Josh Allen, I think has has Um has has

749
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Speaker 1: had a really nice trajectory. I mean, since he's come

750
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Speaker 1: back from the injury, I think he's listened to some things.

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00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,760
Speaker 1: I think there's it's profitable that Barkley and Derek Anderson

752
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: are in that quarterback room. I think he's learned some things.

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00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: I think he's used his legs to extend plays but

754
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: keep himself out of harm's way most of the time.

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00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean there's a couple of times, particularly gets the

756
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: Jets when when he had a couple of issues and

757
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: throwing the ball downfield in some suspect circumstances. But so

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's different. I do think

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Speaker 1: that that obviously, the Patriots have been the class of

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Speaker 1: this division for a number of years. The Bills have

761
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: always played them pretty tightly in New England quite frankly,

762
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 1: and had an opportunity to win a couple of times

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Speaker 1: well not yeah, yeah, John shaking his head. Well not

764
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: all the time, but scores don't look right, no, well sometimes,

765
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Speaker 1: and they've had a couple opportunities to win games that

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00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: they've lost at the last minute. But I think I

767
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: think what would really disappoint me is if they go

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00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: there and don't play well. If they go there and

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Speaker 1: play well and come out with a loss, I think

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Speaker 1: that they continue that that progression that they've tracked, that

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Speaker 1: they've been on in the last several weeks. They they've

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Speaker 1: made again. I think they've made significant progress. I think

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Speaker 1: they know what they need to do in the off

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Speaker 1: season to take the next step, and that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: you're trying to find out here at the end of

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00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: the season. And I think they've They've they've been able

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Speaker 1: to fill in a lot of those blanks to answer

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00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: those questions. We count on you, Mark to bring rationality

779
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: and sanity to our show when you come in on Fridays.

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Speaker 1: So Tuesday, Steve and I and I went through it

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00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: looking at the defensive rankings. The Bills are better than

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00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots and virtually every defensive ranking that matters. And

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Speaker 1: then I went and watched some video of the Patriots

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00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: and I thought, oh, whoah, you know, I mean, it's

785
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Speaker 1: a multiple defense, it's a versatile defense that I think

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Speaker 1: is because of the experience they have and especially on

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00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: the back end, they are well positioned to give Josh

788
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: Allen a hard time. They'll show him stuff that he

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00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: is yet to see, regardless of what the stats say. Yeah,

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00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: and I would agree with you on that end. But

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Speaker 1: there are some things that are uncharacteristic of what this

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00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: defensive unit has been has been putting out there the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. First of all, let's just say this,

794
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: which defense. Both of those gave the Patriots both of

795
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: those Both of those games the Patriots should have won.

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Speaker 1: They had opportunities to win them, and they couldn't close

797
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: the deal, which is atypical of them, right you Usually

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00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: they close the deal. Brady made a really bad decision

799
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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh when he threw that football where they still

800
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: have had an opportunity to win that game. Both of

801
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: those games, on the defensive side of the football, they

802
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: lost the battle inside, and I think Miami's offensive line

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00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh's offensive line won those battles. And those defensive

804
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: linemen and sometimes they play with three and then they

805
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: had high Tower as an extra rusher. They didn't drop

806
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Speaker 1: three as much, which they typically do a lot. They

807
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: brought a little more pressure than I thought, But I

808
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: think that they lost that battle inside and teams both

809
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: of those teams were able to run the ball. In

810
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: addition to that, this never happens to the Patriots saved

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Speaker 1: last week against the Miami Dolphins. There are two weeks

812
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: ago they got gashed, like several times, big big throws.

813
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: Tannehill was great, big throws, big runs, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have a bunch of plays that I queued up.

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Speaker 1: But you'll see sometimes that like Van Noy, who's a

816
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: great player. I really liked the way he plays, but

817
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: he takes the wrong shoulders. These guys that pride themselves

818
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: on everybody do their job. Everybody's trying to make a

819
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: play instead of doing their job, and then they're exposed

820
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: with seams in the running game. Sometimes the Steelers that

821
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: run that toss so so Ben would be in the

822
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Speaker 1: shotgun and the running back would be to his right.

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Speaker 1: Is that it's up on the screen, so he'll toss

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Speaker 1: it to you. Well they ran they ran that tight

825
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: end trap too. But he'll toss it to the running

826
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Speaker 1: back and he'll be starting to his right and he'll

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Speaker 1: come all the way back the other way and they'll

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Speaker 1: pull the castro or one of those guards. They created

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00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: great opportunities and who's thirty eight for the Steelers. That

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Speaker 1: Williams what's his name, Oh, the rookie, Yeah, the running back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was great and he found some holes,

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00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: but it was because guys who try to do too much.

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Speaker 1: And I think that again, I think those offensive line

834
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: handled the defensive line of the New England Patriots. And

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Speaker 1: then there's there's again there's some uncharacteristic things they did,

836
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: and they try to play a lot of man defense,

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Speaker 1: and they get themselves in trouble sometime because typically when

838
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: you play man defense and you've got a free safety

839
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Speaker 1: Devin mccordy, who wasn't in the game, ironically in the

840
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: in the hell Merry thrower wasn't a hell Mary throw

841
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: But we can explain that too, because there's seven distinct

842
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: mistakes that I saw on that play. But when you

843
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,800
Speaker 1: line up like that, you expect free safety help. So

844
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks if you're line up in a trips formation,

845
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: let's say the right side, so you're the defense looking

846
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: at it. You're line up in the trips, so all

847
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: three cornerbacks are slight outside shade because they know they

848
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: have help from the free safety. Well, what happens on

849
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: the other side, Now you've got and the Steelers wan't

850
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: empty on him a lot. So on the other side,

851
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: now they run a shallow pattern, so the cornerback now

852
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: bites up on that. If he's in zone, it keeps

853
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: him shallow, leaves it deep, empties the zone is it

854
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: empties it behind it right, and then the number three

855
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: receiver from the trip side, the closest one to the

856
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, gets all the way to the other side

857
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 1: of the field deep the cornerbacks on his outside hip already,

858
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: if you have time to throw that ball, that becomes

859
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: a good throw. That corner actually should be playing inside shade,

860
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: although again that would open up a flag on the

861
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: other side. But he should be playing inside shade because

862
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: he has no help over there. Once he get outside

863
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: the numbers, he has no help. So I mean, I

864
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 1: think there's opportunities to attack this defensive unit. The middle

865
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: of the field is probably not the the area to

866
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: attack him, but from the hashes and outside it's probably

867
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: where you want to. So you're saying, given the success

868
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: people have had running the football against him, even so,

869
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: they're still a tough team to beat because they're so

870
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: good in situational football. On third down in the red zone,

871
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: they still seem to win more than they lose defensively

872
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: in those spots. Yeah, and again they've done some good things,

873
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: but uncharacteristic mistakes, uncharacteristic mentality on the defensive side of

874
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: the football, given up big plays. And I do I

875
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: think there's opportunities more than have that I've noticed in

876
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: recent years, opportunities to run the football against the steam

877
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: and opportunities to throw the ball in it. And I

878
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: thought in the first meeting with the Bills on Monday

879
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: night here a new air of field, that Trey Flowers

880
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: was just a dominant defensive end. And the last two games,

881
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: playing well well, he has not had the effect that

882
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: he's had early in the year. I mean, it's hard

883
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: to say guys playing well or not playing well, but

884
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: let's just say this. He was much more disruptive earlier

885
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: in the season than he was the last two weeks.

886
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: I think, And I gotta get you, we're running out

887
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: of time. I want to ask you about the Patriot Yeah,

888
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, just extend the segments, yep. I want to

889
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 1: ask about the Patriots offense. But one more thing about

890
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: the defense. Malcolm Brown stood out to me in the

891
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,439
Speaker 1: last couple of games. Is really not being well, playing

892
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: well at all. Former first round pick number ninety, big

893
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: interior defensive linement. He played well against the Bills back

894
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: in October. He's not playing well at all. Danny Shelton's

895
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: been a healthy scratch the last couple of weeks as well. Yeah, yeah,

896
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's amazing. It's because I see the

897
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: same things. I mean, I think they use their hands

898
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: really well, but in the last two weeks they haven't

899
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: used their hands particularly well. They haven't extended on an

900
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. When you get two extra guys at the

901
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: point of attack by by starting one way and coming

902
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: back the other way, and you get a guard and

903
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: a fullback, or you get a tight end and a

904
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 1: fullback and you can get back the other way, or

905
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: you can pull the guard and the tackle and get

906
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: back to the other side, like like the Dolphins did

907
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: a number of times. You have some real opportunities against

908
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: this team. They occasionally they'll put seven defensive backs on

909
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: the field, and when they put seven defensive backs on

910
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: the field and they're playing man, run the football at

911
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: them because they struggle. And it's not like like Patrick Chung,

912
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: I think is a really good player and has played

913
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: at a real high level for a long time for

914
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: these Patriots. But but when when Patrick Chung is whatever

915
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: he is, five to eleven or six foot two fifteen,

916
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: and you got a six foot seven, three hundred and

917
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: ten pound offensive lineman's coming to block you, he gets

918
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: swallowed up. Now he's gotta he's either got to cut

919
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,959
Speaker 1: that guy at the at the legs or he's gonna

920
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 1: try to slip underneath them. But generally those guys are

921
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 1: gonna grab him and and and get him out of

922
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: the way, just so that that creates some opportunities there.

923
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: And I think I think more than any time in

924
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: recent history, I think there's opportunities at you know, I

925
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are saying that about the

926
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: Patriots this week, and Belichick probably has it all posted

927
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: on the bulletin board. But there's no question that they

928
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: have got away from what they do best. Everybody doing

929
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 1: their job, play your responsibility. And I'm not a big fan. Again,

930
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: you know from from week passed and years passed that

931
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: when defensive lineman with all this rub double in the

932
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: inside zone and the outside zone, when defensive lineman try

933
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: to play gap control, I do not think it is

934
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: as effective as teams that like to move like the

935
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: like the Eagles would under a Schwartz defense when those

936
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: guys are always stunt and sometimes you get gash because

937
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: you guess wrong. But you need to create disruption on

938
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: the defensive line. And if you don't create disruption, the

939
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: offenses are going to have success. You got less in

940
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: a minute. Just tell me in less than a minute,

941
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: what do you do with the Patriots offense? They don't

942
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: have Josh Gordon, but still plenty of weapons, are right, Yeah,

943
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: And I think there's there's some things that you can do.

944
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean again, I think there's times when you have

945
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: to move that defensive line. I mean you've got to,

946
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: whether it's whether you want to stunt to the back

947
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: or opposite the back. But then the linebackers have got

948
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: to You've got to pet put yourself in position. And

949
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: I think I asked Jay to cue up a couple

950
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: of plays. I don't know if he did about the Patriots.

951
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: So they'll start one way as well and come back

952
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: the other way. And Sony Michelle, he does a nice

953
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: job of it. James White does a nice job because

954
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: once you get those linebackers from the Steelers. They step

955
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: the wrong way. Now that sets the block for the

956
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: offensive linement, so you've got to be really careful about that.

957
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 1: I think you need to get up in their face

958
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: quite frankly, Like I've said many times, I think sometimes

959
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: I think it covered two packages really good against them

960
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: because you can force running backs to the edge. I

961
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: don't think I mean Michelle might have the speed to

962
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: get to the edge. I'm not sure that James White

963
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: does better just right on the edge as opposed to

964
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: outside the numbers. And I think you need to play

965
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: a couple things. And number one you need to play.

966
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: You need to change it up so Tom Brady doesn't

967
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 1: know what you're doing on a regular basis, because if

968
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: he does, he'll find a way to beat that. But

969
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: you can play a cover two man, which means the

970
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: safeties are going to be a little bit wider towards

971
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: the numbers. Now you're preventing all those inside crosses, which

972
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: they like to do a lot anytime they're constricted. They

973
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: like to cross as opposed to constricting and expand quickly.

974
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: And the other thing you can do is you can

975
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: play inside shape or outside shade in that two man

976
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,839
Speaker 1: and let those safeties. Just sit right there at ten

977
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: yards and see if any crossing pattern they can take.

978
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: You just did fifteen minutes on the Patriots mentioned Brady's

979
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: name just once. That's amazing. Well he once or twice.

980
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,919
Speaker 1: Well again he's he's still a great quarterback. For people

981
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: that said he well, he's he's really feeling his age.

982
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: Now I disagree with all. Here's this. We'll give you

983
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: one example. That interception, the last interception through in Pittsburgh.

984
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: He was trying to throw it away and he couldn't

985
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: get it done and it got picked off. Yeah, I

986
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: think he was, or he said he was, and he

987
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: said he was trying to get there and he was

988
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: trying to get that ball out of the out of play.

989
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: Almost couldn't. Well, he almost did, but it cost him

990
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: the game. No, there's no question about that. But he

991
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: had had a bunch of drops in that game too.

992
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: I've seen it a couple of times. He loved forty one.

993
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: They had too many penalties. I disagree on that sentiment,

994
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: but I mean, obviously he's I mean he's not at

995
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: the peak of his career, but I still think he's

996
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: a nineteen years in he should especially effective. We'll see

997
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: you Sunday. Mark, thanks you look forward to it. Mark

998
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: l Color analysts on the Bills Radio Network stopping by.

999
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: We got a lot more to come. Come on back.

1000
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drived. This is Buffalo

1001
00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Back One goes Live from One Bill Drive.

1002
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: John Murphy's Steve Tasker. You did ask a question for

1003
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 1: Mark Kelso, and I don't think we gotta do we

1004
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 1: get an answer? Does this feel different? He said, not

1005
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: really right this Bill, He said no, not to him,

1006
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: not to him. Yeah, then he went on to tell

1007
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: us why. And then he went on to tell us

1008
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: that their defense isn't playing very well. Yeah, he's right,

1009
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: He's usually right. It's right about that. What do you

1010
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: think their defense isn't playing very well? And it gave

1011
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: up seventeen points of the Steelers when the Steelers were

1012
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: playing at home one of the better offensive teams out there.

1013
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: Let's let's reevaluate that. What do you think Bill's Patriots

1014
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: Sunday doesn't feel different after all of these matchups this week?

1015
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: Joe and Tonawanda down the line, Joe, go ahead, you're

1016
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: on the air. Yeah, I think it does feel different

1017
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: because this is kind of like our super Bowl this year. No,

1018
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: I don't know about waiting for Christmas. But um, what

1019
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: I want to clear up from yesterday, Um, on every

1020
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: fourth and one, uh, don't kick the field goal because

1021
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: Josh is automatic over the top. So okay and off topic, Joe,

1022
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: We're gonna move on to Jim and James. Sound. Hello,

1023
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: Jim and jown the air. I mean, no, he guys

1024
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: his own agenda. You all right? All right, all right,

1025
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: we got it. He got his comment and Jim and

1026
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 1: James sound. How do you can answer that though? Go ahead,

1027
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I think it feels different.

1028
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: I think because of our defense. I think if our

1029
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: defense continued pressures Brady, we disrupt him a lot. And

1030
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: that's what I've noticed a lot of games where he plays,

1031
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the things I think

1032
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: our defense makes the difference. I think, Josh Allen, to

1033
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: be honest with you and you, I've listened to every

1034
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: one of your shows, and one thing I noticed as

1035
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: a season ticket holder when I've gone to these games

1036
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: and watched him, he really has improved a lot. I

1037
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: just think sometimes he needs to look off when he's

1038
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: going to go to somebody you know he's going there.

1039
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: It just you know he's but he's made a lot

1040
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: of imprudent Absolutely. I'll make another comment. A few weeks ago,

1041
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: you guys were talking about cold weather where he used

1042
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: to be, where he's played. I played in that division

1043
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: when I was in college, and there there's no warm

1044
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: place in the north where What are some of the

1045
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: other locales if you would it was here? Excuse me?

1046
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: What are some of the other venues up there? School?

1047
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: There's Wyoming? Where else they play? Hey, there's Northern Arizona

1048
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: University where it's where I went to. School's that Flagstaff? Yes,

1049
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: it gets cold and flagstaff, doesn't it? Yeah? It? Who

1050
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: else is in that conference or below? I played in

1051
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: what they called the U it was called the Big

1052
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: Sky Conference. Then, yeah, who's in it? What schools? Montana

1053
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:52,439
Speaker 1: State UNT and a Poisey State Poisey um uh those

1054
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Speaker 1: were the schools that we played when I was in college. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are cold spots, believe me. Yeah, you're right, and

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Speaker 1: I I don't know, I get it. I mean, here's

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00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: the thing. It's been said before. Not only did Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen play in cold weather in Wyoming, Montana, Northern Arizona, Idaho.

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Speaker 1: But he's also got the physical abilities to throw the

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Speaker 1: football through the wind and all of that. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: and there's all of that there plus. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: That position that he plays is all played from the

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Speaker 1: neck up, and all the physical stuff is great, it's

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Speaker 1: an added bonus, but it's it's what he's got from

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00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: the neck up that's going to make the differences whether

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Speaker 1: he's a successful quarterback in the NFL or whether he's not.

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00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:34,240
Speaker 1: And we've seen him vastly improved that. When they tested

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Speaker 1: him before they drafted him, he came out to be

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00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: extremely intelligent. So you got to think that he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to learn everything he's gonna need to learn.

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00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: The question comes is can he execute what he learns?

1072
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: Can he learn it fast enough? Can he execute it?

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00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,959
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of improvement. He's learned about throwing

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00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: the football away, he's learned he's learned about sliding and

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00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: not taking hits. But we've got it. He's got a

1076
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: lot more to learn before he can be considered you

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00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: know everything, he's gonna be everything you've hoped we could be. Jickulb,

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much, Jim. We're gonna learn a little bit

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00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: more about the Patriots. Coming up in the next hour.

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Speaker 1: Matt Chatham, former Patriots linebacker, now writes for The Athletic

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00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,359
Speaker 1: and Boston's going to join us. Let us know what's

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00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: going on up there in the wake of Josh Gordon's

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00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: departure from the team, plus a lot more that's coming

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Speaker 1: up next. Come on back, We got two hours to go.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: Bills on the practice field as we speak inside the

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00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: d Pro Sports Training Center there Friday practice as they

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Speaker 1: get set take on the New England Patriots on Sunday

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00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 1: in Foxborough. Head coach Shan McDermott said earlier today he

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Speaker 1: expects that running back Sean McCoy will be ready to go.

1092
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: It looks like Kobe Ready. McCoy, who missed last week's game,

1093
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: told reporters yesterday that he's ready to play after missing

1094
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,240
Speaker 1: the game with a hamstring. Keith Ford may get some snaps,

1095
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: maybe not at running back for the Bills in this game.

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00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: The only one not practicing today for the Bills still

1097
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: in concussion protocol is young defensive back Ryan Lewis Bills Patriots,

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Speaker 1: one o'clock Sunday in Foxburg. You can catch the game

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Speaker 1: right gear on our flagship radio station in Buffalo, WGR

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00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: Sports Radio five fifty. Myself and our guests. Just a

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00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: minute ago. Mark Kelso will have to call the game

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Speaker 1: with Sal Capaco on the sideline. Patriots wide receiver Josh

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00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: Gordon has been suspended indefinitely by the league for violating

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00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,720
Speaker 1: the terms of his conditional reinstatement under the Drug Policy.

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00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 1: You've been suspended by the NFL for most of the

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Speaker 1: previous four seasons because of multiple drug violations. Todd Gurley,

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Speaker 1: running back for the Rams, is uncertain as to whether

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00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 1: he'll be available down the stretch because of an issue

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00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: with his left kye. Gurley did not practice yesterday said

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Speaker 1: he does not plan to practice for the remainderer of

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Speaker 1: the week as the Rams get set to play the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals Savers game night there in Washington. Have played

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Speaker 1: the Capitals tonight at seven o'clock. Face Up Tonight. Sam

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00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,320
Speaker 1: Reinhart player to watch. He's got an eleven game point streak,

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Speaker 1: the longest active streak in the NHL. Going into this game.

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Speaker 1: College basketball Tonight, the fourteenth ranked UB Bulls are in

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00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: Milwaukee to play Marquette. That tip off at eight thirty

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Speaker 1: tonight on Fox Sports One. The Bulls coming off their

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Speaker 1: victory over Syracuse a couple of nights ago. They go

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Speaker 1: up against a good Marquette team ranked twentieth in the

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Speaker 1: country Marquete and nine and two on the season. And

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Speaker 1: the UB Football Bulls Bowls are in Mobile, Alabama for

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Speaker 1: the Dollar General Bowl tomorrow seven o'clock at lad People

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Speaker 1: Stadium in Mobile. That UB against Troy. Troy's from the

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Speaker 1: Sun Belt seven to one record in Conference nine and

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Speaker 1: three dead game on ESPN and Mode of the Bulls

1127
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: played in the third Bowl game in the college history.

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Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy

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00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio. The Bills getting

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Speaker 1: set to head to New England to play the Patriots.

1131
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Speaker 1: We've got a former Patriot on the line, former Patriots linebacker,

1132
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: three times Super Bowl winner, now an analyst on Nesson

1133
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 1: in New England and a contributor for the Boston part

1134
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 1: of the Athletic website. Happy to have Matt Chatham on

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00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: the line with US match John Murphy and Steve task

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00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 1: Gery in Buffalo. Thanks for joining. Hey, guys, thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me on. I got a question for you. So

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00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 1: you played five six years, six years with the Patriots,

1139
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: right played the Bills twice a year. Did you guys

1140
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:13,879
Speaker 1: go into those Bills games saying, boom, chuck it up, win,

1141
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 1: we're playing Buffalo. No, not at all back in the day.

1142
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: I think it just kind of depends on which year

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00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: we're talking about. But I remember, like the Molds group,

1144
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: and you know, some of the some of the more

1145
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,919
Speaker 1: dangerous ones were those always ended up being tough games.

1146
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we had that old game and was

1147
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: at three where we just got our ass kicked on

1148
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: opening day up there and then anyone, Yeah, and then

1149
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: we came back and did the same to them on

1150
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: to close out the regular season. So now, I was

1151
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 1: always a battle, and I think it's always kind of

1152
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 1: an aggravation with me and a lot of my old

1153
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: old Patriots teammates that that sort of the AFC East

1154
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: that we've went through all those years to sort of

1155
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: brushed aside. I think even more recently, you know, when

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00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: when people talk about it in that context, we've always

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00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: said that, you know, yes, the Patriots have dominated it

1158
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: basically from the winning standpoint of it, but the test

1159
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: that you get each week, I thought, we're still pretty stern,

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Speaker 1: I think, especially when you talk about like the defensive

1161
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: lines that you would face for the Patriots offense. Now,

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00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: some of the better pass rushers, some of the more

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Speaker 1: active guys inside obviously got like Kyle Williams there, but

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Speaker 1: even to the ends that you see in Miami in

1165
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: the Jets with Buffalo, now, these are these are very

1166
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: talented teams that are tough to get passed, and they

1167
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: kind of pull you into the mud and it's sort

1168
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: of a different style game that maybe you see elsewhere. Matt,

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Speaker 1: what do you see that's different about the Patriots this year?

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Speaker 1: What makes this team unique and maybe better, worse or

1171
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: the same. What's the personality of this team and where

1172
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Speaker 1: they headed? Well? Yeah, usually guys, we would kind of

1173
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Speaker 1: maybe end up in situations we're mocking other teams or

1174
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Speaker 1: talking about other teams and the mistakes that they make

1175
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: about not playing smart air quote Patriots football. But for

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks, the Patriots have played some not

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Speaker 1: Patriots football themselves, and it's weird to see them be

1178
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 1: not so good situationally, you know, offensively of bumbling a

1179
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Speaker 1: few of those situations. Being such a heavily penalized team

1180
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Speaker 1: is very non Patriot life, you know, just not executing

1181
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: and sort of the way that you expect them do.

1182
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: You expect them to not hurt themselves. And I think

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Speaker 1: there's there's, especially in the last two weeks, a situation

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00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,919
Speaker 1: where you feel like they've they've really struggled with self

1185
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. So it's not smart football and they're they're

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00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: sort of known for the smart football thing. Can they

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00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: correct that course, yeah, of course, but this is a

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Speaker 1: very important final two weeks in the year for them,

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Speaker 1: and yet man and they have come in with two

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Speaker 1: straight losses, but one of them was to a very

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Speaker 1: talented offensive group in Pittsburgh they lost by seven, and

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00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: the other one was on a kind of a flukey

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Speaker 1: play in Miami. So I wonder how much alarmed there

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Speaker 1: should be about the Patriots two game losing streak. What

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Speaker 1: do you think? Well, I just think part of it

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Speaker 1: is sort of a familiarity around here with how maybe

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00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: the perception is that it's supposed to go, like there's

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Speaker 1: a tolerance for being ragged in September, but then a

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Speaker 1: sort of general feeling that they always sort of have

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Speaker 1: this upward art. They get better, they aced December, they

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Speaker 1: head in the playoffs playing their best football, and that

1202
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Speaker 1: really hasn't been the case thus far. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: more of them an issue where they were playing pretty

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Speaker 1: well in late October and in early November, and then

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Speaker 1: now they backed at a little bit. So people aren't

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00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: used to that to you kind of I think, wondering

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Speaker 1: if they can correct themselves and the things that people

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Speaker 1: around here tend to think you be able to be

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Speaker 1: doing this in the playoffs. You're gonna be a one

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Speaker 1: and done there. So I don't know, you're absolutely right

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Speaker 1: that you know, the way things went down at Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: and Miami. There can be relatively I don't know, sensible

1213
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Speaker 1: excuses I guess for those things, but they don't like

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Speaker 1: to make around here. I think, especially in a situation

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Speaker 1: like Pittsburgh that'll be relevant to this Buffalo game, that

1216
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: they ran the ball so easily and you end up

1217
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Speaker 1: in a game where you only give up seventeen points.

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Speaker 1: But I get the sense that the Steelers, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming out with five wide receivers and all that kind

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Speaker 1: of let the Patriots and defense off the hook of

1221
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Speaker 1: a bit by not challenging the run game much. You

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Speaker 1: clearly don't if you don't even have a back in

1223
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Speaker 1: the game. So I kind of wonder now, you know,

1224
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Speaker 1: obviously the builds are gonna look at that film and

1225
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: they're not really set up to go five wides, and

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Speaker 1: I suspect they'll be challenging them and they are the

1227
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Speaker 1: Patriots to struggle with a bit the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: How healthy are the Patriots right now? I know, Gronkowski's

1229
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Speaker 1: on the injury report with an ankle in his back.

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Speaker 1: He's he seems to be a you know, kind of

1231
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: a chronic guy who's trying to stay healthy the whole time, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: And then they lost Josh Gordon this week to suspension.

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Speaker 1: How are they on their roster? The weapons they have

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00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: are as everybody. It seemed like for a minute they

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Speaker 1: were getting healthier. Is that still the case? Yeah, I'd

1236
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: say that's probably the silver lining around here that you

1237
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: don't have. You know, clearly the Gordon thing does change things,

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00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: but it's not from injury. But you don't have like

1239
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: the you know, mid season correction or late season bomb

1240
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: like you know, like a tackle going down or losing

1241
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: a top back or you know, anything crazy at a

1242
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: linebacker or a corner or whatever would be, and you're

1243
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: looking for a death kind of stuff up there. It's

1244
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: a pretty healthy roster right now. The Gordon thing does

1245
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: clearly change things, but I personally think it's a it's

1246
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: a it's an offense where they've got a good amount

1247
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: of depth and they send the ball over the place

1248
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: to any house. Losing one guy there isn't isn't a

1249
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: major reason for concern. But the gron thing is an

1250
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: interesting point. I think in part because his his you

1251
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: sitch has fluctuated so much throughout the year. You know,

1252
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: you're only two weeks removed from one hundred yard game

1253
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: from that guy, but there are other weeks where you know,

1254
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: he blocks exceptionally well, BILLI blocks exceptionally well, but we'll

1255
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Speaker 1: have a role more like that and only maybe only

1256
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: get four or five targets in the game. So he

1257
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Speaker 1: served of a week the week and maybe in part

1258
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Speaker 1: that's them just you know, taking the temperature of how

1259
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Speaker 1: he's feeling. You know, I if the backs bothered more

1260
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Speaker 1: at the angles bothered or more their comfort level of

1261
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Speaker 1: targeting with downfield balls if he's dealing with something. So

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Speaker 1: that's something even you know, covering them and knowing the

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00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: guys that we kind of don't know, we get, we're

1264
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: not exactly sure how heavy they'll be willing to relign them,

1265
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: we know he'll always be out there blocking them. Because

1266
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: the passing game thing, that's that's a bit of a question.

1267
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: And Matt, you mentioned the Gordon thing, the uh, the

1268
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: indefinite suspension. Who benefits who gets the snaps? Who gets

1269
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: the ball? Would it be Patterson or Dorsett? Who do

1270
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: you think? Well, one of the things that that was

1271
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: surprising to me is you know that news happens. I'm

1272
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: going back and quick last night scanned the three the

1273
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: three most recent games, so going back to biking Steelers

1274
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: and then a Dolphins game. And I was curious because

1275
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: I think by perception, you look at a guy like

1276
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: Josh Is as incredibly talented. He is a big, strong,

1277
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: physical guy. You think vertical threat, you think downfield guy

1278
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: or whatever, and by reputation, I think that's what it was.

1279
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: But he didn't catch a lot of fakes for the Patriots.

1280
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: He wasn't catching go routes. He wasn't the air quote

1281
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: stretched the field guy. He was really good in solo

1282
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: coverage isolated hitting on slant routes or extending enough the

1283
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: field and hitting on digs and crossing ruts and things

1284
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: like that. Sometimes the stretching routes, but actually comes from

1285
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 1: the slot in the two spots. So it wasn't exactly

1286
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: what I expected to find in that there wasn't a

1287
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: lot of these last three weeks of defenses, you know,

1288
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 1: specialized in the way that they accounted for him, like

1289
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: doubling them or something, or always getting safety help or

1290
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: something like that. With Jess, that just really wasn't the case.

1291
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: So I think fundamentally, if you're the Patriots now or

1292
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: any defense looking up to now, I don't think there's

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01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, the coverage you were playing with Josh, you're

1294
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: now going to be different without him. So I'm still

1295
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: going to stand on that spot, will still be covered

1296
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: by by a corner. And I don't think they're now

1297
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 1: switching out a multify stuff to just straight across the

1298
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: board man or something. So if you're Julian, I don'tman,

1299
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: you're probably going to see the same coverage attension you

1300
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: otherwise what up. Same with Gronk, someone else is going

1301
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: to stand in that spot. I personally have been sort

1302
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: of a flag waiver for Philip or setting here for

1303
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I think he's a really

1304
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: good football player, just doesn't get a lot of opportunity.

1305
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: And the moments where he stepped in, he snatches the

1306
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: wall catches away from his Body's a great catching run guy.

1307
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 1: Had the super athletic touchdown against the Dolphins earlier in

1308
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 1: the year when he was one on one against Xavier

1309
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: Howard there from the Dolphins, who ends up being a

1310
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: Pro bowler. So he's gone to get a top competition.

1311
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: He's done a really nice job, but his opportunities has

1312
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: been limited. I think he'll step up and play well.

1313
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: You mentioned a few minutes ago about there's been some

1314
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: uncharacteristic you know, mistakes happening for the Patriots where they're

1315
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: not playing you know, Patriot football. What's wrong with their

1316
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: run defense? They've really gotten gashed, particularly by the Steelers

1317
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: and also the Dolphins as well. Is there some chronic

1318
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: problem they've got going on with their run defense. Well,

1319
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: I really think that they have a strong back end,

1320
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: and I think sometimes in situations like that where you

1321
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: feel better about your safeties and maybe that extra defensive

1322
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 1: lineman or something, you get sort of persuaded into more

1323
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: sub stuff, and some of that stuff that they do

1324
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 1: is pretty tough to defend the run in. They don't

1325
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: really have. Well, I guess this isn't actually a big

1326
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: question mark going into the week's game. I guess we'll see.

1327
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 1: But Danny Shelton is really the only true big you know,

1328
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: big guy defensive tackle can play, knows that play a

1329
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: zero play over the center, and they've had him inactive

1330
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 1: for weeks so to go into like a more traditional

1331
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 1: regular defensive three four and regular stuff, they don't have

1332
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: like the big guys, you know, they don't have a

1333
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: Kyle Williams really, so they they're big guys, you know,

1334
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: from Lawrence guy, who's a real Baltimore Ravens guy, a

1335
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: really good five technique and a three four kind of

1336
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 1: thing when you slide into sub fronts and you try

1337
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: to stop runs with Lawrence, he's he's a really good player,

1338
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's particularly is fit. And Malcolm

1339
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: Brown has just really struggled in the last several weeks,

1340
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: and people have been sort of run right downhill insights

1341
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: and I just going eight gap to eight. Yeah, So

1342
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see is I think a lot of

1343
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 1: people are around here how they try to account to that.

1344
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: They want to just go into more regular stuff and

1345
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 1: then reactivate Danny and get the biggest guy that they

1346
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,439
Speaker 1: have in too, absorb some double teams and stuff giving

1347
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: push up front. But it's a big question around. It's

1348
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: a big issue, and it's something that's that's been a

1349
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: multi week thing, so it's it's definitely got to get

1350
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: changed or or you can't hold for much in the playoffs. Yeah. Man,

1351
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: they have these issues, they have these problems, and yet

1352
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 1: you wrote a piece for The Athletic that I read

1353
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: this morning basically telling Patriots fans like, oh, none of

1354
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: this disqualifies them from a deep run into the playoffs,

1355
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 1: right if they get their act together here. Well, one

1356
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: of the things that was out to me is, obviously

1357
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:43,479
Speaker 1: I played in this market for six years. I played

1358
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: for a few years the Jets, so I got to

1359
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 1: look back at this organization too. But then I think,

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01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: when you're here in this market, we had our one,

1361
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: you know, fairy tale, we had our one. We were

1362
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: eleven at five obvious in the old season, if it's

1363
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 1: the greatest show in turf and all that, and I

1364
01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: think people around here you obviously have a special place

1365
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: hard for that particular team, but you don't expect that

1366
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 1: anything crazy like that would ever repeat itself. So in part,

1367
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 1: the rest of the championships have generally come with more

1368
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 1: first seen regular season records and buys and things like that,

1369
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: where they blow through for all for most of the league,

1370
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: besides the Patriots, with a pretty decent amount of regularity,

1371
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 1: you go, there are teams that have been a lot

1372
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: of teams that have been ten and six or eleven

1373
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 1: and five and then nine to seven, several teams in

1374
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: the last fifteen that have gone through the wildcard round

1375
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: to win championships. So I think just the perception around here,

1376
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: you have to sort of check it and look outside

1377
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 1: the box and say, hey, you know what, for other people,

1378
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: the bye week is sometimes important, but sometimes not, you know,

1379
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 1: having a clean regular season record and not always that important.

1380
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: Get in the tournament, be playing well, even having clubs

1381
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: in December playing poorly in December. Several examples of that.

1382
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 1: The Ravens, their most recent championship was one of those

1383
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 1: where they sunk down the stretch and then they get

1384
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: in the tournament they play well. So I think that's

1385
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 1: the most important healthy roster, playing at your best when

1386
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: you arrive in that playoff game and you know, see

1387
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: what happens in Yeah, we'll see Matt. Thanks for this week.

1388
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: Appreciate appreciate a Matt already got until the week a Christmas. Thanks.

1389
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: Matt Chatham, former Patriots linebacker, three times Super Bowl winner

1390
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: with them, now an analyst on nesson New England Sports

1391
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: Network and a contributor to The Athletic in Boston. Mat

1392
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 1: joined us on the Subway First eight hutline, presented by

1393
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 1: Subway Restaurants proud to be locally owned and operating. It's

1394
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 1: got good perspective. You know that column. I read this

1395
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: morning too, and yeah it's a different place. See he's

1396
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:27,440
Speaker 1: talking about how maybe they don't get to buy this year.

1397
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they have to play in the wildcard round, which,

1398
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier this week, the Patriots had never

1399
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 1: done that, played in the wildcoud round and went to

1400
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. But that typically is the way most

1401
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 1: teams go to the playoffs. Right, you don't necessarily have

1402
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: to go four and o in December and cruise in

1403
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:43,920
Speaker 1: just because they've done a year after year out there, right,

1404
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 1: and it certainly could happen in it and what happens,

1405
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: and we've all seen it, or maybe I've seen it

1406
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: been a part of a YouTube Murphis. You know, once

1407
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: you get into the playoffs, every game is a season

1408
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: unto itself. It's just a one time shot. It's none

1409
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: no more of this standings and know more of this.

1410
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: You know, winning record and division record is a one,

1411
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 1: one and done, and a lot can happen. Even the Bills,

1412
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 1: who got in by the flukiest of circumstances this last season,

1413
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: went down to Jacksonville against a team that went deep

1414
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, and they they were within a throw

1415
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: a beating them, were getting it. They were in that game,

1416
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: and they played him, They played him as tough. I mean, listen,

1417
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 1: this bill points, this Bill's defense held them to ten points.

1418
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 1: And then they went up to Pittsburgh that same team

1419
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: and hung forty on the Steelers. It's a week to

1420
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: week season that happens. It's just like we talked about

1421
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: all the time, Well, you get into the playoffs, all

1422
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: that stuff goes away. Certainly one extra game in the

1423
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: playoffs makes it that much harder to get there. But yeah,

1424
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:45,920
Speaker 1: don't don't think just because the Patriots have never done

1425
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 1: it yet that they couldn't do it this year. Yeah,

1426
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 1: a break here. We're gonna talk a great co Sell

1427
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Speaker 1: when we return. He is the executive producer and analyst

1428
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: on NFL Matchup on ESPN, longtime senior producer in NFL Films.

1429
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,320
Speaker 1: We'll get his take on the Bills, the Patriots. Something

1430
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: wrong with Brady? Greg will know or Lisa, he'll tell

1431
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: us what he's seen on video that's coming up next.

1432
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive.

1433
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 1: And this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show.

1434
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: It is One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy,

1435
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker on a Friday. One of the best parts

1436
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:30,200
Speaker 1: of our Friday show is the next segment and always is.

1437
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: We're happy to have him on the line again. Greg

1438
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 1: go Sell, executive producer analysts for NFL Matchup on ESPN,

1439
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 1: longtime senior producer at NFL Films. Hello, Greg, Happy Friday too.

1440
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 1: We got a weekend of football coming up here. We're excited.

1441
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: Murf Steve, how are you guys doing? We're doing great.

1442
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you right off the top. I was

1443
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 1: interested in watching the Bills versus the Lions with Josh

1444
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,439
Speaker 1: Allen playing. I was interested, really more so than Josh

1445
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 1: Allen had a little bit different game, but also the

1446
01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 1: way the Detroit Lions defended him was a little different.

1447
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: What did you see well, I was. I was focused

1448
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 1: mostly on Josh and the pass game concepts, because that's

1449
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 1: what I'm really excited to see, is they developed further.

1450
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,280
Speaker 1: And I thought, to be honest with you, I think

1451
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: he's showing signs of clear improvement. He's playing with more

1452
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: comfort and poison the pocket that's evident on tape. Look,

1453
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:26,559
Speaker 1: obviously there's still ups and downs and nuances and details

1454
01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:28,600
Speaker 1: that need to be worked on. But I thought he

1455
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:32,680
Speaker 1: threw the ball better in this game. I thought his

1456
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 1: accuracy overall was better. There were a couple of throws

1457
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 1: where the ball placement wasn't quite as precise as you'd

1458
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,640
Speaker 1: like it to be, but he looked more comfortable. I

1459
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: kind of like what they do as well, playing to

1460
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:48,640
Speaker 1: what I think is his strength, where they put him

1461
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 1: under center and they go with the play action pass

1462
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 1: game and they have him work vertical route concepts. We

1463
01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 1: saw that a number of times. I thought that was effective.

1464
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 1: So I thought that this was another step forward for

1465
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. And I like the fact that it wasn't

1466
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: a game where he ran ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen times.

1467
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 1: You know, Greg, And this might sound odd, but I

1468
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: thought in decision making, Josh's decision, at least a couple

1469
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 1: of times to throw it away were some of the

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Speaker 1: best decisions he's made since he's been a starter here.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, No, I agree, I agree. I

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01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 1: also thought they did some interesting things they first couple

1473
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 1: of possessions. I think it was they actually went with

1474
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: empty sets and they had five wide receivers on the field.

1475
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,560
Speaker 1: You don't see that very often in the NFL, and

1476
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: I think that that allowed him. When you go empty

1477
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:41,720
Speaker 1: very often, it defines things and clears the picture for

1478
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 1: the quarterback because the defense has to declare. And if

1479
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,479
Speaker 1: you do quick game throws as they did, you know

1480
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 1: you can get the ball out that you developed some

1481
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 1: timing and rhythm. I thought that was a good way

1482
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:54,559
Speaker 1: to sort of start the game and get him into

1483
01:09:55,160 --> 01:09:58,479
Speaker 1: a timing and rhythmic feel well once again, Robert Foster

1484
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: kind of emergent. You spoke y highly of him, you know,

1485
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit more. What more did you

1486
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: see from him? He continues to be more and more

1487
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 1: their most dependable receiver. Yeah, and I think he's he's

1488
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 1: a vertical guy. And vertical doesn't just mean Steve as

1489
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:16,640
Speaker 1: you know, just running in a straight line. Vertical can

1490
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 1: mean running crossers. Be has the kind of speed what

1491
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 1: he can run outside in and run away from defenders,

1492
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: and I think that he's good at that. So, but

1493
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 1: he's a he's a dimension and that's what's critical. He's

1494
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 1: a vertical dimension and with what I think Josh Allen

1495
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 1: does well, which is pushed the ball down the field,

1496
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: and I think that's in his DNA to do. So

1497
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: I think that he fits this offense and the quarterback

1498
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 1: moving forward. What do you mean when you say he's

1499
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 1: a dimension, Well, version, every team would like to have

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01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:53,160
Speaker 1: someone who can lift the top off coverage. Not every

1501
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 1: team has that, but every team would like to have

1502
01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 1: that because it changes the way teams have to play

1503
01:10:58,400 --> 01:11:02,760
Speaker 1: you defensively, because the past thing coordinators defensive coordinators want

1504
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 1: to have happen is to get beat over the top

1505
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: and give up big explosive plays. So when you have

1506
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: a vertical to mention someone who can run by people,

1507
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 1: it changes the way defenses have to defend you. All Right, Well,

1508
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,600
Speaker 1: the season continues to roll on Week sixteen, here the

1509
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: Bills are headed to Foxborough. Yeah, and it's always it

1510
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: always comes down to their ability to handle what Tom

1511
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: Brady does. Is there a way to get pressure on

1512
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,840
Speaker 1: him or the or the Patriots vulnerable to that? Have

1513
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: you seen a change in his play? I would say

1514
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:35,559
Speaker 1: probably that Brady's not doesn't quite move as well within

1515
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 1: the pocket as he has in the past, which was

1516
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,639
Speaker 1: to me an absolute strength of his game, his pocket

1517
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 1: mobility and pocket movement. There are times when there's pressure

1518
01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 1: or I think he looks a little slower in his

1519
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 1: pocket movement, and that's that causes a problem because, as

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01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:56,639
Speaker 1: I said, that's been a major part of his game. Um,

1521
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:00,880
Speaker 1: you know, I think that they're an offense that's a

1522
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: little bit in transition. They try to run the ball.

1523
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 1: I mean they had a field goal drive. I believe

1524
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 1: it was a field goal drive, not a touchdown drive

1525
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: this past week against the Steelers, in which they had

1526
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: seven consecutive running plays, and you don't see that too

1527
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 1: often from the Patriots offense. So I think they're a

1528
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:20,640
Speaker 1: little bit in transition with Josh Gordon gone. Now my

1529
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,400
Speaker 1: guests is called Daryl Patterson will get a lot more snaps.

1530
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,640
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm not sure that Brady's exactly what

1531
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 1: he was, and we'll see going forward. You know, I'm

1532
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:32,840
Speaker 1: not one of those people that's going to say, hey,

1533
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: he's done, because I've learned over the years that well,

1534
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 1: first of all, I don't make those kinds of comments,

1535
01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 1: but I do watch him and I see a little

1536
01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: bit of a change in the way he plays. Greg

1537
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: corsets our guests. He is executive producer analyst of NFL

1538
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:49,760
Speaker 1: Matchup on ESPN. You can catch it tomorrow nine thirty

1539
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 1: am on ESPN two Sunday six thirty am on ESPN.

1540
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: What exactly do they lose when they've lost Josh Gordon? Here? Greg,

1541
01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: what do you think they're gonna miss from him? Well,

1542
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think Josh Gordon he wasn't quite the

1543
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 1: player he was, let's say a few years back in Cleveland.

1544
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:07,719
Speaker 1: Certainly not the year he led the league in receiving,

1545
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: even missing two games but he's a big receiver. He

1546
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 1: runs in breaking routes, he can get over the top,

1547
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 1: he has run after catchability, so you know, I think

1548
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 1: he missed that car. Daryl Patterson has always been a

1549
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: guy with great physical traits and a great skill set.

1550
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:29,720
Speaker 1: He's never quite developed as a receiver since he came

1551
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: out of the University of Tennessee, but he always has

1552
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 1: those traits. I mean, he's caught some longer touchdowns for

1553
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 1: them this year and he's capable of that, and he's

1554
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:42,559
Speaker 1: he can run and he can run after cats, so's

1555
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: he's clearly a weapon. And as you guys know, he's

1556
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 1: been used as a running back as well. I don't

1557
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 1: think they'll do that with him at this point unless

1558
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,640
Speaker 1: someone gets hurt, but he's been used that way as

1559
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 1: well this season. Yeah, certainly the Pagers have to think

1560
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,720
Speaker 1: they've got enough depth that they can cover for the

1561
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:00,639
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon Laws, although it will change probably their play

1562
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 1: selection if nothing else. I want to ask you also

1563
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:09,200
Speaker 1: about Gronkowski. He's getting like six targets a game and

1564
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,799
Speaker 1: we've seen other years where sometimes he'll get targeted double digits.

1565
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what's the difference. Well, I think that becomes

1566
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:19,639
Speaker 1: games specific as well. He was hurt for a while

1567
01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: and this past week the Steelers did some really interesting things.

1568
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 1: They actually took a page out of Bill Belichick's book,

1569
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 1: and there were critical situations third down, red zone in

1570
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:34,759
Speaker 1: which the Steelers doubled Gronkowski, they doubled Edelman, they doubled Gordon,

1571
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: So they really did the kinds of things that we

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01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 1: have come to expect from Bill Belichick. They also did

1573
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 1: a lot of disguised looks, and that's something that I

1574
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 1: think Sean McDermott does well in addition, so I think

1575
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 1: that's something you'll see. But I don't think Gronk looks

1576
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: the same either. I don't think he moves quite as well.

1577
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 1: He obviously still has the size, he can still run

1578
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:57,599
Speaker 1: certain routes. They do that sort of what I call

1579
01:14:57,720 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 1: bang play action, where it's play ac sit in a

1580
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: three step drop and they hit him right over the middle.

1581
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 1: That's something that you have to prepare for, and they

1582
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:07,719
Speaker 1: do that. But I don't think he's quite the same

1583
01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 1: guy on more intermediate stuff and in the open field.

1584
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:14,479
Speaker 1: Patriots did not have Sony Michelle when they played here

1585
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 1: eight weeks ago. Greg, they'll have him Sunday. He seems

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01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: to me like he could be a difference maker in

1587
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:22,080
Speaker 1: a game like this, especially this time of year. Maybe yeah,

1588
01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: And I think that ultimately, Murph, they want him to

1589
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a bell cow. I mean

1590
01:15:28,160 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 1: they've used him that way when he's been healthy. You know,

1591
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: they started the third quarter this past week with three

1592
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:37,080
Speaker 1: Michelle runs. As I mentioned, they had a field goal

1593
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:40,479
Speaker 1: drive where they had seven consecutive runs, four by Michelle,

1594
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 1: three by Birkhead. I think they want to run the ball,

1595
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 1: and I think the game dictates how much they do it,

1596
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: and the success that they're having determines how much they

1597
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 1: do it. So but I think Michelle. I think he's

1598
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: a downhill guy. I don't think he's overly shifty, but

1599
01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:02,400
Speaker 1: I think he's got good side. He's kind of deceptive

1600
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: and subtle movements, but he's kind of a grinder, and

1601
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:10,040
Speaker 1: I think they'd like him to be that sustaining type back.

1602
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, we're gonna move away from Bill's Patriots

1603
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 1: for a minute and go around the league. One of

1604
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 1: the interesting matchups, one of the important ones, is the

1605
01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens going out to Los Angeles to take on

1606
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Lamar Jackson's getting the start, they're kind of

1607
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 1: sticking with him. What do you see in this game? Well,

1608
01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: as you know, Steve, when you're preparing now to play

1609
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:34,960
Speaker 1: the Ravens offense, it's a different week of preparation. I

1610
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 1: mean they line up in the pistol formation where the

1611
01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 1: back is right behind Lamar Jackson, and they're multiple with

1612
01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 1: their looks in the backfield. They could have one back sets,

1613
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 1: two back sets, three back sets, and with that pistol formation,

1614
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:51,040
Speaker 1: they do a lot of that dive option look. And

1615
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:54,639
Speaker 1: it's a different week of preparation for a defense. It's

1616
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 1: an unconventional offense by NFL standards, a lot of college

1617
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:02,200
Speaker 1: principles but not NFL principles. So that's what makes it

1618
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:05,559
Speaker 1: difficult to prepare for. And right now, Jackson is carrying

1619
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:08,200
Speaker 1: the ball a lot. When you run this kind of offense,

1620
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: you're going to need to convert on third down, and

1621
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: they were relying on Jackson to at least be able

1622
01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:16,600
Speaker 1: to make some throws on third down. He did that

1623
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: last week. But I think they also and I think

1624
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: this is very representative of what they are as an offense.

1625
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: They had a third and seven last week. I think

1626
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 1: it was a third and six where they had a

1627
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: designed run call on third and six and it went

1628
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 1: for seven yards with Jackson carrying the ball. You rarely

1629
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 1: ever see that in the league. So I think that

1630
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,759
Speaker 1: speaks to what the Ravens offense is with Lamar Jackson.

1631
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: That's tomorrow night's game the Ravens and the Chargers in

1632
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Here's a Sunday afternoon game that I find

1633
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: kind of intriguing. Greg. The Saints at home against the Steelers.

1634
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: The Saints, who normally you know, put up boxcar numbers

1635
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:55,040
Speaker 1: on offense, have kind of cooled off a little bit,

1636
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: but their defense is picked up the slack wood. What

1637
01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 1: do you think the Saints are going to be like

1638
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs in a week or so. You know,

1639
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:03,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting because I think there's been a

1640
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 1: little misconception about this offense, and I think it's much

1641
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: more of a schemed offense than it is a talent

1642
01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: based offense. Because I think if you look at them, Murph,

1643
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:17,639
Speaker 1: they have Michael Thomas who's really good at what he does,

1644
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 1: but he's not a vertical guy. He's not going to

1645
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: run by people. They have Alvin Kamara, who's very difficult

1646
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 1: to defend in the pass game. Other than that, as

1647
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 1: far as skilled position players in the past game, they

1648
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: do not have very much, so they're much more scheme

1649
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:39,720
Speaker 1: based defensively. Boy, they have played really well over the

1650
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: last oh month five weeks. They're really good in their

1651
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: sub package. I think a very overlooked player for them

1652
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:51,639
Speaker 1: is Alex Anzaloni, a linebacker who plays in their past nickel,

1653
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: and he's really really good. And they've got two corners

1654
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:57,799
Speaker 1: who can line up on the outside in Marshawn Lattimore

1655
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 1: who everybody knows, and Eli Apple's played well for them,

1656
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,799
Speaker 1: and they've been able to rush the quarterback. So it's

1657
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:07,760
Speaker 1: become a really good defense under coordinator Dennis Allen thinks

1658
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 1: I've thought at all. I actually I thought it last year.

1659
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:12,320
Speaker 1: They looked like a bonifide Super Bowl contender to me,

1660
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: do you agree? Greg? To some extent? I think their

1661
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 1: offense is going to have to play better. It's a

1662
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: crazy thing to say, given the way they were for

1663
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:23,479
Speaker 1: the first oh eight or nine weeks of the season.

1664
01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:26,280
Speaker 1: Ten weeks of the season, but their offense has been

1665
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: struggling a bit, and they've also not been able to

1666
01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 1: run the ball the way they did a year ago

1667
01:19:31,439 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 1: when the two headed Monster was I think they were

1668
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:36,519
Speaker 1: a top five rushing team in the league. They've not

1669
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 1: been able to do that this year. I want to

1670
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 1: also ask you about a team that I think as

1671
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 1: a bonafide Super Bowl contender, the Steelers. They had a

1672
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: nice win against the Patriots this last week, and it

1673
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: looks like they're gonna have some home field playoff games,

1674
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: and that's a hard place to go into and win

1675
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, they've got the game

1676
01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:56,080
Speaker 1: against the Saints in New Orleans this week. It'll be

1677
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:58,759
Speaker 1: interesting because the Steelers can also not make the playoffs

1678
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:03,640
Speaker 1: if they lose here. So I thought the one thing

1679
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:06,599
Speaker 1: that was a real positive sign for the Steelers last week, Steve,

1680
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:08,479
Speaker 1: was the fact that they ran the ball. And it

1681
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 1: was not obviously James Connor, he's injured. It was Jalen Samuels.

1682
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,639
Speaker 1: And I actually thought they had a really fun run

1683
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: game to watch. They did some cool things, They had

1684
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:21,000
Speaker 1: some misdirection counter concepts, They did some nice things in

1685
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:23,599
Speaker 1: the run game, and they need a run game because

1686
01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 1: otherwise their offense to me, is very much individual isolation.

1687
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 1: Route based and very very dependent on Ben Roethlisberger making

1688
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 1: second reaction plays. So to me, the run game is

1689
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:38,759
Speaker 1: critical for them. Here's a Sunday matchup that I find interesting,

1690
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:41,240
Speaker 1: nug Greg the Browns who have won three in a

1691
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:44,560
Speaker 1: row under Greg Williams home against Cincinnati. The tables have

1692
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 1: turned the Browns now going for the sweep over Cincinnati.

1693
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:50,759
Speaker 1: As Greg Williams affected meaningful change and what the Browns

1694
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 1: are doing or are they just kind of playing? Well,

1695
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:54,880
Speaker 1: what do you see there? Well, I think defensively they're

1696
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 1: the same. He's running the defense. I think offensively they've

1697
01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 1: been different under Freddie Kitchens. And you know, I think

1698
01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: that we've seen Baker Mayfield be for the most part,

1699
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: and effective and efficient quarterback. Wasn't super sharp against the Broncos,

1700
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 1: but it was on the road and they won the game.

1701
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 1: He was not as accurate as he normally is. But

1702
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:17,720
Speaker 1: I think their offense is what's changed, and I think

1703
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 1: much of that has to do with Freddy Kitchens and

1704
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:24,799
Speaker 1: the approach. The quick rhythm approach play to Mayfield strengths

1705
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 1: some concepts from Oklahoma. So to me, it's it's that's

1706
01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:34,240
Speaker 1: where the difference lies. I got one question to ask

1707
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 1: you about the division down in the AFC. South Tennessee

1708
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 1: is continuing to try and hang in there for a

1709
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 1: wild card spot. What do you see down there is

1710
01:21:43,479 --> 01:21:46,799
Speaker 1: they're they're actually clicking on all three phases in Tennessee

1711
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:50,080
Speaker 1: and they've they've got an outside chance to sneak in. Yeah,

1712
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 1: I think they're a team that needs help. But but

1713
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 1: what they've essentially done, it'll be interesting to see as

1714
01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: they go forward. Because two weeks ago when they beat Jacksonville,

1715
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry had the big runs. Then last week they

1716
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: gave him the ball over thirty times. Maybe it was

1717
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 1: a function of whether maybe it was the way they

1718
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 1: wanted to play. We don't know the answer to that.

1719
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 1: But for the most part, Marcus Mariot has been a

1720
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:15,080
Speaker 1: little inconsistent this year. I'll be very anxious Steve to

1721
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:18,839
Speaker 1: see tomorrow against the Redskins, a defense that's really struggled

1722
01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 1: defending the run over the last month. If they sort

1723
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:24,120
Speaker 1: of stay with the profile of Henry is the lead

1724
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:28,040
Speaker 1: dog Mario as a compliment and play to their defense,

1725
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,680
Speaker 1: which has played very very well. We talked to me

1726
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 1: the last week, Greig, and this will be the last

1727
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 1: game asked you about. We talked to me the last

1728
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: week about the Eagles who managed to get to win

1729
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,760
Speaker 1: against the Rams last week, and I accept that they're

1730
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:42,040
Speaker 1: not the Super Bowl Eagles anymore. But now they got

1731
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,200
Speaker 1: Nick Foles again. I mean, is he making that much

1732
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:46,080
Speaker 1: of a difference. They've got a tough game at home

1733
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:50,000
Speaker 1: against the Texans this Sunday. Can Eagles make a run?

1734
01:22:50,080 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: Do you see that in the cards? What do you think?

1735
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 1: I mean? I guess they could, but I think you know,

1736
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:58,800
Speaker 1: to me, you're dealing with Carson Wentz, who to win

1737
01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:00,479
Speaker 1: healthy and we don't even know if he was truly

1738
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 1: healthy this year coming off in ACL is a top

1739
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 1: five quarterback talent in the NFL, and Nick Foles is

1740
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 1: a nice backup to have. So you know, this is

1741
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: what I struggle with when people now act as if

1742
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:15,840
Speaker 1: Nick Foles is the guy, you know, I think, I

1743
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: think Nick Foles is a great guy to have on

1744
01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:20,719
Speaker 1: your team. We'll see how it turns out. You can't

1745
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 1: take away what he did a year ago. He was

1746
01:23:23,479 --> 01:23:26,599
Speaker 1: a fishing against the Rams and they're playing a really

1747
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:29,479
Speaker 1: good front seven this week and their home. We'll see

1748
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: how it turns out. But but there's not a realistic

1749
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: comparison between the quarterbacks. Yeah, I forgot. You're in the

1750
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:37,240
Speaker 1: middle of all that Eagles mania down there, Archie. Oh

1751
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 1: for sure. It sounds like you're sick of it. Two.

1752
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 1: As a matter of well, you know, they still have

1753
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: a chance, and I think that they if they win

1754
01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 1: their final two, I think their chance from what I understand.

1755
01:23:51,040 --> 01:23:53,000
Speaker 1: It's tough for me to get into all these percentage

1756
01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:56,040
Speaker 1: permutations of the playoffs, but I think if they win

1757
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:58,120
Speaker 1: their final two, they have a legitimate chance to get in.

1758
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 1: We probably will do it. We'll see. Hey, Greg, thanks

1759
01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:04,120
Speaker 1: for this, have a great holiday. We will talk to

1760
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: you again next Friday. Thank you very much. Appreciate a guys,

1761
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 1: same to you. Thanks Greg. Greg ex executive producer analyst

1762
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:14,000
Speaker 1: of NFL Matchup on ESPN Tomorrow nine thirty am. It's

1763
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:17,639
Speaker 1: on ESPN two Sunday, six thirty am on ESPN. He's

1764
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: also senior producer at NFL Films. We thank Greg for

1765
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,720
Speaker 1: joining us. Love the league wide perspective we get from Greg. Yeah,

1766
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 1: and you think about it, look at the NFC and

1767
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: the standings seven and six, seven, six and one, and yeah,

1768
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:34,599
Speaker 1: I mean seven and seven. You're right in the middle

1769
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, not all the division winners are

1770
01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 1: running away with it and in the in the I mean,

1771
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 1: you got a bunch of teams with seven wins and

1772
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: that's that's it. Panthers are at six and eight in there,

1773
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: and they were all but eliminated. So you gotta you

1774
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,599
Speaker 1: gotta think that if you can win out, you're gonna

1775
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 1: be in. I'm surprised to hear you refer to the

1776
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 1: Steelers as a Super Bowl contender. You really believe that,

1777
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:01,040
Speaker 1: I do, really, I really do. I think I think

1778
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna be I think they're playing better than they did.

1779
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:06,080
Speaker 1: I think that win over at home against the Patriots

1780
01:25:06,080 --> 01:25:08,680
Speaker 1: says something about him. I think Ben always gives them

1781
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:11,720
Speaker 1: a shot, his ability he can throw the football and

1782
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:16,320
Speaker 1: say what you wanted about Ben Roethlisberger and the drama

1783
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:18,479
Speaker 1: that has surrounded them with a Levion Bell hold out.

1784
01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger has been the engine in that city for

1785
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:24,200
Speaker 1: a long time, and his ability to come through in

1786
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:27,840
Speaker 1: big moments, in my opinion, forget the two super Bowls

1787
01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: he went well indicative of those two super Bowls. In

1788
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: big moments, that guy invariably comes through and makes the throw.

1789
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 1: You think about their Super Bowl win against Arizona, the

1790
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:40,040
Speaker 1: throw he made in the back corner of the end zone.

1791
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: You think last year, I was standing on the sidelines

1792
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: for the playoff game they lost against Jacksonville. Jacksonville. He

1793
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: made some unbelievable throws in that game, and Jacksonville just

1794
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: refused to go away. He hung forty points on that

1795
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: defense that was absolutely stifling for every other team in

1796
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 1: the league. And he got into big moment and they

1797
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:03,560
Speaker 1: needed him, and he came through with forty points and

1798
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 1: the Steeler defense couldn't hold Blake Bortles to less than

1799
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 1: forty points. Ben Roethlisberger, you can make the case that

1800
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 1: Ben Rothsburger is the only guy that showed up, and

1801
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 1: he almost did it single handed. I think as long

1802
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:22,839
Speaker 1: as he's in the conversation, the conversation goes through Pittsburgh.

1803
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see. Yeah, we're gonna break. We're back

1804
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:29,040
Speaker 1: with more. One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health from

1805
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 1: One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. So we

1806
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:46,439
Speaker 1: do it on Fridays. We just keep stacking him up,

1807
01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:49,840
Speaker 1: Steve one after another after another. Winners Guess, winners, Guess,

1808
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. It's a great show. Yeah, I don't say

1809
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:57,599
Speaker 1: so myself. Welcome John Murphy, Steve Tasker, One Bill's Live

1810
01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:00,040
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive, Hapy, have you have you with

1811
01:27:00,160 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: us on this Friday? We get pumped on Fridays. We're

1812
01:27:02,479 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 1: gonna miss this, Steve. When we get to the off season.

1813
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:07,160
Speaker 1: Fridays will be a little bit different, a little bit different.

1814
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:09,720
Speaker 1: That's how I broke into this business with you during

1815
01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:14,679
Speaker 1: May many years May June July, and it was desert topics. Yeah,

1816
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 1: there was nothing going on. Yeah, it'll be it'll be

1817
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 1: a little round. Now we've got list but loud. We've

1818
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 1: got Twitter polls to reset. Yeah, let me reset the

1819
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. Let me find it first, I've lost it

1820
01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 1: on my computer. Hang on, I got it. Can you

1821
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 1: do that for me? I'll thank you. I got you.

1822
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: Um wait, I'm waiting for it. There we go. Does

1823
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:37,599
Speaker 1: this Bill's Patriots matchup feel different? And? As on Twitter,

1824
01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:40,719
Speaker 1: fifty one percent of you say, yeah, it's Alan versus

1825
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:42,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots, first time we've ever seen that. Thirty three

1826
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,360
Speaker 1: percent now, it's not any different, and eleven percent say yeah,

1827
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:47,559
Speaker 1: the Patriots aren't a two game s kid and five

1828
01:27:47,600 --> 01:27:51,360
Speaker 1: percent of the people out there listeners said something else,

1829
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:54,600
Speaker 1: and you can chime in if you want to. But

1830
01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 1: I'm of the mind that it's not so much Alan

1831
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:01,479
Speaker 1: versus the Patriots, it's the it's both organizations and where

1832
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 1: they are. I don't think this isn't the Tom Brady

1833
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 1: we've seen for seventeen years. This guy's is not the

1834
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:12,160
Speaker 1: same guy. And the Patriots team seems to be in

1835
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:17,519
Speaker 1: the last two games not as buttoned up, shall we say,

1836
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:19,479
Speaker 1: as they have been in years past. Now that could

1837
01:28:19,479 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 1: all change they get back at home. There's no getting

1838
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:23,680
Speaker 1: around the fact. You can't get around the fact that

1839
01:28:23,760 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 1: looks at you in the face. They are undefeated at

1840
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:31,000
Speaker 1: home this year, six games this year and last five

1841
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:33,760
Speaker 1: last year. They're hard to beat. Now, no question, the

1842
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 1: Bills are historically up against something that you know, it's

1843
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: the rock and a hard place is not going to give.

1844
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:42,800
Speaker 1: But by the same token, this is a Bill's team

1845
01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 1: that's been fun to watch. They've been competitive in every game.

1846
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:48,640
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has made them so with his legs in

1847
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 1: his arms, we've seen development by him. But this defense

1848
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:54,799
Speaker 1: that he's gonna face in the Patriots is a different animal,

1849
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:56,600
Speaker 1: There's no question about it. They're going to have a

1850
01:28:56,760 --> 01:29:00,960
Speaker 1: scheme that he has not seen before, and that's going

1851
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:02,679
Speaker 1: to be up to him to overcome. It's probably gonna

1852
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:06,720
Speaker 1: be interesting, probably gonna have that serization three or four

1853
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:08,519
Speaker 1: times in the game. I would never seen that before. Oh,

1854
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 1: look at this, I've never seen this before. I asked.

1855
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:13,600
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance. I didn't talk to McDermott

1856
01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:16,000
Speaker 1: about it briefly today. Didn't get a real answer. How

1857
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:18,720
Speaker 1: do you how would you prepare a rookie quarterback in

1858
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:22,080
Speaker 1: his tenth NFL start for that eventuality? Like, you're gonna

1859
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:24,760
Speaker 1: see stuff you've never seen before. So here's what we'll do.

1860
01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:26,640
Speaker 1: How would you get ready for that? What do you

1861
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:29,760
Speaker 1: tell him? Yeah? Do you think? Yeah, you can't And

1862
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You got to lean on the

1863
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 1: guys around you know. Question. You know, his offensive line

1864
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:37,160
Speaker 1: isn't as experienced as they should be too. If you

1865
01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:40,400
Speaker 1: had a like Russell Bodine in there at center, he

1866
01:29:40,479 --> 01:29:42,840
Speaker 1: would be able to kind of filter through some of

1867
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 1: that and help out with protection schemes a little bit.

1868
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:48,320
Speaker 1: You'd like to think, or if you had something in

1869
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:50,599
Speaker 1: your offense other than your quarterback that you did if

1870
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:52,679
Speaker 1: you were running the ball well or if you had keys.

1871
01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:57,639
Speaker 1: Maybe they do. Maybe Brian Dable, certainly, Brian Dable has

1872
01:29:57,720 --> 01:29:59,640
Speaker 1: got a handle on what he wants to do in

1873
01:29:59,720 --> 01:30:03,200
Speaker 1: this game game, and it's gonna be really interesting to

1874
01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 1: see if he can get Josh Allen in this offense

1875
01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 1: to execute it the way he wants it. Brian Dabiles

1876
01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:11,120
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in that building at Patriot Place,

1877
01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:12,880
Speaker 1: so we'll see if if it makes a difference. Does

1878
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:14,920
Speaker 1: it feel different to you Bills fans? Does this Bill's

1879
01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 1: Patriots matchup feel different? If so, how give us a

1880
01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: call eight oh three oh five fifty or toll free

1881
01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:23,600
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty, or

1882
01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 1: he can do it on Twitter. You can vote in

1883
01:30:25,080 --> 01:30:27,519
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll or sending a note on Twitter from

1884
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:30,880
Speaker 1: Wandering Jack on our tweet sheet. It feels different only

1885
01:30:30,920 --> 01:30:32,640
Speaker 1: because you can start to see the end of the

1886
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:35,200
Speaker 1: line for Tom Brady, Gronk and maybe even the Hoodie

1887
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:37,240
Speaker 1: still have a feeling the Pats will win, but I

1888
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:40,280
Speaker 1: don't foresee a blowout their end of the line. Compare

1889
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:42,840
Speaker 1: their end of the line combined with Allen's progress. Is

1890
01:30:42,920 --> 01:30:45,160
Speaker 1: our light at the end of the tunnel, Go Bills.

1891
01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:48,040
Speaker 1: I guess that's fair to say, right, we don't know. Look,

1892
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us are predicting the Patriots

1893
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:52,639
Speaker 1: are gonna collapse. They're gonna make the playoffs, they'll probably

1894
01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:55,640
Speaker 1: win at least a couple of playoff games. But you

1895
01:30:55,760 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 1: can see that the end might be nearer, nearer certainly

1896
01:30:58,640 --> 01:31:01,560
Speaker 1: than it felt a year ago. And look, this is

1897
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:05,759
Speaker 1: what having a potential franchise quarterback in this case, Josh Allen,

1898
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 1: this is what it does for you. See, if it

1899
01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:10,000
Speaker 1: gives you hope, it gives you a brighter future. Right

1900
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:12,599
Speaker 1: a year ago, at this time, we're talking about, um,

1901
01:31:12,840 --> 01:31:15,479
Speaker 1: you know, Tyrode's probably out, and who's gonna play, And

1902
01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:17,959
Speaker 1: they're gonna draft somebody, and here's this class of quarterbacks

1903
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:19,960
Speaker 1: and they may or may not get the right guy.

1904
01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: When you have a potential franchise quarterback, the future, everything

1905
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:26,160
Speaker 1: about the future looks brighter. I believe in the quarterback

1906
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:28,360
Speaker 1: seems to be getting better, and he seems to be

1907
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,080
Speaker 1: like convincing more and more every week that yeah, they

1908
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:34,599
Speaker 1: picked the right guy. Yeah yeah. And I think Richard

1909
01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 1: Hannon on the tweet sheet says it real, succinctly and

1910
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:39,479
Speaker 1: really simply, it's got to be a changing of the

1911
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:42,840
Speaker 1: guard someday. Why not Sunday? Yep, that's is it? Yeah,

1912
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 1: why not. We'll see they're gonna line up, they're gonna play,

1913
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:48,439
Speaker 1: and the winner's not going to be decided until they're

1914
01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:50,640
Speaker 1: double zeros on the clock in the fourth quarter. So

1915
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:53,120
Speaker 1: we'll see. Here's a call from Bill in New Jersey.

1916
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:56,639
Speaker 1: I Bill go Ahan, you're on the air, Jay Murphy task,

1917
01:31:56,720 --> 01:32:00,360
Speaker 1: how you guys doing great? Great good? I want to

1918
01:32:00,400 --> 01:32:02,880
Speaker 1: give a cause, you know, obviously the season wasn't as

1919
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:05,600
Speaker 1: exciting as last year, but you know, I look at

1920
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:08,240
Speaker 1: this as a stepping stone. I'm excited about where this

1921
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:11,800
Speaker 1: team is actually going. Watching Josh Allen has been great.

1922
01:32:11,920 --> 01:32:13,320
Speaker 1: My son and I actually took a trip up to

1923
01:32:13,360 --> 01:32:16,439
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game, and you could feel the electricity when

1924
01:32:16,520 --> 01:32:18,360
Speaker 1: he gets on the field, when he throws a deep

1925
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 1: ball he's running against the defense. I think, like you

1926
01:32:21,600 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 1: said before, the Bills have picked the right guy. And

1927
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:27,519
Speaker 1: with everything else going on, the draft picks coming next year,

1928
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:29,800
Speaker 1: the salary cap that we're gonna have plenty of, I

1929
01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:32,160
Speaker 1: foresee a bright future for the Bills, for the first

1930
01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:34,479
Speaker 1: time in a long time. And as I said, you know,

1931
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:37,120
Speaker 1: or you said before, the Patriots aren't have to end

1932
01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:38,840
Speaker 1: sometime and maybe this will be it, and I'm looking

1933
01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:41,040
Speaker 1: really forward to it. Bill, Is there anything what else

1934
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:45,080
Speaker 1: about this team? And Josh Allen give you hope for

1935
01:32:45,120 --> 01:32:48,600
Speaker 1: the future. Well, you know, I like his leadership for

1936
01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:50,559
Speaker 1: a young guy. I mean, you see it on the sidelines,

1937
01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:53,600
Speaker 1: you know, watching the games down here. He's a motivator.

1938
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:57,680
Speaker 1: The guys, they they react and the vets they know

1939
01:32:57,800 --> 01:32:59,720
Speaker 1: that this guy can lead the team. He puts the

1940
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 1: team before himself. And I just think the job that

1941
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:05,479
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean has done. I mean, someone a lot of

1942
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:07,280
Speaker 1: fans on Twitter will questions some of the moves they

1943
01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:09,120
Speaker 1: made in the last few months or even last year,

1944
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:11,639
Speaker 1: but you see the pruition to it. There's a reason

1945
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:13,560
Speaker 1: why they want to get their guys in there, and

1946
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 1: everybody's buying into that process. I trust the process. I know.

1947
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:19,880
Speaker 1: I think you're starting to see more people in the

1948
01:33:19,920 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 1: Twitter verse buying into it. I decided I wasn't sure

1949
01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:26,679
Speaker 1: about him at first when Josh plays first couple of games,

1950
01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:29,479
Speaker 1: but the last month has really shown a lot. I'm excited. Yeah,

1951
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:31,640
Speaker 1: thanks Bill, I appreciate. That's a nice call. I was

1952
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 1: kind of misstated my question. I want to say, what,

1953
01:33:34,040 --> 01:33:36,360
Speaker 1: besides Josh Allen, are you excited about on this team?

1954
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:37,800
Speaker 1: And he kind of got to it at the end,

1955
01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:40,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and the process and it's Johan McDermott. They

1956
01:33:41,680 --> 01:33:43,719
Speaker 1: the process seems to be working on a lot of levels,

1957
01:33:43,880 --> 01:33:46,400
Speaker 1: even though it hasn't translated into very many wins this year.

1958
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 1: And Bill said something, I think it's important too. He

1959
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:51,000
Speaker 1: sort of skipped by it, but I think he meant it.

1960
01:33:51,880 --> 01:33:53,800
Speaker 1: All the moves aren't going to be perfect, right, There'll

1961
01:33:53,840 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 1: be more. They're gonna have ten draft picks, you know what,

1962
01:33:56,120 --> 01:33:57,679
Speaker 1: All ten of them are not going to the Pro Bowl.

1963
01:33:58,080 --> 01:34:00,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna have money to spend in free agents, have

1964
01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:02,400
Speaker 1: some hits and maybe some misses. And if you keep

1965
01:34:02,439 --> 01:34:05,080
Speaker 1: that in mind, I think you're you're much better served

1966
01:34:05,120 --> 01:34:08,200
Speaker 1: by the pleasant surprises. And yeah, you can critique the

1967
01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:11,439
Speaker 1: mistakes they made Personelise, I mean you certainly we did it.

1968
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:14,000
Speaker 1: We talked about the Calvin Benjamin trade. Uh, you know,

1969
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:17,479
Speaker 1: we around here for a year and how how could they,

1970
01:34:18,040 --> 01:34:20,519
Speaker 1: you know, miss on that trade. They seemingly knew the

1971
01:34:20,560 --> 01:34:23,000
Speaker 1: guy before they got them. But so there's pluses and minuses,

1972
01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:25,000
Speaker 1: and I think you keep that in mind right when

1973
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:26,960
Speaker 1: you evaluate the job that a GM or coach is

1974
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:29,280
Speaker 1: doing it that absolutely for that matter, I agree. And

1975
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:32,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to ride with them. They've hit

1976
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:34,640
Speaker 1: on a lot of things. Certainly, you can see the

1977
01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: thought process and the lodging behind all the moves they

1978
01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 1: have made, and some of them didn't work out, didn't

1979
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:42,680
Speaker 1: work out, and some of them did and it's uh,

1980
01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:47,200
Speaker 1: but I'm anxious to see more. I'm anxious eager to

1981
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:49,240
Speaker 1: see more this Sunday. As a matter of fact. Yeah,

1982
01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:51,479
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexan understand. You either join us. We'll get the

1983
01:34:51,520 --> 01:34:54,040
Speaker 1: lowdown from the Bills venteran linebacker when we return. Come

1984
01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 1: on back for that. One Bill's Line presented by Collata

1985
01:34:56,680 --> 01:35:09,439
Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello,

1986
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Network Stories Day. The update from One Bill's Drive.

1987
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:16,040
Speaker 1: The Bills have wrapped up there Friday practice. They'll be

1988
01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:17,920
Speaker 1: on the field tomorrow for a walkthrough, and then they

1989
01:35:17,960 --> 01:35:20,640
Speaker 1: will travel to Providence, Rhode Island to play the New

1990
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:23,920
Speaker 1: England Patriots on Sunday at one o'clock well. Sean McCoy

1991
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:26,160
Speaker 1: limited in work today, but the Bill's expected he'll be

1992
01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:28,880
Speaker 1: ready to go. Head coach On McDermott saying earlier today

1993
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:30,680
Speaker 1: that it looks like McCoy's ready to go, and that's

1994
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:34,679
Speaker 1: what McCoy was telling reporters yesterday. The only one missing

1995
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:38,719
Speaker 1: practice today was young defensive back who's still in concussion protocol,

1996
01:35:38,840 --> 01:35:41,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Lewis, who has been out for a little bit

1997
01:35:41,040 --> 01:35:44,360
Speaker 1: more than a week now. Bill's Patriots Sunday one o'clock.

1998
01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:45,960
Speaker 1: You can catch the game right here on our flagship

1999
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:49,400
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, WGR Sports Radio five fifty Patriots without wide

2000
01:35:49,439 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 1: receiver Josh Gordon. He's been suspended indefinitely for violating the

2001
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:56,639
Speaker 1: terms of his conditional reinstatement under the league's drunk policy.

2002
01:35:56,920 --> 01:35:59,599
Speaker 1: Gordon is twenty seven years old. He had been suspended

2003
01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:01,599
Speaker 1: by the lead for most of the previous four seasons

2004
01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:05,880
Speaker 1: because of multiple drug violation sabers in action. Tonight, they

2005
01:36:05,960 --> 01:36:08,280
Speaker 1: are in Washington to play the Capitol's face off schedule

2006
01:36:08,320 --> 01:36:12,719
Speaker 1: for seven o'clock on NBCSN. Sam Reinhardt trying to extend

2007
01:36:12,800 --> 01:36:15,679
Speaker 1: his point test streak. He's gone eleven straight games scoring

2008
01:36:15,720 --> 01:36:18,479
Speaker 1: a point. The longest active streak in the NHL. Sabers

2009
01:36:18,520 --> 01:36:21,080
Speaker 1: home tomorrow night against the Anaheim Ducks, the final game

2010
01:36:21,120 --> 01:36:24,400
Speaker 1: before the holiday break. College basketball, the UB Bulls play

2011
01:36:24,439 --> 01:36:27,479
Speaker 1: at Marquette tonight. Marquette ranked twentieth in the country. UB

2012
01:36:27,680 --> 01:36:31,479
Speaker 1: is fourteenth. Bulls coming off their victory over Syracuse Tuesday night,

2013
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:34,559
Speaker 1: their first victory over the Orange in fifty five years.

2014
01:36:34,880 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 1: Marquette nine and two on the season, they won six straight.

2015
01:36:37,439 --> 01:36:39,879
Speaker 1: That game tips off at eight thirty tonight in Milwaukee.

2016
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:43,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo at Marquette. You can catch it on Fox Sports one.

2017
01:36:43,200 --> 01:36:47,360
Speaker 1: College basketball This afternoon, Northeastern beat Saint Bonaventure sixty four

2018
01:36:47,560 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 1: fifty nine. The final score. College football. Tomorrow, the UB

2019
01:36:51,280 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 1: bull is going to play in the third bowl game

2020
01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:56,080
Speaker 1: in school history. They're in the Dollar General Bowl tomorrow.

2021
01:36:56,320 --> 01:37:00,439
Speaker 1: It's a seven o'clock kickoff at lad Peeble Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.

2022
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:02,960
Speaker 1: The Bulls will play Troy. You beat ten and three.

2023
01:37:03,080 --> 01:37:05,680
Speaker 1: Troy is nine and three. Buffalo looking to win its

2024
01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 1: first bowl game. Ten wins this year, the most in

2025
01:37:07,800 --> 01:37:21,600
Speaker 1: school history for a single season. Do you know what

2026
01:37:21,680 --> 01:37:24,759
Speaker 1: they are? Music means? You know? Time for the lowdown?

2027
01:37:24,800 --> 01:37:28,680
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander Bill's venderan linebacker, comes in studio with us

2028
01:37:28,720 --> 01:37:30,719
Speaker 1: every Friday at this time to give us the lowdown

2029
01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: on the Sunday's game Bills and Patriots. This week, John

2030
01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:37,200
Speaker 1: Murphy steep Tasker starting hour three of one Bills Live.

2031
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:39,839
Speaker 1: Happy to have Lorenzo Alexander and study with us. Lorenzo,

2032
01:37:39,920 --> 01:37:42,439
Speaker 1: Happy holidays to you man, Happy holidays. How's everything been

2033
01:37:42,479 --> 01:37:44,360
Speaker 1: going with you guys? We're doing well. Tell me about

2034
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:47,280
Speaker 1: your little, good little kids getting ready for the holiday.

2035
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:49,960
Speaker 1: They must be pretty pumped time. Yeah, they're really excited. Obviously,

2036
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:53,360
Speaker 1: we have the Christmas party here tonight with the Bills.

2037
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:56,599
Speaker 1: My oldest daughter flew in yesterday, so she's in town

2038
01:37:56,680 --> 01:37:58,360
Speaker 1: for about I think a week and a half or

2039
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:00,880
Speaker 1: two U So, yeah, the im here having a good

2040
01:38:00,920 --> 01:38:03,840
Speaker 1: time and we're looking forward to Christmas and um, you know,

2041
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:06,640
Speaker 1: we have a cool little tradition on we uh do

2042
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:09,640
Speaker 1: lasagna Christmas Eve and open up a present, do the

2043
01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:13,120
Speaker 1: hope a jamma deal um, and then watch a normally

2044
01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:16,000
Speaker 1: Christmas movie, whether it's all for you know, Charlie Brown Christmas,

2045
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:17,639
Speaker 1: one of those type of movies. And then on Christmas

2046
01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:19,360
Speaker 1: Day we'll do a brunch and then actually go to

2047
01:38:19,479 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 1: a one of the new movies that are out, so

2048
01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:23,080
Speaker 1: a lot of movies. Yeah, I look forward to that.

2049
01:38:23,200 --> 01:38:26,280
Speaker 1: Do your kids like Christmas better and snow? They've been

2050
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:28,320
Speaker 1: around a couple of places because they like it better

2051
01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:30,000
Speaker 1: when they're showing the ground like they could be here.

2052
01:38:30,120 --> 01:38:36,639
Speaker 1: Don't think they even Yeah, yeah, it's not the snow

2053
01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:40,559
Speaker 1: on the ground, it's the present. Yeah. Yeah, you got

2054
01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:42,960
Speaker 1: a busy week last week in The Joy you played

2055
01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:45,760
Speaker 1: a lot more. We kind of anticipated you would with

2056
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:48,360
Speaker 1: Matt Milano's injury. You were in. I think I played

2057
01:38:48,439 --> 01:38:51,400
Speaker 1: like ninety three percent of Yeah, we were the guy.

2058
01:38:52,200 --> 01:38:54,240
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. Yeah, it's okay. You know, I don't

2059
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:56,360
Speaker 1: you know people I'm older, so I don't think they

2060
01:38:56,400 --> 01:38:58,679
Speaker 1: gotta they gotta watch my reps on Sunday. It's easy

2061
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:00,000
Speaker 1: watch my reps do in the middle of the week,

2062
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 1: like I always say, and then I can let anything

2063
01:39:02,280 --> 01:39:04,080
Speaker 1: go on. I can played one hundred percent on Sunday.

2064
01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:06,519
Speaker 1: How many did you also play your full compliment of

2065
01:39:06,600 --> 01:39:09,519
Speaker 1: special teams? Just punt? Yeah, And I think that's kind

2066
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,080
Speaker 1: of the biggest thing as I get older, that I

2067
01:39:11,160 --> 01:39:15,360
Speaker 1: can't do punt, kickoff, kickoff return and punt return and

2068
01:39:15,479 --> 01:39:18,519
Speaker 1: play defense. That's that's at this age. It's either defense

2069
01:39:18,760 --> 01:39:21,679
Speaker 1: or teams. And obviously what I've been playing on defense

2070
01:39:21,800 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 1: wanted to utilize me. There were you playing milnof spotter

2071
01:39:24,320 --> 01:39:25,840
Speaker 1: where you're kind of moving around a couple of times

2072
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:28,600
Speaker 1: playing difference, you know, playing majority of his role on

2073
01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:31,320
Speaker 1: and when we go to Nickel on first and second down,

2074
01:39:31,479 --> 01:39:34,479
Speaker 1: and then we had a rotation where sometimes Corey would

2075
01:39:34,479 --> 01:39:36,640
Speaker 1: come in or Dion Lacy on third downs and and

2076
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:39,680
Speaker 1: let me rush just depending on how we wanted to

2077
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:42,320
Speaker 1: tack the Lions last week. So basically moved from what

2078
01:39:42,439 --> 01:39:44,360
Speaker 1: strong side of the week side to cover from Milano

2079
01:39:44,439 --> 01:39:47,800
Speaker 1: or is that too Probably wouldn't say that. Yeah, yeah,

2080
01:39:47,840 --> 01:39:50,680
Speaker 1: because in base I played my normal position, which is

2081
01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:54,920
Speaker 1: weak side linebacker for the majority of our sets that

2082
01:39:55,000 --> 01:39:57,160
Speaker 1: we have our over scheme, and then on third down

2083
01:39:57,760 --> 01:40:00,160
Speaker 1: I end up playing week side linebacker again because I'm

2084
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:04,519
Speaker 1: away from the nickel. So, um, there's a good defensive day.

2085
01:40:04,560 --> 01:40:06,720
Speaker 1: I mean, he held the two touchdowns on the day,

2086
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: which it's got to you gotta think that's got to

2087
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:10,920
Speaker 1: be good enough in the NFL these Yeah, I mean,

2088
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 1: our our points on our goal each and every week

2089
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:15,800
Speaker 1: is seventeen. Um, and if you can do that week

2090
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:17,840
Speaker 1: in and week out, you're gonna win the majority of

2091
01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:21,599
Speaker 1: your games. Um. We've done that, not quite as much

2092
01:40:21,640 --> 01:40:23,479
Speaker 1: as we've wanted to, and that's why our record is

2093
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Speaker 1: five and nine right now. But those are the things

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Speaker 1: that we want to continue to work on and grow,

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01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:30,080
Speaker 1: and mainly it shows up in the red zone area. Um,

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01:40:30,439 --> 01:40:32,760
Speaker 1: the red zone has been an issue we've talked about

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01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:35,400
Speaker 1: on the show Your Red Zone Defense. It was pretty

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01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:37,720
Speaker 1: solid against Detroit. I would think you must look back

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Speaker 1: at that and say, we did okay the red zone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we did solid. Um. You know, obviously we stopped them

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Speaker 1: only giving a fourteen points, so obviously they didn't get

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Speaker 1: any big chunk plays or explosion plays. And when they

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01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:47,640
Speaker 1: when they got down there, we even made them miss

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Speaker 1: a field goal one time. So uh, we're holding, holding

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Speaker 1: solid and not let allowing to even get down there

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Speaker 1: or where they have a chance to put points on

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Speaker 1: the board. Alexander our guests Bills outside linebacker, joining us

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Speaker 1: in studio as the Bills gets set to play New England.

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Speaker 1: It's funny I spent a lot of time earlier this

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Speaker 1: week looking back at the October twenty nine game Bills

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01:41:06,320 --> 01:41:09,439
Speaker 1: Patriots and got some things out of it. But then

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01:41:09,479 --> 01:41:11,360
Speaker 1: it occurred to me, how many people on both sides,

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Speaker 1: both teams. We're not in that game back then, right,

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01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 1: I mean Tony Michelle, he's kind of a difference maker

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01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:19,679
Speaker 1: for that Patriots offense. Yeah, I mean, big time difference maker.

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01:41:19,720 --> 01:41:21,280
Speaker 1: And for us too. I mean we won't have Matt

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01:41:21,320 --> 01:41:24,200
Speaker 1: Milano and Taron Johnson out there either, so it's going

2118
01:41:24,240 --> 01:41:25,840
Speaker 1: to be a little bit different. We did get Trip

2119
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:29,759
Speaker 1: Murphy back this time around, so I'm looking forward to it. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: they're going to continue to do what they've done to

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01:41:32,280 --> 01:41:34,360
Speaker 1: make them successful in US as well. And when you

2122
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:36,920
Speaker 1: play in New England always comes down to matchups and

2123
01:41:37,120 --> 01:41:41,120
Speaker 1: not allowing the moment of who New England is their

2124
01:41:41,240 --> 01:41:43,439
Speaker 1: persona to overwhelm you and just go out there and

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01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:45,080
Speaker 1: play good South Can that happen? What do you mean

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01:41:45,160 --> 01:41:46,880
Speaker 1: when you say there? I mean they have won our

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01:41:46,920 --> 01:41:49,719
Speaker 1: division for the last I don't know, fifteen years, whatever

2128
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:51,519
Speaker 1: it may be. I don't know exactly, I don't know.

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01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:53,559
Speaker 1: It seems like it. I'm just saying when they've been

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01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:55,360
Speaker 1: dominant that long, But in the course of the game,

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01:41:55,479 --> 01:41:57,400
Speaker 1: how could you be overwhelming because it's Tom Brady. I

2132
01:41:57,479 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 1: mean a lot of these people on our team young.

2133
01:42:00,800 --> 01:42:03,800
Speaker 1: They grew up watching Tom Brady dominates. So when you

2134
01:42:03,840 --> 01:42:06,160
Speaker 1: went there were seven years old when he started playing

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01:42:07,360 --> 01:42:10,400
Speaker 1: their whole life. Yeah, and that's whether or not. I mean,

2136
01:42:10,439 --> 01:42:12,559
Speaker 1: obviously you playing in the NFL when I first got

2137
01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:14,960
Speaker 1: into the league and I'm now practicing along a guy

2138
01:42:15,040 --> 01:42:17,519
Speaker 1: like Julius Peppers and Steve Smith when I was in Carolina,

2139
01:42:18,280 --> 01:42:20,960
Speaker 1: that that meant something to me. That was like a man,

2140
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:23,559
Speaker 1: that's Julia's Peppers right there. Man, I've been playing video

2141
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:26,559
Speaker 1: games and watching them, so obviously we've played them already.

2142
01:42:26,600 --> 01:42:27,920
Speaker 1: So some of that should be out the way. But

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01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:30,560
Speaker 1: you don't want to allow that that or and and

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01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:34,240
Speaker 1: teams have it, you know in every level college, you know,

2145
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:36,479
Speaker 1: wherever you may be. Alabama has that you're gonna play

2146
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:41,120
Speaker 1: Oh it's Alabama. Oh about that? You know, especially when

2147
01:42:41,160 --> 01:42:43,439
Speaker 1: things go wrong for you. So you just have to

2148
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:46,040
Speaker 1: be able to play through that, especially with a young

2149
01:42:46,120 --> 01:42:49,760
Speaker 1: football team, and not allow that being in Foxborough, Tom

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01:42:49,840 --> 01:42:52,680
Speaker 1: Brady and all that noise around that to affect the

2151
01:42:52,720 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 1: way you play. Okay, talking a little bit about what

2152
01:42:56,720 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 1: this team has been doing getting ready for the holidays. Well,

2153
01:42:59,360 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: first of all, you are the Bills nominee for Walter

2154
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:03,040
Speaker 1: Payton Man of the Year, and you're still out there

2155
01:43:03,120 --> 01:43:06,519
Speaker 1: doing stuff, including more might cause my cleats stuff right

2156
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:08,599
Speaker 1: your Your cleats are now up for auction. Yeah, they're

2157
01:43:08,760 --> 01:43:12,120
Speaker 1: up for auction on NFL auction dot NFL dot com.

2158
01:43:12,240 --> 01:43:15,800
Speaker 1: I believe. I also tweeted it out on my Twitter

2159
01:43:15,920 --> 01:43:18,679
Speaker 1: handle and the cleats that I wore into my clause

2160
01:43:18,760 --> 01:43:21,600
Speaker 1: my cleats game are up for auction. Now you can

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01:43:21,680 --> 01:43:24,600
Speaker 1: bid on them and all that money goes directly to

2162
01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:28,080
Speaker 1: my foundation and will help impact the local community here

2163
01:43:28,120 --> 01:43:29,880
Speaker 1: in Western New York. And you bid on them at

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01:43:29,920 --> 01:43:31,639
Speaker 1: the NFL dot com. You can go there and bid

2165
01:43:31,680 --> 01:43:34,360
Speaker 1: at Okay, what do you think they get? I don't know.

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01:43:34,479 --> 01:43:37,080
Speaker 1: Last year I got about five hundred dollars, I believe.

2167
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:40,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I think right now it's around three hundred, um, So,

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Speaker 1: I mean they go for a pretty good ordeal, you know,

2169
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:45,880
Speaker 1: just for being a regular guy who's playing football. Five

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Speaker 1: hundred cleats for some shoes I wore is pretty cool. Sure,

2171
01:43:49,120 --> 01:43:51,080
Speaker 1: what's the vibing the locker room at the Pro Bowl

2172
01:43:51,160 --> 01:43:52,880
Speaker 1: voting came out and you guys got to shut out.

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01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:54,519
Speaker 1: I mean you got to be looking around. You got

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Speaker 1: the number two defensive Yeah, and like nobody got noticed.

2175
01:43:57,720 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: It's guys that are hot and yeah, obviously really upset

2176
01:44:00,479 --> 01:44:02,400
Speaker 1: about not being in the Pro Bowl, especially if you

2177
01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:07,200
Speaker 1: haven't been the one. You know, obviously I've had you know,

2178
01:44:08,040 --> 01:44:09,479
Speaker 1: good enough here to be in it. But when you

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Speaker 1: step back and look at it for what it is,

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01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 1: I mean I think about a guy like London Fletcher,

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01:44:13,320 --> 01:44:15,720
Speaker 1: Thomas David's, guys who who played at a high level

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01:44:16,200 --> 01:44:19,920
Speaker 1: and didn't go. Just because of the talent that's in

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01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:22,040
Speaker 1: this league. I mean, we have a lot of talented guys,

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Speaker 1: and when you look at the roster, it's hard to say, well,

2185
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:26,640
Speaker 1: this guy doesn't deserve to grow. And most of the

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01:44:26,680 --> 01:44:29,160
Speaker 1: guys that may be fringe guys, they're own really good teams.

2187
01:44:29,160 --> 01:44:31,280
Speaker 1: So it's a team award as well. Because we're five

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01:44:31,360 --> 01:44:34,280
Speaker 1: and nine, that's probably why we don't have a couple

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01:44:34,360 --> 01:44:36,559
Speaker 1: of guys in the league. So the things go hand

2190
01:44:36,600 --> 01:44:39,840
Speaker 1: to hand. You have to win and then and it's

2191
01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:42,599
Speaker 1: just a lot of talented guys, so it's hard to say, Okay,

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01:44:42,640 --> 01:44:44,120
Speaker 1: I deserve to be in there. Even though we do

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01:44:44,280 --> 01:44:46,560
Speaker 1: have guys that have that pedigree and who've had that

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01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,320
Speaker 1: type of season I've been taking. I spent some time

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01:44:49,400 --> 01:44:51,919
Speaker 1: this week thinking what's wrong with the Pro Bowl selection

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01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:54,679
Speaker 1: process that the Bills get shut out? Some deserving guys

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01:44:54,720 --> 01:44:56,519
Speaker 1: get shut out. The only thing I could come up

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01:44:56,520 --> 01:44:58,080
Speaker 1: with the R I mean, it's in your take on this.

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Speaker 1: Do you really need seven Los Angeles Chargers six Kansas

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01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:03,720
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. I don't want to say every team has

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01:45:03,800 --> 01:45:05,360
Speaker 1: to get one guy, but should there be a cap?

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Speaker 1: You know, no, because they all played different positions, and

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01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:10,400
Speaker 1: they all are dominant and if played very well. So

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01:45:10,560 --> 01:45:13,280
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the way it happens. I would

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01:45:13,320 --> 01:45:15,200
Speaker 1: hate the cap a guy. And then if I'm that

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01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:17,320
Speaker 1: guy that gets capped out, I mean that's because I'm

2207
01:45:17,320 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 1: on a good team, I get punished. I don't I

2208
01:45:19,280 --> 01:45:20,840
Speaker 1: don't like the way that works. I know. One of

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Speaker 1: the things that I think you kind of heard over

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01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:24,680
Speaker 1: heard me talking early in the week, A lot of

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Speaker 1: guys like a Leonard from the Colts, who has I

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01:45:27,960 --> 01:45:32,240
Speaker 1: mean fifty something tackles and seven because he's a four

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01:45:32,479 --> 01:45:35,240
Speaker 1: three linebacker and he goes up against three to four

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Speaker 1: outside linebackers who have double digit sacks, A guy like

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01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 1: that gets overlooked, So I think they may be able

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Speaker 1: to maybe amend it when they create like an edge

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01:45:43,640 --> 01:45:46,880
Speaker 1: like the PFT does and the All Pro dudes do

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01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:49,680
Speaker 1: for Vomeller like Khalil Mack and put the three four

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01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:52,000
Speaker 1: guys that play more like ends and make them edge guys,

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01:45:52,360 --> 01:45:55,120
Speaker 1: and then like the four three outside linebackers, let them

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Speaker 1: be the outside linebackers. So guys like Leonard and guys

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01:45:58,160 --> 01:46:01,160
Speaker 1: like Matt Milano, because they don't have big numbers, get

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01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:03,639
Speaker 1: overlooked for their entire career. And I think that's kind

2224
01:46:03,640 --> 01:46:06,000
Speaker 1: of what happened to guys, you know, like Thomas Davis

2225
01:46:06,120 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 1: down to Karta of his career. I was gonna ask

2226
01:46:08,280 --> 01:46:10,680
Speaker 1: you something. This season rolled on. He started the year

2227
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:12,599
Speaker 1: with many of the youngest guy in the league playing

2228
01:46:12,600 --> 01:46:14,639
Speaker 1: in the middle of your defense, and now your quarterback

2229
01:46:14,720 --> 01:46:17,080
Speaker 1: who is a rookie as well coming up. These guys

2230
01:46:17,120 --> 01:46:19,360
Speaker 1: have started to kind of spread their wings and become

2231
01:46:19,439 --> 01:46:22,519
Speaker 1: fixtures really quickly, particularly Josh and the improvement we've seen

2232
01:46:22,640 --> 01:46:25,200
Speaker 1: him making, the dynamic he brings to the offense. What

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01:46:25,320 --> 01:46:28,280
Speaker 1: have you seen in the dynamics in the locker room

2234
01:46:28,360 --> 01:46:33,760
Speaker 1: about those guys evolution into being fixtures and leaders. And

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01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:37,040
Speaker 1: I know that Josh has pointed to Derek Anderson as

2236
01:46:37,080 --> 01:46:41,559
Speaker 1: a real force helping him navigate as a rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You've seen you could probably have mentored Termaine Edmonds as

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01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:48,400
Speaker 1: a young guy trying to find his way. Talk about

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01:46:48,439 --> 01:46:50,720
Speaker 1: their evolution. Yeah, these guys are natural leaders, and I

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Speaker 1: think they've definitely grown on the football field. Obviously in

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Speaker 1: the leadership role. I think it's easier on office. For

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01:46:56,640 --> 01:47:01,040
Speaker 1: Josh asserted himself because he's the quarterback. You kind of

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01:47:01,080 --> 01:47:03,880
Speaker 1: almost deemed as the captain, the leader of a team

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01:47:04,040 --> 01:47:06,000
Speaker 1: because of that role. Tremaine has been a little bit

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Speaker 1: different because he has Me, Kyle Williams, and Micah in

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01:47:08,760 --> 01:47:10,719
Speaker 1: that room, so he's been a little bit more reserved.

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01:47:10,760 --> 01:47:13,599
Speaker 1: But I have been and Kyle has as well. It's

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01:47:13,800 --> 01:47:16,000
Speaker 1: just kind of pushing him to speak up and we'll

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01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:17,880
Speaker 1: back up whatever you say, because you want to see

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Speaker 1: that mastation process. And because we're older guys, we know

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01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:22,640
Speaker 1: how important that is. We know we're not gonna be

2252
01:47:22,720 --> 01:47:25,240
Speaker 1: here forever, and we don't want to stun his growth.

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01:47:25,320 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 1: So but I've definitely seen in the last I would

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01:47:27,800 --> 01:47:29,840
Speaker 1: say three to four weeks as far as him being

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01:47:29,960 --> 01:47:32,479
Speaker 1: more vocal, starting to say things to guys, getting the

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01:47:32,520 --> 01:47:35,560
Speaker 1: huddles together, get the defense together, which is really a

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Speaker 1: great sign because he's a natural leader. He's quiet in nature,

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01:47:38,280 --> 01:47:39,720
Speaker 1: but he's just a great leader in the way it

2259
01:47:39,760 --> 01:47:42,920
Speaker 1: carries himself, the way prepares each and every single week,

2260
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:44,080
Speaker 1: and the way he goes out there and plays and

2261
01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:46,519
Speaker 1: hunts from his mistakes and it Josh the same way.

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01:47:46,960 --> 01:47:48,680
Speaker 1: He's done a great job of just growing as a

2263
01:47:48,760 --> 01:47:51,720
Speaker 1: quarterback and making the smart plays. I think he's a

2264
01:47:51,880 --> 01:47:54,920
Speaker 1: natural playmaker, has a lot of passion. But I've liked this.

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01:47:55,120 --> 01:47:58,599
Speaker 1: I've liked the growth he's made from playing that quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: From a mental standpoint, I thinks that got kind of

2267
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:03,360
Speaker 1: going on just simple things like just throwing the ball

2268
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:05,880
Speaker 1: out of bounds instead of trying to create something and

2269
01:48:05,960 --> 01:48:08,880
Speaker 1: maybe turn bad. Where now your team to punt, keep

2270
01:48:08,920 --> 01:48:11,000
Speaker 1: the field position, and then you get points on the

2271
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:13,599
Speaker 1: next drive because we've pinned them back. So little things

2272
01:48:13,640 --> 01:48:15,519
Speaker 1: like that that I've noticed has really been cool to

2273
01:48:15,600 --> 01:48:18,160
Speaker 1: watch him evolved as a quarterback, and a lot of

2274
01:48:18,200 --> 01:48:20,719
Speaker 1: that is because of Derek Right. I got another Patriots

2275
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:23,400
Speaker 1: question for you, Rob Gruncowns, get you've gone up against him,

2276
01:48:23,400 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 1: I'm sure several times. What do you see from him?

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01:48:25,560 --> 01:48:27,720
Speaker 1: He is he dropped off a little bit. I think

2278
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:29,640
Speaker 1: he's just banged up. I mean it's not that it's

2279
01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:31,960
Speaker 1: his skill set and his talent isn't there. I mean

2280
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:34,680
Speaker 1: I think when your body sore, you just don't move

2281
01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:36,160
Speaker 1: and feel as good, so you're not going to be

2282
01:48:36,240 --> 01:48:40,600
Speaker 1: as dominant. But for me, I never go into the

2283
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:43,479
Speaker 1: game thinking I'm going to get a banged up guy

2284
01:48:43,640 --> 01:48:45,800
Speaker 1: or somebody's not feeling well, because they can click on

2285
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:48,200
Speaker 1: very easy to oh I feel good this week. So

2286
01:48:48,800 --> 01:48:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm approaching like I'm getting then all pro version of

2287
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:54,479
Speaker 1: Rob this week, and everybody should because as soon as

2288
01:48:54,520 --> 01:48:56,640
Speaker 1: you start letting down, and I would say this for

2289
01:48:56,680 --> 01:48:59,479
Speaker 1: their team as a whole, because they haven't played up

2290
01:48:59,479 --> 01:49:01,240
Speaker 1: to their end of the football and it's kind of

2291
01:49:01,240 --> 01:49:04,200
Speaker 1: been a little bit of sloppy play there when you start, oh, okay,

2292
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:07,240
Speaker 1: well they're not playing well, Okay, he looks banged up. Okay,

2293
01:49:07,320 --> 01:49:09,879
Speaker 1: Tom Brady doesn't look like that. Tom Brady, we're accustomed

2294
01:49:09,880 --> 01:49:13,080
Speaker 1: to sin mentally, you kind of walk in there and

2295
01:49:13,160 --> 01:49:15,040
Speaker 1: that you can walk into a bus all because you

2296
01:49:15,160 --> 01:49:18,439
Speaker 1: haven't mentally prepared yourself to play against the elite, and

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01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 1: as far as one until he retires, they will be

2298
01:49:21,960 --> 01:49:23,880
Speaker 1: the elite in this league just because of what they've

2299
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:26,519
Speaker 1: done and at any time they can explode on you.

2300
01:49:26,600 --> 01:49:28,080
Speaker 1: And they showed that in the past that they know

2301
01:49:28,160 --> 01:49:30,519
Speaker 1: how to regroup, get back to the basis, get back

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01:49:30,560 --> 01:49:32,800
Speaker 1: to their standard, and end up winning the Super Bowl

2303
01:49:32,840 --> 01:49:35,800
Speaker 1: when people will kind of counting them out. You have

2304
01:49:35,880 --> 01:49:38,360
Speaker 1: a big role to play in the past. Defense pass

2305
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:41,479
Speaker 1: coverage kind of challenged. Does Julian Elman present to a

2306
01:49:41,560 --> 01:49:44,280
Speaker 1: guy like where you are, where you're laying up? I mean,

2307
01:49:44,320 --> 01:49:48,200
Speaker 1: obviously he's quick, very nimble in space. Obviously for a

2308
01:49:48,240 --> 01:49:51,400
Speaker 1: guy like myself that's more of a box player, physical

2309
01:49:51,479 --> 01:49:53,599
Speaker 1: type of guy, I have to be patient. I think

2310
01:49:53,680 --> 01:49:56,360
Speaker 1: guys that when you normally, when you're facing a guy

2311
01:49:56,439 --> 01:49:58,880
Speaker 1: that's quicker, you try to be too aggressive and you

2312
01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:01,000
Speaker 1: end up lunging and get you off balance. You have

2313
01:50:01,080 --> 01:50:04,320
Speaker 1: to just take something away, preferably the middle of the field,

2314
01:50:04,400 --> 01:50:06,720
Speaker 1: and allow him to break away from you and have

2315
01:50:06,840 --> 01:50:08,519
Speaker 1: a great angle to wear. If he decides he wants

2316
01:50:08,560 --> 01:50:10,280
Speaker 1: to do the jerk route that he loves to do that.

2317
01:50:10,400 --> 01:50:13,479
Speaker 1: He's coming back into you. And obviously anything that's ran

2318
01:50:13,760 --> 01:50:16,479
Speaker 1: a route ran outside away from the quarterback, it's a

2319
01:50:16,560 --> 01:50:18,880
Speaker 1: harder throw and if he catches it, I can tackle it.

2320
01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:21,479
Speaker 1: And if it's a four or five yard game, I'm clapping,

2321
01:50:21,720 --> 01:50:23,719
Speaker 1: good job. And then we go back into the huddle

2322
01:50:23,960 --> 01:50:25,960
Speaker 1: because you're not going to win games or be that

2323
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:28,519
Speaker 1: patient offensively just to take that all game all right,

2324
01:50:28,600 --> 01:50:31,519
Speaker 1: So let's let's hear the load down bills at Patriots

2325
01:50:31,560 --> 01:50:34,679
Speaker 1: this week? What do they gotta do mine or simple?

2326
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:37,640
Speaker 1: This week? I think it's all about our fundamentals, and

2327
01:50:38,080 --> 01:50:39,880
Speaker 1: I think that's the key any time that you want

2328
01:50:39,880 --> 01:50:42,320
Speaker 1: to play the New England Patriots, and it comes down

2329
01:50:42,400 --> 01:50:46,599
Speaker 1: to really three things in my mind, respect for the football,

2330
01:50:47,720 --> 01:50:52,000
Speaker 1: your execution and penalties, and the last one physicality because

2331
01:50:52,000 --> 01:50:56,679
Speaker 1: I don't think they're naturally a physical team. They execute well,

2332
01:50:56,720 --> 01:50:59,439
Speaker 1: getting positioned winning matchups, but when you walk away when

2333
01:50:59,439 --> 01:51:01,559
Speaker 1: you lose, you feel like, oh man, they just whooped us.

2334
01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:03,720
Speaker 1: So you have to take it to them, much like

2335
01:51:03,840 --> 01:51:07,479
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers did last week, and then I'll execute them. Obviously,

2336
01:51:07,560 --> 01:51:11,000
Speaker 1: don't create any preach, dumb predo snap penalties and they're

2337
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:13,080
Speaker 1: respecting the football. You never want to give Tom Brady

2338
01:51:13,640 --> 01:51:16,760
Speaker 1: multiple or extra possessions because he's already tough enough to

2339
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:20,559
Speaker 1: defend um just with you know, the eight to twelve

2340
01:51:20,600 --> 01:51:23,200
Speaker 1: possitions that they'll get within the game flow. It's interesting too,

2341
01:51:23,240 --> 01:51:25,960
Speaker 1: because if you look for one characteristic that defines their

2342
01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:28,120
Speaker 1: success over the years, it has been their abilities that

2343
01:51:28,600 --> 01:51:32,320
Speaker 1: limit their own mistakes take advantage of yours. Um. They

2344
01:51:32,479 --> 01:51:36,040
Speaker 1: never have come across the team that physically dominated maybe

2345
01:51:36,320 --> 01:51:38,680
Speaker 1: maybe the seven offensive team where they had Randy Maud

2346
01:51:38,680 --> 01:51:39,720
Speaker 1: and they were going over the top and they were

2347
01:51:40,160 --> 01:51:41,760
Speaker 1: that was more like it wasn't like they were just

2348
01:51:41,880 --> 01:51:44,280
Speaker 1: knocking you around, knocking you off the ball. That has

2349
01:51:44,360 --> 01:51:48,160
Speaker 1: never been the way they've done business. And you're right,

2350
01:51:48,240 --> 01:51:51,120
Speaker 1: I think if you can get that done against them,

2351
01:51:51,240 --> 01:51:53,439
Speaker 1: I think that that forces their hand a little bit

2352
01:51:53,439 --> 01:51:55,200
Speaker 1: in a different way that maybe they're not just prepared

2353
01:51:55,240 --> 01:51:57,280
Speaker 1: to take advantage. Yeah, most definitely, And a lot of

2354
01:51:57,360 --> 01:52:00,160
Speaker 1: it just comes down to hitting tom tom Brady. You know,

2355
01:52:00,240 --> 01:52:01,960
Speaker 1: this is probably the year I've seen him get hit

2356
01:52:02,040 --> 01:52:04,960
Speaker 1: the most for whatever reason that may be, but he's

2357
01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:08,160
Speaker 1: taken a lot more punishment than he has in the past.

2358
01:52:08,320 --> 01:52:10,360
Speaker 1: You know, hold onto the ball, just some some things

2359
01:52:10,400 --> 01:52:13,599
Speaker 1: that have been uncharacteristic of him, and I think that's

2360
01:52:13,680 --> 01:52:16,639
Speaker 1: probably translating in some a couple of their losses because

2361
01:52:16,720 --> 01:52:18,960
Speaker 1: once he's not feeling right and not operating at a

2362
01:52:19,040 --> 01:52:21,599
Speaker 1: high level, the rest of the team seems to fall

2363
01:52:21,720 --> 01:52:23,680
Speaker 1: fall in line with that. So that's what we have

2364
01:52:23,760 --> 01:52:26,120
Speaker 1: to be able to obviously continue to do if we

2365
01:52:26,240 --> 01:52:27,599
Speaker 1: want to even have a chance to win this game.

2366
01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:29,719
Speaker 1: Go back a little bit too, one of your keys,

2367
01:52:29,800 --> 01:52:32,719
Speaker 1: and you mentioned operation and penalties of Patriots at fourteen

2368
01:52:32,760 --> 01:52:35,560
Speaker 1: penalties this week. That's almost been their feelings. Yeah, I

2369
01:52:35,600 --> 01:52:38,559
Speaker 1: mean exactly. They're actually losing games the way they normally

2370
01:52:38,600 --> 01:52:40,639
Speaker 1: win games. Yeah, you know, it's kind of been flipped.

2371
01:52:40,640 --> 01:52:42,320
Speaker 1: And that's why, I know, you know, just with the

2372
01:52:42,400 --> 01:52:44,200
Speaker 1: standard and the leadership that they have up there, that

2373
01:52:44,280 --> 01:52:47,200
Speaker 1: they're really emphasizing those things this week, you know, probably

2374
01:52:47,280 --> 01:52:49,720
Speaker 1: kicking people out or out of practice, but out of

2375
01:52:49,760 --> 01:52:51,920
Speaker 1: that play if you jump offsides or whatever they need

2376
01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:54,600
Speaker 1: to do to make sure, gods understand that this is

2377
01:52:54,640 --> 01:52:56,040
Speaker 1: the standard and this is what you need to do

2378
01:52:56,120 --> 01:52:57,680
Speaker 1: to operate at a high level if we want to

2379
01:52:57,720 --> 01:53:01,439
Speaker 1: win and get back to the aliber Football we're accustomed

2380
01:53:01,439 --> 01:53:03,400
Speaker 1: to playing and on the flip side for us, we

2381
01:53:03,520 --> 01:53:06,559
Speaker 1: have to match that, if not exceeded as far as

2382
01:53:06,640 --> 01:53:09,639
Speaker 1: our operation, especially on defense, because they'll if you remember

2383
01:53:09,760 --> 01:53:11,760
Speaker 1: last time, they got in twenty one personnel, you know,

2384
01:53:11,840 --> 01:53:15,160
Speaker 1: two backs, a tight end and two receivers and then

2385
01:53:15,320 --> 01:53:18,160
Speaker 1: went empty on us and they went down the field

2386
01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:20,040
Speaker 1: a whole drive like that, and they're trying to just

2387
01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:24,040
Speaker 1: confuse Tremaine. You know, where's the closed call, where's the

2388
01:53:24,080 --> 01:53:27,800
Speaker 1: safety rotation, and make us communicate while Tom is back there. Okay,

2389
01:53:27,840 --> 01:53:29,519
Speaker 1: they're in this bone, get the ball of the hands

2390
01:53:29,760 --> 01:53:31,960
Speaker 1: and trying to see if they get a busted coverage.

2391
01:53:31,960 --> 01:53:33,240
Speaker 1: So we really have to be able to handle that

2392
01:53:33,320 --> 01:53:36,320
Speaker 1: tempo that they show. Oftentimes in games it's just one drive,

2393
01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:38,760
Speaker 1: five yard drive, that's all. Really. They got against you

2394
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:40,920
Speaker 1: a couple of field goals early, so you gotta yeah,

2395
01:53:40,960 --> 01:53:43,479
Speaker 1: I would think your defense must take some encouragement from that,

2396
01:53:43,600 --> 01:53:45,320
Speaker 1: Like we didn't play so badly, No, we didn't. Then

2397
01:53:45,360 --> 01:53:48,160
Speaker 1: we actually handled that drive pretty well and was able

2398
01:53:48,200 --> 01:53:51,040
Speaker 1: to get through it. But we know they're going to

2399
01:53:51,120 --> 01:53:53,040
Speaker 1: come back to it and maybe a couple of more

2400
01:53:53,120 --> 01:53:55,000
Speaker 1: times because I felt like they got away from it.

2401
01:53:55,160 --> 01:53:57,360
Speaker 1: You know, I would always try to do that defense

2402
01:53:57,360 --> 01:53:59,280
Speaker 1: if I, if I was a coordinator, especially if you

2403
01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:01,120
Speaker 1: have the people around you to do it. And maybe

2404
01:54:01,160 --> 01:54:03,320
Speaker 1: that's something they struggle with too, because obviously, like guy

2405
01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:07,400
Speaker 1: like Josh Gordon is not playing now right Schell was

2406
01:54:07,439 --> 01:54:09,839
Speaker 1: in the game now they're now, they're in certain another

2407
01:54:10,200 --> 01:54:12,720
Speaker 1: another guy that's maybe not used to that system or

2408
01:54:13,080 --> 01:54:16,519
Speaker 1: the operation of the system in time, maybe not feel comfortable.

2409
01:54:16,640 --> 01:54:18,519
Speaker 1: So they all I think that's probably why they haven't

2410
01:54:18,520 --> 01:54:20,559
Speaker 1: done it quite as much this year. One more thing

2411
01:54:20,600 --> 01:54:21,880
Speaker 1: to ask you about it. And you told us before

2412
01:54:21,880 --> 01:54:24,200
Speaker 1: he came out about a kind of a really cool

2413
01:54:24,360 --> 01:54:27,760
Speaker 1: and meaningful ceremony involving some of your teammates. You're going

2414
01:54:27,800 --> 01:54:30,080
Speaker 1: to right from here, Yeah, you know, UM, I think

2415
01:54:30,120 --> 01:54:33,120
Speaker 1: I've I've shared my faith UM and obviously with the

2416
01:54:33,400 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills organization, we have a team Chaplain Lyn vander

2417
01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:38,640
Speaker 1: Boss that's on staff here and it's almost like a

2418
01:54:38,720 --> 01:54:41,720
Speaker 1: coach in a lot of ways, and a good friend

2419
01:54:41,760 --> 01:54:43,879
Speaker 1: of mine, and we've had We're gonna have an opportunity

2420
01:54:43,880 --> 01:54:46,760
Speaker 1: to the data UM hold a baptism for guys. Guys

2421
01:54:46,800 --> 01:54:51,600
Speaker 1: that are deciding to um UM demonstrate their faith to

2422
01:54:51,680 --> 01:54:54,440
Speaker 1: the rest of the world by getting baptized a couple

2423
01:54:54,440 --> 01:54:56,440
Speaker 1: of teammates. We're not gonna be coaches. We're gonna go

2424
01:54:56,480 --> 01:54:58,720
Speaker 1: over the watermark and do it. So it's gonna be uh,

2425
01:54:58,960 --> 01:55:02,560
Speaker 1: pretty cool atmosphere. You ever done that before. I've well,

2426
01:55:02,600 --> 01:55:05,040
Speaker 1: I've been baptized, I've been to baptisms, but I've never

2427
01:55:05,080 --> 01:55:07,720
Speaker 1: actually been in the water actually doing doing it and

2428
01:55:07,840 --> 01:55:09,600
Speaker 1: helping out. So I'll get a chance to help guys,

2429
01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:11,760
Speaker 1: which is really cool for me to be a part

2430
01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:14,480
Speaker 1: of somebody's decision together lives to Christ. It's pretty cool.

2431
01:55:14,560 --> 01:55:17,080
Speaker 1: That's what amazing to the holiday weekend. Really, Yeah, it's

2432
01:55:17,080 --> 01:55:19,160
Speaker 1: awesome and that's something that hopefully we can create a

2433
01:55:19,200 --> 01:55:22,720
Speaker 1: tradition here when we go through Bible study. People figure

2434
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:25,120
Speaker 1: have a tug in their hearts and want to do

2435
01:55:25,200 --> 01:55:27,280
Speaker 1: that each and every single year, um with different guys

2436
01:55:27,320 --> 01:55:31,520
Speaker 1: that we have come in congratulating gratulations on that. Great. Yeah,

2437
01:55:31,720 --> 01:55:33,840
Speaker 1: great holiday, you and your family, your kids coming in,

2438
01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:36,360
Speaker 1: your daughter's coming in. That's you're gonna play well this weekend.

2439
01:55:36,400 --> 01:55:41,879
Speaker 1: Have a great forgot about that? Yeah? Thanks Lorenzo Alexander

2440
01:55:41,920 --> 01:55:44,640
Speaker 1: with a lowdown Every Friday two o'clock thanks for joining us, Lorenzo,

2441
01:55:44,640 --> 01:55:47,000
Speaker 1: Steve and I back with more One Bill's Live from

2442
01:55:47,000 --> 01:56:01,720
Speaker 1: One Wheels Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One

2443
01:56:01,760 --> 01:56:04,400
Speaker 1: Bill's five from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tascer

2444
01:56:04,440 --> 01:56:06,800
Speaker 1: with a special guest. Happy to have a long time

2445
01:56:06,840 --> 01:56:09,360
Speaker 1: Bill's pun Early. I think you are the franchise all

2446
01:56:09,400 --> 01:56:11,400
Speaker 1: time punner. Brian Mormon is in study with us. Right,

2447
01:56:11,440 --> 01:56:13,080
Speaker 1: how don'd you hold all the plenty of records? I

2448
01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:17,440
Speaker 1: have no idea? Take it, parachute it in for this

2449
01:56:17,560 --> 01:56:19,560
Speaker 1: final segment of the Show's nice? Could you say? What

2450
01:56:19,640 --> 01:56:21,520
Speaker 1: are you in town for? Well, actually in town for

2451
01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:25,560
Speaker 1: our foundation. We're doing our annual adopt a Family event

2452
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:28,120
Speaker 1: tonight where you know, emies with cancer, families with cancer.

2453
01:56:28,240 --> 01:56:30,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, the pun Fund we uh you benefit children

2454
01:56:30,920 --> 01:56:33,040
Speaker 1: battle in pianatric cancer. And we've been doing that since

2455
01:56:33,080 --> 01:56:36,240
Speaker 1: two thousand and four and started this adopted Family program

2456
01:56:36,520 --> 01:56:39,120
Speaker 1: probably two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, Amber

2457
01:56:39,160 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 1: and I went out and shopped for one family and

2458
01:56:40,800 --> 01:56:42,920
Speaker 1: and uh you know, started doing that, adopted them for

2459
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:45,920
Speaker 1: that particular Christmas. Grew it up to about seven or

2460
01:56:45,960 --> 01:56:48,960
Speaker 1: eight families, and then uh UM had a new direct

2461
01:56:49,000 --> 01:56:51,800
Speaker 1: director takeover Gyn Mysiak and Bridget Moffat. They've taken it

2462
01:56:51,800 --> 01:56:54,240
Speaker 1: and grown it up to sixty families now, so, um,

2463
01:56:54,440 --> 01:56:56,040
Speaker 1: you know what venues. Where is it that we're gonna

2464
01:56:56,040 --> 01:56:57,400
Speaker 1: do it right here in the field house? Oh? Right here?

2465
01:56:57,480 --> 01:56:59,720
Speaker 1: Yeah tonight. Yeah, Yeah, we're excited to have it here.

2466
01:57:00,200 --> 01:57:02,200
Speaker 1: The bills have supported us and a lot of players,

2467
01:57:02,240 --> 01:57:05,400
Speaker 1: a lot of coaches and players actually adopted families along

2468
01:57:05,440 --> 01:57:07,200
Speaker 1: with other companies and everything else. So it's been it's

2469
01:57:07,240 --> 01:57:08,880
Speaker 1: been a great You come in, you come intend a

2470
01:57:08,920 --> 01:57:11,520
Speaker 1: couple of times a year during the season. Yeah, well yeah,

2471
01:57:11,760 --> 01:57:13,480
Speaker 1: could I've seen you. I've had a cross paths with you,

2472
01:57:13,600 --> 01:57:15,720
Speaker 1: probably average. Yeah, I'm here quite a bit, probably once

2473
01:57:15,800 --> 01:57:18,480
Speaker 1: a month throughout the year, but anything from fundraisers to

2474
01:57:18,880 --> 01:57:20,920
Speaker 1: events we do for this or other things in the community.

2475
01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:23,560
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, we still love it here obviously, and

2476
01:57:23,800 --> 01:57:27,640
Speaker 1: the Punt Fund has survived even though you're gone, which

2477
01:57:27,720 --> 01:57:30,160
Speaker 1: is pretty impressive. And you've realigned with the hospital, right,

2478
01:57:30,200 --> 01:57:32,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's kind of a success story in itself, right,

2479
01:57:32,760 --> 01:57:35,080
Speaker 1: what you've transformed the Punt Fund into. Well, you know,

2480
01:57:35,320 --> 01:57:37,800
Speaker 1: we always had the goal of making sure that it

2481
01:57:38,120 --> 01:57:40,320
Speaker 1: lived on after I was done. Playing and you know,

2482
01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:42,240
Speaker 1: we've got to know so many families and so many kids,

2483
01:57:42,320 --> 01:57:44,280
Speaker 1: and um, it didn't seem right to just let it

2484
01:57:44,320 --> 01:57:46,080
Speaker 1: fizzle out. You know, we've done a lot of things.

2485
01:57:46,120 --> 01:57:49,240
Speaker 1: We have our six programs that we run and everything

2486
01:57:49,280 --> 01:57:52,600
Speaker 1: from direct financial assistance which is so important to this

2487
01:57:52,720 --> 01:57:55,440
Speaker 1: adoptive family, to a bereavement program for families that have

2488
01:57:55,520 --> 01:57:58,080
Speaker 1: lost their children. But uh, you know, the support we've

2489
01:57:58,080 --> 01:58:00,520
Speaker 1: had throughout the community has just been amazing, you know,

2490
01:58:01,240 --> 01:58:04,720
Speaker 1: corporations and volunteers. We have great volunteer base and then

2491
01:58:05,000 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 1: just a great team in place with with Gwynn and

2492
01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:09,480
Speaker 1: Bridget with what they do and the people they've been

2493
01:58:09,480 --> 01:58:12,000
Speaker 1: able to get to help them out and get things

2494
01:58:12,040 --> 01:58:14,080
Speaker 1: to be successful. He was a series of fundraisers right

2495
01:58:14,080 --> 01:58:16,320
Speaker 1: including the big one, the Galot, which is normally first

2496
01:58:16,400 --> 01:58:18,000
Speaker 1: or second week of the regular seats usually do it

2497
01:58:18,080 --> 01:58:20,160
Speaker 1: the Yeah, the first opening week of the season. We

2498
01:58:20,600 --> 01:58:23,920
Speaker 1: do a big wine pairing galot that has been super

2499
01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:26,080
Speaker 1: successful for us. We really enjoy that and had a

2500
01:58:26,120 --> 01:58:28,880
Speaker 1: lot of support throughout the community. So that was that

2501
01:58:29,000 --> 01:58:31,480
Speaker 1: was this last September, and we'll do it again next year.

2502
01:58:31,520 --> 01:58:34,000
Speaker 1: But we're always looking for other just met with a

2503
01:58:34,840 --> 01:58:36,760
Speaker 1: former teammate of Mind that wanted to try and find

2504
01:58:36,800 --> 01:58:39,560
Speaker 1: a way to raise money for the foundation this morning,

2505
01:58:39,600 --> 01:58:41,840
Speaker 1: and so I'm thankful for that. I can't really say

2506
01:58:41,880 --> 01:58:44,080
Speaker 1: anything about that, just yex it's not finalized, but you know,

2507
01:58:44,280 --> 01:58:46,480
Speaker 1: things like that are always popping up, and people doing

2508
01:58:46,560 --> 01:58:49,280
Speaker 1: lemonade stands or um finding other ways that they can

2509
01:58:49,360 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 1: help these kids. It's very proud of what we've built

2510
01:58:52,760 --> 01:58:55,600
Speaker 1: here and more proud of the way the community supports

2511
01:58:56,400 --> 01:58:58,840
Speaker 1: the kids in this community. I mean, it's it's pretty amazing.

2512
01:58:58,840 --> 01:59:02,120
Speaker 1: I've always said how impressive that is, how everybody just

2513
01:59:02,200 --> 01:59:04,160
Speaker 1: kind of takes her arms and puts a big hug

2514
01:59:04,200 --> 01:59:08,640
Speaker 1: around everybody in Buffalo. You grew up in Kansas. I did, like, yeah, yeah,

2515
01:59:08,640 --> 01:59:10,800
Speaker 1: I was talking yeah, Amber and Cooper here, I was

2516
01:59:10,880 --> 01:59:12,880
Speaker 1: talking to them about your plans. You're headed back there

2517
01:59:12,920 --> 01:59:14,560
Speaker 1: for for the holiday. Yeah. We took a just a

2518
01:59:14,560 --> 01:59:19,480
Speaker 1: little detour up north to go back. So you've been there. Yeah,

2519
01:59:19,680 --> 01:59:21,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo is the center of everything, so you gotta come

2520
01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:24,800
Speaker 1: here to go anywhere. Absolutely, But when you grew up

2521
01:59:24,800 --> 01:59:27,000
Speaker 1: in Kansas, you live now in Florida, and yet you

2522
01:59:27,080 --> 01:59:29,480
Speaker 1: maintain this presence in Buffalo. What you play thirteen years

2523
01:59:29,520 --> 01:59:32,400
Speaker 1: here with him. Yeah, yeah, this is like a hometown

2524
01:59:32,440 --> 01:59:35,000
Speaker 1: to me. And uh, you know, I Amber and I

2525
01:59:35,000 --> 01:59:36,560
Speaker 1: always talking about we still have one foot here and

2526
01:59:36,600 --> 01:59:39,600
Speaker 1: that'll never change. And you know, we're gonna obviously have

2527
01:59:39,880 --> 01:59:42,800
Speaker 1: our ties with the with the foundation, but more importantly

2528
01:59:42,840 --> 01:59:45,360
Speaker 1: a lot of friends and what we feel almost like family.

2529
01:59:45,520 --> 01:59:47,720
Speaker 1: So it's you know, we love Buffalo and will always

2530
01:59:47,720 --> 01:59:49,960
Speaker 1: be a big part of us. Yeah, it's it's been

2531
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:52,080
Speaker 1: fun to Yeah, you're gonna go back to Pittsburgh, Kansas

2532
01:59:52,160 --> 01:59:55,080
Speaker 1: where her family is, and my minor just an hour

2533
01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:58,080
Speaker 1: or two east or I'm sorry west, uh still in

2534
01:59:58,120 --> 02:00:01,280
Speaker 1: the Wichita. Yeah, it's just and it used to be

2535
02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:03,720
Speaker 1: whenever you fly in there, I always saw people in

2536
02:00:03,720 --> 02:00:05,320
Speaker 1: the airport. I knew it's such a you know, there's

2537
02:00:05,320 --> 02:00:07,160
Speaker 1: nobody out there. I mean it's a small state, right,

2538
02:00:08,120 --> 02:00:10,480
Speaker 1: it's a big state, but there's not very many people though. Yeah,

2539
02:00:10,560 --> 02:00:13,120
Speaker 1: so I always see people I know in that airport.

2540
02:00:13,160 --> 02:00:15,000
Speaker 1: I do you do that still? Um, well, we kind

2541
02:00:15,000 --> 02:00:17,040
Speaker 1: of fly into Kansas City now, but you know, I

2542
02:00:17,160 --> 02:00:19,720
Speaker 1: grew up near where you grew up, right and near Wichitas,

2543
02:00:19,840 --> 02:00:21,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, that I was whenever we're going to the

2544
02:00:21,680 --> 02:00:23,600
Speaker 1: witch Tar pot, always looking around making sure there's not

2545
02:00:23,600 --> 02:00:25,960
Speaker 1: somebody sitting there that I know, because they're inevitably and

2546
02:00:26,000 --> 02:00:28,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of similar. That's what I love about Buffalo.

2547
02:00:28,120 --> 02:00:29,920
Speaker 1: It's kind of feel always felt like home to me.

2548
02:00:30,040 --> 02:00:32,640
Speaker 1: Same type of people, good quality, and kind of a

2549
02:00:32,720 --> 02:00:34,960
Speaker 1: small town atmosphere. It was just what was meant for me.

2550
02:00:35,280 --> 02:00:37,680
Speaker 1: Brian Mormon a long time Bills punterre thirteen years here,

2551
02:00:37,720 --> 02:00:40,040
Speaker 1: so I have the record book most punks in a

2552
02:00:40,120 --> 02:00:43,760
Speaker 1: career Brian Mormon, nine hundred twenty three. You're gonna hold

2553
02:00:43,800 --> 02:00:45,920
Speaker 1: that forever. The next you were Hope Listen, you were

2554
02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:48,080
Speaker 1: in the wheelhouse of the franchise at the time, the

2555
02:00:48,200 --> 02:00:51,440
Speaker 1: area you played in for the most punts, most punts

2556
02:00:51,480 --> 02:00:54,160
Speaker 1: inside the twenty Brian Mormon leads all time two hundred

2557
02:00:54,160 --> 02:00:57,000
Speaker 1: and fifty nine, longest punt eighty four yard or at

2558
02:00:57,040 --> 02:00:59,440
Speaker 1: Green Bay December twenty second, two thousand and two. Do

2559
02:00:59,480 --> 02:01:02,680
Speaker 1: you remember that I very quite happened there? Yeah, Actually

2560
02:01:02,760 --> 02:01:04,800
Speaker 1: that was probably that was definitely my best point of

2561
02:01:04,840 --> 02:01:06,720
Speaker 1: the game. But um, I have to admit that that

2562
02:01:06,920 --> 02:01:09,080
Speaker 1: was not my best point of my career. That was

2563
02:01:09,360 --> 02:01:11,560
Speaker 1: that one that one hit at about seventy and rolled fourteen.

2564
02:01:11,600 --> 02:01:13,160
Speaker 1: I'll admit that one My best point was in the

2565
02:01:13,200 --> 02:01:15,120
Speaker 1: opening game against the Jaguars where the guy caught it

2566
02:01:15,160 --> 02:01:19,920
Speaker 1: over his shoulder. That one was eighty yards. That one, yeah, um,

2567
02:01:20,520 --> 02:01:22,400
Speaker 1: most punch it said, No, you don't have that record,

2568
02:01:22,440 --> 02:01:25,000
Speaker 1: you get most of them. Best gross punty average for

2569
02:01:25,040 --> 02:01:27,880
Speaker 1: a season forty eight point two two, best grosser. Why

2570
02:01:27,880 --> 02:01:29,800
Speaker 1: did they have gross average? That's not the number? Really,

2571
02:01:29,880 --> 02:01:31,960
Speaker 1: is it? You want? Ye? Well, yeah, you know it's funny.

2572
02:01:32,000 --> 02:01:33,760
Speaker 1: The nets have changed so much, Stephen, you can you

2573
02:01:33,800 --> 02:01:35,760
Speaker 1: can attest to this that when I got in the league,

2574
02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:38,360
Speaker 1: I can remember Danny Smith, our special team's coach, standing

2575
02:01:38,440 --> 02:01:40,880
Speaker 1: up on the table saying, thirty seven yards net will

2576
02:01:41,000 --> 02:01:43,360
Speaker 1: lead the league, will lead the league, you'll go to

2577
02:01:43,400 --> 02:01:45,600
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. I remember my special team's coach saying,

2578
02:01:45,960 --> 02:01:48,560
Speaker 1: nobody will ever net forty right, yeah, And that was

2579
02:01:48,800 --> 02:01:51,800
Speaker 1: like this holy grail. It was a four minute a

2580
02:01:51,800 --> 02:01:55,000
Speaker 1: mile and when had happened, everybody's doing everybody story, and

2581
02:01:55,080 --> 02:01:56,920
Speaker 1: it happened during my time. I can't remember who the

2582
02:01:56,960 --> 02:01:59,360
Speaker 1: first guy may have been, leckler Um. And then all

2583
02:01:59,360 --> 02:02:02,520
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, I think I'd made yeah, yeah,

2584
02:02:02,680 --> 02:02:04,280
Speaker 1: and there was four guys a year I did it,

2585
02:02:04,320 --> 02:02:06,480
Speaker 1: and now it's like if you don't net forty. It

2586
02:02:06,560 --> 02:02:08,920
Speaker 1: was also too during our career, my career that everybody

2587
02:02:08,960 --> 02:02:11,240
Speaker 1: started doing the azzy tumblup kick and I held on

2588
02:02:11,280 --> 02:02:12,920
Speaker 1: as long as I could without doing it right. And

2589
02:02:13,040 --> 02:02:15,080
Speaker 1: when you started doing you're nine, I think I finally

2590
02:02:15,280 --> 02:02:17,000
Speaker 1: embraced it and I love it. I mean, it's just

2591
02:02:17,160 --> 02:02:19,640
Speaker 1: such a consistent kick right, and you get a consistent,

2592
02:02:19,720 --> 02:02:21,840
Speaker 1: more consistent bound even though the ball is tumbling, you

2593
02:02:21,920 --> 02:02:24,200
Speaker 1: get a more consistent bounce as well. Yeah, I mean

2594
02:02:24,240 --> 02:02:26,200
Speaker 1: everyone always says, you know that guy's got that spin

2595
02:02:26,320 --> 02:02:28,520
Speaker 1: down here. I still think it's fifty fifty of going

2596
02:02:28,560 --> 02:02:30,360
Speaker 1: forward or backwards, but you definitely have a better shot

2597
02:02:30,400 --> 02:02:32,440
Speaker 1: of it bounce. At least it bounces high. You know,

2598
02:02:32,920 --> 02:02:34,840
Speaker 1: you'll get a vertical bounce one way or the other

2599
02:02:34,880 --> 02:02:38,200
Speaker 1: instent of a maybe a sideways bounce going hard forward

2600
02:02:38,280 --> 02:02:39,920
Speaker 1: or hard backs. Still preferred to go to the corner

2601
02:02:39,960 --> 02:02:41,280
Speaker 1: with that that way if it did go forward and

2602
02:02:41,400 --> 02:02:43,760
Speaker 1: go out of bounds. But yeah, it's definitely consistent. Are

2603
02:02:43,760 --> 02:02:46,120
Speaker 1: we getting too technical for you? Murph? You accused Kelso

2604
02:02:46,120 --> 02:02:49,560
Speaker 1: of being too technical. He is definitely sees we bring

2605
02:02:49,720 --> 02:02:53,680
Speaker 1: that the demands on punters increased dramatically almost during the

2606
02:02:53,760 --> 02:02:55,680
Speaker 1: course of your career. What teams expect to get from

2607
02:02:55,680 --> 02:02:57,760
Speaker 1: their putter, Yeah, I think so. I mean it's obviously,

2608
02:02:58,040 --> 02:03:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, field position game, and um, you know that's

2609
02:03:01,080 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 1: so important. But I think you're gonna see even more

2610
02:03:03,760 --> 02:03:05,840
Speaker 1: so with the way that the rules are changing with

2611
02:03:06,040 --> 02:03:08,320
Speaker 1: kicking and the kickoffs, everyone talking about how they may

2612
02:03:08,360 --> 02:03:10,400
Speaker 1: be eliminated and this and that. I think punters will

2613
02:03:10,480 --> 02:03:12,520
Speaker 1: have a little bit more of a role and I'm

2614
02:03:12,560 --> 02:03:14,560
Speaker 1: interested to see how that all plays out. Yeah, how

2615
02:03:14,640 --> 02:03:16,080
Speaker 1: to keep busy? Now? Did I hear you're doing real

2616
02:03:16,160 --> 02:03:19,560
Speaker 1: estate in Florida? Yeah, I own a Southby's International Realty franchise.

2617
02:03:19,680 --> 02:03:23,480
Speaker 1: I sell, actually run the brokerage, but also list and

2618
02:03:23,520 --> 02:03:26,360
Speaker 1: sell some too. But that keeps me pretty busy, keeps

2619
02:03:26,360 --> 02:03:28,920
Speaker 1: me out out of Amber's hair a little bit. And uh,

2620
02:03:29,080 --> 02:03:32,000
Speaker 1: but you know, and and then just trying to obviously

2621
02:03:32,080 --> 02:03:33,920
Speaker 1: be back and forth year, you know, continue to grow

2622
02:03:34,080 --> 02:03:36,160
Speaker 1: the foundations. And it's smart of you because a lot

2623
02:03:36,200 --> 02:03:39,000
Speaker 1: of guy you want to retire to people can equate

2624
02:03:39,080 --> 02:03:42,360
Speaker 1: with retirement with kind of idol you know, lifefully. But

2625
02:03:42,520 --> 02:03:44,880
Speaker 1: you know what, when you're young, football athlete. You got

2626
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:47,240
Speaker 1: you gotta do something. Yeah, yeah, you gotta. You really

2627
02:03:47,320 --> 02:03:50,160
Speaker 1: need something to to go to. Yeah, it's it's and

2628
02:03:50,240 --> 02:03:52,160
Speaker 1: that that's has been kind of a competitive thing for

2629
02:03:52,240 --> 02:03:54,280
Speaker 1: me too, because you know, I obviously want to be

2630
02:03:54,480 --> 02:03:56,240
Speaker 1: the best I can be at that, just like football,

2631
02:03:56,280 --> 02:03:58,080
Speaker 1: and I mean the transition stuff. You've been through it.

2632
02:03:58,120 --> 02:03:59,760
Speaker 1: I mean you try and all of a sudden it's

2633
02:03:59,800 --> 02:04:01,560
Speaker 1: just done and you're not in the locker room anymore,

2634
02:04:01,560 --> 02:04:03,320
Speaker 1: and you got to find something. And it's been a

2635
02:04:03,360 --> 02:04:06,480
Speaker 1: good outlet for me. Ryan Mormon, former Bills Punterer here

2636
02:04:06,520 --> 02:04:10,400
Speaker 1: to run the Adopt a Family program tonight tell us

2637
02:04:10,440 --> 02:04:12,320
Speaker 1: again and how people might be able to get involved

2638
02:04:12,320 --> 02:04:14,080
Speaker 1: with it. But you know, we've had, like I said,

2639
02:04:14,120 --> 02:04:16,320
Speaker 1: a lot of people that have jumped on board, from

2640
02:04:16,480 --> 02:04:20,360
Speaker 1: just individual families to corporations and businesses that have have donated.

2641
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:21,880
Speaker 1: So I got to thank everybody out there in the

2642
02:04:21,920 --> 02:04:24,440
Speaker 1: community that have jumped on board with that. But uh,

2643
02:04:24,520 --> 02:04:26,839
Speaker 1: you know, next year we start it right after basically

2644
02:04:26,880 --> 02:04:29,640
Speaker 1: after that event in September, we start collecting names and

2645
02:04:30,200 --> 02:04:33,800
Speaker 1: uh and donations. So it's uh, it's quite the event

2646
02:04:33,880 --> 02:04:36,520
Speaker 1: and the team does such a great job. I can't

2647
02:04:36,560 --> 02:04:38,200
Speaker 1: can't say enough about going to bridget and all the

2648
02:04:38,280 --> 02:04:40,640
Speaker 1: volunteers that have made it possible. But and of course

2649
02:04:40,680 --> 02:04:42,600
Speaker 1: thank you to the Bills for allowing us to use

2650
02:04:42,640 --> 02:04:44,560
Speaker 1: the field house and make it a special night for

2651
02:04:44,600 --> 02:04:46,360
Speaker 1: a lot of kids. Would you hit any punts for

2652
02:04:46,440 --> 02:04:50,040
Speaker 1: the crowd here tonight? Yeah, I don't know. Hamstrings might be.

2653
02:04:50,640 --> 02:04:52,800
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can't lit the roof anybody. Yeah,

2654
02:04:52,880 --> 02:04:54,720
Speaker 1: that never happened. The best thing to do is come

2655
02:04:54,800 --> 02:04:58,440
Speaker 1: up with an excuse why you can't do it. Hold muscle,

2656
02:04:58,640 --> 02:05:01,520
Speaker 1: I hurt myself playing racking ball or something. Brandon is

2657
02:05:01,560 --> 02:05:05,880
Speaker 1: great to see you, Ryan Warren, Bill Spinner joining us

2658
02:05:05,960 --> 02:05:08,320
Speaker 1: us speaking of the holidays. A brand new segment on

2659
02:05:08,360 --> 02:05:11,680
Speaker 1: The Sean McDermott show, Chilling with the Bills. Read Ferguson,

2660
02:05:11,800 --> 02:05:13,760
Speaker 1: long snapper for the Bills, had a chance of going

2661
02:05:13,760 --> 02:05:15,640
Speaker 1: around the locker room to ask some of his teammates

2662
02:05:15,680 --> 02:05:23,160
Speaker 1: about their favorite holiday experiences. Hello Bills fans, read Ferguson. Here, um,

2663
02:05:23,280 --> 02:05:25,640
Speaker 1: as you can see, it's Christmas season. Just wanted to

2664
02:05:25,680 --> 02:05:27,360
Speaker 1: go around the locker room and get a feel for

2665
02:05:27,680 --> 02:05:29,440
Speaker 1: some of the guys and how they feel about Christmas.

2666
02:05:29,480 --> 02:05:34,280
Speaker 1: Ask him to some unique questions. All right here with

2667
02:05:34,480 --> 02:05:36,880
Speaker 1: Mike Love, defensive end for the Buffalo Bills. What is

2668
02:05:36,920 --> 02:05:40,640
Speaker 1: your favorite Christmas meal item breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I'm

2669
02:05:40,680 --> 02:05:43,240
Speaker 1: gonna go with dessert, cookies and milk. If there was

2670
02:05:43,320 --> 02:05:45,920
Speaker 1: one persons you could give away on this football team

2671
02:05:46,040 --> 02:05:48,600
Speaker 1: as a Christmas gift, someone's interested, So I'll go with

2672
02:05:48,720 --> 02:05:52,440
Speaker 1: bullet Keith Ford, running back. He won't stop talking. So

2673
02:05:52,480 --> 02:05:54,080
Speaker 1: if you have a boy, you know, that's the man

2674
02:05:54,200 --> 02:05:56,560
Speaker 1: right there to talk to him. With my man Jordan Mills,

2675
02:05:56,680 --> 02:05:58,920
Speaker 1: right tackle for the Buffalo Bills, you were to give

2676
02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:02,080
Speaker 1: a player you're away on this team as a Christmas gift,

2677
02:06:02,400 --> 02:06:04,880
Speaker 1: I don't give away John Miller because he's a you know,

2678
02:06:05,080 --> 02:06:06,920
Speaker 1: giving away to the kids around Christmasy. It looks like

2679
02:06:06,960 --> 02:06:09,960
Speaker 1: a little elf, you know, in structures about this tall

2680
02:06:10,120 --> 02:06:12,400
Speaker 1: you just give that Christy joy to the kids. Yeah,

2681
02:06:12,400 --> 02:06:14,640
Speaker 1: it's shocking that he would give me away, especially because

2682
02:06:14,640 --> 02:06:16,080
Speaker 1: I know like an elf. I don't. I don't think

2683
02:06:16,120 --> 02:06:20,520
Speaker 1: so you think that? All right, we're here with star

2684
02:06:20,680 --> 02:06:24,040
Speaker 1: running back Keith Ford. Worst Christmas gift you've ever received

2685
02:06:24,120 --> 02:06:25,880
Speaker 1: in your whole life. It seems like every time I

2686
02:06:26,000 --> 02:06:28,560
Speaker 1: go home and I opened a present, first a gift

2687
02:06:28,680 --> 02:06:31,000
Speaker 1: would be a pair of socks, and I hate that.

2688
02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:36,400
Speaker 1: Who would you give away? Probably Taiwan Jay. He seems

2689
02:06:36,440 --> 02:06:38,800
Speaker 1: like a nice guy. Why would you give him away? Yeah,

2690
02:06:38,840 --> 02:06:40,320
Speaker 1: he's a very nice guy, But like I feel like

2691
02:06:40,360 --> 02:06:41,800
Speaker 1: I just want to give him away to somebody that

2692
02:06:41,880 --> 02:06:44,200
Speaker 1: he can mess with on a daily basis, because he

2693
02:06:44,280 --> 02:06:46,920
Speaker 1: messed with me pretty much every day. Here with Eddie

2694
02:06:47,000 --> 02:06:50,840
Speaker 1: yarborrough my favorite Christmas movie. Oh you know, I'm a

2695
02:06:51,040 --> 02:06:55,040
Speaker 1: very old school kind of guy, someone to definitely go with,

2696
02:06:55,120 --> 02:06:57,720
Speaker 1: like home alone, least favorite gift that you've got for

2697
02:06:57,840 --> 02:07:01,160
Speaker 1: Christmas or Gammy. But she was like, hey, I got

2698
02:07:01,240 --> 02:07:04,880
Speaker 1: some got some great stock and stuffers for you, a toothbrush,

2699
02:07:05,200 --> 02:07:08,200
Speaker 1: toothpaste in socks. She's trying to tell you to clean

2700
02:07:08,200 --> 02:07:09,960
Speaker 1: your hichien up a little bit. I don't know. Most

2701
02:07:10,000 --> 02:07:12,160
Speaker 1: people say my best moans like pieces and Cream, but

2702
02:07:12,560 --> 02:07:13,960
Speaker 1: I think I gotta. I'm not gonna test it. We

2703
02:07:14,000 --> 02:07:16,320
Speaker 1: just got out of practic. My favorite Christmas song is

2704
02:07:16,760 --> 02:07:19,560
Speaker 1: Mariah Carries All I Want for Christmas is You. I

2705
02:07:19,680 --> 02:07:21,440
Speaker 1: listened to it every morning on my way to work.

2706
02:07:21,480 --> 02:07:23,600
Speaker 1: I'm Merry Christmas to all the Bills fans out there

2707
02:07:23,640 --> 02:07:26,800
Speaker 1: in a happy New Year. Let's read ferguson Long Snapper

2708
02:07:26,880 --> 02:07:30,400
Speaker 1: Chill with the Bills. Favorite Christmas movie A popular question, Steve,

2709
02:07:30,440 --> 02:07:35,400
Speaker 1: you got one? Yeah, I'm up at Christmas Carol Michael

2710
02:07:35,440 --> 02:07:38,840
Speaker 1: Caine start as Ebenezer Scrooge and of course Kermit, the

2711
02:07:38,840 --> 02:07:41,360
Speaker 1: Frog and the rest. It is a great movie and

2712
02:07:41,440 --> 02:07:43,760
Speaker 1: absolutely great them up. You know, the Muppets aren't real,

2713
02:07:43,840 --> 02:07:47,480
Speaker 1: right that they're They're real to me? Man, uh no,

2714
02:07:48,120 --> 02:07:50,440
Speaker 1: it is. It's good. It's a good movie, fun movie.

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Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for It's a wonderful life. I actually

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Speaker 1: get choked out every time I say, yeah that that

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02:07:56,160 --> 02:07:58,800
Speaker 1: is an all time closs. That's not just a Christmas movie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a life movie. You know the you know the

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Speaker 1: story about Seneca Falls in New York, right down the

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Speaker 1: Thruway right Yeah, they claim, I don't know how they

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Speaker 1: were the town. They were the town, but they have

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Speaker 1: a pretty cool museum there that I dragged my wife

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Speaker 1: to a couple of years ago. It's a wonderful life

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Speaker 1: museum in Seneca Falls, New York. Um. The connections between

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Speaker 1: the movie and Seneca Falls are a little bit tenuous,

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Speaker 1: but they, boy, they push it and it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: For I know. It's a great little town in the

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Speaker 1: Finger Lakes um. They claimed that the director Frank Capra

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Speaker 1: uh spent a weekend there once and came away so

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Speaker 1: impressed that he went and put together It's a wonderful life. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'll buy it. I guess good for you.

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Speaker 1: It's cool and it is my favorite without question. Nothing

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Speaker 1: even comes. Yeah. That's that's it, truly, even in black

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Speaker 1: and white. And it was made back in what the

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02:08:50,280 --> 02:08:54,240
Speaker 1: forties fifties maybe, uh, gotta be the early fifties, post war.

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Speaker 1: I think it was forty six, forty seven, maybe right

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Speaker 1: after this war. It's still it's great all time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's great. I agree with you, it is. It is.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, I had that movie poster in my basement.

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Speaker 1: Really yeah, signed by Jimmy Stewart. Where is it? It's

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Speaker 1: in my basement. Man, take it to Seneca Falls. They

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02:09:13,120 --> 02:09:16,280
Speaker 1: would they would kill for that though. Now all right,

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Speaker 1: I don't have it in front of you. You have

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Speaker 1: NFL to Ur Falls in front of you. It is

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Speaker 1: bouncored by our Way, amut Jane Watson take a break

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02:09:22,000 --> 02:09:24,120
Speaker 1: taking our way off schedule. Yeah, we got a break.

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Speaker 1: Came break and then we'll come back and finish up

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Speaker 1: the show with that One Bill's Line presented by Kalida

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Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bills Radio. Hey,

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02:09:44,320 --> 02:09:46,520
Speaker 1: what do we learn from today's show. It's presented by

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Speaker 1: the finest and security and home theater, the preferred alarm

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Speaker 1: and home theater provider of the Buffalo Bills. We had

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02:09:54,880 --> 02:09:56,680
Speaker 1: Mark kelsel In during the first hour of the show.

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02:09:56,880 --> 02:09:58,720
Speaker 1: They'll be doing the color on the broadcast Sunday with

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Speaker 1: me down in Foxborough. The bill in the New England Patriots. Well,

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Speaker 1: he asked, Mark, what do you do if you're the

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02:10:02,720 --> 02:10:04,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, what do you do to try to slow

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02:10:04,320 --> 02:10:07,040
Speaker 1: down the New England Patriots offense on Sunday. Here's what

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02:10:07,120 --> 02:10:10,600
Speaker 1: he said. I think you need to get up in

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02:10:10,640 --> 02:10:12,720
Speaker 1: their face quite frankly, like I've said many times, I

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02:10:12,800 --> 02:10:15,680
Speaker 1: think sometimes I think it covered two packages really good

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02:10:15,680 --> 02:10:17,960
Speaker 1: against them, because you can force running backs to the edge.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I mean Michelle might have the speed

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02:10:20,080 --> 02:10:21,480
Speaker 1: to get to the edge. I'm not sure that James

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02:10:21,520 --> 02:10:24,680
Speaker 1: White does better. Just right on the edge as opposed

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02:10:24,720 --> 02:10:26,480
Speaker 1: to outside the numbers. And I think you need to

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02:10:26,560 --> 02:10:29,040
Speaker 1: play a couple things, and number one, you need to

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02:10:29,080 --> 02:10:31,960
Speaker 1: play you need to change it up so Tom Brady

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02:10:32,000 --> 02:10:34,320
Speaker 1: doesn't know what you're doing on a regular basis, because

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Speaker 1: if he does, he'll find a way to beat that.

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Speaker 1: He usually finds a way to beat everybody. Doesn't He

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02:10:40,000 --> 02:10:43,680
Speaker 1: as good at that. This just didn't. Also on What

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Speaker 1: Have We Learned? Matt Chatham, former Patriots linebacker now an

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Speaker 1: analysts for nesson New England Sports Network also writes for

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Speaker 1: The Athletic in Boston. Matt Chatham talked about what's different

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Speaker 1: about the Patriots this year. Here's what he said. For

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks, the Patriots to play some Patriot

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Speaker 1: football themselves, and it's weird to see them be not

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Speaker 1: so good situationally, you know, offensively bumbling a few of

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02:11:07,280 --> 02:11:11,200
Speaker 1: those situations. Being such a heavily penalized team is very

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Speaker 1: non Patriot like, uh, and you know, just not executing

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Speaker 1: and sort of the way that you expect them to,

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02:11:17,960 --> 02:11:19,760
Speaker 1: you expect them to not hurt themselves. And I think

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Speaker 1: there's there's, especially in the last two weeks, a situation

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02:11:23,400 --> 02:11:26,080
Speaker 1: where you feel like they've they've really struggled with self

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02:11:26,160 --> 02:11:29,120
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. So it's not smart football, and they're they're

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Speaker 1: sort of known for the smart football thing. Can they

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02:11:31,120 --> 02:11:33,480
Speaker 1: correct that, course, yeah, of course. But this is a

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Speaker 1: very important final two weeks to the year for them,

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Speaker 1: important game on Sunday, Steeve. We know that, right, we

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Speaker 1: know that absolutely. It's almost one of those games that's

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02:11:41,720 --> 02:11:43,760
Speaker 1: more about the Patriots in the Bills, just because they

2794
02:11:43,800 --> 02:11:45,760
Speaker 1: have so much more at stake. But don't tell the

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Speaker 1: guys in that locker room down the hall there no,

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02:11:48,040 --> 02:11:50,520
Speaker 1: and you can bet the Patriots or feel a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the heat. They don't. They're not very used

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02:11:52,760 --> 02:11:54,680
Speaker 1: to drop in two games in a row, even if

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Speaker 1: one was fluking, one was a difficult road game against

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Speaker 1: a really good football team. This is a team that

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Speaker 1: I think I think this has a different feel for

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Speaker 1: them too. They feel like they've got some things they've

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Speaker 1: got to get right that they haven't had right in

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks. I think that's that's unfamiliar territory

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Speaker 1: to I mean, I think it's interesting too that Mark

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Speaker 1: Kelso and Lorenzo Alexander's both told us the same thing,

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Speaker 1: you got to get physical and get and punch these

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Speaker 1: guys in the mouth. That's one of the things that

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02:12:20,400 --> 02:12:21,920
Speaker 1: you've got to do in order to beat them. You

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Speaker 1: got to play more physical than they do. Yeah, and

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02:12:23,960 --> 02:12:25,680
Speaker 1: you and Lorenzo were right about that, And I never

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Speaker 1: really thought about that. In this entire string of Patriots dominance,

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Speaker 1: They've never been the physical, dominant team that's going to

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Speaker 1: steamroll anybody. Right. They outthink people, right, they think thinking

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02:12:35,760 --> 02:12:39,200
Speaker 1: out execute you. They technique you to death, and teams

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Speaker 1: that go in there and kind of punch them in

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02:12:40,880 --> 02:12:44,400
Speaker 1: the mouth tend to play better. So on our Twitter pole,

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Speaker 1: we had almost seven hundred votes in does this Bills

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Speaker 1: Patriots matchup feel different to you Bills fans? And on

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll, fifty one percent of you said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it does, and it's because it's Josh Allen against the Patriots,

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02:12:56,280 --> 02:12:58,000
Speaker 1: and then thirty three percent of you saying no, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel much different at all. Eleven percent say yes

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Speaker 1: the Patriots because of their two game losing street five

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Speaker 1: percent say something else interesting Twitter poblem so half of us.

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Speaker 1: Half of our respondents say because of Josh, because of

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Speaker 1: Josh going up against Belichick and that defense, it does

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Speaker 1: feel different changing to the guard, we'll find out there's

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Speaker 1: a lot in there, Yeah, a lot. Yeah, And we've

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Speaker 1: been we've there's a lot of layers of this onions.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what are you're gonna use that. I was

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Speaker 1: about ready to spee it out, but you're right, Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen and his athleticism and the dynamics of this offense

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02:13:29,120 --> 02:13:31,960
Speaker 1: and the added speed. We'll see how it plays against

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Speaker 1: this matchup with the Page. It's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. But still I think the Bills are trending

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Speaker 1: in the right direction. Production assistant today George Blastcheff, Colteneck,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Holder, Kelly Rude, JJ Turito, Kevin Card, James Roebel,

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Speaker 1: Our producer, Jay Harris. We do have a show on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're joined us Monday, twelve noon to three pm.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the game. We'll see you next Monday. One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive. And

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bill's Radio