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Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all all of

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Speaker 1: dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're

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Speaker 1: not even in the strated beer of normalcy. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. It's Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 1: Got a entertaining show lined up for you today, which

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Speaker 1: we will get to in a second in terms of

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Speaker 1: the lineup and some of the things we'll be discussing today.

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Speaker 1: But we are steadily turning the page to the AFC

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Speaker 1: title game between the Bills and Chiefs, and as many

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Speaker 1: of you know, these two teams faced each other once

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Speaker 1: before back in Week six. Interesting note here, Steve, that

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Speaker 1: I just found out today the Bucks and the Packers

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Speaker 1: this weekend. They also played each other in week six.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a weird scheduling anomaly. Bucks blew them out, Yes,

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Speaker 1: yes they did. Bill Rogers did not have a great game.

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Speaker 1: They scored first, or they thought that, I think they

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Speaker 1: scored first, but Bills lost by nine to the Chiefs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it was like, what was it thirty to ten

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Speaker 1: or something like that? What was that you're talking about

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Speaker 1: the Bucks Bucks game. Yeah, I don't remember the score

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Speaker 1: Mine's taking a while. Thirty eight ten, thirty eight ten,

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Bucks crushed the Green Bay Packers. I

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Speaker 1: think you twenty six seventeen Bills Chiefs, right. I think

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Speaker 1: you can make the argument that the Bucks might be

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Speaker 1: the more well rounded team then the Packers um more

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Speaker 1: it's Yeah, the big picture where they they're you know,

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Speaker 1: YadA YadA ya, with that big one receiver and DeVante

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're receiving corps goes as deep as Buffalo's.

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Speaker 1: combination of Zadarius Smith and Preston Smith is impressive. The

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Speaker 1: of late. So that's going to be a compelling game.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a nice leadoff on the weekend because that

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Speaker 1: to Championship weekend. It's one of my favorite football weekends

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Speaker 1: of the entire year. I almost and I do enjoy

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Speaker 1: it more than the Super Bowl. First of all, you

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Speaker 1: you're laying it if you're in it. Yeah, it's your

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Speaker 1: favorite day. Yeah are you kidding me? Of course that

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Speaker 1: become a national holiday in this country. That weekend may

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Speaker 1: have to be set aside as as a national holiday

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Speaker 1: because it is the absolute best, absolute best, six standalone

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Speaker 1: eight hundred pound gorilla in television programming hard to beat? Man?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, it's been so beat And even last weekend

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Speaker 1: The funny thing was the coordinators were doing their press

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Speaker 1: think about it, McDermot, you've been a nine of these. Okay,

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Speaker 1: ready to play well? Right? Don't forget mcdermot's been to

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Speaker 1: our plan. Right. The experience of having been to so

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Speaker 1: And a lot of the guys on that on the

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Speaker 1: You've got to start drawing some comparing comparing contrasts. Right,

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Speaker 1: Dabele has only been an NFL coach for twenty years

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Speaker 1: and nine times he's gone that's come on, man, and

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Speaker 1: that it's it grabs your man's rough. Yeah, you're you're incapacitated.

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Speaker 1: that's not a big deal. No, you just get hydrated

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Speaker 1: beginning of the season. I mean, you know, the Bills,

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Speaker 1: they show up and they take on the Jet, the Jets.

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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, they win by ten. Nice, you know

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Speaker 1: that first month the season bills are four and oz

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Speaker 1: and they beat the Rams and the Raiders and back

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Speaker 1: to back and scored. They scored thirty one, thirty five

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Speaker 1: and thirty. I mean they're scoring and twenty seven against

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Speaker 1: the Jets. I mean they not once last year? Did

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Speaker 1: they do that? Yeah? Not once? And Josh, remember Josh

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Speaker 1: was sprinkling three hundred, three hundred four ten, three hundred

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Speaker 1: four touchdowns four touchdowns. It was unbelievable. Yeah, we didn't

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Speaker 1: even know. We had no clue what we were going

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Speaker 1: to get now, and that was and that was because

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Speaker 1: of the change in chemistry we've been talking about now

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Speaker 1: and I get it. I mean certain guys are a

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Speaker 1: big part of it. I mean, when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: a nice bowl at chili, the ground beef is important.

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Speaker 1: Josh is the ground beef in the offense. If you

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Speaker 1: take him out, everything's done and the same thing, chilly right,

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Speaker 1: same thing with a coordinator. Day ball is a main ingredient.

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Speaker 1: McDermott is a main ingredient. Now you can you know,

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Speaker 1: you can sprinkle in a little salt and maybe change

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Speaker 1: out somebody, but like an offensive lineman here and there,

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Speaker 1: which they did all year, but I'm telling you, man,

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Speaker 1: they they've got to be just doing cart wheels over

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Speaker 1: the fact that they're coaching stask I think pretty happy

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Speaker 1: with that now. Leslie Fraser is still up in the

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Speaker 1: airs to whether or not he'll be offered the Texans

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Speaker 1: head coaching job because he's in the mix down there

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Speaker 1: along with the Chiefs. So see Eric the Enemy, who

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Speaker 1: just interviewed yesterday with special permission from both the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and the league because the window was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: shut after Sunday for teams still in the playoffs to

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Speaker 1: have their coordinator's interview. But I think is so dead

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Speaker 1: set on trying to help Eric the Enemy get a

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Speaker 1: job he let him do the interview on Monday, even

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Speaker 1: though the window by league rules closed on Sunday. So

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Speaker 1: interesting he's trying. And you know, Andy Reid was even

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Speaker 1: asked about b Enemy yesterday or a stun that the

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Speaker 1: guy still doesn't have a job, and you look at

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid, he just looked exasperated, like I don't know

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Speaker 1: what else I got to do. So then he talks about,

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Speaker 1: you know what he thinks of Eric bi Enemy as

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Speaker 1: a coach, probably for the twentieth time, and he finishes

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Speaker 1: with I wish my son could have been coached by

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Speaker 1: Eric B. Enemy. Now, this is a guy that's won

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Speaker 1: like two hundred and sixty games at the NFL level,

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Speaker 1: lost his son and lost his son. So saying something

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Speaker 1: like that, like what more does Andy Reid have to

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Speaker 1: do to convince you this guy is head coaching the tier.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Yeah, And I'll say this

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Speaker 1: and the guy and Eric B. Enemy is fifty one, Steve.

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Speaker 1: He's not like one of these thirty seven or thirty

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Speaker 1: eight year olds getting these heads. He's fifty one. The

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Speaker 1: guy has been ready for ten years. Yeah. It's the

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Speaker 1: only time that BI Enemy actually resurfaced on my radar

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Speaker 1: was the last couple of years in Kansas City. I

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Speaker 1: had I knew, you know, he was a running back

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Speaker 1: in my era, right, actually was young in my era

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Speaker 1: and Cincinnati, so I was like, uh okay, and you

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Speaker 1: stayed in it. The first time I've ever heard him

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Speaker 1: speak was post Super Bowl on the field. It's still

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Speaker 1: on social media if you want to go look at it.

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Speaker 1: Um Eric B. Enemy in a postgame interview after the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They started talking to him about his team

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Speaker 1: and to hear him in that interview you get a

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Speaker 1: sense of why he's ready articulate, smart, serious, professional, just

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Speaker 1: everything leader, insightful, you know, just on it right. And

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Speaker 1: that to me was like, you know, what's he doing?

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Speaker 1: You know, I get it now from that one interview

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Speaker 1: I could tell. And then and I was thinking that

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Speaker 1: this too. You kind of hope Eric b Enemy gets

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Speaker 1: it because it hurts them and helps us because Leslie

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Speaker 1: won't get it. Yeah, Leslie be good down there too, right,

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Speaker 1: you know he would really be good down there. But

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Speaker 1: I mean the problem too, is it. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you either want if either one of them was smart,

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Speaker 1: maybe they both turn it down, because that is not

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Speaker 1: down you are looking at. You are starting your first day.

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Speaker 1: They take you in an elevator and go to the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the well, and that's where you'll begin. You're

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of a big, long, dark hole well.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that fixes that is something like a

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Speaker 1: five or a six year contract, Like you're asking me

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Speaker 1: to take on a sinking ship and start bailing. No,

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Speaker 1: not a sink from the first Titanic. It's not only

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Speaker 1: on the bottom of the floor already, it's also rusted out.

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Speaker 1: That's the ship that you're taking over. Good luck, but

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Speaker 1: a little a few more years of commitment from you

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Speaker 1: as a ZA. This is not going to be a quick,

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Speaker 1: not a one or two year. Fish's not got a quick.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a first or a second round pick.

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Speaker 1: They got a quarterback that's ticked off there, and their

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Speaker 1: best and most visible player has an albatross of a

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Speaker 1: contract that you're probably gonna have to get rid of

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Speaker 1: and he can't live up to it. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: not that good at and you got no money to spend,

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Speaker 1: by the way. Woof. We also have some other news

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Speaker 1: concerning the Bills Mafia and Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson tweeted

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Speaker 1: out some thanks to Bill's Mafia for all of their

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Speaker 1: support of his charity in Louisville, where he played his

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Speaker 1: college ball, the Backpack program for kids, providing meals for

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Speaker 1: kids that really only eat when they're at school. So

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Speaker 1: he sent out a tweet tweet thanking Bill's Mafia for

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Speaker 1: all their support. I think it was up to three

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty thousand dollars last night checked in terms

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Speaker 1: of the money raised there, so he was clearly appreciative

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Speaker 1: of their efforts. So good on you. Bill's Mafia for

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Speaker 1: doing right by Lamar's foundation and given him well wishes

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Speaker 1: for a speedy recovery after suffering the concussion in the

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Speaker 1: divisional playoff here on Saturday. So once again Bills Mafia

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Speaker 1: shining a positive light not only on themselves but on

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Speaker 1: the Bills fan base at large. Some nice notes sent

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Speaker 1: along with their donations, like sending love to sending buffalove

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Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson from Bill's Mafia. Another one a gesture

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Speaker 1: to show we care about Lamar Jackson and his charity.

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Speaker 1: Another one Bills Mafia member just showing some love. Here's

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Speaker 1: to a speedy recovery to Lamar. Go Bills, you know

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then Lamar at the top says,

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Speaker 1: appreciate that Bills Mafia means a lot, not only to me,

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Speaker 1: but to those kids as well. And you know that's

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Speaker 1: I gotta say. In the world in which we live,

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Speaker 1: in the in the in the this little moment in

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Speaker 1: history that we're at, how about the NFL being better

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Speaker 1: than than anybody else? Right, I mean, you know, Bills,

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Speaker 1: it's nice showing some you know, doses of humanity. Right,

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Speaker 1: It really does across fans base warming, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: almost like, you know, in the midst of all this

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Speaker 1: intense competition on the field, the NFL and their fan

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Speaker 1: bases are more united than then the rest of the

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Speaker 1: country is, and or the rest of the country is

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Speaker 1: willing to reunite over football more so even across team lines,

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Speaker 1: than they are any place else. That's that's nice to see.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Strong program for you today. Coming up

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Speaker 1: in a little over a half an hour, we've got

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Diana Rassini. She was here at the game last week.

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Speaker 1: I know she was impressed by the roar of the crowd,

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Speaker 1: shall we say, And you know she's been up here

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Speaker 1: a few times. You know, it's all about Bill's mafia

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Speaker 1: and everything, and so we'll get her thoughts on last

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Speaker 1: week's game and on the one ahead in the AFC

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Speaker 1: title game. So it'll be good to talk to her.

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Speaker 1: And then coming up in about an hour and a half,

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Kurt Warner will join us, and we'll

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Speaker 1: obviously be talking to him about Josh and Dable and

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Speaker 1: maybe some of the dynamics that Steve and I were

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Speaker 1: just discussing in terms of keeping that pair together for

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Speaker 1: another season in twenty twenty one, and then our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll today deals with the Bills and Chiefs rematch from

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Speaker 1: week six. As we're asking you today what's the biggest

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Speaker 1: change in the Bills from their week six matchup against

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Speaker 1: Kansas City? And there are choices there for you at

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Speaker 1: one bills Live, so check those out. Either give us

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Speaker 1: a call eight oh three oh five fifty lines open

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Speaker 1: for you there, or hit us up on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown Steve Tasker back in a moment here on

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday edition of One Bill's Line, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live Tuesday edition about thirty minutes away from ESPN's

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Speaker 1: Day and Rassini joining us, and we'll also have Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer Kurt Warner joining us in the final hour

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Speaker 1: of the program a little bit later. But we need

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Speaker 1: to talk to you at eight o three five fifty

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Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty open line

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Speaker 1: for you there as we discuss our Twitter poll today,

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Speaker 1: what's the biggest change in the Bill from their Week

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Speaker 1: six matchup with the Chiefs. We do have choices for

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Speaker 1: you at one Bills Live. On the Twitter page. Go there,

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Speaker 1: and the choices are A. Injured players are now healthy, B,

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Speaker 1: the defense has improved, c Allan is more polished or

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Speaker 1: D something else. And the early returns on the voting

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Speaker 1: have Defense improved leading the way with forty two percent

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Speaker 1: of the vote. Injured Players Now Healthy is right behind

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Speaker 1: it with about thirty nine percent of the vote. Alan

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Speaker 1: Moore polished a little over fifteen percent. I went back

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Speaker 1: Stephen looked because I could not remember who was in

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Speaker 1: and who was out of the lineup. Obviously, we know

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Speaker 1: that John Feliciano was still on injured reserve with the

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Speaker 1: torn pectorl that he suffered right before training camp open,

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Speaker 1: so he was not in the mix. As a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, both guards are going to be different in

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Speaker 1: this game than they were back in Week six. And

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Speaker 1: week six the starting guards were Cody Ford and Brian Winters,

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Speaker 1: and on Sunday it'll be John Feliciano and Ike Butcher

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Speaker 1: as the starting guard. So that's that's two changes right there.

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Speaker 1: Up front, Dawson Knox was out with a calf injury,

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Speaker 1: so Tyler Croft played in that game. In week six,

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Speaker 1: we know Matt Milano was not in the lineup as

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Speaker 1: he was dealing with the pectoral muscle injury right, and

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace was on ir with the ankle injury he

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Speaker 1: suffered in Week four against the Raiders, and Josh Norman

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Speaker 1: was starting. So those are four pretty significant players. I mean, Milano, Knox, Feliciano,

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Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, four guys out of the mix in that

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Speaker 1: game for the Bills. In Week six was fighting a

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Speaker 1: knee injury, right, so he played, but we were ineffective,

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Speaker 1: zero catches, four targets, no receptions. So John Brown, Matt Milano,

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, John Feliciano, Levi Wallace. You list all the names,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty significant, I think. So. I think Choice A

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Speaker 1: would be in the running as it is in the

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Speaker 1: early returns in the voting from the fans that are

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Speaker 1: voting on the Twitter poll. It made a difference. I

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Speaker 1: think it makes a difference. And when you have players,

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Speaker 1: and we've heard Leslie Fraser say this, the difference that

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Speaker 1: Matt Milano makes knowing he can play every snap, he's

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Speaker 1: a three down player, can cover fills in the run game,

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Speaker 1: can blitz all of those things. And let's not forget this.

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Speaker 1: Jermaine Edmonds wasn't one hundred percent healthy either. He was

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Speaker 1: still dealing with that shoulder injury that was compromising how

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Speaker 1: aggressive he was in terms of his tackling. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I distinctly remember one play where he actually shuffled to

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Speaker 1: his right to use his other shoulder on a tackle.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's how he was playing differently. Then, I

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Speaker 1: think we can all safely say that, so your your

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00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: role less than one hundred percent. Edmonds into the mix.

638
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: I mean, you can make the argument, Steve that in

639
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: the front seven, Edmonds and Milano are the two most

640
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: irreplaceable players in the front seven. Would you agree with that? Yes? Absolutely, right,

641
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: front seven or front seven most irreplaceable two players on

642
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense. One was out of the game and one

643
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: wasn't right. So I think that makes it dramatic. Thing

644
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: at that time, I can't remember, like aj Epineza was

645
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: not playing at all. Maybe at that time he was

646
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: still a healthy scry. He was still a healthy scratch

647
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: for the most part, although Trent Murphy was inactive for

648
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: this game, so this might have been the start of that. Right,

649
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: But and this is when the Bills kind of just

650
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: invited the Chiefs to run the football and they did

651
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: with impunity. They wished for what two ninety five and

652
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: which I think is still the season high this year's right,

653
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: and they and the Bills, Bills couldn't stop it. They

654
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: weren't ready to stop it. Even though they got the

655
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: Chiefs to do what they wanted, they weren't up to

656
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: taking advantage of it defensively. I think that's changed. I

657
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: mean that you saw what they did against Baltimore last week. Baltimore,

658
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: in my opinions, a better, a more effective rushing team

659
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: than the Chiefs are, and the Bills got it done

660
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: against them. We'll see if they've improved enough to do

661
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: that against the Chiefs. If indeed that's their game plane,

662
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: you'd think they'd have a different one, most of these

663
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: teams do. I think it will be tweaked significantly. The

664
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: interesting part is can you put it together a game

665
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: plan that forces the Chiefs to do something they don't

666
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: like to do? And then if they can, if they adjust,

667
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: the Chiefs adjust and do something that you you know

668
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 1: you're ready. Do you have a backup plan? You know? Right?

669
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: Can you adjust on the fly? That's that's the crazy part,

670
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: and which what the Bills have done extremely well, and

671
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 1: of course the Chiefs obviously have done that as well.

672
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: So all of these things, you know, or questions to

673
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: be answered now if memory sirs, Just to be fair

674
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: and look on the other side of the ledger, I

675
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: believe Sammy Watkins was inactive. Yes he was. He was

676
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: inactive for this game with an injury, so he did

677
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: not play, And there were a couple other players that

678
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: did not play. But they had most of their heavy

679
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 1: hitters in the lineup for them. Their offensive line was fine,

680
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: their defensive players were We're all good and in the

681
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: game right as I can see as I'm looking at

682
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: the lineups here. Think about this. They did suffer a

683
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: couple of offensive line injuries. Mitchell Schwartz went out with

684
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: an injury and they had to put their backup right

685
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: tackle in. Then they had to put their third string

686
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: tackle in. In this game, Josh was fourteen to twenty seven.

687
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: Fourteen to twenty seven, Yeah, two tds and an interception.

688
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: It was bad. It was bad. Twenty three rushing rushes

689
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: on the day, Eight of them were from Josh, fifteen

690
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: of them for Secretary and Moss. They just couldn't get

691
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: anything done, couldn't do anything. He missed on some throws.

692
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: I mean, he had some opportunities to make some plays,

693
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: missed on some throws. And I know you were a

694
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: big proponent of the fact that this was kind of

695
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: the tail end of the scheduling mess that the bill

696
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: had to endure. Uh, you know, there was a stretch

697
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: there where they didn't know who they were playing, what

698
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: day they were playing before they ultimately played against Tennessee

699
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: in the wake of their COVID outbreak and had to

700
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: go play Tennessee on a what was it a Tuesday?

701
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: And then they played the Chiefs on a Monday at

702
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: five pm. Right, So this was the back end of

703
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: the scheduling staff who due to the Tennessee COVID outbreak,

704
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 1: and I know you felt that they just weren't weren't

705
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: right for the Tuesday game that they played against Tennessee.

706
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: Down there they were they were all sorts, they were

707
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: all out of sorts, they were all out of control

708
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: for that for the Tennessee and then this was a

709
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: game that they had to get ready and play six

710
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: days later. Yeah, but it was five pm, right, it

711
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: was It wasn't like get ready. I mean six days

712
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: is sorry, but six days enough time. But a five

713
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: PM starred and you know and players or creatures that

714
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: have but especially in the NFL with the weekly playing,

715
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't cut him much excuse.

716
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: I don't much. I don't cut him much slack for

717
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: the Chiefs loss. Yeah, they it was a good team.

718
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: They didn't play very well and credit the Chiefs for

719
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: a lot of that. And uh, but the Tennessee game.

720
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Speaker 1: I would have liked to see that game in a

721
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Speaker 1: normal week. I think that would have been that would

722
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: not have been forty two sixteen, I'm pretty sure. Yeah.

723
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: And yet with six and a half minutes left, it's

724
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: a one score game, it's twenty three seventeen Chiefs and

725
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: the Bill's defense can't get off the field and they

726
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: ultimately give up a field goal with one fifty six left.

727
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: They go down by nine and then they can't answer. Yeah,

728
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,760
Speaker 1: and that was the end of the game. But totally

729
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs had seventy three offensive plays against the

730
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: Bills and Bills had fifty, Right, I mean that's you know,

731
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: he's not gonna win, right, And I think, uh, Leslie

732
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: Frasier when he was asked about you know, what did

733
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 1: you guys pull out of that game? What did you learn?

734
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: His first His first two words were a lot. We

735
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: learned a lot from that game, which gives me hope.

736
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: And I know I said it on the show yesterday

737
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: Steve that this coaching staff is very good at course

738
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: correcting their team when they perform in a way that

739
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: is below their standard or deficient in some area. They're

740
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: really good at course correcting. And I said it last Monday,

741
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: I said, I expect the defense to play significantly better

742
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: in the divisional playoff against the Ravens, and they did that.

743
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: And I think the offense is going to play significantly

744
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: better in this matchup against the Chiefs than they did

745
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: last week. You know, we're putting points on the board.

746
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: Was harder to come by, granted against a very high

747
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: quality defense, big, strong, long, physical, And I don't know

748
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs are the same kind of defense that

749
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: the Ravens are. They're just not that rugged, you know,

750
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: punch in the mouth kind of defense. But they have playmakers. Yeah.

751
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: I almost kind of see these two teams as mirror

752
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: images because this Chiefs defense isn't great holding teams down

753
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: in terms of yardage, but they make the timely plays

754
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: whether it's Tyrann Matthew or you know, Frank Clark or

755
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: Chris Jones. They have these guys that make plays in

756
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: a timely fashion. And the Bills have largely been that

757
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: on defense in the second half of the season, right.

758
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: And I think when Leslie Fraser sits there and says, well,

759
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: we learned a lot from it, he already might think, oh,

760
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: they got they got something on the Chiefs. Well for

761
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: coaching staffs. The important things they learned mostly are about

762
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: themselves and what the Bills probably learned and going up

763
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: against Kansas City was a lot about the personnel they had.

764
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,919
Speaker 1: I mean, after this game, it was when aj Klein

765
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: started to play better because they kept they stopped asking

766
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: him to do what Matt Milano did and started asking

767
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: him to do what aj Klein could do. That was

768
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: a difference and stuff like that. Now, certainly the things

769
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: they learned in that game about themselves helped him in

770
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: subsequent games. And also we'll go you can look back

771
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, now we got kind of gotta handle

772
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: on what their offensive line is like, what they're defensive

773
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: line is, like, some of the things that we can

774
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: do that they struggle with and that we have been

775
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: reinforced in subsequent games down the line, So all of

776
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: that stuff goes into the pot. But yeah, that there's

777
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: no question that playing a team once gives you a

778
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: handle on what you can get accomplished to them on

779
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: them in later games. And I think it's it does

780
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: say something that Leslie Frasier was willing to say, Yeah,

781
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: we learned a lot, and I think it learned they

782
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: learned a lot about the Chiefs and they also learned

783
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: a lot about themselves, right, which which makes the game

784
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: plan for it is just fascinating, fascinating it really, I

785
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: can't wait to see it because native one of these

786
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: teams are gonna I mean, the Chiefs are gonna do

787
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: what they do, no question about it. They're gonna do

788
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: what they do, but they probably won't do what they

789
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: do in the same way you've seen them do it before,

790
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: because Andy Reid will go in there and say, you know,

791
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: I like this, but let's do it out of this

792
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: and let's do this instead, you know, and that you know,

793
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: it's kind of a kind of the mad signed of creativity.

794
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: Day Balls shown great creativity, particularly in red zone offense.

795
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: I remember I went I went back and looked at

796
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: some of the games, and we're gonna take a break here,

797
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: but there were there was a game there, the Denver

798
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,439
Speaker 1: Game game. There was the Rams game. In this game

799
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: where the Bills seemed to score like fifty touchdowns and

800
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: only three of them counted. You remember that when they

801
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: kept getting in the Rams game, they got like they

802
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: scored like three times and one of them finally counted

803
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 1: the bron and they right in the Broncos game, they

804
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: kept scoring touchdowns and it was all on these different

805
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: It was a different play every time. And so that

806
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: kind of creativity is all a lot of fun to

807
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: think about. You might get a load of that in

808
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: this game from both these coaches. Break time for us,

809
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll get to your phone.

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00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: Call So, Gary and Las Vegas, Dave and Florida, hang tight,

811
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: we'll get to you when we return. Here on one

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Wide receiver Stefan Diggs is played in

815
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: eighteen games this season, counting the postseason, and has caught

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00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: at least six pass is in seventeen of them. That

817
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: is an NFL record for games with six catchers or

818
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: more in a single season. He had eight more receptions

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00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: in this last game in the Bills victory over Baltimore

820
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: to advance to the AFC Title Game. We want to

821
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: get to you on the phone lines at eight oh

822
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty as we are asking you on

823
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet what is the biggest change in the

824
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: Bills from their Week six matchup with this Kansas City squad.

825
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,479
Speaker 1: So we go to the phones and leading us off

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00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: today is Gary in Las Vegas. Gary, what do you

827
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bills Live, Good afternoon, guys,

828
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 1: Thanks for having my call. I believe that the Bills.

829
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: I think they were still in a building, a young,

830
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: infancy stage when they played Kansas City the first time.

831
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: They weren't firing on all cylinders for one thing. Also,

832
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: if you look at look look at how the Raiders

833
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: were able to beat Kansas City, you know they can

834
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: be if the Bills play a good game. Obviously, Yeah,

835
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: I mean, And it's interesting. What has been the biggest

836
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: problem for the Chiefs in terms of some of their

837
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: matchups this season? I would say the teams that run

838
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: the ball really well have have proven to be hard

839
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: outs for the Chiefs this season. And that's why a

840
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,280
Speaker 1: lot of people thought Cleveland would have a shot because

841
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: they do run the ball very well. Did have a shot, Yeah,

842
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: and they did have a shot. You're rights to Dan, Yeah,

843
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: there's no reason. And I know that. I get the

844
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: mindset for people that this Chiefs team's really good, and

845
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 1: we've watched them for a couple of years now, be

846
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: really good. They should have gone, could have gone to

847
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: two straight Super Bowls. That's how good they are. They're

848
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 1: on off side, lining up, off lining up, off sides

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Speaker 1: away from going to two straight Super Bowls, and they're

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00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 1: hitting on all cylinders as you would expect. But don't

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00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: think that if you don't, if the Bills go in

852
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: there and play their best football, that they can't beat them,

853
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: because they can. That's how good the Bills are this year. Now,

854
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: certainly the Bills need to prove it again and again

855
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: and go on, you know, and do it year after

856
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: year like the Chiefs have done. But this is a

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00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: year where the Bills have hit on all cylinders and

858
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: are playing better and have won games in more different fashions.

859
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: Than I think a lot of people gave them credit for.

860
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 1: They've won defensively, like they did this last week in

861
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:25,879
Speaker 1: the Division round of the playoffs, and they've they've lit

862
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: it up like they did against the Rams, like they

863
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: did against the Seahawks, like they did against the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers, like they did against the Broncos. And the

865
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: Bills have played a gauntlet of the schedule, a very

866
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: tough schedule, the toughest one of any of the four

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Speaker 1: teams remaining by far. So all of those things put

868
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: together shouldn't give you confidence that if the Bills go

869
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: in and play their best, not only gonna be in it,

870
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna win it. And that's how the team

871
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Speaker 1: is gonna feel about it, and I'm sure that's how

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs feel about it. If they feel like the

873
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna come in and play, the Bills are

874
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: gonna play their very best, the Chiefs will say that

875
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: they got to play their best to beat them. Yeah,

876
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: no question that. If you've watched the Chiefs, and I've

877
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: watched a ton of their games, albeit you know, not

878
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: the broadcast, just the condensed version, kind of got a

879
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: feel for what they're doing. The Chiefs are in this

880
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: spot where they've got a gear that a lot of

881
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: teams in the league don't have, and there were games

882
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: that they won and you never thought they had to

883
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 1: take that extra gear. And they've they've won a lot

884
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: of their games, four points, six points, you name it.

885
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: I mean, the they just they just want a ton

886
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: of close games. And if you go down, I'll give

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00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: you an example where here we go. The Chiefs in

888
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: the last they've won. They lost their last game week

889
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: seventeens when Chad Henny played, but they before that they

890
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,919
Speaker 1: won like nine eight nine in a row. They won

891
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 1: by the starting with the Bills, and when they started

892
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: a big winning streak, they won by nine. Then they

893
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: want a big one against the Broncos, want a big

894
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 1: one against the Jets. They won by two again Carolina.

895
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: They won by four against the Raiders. They won by

896
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: three against Tampa Bay. They won by six against Denver,

897
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: they won by six against Miami, they won by fleur wins.

898
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: They won by three against Atlanta. I mean the single

899
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Speaker 1: digits all the way down and except for the first

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Speaker 1: couple out of that gun. So they were just they

901
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: were trying to get to the postseason. So they could

902
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: turn it on, and I'm gonna give them that benefit

903
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: of the doubt because to me, they earned it. So

904
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: if they've got an extra gear that the Bills can't match,

905
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: yeah they're gonna They're gonna beat the Bills, even if

906
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: the Bills play well. But if the Bills play their best,

907
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna beat them. Yeah, they're gonna beat them. But

908
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: good teams make you not play your best, and that's

909
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Speaker 1: what the Chiefs are. All right, break time for us,

910
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Speaker 1: But when we return, ESPN's Diana Risini will join us.

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00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: She's a big fan of the Bills train horn. I

912
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: think she's even got it as a ringtone on her phone.

913
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Speaker 1: We'll check to confirm when Diana joins us. Next, you're

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio below Hills Radio Network. Sports Update, your

916
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Bills off today but

917
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: returned to the practice field tomorrow in advance of their

918
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game matchup with the Chiefs in Kansas City,

919
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: and all eyes will be on the Chiefs this week

920
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: to see if they're starting. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes is progressing

921
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,720
Speaker 1: from a hit he took in Sundays went over the Browns.

922
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: Mahomes currently in the protocol the Concussion Protocol. After leaving

923
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: Sunday's game following an unorthodox tackle where he landed on

924
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 1: his head had his neck pulled in an awkward manner.

925
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: Mahomes was slow to get up before stumbling and was

926
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: shaken by the hit, although he did jog to the

927
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: locker room. More updates expected tomorrow. Washington Football team has

928
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: completed a reunion of sorts Washington, finalizing and deal with

929
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: Marty Hernie to become the team's general manager. The move

930
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: reunites her with head coach Ron Rivera, with whom Hernie

931
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Speaker 1: worked in Carolina, where the two assembled key pieces of

932
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: his Super Bowl caliber roster in the early part of

933
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: the last decade. Not long after losing their season to

934
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: NFC South rival Tampa Bay, the New Orleans Saints are

935
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: losing their assistant general manager to another division foe, Atlanta Falcons,

936
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Speaker 1: hiring Saints assistant GM and vice president of Pro Personnel

937
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: Terry Fontanell to be there next GM. James Hown New

938
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: York native Nick Sirianni. The Colts OC being interviewed for

939
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: the Eagles head coaching vacancy. Sirianni has been with the

940
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: Colts since Frank Reich took over as head coach in

941
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Baseball News the Mets fired general manager Jared

942
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: Porter on Tuesday, a day after a report that he

943
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:47,760
Speaker 1: sent explicit, unsolicited texts and images to a female reporter

944
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen while working for the Chicago Cubs in

945
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 1: their front office. Porter was hired as the Mets GM

946
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: back in December. And finally, the Sabers picking up their

947
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,720
Speaker 1: first win of the season last night in Philadelphia, defeating

948
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: the Liar six to one. Sam Reinhardt and Curtis Lazar

949
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,720
Speaker 1: each had two goals in the wins. Same two teams

950
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: back at it tonight, face off set for seven pm.

951
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Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive Chris

952
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: Brown Steve Tasker broadcasting from the Seneca Studios here in

953
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: Ordward Park Our number two of the program and joining

954
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Speaker 1: us on the line right now, ESPN NFL reporter and

955
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: host Diana Rassini joining us and Diana to welcome you in.

956
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: We thought it would be appropriate to play one of

957
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 1: your favorite sound effects, the all important Bills Train Horn,

958
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: So let's just rip it off right now. There we go.

959
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: Welcome in. I understand this is an alarm for your phone.

960
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: Is that right? You are a glutton for punishment if

961
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: this is an alarm for your phone is guys, It's

962
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: so good to be here. I'm a huge fan of

963
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: the show. I've been really lucky this season with my

964
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Speaker 1: assignments with ESPN and them allowing me to cover the bills,

965
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: and so I thought, in order to cover the team, well,

966
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,959
Speaker 1: I need so you know, at least download the team app.

967
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: It's like step one when you're a reporter. And I

968
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: wasn't aware that on the app it sends you alerts

969
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: about I don't know, every forty five seconds, right, and

970
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: it's either shout or the train. And I've had some

971
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: incredible meetings over zoom or even just I'm on the

972
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: phone and I laugh every time because it'll interrupt the

973
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 1: call and I'll just hear shout or the train noise,

974
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 1: whatever it is. So I originally hated it, but now

975
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: it's part of my life. Yeah, I know exactly what

976
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 1: you mean. You were you were in the stadium list

977
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: last weekend and one of the amazing things. And I

978
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 1: do the call for the radio, the local radio call

979
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: with Mirth the voice of the Bills, and I'm the analyst,

980
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 1: and we're there. We've done every game from the booth,

981
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: and the last two weeks when the fans were in there,

982
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred fans, it felt so good because we've

983
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: done an invacant building for so long. But last weekend

984
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: I was shocked that sixty seven hundred people could be

985
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: loud enough to have enough effect on the Baltimore offense.

986
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: They got consecutive penalties down in that end of the field.

987
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: I was shocked by that. Were you I was, and

988
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: I know you're on the call because when I cover

989
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: any Bills games, I listened to the to the home

990
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: team normally, and fortunately most of the games I cover

991
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: are at home, so you do a great job in

992
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: calling the games. They're always so much information stuff I

993
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: always use in my postgame reports. So thanks for that.

994
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: But in terms of just the environment there, from just that,

995
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: the emotional side of it of missing Bills Mafia, from

996
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: from even just the reporter standpoint, I love seeing everyone

997
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: out there being part of it um, but to just

998
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,720
Speaker 1: have only sixty seven hundred people and to have that

999
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: type of impact is incredible and just speaks to why

1000
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: that community is so wonderful and great and passionate, and

1001
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: and what a great opportunity for them to feel part

1002
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: of it. Because I spoke to Josh Allen right after

1003
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: the game, and it's the first thing he brought up

1004
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: with me. Was was just the fact that the fans

1005
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: played a role. It wasn't just to give them energy,

1006
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,919
Speaker 1: it was to actually have an effect on the play

1007
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,439
Speaker 1: calling for the Ravens. So, um, you know, obviously those

1008
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: fans aren't going to be there this week, but maybe

1009
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: someone will will blow a train noise and be heard

1010
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: all the way in Kansas City. What were your what

1011
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: was your takeaway from that game Baltimore? Aside from you know,

1012
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: the atmosphere and that, what did you think about the

1013
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: Bills game against the Ravens, the Ravens game against the

1014
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: Bills and the nuts and bolts of the contest. I

1015
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: had concerns going into it, actually way more than I

1016
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: probably should have about the Bills defense. I was concerned

1017
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: that they were going to struggle with Lamar with that

1018
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: run game. I had watched the Tennessee Titans the week before,

1019
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: who really have the blueprint in slowing the Ravens down.

1020
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: They do a great job of keeping him lateral, keeping

1021
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: him outside the numbers, and they gave up obviously that

1022
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: that huge run for a time down and a couple others,

1023
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: but you saw when when you give him the middle

1024
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: of the field, he just tears you up. And as

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Speaker 1: disciplined as I thought the Titans could have been against them,

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00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if the Bills had that same type

1027
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 1: of ability to bring the same type of pressure, but

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00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: they did and they shut them down. So to me,

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00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: the takeaway was, I personally have spent the last month

1030
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Speaker 1: on television raving about this offense clicking and obviously the

1031
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 1: chemistry with Josh Allen and Stefan, but you cannot ignore

1032
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 1: this defense. We're talking two games in a row now

1033
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Speaker 1: where they have been the stars of the game, and

1034
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: what better time than now as a defense to feel

1035
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: as good and confident as they are then when they're

1036
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: headed to Kansas City to place to play the defending

1037
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs. Yeah, I mean, I think the most

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Speaker 1: surprising thing Diana about the defense was for most of

1039
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Speaker 1: this season, when they have performed admirably, they they've delivered

1040
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Speaker 1: timely plays like this hasn't been a defense that has

1041
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: shut teams down with yardage or blanked them on a

1042
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Speaker 1: scoreboard or held them to, you know, single digits. They've

1043
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: been a team that's come up with a timely play

1044
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: from one player or another, whether you know it's Jerry

1045
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: Hughes with a fumble return against Denver or you know

1046
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Speaker 1: Matt Milano with some third down stops. You know, it's

1047
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: a different guy every week. But the other team was

1048
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: getting their share of points too. This was like, this

1049
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: was a performance that we had seen from the defense

1050
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: each of the last two years. And if they can

1051
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Speaker 1: recapture that and I'm not anticipating that against the Chiefs

1052
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: this week, don't get me wrong, But to see them

1053
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Speaker 1: be so resourceful and finding different ways, and that's ironically

1054
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 1: coach McDermott's theme this year, find away amidst this pandemic.

1055
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 1: But it's taken on a new meaning with the way

1056
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 1: this team seems to be winning games differently almost every

1057
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Speaker 1: single week. You mentioned Matt Milano. I saw a great

1058
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Speaker 1: staff from one of the local beat reporters that the

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Speaker 1: Bill's three losses this season all come when Matt isn't

1060
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: in the game, right when he's been out. It's tremendous

1061
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: and it just goes to tell you not one player

1062
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: is going to make that much of a difference, but

1063
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: it does show what he can bring. And you know,

1064
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right with different people stepping up,

1065
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: And isn't that sort of the definition of what you

1066
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 1: need in terms of finding the winning way. It's it's

1067
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: who's going to be the one who's going to be

1068
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 1: the next person to make that play. Anytime I've covered

1069
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: teams in the postseason, that's the theme. That's what great

1070
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,399
Speaker 1: teams do. It's not just on the back of one

1071
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: or two guys, it's on all of them coming together,

1072
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,399
Speaker 1: you know. And I really appreciated, you know, head coach

1073
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott's transparency talking to us about the difference between

1074
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: their approach to this game versus Week six, right saying

1075
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: they kind of were picking their poison. Do we stop

1076
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, do you stop the run game? You got

1077
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 1: to pick one or the other. And the fact that

1078
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: they admitted they may have made a mistake by not

1079
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 1: approaching it as being a balanced defense. I'm really looking

1080
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 1: forward to see how they're going to be able to

1081
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: control both those things. I mean, two hundred and forty

1082
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: five rushing yards last time. That that's a problem. Yeah,

1083
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: with that in mind, with the Week six game in mind,

1084
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: because it's already been dissected here in Buffalo seven ways

1085
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: to Sunday, but knowing that you may not have had

1086
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: like your finger on the pulse of that game, knowing

1087
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: you have to cover the whole league in many ways,

1088
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna run some names by you as to

1089
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: who was out of the lineup for the Bills, and

1090
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: then you tell me, knowing all these guys are available,

1091
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: if that changes your opinion on this game at all? Okay,

1092
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: So Week six, you knew what you already knew. Matt

1093
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: Milano did not play in that game. Okay, here are

1094
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: the rest of the players that were not in that

1095
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: game for the Bills. Levi Wallace, John Feliciano, Dawson Knox,

1096
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: and then John Brown was playing on a bulky knee,

1097
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: had four targets, no receptions, and Tremaine Edmonds was playing

1098
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: but coming back from a shoulder injury. So when I

1099
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: list to all those names, what does that change your

1100
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 1: opinion at all about this matchup? And in fairness, the

1101
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 1: Chiefs did not have Sammy Watkins in week six was

1102
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: going to ask, actually to ask you give me the

1103
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: chiefs of injury report real quick. Um, okay, maybe not

1104
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: the right, but I just I don't feel that any

1105
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: of those are significant in a difference right where you're going.

1106
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: Besides Matt Mulana, that's the name that when you know

1107
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: he's back, this is I mean just the stat alone. Right,

1108
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 1: They've they've lost three without him. So, um, look, we

1109
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: know that with Travis Kelsey, he's got to be a problem.

1110
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: Tight ends have been a problem for the Bills all season. Um,

1111
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: so to have Milano back in there can certainly help.

1112
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: But you know, this time around, the growth of this team,

1113
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: both on offense and defense, special teams even, I think

1114
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: we're seeing a different Bills team this Sunday than what

1115
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: we saw in Week six. In fact, everyone is pointed

1116
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: to that, every player and coaches made that a point, which, um,

1117
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of guns to say that right

1118
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: to be yeah, that that that's not the real loss.

1119
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: We're different now because that because they see it and

1120
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: they feel it and they they they're bought in. Yeah,

1121
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: I would say that it's some of the distractions that

1122
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: have happened. Now you've got both teams are kind of

1123
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: dealing with it. It was put to bed for the

1124
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: Bills this week when Brian day Bole said is not

1125
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: going to go anywhere. Now, certainly Leslie Frasier, defensive coordinator,

1126
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: is still in the mix in Houston, at least it

1127
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: appears that way at this hour. And of course Eric

1128
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: Bienemy was allowed special permission to go ahead and interview

1129
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: for the Texans job yesterday. So all three of these coordinators,

1130
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: the offense and defense of the Bills and also and

1131
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator of the Chiefs are kind of in

1132
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 1: this pool of future head coaches. What does that mean

1133
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: to you about this? I know it's a little bit

1134
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: of a distraction, but both these clubs are gonna miss

1135
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 1: those guys if they're gone. But certainly in this game

1136
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: it may not have the kind of effect that it

1137
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: would you know, going forward. Yeah, here's what it tells

1138
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: me about the league. Owners have no patience. They have none.

1139
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: They want their coaches in the building. Now, I had

1140
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 1: a GM exclaimence is to me, every day that goes by,

1141
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: they almost break it down by the hour of feeling

1142
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: like they're behind the eight bowl. When they don't have

1143
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: that higher Even if that hires is a guy that's

1144
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: going to wind up bringing them ten Super Bowl rings

1145
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: over the next decade, they're still in antiness. And if

1146
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm a fan base in Los Angeles, let's say, and

1147
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: we don't know how that's going to work out, but

1148
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: where it just looked like Brian Dable was going to

1149
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 1: be the guy, and it makes a lot of sense

1150
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: to jump into something just because you don't want to wait.

1151
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: M It just doesn't seem like a very good vision.

1152
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: But I understand the impatience as well. But in terms

1153
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 1: of these coordinators staying potentially staying for next year, I

1154
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: from what I've learned, it doesn't seem that Dayble is

1155
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: going to be moving, you know, out from from Buffalo.

1156
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure what's going to happen with the

1157
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: enemy still, um, if Houston's gonna bite on it or not.

1158
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: We know the mess that they have with Deshaun Watson

1159
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: right now. They have a lot of things to fix. Um.

1160
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: But you know, I think if anything, everyone should be

1161
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: excited to be encouraged that these phenomenal play callers are

1162
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: coming back. Listen Frasier, Obviously, I mean what he did

1163
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: last weekend was was just brilliant. And if I'm a

1164
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: Bills fan, I'm just psyched to have my guys back

1165
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: because that's that's the part of this team that has

1166
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: been my takeaway is they know who they are. I

1167
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many teams guys I caught, I

1168
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: follow or covered. They don't know what they are. They

1169
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: have snippets of it, but being able to put it

1170
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: all together. I mean, I'm talking teams out of here

1171
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: that are even in the playoffs who have felt this way.

1172
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: So um, the Bills have something working. It's it's good

1173
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 1: and fortunately for them there it looks like you're gonna

1174
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: be the band's gonna be back together next year. Diana

1175
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: taking that, you know, lack of patience a step further

1176
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: with NFL owners around the league. It's almost a little

1177
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: surprising because you know, I was trying to think, as

1178
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: you were talking about the lack of patience, like an

1179
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: example where a team did wait and the forty nine

1180
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: ers waited until after the Super Bowl for Kyle Shanahan

1181
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 1: and look at the returns on investment that gave them

1182
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: by being patient. I would have thought that would have

1183
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: led more owners to maybe hold their water a little

1184
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 1: bit and wait for the absolute best possible option. Why

1185
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 1: do you think it has not? Is it just simple

1186
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: in patience or is do you think there's something more there?

1187
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: I do think sometimes there is this concern like, oh,

1188
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: we got to get the guy before somebody else gets him,

1189
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: you know, knowing there's usually six or seven jobs open

1190
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: every year. But it can't be just that, right, Well,

1191
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: there's there's influences, and I know, going back to the

1192
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan hiring, you know, this was a guy they

1193
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: had in mind and felt comfortable about hiring early, and

1194
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: Kyle felt good about it. Thing. It's like everybody knew

1195
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't official, but everybody knew what was happening, right,

1196
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: and that gave the forty nine ers relief. So if

1197
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: you're an organization right now that needs a great head

1198
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: coach like Eric the Enemy or Brian Dable, Leslie Fraser,

1199
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: why why not just have this understanding this is going

1200
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 1: to happen and wait another few weeks. But but I

1201
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: really go back to that conversation I had with that

1202
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 1: GM about just feeling like you're you're behind. You know,

1203
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:22,919
Speaker 1: these guys that are their seasons wrapped up. They're they're

1204
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: in the office right now. They're all working on the draft,

1205
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 1: they're working on free agency. I had a coach semi

1206
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 1: a screen grab of our picture of the free agency

1207
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: boards already, Like they're working. So you're you're a GM

1208
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: or an owner right now and you're you're looking at

1209
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: it going off. We can't even get moving here because

1210
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: we don't have a head coach. We can't even get

1211
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: the get coordinators in here, assistance trainers, strength and conditioning.

1212
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: There's so much that goes to the offseason program. Um,

1213
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 1: so I'm sensitive to understanding that, but man, it just

1214
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 1: seems the way is worth that risk of losing time. Right,

1215
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: what's your one what's your are you looking for? In

1216
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Bills game? This what's the first thing you're

1217
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 1: gonna watch for? I want to see how they're going

1218
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 1: to apply this balanced defense. While I can appreciate Leslie

1219
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: Freeser saying we made the mistake by choosing them, but

1220
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: by allowing them to run and you know, only containing

1221
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes in the two hundred and twenty five passing yards,

1222
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: I want to see how you can do it, Like,

1223
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 1: how do you stop the Chiefs run game and Mahomes

1224
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: in the air. And obviously if Mahomes is healthy, which

1225
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: it seems like he's going to play, it's you know,

1226
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: obviously this is a very day to day situation. But

1227
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: I think it was pretty apparent when you heard Leslie

1228
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: Freezer speak to the media yesterday. They're preparing for him.

1229
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: They believe he's gonna be back, right And what about

1230
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: the other side of the bracket? Green Bay Tampa Bay

1231
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: happened earlier in the season on Week six, exactly like

1232
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Bills. The two teams played. The Tampa Bay

1233
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,439
Speaker 1: Buccaneers handed the Green Bay Packers their head and send

1234
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: them back to Green Bay. It was a eas win

1235
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 1: by the Bucks. I think it was kind of the

1236
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 1: first time you saw what they could be in the

1237
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 1: regular season. Yeah, and it was a roller coaster from

1238
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: there or out for a while. But what do you

1239
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: think about the NFC matchup? And who do you think

1240
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: is kind of walk away? So you guys are busy

1241
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: doing so many different projects and working on things, So

1242
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure you don't watch Get Up on ESPN, but

1243
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: I made some strong predictions. Sometimes on Fridays, I wake

1244
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: up and I'm just like I want to say something

1245
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 1: while today and I really need to stop you because

1246
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: it's not helping my credibility at all. So in August

1247
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: I was like, there's no way Tom bringing the bucks

1248
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 1: or making the playoffs. Talking about a guy that's been

1249
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: the same organization for twenty years with Bruce Arians who's

1250
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 1: got a completely different approach to everything. I know, both

1251
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: of them, the personalities just completely different. That ain't that'll work,

1252
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: you know, now, look at it. I went in hard

1253
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: at the Green Bay front office. How do you not

1254
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 1: get Aaron Rodgers a weapon? Guess what you know? Then

1255
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: anywhere weapons? He's fine. So you're asking me my opinion

1256
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 1: on it when it seems that my opinion in the

1257
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: past has been trashed. So now that I've gathered all

1258
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 1: the information and I've given the credit to Tampa Bay

1259
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 1: and I've seen that Green Bay has been able to operate,

1260
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 1: I still will always put all my chips in Aaron

1261
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 1: Rodgers and his ability and forget their offense, their defense

1262
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 1: of what they've been able to do the last few weeks.

1263
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: That's what's been the most impressive to me. We can

1264
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 1: talk Aaron all day, but I think the defense is

1265
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: going to be able to stop Tom Brady for sure.

1266
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:25,439
Speaker 1: And I know that, you know, Bills fans are still

1267
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: firmly entrenched in you know, playoff football for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 1: But we did see the news come down about the

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Speaker 1: NFL combine and how it's probably going to look in

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Speaker 1: stark contrast to what it normally is, you know, and

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Speaker 1: we understand why it's going to be this way. I'm

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Speaker 1: just curious, Diana, if you've spoken to any you know,

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Speaker 1: teams that are already in offseason mode and how they

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Speaker 1: are planning to navigate what is going to be a

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Speaker 1: very different pre draft process. I know, it's like another

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Speaker 1: layer here we go, because obviously we have the combine

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Speaker 1: last year. Heck, I think that's where the COVID nineteen spread. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I knew so many people after Indie that that that

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Speaker 1: were sick unfortunately. Um yeah, no, I spoke to two

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Speaker 1: head coaches who were done. Um uh, just just the

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Speaker 1: approach once the news came out yesterday, officially, we had

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Speaker 1: all known like it was kind of building over the

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Speaker 1: last few weeks. Um. But you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: this is going to come down to communication with these schools,

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Speaker 1: which is such an interesting topic. Guys. Um, so every

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Speaker 1: draft year, when when I get it, I get assigned

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Speaker 1: a different team every year. UM. One of the first

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Speaker 1: questions I always ask the head coach of the GM

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Speaker 1: UM once we kind of figure out, you know, three

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Speaker 1: or four of the players that they're definitely targeting, and

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Speaker 1: let's just say in the first round. UM, I'll always ask, well,

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Speaker 1: what did the head coach tell you? You know? Like

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Speaker 1: I remember I covered the Giants and uh, I knew

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01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:49,880
Speaker 1: sae Quon Barkley at the time was the guy they

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Speaker 1: were going for. Everyone. It was like the worst kept secret.

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Speaker 1: So I remember asking, uh, Pat Shermer, Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it was Pat Um a gentleman, and I said, you

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Speaker 1: know what's Penn State saying? You know, and the responsive

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Speaker 1: we don't call them like you're telling me. You don't

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Speaker 1: call the head coach. That coach has got for three

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Speaker 1: four years to try to get his to try to

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Speaker 1: get an idea who this kid is, what he's good at,

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01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 1: what he's bad at. And that's become a theme. And

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01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: I learned from that draft and since then I've done

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01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: the same thing where I asked, what did the head

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Speaker 1: coach in that school? You've been shocked how many scouts coaches,

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01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,200
Speaker 1: they don't ask, they don't care what the head coach

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01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:31,679
Speaker 1: has to say because they think it's always about them

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01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: selling their program and selling their players versus being honest.

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01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:38,280
Speaker 1: But that's going to change a little bit now because

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Speaker 1: now they need more information. They're going to get more.

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Speaker 1: And that was a conversation I had with the head coach.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I never call head coaches, but I'm definitely

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Speaker 1: gonna do more. I have to. I have to do

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Speaker 1: more work now than I've ever before. Yeah, And it

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Speaker 1: had to be limited for even the scouts on the

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Speaker 1: road in the fall with all of the interruptions to

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Speaker 1: the college season two when the normal weekly routine that

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Speaker 1: they go through in playing strains and automobiles driving around

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Speaker 1: their respective regions. I mean, it's it's gonna be turned

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Speaker 1: on its head. They're gonna have to well, much like

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Speaker 1: these teams, they have to find a way. Um, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be crazy, thank you. Yeah, Brandon Bean has obviously

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01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 1: done a phenomenal job, and we could spend another hour

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01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,599
Speaker 1: talking about what he's done in two years. But um,

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Speaker 1: if there's gonna be a true test and pressure, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be now because of the lack of info and

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Speaker 1: ability to see these guys up close, so this this

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01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:30,719
Speaker 1: is obviously a tall task for him. Yeah, thanks, Dianna,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the time. We appreciate it. Um And I

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Speaker 1: know you're a former soccer player, so you're always welcome

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Speaker 1: back here since I'm a former college soccer player as well,

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01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: not Division one like you, but I'm usually outnumbered on

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01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:43,680
Speaker 1: this set by football so you're always welcome back here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time. Thanks. Thanks. Even though I'll be

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01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:50,440
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, I will still listen to the Bills broadcast.

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01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 1: I'll look at that, Steve, look at that, look at that.

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Speaker 1: I'm loyal. There you go. Thanks. All right, that's Diana Rassini,

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Speaker 1: ESPN NFL reporter and post and uh, I have to

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01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 1: throw the soccer thing in there. Come on, man, I'm

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01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: usually out numbered on this set by football players. I'm

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01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:10,040
Speaker 1: the only guy on the set. Well not every again,

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01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:13,120
Speaker 1: like who We're gonna have it two o'clock, Kurt Warner.

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01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: He's a football player. I'm usually out numbered here. All right,

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01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 1: it's a football show. I'm gonna be out numbered most

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01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,680
Speaker 1: of the time. You are, You're supposed to be out

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01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: number Well, yes, your number is supposed to be zero. Well,

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01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: you're supposed to have one in the conversation, let alone

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01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: be out number. That's fair, that's fair. But you know

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01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: you can slide it in, slide it in. You've knocked

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Speaker 1: it out of the park. Just putting you on the scoreboard,

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01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:39,919
Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, right, just putting up a number. Oh geez,

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Speaker 1: all right, Uh, we have to take a break, but

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Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll get more of your phone calls.

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Speaker 1: We'll hit the tweet sheet as we are asking you, uh, basically,

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01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: how you think the Bills have changed for the better

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01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 1: since Week six when they played the Chiefs the first time.

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01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: As they get ready for this AFC title matchup with

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Speaker 1: those same Kansas City Chiefs, who, oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: are the defending super Bowl champs. It's convenient, how you know,

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01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:08,720
Speaker 1: you don't really think about that, and then you think

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01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 1: about them, Oh yeah, we could beat this team, and

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01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:12,160
Speaker 1: then it kind of creeps into your head, Oh yeah,

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01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 1: these guys won the super Bowl. That has not left

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01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 1: my mind for a minute. I know that's that's out there.

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Speaker 1: That's so we will We'll take a break now, but

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Speaker 1: we'll come back with the tweet sheet and your phone

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

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty back in a moment

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Speaker 1: This will be the eighth time that the Bills will

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Speaker 1: participate in an AFL or AFC championship game, in the

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Speaker 1: first obviously since the nineteen ninety three season. Buffalo is

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01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:23,760
Speaker 1: six and one in previous games on championship weekend AFL

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Speaker 1: or AFC. They lost in They lost in sixty six.

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Speaker 1: They lost the very first Super Bowl one matchup six

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Speaker 1: to the Chiefs. Yeah, and then they also lost nine two.

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Speaker 1: They also yeah, and they also lost eight. So it's

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Speaker 1: six and two. That is incorrect. Who is putting these

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Speaker 1: numbers together? Are you doing over there? Let's go? They

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Speaker 1: give me look like some kind of egg Naramus over here. Um,

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Speaker 1: we'll go with six and two and hope that we're right.

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Speaker 1: Going off the top of our I'll die on that hill.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh sorry, New York Lottery. We're doing our

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Speaker 1: best here. At least we tried to write a wrong

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Speaker 1: for them. Yes, well there you go. We do want

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Speaker 1: to get to the phones, which we will do in

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Speaker 1: one second. At eight O three oh five fifty one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty as we

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Speaker 1: are checking in with you, want to know from you

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01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:18,400
Speaker 1: where you feel the Bills are changed for the better

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01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 1: since their Week six matchup against the Chiefs, and there

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Speaker 1: are choices for you at one Bills Live on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet A injured players now healthy. B defense has improved.

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Speaker 1: See allan is more polished, d something else, So let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think. At eight O three oh

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Speaker 1: five fifty we go to Ryan in North Carolina? Or

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Speaker 1: is he in North Collins? These abbreviations are I can't

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Speaker 1: read the whole screen right North Carolina? Yes, he is

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Speaker 1: in North Carolina? Ryan, how are you? You're on one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. Hey, thanks for taking my call, Yeah, no problem.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Just I wanted to

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Speaker 1: mention a couple of statistics for Josh for your last

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Speaker 1: just to show his improvement from last year to this year.

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Speaker 1: Throws a twenty or more yards. He was twenty five

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Speaker 1: percent accurate last year. This year he's up to forty

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Speaker 1: five percent, which I think is remarkable and I thought

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Speaker 1: it I kind of figured out why that was watching

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Speaker 1: the Ravens game last week. In the first half, he

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01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: looked a little confused and on you know, third and store,

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Speaker 1: I mean they were throwing the ball deep into double

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Speaker 1: coverage except for the one to stuff on digs, but

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01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:24,600
Speaker 1: a couple he was just throwing a deep because I

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01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 1: think he was confused. And I think that and he

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Speaker 1: hadn't had to do that very much this year because

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Speaker 1: I think he figured out how to read defenses this

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01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: year a lot more than last year. So last year

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Speaker 1: he had a huge percentage of his throws were were

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Speaker 1: deep balls, and I think that's his origin of throwing

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01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 1: it away. You know, he doesn't see anything. He throws

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Speaker 1: the ball fifty yards down the field. There not many

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks can do that. And I just want to if

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Speaker 1: you see, you know something similar or what do you

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Speaker 1: think of that? Take? Yeah, I think there was some

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01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 1: there were some different things at play last year with

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01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 1: his lack of deep ball accuracy, and just from having

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Speaker 1: him answer questions on that object over the course of

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01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 1: last year and the off season, it was pretty apparent

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Speaker 1: to me that Josh was concerned about turnovers last year

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: got it drilled into his head after they essentially lost

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Speaker 1: the game because the turnovers in Week four to the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and he did a much better job of protecting the football.

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01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 1: But what came at the expense of that It became

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01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 1: harder for him to make big plays because he was

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01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 1: afraid of committing a turnover. And so when he would

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Speaker 1: target players deep, he would air on the side of

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Speaker 1: caution by overthrowing the target because he was terrified that

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Speaker 1: if he underthrew it, it was going to be an interception.

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Speaker 1: And that did weigh on his mind last year when

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01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: he would go deep, and I think it compromised his effectiveness.

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Speaker 1: It obviously compromised his accuracy, and it compromised the team's

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01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:02,320
Speaker 1: ability to make big plays in games. He's gotten over that.

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01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: It was a hurdle. I think he had to clear

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Speaker 1: as much mentally as he had to physically, as he

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01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 1: you know, rebuilt his throwing mechanics. Unfortunately he's passed it. Now. Yeah,

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01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 1: he's throwing the ball so well. There's a little thing

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Speaker 1: today we were both talking about a Brian Balding or

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01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 1: one of the you know guests we have on the show.

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Speaker 1: Occasionally he broke down some of the throws Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: made and pointed out and I'll tell you this too,

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Speaker 1: Josh is throwing the ball more accurately now when he's

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Speaker 1: not setting his feet, I mean not as often, not

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Speaker 1: as accurately as when he does. But he's also throwing

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Speaker 1: it accurately when he's side army, offlat throwing it around

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Speaker 1: guys off platform throws those ones that you kind of

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Speaker 1: have to kind of you know, kind of just chuck

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Speaker 1: it somehow, some way get it out. And he's throwing

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Speaker 1: the ball a lot more accurately with those throws even

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Speaker 1: than he did a year ago. You know. Now, I

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01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:50,960
Speaker 1: think there was a point where if he sat up,

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Speaker 1: threw the ball, set up and had a nice clean

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Speaker 1: pocket and could deliver it, he was always accurate, but

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Speaker 1: not always when he had to like improvise a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Now he's throwing the ball, you know, he's throwing the

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Speaker 1: ball into the coin bucket just all the time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: so it's, uh, he's improved at every level, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna run into games like he did this last week.

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Speaker 1: I thought when when he tried to hit Digs down

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Speaker 1: the middle, he tried to hit him down the middle,

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01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:18,920
Speaker 1: and he also tried to hit him down down to

1477
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: the right side of the offensive deep a couple of times,

1478
01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: and I thought it was a losing proposition. I know,

1479
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:27,799
Speaker 1: he passed up one that he probably would have taken

1480
01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: had the game been indoors when he was going into

1481
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: the scoreboard end. You can't throw that direction, not into

1482
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 1: the wind. I think he knew that and pulled it

1483
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 1: down and took it. Took an easy completion to Digs.

1484
01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:42,880
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I think the wind that play. Yeah,

1485
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 1: I think the wind and the conditions played into a

1486
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 1: little bit of what went on the other night. I

1487
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: know from even from where I was. A couple of

1488
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:53,680
Speaker 1: those throws he threw it, and you could see the

1489
01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:57,519
Speaker 1: arc of the ball change from the side. Forget about

1490
01:17:57,560 --> 01:17:59,120
Speaker 1: looking at it from the back and watch the wind

1491
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: move it side to side as it moves out away

1492
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: from you. Even from the sideline, watching the ball arc

1493
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 1: through the air. Yeah, it got changed, So I think

1494
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 1: that had as much to do with the problems they

1495
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:12,799
Speaker 1: had the other night. I still think though, it's effective

1496
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:14,439
Speaker 1: when you at least try and go deep once in

1497
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: a while. Right, you gotta say the defense gotta know

1498
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it if you if you can, so

1499
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:22,559
Speaker 1: even if it's incomplete, you're gonna get some benefit from

1500
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 1: the defense playing you more honest than the otherwise would have.

1501
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:27,559
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones. We go to Kevin

1502
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:29,599
Speaker 1: in Hamburg. Kevin, what do you have for us? You're

1503
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,280
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Thanks for taking my call. Sure,

1504
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:34,679
Speaker 1: I was watching when you went on your last break

1505
01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 1: Colin Coward and he's seeing Patrick Mahome when he went

1506
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: down on that plane that made him go out that

1507
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:44,439
Speaker 1: somebody said he had his arm around the guy had

1508
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 1: his arm around his neck like a reverse sleeper. That

1509
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 1: could have put him out because he use an MMA

1510
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:54,719
Speaker 1: or even w W i't even know about tomorrow concerned

1511
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 1: fake and that could have made him look like he

1512
01:18:56,880 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: had a concussion because that and make you look like Yeah,

1513
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:07,439
Speaker 1: we discussed that a little bit on the show yesterday, Kevin,

1514
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:10,960
Speaker 1: and we actually had a listener who's a physician, Uh

1515
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 1: call the show from Rochester. Forgive me, I can't remember

1516
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: the caller's name, but he said, the only thing that's

1517
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: gonna make you woozy like that after getting your neck

1518
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:23,519
Speaker 1: dragged across the ground is, uh, is your spinal cord.

1519
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 1: So his concern was that uh, mahome's spinal cord got pinched.

1520
01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 1: Guy's name was Dave, Dave and Rochester, Yeah, yeah, And

1521
01:19:32,520 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 1: so then I followed up and I asked him, I said, well,

1522
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 1: what about that shut off nerve that boxers suffer from.

1523
01:19:38,240 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 1: You know, you take an uppercut to the chin and

1524
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: that nerve in your in your jaw that goes right

1525
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:45,280
Speaker 1: up to your brain and shuts everything off. You know,

1526
01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:47,720
Speaker 1: that's how you have knockouts. And he said, well, that

1527
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:50,320
Speaker 1: actually goes down your arm more than it goes up

1528
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 1: to your brain. So it's it was his medical opinion,

1529
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 1: not mine. His medical opinion that what likely happened, knowing

1530
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,640
Speaker 1: his chin pretty much touch touched his chest on that

1531
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: play because he got dragged by the neck, that his

1532
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: spinal cord may have been pinched, even if for a second,

1533
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:08,719
Speaker 1: and it just kind of shut off everything to the brain,

1534
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 1: which is why took him a second to get up

1535
01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: get his bearings, and then even then he was woozy

1536
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 1: and weak in the knees. And it might have been

1537
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:18,320
Speaker 1: that he wasn't woozy mentally, is that his brain couldn't

1538
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,720
Speaker 1: talk to his body to get it up right. So yeah,

1539
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: we're all over that, Kevin, Thanks for the call. He's

1540
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: any right. That to me just speaks that Pat Mahomes

1541
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:31,840
Speaker 1: is there's absolutely one hundred percent zero chance, one hundred

1542
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:35,360
Speaker 1: percent zero chance. That's what does that mean that he's

1543
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 1: gonna play, ladyship, that's a great one one hundred percent

1544
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 1: zero chance that he is gonna not gonna play. Oh

1545
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:43,639
Speaker 1: so we're gonna throw a double negative in there. Thank

1546
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 1: you for that. I appreciate the fairly confused. Now it's

1547
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: clear up. No, he's gonna be in the game. Pat

1548
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:52,880
Speaker 1: Mahomes playoff. Pat Mahomes is gonna play, folks. And and

1549
01:20:53,200 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 1: believe me, I think too, in the current environment we're in,

1550
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 1: if there is a an issue where it wouldn't be

1551
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 1: smart for Patrick Mahomes to play, Patrick Mahomes will not

1552
01:21:06,479 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: play well. Yeah, And that's why I think if if

1553
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: the spinal cord is involved, it could get complicated in

1554
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 1: a hurry, right, especially if they're swelling or anything of

1555
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:18,599
Speaker 1: that nature, And it doesn't appear that's that that's happened,

1556
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 1: doesn't He was running around to the locker room to

1557
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:27,240
Speaker 1: get checked. And fortunately, highly conditioned athletes can recover from

1558
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 1: situations like this faster than your average human being. Um.

1559
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:34,639
Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody is wishing any ill will

1560
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:37,080
Speaker 1: on Patrick Mahomes at all. Everybody's hoping that he's fine

1561
01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 1: and that he can play. And a lot of the

1562
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 1: Bills fans that called us yesterday, we're saying they want

1563
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: Mahomes in the game because they don't want the Bills

1564
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 1: to win this game. And everybody put an asterisk. Next

1565
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 1: if Mahomes camp, there won't be an asterix, and Chiefs

1566
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:51,479
Speaker 1: fans will be the only ones that are bitter about it.

1567
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:57,640
Speaker 1: But here's I just think, um, for lack of a

1568
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:01,320
Speaker 1: better way to put it, Mahomes gonna play and if

1569
01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: but if there is a risk that he doesn't, that

1570
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:05,479
Speaker 1: it will be serious that he does need more time.

1571
01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:09,759
Speaker 1: Let me just remind you he's got half a billion

1572
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: dollars riding on the fact that he needs to stay healthy.

1573
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 1: And I know that he'll want to play and all that,

1574
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:21,639
Speaker 1: but somebody, his representation, Jake from State Farm, somebody's gonna

1575
01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:26,200
Speaker 1: step in and say, your bro, you need to you're

1576
01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: gonna get a balloon in twenty twenty seven. You're gonna

1577
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,000
Speaker 1: get a balloon payment of sixty seven million bucks. You

1578
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:32,640
Speaker 1: need to, like chill and make sure you get there. Um,

1579
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:39,240
Speaker 1: Cooler heads need to prevail on Patrick's behalf because you know,

1580
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:43,240
Speaker 1: if he if he goes down now, yeah, that's just

1581
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: a huge mistake. You need it. He needs to be careful.

1582
01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:48,640
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that because I don't want him

1583
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 1: to play right now. I'm just saying that's as a

1584
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: well the doctors. The doctors will do right by him,

1585
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 1: and the independent right by him. I want Pat to

1586
01:22:57,040 --> 01:22:59,840
Speaker 1: play too. I think that you know, will full. The

1587
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:01,439
Speaker 1: fans want to see it. Everybody wants to see it.

1588
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 1: I want the Bills fans should believe that their team

1589
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:06,760
Speaker 1: can beat him with him right, and certainly Chiefs fans

1590
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: want to see him play. And I think we'll get

1591
01:23:08,560 --> 01:23:12,840
Speaker 1: considerably more clarity on this when the Chiefs take the

1592
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: practice field tomorrow. Is he out there, what is he doing?

1593
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 1: How limited is he and then when the injury report

1594
01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 1: comes out Wednesday afternoon, we'll have even more of an

1595
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:24,280
Speaker 1: idea as to just what kind of situation we're looking

1596
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 1: at here in terms of Mahomes. That's availability, yeah, that's

1597
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: and so. Yeah, if there's a risk he shouldn't, he

1598
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,880
Speaker 1: shouldn't play just because of the finances. But you know this,

1599
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: a guy like Mahomes, he's saying, no, I want to play.

1600
01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:44,519
Speaker 1: You want to play? Because he's got guys that he

1601
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: loves and respects in the locker room were counting on him.

1602
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:49,360
Speaker 1: He's got to know you've gotten this fut blah blah,

1603
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 1: what's so to speak? Bite the bullet and play. Let's

1604
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:54,760
Speaker 1: go back to the phones. We go to Mike in Lockport. Mike,

1605
01:23:54,800 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills live. Hey,

1606
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 1: Steve Um. I just got two quick questions. The first

1607
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 1: one is I really I want to know what your

1608
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:08,280
Speaker 1: take is on Um the Chiefs in the Browns game,

1609
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 1: on you know, not being able to capitalize and take

1610
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:14,840
Speaker 1: an advantage of Mahomes being out. Who do we blame

1611
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:17,320
Speaker 1: for this? Do we blame Baker or do we blame

1612
01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 1: the coach? No? I think he blamed the fact that

1613
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:22,560
Speaker 1: they're in a game against the teams that won the

1614
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: World Championship. I mean, it's not Pat Mahomes against the

1615
01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. Chiefs got a lot of good guys and

1616
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 1: chat and they're smart enough to have a guy like

1617
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,599
Speaker 1: Chad Henny who's been in the league it seems like

1618
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:39,680
Speaker 1: for since the late fifties, and wow, he knows what

1619
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:43,599
Speaker 1: he's doing. And also the Chiefs got an enormous break.

1620
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,519
Speaker 1: The guy played the whole game in week seventeen, so

1621
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:48,120
Speaker 1: he's been in there in the last couple of weeks.

1622
01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: It's not he hasn't taken a snap since two thy twelve.

1623
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 1: So he comes in and they're all, you know, it's not.

1624
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:59,519
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to blame the Browns for

1625
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:03,680
Speaker 1: not to making advantage of the guy of a backup quarterback.

1626
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 1: We're seeing we're watching the the highlight here of Henny

1627
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:10,759
Speaker 1: running for a third and fourteen for a first down,

1628
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:13,960
Speaker 1: and you know, how do you prepare for that? You

1629
01:25:14,040 --> 01:25:17,679
Speaker 1: got a ninety Henny seems to me I would put

1630
01:25:17,760 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: him older than then Brady. He's he's not, but it

1631
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 1: seems to me like he's forty and he's running for

1632
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 1: a third and fourteen. You don't. You don't defend that.

1633
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:30,719
Speaker 1: You don't have to defend that. You defend Sammy Watkins

1634
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey. Let that. Let the

1635
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:36,760
Speaker 1: old quarterback backup quarterbacks sit back there if he thinks

1636
01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:39,639
Speaker 1: he's gonna run for fourteen yards, don't. That's the last

1637
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 1: thing you want to defend. The Browns played that right,

1638
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:44,760
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs made a play on him. You know,

1639
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: if the Browns want to blame themselves, blame the guy

1640
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 1: that tried to reach out for the goal line and

1641
01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 1: coughed it up and went out of the end zone.

1642
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:54,280
Speaker 1: I mean, there's you know, there's enough blame to go around.

1643
01:25:54,720 --> 01:25:57,000
Speaker 1: But you gotta make the play when it's there. But

1644
01:25:57,080 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 1: you gotta know too if you don't, if you don't

1645
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 1: play your best, the Chiefs don't have to play their

1646
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 1: best to beat you. In fact, they can play with

1647
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 1: Chad Henne at quarterback and do that. So that's the dot.

1648
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 1: You don't have to sit here and say, hey, you know,

1649
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:14,200
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski stinks he couldn't beat the Chiefs in that spot,

1650
01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:16,960
Speaker 1: or or Baker Mayfield stinks because he only got to

1651
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:19,840
Speaker 1: the divisional round against the World Champions and then lost

1652
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:22,759
Speaker 1: by a close game. Come on, you look at any

1653
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:28,120
Speaker 1: playoff game and you want to start pointing fingers. It's

1654
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:31,320
Speaker 1: very easy to blame a coach. But the bottom line

1655
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 1: is this. The teams that win in the playoffs are

1656
01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 1: the ones that execute more consistently A to Z. I mean,

1657
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. You think about the

1658
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:45,759
Speaker 1: two teams that just played here last Saturday. Okay, both

1659
01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:49,320
Speaker 1: of those teams looked a little tight, little tense. Execution

1660
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: was not good, particularly on special teams, but in other

1661
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:57,040
Speaker 1: areas as well. And which team executed better start to

1662
01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:59,800
Speaker 1: finish in that game? It was the Bills. You know,

1663
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 1: snap over Lamar Jackson's head pretty much sealed the game

1664
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: after Terren's interception return. Poor execution, and meanwhile, the Bills

1665
01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:15,439
Speaker 1: executed their defensive game plan as masterfully as I have

1666
01:27:15,479 --> 01:27:19,240
Speaker 1: seen them in quite some time. Execution is what ultimately

1667
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 1: wins games, and lack of it loses games, especially in

1668
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:24,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs. We got to take a break, but when

1669
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 1: we come back, more of your phone calls, Jerry and

1670
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 1: Ken Moore, Hank tight, You'll lead us off next. You're

1671
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:31,599
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

1672
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 1: Bills Radio, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, One Bills Live Tuesday. Addition,

1673
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:50,920
Speaker 1: as we eagerly wait for the practice portion of the

1674
01:27:50,920 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 1: week to begin in earnest tomorrow and installation of the

1675
01:27:55,040 --> 01:27:58,960
Speaker 1: game plan that is being finalized today goes in, and

1676
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 1: we want to get back to the phones because we

1677
01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 1: have been asking you at eight three fifty two five

1678
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:09,280
Speaker 1: fifty what part of the Bills has changed for the

1679
01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:12,559
Speaker 1: better since Week six when this Bills team first played

1680
01:28:12,840 --> 01:28:16,680
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. How, where and why are they a

1681
01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:18,840
Speaker 1: better club now than they were back in week six?

1682
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: Pick a side of the ball, pick an area, pick

1683
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:23,679
Speaker 1: a player, I don't care. We want to know where

1684
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 1: you think the Bills have improved the most. Eighth three

1685
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:30,320
Speaker 1: five fifty. As promised, we go to Jerry and Ken Moore. Jerry,

1686
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live.

1687
01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 1: You know, I think this is really simple. What's different

1688
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:38,080
Speaker 1: from we six to right now is anybody that knows

1689
01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:41,880
Speaker 1: anything about sports knows you don't have to be the

1690
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 1: better team today. But half the battle is thinking you're

1691
01:28:45,280 --> 01:28:49,200
Speaker 1: the better team. This team has swagger now they're not thinking,

1692
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:53,120
Speaker 1: you know, We played for sixteen seventeen years afraid of

1693
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:56,080
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots and watching them play and watching

1694
01:28:56,120 --> 01:28:59,639
Speaker 1: them to run up the score. Good teams dictate play.

1695
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 1: They're more, they're they're more. They they're not reactionary as

1696
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:06,559
Speaker 1: much as they are. You know, well, we're gonna do

1697
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:10,040
Speaker 1: what we do and you have to stop us. You know, um,

1698
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:12,680
Speaker 1: I think we've made that switch. We know how what

1699
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: it's like to be the better team now. I think

1700
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 1: they're thinking right now, not how do we limit Kansas City?

1701
01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 1: It's how do we score a lot of points because

1702
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:23,439
Speaker 1: we can do that now, and how do Kansa City

1703
01:29:23,479 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 1: catch up to us? You know, It's it's we're not

1704
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:28,799
Speaker 1: going to go into this game limiting possessions like teams

1705
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:34,080
Speaker 1: do against good teams and then lose anyway. I think

1706
01:29:34,080 --> 01:29:37,120
Speaker 1: you're right. I think you're right. I'm with you one

1707
01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: hundred percent. I think the Buffalo Bills are going to

1708
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:40,280
Speaker 1: go in this game knowing if they play their best,

1709
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:42,639
Speaker 1: they're gonna win. That's where you have to be when

1710
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:45,520
Speaker 1: you get to the conference championship game. You've won fifteen

1711
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 1: games on the season, and you've seen this team once

1712
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:53,160
Speaker 1: before and watched yourself play pretty badly offensively against them,

1713
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:56,519
Speaker 1: and defensively too for that matter. You got to think, Okay,

1714
01:29:56,520 --> 01:29:58,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna be a different crew. Look at

1715
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: us now, and it's got to give you some confidence.

1716
01:30:01,600 --> 01:30:04,800
Speaker 1: And I think that, let's be honest, Chiefs are thinking

1717
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:07,720
Speaker 1: the same thing. They've beaten the Bills once. They did

1718
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:10,599
Speaker 1: it by running the football. They're thinking, the Bills haven't

1719
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:12,960
Speaker 1: even seen how good they can play in the passing game.

1720
01:30:13,439 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 1: They're you know, the Chiefs are coming in. They're supremely confident.

1721
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:20,360
Speaker 1: It's their third straight conference championship game in a row.

1722
01:30:21,040 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 1: Nobody should have more confidence this weekend of the four

1723
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:26,400
Speaker 1: teams than the Kansas City Chiefs, and they're playing a

1724
01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:28,679
Speaker 1: team the Buffalo Bills, that they can construe and say, listen,

1725
01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:30,800
Speaker 1: they put it together this year once, but they're not

1726
01:30:30,880 --> 01:30:33,479
Speaker 1: that good. They're not as good as we are. Both

1727
01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:36,880
Speaker 1: these teams have got something in there in the bank

1728
01:30:37,080 --> 01:30:39,240
Speaker 1: that they're gonna bring to this this game and think

1729
01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:41,560
Speaker 1: they can cash in. The Bills are gonna come in

1730
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:43,479
Speaker 1: with a ton of confidence, and so are the Chiefs.

1731
01:30:43,840 --> 01:30:47,120
Speaker 1: So I'm with you. Fans can can jump through all

1732
01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:48,960
Speaker 1: kinds of mental hoops and think the teams here and

1733
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:50,439
Speaker 1: think the teams. Let me just tell you some Bills

1734
01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:53,920
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win, and so do the Chiefs. That's

1735
01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:56,479
Speaker 1: what it's all about. Mentally. Who complained? Now, the question

1736
01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:58,920
Speaker 1: is who's gonna play best? That's all there is to it.

1737
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 1: You're right, you don't have to be the better team.

1738
01:31:00,439 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: You just gotta play better. Yet that day and all

1739
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:05,160
Speaker 1: the preparation or all the focus and all the stuff

1740
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:07,679
Speaker 1: that the lessons you've learned, how do you get those

1741
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:10,880
Speaker 1: on the field? And that's that's the bottom line. Coaches

1742
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 1: will put them in. Both coaching staffs are gonna have

1743
01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:16,120
Speaker 1: great game plans. It's gonna be who executes better, who

1744
01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:18,639
Speaker 1: can play better, who gets an opportunity that they are

1745
01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:21,000
Speaker 1: willing and able to kind of roll the dice and

1746
01:31:21,040 --> 01:31:24,960
Speaker 1: take advantage of. Right. Does a dB slough off his

1747
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:27,000
Speaker 1: coverage and leave his guy to go over and step

1748
01:31:27,040 --> 01:31:28,960
Speaker 1: in front of a pass in the end zone like

1749
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 1: Taryn Johnson did and go the distance? Does somebody get

1750
01:31:32,240 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 1: a tipped pass and you know, on a play where

1751
01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:37,639
Speaker 1: they might not have been able to rush the quarterback,

1752
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:39,320
Speaker 1: but because they thought they could, they did, and they

1753
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:41,040
Speaker 1: got a piece of a ball that they shouldn't have

1754
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:43,559
Speaker 1: been in position to get turns into an interception the

1755
01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:46,360
Speaker 1: other way, that stuff happens in these games. That's what

1756
01:31:46,360 --> 01:31:48,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to. These are two really good

1757
01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:50,200
Speaker 1: football teams. I think it's gonna be a great game,

1758
01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:53,640
Speaker 1: a very close game, and the team that plays the

1759
01:31:53,640 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 1: best is gonna win because both these teams are really talented,

1760
01:31:57,200 --> 01:32:00,760
Speaker 1: really deep, and really well coached. And I would even

1761
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:04,400
Speaker 1: venture to say that with both teams, you know, bringing

1762
01:32:04,439 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 1: everything they've got into this game and knowing they are

1763
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 1: kind of put together in a similar way, I think

1764
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:14,559
Speaker 1: people would be shocked if one team just completely ran

1765
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:16,840
Speaker 1: away from the other. I think this is a kind

1766
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: of game that is going to be of a back

1767
01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:22,439
Speaker 1: and forth nature. Unless one of those two teams just

1768
01:32:22,479 --> 01:32:24,720
Speaker 1: has a lousy day, that's the only thing that would

1769
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:27,479
Speaker 1: change that dynamic. In my mind, I think both teams

1770
01:32:27,520 --> 01:32:29,920
Speaker 1: come in and play their best. It's going to be

1771
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:32,479
Speaker 1: back and forth. I really I don't see one of

1772
01:32:32,520 --> 01:32:34,599
Speaker 1: these two teams running away from the other. I mean,

1773
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:37,680
Speaker 1: think about think about the game in Week six. The

1774
01:32:37,720 --> 01:32:39,880
Speaker 1: Bills could argue they didn't even play their best game.

1775
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:42,120
Speaker 1: Chefs run for two hundred and forty five yards, the

1776
01:32:42,160 --> 01:32:44,840
Speaker 1: only win by nine and with a late field goal

1777
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:46,960
Speaker 1: too to play. Is the Bills had a chance in

1778
01:32:47,040 --> 01:32:49,719
Speaker 1: that game, no question. I think. While you can argue

1779
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:51,479
Speaker 1: that Bills are a better team now than they were

1780
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 1: in Week six, the Chiefs are still the Chiefs. But

1781
01:32:55,640 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 1: I'm telling you man this, I think it's going to

1782
01:32:58,040 --> 01:33:00,360
Speaker 1: be back and forth. I really do. And you're not

1783
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:02,200
Speaker 1: going to be able to step on one of these

1784
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:05,080
Speaker 1: teams throat and choke him out early in this game.

1785
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:07,479
Speaker 1: This thing's going the distance. I think it will. I

1786
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 1: think it will be close now there. It may be

1787
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:11,519
Speaker 1: a roller coaster ride. One team maybe get up by

1788
01:33:11,560 --> 01:33:13,559
Speaker 1: double digits, but you got to think too, both these

1789
01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:15,920
Speaker 1: teams feel like they can they can light it up. Yeah,

1790
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:18,759
Speaker 1: the Bills certainly could not get it done against Steve

1791
01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:22,599
Speaker 1: Spagnola's defense last time. I think having a look at

1792
01:33:22,600 --> 01:33:25,479
Speaker 1: it helps. It'll be interesting to see break time for us.

1793
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:29,759
Speaker 1: But when we return, Hall of Famer Kurt Warner joins

1794
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:32,719
Speaker 1: us get his thoughts on Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes

1795
01:33:32,720 --> 01:33:36,559
Speaker 1: in this matchup and where he thinks the Bills might

1796
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:38,880
Speaker 1: be better than they were back in Week six. Kurt

1797
01:33:38,920 --> 01:33:40,960
Speaker 1: Warner coming up next here on One Bill's Live, presented

1798
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:54,040
Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello Bill's

1799
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:58,599
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Sports Update. Sports Update from One Bill's Drive.

1800
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 1: Bills off today, but we'll turn to the practice field

1801
01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:03,799
Speaker 1: on Wednesday in advance of their game with the Chiefs

1802
01:34:03,800 --> 01:34:06,240
Speaker 1: in the AFC Title Game. All eyes will be on

1803
01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:08,799
Speaker 1: the Chiefs this week to see if the starting quarterback

1804
01:34:08,840 --> 01:34:11,640
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is progressing from the hit he took in

1805
01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 1: sundays went over the Browns. Mahomes currently in concussion protocol

1806
01:34:15,560 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 1: after leaving Sunday's game after being tack tackled awkwardly as

1807
01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 1: he landed on his head and had his neck pulled

1808
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:25,680
Speaker 1: in a crazy manner there. Mahomes was slow to get

1809
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 1: up before stumbling and was clearly shaken by the hit,

1810
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:30,559
Speaker 1: though he was able to run to the locker room

1811
01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:34,360
Speaker 1: a short time later. Washington Football team has completed a

1812
01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:37,559
Speaker 1: reunion of sorts Washington, finalizing a deal with Marty Hearnie

1813
01:34:37,560 --> 01:34:40,320
Speaker 1: to become the team's GM. The move reunites Herney with

1814
01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:43,720
Speaker 1: head coach Ron Rivera, with whom Hernie worked in Carolina,

1815
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:46,000
Speaker 1: where the two assembled key pieces of a super Bowl

1816
01:34:46,120 --> 01:34:48,839
Speaker 1: caliber roster in the early part of the last decade.

1817
01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:53,240
Speaker 1: Not long after losing their season to the NFC South

1818
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:56,080
Speaker 1: rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New Orleans Saints are losing

1819
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:59,639
Speaker 1: their assistant GM to another division foe, the Atlanta Falcons,

1820
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:02,840
Speaker 1: hiring Saints assistant GM and vice president of Pro Personnel

1821
01:35:03,120 --> 01:35:07,360
Speaker 1: Terry Fontanel to be their next general manager. Baseball News

1822
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:10,040
Speaker 1: the New York Mets fire GM Jared Porter on Tuesday,

1823
01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:13,760
Speaker 1: a day after a report that he sent explicit unsolicited

1824
01:35:13,800 --> 01:35:16,879
Speaker 1: texts and images to a female reporter in twenty sixteen

1825
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:19,559
Speaker 1: while he was working for the Chicago Cubs in their

1826
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: front office. Porter was just higher as Met's GM back

1827
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:27,200
Speaker 1: in December. And finally, the Sabers picking up their first

1828
01:35:27,240 --> 01:35:29,560
Speaker 1: win of the season last night in Philadelphia, beating the

1829
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:32,680
Speaker 1: Flyers six to one. Sam Reinhardt Curtis Lazari each had

1830
01:35:32,680 --> 01:35:36,000
Speaker 1: two goals, same two teams. Tonight face off set for

1831
01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:39,360
Speaker 1: seven pm. That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive.

1832
01:35:39,439 --> 01:35:41,880
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you for our number three

1833
01:35:41,920 --> 01:35:44,920
Speaker 1: of the program and joining us on the line right

1834
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 1: now is the Hall of Famer and you see him

1835
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:53,639
Speaker 1: a lot on NFL Network. NFL analyst Hall of Fame

1836
01:35:53,720 --> 01:35:56,559
Speaker 1: quarterback Kurt Warner joining us here an hour number three

1837
01:35:56,560 --> 01:36:00,200
Speaker 1: of the program. Kurt, thanks for making some time. You

1838
01:36:00,280 --> 01:36:02,120
Speaker 1: got it, You got it. Good to talk to you guys.

1839
01:36:02,160 --> 01:36:04,320
Speaker 1: I know things are exciting out there in Buffalo, so

1840
01:36:04,560 --> 01:36:07,120
Speaker 1: it's it's good times and uh and happy to be

1841
01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:09,320
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, absolutely, thanks And we want to ask

1842
01:36:09,320 --> 01:36:11,000
Speaker 1: you too. I know you've you've got a big family.

1843
01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:12,680
Speaker 1: How have you been doing during the pandemic. I know

1844
01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:15,040
Speaker 1: you've tested positive a couple of times. Tell us about

1845
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:16,800
Speaker 1: how has that gone for you and how's you and

1846
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:20,680
Speaker 1: your family weathered that. Yeah, you know, we you know,

1847
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:23,960
Speaker 1: Steve that we're more blessed than most, and so we've

1848
01:36:23,960 --> 01:36:26,559
Speaker 1: been able to handle it and kind of stay in

1849
01:36:26,560 --> 01:36:29,479
Speaker 1: our own little area and try to keep ourselves safe

1850
01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 1: and keep everybody else safe. And you know, it's always

1851
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:35,880
Speaker 1: challenges with everything, especially with kids and teenage kids, you know,

1852
01:36:35,920 --> 01:36:37,840
Speaker 1: so the social part of it has been a bit

1853
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:40,360
Speaker 1: of a struggle for all of us. But overall we're

1854
01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:42,479
Speaker 1: pretty good. And as you said, I tested positive just

1855
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:46,080
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, you know, dealt with some symptoms,

1856
01:36:46,840 --> 01:36:48,879
Speaker 1: you know, worked my way through it. It wasn't horrible,

1857
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:52,280
Speaker 1: but it also wasn't It wasn't a joke either, so

1858
01:36:52,320 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 1: I definitely felt it. But I feel great right now. Um.

1859
01:36:56,280 --> 01:36:57,680
Speaker 1: You know, I gu said, it's been about two weeks

1860
01:36:57,720 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 1: since I tested, and I'm feeling really really good at

1861
01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:02,920
Speaker 1: this point and worked through, you know, most of it,

1862
01:37:03,040 --> 01:37:06,720
Speaker 1: and hopefully there'll be nothing that lingers moving forward. Well,

1863
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:08,240
Speaker 1: all our best to you and your family. Hope you

1864
01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:11,439
Speaker 1: guys continue and I hope your family stays healthy after

1865
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 1: you getting it at this good stuff. I appreciate and

1866
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 1: thanks for taking some time to come on with us.

1867
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:18,000
Speaker 1: I got to ask you about you know, you're you're

1868
01:37:18,040 --> 01:37:20,040
Speaker 1: an MVP in the league, You've won a super Bowl,

1869
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:23,600
Speaker 1: you took the Cardinals to the Super Bowl. What have

1870
01:37:23,680 --> 01:37:27,439
Speaker 1: you seen in Josh Allen's play this year? Certainly it's

1871
01:37:27,439 --> 01:37:29,600
Speaker 1: been a surprise for a lot of people, even for

1872
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 1: I mean, we watched the guy all last year. We thought, well,

1873
01:37:31,920 --> 01:37:35,560
Speaker 1: maybe if he got to sixty three percent you know, completionary,

1874
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and through for a three

1875
01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:39,439
Speaker 1: hundred yards like maybe three or four times during the

1876
01:37:39,479 --> 01:37:41,960
Speaker 1: season would be a step forward. But nothing like this

1877
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:46,160
Speaker 1: MVP conversation that he's put himself into what's your take

1878
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:49,400
Speaker 1: on Josh out on the season. You know that that

1879
01:37:49,560 --> 01:37:51,840
Speaker 1: is one of the hardest things because I've always said

1880
01:37:51,880 --> 01:37:56,000
Speaker 1: it's really hard to become dramatically more accurate. You don't

1881
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:58,640
Speaker 1: see very many guys that will go from being a

1882
01:37:58,680 --> 01:38:01,439
Speaker 1: fifty eight fifty nine percent and passer in college and

1883
01:38:01,479 --> 01:38:03,160
Speaker 1: then early in their pro career and all of a

1884
01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:05,960
Speaker 1: sudden jump up to like the sixty eight sixty nine

1885
01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 1: range where Josh Allen is. So it's been really, really impressive.

1886
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:12,920
Speaker 1: You know. The one thing that I've always liked is

1887
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:15,680
Speaker 1: that I think Josh has a good bass, which I

1888
01:38:15,720 --> 01:38:18,120
Speaker 1: think the bass is so key to being accurate as

1889
01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:20,600
Speaker 1: a quarterback. I still think he's got some work to do.

1890
01:38:20,640 --> 01:38:23,800
Speaker 1: There's oftentimes where his feet don't come with his arm,

1891
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:25,639
Speaker 1: but he's able to get away with so much because

1892
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:29,400
Speaker 1: he's got that laser arm. But I just see a

1893
01:38:29,479 --> 01:38:32,559
Speaker 1: quarterback that's playing really, really confident, and that becomes a

1894
01:38:32,680 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 1: huge key in anything from wins to success to completion percentage.

1895
01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:40,839
Speaker 1: It's being confident in what you're seeing where you're throwing

1896
01:38:40,880 --> 01:38:43,400
Speaker 1: it and letting it rip. And you guys have a

1897
01:38:43,520 --> 01:38:48,400
Speaker 1: quarterback that is playing really really confident football. The question

1898
01:38:48,479 --> 01:38:52,200
Speaker 1: becomes when you have such a dramatic change from what

1899
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:54,840
Speaker 1: he was early to what he was this year, is

1900
01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:56,720
Speaker 1: is this that Josh Allen We're going to see the

1901
01:38:56,720 --> 01:38:59,400
Speaker 1: rest of his career or is this one of those

1902
01:39:00,160 --> 01:39:04,320
Speaker 1: in the bubble type seasons where everything comes together and

1903
01:39:04,520 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: he has that MVP type season. We've seen Cam Newton

1904
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:10,479
Speaker 1: with one of those seasons. We've seen Matt Ryan with

1905
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:13,479
Speaker 1: one of those seasons. Then they kind of level out

1906
01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:15,880
Speaker 1: and they are what they are most of their career.

1907
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:17,960
Speaker 1: And so I think that's the exciting part right here,

1908
01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:21,280
Speaker 1: is what is Josh going to be moving forward? Because

1909
01:39:21,600 --> 01:39:23,880
Speaker 1: if he can give you this kind of play throughout

1910
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:26,240
Speaker 1: the rest of his career, man, it is going to

1911
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:28,679
Speaker 1: be fun to watch. He is going to be able

1912
01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:31,800
Speaker 1: to challenge a guy like Patrick Mahomes year in and

1913
01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:35,120
Speaker 1: year out, and I'm excited to see what that looks like.

1914
01:39:35,320 --> 01:39:38,240
Speaker 1: And you guys, know, you had a few talented pieces,

1915
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:41,639
Speaker 1: and maybe one specific talented piece in Stefon Diggs who

1916
01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: is a big time playmaker, and that can go a

1917
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:48,559
Speaker 1: long ways to building the confidence of your signal caller,

1918
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:51,840
Speaker 1: giving you the belief that you can go out there

1919
01:39:51,840 --> 01:39:55,200
Speaker 1: and make plays and take chances that maybe you wouldn't

1920
01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:56,760
Speaker 1: take with other guys. So a lot of things I

1921
01:39:56,800 --> 01:39:59,519
Speaker 1: think you have come together. But I'm really excited not

1922
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 1: only to se them play this weekend against Patrick Mahomes

1923
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:05,840
Speaker 1: and company again, but to see what they're going to

1924
01:40:05,880 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 1: be and what Josh is going to be for the

1925
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:10,760
Speaker 1: next ten year. Curry, I don't know how close you've

1926
01:40:10,800 --> 01:40:13,640
Speaker 1: paid attention to, you know, personnel usage and that kind

1927
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:16,040
Speaker 1: of stuff here in Buffalo, but you know, the Bills

1928
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:18,280
Speaker 1: I think are second in the league in the usage

1929
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:21,840
Speaker 1: of ten personnel, and with good reason. I mean they

1930
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:24,599
Speaker 1: go four deep at receiver. I mean they like their guys,

1931
01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:27,280
Speaker 1: so you understand it. And I know you were able

1932
01:40:27,280 --> 01:40:29,280
Speaker 1: to kind of spread the field when you were in

1933
01:40:29,320 --> 01:40:32,360
Speaker 1: Saint Louis with all the guys that you had. What

1934
01:40:32,479 --> 01:40:35,040
Speaker 1: kind of power, you know, kind of playing off what

1935
01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:36,920
Speaker 1: you were saying a little bit with Stefan Diggs there,

1936
01:40:37,120 --> 01:40:39,280
Speaker 1: What kind of power does that kind of give the

1937
01:40:39,360 --> 01:40:42,960
Speaker 1: quarterback when you have a myriad of options and you

1938
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:46,479
Speaker 1: almost know in most given weeks, most defenses don't go

1939
01:40:46,600 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 1: that deep at corner, and when you can put four

1940
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:53,000
Speaker 1: guys out there, what kind of power that gives the quarterback. Well,

1941
01:40:53,280 --> 01:40:55,439
Speaker 1: there's no doubt because a big part of this game

1942
01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:59,639
Speaker 1: is believing that when the defense dictates a certain matchup

1943
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:03,120
Speaker 1: to you offensively, that that matchup can win for you.

1944
01:41:03,120 --> 01:41:04,840
Speaker 1: You know, there's some teams that say, well, I can

1945
01:41:04,880 --> 01:41:06,719
Speaker 1: win with my one, and I can win with my two.

1946
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:09,240
Speaker 1: But if they forced me to go to three and four,

1947
01:41:10,040 --> 01:41:13,240
Speaker 1: now it's a little more iffy when you've got four guys.

1948
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:15,439
Speaker 1: And as you said, lots of teams struggle with having

1949
01:41:15,479 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 1: the depth in the secondary to cover four guys. When

1950
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:20,800
Speaker 1: you got four guys that you have confidence in at

1951
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:24,639
Speaker 1: the wide receiver spot, it really challenges every defense. And

1952
01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:26,600
Speaker 1: once again we go back to that confidence as a

1953
01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:29,559
Speaker 1: quarterback when you feel like, hey, number three and number

1954
01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:31,479
Speaker 1: four are just as good at options for me as

1955
01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:33,880
Speaker 1: one and two. When you look at who they're matched

1956
01:41:33,960 --> 01:41:37,240
Speaker 1: up against, that gives you great confidence to say, okay, defense,

1957
01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 1: pick your poison, where do you want to go on

1958
01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:41,880
Speaker 1: this play? Because I've got somebody that can beat you.

1959
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:44,400
Speaker 1: And you know, and a big part of this game

1960
01:41:44,560 --> 01:41:47,960
Speaker 1: is playing to your strengths. What are your strengths? How

1961
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:50,240
Speaker 1: are you built as a team. You know, when I

1962
01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:52,559
Speaker 1: was in Arizona. That was another situation. You know, my

1963
01:41:52,640 --> 01:41:55,240
Speaker 1: weapons weren't necessarily talked about as much as with the

1964
01:41:55,280 --> 01:41:57,960
Speaker 1: Greatest Show on Turf. But we were more built to

1965
01:41:58,040 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 1: play four wide receiver football. And that's what we did

1966
01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:03,080
Speaker 1: when we went to the Super Bowl and in oh

1967
01:42:03,160 --> 01:42:05,559
Speaker 1: nine is we went a lot of four wide receiver

1968
01:42:05,640 --> 01:42:08,640
Speaker 1: stuff because we felt that gave us an advantage against

1969
01:42:08,680 --> 01:42:11,679
Speaker 1: the Steelers defense. And so that becomes a big part

1970
01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:13,880
Speaker 1: of this play is you know, how does it give

1971
01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:16,719
Speaker 1: you an advantage against the defense you're facing, But maybe

1972
01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:19,920
Speaker 1: more importantly, how were we built to have the most

1973
01:42:20,040 --> 01:42:22,920
Speaker 1: kind of success? And you know the other thing for

1974
01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:26,000
Speaker 1: a Josh Allen and I always felt like, hey, if

1975
01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:28,439
Speaker 1: you just let me throw the ball three times, I'll

1976
01:42:28,439 --> 01:42:30,920
Speaker 1: get you a first down. And they've kind of in

1977
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:33,640
Speaker 1: that mode right now. It's like thinking about handing the

1978
01:42:33,680 --> 01:42:37,280
Speaker 1: ball off. If we're gonna run it, I'll run it myself. Otherwise,

1979
01:42:37,320 --> 01:42:39,760
Speaker 1: give me three opportunities, and I believe I can make

1980
01:42:39,800 --> 01:42:42,639
Speaker 1: a play for you in those three opportunities to keep

1981
01:42:42,840 --> 01:42:44,880
Speaker 1: the drives going. And so it's a great place to

1982
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:47,479
Speaker 1: be as a quarterback when you know ball is going

1983
01:42:47,520 --> 01:42:49,439
Speaker 1: to be in your hands, they have confidence in you

1984
01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:52,760
Speaker 1: to give you opportunities to make plays, and that's that's

1985
01:42:52,760 --> 01:42:54,640
Speaker 1: exactly what he's done most of this year. Yeah, and

1986
01:42:54,720 --> 01:42:56,800
Speaker 1: it's interesting too because Josh Allen seems to be in

1987
01:42:56,840 --> 01:42:59,599
Speaker 1: that and we know Pat Mahomes is in that spot

1988
01:42:59,600 --> 01:43:02,599
Speaker 1: where let him Andy Reids that every down's a throwing down.

1989
01:43:02,680 --> 01:43:05,080
Speaker 1: And and even so even on a fourth and inches

1990
01:43:05,280 --> 01:43:08,160
Speaker 1: last week with a backup quarterback, it turns into a

1991
01:43:08,240 --> 01:43:10,800
Speaker 1: throwing down. Both these clubs come in and I think,

1992
01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:12,960
Speaker 1: and I've we've seen it before where you get a

1993
01:43:12,960 --> 01:43:14,840
Speaker 1: team like even like the Greatest Show on Turf, and

1994
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:16,960
Speaker 1: I can't think of another team in the league at

1995
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:20,600
Speaker 1: that era. But here in this era, teams seem you

1996
01:43:20,680 --> 01:43:23,320
Speaker 1: got to find a way to beat the Chiefs. And

1997
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:25,760
Speaker 1: this team in Buffalo seems to be like, well, let's

1998
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:29,400
Speaker 1: look try and look just like the Chiefs. Uh, you know, right?

1999
01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:32,840
Speaker 1: And so Pat Mahomes is playing at a high level,

2000
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:35,000
Speaker 1: it seemed to me. And you tell me your your

2001
01:43:35,040 --> 01:43:36,880
Speaker 1: thoughts because you were with a team, a great team

2002
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:40,120
Speaker 1: like that as well. The Chiefs won eleven out of

2003
01:43:40,120 --> 01:43:42,720
Speaker 1: twelve or something like that coming down the stretch, and

2004
01:43:42,760 --> 01:43:47,360
Speaker 1: then week seventeen, away with so they see they really

2005
01:43:47,720 --> 01:43:49,400
Speaker 1: and I'm not just saying this, it looked like they

2006
01:43:49,920 --> 01:43:52,519
Speaker 1: had another gear they never needed for two and a

2007
01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:57,519
Speaker 1: half months. Now, that's how good they are. M What

2008
01:43:57,560 --> 01:43:59,680
Speaker 1: does it take to beat a team that's playing with

2009
01:43:59,680 --> 01:44:06,520
Speaker 1: that of confidence. It's tough because that team believes they're invincible.

2010
01:44:06,880 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 1: And you know, I think the thing with the Chiefs too,

2011
01:44:09,520 --> 01:44:13,720
Speaker 1: is they know that things can go against them and

2012
01:44:13,800 --> 01:44:16,479
Speaker 1: they can still win. And that I think is one

2013
01:44:16,479 --> 01:44:19,000
Speaker 1: of the biggest challenges for everybody that plays against the

2014
01:44:19,080 --> 01:44:21,920
Speaker 1: Chiefs is there's never a chance to take a deep

2015
01:44:21,960 --> 01:44:25,120
Speaker 1: breath and go, h, we got a fourteen point lead,

2016
01:44:25,479 --> 01:44:27,439
Speaker 1: all right, we can just settle in and play. You're

2017
01:44:27,479 --> 01:44:30,320
Speaker 1: always playing on edge when you're playing against Patrick Mahomes

2018
01:44:30,520 --> 01:44:32,640
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs, especially after what we saw in the

2019
01:44:32,680 --> 01:44:35,479
Speaker 1: playoffs last year. You know, down twenty four points, down

2020
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:38,080
Speaker 1: double digits in each of those games, and they find

2021
01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:40,800
Speaker 1: ways to come back. So that's the other part if

2022
01:44:40,800 --> 01:44:43,280
Speaker 1: you're the Bills, is yeah, you believe you can go

2023
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:46,599
Speaker 1: swing for swing with them, but you're always going to

2024
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,160
Speaker 1: be playing on edge, and that's not a good place

2025
01:44:49,200 --> 01:44:51,120
Speaker 1: to play. You want to be able to play free

2026
01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:53,880
Speaker 1: and just go out there and do what you do,

2027
01:44:54,240 --> 01:44:56,559
Speaker 1: but you always know who's on that other sideline when

2028
01:44:56,600 --> 01:44:59,720
Speaker 1: you're playing against the Chiefs, and that's going to be

2029
01:44:59,760 --> 01:45:01,960
Speaker 1: a big challenge. You know, you got to keep your

2030
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:04,559
Speaker 1: intensity up. You can't take a deep breath. You know,

2031
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:06,799
Speaker 1: when something does go again. You can have a fourteen

2032
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: point lead and you still feel like you have to

2033
01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:11,479
Speaker 1: score every time you touch it. So then if you

2034
01:45:11,560 --> 01:45:13,439
Speaker 1: have to punt, now, all of a sudden, the back

2035
01:45:13,479 --> 01:45:16,240
Speaker 1: of your mind, you're going shoot. We gave him an

2036
01:45:16,280 --> 01:45:18,960
Speaker 1: extra possession, we had to punt, and we know who's over.

2037
01:45:19,200 --> 01:45:21,280
Speaker 1: And so you start playing the game a little bit

2038
01:45:21,320 --> 01:45:25,160
Speaker 1: differently against this Chief's offense. And you know, we always

2039
01:45:25,200 --> 01:45:26,920
Speaker 1: talk about it, and there's a physical part of the game,

2040
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 1: and there's always the mental part of every game. That

2041
01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:32,680
Speaker 1: is a mental hurdle that everybody that plays against the

2042
01:45:32,720 --> 01:45:35,800
Speaker 1: chief has to be able to jump over. I know,

2043
01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 1: I don't believe, Kurt, there were too many times in

2044
01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:41,880
Speaker 1: your career where while with the same franchise you had

2045
01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:44,320
Speaker 1: to change coordinators. Obviously, Marx was your head coach, so

2046
01:45:44,400 --> 01:45:47,439
Speaker 1: that didn't really change for you there, but just looking

2047
01:45:47,439 --> 01:45:50,000
Speaker 1: at it for Josh here, it looks like Brian Dable

2048
01:45:50,120 --> 01:45:52,880
Speaker 1: is going to stay put. He's not going to land

2049
01:45:52,880 --> 01:45:55,640
Speaker 1: a head coaching job this offseason. And Steve and I

2050
01:45:55,680 --> 01:45:57,680
Speaker 1: were kind of talking about the times when you know,

2051
01:45:57,720 --> 01:46:00,240
Speaker 1: the K gun offense here in Buffalo lost head Archer

2052
01:46:00,280 --> 01:46:02,840
Speaker 1: Broton he went to Indianapolis, and how much the dynamics

2053
01:46:02,920 --> 01:46:06,440
Speaker 1: changed with a new play caller. Just in your experience

2054
01:46:06,920 --> 01:46:09,559
Speaker 1: from going to different teams and having different play callers,

2055
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:13,400
Speaker 1: how dramatic a shift is that for the quarterback to

2056
01:46:13,479 --> 01:46:16,400
Speaker 1: try to keep it all together and maintain it. Because

2057
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:19,040
Speaker 1: I have to believe that with Dable staying in the

2058
01:46:19,040 --> 01:46:22,080
Speaker 1: fold another year, it will allow this team to continue

2059
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:27,200
Speaker 1: the ascent of its current trajectory. Yeah, I think it's huge.

2060
01:46:27,240 --> 01:46:29,479
Speaker 1: And you know, the thing about it is that there's

2061
01:46:29,479 --> 01:46:32,400
Speaker 1: a lot of great play callers, play designers, guys that

2062
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:36,280
Speaker 1: are really smart football guys. But I've always believed that

2063
01:46:36,960 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 1: there's a true connection that needs to be had between

2064
01:46:39,439 --> 01:46:43,400
Speaker 1: your quarterback and your play caller in terms of why

2065
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:46,479
Speaker 1: you do what you do, why you call the plays

2066
01:46:46,560 --> 01:46:49,680
Speaker 1: that you call. Do you both see the game the

2067
01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:52,559
Speaker 1: same way? Is that you know you can have a

2068
01:46:52,640 --> 01:46:55,200
Speaker 1: quarterback drop a great play that he loves and you

2069
01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:57,599
Speaker 1: can have a coordinator drop a play he loves and

2070
01:46:57,840 --> 01:46:59,400
Speaker 1: they can look at him and go, I don't really

2071
01:46:59,400 --> 01:47:01,479
Speaker 1: like that one, even though it might be a great

2072
01:47:01,520 --> 01:47:03,200
Speaker 1: play and a play that the other person has had

2073
01:47:03,240 --> 01:47:07,200
Speaker 1: great success with. Seeing the game the same way is

2074
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 1: so vital, and so when you find that relationship, it's

2075
01:47:12,439 --> 01:47:15,160
Speaker 1: so important, I think, to keep it together if you can,

2076
01:47:15,640 --> 01:47:19,080
Speaker 1: because not everybody will see the game the same way

2077
01:47:19,160 --> 01:47:22,880
Speaker 1: you see the game, and that becomes a distinct process

2078
01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:26,000
Speaker 1: of being able to figure that out. So when you

2079
01:47:26,120 --> 01:47:28,519
Speaker 1: figure that out, you do feel like, hey, we can

2080
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:30,200
Speaker 1: just hit the ground running next year, and we can

2081
01:47:30,200 --> 01:47:32,200
Speaker 1: build off of what we've done this year. And you

2082
01:47:32,240 --> 01:47:34,240
Speaker 1: know me, and I know you, and I understand what

2083
01:47:34,280 --> 01:47:36,840
Speaker 1: we're trying to do, and man, now let's just keep

2084
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:40,120
Speaker 1: us sending. When you have to stop that and then

2085
01:47:40,160 --> 01:47:41,840
Speaker 1: you have to kind of start over, or you have

2086
01:47:41,880 --> 01:47:44,360
Speaker 1: to hope that the next guy sees the game the

2087
01:47:44,400 --> 01:47:47,240
Speaker 1: way your quarterback does. You know, that can be a

2088
01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:50,439
Speaker 1: really tough process, and sometimes you can get there and

2089
01:47:50,560 --> 01:47:52,880
Speaker 1: other times I think you never get there between a

2090
01:47:52,960 --> 01:47:57,280
Speaker 1: certain coordinator and a quarterback, and it can be the

2091
01:47:57,280 --> 01:48:01,080
Speaker 1: difference between you know, competing at the level competing four

2092
01:48:01,200 --> 01:48:04,400
Speaker 1: championships and just being a good football team because you

2093
01:48:04,439 --> 01:48:08,799
Speaker 1: have good talent. Also both coordinators in Buffalo, Leslie Frasier's

2094
01:48:08,800 --> 01:48:10,679
Speaker 1: also on the radar for a lot of teams. It's

2095
01:48:10,720 --> 01:48:12,840
Speaker 1: been struck me a couple of times. And particularly the

2096
01:48:12,920 --> 01:48:16,800
Speaker 1: Chiefs game in Week six, the Bills really invited the

2097
01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:19,280
Speaker 1: Chiefs to run, and Edwards Hilaire had like one hundred

2098
01:48:19,320 --> 01:48:21,919
Speaker 1: and sixty one rushing yards. They rushed for two forty overall.

2099
01:48:22,320 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills almost took bat Mahomes and just said, listen,

2100
01:48:25,360 --> 01:48:26,640
Speaker 1: you're not gonna throw it and beat us. You can

2101
01:48:26,680 --> 01:48:28,439
Speaker 1: hand it off and beat us. And they got it done,

2102
01:48:28,439 --> 01:48:31,160
Speaker 1: no question about it. And then this last week the

2103
01:48:31,240 --> 01:48:34,720
Speaker 1: Bills really kind of sold out. Listen, we dare you

2104
01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:37,479
Speaker 1: to throw it to you know, we dare you to

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01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:39,080
Speaker 1: throw it. In fact, if you want, you can throw

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01:48:39,120 --> 01:48:40,479
Speaker 1: it to the white outs all you want, but you're

2107
01:48:40,479 --> 01:48:42,360
Speaker 1: not throwing it to Andrews and you're not throwing to

2108
01:48:42,600 --> 01:48:44,839
Speaker 1: any of your running backs. And you know we're gonna

2109
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:47,280
Speaker 1: sell out to you know. They went one hundred percent

2110
01:48:47,320 --> 01:48:49,320
Speaker 1: in on both those game plans won. They won in

2111
01:48:49,360 --> 01:48:52,080
Speaker 1: the Divisional round against Baltimore, the other they lost against

2112
01:48:52,160 --> 01:48:56,040
Speaker 1: Kansas City in Week six. But that kind of game

2113
01:48:56,080 --> 01:48:59,400
Speaker 1: plan that becomes so obvious. Sometimes it becomes obvious after

2114
01:48:59,439 --> 01:49:02,759
Speaker 1: the game is over. What do you expect in this matchup?

2115
01:49:02,800 --> 01:49:04,479
Speaker 1: For that? Do you kind of have to sell out

2116
01:49:04,840 --> 01:49:07,519
Speaker 1: like that against a Chiefs team? Because if you if

2117
01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:10,200
Speaker 1: you sell out one way, it seems like they still

2118
01:49:10,240 --> 01:49:14,040
Speaker 1: have an extra gear with their left hand. Right. It's

2119
01:49:14,040 --> 01:49:17,960
Speaker 1: a tough matchup. And that's what good teams have, right,

2120
01:49:18,040 --> 01:49:19,639
Speaker 1: you know. I often say that, you know, you've got

2121
01:49:19,640 --> 01:49:22,480
Speaker 1: to be able to win different ways, especially in the playoffs.

2122
01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:24,320
Speaker 1: If you're a good football team, you know you got

2123
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:27,040
Speaker 1: to win away from your strength sometimes. And the Chiefs

2124
01:49:27,040 --> 01:49:29,840
Speaker 1: have shown the ability to do that, to win with

2125
01:49:29,880 --> 01:49:32,000
Speaker 1: their defense at times, to win with their running game

2126
01:49:32,040 --> 01:49:35,280
Speaker 1: at times. But if I'm the Bills, I want them

2127
01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:37,760
Speaker 1: to have to beat us that way again. I want

2128
01:49:37,800 --> 01:49:40,040
Speaker 1: them to have to be patient. I want them to

2129
01:49:40,520 --> 01:49:42,439
Speaker 1: have to work the ball down the field and find

2130
01:49:42,479 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 1: themselves in numerous third down situations in hopes that we

2131
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:48,360
Speaker 1: can just pull out a stop here or there. And

2132
01:49:48,400 --> 01:49:50,160
Speaker 1: I think if you looked at that last game, you

2133
01:49:50,200 --> 01:49:51,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean. There was a lot of weather

2134
01:49:51,760 --> 01:49:54,559
Speaker 1: and it changed I think the complexion of how the

2135
01:49:54,600 --> 01:49:57,719
Speaker 1: Bills played as well is that I think if the Bills,

2136
01:49:57,760 --> 01:49:59,120
Speaker 1: if you look back at that game and say, hey,

2137
01:49:59,160 --> 01:50:01,519
Speaker 1: if we can hold the Chiefs to what we did

2138
01:50:01,640 --> 01:50:04,960
Speaker 1: last time, we feel like we've got a chance. If

2139
01:50:05,040 --> 01:50:08,120
Speaker 1: Josh and company are going well, and you know, the

2140
01:50:08,360 --> 01:50:12,320
Speaker 1: conditions play to us playing our brand of football, we'll

2141
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:14,839
Speaker 1: take that slow death and keep it in the mid twenties,

2142
01:50:15,040 --> 01:50:17,200
Speaker 1: and we feel like we can win that game. We

2143
01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:20,240
Speaker 1: just don't want it to be attract me. And really,

2144
01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:22,880
Speaker 1: I mean the Bills, I feel they say that we

2145
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:25,320
Speaker 1: can win attract me too. They built that way, but

2146
01:50:25,600 --> 01:50:27,840
Speaker 1: I just think against the Chiefs, you don't want to

2147
01:50:27,840 --> 01:50:30,040
Speaker 1: have to go swing for swing with Patrick Mahomes. He's

2148
01:50:30,080 --> 01:50:32,920
Speaker 1: just that good and it's shown himself to be the

2149
01:50:33,040 --> 01:50:36,000
Speaker 1: best of the best, and you just don't want to

2150
01:50:36,040 --> 01:50:38,120
Speaker 1: have to do that. So I'd like the slow death,

2151
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:41,200
Speaker 1: keep it in the mid twenties, hope we can get

2152
01:50:41,200 --> 01:50:43,120
Speaker 1: a stop or two, or maybe a mistake or two,

2153
01:50:43,479 --> 01:50:46,360
Speaker 1: and then Josh Allen and our guys can exploit that

2154
01:50:46,560 --> 01:50:49,040
Speaker 1: and make those extra plays that get us to win

2155
01:50:49,560 --> 01:50:52,559
Speaker 1: this time around. I would think that that would be

2156
01:50:52,600 --> 01:50:55,680
Speaker 1: their approach once again, if you're able to do that,

2157
01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:57,880
Speaker 1: which isn't always easy against a good football team, but

2158
01:50:57,920 --> 01:51:00,200
Speaker 1: if you're able to force them to have to beat

2159
01:51:00,240 --> 01:51:01,960
Speaker 1: you that way, I think you would want to do

2160
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:04,320
Speaker 1: that again. Talking to Hall of Famer and NFL Network

2161
01:51:04,360 --> 01:51:07,160
Speaker 1: analyst Kurt Warner, and Kurt, I've been asking a lot

2162
01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:08,479
Speaker 1: of the people that we've had on the show to

2163
01:51:08,600 --> 01:51:11,000
Speaker 1: peer into your crystal ball a little bit with respect

2164
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:13,840
Speaker 1: to the AFC, because, you know, Steve and I kind

2165
01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:16,160
Speaker 1: of look up and down the divisions at the end

2166
01:51:16,200 --> 01:51:19,519
Speaker 1: of the year and it just struck us how many

2167
01:51:20,320 --> 01:51:24,479
Speaker 1: good young quarterbacks are in the a FC right now,

2168
01:51:24,720 --> 01:51:26,840
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be getting another one presumably and Trevor

2169
01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:29,719
Speaker 1: Lawrence now when Jacksonville has the first pick, but whether

2170
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:32,920
Speaker 1: it's justin Herbert out West with Patrick Mahomes in the

2171
01:51:32,960 --> 01:51:39,880
Speaker 1: AFC West, Deshaun Watson, Josh Allen toa Joe Burrow, I mean, Lamar,

2172
01:51:40,000 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you just run down the list, there's probably

2173
01:51:42,400 --> 01:51:45,800
Speaker 1: nine or ten really good young up and coming quarterbacks

2174
01:51:45,800 --> 01:51:48,439
Speaker 1: in the conference. Peer into your crystal ball a little

2175
01:51:48,439 --> 01:51:50,839
Speaker 1: bit to just maybe give us an idea on how

2176
01:51:51,200 --> 01:51:55,200
Speaker 1: competitive this conference can be over the next handful of

2177
01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:59,639
Speaker 1: years with all of these guys seemingly on an upward trajectory. Yeah,

2178
01:51:59,720 --> 01:52:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, it's this is kind of one of those

2179
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:04,160
Speaker 1: catch twenty two because you're right, you see a lot

2180
01:52:04,240 --> 01:52:08,519
Speaker 1: of really talented quarterbacks. But I will still say Patrick

2181
01:52:08,600 --> 01:52:13,519
Speaker 1: Mahomes to me is well above and beyond all of them. Now.

2182
01:52:13,640 --> 01:52:16,920
Speaker 1: The way Josh played this year, if he continues on

2183
01:52:16,960 --> 01:52:19,960
Speaker 1: that trajectory, he looks to be a guy that can

2184
01:52:20,040 --> 01:52:23,400
Speaker 1: challenge Mahomes. But I need to see more of that

2185
01:52:23,520 --> 01:52:25,680
Speaker 1: from all of these guys, you know. I need to

2186
01:52:25,720 --> 01:52:29,839
Speaker 1: see that they can play at that level consistently, because

2187
01:52:30,160 --> 01:52:33,080
Speaker 1: I believe Patrick Mahomes will play at that level through

2188
01:52:33,120 --> 01:52:36,040
Speaker 1: the entirety of his career. And bottom line in this

2189
01:52:36,160 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 1: business is you've got to have one of those guys,

2190
01:52:38,360 --> 01:52:41,120
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to be in the AFC able

2191
01:52:41,160 --> 01:52:44,280
Speaker 1: to go swing for swing to some degree with Patrick

2192
01:52:44,320 --> 01:52:47,320
Speaker 1: Mahomes for the next decade. And so as good as

2193
01:52:47,320 --> 01:52:50,800
Speaker 1: these young quarterbacks are, I don't know if there's one

2194
01:52:50,880 --> 01:52:55,320
Speaker 1: that I feel like consistently play at that level to

2195
01:52:55,560 --> 01:52:59,439
Speaker 1: hold Patrick Mahomes down or at least keep Patrick Mahomes

2196
01:52:59,479 --> 01:53:02,559
Speaker 1: off of that. You know that AFC pedestal, you know,

2197
01:53:02,640 --> 01:53:06,240
Speaker 1: for a decade now. I hope, because that's what it's

2198
01:53:06,240 --> 01:53:09,320
Speaker 1: all about. I hope that these guys all take that

2199
01:53:09,400 --> 01:53:12,040
Speaker 1: step and show us they can be that guy. And

2200
01:53:12,120 --> 01:53:14,639
Speaker 1: if so, my goodness, you guys are right. I mean,

2201
01:53:14,640 --> 01:53:17,800
Speaker 1: if all these guys can come into that realm, and

2202
01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:21,720
Speaker 1: you know, we could see different teams competing for championships

2203
01:53:21,760 --> 01:53:25,080
Speaker 1: every single year in the AFC if they do that.

2204
01:53:25,520 --> 01:53:29,320
Speaker 1: But again, he is a different beast in Kansas City

2205
01:53:29,400 --> 01:53:34,200
Speaker 1: right now, and I just I just don't know. I mean, Lamar,

2206
01:53:34,280 --> 01:53:36,960
Speaker 1: he's played grade, he won an MVP. You know, maybe

2207
01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:40,160
Speaker 1: he can compete one year, you know, Josh this year

2208
01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:43,920
Speaker 1: he's competing at this level. That's that's one year. But

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01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:46,320
Speaker 1: I believe Patrick Mahomeans is going to be there every year.

2210
01:53:46,640 --> 01:53:48,960
Speaker 1: So you've got to show me you can be that

2211
01:53:49,040 --> 01:53:53,040
Speaker 1: guy year in and year out, regardless of the circumstances.

2212
01:53:53,240 --> 01:53:55,479
Speaker 1: And as good as the AFC is in terms of

2213
01:53:55,520 --> 01:53:59,519
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, I think there's a big drop off from

2214
01:53:59,560 --> 01:54:02,800
Speaker 1: Patrick to all the other guys. And again I'll leave

2215
01:54:02,840 --> 01:54:06,400
Speaker 1: that caveat there with Josh that Josh this year, it

2216
01:54:06,520 --> 01:54:09,200
Speaker 1: isn't that big of a drop from Patrick Mahomes, But

2217
01:54:09,640 --> 01:54:12,479
Speaker 1: can he be that guy year in and year out

2218
01:54:12,520 --> 01:54:14,840
Speaker 1: after what we've seen early in his career to what

2219
01:54:14,840 --> 01:54:17,439
Speaker 1: we've seen this year last one? For me, Kurt, you

2220
01:54:17,760 --> 01:54:20,320
Speaker 1: played on a couple of different squads. You played, you

2221
01:54:20,360 --> 01:54:22,200
Speaker 1: had all those great years with Saint Louis, you played

2222
01:54:22,200 --> 01:54:23,599
Speaker 1: for the Giants for a minute, and then you went

2223
01:54:23,640 --> 01:54:26,200
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl again with the Arizona Cardinals. Deshaun

2224
01:54:26,280 --> 01:54:29,720
Speaker 1: Watson in Houston, they're the team that drafted him, and

2225
01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:32,040
Speaker 1: now they've made him angry and he feels and you

2226
01:54:32,440 --> 01:54:34,040
Speaker 1: and I get it. I mean, as a player, you

2227
01:54:34,080 --> 01:54:36,080
Speaker 1: know this and I know this. When you feel like

2228
01:54:36,080 --> 01:54:39,600
Speaker 1: you've been lied to, that's almost a deal breaker. What

2229
01:54:39,680 --> 01:54:43,640
Speaker 1: do you think happens with Deshaun Watson in Houston? You know,

2230
01:54:43,720 --> 01:54:47,760
Speaker 1: it is a tough one because obviously there's been some

2231
01:54:47,800 --> 01:54:51,440
Speaker 1: things that have you know, created a riff there between

2232
01:54:51,480 --> 01:54:55,360
Speaker 1: Deshaun and the organization. And that's never easy when you're

2233
01:54:55,400 --> 01:55:00,240
Speaker 1: talking about your franchise guy. But Houston can't let this

2234
01:55:00,280 --> 01:55:03,000
Speaker 1: guy go. I mean you just can't. You just have

2235
01:55:03,040 --> 01:55:05,720
Speaker 1: to say we have got to do and mend these

2236
01:55:05,760 --> 01:55:09,200
Speaker 1: fences and do the right thing moving forward to put

2237
01:55:09,240 --> 01:55:13,000
Speaker 1: pieces in place. To make Deshaun happy again, because I

2238
01:55:13,120 --> 01:55:16,680
Speaker 1: just I couldn't handle that if I'm an organization and

2239
01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:20,360
Speaker 1: I would ever allow a guy like DeShawn that's shown us,

2240
01:55:20,800 --> 01:55:22,680
Speaker 1: you know, because you know you talk about guys that

2241
01:55:22,760 --> 01:55:26,120
Speaker 1: maybe can compete with Patrick Mahomes. He's shown us if

2242
01:55:26,160 --> 01:55:29,280
Speaker 1: you put the pieces around him, at least statistically, that

2243
01:55:29,880 --> 01:55:32,160
Speaker 1: he can do all of those things. So I just

2244
01:55:32,200 --> 01:55:36,440
Speaker 1: don't think Houston can let him go. But I don't

2245
01:55:36,440 --> 01:55:39,320
Speaker 1: know what it's going to take to mend these fences.

2246
01:55:39,360 --> 01:55:41,720
Speaker 1: I think Deshaun is a great young man. I think

2247
01:55:41,720 --> 01:55:43,600
Speaker 1: he is a pro. I think if he is a

2248
01:55:43,600 --> 01:55:46,080
Speaker 1: part of the Texans organization, you are going to get

2249
01:55:46,480 --> 01:55:50,800
Speaker 1: on Deshaun Watson every time he shows up, which is

2250
01:55:50,840 --> 01:55:54,120
Speaker 1: all you can ask for. And I think as an organization,

2251
01:55:54,240 --> 01:55:56,360
Speaker 1: you've got to take the steps to try to mend

2252
01:55:56,760 --> 01:55:59,000
Speaker 1: some of those fences. And I don't think that means

2253
01:55:59,280 --> 01:56:01,120
Speaker 1: go higher than guy that he wants as a head

2254
01:56:01,160 --> 01:56:03,760
Speaker 1: coach if you don't believe that's the right guy. But

2255
01:56:04,520 --> 01:56:06,840
Speaker 1: you do have to say the right things, do the

2256
01:56:06,960 --> 01:56:09,520
Speaker 1: right things, bring you know, to Shaun in and and

2257
01:56:09,680 --> 01:56:13,880
Speaker 1: have those conversations, those tough conversations, because I just don't

2258
01:56:13,960 --> 01:56:16,520
Speaker 1: think if I'm a Texan, I am going to let

2259
01:56:16,560 --> 01:56:19,400
Speaker 1: that guy go for any reason. But I've got to

2260
01:56:19,400 --> 01:56:21,360
Speaker 1: make sure that it works for the next ten years.

2261
01:56:21,400 --> 01:56:24,160
Speaker 1: And you know how you do that with some of

2262
01:56:24,200 --> 01:56:26,680
Speaker 1: the you know, the fences and bridges that have been broken,

2263
01:56:27,040 --> 01:56:30,320
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I'm going all on the Texans

2264
01:56:30,360 --> 01:56:32,880
Speaker 1: to figure out how to do it right. Last thing

2265
01:56:32,880 --> 01:56:34,480
Speaker 1: before we let you go, Kurt, I wanted to give

2266
01:56:34,520 --> 01:56:36,480
Speaker 1: you an opportunity to kind of clear the air because

2267
01:56:36,480 --> 01:56:39,320
Speaker 1: I know there was some overly sensitive people on social

2268
01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:41,920
Speaker 1: media that thought you were throwing a dig at the

2269
01:56:41,960 --> 01:56:44,120
Speaker 1: Bills with regard to the weather conditions in the game,

2270
01:56:44,120 --> 01:56:45,800
Speaker 1: and that's not what you were doing at all. So

2271
01:56:46,080 --> 01:56:48,360
Speaker 1: maybe just clear the air so Bills fans have a

2272
01:56:48,360 --> 01:56:51,880
Speaker 1: better understanding exactly what you were getting at there. Yeah. Well,

2273
01:56:52,200 --> 01:56:55,200
Speaker 1: just for me, it's it's it's my personal opinion. What

2274
01:56:55,440 --> 01:56:57,760
Speaker 1: I love to see at playoff time is I love

2275
01:56:57,840 --> 01:57:00,720
Speaker 1: to see the best of the best. I want to

2276
01:57:00,760 --> 01:57:04,840
Speaker 1: see all of these great players in an environment that

2277
01:57:04,920 --> 01:57:08,960
Speaker 1: allows them to play their best. And so, although you know,

2278
01:57:09,040 --> 01:57:12,080
Speaker 1: on our show, the topic came up around the Bills

2279
01:57:12,160 --> 01:57:14,720
Speaker 1: Ravens game, and you know, you saw the weather, in

2280
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:17,640
Speaker 1: the thirty miles per hour wins and that sort of stuff.

2281
01:57:18,360 --> 01:57:21,520
Speaker 1: I just would like it to have every playoff game,

2282
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:24,960
Speaker 1: every meaningful game, in a dome with no elements, where

2283
01:57:25,000 --> 01:57:27,000
Speaker 1: I can just say I want to see the best

2284
01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:29,880
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen every time he gets on a football field.

2285
01:57:30,000 --> 01:57:32,840
Speaker 1: I want to see Justin Tucker, the greatest kicker maybe

2286
01:57:32,840 --> 01:57:35,240
Speaker 1: our game's ever seen. I want to see him make

2287
01:57:35,360 --> 01:57:37,520
Speaker 1: those kicks that I expect him to miss and not

2288
01:57:37,600 --> 01:57:42,320
Speaker 1: have to see the weather. I fully understand football played

2289
01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:44,200
Speaker 1: in the weather, played in the elements. I grew up

2290
01:57:44,200 --> 01:57:46,640
Speaker 1: in Iowa. I loved playing in the snow and all

2291
01:57:46,920 --> 01:57:50,320
Speaker 1: I understand that. But to me, at the highest level,

2292
01:57:50,560 --> 01:57:53,440
Speaker 1: in the biggest games, I want to see our greatest

2293
01:57:53,480 --> 01:57:57,160
Speaker 1: players have the opportunity to play their best football. And

2294
01:57:57,240 --> 01:57:59,280
Speaker 1: I don't like things that they can't control. And that

2295
01:57:59,320 --> 01:58:03,400
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I don't understand home field advantage. But to me,

2296
01:58:03,600 --> 01:58:06,880
Speaker 1: a thirty mile per hour wind where Josh Allen overthrows

2297
01:58:06,880 --> 01:58:09,040
Speaker 1: his guys by twenty yards as he's fighting the wind,

2298
01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:12,520
Speaker 1: that's something that he can't control. And I know you can.

2299
01:58:12,640 --> 01:58:14,480
Speaker 1: We can. All fans can sit back and say, well,

2300
01:58:14,520 --> 01:58:16,680
Speaker 1: you gotta learn how to throw a thirty mile an

2301
01:58:16,680 --> 01:58:19,960
Speaker 1: hour wind, Steve, you understand there's nothing to do. When

2302
01:58:19,960 --> 01:58:21,680
Speaker 1: you put that ball up in the air and the

2303
01:58:21,760 --> 01:58:24,800
Speaker 1: wind takes it, it's gone. You can be a great kicker,

2304
01:58:25,080 --> 01:58:27,360
Speaker 1: but you can't always play the wind, or you can't.

2305
01:58:27,400 --> 01:58:28,960
Speaker 1: You know, you hold the football that's wet and it

2306
01:58:28,960 --> 01:58:31,800
Speaker 1: slips out of your hands, it's slipped. There's nothing to

2307
01:58:31,840 --> 01:58:34,120
Speaker 1: do about it. So that's really my point. And I

2308
01:58:34,160 --> 01:58:37,400
Speaker 1: know I played in a dome and all of that stuff.

2309
01:58:37,840 --> 01:58:40,600
Speaker 1: I just want to see our best players play their

2310
01:58:40,640 --> 01:58:44,080
Speaker 1: best football in the biggest moments and never have those

2311
01:58:44,120 --> 01:58:46,760
Speaker 1: other things factor in. And that was simply my point.

2312
01:58:46,760 --> 01:58:49,640
Speaker 1: It was just based on this game. I picked the Bills.

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01:58:49,640 --> 01:58:51,440
Speaker 1: I felt like the Bills were the best team. This

2314
01:58:51,560 --> 01:58:54,520
Speaker 1: was not a knock on really either side or any

2315
01:58:54,560 --> 01:58:56,600
Speaker 1: of that. It's just to me, a big picture thing

2316
01:58:57,040 --> 01:58:59,760
Speaker 1: that I liked because I want to see Josh Allen

2317
01:58:59,800 --> 01:59:02,920
Speaker 1: play at an MVP level in every moment, specially in

2318
01:59:02,960 --> 01:59:05,680
Speaker 1: the divisional round or in the championship round. And if

2319
01:59:05,680 --> 01:59:08,040
Speaker 1: there's a way to secure us being able to do that,

2320
01:59:08,760 --> 01:59:11,480
Speaker 1: I like that kind of football better. Some people like

2321
01:59:11,960 --> 01:59:13,840
Speaker 1: playing in the cold and the snow and the wind

2322
01:59:13,880 --> 01:59:16,560
Speaker 1: and all that jazz. That's just not my cup of tea.

2323
01:59:16,600 --> 01:59:19,480
Speaker 1: I want to see h these guys playing at their best. Kurt.

2324
01:59:19,560 --> 01:59:22,520
Speaker 1: Thanks man, it's great talking to you. Always good to

2325
01:59:22,560 --> 01:59:25,040
Speaker 1: talk to you guys as well. Enjoy this weekend and

2326
01:59:25,600 --> 01:59:28,120
Speaker 1: maybe we'll talk again if if things work out well

2327
01:59:28,160 --> 01:59:31,400
Speaker 1: this weekend and we're all heading the Tampa perfect. Thanks

2328
01:59:31,480 --> 01:59:33,480
Speaker 1: Kurt for the time. We appreciate it. That's Kurt Warner,

2329
01:59:33,760 --> 01:59:37,360
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer and led the greatest show on turf.

2330
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:39,320
Speaker 1: Maybe he feels that way because he played in the

2331
01:59:39,360 --> 01:59:42,560
Speaker 1: Continental Indoor Football League first, and then played indoors for

2332
01:59:42,720 --> 01:59:44,600
Speaker 1: the first half of his career and then played in

2333
01:59:44,680 --> 01:59:46,880
Speaker 1: Arizona for the second. And here's the thing too, when

2334
01:59:46,880 --> 01:59:48,840
Speaker 1: you got a good football team, when you got a

2335
01:59:48,840 --> 01:59:52,360
Speaker 1: good football team like Buffalo'scott, you want to see him.

2336
01:59:52,480 --> 01:59:55,000
Speaker 1: You want to see him. Yeah, And when you're out

2337
01:59:55,000 --> 01:59:56,600
Speaker 1: there and they can't run under they can't, you know,

2338
01:59:56,640 --> 01:59:58,760
Speaker 1: And I get all, Well, that's why they usually stage

2339
01:59:58,800 --> 02:00:02,120
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in a warm weather or inside so

2340
02:00:02,560 --> 02:00:04,960
Speaker 1: that the best of the best in your league can

2341
02:00:05,040 --> 02:00:07,680
Speaker 1: put on a show. That's right, but also too, and

2342
02:00:07,720 --> 02:00:10,320
Speaker 1: I get it. It's it makes for a better more

2343
02:00:10,520 --> 02:00:14,440
Speaker 1: realistic football assessment of what who's playing better on that day, yeah,

2344
02:00:14,560 --> 02:00:17,800
Speaker 1: and not who's just adapting to the weather conditions better.

2345
02:00:18,480 --> 02:00:22,880
Speaker 1: But there is something romantic about going out in this

2346
02:00:23,520 --> 02:00:27,080
Speaker 1: stadium when it's snowing and that as well. But you

2347
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:30,560
Speaker 1: mentioned when Sean Lindetta completely missed a punt that was

2348
02:00:30,600 --> 02:00:33,600
Speaker 1: in a playoff game against Chicago, and Chicago had the

2349
02:00:33,600 --> 02:00:36,240
Speaker 1: best defense in the universe that year. So you're playing

2350
02:00:36,280 --> 02:00:39,760
Speaker 1: conditions like that against the best defense in football, you're

2351
02:00:39,800 --> 02:00:43,680
Speaker 1: screwed like and they got shut out. I think he played,

2352
02:00:43,800 --> 02:00:47,720
Speaker 1: he played in He's punting it against an absolutely legendary defense,

2353
02:00:48,120 --> 02:00:52,600
Speaker 1: I mean legendary mythic and yeah, and you whiff on

2354
02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:54,320
Speaker 1: the punt. Yeah, Yeah, that's a bad I think they

2355
02:00:54,320 --> 02:00:56,720
Speaker 1: lost that game twenty one nothing. That is a bad day.

2356
02:00:56,760 --> 02:01:02,360
Speaker 1: Bro Sleeve. All right, break time for us. When we

2357
02:01:02,400 --> 02:01:04,200
Speaker 1: come back, we'll take more of your phone calls. We're

2358
02:01:04,240 --> 02:01:06,640
Speaker 1: still looking for where you think the Bills have improved

2359
02:01:06,640 --> 02:01:09,680
Speaker 1: the most since their Week six matchup with the Chiefs

2360
02:01:10,120 --> 02:01:12,200
Speaker 1: and what puts them in better position to win the

2361
02:01:12,240 --> 02:01:15,720
Speaker 1: AFC title game on Sunday in the rematch eight oh

2362
02:01:15,800 --> 02:01:18,000
Speaker 1: three five fifty open line for you will also get

2363
02:01:18,040 --> 02:01:20,560
Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet. Add One Bills Live,

2364
02:01:20,640 --> 02:01:22,360
Speaker 1: Steve and I back in a sec. Don't you dare

2365
02:01:22,360 --> 02:01:39,880
Speaker 1: go anywhere this round, Steve Passer One Bills Live Tuesday edition.

2366
02:01:41,480 --> 02:01:44,000
Speaker 1: As we are discussing with you where you feel the

2367
02:01:44,120 --> 02:01:47,600
Speaker 1: Bills are the most improved since their Week six match

2368
02:01:47,720 --> 02:01:50,880
Speaker 1: up with the Chiefs now that they get set for

2369
02:01:51,080 --> 02:01:55,480
Speaker 1: the rematch in the a f C title game. Thought

2370
02:01:55,520 --> 02:01:57,840
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner was great today. Yeah, you had some really

2371
02:01:57,840 --> 02:01:59,720
Speaker 1: good stuff to offer. I wanted to ask him that

2372
02:02:00,400 --> 02:02:03,600
Speaker 1: AFC Young Quarterback loaded question. I thought he had a

2373
02:02:03,600 --> 02:02:06,760
Speaker 1: fantastic answer for that. He still thinks, you know, he

2374
02:02:06,760 --> 02:02:09,120
Speaker 1: thinks Holmes is the top dog and everybody else and

2375
02:02:09,640 --> 02:02:11,640
Speaker 1: it's hard to disagree with that. It's hard. It's good

2376
02:02:11,640 --> 02:02:14,760
Speaker 1: point because Mahomes has proven it. That's who he is. Um.

2377
02:02:14,800 --> 02:02:18,000
Speaker 1: He sat on the bench for a year, played and

2378
02:02:18,080 --> 02:02:20,480
Speaker 1: was MVP caliber's first year, so you think, okay, let's

2379
02:02:20,480 --> 02:02:22,400
Speaker 1: see what he's got. Later he backed it up with

2380
02:02:22,440 --> 02:02:25,320
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl title and now he's done it again

2381
02:02:25,400 --> 02:02:28,520
Speaker 1: this year. That that is who he is. Josh has

2382
02:02:28,520 --> 02:02:30,600
Speaker 1: been an ascendancy to this point. Now he's in the

2383
02:02:30,640 --> 02:02:33,960
Speaker 1: conversation this year certainly he's he's had a year very

2384
02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:38,080
Speaker 1: comparable to Mahomes. But all right, well let's you gotta

2385
02:02:38,120 --> 02:02:40,240
Speaker 1: do it again? Well? That right, And that's what people

2386
02:02:40,240 --> 02:02:42,680
Speaker 1: are That's why people like Bills fans are like, how

2387
02:02:42,720 --> 02:02:44,880
Speaker 1: are there still doubters out there? I don't understand it.

2388
02:02:45,400 --> 02:02:47,840
Speaker 1: What people what the doubters are asking now is what

2389
02:02:48,920 --> 02:02:51,040
Speaker 1: is he a one year wonder? Is he going to

2390
02:02:51,120 --> 02:02:54,120
Speaker 1: be able to do that again? Is he there's a

2391
02:02:54,200 --> 02:02:55,680
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of guys who came out to that.

2392
02:02:55,880 --> 02:02:58,480
Speaker 1: Is he a Kirk Cousins even right? Is he a

2393
02:02:58,520 --> 02:03:00,560
Speaker 1: guy that came out and said, wow, he's pretty good

2394
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:02,720
Speaker 1: good and with the right guys around him or whatever?

2395
02:03:03,040 --> 02:03:05,080
Speaker 1: And there's there's been other guys who have come up,

2396
02:03:05,480 --> 02:03:09,160
Speaker 1: come out and put together fantastic like Cam Newton in

2397
02:03:09,160 --> 02:03:12,040
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen when they were fifteen, fourteen and two or

2398
02:03:12,080 --> 02:03:15,720
Speaker 1: fifteen and one, um, and then it was never quite

2399
02:03:15,760 --> 02:03:18,720
Speaker 1: the same or there there have been quarterbacks who have

2400
02:03:18,800 --> 02:03:21,320
Speaker 1: done that, um. And you got to get over that

2401
02:03:21,400 --> 02:03:23,800
Speaker 1: as a quarterback to earn the trust of guys who

2402
02:03:23,840 --> 02:03:26,800
Speaker 1: don't look at it with any you know, trying to

2403
02:03:26,840 --> 02:03:29,240
Speaker 1: be objective about it. And that's where Kurt Warner is

2404
02:03:29,240 --> 02:03:33,520
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen and certainly you know Baker Mayfield, Joe Burrow,

2405
02:03:33,680 --> 02:03:36,800
Speaker 1: justin Herbert. Now Deshaun Watson seems to me to be

2406
02:03:36,840 --> 02:03:38,800
Speaker 1: the guy I would say he is who he is,

2407
02:03:38,880 --> 02:03:40,600
Speaker 1: just you know, because he got it going a little

2408
02:03:40,600 --> 02:03:42,800
Speaker 1: bit before Josh. And he did it on a bad

2409
02:03:42,840 --> 02:03:46,880
Speaker 1: team this year too, Right, that's exactly right. He was.

2410
02:03:46,960 --> 02:03:48,720
Speaker 1: He had an art of the same guy. He had

2411
02:03:48,720 --> 02:03:53,280
Speaker 1: a drumming team. He had an Archie Manning kind of year. Right. Yeah,

2412
02:03:53,320 --> 02:03:56,400
Speaker 1: So and I get it, And that's fine because I'll

2413
02:03:56,400 --> 02:03:59,000
Speaker 1: tell you what I want to see it too, not

2414
02:03:59,040 --> 02:04:00,680
Speaker 1: that I don't think it's gonna I think it will.

2415
02:04:00,720 --> 02:04:03,240
Speaker 1: And I think with Jabel here another year, it enhances

2416
02:04:03,280 --> 02:04:06,480
Speaker 1: the chances of that coming to fruition. So yeah, that's

2417
02:04:06,520 --> 02:04:09,880
Speaker 1: a total degree. It's a good point. And so yeah,

2418
02:04:10,000 --> 02:04:11,760
Speaker 1: that was Kurt Warren was great. He was. He was

2419
02:04:11,760 --> 02:04:13,920
Speaker 1: a good interview. All right, let's go a chance to

2420
02:04:13,960 --> 02:04:16,160
Speaker 1: hear that that interview later. Yeah, let's get back to

2421
02:04:16,200 --> 02:04:18,520
Speaker 1: the phones. We go to Tom in Lackawanna, who's been

2422
02:04:18,520 --> 02:04:20,240
Speaker 1: waiting patiently, Tom, what do you have for us here

2423
02:04:20,240 --> 02:04:24,600
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Um Quickly, I think it's a

2424
02:04:24,640 --> 02:04:28,920
Speaker 1: combination of getting co fighters back and the defense playing

2425
02:04:29,000 --> 02:04:31,640
Speaker 1: much better, and I think we can handle Kansas City.

2426
02:04:32,080 --> 02:04:34,360
Speaker 1: But the main reason for my call is I just

2427
02:04:34,440 --> 02:04:39,840
Speaker 1: want Green Bay to annihilate Tampa Bay because I don't

2428
02:04:39,840 --> 02:04:43,680
Speaker 1: want to put up with two weeks we've banished Belichick

2429
02:04:44,040 --> 02:04:47,320
Speaker 1: and the Patriots. I don't want to hear anything of

2430
02:04:48,360 --> 02:04:52,520
Speaker 1: Gali Gash gee snicker snicker, Tom Brady for the two

2431
02:04:52,560 --> 02:04:55,440
Speaker 1: weeks leading up to the Super Bowl. Yeah, I want

2432
02:04:55,560 --> 02:04:58,200
Speaker 1: him to be buried and gone. Yeah, I get it.

2433
02:04:58,240 --> 02:05:01,960
Speaker 1: I hear on that one, Tom. Thanks for the call, Um.

2434
02:05:03,080 --> 02:05:05,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind not hearing about Tom Brady during Super

2435
02:05:05,400 --> 02:05:08,280
Speaker 1: Bowl Week either. You know, if he wins this game,

2436
02:05:08,360 --> 02:05:12,760
Speaker 1: this will be his tenth Super Bowl ten in his

2437
02:05:12,840 --> 02:05:18,280
Speaker 1: twenty year career. Nobody comes close. Maybe I don't want

2438
02:05:18,280 --> 02:05:20,200
Speaker 1: that for you, nobody, because that's bad for me to

2439
02:05:20,240 --> 02:05:23,280
Speaker 1: say I don't want that for you. Let me just

2440
02:05:23,320 --> 02:05:26,960
Speaker 1: say this, if if the world doesn't end, and it

2441
02:05:27,080 --> 02:05:30,320
Speaker 1: keeps going in the NFL keeps going, nobody who is

2442
02:05:30,360 --> 02:05:33,200
Speaker 1: alive at the moment when he wins his tenth Super

2443
02:05:33,240 --> 02:05:36,520
Speaker 1: Bowl will see ever again in their entire lifetime. A

2444
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:39,240
Speaker 1: guy go to ten Super Bowls. You don't think Mahomes

2445
02:05:39,240 --> 02:05:45,520
Speaker 1: could do it? No, no, ten tens a lot, that's

2446
02:05:45,520 --> 02:05:52,960
Speaker 1: a lot. Ten. Yeah, to joke. Beebes went to what

2447
02:05:53,160 --> 02:05:57,640
Speaker 1: five or six? Six? Beabes went to six okay six

2448
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:00,880
Speaker 1: with two different teams. But he only played he was

2449
02:06:00,920 --> 02:06:03,680
Speaker 1: and he only played what twelve years? No? No, no, no,

2450
02:06:03,720 --> 02:06:05,880
Speaker 1: he was like a he was like an eight year guy,

2451
02:06:06,000 --> 02:06:09,160
Speaker 1: nine year guy. Okay, yeah, I think he went to

2452
02:06:09,280 --> 02:06:12,680
Speaker 1: six and nine years. That's pretty comparable. Well, when when

2453
02:06:12,720 --> 02:06:19,240
Speaker 1: we show up at the right time, you know, uh, yeah,

2454
02:06:19,440 --> 02:06:22,000
Speaker 1: Mike Lodish went to six, right, Yeah, Lodish went to

2455
02:06:22,120 --> 02:06:24,440
Speaker 1: in one one or one two? Actually two yeah, the

2456
02:06:24,520 --> 02:06:29,560
Speaker 1: last two with the Broncos. Yeah, that's timing is everything.

2457
02:06:30,160 --> 02:06:32,720
Speaker 1: He uh, he was eighty nine. He was a Buffalo

2458
02:06:32,760 --> 02:06:35,880
Speaker 1: bi He came in an eighty nine and played through

2459
02:06:36,120 --> 02:06:39,200
Speaker 1: ninety seven. So that's you know, eight nine years. Yeah,

2460
02:06:39,240 --> 02:06:41,560
Speaker 1: good for him, man. Yeah, all right, let's go back

2461
02:06:41,600 --> 02:06:45,360
Speaker 1: to the phones. We got Rubin out in California, Ia. Ruben,

2462
02:06:45,400 --> 02:06:48,720
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, thanks,

2463
02:06:48,920 --> 02:06:51,200
Speaker 1: thanks for the call. Uh, last year, I want to

2464
02:06:51,240 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 1: say the kicking game, Okay, you know, I think that's

2465
02:06:54,880 --> 02:06:57,920
Speaker 1: a that's a you know, I think it's a plus.

2466
02:06:57,960 --> 02:06:59,800
Speaker 1: I think it's a strength. Now. I remember the first

2467
02:06:59,800 --> 02:07:01,360
Speaker 1: game him. I think it was the first game of

2468
02:07:01,360 --> 02:07:03,800
Speaker 1: the season. I think he had a kind of a

2469
02:07:03,840 --> 02:07:07,720
Speaker 1: weak game, probably nerves, and my daughter and I were like, oh, oh,

2470
02:07:07,760 --> 02:07:11,520
Speaker 1: what's what the kicker. But I mean since then, you know,

2471
02:07:12,400 --> 02:07:14,720
Speaker 1: I mean for a rookie, I guess it's been as

2472
02:07:14,760 --> 02:07:17,280
Speaker 1: good as you can say. His lights out. You know, Yeah,

2473
02:07:17,320 --> 02:07:20,280
Speaker 1: he's confident. He missed one on Sunday, but you can't

2474
02:07:20,280 --> 02:07:21,840
Speaker 1: blame him, you know, because of the wind and everything.

2475
02:07:21,840 --> 02:07:24,920
Speaker 1: And and actually maybe that's good because maybe he's gonna

2476
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:27,880
Speaker 1: learn a little bit and and get that miss out

2477
02:07:27,880 --> 02:07:29,800
Speaker 1: of the way. And uh but you know, you know,

2478
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, a football does I mean, it could be

2479
02:07:31,200 --> 02:07:33,320
Speaker 1: a kicking game, you never know. And so I think

2480
02:07:33,320 --> 02:07:35,520
Speaker 1: that's a strength from last year's. Yeah, to pick up

2481
02:07:35,520 --> 02:07:37,880
Speaker 1: the bash. Yeah, that's that's that's a good point, Reuben.

2482
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:39,880
Speaker 1: Even since Week six, I mean that's when he started

2483
02:07:39,880 --> 02:07:42,880
Speaker 1: to kind of turn things around after a little bit

2484
02:07:42,920 --> 02:07:46,080
Speaker 1: of a shaky start. And yeah, I mean he has

2485
02:07:46,080 --> 02:07:48,080
Speaker 1: become an asset for this football team because by the

2486
02:07:48,080 --> 02:07:50,440
Speaker 1: time the season was over, he had the scoring record

2487
02:07:50,920 --> 02:07:53,920
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one points in a season. That's

2488
02:07:54,000 --> 02:07:56,480
Speaker 1: due to the pro the prolific nature of the offense

2489
02:07:56,520 --> 02:07:59,520
Speaker 1: certainly helping him in that category. But you know, end

2490
02:07:59,560 --> 02:08:01,680
Speaker 1: of the season and he's right up around eighty something percent.

2491
02:08:01,840 --> 02:08:04,880
Speaker 1: It's gone really well for him, and and he got

2492
02:08:05,200 --> 02:08:08,880
Speaker 1: a little bit of a fortuitous break. Now think about this,

2493
02:08:08,960 --> 02:08:11,360
Speaker 1: he kind of the rough start, but then even in

2494
02:08:11,400 --> 02:08:16,160
Speaker 1: the in the Hail Mary game, dude hit three fifty

2495
02:08:16,200 --> 02:08:18,680
Speaker 1: plus yarders in the first half to keep the Bills

2496
02:08:18,720 --> 02:08:23,640
Speaker 1: in that game. I mean fifty fifty eight gun fifty eight.

2497
02:08:23,920 --> 02:08:27,400
Speaker 1: I mean, think about that. So he's money. Now. Also

2498
02:08:27,480 --> 02:08:29,360
Speaker 1: in the game that this last one where he missed one,

2499
02:08:30,160 --> 02:08:31,760
Speaker 1: just this just in Hall of Fame. Guy on the

2500
02:08:31,800 --> 02:08:34,440
Speaker 1: other side missed two. Yeah, well he missed two also.

2501
02:08:34,480 --> 02:08:36,200
Speaker 1: It was yeah, that's right, they both missed two. That

2502
02:08:36,240 --> 02:08:38,880
Speaker 1: was impossible game to kick in, particularly into the end

2503
02:08:38,880 --> 02:08:42,520
Speaker 1: that they were kicking. Um, the scoreboard end is a

2504
02:08:42,880 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 1: it's a roll. It's not even a coin flip, it's

2505
02:08:44,560 --> 02:08:48,760
Speaker 1: a roll of the dice. And that's so yeah, he's

2506
02:08:49,240 --> 02:08:52,640
Speaker 1: he has played really, really well. And I think, you know,

2507
02:08:52,720 --> 02:08:54,760
Speaker 1: that's a guy that's gonna be a Buffalo Bill for

2508
02:08:54,840 --> 02:08:59,640
Speaker 1: quite some time. Um his and I'll tell you this too.

2509
02:09:00,080 --> 02:09:02,000
Speaker 1: He was a better kicker in that game, Yes, and

2510
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:05,080
Speaker 1: on Sunday because his leg is that much stronger. We were,

2511
02:09:05,160 --> 02:09:09,400
Speaker 1: Murph and I were honed in focused on the pregame warmups.

2512
02:09:10,600 --> 02:09:14,360
Speaker 1: Bass was his leg was way more live than justin Tucker. Now,

2513
02:09:14,400 --> 02:09:16,840
Speaker 1: you know, Tuck's been a laring a long time, eight years, right,

2514
02:09:16,880 --> 02:09:21,880
Speaker 1: So Bass's leg was just way more live, and we

2515
02:09:22,000 --> 02:09:24,200
Speaker 1: knew going into the end of the scoreboard. Murph might

2516
02:09:24,200 --> 02:09:27,520
Speaker 1: talked about it before the game and during the game

2517
02:09:27,600 --> 02:09:30,800
Speaker 1: before Tucker missed one, we talked about how difficult it

2518
02:09:30,800 --> 02:09:32,520
Speaker 1: was and how much he was struggling to that end,

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Speaker 1: and certainly he missed two kicks go in that direction. Yeah,

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02:09:36,280 --> 02:09:38,480
Speaker 1: could be a factor. Although he's playing against probably the

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02:09:38,480 --> 02:09:40,879
Speaker 1: second best kicker in the league this week in Butcker.

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02:09:41,480 --> 02:09:43,760
Speaker 1: If Tucker's the best, Butler is not far behind. And

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02:09:43,800 --> 02:09:46,920
Speaker 1: that guy's got a monster leg. Yeah, they both monster leg.

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02:09:46,960 --> 02:09:50,240
Speaker 1: They're both really really strong guys, strong kickers. So Mike

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02:09:50,320 --> 02:09:52,040
Speaker 1: in Lockport, we go, Mike, what do you have for

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02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:54,440
Speaker 1: us here? On one Bills Live? You know, I go

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02:09:54,520 --> 02:09:57,520
Speaker 1: back to everything with the Bills that has happened this season.

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02:09:57,920 --> 02:10:01,120
Speaker 1: He's or even back to Josh Allens. They're passing. I mean,

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02:10:01,160 --> 02:10:04,040
Speaker 1: this team has turned it around probably since then. I

2530
02:10:04,080 --> 02:10:08,320
Speaker 1: mean you just go from there, and the Bills are

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02:10:08,520 --> 02:10:12,080
Speaker 1: a strong, strong team at this plant. I mean, I'm

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02:10:12,120 --> 02:10:14,840
Speaker 1: excited what they're gonna do to Kansas City. And I

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02:10:14,880 --> 02:10:17,600
Speaker 1: think we're going into Kansas City and we're gonna storm them.

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02:10:17,760 --> 02:10:22,640
Speaker 1: Defense looks good. Offense I have no complaints about. I mean,

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02:10:22,680 --> 02:10:26,040
Speaker 1: they're just flying high. We're putting the points up on

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02:10:26,080 --> 02:10:28,200
Speaker 1: the board. So if it was Kansas City, I'd be

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02:10:28,240 --> 02:10:31,440
Speaker 1: scared of the Bills coming into your turf. All right, Mike,

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02:10:31,480 --> 02:10:34,480
Speaker 1: we appreciate the call. It was Josh Allen's grandmother, not

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02:10:34,520 --> 02:10:37,520
Speaker 1: his mother, but his grandmother. Yeah, and you can make

2540
02:10:37,600 --> 02:10:40,800
Speaker 1: the argument that the toughest defense they're gonna probably see

2541
02:10:40,840 --> 02:10:43,080
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, at least on the AFC

2542
02:10:43,200 --> 02:10:47,840
Speaker 1: side of the ledger they just played last week. Kansas

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02:10:47,880 --> 02:10:50,960
Speaker 1: City's timely with their defensive plays. They have some high

2544
02:10:51,000 --> 02:10:52,920
Speaker 1: level players on that side of the ball, but they

2545
02:10:52,920 --> 02:10:57,600
Speaker 1: are not a shut you down, dominant defense, So the

2546
02:10:57,760 --> 02:11:01,080
Speaker 1: task seemingly looks a little bit less daunting this week

2547
02:11:01,120 --> 02:11:02,960
Speaker 1: for the offense. Than it did last week. Yeah, and

2548
02:11:03,000 --> 02:11:05,080
Speaker 1: one of the things about last week, the Baltimore Ravens

2549
02:11:05,080 --> 02:11:08,000
Speaker 1: didn't blitz all that much. I mean they did some. Yeah,

2550
02:11:08,040 --> 02:11:10,879
Speaker 1: they sat back, they sat back, and they played coverage.

2551
02:11:11,000 --> 02:11:12,720
Speaker 1: They did have him crossed up a little bit, they did,

2552
02:11:12,760 --> 02:11:16,840
Speaker 1: and the Bills did not look all that great doing it. Interesting,

2553
02:11:18,040 --> 02:11:20,200
Speaker 1: Josh didn't have big numbers in the passing in even

2554
02:11:20,200 --> 02:11:22,920
Speaker 1: though that's kind of the way that the Ravens we

2555
02:11:23,640 --> 02:11:25,280
Speaker 1: were going. They protected him well. He had a lot

2556
02:11:25,320 --> 02:11:27,400
Speaker 1: of time and still couldn't connect it, So that might

2557
02:11:27,440 --> 02:11:31,000
Speaker 1: be a little concerning, but still you gotta like your guys. Yeah,

2558
02:11:31,240 --> 02:11:33,440
Speaker 1: break time for us. We'll come back with what have

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Speaker 1: we learned from today's show When we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

2561
02:11:38,400 --> 02:11:55,080
Speaker 1: Bills Radio time for what have we Learned? Brought to

2562
02:11:55,120 --> 02:11:59,080
Speaker 1: you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of

2563
02:11:59,160 --> 02:12:03,640
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill had ESPN NFL reporter and host Diana

2564
02:12:03,720 --> 02:12:07,320
Speaker 1: Rassini on the show and kind of had a little

2565
02:12:07,320 --> 02:12:10,200
Speaker 1: fun with her about the train horn, which she was

2566
02:12:10,240 --> 02:12:13,040
Speaker 1: tweeting about. She's made it an alarm on her phone,

2567
02:12:13,120 --> 02:12:15,760
Speaker 1: and she talked to us a little bit about discovering

2568
02:12:15,800 --> 02:12:20,680
Speaker 1: the Bills app. I've been really lucky this season with

2569
02:12:20,800 --> 02:12:24,640
Speaker 1: my assignments with ESPN and them allowing me to cover

2570
02:12:24,720 --> 02:12:27,120
Speaker 1: the Bills, and so I thought in order to cover

2571
02:12:27,160 --> 02:12:29,000
Speaker 1: the team, well, I needed to, you know, at least

2572
02:12:29,040 --> 02:12:32,400
Speaker 1: download the team app. It's like step one when you're

2573
02:12:32,400 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 1: a reporter, and I wasn't aware that on the app

2574
02:12:37,240 --> 02:12:40,200
Speaker 1: it sends you alerts about I don't know, every forty

2575
02:12:40,200 --> 02:12:43,680
Speaker 1: five seconds. Yeah, and it's either shout or the train.

2576
02:12:44,360 --> 02:12:48,680
Speaker 1: And I've had some incredible meetings over zoom or even

2577
02:12:48,720 --> 02:12:51,520
Speaker 1: just I'm on the phone and I laugh every time

2578
02:12:51,560 --> 02:12:54,680
Speaker 1: because it'll interrupt the call and I'll just hear shout

2579
02:12:54,800 --> 02:12:58,320
Speaker 1: or the train noise whenever it is. So I originally

2580
02:12:58,360 --> 02:13:02,000
Speaker 1: hated it, but now it's my life. It's part of

2581
02:13:02,000 --> 02:13:05,120
Speaker 1: her life. How about that, Steve Grips your man? Who

2582
02:13:05,120 --> 02:13:07,480
Speaker 1: would have thought, I don't think I could do that

2583
02:13:07,520 --> 02:13:14,840
Speaker 1: for you back in Yeah? Right, oh boy. So our

2584
02:13:14,880 --> 02:13:17,360
Speaker 1: thanks to Diana for joining us on the show today,

2585
02:13:17,360 --> 02:13:19,600
Speaker 1: as well as Hall of Famer Kurt Warner, who had

2586
02:13:19,600 --> 02:13:21,320
Speaker 1: a lot of good things today. Well, if you missed

2587
02:13:21,360 --> 02:13:24,440
Speaker 1: that interview, we'll be reposting it so keep an eye

2588
02:13:24,440 --> 02:13:27,800
Speaker 1: out for it on our Bills YouTube page, among other places.

2589
02:13:27,880 --> 02:13:30,280
Speaker 1: We'll also repost it on Twitter so you can catch

2590
02:13:30,320 --> 02:13:35,160
Speaker 1: it there as well at one Bill's Live Interesting poll today, Steve,

2591
02:13:35,400 --> 02:13:37,320
Speaker 1: where did we end up guys on the Twitter poll

2592
02:13:37,360 --> 02:13:40,000
Speaker 1: today in terms of where Bills fans feel the team

2593
02:13:40,040 --> 02:13:42,960
Speaker 1: has made the most improvements since week six? Do we

2594
02:13:42,960 --> 02:13:46,120
Speaker 1: have the poll results anymore? Or how do we finish up? Yes? Okay,

2595
02:13:46,160 --> 02:13:49,080
Speaker 1: so the winner today in the poll, thanks guys. Defense

2596
02:13:49,160 --> 02:13:52,000
Speaker 1: has improved forty four percent of the vote. In terms

2597
02:13:52,040 --> 02:13:53,640
Speaker 1: of the biggest change in the Bills from their Week

2598
02:13:53,680 --> 02:13:57,720
Speaker 1: six matchup with the Chiefs, second place was injured players

2599
02:13:58,120 --> 02:14:01,960
Speaker 1: now healthy. You run down that, Steve Levi Wallace, John Feliziano,

2600
02:14:02,040 --> 02:14:05,120
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, Matt Milano and a gimpie John Brown not

2601
02:14:05,200 --> 02:14:07,600
Speaker 1: playing well in that game in week six, I mean,

2602
02:14:08,160 --> 02:14:10,320
Speaker 1: huge difference. If the Bills play well, they can win.

2603
02:14:11,760 --> 02:14:13,880
Speaker 1: If they don't achieve, you know, the Chiefs are tough

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Speaker 1: man scintillating analysis. We'll see tomorrow