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Speaker 1: First of all, I'm not too smart Smith Schuster, way

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Speaker 1: may have to throw a little bit more. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I like the theory because you know you've got an

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Speaker 1: offense that is clearly the strength of your football team,

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Speaker 1: So why not put your strongest asset out on the

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Speaker 1: field early and maybe try to set a tone that way.

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Speaker 1: You have to weigh that against what the analytics say

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Speaker 1: and what the analytics say is if you defer, very

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Speaker 1: often you get the two fer at the end of

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Speaker 1: the half, because the analytics show that the way the

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Speaker 1: possessions tend to go back and forth, you're usually if

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Speaker 1: you defer, you usually get the last possession of the

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Speaker 1: first half, and knowing you've deferred, you automatically get the

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Speaker 1: first possession in the second half. And a lot of

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Speaker 1: coaches find that very appealing, having back to back possessions

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Speaker 1: to end the first half and to start the second half,

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Speaker 1: and they feel they can take control of the game.

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Speaker 1: So you have to weigh that against taking charge of

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Speaker 1: the game from the outset. I think, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: you not gonna this. What may happen is not gonna

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Speaker 1: affect the way you know, the statistics say this game

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Speaker 1: is probably gonna you know the analytics of it. You're

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Speaker 1: not gonna treat the Colts differently because you're worried about

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Speaker 1: their opening drive. You're gonna take the ball, hopefully at

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Speaker 1: the end of the first half and then at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the second half. That's that's the reason they

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Speaker 1: do it. I get it, But that kind of thing

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Speaker 1: that we're noticing that means you're gonna go into the

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Speaker 1: game kind of conceding that you're gonna give up a

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Speaker 1: touchdown on the opening drive, and then you know you're

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Speaker 1: never gonna do that. As an NFL club or even

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Speaker 1: a high school club taking on another team, you're you

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna have success against those guys, so you're

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Speaker 1: not really afraid of those You're not afraid of the

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Speaker 1: first drive of the game. There's no reason because as

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Speaker 1: soon as they get out there, they're gonna run the

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Speaker 1: same script anyway, even if you've got the ball first.

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Speaker 1: So I get it, but no, that's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: This just end. Stefan Diggs has been named a first

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Speaker 1: team All Pro, and there's a bunch of other players

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Speaker 1: on the Bills roster that have been named second team.

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Speaker 1: Diggs is the first wide receiver in team history, though

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Speaker 1: to be named first team All Pro, so congratulations to

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Speaker 1: him after a historic season in which he had one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven receptions and over fifteen hundred receiving

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Speaker 1: yards along with eight touchdowns. That's got to be very

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Speaker 1: gratifying for a guy who never made the Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: in each of his first four or five seasons. So

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and first Team All Pro. That is a

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Speaker 1: high honor. Josh Allen second team All Pro, Cole Beasley

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Speaker 1: second team All Pro, Tredavious White second Team All Pro,

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Speaker 1: Andre Roberts second Team All Pro as a return man.

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Speaker 1: So congrats to those guys on very strong individual seasons.

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Speaker 1: And we've heard it from many years here in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: when people feel like talented players on Buffalo's rosters have

479
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Speaker 1: been short changed. You win, you get more noted, you

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Speaker 1: win as a team, and then the individual accolades start

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Speaker 1: to pile up, and fortunately for the Bills, we are

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Speaker 1: seeing that this year. We have to take a break,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll continue that discussion on

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Speaker 1: the All Pro recognition that the Bills players have just received.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get into that, and we'll also get to

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Speaker 1: the latest edition of Tasker's Teammate. Don't miss it. We

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Speaker 1: got a goodie this week. Goodie this week, Steve. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna try to get you on this one Tasker's Teammate

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Speaker 1: coming up next year on One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Taskers. It's a fan

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Speaker 1: Mailbag edition to the show, as we do every Friday,

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Speaker 1: but we're jam packed with guests and fun segments like

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Speaker 1: this one Tasker's teammate. The latest edition coming your way

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Speaker 1: now and presented by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious Meals

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Speaker 1: Delivered download the Wegman's app. I got it today. I

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Speaker 1: gotta do better this week. You were in a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a run last week, but you eventually got

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Speaker 1: it last week, so that was good. This week, we'll see,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. So are you ready week? Are you ready

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Speaker 1: to Rob Rittick class? Rob Rittick was last week? Yes,

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Speaker 1: all right, are you ready? I'm ready? Okay, So clue

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Speaker 1: number one. My birthday is April sixth, just four days

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Speaker 1: before Steve's, and I was born in Boston, Massachusetts. This

505
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Speaker 1: is not a hotbed producer of NFL talent, so I

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Speaker 1: thought that might be bile the list down for you.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not so he's like four days older

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Speaker 1: than me, or it's just he didn't That has nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with it, right, I don't. No, No, he's not. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not all right. But his birthday's right around yours.

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Speaker 1: Thought it was worth mentioning, so I didn't know if

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Speaker 1: you celebrated birthdays together, perhaps in the locker room or

513
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Speaker 1: something like, well, you're not in the locker room in April,

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Speaker 1: but Jeff Burris, it is not. Jeff Burris, not a

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Speaker 1: bad guest. I was a fourth round draft choice, but

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Speaker 1: it was by another team in the AFC East, not

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Speaker 1: the Bills, so that could be. It could be the

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Speaker 1: Colts too, right, uh m hmm. Kind of a middle

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Speaker 1: round situation there, although I mean fourth round. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: always easy to remember the the top draft choices right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I always try to find guys like the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks we've had some ninth round draft choices. All right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I can't all right. Next clue, I

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Speaker 1: played my first seven seasons with the team that drafted

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Speaker 1: me before signing with Buffalo as a free agent. Billy Brooks,

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Speaker 1: You correct, Sea, Billy Brooks. Yea third clue, he gets it.

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Speaker 1: Well done, Billy. I think we have Billy on the

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Speaker 1: line here. That was fast. Yes, yes, you do. Good job. Steve,

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Speaker 1: hey man, how's it going. I'm doing well. How are

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Speaker 1: you doing? I'm doing good. Go ahead and show us

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Speaker 1: the logo you got the little horse shoe on you got? Yeah,

532
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: that is the best. Look at him running away? Wow.

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00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: See it all came to me. I figured I didn't

534
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: know if Brownie would do it, but I figured I

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Speaker 1: might have a game a game connected. You know that's right?

536
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, seven seasons with the Colts and then three

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Speaker 1: seasons here with the Bills before going to watch. How

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Speaker 1: are you doing, man? You're staying healthy during the pandemic

539
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: and all of that. I am doing well. The family

540
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: and I are staying healthy. We're all doing well. What

541
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Speaker 1: about yours? Everybody's great, everybody's great, worth great. Where we're becoming,

542
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: it's been so normal. Now we're starting to thrive inside

543
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Speaker 1: of it. So now we're it's been too long now,

544
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,959
Speaker 1: so you're still in karma. Before before I forget, my

545
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Speaker 1: wife wants to tell me to tell you and Sarah hello,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad. All right, you tell a recent and send

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Speaker 1: our best man you It's awesome. I will do that.

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Speaker 1: You are you still in Carmel, Bill, Yes, i am.

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Speaker 1: I'm still in Carmel, right outside of Indianapolis. So are

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Speaker 1: you working in there today? Are you working from home

551
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: or what? And what's the deal. I'm from home? I

552
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of the time. I'm working

553
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Speaker 1: from home unless I have to go into the studio,

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Speaker 1: which I do on pregame shows and postgame shows. Going studio,

555
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: then yeah, Colt's analysts, give us, give us a give

556
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Speaker 1: us a thumbnail. What's the vibe in Indianapolis with your team?

557
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: They gotta feel really, I mean, eleven win team and

558
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Speaker 1: then just to be the seventh seed with eleven wins us,

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty strange year for Indianapolis fans. But by

560
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Speaker 1: the same token, they're not foreign to the playoffs. No, no,

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Speaker 1: this this team has been in the playoffs before, and

562
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Speaker 1: of course been in the playoffs with Frank Right. Of

563
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Speaker 1: course everyone knows in Buffalo it's a head coach here

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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, so they're still as excited looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: M everyone's excited, especially during the last game, and everyone

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Speaker 1: wants to say thank you to the Buffalo Bills. Well, yeah,

567
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Speaker 1: a lot being Miami Duffins and getting us into the

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Speaker 1: playoffs for last week. So right now we're just looking

569
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Speaker 1: forward to playing Buffalo and going up there and uh

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Speaker 1: playing a good game for the younger Bills fans that

571
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Speaker 1: are not old enough to remember Bill. This guy came

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Speaker 1: in here with a pretty pretty big shoes to fill

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Speaker 1: because if you remember, James Lofton was out and the

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Speaker 1: main reason that the Bills came after Billy was to

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Speaker 1: replace Lofton in the lineup. It's like, hey, yeah, why

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Speaker 1: don't you come to Buffalo and replace James Lofton in

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Speaker 1: the lineup? I mean, I mean he was an accomplished

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Speaker 1: you were accomplished receiver in your own right, Billy. But man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, like that's a tough one to have to come.

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Speaker 1: Would you remember him coming in the door and what

581
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Speaker 1: that was like? I had known we played against him.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, somebody, somebody's talking over as Jake, can you

583
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Speaker 1: fix that? Yeah, okay, turn him down. Turn that down here,

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Speaker 1: Sorry about that, Billy. But yeah, Billy came in. And

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Speaker 1: the great part about it was a little bit like

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Speaker 1: Steph Diggs this year, Billy comes in and for those

587
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Speaker 1: of you don't know, Billy's just one of the all

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Speaker 1: time great guys. So he fit in right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was just so nice to have him walk into

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Speaker 1: the room and h and be the kind of guy

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Speaker 1: he was. He was a fun guy to play with.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the ninety five season was playing with Billy,

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Speaker 1: and I'll say I don't I haven't said. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I've said ever told I've said some people privately.

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Speaker 1: Ninety five was probably the most fun year I ever

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Speaker 1: had individually. And Billy was a big reason why I

597
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to play, right, I mean, I wasn't supposed

598
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Speaker 1: to play receiver, and I was a special teams guy. Well,

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Speaker 1: and you know, Andre went down or whatever in Laton

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Speaker 1: and I got to play and Billy was there. So

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Speaker 1: Billy and I were on the field of Ton went

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Speaker 1: the playoffs together. Yes, as the wide receivers. Yes, we

603
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: played a lot and that you know, that's one of

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Speaker 1: the things that surprised me a lot. Um. People always

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Speaker 1: know Steve task for playing special teams and doing an

606
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Speaker 1: excellent job on special teams, which he always did, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think people really appreciated Steve's talent as a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver because Steve, especially on let's say, for the

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Speaker 1: bump and run, no one in practice to get a

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Speaker 1: hand on Steve and bumping run. Steve was so good

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Speaker 1: at getting off the line of scrimmage. And I was

612
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Speaker 1: always amazed why he didn't play more of wide receiver.

613
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Speaker 1: I know why. I mean Marvin and Bruce the Haven

614
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Speaker 1: they wanted him to play special teams, but when he

615
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Speaker 1: did get an opportunity to play a wide receiver, he

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Speaker 1: excelled that. I'm not mistaken. I think Steve in that

617
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Speaker 1: playoff game and against Miami and ninety five, I think

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Speaker 1: if we had over one hundred yards receiving, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah down that game, Yeah, yeah, I had

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. And it was Don Shooler's last game. The

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Speaker 1: way it's the way I remember it, right because because

622
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Speaker 1: it was kind of a historic moment, right the Winnings

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Speaker 1: coach of all time. It was that was his last

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Speaker 1: game and we beat them after playing him. I don't

625
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: know a couple of weeks before as well, but um,

626
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: it was just so one because Billy and I kind

627
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Speaker 1: of had the same vibe about the team. You know,

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Speaker 1: he was brand new and I, you know, I didn't

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Speaker 1: play much. Andre went down hit since the year he

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Speaker 1: pulled his tore his hammy off the sam it's early.

631
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Speaker 1: So he's you and me, and I think it was

632
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Speaker 1: like Russell Copeland maybe was with us, and yeah, so

633
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: we had some guys, but we were and I was old.

634
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: Jim was old, you know, I mean right, so you

635
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Speaker 1: know it was fun. It was just it was just

636
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: so fun to be a part of it. So that

637
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: was probably your big playoff moment for for Bill. I

638
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: mean he could tell me if I'm wrong here, But

639
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: you guys had to play the Raiders in the divisional round.

640
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: I think your last trip to the super Bowl, and

641
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: that's when Billy had a big game, two touchdown game

642
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: twenty nine twenty three, you guys beat the Raiders in

643
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: the divisional playoff round. What do you remember about that game, Billy? Um,

644
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: I remember it was cold. I remember that the Raiders

645
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: were coming in. If I'm not mistaken, I think that year.

646
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: I think we lost to the Raiders earlier that year,

647
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, and then we played them in

648
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: the playoffs and then it was fun. I remember it

649
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: being cold and just having go out there and play.

650
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: And I know everyone on the Bills always told me

651
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: it's always fun to play in the cold. We have

652
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,240
Speaker 1: an advantage playing here in the cold when it's definitely

653
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: snows up here, and uh, it was. It was a

654
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: fun time being a part of that team and the playoffs,

655
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: and um, that was my second time in the playoffs

656
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: in my career. So it was fun. It was exciting,

657
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 1: and then to come out as a as a victor

658
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: was even special. And let's not forget Bill still has

659
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: a Bill single season record touchdowns, still has it eleven touchdowns.

660
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, you might have got a

661
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: little nervous, but the way they were throwing the ball

662
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: around this year, but but just still got it. Yeah, yeah,

663
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: that was It was so fun though, And one of

664
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: them the reason it was fun was because the guy

665
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: Billy is. I'm it's great to see you, man. We

666
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: had a chance to touch base when we were at

667
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: the show. We came down to the combine in eighteen

668
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: when they drafted Josh Allen. We were at the combine

669
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 1: and they had the the NFLPA had a big suite

670
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: up and we were up there with a bunch of

671
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: old other old guys and uh, that's the first time

672
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: you and I had seen each other for a long

673
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: long time. And uh, as you can see, Billy's another

674
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: one of these guys. He looks like he could sell

675
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: soap man. He's he's like a male model. He looks great. Right,

676
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, I'm like I'm like, I hurt and

677
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: I look, I'm all get crepit. You look fantastic. No,

678
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 1: that's only because you can see from the neck up right.

679
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: He would see me walk or you see me get

680
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: up out of this chair. In a couple of minutes.

681
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: You know that I'm right back and I'm stiff in

682
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: the hips, and uh yeah, it doesn't feel good all

683
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: the time. Same with me saying with Billy man, it's

684
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: awesome to see you man, Thanks for coming on with us.

685
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: I appreciate it as great to see you guys. Are

686
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: doing the game from Are you doing the Are you

687
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 1: doing the game from Lucas Oil this weekend? No, I'll

688
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: be the pregame show we do we do from a

689
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 1: studio downtown, okay, and then after the game, I watched

690
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: the game, and then after the game I'll go back

691
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: down to the studio to the post game from the studio. Okay. Again,

692
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: no traveling or anything like that, right, No, no, not.

693
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: With all the pandemic and all the protocols and things

694
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,760
Speaker 1: going on with the National Football League, the less people

695
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: that are around, the better off it is. Yeah, all right, man,

696
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: great seeing you. Thanks for participating in tasks. Team mate

697
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: O thank you. I appreciate it. And take care of

698
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: Steve all the best man. Thanks. It was good to

699
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: see Billy Brooks, Uh. I was. That was probably my

700
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 1: first year, first or second year in the locker room

701
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: covering this team, and I remember he came and he

702
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: lit it up in his last year here in Buffalo

703
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: in ninety six. He had the eleven touchdown season that year.

704
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 1: I really helped carry you guys on the offensive side.

705
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: I was because it was him. I think that was

706
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: Queen Earlis first year in ninety six. Yeah, if I remember, right, Um,

707
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: your second to last season, Um with the team, and

708
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: I just I just they couldn't stop brooked. Every week

709
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: almost every weekend a touchdown. It was crazy we had

710
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: and it was And like I said, when I think

711
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: about Billy, I think about how fun it was to

712
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: have him on the team and play with him. It was.

713
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: It was so Great's great teammate, great guy, a lot

714
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: of fun, just a sweetheart of a dude. And Um

715
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: and the other clue. I didn't get to first Colts

716
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: player to go into their Ring of honor in Indianapolis.

717
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: Obviously they have a history in Baltimore, but in Indianapolis,

718
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: first Colts player to go into the Ring of Honor

719
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: there because he really started his career shortly after the

720
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: Colts had moved, so right for the Indianapolis fans, he's

721
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: one of the first really good Colts players. He belongs

722
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, tremendous guy and good for him.

723
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: Still still with the organization doing work for him, just

724
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: like like me, you know, just hanging in there. You go,

725
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: break time for us, break time for us. But when

726
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: we return, we will be talking to Andy Major, Bill's

727
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: vice president of Game Day and Guest Experience, and so

728
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: he'll be kind of giving us the four one one

729
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: for those of you who are going to the stadium

730
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: tomorrow with your mobile ticket and your test results will

731
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: kind of go all over all the details you need

732
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: to know about how to get in, and then once

733
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: you're in, the protocols you need to follow. We want

734
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: to get this right this time so we can have

735
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: fans again assuming and predicting as we all are, that

736
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: the Bills will win here in the wild card round

737
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: to advance to the divisional round. Andy Major up next

738
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: year on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

739
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you

740
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: on a fan Friday edition of one Bills Live. The

741
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: fan mail bag is and drop your questions in there,

742
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: Steve and I'll get to them as best we can.

743
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: We have a jam pack show today because coming up

744
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: next is the vice president of Operations and Guest Experience

745
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: for the Bills one, Andy Major, joining us. We had

746
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: John last week. Andy, thanks for coming back on to

747
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: kind of tie everything up in a bow for the

748
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: fans that are going to be out at the stadium tomorrow.

749
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: How you doing doing great guys, great day. Excited for

750
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: tomorrow for sure? Are you at the stadium or are

751
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: you in a Is that a virtual background? Come to him?

752
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: Is that your office? I am at the stadium and yes, bground,

753
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: I want that background now. I will say this Andy, Um,

754
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: kudos to a bioreference and you guys for setting up

755
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: the drive through because obviously us being at the game

756
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: on Saturday, we had to get tested as well. I mean,

757
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a well oiled machine. UM.

758
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: Rave reviews from people that had to get tested, they

759
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: said they didn't spend more than thirty seconds to a

760
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: minute in the drive through. Bay to get the nasal swabs.

761
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: So thirty bays looks like it more than covered the

762
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: traffic flow that you guys had even at the heaviest times.

763
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:18,399
Speaker 1: Am I right on that? Yeah? You are. I mean,

764
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: we originally had twenty bays set up for the whole operation,

765
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: and we were confident that twenty was going to be enough.

766
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: And then you know, our owner Terry was gracious enough

767
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: to say, you know what, let's give them another ten lanes.

768
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: You know, I'll take care of this, and we want

769
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: to make sure the fans aren't waiting long at all.

770
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: So we did the extra ten lanes, and you're right,

771
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: Steve and Chris, guys, if you came through there, you

772
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 1: know you saw it. I mean, from an operations guy,

773
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, you love to see those kinds of plans

774
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: come to fruition and to work out well. So we

775
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: were really happy about it. And what feedback have you

776
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,040
Speaker 1: gotten from fans about about everything? About how they have

777
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: been you know the problem I mean, because nobody's done

778
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: this before, right, I mean, nobody's had to go through

779
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: jump through these hoops before at fans. No, no team

780
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 1: has had to do this before either, even the teams

781
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: that are letting team fans in. They're not doing the testing,

782
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: and they're not doing the track tracer, they're not doing

783
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: any of this stuff that New York States making the

784
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: bills do. So how what kind of feedback have you

785
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: gotten from the fans so far about how it's gone. Yeah,

786
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: you guys, I mean this is unprecedented, right, you just

787
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: hit it on the head there. No one's doing what

788
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 1: we're doing. Um, We've worked so close with the Department

789
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: of Health at New York State and the Governor's office

790
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: Erie County, you know, our own internal team, the NFL, etc.

791
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: And Uh, this is a heck of an operation. Um.

792
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: The great great thing is, you know, the fans have

793
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: been great. They listened to everybody, they scheduled themselves accordingly,

794
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: they were all preregistered. They made it easy on themselves.

795
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: So when they did show up, you know, you're right,

796
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,720
Speaker 1: it was a pretty quick, seamless process for them too.

797
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: You know, we got the horns honk and after they

798
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: went through, you know, the arms throwing out the window, waving,

799
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: and you know, the fans are excited. I mean it's

800
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: a little inconvenience for sure, and we know that, and

801
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: we just thank the fans so much for putting themselves

802
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: through this process and making it easy for themselves, and

803
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: we hope that they'll do the same tomorrow, you know,

804
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: on game day, because there's some added you know measures

805
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: that we're taking tomorrow as well that are a little

806
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: bit inconvenient, not so much the fans are used to,

807
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: but we have full confidence the fans are going to

808
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: do a great job and compliance with everything tomorrow too,

809
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: all right, So let's run through that real quick, Andy,

810
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: So because at this point, just about every fan that's

811
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: going to the game has received an email, you know,

812
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: giving them their their test hopefully their negative. So assuming

813
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: the fans that got their test results back are negative,

814
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: now they're going to need that test result with them

815
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: when they try to enter the stadium. Correct, Yes, that's why, Chris.

816
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: We asked the fans to you know, get a get

817
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: um that negative test result either on their phone or

818
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: on a printed PDF that they can bring to the

819
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: to the gate at their scheduled gate arrival time, and

820
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: we will check their ID, check their negative test result,

821
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: and they'll go right through the regular screening process for

822
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: metal detection screening and then also through for their ticket check.

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00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 1: What time or what process do you have for getting

824
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: the final emails for the barcodes and all of that. Yeah,

825
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: Win canell that. Win's that stuff going to be sent

826
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: out electronically. Yeah, many fans have already received all of

827
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: that information. The bulk and the rest of it will

828
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: be out today. It'll have their you know, parking permit information.

829
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: You know, the parking lots will open at ten thirty.

830
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: The early gates will open at eleven, and then the

831
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: time to gate entry begins at eleven thirty, so the

832
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: fans have enough time to really be prepared to get

833
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 1: their paperwork in order, their phone, their ticket, their negative

834
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: test result in order. So literally they just walked to

835
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: the gate at their time and they'll walk right in.

836
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: So all that stuff is happening today behind the scenes.

837
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: I do know that there were some people hitting us

838
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 1: up on Twitter. Andy, if you did not receive your

839
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: test result email yet, you call Bioreference, right like with

840
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: the account that you set up, there should be a

841
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: phone number at the bottom. You call them if you

842
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: haven't gotten your test results yet. Yes, that's correct, absolutely,

843
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: you know there might be some fans. You know, it's

844
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: twelve forty five, almost one o'clock today. You know testing

845
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: went on all day yesterday throughout the day until the

846
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: early evening, so some fans will still be getting their

847
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: test results normally today because it's a twenty four hour

848
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Speaker 1: window with bioreference. So but yes, if they have any questions,

849
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: if they tested a couple of days ago, for instance,

850
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: then they should contact bioreference. Yeah. The one number that

851
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 1: I did find on there for bioreference was one eight

852
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: eight eight two seven nine zero nine six seven. That's

853
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: for the test results. If you're if you didn't get

854
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: your email that you were expecting and you're more than

855
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, sometimes they lag a little. Who knows.

856
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 1: I mean they're dealing with right, and then I just

857
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: dealing with the bills. They're dealing with the entire NFL.

858
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: They got a lot of tests to turn around. But

859
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: that's the number to call if you didn't get your

860
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: test result back in twenty four hours for some reason.

861
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: What can they expect about scheduling now they get a time?

862
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: How's this just explained to me? If just for how

863
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: does it work with a scheduled entry? Do you just

864
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: like you wait until a certain time then approach the

865
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: gate or you're gonna kind of get a slow trickle

866
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: of fans into the stadium at all these gates. Yeah,

867
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, Steve, it's you know, it's it's not

868
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: rocket science here. You know, this is stuff that has

869
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: been very successful across the NFL, with even a lot

870
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: more fans coming to other stadiums and other games. So yes,

871
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 1: when fans show up, you know, there's a designated number

872
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: of fans that we have kind of calculated for each

873
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: line at each gate, and our staff will do their

874
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: best to spread everybody out amongst those lines. All the

875
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: lines are socially distant. We've skipped every other line with

876
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: our magnetometers and our walkthrough process, and the fans will

877
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 1: have it on their ticket. If it says their schedule

878
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: is from eleven fifty am to twelve noon, they should

879
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 1: show up, you know, basically right at eleven fifty eleven

880
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: forty nine, eleven fifty one, and they'll they'll have the

881
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: verification of their tests, and then they'll have their screening

882
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: and then their ticket. That process will be very smooth.

883
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: Everybody's already used to the gate entry process, so the

884
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: only real added step is the verification of the negative

885
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: test result. The one thing that I think fans should

886
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: know though, is I think you have it up here

887
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: on your screen, guys, the no bags policy. So this

888
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: is a little bit new. You know, we are not

889
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:15,439
Speaker 1: allowing bags like we have in the year's past, So

890
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: that is something that we're trying to make sure fans

891
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: know and they don't get turned around at the gate

892
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: and have to bring the bag back to their car.

893
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 1: So we appreciate the fans kind of you know, knowing

894
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: about this one, you guys getting that word out for us,

895
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: and and thank you to the fans for adhering to

896
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: that one too. And the other one that's big is

897
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: all the concession stands will be cashless, so breake sure

898
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: you have your credit card because they want to reduce

899
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 1: touch points as much as possible. And then another question

900
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: here Andy, that I that I'm getting from one of

901
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: our callers. I don't know if we have time to

902
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: go to our caller now, but they want there. Okay,

903
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: So well, let let me bring up IZZI here in

904
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: West Seneca. A question about signage. Izzie, what do you

905
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on with Andy Major? How are

906
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: you doing? I would like to know if we could

907
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: bring in signs. I just got a Steve Tasker sign like, oh, okay,

908
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you can bring that in right. What

909
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: about what about signage, Andy? Yeah, I mean our normal

910
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 1: signage rules still are in effect, so as long as

911
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:20,919
Speaker 1: they're not you know, obnoxious and have vulgar language things

912
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: like that, we fully support the Steve Tasker signs, so

913
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: those are also approved. That's what I'm talking about. That

914
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: took a lot of work behind the scenes to get

915
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: that done. But now, is he, Hey, great call. We

916
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: really appreciate that. We're still supporting our fans and our

917
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: staff and our team. So if you have signed supporting

918
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,439
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and the players and the guys and our defense, etc.

919
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: You know, those will be fine. There's information on our

920
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: website about all those policies, so just encourage fans to

921
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: check out Buffalo Bills dot com or no before you

922
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: go web page that has a lot of the new

923
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: information for tomorrow. But really appreciate that call, is He?

924
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 1: Thanks for checking it. And I guess the last thing

925
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: to remind everybody Andy, is this is kind of the

926
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: litmus test game for the Bills. So, you know, assuming

927
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: we win this game on Saturday, the divisional round, you know,

928
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: if all goes well Saturday, there's a very good chance

929
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: that the team will be rewarded with the opportunity to

930
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: do this again. But everybody's going to kind of do

931
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: their part tomorrow, right, I mean absolutely. We implore our

932
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: fans as great a job as they did with the testing,

933
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 1: and we know how loyal and passionate they are. We

934
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: know what they did when you know, Josh Allen's grandmother

935
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: passed away, what they did when we made the playoffs

936
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,240
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, on the miraculous final minutes

937
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: of the playoff game with Cincinnati and the Ravens. We

938
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: fully expect our fans to be great. We've got a great,

939
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: great team here that's put a great safe plan together

940
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 1: and again working so close the Department of Health, they're

941
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: gonna have their their team here on site reviewing our operation,

942
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: making sure our fans are compliant, and we're gonna be

943
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. So thank you in advance to

944
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: our fans. We know you're gonna wear your mask, be

945
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: socially distant, and do your part to make sure we

946
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: can possibly have that game the next week as well. Andy,

947
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: good luck, man, It's all I can say. Good luck tomorrow. Yeah,

948
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: lots going on, you know, a lot of partners to thank,

949
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: you know, without getting too long winded. Visa was a

950
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: big partner with the cash list technology all seasons, was

951
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: a huge partner with the tent set up out there

952
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: for testing, and many others. So, you know, just want

953
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: to give them a quick plug of appreciation because their

954
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: staff was heavily involved with our business development team to

955
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: help behind the scenes. You know as well. This is

956
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: a full team, collaborative effort and we're one buffalo tomorrow

957
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: and go Bills, right, and good job you and your crew. Andy.

958
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: We know that it's been a heavy lift for you guys,

959
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: so good on you for making it possible. Thanks guys,

960
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: Thanks Bills, Bofia. We'll see you tomorrow. All right. That's

961
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: Andy Major, vice president of Operations and Guests Experience for

962
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: the Bills. Heavy lift for that crew, but it looks

963
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: like it's going to come to fruition, So good on them.

964
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: And as Andy said, good on all the partners for

965
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: their assistance in getting the testing and everything else accomplished.

966
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: Now it's on you, the fans, to kind of make

967
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: things happen. They're gonna have state officials they're watching to

968
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: make sure that people are doing the right thing. So

969
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: please when you get to the game, do the right

970
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: thing so they can do it again next week when

971
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: the Bills beat the Colts in they advanced to the

972
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: divisional round. Next week break time for us, But when

973
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll get to some of your phone call,

974
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: some of your questions, and the OBL fanmail bag and

975
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: Greg Cosel coming up in a little bit as well

976
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 1: from NFL film. Stay tuned to One Bills Live presented

977
00:51:49,719 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve

978
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: tester who has been all over the field. Kind of unique.

979
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,280
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for Steve.

980
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the straded beard

981
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: of normalcy. Here our number two of an OBIL fan

982
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: mail bag. Fan Friday edition of One Bill's Live. As

983
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 1: we are twenty four hours from kickoff Bills Cols wild

984
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: card matchup Shiver, kicking off the entire idiot Sadien twenty

985
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: four hours there. Steve ain't sleeping tonight. There's no way

986
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: he's sleeping. Listen, we gotta he wound so tight this be.

987
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break, a break quicker and

988
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: than usual. We usually go to the bottom of the the

989
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: how we're gonna take breaker because Greg co Sells, come on,

990
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna tell us about this matchup. But we gotta

991
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 1: we gotta go into and we just had any major

992
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: on which was great. Uh, those guys, it's unbelievable. Most

993
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: of us, and I've been in this for a long time,

994
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: you have no idea what they gotta do to get

995
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: this thing. This is mountains unbelievable. How many people here

996
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: in this building have just been just breaking rocks with

997
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: a hammer trying to get this thing to I mean,

998
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: I mean blindfolded. I mean, it's unbelievable how tough it's been.

999
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: They've been at it for months trying to get it

1000
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: to happen. So it is going to happen finally. And

1001
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 1: so now also we got a handful of Buffalo Bills,

1002
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: not the least of which is their quarterback who are

1003
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: now been named second team All Pro, plus their wide

1004
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: receiver Steph Diggs, who is first team All Pro, which

1005
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: is huge. I think today Josh Allen finished in a

1006
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: tie with Pat Mahomes, right behind Aaron Rodgers for second team.

1007
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 1: For he was first team All for First Team All Pro.

1008
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: He's gonna tie with with Mahomes with second Team All Pro.

1009
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: Those two guys bat Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes and your

1010
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: own Josh Allen. That is light years from where we

1011
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: were in June and jo Just to provide the rundown,

1012
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs named First Team All Pro had never been

1013
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: to a Pro Bowl prior to this season when he

1014
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,439
Speaker 1: got named to a Pro Bowl. Now he's first Team

1015
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: All Pro on top of that, which many people, at

1016
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: least in the media, consider a more distinguished honor. It's

1017
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: harder to make All Pro than it is to make

1018
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, So good on him for that. And

1019
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: then here are the players, the four players for the

1020
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: Bills who made second Team All Pro, Josh Allen, Cole Beasley,

1021
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: Tredavious White, and Andre Roberts. So some hefty congratulations to

1022
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: go out to those guys for putting together the seasons

1023
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: they did to earn that recognition. And obviously with the

1024
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: team going thirteen and three, your profile becomes higher and

1025
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: you get more consideration because well, there had to be

1026
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: some guys that helped make that team thirteen and three,

1027
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: and it's a collective effort and we know, you know,

1028
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: football is the ultimate team sport, but but good to

1029
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:11,919
Speaker 1: see some recommendation for Harold from fourteen and two. They're

1030
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 1: they're really good. And and I heard Micah Hyde say

1031
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,320
Speaker 1: this during the week leading up to this about how

1032
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 1: that loss to Arizona affected them, and he said, you know,

1033
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 1: it's crazy to say it, but I'm really glad that happened.

1034
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anybody who can who've been listening

1035
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: closely to the team can't go back and say things

1036
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: changed after that Arizona loss for this team there and

1037
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: if you if you think it's certainly the coaches had

1038
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: a hand in it. But something in the psych of

1039
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 1: all of these players, particularly the top players on this team,

1040
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 1: the ones who say how it's going to be. They

1041
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: started beating teams double digits and not looking back. There

1042
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: was no let's run out the clock. There was no

1043
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 1: let's take it easy. There was no all right, we're

1044
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: gonna run the ball here instead of throw it because

1045
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: you know, we'd rather have no And the Dolphins saw

1046
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: that firsthand in week seventeen. Even with the Bill's backup players,

1047
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: this is a team that is absolutely hell bent on

1048
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: scoring as many points they can and taken it out

1049
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: of the reach of their opponent every game. And and

1050
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: just for perspective, Stefan Diggs is the first wide receiver

1051
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: in Bill's history history be named First Team All Pro,

1052
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: so big congrats to him. Phones open for a little

1053
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,280
Speaker 1: bit here as we have a little bit of time

1054
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: and we are going to get into the obl fan

1055
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: mail bag at One Bills Live on Twitter. But we've

1056
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: got Dave and Rochester waiting patiently. Dave, what do you

1057
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on One Bills Live. Gay, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Sure I got a question

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00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: for Steve, and I'm sure he'll know the answer to us.

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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk, of course, about Frank

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00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: Reich coming back to Buffalo, and we're all excited about

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00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: the accrete memories of Frank during his time in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: But of course he's not the only member of the

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Speaker 1: Cults staff who's returning to Buffalo. I'm wondering if Steve

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Speaker 1: knows who the other guy is coming back with the

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Speaker 1: Colts this weekend, who was a key member of our

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Speaker 1: championship runs back in the nineties when you were playing Steve,

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Speaker 1: I will say Rusty Jones my old college roommate, Rusty Jones. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what a key guy. He was in your run he

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Speaker 1: Rusty Jones. You and you're right, Dave. Rusty was in

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Speaker 1: the program as a coach. He We used to laugh

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Speaker 1: at Rusty and say, you're not. He wasn't a coach.

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Speaker 1: He was a scientist and we were the white rats,

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00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: you know, I mean we were. We were the experimental

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00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: guinea pigs in his experiment he used to do. He

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Speaker 1: spend his life and another Buffalo guy from back in

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Speaker 1: the day when the Sabers were playing well as Doug McKenney,

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Speaker 1: who is Rusty's assistant. Doug McKenney, former heading strength and

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00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: conditioning coach of the Sabers, is also on that staff,

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Speaker 1: but he's the director of Sports performing for the Colts now.

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Speaker 1: So Rusty was way out, far and away ahead of

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Speaker 1: the curve in what was important for a professional football

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00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: player to be his best physically, how to test it

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00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: and how to quantify it so a player can say, oh,

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00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: I got it, I got to do this much, or

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00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: I've got to change myself this much. It was the

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Speaker 1: first time in my life during those years when Rusty started,

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Speaker 1: when Marv kind of gave Rusty the free, you know,

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Speaker 1: the freedom to do this. It was the first time

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Speaker 1: in my life as a pro where I saw guys

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Speaker 1: come into our locker room as young rookie players, either

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00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: college free agents or draft picks, and over the course

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00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 1: of one year or an offseason transform themselves. Unbelievable ability

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00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: to get players to see why, how and and be

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00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: motivated to do a transformational process and a change of

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Speaker 1: I remember walking. I can't even I'm saying this. I

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00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: can't remember the running back's name. I came in one

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00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:06,439
Speaker 1: day and there's this guy sitting on the stool next

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Speaker 1: to my locker and he looked, you know, kind of familiar.

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Speaker 1: And I looked at him, and I looked away, and

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00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: I looked back at him and I was I was like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I hadn't seen him for like five months.

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Speaker 1: He came back and he looked like a different guy.

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Speaker 1: And that's the kind of coaching that makes guys lives,

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Speaker 1: not forget their career, changes them. Ruben Brown, who went

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00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: on to play for Chicago after he was done here,

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Speaker 1: I think he's the one that told me this story

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00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: because Rusty had gone on as well with him, so

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Speaker 1: Ruben tells this story about Brian Rlocker. Brian Rlocker, in

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Speaker 1: the early part of his career, had chronic hamstring injuries,

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00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: would pull his hamstrings, kind of like Matt Milano. He

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Speaker 1: would pull his hamstrings at least two three times a year,

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00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: and his four or five games this season and could

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Speaker 1: not get a six put a sixteen game season together.

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Speaker 1: He sits down with Rusty and Rusty tells him, he goes,

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Speaker 1: if you do what I tell you, you will never

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Speaker 1: pull a hamstring muscle again. And the next three seasons

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Speaker 1: he played all sixteen games and he's no hamstring proba.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. So the Bears, Rusty's coaching with

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Speaker 1: Lovey Smith, Rubin and those guys, and Lovey Smith gets

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl, which may be

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Speaker 1: the greatest coaching job of all time because Rex Grossman.

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Speaker 1: They get to the Super Bowl and they play Peyton Manning.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean you're not gonna good

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Speaker 1: luck there. Yeah, you're not gonna meet you know, the

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Speaker 1: seventy five Sheriff. You're not gonna meet the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: five Buccaneers going over in twenty six. But you know

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Speaker 1: you're gonna meet a good team, but they meet the sheriff.

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Speaker 1: So the Bears get beat and there's big hoopla. And

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Speaker 1: I'm the sideline reporter for the Super Bowl for CBS,

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01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: and I'm walking across and you know, it's it's just

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Speaker 1: a it's just a madhouse, you know, you can imagine.

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Speaker 1: And I'm walking through there and I'm and I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of doing my job with CBS. I'm kind of done

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Speaker 1: with it. I'm trying to find my way around, and

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01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it parts and I'm standing right

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Speaker 1: in front of Rusty and he standing in front of him.

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Speaker 1: He we just kind of like oh, and we didn't

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Speaker 1: say a word. We just like I just gave he

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01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: gave each other a great big hug because he's lost

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01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: another super Bowl after losing four with me. I just

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01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 1: gave him a big hug. And that was it. We

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01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: just we let each other go. And it was kind

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01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: of like, I know that you know, and you know

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Speaker 1: that I know. Let's just hug here and make it

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01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better. Can you talk about a

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01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: guy who's a world champion at what he does? Rusty's

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Speaker 1: it and and then to go into that game and

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01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: lose go oh and five in the Super Bowl. It's

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01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: it's stinks and I and I it's I felt bad

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01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: for him and it was It's just one of those

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01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: moments I'll never forget. Let's go to the o b

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Speaker 1: L Friday fan mail bag, as you guys are free

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01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: to ask us any questions that might be on your

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01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: mind about the bills, the roster, the coaching staff, the

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01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 1: league at large, whatever it might be. Joe has a

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01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 1: question for Steve. He says, Steve, you've played one pm,

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Speaker 1: four PM, and primetime games. I always wanted to know,

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Speaker 1: did players get themselves over hyped having to wait longer

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Speaker 1: to have to wait and play? And did you prefer

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Speaker 1: one pm starts over any of the other times. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I like the routine of it, only because if it

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Speaker 1: would have been a routine night thing game, if we'd

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Speaker 1: had played every single game at eight, I probably would

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01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 1: have liked that as well. But the routine is what

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Speaker 1: I like about it most. And plus the reason I

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Speaker 1: liked it I like today. I mean, we're laughing about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean I had a hard time sleep in the

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Speaker 1: night before game. You wake up early, you want to

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01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: you know, want to play it's game day, let's go.

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Speaker 1: And so not having to wait till four or not

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Speaker 1: having to wait till eight o'clock that night was a

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Speaker 1: huge plus. Now, I will say this, I did have

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Speaker 1: the ability on a night game, if it was a

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Speaker 1: Monday night game or Sunday night game, you could I

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Speaker 1: could find myself taking a nap in the afternoon, right,

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01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: so I could get some extra rest. I know there

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Speaker 1: are some guys that, hey, waiting all day to go

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Speaker 1: play it's hard. And the hardest one of all is

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Yeah, it's got that six twenty and

1181
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: you that. I mean, I'd rather get hit with sticks.

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01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:19,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just horrible waiting for a super Bowl

1183
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 1: to kick off. It's because it's it's the ultimate game.

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01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: It's the pinnacle of your career, absolutely, and it's and

1185
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 1: everybody's in town the ever the entire galaxy is focused on.

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01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: You feel like it, and and it's an odd time.

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01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 1: You're nothing feels normal, even the you get to the game,

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01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: and it's like the the pre game is elongated. You

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Speaker 1: have to get off the field early so they can

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Speaker 1: do all the pregame pomp and circumstance. So you're in

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Speaker 1: the locker room a little bit longer, feels funky to

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Speaker 1: be in there that long. Then you go out. It

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01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: takes forever to get to the game. Finally the game

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Speaker 1: kicks off, you get to halftime, and the halftime last

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Speaker 1: for like it's longer days. I mean, you're in there.

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Speaker 1: It's like you gotta happen. Usually, literally it's a fire drill.

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Speaker 1: During the regular season, it's twelve minutes. And on a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl day, you literally you gotta have a meal

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Speaker 1: during halftime. You gotta eat because if and that's a

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Speaker 1: Rusty Jones thing, if you don't eat, you eat four

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Speaker 1: hours before the game, which is at four thirty or no,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, two thirty. Yeah, you don't eat until the game.

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01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: So the game on the elongated pre game, you gotta

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Speaker 1: get there earlier, so you gotta eat earlier than that.

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Speaker 1: That's right. You gotta eat like one thirty for a

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Speaker 1: six or forty game, getting all the pre then you

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Speaker 1: get to the halftime by the time you get to

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of a super Bowl game or ten hours.

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Speaker 1: So you gotta eat during the game so you don't

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Speaker 1: run out of your car bload. And it's so yeah,

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Speaker 1: I one o'clock is the thing. Yeah, let's give me

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Speaker 1: one o'clock game from Rachel. If you're the Colds defensive coordinator,

1213
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: what's your strategy to slow down this Bill's passing game?

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Speaker 1: You play complimentary football? I want when you watch the

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Speaker 1: Colts play their games. They are an incredibly balanced football team,

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Speaker 1: and I mean balanced run pass, balanced with two different

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Speaker 1: guys running it. The type of runs they have they're passing.

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Speaker 1: They spread it to everybody. They throw it down the field,

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Speaker 1: they throw it intermediately, they throw a screen passes, they

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Speaker 1: throw a short quick, they throw play action. They run

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Speaker 1: every concept and themed play in the book that you

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Speaker 1: gotta and they'll run it all the time. So they

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Speaker 1: stay on the field. They're hard to get off the field.

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Speaker 1: Although they don't confert too many third downs, their run

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Speaker 1: game as a factor. So for them to beat the Bills,

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Speaker 1: I would expect them to hope that Philip rivers and

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Speaker 1: that offense is on the field for forty minutes of

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Speaker 1: sixty minute game time. Yeah, that's their plan. And when

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Speaker 1: the Bills have the ball, and I'll say this on

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Speaker 1: the broadcast to mar so you're gonna hear it twice

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Speaker 1: if you're listening I would imagine the Colts would almost

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Speaker 1: bait the Bills. Dare the Bills to run the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they'll they'll have like one defensive lineman on the field.

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Speaker 1: I mean they'll back way off. They'll have four guys down.

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Speaker 1: Everybody'll be back way off. I don't know if he

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Speaker 1: can do that though, because Josh, you'll just run it right.

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Speaker 1: But even so, they'll they'll get the Bills to check

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Speaker 1: to their run game and hope they can stop the

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Speaker 1: run and get the Bills off the field that way,

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Speaker 1: or even if they don't, it'll take the Bills so

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01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:33,919
Speaker 1: long to score. It won't be one of those three

1242
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: play seventy five yard drives, touchdown and knitch your ball again?

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01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? They'll want this game to

1244
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Speaker 1: shorten up, and they'll use offense and defense to do it.

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Speaker 1: Break time for us. But when we return, Greg ko

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01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 1: Sell from NFL Films will join us, making his weekly

1247
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: appearance here as he does every Friday, to break down

1248
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Speaker 1: the xs and oh's of this matchup between the Colts

1249
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Speaker 1: and the Bills. Stay with us here on One Bills Live,

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01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio quarterback

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Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris BROWNSI taster with you still

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01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 1: waiting to connect with Greg Cosell from NFL Films, who

1253
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Speaker 1: will be breaking down a lot of the playoff matchups

1254
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Speaker 1: on ESPN as well. This weekend. He's part of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Matchup Show with Sal Palantonio and Matt Bowen. It's

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Speaker 1: on three times Saturday, Yeah, thirty tonight am tonight, six

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Speaker 1: am tomorrow morning, and seven am tomorrow morning. Yes, so

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01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: you want to start your three game Bills fix early,

1259
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 1: get your DVR and go to ESPN and watch it

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Speaker 1: six in the morning. If you can't sleep, like Steve,

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Speaker 1: I might be up. Oh you'll be up. I might

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Speaker 1: be I'm not even debating that topic. You'll be away

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Speaker 1: seven am. I know I'll be up. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: quick phone call here, well we wait to connect with Greg.

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Speaker 1: We go to Nick in North Carolina and Nick, what

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: I was just calling into I wanted to talk to

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Speaker 1: you all about the keys to the game this week,

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Speaker 1: about being the Indianapolis Colts. All right, so first of all,

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Speaker 1: this is what we struggled with all years. You know,

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Speaker 1: New England could have not had done anything to us

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Speaker 1: if we were good. We gotta stop Johnson Taylor. You

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Speaker 1: know that he's been good all year and our run

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Speaker 1: defense has not been the best. So all we got

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Speaker 1: to stop Johnson Taylor. But he's a good running back,

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Speaker 1: so I mean, who knows. But and the second one

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Speaker 1: is that we can't turn the ball over. Turnovers are

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Speaker 1: gonna kill us if we turn the ball over, because

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Speaker 1: if you're playing against the veteran quarterback like Silip Rivers

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Speaker 1: and you turn the ball over, he's gonna he's gonna

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Speaker 1: pretty much put he's gonna punish you for that. And

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Speaker 1: we just can't turn the ball over. And the other thing,

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Speaker 1: as you saw Sunday night when we play Pittsburgh, Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen's got to start off fast. You know, he can't

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Speaker 1: start off flows turnovers, making bad throw you know, we

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Speaker 1: we got to start fast. But I think we can

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Speaker 1: still be Indianapolis. Um. I think they're really beautiful. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's all I needed to talk about. Thank you, all right,

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Speaker 1: thank you for calling Nick Will show out. Will's presented.

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Speaker 1: Good job, but you can call anytime. Uh yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he's not wrong. Fast start will help because the Colts

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Speaker 1: fast start start fast. As we mentioned, uh, second in

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Speaker 1: the league in first quarter points, so they can jump

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Speaker 1: on you early. I believe we have one great co

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Speaker 1: sale at this time from NFL Films joining us here

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01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 1: as he does every week to break down Colts and Bills,

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Speaker 1: as he'll undoubtedly be doing on the on the Matchup

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Speaker 1: show on ESPN. What's happening? You know, not too much,

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Speaker 1: you know, just getting ready for a wild card game

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Speaker 1: here at home for the first time. Yeah, for the

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Speaker 1: first time in twenty five years. You know, nothing new,

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Speaker 1: so uh yeah, just normal stuff. So Greg, we were

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Speaker 1: just talking about this earlier in our show here about

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Speaker 1: how the Colts do a pretty good job of getting

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Speaker 1: off to fast start. Sixty six of their one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seven first quarter points this season scored on their

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Speaker 1: opening possessions. Just your take on how you feel about

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich as an opening game play script. Well, it's

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01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 1: funny you ask that, because I think they've changed a

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Speaker 1: bit over the course of this season, Chris. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think that they've become much more focused on running

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Speaker 1: the football, and I think that you've seen them over

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Speaker 1: the last number of weeks. Start series with Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 1: having six or seven runs on the first series, and

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Speaker 1: they did not do that early in the season. Taylor

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Speaker 1: has sort of become a foundation runner for them over

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Speaker 1: the last six seven weeks, so they've actually changed their approach.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's something you have to be aware of.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a definite burden on the interior of

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Speaker 1: the Bill's defense in this game, particularly early on, because

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Speaker 1: that's the foundation and the basis of what they do

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Speaker 1: with the run game. In Indianapolis. It's a lot of

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Speaker 1: inside zone. Taylor's kind of a between the tackles runner.

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Speaker 1: He's very good at it. I mean, I loved him

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Speaker 1: coming out of Wisconsin. I thought he was the best

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Speaker 1: runner in the draft, so you know now, I think

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Speaker 1: he's gotten his sea legs, as it were. In the NFL.

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Speaker 1: He's a decisive, competitive downhill runner. He doesn't hesitate, he

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Speaker 1: sees it, he hits it. He does have some explosive

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Speaker 1: ability to take it to the house. I wouldn't say

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Speaker 1: he's loose hipped and shifty, but he can make second

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Speaker 1: and third level defenders miss. So I think it starts

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Speaker 1: more with him now than it did through the first

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Speaker 1: nine or ten weeks of the season, We've talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about how good their offensive line has been, particularly

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Speaker 1: guard to guard. Now they've you know, they've had to

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Speaker 1: replace both tackles in the last week or two, but

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Speaker 1: guard to guard, those guys are seemed to be from

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Speaker 1: this from where we're at in Buffalo, really good. And

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Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons they run it so well,

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01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: is because of the athleticism and the physicality down inside.

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Speaker 1: How have they been since they've since they've had to

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Speaker 1: switch out their tackles. Well, it's funny you say that, Steve,

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Speaker 1: because I thought for much of this season their old

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01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 1: line was not as good overall as it had been

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Speaker 1: a year ago. And you know, sometimes a good back then,

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01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: as you know, can really start to help your old

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Speaker 1: line get better. And I think as Taylor kind of

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Speaker 1: figured it out, I think their old line and their

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Speaker 1: entire run game has gotten better. So clearly, Quentin Nelson

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Speaker 1: at his best is a top guard in the league.

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01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: Kelly the center is a good player. You know, they've

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01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:37,240
Speaker 1: played other than left tackle, where I know, Constanzo's out

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Speaker 1: for the year, so he's not going to be the

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Speaker 1: left tackle. But other than that, their old line has

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Speaker 1: pretty much been the same group all season and even

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Speaker 1: going back to last season. So it's a group that

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Speaker 1: knows one another well, there's cohesion there. And and I

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Speaker 1: guess what, I'm very anxious to see, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you guys have spoken about this at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm very anxious to see the approach that Frank Wright takes.

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Speaker 1: Not a big believer, and it's just me. You know,

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Speaker 1: reasonable people can disagree. I'm not necessarily a big believer

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Speaker 1: in Oh, let's keep Josh Allen on the sideline. For

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Speaker 1: this reason, even if you try to do that, the

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Speaker 1: Bills will still get nine or ten possessions. And assuming

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Speaker 1: that everything goes as we've seen over the last ten weeks,

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Speaker 1: if the Bills score four touchdowns, let's say in those possessions,

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Speaker 1: you still have to score if you're Indianapolis. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I think you have to have a mix. You can't

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Speaker 1: just say let's run the ball and keep Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: in the Bills offense on the sideline. You have to

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Speaker 1: score and you have to score touchdowns for the Colts offense.

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Speaker 1: Greg interesting that more than a quarter of the time

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Speaker 1: they're in two and three tight end sets, twenty seven

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Speaker 1: percent of the time, they're in twelve or thirteen personnel,

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Speaker 1: and they use their screen game a great deal, and

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Speaker 1: the tight ends are a part of that as well.

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Speaker 1: So what would you say the defense is this season

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Speaker 1: have done to at least try to slow down their

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Speaker 1: effectiveness in the screen game, if anything. Well, let me

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Speaker 1: answer that a little differently, if I could, Chris, I

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01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: think that the twelve personnel and the multiple tight ends.

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Speaker 1: I think they had a stretch this season where t

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Speaker 1: Y Hilton was in and out of the lineup. Again,

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Speaker 1: I don't have the exact numbers in front of me,

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Speaker 1: but just my sense and someone can check this and

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01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. I'm just going by the eyeball test

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Speaker 1: of watching their tape over the last month or so,

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Speaker 1: since t Y Hilton has become a much bigger factor

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Speaker 1: in their offense more eleven, I think they've been in

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Speaker 1: a little more eleven personnel recently because Hilton's back is

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01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: a big factor. Pascal is one of those receivers you

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01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:43,679
Speaker 1: know no one hears about. He'll play in the league

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01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 1: ten years and he always lines up in plays. And

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Speaker 1: Michael Pittman, to me, is going to be a great player.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think that, yes, they'll mix in twelve.

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Speaker 1: They do have a very good screen game, and they

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Speaker 1: use their screen game with tight ends as well. It's

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Speaker 1: not just backs, but Naheim Hines is a big factor

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Speaker 1: in their screen game too. Hilton come in on third down.

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Speaker 1: He was playing more snaps earlier in the season before

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Speaker 1: Taylor became the foundation guy. But he's a terrific receiver,

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01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:14,479
Speaker 1: and we'll see this might be a game where they say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's play him a few more snaps

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01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: because maybe we feel good about a matchup because we've

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Speaker 1: seen Hines line up detached from the formation because he

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01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: can run wide receiver routes. What does this look like

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01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 1: from your perspective, you're if you've got the weapons that

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Speaker 1: the Colts have now with the health of their wide receivers,

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01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: Pascal Ty, Hilton and Pittman, how do you look? What's

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Speaker 1: your view of the Bills defense if you're going to

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Speaker 1: attack it? Well, you know, I think that number one,

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Speaker 1: it will start with the run game, and I think

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Speaker 1: the interior of the Bills d line has to play

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Speaker 1: well because, as I said, the Taylor is going to

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Speaker 1: run between the tackles for the most for the most part,

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Speaker 1: so it has to start there, and then when you

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Speaker 1: get to the pass game, they moved t Y Hilton around.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that the Bills will do what they've essentially

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Speaker 1: done all the year, which has played Tredavious White as

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Speaker 1: the boundary corner. He's really not been a matchup corner

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Speaker 1: this seasons. He's almost exclusively played the boundary corner, which

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01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:19,280
Speaker 1: means I assume Wallace slash Norman gets the field corner position.

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Speaker 1: I think that's where you probably look to attack. If

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01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 1: you're Indianapolis, you'd look to make Wallace or Norman have

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01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:33,760
Speaker 1: to cover, you know, and then you know they're tight

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01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: ends are not. They're not big factors in terms of

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01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:41,439
Speaker 1: explosive plays. I think they're more of sustaining players, although

1430
01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: mo Alei Cox does have ability to be a seam

1431
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 1: threat much more so than Doyle. Yeah. I tend to

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Speaker 1: agree with you though. They're more of a keep your

1433
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: offense on schedule type factors in the passing game at

1434
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 1: the tight end position more than anything else. Let's flip

1435
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: around to the defensive side, greg and we'll get to

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01:16:59,880 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 1: do as far as Buckner in a second. But with

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01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 1: respect to their secondary, we know rock your scene is

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01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,679
Speaker 1: out for this game. That's certainly a loss for them.

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01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:10,280
Speaker 1: There are some in Indie who believe that Kenny Moore,

1440
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 1: the nickel guy, is their best matchup corner. Could you

1441
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: see them maybe trying to put more on Diggs. I mean,

1442
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 1: we're assuming Diggs is going to suit up and play.

1443
01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: I think Beasley is more of a question mark. How

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01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:26,280
Speaker 1: do you see them handling their matchups back there, especially

1445
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 1: knowing that rock your scene is out. Well, unless they

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01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 1: go totally away from what they've done all season, they're

1447
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 1: going to line up versus multiple wide receivers, meaning three

1448
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:40,599
Speaker 1: or four. We'll get to the four in a minute,

1449
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 1: but it's when it's eleven personnel for the Bills. They're

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01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: going to line up roads at the boundary corner, carry

1451
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 1: at the field corner, and more in the slot. And

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01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: unless they do something totally dramatic, they're not a high

1453
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: percentage man to man defense. They play a lot of zone,

1454
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:59,559
Speaker 1: so they're not a pure matchup defense. I think the

1455
01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 1: weak link, and even when you Sin played he struggled

1456
01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: through much of the year, I think the weak link

1457
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:08,519
Speaker 1: would be viewed as the field corner with Carrie, and

1458
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: that's where you might look to see the Bills try

1459
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: to go. I love Kenny Moore. I think he's a

1460
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Speaker 1: really good slot corner, one of the best in the

1461
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Speaker 1: league because not only is he a good coverage player,

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Speaker 1: but he can blitz. And they're not a high percentage

1463
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 1: of blitz team. They're a selective blitz team. But you

1464
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:28,800
Speaker 1: know that's the way the line off. The question for

1465
01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 1: me arises when the Bills go with four wide, and

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Speaker 1: even if Beasley can't play, they still have four wide

1467
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:39,439
Speaker 1: receivers they can put out there, so the Bills, excuse me,

1468
01:18:39,479 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 1: The Colts have only played six snaps all year of

1469
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 1: dying with six defensive backs, so they are a nickel

1470
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:50,040
Speaker 1: sub defense. So if the Bills put out four wide,

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Speaker 1: to me, it probably pretty much tells the Bills that

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Speaker 1: the Colts are going to be in his own and

1473
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: they'll know that going in. So I'm very curious to

1474
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 1: see that matchup. How does I'll have the Bills played

1475
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 1: against zone? Just say it. I think that they've been better,

1476
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:12,160
Speaker 1: but I think they've been really good against man, so well,

1477
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see how that plays out. But I mean,

1478
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: they've been really really good against man. In my view,

1479
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: I don't have numbers right in front of me. But

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01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: you know, I can just see a lot of throws

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01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: by Josh versus man. But he's made some much much

1482
01:19:23,240 --> 01:19:25,680
Speaker 1: better throws against zone through the second half of this

1483
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 1: season in this stretch where he's played really, really well.

1484
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 1: So you can look at it for me when the

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01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:32,400
Speaker 1: way I see it too. And if they're going to

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01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:34,680
Speaker 1: play zone like that, you can expect Josh Allen to

1487
01:19:34,840 --> 01:19:37,960
Speaker 1: be throwing a lot of hitch routes to vacant areas

1488
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 1: in the zone, guys catching it going down right away

1489
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 1: or getting tackled right away and just moving down the

1490
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:45,879
Speaker 1: football field like that. Once in a while, they may

1491
01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:49,200
Speaker 1: scheme a guy with a chance to go deep. Certainly

1492
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: they'll be running guys through the middle of that zone

1493
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 1: trying to spread that out. But to me, that's what

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01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:57,439
Speaker 1: this game looks like, Josh Allen out a shotgun and

1495
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,760
Speaker 1: plinking balls into a seven or eight yard window with

1496
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley turnaround facing him or Digs facing him or whoever.

1497
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:06,640
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what it's going to look like

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01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 1: in the passing game. Yeah, And to me, it comes

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01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: down to Josh and he's done this really well over

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01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: the last month or so being patient. I think that's

1501
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: one area in which he's improved dramatically, being patient instead

1502
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 1: of trying to force balls that aren't there. See, man

1503
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:24,559
Speaker 1: is easier because it's man. You know, it's hey, you

1504
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 1: got him, and there's the matchup. I like, zone is

1505
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:30,680
Speaker 1: a little different, so you've got to be patient. You

1506
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:33,759
Speaker 1: can't try to push it when it's not there. Depends

1507
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: on down in distance. Obviously there are times you do

1508
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:37,559
Speaker 1: have to try to make a stick throw into a

1509
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: tight window, but you don't want to do that on

1510
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:44,120
Speaker 1: first and ten. It's not necessary. So we'll see. You know.

1511
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 1: Obviously they just played a team that played a lot

1512
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: of man and blitzed a lot, and I think that

1513
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:53,680
Speaker 1: they're really good against man coverage. But zone is a

1514
01:20:53,720 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: little bit of a different animal, and you've really got

1515
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: to be patient and you've got to let it tappen

1516
01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: a little bit. I hate the phrase take what the

1517
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:05,839
Speaker 1: defense gives, but in some ways it does apply. Buckner

1518
01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:08,920
Speaker 1: is obviously the lynchpin up front for them. I know

1519
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:11,759
Speaker 1: he's nursing an ankle injury, but everybody's expecting him to play,

1520
01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 1: and you know, he kind of generates a lot of

1521
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 1: their pass rush from the interior. You know. Talking to

1522
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 1: some guys that cover the Colts, they say their edge

1523
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,519
Speaker 1: rush just really hasn't been up to snuff this year,

1524
01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:27,920
Speaker 1: especially when just rushing the front four. Yeah, I gotta

1525
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:31,240
Speaker 1: believe that's not a good matchup with a quarterback like

1526
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:33,920
Speaker 1: Alan who rolls away from that pressure all the time

1527
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:38,400
Speaker 1: and makes plays on the move. How do you see that? Well,

1528
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:40,759
Speaker 1: the strange thing is is you're right about the edge pressure,

1529
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,360
Speaker 1: but they have pretty good players, so I think you

1530
01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 1: have to be careful. I mean, justin Houston can win now.

1531
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's the same player he was,

1532
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:50,760
Speaker 1: you know, three years ago, four years ago, but he

1533
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 1: can win. Muhammad's a fascinating player. He's very athletic, he

1534
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:57,519
Speaker 1: can bend. Over the last three four weeks, they've gotten

1535
01:21:57,520 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 1: back a player who I really liked coming out of

1536
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,800
Speaker 1: college in his second year, Comico Terrey. He's been getting

1537
01:22:02,840 --> 01:22:06,360
Speaker 1: meaningful snaps over the last three to four games. So

1538
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:10,920
Speaker 1: they've got players who are capable. Now what they normally do,

1539
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,880
Speaker 1: They in a sense have two nickel fronts depending on

1540
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:17,679
Speaker 1: down in distance. If it's a long yardage situation, they'll

1541
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 1: bring Denico Autry inside with Buckner and on the outside

1542
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: will be Uston in Muhammad with Terree getting some snaps.

1543
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:27,799
Speaker 1: If it's first and ten, they might have Grover Stewart

1544
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: in there next to Buckner, and Grover Stewarts had a really,

1545
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: really good year, but he's not a pass rusher, so

1546
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 1: this might not be a game in which Grover Steward

1547
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: gets a lot of snaps, as good a player as

1548
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:41,720
Speaker 1: he is. Yeah, this is a team that they're eleven win.

1549
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 1: It's amazing. They're eleven win team as a seventh seed,

1550
01:22:44,479 --> 01:22:46,719
Speaker 1: which they would not have made the playoffs at eleven

1551
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:50,439
Speaker 1: and five a year ago. It's an amazing season, an

1552
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:55,280
Speaker 1: amazing point where this is the situation you're in. But still,

1553
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: what do you see in Philip Rivers? That's the last

1554
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:00,800
Speaker 1: question I'm gonna ask you the Colts. We'll move on

1555
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:03,599
Speaker 1: to these other matchups about Philip Rivers, where he's at

1556
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 1: in his career, how he's looked, and how the Colts

1557
01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:09,679
Speaker 1: are using his skill set. Yeah, I mean, I think

1558
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:11,519
Speaker 1: over the last number of weeks he hasn't thrown as

1559
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: much because they've been able to run the ball really effectively. Obviously,

1560
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 1: the number of the opponents they played over the last

1561
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:20,280
Speaker 1: number of weeks. I think, with the exception maybe at Pittsburgh,

1562
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: they have not been great run defenses, and I think

1563
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:25,000
Speaker 1: that's allowed them to be able to run the ball

1564
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:29,000
Speaker 1: both with volume and with success. So Rivers has not

1565
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:32,200
Speaker 1: had to throw it as much. But look, Rivers has

1566
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: done this a long time. Steve, you know that. You

1567
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:36,920
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of people that think, oh, he

1568
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 1: throws a lot of picks. He really doesn't if you

1569
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 1: look at his career, but you know he's not. He's

1570
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 1: a guy I wouldn't count out if they have to

1571
01:23:45,240 --> 01:23:49,320
Speaker 1: throw it, and again that's a relative term, have to

1572
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 1: throw it. I think he's capable. Now. Obviously they don't

1573
01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 1: want to be down twenty one nothing in them early

1574
01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:57,639
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, But if the game turns out

1575
01:23:57,680 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 1: to have a shootout feel to it, I think Rivers

1576
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 1: is capable. Moving on to the other games here on

1577
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 1: wild Card weekend, Greg, the one that I'm most interested

1578
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: in watching is the rock'em sock'em football that could resemble

1579
01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies at least in part, between the Titans

1580
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:14,840
Speaker 1: and the Ravens. I mean, these are two teams that

1581
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:16,680
Speaker 1: are just gonna beat the tar out of each other,

1582
01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 1: aren't they. Yeah? Yeah, like the old school of football.

1583
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 1: You gotta bring your big boy pants for this one. Yeah.

1584
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 1: I mean, these teams played week week eleven, and in

1585
01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:27,920
Speaker 1: that game, the Titans on offense lined up in some

1586
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:33,000
Speaker 1: form of base personnel, meaning two tight ends, three tight ends,

1587
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:36,920
Speaker 1: or a fullback on seventy five percent of their offensive snaps,

1588
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: which is unheard in today's NFL. I mean, and they

1589
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:43,760
Speaker 1: kept the Ravens in their base defense. And of course

1590
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:46,400
Speaker 1: we know about the Ravens run game. They've averaged two

1591
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven yards rushing in this five game

1592
01:24:49,080 --> 01:24:51,679
Speaker 1: winning streak. Those are college numbers. Now, the run games

1593
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:54,680
Speaker 1: are totally different. The Titans line up and say here

1594
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 1: we come with King Henry and the Ravens is highly schemed.

1595
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: So are two totally different run games. Yeah. The joke,

1596
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:05,120
Speaker 1: the running joke around here is that this game's going

1597
01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 1: to take about, you know, two two and a half

1598
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:10,720
Speaker 1: hours to play in real time because there's going to

1599
01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:13,640
Speaker 1: be a running clock, there's you know, no incomplete passes,

1600
01:25:14,479 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 1: and they're just going to run it that way. What

1601
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:20,040
Speaker 1: do you think, who's the better team? This is a

1602
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: tough game. You know to predict. I'm not good at

1603
01:25:22,160 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 1: the prediction in the prediction business, Steve. I mean, though,

1604
01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 1: you know, the way that Baltimore is playing offensively right

1605
01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:31,400
Speaker 1: now in Tennessee has had some defensive issues throughout the year,

1606
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:33,599
Speaker 1: and a lot of people believe in the tape tells

1607
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:35,760
Speaker 1: you that that that could be their downfall in the

1608
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:39,519
Speaker 1: playoffs is they're just not very good defensively. Now they

1609
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:42,920
Speaker 1: try to camouflage that and compensate forward with the fact

1610
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:45,280
Speaker 1: that they can control the pace and tempo of games.

1611
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:47,640
Speaker 1: But as I said, the other team still gets the

1612
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:49,439
Speaker 1: ball and the Titans give up a lot of points.

1613
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:53,560
Speaker 1: Looking at some of the other ones. The interesting divisional

1614
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 1: tilt between the Seahawks and the Rams. The Rams are

1615
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 1: kind of in a tough spot here because we don't

1616
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:03,840
Speaker 1: know what the health of Golf's thumb is and how

1617
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:06,280
Speaker 1: effective he's going to be throwing the football. It's a mystery.

1618
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:09,679
Speaker 1: But they always play the Seahawks tough, even up there

1619
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:14,679
Speaker 1: in Seattle. So what how much could could Golf impact

1620
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 1: this game, good or bad for the Rams? Well, yeah,

1621
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:21,559
Speaker 1: it's almost impossible to know, number one, if he's gonna play.

1622
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's funny. I remember the combine.

1623
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 1: You know, everybody said, oh, he's got small hands. Well,

1624
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 1: this might be a case where the small hands matter

1625
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:30,640
Speaker 1: because if his thumbs not in great shape, maybe he

1626
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:33,400
Speaker 1: can't grip the ball well. But I would look at

1627
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: the other side. Russell Wilson has not played well at

1628
01:26:36,240 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: all over the last month six weeks. This is an

1629
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 1: offense to me that's kind of trying to figure out

1630
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:43,519
Speaker 1: what they are right now. They started this season with

1631
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:46,599
Speaker 1: let Russ Cook. He was great for six seven weeks,

1632
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:49,439
Speaker 1: then he started not playing very well. I mean, think

1633
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 1: about this. DK Metcalf has not had a twenty plus

1634
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:57,559
Speaker 1: yard reception in the last four games. Think about that.

1635
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: They have no big playoffense over the last month or so.

1636
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:04,679
Speaker 1: And this is a very very difficult defense to play against.

1637
01:27:05,439 --> 01:27:07,760
Speaker 1: What do you see happening in the Pittsburgh Cleveland game

1638
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: they just played last week? Cleveland barely stuck out a win.

1639
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:14,120
Speaker 1: They had Mason Rudolph at quarterback for the Steelers. This

1640
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 1: seems to end now Stefanski's not going to be there.

1641
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:20,680
Speaker 1: Their head coaches down. Is this just a kind of

1642
01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:24,479
Speaker 1: a sad end to a Cleveland Browns year that they

1643
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 1: had a little bit more higher hopes for I don't know.

1644
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:29,519
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, that's why they play them, Steve

1645
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:34,280
Speaker 1: as you well know, you know I think that if

1646
01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:36,680
Speaker 1: you look at Cleveland, I think the issue with a

1647
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:39,760
Speaker 1: different play caller doesn't come in your normal down in

1648
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: distant situations because they have a philosophy. They're not going

1649
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,960
Speaker 1: to step away from the philosophy. I think the issue

1650
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 1: potentially arises in more of those critical down in distant situations,

1651
01:27:50,439 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: the third and eights if you get in the red zone,

1652
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:55,960
Speaker 1: because I'm sure Baker Mayfield has a really good feel

1653
01:27:56,240 --> 01:28:00,240
Speaker 1: for what Kevin Stefanski would call maybe you know us

1654
01:28:00,240 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 1: Alex Vanpell just does it by cookie cutter and goes

1655
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:06,880
Speaker 1: by the same exact sheet. But if he doesn't, he's

1656
01:28:06,920 --> 01:28:09,200
Speaker 1: certainly not gonna have the same feel with Alex Vanpell

1657
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:12,200
Speaker 1: as Tofanski. So you know, to me, it's those critical

1658
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 1: situations which could be a factor. Greg, we thank you

1659
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:17,680
Speaker 1: for the time, Thanks for breaking it down. We know

1660
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:19,639
Speaker 1: you're busy. Get that phone call for you and we'll

1661
01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:21,960
Speaker 1: watch it on the Matchup show this weekend. Guy, you know,

1662
01:28:22,160 --> 01:28:25,120
Speaker 1: no worries, thinks Greg, See you later. Man. All right, guys,

1663
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Thanks all right, So that's great co

1664
01:28:27,439 --> 01:28:29,479
Speaker 1: sale from NFL Films. Also going to be on the

1665
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 1: ESPN NFL Matchup show this weekend six and seven thirty

1666
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:37,719
Speaker 1: am on ESPN two, and I would anticipate some breakdowns

1667
01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:41,719
Speaker 1: from him and man Bowen on this Colts Bills matchup

1668
01:28:41,960 --> 01:28:45,040
Speaker 1: to lead off wild Card weekend. Break time for us,

1669
01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:47,120
Speaker 1: but we'll be back with more, including your questions from

1670
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,280
Speaker 1: the OBL fan mail bag here on One Bill's Live

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01:28:49,320 --> 01:29:05,120
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01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:07,559
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1673
01:29:08,240 --> 01:29:12,160
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1674
01:29:12,200 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 1: drink of the Buffalo Bills. I want to get right

1675
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Speaker 1: back to the OBL fan mailbag and we are up

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01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 1: to from Bills can't be stopped. Is there any chance

1677
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 1: of changing the rule of ticket disbursement for the next

1678
01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 1: game from pods to individual tickets per holder. I'm currently

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01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: third man in our ticket group of three tickets, just

1680
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 1: a thirty six year old Bills fan who lived the

1681
01:29:36,120 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: drought and has dreamed of screaming my face off at

1682
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:41,439
Speaker 1: a home playoff game. We'll have to see where it goes.

1683
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:45,160
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no guarantee that I mean, assuming the

1684
01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:48,040
Speaker 1: Bills win this game on Saturday, there is no guarantee

1685
01:29:48,439 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 1: that the state lets the Bills enact this plan again

1686
01:29:51,439 --> 01:29:56,000
Speaker 1: next week. It's gonna go based on how effective the

1687
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:59,640
Speaker 1: protocols are adhered to and followed by the fans in

1688
01:29:59,680 --> 01:30:03,960
Speaker 1: the STA this weekend. So this is this is the

1689
01:30:04,040 --> 01:30:07,679
Speaker 1: litmus test here in terms of what's going on. Um,

1690
01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:13,320
Speaker 1: is that Andy Major sending that question in seriously? Okay?

1691
01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:16,839
Speaker 1: Oh I got okay, I got you all right? Okay,

1692
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 1: Well I will get the response then and I will

1693
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:21,879
Speaker 1: pull that up. This will probably not change for safety

1694
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 1: concerns and compliance with New York State. That's the answer

1695
01:30:24,240 --> 01:30:26,559
Speaker 1: to the question. Is there any chance of changing the

1696
01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:29,720
Speaker 1: rule of ticket disbursement. The answer is that's probably not

1697
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:33,280
Speaker 1: going to happen because of New York State safety concerns

1698
01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:35,840
Speaker 1: and compliance with the state. So probably going to stay

1699
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:37,960
Speaker 1: the same. So sorry, thirty six year old Bills fan

1700
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:41,760
Speaker 1: that's ready to scream your head off, right, Yeah, that's that. Yeah,

1701
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:43,439
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of things up in the air,

1702
01:30:43,479 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 1: and to be quite frank, a lot of us out

1703
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: of the Bill's hands. It's this stadium, it's our team.

1704
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:50,880
Speaker 1: It's all I got. Ye. They don't have any con

1705
01:30:51,040 --> 01:30:53,200
Speaker 1: I think you have to remember this is not a

1706
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:57,000
Speaker 1: Bill's plan that's being inactive. This is a plan handed

1707
01:30:57,000 --> 01:31:00,479
Speaker 1: down by the state and given to the Bills and saying,

1708
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:03,320
Speaker 1: if you want fans in your stands, here's how you're

1709
01:31:03,320 --> 01:31:07,559
Speaker 1: doing it. Best of luck to best of luck executing it.

1710
01:31:07,600 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 1: And by the way, we'll be watching and we'll be watching, yea.

1711
01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:11,920
Speaker 1: And if you don't do a good job with it,

1712
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: that's it. That's it, right. So that's why you know

1713
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:18,719
Speaker 1: we heard Andy major last hour and why I'm saying now,

1714
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, for the fans that are going just do

1715
01:31:22,360 --> 01:31:26,120
Speaker 1: the right thing, because that will enable the Bills hopefully

1716
01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:28,760
Speaker 1: to have fans at the next playoff game, assuming the

1717
01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:32,639
Speaker 1: Bills win on Saturday. From ce on our tweet sheet,

1718
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:34,800
Speaker 1: he says, if you're Brian Dable, what are you gonna

1719
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:37,000
Speaker 1: do in your first three plays to start the game.

1720
01:31:37,439 --> 01:31:40,680
Speaker 1: That's juicy. I think one of those three is going

1721
01:31:40,720 --> 01:31:44,679
Speaker 1: to be an easy completion Josh Allen to Steph Diggs,

1722
01:31:44,720 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 1: an easy completion Josh Allen to Cole Beasley, and then

1723
01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:52,960
Speaker 1: a touchdown to Gabe Davis. Oh wow, look at you.

1724
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:55,040
Speaker 1: You know what I was gonna do. I was gonna

1725
01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:56,640
Speaker 1: throw a rink. I was gonna throw a wrinkle in

1726
01:31:56,680 --> 01:32:05,400
Speaker 1: there for you, Beasley Davis, and then extra point Wow? Right? No, wow,

1727
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:08,240
Speaker 1: that would that would be a nice little stress relief, right.

1728
01:32:08,439 --> 01:32:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if we see a little bit more of

1729
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:16,599
Speaker 1: Josh running the football um, whether it's a you know,

1730
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:22,280
Speaker 1: a quarterback drawing the red zone quarterback sweep. I hearkened

1731
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 1: back to how much that quarterback sweep was used in

1732
01:32:25,280 --> 01:32:28,400
Speaker 1: the Houston playoff game. Now, obviously it's largely based on

1733
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:31,240
Speaker 1: opponent and that kind of thing, but the Texans had

1734
01:32:31,280 --> 01:32:34,360
Speaker 1: a good linebacking group last year and they ran the

1735
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:36,880
Speaker 1: dickens out of that off the edge and got huge

1736
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:38,920
Speaker 1: gains out of it. Now, I'm not saying that means

1737
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna work here against the Colts, who have a

1738
01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: pretty athletic second level defense. We haven't seen it, probably

1739
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:48,800
Speaker 1: in four or five weeks, to any great degree. I've

1740
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 1: been throwing the ball a ton. He hasn't been running

1741
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:52,880
Speaker 1: at all. He hasn't been running at all, So I

1742
01:32:52,880 --> 01:32:55,439
Speaker 1: wonder if we see scrambled but he hasn't run it.

1743
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:57,760
Speaker 1: I wonder if we see a reappearance of that since

1744
01:32:57,760 --> 01:32:59,320
Speaker 1: it you know what I mean, It hasn't been on

1745
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:01,920
Speaker 1: tape the lad he has only run the football a

1746
01:33:01,920 --> 01:33:03,960
Speaker 1: couple of times. They've been quarterback draws and then a

1747
01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:06,840
Speaker 1: couple of scrambles as well. My question about those first

1748
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:09,120
Speaker 1: three plays is this, and Brownie, you'll you know what,

1749
01:33:09,120 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say. Who's gonna be on the field

1750
01:33:12,240 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 1: running it? Is it gonna be four wide, three wide? Bass?

1751
01:33:15,560 --> 01:33:18,000
Speaker 1: Who's what personnel package are they gonna use? Are gonna

1752
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:21,040
Speaker 1: go four wide, three wide? I think they're gonna go

1753
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:23,840
Speaker 1: out there and say, Okay, you're gonna play zone. You're

1754
01:33:23,880 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 1: gonna be spread really paper thing. You're down a corner,

1755
01:33:26,640 --> 01:33:30,400
Speaker 1: you're down, here's our four guys. Can you cover them? Yeah? Yeah,

1756
01:33:30,439 --> 01:33:32,599
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I think. I think they're gonna say, Okay,

1757
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna line up in four wide. What are you

1758
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:37,360
Speaker 1: gonna do with with Darius Leonard? Where's he going? What's

1759
01:33:37,400 --> 01:33:39,479
Speaker 1: he gonna do? And then we'll see in okay, and

1760
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:42,599
Speaker 1: I know Rhodes is gonna be on the boundary, so

1761
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:46,679
Speaker 1: we're gonna put We'll put Gabe Davis over there. We'll

1762
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:48,599
Speaker 1: put Steph Diggs over here on the other corner where

1763
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:50,920
Speaker 1: that guy's not there. See what you can do. T

1764
01:33:51,080 --> 01:33:53,720
Speaker 1: J Kerry, We'll see what you can do. That's that's

1765
01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:55,840
Speaker 1: what I think. It's not so much about what play

1766
01:33:55,880 --> 01:34:00,800
Speaker 1: they run, run, pass, short pass, long pass, inside run, outside, run, draw, play, screen,

1767
01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:02,720
Speaker 1: pat whatever. I just want to know who's gonna be

1768
01:34:02,760 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: out there, because I think that's the real question for

1769
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:07,240
Speaker 1: the Colts is who they're going to have to defend.

1770
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:10,360
Speaker 1: Break time for us when we return, it's time for

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01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:14,959
Speaker 1: the Lowdown. Lorenzo Alexander joins us for his weekly appearance

1772
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:18,000
Speaker 1: here on the Big Show, so you don't want him.

1773
01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:21,080
Speaker 1: Miss Zoe coming up next. You're on One Bill's Live,

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01:34:21,160 --> 01:34:44,640
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:34:45,920 --> 01:34:48,599
Speaker 1: Welcome to our number three of the show on a Friday,

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01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:53,040
Speaker 1: which can mean only one thing, the Lowdown, as we

1777
01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:56,519
Speaker 1: welcome in Lorenzo Alexander, who's going to talk to us

1778
01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:59,840
Speaker 1: about this Bill's Colts matchup, as well as the rest

1779
01:34:59,840 --> 01:35:03,120
Speaker 1: of what's going on on wild Card Weekend. Six games

1780
01:35:03,800 --> 01:35:09,040
Speaker 1: with four extra teams now squaring off on wild Card Weekend.

1781
01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 1: How much tell me the truth, Lorenzo, how many of

1782
01:35:12,360 --> 01:35:14,759
Speaker 1: these games and how much of each will you really

1783
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:20,760
Speaker 1: really watch? I will watch a significant amount of them.

1784
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:24,160
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I'm doing pre and post game for Washington.

1785
01:35:24,200 --> 01:35:26,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch Buffalo. I actually had to change my

1786
01:35:26,479 --> 01:35:29,680
Speaker 1: flag football game once I found out that Buffalo was

1787
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:31,840
Speaker 1: playing at eleven o'clock my time, which I did not

1788
01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:35,400
Speaker 1: see coming at all. Right, So I'll watch those two

1789
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:39,000
Speaker 1: games for sure, and then I'll probably spot a couple

1790
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:41,479
Speaker 1: of the other games, you know, here and there throughout

1791
01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:43,200
Speaker 1: the day, depending on what the kids have going on.

1792
01:35:43,240 --> 01:35:45,400
Speaker 1: So but I say, I'll have to say probably three

1793
01:35:45,439 --> 01:35:49,720
Speaker 1: to four play from start to finish. So, Zoe, you've

1794
01:35:49,760 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 1: seen this Bill's team. I mean, they are like a

1795
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:56,639
Speaker 1: boulder going downhill. They are rolling right now, and it

1796
01:35:56,680 --> 01:36:00,960
Speaker 1: doesn't look like anybody as an answer for their offense.

1797
01:36:01,080 --> 01:36:03,799
Speaker 1: But I think we all know in the playoffs, somehow,

1798
01:36:04,080 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: some way, games get tighter, and you know, the twenty

1799
01:36:08,560 --> 01:36:11,280
Speaker 1: nine and thirty point blowouts that we've witnessed the last

1800
01:36:11,280 --> 01:36:14,080
Speaker 1: three weeks are probably dead and gone when you get

1801
01:36:14,120 --> 01:36:19,759
Speaker 1: to the postseason. All that being said, do the Bills

1802
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:22,360
Speaker 1: simply just have to play the way they have played

1803
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:25,760
Speaker 1: the last month, and they should emerge victorious. If they

1804
01:36:25,760 --> 01:36:31,760
Speaker 1: can play their game, they should win handily. Yeah, I mean,

1805
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:34,280
Speaker 1: that's that's what I think as far as the way

1806
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:36,320
Speaker 1: the Bills have been playing. Obviously, the coach is a

1807
01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:39,400
Speaker 1: great team as well, and they wouldn't be here, um,

1808
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 1: you know, you're frightening for that for that division down

1809
01:36:41,479 --> 01:36:44,080
Speaker 1: there in the AFC South as well, and have great

1810
01:36:44,080 --> 01:36:46,639
Speaker 1: talent on offense and defense. But it's just really hard

1811
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:48,960
Speaker 1: for any team right now to match up with the

1812
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:51,400
Speaker 1: Bills offensively. You know, I think the biggest attribute that

1813
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 1: the coachs have right now maybe be able to run

1814
01:36:53,160 --> 01:36:55,000
Speaker 1: the ball, because that has been a little bit of

1815
01:36:56,200 --> 01:36:59,599
Speaker 1: a black eye on the Bills defense this year. But

1816
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:02,080
Speaker 1: of late, I mean, they've been doing an excellent job

1817
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:05,360
Speaker 1: of stopping to run, being physical, turning the ball over.

1818
01:37:06,400 --> 01:37:09,160
Speaker 1: You have a cold weather team or a dome weather

1819
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:11,960
Speaker 1: team that plays majority of their games in one weather

1820
01:37:12,080 --> 01:37:14,120
Speaker 1: coming up to Buffalo in the winner and have to

1821
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:16,639
Speaker 1: deal with that on top of it being a playoff game,

1822
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 1: and I just really see it hard for it to

1823
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:22,599
Speaker 1: be as tight as what you're saying or you're alluding too.

1824
01:37:23,080 --> 01:37:25,120
Speaker 1: Of course, they're a good team. They've they've overcome a

1825
01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:27,040
Speaker 1: lot of things, but this Bills team is it's really,

1826
01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:29,639
Speaker 1: in my mind, paying on another level. And as long

1827
01:37:29,680 --> 01:37:32,360
Speaker 1: as they can stay within themselves and don't fear and

1828
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:35,639
Speaker 1: don't feel like they have to do something more, because

1829
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 1: now you put playoff in front of game, they'll be

1830
01:37:39,240 --> 01:37:41,680
Speaker 1: just fine. And I think that is I think the

1831
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:44,599
Speaker 1: biggest thing that this team has grown in from last year,

1832
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:47,719
Speaker 1: at least for the Priests, are the regular season, right especially,

1833
01:37:47,760 --> 01:37:49,519
Speaker 1: I think lad By Josh Allen when you look at

1834
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:52,960
Speaker 1: him earlier in the year, he has some times where

1835
01:37:52,960 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 1: it was like, man, what are you doing? And then

1836
01:37:55,160 --> 01:37:57,719
Speaker 1: he was able to find his way back withinside himself.

1837
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:01,320
Speaker 1: The last eight games, I would be hard pressed to

1838
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:03,960
Speaker 1: find times it's like, Josh, what are you doing? Man?

1839
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:06,559
Speaker 1: What's going on? Yeah, you know, everybody's talking about his

1840
01:38:06,600 --> 01:38:08,840
Speaker 1: accuracy and all these other things. But that is where

1841
01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:10,639
Speaker 1: they've roamed the most, and that's where I see them

1842
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:13,280
Speaker 1: taking the next step at as theyre going to this playoffs.

1843
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:15,439
Speaker 1: Play at that high level, but still within themselves. Yeah,

1844
01:38:15,439 --> 01:38:18,400
Speaker 1: he has filtered that, he's filtered that hero ball out

1845
01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:23,040
Speaker 1: of his game, and he has paired emotional stability in

1846
01:38:23,120 --> 01:38:26,000
Speaker 1: the framework of a game, with his playmaking ability, and

1847
01:38:26,080 --> 01:38:27,960
Speaker 1: now you don't have those what the heck is he

1848
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:30,760
Speaker 1: doing plays? There's a theory going around in Buffalo that

1849
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:34,640
Speaker 1: maybe it's just me, but people have floated out there

1850
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:36,960
Speaker 1: because there was no fans in the stands this year,

1851
01:38:37,360 --> 01:38:39,519
Speaker 1: that it was easy for a guy like Josh to

1852
01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:42,400
Speaker 1: get not have to be peeled off the ceiling and

1853
01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:48,120
Speaker 1: calm down to play well. The quiet stadium, the ability

1854
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:49,960
Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, take a deep breath and

1855
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:52,920
Speaker 1: hear everything that's going on, get everything on, just made

1856
01:38:52,960 --> 01:38:55,960
Speaker 1: it easier for not only Josh, probably other quarterbacks as well,

1857
01:38:56,000 --> 01:39:00,320
Speaker 1: to communicate. And there wasn't that emotional tidal way. Yeah

1858
01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:03,360
Speaker 1: that sometimes Josh seemed to get carried away in Do

1859
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: you see if is that a possibility? It kind of

1860
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:11,800
Speaker 1: makes some sense at some level. But by the same token, yeah, great, yeah, maybe,

1861
01:39:12,120 --> 01:39:14,559
Speaker 1: I mean, but I mean, let's not forget that. I mean,

1862
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:16,760
Speaker 1: I believe it was versus the rams. You know, he

1863
01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:18,600
Speaker 1: got a personal file as a quarterback. I mean what

1864
01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:21,599
Speaker 1: quarterback gets that. So he's had his moments where he's

1865
01:39:21,640 --> 01:39:25,000
Speaker 1: flown off the rails, and when I've been in that situation,

1866
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:27,840
Speaker 1: it's the fans have nothing to do with it, obviously

1867
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:30,800
Speaker 1: you can. They're like white noise in the background, and

1868
01:39:30,840 --> 01:39:34,000
Speaker 1: it's really all about the guy internally being able to

1869
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:38,839
Speaker 1: bring himself back into focus and having a great mindset,

1870
01:39:38,920 --> 01:39:40,559
Speaker 1: and I think he's done a great job of that

1871
01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:43,600
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, obviously he's had some help and

1872
01:39:43,680 --> 01:39:45,639
Speaker 1: some guys around him also probably be able to speak

1873
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:47,559
Speaker 1: to him and help him get back there. But that's

1874
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:49,920
Speaker 1: something that Josh has really grown a lot, and I

1875
01:39:49,960 --> 01:39:54,200
Speaker 1: don't really think the fans had a more of an

1876
01:39:54,200 --> 01:39:56,280
Speaker 1: impact that made it worse last year. I think he

1877
01:39:56,400 --> 01:40:00,200
Speaker 1: just had to take time to mature, learn who he is,

1878
01:40:00,439 --> 01:40:03,360
Speaker 1: and then be able to have those triggers where it

1879
01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:05,320
Speaker 1: brings him back in and he's able to lock in.

1880
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:07,759
Speaker 1: And right now he doesn't have to worry about getting

1881
01:40:07,760 --> 01:40:10,280
Speaker 1: locked back in because he stays locked in, and you

1882
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:13,320
Speaker 1: don't see those highs and lows emotionally in his game.

1883
01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:16,280
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a just a steadfast of a

1884
01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:19,599
Speaker 1: climb emotionally through a game playing within himself, which I've

1885
01:40:19,640 --> 01:40:22,320
Speaker 1: really been happy to watch and please, and I know

1886
01:40:22,320 --> 01:40:24,559
Speaker 1: everybody around him has as well, because that's why they've

1887
01:40:24,560 --> 01:40:28,320
Speaker 1: been putting up you know, forty burgers on folks, right. Yeah, Well,

1888
01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:31,000
Speaker 1: he's listening to Sinatra now before games to stay calm.

1889
01:40:31,040 --> 01:40:32,720
Speaker 1: He said, he's not listening to any of that hard

1890
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:34,559
Speaker 1: rock stuff, so he's just chilling out a little bit,

1891
01:40:34,840 --> 01:40:38,000
Speaker 1: chilling out with Frank. Before the games. Steve and I

1892
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:39,880
Speaker 1: were knocking this around Zoe and I wanted to get

1893
01:40:39,880 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 1: your take on it in terms of defensive strategy. Steve

1894
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:44,519
Speaker 1: and I are of the opinion that you know, with

1895
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:47,439
Speaker 1: the Colts down a corner and rock your scene being

1896
01:40:47,479 --> 01:40:50,000
Speaker 1: out for the game and concussion protocol, you know, that

1897
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:52,360
Speaker 1: leaves him a little shorthanded on the back end. And

1898
01:40:52,400 --> 01:40:54,559
Speaker 1: we're like, all right, let's throw ten personnel at him,

1899
01:40:54,560 --> 01:40:56,080
Speaker 1: get the four wides on the field and see if

1900
01:40:56,120 --> 01:40:58,679
Speaker 1: they can cover you, whether you're playing man or his own.

1901
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:01,839
Speaker 1: And Steve thinks they may have to resort to dime

1902
01:41:02,240 --> 01:41:06,439
Speaker 1: packages more often to handle that, knowing how much zone

1903
01:41:06,439 --> 01:41:09,360
Speaker 1: they played, but I looked it up, so the Cults

1904
01:41:09,360 --> 01:41:14,080
Speaker 1: have played six snaps all season and dime. They're not

1905
01:41:14,120 --> 01:41:17,240
Speaker 1: going to suddenly go to some dime package for this

1906
01:41:17,320 --> 01:41:20,479
Speaker 1: game when that hasn't been there m O all season long.

1907
01:41:20,560 --> 01:41:24,280
Speaker 1: Willie Well if they have to. I mean, when you're

1908
01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:26,000
Speaker 1: down a guy and you're trying to figure out how

1909
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:27,959
Speaker 1: you can cover all the weapons out of the backfield,

1910
01:41:28,080 --> 01:41:29,720
Speaker 1: that's something that you may be forced to do or

1911
01:41:29,760 --> 01:41:31,519
Speaker 1: want to do, something a little bit different than what

1912
01:41:31,520 --> 01:41:34,240
Speaker 1: you've shown in the past. And really at the end

1913
01:41:34,280 --> 01:41:37,479
Speaker 1: of the day, the only difference is personnel. Right whether

1914
01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:41,519
Speaker 1: you're at base, nickel, dime, whatever other packages that you

1915
01:41:41,640 --> 01:41:45,640
Speaker 1: make up. Generally speaking, coordinators can run every single thing

1916
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 1: they want to out of those different packages. The reason

1917
01:41:48,360 --> 01:41:51,000
Speaker 1: why they switches because of matchup. So I would even

1918
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:54,680
Speaker 1: put the owners so much on the personnel and what

1919
01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:57,559
Speaker 1: you call it, it's more so about who's running it

1920
01:41:57,600 --> 01:42:00,240
Speaker 1: and how many opportunities that they had to go out

1921
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:03,080
Speaker 1: there and compete and play. And so if you have

1922
01:42:03,160 --> 01:42:05,360
Speaker 1: to then bring up because they are down a corner,

1923
01:42:05,439 --> 01:42:07,479
Speaker 1: or maybe somebody else's knicked up as well, and you

1924
01:42:07,520 --> 01:42:10,040
Speaker 1: get down to those guys that have been fringe active,

1925
01:42:10,120 --> 01:42:11,880
Speaker 1: or maybe a guy that was on practice square, a

1926
01:42:11,880 --> 01:42:14,400
Speaker 1: guy that just got signed this week. He doesn't have

1927
01:42:14,479 --> 01:42:17,200
Speaker 1: a continuity in the game experience to go out there

1928
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:19,439
Speaker 1: and play at a high level that you're gonna have

1929
01:42:19,520 --> 01:42:21,719
Speaker 1: to in order to compete with this Buffalo Bills team,

1930
01:42:21,720 --> 01:42:24,760
Speaker 1: and so maybe they have to do that, but they

1931
01:42:24,920 --> 01:42:29,480
Speaker 1: they will still have everything to their um in their disposal.

1932
01:42:29,680 --> 01:42:31,519
Speaker 1: It's just it's just a different guy. Instead of a

1933
01:42:31,560 --> 01:42:35,759
Speaker 1: sand backer out there, there is a nickel right, instead

1934
01:42:35,760 --> 01:42:40,000
Speaker 1: of a real linebacker out there. There's another corner playing

1935
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:42,960
Speaker 1: that that position, or another safety that that dollar safety

1936
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:45,320
Speaker 1: that we heard a lot about, you know with the

1937
01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:48,479
Speaker 1: dam buchanidate. So it's just all about bodies and people

1938
01:42:49,160 --> 01:42:51,720
Speaker 1: versus actually what it means schematically as far as what

1939
01:42:51,840 --> 01:42:54,880
Speaker 1: defenses they run. I've made the I've maintained that the

1940
01:42:54,960 --> 01:42:56,639
Speaker 1: momentum that you get, you know, you win a game,

1941
01:42:56,680 --> 01:42:58,479
Speaker 1: you win a big another big game, you're winning by

1942
01:42:58,520 --> 01:43:02,040
Speaker 1: double digits, you hang a fifty a week seventeen, and

1943
01:43:02,120 --> 01:43:04,960
Speaker 1: even with some of your backups in the game, I've

1944
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:08,639
Speaker 1: said that it's not about you know, resting those guys

1945
01:43:08,640 --> 01:43:10,679
Speaker 1: in those weeks where they don't play. It's about keeping

1946
01:43:10,720 --> 01:43:15,120
Speaker 1: them healthy. And then the momentum you get starts like

1947
01:43:15,160 --> 01:43:17,840
Speaker 1: this last month. It's not like something you've built over month.

1948
01:43:17,880 --> 01:43:20,719
Speaker 1: It starts Monday. Getting ready for this team on this game.

1949
01:43:21,400 --> 01:43:24,000
Speaker 1: Certainly they've learned a lot about themselves over the past month,

1950
01:43:24,000 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 1: and there's some things they build on with their program,

1951
01:43:26,120 --> 01:43:28,479
Speaker 1: and the standard of excellence they have gets more and

1952
01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 1: more ingrained. But this game against the Colts, to me

1953
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:34,280
Speaker 1: low isn't about carrying the momentum of the last month

1954
01:43:34,280 --> 01:43:37,280
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. It's about preparing this week to beat

1955
01:43:37,320 --> 01:43:42,439
Speaker 1: this team on that day. Yeah, most definitely. And obviously

1956
01:43:42,439 --> 01:43:43,960
Speaker 1: when you get to the playoffs, every team that you're

1957
01:43:43,960 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 1: playing is good. You know, people even make fun of

1958
01:43:46,240 --> 01:43:49,160
Speaker 1: the NFC East, but the Washington football team, if you

1959
01:43:49,240 --> 01:43:50,960
Speaker 1: sleep on them, they have the ability to beat you.

1960
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:52,680
Speaker 1: That's why they got there, you know, no matter what,

1961
01:43:52,720 --> 01:43:54,479
Speaker 1: because we know about seventy nine teams that have won

1962
01:43:54,479 --> 01:43:56,600
Speaker 1: in the first round before. And so you have to

1963
01:43:56,640 --> 01:44:00,839
Speaker 1: take that same mindset. Yes, you you're not in that momentum,

1964
01:44:00,880 --> 01:44:03,600
Speaker 1: but you will use it with the confidence with some

1965
01:44:03,640 --> 01:44:05,640
Speaker 1: of the things that you've done that have worked to

1966
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:07,840
Speaker 1: go out there and play at a high level. But

1967
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:10,760
Speaker 1: you do have to compartmentalize which you did in the

1968
01:44:10,800 --> 01:44:12,800
Speaker 1: regular season and now what you're about to do in

1969
01:44:12,840 --> 01:44:15,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs, because it is different and you have to

1970
01:44:15,200 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 1: realize that and you have to be able to have

1971
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:22,000
Speaker 1: to be able to handle that additional pressure of now

1972
01:44:22,120 --> 01:44:25,240
Speaker 1: you win or lose and you go home, and that

1973
01:44:25,439 --> 01:44:28,679
Speaker 1: oftentimes as a tell tale for most teams because they can't.

1974
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:31,639
Speaker 1: And it's not it doesn't take every everybody, I guess.

1975
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:34,639
Speaker 1: Let me say it this way. You have to have

1976
01:44:34,680 --> 01:44:38,080
Speaker 1: everybody in that same mindset, right. It can't be ten

1977
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:41,360
Speaker 1: players or half your team everybody, because it only takes

1978
01:44:41,439 --> 01:44:44,000
Speaker 1: one person in the playoffs when these games are tending

1979
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:46,400
Speaker 1: to be a lot closer to make them a say,

1980
01:44:46,520 --> 01:44:48,880
Speaker 1: you know, whether you're a pump returner, Oh, oh, it's

1981
01:44:48,880 --> 01:44:50,599
Speaker 1: too much pressure. You let the ball hit off your

1982
01:44:50,680 --> 01:44:53,360
Speaker 1: leg and you get the ball right. Special teams you

1983
01:44:53,439 --> 01:44:55,400
Speaker 1: come down there, you miss a block, he blows the

1984
01:44:55,479 --> 01:45:00,120
Speaker 1: returner up and the other team recovers the football. And

1985
01:45:00,160 --> 01:45:02,679
Speaker 1: so I say that because everybody has to be able

1986
01:45:02,680 --> 01:45:06,000
Speaker 1: to handle this additional pressure, just not your stars, because

1987
01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:10,120
Speaker 1: they're pivotal plays throughout this game that's going to determine

1988
01:45:10,120 --> 01:45:12,240
Speaker 1: the outcome, and you need everybody on board to be

1989
01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:16,759
Speaker 1: able to handle that additional pressure. Last week, Zoe Micah

1990
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:21,240
Speaker 1: Hyde said the Hail Mary game that you were at

1991
01:45:22,479 --> 01:45:27,080
Speaker 1: was a blessing in disguise for this football team because

1992
01:45:27,080 --> 01:45:30,280
Speaker 1: it taught the entire roster that they should never put

1993
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:34,200
Speaker 1: themselves into position where one play can cost them the

1994
01:45:34,240 --> 01:45:38,720
Speaker 1: football game. And since then, they have been putting their

1995
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:41,960
Speaker 1: foot on the gas and pushing that pedal all the

1996
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:44,479
Speaker 1: way to the floor from start to finish in every

1997
01:45:44,479 --> 01:45:47,320
Speaker 1: football game. I mean, Miami fans were all up in

1998
01:45:47,439 --> 01:45:50,120
Speaker 1: arms last week because they're still chucking bombs down the

1999
01:45:50,160 --> 01:45:53,400
Speaker 1: field in the second half with their backups to beat

2000
01:45:53,439 --> 01:45:56,360
Speaker 1: them by thirty. But I don't think this Bills team

2001
01:45:56,640 --> 01:46:00,559
Speaker 1: is having any apologies at the ready because they don't

2002
01:46:00,600 --> 01:46:02,640
Speaker 1: want to be in the position they found themselves in

2003
01:46:02,680 --> 01:46:07,639
Speaker 1: Week ten ever again, all right, and nor should they.

2004
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:09,400
Speaker 1: If you don't want us doing it, stop us from

2005
01:46:09,439 --> 01:46:11,160
Speaker 1: doing it. You know, at the end of the day

2006
01:46:11,160 --> 01:46:13,680
Speaker 1: that I mean, this is professional football and you have

2007
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:16,280
Speaker 1: to keep everything rolling. You know, Guys get in there.

2008
01:46:16,400 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 1: You know, been fighting the whole time. To think about

2009
01:46:18,439 --> 01:46:20,400
Speaker 1: a guy like Matt Barkley. He wants to get in

2010
01:46:20,400 --> 01:46:21,920
Speaker 1: there and play and be able to throw the ball

2011
01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:24,800
Speaker 1: down the field two and have some success. Everybody wants

2012
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:28,880
Speaker 1: to be a part of this, and so it's just

2013
01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:30,840
Speaker 1: it's it's tough slugging. Hey, the Bills are rolling and

2014
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:33,920
Speaker 1: they're rolling over folks. And to Micah's point, I think

2015
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:36,280
Speaker 1: that's great. It's a great teaching moment, a great teaching

2016
01:46:36,320 --> 01:46:39,639
Speaker 1: point that I know Sean highlighted. And you don't want

2017
01:46:39,640 --> 01:46:42,240
Speaker 1: to have these games come down to, you know, a

2018
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:45,080
Speaker 1: bad call by the reff or you know, a hell

2019
01:46:45,160 --> 01:46:48,040
Speaker 1: marrying a lucky playing. You want to play well enough

2020
01:46:48,120 --> 01:46:50,920
Speaker 1: to where if you're better than this team, you want

2021
01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:54,320
Speaker 1: to beat them by you know, two scores. Every game

2022
01:46:54,360 --> 01:46:57,080
Speaker 1: doesn't have to come down the nail biting time, especially

2023
01:46:57,080 --> 01:46:59,160
Speaker 1: when you're playing at the level of the Buffalo Bills

2024
01:46:59,200 --> 01:47:01,920
Speaker 1: and they have the ability to beat teams the way

2025
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:03,800
Speaker 1: they have and so they just have to carry that

2026
01:47:03,840 --> 01:47:08,400
Speaker 1: into the playoff, that mindset and remember that because games

2027
01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:10,519
Speaker 1: don't have to be close, they tend to be because

2028
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:12,920
Speaker 1: guys can't handle that pressure and somebody makes a mistake.

2029
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:16,840
Speaker 1: But if you are seasoned and well board verse like

2030
01:47:16,880 --> 01:47:18,760
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys have, because they remember that

2031
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:22,920
Speaker 1: Houston game last year, they remember the Arizona game this year,

2032
01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:28,240
Speaker 1: that they're allowing using that as as a foundation so

2033
01:47:28,280 --> 01:47:30,200
Speaker 1: they don't put themselves in it. And it's a great

2034
01:47:30,200 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 1: teaching tool to even show younger guys on those teams

2035
01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:36,160
Speaker 1: don't put ourselves in that position as well. Do the

2036
01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:38,800
Speaker 1: Bills have enough veteran leadership to carry them through the

2037
01:47:38,880 --> 01:47:41,080
Speaker 1: rough times like this? You gotta know the coach are

2038
01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 1: gonna make some plays against you. They may even jump

2039
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:44,840
Speaker 1: out to a league early on, right, So do they

2040
01:47:44,840 --> 01:47:48,920
Speaker 1: have enough veteran leadership to say, hey, calm down, let's

2041
01:47:48,960 --> 01:47:53,519
Speaker 1: go what's what's t talk about that factor in this team? Yeah?

2042
01:47:53,720 --> 01:47:55,880
Speaker 1: I mean I think they have more than enough. And

2043
01:47:55,920 --> 01:47:59,600
Speaker 1: I think they have guys at every level. It's not

2044
01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:01,439
Speaker 1: just one one guy. And I think sometimes when it's

2045
01:48:01,439 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 1: just one guy, everybody waits for that one guy to

2046
01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:05,839
Speaker 1: say something. But on offense, I mean you got Digs,

2047
01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:09,080
Speaker 1: you got obviously got Josh, you got cold as saying

2048
01:48:09,160 --> 01:48:13,400
Speaker 1: something brown Um, you got Feliciano offense or defensively, you

2049
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:16,920
Speaker 1: got your main Mac, you got Jerry, you got Micah,

2050
01:48:16,960 --> 01:48:19,639
Speaker 1: you got different guys kind of no one I don't

2051
01:48:19,640 --> 01:48:21,439
Speaker 1: think no one has just kind of stepped up, you know,

2052
01:48:21,479 --> 01:48:23,320
Speaker 1: like when Kyle Williams there, well that's the guy we

2053
01:48:23,400 --> 01:48:25,800
Speaker 1: are gonna wait on. You have a plethora of guy

2054
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:28,000
Speaker 1: where they kind of all in that same kind of

2055
01:48:28,000 --> 01:48:29,760
Speaker 1: mix where you can get it at any time, and

2056
01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:32,080
Speaker 1: I think that's actually better because a lot of times,

2057
01:48:32,520 --> 01:48:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, when I was on teams like that, when

2058
01:48:34,080 --> 01:48:36,799
Speaker 1: you had like a London Fletcher or like a Kyle Williams,

2059
01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:38,800
Speaker 1: I always felt like somebody was waiting for those guys

2060
01:48:38,800 --> 01:48:41,719
Speaker 1: to speaking. If they didn't speak, nobody's gonna say anything.

2061
01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:43,960
Speaker 1: But now that you have like several guys kind of

2062
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:46,920
Speaker 1: that same tier and how guys are are viewed as

2063
01:48:46,960 --> 01:48:49,879
Speaker 1: being leaders, you can get at any time from any direction.

2064
01:48:49,920 --> 01:48:52,800
Speaker 1: And I think that's key because it's it's it's a

2065
01:48:52,960 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 1: it's a it's a heavy thing to carry when when

2066
01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:57,559
Speaker 1: when everybody's just looking for you to say something, and

2067
01:48:58,000 --> 01:48:59,640
Speaker 1: you may not be in that mindset, you might not

2068
01:48:59,680 --> 01:49:01,559
Speaker 1: be having a great game, it maybe a lot of things.

2069
01:49:01,560 --> 01:49:03,640
Speaker 1: But now that they have multiple guys that can give

2070
01:49:03,640 --> 01:49:05,000
Speaker 1: it to them, I think that's definitely going to be

2071
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:10,040
Speaker 1: beneficial to their run this playoffs. So when you're playing

2072
01:49:10,080 --> 01:49:13,599
Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback like Philip Rivers who has seen everything

2073
01:49:13,680 --> 01:49:16,360
Speaker 1: under the sun and then some and can kind of

2074
01:49:16,640 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: diagnose and predict as good as anybody, I'm not saying

2075
01:49:20,439 --> 01:49:22,880
Speaker 1: that prevents you from trying to spin the dial on

2076
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:26,800
Speaker 1: them and keep them from guessing exactly what you guys

2077
01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:28,679
Speaker 1: are lining up in. And we know Mike and Jordan

2078
01:49:28,720 --> 01:49:31,839
Speaker 1: do a great job of that, but does the approach

2079
01:49:31,960 --> 01:49:36,080
Speaker 1: change any way at all defensively when you're facing a

2080
01:49:36,120 --> 01:49:42,280
Speaker 1: guy that's harder to fool like a Rivers. I mean,

2081
01:49:42,600 --> 01:49:45,040
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you can't be as vanilla and you

2082
01:49:45,080 --> 01:49:46,680
Speaker 1: want to be able to move down and they have

2083
01:49:46,800 --> 01:49:48,479
Speaker 1: the guys on defense to be able to do that.

2084
01:49:48,560 --> 01:49:50,679
Speaker 1: And you're going to go back through the last four

2085
01:49:50,720 --> 01:49:54,120
Speaker 1: games and probably they're even highlight things that he struggled

2086
01:49:54,160 --> 01:49:57,080
Speaker 1: with throughout this season when they didn't play well and

2087
01:49:57,200 --> 01:50:00,400
Speaker 1: try to identify what the defense was doing. And you know,

2088
01:50:00,479 --> 01:50:04,200
Speaker 1: coach Fraser and that defense staff is always good with

2089
01:50:04,360 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 1: coming up with three or four different blitzes that have

2090
01:50:07,160 --> 01:50:11,879
Speaker 1: really attacked their protections as well as some different coverages

2091
01:50:11,920 --> 01:50:15,679
Speaker 1: that may make Philip hold the ball a tabit longer

2092
01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:17,640
Speaker 1: than allow guys to get there. And that's what you

2093
01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:20,840
Speaker 1: have to do. You're not going to necessarily confuse them.

2094
01:50:21,280 --> 01:50:25,360
Speaker 1: You just want to make them that processing period slow

2095
01:50:25,400 --> 01:50:27,839
Speaker 1: down a little bit so then you allow other guys

2096
01:50:28,200 --> 01:50:30,519
Speaker 1: to beat their one on one matchups and then impact

2097
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:32,719
Speaker 1: them by either hitting them, you know, breaking the ball

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Speaker 1: up or whatever it may be. And so to your

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Speaker 1: point where you full him, no, but there's things you

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01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:40,280
Speaker 1: can do to slow down is his his processing, So

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01:50:40,320 --> 01:50:42,639
Speaker 1: the ball is not coming out as quick, not coming

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Speaker 1: out on time. And then when that stuff happens, guys

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01:50:44,880 --> 01:50:48,120
Speaker 1: are able to either get a sack hitting which then

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01:50:48,200 --> 01:50:51,519
Speaker 1: can then turn into potential turnovers, whether it's an interception

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01:50:51,600 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 1: or force funem Well you got you're playing. Philip Rivers

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01:50:54,280 --> 01:50:57,559
Speaker 1: has kind of unique skill set. He doesn't run, has

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01:50:57,600 --> 01:50:59,320
Speaker 1: never been able to run. In fact, they take him

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01:50:59,320 --> 01:51:01,760
Speaker 1: out of the game to run a quarterback sneak. I mean,

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01:51:01,800 --> 01:51:04,800
Speaker 1: the guy will not take a run. He won't take

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01:51:04,800 --> 01:51:06,920
Speaker 1: a step in anger with the ball in his hand right. So,

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01:51:07,600 --> 01:51:09,840
Speaker 1: and and his arm he's you know, he's forty years

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01:51:09,880 --> 01:51:12,840
Speaker 1: old or thirty eight years old, whatever he is. He

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01:51:12,920 --> 01:51:18,160
Speaker 1: doesn't move well. He's smart, but physically, you know, he's

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01:51:18,160 --> 01:51:19,960
Speaker 1: a little bit limited. His arm is not as strong

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01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:21,120
Speaker 1: as it was. He has to put a lot of

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01:51:21,200 --> 01:51:23,200
Speaker 1: arc on the ball to get it out there. What

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01:51:23,400 --> 01:51:25,880
Speaker 1: kind of with that skill set and with what you

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01:51:25,920 --> 01:51:29,640
Speaker 1: know about Philip Rivers, what kind of game plan do

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01:51:29,680 --> 01:51:33,400
Speaker 1: you have if they can already force this team into

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01:51:33,400 --> 01:51:36,000
Speaker 1: throwing it like fifty times or whatever, Philip Rivers has

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01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:38,439
Speaker 1: to take the game into his hands. What does the

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01:51:38,439 --> 01:51:42,720
Speaker 1: defensive front think about when they're playing him, Well, you

2123
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:44,840
Speaker 1: can be a little bit more reckless as far as

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01:51:44,840 --> 01:51:47,400
Speaker 1: how you rush him. He's much like Tom Brady right

2125
01:51:47,120 --> 01:51:49,400
Speaker 1: where he's not, He's going to be there where you're

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01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:52,920
Speaker 1: expecting to be. Um. He has solid pocket presents, but

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01:51:53,320 --> 01:51:55,639
Speaker 1: majority of his stuff is stepping up and moving lateral

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01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:58,000
Speaker 1: from b gat to be gap and so as a

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01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:01,679
Speaker 1: as a rusher is all about obviously the tackles being

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01:52:01,720 --> 01:52:04,280
Speaker 1: dominant and winning their one on one matchups and really

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01:52:04,320 --> 01:52:08,240
Speaker 1: pressing the pocket so we can't step up. And then

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01:52:08,320 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 1: Jerry and Trent and the Mario and the rest of

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01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:14,160
Speaker 1: the crew were playing outside can take a little some

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01:52:14,240 --> 01:52:17,120
Speaker 1: more liberties as far as maybe bull rushing and falling

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01:52:17,120 --> 01:52:20,519
Speaker 1: off inside that they may not do if you're playing

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01:52:20,520 --> 01:52:23,920
Speaker 1: a more mobile style quarterback. And so those are the

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01:52:23,920 --> 01:52:26,120
Speaker 1: normals that tend to wags where you can really impact

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01:52:26,200 --> 01:52:29,080
Speaker 1: those guys from from a rushing standpoint, and then take

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01:52:29,120 --> 01:52:32,960
Speaker 1: a couple of more liberties because of their immobility to

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01:52:33,400 --> 01:52:35,439
Speaker 1: really scramble and get outside of them, so you don't

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01:52:35,479 --> 01:52:38,040
Speaker 1: really worry as much. Last one for me, Zoe, and

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01:52:38,080 --> 01:52:39,719
Speaker 1: I know, because I know you did a little prep

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01:52:39,760 --> 01:52:41,840
Speaker 1: on this, I'm gonna ask you about it. The Washington

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01:52:41,880 --> 01:52:47,839
Speaker 1: Tampa game. I am intrigued by what that Washington defensive

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01:52:47,840 --> 01:52:51,360
Speaker 1: front can do to make life difficult for Brady. We

2146
01:52:51,520 --> 01:52:54,080
Speaker 1: know that he lost two Super Bowls because of two

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01:52:54,200 --> 01:52:56,479
Speaker 1: really good giants pass rushes. They were able to get

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01:52:56,479 --> 01:52:59,720
Speaker 1: pressure on him and made life difficult for him. I

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01:52:59,720 --> 01:53:02,479
Speaker 1: think this Washington front is capable of doing the same thing.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, yeah, they definitely are. I

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01:53:06,200 --> 01:53:08,880
Speaker 1: mean everybody's you know, it's gonna give note to Chase

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01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:11,160
Speaker 1: Young in my tests where the guys that really leaded

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01:53:11,200 --> 01:53:12,800
Speaker 1: off the edge. But this game is really going to

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01:53:12,840 --> 01:53:15,120
Speaker 1: come down to similar We just talked about Philip Rivers,

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01:53:15,120 --> 01:53:17,720
Speaker 1: those interior guys being able to push the pocket. You know,

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01:53:17,760 --> 01:53:21,080
Speaker 1: you think about Settle, Payne and Alan and what they're

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01:53:21,080 --> 01:53:23,080
Speaker 1: going to be able to do and be dominant up front,

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01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:25,439
Speaker 1: and then you know even on the back end. I

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01:53:25,479 --> 01:53:27,320
Speaker 1: think they match up well too. And it's good they

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01:53:27,360 --> 01:53:30,519
Speaker 1: have Kendall Fuller and Ronald Darby both guys who've had

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Speaker 1: success against Tom Brady as far as winning and being

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01:53:32,800 --> 01:53:36,000
Speaker 1: part of teams that you know, Derby with the Eagles,

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01:53:36,320 --> 01:53:39,360
Speaker 1: kindle with k C and so they understand what's going

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01:53:39,439 --> 01:53:42,040
Speaker 1: on too, and so I don't think they will be

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01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:44,559
Speaker 1: intimidated by Tom Brady, and they will really focus on

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01:53:44,600 --> 01:53:47,040
Speaker 1: their matchups. But with those guys being able to cover

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01:53:47,080 --> 01:53:48,799
Speaker 1: and those guys up from be able to push the pocket,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be I think they're going to give some

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01:53:50,920 --> 01:53:53,720
Speaker 1: fits to Tampa Bay. Now, whether not they they're able

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Speaker 1: to sustain that something different because they are a young

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01:53:55,880 --> 01:53:58,880
Speaker 1: football team and their biggest probably at Keene's here, they

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01:53:58,880 --> 01:54:01,280
Speaker 1: do have some young guys coming on strong. Think about

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01:54:01,320 --> 01:54:03,880
Speaker 1: Cam Curl, a seven round draft pick that really has

2174
01:54:03,920 --> 01:54:06,599
Speaker 1: been balling out several turnovers the last couple of weeks

2175
01:54:06,600 --> 01:54:09,559
Speaker 1: playing safety. How does he adapt to playing Tom Brady.

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01:54:09,640 --> 01:54:11,120
Speaker 1: Is he going to be a deer in headlights because

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Speaker 1: he's looking at the greatness of Tom Brady, or is

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01:54:13,360 --> 01:54:14,760
Speaker 1: he going to be able to rely on some of

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Speaker 1: that mentorship from those two corners who have played against

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01:54:18,080 --> 01:54:20,040
Speaker 1: him and say, hey man, it's tom Brady's back there.

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01:54:20,080 --> 01:54:22,640
Speaker 1: But hey, he's just a dude, we can stop him.

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01:54:22,720 --> 01:54:25,360
Speaker 1: I've done it before. Hey, let's wash his taper, Let's

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01:54:25,400 --> 01:54:28,960
Speaker 1: get after him. So I'm actually excited about it from

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01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:31,439
Speaker 1: that perspective. And then we'll hopefully we see if alex

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01:54:31,479 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 1: Smith can stay healthy for the entire game, because he

2186
01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:37,240
Speaker 1: did hurt his calf on the same leg. He came

2187
01:54:37,240 --> 01:54:40,000
Speaker 1: out hot, but that calf just couldn't stay warm and

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01:54:40,040 --> 01:54:41,600
Speaker 1: he couldn't be the same guy. And if they have

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01:54:41,640 --> 01:54:43,960
Speaker 1: to go to Taylor, Honikey, I just don't know if

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01:54:43,960 --> 01:54:46,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna have enough to keep up the calf base,

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01:54:46,880 --> 01:54:49,400
Speaker 1: gonna score some points, and so the offense has to

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Speaker 1: help the defense kind of help play a complimentary football

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Speaker 1: game in this instance. Lorenzo, thanks, Man's good seeing you

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01:54:55,880 --> 01:54:58,120
Speaker 1: have a great weekend and you know, take a break

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01:54:58,120 --> 01:55:00,200
Speaker 1: from the football once in a while. But I know

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Speaker 1: where you'll be Saturday. Yeah, good stuff, man, Thanks, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Guys. All right, we'll see you, Zoe.

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Speaker 1: That's Lorenzo Alexander with the lowdown, not only on the

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Speaker 1: Colts and the Bills, but he's gonna be keeping a

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01:55:13,680 --> 01:55:16,400
Speaker 1: close eye because he does stuff for Washington with the

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Speaker 1: Washington Tampa game. I just selfishly, I'd like to see

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Speaker 1: Washington's defensive line give Brady fits. There's nothing that brings

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Speaker 1: me more pleasure than watching Tom Brady pouting on a

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Speaker 1: football field. I love it, like I can't get enough

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01:55:29,520 --> 01:55:32,320
Speaker 1: of it. It's like candy. Just keep giving me more,

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01:55:32,840 --> 01:55:35,080
Speaker 1: keep giving me, give me lob another one in here, right,

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01:55:35,120 --> 01:55:39,680
Speaker 1: Like love seeing him pouting and whining to the officials.

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01:55:40,120 --> 01:55:42,280
Speaker 1: It just it fills me with such good energy. I

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Speaker 1: can't even describe it. Fantastic. It'll be nice too, because

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a game that happens, you know, after

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo game. I liked the Buffalo game goes first.

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Speaker 1: That one is the primetime game Tomorrow night, eight fifteen,

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers at the Washington Football Team unbelievable to seven

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01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:00,480
Speaker 1: and nine. Team gets to host a play off game.

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01:56:00,520 --> 01:56:02,520
Speaker 1: But right, but if there's one thing that they have

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Speaker 1: that's playoff caliber, it's their pass rush. I mean, that's

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01:56:05,120 --> 01:56:07,360
Speaker 1: that's right. That's all first round picks. They got some

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01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,920
Speaker 1: guys up there are they They passed the eye tests.

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01:56:10,000 --> 01:56:12,640
Speaker 1: And then at the four tomorrow one oh five Colts

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Speaker 1: at Bills. Then at four forty the Rams at the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks for the third time this season, and of course

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers at Washington tomorrow night. So all right, break

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Speaker 1: time for us, But when we return, it'll be time

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Speaker 1: for our team Reporters segment as Maddie Glad will be

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01:56:28,240 --> 01:56:31,520
Speaker 1: joined by Colts reporter Laura Overton. That's coming your way

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Speaker 1: next here on one Bills Live, presented by Collid to Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio four quarter off by minute. I

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01:56:48,480 --> 01:56:51,560
Speaker 1: like us, we're here. We ball fell night was starting

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01:56:51,600 --> 01:56:55,040
Speaker 1: where this Josh Allen, He's got to get a lot

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01:56:55,080 --> 01:56:59,920
Speaker 1: of skill down Buffalo Funny. Maybe the big singletary is sitting.

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01:57:00,040 --> 01:57:06,240
Speaker 1: I want to go fifty one. What a place who

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01:57:06,280 --> 01:57:09,920
Speaker 1: looks like they're having more fun than the Buffalo Bills.

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01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:13,760
Speaker 1: Pretty much unstoppable right now, this is all coming together

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01:57:13,800 --> 01:57:17,040
Speaker 1: at the right time, trying to get you hike for

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01:57:17,120 --> 01:57:20,360
Speaker 1: the playoff game tomorrow, as we are less than twenty

2236
01:57:20,360 --> 01:57:23,560
Speaker 1: four hours away from kickoff of the first home playoff

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01:57:23,600 --> 01:57:26,960
Speaker 1: game for the Bills since the nineteen ninety six season.

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Speaker 1: Amazing time now for our weekly segment though with our

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Speaker 1: colleague Mandy glab In. This week's team's reporters Manny catches

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Speaker 1: up with reporter Laura Overton. Lara, thank you so much

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01:57:39,360 --> 01:57:41,080
Speaker 1: for taking the time to be with us and to

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01:57:41,160 --> 01:57:44,480
Speaker 1: help me preview this matchup between the Bills and Colts

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01:57:44,480 --> 01:57:47,760
Speaker 1: on Saturday, because surely it's going to be an epic matchup.

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01:57:47,840 --> 01:57:51,240
Speaker 1: It's the first game of the playoffs of Super wild

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01:57:51,320 --> 01:57:54,200
Speaker 1: Card weekend, and what a great matchup it will be.

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01:57:54,280 --> 01:57:56,880
Speaker 1: And when you're looking at this game, Lara, what are

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01:57:56,920 --> 01:57:59,280
Speaker 1: some of the things that you are expecting to see

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01:57:59,440 --> 01:58:03,160
Speaker 1: from both teams? And these are two very balanced teams

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Speaker 1: on offense and defense. Well honored to be joining you

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Speaker 1: and so excited for this weekend, a full weekend of football,

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01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:13,919
Speaker 1: and always exciting to see Frank Reich go back to Buffalo.

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01:58:14,080 --> 01:58:17,680
Speaker 1: Certainly a place, a fan base, a franchise that is

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01:58:17,760 --> 01:58:19,680
Speaker 1: near and dear to him and his family. He has

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01:58:19,760 --> 01:58:23,280
Speaker 1: so much appreciation, respect, and of course familiarity with the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills organizations. So that makes it such a special

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01:58:26,400 --> 01:58:29,320
Speaker 1: game amid all of the other storylines that we could

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Speaker 1: talk about. But you know, you mentioned just how complete

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01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:35,160
Speaker 1: each of these teams are. Buffalo is so hot right now.

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01:58:35,160 --> 01:58:36,520
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know that there is a hotter

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01:58:36,600 --> 01:58:40,680
Speaker 1: team entering the postseason than the Bills with this very dynamic,

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01:58:40,720 --> 01:58:43,560
Speaker 1: high powered offense that they have. And I asked coach

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01:58:43,600 --> 01:58:47,800
Speaker 1: Reich this week if there's any offense that his defense

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01:58:47,960 --> 01:58:50,400
Speaker 1: matched up with over the course of the regular season,

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01:58:50,520 --> 01:58:53,760
Speaker 1: you can draw upon some of that experience, and he

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01:58:53,840 --> 01:58:56,960
Speaker 1: noted that there's really no blueprint for exactly what Buffalo

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01:58:57,040 --> 01:58:59,440
Speaker 1: is able to do and to do so well because

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01:58:59,480 --> 01:59:02,600
Speaker 1: of the well of weapons that they have offensively, the

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01:59:02,760 --> 01:59:05,440
Speaker 1: talent that there is on this roster. What he said, though,

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Speaker 1: is there are some similarities and what Buffalo does in

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01:59:08,320 --> 01:59:10,839
Speaker 1: their passing game that we've seen, some things that Buffalo

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01:59:10,880 --> 01:59:13,440
Speaker 1: does in their run game that they can draw upon.

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01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:16,400
Speaker 1: So you kind of collectively take a matchup mash up

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Speaker 1: rather of all those different things, and you can draw

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01:59:18,760 --> 01:59:21,120
Speaker 1: upon some of those things when you are kind of

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01:59:21,120 --> 01:59:25,520
Speaker 1: scouting and game planning, But really no one replicates what

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01:59:25,560 --> 01:59:29,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo has done and has done so well consistently over

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01:59:29,120 --> 01:59:31,360
Speaker 1: the course of the regular season to be at thirteen

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Speaker 1: and three and enter the postseason at the number two

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01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:36,880
Speaker 1: seed in the AFC, that high powered scoring offense that

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Speaker 1: they have. What I expect most is a really physical

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01:59:40,320 --> 01:59:43,400
Speaker 1: football game. First and foremost, I expect both of these

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01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:46,080
Speaker 1: teams to come in wanting to establish their run game

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01:59:46,120 --> 01:59:49,120
Speaker 1: early on, even with as dynamic of a quarterback as

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01:59:49,200 --> 01:59:51,440
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is and you know the weapons that he

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01:59:51,480 --> 01:59:53,760
Speaker 1: hasn't have. Passing game led by Stefan Digs, I really

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01:59:53,800 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 1: think that it's all going to come down to establishing

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01:59:55,920 --> 01:59:58,520
Speaker 1: the run game, and the Colts put a heavy emphasis

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01:59:58,520 --> 02:00:01,720
Speaker 1: on trying to stop the run first and foremost. Certainly

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Speaker 1: want to point out that of all of the battles,

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Speaker 1: a lot of things that you can draw up on

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Speaker 1: in terms of a Colts defense that has been very

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02:00:08,920 --> 02:00:11,480
Speaker 1: stingy over the course of twenty twenty, and then of

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02:00:11,520 --> 02:00:15,040
Speaker 1: course the Buffalo Bills being number two and overall offense.

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Speaker 1: But to me, it's the battle in the trenches that

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02:00:17,200 --> 02:00:20,400
Speaker 1: this is going to be central, and winning that battle

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02:00:20,440 --> 02:00:22,840
Speaker 1: early on that's going to have implications for how this

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02:00:22,880 --> 02:00:26,720
Speaker 1: game plays out. Yeah, I completely agree with that. The

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02:00:26,760 --> 02:00:29,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills have had such an explosive offense so far

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Speaker 1: this season, and the Colts have had a really tough

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Speaker 1: defense and a hard defense to beat all season. And

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Speaker 1: you look at the games that they want and the

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Speaker 1: big games, the games against the Packers and the Titans,

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Speaker 1: and it's come down to the defense and how well

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Speaker 1: they can stop those high powered offenses. So it's something

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Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to. I know the Bills have

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02:00:49,440 --> 02:00:52,320
Speaker 1: struggled with stopping the run earlier in the season, but

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Speaker 1: as of late, they've been allowing under a hundred rushing

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Speaker 1: yards a game, so I think that should bode well

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Speaker 1: for them. But again, you can't really prepare for a

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Speaker 1: running back like Jonathan Taylor and how explosive he has

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Speaker 1: been in the last five weeks to end the regular season.

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Speaker 1: So there's just so many things that stick out about

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Speaker 1: this game that I'm going to be really interested interested

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Speaker 1: to see how it plays out in real time. But

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the Colts defense. I mean the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner. You have three defensive linemen who have at

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Speaker 1: least seven and a half sacks each. That's not something

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Speaker 1: that happens every single year for a defensive line, especially

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Speaker 1: with three guys with that high of a number. For me, Mattie,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this Colds defense really hinges on being opportunistic.

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Speaker 1: That's the word that matt eber Flews throws around an

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Speaker 1: awful lot. You know, in terms of takeaways, their top

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Speaker 1: five in the league, one of the top two teams

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Speaker 1: in terms of turnover turnover differential. They force a lot

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Speaker 1: of turnovers, they force interceptions, they affect the quarterback. As

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, you know DeForrest Buckner leading that charge. Nine

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Speaker 1: and a half sacks for Deforce Buckner, a franchise record

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Speaker 1: in terms of a defensive tackle. So that's a huge

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Speaker 1: number for me to look upon. Is those games where

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Speaker 1: they have won the turnover differential, that turnover margin has

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Speaker 1: been in the favor of the Indianapolis Colts, and the

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Speaker 1: Colts offense has taken care of the football. That is

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Speaker 1: going to be really where this comes down to in

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Speaker 1: terms of playing out this game and who's going to

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Speaker 1: have the advantage, who's going to have the lead in

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Speaker 1: this game. Is if this Colts defense can force some

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Speaker 1: mistakes and come up and get points off of turnovers,

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Speaker 1: that is going to be a difference maker in terms

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Speaker 1: of trying to get pressure on this offense and then

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Speaker 1: capitalize on that pressure putting points on the board. Defensively.

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Speaker 1: I also think it's really interesting how this defense and

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Speaker 1: defensive line is able to pressure the quarterback and get

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Speaker 1: to the quarterback over the last since Week twelve, the

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02:02:51,080 --> 02:02:54,840
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts tie for six with eighteen sacks, but they

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Speaker 1: were blitzing at the lowest rate in the NFL at

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Speaker 1: fifteen point five percent blitz, right, And I think it's

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02:03:00,720 --> 02:03:03,840
Speaker 1: so interesting that they're able to affect the quarterback but

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Speaker 1: blitz so little. And it means that there their front

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02:03:07,880 --> 02:03:11,640
Speaker 1: three front four guys are doing the bulk of the work,

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02:03:11,800 --> 02:03:14,320
Speaker 1: so then you have your back end to be able

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Speaker 1: to cover the wide receivers like Stefon Diggs, like John

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02:03:17,680 --> 02:03:21,080
Speaker 1: Brown and really shut down an offense. So it just

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Speaker 1: speaks to how well that defensive line, that front seven

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Speaker 1: sometimes has been able to do. And yeah, Matt eberflus

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Speaker 1: Is is a hot name right now in the NFL,

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02:03:31,720 --> 02:03:35,600
Speaker 1: as is the Buffalo Bill's offensive coinator, Brian dave Ball.

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Speaker 1: Where you're seeing their names thrown around so much on

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Speaker 1: Twitter if you check out timelines and reporters and national

2359
02:03:43,520 --> 02:03:47,240
Speaker 1: media analysts naming those two for a lot of head

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Speaker 1: coaching potential jobs. As as the playoffs come to a

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Speaker 1: close the weeks to come, we'll see how it unfolds

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Speaker 1: for those two guys. But I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: a player who is a well known veteran in this league.

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Speaker 1: Gets Philip Rivers, I mean he comes to this team

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Speaker 1: and brings a wealth of knowledge and wisdom in his

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Speaker 1: playing days, playing in eleven different playoff games. What has

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Speaker 1: he meant to this Colts offense this season. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: the guy who you love to have on your own roster,

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02:04:22,840 --> 02:04:24,960
Speaker 1: but you don't like playing against him, right. The Colts

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02:04:25,240 --> 02:04:28,600
Speaker 1: fan base was very familiar with having to face Philip Rivers,

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Speaker 1: of course when he was previously with the Chargers, so

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Speaker 1: there were some infamous battles of course in his Charger's career,

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Speaker 1: going up against Indianapolis. And overall, since Philip has come

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Speaker 1: in in twenty twenty and the twenty twenty season now

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Speaker 1: continuing into twenty twenty one, he really brings so much confidence,

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Speaker 1: so much presence. Philip has completely opened up this offensive playbook.

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Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, the Colts really struggled with explosive plays.

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Speaker 1: They had that rushing attack led by Marlon Mack. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you had Ty Hilton doing t Y Hilton type of things.

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Speaker 1: You had Eric Ebron at that point and as well

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Speaker 1: leading that tight end contingent, and that's something that Frank

2382
02:05:04,840 --> 02:05:07,880
Speaker 1: Reich offense is always heavily utilized. You know they're tight ends,

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Speaker 1: but you really lacked that downfield passing game. So that's it.

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Speaker 1: Who I'd look at this just offensive playbook and schematically,

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Speaker 1: that's one thing that Philip has been able to do

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Speaker 1: is really open up that playbook, opened up more of

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Speaker 1: those chunk plays for guys like t Y Hilton and

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02:05:21,640 --> 02:05:25,400
Speaker 1: Zach Pascal, who have been pivotal in terms of late

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02:05:25,440 --> 02:05:28,680
Speaker 1: in particular this scoring offense. So I'm gonna go back

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Speaker 1: to though, overall, its presence and command that being a

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02:05:31,760 --> 02:05:36,080
Speaker 1: seventeen year veteran brings to an offense, his confidence and

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02:05:36,200 --> 02:05:39,280
Speaker 1: ability at the line of scrimmage, the checks, the reads,

2393
02:05:39,360 --> 02:05:43,000
Speaker 1: his vision so much that I mean nothing really he

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02:05:43,040 --> 02:05:45,360
Speaker 1: has not seen. It's hard to think of anything Philip

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02:05:45,440 --> 02:05:49,520
Speaker 1: Rivers probably hasn't come across or experienced over seventeen years

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02:05:49,520 --> 02:05:51,600
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So I'm going to say the ability

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Speaker 1: to put the offense in the right positions for them

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02:05:54,320 --> 02:05:56,960
Speaker 1: in the right place to be productive. That's the result

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Speaker 1: of an eleven and five regular season under Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: That's what a lot of the Bills defenders have been

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02:06:03,640 --> 02:06:06,400
Speaker 1: saying to media this week is that it's hard to

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02:06:06,440 --> 02:06:09,520
Speaker 1: trick Philip Rivers. It's hard to disguise things for him

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02:06:09,560 --> 02:06:13,240
Speaker 1: because it's his seventeenth season and he's pretty much seen

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Speaker 1: it all. So he's really good at being able to

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02:06:16,120 --> 02:06:18,400
Speaker 1: tell what a defense is doing and if they're trying

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Speaker 1: to disguise something. So that's another thing that I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to in this matchup. But continuing with the Colts offense,

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02:06:25,800 --> 02:06:28,920
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is a hot rookie who a lot of

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02:06:28,960 --> 02:06:32,680
Speaker 1: people were looking at coming out of college football and

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Speaker 1: into the NFL being a Wisconsin running back, just thinking

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Speaker 1: like this is a total Wisconsin type player. This guy

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Speaker 1: runs hard. When he gets that second level, it's really

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Speaker 1: tough to take him down. And in the last six

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Speaker 1: weeks he's definitely proven that. I mean, he has over

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Speaker 1: a thousand rushing yards, eleven rushing touchdowns, which is ties

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Speaker 1: for the most for all rookies this season, and putting

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Speaker 1: up the numbers that he did in that final regular

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Speaker 1: season game at two hundred and fifty three rushing yards.

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Speaker 1: How has he been able to have such a successful

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02:07:05,400 --> 02:07:09,200
Speaker 1: second half of the season. It's really funny because a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, a lot of the beat writers in

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Speaker 1: media availability would ask Coachike about a perceived quote unquote

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Speaker 1: lack of success in the rushing attack in that first

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Speaker 1: half of the season, because obviously, coming out of twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: you saw Marlon Mack have the production that he did,

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Speaker 1: and everyone kind of expected it would be plug and play,

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Speaker 1: that you would pick right up where you left off,

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Speaker 1: And you know, there's something to be said for the

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Speaker 1: fact that you didn't think Jonathan Taylor was going to

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Speaker 1: be your bell cow back week two of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: After we lose Marlin Mac week one torn achilles. He's

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Speaker 1: out the remainder of the year. So one of the

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Speaker 1: things that coach Reich pointed to is why while overall

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Speaker 1: maybe you didn't see those really impressive stats, like the

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Speaker 1: total yardage wasn't that outstanding. He really felt that the

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Speaker 1: yards per carry were pretty efficient and they were still

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Speaker 1: at that point early on distributing the ball, working around.

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02:08:00,680 --> 02:08:02,800
Speaker 1: A lot of balls were still going to niahem Hines,

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Speaker 1: which they will in certain scenarios continue. He's a big

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Speaker 1: point of emphasis. He's a big priority situationally for the

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02:08:10,120 --> 02:08:12,880
Speaker 1: Skults offense, who also had Jordan Wilkins coming in, because well,

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Speaker 1: I think what you were trying to do is not

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02:08:15,240 --> 02:08:19,040
Speaker 1: completely thrust Jonathan into having that pressure on his shoulders

2444
02:08:19,240 --> 02:08:21,200
Speaker 1: from the very beginning. You wanted to still kind of

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02:08:21,280 --> 02:08:24,440
Speaker 1: keep him fresh, allow him to gain confidence running behind

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Speaker 1: this offensive line, getting up to speed with the playbook,

2447
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:29,960
Speaker 1: and adapt to the NFL game. We always hear rookie

2448
02:08:30,080 --> 02:08:31,880
Speaker 1: is talk about, you know, the game so fast, you

2449
02:08:31,880 --> 02:08:34,920
Speaker 1: have to find that breakthrough opportunity when the game begins

2450
02:08:34,920 --> 02:08:37,839
Speaker 1: to slow down. And so he's obviously proven that ability

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02:08:38,080 --> 02:08:40,640
Speaker 1: to carry a heavy workload. You mentioned this Wisconsin career,

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Speaker 1: he rushed for over six thousand yards, you know, in

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Speaker 1: three seasons. But he really was kind of in that

2454
02:08:46,160 --> 02:08:49,720
Speaker 1: balanced rushing attack. He was that piece, that complimentary piece

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02:08:49,800 --> 02:08:53,520
Speaker 1: to this offense alongside Nahem and Jordan. So once they

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02:08:53,600 --> 02:08:56,960
Speaker 1: gained confidence in terms of he grasped the understanding the

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02:08:56,960 --> 02:08:59,800
Speaker 1: game started to slow down. He really spent a ton

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02:08:59,800 --> 02:09:03,200
Speaker 1: of time watching film, working with Tom Rothman. I think

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02:09:03,200 --> 02:09:06,440
Speaker 1: that it is the lack of off season. It just

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02:09:06,480 --> 02:09:08,400
Speaker 1: took him a while to get there to that point

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02:09:08,440 --> 02:09:12,120
Speaker 1: where he had the confidence and then the patients in

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02:09:12,160 --> 02:09:14,920
Speaker 1: the run game to allow those holes to open up.

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Speaker 1: And then of course you mentioned he's a really tough

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02:09:17,520 --> 02:09:21,000
Speaker 1: guy to take down yards after contact. He's great. It'll

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02:09:21,040 --> 02:09:23,840
Speaker 1: be great to see Frank Riker turned to Buffalo. I

2466
02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:26,160
Speaker 1: know he was cheering for the Bills to win in

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Speaker 1: week seventeen. That's not going to be the case on Saturday, though.

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Speaker 1: But Lara, thank you so much for taking the time

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Speaker 1: to break down this matchup with me. So much insight

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02:09:35,960 --> 02:09:38,400
Speaker 1: from you. I learned so much. I hope our listeners

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Speaker 1: do too. All Right, that's Maddie Glab with Lara Overton,

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Speaker 1: the Colts reporter, in our Team Reporters segment. We have

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Speaker 1: to take a break, but when we come back, we'll

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Speaker 1: be closing things up with what have we learned? As

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Speaker 1: we get ready for Bills Colts wild card kickoff less

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Speaker 1: than twenty four hours away. Are you ready for wild

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Speaker 1: Card weekend? We're ready. We'll be back in a minute.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, people, it's time for

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Speaker 1: what have we Learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the

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Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. I

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Speaker 1: think we've learned that we're all pretty amped up for

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Speaker 1: this one. First home playoff game in twenty five years

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Speaker 1: and joining us in that sentiment going down to my

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02:10:34,960 --> 02:10:36,920
Speaker 1: old stopping grounds. Here we're gonna go to John in

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Speaker 1: New York. Who's pumped up for this one? John? What

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live, Yes,

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02:10:44,320 --> 02:10:48,680
Speaker 1: a long time bill span started nineteen seventy four by heads. Well,

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02:10:48,680 --> 02:10:52,720
Speaker 1: I started nineteen sixty nineteen seventy four. I had season

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Speaker 1: tickets for three years when OJ was playing, and then

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02:10:57,000 --> 02:11:03,560
Speaker 1: I was able towards ten the Raiders game in the Bills,

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02:11:03,600 --> 02:11:06,080
Speaker 1: the playoff game when we won fifty one to three.

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Speaker 1: And I'll remember about that game is I think was

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02:11:08,680 --> 02:11:11,880
Speaker 1: the first series of play. The Bills marched right down

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Speaker 1: the field and one of the defensive players for the

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02:11:14,280 --> 02:11:16,800
Speaker 1: Raiders looked over at the coach, put his hands out

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Speaker 1: to his side with the palms up and said, what

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02:11:19,480 --> 02:11:23,680
Speaker 1: do we do to Stotton coach? And then I also

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Speaker 1: got to go to the Washington Red Kids Super Bowl game.

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Speaker 1: My brother and I drove out to Minnesota. I'm coming back.

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02:11:32,400 --> 02:11:36,040
Speaker 1: It was an awful long ride. Well yeah, yeah, but

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Speaker 1: all I can say is I've really enjoy your show.

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02:11:38,680 --> 02:11:42,320
Speaker 1: You and Steve are just great and I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the Bills winning tomorrow, and it's just been a

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Speaker 1: really great season. All The other thing I wanted to

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Speaker 1: mention is, would be really nice to see the stats

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Speaker 1: for all the teams we're in the playoffs for just

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Speaker 1: the last six weeks. It'd be really interesting to see

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Speaker 1: those stats. Your window. Yeah, I have a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Oh John, look at this. You ask and you shall

2511
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Speaker 1: receive one. Steve Tasker is more than prepared for the

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Speaker 1: broadcast tomorrow. Let's say, since let's just say, for the

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Speaker 1: offer for the Bills offense last well, the last nine weeks.

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Speaker 1: Since Week nine, their first in the NFL with thirty

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02:12:19,080 --> 02:12:21,280
Speaker 1: seven point nine points a game, second in the NFL

2516
02:12:21,360 --> 02:12:23,800
Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty two point nine yards per game,

2517
02:12:23,840 --> 02:12:25,800
Speaker 1: and second in the NFL with three hundred and fourteen

2518
02:12:25,840 --> 02:12:29,480
Speaker 1: passing yards per game. Since Week twelve, twelve through seventeen,

2519
02:12:29,640 --> 02:12:33,160
Speaker 1: it's thirty eight point two points per game, a plus

2520
02:12:33,200 --> 02:12:37,280
Speaker 1: one hundred and nineteen point differential and plus six hundred

2521
02:12:37,280 --> 02:12:41,560
Speaker 1: and seventy five yard differential between them and their opponents.

2522
02:12:41,560 --> 02:12:43,720
Speaker 1: And I'll give you one more number, because much has

2523
02:12:43,760 --> 02:12:45,960
Speaker 1: been made about how the Bills on offense have been.

2524
02:12:46,000 --> 02:12:48,040
Speaker 1: The number one team in the league on third down

2525
02:12:48,080 --> 02:12:52,400
Speaker 1: conversions at about fifty percent conversion rate for the entire season.

2526
02:12:53,280 --> 02:12:58,160
Speaker 1: Stephen the last four weeks Buffalo's third down defense third

2527
02:12:58,200 --> 02:13:03,600
Speaker 1: in the league, giving up conversion percentage of twenty eight percent.

2528
02:13:03,880 --> 02:13:06,560
Speaker 1: At his miniscume for the season, they're tied. They're second

2529
02:13:06,560 --> 02:13:09,280
Speaker 1: in points per games, tied for second with yards per game,

2530
02:13:09,400 --> 02:13:13,160
Speaker 1: third in passing yards per game um, their first in

2531
02:13:13,320 --> 02:13:16,800
Speaker 1: fourth down conversions, and tied for second with twenty yard

2532
02:13:16,840 --> 02:13:19,960
Speaker 1: plus plays. They're six in the league and average yards

2533
02:13:20,000 --> 02:13:24,040
Speaker 1: per play goal to running the ball a lot better

2534
02:13:24,040 --> 02:13:26,520
Speaker 1: in their last six games as well, too, and that's

2535
02:13:26,600 --> 02:13:30,120
Speaker 1: due in part to Jonathan's Tis set a team record

2536
02:13:30,200 --> 02:13:32,120
Speaker 1: for points in a season, beating Steve Christie with one

2537
02:13:32,160 --> 02:13:34,520
Speaker 1: hundred forty one points. The kicking game could come into

2538
02:13:34,520 --> 02:13:37,960
Speaker 1: play this weekend. Two rookie kickers. Bass has the edge

2539
02:13:37,960 --> 02:13:41,680
Speaker 1: in leg strength by a mile Rodrigo Blankenship only one

2540
02:13:41,800 --> 02:13:45,120
Speaker 1: successful field goal over forty five yards could be the difference.

2541
02:13:45,160 --> 02:13:47,040
Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see. Join Steve and I

2542
02:13:47,120 --> 02:13:49,240
Speaker 1: on the round table tomorrow on the Bills Radio Network

2543
02:13:49,280 --> 02:13:51,840
Speaker 1: at eleven. Otherwise, we'll see you on Monday, when we're

2544
02:13:51,840 --> 02:13:59,840
Speaker 1: hopefully celebrating a victory,