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Speaker 1: you next week right here, Phills Fafia. All right, that

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Speaker 1: is your Toshiba game. Rewind Toshiba, the official copier company

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here on

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Speaker 1: a Buffalo Football Monday. We are radio only today because

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Speaker 1: of the Sabers game. And uh wow, talk about blood

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Speaker 1: We've got open lines for you for the first two

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Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey and Josh Allen anticipated a desperate Dolphins defense

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Speaker 1: that was going to come out with a lot of

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Speaker 1: where it wasn't and it's a big reason why he

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Speaker 1: season long. And there has to be adjustments therein for that.

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Speaker 1: I'm a believer that if you're in a playoff game

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Speaker 1: There's a reason why Tom Brady has seven super Bowl rings.

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Speaker 1: It's because whenever he was up by two or three

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Speaker 1: thousand cuts. Four yards here, eight yards to Welker, ten

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Speaker 1: He'd stay on schedule, favorable down and distance, hold onto

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Speaker 1: a slow death. He did it dozens and dozens and

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Speaker 1: what we had yesterday was a hay a hairy game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was nip and tuck for a while there,

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Speaker 1: the thing. The Dolphins were bringing. They were going zero

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Speaker 1: Now they got in subsequently. But that's all a defensive

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Speaker 1: They had a spy at times on him that al Campell,

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Speaker 1: that was a problem. It's a problem yesterday. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: for Khalil Shakiir early in that game. But Beasley steps

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Matt, You're on One

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Speaker 1: mcdermis's decision to call these timeouts, run it down the sidelines.

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Speaker 1: They could have ultimately cost us the game. I'll hanging

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Speaker 1: coming from on that, Matt, and I understand why it's

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Speaker 1: out as a result, he chose to sacrifice the time out.

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Speaker 1: There's no way he's going to know that the play

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Speaker 1: didn't work. It would have been a turnover on downs

429
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Speaker 1: and you're getting the ball back. There's no way for

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Speaker 1: him to know that before the play happens, So you

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Speaker 1: can't like knock him after the fact after you've got

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Speaker 1: the stop. Anyway, did it cost him fifty three yards

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Speaker 1: in field position? I'm not debating that for a second.

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Speaker 1: You'd have it on their thirty seven instead of your

435
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Speaker 1: own ten. That sucks, but there's no way to avoid

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Speaker 1: that because you don't know what the outcome of the

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Speaker 1: play is going to be, right, It's easy, I mean, yeah, no.

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Speaker 1: I think I've always applauded Sean McDermott for being willing

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Speaker 1: to take defensive timeouts. Everybody's all these coaches are always

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Speaker 1: and think about John Harbaugh is getting absolutely roasted today

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Speaker 1: for not taking a time out in the latent moments

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Speaker 1: of the Baltimore game last night in Cincinnati. And I

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Speaker 1: don't have a problem with their time out usage, particularly

444
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Speaker 1: when you got a defensive coach, and he knows how

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Speaker 1: important the down is and he wants to get in

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Speaker 1: it certainly after when they call the time out and

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Speaker 1: all that and the play doesn't go and it's and

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Speaker 1: we think, oh, we shouldn't have called the time out,

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Speaker 1: or when you called you ice the kicker and he

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Speaker 1: misses the kick. Yeah, oh we shouldn't have done that. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't buy that. Now. On the other hand, too,

452
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Speaker 1: you said something about since now he's not going to

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Speaker 1: be afraid of Buffalo because they almost got beat by

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Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson. The Bengals almost got beat by Tyler hunt

455
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Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley and so their defense was no great shakes either. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so they both both these teams. Here's you know. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it again. I said it at

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Speaker 1: the top of the show, Steve. The Miami Dolphins had

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Speaker 1: one scoring drive in which they gained more than forty

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Speaker 1: yards on the possession. It was at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game when they went eleven plays for sixty seven

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Speaker 1: yards for their final touchdown of the game to cut

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Speaker 1: it to three. That was the only possession they had

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Speaker 1: where they drove the field and scored on Buffalo. And

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Speaker 1: this mind you is after the defense was on the

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Speaker 1: field for seventy five place. Okay, so that's number one.

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Speaker 1: Number two is Here are the other scoring drives for

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Speaker 1: the entire game. For the Miami Dolphins, drive start at

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Speaker 1: their own forty ten plays thirty eight yards field goal

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Speaker 1: three point eight yards per play. Okay. Drive start after

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Speaker 1: an interception Buffalo forty eight yard line. Eight plays twenty

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Speaker 1: three yards. That's three yards per play field goal. They

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Speaker 1: get the ball on the twenty seven yard line of

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Speaker 1: Buffalo after the long punt return by Cedric Wilson. Four

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Speaker 1: plays thirteen yards, three yards of play field goal. Okay.

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Speaker 1: They get another interception, it starts on the Buffalo eighteen

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Speaker 1: yard line. The drive start four plays, eighteen yards, touchdown.

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Speaker 1: They did not have a drive over forty yards to

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Speaker 1: score points until the end of the game. This is

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Speaker 1: not on the defense, guys. It's not on the defense.

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Speaker 1: I hate to tell you. You can talk about thirty

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Speaker 1: one points all you want. The turnovers and the short

483
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Speaker 1: fields put the Bill's defense up a creek without a pad,

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Speaker 1: and they still forced field goals three in a row.

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Speaker 1: In fact, yeah, yeah, eighteen team yester points off turnovers

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Speaker 1: is the story for the defense, um, and for the offense,

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Speaker 1: and and it's and it's a huge message that we

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Speaker 1: you know, the people have been trumpeting about this team

489
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Speaker 1: for all since the bye week. We've been talking about

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Speaker 1: so Um. The good news is it's within your control.

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Speaker 1: The bad news is it's still under your control and

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Speaker 1: you haven't gotten it under control. That's that's the thing

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Speaker 1: that makes you like, come on, you know um, But

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Speaker 1: we also know this. You've got a quarterback who's elite.

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Speaker 1: Who's this guy who you kind of lived with some

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Speaker 1: of that that the Chiefs lived with their guy. And

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Speaker 1: I know this too. Uh coming into yesterday over the

498
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Speaker 1: last six or was it six games or something, mahomes Burrow, Um,

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Speaker 1: they both have more interceptions than Josh had going into

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Speaker 1: yesterday's games over the last month and a half. So

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Speaker 1: it's just something you live with when you've got a

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Speaker 1: quarterback who you've got to lean on to make throws.

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Speaker 1: The fumbles have to get under control. Fumbles, and I'll

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Speaker 1: say this too, the fumbles are a little bit You

505
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: can put that a little bit on the offensive line

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Speaker 1: and the protection schemes and getting those right. You've got

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Speaker 1: a guy coming clean off the left. You got singletary

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Speaker 1: in the flat. Well, you gotta know and make the throw. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they do. When they do that, teams stop bringing the

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Speaker 1: corner off the left. Yeah, you know, they just stop

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Speaker 1: when you make them pay for it. They stopped doing it.

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Speaker 1: You And on the drive that came down and ended

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Speaker 1: up in Gabe Davis's touchdown to go up by ten,

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Speaker 1: you know you think about it. I think on the

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Speaker 1: second down, he throws it to Quentin Morris who catches

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Speaker 1: it in the flat as a tight end and bowls

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Speaker 1: through two guys for a thirteen yard gain on first

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Speaker 1: down on a first down, and in a play or

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Speaker 1: two later, Cole Beasley on a crossing round he catches it,

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Speaker 1: turns it up. It's a twenty nine yard game. Very

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Speaker 1: easy completions. But that's an example of how if you

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Speaker 1: take efficient place exactly so when you get this, when

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Speaker 1: you get the communications up front, when you got protected

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Speaker 1: and you're willing to take those efficient throws and they're

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Speaker 1: not sending pressure. Yeah, there, the Bills are hard to beat,

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Speaker 1: but they got to get they gotta have a plan

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Speaker 1: for all of that, and they got to execute it better.

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Speaker 1: But that's an example of why they should go to

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Speaker 1: efficiency when they're up on the scoreboard to the degree

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Speaker 1: that they were early in the football game. Let's go

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Speaker 1: back to the phones and to Pat in Boston, mass

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Pat? Hey, boys, Hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: this is the person I've called you, guys, and I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to echo what you just said five minutes ago

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Speaker 1: about the reason why being is such a good general

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Speaker 1: manager and mcdurnham are such a good team. They knew

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Speaker 1: they needed changes to beat the Chiefs. That's why, that's

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Speaker 1: why Wallace is gone. And they drafted elam and yesterday

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Speaker 1: to me like he's said a good year, and they

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Speaker 1: also drafted or who's had a good year. They upgraded

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Speaker 1: their quarterbacks in a very good way. Yeah, And I'm

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Speaker 1: just impressed. And I'm like, I agree with you. Get

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Speaker 1: him on the field more. He's righty now and he's

544
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Speaker 1: a stud and it's like the success of drafting over

545
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Speaker 1: the last five years. It's mind boggling. I'm so impressed

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Speaker 1: and I agree with you. This defense saves the game.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. Just watch Edmunds on the

548
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Speaker 1: game replay. He was everywhere awesome. He was no lone,

549
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: was always great, but Edmunds. Yeah, he's had an awesome year.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough. Not not resigned at Edmunds. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thanks Chat. I'd be stunned if Edmunds is not

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Speaker 1: back here next year, Absolutely stunned. He is. To me,

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Speaker 1: he's priority number one come the off season. You have

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Speaker 1: to get that guy back in the fold. Not just

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Speaker 1: because he had an un probably his career season this year,

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Speaker 1: but because he's only twenty five years old. The guy's

557
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Speaker 1: just hitting his prime and he is the quarterback of

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Speaker 1: your defense. I mean, he is a leader that guys

559
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Speaker 1: look to on this team. He is priority number one.

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Speaker 1: And it's not even close in the off season as

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Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. And Edmunds and Milano over the

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Speaker 1: last month have been absolutely lights out, absolutely lights out.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break here, more of your

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Speaker 1: phone calls when we come back, So Bill and Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Kim and Buffalo hang tight. We will get to you

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Speaker 1: when we return. Here. On a Buffalo Football Monday, It's

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalada Health. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right back here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker on Buffalo Football Monday open lines

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Speaker 1: for you at eight oh three five fifty one, eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty we're asking you for

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Speaker 1: your biggest takeaways from the Bill's Wildcard playoff win over

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins on Sunday, and we go right back to

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Speaker 1: the phones and we lead off with Bill in Wilson,

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Speaker 1: what do you got for his Bill? You're on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. A

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Speaker 1: couple points, the national media laid out the path for

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Speaker 1: Dolphins victory, and they cited a couple of things that

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Speaker 1: they need a defensive touchdown, they would need a big

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Speaker 1: play on special teams, and they'd need at least three turnovers.

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Speaker 1: And they got all those things and they still lost.

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Speaker 1: So people are very upset, but I'm still pretty happy.

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Speaker 1: It definitely was a nail biter, but it sure was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun watching it. The other point I'd

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Speaker 1: like to make is that everybody's complaining. We're not everybody,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of people are complaining about the amount

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Speaker 1: of deep balls. The zero blitz has almost been kryptonite

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Speaker 1: for Josh, and I do think the perfect answer for

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Speaker 1: that is that deep ball on one series we went

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Speaker 1: three times. If you were to tell me, Hey, we're

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Speaker 1: going to try the deep ball three times in a row.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking with Diggs and Davis, I'm thinking we're connecting

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Speaker 1: on at least one of those. I like the fact

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Speaker 1: that they did the deep ball. I think that's like

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Speaker 1: the ball comes out of the hand quickly. So that's

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Speaker 1: all good to say about that, all right, right, thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call, Bill, Yeah, that's what I've I've said

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Speaker 1: that as well. I believe a lot of it had

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Speaker 1: to do with the defense, as miam who was playing.

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Speaker 1: They were inviting the deep ball because it is a

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Speaker 1: low percentage of completion. Even when you're doing it against air,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to complete it. Josh was killing it early though, right,

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Speaker 1: That's the reason they were up seventeen nothing. He was

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Speaker 1: killing them on zero blitz, right, So maybe that was

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Speaker 1: too much too soon, and they you know, he didn't

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Speaker 1: want to do that anymore or felt like could keep

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Speaker 1: doing it. But that's the way. That's the reason the

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Speaker 1: game looked the way it did. Now you can say

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Speaker 1: Joshua had taken the check down. I get all that,

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Speaker 1: but that's the reason the game looked like it did.

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Speaker 1: Miami zero blitz and not coincidentally, in my mind, the

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Speaker 1: defense of the Bill saw in Week eighteen that the

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots they did a nice job of keeping

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen in the pocket and not letting him run.

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Speaker 1: He had in the New England game, he had nine

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Speaker 1: rushing attempts for like, uh, seventeen yards. I believe. Let

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Speaker 1: me go back and let me just make sure I

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Speaker 1: get that right, because that's you know, that's what they

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Speaker 1: wanted him to do. That. The Patriots didn't want Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen to beat him by getting out of the pocket

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Speaker 1: in the running game. So what they do they kept

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Speaker 1: him in. He had nine rushes for sixteen yards. That

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Speaker 1: was exactly what the Dolphins wanted to do. It's one

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Speaker 1: less thing, exactly, and it worked. So think about what

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Speaker 1: they were doing. Get it bills to go deep a

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Speaker 1: lot because it's a low percentage and keep Allen from

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Speaker 1: running the football to beat us with when we're trying

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Speaker 1: to cover the past. And it worked, and well, it

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Speaker 1: worked to the point of tune of thirty four points. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and three turnovers. Three turnovers, right, So, but it also

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Speaker 1: put him in an early seventeen nothing hole. He goes

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Speaker 1: to him for hanging in there with it. Well, and

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. It put him in a seventeen nothing hole.

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Speaker 1: And like I said on the broadcast, Eric is like,

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Speaker 1: this defensive coordinator's insane. He goes, how is he still

636
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: throwing zero blitzes at the Bills? Josh is killing them

637
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: right now? That's all they got. And it was seventeen nothing,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they started getting some

639
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: takeaways and the game turned on its head. Two interceptions

640
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: and consecutive or most consecutive possessions, you know, and it

641
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: makes it look different, But you have to look at

642
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: it this way too. Dawson Knox catches that second touchdown

643
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 1: in the end zone. Now it's twenty four to nothing

644
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: or no, I'm sorry, it's twenty one nothing instead of

645
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: seventeen nothing, right, So yeah, I mean, and their offense

646
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: has nothing. They were killing zero blitz Josh had an

647
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: answer every single time early in the game. And that's

648
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: why I said, I felt like he got lured into

649
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: this false sense of security that, oh, I'm just gonna

650
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: beat them all day. If they're gonna keep throwing zero

651
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 1: at me, I'm gonna keep chucking it down the field.

652
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: And you think too, the Bills were moving the football.

653
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: Opening drive, Remember the Bills took the kickoff and went

654
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: opening drive went boom, boom, six plays and then they

655
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: turned it over on down because they went for it, right,

656
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: So they went for it, didn't get it. Then they

657
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: came back and it was touchdown, touchdown, field goal, and

658
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: it looked like, Okay, this is how it was going

659
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: to go. And then interception punt interceptions. But as a quarterback,

660
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: don't And I realized they got a lot of stuff

661
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 1: they got to think about through the course of a game,

662
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: and a lot of decisions they have to make in

663
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: an instant. But I have to believe because I still think,

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Speaker 1: as I've said many times, that Josh is underrated as

665
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: a cerebral player. I think his football IQ is off

666
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: the charts, and he still doesn't get enough credit for that,

667
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: just because his physical gifts are so readily apparent and

668
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: people go wow at those and they I think they

669
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: kind of sure change him on his football IQ. I

670
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: want to believe that somewhere between Josh's ears, after he's

671
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 1: killing them on zero blitz the whole game, he steps

672
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: back when they're up seventeen nothing and says, okay, We've

673
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: hit some big plays, even though those are low percentage plays.

674
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: Now that we've got this lead, let's hold on to

675
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: the football, stay on schedule, down and distance wise, Let's

676
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: hit some more high percentage plays here and matriculate the

677
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: ball down the field. I just felt like they got

678
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 1: a little greedy, do you know what I mean? Like yeah,

679
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Speaker 1: here and well yeah, And I understand. I'm all for

680
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: trying to step on a team, but the law of

681
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: averages is going to come back on those big plays.

682
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: And you give you another way to look at it.

683
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: So you're Josh Allen, You're in the playoffs, and you

684
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: got this team. This is zero blitz and you and

685
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: you know you ding him for a seventeen point lead.

686
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: You get put off the field on a third on

687
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: a fourth down, and you think you know that you

688
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 1: go into this game thinking this. Listen, I try, as

689
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: a Josh Allen, just say, if you're Josh Album, I

690
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: try listen. Our defense. He knows what he's looking at

691
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: when he see our defense, right, he plays against good defenses.

692
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: He knows what he's looking at. He's saying, why am

693
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 1: I gonna dink and dunk? When Skyler Thompson ain't doing

694
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 1: anything against our defense. Maybe that's part of keep going

695
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 1: for that, and then it turns into a couple of turnovers.

696
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: Then it does get close, and it does get harrowing

697
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: because he's thought, you know, our defense ain't gonna let

698
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: these guys back into it, but not knowing that he'd

699
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: let him back in right, So there you go. I

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00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: want to believe against a more formidable opponent like a

701
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, he does take that approach and say, hey,

702
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: look we're up on these guys. Now, let's hold on

703
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: to the ball and not give Joe Burrow extra possessions.

704
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is not Skyler Thompson. And that's what I mean.

705
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: And that goes for Josh Allen playing against him. I

706
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: would tend to believe that would factor into his thinking,

707
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: Ken Dorsey's thinking, etc. Maybe there's a little something in

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00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: that that, yeah, Josh is sitting there going to you know,

709
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: it really doesn't We're up, we can score on these guys. Um,

710
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna go. Let's see if we can go for

711
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: it a little bit. And then it get backfired on

712
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: him for about what was it about a quarter and

713
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: middle middle two quarters of that game, let's get back

714
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,439
Speaker 1: to the phones. We go to Kim and Buffalo next.

715
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Came you're on one

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00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, gentleman Ken Actually sorry, I'm just going by

717
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: what's in front of me on the phone board here.

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00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: Sorry about that catch, No problem, No problem, Well, gentlemen,

719
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: thanks for taking a car. I wanted to comment on

720
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: yesterday's game and then going forward and some lessons I

721
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: think we can glean from it. One, UM's quite apparent

722
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: that we came into the game with the view that

723
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson, you know, this third stream quarterback, rookie. You know,

724
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: we'll have our way with him. And I think the

725
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: game went that way for the most part. But my

726
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: primary concern about it yesterday decides the turnovers um that

727
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: Josh talked about in advance. He wanted to avoid those things.

728
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: Cannon will happen, but they need to be avoided. But

729
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: I want to talk about coach Sean McDermott, and I

730
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 1: know you all he's gotten some cause about it. His

731
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: inopportune use of timeouts. UM. At least twice he called

732
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: timeouts that killed two good defensive players. Is the first

733
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: one was add on near the red zone when he

734
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: called a timeout and Edmonds made a good tackle that

735
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: would have made it third and nine. As a consequence

736
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: of the timeout, they came back. Nae Daniel called Another

737
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: play was a reverse to Waddle that put them, you know,

738
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: very close to scorn you know, territory. They wid up

739
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: scoring a touchdown. And the second one, of course, was

740
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: when Matt Mloon on a couple of defensive Edmonds blew

741
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: up the fourth and one run that would have basically

742
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: you know, still things as I recall, and yet they

743
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: wound up getting the penalty, and then he opted to

744
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: punt it instead of you know, trying again on fourth

745
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: and sixth. So I think those tendencies to him to

746
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: seemingly panicked our concern. He also almost caught a timeout

747
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: on the Dawth and Knott's first touchdown. CBS's cameras caught

748
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: and run out a side I'm trying to call timeout.

749
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: He almost blew that touchdown. It's a concern and it

750
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: should be moreover. It reminds me of what happened last

751
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 1: year against Kansas City, where he didn't do his best

752
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: coaching job. People point to that last sequence WHI we

753
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: didn't squipt kick I look at the sequence when we

754
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 1: didn't kick it near the sideline, when Andy re put

755
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill in to fill the part. If you recall

756
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: the Bills punted to him. There was a penalty, so

757
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: we had to punt it again. I'll the finners had

758
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: ran full speed down still, they should have kicked it

759
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 1: out of bounds. Why because they were tired they ran

760
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 1: back down the field. Tyreek bustler a good return alway

761
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: down the sideline. They want him getting still, but it

762
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: was the difference in the game. He has to coach

763
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 1: better in the playoffs. And then lastly, our defense played

764
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: very very well. Ken Dorsey has to do a better job.

765
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: We have no screen game to speak of. And moreover,

766
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: we can't let people take away our number one receiver.

767
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 1: You know, I don't care what you gotta move Gigs

768
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: into the slot, if you have to get him the

769
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 1: ball in space, whatever you have to. There's no reason

770
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: why we should see a game in which our number

771
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: one receiver spots one hundred yards in the first quarter

772
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: and basically is a non sick for the rest of

773
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: the way. And also we look at the run game.

774
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: The run game got us out of that situation with

775
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: the pickup by signal Chare at the end. We need

776
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: to make sure we run the ball more to take

777
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: the pressure off Joss. Then he doesn't have to make

778
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,439
Speaker 1: plays which we have to scratch the heads that they watch.

779
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: So I'll pause from there. I'll let you guys time

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00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: in according to Yeah, that's a that's a long list, Ken,

781
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: but a good call, thanks for it. I'll start with

782
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: your last point first. I think the only reason they

783
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: didn't run it more was because they knew they were

784
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: going against the top five run front. That's part of

785
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 1: the reason, I believe. But from the jump, I really

786
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: thought that James Cook was a Mitch mismatch at the

787
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: second level for those two linebackers, Baker and a land

788
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: In Roberts. And evidence of that came on the twelve

789
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run when Cook basically outran a Landing Roberts

790
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: to the end zone twelve yards when they had two

791
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: clear out routes in front of them, which was well designed,

792
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: well schemed by Ken Dorsey and well executed by James Cook,

793
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: and it was a walk in touchdown. I think we

794
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: could have seen more of that in the game. But again,

795
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: a top five run d might be a little bit

796
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: of a deterrent because running between the tackles proved to

797
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: be tough sledding yesterday for the most part. And again,

798
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: when they're giving you man to man across the board,

799
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: the Bills feel like they can win those more often

800
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 1: than not. And in the early stages of the game

801
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: they were they were killing them in those calls. So

802
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: that's kind of why you had what you had. I

803
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: understand why the timeouts are frustrating, but I don't agree

804
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: with the timeout criticism. Yeah, I understand why it's frustrating.

805
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: I don't agree with you, Ken, you can't. Yeah, that's

806
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: come on. He's going with the information that he's given

807
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: in the moment. Yeah, he knows. He's smart enough to

808
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: know how important it is to be lined right up,

809
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: lined up right in defense, particularly on crucial downs, just

810
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: because the play goes. Often something happens and somebody makes

811
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: a play in a play that doesn't count, and you're thinking, oh,

812
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: it was a dumb time. No, it wasn't a dumb time, because,

813
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: believe me, on the last one on the fourth down

814
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: where it was to Giseki and it was incomplete, that

815
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: counts two. He gets credit for calling the time out

816
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: to get him into the right defense for that. Um.

817
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: And you know after the snap, Tremaine Edmunds making okay,

818
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: but you can't you can't count the result of a

819
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: play that didn't count. Yeah. Um, he called a time

820
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: out for solid reasons. I've always liked the fact that

821
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,720
Speaker 1: he calls timeouts on defense. Everybody always thinks it's sacred

822
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: for the offense to have the timeout. No, defense is

823
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: just as important, especially in a one score game. And

824
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: and that's when he last night, John Harball, I'll say

825
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: it again, John Harball got crushed because he ended the

826
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 1: game with a time out and no time on the clock.

827
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: So you say what you want. You can't fault Sean

828
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: McDermott for taking a time out because he did it

829
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: as late as you can. The play went off, and

830
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have gone. It wouldn't have made been successful

831
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: for their offense. Yeah, I mean that's you know, that's

832
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,919
Speaker 1: if you if you can't do one thing, you gotta

833
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: if you if one thing you do doesn't work, you

834
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: should have done the other. Well, it seemed to me

835
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: it worked. We gotta take a break here, more of

836
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: your phone calls. Next, it's one Bill's Live here on

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Speaker 1: a Buffalo football Monday. We'll see in a couple of

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Speaker 1: back to the phones at eight oh three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty one, eight eight five fifty two five fifty and

846
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Speaker 1: we lead off with Dave in Buffalo. What do you

847
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: guy for us? Dave, you're on one bills Live. Hey,

848
00:44:55,080 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 1: I have an issue with the officiating. I understand. And

849
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Speaker 1: there's a third party that takes all the game, all

850
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: the games in the NFL and breaks them down for who.

851
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 1: I don't know. But my point I'm trying to make

852
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 1: is the official standing two feet and burning Josh when

853
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: he took that whack. If people would have pulled that

854
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: play like he was supposed to, they probably wouldn't a benefit. Yeah,

855
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: they got the union. If they got the union, the

856
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: NFL's got the union. Something already done. Maybe Pete and

857
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: Wise if he makes a blunting, ridiculous call like he did.

858
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: They should have uh, you know, buying him? What call?

859
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 1: Are you talking? He's talking about the fight. He's talking

860
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: about the fight. Are you talking about Joe wats the

861
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: ref to get in between Wilkins and Alan and not

862
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: let it escalate. All I'm gonna say is this, The

863
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: ref is barely six feet tall. You want to get

864
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: between a three hundred and fifteen pound Christian Wilkins and

865
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Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty pounds Allen and tell him, hey,

866
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: break it up when they're shoving each other around. No,

867
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: that's not happening. And plus the place still going on.

868
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: Then when it's over, Josh walks away and and it

869
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: escalates from there. That's the way it goes when when

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00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: Josh and Wilkins start mixing up, play still going on,

871
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: the guy's still returning the long deeper uh interception, and

872
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: and then you know it goes downhill from there. But

873
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: while that play is going on, you see here the

874
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: play still going on, and they're trying to find isppening.

875
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: The official can't step in until the play's over. Then

876
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: they do, and they step in between Josh and Wilkins.

877
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 1: And then by that time Mitch Morrise is there and

878
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: I just and it ensues. That's I'm just gonna say.

879
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,439
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown was very fortunate because he threw a punch

880
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: at the bottom of that pile, and that's an injection. Yeah. Absolutely,

881
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: So the Bills actually got off on that with a

882
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: saw off couple of penalties off setting I agree, for

883
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: personal foul, I would agree Spencer browth through a punch.

884
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: Bills were very lucky to get out of that with

885
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: offsetting penalty. Yeah they were. And when that, you know,

886
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: cannot make you know, you can make light of it

887
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: and stuff out. Josh instigates the whole thing then walks

888
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,760
Speaker 1: off while his guys take care of it for him. Um,

889
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's sports, I guess. But yeah, you

890
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: can and you can complain or criticize however you want.

891
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: For Bills fans, I think they got to feel like

892
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: they got out of there easy. And for Dolphins fans,

893
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: I don't know what else you'd think, And what are

894
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: gonna do a penalty for fighting whatever? But you know

895
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: was Dolphins fans are hot about Milano knocking Skyler Thompson

896
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: out by the sidelines too, right, And so you can

897
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: go back and forth. Nothing happened there either I prefer

898
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: when nothing happens or they're offsetting, unless unless there's an egregious,

899
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, act while the play still going on and

900
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: Josh is hitting Wilkins back or I mean in retaliation

901
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: for getting blocked down or whatever. That's all football, you know,

902
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: guys take out the frustrations during the play and push

903
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: each other. But when it escalates, obviously, and you know,

904
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Speaker 1: as long as nobody does anything egregious, which by you know,

905
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: like the way you said, Spencer Brown's lucky, you know,

906
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: let's just move on. But people, and I don't know

907
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: what you know, Davis thinking about the officiating, what more

908
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: most people think about the NFL officiating. Let me say

909
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: what I think and what I've come to know. The

910
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: league really takes it seriously, folks. They look at all

911
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: the film, they break it down, they talk to their officials,

912
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: they send their officials letters, they send them film clips

913
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: and say call this, not that, do this, don't do that.

914
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: This is a great example. This is a poor example.

915
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this, let's get on the conference call,

916
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: let's do this. And this is all during the week.

917
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: They don't pay these guys full time. But if you're

918
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: a lead official in an NFL game, it's full time.

919
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: It's like a forty or fifty or sixty hour week

920
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: job that you gotta go over. And they they hash

921
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: through every single call and so do as you might

922
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: imagine all thirty two head coaches and their staffs. Who

923
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: can file, who can file reports, They files, there's grievances,

924
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: there's conversations on and off the record, there's all kinds

925
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: of stuff that happen. They're trying to get it all

926
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: rating cards for the referee. Yes, and if you if

927
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 1: you're an official, if you if and I've said this before,

928
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: but if you're an official, if you've ever want an

929
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:41,959
Speaker 1: enlightening experience, go listen to a group of officials talk

930
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 1: about the game that they just officiated in the National

931
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: Football League. It's mind blowing. And if you that, it's

932
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: and it's very comforting and affirming that they're trying to

933
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: get it right on every play. There's no paybacks, there's

934
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: no ah, this mistake, I made this mistake here, I'm

935
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: gonna do this. Every play is it's own chance to

936
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: get it exactly right. And they do, and they don't

937
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: even care who's playing. Believe me, they don't. Believe me,

938
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Speaker 1: they don't. It's it's it's a highly difficult, difficult job

939
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: to do. The league takes it extremely seriously, the officials

940
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: take it extremely seriously, and they all try to get

941
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: it right. And they get help and they get help

942
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: and criticism both from their own officiating crews, the league,

943
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: the league itself, and also the coaches and the and

944
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: the teams around the league. They sit down in the

945
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: off season and have with officials and talk about what

946
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: they think it should be, how it should be, how

947
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: they want the game to evolve. It is a process

948
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,919
Speaker 1: that is ongoing all the time and constant, and it's

949
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: one of the reasons the league continues to be the

950
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: eight hundred pound gorilla. They make it. They make it

951
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: their mission, their mission to get it right. Replay is

952
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: a perfect example of that. This whole you know, the

953
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: breaking of the plane camera, the pylon cams, the skycam,

954
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: the every different angles, having the sky judge up there,

955
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 1: and yesterday was a perfect example. There's a couple of

956
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: things where the skycam goes, no, he was short. You

957
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,879
Speaker 1: don't don't make Mike McDaniel or Sean McDermott. I can't

958
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 1: remember when I think its Mike McDaniel. Don't make him,

959
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: or maybe it's the game last night. Don't make the

960
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: coach challenges this is short. It should be on the

961
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: half yard line on a third called another time out

962
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: to give him more time to review that other one

963
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't right yesterday, right, And they didn't, and

964
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: they were the Dig's touchdown, right, I think the only

965
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: Dig's touchdown wasn't a touchdown. I hate to say it.

966
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: He didn't have control when he brought it into his

967
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: body and his other foot was out, so his first

968
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: foot came up before he had control of the ball.

969
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: So as a result, he only got one foot down

970
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: with possession. The ball moved when he brought it from

971
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: way out here into his body. The ball moved and

972
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: his foot was off the ground. Then yeah, and that's it.

973
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: And so they didn't. They got it upstairs, and they

974
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:00,080
Speaker 1: got it right out of the gate and they if

975
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: you want to challenge it, go ahead. But it was

976
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: a bad move, right, So you they're getting it right.

977
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: They're trying to get it right, and they're listen, it's

978
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: better now that it's ever ever ever been. You just

979
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: have to accept the fact that there's no perfect system

980
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, humans are involved

981
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: and humans are flawed, so they're not going to get

982
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: it right every time and not gonna happen. And I

983
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: every single week in the league. One typical mistake fans

984
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: make is they're watching and you know, the other team's

985
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: got this great pass rush or whatever, or your team's

986
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,319
Speaker 1: got a great offensive line, and they don't. You're thinking,

987
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: look at that their offensive lines holding our great pass rushes.

988
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: Next time, I challenge you, look at what they're good,

989
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: your offensive line is doing to their pass rush, as

990
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: long as they're fair, and they do it the same

991
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: on both sides, and nobody's squawking on the sidelines are

992
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 1: in meetings. So that's that's what I would leave you with.

993
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: I get it. It's easy to criticize officials, and I

994
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: was the worst ever. Believe me, there's nobody like me

995
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: man I had. I was an artist, but that, believe me.

996
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: They it is a point of great importance to the league,

997
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: to the officials that do the game, and the and

998
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: the teams that play it, and they all work to

999
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: get it right together. Break time for us here, but

1000
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: more are your phone calls When we return for our

1001
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Speaker 1: number two, it's open phone lines for the second full hour.

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1009
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Speaker 1: to get on board. You got a couple open lines

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Speaker 1: for you there as we are asking for your takeaways

1011
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: from Buffalo's wildcard victory over the division rival Dolphins. And

1012
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: we lead off this segment with one John in Clarence.

1013
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: We got for us. John, You're on One Bill's Live. Hi, guys,

1014
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: good show. It's it's nice that you guys let us

1015
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: Monday morning quarterback like this. If the excuse upon, it's

1016
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: very therapeutic. But I was gonna I was going to

1017
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: talk about time management, but I think you've beat that

1018
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: to death. So I have a simpler question. And Steve

1019
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 1: may have some insights to this being an ex player,

1020
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: so Obviously, we know the way that Josh plays. You know,

1021
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: in some cases that's it's almost like ordered chaos or

1022
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: reckless abandoned, and he gets some success out of playing

1023
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: that way, but he turns the ball over a lot.

1024
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: We've seen that a lot this year. So my question

1025
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: is this, he's been doing it so long do you

1026
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: think that Sean McDermott post game at some point, not

1027
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: in a team meeting necessarily, but maybe one on one

1028
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: says to Josh, Hey, look, Josh, we have to we

1029
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: have to stop these turnovers. And I need you to

1030
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: think about that when you get into your game mode

1031
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: and you're out there and playing, maybe controlling access to

1032
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit better or not doing some

1033
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: of the things that you know may put you in

1034
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: that situation. And if he is saying that to Josh,

1035
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,879
Speaker 1: is Josh just not listening to him, or you get

1036
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: you know, you get into those game modes where that

1037
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: conversation is not part of your thought process anymore. You're

1038
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: just executing, and you're going back to your old style

1039
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: of you know, I gotta do everything I can put

1040
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: it on my shoulders to to make the the great

1041
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: play and therefore hands up losing the ball. So I'm

1042
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 1: gonna hang up and listen to what your thoughts are

1043
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: about this, because I think it's very very important to

1044
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 1: you know, turnovers, if we if we have turnovers get

1045
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: against the Bengals like we did in this last game.

1046
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: They're not kicking field goals, they're scoring touchdowns. Yeah, you know,

1047
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: so yeah, anyway, I got you, John, Thanks for the calls.

1048
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: It's it's good stuff, and you're right, it is something

1049
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: that it's McDermott. You asked if he would have conversations

1050
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,760
Speaker 1: with it or you know, with Josh privately or in

1051
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: front of the team or whatever, and the answer is

1052
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: all of that is yeah. Of course is Sean mcdermot's

1053
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: responsibility to address problems with individual players and with philosophies.

1054
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: He addressed it not only with Josh, He probably addressed

1055
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: it with Ken Dorsey as well, and ask Ken Dorsey

1056
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: what he's doing about Josh turning the football over? And

1057
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: he talks to Josh personally, and then they watch the

1058
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,439
Speaker 1: film together and they talk about it and when those

1059
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: plays come up, they say, what were you thinking here

1060
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: and why and listen, we can't do that, you know.

1061
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: It is an ongoing constant conversation that you have and

1062
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: you say, well, why isn't Josh listening or whatever? Listen.

1063
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: It's hard to play quarterback. And I think there's a

1064
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: little bit of personality in it, no question about it.

1065
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: But teams with quarterbacks like Josh Allen, Pat Mahomes, Joe Burrowed,

1066
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, you can go down the list, Lamar Jackson.

1067
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: When though you've got a dynamic playmaker, who's gonna who's

1068
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,439
Speaker 1: got an arm, who's gonna put the ball at risk

1069
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: in one way, shape or form, you're gonna have turnovers.

1070
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: Certainly Josh has more turnovers than any of us would lie.

1071
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the acceptable number is except

1072
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: unless you win the games. And if that's the case,

1073
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: we're fine. But the simple fact the matter is, yes,

1074
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot is gonna lead, and it's his responsibility to

1075
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: address privately, publicly in the team meeting, on film and

1076
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: every other way, and address the guys are directly above

1077
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: Josh as to how to get him stop doing that.

1078
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: And then way the balance of if you get him

1079
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: to stop turning it over, can he still play effectively?

1080
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: Certainly we all think he can. But that's Yes, the

1081
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: answer to your question, all the questions you raised about

1082
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: how to do it and what the possibilities are are

1083
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: all true, and they are all they are all taken

1084
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: advantage of. Yes. Sean McDermot addresses it. Ken Dorsey addresses it.

1085
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot addresses it with Ken Dorsey. Josh has to

1086
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: sit through films and be talked to about it in

1087
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: front of his teammates and privately on the practice field

1088
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: and in meetings. It is constant, absolutely positively, without a question,

1089
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 1: time and time again. Yeah, almost ad nauseam right until

1090
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: and you also run the risk of it becoming just noise,

1091
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: but it is that important where you feel absolutely set.

1092
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 1: And somebody told me this stat and I haven't had

1093
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: a chance to look it up to make sure it's accurate,

1094
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: but what the hell, I'll throw it out there anyway.

1095
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 1: When the Bills have been on the positive side of

1096
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: the turnover margin in their last twenty games, they're nineteen

1097
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: and one in games in which they're on the positive

1098
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: side of the turnover right margin, a nineteen and one,

1099
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: and not for nothing. I don't think Josh would do this.

1100
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I would, because it's me. I don't but

1101
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: it starts to become noise, and he says, shut up.

1102
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: We're twenty four and five over the last twenty nine

1103
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: and we're getting beat by If we get beat we're

1104
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: getting beat by two points or three points. I'm fine, right,

1105
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: let me shut up and give me the play. I

1106
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: got this right. I don't think Josh is doing that, no,

1107
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: but I will say that I would well know. When

1108
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 1: you're that when you're that talented and you have that

1109
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: kind of skill level, sometimes your hyper competitive nature can

1110
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: get the best of you. And that's where some of

1111
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: those ill advised decisions will come into play on at times,

1112
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: some of them often, some of them do some of

1113
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: them end up in a touchdown play zero on the

1114
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: clock at halftime against Miami in week fifteen. Thanks, I'm

1115
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead and do that. Or against New England,

1116
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: or against New England or against the Jet and you

1117
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: go down the list. We all know, we all can

1118
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 1: recite the plays that are unbelievable that he does that

1119
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: nobody else can do. So yeah, there you go. Yeah,

1120
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Speaker 1: let's get back to the phones and we go to

1121
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: market West senecnext, what do you got for us? Market

1122
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: on one bills? Live Mark at you're there. I'm gonna

1123
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: put Mark on hold, his signals a little fouled up,

1124
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: and we'll go to Neil in North Carolina. What do

1125
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: you got for us? Neil? You're on one bills Live.

1126
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my call, guys, I totally agree with

1127
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: you with the defense. They played excellent. They kept us

1128
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: in the game. Other than that we would have lost.

1129
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: Two quick questions One, Chris, I gotta know, did you

1130
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: go to the Chris Berman sportscasting school. You're unbelievable on

1131
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: the radio. Thanks if you're yelling and saying and on

1132
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: the Dawson touchdown, that was excellent. So really enjoyed it. Obviously,

1133
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: we hope Murph gets better and it's able to get

1134
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: back in there, but you sound great. The other one,

1135
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: I watched the series where they were running and the

1136
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 1: running was working, and then they went to pass and

1137
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: run and they were moving down the field, and all

1138
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: of a sudden they went back pass pass pass pass pass.

1139
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: Seems to be when they get the run going, it

1140
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: opens up the pass more for Josh, but it seems

1141
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: like they then go away from it and go back

1142
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: to pass pass pass. I just wanted to see what

1143
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: your thoughts about you're right, I get it, and people,

1144
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: you know, people are always going to be puzzled by that,

1145
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: and the simple fact that the easy answer and the

1146
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: most basic answer is this, there are a couple of

1147
01:01:58,160 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 1: factors that you got to know is to where you're

1148
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: going to run or pass. A lot of them have

1149
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 1: to do with what the defense is going to do,

1150
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: and a lot of what the defense has is going

1151
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: to do is down in distance and position on the field.

1152
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: As you're saying, they're moving the ball, moving the ball

1153
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: with the run to run the run. All of a

1154
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 1: sudden you're on the plus thirty yard line and the

1155
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: defense starts playing different defenses because that's what they do,

1156
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: or they start adjusting their defense because you're running and

1157
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: run and run, run, and all of a sudden, the say, okay,

1158
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna stop that. Here we go. We put these

1159
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: guys in, put this game, you play this coverage, and

1160
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 1: let's see if they can run against that. And all

1161
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:29,720
Speaker 1: of a sudden, so you're up there and they're thinking,

1162
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: wait a minute, they change Now we're gonna throw it.

1163
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: That's the most basic answer I can give you. It

1164
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's right one hundred percent of the time,

1165
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:42,280
Speaker 1: but by and large, adjustments by the coaching staffs lead

1166
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: to different plays and play selections by the offense or defense.

1167
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: Eight oh three oh five fifty one eight eight five

1168
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty Then number to get on board

1169
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: taking your takeaways from yesterday's wildcard win over the Dolphins,

1170
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: thirty thirty one. We go back to the phones and

1171
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 1: we go to Mark in Jersey City. What do you

1172
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 1: got for his? Mark? How are you doing? Christ? Not

1173
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: a good weekend for us in the Premier League, either

1174
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 1: one of us. I wasn't expecting anything anyway. Well, I'm

1175
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: in a relegation battle, buddy, Yeah, I feel you. But yeah,

1176
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: I love the mix minus McKenzie at receiver. Um, it

1177
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: was the first time they were with it. But I

1178
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: just think that Shaquier and Beasley just bring something completely different.

1179
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the biggest play of the game

1180
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 1: that hasn't been talked about was that that Shaquier drop

1181
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: when he got it lost, when he lost the ball

1182
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: in the sun. Yeah, if he catches that there there,

1183
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 1: that's a minimum three. And I do believe Josh through

1184
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: the tipitral I NC to Howard well right right right,

1185
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 1: kater Coe who actually got a hand in there on Beasley.

1186
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: Some people I even thought when I called it on

1187
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: the radio that it bounced off Beasley's chest. It did not.

1188
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: On replay, I saw that Kater Coo, who was in

1189
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 1: coverage there, actually got a hand in to tip the

1190
01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: ball to Holland. On the I and T. Yeah, there

1191
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 1: was a lot of hidden yards. There was like forty

1192
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: nine's by how forty nine returned by Howard, there was

1193
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: a twenty seven yard returned by Holland. There the fifty

1194
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: yard punt return, the scoop and score that got batted

1195
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 1: back for like a That was the most egregious for

1196
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: me with Josh. Josh has to eat that ball or

1197
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 1: throw the ball in the in the seats. I like

1198
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: the aggressiveness. I mean they started off the season aggressive

1199
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. Then everybody starts to complaining there's no efficiency.

1200
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: They go back to the efficiency, then everybody starts to

1201
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:33,200
Speaker 1: complaining there's no there's no explosive passes. I mean this

1202
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 1: after almost a decade and a half of Tyrod Taylor,

1203
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 1: Trent Edwards, like fans always are perpetually complaining about what

1204
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: they don't have, and the most did they watch the

1205
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: Bengals go into an offensive shell last night when they

1206
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 1: couldn't do if they don't get that Hubbard in that place, Steve,

1207
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 1: it reminded me of a Bill's game in San Francisco. Yeah,

1208
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: Lee Woodall, Ye, Jerry Holmes fumbled it and leave and

1209
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: he ran at ninety nine or ninety eight years exact

1210
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: same play, except it was a handoff rather than a

1211
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak. You're absolutely right, same play backbreak, YEA. One

1212
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 1: of the reasons too, and just about this game last night,

1213
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: we haven't really talked about it too much. One of

1214
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: the reasons that Miami's Miami. One of the reasons Cincinnati

1215
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 1: went into a shell offensively and started look a lot

1216
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 1: different than they did early on was because they lost

1217
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: literally lost three offensive linemen to injury. They were playing

1218
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 1: Joey Bag of Donuts and Polly. They lost Lyle Collins

1219
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 1: their right tackle in with fifteen or week sixteen, and

1220
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: then Alex Kappa that the left guard did not play

1221
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 1: this past week. He was not in the lineup because

1222
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: of an ankle injury. And then Jonah Williams goes down

1223
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 1: with a knee injury right so they had their offensive

1224
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 1: line was a shambles upfront, and you know, Chris Collinsworth

1225
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: did a nice job of explaining it, but you could

1226
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 1: tell everything changed for the Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, the

1227
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: Bengals won that game last night, scored twenty four points.

1228
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 1: Burrow Joe Burrow through four two hundred and nine yards

1229
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 1: last night, two hundred and nine yards. Baltimore always has

1230
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: made it tough for them and do primarily to the

1231
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 1: fact that they have three very physical and quality corners

1232
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: and two pretty good safeties. He threw for two hundred

1233
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:22,040
Speaker 1: and nine yards on a seventy two percent completion percent.

1234
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say this, the Baltimore pass rush

1235
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 1: has more consistency to it, in my estimation, than Buffalo

1236
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 1: is right now without Von Miller. Right So, they do

1237
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: make life difficult for opposing quarterbacks, both on the back

1238
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 1: end and with their pass rush. Baltimore is a load man.

1239
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: They are. They are a tough defense to get on

1240
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 1: top of. Tyler Huntley through for more yards than Joe

1241
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 1: Burrow last yeah, and it was just down in the

1242
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: red zone where Baltimore had problems. You know, things get

1243
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 1: tight down there and it's hard to execute it. And

1244
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: I was one hundred percent in the red zone. I

1245
01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: would have been a fan of running Huntley on a

1246
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: bootleg and take advantage of his athleticism rather than going

1247
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 1: over the top seven get out on the corner and

1248
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: beat somebody to the pylon, you know what I mean,

1249
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: Like run some misdirection down there and used Huntley's legs

1250
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 1: and his speed rather than trying to send him through

1251
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 1: the middle in a pile of people. We saw that

1252
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:19,400
Speaker 1: Ravens had four red red zone trips last night. They

1253
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:21,360
Speaker 1: were one of four. Yeah, that was the different. Bengals

1254
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 1: were two of two, and the one of four turned

1255
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 1: into seven points the other direction, like a fourteen point

1256
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: fourteen points swing, and the finals should have still been

1257
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. But the boy Ravens should have

1258
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: won by that score rather than the Bengals taken at

1259
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:40,440
Speaker 1: ninety eight yards. Unbelievable game last night, but still that's

1260
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons my Cincinnati's offensive production dropped

1261
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: off a cliff was the offensive line. Let's get back

1262
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 1: to the phones at eight oh three five fifty one

1263
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty for your takeaways

1264
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 1: on yesterday's wildcard win over Miami. We go to John

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Speaker 1: in Elma next. What do you got first? John here

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. Yeah, thanks for getting my call.

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Speaker 1: My biggest question is about how well the Bills tackle

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Speaker 1: when a guy goes through the line of scrimmage or

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Speaker 1: they can we can they catch a or the offense

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Speaker 1: catches a short pass. And if you watched the game

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Speaker 1: like I do, and I used to be a middle

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Speaker 1: linebacker at the University of Buffalo, yards after catching or

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Speaker 1: yards after going through the middle of the line is

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Speaker 1: the biggest indicator of how bad you might end up losing.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what I'm concerned about. Especially with the

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Speaker 1: Bengals short passes. We only catch one or two of

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Speaker 1: those guys and then maybe two or three tackles missed.

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Speaker 1: My real question is what are the Bills doing to

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Speaker 1: try to get these guys to tackle better? And I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you guys can answer that question, but

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Speaker 1: you know somebody's got to know. What are they doing? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, John, and thanks John, Thanks for calling.

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Speaker 1: That's it's a good question. One of the things I

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Speaker 1: noted yesterday as to why the Bills were having such

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Speaker 1: success defensively, well, part of the problems defensively was they're

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Speaker 1: written short fields with turnovers and kick returns. They were

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Speaker 1: put up against the wall. But one of the things

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Speaker 1: I noticed, I mentioned this to Mattie glab on Bills tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday in particular, not one hundred percent, but way better

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Speaker 1: than games we've seen over the last two months. The

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Speaker 1: Bills tackled extremely well yesterday. First guy to the ball,

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Speaker 1: got the guy on the ground, and there weren't any

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Speaker 1: of the yard extra yards that John from Elma's talking about,

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Speaker 1: or at least held on long enough for help to arrive.

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Speaker 1: They did a much much better job of tackling yesterday

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Speaker 1: than they other games, and that was one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons Miami was struggling. They were four of sixteen or

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Speaker 1: something like that on third down. The Bills were tackling really,

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Speaker 1: really well yesterday, and it showed in the struggles that

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins offense had. And part of the issue that

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Speaker 1: I know Bills fans have had in the past with

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Speaker 1: respect to Buffalo's tackling, they say, how are these guys

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01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: not wrapping people up? They play a penetrating style up front,

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Speaker 1: so there their whole purpose is to get up the

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Speaker 1: field quickly. Try to get a player or a ball

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01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:34,559
Speaker 1: carrier or a quarterback in the offensive backfield and drop

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Speaker 1: them for a loss to force down in distance and

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01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 1: then let your pass rush go. And when you play

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Speaker 1: that style, if they get you on a missdirection or

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01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 1: you read the play wrong, you're up the field and

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Speaker 1: the spot you just vacated is wide open for a

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Speaker 1: pall carrier to exploit. And then it looks like you

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Speaker 1: missed the tackle because you're not in position or you're

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Speaker 1: in a bad spot to make a sound fundamental tackle

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Speaker 1: and you miss. That's the problem that sometimes you run

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Speaker 1: into playing that style. I will say this, though, Steve

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Speaker 1: Miami's blocking on those screenplays out to the flat really

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Speaker 1: really good at that. I mean, they're washing three defenders

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Speaker 1: out with three men blocking, and they were getting yards

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Speaker 1: with guys running behind those blocks with great effectiveness yesterday.

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to repeat myself, but I talk

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Speaker 1: about it all the time. It's hard to tackle in

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Speaker 1: the NFL these days because you're not allowed to really

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Speaker 1: whack guys up high. You can, It's like anything else.

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Speaker 1: When there's a bottle sitting on a table, if you

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Speaker 1: want to knock it over the easiest way you go

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Speaker 1: to the top and you just push on the top

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Speaker 1: and it falls over easily. It's the same thing when

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Speaker 1: you're knocking a guy off his feet, you hit him

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Speaker 1: in the head or above the head and shoulders. It's

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Speaker 1: easier to knock them off balance if you go the

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Speaker 1: lower you go. And then it's the other end as well.

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Speaker 1: If you can take their feet out, it's the same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to knock them out. You can't do that,

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01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 1: you can't hit him above the shoulders, and the team

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Speaker 1: the league has become a league of ball tacklers instead

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Speaker 1: of person tacklers. Yesterday the Bills did a great job

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Speaker 1: of tackling the guy, and I think they reaped some

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Speaker 1: benefits from it. But for the most part you can

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Speaker 1: see it. Teams got in there, they jump on the

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Speaker 1: guy's arms trying to wrench the ball away, and they

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Speaker 1: twist and turn and twirl all the way down the

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Speaker 1: field for an extra eight yards. And to answer John's question,

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Speaker 1: they do practice tackling even in this time if the season,

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Speaker 1: when padded practices really aren't a thing, they bring out

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Speaker 1: those giant donuts and they practice fundamental tackling. Wrapping up

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Speaker 1: on the donuts They'll roll a giant padded donut out

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Speaker 1: onto the field and they run, wrap up, shoot their hands,

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Speaker 1: you know, drive their hips through the tackle. They do

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Speaker 1: practice that, and there's a coaching staff that harps on

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Speaker 1: the fundamentals, maybe more than any other I've seen, so

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Speaker 1: rest assured they do practice it. Let's go to Luke

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Speaker 1: in East Aurora. Wait, guy for us Luke our one

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Speaker 1: bills live here. How's it going, guys? Um So, I

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Speaker 1: just want to go to the Bengals and Ravens game,

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Speaker 1: how they were able to create pressure and really make

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Speaker 1: Burrow look human, and how the Bengals lost their left

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Speaker 1: tackle at night, and just how much of a point

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Speaker 1: about phasis do you think it is with McDermot and

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Speaker 1: their game plan coming up this week, not being able

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Speaker 1: to create pressure and get Burrow uncomfortable. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll have to see how serious the knee injury is

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Speaker 1: obviously first, and let's not forget they're still without their

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Speaker 1: right tackle, Lilla Collins. They've got identity in there, so

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Speaker 1: they got a backup right tackle, potentially a backup left tackle,

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Speaker 1: and potentially if Alex Kappa can't come back from his

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Speaker 1: ankle injury that forced him to miss last night's game,

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Speaker 1: and he misses this game too without their starting left guard. Also,

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Speaker 1: so three starting offensive linemen that Bengals could be without

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Speaker 1: this week. Go ahead, Steve, I think that. I think

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Speaker 1: it's the thing in this game. Can the Bills get pressure?

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Speaker 1: And if they can get pressure, how many people is

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Speaker 1: it going to take to get pressure? And how fast

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Speaker 1: can they get home? Hopefully that's just to me, is

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Speaker 1: the cruxt of this game. Last night, everything changed when

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Speaker 1: they lost their right tackle, their left tackle. When Jonah

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Speaker 1: Williams went down last night, everything changed for the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 1: If those guys don't come back and are not healthy,

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Speaker 1: that is Buffalo's one best hope defensively, I think for

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Speaker 1: defending those three guys on the outside, neutralizing if if

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Speaker 1: they get Collins back, if they get all these guys back,

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Speaker 1: Collins out for the year, He's not coming. If they

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Speaker 1: get Jonah Williams or or you know whatever, if they

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01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:46,680
Speaker 1: get all these guys back and healthy, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be that much more difficult for the Bills to do that.

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Speaker 1: I think that though, in my opinion, I think that

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Speaker 1: is the key to this game is the your ability

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Speaker 1: to get pressure win now on Burrow quick. You've got

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Speaker 1: to do it at both ends because those three guys

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Speaker 1: outside are an impossible matchup. Right. As good as good

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Speaker 1: as Kaier and Trey are getting and playing well, I

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01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:11,799
Speaker 1: think they're getting better week by week, every every snap.

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Speaker 1: As good as they can play, those three guys they

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01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: go too deep and they're too good and they're too big. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a major problem in contestic has Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: I think you've got to defend the Bengals at both

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Speaker 1: ends of that pass and big time this week break

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Speaker 1: time for us here when we come back, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go around the locker room, get you some of the

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Speaker 1: comments from the players and from head coach Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: about yesterday's victory. Next here on One Bills Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve Task were

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Speaker 1: with you here on this Buffalo Football Monday. Time for

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Speaker 1: us to go around the locker room. Presented by Connect

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Speaker 1: Life Connect Life, your blood and organ donor Network. We

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Speaker 1: begin with head coach Sean McDermott, who was asked about

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01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: the surrendering of the seventeen point lead and the costly

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01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:16,720
Speaker 1: turnovers against the Dolphins. Overall, we got to do a

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Speaker 1: better job of at that point. You know, up seventeen

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01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 1: I think it was seventeen zip and we turned the

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Speaker 1: ball over. So at the end of the day, you

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Speaker 1: turned the ball over, you die normally a pretty quick death.

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Speaker 1: And when you turn the ball over three I think

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01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 1: we had three three turnovers, one for a score, and

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Speaker 1: then we had the big punt return there mixed in

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Speaker 1: there as well. So not very good complimentary football. Not

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Speaker 1: very good complimentary football, for sure. Dion Dawkins addressed the

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Speaker 1: playoff battle throughout the afternoon yesterday, and you know he's asked,

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Speaker 1: like what's the message after the win, Like, how are

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Speaker 1: you guys process sessing this one? Are you're relieved? Are

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Speaker 1: you angry? Are you satisfied? Here's Dion's taken on that,

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Speaker 1: you know, um, in a playoff game, like we expected

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01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:11,719
Speaker 1: to be an up and down battle. We expected to

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01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 1: like to be you know, Elite on Elite, So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not supposed to be perfect like games, and like

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01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 1: that should honestly be every playoff game. It should be

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01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:26,519
Speaker 1: as hard as it's supposed to be. Uncomfortable and up

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01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:29,040
Speaker 1: and down battle. But you know, like for us, like

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Speaker 1: we just have to just focus on ourself and clean

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01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:34,160
Speaker 1: up a bunch of like like little things that could

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01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,840
Speaker 1: turn into big things. But um, the good thing is

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01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:39,679
Speaker 1: that we understand what's ahead of us, and we understand

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01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: what we did wrong and what we did right. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take it craft crafted and make it better.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. Like you gotta believe with corrections and

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01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:50,800
Speaker 1: stuff and everything they're doing on a day like today,

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01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 1: they gotta know they gotta tighten things up playing an

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01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 1: opponent of the caliber the one they're gonna be facing

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Yeah, and I'll say this that when you're

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Speaker 1: a player, you look at the turnovers yesterday, the one

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01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:08,599
Speaker 1: that Josh throws to, the one that he throws along,

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01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, that was you don't throw that. The

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01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 1: one to Beasley, the guy gets his arm in, it

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01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: bangs into a guy running full speed of the touch

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01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:20,519
Speaker 1: the end zone. It's like, ahh, you know, those are bad.

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01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 1: It could have been the worst you would think would

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01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:26,040
Speaker 1: be an incompletion, or it could have been you know,

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01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:29,160
Speaker 1: a illegal contact or a whole whatever. It could have

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01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: been anything but it's a it's a deflection into a

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01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:34,840
Speaker 1: running player who goes down deep into the eighteen yard line.

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01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 1: The sack strip, you think, okay, the sack you'll take,

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01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 1: try and get away from it. You You can't get away.

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01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:42,800
Speaker 1: You go down, well, sack strip fumble bounced to a

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01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:46,720
Speaker 1: big guy and he rumbles in. Those are pretty catastrophic

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01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: results for plays that shouldn't have been that catastrophic. When

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Speaker 1: he pile those up, it looks pretty bad. But when

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Speaker 1: you take him as what they are, a batted interception

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Speaker 1: to a guy you felt like was open and tried

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Speaker 1: to gun it in, Okay, probably should have gone somewhere

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Speaker 1: else or throwing it over his head. The sack strip fumble,

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Speaker 1: what are you gonna tell Josh not to try and

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Speaker 1: fight to get out of that? And that's just you know,

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01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:14,640
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful with the ball. So all of

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Speaker 1: that stuff doesn't seem like a catastrophic mistake, even though

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Speaker 1: it was an enormous effect on the game. But I

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Speaker 1: think the enormous effect is cumulative, not in and of

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Speaker 1: each one of them was in and of itself a

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Speaker 1: deal breaker. Certainly, the fumble recovery in for a touchdown

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Speaker 1: gave him the lead, and it was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: you know, now you got a problem. It's all different,

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Speaker 1: but in and of themselves, each of those mistakes are

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01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:42,400
Speaker 1: kind of manifested it in the in all of them together,

1474
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 1: rather than any one bad decision. And it's not like

1475
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:48,600
Speaker 1: something you can equate except maybe the throws. Are you

1476
01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:50,720
Speaker 1: gonna try and gun it into Cole Beasley on a

1477
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 1: stop route on the sideline, Okay, that's different than going

1478
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: deep to John Brown over the top and you know,

1479
01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:58,559
Speaker 1: laying it out there and nobody can get to it.

1480
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 1: Even those are two throws that you wish you had back.

1481
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:05,240
Speaker 1: It's a different kind of decision every both of them.

1482
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna is There's no generalities there. Even

1483
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: though you say, wow, he threw two interceptions, Well, it's

1484
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 1: far from it. And Peyton Manning told me one time,

1485
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:16,559
Speaker 1: he said, every interception's got a story, and he looked

1486
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:20,639
Speaker 1: at me, he goes, nobody wants to hear it right,

1487
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 1: to hear it right. They say, oh, you threw two interceptions,

1488
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:28,639
Speaker 1: Well that's like two that's like saying, you know, it's

1489
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:31,840
Speaker 1: two completely different things, even though they count as the

1490
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 1: same statistics. So it's hard to get these things quantified

1491
01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 1: and hard to get into the mind of the players

1492
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 1: and get them to say, wow, you gotta stop doing this.

1493
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:42,480
Speaker 1: Stop doing this. Well, which one? They're completely different interceptions,

1494
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, that's the way players think about it. So

1495
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: I get it. Turnovers almost got them beat yesterday, no

1496
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,640
Speaker 1: question about it. But it was three completely separate instances

1497
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:58,280
Speaker 1: that were none of whom we're alike that got you beat.

1498
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:00,639
Speaker 1: So you can't it's not when you go and watch

1499
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:04,840
Speaker 1: those on film. You're talking about three completely separate mistakes

1500
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:07,920
Speaker 1: that have nothing to do with each other. So that's

1501
01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 1: what you gotta get around your mind. Round. Don't make

1502
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:12,719
Speaker 1: any mistakes. Okay, fine, you're never gonna make any mistakes.

1503
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 1: You always will, but there are three completely different things. Yeah,

1504
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:19,559
Speaker 1: and the Bills live that a quarterback that was dead

1505
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 1: set on not making any mistakes. It was Tyrod Taylor.

1506
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:24,840
Speaker 1: You'd also throw for one hundred and eighty yarts, yeah,

1507
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:30,600
Speaker 1: and one touchdown maybe one touchdown, you know, So you

1508
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:34,000
Speaker 1: kind of have to take some of the risk with

1509
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 1: all of those rewards that Josh Allen gives you. I'm

1510
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:40,520
Speaker 1: telling you right now too. In Kansas City, in Cincinnati,

1511
01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville in particular today in LA with the Chargers.

1512
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: All of those teams are saying the exact same thing

1513
01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 1: about their quarterbacks. The top four quarterbacks in the AFC, Mahomes,

1514
01:21:55,680 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: Alan Lawrence, and Burrow. Everybody says the same thing. These

1515
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:03,879
Speaker 1: can't turn it over because when they do, they have problems.

1516
01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:06,800
Speaker 1: And for three of those guys, two of them, three

1517
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 1: of those guys, the other one's not ours that aren't

1518
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:11,559
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. They're all saying the same thing about turnovers today.

1519
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence truth for him in the first half yesterday

1520
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,599
Speaker 1: or Saturday, Yeah, Saturday. And Mahomes has turned it over

1521
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 1: more lately than than Josh Allen has. You know, So

1522
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: what you gotta do man? Yeah. Speaking of Josh, he

1523
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:32,120
Speaker 1: commented on having Cole Beasley and John Brown playing slightly

1524
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:35,479
Speaker 1: larger roles of late Beasley with his most extensive work

1525
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:39,280
Speaker 1: yesterday which included a touchdown, and John Brown, who had

1526
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:41,840
Speaker 1: a big touchdown play in last week's game. At the

1527
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 1: end of the regular season. Here's Josh on adding those

1528
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: veterans back to the fold. It felt very comfortable. Um

1529
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 1: you saw it steps Cole's first playoff touchdown. I think

1530
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 1: in his career. That's what Kevin Tarns just said. So

1531
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: that was pretty pretty fun to to get the ball

1532
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:04,760
Speaker 1: back to him, obviously bouncing around bringing them back and

1533
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:06,679
Speaker 1: just being able to run some of our old stuff

1534
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: and he he remembers it and is able to run

1535
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: it next to it. So it's it's good to have

1536
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: vets like that. Yeah, it is good to have vets

1537
01:23:14,320 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 1: like that. And here is Cole Beasley basically talking about

1538
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:23,640
Speaker 1: his ability to contribute to the offense more than he

1539
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:27,160
Speaker 1: had in the previous three practice squad elevations during the

1540
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:32,680
Speaker 1: regular season. It's been a ride, for sure. It's been

1541
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:34,760
Speaker 1: a tough year for me, just you know, being at

1542
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 1: home and watching and then you know, coming back and

1543
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 1: I kind of got to play a little bit the

1544
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:45,920
Speaker 1: three games and the season, but it wasn't as much

1545
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,160
Speaker 1: as maybe I'd like. Um, So I still feel like

1546
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: I'm kind of getting in the groove. But really I'm

1547
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: just trying to enjoy it. Perspective changes a lot, you

1548
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: know when you're in that situation. So I'm just happy

1549
01:23:57,040 --> 01:24:00,240
Speaker 1: to be here with guys like Gave and he was

1550
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:02,000
Speaker 1: he was calling me the whole time I wasn't here

1551
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:03,640
Speaker 1: but you know, I missed him so much. It's not

1552
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: the same, you know. So it's just good to be

1553
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:07,680
Speaker 1: back here with the guys. And I'm just you know,

1554
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 1: trying to enjoy every moment. And then the last one

1555
01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:14,719
Speaker 1: we've got is from Trudevious White, who was asked about

1556
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 1: rookie Kyrie Elam and the strides he has made in

1557
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 1: the course of his rookie season. Kai, he's he's such

1558
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:25,360
Speaker 1: a student of the game. Just the way that he

1559
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,719
Speaker 1: attacked a week coming in on a on all day's

1560
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 1: catching ball. So him catching that pick is something that

1561
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:33,800
Speaker 1: he's been weighing on. But uh, he's a he's a

1562
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:36,240
Speaker 1: student man, and he really wants it. His desire to

1563
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:38,879
Speaker 1: be the best that he can be is just it's

1564
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 1: next to none. The way he prepared, the way he'd

1565
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 1: come in and take care of his body as a

1566
01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 1: rookie man. The success he had today is not a surprise,

1567
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:47,400
Speaker 1: just the way he you know, prepared himself throughout the

1568
01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:49,680
Speaker 1: week and uh and weeks prior to to be be

1569
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: in this moment and be ready. So I'm definitely proud

1570
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:56,200
Speaker 1: of all Right. That's Trudevious White on Kayer Elam, And

1571
01:24:56,280 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 1: you know, Steve and I. We have an office at

1572
01:24:58,280 --> 01:25:01,160
Speaker 1: the end of the field house here when we come

1573
01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:03,600
Speaker 1: to work, and so we're in and out of the fieldhouse,

1574
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: coming here into the studio all the time. Kaye Elam's

1575
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 1: in there catching balls off the jugs machine Mondays Tuesdays

1576
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:17,080
Speaker 1: when he doesn't even have to be here, but he's

1577
01:25:17,080 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 1: in He's in there catching balls and finally paid off

1578
01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 1: for him yesterday. Had a huge takeaway that swung the

1579
01:25:23,439 --> 01:25:25,600
Speaker 1: momentum of the game. You know, when they get a

1580
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:30,360
Speaker 1: touchdown off that pick, it's big. Yeah, it was Yeah,

1581
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:33,320
Speaker 1: it got him off the Schneide. Plus it was you know,

1582
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 1: he was really good in past defense too. He had

1583
01:25:37,280 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 1: a couple of knockaways passes. Defense he has and I

1584
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:44,439
Speaker 1: love the rhetoric we're hearing from him about him because

1585
01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:46,639
Speaker 1: they're saying some specific things that he's doing to try

1586
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: and get better. Remember Kiers, the guy who wanted to

1587
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:49,840
Speaker 1: put the playbook on the plane when they came and

1588
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:51,840
Speaker 1: got him as undrafted him out and they drafted him

1589
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:54,080
Speaker 1: and the student of the game. All of that speaks

1590
01:25:54,120 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 1: to where he I think where his top end is

1591
01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 1: going to be. I thought it was insightful earlier in

1592
01:25:59,479 --> 01:26:01,200
Speaker 1: the year. I saw him when he got back on

1593
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 1: the field and and somebody asked him about how he

1594
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 1: was doing, and he said, finally getting to the point

1595
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:08,759
Speaker 1: where he can just kind of go out and play.

1596
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:11,559
Speaker 1: He tended to overthink, as a lot of young players do.

1597
01:26:11,600 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 1: They overthink it. They're trying to be perfect. They're trying

1598
01:26:13,680 --> 01:26:15,599
Speaker 1: to do this and that, instead of just freeing up

1599
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:18,840
Speaker 1: and using their skills and their own savvy and level

1600
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:22,080
Speaker 1: of knowledge. They always feel like they they're missing, you know,

1601
01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 1: they're trying to overcome their lack of experience or their

1602
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:28,840
Speaker 1: lack of knowledge or whatever it is that they convince

1603
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:31,679
Speaker 1: themselves they don't have, so they spend their time trying

1604
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: to overcome those things. And he's getting to the point

1605
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: now where he's like he can just play and he's

1606
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 1: much better for it, I think. And it's it's nice

1607
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:42,040
Speaker 1: to hear that, you know, we see it. But it's

1608
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 1: also nice to hear from his teammates about, you know,

1609
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 1: how much the mental side of the game and all

1610
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:48,439
Speaker 1: the preparation mean to him too. So that is around

1611
01:26:48,479 --> 01:26:50,839
Speaker 1: the locker Room presented by a Connect Life your Blood

1612
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:53,960
Speaker 1: and organ Donor network. We take a break here when

1613
01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: we come back. Some sad news in the world of

1614
01:26:56,840 --> 01:27:00,240
Speaker 1: college football. Tragic news. Actually, we'll let you know what

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01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: that is next here on One Bills Live, presented by

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01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:13,600
Speaker 1: Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. We'll go back to

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01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker. Some sad news

1618
01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: from the world of college football. On the heels of

1619
01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 1: the University of Georgia's national championship victory and celebration on

1620
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon on campus in Athens, police were called to

1621
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:34,559
Speaker 1: a fatal single vehicle car crash early Sunday morning that

1622
01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:41,440
Speaker 1: unfortunately killed Georgia right tackle Devin Willock and their recruiting coordinator,

1623
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: Channeler Lacroix. It was just hours after the celebration on

1624
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:50,639
Speaker 1: Saturday and they got called to the police got called

1625
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:55,280
Speaker 1: the scene at three am and yeah, the Georgia player

1626
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:58,080
Speaker 1: and the recruiting coordinator both in there. I mean the

1627
01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:00,479
Speaker 1: player was twenty years old, the recruiting corps I think

1628
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:05,679
Speaker 1: she was twenty. Six passengers they both died in the crash,

1629
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:08,240
Speaker 1: and two other passengers Steves right, that were connected to

1630
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:11,840
Speaker 1: the football team were hospitalized and one of them is

1631
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:14,559
Speaker 1: in serious condition. I think the others in sable condition

1632
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:20,960
Speaker 1: and okay, just really unfortunate set of circumstances there. They

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01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:24,040
Speaker 1: were having a candlelight vigil on campus. Classes were canceled

1634
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 1: today at Georgia just really really terrible. I mean, you

1635
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:31,000
Speaker 1: got a player and a recruiting coordinator, you're on top

1636
01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 1: of the world, you just won the national championship. You're

1637
01:28:33,120 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: celebrating with your teammates and fellow co workers, and you know,

1638
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:40,479
Speaker 1: hours later they're just gone, so shocking for the University

1639
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:44,880
Speaker 1: of Georgia community. They're all just dealing with that right now.

1640
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:49,120
Speaker 1: So thoughts and prayers down to Athens. You know, it's

1641
01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: just you have a lot of young people on campus

1642
01:28:52,200 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 1: and they got a very very hard and difficult lesson

1643
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 1: on how fragile life can be. Sometimes. It's just really

1644
01:28:57,560 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 1: awful all the way around. So thoughts and prayers to

1645
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 1: the folks down there at Georgia. Our good friend Jonas Jennings,

1646
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,759
Speaker 1: former Bills left tackle and a member of the Bill's

1647
01:29:07,760 --> 01:29:10,760
Speaker 1: alumni community that Steve is a part of. He is

1648
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 1: the director of player development down there, and no doubt

1649
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 1: he's got his hands full bringing grief counselors in to

1650
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:18,280
Speaker 1: help with the players and stuff to deal with the

1651
01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:20,680
Speaker 1: loss of a teammate and a person they knew very

1652
01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:25,640
Speaker 1: well in the recruiting office. So we know he's got

1653
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 1: a heavy load to handle right now. So Jonas, we

1654
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well down there, and you know, one

1655
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:33,759
Speaker 1: day at a time. Obviously, just really really tough news

1656
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:36,679
Speaker 1: after the highest of highs with the national title, winning

1657
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 1: that back to back, it's really tough. Yeah, it's really tragic.

1658
01:29:40,479 --> 01:29:43,360
Speaker 1: Hate you hate to hear about that, and obviously because

1659
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 1: it was a Georgia Bulldog program who just won the

1660
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: national title and made national news. But let's not forget

1661
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:52,680
Speaker 1: to you know, do what you can do keep that

1662
01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:55,519
Speaker 1: from happening locally too. We all know young people who

1663
01:29:56,360 --> 01:30:01,520
Speaker 1: need to hear that more and more. So, yeah, we

1664
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 1: do have some other stuff that we've got to cover

1665
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:09,559
Speaker 1: about this football game, and we will be doing that

1666
01:30:10,040 --> 01:30:14,920
Speaker 1: with one Eric wood Bills radio color analyst, who had

1667
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:17,519
Speaker 1: some interesting comments during the broadcast that you know, I

1668
01:30:17,560 --> 01:30:20,400
Speaker 1: was going back and forth with him on he was

1669
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:22,680
Speaker 1: well talked him about it when we get him on

1670
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:26,800
Speaker 1: in the third hour here, Steve, he was absolutely blown

1671
01:30:26,840 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 1: away that Miami defensive coordinator Josh Boyd continue to call

1672
01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:33,519
Speaker 1: zero blitz after two touchdown drives by the Bills with

1673
01:30:33,600 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: relative ease at that he couldn't believe they were still

1674
01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:40,120
Speaker 1: calling zero. But as you pointed out earlier in the show,

1675
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 1: it eventually kind of came around to working in their

1676
01:30:42,920 --> 01:30:45,639
Speaker 1: favor to a certain extent, and then the Bill started

1677
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:47,960
Speaker 1: turning the football over in the game, just turned on

1678
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:52,479
Speaker 1: a dime and became pretty harrowing for Bill's fans and

1679
01:30:52,600 --> 01:30:56,080
Speaker 1: for the players for that matter. So we'll discuss that

1680
01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:59,200
Speaker 1: with Eric when we come back for our number three

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Speaker 1: here on a Buffalo Football Monday. It is One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collida Health, and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live presented by Callida Health. All Right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to our number three, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here

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Speaker 1: on a Buffalo Football Monday. And as we do every Monday,

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Speaker 1: our number three, we bring in Bill's radio color analyst

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Speaker 1: on the Bills Radio Network, one Eric Wood, joining us

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Speaker 1: on the show. Eric, good to have you. Glad you're

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Speaker 1: home safe and sound. A little bit of a nail

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01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:17,560
Speaker 1: biter yesterday, got a little harry there. It was a

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01:32:17,640 --> 01:32:21,120
Speaker 1: nail biter. The Bills made enough mistakes to keep this

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Speaker 1: Dolphins team in it till the very end, and it

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01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:25,600
Speaker 1: looked like early on it was going to be a

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01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: runaway victory. But against anybody in the NFL, even if

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01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:32,519
Speaker 1: you're playing a team with a third string quarterback, if

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Speaker 1: you make as many mistakes the drops, the interceptions, the

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Speaker 1: long punt return, the fumble for a touchdown, if you

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01:32:39,200 --> 01:32:42,000
Speaker 1: do that against anybody, you're lucky to get away with

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Speaker 1: a victory. We were talking a minute ago and I

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01:32:44,439 --> 01:32:47,599
Speaker 1: was making the distinction for browning everybody, and I kind

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01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,800
Speaker 1: of went to bat for what how players think about turnovers?

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01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:53,360
Speaker 1: And you say, well, Josh threw a couple of interceptions.

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01:32:53,360 --> 01:32:55,719
Speaker 1: You can't do that, And I was like, listen, both

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01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 1: those interceptions are completely different mistakes. The results the same,

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01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 1: but they're different mistakes, and you don't treat them the same.

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01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 1: And you don't treat the sack strip fumble the same either.

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01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,439
Speaker 1: That's Josh trying to get away from a sack. You

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01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:08,840
Speaker 1: try and get away from it, the guy gets a

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01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:11,439
Speaker 1: lucky punch and the ball comes out at catastrophe. Right.

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01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:16,320
Speaker 1: The long throw interception is completely different mistake. Then the

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01:33:16,360 --> 01:33:18,400
Speaker 1: mistake of throwing the one to Beasley, if you call

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01:33:18,439 --> 01:33:20,400
Speaker 1: it a mistake and not being able to fit it

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01:33:20,439 --> 01:33:25,720
Speaker 1: in and how those are handled are completely different than

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01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 1: us just sitting out here in the media and then

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01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 1: the fans just going just don't throw interceptions. Yeah, you're

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01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:34,880
Speaker 1: exactly right, because you want your quarterback to be aggressive.

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01:33:34,920 --> 01:33:37,639
Speaker 1: You have to be aggressive at quarterback to make plays

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01:33:37,680 --> 01:33:40,360
Speaker 1: in this league. A lot of times those you look

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01:33:40,400 --> 01:33:43,200
Speaker 1: at Mahomes and Burrow and Allan, you know they both

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01:33:43,240 --> 01:33:47,400
Speaker 1: had double digit interceptions this season, and that's okay because

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01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:49,760
Speaker 1: they all are towards the top of the league and

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01:33:49,880 --> 01:33:52,759
Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns and everything else. You want your quarterback

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01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:56,360
Speaker 1: to go out there and make plays. Now, the decision making,

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01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:59,960
Speaker 1: you know, in those decisions, the long ball to John Brown,

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01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:06,160
Speaker 1: you know Xavier Xavian Howard had leverage on him. Probably

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01:34:06,200 --> 01:34:09,240
Speaker 1: not a great decision to throw that ball deep in

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01:34:09,240 --> 01:34:11,559
Speaker 1: that situation when you have the lead, you have the

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01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:15,320
Speaker 1: game control. But you were going against the Dolphins team yesterday,

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01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:17,680
Speaker 1: and it was evident early on they were going to

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01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:20,040
Speaker 1: bring cover zero blitz, they were gonna bring constant pressure.

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01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:23,599
Speaker 1: They're gonna try and make big mistakes for this Bills teams,

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01:34:23,640 --> 01:34:25,880
Speaker 1: and at times they did Now, if it wasn't for

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01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: a few drops, they could have got the breaks beating

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01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 1: off them. Early. We were joking in the in the

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01:34:31,200 --> 01:34:34,760
Speaker 1: broadcast booth, how long can they possibly keep throwing cover

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01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:37,360
Speaker 1: zero blitz out here because the Bills are gonna just

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01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 1: absolutely torch him. Stefan Diggs was on pace for about

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01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 1: four hundred yards at one point until he only had

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01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:46,680
Speaker 1: one target from that point on, when you know in

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01:34:46,720 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 1: the second quarter he had six catches for one hundred

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01:34:49,160 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 1: and ten yards at that point, and so Miami was

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01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 1: fortunate that their plan worked based upon a few drops

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01:34:55,960 --> 01:34:58,519
Speaker 1: by the Bills, and then you had the sack fumble,

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01:34:58,600 --> 01:35:02,320
Speaker 1: which you know, Josh Di I don't know the protection

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01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:05,600
Speaker 1: scheme anymore, and it allows me to speak honestly in

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01:35:05,600 --> 01:35:08,360
Speaker 1: these situations. I'm not sure who was that fault, if

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01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:10,240
Speaker 1: that's on Josh, if that's on the running back, the

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01:35:10,320 --> 01:35:14,360
Speaker 1: protection with the offensive line. Regardless, they forced the Bills

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01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:18,160
Speaker 1: into some mistakes yesterday, and their kind of risk at

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01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:21,799
Speaker 1: all approach worked. Eric. I know on the broadcast yesterday

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01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:26,559
Speaker 1: you were amazed and shocked as to how often Josh Boyer,

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01:35:26,600 --> 01:35:29,439
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator for Miami, was calling the zero blitzes

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01:35:29,479 --> 01:35:31,840
Speaker 1: over and over and over when Josh was killing them

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01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:35,080
Speaker 1: with it. But on the flip side of that, do

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01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:38,880
Speaker 1: you think it got to a point where Josh was

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01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:41,960
Speaker 1: almost lured into a false sense of security that if

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01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 1: they keep bringing zero blitz we're gonna have these big

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01:35:44,080 --> 01:35:47,719
Speaker 1: plays all afternoon. And then maybe Miami tweaked a few

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01:35:47,760 --> 01:35:50,439
Speaker 1: things to change the looks every so slightly, and then

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01:35:50,479 --> 01:35:53,679
Speaker 1: suddenly those big plays got taken away and he got

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01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:55,439
Speaker 1: kind of I don't want to say he got suckered

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01:35:55,439 --> 01:35:56,680
Speaker 1: into it. I want to say he kind of got

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01:35:56,800 --> 01:35:58,920
Speaker 1: lured into a false sense of security. Did you see

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01:35:58,960 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 1: some of that potentially? You know, I'm not sure exactly

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01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:06,160
Speaker 1: what was going through Josh Allen's mind in those situations,

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01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 1: but you know, you think of that second half possession

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01:36:08,240 --> 01:36:10,000
Speaker 1: where they try and take the top of the defense

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01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:12,920
Speaker 1: twice to Gabe Davis. Then you get a sack and

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01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:15,360
Speaker 1: now you have a three and out in a crucial

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01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:17,800
Speaker 1: time of the ball game. You know, those going down

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01:36:17,840 --> 01:36:19,639
Speaker 1: the field, you could punt it. I mean, the Bills

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01:36:19,760 --> 01:36:22,519
Speaker 1: could have potentially thrown for five hundred yards in this game,

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01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:25,479
Speaker 1: but still have made enough mistakes to keep Miami in

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01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:27,800
Speaker 1: the game. You know, you have a few of those

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01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:30,320
Speaker 1: balls that weren't dropped. If you connect on one of

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01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:34,639
Speaker 1: those two long Gabe Davis ones, shoot the play either

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Speaker 1: the first or second play of the game, the long

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01:36:36,520 --> 01:36:39,799
Speaker 1: pass two digs. I mean they just Josh just barely

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01:36:39,840 --> 01:36:42,439
Speaker 1: overthrows them. They were going to attack this team deep

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01:36:42,560 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: yesterday and they just barely miss on a few of them.

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01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:47,559
Speaker 1: Or we could be talking about a blowout. But when

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01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 1: you take those high risk, high reward plays down the

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01:36:50,040 --> 01:36:51,880
Speaker 1: field and then you have your three and outs, you

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01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:54,920
Speaker 1: have your punts at times, you have those interceptions. Now

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01:36:54,960 --> 01:36:57,479
Speaker 1: you keep a team like Miami in it. And so

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01:36:57,600 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 1: we see this game and Bills fans and it's funny,

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01:37:01,280 --> 01:37:04,120
Speaker 1: the attitude is like, Wow, that did that win? Didn't

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01:37:04,160 --> 01:37:06,479
Speaker 1: feel like a win, you know against the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: And what are the positives that come out of what

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01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:11,200
Speaker 1: you see that gave you some hope and some some

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01:37:11,320 --> 01:37:14,800
Speaker 1: affirmation about this team being really good? Yeah. I mean

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01:37:14,800 --> 01:37:16,679
Speaker 1: they've won eight games in a row, and I feel

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01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:18,880
Speaker 1: like each week I come on here and we're talking

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01:37:18,920 --> 01:37:22,640
Speaker 1: about the flaws of this team. That's a testament to

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01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:27,040
Speaker 1: how what our expectations were preseason coming into this season,

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01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:30,200
Speaker 1: and then also how good they truly are that we

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01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:33,080
Speaker 1: could nick pick them in the midst of eight straight

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01:37:33,320 --> 01:37:35,960
Speaker 1: wins for this Bills team. But you know, there are

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01:37:36,080 --> 01:37:39,320
Speaker 1: plenty of positives. You know, you have clear Shakire minus

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01:37:39,439 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 1: the drop that he had on the long pass from Joshua,

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01:37:42,479 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 1: I didn't even feel like he needed to go to

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01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:46,720
Speaker 1: the ground, which caused the ball to jar loose. But

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01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:50,080
Speaker 1: he's stepping up and he's starting to make plays. I

1804
01:37:50,080 --> 01:37:52,960
Speaker 1: mean it goes without saying. Kaye Elam the way he

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01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:56,439
Speaker 1: played yesterday and if he's able to play like he

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01:37:56,520 --> 01:37:59,719
Speaker 1: did yesterday, gosh, this Bill's defense just gets even better

1807
01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: and better. You know, he was in cro I liked

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01:38:02,320 --> 01:38:05,680
Speaker 1: what they did too, using him in some press man situations.

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01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:08,080
Speaker 1: That's what he thrived on at Florida. This is a

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01:38:08,160 --> 01:38:13,200
Speaker 1: complex Bills secondary. The Bills defense, they confused teams based

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01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 1: upon their alignment, how they post snap adjust they mix in,

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01:38:18,479 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 1: they mix up the zones constantly. Well, Kyrie Elam, he

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01:38:22,600 --> 01:38:25,439
Speaker 1: thrives in press man coverage, Well, they let him do it.

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01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 1: They let him do it on the maybe the best

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01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 1: receiver in football this season, him or Justin Jefferson statistically

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01:38:31,840 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 1: tops in the league, and they let him go press

1817
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:36,480
Speaker 1: man with him one on one the rookie in the playoffs,

1818
01:38:36,640 --> 01:38:38,800
Speaker 1: and he did well out there against him when he

1819
01:38:38,840 --> 01:38:41,080
Speaker 1: was matched up. And so I love the play from

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01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:43,759
Speaker 1: Kyer Elam. Hate that Dan Jackson went down with an injury,

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01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:46,759
Speaker 1: but Kyrie Elam stepping up like that was a huge positive.

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01:38:46,920 --> 01:38:50,160
Speaker 1: The two linebackers continue to play incredible ball. I mean,

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01:38:50,160 --> 01:38:54,519
Speaker 1: they were all over the field yesterday. And then you know,

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01:38:54,560 --> 01:38:57,599
Speaker 1: I thought at times the run game was successful again,

1825
01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:00,280
Speaker 1: and then you know, you see Cole Beasley step into

1826
01:39:00,280 --> 01:39:02,559
Speaker 1: the mix, making a couple of plays, getting his first

1827
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:06,000
Speaker 1: career playoff touchdown. So there's plenty of positives. Look, you're

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01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:08,680
Speaker 1: you win a playoff game. And I know that this

1829
01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:12,000
Speaker 1: was such a big point spread, and with Skyler Thompson's starting,

1830
01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:14,680
Speaker 1: we just all assumed, myself included that this was going

1831
01:39:14,760 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: to be a runaway Bill's win. But that's that's generally

1832
01:39:18,040 --> 01:39:20,599
Speaker 1: not the case in the playoffs. Look at the Ravens

1833
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:23,360
Speaker 1: Bengals game last night, they sneak by, You have the

1834
01:39:23,439 --> 01:39:26,799
Speaker 1: Jaguars come all the way back against the Chargers. Generally,

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01:39:27,360 --> 01:39:31,200
Speaker 1: generally these playoff games are going to be tight Giants

1836
01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:36,360
Speaker 1: win last night against Minnesota in another type ball game. Yeah,

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01:39:36,439 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 1: I My biggest takeaway from from Buffalo's win was after

1838
01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:45,720
Speaker 1: the Dolphins made a point of shutting down Digs and

1839
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:50,280
Speaker 1: not allowing him to beat them, that other guys on

1840
01:39:50,320 --> 01:39:53,320
Speaker 1: the depth chart at the receiver position stepped up and

1841
01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:55,759
Speaker 1: contributed in a big way, whether it was Gabe Davis,

1842
01:39:55,840 --> 01:39:59,040
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, as you mentioned, even Khalil Shakier made made

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01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:02,080
Speaker 1: a few plays that we're critical and keeping drives alive.

1844
01:40:02,880 --> 01:40:06,800
Speaker 1: I mean, Dawson Knox has been on fire notwithstanding, but

1845
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:10,479
Speaker 1: those guys I think put on film something important for

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01:40:10,520 --> 01:40:13,240
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to see, Like, all right, well, if we take

1847
01:40:13,320 --> 01:40:16,280
Speaker 1: Digs out of the game plan, it doesn't mean our

1848
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:20,360
Speaker 1: job is done in terms of defending this passing game. Yeah.

1849
01:40:20,439 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: Playoff Gabe seems to be a real thing, doesn't it.

1850
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:26,120
Speaker 1: And he makes a nice touchdown grab and you know

1851
01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:29,120
Speaker 1: if if Josh and him connect on one of those

1852
01:40:29,320 --> 01:40:31,719
Speaker 1: two deep balls, we're talking about another plus one hundred

1853
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:34,760
Speaker 1: and fifty yard receiving game for Gabe in the playoffs.

1854
01:40:34,840 --> 01:40:36,800
Speaker 1: And he showed up. He showed up in a big

1855
01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:40,200
Speaker 1: way yesterday. That's that one two punch that we expected

1856
01:40:40,240 --> 01:40:42,479
Speaker 1: to see for a majority of this season, while we're

1857
01:40:42,520 --> 01:40:45,719
Speaker 1: seeing it now and hopefully that continues into this week

1858
01:40:45,760 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati. But yes, there are other options at receiver

1859
01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:53,800
Speaker 1: here besides Diggs. And if you're gonna give Digs too

1860
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:56,040
Speaker 1: much attention, then everyone else can get you. And if

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01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:58,760
Speaker 1: you don't, then we're just gonna simply Pepper Digs with

1862
01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:04,360
Speaker 1: the ball because he is good. And this offense has

1863
01:41:04,439 --> 01:41:07,120
Speaker 1: just a plethora of weapons. And I mentioned the running game.

1864
01:41:07,400 --> 01:41:09,479
Speaker 1: You know, the running backs coming out of the backfield.

1865
01:41:09,479 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: I've heard people critique the fact that, hey, the last

1866
01:41:12,560 --> 01:41:16,000
Speaker 1: time against Miami, Devin Singletary, what do you have eight catches? Well,

1867
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 1: this time the running backs go without a catch. Well,

1868
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:21,439
Speaker 1: when they're bringing that much pressure at you, oftentimes the

1869
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:25,679
Speaker 1: running backs have to block. Also, when you when when

1870
01:41:25,720 --> 01:41:28,880
Speaker 1: they're leaving the backfield, Josh is generally as first reads

1871
01:41:28,880 --> 01:41:30,880
Speaker 1: are going to be at wide receiver, you don't have

1872
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:33,599
Speaker 1: that much time to make a decision to get all

1873
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:35,599
Speaker 1: the way back to the running back in those cases.

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01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:39,679
Speaker 1: So you bring up briefly, you brought thought talking about

1875
01:41:39,720 --> 01:41:43,920
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals last night, and I don't think none

1876
01:41:43,960 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 1: of us needed. But if you needed any proof how

1877
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 1: important offensive linemen are, look at Cincinnati before they start

1878
01:41:52,600 --> 01:41:56,679
Speaker 1: losing offensive lineman again. Last night they were lighting up

1879
01:41:56,960 --> 01:41:59,639
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens and then they lose their left tackle

1880
01:41:59,720 --> 01:42:01,439
Speaker 1: and another guy gets hurt. I think one of their

1881
01:42:01,439 --> 01:42:04,439
Speaker 1: guards got hurt as well, and all of a sudden

1882
01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:09,280
Speaker 1: they stopped scoring points. Yeah, their entire game plan had

1883
01:42:09,280 --> 01:42:12,080
Speaker 1: to change. They started running the football more and then

1884
01:42:12,120 --> 01:42:15,720
Speaker 1: it all became a quick passing game. And Cincinnati the

1885
01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:18,439
Speaker 1: way they're able to attack you deep, they're able to

1886
01:42:18,479 --> 01:42:22,479
Speaker 1: attack you short burrows, incredible with decision making. Well, it

1887
01:42:22,560 --> 01:42:25,280
Speaker 1: takes a lot of that away when you can't protect

1888
01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:28,439
Speaker 1: the passer. And so it's going to be interesting to see.

1889
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Speaker 1: It's been reported John Williams dislocated kneecap. I would assume

1890
01:42:32,520 --> 01:42:35,000
Speaker 1: that means that he's out for this week. They're already

1891
01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:37,680
Speaker 1: without Lyle Collins, he's out for the season. The right

1892
01:42:37,720 --> 01:42:40,559
Speaker 1: tackle to an acl at right guard, they had an

1893
01:42:40,560 --> 01:42:45,880
Speaker 1: injury last night. They were already without Alex Tappa was

1894
01:42:45,880 --> 01:42:47,880
Speaker 1: out with an ankle injury. The left Alex Kappa was

1895
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:50,880
Speaker 1: already out and then they start a rookie at left guard.

1896
01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 1: You know we talked a lot this offseason about von

1897
01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:57,600
Speaker 1: Miller bringing being brought in to be the closer to

1898
01:42:57,680 --> 01:43:00,360
Speaker 1: be the pass rusher. Well, we've also us that in

1899
01:43:00,360 --> 01:43:02,400
Speaker 1: the draft. We also brought in four other free agent

1900
01:43:02,439 --> 01:43:06,679
Speaker 1: defensive lineman last offseason. This is a game where they're

1901
01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:09,760
Speaker 1: gonna have to affect the quarterback. They simply have to

1902
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:13,320
Speaker 1: between the crowd noise Cincinnati being on a silent account,

1903
01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:16,760
Speaker 1: which generally gives the defensive line an advantage, especially in

1904
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:21,120
Speaker 1: obvious pass situations. This is a game where this defensive

1905
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:24,080
Speaker 1: line has got to take over because you can't pressure

1906
01:43:24,160 --> 01:43:27,280
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. You can bring five, but if you blitz

1907
01:43:27,360 --> 01:43:29,640
Speaker 1: him with six, Joe Burrow is eventually going to make

1908
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:32,920
Speaker 1: you pay, just like Josh Allen did to the Dolphins yesterday.

1909
01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:35,200
Speaker 1: And like we said, if it wasn't for a couple

1910
01:43:35,200 --> 01:43:37,120
Speaker 1: of drops, Josh would have been well over four hundred

1911
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:41,240
Speaker 1: yards passing. And so you can't simply bring constant pressure

1912
01:43:41,240 --> 01:43:43,920
Speaker 1: at him from the second level. Now, I have liked

1913
01:43:43,920 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: what Leslie Frasier has done understanding how good Matt Milano

1914
01:43:47,400 --> 01:43:50,080
Speaker 1: is rushing the passer, so they'll bring him. They might

1915
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:52,400
Speaker 1: drop a defensive end in that situation, so they're only

1916
01:43:52,400 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 1: truly bringing four again, and so they can be creative

1917
01:43:56,320 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 1: by bringing Matt Milana or Tremaydon Evans from the second level,

1918
01:43:59,120 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 1: but you're gonna be really careful about blitzing Joe Burrow,

1919
01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:05,200
Speaker 1: and so that four man rush up front has got

1920
01:44:05,240 --> 01:44:09,880
Speaker 1: to be productive this week spending another defensive tactic by

1921
01:44:09,920 --> 01:44:13,120
Speaker 1: the Dolphins forward into this next matchup with the Bengals.

1922
01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:17,360
Speaker 1: We saw the Dolphins a month ago use Justin Bethel

1923
01:44:17,439 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 1: the safety as a spy on Josh a times, particularly

1924
01:44:20,479 --> 01:44:23,080
Speaker 1: in the red zone, and then this past week they

1925
01:44:23,160 --> 01:44:27,200
Speaker 1: use Elijah Campbell, a faster and more athletic safety, and

1926
01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:30,240
Speaker 1: he really kind of forced Josh to hesitate sometimes. I

1927
01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:32,799
Speaker 1: know you even noted it on the broadcast that Josh

1928
01:44:32,880 --> 01:44:35,479
Speaker 1: was hesitant to take off and run, and I think

1929
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:36,720
Speaker 1: it was due in part to the fact that he

1930
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:39,840
Speaker 1: knew he had an athletic guy spying him. How do

1931
01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:45,320
Speaker 1: you think that impacts Cincinnati's decisions defensively with lu An Arrumo,

1932
01:44:45,520 --> 01:44:47,599
Speaker 1: no doubt looking at that and saying, oh, I might

1933
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:50,559
Speaker 1: want to try that a little bit. Yeah, the Patriots

1934
01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:52,639
Speaker 1: did some of that as well. We've seen that throughout

1935
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:55,240
Speaker 1: the year. Where it used to be used spy the

1936
01:44:55,320 --> 01:44:58,120
Speaker 1: quarterback with either maybe one of your a defensive lineman

1937
01:44:58,160 --> 01:45:00,479
Speaker 1: they don't rush the passer, or maybe it's one of

1938
01:45:00,479 --> 01:45:04,160
Speaker 1: your linebackers. Well, Josh Allen has proven that theory over

1939
01:45:04,240 --> 01:45:07,599
Speaker 1: five years to just not work. He's faster and more

1940
01:45:07,640 --> 01:45:12,400
Speaker 1: athletic than almost every linebacker and defensive lineman in this league. Okay,

1941
01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:14,519
Speaker 1: so now you go secondary player, which he has a

1942
01:45:14,560 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: size advantage over, but that secondary player with his speed

1943
01:45:18,240 --> 01:45:20,799
Speaker 1: can corral him and people can rally to the football,

1944
01:45:21,120 --> 01:45:24,479
Speaker 1: and so I do believe you'll see some type of

1945
01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:27,040
Speaker 1: spy utilize in this game by the Bengals. I think

1946
01:45:27,080 --> 01:45:30,040
Speaker 1: you're silly if you don't. And you're playing the Bills. Now,

1947
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:32,800
Speaker 1: zone coverage can help. That's gonna help you not give

1948
01:45:32,880 --> 01:45:35,559
Speaker 1: up those third and long, easy first downs that Josh

1949
01:45:35,600 --> 01:45:38,719
Speaker 1: seems to pick up anytime that you run man demand defense,

1950
01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 1: and so Cincinnati runs more zone and so I think

1951
01:45:42,160 --> 01:45:44,400
Speaker 1: you could just see that where everyone has their eyes

1952
01:45:44,720 --> 01:45:47,800
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen. But I expect this week as well,

1953
01:45:47,880 --> 01:45:50,840
Speaker 1: similar to later in the second half yesterday where you

1954
01:45:50,840 --> 01:45:53,680
Speaker 1: saw a couple designed runs by Josh Allen, I think

1955
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:55,360
Speaker 1: you'll see it this week. I think this. You know,

1956
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:58,160
Speaker 1: you have three games to go in this season, and

1957
01:45:58,160 --> 01:45:59,680
Speaker 1: if you don't get this one, you don't get a

1958
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:02,840
Speaker 1: chance at the next two. And so it's Stewart diemode.

1959
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:06,160
Speaker 1: And yes, your running backs are productive, but I think

1960
01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:09,200
Speaker 1: you could see some more read option type plays this week.

1961
01:46:09,240 --> 01:46:11,960
Speaker 1: And Hendrickson and Hubbard are great on the edge, but

1962
01:46:12,080 --> 01:46:15,320
Speaker 1: in those read situations, Josh has got an athletic advantage

1963
01:46:15,320 --> 01:46:18,519
Speaker 1: over those guys we saw last week. You mentioned the

1964
01:46:18,560 --> 01:46:22,080
Speaker 1: boy the Patriots defended Josh last week against the week

1965
01:46:22,120 --> 01:46:24,719
Speaker 1: eighteen against the Patriots, he had nine rushes for sixteen yards.

1966
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:28,960
Speaker 1: Yesterday four for twenty plus all the sacks that he took.

1967
01:46:30,360 --> 01:46:33,400
Speaker 1: That's I think with the spy, that's exactly what we're

1968
01:46:33,400 --> 01:46:35,040
Speaker 1: looking at. They're not trying to tackle him, they're just

1969
01:46:35,080 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 1: trying to make him beat them from the pockets. Certainly,

1970
01:46:37,640 --> 01:46:40,240
Speaker 1: scoring thirty four points, you'll beat a lot of teams

1971
01:46:40,280 --> 01:46:43,760
Speaker 1: doing that, but they really they're down to that. I mean,

1972
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:45,360
Speaker 1: that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to pick

1973
01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:47,880
Speaker 1: their poison when they play Josh Allen. Don't let him

1974
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:51,120
Speaker 1: tuck it under his arm and take off running. Make

1975
01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:53,120
Speaker 1: him at least beat you from the pocket, and maybe

1976
01:46:53,160 --> 01:46:57,800
Speaker 1: we can man up on Gabe Davis, Beasley Shakier and

1977
01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:01,800
Speaker 1: double up digs and beat these guys. And you know

1978
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:04,920
Speaker 1: if and you know, he MIxS in the zero blitz

1979
01:47:04,960 --> 01:47:06,800
Speaker 1: with maybe a couple of big plays and it turns

1980
01:47:06,800 --> 01:47:08,439
Speaker 1: out as a pretty close game. But I think that

1981
01:47:09,520 --> 01:47:12,519
Speaker 1: ability to keep Josh Allen from pulling the ball down

1982
01:47:12,520 --> 01:47:15,640
Speaker 1: and running with it in passing plays seems to be

1983
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:17,639
Speaker 1: the crux of the defensive plan against him the last

1984
01:47:17,640 --> 01:47:20,400
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and it's been pretty successful. Yeah, it

1985
01:47:20,479 --> 01:47:22,759
Speaker 1: has been. And that's what you have to do against Josh.

1986
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:25,400
Speaker 1: You have to keep him in the pocket. His quarterback

1987
01:47:25,479 --> 01:47:28,599
Speaker 1: rating is tops in the league. When he's under pressure,

1988
01:47:28,640 --> 01:47:31,040
Speaker 1: you put him in scramble mode and he's looking to

1989
01:47:31,120 --> 01:47:32,960
Speaker 1: make plays down the field, and he can also take

1990
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:35,840
Speaker 1: off with his legs and just crush you with big

1991
01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:39,160
Speaker 1: plays on the ground. And so yes, having a spy

1992
01:47:39,640 --> 01:47:41,800
Speaker 1: trying to crawl him in the pocket. Now, with those

1993
01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:45,759
Speaker 1: covers zero blitzes that Miami was running yesterday, that also

1994
01:47:46,600 --> 01:47:48,840
Speaker 1: limits the run game and you're going to have more

1995
01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:52,120
Speaker 1: sacks because it's just quick decisions. But then you're going

1996
01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:54,080
Speaker 1: to give up the big plays as well. We used

1997
01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:56,320
Speaker 1: to always joke that defensive coordinators run a lot of

1998
01:47:56,320 --> 01:47:59,320
Speaker 1: cover zero blitz is on the road and not at home,

1999
01:47:59,360 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: because if you do it at home, then you can

2000
01:48:02,360 --> 01:48:04,120
Speaker 1: get boot out of your own stadium. And it seems

2001
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:07,000
Speaker 1: like it would be counterintuitive because you know, if you're

2002
01:48:07,120 --> 01:48:11,120
Speaker 1: if you're the Dolphins and you're playing at home at

2003
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium, then it's gonna be harder to communicate

2004
01:48:13,439 --> 01:48:16,360
Speaker 1: those blizzards to pick them up. But as a defensive coordinator,

2005
01:48:16,400 --> 01:48:18,559
Speaker 1: you always have in the back of your mind, Man,

2006
01:48:18,560 --> 01:48:21,280
Speaker 1: I'm about to get boot out of the stadium if

2007
01:48:21,280 --> 01:48:24,920
Speaker 1: this happens again. I'm curious, Eric, and I mean, I

2008
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:27,639
Speaker 1: don't know how effectively you can answer this because you've

2009
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 1: never been an NFL coach, But with the game just

2010
01:48:31,400 --> 01:48:36,720
Speaker 1: three weeks ago scrapped and you know game plans fully prepared,

2011
01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:39,960
Speaker 1: how much of that do you think carries over to

2012
01:48:40,080 --> 01:48:43,439
Speaker 1: this week or does too much change week to week

2013
01:48:43,520 --> 01:48:47,160
Speaker 1: where you think maybe these coaching staffs almost start from

2014
01:48:47,200 --> 01:48:50,200
Speaker 1: scratch again. I think that's a great question, and I

2015
01:48:50,240 --> 01:48:53,360
Speaker 1: think it stays similar to your game plan in what

2016
01:48:53,479 --> 01:48:56,439
Speaker 1: you didn't show in that night. Maybe what worked that night.

2017
01:48:56,479 --> 01:48:59,200
Speaker 1: I know the Bills only had one offensive series Cincinnati

2018
01:48:59,439 --> 01:49:03,880
Speaker 1: had two, and so you're you're probably seeing what worked

2019
01:49:03,880 --> 01:49:07,120
Speaker 1: that night. You're you can and then you can say, Okay,

2020
01:49:07,160 --> 01:49:09,680
Speaker 1: this is how the Bengals lined up to these formations.

2021
01:49:09,720 --> 01:49:14,080
Speaker 1: Maybe we switched some things formationally or within that formation.

2022
01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:16,400
Speaker 1: Here's what plays will run out of this now. But

2023
01:49:16,600 --> 01:49:19,120
Speaker 1: but I do think you'll you were probably confident going

2024
01:49:19,120 --> 01:49:21,960
Speaker 1: into that game. You had time to prepare for that

2025
01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:24,200
Speaker 1: Monday night extra time to prepare for that Monday night game.

2026
01:49:24,439 --> 01:49:26,280
Speaker 1: You had a lot of time to game plan. You

2027
01:49:26,360 --> 01:49:28,680
Speaker 1: probably loved your game plan going into it, and so

2028
01:49:28,760 --> 01:49:30,840
Speaker 1: you're likely going to stick with many of the things

2029
01:49:31,080 --> 01:49:33,880
Speaker 1: that you had going into that one, especially what you

2030
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:37,360
Speaker 1: didn't show there. But on a week to week basic basis,

2031
01:49:37,400 --> 01:49:40,280
Speaker 1: personnel changes, we'll see if Isaiah McKenzie could play this week,

2032
01:49:40,479 --> 01:49:43,160
Speaker 1: that could change some things game plan wise. James Cook

2033
01:49:43,200 --> 01:49:45,760
Speaker 1: has been playing, so good is it? Is it more Cook?

2034
01:49:45,760 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 1: It was also interesting to me until that third and

2035
01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:51,760
Speaker 1: seven run they actually gave James Cook the first attempts

2036
01:49:52,040 --> 01:49:54,240
Speaker 1: at moving the sticks there at the end of the

2037
01:49:54,240 --> 01:49:56,320
Speaker 1: game with the game on the line, which is rare.

2038
01:49:56,439 --> 01:49:58,400
Speaker 1: Usually you'll say, hey, let's give it to our more

2039
01:49:58,520 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 1: veteran running back, our rookie in this situation. But that

2040
01:50:01,439 --> 01:50:03,800
Speaker 1: just shows the confidence that they have James and James

2041
01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:05,720
Speaker 1: Cook at this point of the season. But Chris, I

2042
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:09,599
Speaker 1: think that's an excellent question, and I believe that game

2043
01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:13,120
Speaker 1: plan wise, you'll you'll, you'll probably do something similar, which

2044
01:50:13,160 --> 01:50:17,719
Speaker 1: probably speeds up the preparation process this week. Yeah, in fact,

2045
01:50:18,120 --> 01:50:20,240
Speaker 1: the Bengals had some pretty good success. I mean, the

2046
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 1: Bills hadn't stopped them up to that point. They went

2047
01:50:22,520 --> 01:50:25,759
Speaker 1: down pretty easily in their first drive, score a touchdown,

2048
01:50:25,800 --> 01:50:28,280
Speaker 1: and the Bills moved it really well as well, couldn't

2049
01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:30,600
Speaker 1: finish it off in a touchdown with in completion of

2050
01:50:30,680 --> 01:50:32,720
Speaker 1: Beasley there in the flat, which was a lot like

2051
01:50:32,760 --> 01:50:36,559
Speaker 1: the touchdown pass he caught this last week. They settled

2052
01:50:36,600 --> 01:50:38,479
Speaker 1: for the field goal, kicked off, and here they were.

2053
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:44,559
Speaker 1: Here go the Bengals again before Damar got hurt. Yeah,

2054
01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:47,400
Speaker 1: the game ended with five minutes to go in the

2055
01:50:47,400 --> 01:50:50,240
Speaker 1: first quarter. So really the game plans are still intact

2056
01:50:50,960 --> 01:50:56,800
Speaker 1: minus one series, and there's a little bit different feel

2057
01:50:56,880 --> 01:50:59,720
Speaker 1: about this game. The Bengals have every right to be

2058
01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:02,160
Speaker 1: a little bit upset that it's actually happening in Buffalo

2059
01:51:02,240 --> 01:51:06,639
Speaker 1: rather than Cincinnati. They do. And I live in Louisville,

2060
01:51:06,640 --> 01:51:08,920
Speaker 1: which is very close to Cincinnati, which is where I'm from,

2061
01:51:08,960 --> 01:51:12,719
Speaker 1: So I hear a lot about why this maybe should

2062
01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:15,880
Speaker 1: be a neutral field, similar to if the Bills win

2063
01:51:15,880 --> 01:51:18,280
Speaker 1: in Kansas City both win this weekend, it would be

2064
01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:22,360
Speaker 1: a neutral field. Then. I mean, look, in an unprecedented situation,

2065
01:51:22,560 --> 01:51:24,960
Speaker 1: the NFL did what they could. They try to keep

2066
01:51:24,960 --> 01:51:29,680
Speaker 1: it as fair as possible, and I mean it's unfortunate,

2067
01:51:30,160 --> 01:51:34,639
Speaker 1: but as much so. Yes, the Bengals looked very good

2068
01:51:34,640 --> 01:51:36,200
Speaker 1: to start that game. How many times this year have

2069
01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:39,320
Speaker 1: the Bills given up an opening possession touchdown or teams

2070
01:51:39,360 --> 01:51:40,920
Speaker 1: moving on on them early, and then they put the

2071
01:51:40,920 --> 01:51:43,479
Speaker 1: clamps on a team like, let's not act like the

2072
01:51:43,520 --> 01:51:45,479
Speaker 1: Bengals were about to run away with that game. The

2073
01:51:45,479 --> 01:51:48,240
Speaker 1: Bills are actually favored in that game as well, and

2074
01:51:48,439 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 1: in their only possession they marched it all the way

2075
01:51:50,520 --> 01:51:53,439
Speaker 1: down the field and had a short field goal attempt

2076
01:51:53,479 --> 01:51:56,360
Speaker 1: and failed in the red zone. So I see both

2077
01:51:56,360 --> 01:51:59,880
Speaker 1: sides of it. I think the Bills earned the right

2078
01:52:00,080 --> 01:52:03,439
Speaker 1: to play this game in Buffalo this year. Eric, Thanks

2079
01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:05,559
Speaker 1: as always for the time we appreciate it. We'll catch

2080
01:52:05,680 --> 01:52:06,800
Speaker 1: up with you at the end of the week when

2081
01:52:06,800 --> 01:52:09,960
Speaker 1: you're back here in town. Man, sounds good looking forward

2082
01:52:09,960 --> 01:52:13,240
Speaker 1: to it. All right. That's Eric Wood, radio analyst for

2083
01:52:13,280 --> 01:52:16,000
Speaker 1: the Bill's Radio network, joining us as he does every

2084
01:52:16,080 --> 01:52:19,080
Speaker 1: Monday after Bill's games. And you'll be doing the same

2085
01:52:19,120 --> 01:52:23,160
Speaker 1: thing next week, hopefully after another victory as well. That's

2086
01:52:23,200 --> 01:52:27,040
Speaker 1: what we're all shooting your plan. Yeah, and this is

2087
01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:30,240
Speaker 1: and you kind of forget, but you work so hard

2088
01:52:30,280 --> 01:52:32,200
Speaker 1: to get back to this moment we've been talking about.

2089
01:52:32,479 --> 01:52:37,120
Speaker 1: Think back, we're going to the combine and we're revving

2090
01:52:37,280 --> 01:52:40,320
Speaker 1: up and you're you know, you're living with a scar tissue,

2091
01:52:40,360 --> 01:52:43,840
Speaker 1: the Kansas City overtime lost last year in the postseason,

2092
01:52:43,920 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 1: and all of the things that go on with it,

2093
01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:48,360
Speaker 1: and you finally go through regular season. You start out

2094
01:52:48,400 --> 01:52:50,800
Speaker 1: like a house on fire, go through the injuries and

2095
01:52:51,080 --> 01:52:54,920
Speaker 1: in the Dawson Knox and the Blizzards and then of

2096
01:52:54,920 --> 01:52:58,920
Speaker 1: course Damar Hamlin. All of that stuff happens and you're

2097
01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:04,000
Speaker 1: finally back here and it and it's so fragile. You

2098
01:53:04,080 --> 01:53:05,519
Speaker 1: got to meet a team that it was in the

2099
01:53:05,520 --> 01:53:08,200
Speaker 1: super Bowl last year. You do get this game at home,

2100
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Speaker 1: but man, ole Man. They are playing really, really well.

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Speaker 1: They're playing really well, and you're gonna have to play

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Speaker 1: better than you've shown in the last few weeks to

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01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:25,120
Speaker 1: beat them. It's a playoff atmosphere. Knowing how talented the

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01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:29,800
Speaker 1: Bengals receiving corps is across the board, I don't know

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01:53:29,840 --> 01:53:35,360
Speaker 1: that I would anticipate seeing them having a corner follow

2106
01:53:35,400 --> 01:53:37,519
Speaker 1: any one guy in particular, do you know what I mean?

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01:53:37,560 --> 01:53:39,800
Speaker 1: Because I think Jamar Chase can hurt you just as

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01:53:39,800 --> 01:53:41,240
Speaker 1: I mean, te Higgins can hurt you just as bad

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01:53:41,240 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 1: as Jamar Chase can hurt you. So I would tend

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01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:46,519
Speaker 1: to think they keep the corners on the same sides

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01:53:46,600 --> 01:53:50,200
Speaker 1: and just take whoever you get. But I like Kayer

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01:53:50,320 --> 01:53:54,160
Speaker 1: Elam a lot on te Higgins just because he's got

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01:53:54,240 --> 01:53:57,479
Speaker 1: size in length, which we know the Bills covet when

2114
01:53:57,479 --> 01:54:01,439
Speaker 1: they're targeting cornerbacks either in free agency or the draft,

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01:54:02,360 --> 01:54:05,599
Speaker 1: and he's got the length to get up and contest

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01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:08,599
Speaker 1: some of those balls that Tee Higgins more often than

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01:54:08,680 --> 01:54:11,639
Speaker 1: not comes down with. I think prior to the game

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01:54:12,920 --> 01:54:15,880
Speaker 1: in weeks seventeen between the Bills and the Bengals, which

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01:54:15,920 --> 01:54:19,400
Speaker 1: was ultimately scrapped, Higgins was fourth in the league and

2120
01:54:19,560 --> 01:54:23,479
Speaker 1: contested catches, he had sixteen at that point in the season.

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01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:27,400
Speaker 1: He just goes up and gets it. But I like

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01:54:27,560 --> 01:54:31,200
Speaker 1: Elam in that matchup, especially after watching him yesterday, watching

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01:54:31,280 --> 01:54:34,440
Speaker 1: him going stride for stride with Tyree Hill on a

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01:54:34,520 --> 01:54:37,240
Speaker 1: fifteen or an eighteen yard comeback. I mean, he was

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01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:42,520
Speaker 1: right in his hip pocket. It was impressive. I hope

2126
01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:46,120
Speaker 1: that is. I'm sure that's not lost on the coaching staff.

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01:54:46,360 --> 01:54:48,520
Speaker 1: I think he's made some important strides at an important

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01:54:48,560 --> 01:54:50,880
Speaker 1: time of the season, and I'm all in favor of

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01:54:50,920 --> 01:54:54,080
Speaker 1: him getting a boatload of more playing time because I

2130
01:54:54,120 --> 01:54:59,160
Speaker 1: think that interception helps him with his confidence. So yeah,

2131
01:54:59,200 --> 01:55:01,920
Speaker 1: for my money, I get him on the field more.

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01:55:03,000 --> 01:55:05,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna stop doing exactly what they've

2133
01:55:05,040 --> 01:55:07,560
Speaker 1: been doing and using the same criteria to get guys

2134
01:55:07,600 --> 01:55:10,560
Speaker 1: on and off the field that they've been Certainly injuries

2135
01:55:10,560 --> 01:55:12,960
Speaker 1: play a part in that. Dane Jackson's if he's injured

2136
01:55:13,040 --> 01:55:15,160
Speaker 1: and how badly that is and how long it'll keep

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01:55:15,240 --> 01:55:16,640
Speaker 1: him out or if it will at all, All that

2138
01:55:16,680 --> 01:55:19,640
Speaker 1: stuff goes into the mix. They're not going to change

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01:55:19,680 --> 01:55:24,520
Speaker 1: what they've done because Kayer has a good game. They

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01:55:24,520 --> 01:55:26,320
Speaker 1: didn't do that for the running backs. They don't do

2141
01:55:26,320 --> 01:55:28,520
Speaker 1: it for the wide receivers, they don't do it for

2142
01:55:28,560 --> 01:55:33,400
Speaker 1: offensive linemen. You get, you get what you earn. So yes, Kayer,

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01:55:33,600 --> 01:55:35,920
Speaker 1: I think it was. It gave all the Bills fans

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01:55:35,960 --> 01:55:39,160
Speaker 1: if they're watching him closely, like like you were, and

2145
01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:43,320
Speaker 1: I was, that was a great sign. It was a

2146
01:55:43,360 --> 01:55:47,080
Speaker 1: great sign that you know, after maybe some doubt by

2147
01:55:47,120 --> 01:55:48,840
Speaker 1: a lot of Bills fans, maybe they did draft the

2148
01:55:48,920 --> 01:55:50,440
Speaker 1: right guy and he's gonna work out and be the

2149
01:55:50,480 --> 01:55:53,280
Speaker 1: guy we all hoped he would be, particularly at the

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01:55:53,280 --> 01:55:56,240
Speaker 1: most important time of the year. So I'm I'm with you.

2151
01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:58,160
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with him playing at all.

2152
01:56:01,600 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: I'm you know, but he wasn't even the starting cornerback

2153
01:56:04,680 --> 01:56:07,880
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the season Christian Benford was. And

2154
01:56:07,920 --> 01:56:10,480
Speaker 1: I wonder how long that's that situation is going to

2155
01:56:10,520 --> 01:56:12,640
Speaker 1: play itself out, what happens when he does come back

2156
01:56:12,680 --> 01:56:15,680
Speaker 1: all of those things, But it does give you some

2157
01:56:17,000 --> 01:56:21,480
Speaker 1: hope and some confidence that are the secondary is coming

2158
01:56:21,520 --> 01:56:23,840
Speaker 1: together at the right time. Yeah, and it will be

2159
01:56:24,760 --> 01:56:26,720
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on because Dan Jackson, as

2160
01:56:26,760 --> 01:56:30,360
Speaker 1: we know, left the game yesterday with an injury, and

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01:56:30,880 --> 01:56:33,600
Speaker 1: what's his availability because each of the last two weeks,

2162
01:56:33,680 --> 01:56:36,200
Speaker 1: Christian Benford has been available, but he was on the

2163
01:56:36,240 --> 01:56:39,480
Speaker 1: inactive list. They go into the game with four corners,

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01:56:40,200 --> 01:56:44,640
Speaker 1: they lose Jackson yesterday they were down to three. I'm

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01:56:44,680 --> 01:56:47,640
Speaker 1: talking outside guys at this point, not you know, Taron

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01:56:47,720 --> 01:56:52,440
Speaker 1: Johnson or Saran Neil who both played Nicol. So depending

2167
01:56:52,480 --> 01:56:56,640
Speaker 1: on Dan Jackson's availability, Benford could be up this week, right,

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01:56:57,560 --> 01:57:00,200
Speaker 1: if he could be back in the lineup, he's ready,

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01:57:00,240 --> 01:57:03,080
Speaker 1: I'm sure, and it won't be a luckily kite. You

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01:57:03,120 --> 01:57:05,360
Speaker 1: had a lot of confidence in Kaier, so Benford won't

2171
01:57:05,400 --> 01:57:09,040
Speaker 1: have to be from an However many weeks it's been

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01:57:09,080 --> 01:57:11,600
Speaker 1: since he's been active because he was on IR and

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01:57:11,640 --> 01:57:13,920
Speaker 1: then he's been a healthy and active the last two

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01:57:13,920 --> 01:57:16,840
Speaker 1: weeks right from being there too in the game all

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01:57:17,000 --> 01:57:18,880
Speaker 1: the playoff. Yeah, in a playoff game. Yeah, you don't

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01:57:18,920 --> 01:57:20,920
Speaker 1: want that's that's a little bit of a big jump.

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01:57:21,240 --> 01:57:23,760
Speaker 1: Not that he wouldn't play and play well, but man,

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01:57:23,800 --> 01:57:26,000
Speaker 1: oh man, I don't know how ready he could be. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's some interesting news concerning Bengals left tackle Jonah Williams,

2180
01:57:29,600 --> 01:57:32,080
Speaker 1: who we mentioned already, left last night's game with a

2181
01:57:32,120 --> 01:57:35,240
Speaker 1: dislocated kneecap. I don't know if it's the same knee,

2182
01:57:35,320 --> 01:57:38,240
Speaker 1: but some reporters out in Cincinnati are reporting this is

2183
01:57:38,240 --> 01:57:40,880
Speaker 1: a recurrence of the same injury he suffered in Week five.

2184
01:57:41,560 --> 01:57:44,600
Speaker 1: That is why he's going for MRIs to determine the

2185
01:57:44,680 --> 01:57:48,040
Speaker 1: extent of the damage, because if it happens again, you know,

2186
01:57:48,120 --> 01:57:50,880
Speaker 1: now you're worried about this chronic thing, and you know,

2187
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:54,880
Speaker 1: I be Apparently he came back and played the next

2188
01:57:54,880 --> 01:57:57,640
Speaker 1: week when he did it in Week five, but now

2189
01:57:57,680 --> 01:58:00,600
Speaker 1: it's happened a second time, and then tegrity of that

2190
01:58:00,680 --> 01:58:03,839
Speaker 1: knee joint has to be of concern to the medical

2191
01:58:03,880 --> 01:58:07,280
Speaker 1: team for the Bengals, so his availability is firmly up

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01:58:07,320 --> 01:58:10,040
Speaker 1: in the air. As we already mentioned, they're starting right

2193
01:58:10,080 --> 01:58:13,720
Speaker 1: guard Alex Kappa missed the game with an ankle injury.

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01:58:14,200 --> 01:58:17,240
Speaker 1: We already know that their starting right tackle, Lyle Collins

2195
01:58:17,480 --> 01:58:19,080
Speaker 1: has been out for the last three weeks and we'll

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01:58:19,120 --> 01:58:20,560
Speaker 1: be out for the remainder of the season with a

2197
01:58:20,640 --> 01:58:24,680
Speaker 1: season ending injury. So Hakim Identity has been filling in

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01:58:24,720 --> 01:58:28,040
Speaker 1: for him at right tackle and this coming Sunday will

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01:58:28,080 --> 01:58:33,800
Speaker 1: be his fourth start since replacing Collins. And then Steve

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01:58:33,880 --> 01:58:37,360
Speaker 1: had mentioned that their other guard. I'm guessing it's Cordell

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01:58:37,440 --> 01:58:42,160
Speaker 1: Volson got hurt in the game as well. So their

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01:58:42,200 --> 01:58:45,440
Speaker 1: offensive line now is a mash unit. So it's going

2203
01:58:45,480 --> 01:58:47,600
Speaker 1: to be something to keep an eye on for the

2204
01:58:47,640 --> 01:58:49,520
Speaker 1: rest of this week to see who's up and who's

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01:58:49,520 --> 01:58:53,920
Speaker 1: down for them. Up until Week fifteen of the NFL season,

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01:58:54,320 --> 01:58:58,600
Speaker 1: the clan since Bengals didn't lose a single man game

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01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:02,240
Speaker 1: to their offensive, they were unchanged. All five guys started

2208
01:59:02,320 --> 01:59:06,160
Speaker 1: every game for them. Now the Los Averages. Williams in

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01:59:06,200 --> 01:59:08,120
Speaker 1: Week five didn't finish the game, but he came back

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01:59:08,160 --> 01:59:10,360
Speaker 1: and played the next week, so they started every one

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01:59:10,400 --> 01:59:14,160
Speaker 1: of their seventeen regular season gained well. Up until Week sixteen.

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01:59:15,720 --> 01:59:17,360
Speaker 1: They started every one of those games with the same

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01:59:17,360 --> 01:59:20,000
Speaker 1: five guys. Yeah, yeah, I remember noting that when we

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01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:23,360
Speaker 1: were getting ready to play the Bengals that week. We

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01:59:23,480 --> 01:59:25,440
Speaker 1: have to take a break here, but when we come back.

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01:59:25,640 --> 01:59:28,320
Speaker 1: Something else we do every Monday after a Bill's victory,

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01:59:28,720 --> 01:59:31,760
Speaker 1: the Maddie Awards with our colleague Maddie glab They're coming

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01:59:31,800 --> 01:59:33,600
Speaker 1: your way next Here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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01:59:33,640 --> 01:59:46,360
Speaker 1: Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back

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01:59:46,360 --> 01:59:48,520
Speaker 1: to one Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

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01:59:48,560 --> 01:59:52,120
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Football Monday, and joined now by Bill's reporter

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01:59:52,160 --> 01:59:55,800
Speaker 1: Mandy clab because it is time for the Maddie Awards,

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01:59:55,880 --> 02:00:00,320
Speaker 1: presented by Energy Mark, the official energy supplier to the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Maddie. I can't wait to see what you

2225
02:00:03,360 --> 02:00:04,880
Speaker 1: have in store for us this week. They did have

2226
02:00:04,920 --> 02:00:07,960
Speaker 1: the Critics Choice Awards last night. I saw that, hey, hey,

2227
02:00:07,960 --> 02:00:10,000
Speaker 1: and they had the Golden Globes last week, So why

2228
02:00:10,040 --> 02:00:12,760
Speaker 1: not the Maddies, right, why not the Maddies. We're sticking

2229
02:00:12,800 --> 02:00:16,120
Speaker 1: to sports here though. Okay, that's fine, Yeah, all right.

2230
02:00:16,280 --> 02:00:20,080
Speaker 1: I want to start off number one. We've got our

2231
02:00:20,080 --> 02:00:23,800
Speaker 1: grown Up Award and I'm given that to Kayer Elam

2232
02:00:23,840 --> 02:00:25,880
Speaker 1: and some of our other rookies who made some plays,

2233
02:00:25,960 --> 02:00:31,080
Speaker 1: James Cook, Khloe Shakier. I loved watching Kayer Elam step

2234
02:00:31,200 --> 02:00:34,920
Speaker 1: up in Dane Jackson. Jackson's absence. He had an interception

2235
02:00:34,960 --> 02:00:36,720
Speaker 1: when the Bills were down and they needed it, and

2236
02:00:36,760 --> 02:00:38,720
Speaker 1: then they score on the next drive. He had that

2237
02:00:38,760 --> 02:00:42,360
Speaker 1: big pass breakup on fourth and five, which just over

2238
02:00:42,440 --> 02:00:44,800
Speaker 1: two minutes to go in the game. I mean his size,

2239
02:00:44,880 --> 02:00:48,240
Speaker 1: his athleticism and toughness, we're really on display, and that's

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Speaker 1: those are some of the many reasons why they drafted

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02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:55,440
Speaker 1: him to begin with. And you know, you're a rookie,

2242
02:00:55,800 --> 02:00:58,560
Speaker 1: it's a big moment. It could have been too big

2243
02:00:58,600 --> 02:01:02,720
Speaker 1: for you, and hepped up and he answered the call.

2244
02:01:02,760 --> 02:01:05,400
Speaker 1: I always say that he did a great job in

2245
02:01:05,800 --> 02:01:08,000
Speaker 1: Dane's absence. And it was great to see James Cook

2246
02:01:08,040 --> 02:01:10,879
Speaker 1: get involved with that touchdown and then kol Shaker had

2247
02:01:10,920 --> 02:01:13,960
Speaker 1: that big third down grab for thirty one yards. The

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02:01:14,040 --> 02:01:18,600
Speaker 1: drive ended in a punt, although, but to see these

2249
02:01:18,680 --> 02:01:22,720
Speaker 1: few rookies be involved in the game plan when they

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02:01:22,800 --> 02:01:26,240
Speaker 1: weren't involved in game plans every single game. To see

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02:01:26,280 --> 02:01:29,760
Speaker 1: them step up, to see them shine bright when it

2252
02:01:29,840 --> 02:01:32,280
Speaker 1: could have been too big, I think says a lot

2253
02:01:32,320 --> 02:01:36,560
Speaker 1: about their growth this season, where they've come, how much

2254
02:01:36,600 --> 02:01:39,200
Speaker 1: they've leaned on some of the older guys, and you

2255
02:01:39,200 --> 02:01:42,080
Speaker 1: know what it could be going forward for these three.

2256
02:01:42,160 --> 02:01:44,200
Speaker 1: We'll see how they're involved in this next game. But

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02:01:44,560 --> 02:01:48,760
Speaker 1: kudos to them. So you start with the three rookies, Elam,

2258
02:01:48,840 --> 02:01:52,320
Speaker 1: Cook and Shakir and you go into the established veteran

2259
02:01:52,360 --> 02:01:54,840
Speaker 1: for your next or the All Pro Form Award, All

2260
02:01:54,960 --> 02:01:58,280
Speaker 1: Pro Form, mister Matt Milano. He had some big time

2261
02:01:58,320 --> 02:02:01,360
Speaker 1: plays in yesterday's game. He gets named All Pro, and

2262
02:02:01,400 --> 02:02:03,680
Speaker 1: then he goes out and shows why he should have

2263
02:02:03,720 --> 02:02:06,520
Speaker 1: been named All Pro a few years ago. Led the

2264
02:02:06,520 --> 02:02:10,200
Speaker 1: defense with two sacks yesterday, had ten tackles. Great tackling

2265
02:02:10,520 --> 02:02:13,160
Speaker 1: in yesterday's performance, Steve, you talked about that in our

2266
02:02:13,160 --> 02:02:16,200
Speaker 1: postgame show, how he's always been a player that is

2267
02:02:16,240 --> 02:02:18,920
Speaker 1: a great form tackler. So let's see what he can

2268
02:02:18,960 --> 02:02:21,960
Speaker 1: do next against the Bengals because they are going to

2269
02:02:22,080 --> 02:02:24,600
Speaker 1: need him, especially if the Bengals, like you guys said,

2270
02:02:24,880 --> 02:02:27,120
Speaker 1: going into the break in the last segment, if they're

2271
02:02:27,160 --> 02:02:30,000
Speaker 1: down some offensive lineman, this could be an opportunity for

2272
02:02:30,040 --> 02:02:33,520
Speaker 1: your front seven here. Yeah, no question, hopefully that happens.

2273
02:02:33,680 --> 02:02:38,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna be like watching Twitter Bengals O line injury

2274
02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:44,120
Speaker 1: updates all week long. We're gonna be shameless scrollers. Okay.

2275
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Speaker 1: End Zone Magnet Award, This one seems pretty self explanatory.

2276
02:02:48,680 --> 02:02:52,240
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, He's our end zone magnet. Has a touchdown

2277
02:02:52,280 --> 02:02:55,360
Speaker 1: in five straight games. He's one of three tight ends

2278
02:02:55,640 --> 02:02:59,080
Speaker 1: to do that since nineteen seventy. Now Kelsey and Gronk

2279
02:02:59,120 --> 02:03:02,200
Speaker 1: are the other two. They have longer, longer streaks, So

2280
02:03:02,240 --> 02:03:04,800
Speaker 1: we'll see if Dawson Knox can get there. But that

2281
02:03:04,960 --> 02:03:08,400
Speaker 1: was a heck of a catch that he had to

2282
02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:12,480
Speaker 1: put the Bills on the scoreboard early in this one.

2283
02:03:12,600 --> 02:03:17,000
Speaker 1: He almost had two. I wish he would have had two. Um,

2284
02:03:17,040 --> 02:03:19,640
Speaker 1: but love that consistency out of him. Love that he's

2285
02:03:19,680 --> 02:03:22,320
Speaker 1: being targeted in the end zone because he's such a

2286
02:03:22,360 --> 02:03:26,320
Speaker 1: great mismatch. That catch was ridiculous, was reaching around a

2287
02:03:26,360 --> 02:03:28,400
Speaker 1: guy in one hand in it he like basically grabbed

2288
02:03:28,400 --> 02:03:32,360
Speaker 1: it with his bicet. Yeah, and then present his mind,

2289
02:03:32,440 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 1: put his hand down and had his chance to get

2290
02:03:37,120 --> 02:03:39,000
Speaker 1: his hand on the ground rather than his knee or

2291
02:03:39,040 --> 02:03:43,520
Speaker 1: take a chance on it. And uh, it was. It

2292
02:03:43,600 --> 02:03:45,840
Speaker 1: was great. It was really heads up play that happened

2293
02:03:45,840 --> 02:03:48,680
Speaker 1: in a split second. The next one is one of

2294
02:03:48,680 --> 02:03:50,800
Speaker 1: the guys that really got the Bills off to a

2295
02:03:50,880 --> 02:03:54,200
Speaker 1: fast start at the tone setter, Stefon Diggs. Tone setter.

2296
02:03:54,440 --> 02:03:57,160
Speaker 1: That's Stefon Diggs. I mean they went to him early

2297
02:03:57,280 --> 02:03:59,760
Speaker 1: and often, and I think a lot of us thought

2298
02:03:59,800 --> 02:04:01,840
Speaker 1: that is going to be the case based on their

2299
02:04:01,880 --> 02:04:04,400
Speaker 1: final game of the regular season. Stefon Diggs was a

2300
02:04:04,440 --> 02:04:07,440
Speaker 1: big part of that game plan. He had some of

2301
02:04:07,440 --> 02:04:09,800
Speaker 1: those deep balls early on, and I think that kind

2302
02:04:09,840 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 1: of set the tone for the offense right away. The

2303
02:04:12,120 --> 02:04:14,920
Speaker 1: Bills were humming on offense, and that first quarter it

2304
02:04:14,960 --> 02:04:16,920
Speaker 1: looked like they couldn't be stopped. And a lot of

2305
02:04:16,960 --> 02:04:19,360
Speaker 1: that is because of Stefan Diggs. He had five catches

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02:04:19,400 --> 02:04:22,440
Speaker 1: for ninety six yards in the first quarter. So keep

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02:04:22,440 --> 02:04:24,160
Speaker 1: it up because you're going to be playing against the

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Speaker 1: team who also likes to throw the football out, all right,

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Speaker 1: and we go from one receiver to another in the

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Speaker 1: heating Up Award, Gabe Davis is heating up. He arrives

2311
02:04:34,240 --> 02:04:38,480
Speaker 1: right on time. Playoff gave Davis showing up when it's

2312
02:04:38,520 --> 02:04:41,800
Speaker 1: win or go home, better late than never. His first

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Speaker 1: one hundred receiving yard games since the beginning of the

2314
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Speaker 1: season those first few weeks. I think it was Week

2315
02:04:46,800 --> 02:04:50,000
Speaker 1: five when he had his last one. So the Bills

2316
02:04:50,080 --> 02:04:52,880
Speaker 1: need another guy other than Stefan Diggs who can be

2317
02:04:52,920 --> 02:04:56,520
Speaker 1: that reliable person who can also put up eighty nine

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Speaker 1: one hundred receiving yards in big games because we know

2319
02:05:00,160 --> 02:05:02,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen throws the ball in the playoffs. Yeah, and

2320
02:05:02,960 --> 02:05:04,480
Speaker 1: it was great to see, and it was it was

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02:05:04,520 --> 02:05:07,720
Speaker 1: consistent happening in early, mid and late in the game.

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02:05:07,760 --> 02:05:10,000
Speaker 1: It was very nice to see him be involved in

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02:05:09,760 --> 02:05:12,600
Speaker 1: the entire way. And now as we get through there's

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Speaker 1: one of very many games this week, so we had

2325
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Speaker 1: to get some shoutouts around the league. People respect shout

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Speaker 1: out to the Giants, to Brian day Ball, to Isaiah Hodgens,

2327
02:05:21,840 --> 02:05:24,200
Speaker 1: Brian day Ball getting his first playoff win, as the

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02:05:24,240 --> 02:05:27,720
Speaker 1: Giants had coached so many familiar faces on that roster,

2329
02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:30,480
Speaker 1: and we love to see that type of success out

2330
02:05:30,480 --> 02:05:33,160
Speaker 1: of them. Isaiah Hodgens with over one hundred receiving yards

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02:05:33,320 --> 02:05:36,360
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. I love that he's had a role,

2332
02:05:36,680 --> 02:05:41,000
Speaker 1: a new opportunity for himself on a new team. Daniel Jones,

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02:05:41,440 --> 02:05:45,440
Speaker 1: who are you? Seventy eight rushing yards, three hundred passing yards,

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02:05:45,440 --> 02:05:51,360
Speaker 1: two passing touchdowns, turnovers, no turnovers. Oh my gosh, Brian

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Speaker 1: day Ball, You're a magic man. Yeah. Pretty impressive, all right,

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02:05:55,760 --> 02:05:59,919
Speaker 1: last one epic finish. There were a couple of epic finishes,

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02:06:00,120 --> 02:06:03,720
Speaker 1: and I think the Jags and Charters kind of set

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02:06:03,760 --> 02:06:05,400
Speaker 1: the tone for what we would see the rest of

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02:06:05,440 --> 02:06:09,320
Speaker 1: the weekend because Sunday was full of them. I mean,

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02:06:10,080 --> 02:06:13,040
Speaker 1: the Jags survived with the game winning field goal as

2341
02:06:13,120 --> 02:06:16,360
Speaker 1: time expired, come back from being down twenty seven to

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02:06:16,480 --> 02:06:19,680
Speaker 1: nothing when you thought there was absolutely no way with

2343
02:06:19,720 --> 02:06:22,880
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence's four interceptions that he had, but he said,

2344
02:06:23,240 --> 02:06:25,160
Speaker 1: you know what, it doesn't matter. We're gonna find a

2345
02:06:25,200 --> 02:06:28,160
Speaker 1: way to win this game. Jags move on, and then

2346
02:06:28,200 --> 02:06:31,800
Speaker 1: the Bengals and Ravens game had the making of that too.

2347
02:06:31,960 --> 02:06:35,200
Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard's ninety eight yard fumbler return for a touchdown

2348
02:06:35,240 --> 02:06:38,400
Speaker 1: on third end goal A lot of question marks about

2349
02:06:38,440 --> 02:06:43,320
Speaker 1: that play for sure, and then fourth and twenty ended

2350
02:06:43,360 --> 02:06:50,200
Speaker 1: the game. Hail Mary throw kind of yeah, I had

2351
02:06:50,240 --> 02:06:52,720
Speaker 1: shades of the hail Murray from four years ago, five

2352
02:06:52,800 --> 02:06:56,080
Speaker 1: years ago, and it was you knew it was going

2353
02:06:56,120 --> 02:06:57,760
Speaker 1: to be a good game, but you didn't know if

2354
02:06:57,800 --> 02:06:59,920
Speaker 1: Baltimore was going to hang into yea man o man

2355
02:07:00,080 --> 02:07:04,000
Speaker 1: From the first quarter through the way ago. They battled

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02:07:04,200 --> 02:07:08,720
Speaker 1: tooth and nail, made some enormous plays to keep themselves

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02:07:08,760 --> 02:07:11,680
Speaker 1: on the field offensively and and make that a great

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02:07:11,720 --> 02:07:15,040
Speaker 1: game with a great finish that we had a caller on.

2359
02:07:15,680 --> 02:07:17,720
Speaker 1: And you probably don't know this. You weren't here. You

2360
02:07:17,880 --> 02:07:19,840
Speaker 1: probably were here. Were you here? You might have been

2361
02:07:20,760 --> 02:07:24,560
Speaker 1: Monday night football in San Francisco, Buffalo Bills against the Niners.

2362
02:07:25,800 --> 02:07:29,960
Speaker 1: I think it's like nineteen ninety five, the exact same

2363
02:07:30,080 --> 02:07:32,680
Speaker 1: the exact same thing happened to Derek Holmes and one

2364
02:07:32,680 --> 02:07:35,240
Speaker 1: of the linebackers I can't remember who it was, Lee

2365
02:07:35,280 --> 02:07:38,040
Speaker 1: Wood all picked up, scooped up the fumble and went

2366
02:07:38,080 --> 02:07:42,880
Speaker 1: the ninety five or ninety seven yards like that exact

2367
02:07:42,960 --> 02:07:45,400
Speaker 1: same thing, and the result of the game was the same.

2368
02:07:45,440 --> 02:07:48,680
Speaker 1: It was a close loss for the Bills. And those

2369
02:07:48,720 --> 02:07:51,320
Speaker 1: are that you talk about soul crushing. That's it. There

2370
02:07:51,320 --> 02:07:54,360
Speaker 1: are a few teams that were without their starting quarterbacks

2371
02:07:54,360 --> 02:07:57,040
Speaker 1: and then they proved we can we can stick in there.

2372
02:07:57,120 --> 02:08:01,440
Speaker 1: Ye playoff teams should be able to compete without their

2373
02:08:01,440 --> 02:08:05,640
Speaker 1: starting quarterback because of their rosters should be solid enough

2374
02:08:05,840 --> 02:08:07,839
Speaker 1: to get through the regular season with all the tests

2375
02:08:07,880 --> 02:08:12,200
Speaker 1: they have. But we saw it this week and why

2376
02:08:12,240 --> 02:08:15,520
Speaker 1: it's really really important to have your top guy of aatable.

2377
02:08:15,560 --> 02:08:18,160
Speaker 1: Games could be even tighter this week, especially with all

2378
02:08:18,160 --> 02:08:21,560
Speaker 1: of the well the Giants are what Giants were really

2379
02:08:21,560 --> 02:08:26,000
Speaker 1: the only technical upset of the entire weekend, right, because

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02:08:26,200 --> 02:08:28,400
Speaker 1: that's correct. Yeah, the Jaguars were the division winner. They

2381
02:08:28,400 --> 02:08:31,960
Speaker 1: were could happen so that happened tonight slightly, but that

2382
02:08:32,000 --> 02:08:33,840
Speaker 1: was the four five, right, Yeah, doubt we still have

2383
02:08:33,920 --> 02:08:35,960
Speaker 1: Dallas in Tampa tonight, but yeah, really it was. The

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02:08:36,000 --> 02:08:38,720
Speaker 1: Giants is the only upset, so you know, the higher

2385
02:08:38,800 --> 02:08:41,880
Speaker 1: seeds all advanced, so the better teams are still in it,

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02:08:42,000 --> 02:08:45,200
Speaker 1: quote unquote, so you would think that the games could

2387
02:08:45,200 --> 02:08:48,400
Speaker 1: even be tighter this week, which is crazy to think. No,

2388
02:08:48,480 --> 02:08:56,600
Speaker 1: one there was only the Niners. Wasn't a one score game? Yeah,

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02:08:56,680 --> 02:08:59,240
Speaker 1: and no, the Giants was a one score game. Builds

2390
02:08:59,320 --> 02:09:05,640
Speaker 1: was one score game. Everything else was Ravensaven closer this week. Yeah,

2391
02:09:05,640 --> 02:09:08,000
Speaker 1: I just have that the Seahawks. The Seahawks are the

2392
02:09:08,000 --> 02:09:13,280
Speaker 1: only team that got drugged by fourteen by eighteen. So

2393
02:09:13,720 --> 02:09:16,400
Speaker 1: all right, well those are the Maddie Awards. Thanks very much, Mattie.

2394
02:09:16,400 --> 02:09:18,000
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We hope you're sitting in that same

2395
02:09:18,080 --> 02:09:19,760
Speaker 1: chair at the same time next week because that will

2396
02:09:19,800 --> 02:09:22,000
Speaker 1: mean another victory and on to the AFC Title Game.

2397
02:09:22,960 --> 02:09:26,080
Speaker 1: Maddie Awards are presented by Energy Mark, the official energy

2398
02:09:26,120 --> 02:09:28,640
Speaker 1: supplier to the Buffalo Bills. Steve and I'll take a

2399
02:09:28,680 --> 02:09:30,560
Speaker 1: break be back to close things up next year on

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02:09:30,560 --> 02:09:46,640
Speaker 1: one Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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02:09:48,280 --> 02:09:50,720
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

2402
02:09:50,800 --> 02:09:53,960
Speaker 1: with you, and it's time for Vision to Victory, presented

2403
02:09:54,000 --> 02:09:57,240
Speaker 1: by at Walleye Care, the official I Care provider of

2404
02:09:57,320 --> 02:10:00,960
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Steve, for me, it was the defense

2405
02:10:01,000 --> 02:10:04,040
Speaker 1: that secured the win. Yes, the offense put up all

2406
02:10:04,040 --> 02:10:06,520
Speaker 1: those points, but they probably don't put up as many

2407
02:10:06,760 --> 02:10:10,080
Speaker 1: if kyer Elam doesn't get that pick in Miami territory

2408
02:10:10,160 --> 02:10:11,920
Speaker 1: to kind of turn the tide and give the Bills

2409
02:10:11,960 --> 02:10:14,080
Speaker 1: the lead back when the offense comes on a short

2410
02:10:14,080 --> 02:10:18,160
Speaker 1: field and cashes in. And let's not forget the defense

2411
02:10:18,200 --> 02:10:21,920
Speaker 1: had to defend four short fields in the game and

2412
02:10:21,960 --> 02:10:26,360
Speaker 1: did not allow Miami to score a touchdown on three

2413
02:10:26,360 --> 02:10:29,760
Speaker 1: of those four possessions. Really amazing when you consider they

2414
02:10:29,800 --> 02:10:32,920
Speaker 1: were in Buffalo territory on each and every one of them. Yeah,

2415
02:10:32,960 --> 02:10:36,200
Speaker 1: the short field that Buffalo gave Miami on a couple

2416
02:10:36,200 --> 02:10:40,400
Speaker 1: of occasions was their only way to staying in that

2417
02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:43,760
Speaker 1: football game and outright take the lead in the third

2418
02:10:43,800 --> 02:10:46,960
Speaker 1: quarter with the sack strip fumble. So believe I think

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02:10:47,000 --> 02:10:50,120
Speaker 1: you're right. The defense really deserves kudos for this holding

2420
02:10:50,120 --> 02:10:52,440
Speaker 1: them to three field goals on short fields right out

2421
02:10:52,440 --> 02:10:55,160
Speaker 1: of the gate. The Bills turned it over on down

2422
02:10:55,200 --> 02:10:57,360
Speaker 1: to their first possession and then came back and scored

2423
02:10:57,400 --> 02:11:00,600
Speaker 1: two tds quickly and then had the drop TD for

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02:11:00,640 --> 02:11:02,800
Speaker 1: the field goal by knocks. So it looked like the

2425
02:11:02,800 --> 02:11:05,040
Speaker 1: Bills We're going to get this game in hand quickly,

2426
02:11:05,080 --> 02:11:08,360
Speaker 1: but they started turning over again. So yeah, you're right,

2427
02:11:08,360 --> 02:11:12,680
Speaker 1: the defense really deserves kudos. Certainly, playing against a third quarterback,

2428
02:11:12,680 --> 02:11:15,160
Speaker 1: you'd expect to have some success, but with the weapons

2429
02:11:15,160 --> 02:11:17,520
Speaker 1: and the type of athletes that Miami has on the outside,

2430
02:11:18,560 --> 02:11:21,880
Speaker 1: we just didn't know. Yeah, but they rose up, got

2431
02:11:21,920 --> 02:11:23,920
Speaker 1: some great play from some of their young players, as

2432
02:11:23,920 --> 02:11:25,680
Speaker 1: we heard from Mattie just a few minutes ago, and

2433
02:11:26,160 --> 02:11:27,680
Speaker 1: they come out with a win in a game you

2434
02:11:27,720 --> 02:11:31,640
Speaker 1: had to have some cool marks set yesterday. Josh Allen,

2435
02:11:32,720 --> 02:11:37,000
Speaker 1: by throwing for multiple touchdowns yesterday through for three has

2436
02:11:37,160 --> 02:11:40,840
Speaker 1: now in all eleven of his career meetings with the

2437
02:11:40,880 --> 02:11:45,360
Speaker 1: Dolphins thrown from multiple touchdowns. That breaks a new or

2438
02:11:45,400 --> 02:11:49,600
Speaker 1: sets a new NFL record previously held by Dan Marino,

2439
02:11:49,680 --> 02:11:54,919
Speaker 1: who had thrown multiple touchdowns in ten games against the Jets.

2440
02:11:55,360 --> 02:11:58,400
Speaker 1: So Josh Allen surpasses him with his eleventh game with

2441
02:11:58,520 --> 02:12:02,640
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns against the Dolphins. As you know, if the

2442
02:12:02,680 --> 02:12:04,920
Speaker 1: Hoo's Your Daddy game continues, also it takes on a

2443
02:12:04,920 --> 02:12:07,000
Speaker 1: little bit different complexion, right, awesome stuff. I was looking

2444
02:12:07,000 --> 02:12:08,200
Speaker 1: at those games and I told you this. I don't

2445
02:12:08,200 --> 02:12:09,440
Speaker 1: know if I said it on the air earlier in

2446
02:12:09,480 --> 02:12:13,800
Speaker 1: the show, but that teams with five takeaways and zero

2447
02:12:13,880 --> 02:12:18,120
Speaker 1: turnovers of their own are three hundred and thirteen and

2448
02:12:18,400 --> 02:12:21,440
Speaker 1: three over the hundred plus years some odd year of

2449
02:12:21,480 --> 02:12:25,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. The Chargers joined that crew of the three

2450
02:12:26,840 --> 02:12:30,400
Speaker 1: this last Saturday, five turnovers they got, didn't have any

2451
02:12:30,440 --> 02:12:33,320
Speaker 1: turnovers of their own, and they lost. Yeah. One they

2452
02:12:33,320 --> 02:12:35,960
Speaker 1: even took back for a touchdown Gabe Davis with a

2453
02:12:36,040 --> 02:12:41,000
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown. Yesterday, Steve tied James Lofton for the second

2454
02:12:41,040 --> 02:12:45,680
Speaker 1: most receiving touchdowns in team postseason history. Those two guys

2455
02:12:45,720 --> 02:12:48,280
Speaker 1: are now only trailing Andre Reid, who as the record

2456
02:12:48,280 --> 02:12:51,840
Speaker 1: holder with nine with a receiving touchdown. Gabe Davis also

2457
02:12:51,920 --> 02:12:54,680
Speaker 1: became the third bill with a receiving TD in three

2458
02:12:54,800 --> 02:12:59,760
Speaker 1: consecutive playoff games, joining Andre Reid and James Lofton, and

2459
02:13:00,080 --> 02:13:04,000
Speaker 1: then with eight plus n he didn't do that. Stephan Diggs,

2460
02:13:04,280 --> 02:13:07,280
Speaker 1: with his one hundred yard receiving day yesterday, became the

2461
02:13:07,280 --> 02:13:09,400
Speaker 1: second Bill with three or more one hundred yard receiving

2462
02:13:09,440 --> 02:13:12,400
Speaker 1: games in the playoffs, joining Andre Reid who has five,

2463
02:13:12,960 --> 02:13:16,960
Speaker 1: And with his seven receptions, Diggs ties James Lofton and

2464
02:13:17,120 --> 02:13:21,920
Speaker 1: Don Beebe for the third most receptions in postseason team history.

2465
02:13:22,000 --> 02:13:25,920
Speaker 1: Just some cool marks that got said yesterday in the win.

2466
02:13:26,840 --> 02:13:29,360
Speaker 1: That's it for Steve and I today. We've got a

2467
02:13:29,400 --> 02:13:33,520
Speaker 1: big show for you tomorrow and we'll have Michael Renner

2468
02:13:33,640 --> 02:13:37,720
Speaker 1: from Pro Football Focus joining us on Tuesday show. As

2469
02:13:37,720 --> 02:13:42,120
Speaker 1: we begin to turn the page Steve towards Bills Bengals,

2470
02:13:42,280 --> 02:13:44,040
Speaker 1: I kind of felt like we got prepped for this

2471
02:13:44,080 --> 02:13:46,400
Speaker 1: team already because we were getting ready for that game

2472
02:13:46,480 --> 02:13:48,320
Speaker 1: just three weeks. It's an interesting game. That's gonna be

2473
02:13:48,360 --> 02:13:50,000
Speaker 1: a lot of interest in this game to watch these

2474
02:13:50,040 --> 02:13:53,080
Speaker 1: two teams play in that game that was stopped because

2475
02:13:53,120 --> 02:13:54,840
Speaker 1: of the DeMar Hamlin And wouldn't it be great if

2476
02:13:54,880 --> 02:13:57,880
Speaker 1: DeMar stopped by and said hello to us this week? Oh?

2477
02:13:58,000 --> 02:14:01,840
Speaker 1: That would be pretty neat. Yeah, Bengals have won nine

2478
02:14:01,920 --> 02:14:04,800
Speaker 1: in a row. Bills have now won eight in a

2479
02:14:04,920 --> 02:14:07,480
Speaker 1: row going into this one. Steve and I are back

2480
02:14:07,520 --> 02:14:09,920
Speaker 1: tomorrow at one, don't you dare. Missus, we'll see you then,

2481
02:14:09,920 --> 02:14:11,120
Speaker 1: and back on TV as well.